Chapter 16: Provocation
With a modest and idle smile, Beg held his hands behind his back and stood beside Lu Chengfeng and looked up and down at the people behind Yi Yan.
In addition to Lu Chengfeng, the newly appointed pawn, Yi Yan also had the three most important officials of Xiaomengcheng by his side: the warden, the pawn, and the execution.
According to the control of the Great Yan Dynasty, the suzerainty of the Lu State, the city guard was responsible for the work of grasping a certain place. The military is fully responsible for the military of soldiers and horses, the warden is responsible for the supervision and evaluation of officials, the people are responsible for the production of people's livelihood, and the criminal punishment is responsible for the criminal law and anti-theft rì regular public security.
Xiaomengcheng is located in a remote area, surrounded by pristine primeval mountains and forests, but because of the abundance of products, the annual oil and water are very rich. Although Yi Yan is full of treasures, the three wardens, people, and executioners in the city are also full of jewels, which are as gorgeous as jewelry booths.
Don't beg to look at the people around Yi Yan warmly, he found a lot of good things that are worth his hands on. His hands rubbed against each other behind his back, his fingers trembling with excitement. It's not a good time for him to loot in broad daylight, so he has to wait.
Yi Yan, as the city guard, introduced Lu Chengfeng to the officials who accompanied him. After listening to Yi Yan's introduction, Bei Qi suddenly grinned. The wardens, people, and executioners of Xiaomengcheng are all members of the Yi family, and they must have all followed Yi Yan to Xiaomengcheng to work and make a fortune.
With Lu Chengfeng's introduction, those officials stepped forward to salute Lu Chengfeng one after another. Although the position of the pawn army is important, it is not worthy of such importance from these people. Lu Chengfeng's identity as the son of the Lu family in Liyang is the most important reason for Yi Yan to go out of the city gate to greet him. Other officials, big and small, are also so polite to Lu Chengfeng because of this identity.
After a period of greetings and polite words that made Beg almost yawn, Yi Yan affectionately took Lu Chengfeng's hand and led him all the way to the city guard mansion in the city. Other officials surrounded the two of them tightly, chatting and laughing, accosting Yi Yan and Lu Chengfeng, a harmonious scene, as if the entire Xiaomeng City was welcoming Lu Chengfeng, the new pawn.
Following Lu Chengfeng's side, Beg walked while looking at this small Mengcheng.
The road surface in the city is not bad, it is paved with rough granite excavated in the mountain, and there is a ditch three feet wide on the side of the road, which leads the open water in the ditch, and the water is murmuring, and the sanitary conditions in the city are very good. The roadside with a width of three zhang is a row of restaurants, shops, inns, and dwellings, the highest height of the building is no more than three times, and the brick and stone civil structure of a water is paved with a sè green tile.
On the road, you can see the convoy of the brigade coming and going at any time, and the vehicles are full of various mountain goods, animal skins, herbs, ores, etc., so that the beams of the car are about to break. The convoy was followed by the kind of strong men who were tall and brave, all wearing soft armor, holding sharp knives, and their bodies were full of anger, obviously all of them were good men who had been honed in the field of life and death.
In the restaurants, shops, and inns on the side of the road, there are mostly evil men who blow their noses and stare at each other without saying a word. From time to time, some bewitching and slender women dressed in red and green came and went here, laughing and playing with those evil men in indulgent voices.
Xiaomeng City is very prosperous, unexpectedly prosperous. There is a savage and rude air to this prosperity, a deformed prosperity, but don't beg to love it. He took a few deep breaths, he really liked the taste.
Whether it was a convoy or a pedestrian on the road, when they saw Beggar, they all retreated to both sides of the road and gave way to one of the avenues. In the barbaric place of Xiaomengcheng, Yi Yan represents the law of the country and the most powerful force within a radius of hundreds of miles from this city, and no one dares to violate the majesty of the defense of a city.
