As the twilight fell, the shops on both sides of the streets and alleys of Yunmen Guanli were lit up with colorful lights, and the New Year had arrived.

The immortal people uphold the tradition of the demon clan, and the first month of the first month of each year must be New Year's Day, which is also the first day of the new year, which is also the most lively and festive day of the year.

The twenty-eighth day of the lunar month is a small Chinese New Year's Eve in the customs of the immortal people, and the festive atmosphere in Yunmen Pass is already very strong. In the market located in the eastern part of the city, vendors from inside and outside the gates are busy, all with red faces and shouting excitedly, eager to empty the customers' money bags.

The streets are bustling with people, and many families are all out to buy New Year's goods. The people here are close to the customs and the people are fierce and bold, and the women show their heads to talk and laugh, but they don't have to worry about hearing nonsense words such as "the world is declining", "moral corruption" and "what kind of system has become".

The happiest are the children, who are either holding the hands of their older brothers and sisters, or riding on the shoulders of their father and grandfather, holding a windmill in their hands and chewing sugar gourds in their mouths, and their little dark eyes are constantly turning, almost too busy.

Although there is a word "Guan" in the place name of Yunmen Pass, it is the name left in the early years.

Since the army of the immortal clan entered the customs from the Mobei grassland to establish the Han Empire, this place has actually become the mainland, so there is no need to be frightened three times a day without seeing sword soldiers for many years, lest some aliens kill from the north.

Therefore, as a thoroughfare to communicate inside and outside the pass, Yunmen Pass has prospered rapidly in recent years, and the population has caught up with the county and capital cities of the Central Plains, and the prosperity of commerce and trade is still excessive.

The highest military commander here is the commander of Yunmen, with the title of Sipin, and the defenders under his command are no more than 2,000 people.

This Yunmen Commander's surname is Ao, his name is Jiang Hai, and he is a very rude man from all over the world as his name suggests. It is said that in the early years, he made a lot of military achievements from the dragon, and later in the battle to conquer the Tiandu City, he lame a right leg and injured a left eye, known as "Ao Banla".

He was sent here to be a general, mostly out of compassion for the imperial court, and he was waiting for him to be honored.

But Ao Jianghai never thought so, he always felt that there must be a battle to be fought in the future, and the imperial court sent himself to guard Yunmen Pass, just to let him train and build an elite army.

So since General Ao took office, the good days of the Yunmen Pass defenders are over, three days of a small exercise, five days of a big exercise, get up early and feel dark all day long The price is as tired as a dog, and everyone complains for a while.

Those captains who had a little way to escape one after another, and the sons and daughters of the nobles even talked about Yunmen Pass and changed color, preferring to run to the farther and more dangerous Taiyue Mountain Pass to join the army and mix their qualifications than to join Ao Jianghai's command.

Ji Chengche had heard of these allusions when he passed through Yunmen Pass with Mr. Da last time, and he had a good impression of this illiterate half-crippled general at that time.

This time he crossed the cloud gate and entered the customs, he planned to meet Ao Canghai incognito for a while, after all, such a general is far from the time to retire. In the future, once something happens to the country, I believe that they will be the first to come forward.

So Ji Chengche planned to stay in Yunmen Pass for a few more days, and then leave after the New Year.

He booked two rooms in an inn in the city, paid a five-day deposit in one go, and then took Wang Rou out to go shopping and feel the customs and customs of Guannei.

Wang Rou was stunned when she saw Ji Chengche pay the deposit, she didn't expect that he was actually planning to spend the New Year in Yunmen Pass - they all said that his heart was like an arrow, why did he seem to be in no hurry to go home at all?

Alone in a foreign land as a stranger, has this person really not felt loneliness and loneliness in his heart?

"Rock sugar gourd, it's still hawthorn!"

Ji Cheng's eyes lit up, and he looked at the vendor carrying a large string of rock sugar gourds on the side of the street and laughed happily like a child, and without saying a word, he rushed forward to pay for it, and it was four strings when he bought it.

"Give. He rushed back and gave two strings of sugar gourds to Wang Rou.

Wang Rou was stunned for a moment, looking at the shiny sugar gourd in Ji Chengqing's hand, "I don't like sweets...... It's going to get fat. ”

"It's good to look fat when you're fat, taste it!" Ji Chengche disagreed, and strode forward with the rock sugar gourd into Wang Rou's hand.

The crowds on the street were surging, which made Wang Rou, who grew up on the Northern Wilderness Ice Plain since childhood, quite uncomfortable.

She was dressed in black, holding two strings of red and bright rock sugar hawthorn gourds in her hands, but she didn't eat a bite, walking in the crowd, looking out of place with the people around her and the surrounding atmosphere.

Ji Cheng was clear but like a fish in water, and walked with great interest to the east and west, and after a while, he ate two bowls of mutton steamed buns, a bag of sugar-fried chestnuts and a bowl of beef offal soup.

Wang Rou doesn't like to sit at the greasy table and eat these diced, sliced and fleshy food, Ji Chengche doesn't force her, just work hard and eat a mouthful of soup and water, full of sweat and happy.

However, the attitude of those vendors towards Ji Chengche was obviously not friendly, and even the passers-by who came and went next to him would often cast contemptuous and hateful glances at him.

Ji Chengqing turned a blind eye to Juruo, of course he knew that it was because he had half of the demon blood on his body. If you put your hair in a coil and hide it in the brim of your hat, it will definitely be much better.

But Ji Chengche never thought of doing this, he was proud of his mother's blood, that is, he wanted to walk in the sun with a bright and bright face, and any dark purple hair was blowing in the wind.

Together, Wang Rou also suffered from everyone's eyes. A young girl with a graceful figure and a good face, if she is not greedy for money and pleasure, how can she be accompanied by a demon clan?

