When they returned to Ziyun City, both Hong Chen and Ji Cha had changed their attire. They wore white trousers, wide boots, backpacks on their backs, escort flags, curtained bamboo hats on their heads, and a sword handle wrapped in linen hanging from their waists.
The knives inserted into the leather sheaths looked like two escorts in a hurry to outsiders.
There were several times more officers and soldiers patrolling Ziyun City than before. Anyone who saw something amiss on the street would be stopped and questioned. Several times, the two of them were stopped by officers and soldiers, who raised the curtains to look at their faces. However, their faces had already been marked by
Ji Cha mixed a certain kind of tree sap with a lot of powder and applied a thick layer on it to form a fake skin, which was so different from the original appearance that it would not be recognized.
Ji Cha did not take Hong Chen to stay at the Tianlin Inn. Instead, he stayed at a remote inn in the east of the city, surrounded by small stalls. In the evening, the two went to a noodle stall and ordered two bowls of beef offal noodles.
When Ji Cha was eating noodles, he picked up the noodles with chopsticks, smacked them with his lips, and sucked them into his mouth. Hong Chen only used his chopsticks to hold the noodles, chewing them bit by bit.
Ji Cha laughed when he saw it: "How can you taste the soup when you eat noodles like this?"
Hong Chen stopped his chopsticks, swallowed the noodles in his mouth, and said, "The sound of sucking noodles is not pleasant, and the soup is easy to spill out and splash on yourself or others."
"Just feel good eating it yourself, don't worry about what other people do." Ji Cha took a big mouthful of noodles and said while chewing, "This noodle soup is not like mixed noodles and cold noodles. The noodles are second, and the soup is the first. Stir-fry in the pot.
Add water and simmer, fine
The flour is all in the soup, not in the noodles. When eating noodles, the soup and noodles must go in together to have the flavor and feeling. Like the way you eat it, if you chew it for a long time, you will still taste the white noodles, and the more you eat, the drier your mouth will be.
It feels more and more unpalatable.”
Hong Chen felt that what Ji Cha said was reasonable, so he imitated Ji Cha and sucked up the noodles. Hearing a "suck" sound, a large bunch of noodles flew up from the bowl, throwing out the red and yellow soup, and splashed to the opposite side.
Ji Cha's hair.
Ji Cha was furious and shouted: "You did it on purpose!" He took out a piece of cloth with his left hand to wipe the soup on his head, and used his right hand to poke the chopsticks into Hong Chen's bowl. Hong Chen hurriedly used the chopsticks to parry. The four chopsticks crackled.
After a while of snapping, Ji Cha quickly picked up a strand of noodles and put it into his bowl. He said proudly: "You are far behind me in chopstick skills."
After eating the glutinous rice noodles, Ji Cha asked Hong Chen to wait at the inn: "There are still four magic weapons missing in this city. I will try to get them all in one night. Then we will go north to Tianzhou and play there. Tianzhou is the first state in the north.
, the place where Tianjing, the capital of Dayu, is located, is vast in area, rich in materials, and has more famous swords than Yunzhou, there may be the one you are looking for."
Hong Chen said: "But haven't we not finished collecting Yunzhou's famous swords yet?"
Ji Cha shouted in a low voice: "Where did you come from, you are so arrogant? If others know that we are stealing magic soldiers in Manyun Province, won't they step up their guard? Maybe a large number of experts have been mobilized from Tianzhou to chase and intercept us.
maybe
Even the Sword Emperor of Yunwu Mountain has left. The people of Ziyun City didn't expect us to come back, so they took less precautions. In those cities we haven't been to yet, there are countless dragnets set up, waiting for us to go
Dance."
Hong Chen thought about it and felt that this was indeed true: "After we have been to Tianzhou, where should we go?"
Ji Cha's eyebrows danced with joy: "Haizhou in the east, Qiangzhou in the west, Qingzhou in the south, where can't we go? People are in the rivers and lakes, the world is vast, and everyone is at home. Have you ever seen the waves crashing on the shore, and the sun rising above the sea and sky?
Have you ever seen the solitary smoke in the desert, and the moon at night is like a cold curve?
Silver hook? Have you seen the flower boats and pavilions on the river? Have you seen the prosperity of Jiangdong? Have you seen the singers holding the pipa and the dancing girls in colorful clothes? According to legend, in the southernmost land, there, regardless of men or women,
I like to wear my hair and tattoos and be naked, so it’s very charming!”
Hong Chen was fascinated by what he heard. After leaving Taoyuan, he encountered many obstacles at first. Even buying pancakes had to be cheated out of copper, which was not easy. However, after getting together with Ji Cha, despite encountering many dangers, he also experienced many unprecedented experiences.
It was a wonderful encounter that I had never imagined in my life. After listening to Ji Cha's introduction, I was even more excited. I couldn't help but hold each other's hands: "Okay, wherever you go, I will go with you."
"It's so numb." Ji Cha withdrew his hands and touched his left shoulder with his right hand and his right shoulder with his left hand, making a shiver. "What you said sounds like you want to treat me like a dog-skin plaster. I'll just take you around."
After a while, after you have collected enough magic weapons and refined enough fine gold, you will go home. Then you can go and play by yourself, but don't pester me."
"Where is your home?"
Hong Chen asked curiously.
