Thirty-seven cities of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Luoyang is located in the heart of the Northern Wei Dynasty. The Inuyang Pass is the northernmost Xiongguan adjacent to the Northern Plains of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

There are twists and turns between Luoyang and Inuyang Pass, stretching for thousands of miles, and there are three passes and six cities in between.

The thirty-seven cities of the Northern Wei Dynasty refer to the real large-scale cities of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and even if the city lord cannot reach the level of the four major feudal kings, he is also a first-class person among the eight kingdoms. As for the small cities under his command, they are really as many as sparks and cattle hairs, and it is difficult to count.

Qing'an City is a small city in the north of Beiguan. This small city is located a little north of the Northern Wei Dynasty, but fortunately, the city is as easy and peaceful as its name suggests.

Early in the morning on the first day of the seventh month.

A fast horse enters Qing'an City.

The guards at the gates of the city signaled to stop.

The horses carried the boys and girls on their backs, slowly slowing down the horses' hooves. The young man smiled and patted the horse's head, turned over and dismounted, led the horse, the girl on the horseback wrapped her hands around the horse's neck, lay on the horse and smiled and asked, "Brother, why don't we continue to go north, and choose to enter the city here?"

Yi Xiao reluctantly pressed down her hat to cover the girl's beautiful face.

The sun in this ancient city is excellent, and the air is refreshing at the beginning of the day.

Yi Xiao watched the patrolman slowly approach, and explained in a low voice in the girl's ear: "Although I have invited Beiguan, I have escaped from those bad guys for the time being. However, we are not necessarily in a safe situation now, so we must see the situation clearly here, and then choose whether to continue to go north or mediate. ”

The girl seemed to understand whether she understood or not, but she hummed obediently. She blinked, looked at the patrolman holding two portraits in front of her, and said again, "Brother, let's talk about it for me this time." ”

The black-clothed young man watched a patrolman at the city gate approach, holding two portraits in his hand, and looked at the two of them for a moment, and finally stopped his horse.

Yi Xiao squinted and nodded, patted the girl's head, and signaled not to be nervous.

"Look up. The armorer was very crisp, pointing to the girl on horseback and speaking coldly.

Yi Xiao took off the hat she had brought for the girl very simply, revealing her delicate face, and at the same time looked down to see the portrait in the hand of the armorer showing the general appearance of herself and Mingzhu'er.

He looked at the miserable painting skills on the portrait, and faintly wanted to laugh. He has never shown his true face in Fengting City, and this portrait is clearly marked with the three words of Yi Gongzi, but Yi Gongzi is painted as an extremely handsome young man, which is too far from himself.

Could it be that he is so perfect in the hearts of those people?

As for Mingzhu'er, who is naturally beautiful and difficult to give up, the portrait is depicted extremely sloppily, and the facial features are blurry and unclear. Yi Xiao shook her head secretly, such a portrait, you can't catch the real Yi Gongzi if you catch the Northern Wei Dynasty, right?

Not to mention that you have to catch yourself who has been prepared and carefully disguised.

There are too many brothers and sisters like them in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the notices above are issued layer by layer, and these patrol armor soldiers are just coping with things. This kind of temporary interrogation, Yi Xiao has encountered twice along the way before.

Not surprisingly.

The patrol guard was slightly startled by the delicate girl's face for a moment, lowered his head and looked at the extremely ordinary girl portrait on the portrait in silence, and had already reached a conclusion in his heart, deliberately raised his head and asked with a straight face: "What is the relationship between the two of you, and where is your ancestral home?"

As if waiting for this sentence, the girl on horseback suddenly smiled beautifully, and told the lines that she had memorized so well: "Our brother and sister are from Futu City under Inuyang Pass in the Northern Wei Dynasty, my name is Yi Xiao'an, my brother is Yi Shaoyou, a famous talent in Futu City, who has been famous since he was a child, and he will go south to Luoyang Palace to try and rest in Qing'an City." ”

The patrolman was slightly stunned, Futu City was indeed a small city under the Inuyang Pass, and the appearance of these two young people was completely different from the portrait.

But...... Easy to travel less?

The patrol guard suddenly looked at the black-clothed young man strangely, and said suspiciously: "When did Futu City produce a scholar who could enter the capital for interviews? You said that your brother was famous in Futu City when he was young, why haven't I heard of it?"

