Chapter 13 Guangcheng

After walking on the road for a few more days, Chen Mu didn't talk to Bai Yuanjie and Zhang Yongshou anymore, and he was far away from the car when he was driving, to be honest, he was a little stunned by these hundred households and Xiaoqi.

The night battle in Black Ridge made him feel that he was no different from these Ming people, and even he launched a ruthless attack to be more fierce than them, and he killed the most people in the whole battle! People were also in awe of him because of this, but somehow, since Bai Yuanjie said those words to him that night, Chen Mu felt scared in his heart for no reason.

He didn't know what was going on behind everyone's face, and he couldn't understand the subtext that only people who belonged to this era understood. But he knows that these Ming people may not be hotter than him, but they must be more ruthless than him.

Even if they can all kill, there is a difference between a murderer and a murderer.

He remembered what he looked like after he killed someone, and he killed because thieves wanted to kill him, but even so, he could not suppress the impact of the outlook on life formed by legal education for more than 20 years and the impact of what he saw and heard 500 years ago, which made him worried, afraid, afraid, nervous, and frightened.

He had seen Bai Yuanjie kill people more than once. took a piece of paper and read a word, nodded slightly, and the old lame man was hanged by a rope on a high platform; In the night battle of Heiling, Chen Guan dropped his spear and turned his head to run faster than a rabbit, Chen Mu, who was in a state of confusion, didn't care about others at all, but Bai Yuanjie took care of it, and did not hesitate to draw his bow and release his arrows. And after the killing, Chen Mu could always hear Bai Yuanjie's sigh, which made Chen Mu feel ironic - he sighed, he sighed, he sighed that those who died under his hands took the wrong path.

Chen Mu was not in the mood to find out what the flag man who was dragged into the forest had done to meet him, and he was not even curious about whether that person was dead or alive. He only knew that he was exhausted just to take care of himself and survive, and he was like a beast in the skin of a Ming man hiding in the human world to learn their rules, or the world five hundred years ago was full of human faces and beast hearts.

All this is insignificant to Chen Mu, he wants to live, only survival is important.

After climbing three mountains and crossing two rivers, the people on the side of the road are no longer as sparse as those in Qingyuan Eikinki, and the terrain has become flat, and you can see endless paddy fields as far as the eye can see. There are more villages along the road, and people even set up stalls along the road to sell fish brought from the sea hundreds of miles away. The wide dirt road, which could accommodate three carriages in parallel, gradually became crowded, and the people could not avoid them when they saw the officers and soldiers in military uniforms and swords, not to mention the dozen corpses carried behind their horses.

Zhang Yongshou became excited, and came to the front of the queue without salivating to tell Chen Mu and these hillbillies about the glory of Guangzhou City, pointing to the black shadow on the horizon and shouting: "Look, Guangzhou City!" ”

Chen Mu had never seen such a large city wall, and the city wall of Guangzhou Mansion was even taller and more majestic than he imagined. As they moved forward, the horizon gradually gathered a huge and wide black shadow, which was the city gate and city wall in the southwest corner of Guangzhou City, Zhang Yongshou said that the four walls of Guangzhou City were 1,796 zhang on Wednesday, totaling 150,192 steps, in Chen Mu's eyes, the huge and prosperous Guangzhou City was like a mountain. The city rises on the slope of four or five zhang high, and there is a city wall close to three zhang high on it, in fact, the battlements are at the mouth, majestic and majestic.

Across the distant city, you can also see the cornices of the towering buildings within the city walls, which are very beautiful in the daylight.

"I've never seen a city this big!"

Zhang Yongshou didn't find a shocked look on Chen Mu's face, and felt bored by his pilgrimage-like demeanor, but Shao Tingda, a big man, was very satisfied with the appearance of Shao Tingda, a big man looking at the city wall in the distance as if he couldn't move his legs, and then walked over there and said with a smile: "Walking more than ten miles away, the people outside the city are dense and have no feet, hum, I will definitely open your eyes in a while!" ”

Saying that, Zhang Yongshou sent two bannermen who could ride horses to run first, and went to the Guangzhou Mansion to inquire about the head reward of the Heiling thief, after that, Zhang Yongshou didn't seem to have any desire to continue to show off, but the pace unconsciously accelerated a lot, and there were more small movements such as rubbing the index finger with the tip of the thumb during the march.

He was nervous, thinking about something.

Chen Mu expected that he was calculating whether the first level he brought was enough to be promoted to 100 households.

In fact, Zhang Yongshou really has nothing to show off, as he gets closer and closer to Guangzhou Mansion, the initial shock in people's hearts will become less and less, but they fall into the curiosity of the scenery around them, just like in the past, the world overlooking every city would be shocking, but the people who lived there did not have this feeling, because unconsciously, Chen Mu was already in it.

The road is full of pedestrians, along the official road outside the city of the market came one after another hawking, and there is even a whole street full of food shops, selling sea fish and crabs wearing blue, black and other plain cloth clothes merchants put aquatic products in the tank to sell; Vendors selling roast suckling pig, smoked pork, and stewed dog meat hang the whole pig outside the shop to attract diners; The farmer who sells the frog uses a short knife to stab the frog from the back of the frog and pick out the flesh and move quickly; The people wore silk clothes and silk shirts on the road, and what they heard everywhere was 'let one' and 'borrow', and the noise was everywhere in their ears.

Farther away, near the city walls, on the banks of the wide moat, there are huge and magnificent painting boats, all kinds of pavilions and pavilions, and even young scholars wearing square scarves and quiet and elegant light-colored robes can be seen drinking and drinking.

There are all kinds of them, and they are dazzling to see.

Chen Mu and his entourage did not enter the city, and everyone carried firecrackers into the city many times, Bai Yuanjie found a hotel to settle them, after all, he and Zhang Yongshou entered the city to mourn and also have to do things, and they had to stay in Guangzhou Mansion for two days.

Everyone handed over the household slip to the shopkeeper and registered it in the store book, and Bai Yuanjie whispered to Chen Mu about the precautions in the city, "When you change the money, you can go shopping in the three streets and six cities outside the city, and you should also buy a pair of good boots; If it is a good wine, Guangzhou Mansion Shochu, South Wine has everything, even Jinhua wine can be easily bought, Guangcheng Jia is mostly soft, the price is flat, and the goods are only one or two interest, not like Wuzhong. ”

Although Guangzhou Mansion is already a hundred miles away from Qingyuanwei, they should hand over the road guide, but the hundred household seals on Bai Yuanjie's body are the best road guide.

Saying that, Bai Yuanjie put his hand on the shoulders of Chen Mu and Shao Tingda, and said with an intriguing smile: "If you go to look for flowers and ask willows, the ordinary price of those who rely on the door to laugh is only three or five dollars of silver, if you are really willing, it is a famous prostitute in Guangcheng who can stay for three or five taels of silver or a night, as long as you don't miss it, you can return it in two days!" ”

Shao Tingda's eyes lit up when he heard it, and he couldn't wait to go to see it now, while Chen Mu listened to Bai Yuanjie talk about looking for flowers and asking willows, goosebumps suddenly appeared on his body, and flowers and willows were sick!

At this moment, Zhang Yongshou walked from the courtyard of the hotel with two flags with red faces, clapped his hands and smiled: "Chen Erlang, you have made a fortune!" ”

Note: Store book - the account book of the registered residents of the store, which is submitted to the government office for inspection every month, and there are official errands for inspection from time to time.

Huti - a certificate of household registration in the Ming Dynasty, but whether the Hujia was used for registration of accommodation is doubtful for the time being.