Hong Jun put the blue leech into the Qinglian Treasure Book, walked on a remote and uninhabited path, and slowly approached Yongyang City, and saw three or four soldiers in uneven clothes guarding the city gate, drowsy, all of them were old and weak soldiers who could be blown down by a gust of wind.

There were not many people coming in and out of the city, and when Hong Jun approached, the soldiers saw his figure clearly, their minds suddenly cleared up, and they said loudly: "Stop!"

Hong Jun stopped, helpless, he knew why he was stopped. The other adult men in the Shaoyan Department were all over seven feet, while Hong Jun was only six and a half feet, almost the shortest adult in the tribe, but when he arrived in Da Chu, his height stood out from the crowd. Most of the human races are under six feet, rarely more than six feet, and Hong Jun is sturdy, well-proportioned limbs, in the eyes of mortals, at first glance, he is a powerful person, plus the appearance is very different, if this is not noticed, it would be strange.

Fortunately, before leaving the Great Wilderness, Hong Jun had already prepared and dyed his hair pure black with a kind of grass juice, if he continued to have a flaming dark red hair on his head, it would be too conspicuous, and he would attract the attention of outsiders wherever he went. If the hair is dyed black, there is no way to do it with the pupils, and the dark red pupils are still a little weird in the eyes of those who don't know it.

A veteran led by him looked at Hong Jun with a puzzled look on his face. Yongyang City is close to the Great Wilderness, and they have all heard of the Lieshan clan living in the Great Wilderness, which is said to be all barbarians with tigers on their backs and infinite strength, but this person in front of them seems to be stronger than ordinary people, not much like the rumored Lieshan barbarians, except that their eyes are a little red, and they are not much different from normal human races.

"Where did you come from, and what are you doing in the city?" the veteran asked.

Hong Jun glared at the veteran, his face showed a little impatience, and replied: "Lao Tzu went into the city to do business, is there a problem?" He didn't want to answer the veteran's interrogation at all, these soldiers defending the city were all fierce and inward-looking, bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, and they didn't dare to stop them if they were stronger.

Sure enough, the veteran was so frightened that he took two steps back. He was annoyed in his heart, but as soon as he saw the tall figure of the other party, he didn't dare to say anything, and the veteran also heard some ways from this sentence, this person spoke the Terran dialect, the words were correct and round, with a little accent of Da Chu Shangjing, and the identity background was probably not low, so it was better to be less troublesome.

The veteran guards the city all the year round, and his ability to observe words and emotions is not low, and after figuring it out, he waved his hand to let Hong Jun enter the city.

Hong Jun's face softened slightly, and he casually threw down a small piece of broken silver, and then without looking at a few soldiers, he turned around and entered the city gate. The old soldier hurriedly caught the silver, surprised and delighted, this small piece of broken silver can be worth him three months, I didn't think this person was so generous, he quickly put the silver into his arms, vigilantly away from a few colleagues, turned his head to look at the figure of the man just now, and found that he had gone away.

Walking into the city, Hong Jun slowly walked through the muddy streets, observing the customs of the city.

Although Yongyang City is a small city, it also has 30,000 or 40,000 permanent residents, which is much more lively than a mountain village like Shaoyanbu. However, Yongyang City is still much worse than the city in Hong Jun's impression, in his previous life, he was used to an interstellar metropolis with a population of hundreds of millions, this kind of small city is really not in the eyes of the law, and he lost interest after a casual stroll. And he found that when he walked down the street, people always noticed him, pointing behind his back and talking in a low voice.

"That's it, let's get out of here first and go to Shangjing. ”

Hong Jun walked into a carriage and horse shop, and a moment later, he came out on a tall horse. This horse is the treasure of this carriage and horse, taller and stronger than ordinary horses, with long endurance, not slow, and it seems to have a little demon blood, otherwise it will not be able to carry Hong Jun's heavy body, he spent a lot of money to buy it from the carriage and horse dealership.

Yongyang City is 5,000 miles away from the King of Great Chu, and Hong Jun doesn't want to ride the blue wind lizard to swagger in the sky, meet other monks, and don't want to walk on foot, so he can only buy this horse to walk.

Riding a horse out of Yongyang City, Hong Jun went all the way up to the north.

Hong Jun traveled day and night all the way, if he could not enter the city, he would not enter the city, try to take the avenue, many times he slept in the wild, and he also met some martial arts people of the Great Chu Dynasty, who had doubts about his origin and appearance, and there were also ill intentions, but he was easily dismissed.

Half a month later, a majestic majestic city appeared in front of Hong Jun.

Shangjing City is worthy of being the capital of Great Chu, the city wall is high and thick, more than five zhang, the traffic under the tall city gate is busy, I don't know how many times more prosperous than Yongyang City, the caravan is endless, the pedestrians' complexion is very ruddy, the soldiers guarding the city gate are also a look of elite soldiers, and there are a lot of people.

Hong Jun found that the people who came in and out of Shangjing City were three sects and nine streams, martial arts heroes, monks and monks, wandering warlocks, beggar monks, almost everything, and even occasionally saw a few people with obvious foreign blood. Before entering the city, I saw several groups of noble children riding various beast mounts swaggering through the city, and the pedestrians were already surprised.

In this situation, a tall half-race human like Hong Jun with dark red eyes was not inconspicuous at all, and if he didn't look carefully in the crowd, he was no different from ordinary people, and no one paid attention to him at all. Hong Jun dismounted and lined up to enter the city, and when the soldiers guarding the city heard Hong Jun's accent, they didn't pay much attention to it, and let him enter the group.

