Chapter 11 Return to Chang'an
In the summer, when the sun was shining a little early, Xiao Han had already gotten up, his saliva was flowing all over the ground, and a bald strong man next to him was holding his head, not understanding why his head hurt when he woke up......
Almost at the same time, in the tent of the Chinese army, Li Shimin also woke up leisurely, felt the heat in his nasal cavity, stretched out his hand to pull out a piece of green onion white in his nostrils, and suddenly a fresh air rushed straight to his brain, Li Shimin took a few greedy breaths, and the feeling of being groggy and groggy as if there was a heavy object pressing on his chest was gone!
The army continued to pull out, and in the afternoon it had arrived in Chang'an, and there was a way to be in the Tang Dynasty on the night of Chang'an, and all countries came to the capital! In the previous life, Xiao Han didn't have the opportunity to come here, but this time, he finally fulfilled a childhood dream.
As a super-large city that took 72 years to build, Chang'an is the largest city in the world in this era! The towering city wall, even if it is far away from Xiao Han, Xiao Han can still feel the heavy breath, the huge Chang'an City is lying quietly on the Guanzhong Plain, like a giant beast, the watchman of China's splendid civilization!
Xiao Han climbed into the car and looked greedily at this giant city that integrates the wisdom of the world's craftsmen, and his heart was full of pride!
In this era, a few thousand people abroad are considered a city, tens of thousands of people are considered a big city, and Chang'an, at its peak, had a population of one million! Speak out and scare those city lords and kings to death!
Don't you often hear fairy tales: the king got angry and ordered the chief of the guard to take twenty knights to destroy the neighboring country!
Good fellow, there are ten more left to come back after the destruction...... In China, the ruffians fight on the scale of a few hundred people......
Many of the people in the army are from Chang'an, and when they saw Chang'an at this time, they all became excited, and they hurried quickly! Before Xiao Han had time to appreciate the wonders of the eight rivers around Chang'an, he was caught in the rolling crowd and rushed into the Tonghua Gate like a duck.
In fact, in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the army was not allowed to enter the city, which is also the current wartime tension, afraid of being eaten by Xue Ju outside, otherwise where would they be able to fish into the city?
Almost without touching the ground, Xiao Han entered Chang'an with the surging flow of people, and after entering, he found that Chang'an is so big, the road is dozens of meters wide, and eight lanes in both directions are enough!
And even more exaggerated is the central avenue that runs from north to south! Xiao Han glanced at it, it was more than 100 meters, only a little more!
On both sides of the road, the buildings on both sides stretched out of sight, and the army marched slowly, because it was not a victorious return, so even the soldiers who jumped out of their mouths did not dare to make a loud noise, and the big slap of the team was painful!
Although the residents of the city are a little curious, they are not at all like where they are in Gaojiao, where people always look panicked, and the people here reveal a sense of security from the bottom of their hearts.
War is cruel, Chang'an, but lucky! When Li Yuan attacked here last year, Princess Li Xiuning of Pingyang had already laid a huge foundation for him! Without a brutal offensive and defensive war, the general surrendered as soon as possible, so that this ancient city could survive in this troubled era, so the people in Chang'an City are lucky, except for a few high-ranking officials and rich people who were purged, most of them still live a peaceful life, as for the emperor on the top of his head changed people, alas, the food is almost out of food, who cares about these!
Some idle Chang'an people stopped and looked at the army for a while, and found that there was nothing to look at, no bright armor, no murderous spirit, only a team of people and horses silently walked on the street! Although there are a lot of people, but you can't see the money just by looking at it, and if you have this time, it is better to think about how to make a little copper money to cope with the higher and higher food prices.
When it comes to eating, we have to talk about the eating habits of the Tang Dynasty...... In the Tang Dynasty, people generally only ate two meals a day, one at more than nine o'clock in the morning and one at more than four o'clock in the afternoon......... In the barracks, it was also like this, and all the people in the barracks were used to it, but Young Master Xiao was extremely painful......
There's no way, Xiao Han has been eating more than three meals a day since he was born, but when he got here, every time he didn't have a meal, he already felt almost starved to death, dizzy from hunger, and his chest was close to his back!
When it was finally time to eat, Xiao Han came back from the gang leader's meal, and looking at the pig food in the bowl, he immediately felt that he was full, at least his eyes were full......
Therefore, every time the meal is opened, Zhang Qiang and Old Man Hua are immersed in eating, while Xiao Han is tortured, counting the grains and eating, and there is still more than half of the time left in the big bowl to put down the dishes and chopsticks, his eyes are blank, staring directly at the sky in a daze, KFC, Pizza Hut, Chongqing hot pot...... I really miss you guys!
"Eat? Xiao Han, why don't you eat it again? Zhang Qiang looked up to drink water and saw Xiao Han in a daze and didn't eat, so he couldn't help asking. After getting along with Xiao Han in the past two days, he finally reversed his first impression of Xiao Han and had a good impression of this strange guy!
