Chapter 13 Coming to the Yue Kingdom
In this way, I walked and stopped through the mountains and crossed the big river, and walked in and out of the capitals of major countries and large and small cities and villages and towns on the way to the Jin Kingdom, and the capital of the Jin Kingdom was also the most beautiful capital along the way.
The city is divided into a river, the east of the city, the west of the city, the beautiful scenery in the city, the flowers bloom on the roadside, the river cruises are blue, the people in the city are very polite, and even the roadside vendors use signboards instead of shouting loudly.
The guards in the city are all patrolling in rows, making people feel comfortable at all, and there is no feeling of perennial war.
The capital of the Jin Kingdom was named Longzhong City because of a river in the city.
Zheng Lao has a promising old friend in this city, is a master carver, very generous, but very strict with the acceptance of apprentices, many people in Longzhong City come to learn the art, because it is too strict, gradually no one cares.
Zheng Lao took Xiao Chai to try his luck today, and when he entered the door, he saw a tall old man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, his hair was gray, but he felt very young.
After entering the door, Zheng Lao bowed his hand: "It's good that Master You Xifang came in, I will come to the door today to send you a senior disciple, you can come and see the color."
Then Xiao Chai walked in front of You Xifang, people look at people and are pleasing to the eye, this is fate, but Master You Xifang still assesses a lot of questions.
Xiao Chai's smart energy was displayed, and Zheng Lao secretly admired it, Xiao Chai, this kid has a good mind and hands, and he naturally became You Xifang's close disciple.
Zheng Lao got two ingots of gold because of his recommendation, and now the Coke is broken, and he feels like flying when he walks.
After staying in Dragon City for seven days, Shi Zi and Er Wang and Dog Egg also played all over Dragon City, and the cost of these seven days was not small, and it made Zheng Lao feel a pain in his flesh.
During this period, they went to see Xiao Chai, and saw Master You Xifang taking Xiao Chai as a treasure, and he was exclaiming all day long, and Xiao Chai was also quite respectful to the master.
Xiao Ge San didn't go to see Xiao Chai again after being relieved, and the day of departure after the cultivation of Longzhong City came, Er Wang specially found Xiao Chai and told the address of the Qian family in Wuyun City of Jin Kingdom and told him to have time to play with him.
The convoy set off, the Jin policy is good, so Zheng Lao is higher than Ancheng, and he brought three convoys, the momentum is even greater, the caravan is like a big dragon, from the beginning to the end, walking on the official road, Zheng Lao's official goods are more, so that the five caravans are extremely envious.
This walk is another month, and there are a lot of detours in the Jin Kingdom, and the three of them don't know at all, but at the end of the month, when they arrive in Wuyun City, don't look at the difference between them and Luyun City, but the difference is too much, fortunately, it is a small city surrounded by mountains and rivers.
Erwang also arrived at his destination, the Qian family is very good in Wuyun City, and the older generation of the Qian family has five brothers.
One of the five brothers is Erwang's grandfather, and the youngest brother of the Qian family took refuge in Erwang's grandfather's house because of official affairs.
Brothers met and left an address, but Erwang's grandfather was very stubborn and did not want to go home to stay in Zhaoqian Village, a few years ago, the Qian family intended to ask Erwang's family to return to the main family before ordering someone to find them back, Erwang's parents were unwilling to come back, but they could just place Erwang in the master's house to avoid conscription.
When the current patriarch of the Qian family saw that Erwang's appearance was very similar to that of his youth, he liked to add Erwang's sweet tongue and smooth temperament, and the patriarch immediately arranged a separate courtyard for Erwang after reading the letter, and there were three good-looking maids scouts, Erwang couldn't help but feel like he flew up the branches and became a phoenix.
The dog and the stone were a little envious, Erwang raised his head and said proudly: "In a few days, there will be a special scholar and a gentleman to teach me to read and write."
The dog Dan and the stone saw Erwang's swaggering appearance and went up to repair it, and Erwang screamed and begged for mercy.
Shi Zi and Goudan didn't stay long and returned to the caravan, and on the day of departure, the head of the Qian family specially ordered the general stationed in Wuyun City to be Erwang's distant uncle to lead the troops to send the caravan out of the Jin Kingdom.
This can make Zheng Lao majestic and smile every day, General Qian led the troops to the border of the Jin State before returning to the city and sent more than 20 gold ingots, Zheng Lao was holding the gold ingots at the time, his hands were trembling, he regretted not bringing a few more children out and maybe he would take this as a profession in the future.
What goods are transported, directly transport children to avoid the war, evade conscription, Zheng Lao can see the food in his stomach when he laughs, but there is an inexplicable emptiness in the heart of the stone and the dog, and the partners are traveling all the way from the village There are fewer and fewer of them, fortunately, the dogs and the stones can still go together.
Dunzi, Xiao Chai, and Er Wang are all gone, leaving the two of them in iron hats, and always look at them and call them out to chat and relieve them.
The old man in the iron hat drove the carriage, looked at the cigarette pouch in his hand, and said: "Since you come out, don't worry about the man's ambitions, although it is good to have a partner by your side, but your own experience will be less, just do what you want to do, even if you have to overcome the hardship, am I right?"
The dog and the stone both nodded violently at the chick peck, which made the old man in the iron hat laugh.
Time flies, in a blink of an eye, the dog and the stone have walked in the old carriage of the iron hat for more than half a year, and seeing that the dog and the stone are also about to be a year older, they have also encountered many mountain bandits and road tyrants along the way, all of which were sent away by Zheng Lao's strategies and methods one by one.
This is also called Shizi and Goudan, and they have learned a lot of things, plus the old man of the iron hat has a lot of emotion and in-depth narration of the two little ghosts, which is already quite a bit of a means.
