Chapter 306: First Arrival in Jiangzhou
Jiangzhou, a border town in the northwest corner of the Tang Dynasty.
Jiangzhou, which is located in a remote corner, is inconspicuous in the huge Tang Dynasty border. Even many players don't know that there is a big town in that corner.
Lin Luo learned about the location of Jiangzhou from the nameless wild ghost, and he also hurriedly ran to the border of the Tang Dynasty.
Along the way, Lin Luo encountered many gamblers and robbers who stood in the way, and those seemingly fierce robbers and gamblers could no longer cause too much damage to Lin Luo. In a few clicks, the robbers and bandits who had been alive a few seconds ago had turned into a cold corpse, and the blood that flowed red the surrounding land.
The road was unimpeded, and Lin Luo soon came to the small city of Jiangzhou.
From a distance, there are many low-rise bungalows standing in it, but compared to the luxuriously decorated and neat buildings in Chang'an City. The low-rise bungalows in front of me can only be described as simple. There are no gorgeous and neat blue bricks and white tiles, only dilapidated houses that have been built since I don't know how many years ago.
Even if you look closely, you can see the mottled blood stains left on the walls of those houses, but after the erosion of the years, the mottled blood stains have long since turned into black spots.
Throughout the city, there are many plainly dressed residents and a small number of idle players hanging out inside.
Compared with the prosperity of Chang'an City and other places, Jiangzhou seems to be a lot more deserted.
The ghost in white was originally named Chen Zhenqian, who was originally an ordinary person who could not be ordinary, and he was also a resident of Jiangzhou City. Lin Luo learned about Chen Zhenqian's tragic ending, and was also entrusted by Chen Zhenqian, one of which was naturally to help him avenge and kill Liu Hong and Li Biao, who had been traveling outside the Tang Dynasty, and the other was to go to the place where Chen Zhenqian's body was buried, pay a simple respect, and bury a broken stone tablet hidden in the house in his burial place.
The gate of Jiangzhou City is very small, or it is not a city gate at all, it can only be called a memorial arch, and two simple wooden pillars support a sign, and the sign depicts the magnificent atmosphere of the two words "Jiangzhou".
It's a pity that perhaps the age is too old, and the sign on the archway has long been dilapidated, and cracks are all over the brand.
On top of such a bad brand, no matter how magnificent and atmospheric the word Jiangzhou is, how well it draws a silver hook, it is difficult to show its due momentum.
Under the archway, there are two guards standing on the left and the right, different from the guards that Lin Luo encountered in the Haotian Gang before, the two guards in front of him are skinny, there are not a few taels of flesh on their bodies, and there is no thick and strong armor, there is only one broken cloth clothes, even the weapons in their hands, and the soldier hat on their heads are also full of a sense of age, either rust or a hole is broken here, and a hole is pierced there.
Not like the usual guards that Lin Luo saw, the two guards in front of him were leaning against the pillars of the archway and falling asleep, and there was even a trace of sparkling saliva flowing from the corner of his mouth, and the remaining one person was relatively good.
When Lin Luo entered the archway, the guard, who was not fully asleep, opened his hazy eyes, and after taking a look at Lin Luo, he continued to close his eyes.
Entering Jiangzhou unimpeded, Lin Luo walked towards a river on the edge of Jiangzhou.
Long ago, the ghost in white told Lin Luo that his home was not far from the Jiangzhou River.
Walking forward, looking at the surrounding residents who didn't know what to do there, Lin Luo quickly walked to the Jiangzhou River.
As far as the eye can see, hundreds of small houses stand neatly in it, and more than half of them have collapsed due to disrepair.
"Uncle, do you know where Chen Zhenqian's house is?" Lin Luo asked an old man who was enjoying the shade by the river.
"What Zhenqian Chen?" The uncle behind his ears stopped the pu fan in his hand and asked Lin Luo.
"Uncle, Chen Zhenqian." Lin Luo continued.
"Oh, you're talking about the big baby, aren't you? Dawa, pitiful, as early as two years ago, a group of robbers came outside Datang, and the gang of robbers robbed money and killed people when they saw people. Even his wife and daughter couldn't protect him, and the family of three was all wiped out by robbers. The life of the eldest baby is really bitter, if I was willing to endure it at the beginning, I might not have lost my life because of it. The uncle sighed and said, his eyes full of sadness.
"Is the gang of robbers you are talking about Liu Hong and Li Biao?" Lin Luo asked softly.
"Who else but them? However, since that time, Liu Hong seems to have disappeared, and Li Biao is still rampant outside Datang. And our county lord seems to have caught up with Li Biao recently, and the villagers pay huge taxes regularly every month, and then the county lord communicates with Li Biao, which can protect us for a while. Uncle thought for a while and said.
"Protection money?" Lin Luo said in surprise.
"Boy, keep your mouth tight, the county master hates people to say these words the most, if you are heard by the county master, there will be no good fruit to eat. In the past, Xiao Zhangzi at the head of the village, because he was dissatisfied with the huge amount of taxes in exchange for his own safety, once went to the county prince's mansion to make a big fuss, and now he is still imprisoned in the dungeon and suffers inhuman torture. An aunt beside the uncle hurriedly whispered to Lin Luo.
"It's so dark, why don't you leave? Going to Chang'an, even going to Aolai, is better than staying here, right? Lin Luo asked suspiciously.
"Let's go, where can we go, this entire Tang Dynasty border, there are only relatively few robbers in Jiangzhou, besides, we are not the same as Shaoxia, we are strong, we are just ordinary people, if we accidentally encounter robbers and bandits, we will only end up with a tragic death." Over the years, many people have died tragically at the hands of the robbers and bandits, and few of the residents who went out were able to leave the huge Tang Dynasty, and they were even said to go to the country of Chang'an. Aunt said with a sigh. told all the helplessness in his heart.
Compared with their lives, they would rather live in this small river city, at least their lives can be guaranteed to a certain extent.
"Yes, boy, we won't talk about it. You want to find Dawa's home, you start from here and go forward, the forty-third room, the one where the door is half broken, is the house where Dawa lived before. The uncle pointed to a small dilapidated house in the distance.
"Okay, thank you aunt and uncle, I'll go first." Lin Luo nodded and said.