Xiao Han is the strangest of all the people he has ever seen, he doesn't know what is in his head, he has strange thoughts at any time, at first glance he thinks it is a fantasy, but when he thinks about it carefully, he feels as if there is a little bit of truth! Moreover, he also found out that Xiao Han was literate!
That's amazing! You must know that in this era of war and chaos, literate people are not rare, but they are also precious and abnormal, according to the average law, there are about more than 1,000 people, only a few literate people, learning, has never been a small family can pray. As a conscripted soldier, it is as strange as a swan hatching in an egg!
Xiao Han's thoughts that had just risen were interrupted by Zhang Qiang, and the hot pot and fried chicken suddenly came to naught, only the saliva was still there, wiped his mouth, and absentmindedly prevaricated a few words, and fled in the eyes of the old man and Zhang Qiang with great contempt. It's not man-made!
Lying in the tent, there was nothing under him, small stones and small sand were grinding under him, Xiao Han could be as willing as he was, without him, he was used to it......
Looking at the roof of the cowhide tent, Xiao Han sighed and touched his dry belly, thinking that the Tang Dynasty, which was praised to the sky by later generations, was nothing more than that, poor, war-torn ...... Ay......
It is better to sigh alone than to sigh in public, and soon, there was another person in the tent who sighed, but Xiaodong, who had eaten, also came.
He thought that he could move freely after returning to the city, but he didn't expect that the emperor's ban made his dream of taking Xiao Han to Chang'an suddenly shattered: all sergeants were not allowed to leave without permission, and if they disobeyed the order, they would be killed!
Touching the head on their necks, Xiaodong and Xiao Han felt that they were not bad in the army, at least their heads were still their own.
The military camp was under martial law, which was the proper meaning, and it was also in order to deal with Xue Ju's imminent attack, Gaozu Emperor Li Yuan ordered the defense to be contracted, and the troops under the command of Li Shimin, the king of Qin, were temporarily stationed on Suzaku Street, ready to participate in the defense of the city at any time.
On this road, which can be called the widest in history, there are now countless cowhide tents densely erected, and at a glance, it seems to be a sea of tents.
Xiao Han, Xiao Dong and the old man were lucky, and they were assigned to a location close to the Vermilion Bird Gate, which belonged to the big rear, and the place was relatively wide.
It's also boring to stay in a tent, and there's always a stench in the tent, and I don't know where it came from!
The two of them climbed out of the tent again, leaned against the side of the road, and looked stupidly at the tall and majestic Vermilion Bird Gate in front of them, Xiao Han knew that it was the world-famous Xuanwu Gate inside! And in a few years, Datang Shengshi will take a firm first step there!
Xiaodong always said that he was from Chang'an, but this was somewhat watery, because when he was a child, his family moved to the suburbs to live, or the suburbs, about the location of Beijing's Eighth Ring Road......
Returning to his homeland this time, Xiao Dong, who was obviously overexcited, pulled Xiao Han and began to brag about the Chang'an stories he had heard in his childhood.
Xiaodong is also a poor child, he has never read a book, so most of the stories told to him are told by the old man and the old lady, the stories are very strange, and more or less with the gods and ghosts, at this time, most of the phenomena that humans can't understand are pushed by the ghosts and gods, and I don't know if the ghosts and gods will be crushed to death by the pot if they carry so many black pots for people......
At this time, Xiaodong was happily explaining to Xiao Han the romances of the Yang Guang era, and he didn't know why a little kid liked gossip so much.
Xiao Han sat on the side, seemingly listening carefully, but in fact, he had long been silent in the glory of the Tang Dynasty and couldn't extricate himself.
So just as Xiao Dong touched his mouth and was about to continue to talk about the glorious past of the former fairy private meeting with the emperor, he suddenly found that Xiao Han was like being stunned, looking at the tall city gate in the distance with his eyes blank, not listening to him at all! This is embarrassing, the relationship has just been said in vain for half a day?!
"Brother Xiao Han? Eldest brother? ”
Xiaodong shouted Xiao Han twice, but Xiao Han turned a deaf ear, and looked at Xiao Han's gaze, there was nothing strange on the vermilion city wall, so what was he looking at?
A cool breeze blew, Xiao Dong shivered, and felt a cool air rise from the soles of his feet! I suddenly remembered the ghost story my mother told me when I was a child, and I was suddenly shocked, and my face changed! Hurriedly pushed Xiao Han: "What's wrong?" Brother Xiao Han, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me......"
Xiao Han, who was indulging in the glory of the Tang Dynasty, was pushed by Xiaodong, and immediately came back to his senses, naturally he couldn't say anything in his heart, so he could only say haha: "Mu Shi, I was just thinking suddenly, there are Vermilion Bird Gate, Xuanwu Gate, why are there no Qinglong Gate and White Tiger Gate?" ”
"Huh? That's right! Why is that? ”
Seeing that Xiao Han's words were clear, not like an evil spirit, Xiao Dong suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, but when he heard Xiao Han say this, he suddenly felt very strange, it seemed like this, no one mentioned it before, but he didn't feel anything, but now when he mentions it, it is indeed a little strange, and he stood there for a while and looked at the Suzaku Gate stupidly.