But the iron hat always said that this is far from enough, you must know that there are people outside the world, and there is a truth outside the sky, so that just want to be complacent, and both of them reflect.
After walking for another month, they finally arrived at the border of the country, and Godan and Shizi began to look forward to the next step or the long-term plan for the future.
"Iron hat old, iron hat old, you said that I have eaten delicious food from several countries along the way, and I want to go to a restaurant as a kitchen apprentice, okay?"
Shi Zi clenched his fists and quietly walked behind the dog, and then poked out his middle finger slightly, nodded and screamed at the hammered dog
"There is a chance, to be a cook, to be a blind iron hat old education, you have to be a buddy, learn how to be a shopkeeper, how majestic you are to open a restaurant, how good it is to ask the chef to cook food for you, you stupid"
Shizi scolded, learning from adults to educate children.
The old man in the iron hat laughed and looked at the dog eggs squatting on the car board with his hands covering his head and rubbing them, and also turned around and said, "Shizi is right, this is the way to be promising, and when my old man can't drive the carriage in the future, I still expect to go to the restaurant you opened to support the elderly."
Goudan rubbed his head and nodded, "Don't worry, I promise you that when you are old, I will do a big restaurant or a big inn in the future, and call me the big boss of Qian, the big shopkeeper of Qian"
Then I looked back at the stone again, "I thought about what to do, the stone"
Shi Zi scratched his head and then said: "Mo Lao said that now Yue is the second and third strongest power among all countries, except for Zhao and Jin, it is Hou Zhou, remember the first time I taught us to write on the wooden board? Those are relatively strong countries, and there are many small countries that are dependent on these countries, since I have arrived in Yue country, I should take a good look before making plans, anyway, there is time."
The old man in the iron hat also touched his beard and nodded in agreement, Shizi wanted to cover up his original plan with these words, he didn't want the two of them to know that because this dream was almost zero realized.
Coming to Yue for a story is a joke, but Shizi has always believed in it.
After walking for more than ten days, finally the capital of the country gradually approached, on this city gate, more than ten carriages drove into the city side by side, not crowded, there are two small city gates on each side of the periphery, the city gate is written "Shangjing", two gilt characters, each word has more than one person high.
The stone and the dog egg both exhaled deeply, if you compare the capital of the Jin Kingdom with the capital of the Yue Kingdom, then one egg is the size of an egg and the other is a pumpkin.
The majestic city gate is like a giant beast lying on the ground with its mouth open, and people entering and leaving the city feel like ants coming to the mouth of the giant beast.
The city of Shangjing City is divided into five cities, southeast, northwest, and five cities, and the middle city is the imperial city, where the relatives of ministers and generals and nobles live.
The southeast, northwest and northwest correspond to the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, the east spring city, the south summer city, the west autumn city and the north winter city, the layout of the city in the city is clear to people at a glance, remember, and easy to manage.
Shi Zi knew that the mountain outside the city was not far from Nanxia City, and he could arrive in less than a day after leaving the city.
The caravan's post station got off the carriage and moved in at Xiqiu City.
Shizi didn't rush to the place he longed for, but played in the city with the dog for a few days, eating, drinking, and having fun, which made Zheng Lao anxious.
Zheng Lao thought that the destination had arrived, so he hurriedly asked for the token of the stone, and then continued to set off to be with these two ancestors.
His money doesn't belong to him, and every copper he spends is distressed, and Shizi is in this way so that he won't be discovered by Zheng Lao, the old fox, about his thoughts.
Who knows what he has in his heart, and he knows Zheng Lao's heart just by looking at it along the way, when Zheng Lao arranges for Goudan to be a partner in a quite famous restaurant.
The boss also promised to take good care of the dog and the stone, so that he could rest assured, and forced Zheng Lao to achieve the purpose of the stone step by step, and asked Zheng Lao to agree with sincerity as for what the stone does, and Shizi said that he would go out and take a look, and then clearly told Zheng Lao to wait for him for a few days.
Then he gave the token to Zheng Lao to use, Zheng Lao wanted to steal the token, but Shi Zi told him, when Mo Lao left, he told him that once he lost the token, he would go to the government to report Zheng Lao, and then the token would become invalid.
The government and the holder of the token have a set of code words, only if you know the code word, you can cancel or recover the right to use the token, along the way Zheng Lao used the token but did not have a code, once you lose the stone, you can also recover the right to use.
Each country has different code words, Mo Lao followed the itinerary given by Zheng Lao, and called the stone to write down the code words in every place, just in case.
Early in the morning on this day, Shi Zi and Zheng Lao exchanged five pearls for the right to use the token, and Zheng Lao, who wanted to bargain, saw that Shi Zi was clearly grinding himself in the past few days and then agreed happily.
After that, he asked Zheng Lao to use his connections to buy two pearls not far from the Goudan Restaurant, and bought a yard that was neither big nor small and had two entrances in front and back for Goudan to live in.
gave the deed to Goudan, told him to keep it safe, and then gave two pearls, and told Goudan to learn to operate, buy a storefront, and open a hotel.
The remaining one is left by himself, once things don't work out well, living in the city, Zheng Lao also served the stone, what does the stone say, how does Zheng Lao do, and finally every time he calls Zheng Lao back to Yueguo, he has to visit them, so he gave the token to Zheng Lao, and Zheng Lao, who got the token, sighed deeply and left the capital on the same day.
After returning to their own courtyard, Shi Zi asked him to come back to see him when he had time, but Zheng Lao definitely didn't see him when he came back, in case he used the dog egg to blackmail him to hand over the token, and then said goodbye to the dog and ran to Nanxia City.