Ji Cha waved his hand and said: "I am the leader of the Huangtian Sect, and my family is of course the Huangtian Sect. Of course, if you perform well along the way, and considering your mediocre martial arts, I may be able to reward you.
Dharma protector, hall master, helmsman, etc. Dangdang.”
It was night, after leaving Hong Chen for a while, Ji Cha visited four sects in succession and stole four magic weapons. There was an interlude in the middle. When Ji Cha stole the last sect, he had just put the sword into the box.
He was about to jump over the wall and leave, but was bumped into by the leader there. Ji Cha took the needle and was about to shoot, but the leader turned his head and turned his back and said: "Oh, why did my eyes suddenly lose sight?
"Then he ran away in a flash.
Ji Cha felt strange and did not stop. When he left the city with Hong Chen the next day, he found out from other people on the road that there was a rumor in Ziyun City that one of the bamboo cutters and the tea pickers was from the Demon Cult.
The leader of rejuvenation, one is a demon
The guardians who teach neither yin nor yang have very high martial arts skills and are ruthless in their attacks. If anyone is targeted by the two of them, if they obediently offer the magic weapon with both hands, they can still save their life. If they resist, they will definitely die. Golden Knife Sect
Wang Yuanwei and Huang Xiaosheng of Zhuguangmen are all precedents.
After hiring a carriage, Ji Cha got on it and cursed in a low voice with Hong Chen: "I was deliberately framed and took over the blame for killing King Yuanwei of the Golden Blade Sect. This is okay, but Huang Xiaosheng's death has nothing to do with me? Everything?
Everyone saw that he was killed by Lu Xingwei! Also, what kind of person is this person who is neither yin nor yang? He is a dog, he is really a bunch of dogs, barking and barking everywhere!"
Hong Chen was a little happy and said: "Actually, this is also a good thing. Others know how powerful the two of us are. When we show up, they feel fear and actively donate their things, so we don't need to do anything. In this way,
There will be less fighting, less disputes, and everyone will be happy."
"According to what you said, we don't need to steal. We can just go to the door and deliver the greeting card, telling people, 'tea pickers and bamboo cutters are here,' and they will send magic soldiers and invite us to tea and dinner. Wouldn't it be wonderful?
?" When Ji Cha said this, he laughed and scolded, "You are confused, you think you are
The Emperor? If the Emperor recruits them, they would not dare not to dedicate themselves, and would show off and be proud of them. But just the two of us go there, and if someone accidentally bumps into them, they will be frightened and their knees will be weak, and they might kneel down.
, but if we knew about it in advance, we would have to invite many people to deal with it."
"That's right."
Hong Chen remembered that when he arrived at Xiangyun City, there were many spies from the Jindao Sect in the city, and there were also disciples sent by Yunmo to help in the Jindao Sect. It was estimated that when he went to Xiangyun City, his whereabouts had been discovered, and Jin Daomen
Daomen was prepared in advance.
This principle is the same as catching a bamboo rat. You have to reach out from behind to grab it by the tail when it is not prepared. Otherwise, if you catch it from the front, the bamboo rat will hide and escape, and may even bite a big bite. Sometimes in small children
The same is true for catching crabs in the stream. You can catch them from the back and you will be sure to catch them. If you catch them from the front, your fingers will inevitably suffer some pain.
The wheels were turning like crazy, and in one day and one night, they carried the two people along the official road for hundreds of miles, and finally passed through the border area between Yunzhou and Tianzhou, and arrived at the first city in Tianzhou close to Yunzhou——
"Tianwei City".
The carriage stopped in front of the south gate of Tianwei City. Ji Cha and the driver calculated the fare. Hong Chen raised his head and saw that the city gate was four to five feet high. There were many people wearing iron-black armor standing on the city tower. The city wall was thick.
There are many flags with red backgrounds and gold rims on them, with only one word "Yu" written on them.
Ji Cha was still arguing with the coachman about the tip of two taels of silver. Hong Chen looked at the city gate and saw many people entering and exiting the city wearing bright clothes, riding in carriages with carved railings, and riding horses without a hair on them.
, I couldn’t see a single person like this in the streets of Yunzhou Small Town for a long time, but now Hong Chen saw many of them.
Another large group of officers and soldiers on horseback passed by. These officers and soldiers were taller and taller than Hong Chen had ever seen before, and the horses they rode were taller and more elegant. The armor they wore was black, and the horses they rode were also black, just like black.
They rushed straight into the city like a torrent. At the end of the ranks of officers and soldiers were some strange-looking carriages. The carriages were like wooden cages, and some unkempt people covered in blood were sitting in them.
Hong Chen pointed to the carriages and asked Ji Cha: "Why are those people's carriages so broken?"
Ji Cha glanced at it and said with a smile: "Where is the carriage? That is a prison carriage. Inside, there are prisoners caught by officers and soldiers. It seems that they were escorted by the imperial guards themselves. I don't know what kind of serious criminals they are.
Until Hong Chen walked into Tianwei City with Ji Cha, all he could think about was the people locked in the prison cars. After walking a hundred steps into the city, he turned around and saw the towering green and black city wall, like a
The fence that trapped the bamboo rat encircled the entire city. Suddenly, I felt like something was pressing on my chest, and even my breathing was a little difficult: this city was like a huge cage.