Chapter 540 Arrive in Luoyang
"Wild dog, you don't have to accompany me. Xiuxiu also needs your care!" Li Zhang looked at the wild dog opposite him and said earnestly. Although the carriage under his feet was very fast, it was not bumpy. After all, the official road from Tokyo to Luoyang is still very flat, and special people often repair it.
"Xiuxiu was just pregnant and was still early to give birth. And with the care of her aunt, I can't help. On the contrary, if you go to Luoyang this time, you may be in danger if you encounter a hat demon!" The wild dog said while wiping the dog-leg knife in his hand.
The hat demon reappeared in Luoyang, and it was reported to Zhao Zhen by Qian Weiyan himself. In addition, the huge impact caused by the hat demon before, Zhao Zhen also attached great importance to it and immediately decided to send someone to Luoyang to find out the situation. Li Zhang always felt that this hat demon looked very much like the legendary UFO in later generations. In addition, he had nothing to do, and Luoyang was not far away, so he immediately took the initiative to take on this task.
Zhao Zhen did not expect Li Zhang to be so interested in the hat demon, but it would be great if he was willing to go. After all, Li Zhang is not only the person he trusts the most, but also his abilities are not comparable to ordinary people. Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng also agreed very much. Originally, Li Zhang wanted to bring more people to Luoyang, so he would not take the wild dog because Xiuxiu was pregnant, but he didn't expect that the wild dog insisted on accompanying him after he found out. Xiuxiu was also very supportive, which made Li Zhang unable to do anything and had to bring the wild dog with him.
"Do you believe there is a hat demon in this world?" Li Zhang suddenly asked the wild dog with interest. The wild dog has changed a lot now, especially after getting married and Xiuxiu became pregnant. His words and deeds were almost the same as those of ordinary people. He also did a good job in martial arts. Every student who challenged him was repaired miserably by him. Now almost no one dared to challenge him anymore.
"Xiuxiu believes, I believe it!" Wild Dog nodded with certainty. In fact, he had no impression of the hat demon. However, when Xiuxiu heard that Li Zhang was going to Luoyang to check the hat demon, she was so scared that she couldn't sleep all night. She told Wild Dog many legends about the hat demon. Wild Dog originally didn't believe that there were any hat demons, but she heard what Xiuxiu said so vividly, and there was a lot of real evidence, so he was a little unsure.
When Li Zhang heard the wild dog's words, he couldn't help laughing, but at this time the wild dog asked curiously again: "Brother, do you believe there is a hat demon in this world?"
"Are the hat demon?" Li Zhang stopped laughing when he heard this, and then pondered for a moment before speaking, "I don't believe in any monsters in this world. The so-called hat demon should be another thing we don't understand, but everything will be confirmed until I have seen the hat demon with my own eyes!"
Li Zhang finally showed a solemn expression. In fact, he has been thinking about the hat demon during this period. No matter how he looks at it, the legendary hat demon is very similar to the ufo in later generations. What makes him even more interested is that just one year after the hat demon appeared, the plane he was riding traveled through time and space to the Song Dynasty. He was also reborn in Li Zhang in a state that he could not explain. Is there any connection between the two?
In addition, Li Zhang still can't figure out what he is about, and he can't even figure out who he is. He used to think that he was a plane crash and traveled to Li Zhang. Although his body belongs to Li Zhang, his soul is still the self in his later generations. However, recently he suspected that he was Li Zhang, but he had more memories of someone on the plane crash. Both of these are possible, and he himself became more and more confused.
Li Zhang was about to leave this kind of unthinkable thing behind him, but he didn't expect that the hat demon suddenly appeared. And it appeared in the Song Dynasty two years before his time travel, and it made such a big noise again, which made him have to remind him of the relationship between the two. If the hat demon is really the legendary ufo, and ufo is generally considered an alien spaceship, is it said that his time travel is related to these aliens?
It is precisely because of the above ideas that Li Zhang took the initiative to come to Luoyang to investigate the matter of the hat demon, to satisfy his curiosity, and to see if this hat demon is UFO. If it is, then is there any connection with his time travel? These are the questions that Li Zhang wants to answer.
Of course, Qingzhi, Miaoyuan, Lier and others were very opposed to Li Zhang's trip to Luoyang to check the hat demon. After all, like Xiuxiu, they were extremely afraid of the hat demon, fearing that Li Zhang would encounter any danger, and even if there were wild dogs to follow them, they would not be assured. After all, no matter how powerful the wild dog was, they could only beat dozens of them. After all, they were still humans, but the hat demon was a monster, and no matter how powerful the person was, they could not compare with the monster.
However, Li Zhang insisted on going, and Qingzhi and the others had no choice in the end. As a result, there were three more peace talismans on Li Zhang, Qingzhi, Miaoyuan and Li'er, each of which was hard to refuse.
"By the way, isn't the autumn examination going to begin? Brother, you're leaving now, aren't you waiting for Douzi to take the imperial examination?" At this time, the wild dog suddenly thought of something and asked again.