From time to time, there were also squads of city guards in black clothes and black armor patrolling the road, and when they saw a group of people, these city guards hurriedly retreated to the side of the road to salute. Beg looked at these city guards, but found that they were much worse than the Tianzi C battalion sent to Mengcun, whether they were cultivators or jīng qishen, and they seemed to be face-saving goods.
Walking three miles along the avenue towards the city, a magnificent mansion rose in front of it.
The mansion is long and wide, and has a parapet outside. This wall is much more atmospheric than the city wall of Xiaomengcheng, the upper and lower water is made of bluestone strips, five zhang high, three zhang thick, and the defense power is at least ten times more than ten times that of the city wall of Xiaomengcheng.
On the top of the walls, soldiers in bright armor and jerky spirits roamed back and forth, guarding the mansion impenetrable. Compared to the soldiers outside the gate of Xiaomeng City, the patrol soldiers here are absolutely jīng sharp, and the sergeants guarding the gate are garbage-like goods.
Yi Yan showed a smug smile, he pointed to this mansion and said with a smile: "Lu Dianjun, this is the City Shou Mansion, which is where we live and work in Pingrì. ”
Lu Chengfeng looked at this small castle in surprise and said in surprise: "Oh, the public houses of the city guards and the warden army, the wardens, the wardens, and the pawns are all here?"
Yi Yan patted his belly with both hands, and there was a wave of snow-white flesh. He sighed: "Xiaomeng City is located in the wilderness, and it is very dangerous around, and it is very dangerous. Those barbarians, every once in a while, come to make trouble, and the outer city wall is not a problem, and those barbarians will kill and loot in the city at every turn. For the safety of all of you, it took two years of hard work for this official to build this castle guard!"
The three members of the Yi family, the warden, the people, and the executioners on the side, hurriedly slapped their horses and praised Yi Yan for the safety of the officials and officials present who spent a huge amount of money to build such a city guard's mansion. Many adults who will take over the city guard of Xiaomengcheng in the future must be grateful to Yi Yan for his style of planting trees and enjoying the shade of his predecessors!
Beg snorted heavily, and he asked in a rough voice: "Since you have the money to repair the city and defend the palace, why don't you also build the outer city wall?
The three of them, the warden, the people, and the executioners were all surprised, and Yi Yan was covered in white flesh like snowflakes for a while, and he shouted at the top of his voice: "No money, really no money, how much tax income is there in a year in this ghost place of Xiaomeng City? The repair of this wall has exhausted the tax revenue of the city guard for the next ten years, and there is no money to repair the outer city wall!"
Don't beg for money? He just glanced at the jewelry on Yi Yan's body that was worth tens of thousands.
Lu Chengfeng laughed a few times dryly, but he didn't say anything. He looked at the many patrols on the wall, then looked back at the two patrols of the City Guard who had escorted them here, and rolled his eyes unobtrusively. The guards on duty in the city guard mansion are much sharper than the patrol of the city guards.
After a complicated ritual that made Beqi confused, Beqi followed Lu Chengfeng into the city guard's mansion. The seven chariots and the servants who drove the car brought by Lu Chengfeng were all arranged into the palace of the guards of the city, a mansion where the first three and the last three were luxurious, and dozens of maids and servants were arranged in advance.
Beg also saw for the first time who were in Lu Chengfeng's seven carriages. In addition to Lao Hei and Xiao Hei, a pair of black father and son, there were eight maids and eight servant women in the other six carts, as well as two rǔ mothers who were in the feeding period.
For the first time, Beg also knew from Lu Chengfeng that this rǔ Niang was the person in charge of human medicine.
Don't beg to know a little more about this world.
hastily arranged the accompanying maids and maids, and Yi Yan sent someone to invite Lu Chengfeng to the banquet to catch the wind.
The reception banquet was arranged in the inner hall of the city guard's mansion, and the people who came out included all the officials of Xiaomeng City below Yi Yan, and there were more than 200 people in a mess. As Lu Chengfeng's doorman, Beg is naturally qualified to work, and under Yi Yan's personal reception, he sat behind a desk behind Lu Chengfeng.