Yi Xiao was stunned and thought of something with a very small probability.

The girl on horseback was slightly stunned, her eyes rolled slightly, and she suddenly said, "This brother looks familiar, and he is also from Futu City?"

Patrolman Li Goudan was suddenly stunned when he heard this, and said, "Yes...... Oh, yes. ”

He looked at the face of this girl who deceived the frost and the snow, and he couldn't imagine that there was such a person in the city who could give birth to such a beautiful girl.

Mingzhu'er suddenly winked at Yi Xiao.

She rolled her eyes and said, "Are you...... Brother Dog?"

Li Goudan was shocked.

He touched his head and muttered, "No, I'm from Lijia Village outside Futu City, why haven't I seen you as a person?"

Mingzhu'er coughed: "Li Goudan, didn't you tell the villagers a few years ago that you were going to go out?"

Li Goudan was greatly embarrassed when he heard this, and said embarrassedly: "This year, there is no three-grade, and the city lord's mansion doesn't want it." I don't know that I have the strength of the three products, I can't be a city patrol in this life, I have to get an official to do it, I always heard that the officialdom of the Northern Wei Dynasty is dark, it doesn't matter if you can't get in. ”

The patrol soldier coughed, leaned over and whispered, "I'll tell our fellow villagers about this, but don't spread the word." ”

Yi Xiao looked at Li Dog's eggs with a strange face, chattering endlessly.

"The officialdom of the Northern Wei Dynasty is dirty, and it is notoriously black and black, so don't want to enter the city lord's mansion without a hundred taels. In the past, I practiced superior martial arts and mixed to the fifth grade, and I didn't have to worry about it in this life. Now it's different, the national teacher said that the times have progressed, and the nine grades are all over the place, but why don't I feel that martial arts training is simple? The majesty in Luoyang said that there is no sixth rank that is not a regular official rank. ”

"What are you doing, the scholars go south in July, and those who can't practice want to take the book path. Who doesn't know if our Northern Wei people can fight or not, the rivers and mountains are beaten down from horseback, Lao Tzu has a headache when he reads the book, not to mention anything else, take our Futu City as an example, how many can read a famous hall?" Li Goudan suddenly glanced at the black-clothed young man who seemed to be full of poems, and then caught a glimpse of the unhappy girl, and changed his words: "Of course, it's not like this, knowledge changes fate." Reading is still better than practicing martial arts. ”

Yi Xiao suddenly became interested in this fellow who had been stumbled by mistake, and he asked with a smile: "Is it really so difficult for a scholar to find a way?"

When the patrolling elder Brother Li saw the high-spirited appearance of this young man who was studying, he had a restrained smile on his face, and his eyes were a little gloomy.

"Boy, it's all a family, don't speak other words. The Northern Wei Dynasty was obviously forced to be brought to the table, and had to come to Beijing once a year to compete with Qi Liang and win the top ten talents in the world. I don't understand the big truth, but the facts are in front of me. The Northern Wei Dynasty said that there were more territories and 37 cities, which inch of land was used to the fullest?" he shook his head and said: "In a few days, it will be the day when the 10,000-year-old hanger in Qing'an City will travel, and the down-and-out scholar will be on the list for thirteen years, and when he went to Luoyang for the first time, why wasn't he high-spirited, and who can afford him now?"

Yi Xiao was stunned.

The patrol guard let the two of them go, and did not forget to sigh: "This world is not easy, the kid has a good palace test and wins glory for our Northern Wei Dynasty." I heard that the talents of Qiliang Jiangnan Province are very good at reading, and they can eat well wherever they go, if they are willing to come to the Northern Wei Dynasty, the monthly salary may be many times that of us. ”

Yi Xiao finally couldn't help laughing, shook his head and led the horse into the city.

The girl on horseback poked her head out and pouted triumphantly, but a chestnut that was neither light nor heavy was knocked on her forehead.

She rubbed her reddened forehead and looked at the young man leading the horse with a slight annoyance.

Yi Xiao suddenly said with some curiosity: "How do you know that he is called a dog?"

Mingzhu'er smiled proudly, deliberately hung her appetite and did not answer, and made a grimace and waited for him to turn back.

Can't wait.