After all, Shangjing City is the national capital, different from Yongyang City, the wide streets that can accommodate eight horses in parallel are paved with thick bluestone slabs, the streets are lined with green trees, restaurants and merchants, inns and mansions are numerous, and there is no end in sight at a glance, so a prosperous scene.

Hong Jun had no intention of visiting, so he casually found a pedestrian to ask for directions, and then went to the destination of this trip.

Half an hour later, Hong Jun stopped in front of a huge mansion, which covers an area of hundreds of acres and is located in the north of the city, where all the dignitaries and nobles live nearby, and not far from the Great Chu Imperial City. The vermilion lacquer gate of eight feet high stands proudly, the gate is closed, the rows of copper nails on the door are polished and shiny, a pair of tall stone lions on both sides are nine feet high, majestic and mighty, and there are four capable guards standing on the stone steps, all of whom are extraordinary, more than ten times stronger than the soldiers at the city gate.

Hong Jun looked up and saw that there was a wide plaque hanging above the gate, with the words "Qiwei Hou's Mansion" written in a decent manner, and the font was painted with gold paint, and the bottom of the paragraph turned out to be the founding emperor of Great Chu, covered with a vermilion jade seal, which was extremely eye-catching.

"It's here. Hong Jun looked at these four words and nodded secretly, "This is my mother's maiden family, Qi Weihou, a feudal nobleman, and it seems that his status in Dachu is not low." My mother handed me a few letters before leaving, which had to be delivered to my uncle before leaving. ”

Just as Hong Jun wanted to step forward, a guard on the steps saw Hong Jun standing still, so he came down and asked, "You kid, what are you doing standing in front of our Hou Mansion?" ”

Hong Jun took out a cyan jade pendant from his arms, shook it in front of the guard's eyes, and said, "I was entrusted by someone to come to deliver the letter." This jade pendant is a token given to him by Jiang Xi, and it is the thing she carried with her back then, saying that as long as she comes out, her mother's family will recognize it.

The guard was stunned for a moment, he practiced internal skills, and saw clearly the jade pendant in Hong Jun's hand, which was indeed a green ring pendant that only the relatives in the Hou Ye's mansion would have, it didn't seem to be fake, his face suddenly became polite, and asked Hong Jun to wait a while, he trotted all the way into the gatehouse, and invited out a middle-aged man who looked like a steward.

When the housekeeper saw Hong Jun's appearance, he was slightly surprised, and then took a closer look at Hong Jun's dark red pupils, and he had a little guess, and his mind turned, and he immediately put down his posture, stepped forward and introduced himself kindly: "The contemptible surname is Liu, but he is the third housekeeper of the Hou Ye's mansion, dare to ask if you can let me identify the origin of that jade pendant?"

Hong Jun has nothing to do, this housekeeper's strength is good, but in his eyes he is just a small person, forgive him for not being able to make any tricks under his nose, so he handed him the cyan jade pendant.

Steward Liu took Hong Jun's jade pendant and only glanced at it, and couldn't help but be surprised: "Sure enough, it's the eldest lady's belongings, is your surname Lieshan?"

Hong Jun was a little surprised, but he didn't expect this housekeeper to be very discerning, and nodded and said, "Yes, my name is Lieshan Yang." ”

The guards on the steps heard the conversation between the two, they were all surprised, they had heard that there was an eldest lady in the house who married the Lieshan clan and lived in the Great Wilderness for 20 years without returning, this matter has always been a taboo in the Hou Mansion, and the subordinates only dared to talk a few words when they were drunk and courageous, but they did not expect that there would be descendants to visit relatives in the house today.

Steward Liu's attitude became more and more respectful, and said with a smile: "It turns out that the young master is back!" His face showed a little nostalgia, and he sighed: "I have known the eldest lady since I was a child, and when the eldest lady left home to go out for training, I had just become married, and I thought she would be back soon, but I didn't want to be twenty years in the blink of an eye, and the young master was so old, and I was old." ”

Hong Jun suddenly realized that this Steward Liu was still an old acquaintance of his mother, no wonder he could recognize the owner of Qinghuanpei at a glance.

After expressing his feelings, Steward Liu hurriedly said, "Young Master Cousin, please come in." If the Hou Ye and the little Hou Ye knew that you were back, they would be very happy, please. ”

"I'm tired of Steward Liu leading the way. Hong Jun arched his hand, handed over the horse to a guard, and then followed Steward Liu into the Hou Mansion.

"Young Master Cousin is polite. ”

Entering the Hou Mansion, bypassing the wall, a large piece of gorgeous buildings appeared in front of him, Steward Liu took Hong Jun through the attic corridors, passing through more than a dozen well-arranged courtyards, all kinds of rockeries and green trees, and the water pavilion garden was dotted.

Along the way, I met many servants and maids, and saw that Steward Liu was greeting each other in a proper manner, and they did not squint, which showed that there was a strict hierarchy in the Hou Mansion.

Hong Jun followed silently, without squinting, and his face did not change at all, not at all like a barbarian who had never seen the world. Steward Liu saw it in his eyes, nodded secretly, and thought to himself that the eldest lady was really well-disciplined, although this young master was born as a barbarian, he knew how to be polite, he was neither humble nor arrogant to people, and he spoke the human dialect very standardly, only listening to the voice and not looking at people, and thought that he was a native of Shangjing.