The spacious inner hall is large enough to accommodate a gathering of four or five hundred people, and in the middle of a case, Yi Yan sits behind the case with difficulty. On both sides are the seats of the four major officials, namely, the army, the officials, the people, and the criminals. Except for Lu Chengfeng, there was only one person behind him, and the other three people had doormen ranging from three or five to more than ten people behind them.
In addition to these five, the other officials were divided into three columns in the lobby according to their official positions, one on the left and one on the right, for a total of six columns.
Bei Qi looked at the three feet long and one and a half feet wide in front of him, made of heavy wood, with dozens of layers of lacquer on it, and the light can be seen. The lacquer surface is inlaid with gold and silver threads with fine geometric patterns, which is very dignified and generous but magnificent.
The inner hall of the banquet is a rosewood floor, and everyone sits down with a heavy and soft cashmere blanket, which is very warm and comfortable. There are two rows of big pillars in the hall, which is carved from the whole golden silk nan wood, carves the dragon and paints the phoenix, flows the gold and overflows with color, and the magnificent atmosphere comes to the face.
The ceiling of the inner hall is also made of rosewood ceiling, and dozens of lanterns are hung on it, which illuminates the lobby brightly and can be seen. In the corners of the inner hall, there are also branch-shaped candlesticks, and the large candles are burning vigorously. I don't know what spices are mixed in the candles, but there is a refreshing warm fragrance flowing in the air.
Just now in the Dianjun Mansion, Bei Qi took a bath, wrapped his smooth head with a turban, changed into a set of comfortable and loose silk robes, and stepped on a pair of soft cloth boots under his feet.
Yi Yan's style is very luxurious, but Beg appreciates this luxury. At least the least, much more comfortable than the conditions in Meng Village. Beg is not an ascetic, he can make himself comfortable, why does he have to endure hardship?
Stiffening his waist, Bei Qi sat behind Lu Chengfeng, constantly looking at the other officials sitting in the lobby.
Everyone else's attention was on Lu Chengfeng's body, constantly showing Lu Chengfeng his bright smiling face. As for Beggar, except for a few little maids standing by who were secretly looking at him, no one paid attention to him.
Suddenly, he heard Yi Yan's applause, and he shouted: "Everyone is here, wine, wine, let's take the wind and wash the dust for Lu Dianjun." From Liyang to Xiaomengcheng, thousands of miles of hard work all the way, Lu Dianjun thought it was hard work!"
Hundreds of maids walked out of the back of the hall like butterflies in flowers, and a bronze wine jue was laid in front of everyone, and incensed wine was injected.
Everyone raised their glasses in unison and shouted to Lu Chengfeng: "Lu Dianjun has worked hard all the way, hard work all the way!"
Lu Chengfeng raised his wine glass, stood up with a smile and said a few words of humility to everyone, and after a greasy polite remark, everyone drank the wine.
Yi Yan clapped his hands again, and the maids served various sè delicacies this time, one dish and one bowl full of mountain and sea delicacies, each dish and bowl were not large, but there were many varieties. The fragrance is wafting in all directions, making people smell it and move their index fingers.
Beg hadn't eaten a serious meal for several days, and seeing the wine and food in front of him, he hurriedly grabbed his chopsticks, picked up a piece of bright yellow sè trembling deer tendon and stuffed it into his mouth. The meat is fragrant and juicy, and it is really delicious.
While enjoying the food in his mouth, there was a sudden muffled sound in the lobby, and a bronze wine lord was thrown to the ground and smashed into a copper cake.
A big man sitting behind the warden officer Yi Xing stood up, and shouted with his fingers: "Where did the wild people in the mountains and forests come from, do you understand the rules?
Many people in the hall looked at each other, and a little oil and water was slowly dripping from the corner of Beqi's mouth, which was eye-catching under the illumination of the light.
There was silence in the room, followed by a burst of laughter.
Today, we will make an exception and issue the third watch of the new book! Comrades, smash the votes. Those who have tickets will have a ticket field, and those who don't have tickets will have a personal field!
I ate too many pig's head orchid beans, and my teeth hurt so much on both sides!