She couldn't hold her breath, she didn't make a grimace anymore, and she snorted coldly.

Yi Xiao turned around with a dumb smile, looked at the girl on horseback, and immediately put on a grimace again.

"Don't say it! Yi Xiaoan is angry!"

"Yi Xiaoan said that the consequences of her anger are very serious......"

The girl rolled her eyes and added, "Yi Xiaoan said again, you have to eat a delicious meal to dissipate your anger." ”

......

A good restaurant in Qing'an City.

The table is full of messes.

The girl rubbed her satisfied round little belly, burped happily, and subconsciously wanted to wipe her mouth with the boy's sleeve, but she was coldly pressed against her forehead with a finger.

Yi Xiao said with a slight annoyance: "Pay attention to the image." ”

The girl muttered, "What image does Yi Xiaoan want?"

After a while, Yi Xiao looked at the oil stains on his sleeve quite helplessly, and pretended to be vicious and said: "In the future, the two of us will go to the rivers and lakes, but we are not allowed to be such a loser, and we eat two taels of silver in one meal, do you know any concept?"

The girl blinked and said, "Thirty bowls of Yangchun noodles with fried green onions." ”

"Do you dare to eat like this?" Yi Xiao picked up the girl's ears and said, "Money is not money? If you practice martial arts in the future, you will not support you!"

The girl begged for mercy in a low voice and cried out in pain, and when Yi Xiao let go of her hand, she lay in Yi Xiao's arms like a slippery fish, and her little hand was extremely dexterous and turned out a stack of silver tickets.

She suddenly sat down with a smile, stuffed the wad of silver tickets into her chest, and then straightened her bulging chest and said, "Brother, I'll raise you." ”

Yi Xiao was dumbfounded, watching the 100,000 taels of silver tickets that he had knocked and deceived in Fengting City just like this into this Nizi's arms.

"Whoa. The girl looked at the restless eyes of the crowd back and forth in the small restaurant, and giggled: "Brother, no wonder they say that money is not a good thing." You are a dignified master of the Nine Grades of Sen Luo Dao, why don't you take action and knock them all down?"

The audience was in an uproar, and no one dared to look at the brother and sister with a conspiracy to look at them.

Yi Xiao helplessly supported his forehead, where did Su Da Dansheng pick up such a superb demon?

Mingzhu'er ate and drank to her heart's content, pulled Yi Xiao out of the small restaurant, and began to chatter along the way.

"Brother, when Master took me on a trip before, I said that to see people, you need to see faces, and you know people with nine points of faces, rich and poor, and you can see them at a glance. That's how Master used to go. He said that he could see a person's face, and he could basically walk the rivers and lakes. Mingzhu spoke triumphantly.

Yi Xiao almost didn't laugh out loud, thinking that your foolish master was only afraid that he would still be blind when he walked the rivers and lakes.

"You don't believe it?" Mingzhu'er raised her eyebrows and said, "If you don't believe me, I'll show you." ”

Yi Xiao was shocked, squatted down, and touched his face with the two white little hands, knocking and beating, and finally came to a ridiculous conclusion: "Brother, your face is just one word." ”

"Handsome. ”

Rao is Yi Xiao also couldn't stand this sycophant, and his old face was slightly red.

Dare to love this girl is not a deep entry into the WTO, but has been trapped in the red dust early? At a young age, she learned to set up a condom to give people a sycophant without being out of the ordinary?

This sycophant skill is really profound, and it can be called fresh and refined.

"Gotta get it. Yi Xiao completely took this girl and was about to take her to find a good place to live, but suddenly turned around and asked seriously: "How did you see it today? Could it be true that you will meet each other?"

The girl snorted and laughed, rolled her eyes and said, "Brother, do you really think you are handsome?"

Yi Xiao's face pulled slightly.

The next sentence was like a bolt from the blue.

"The badge on the patrol armor is clearly written, Li Goudan. Illiterate?"

I don't know whether to look down on or look down on, the old god of Mingzhu'er shook his head and sighed: "How important is knowledge...... Knowledge changes fate!"

With that, he strode away with his head held high.

Leaving Yi Xiao alone in the wind, it is inevitable that there will be some gloomy back.

PS: This volume will be easier at first~ Hmm, this should be easy, right?