"Sao Fox!"

"Shameless!"

When they found that their man's eyes were pasted with Wang Rou, who was still holding a pipa and half-covering her face, and refused to let it go, the women immediately couldn't help but start scolding their mother.

Wang Rou didn't respond, and her red lips hidden under the veil quietly flashed with a hint of ridicule.

The dignified prince of the Han Dynasty was ridiculed and hated on the first day he stepped into the Cloud Gate Pass, which is really interesting.

Suddenly, the cry of a child sounded on the side of the street, a little boy of four or five years old who had lost his parents and family, and looked at the surging crowd in horror, and cried in fright.

Ji Chengche threw a few pennies on the table, walked across the street and squatted down in front of the little boy, and said with a smile: "Little brother, can't you find a home?"

The little boy's face was full of snot and tears, and he cried and cried: "Go home, I want to go home......"

"Don't cry, is it okay for my sister to invite you to eat sugar gourds?" Ji Chengche turned his face and took a string of rock sugar gourds from Wang Rou's hand and handed them to the little boy, "Tell my brother, where do you live? ”

The little boy licked the rock sugar gourd, nodded again and again with tears in his eyes, "I'll go home-"

Ji Chengche picked up the little boy and said, "Come, tell my brother where your house should go?"

The little boy blinked his eyes, stretched out his hand to the east and said, "There!"

After thinking about it, it seemed that it was wrong, and he pointed to the west again: "There!"

"There!" said the little boy this time, turning his finger to the south.

Ji Chengche was dumbfounded, fortunately the little boy didn't point to the north, otherwise wouldn't he have sent him all the way to the Northern Wilderness Ice Field?

At this moment, a woman came from the street and shouted, "Derpy, where is your baby dead!"

"I'm ...... Mother!" the little boy shouted excitedly, dancing to break free from Ji Qing's embrace.

When Ji Chengche heard the sound, he saw a woman with a tiger's back and a man with a big and three thick face looking around on the street with an anxious face.

Hearing the little boy's cry, the woman was overjoyed and exclaimed, "Derpy, I'm coming!"

When she saw clearly that her son was kicked and screamed in Ji Chengqing's arms, she couldn't help but speed up her pace, and then found that the child was actually a demon boy, and suddenly her thick eyebrows stood up and she said angrily: "Little devil cub, dare to kidnap my family, see if my aunt and grandmother don't kill you!"

Ji Chengche didn't expect this aunt to be so tough, and hurriedly handed the little boy back to the woman: "Sister-in-law, I'm not a human trafficker, I ......"

The woman snatched the little boy, picked up the kitchen knife and chopped off his head and face.

"Little devil cub, are you still in the past? Let me tell you, if my aunt doesn't chop you into eight petals today, I will have your surname!"

Ji Cheng's eyes quickly grabbed the woman's arm, "Sister-in-law, you misunderstood." ”

"I misunderstand your size!" The big man who came with the woman saw that his wife was at a loss, so he grabbed a round wooden stick on the side of the road and smashed it at Ji Chengche, "Arrest the trafficker!"

"Human traffickers, human traffickers!"

"Is that little cub of the demon race?

"Shoot him!"

Suddenly, the street exploded, and the surrounding vendors and passers-by were angry with each other, picking up all kinds of weapons and hitting Ji Chengqing.

Ji Chengqing's fists couldn't hold his four hands, so he had to flee in embarrassment, seeing that the big thing was bad and couldn't explain it clearly, he hurriedly dragged Wang Rou, who was in a daze on the side, and ran into the alley.

"Arrest the traffickers!"

"Grab that purple-haired little devil!"

The people in front blocked the people in the back and chased, and the people on both sides kept stumbling, and there was a great tendency to unite to beat the water dogs. Poor Ji Chengche tried his best to squeeze through the crowd with his hands and head, pulling Wang Rou all the way to run wildly, and he didn't know how many benches he had on his body, and there were countless hidden weapons such as rotten vegetable leaves and eggshells.

Finally, the chasing and shouting behind gradually faded away, and Ji Chengqing crapped into an uninhabited alley, and then stopped.

Wang Rou withdrew her hand and looked at the stains and mud on her clothes in disgust, and the remaining string of sugar gourds in her hand did not know where it had fallen when she fled.

Ji Chengche slapped the vegetable leaves and eggshells on his body, and said with emotion: "The folk customs on the border are really strong, and the people have the same hatred, it's really good!"

"Why don't you fight back?"

Ji Cheng's face was only embarrassed and annoyed, but there was no trace of anger and indignation, and when he saw Wang Rou, he smiled annoyed and grinned: "What am I going to fight back, you have some rotten eggs on you? Besides, it's not fun to fight back, and people don't treat me as a street bully?"

Wang Rou listened to his words and said dissatisfiedly: "At least you can reveal your identity." ”

"Forget it," Ji Chengche wrote lightly: "For the New Year, I don't want people all over the street to be worried because of me, and I have to make Ao Jianghai unable to celebrate the New Year." ”

"Do you know, once we were exhausted in Jiangnan, and Mr. Big went to the street to set up a stall to tell fortunes, and was chased and beaten by people all over the street as a god who cheated money. Haha, now I'm treated with him. ”

Wang Rou was silent, and Ji Chengche smiled relaxedly: "Clean up, let's continue shopping." ”

"You haven't had enough, where do you want to go?"

Ji Chengche walked to the other end of the alley and said, "I still have to go to the General's Mansion to watch the dragon dance!"

As he spoke, he suddenly looked back at Wang Rou and said with a smile: "It's full of rotten vegetable leaves, and it's really a red man and a green woman." ”

Wang Rou gritted her teeth to restrain the urge to tear Ji Cheng's mouth apart with one claw, and dragged her steps with a cold face towards the exit of the alley.