Xishan City, located in the basin valley area at the junction of the "three mountains", the terrain is gentle, the soil is fertile, and it is located in the upper reaches of the Tianhe River at the same time, the water source is abundant, and it is surrounded by mountains on three sides, only a pass in the southeast, can be connected to the outside world, it is a husband when the pass, ten thousand people do not open, it is really easy to defend and difficult to attack the place, so the world once said, a person who enters the West Mountain can be the king, and the one who gets the West Mountain gets the world!

Today's Daxuan, the side branch of the royal family, the three sons of Taizong, because of his meritorious service, was canonized as the prince of Xishan, and guarded here for generations, defending the border for the Son of Heaven, and defending the imperial capital "Tianfu", but now the prince of Xishan, Li Jixuan, inherited the throne at a young age, held a heavy army, but won the support of the local people, as if it had become a major problem for today's saints, and became the only existence that could threaten the imperial power. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Looking at the tall and majestic Lingxiao Pass, Fang Shou stood at the base of the city wall, as if he was an ant, so small, even if he was a monk, with the strength of one enemy, in the face of this behemoth, it was still the same, he walked slowly, he didn't know what he was thinking, his heart was heavy, and he always felt a little depressed.

"Xishan, we are guarding, and we are finally back...... I just don't know, it's a few years of Qianming?"

When Fang Shou and No. 1 and the others lied that they wanted to enter Xishan City to explore and understand the humanities and geography of the Initial Realm, in fact, he had already judged the current scene of the trial through various clues, and it was undoubtedly set in the Qianming Dynasty, but the specific correspond to which year, month, and day, he had more than enough strength.

At this moment, Fang Shou's identity in the trial was a member of the Tianfu Water Gang, with a low social status, and he was not allowed to enter the city according to common sense, but before entering the city, he secretly knocked out a scholar, dragged him to a secluded place, changed into the other party's clothes, and took the documents to enter the city, so he entered the city directly in a grand manner. As for why Fang Shou chose someone with the identity of Wensheng, it is unknown......

After entering Xishan City and walking on the wide avenue, Fang Shou seemed to have lost his direction and began to wander aimlessly.

"If you want to talk about this Xishan City, I'm afraid no one knows more than me. ”

It seemed that there was an instinct in his body, Fang Shou crossed the wide main street, turned left and right into a remote narrow alley, and what he saw and heard were all familiar scenes.

Langfang, street signs, lanterns, vendors, wine shops, cattle and horses, everything was so familiar that Fang Shou gradually got lost in it.

Here, it's Pickle Alley.

In the past, during the war years, the whole street was made of pickles, so it was called "Pickle Lane". Pickles are made of a variety of materials, but most of them are pickled, and the materials are from grass roots and bark to golden branches and jade leaves, there are many kinds of them, but most of them have the same taste - salty, not greasy, and they are invented by the common people to use bibimbap when the materials are not abundant during the war, so as to replenish the salt in the body.

Then. After many years of war, when the dynasty Taizu, the end of the heavy taxes and miscellaneous taxes of the previous dynasty, unified the Central Plains, set the capital in Tianfu, and set the country name "Daxuan", the people finally lived a stable life, do not have to be afraid all day long, and with the future, the territory of Daxuan continues to expand, Xishan, which was once a strategic point, has gradually lost its original status, and as a fief of the prince, slowly prospered.

As a result, the people of Pickle Lane slowly stopped making pickles and turned to other more profitable businesses, but the name "Pickle Lane" has been inherited from generation to generation.

But Pickle Alley, for Fang Shou, has a different meaning.

"After many years, I came back here again, and it was in this testing ground where it was difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake, which was really emotional...... But old man, are you still alive?"

Fang Shou walked for a moment, stopped in front of a dilapidated land temple, trembled violently, and suddenly froze on the spot, without saying a word for a long time.

"Old man......"

"Uh.... Belch..... cough cough" A thin old voice that was extremely weak came into his ears, and hearing this, Fang Shou actually closed his eyes, and couldn't bear to look at the old beggar lying on the dirty straw mat lying outside the land temple.

Judging from his face alone, this old man seems to be dying. But passers-by seem to have long been accustomed to seeing the embarrassment of this group of beggars, so they feel redundant to even glance at this old thing that is extremely difficult to breathe, and they will not have the heart to help them.

Sometimes, people are destined to be two parallel lines, even if they are in the same time and place, they will not have the slightest intersection.

"In the second year of Qianming. Fang Shou meditated, his mood becoming more and more heavy.

In that year, not long after the new emperor ascended the throne, in order to rectify military affairs, the saint secretly ordered countless brocade-clothed spies to infiltrate Xishan City as idle people in the rivers and lakes, trying to find out the secret reports of the place. And at this moment, it was also his brother-in-law "Li Jixuan", who had just taken the throne of the prince, and his position was not stable, and when he was fighting with his uncles, he was unable to govern these "people in the rivers and lakes", so he had to condone them in Xishan City.

For a time, the rivers and lakes were surging, not only the imperial court, but also some real Jianghu forces, such as the beggar gang, etc., also grasped the situation, and came one after another, taking the opportunity to send a large number of subordinates to compete for territory here, frantically developing forces, and secretly colluding with the government, the official bandit family, almost all evil, making the local people miserable, for a time the people's grievances were monstrous, and there was an endless stream of visitors to Beijing, and the court impeached the king of Xishan folded several folds on a table.

In order to eliminate the impact, the government will give some compensation, so that they will not be unable to live, but "idle people" like Fang Shou and old beggars, when facing real Jianghu forces and professional beggars, they are naturally not enough. Even the dilapidated temple that no one cared for was driven out of it, and they barely lived on the tattered straw mat full of parasites under the eaves.

"It's a pity that I was still young that year and had no power to protect myself, otherwise, if the old man had been able to seek medical attention in time, maybe he would not have died of illness. Fang Shou burst into tears, and was afraid of attracting attention, so he hid in a shadow, silently watching the old man who was still breathing, and his life was passing little by little. And there is nothing I can do.

"Before coming, I promised them that unless they threatened me, they would never interfere in everything, and that I must be true to my word, and I must not be rash enough to help the old man in this illusory scene, after all, he is not real. The real old man died eleven years ago......"

When he was five years old, the situation in the world was turbulent, and the old man took himself with him, and finally ended his wandering career, and decided to settle in this Xishan City, and fixed begging, the reason is that the old man was sick, and he was very sick, and he could not even take care of himself.

The old man had been a beggar all his life, how could he save his savings? and had no money for treatment, so he could only stay in the land temple and eat and wait until he died, but the roof leak happened to rain overnight, and then the beggar gang in the city drove the two of them out of the temple again, leaving only a small area under the eaves as a place to stay.

If it is said that the wind and rain can be prevented, but when the wind is strong, the place is useless, and the old beggar's illness becomes more and more serious under such circumstances. And the burden of begging for food naturally fell on the little beggar who was only five years old, Fang Shou.

As a beggar, Fang Shou was used to seeing life and death when he urinated, but this time, he seemed to have lost his backbone, and he was completely panicked. In order to be able to beg for food in the rivers and lakes rampant in this beggar, he also did many lowly things that he had never done in the past, but even so, it was difficult for him to support himself, let alone bear a patient, and later, if he hadn't met a nobleman, he would have been unable to live for a long time.

And that person was the personal guard of the Xiwang Mansion at the time, and the general manager of the Ninth Rank Foreign Committee - Wei Chi.