The autumn examination will be held ten days later. Although Luoyang is not far away, it will probably take some time for Li Zhang to find out about the hat demon there, so the autumn examination will definitely be missed. Douzi's participation in the imperial examination this year is also related to his and Li'er's future.
"Douzi's pressure is already too great. When I was in Beijing, he would be more pressure when he took the imperial examination. Instead, it would be better to stay away. However, I believe that Douzi should be confident of passing the exam after this year's hard work!" Li Zhang sighed at this time.
Hearing Li Zhang's words, Wild Dog nodded. Douzi was his brother-in-law, so he was very aware of Douzi's efforts over the past year. He even slept for two or three hours a day for study, and sometimes he didn't leave the room for a whole month. In addition to books, he was also a book in the room. He occasionally went out to ask some seniors for information on the imperial examination. If Douzi still couldn't pass the exam, it would be unreasonable.
The carriages were galloping all the way. If they were placed in later generations, if they took the expressway from Tokyo to Luoyang, it would probably be a three-hour drive, and the high-speed rail would be faster. However, in the era of backward transportation in the Song Dynasty, even if Li Zhang's carriages often changed horses at the post station to maintain the speed of the horse, it took two days to arrive in Luoyang in the end.
Luoyang is also known as Luoyi and Luojing. It is named after it is located in the Yang of Luoshui. The capital of the pre-Tang Dynasty was in Chang'an and Luoyang was in the east of Chang'an. Therefore, during the Tang Dynasty, Luoyang was also known as Tokyo, and later changed its name to Shendu by Wu Zetian. However, in the Song Dynasty, Luoyang was in the west of Kaifeng City, so it became the Xijing of the Song Dynasty. A city with two names, Tokyo and two capitals, is also an interesting story.
When Li Zhang's carriage came to Luoyang, he saw a towering city wall from afar. Although Luoyang had been wars several times in the late Tang Dynasty, the city wall was preserved intact. After the establishment of the Song Dynasty, Luoyang City was renovated, so Luoyang is also the second largest city after Tokyo.
Li Zhang came to Luoyang in later generations, of course he came to travel. He only went to a few tourist attractions such as Longmen, so he had no big impression of Luoyang City. What's more, Luoyang City, a thousand years later, is also very different from Luoyang City today. Even if a Luoyang person from later generations came to Luoyang a thousand years ago, he probably wouldn't find much in common.
As the city gate got closer, Li Zhang also saw a group of people waiting outside the city gate at a glance. The leader was gray-haired and looked about fifty or sixty years old. Although he was not tall, he looked quite elegant. Three long beards under his jaw floated on his chest, and his whole body exuded a sense of erudition.
"My son-in-law Li Zhang greets uncle!" Li Zhang saw the learned old man in the lead and immediately got off the carriage, and then politely said to the other party with the courtesy of his juniors, because this person was Qian Weiyan, and Qingzhi's mother was Qian Weiyan's own sister, so from Qingzhi's side, Li Zhang was also the other party's niece son-in-law.
"We are so polite!" Qian Weiyan saw Li Zhang saluting, and immediately stepped forward and supported him happily and said, "When he was in Tokyo, the two had met many times, and had visited him with Aoi, so both sides were quite familiar with him."
Qian Weiyan was also very enthusiastic about Li Zhang. After chatting with him for a few words, he immediately introduced the officials he accompanied him. These were all local officials in Luoyang. Among these people, Li Zhang also noticed a person who was about the same age as him. He was Ouyang Xiu, who had just passed the imperial examination for the Jinshi a few years ago. When he was in the capital, Li Zhang had a relationship with him, but he was immediately captured by someone else's son-in-law and snatched him away. Then the two never met again.
At this time, Qian Weiyan also quickly introduced Ouyang Xiu. He seemed to like Ouyang Xiu very much. He waved to the other party and said, "Uncle Yong, come quickly, this is my nephew Li Zhang. You should have heard of his name, right?"
"The lower official Ouyang Xiu pays homage to Li Duwei!" Ouyang Xiu also stepped forward a few steps to salute Li Zhang, but then he looked at Li Zhang and asked with some confusion, "I wonder if the lower official and Li Duwei have met each other, why do I feel that Li Duwei is familiar with him?"
Ouyang Xiu and Li Zhang only met once. At that time, Li Zhang was very careful about Ouyang Xiu, so he recognized him at first sight. However, Ouyang Xiu did not have a deep impression of Li Zhang, so he just felt familiar. But he couldn't remember that when he went to look at the list with Han Qi, the person who was with Han Qi was Li Zhang.
"Haha~, in the fifth year of Tiansheng, I accompanied Brother Zhigui to Donghuamen to watch the list. Uncle Yong was also there at that time. Later, I saw Uncle Yong being snatched away by someone else's son-in-law." Li Zhang immediately laughed and reminded.
Chapter completed!