The road from Zhuo'an to Yaodu is wide and straight, making it especially easy to walk.
Yang Shan's team moved forward together among countless convoys, sometimes faster and sometimes slower, and finally arrived at Tianshui City, the most prosperous city in the Golden Flash Plains.
However, the queue waiting to enter the city stretched for three miles!
Seen from a distance, it looks so dark that it doesn't move a few steps forward for a long time.
He Lingchuan put up the awning with his hands and praised, "It's awesome."
"Brother Fan, is it usually so difficult to enter your Tianshui City?"
"No, no, no." Fan Shuang was also startled by the battle, "Maybe it's because my king's birthday is approaching, and the entry and exit inspections in Tianshui City are particularly strict."
A major celebration is coming soon, and of course the entire Tianshui City is under martial law to prevent accidents.
"Kuacha", a flash of lightning lit up the sky, and it looked like it was going to rain.
If you have to wait in line outside the city for an hour, why would you feel like your heart is being poured out? Fan Shuang immediately said:
"Wait for me to be accommodating first."
After saying that, he galloped towards the city gate.
At this time, King Yao's order and Fan Shuang's status as special envoy were particularly useful, helping Yangshan's caravan jump in and enter Tianshui City three hours in advance.
It was a June day with a childish face. Fan Shuang had just finished negotiating here, and there was already thunder in the sky.
He looked back to greet the convoy, and in the backlight, he saw a man leading the team over the hillside in a hurry. The thick dark clouds were almost pressing on the hillside and covering his head.
As he walked forward, lightning, lightning, and snakes were seen in the sky, as if the violent storm was rolling forward with him, approaching Tianshui City step by step.
A person, with a thunder, rolled towards a capital city.
Fan Shuang's heart was clenched, and she felt inexplicable fear and ominousness.
His body and soul were frozen in place, and he couldn't look away for a moment.
He stared like this for several seconds, until suddenly a child screamed in the crowd nearby, which instantly shocked Fan Shuang back to his senses.
He took another closer look, and hey, where is the outsider? Isn't it He Lingchuan?
He Lingchuan smiled and waved to him, looking completely harmless to humans and animals.
Fan Shuang rubbed her eyes, wondering why she had this illusion.
"Brother He, Commander Zhao, come quickly, let's rush into the city before the thunderstorm!"
The city is as lively as He Lingchuan and his wife imagined, but there are really many patrols in the city. You can meet patrolling guards after walking a few hundred steps. Once you encounter a suspicious person, you will immediately go forward to search and interrogate them.
He Lingchuan smiled and said: "It seems that Tianshui City is the safest during this period."
The next days of Tianshui City were turbulent, but that was probably at the political level; in terms of public security, the city was strictly guarded, and the safest period should be around King Yao's Shoudian.
Fan Shuang himself was muttering: "Is the city defense so strict?"
Commander Zhao came from behind and said, "I asked the city gate guards and the order to enforce martial law in the city was issued just this morning."
Fan Shuang was surprised: "This morning? It's really weird. What happened?"
"Wait until I send someone to the palace to inquire."
Afterwards, Fan Shuang took He Lingchuan and others to check in. Sanmentou Inn is the closest to the palace and has the best food. It is hard to find a room at this time of year, but He Lingchuan's guest room has been reserved in advance and is waiting for you at any time.
This is of course an arrangement from above.
After drinking some water and changing her clothes, Fan Shuang rushed into the palace happily regardless of the dark clouds outside and applied for an audience on behalf of He Lingchuan.
It was said that there was a complicated procedure to go through and it would take a lot of time. He Lingchuan and Dong Rui went to Tianshui City for a walk.
Although he had read information about Tianshui City beforehand, when He Lingchuan walked into this city, he still felt novel.
Tianshui City is very large, larger than Panlong City after the third expansion, with a permanent population of more than 700,000. Adding in the garrison, temple attendants, merchants, foreign envoys, students, etc., there are more than 900,000.
The landform is a peculiar half-mountain-half-water landscape, consisting of rocky mountains in the east and a large lake in the west. The houses built by people in Tianshui City extend from the waterside to the mountains, row upon row, densely packed.
He Lingchuan only has four words in his mind to describe it:
Full of pits and valleys.
The buildings here are generally not high, with a maximum of three floors, with the exception of temples and towers.
He Lingchuan glanced at it, and his eyes were attracted by the three or four tall towers in front of him. The houses in Tianshui City were not high, but the pagodas were famously high, at least over ten feet. Each one was a stone tower, with holes on each floor.
They are all embedded with golden bells or statues of gods.
Yao people believe that the higher the stone tower for worshiping gods, the better. The higher the tower is, the more pious the people are. The high tower for worshiping Miaozhan is said to be more than 40 feet long. Standing on the top of the tower, you can overlook half of the sky.
Water City.
When the tower bell rings, it is like a whisper from the gods.
Building a pagoda is a major event. Tianshui City has a special pagoda management agency that specializes in the construction application, approval, inspection and maintenance of pagodas. Folks are not allowed to build private pagodas, otherwise it will be blasphemy and may be jailed or hanged.
In fact, although the name Tianshui City contains the word "water", there are a large number of stone buildings in this city, including towers, temples, palaces, and even riverside pools that connect the whole city. They are all light brown or
It is made of large pieces of light red sandstone.
The main tone of the entire Tianshui City is gray brown and dark red. In addition to the temple roofs that are painted gold, other buildings also like to use red clay tiles. However, skillful craftsmen also try to add more colors to the buildings.
, such as indigo, goose yellow, dark green, even deep black and plain white.
At a glance, the brown ocher is dotted with colorful colors.
Because of the use of a large number of stones and various colors, Tianshui City under the sunshine combines grandeur and vicissitudes, coldness and vitality.
He Lingchuan had the illusion of walking on the streets, as if he had returned to the capital of the Akyan Kingdom, one of the Bega Domains. The number of monsters here is second to none among the cities in the Golden Plains, but the streets are also narrow, especially the alleys with twists and turns.
, some only allow people to pass sideways, and the fat man stops.
Tianshui City has been around for a long time, and the previous urban planning is no longer suitable for today's living needs, especially in the central area. He Lingchuan heard Fan Shuang complain more than once. Every time there are extreme rainstorms, the city center will be flooded, and some people have drowned in a few years.
people.
Because of the high and low terrain, there is almost no way to solve this problem. The accumulated water is difficult to drain out.
Fan Shuang also told them that when they first arrive, they should just go to the main street and not go to the side alleys at the back. But who are He Lingchuan and Dong Rui? It's strange that they are obedient.
The main street was brightly lit, but as soon as they turned into the alley, the light source was reduced by more than half.
There are also shops here, but their facades and signboards are small.
The two of them passed by a strange shop, which had almost no airflow from all sides. There was only a roof above, and the mud walls were inlaid with gray-white clam shells. The roof could no longer be seen.
Dong Rui said: "This place looks like a stable."
But there was not a single horse in the "stable", but it was crowded with people.