Graceful spring color

Chapter 123 Relief

Xie Fengyue didn't stay in Tangquan Town for long. She always felt that this place was unlucky and she could encounter such disasters as soon as she went out. She thought about it over and over again, but she could only get one result.

That was her bad luck, and she accidentally became a raft.

Although she didn't know who arranged this and what the purpose was, she couldn't get around the word power. If she wanted to cause trouble that day at Xiaomanhua Field, her targets were only the gentlemen and ladies who went there to play. It can't be for the common people who are watching the fun.

Xie Fengyue sent Li Xiaobao to find a bodyguard to escort him to Beijing. It was only a hundred and eighty miles away, and she didn't want anything to happen again.

The sky has just dawned, and the fireworks are starting to rise.

The escort was waiting outside the inn with five or six tall and powerful men. It was April or May, and the cool morning breeze could still make people shiver.

The leader is a shirtless man named Hu Er. He has been a bodyguard known for his ability to protect his master since his father's generation. The protruding muscles on his arms are like hills. Looking at him makes him feel at ease.

"It's a big deal today, so get your spirits up. The owner of the house paid thirty taels of silver and sent it to Shengjing, waiting for her to rent the house."

In recent years, people's lives have become increasingly difficult, and the business of the escort agency has been declining year by year. The larger merchants in Pinghe County are all dependent on a certain family.

They have special escorts to escort them, so they don't need a bodyguard bureau. Smaller merchants don't know how to send long-distance bodyguards at all, and the original bodyguards of the bodyguard bureau have also left.

Now all he can do is take a few brothers and escort the nobles to barely make ends meet.

When several people heard that the job was easy and the money was high, they all quickly straightened their clothes to avoid looking disrespectful in front of the master.

After Xie Fengyue packed up and paid the money at the inn, he saw several people standing straight around the carriage as soon as he went out.

She glanced at a few people with a vague look, and she was quite satisfied with it so far. At least they were all tall and strong, and they were good at bluffing people.

Hu Er and the others kept their mouths shut and followed the carriage carefully along the way. Whenever there was the slightest sign of trouble, he would immediately place his hand on the sword at his waist.

Xie Fengyue was very satisfied with this.

It was already late at night when we arrived in Shengjing.

Shengjing deserves to be called the Kyoto. It consists of Waiguo City, Zhongcheng, Imperial City and various cities. Zhongcheng and Imperial City are located in the northwest corner of Waiguo City, and the entire Zhongcheng is surrounded by the Imperial City in a sanitation shape.

The purpose of this planning is to distinguish between common people, nobles, and royal families. The location of the imperial city is also to show that except for the royal family, other places have to be inferior.

As for what outsiders think, it's all a matter of opinion.

Each monastery is located in the area east and south of Miyagi Imperial Castle. Although they are also distributed in a checkerboard shape, they are all square.

Zhongcheng is now the gathering place for the major noble families in Qian'an. It was named because it wanted all the noble families to be loyal to the royal family. It has the imperial city to the south, the heavy city to the north, the forbidden garden to the west, and the east city to the east. , both the imperial city and the palace city were built with bricks both inside and outside, also to distinguish the common people from the nobles.

The reduction of the area of ​​​​the city was a restoration of the old dynasty system, which helped to control the residents. This layout planning was consistent with its status as both a capital and a strategic location.

The small Shengjing City has become a microcosm of the entire Qian'an class. The royal family, the gentry, the poor family, and the common people are all clearly distinguished. They are all descended from their parents, but because of their different origins, the small gatekeepers are like a chasm.

Xie Fengyue chose Zhongcheng as her place of residence. Firstly, she wanted to find opportunities to attend more gatherings of nobles in order to find out who her mother and brother were now. Secondly, she had a lot of money and lived in a mixed city. Other cities are unsafe.

After passing the city gate guards, you still need to pass through a loyal city defense gate. This checkpoint is designed to stop some common people who don't know the heights of the sky and want to leap over the dragon gate from going crazy and grabbing the nobles at night. Xie Fengyue sat quietly in the car, waiting for Li Xiaobao to hand the documents to the guard at the gate for review and release.

But for a moment the defense door rose.

For the first time in his life, Xie Fengyue saw the peak of Qian'an's power.

In Zhongcheng, the streets are made of huge bluestone slabs, which are clean and tidy. The dim moonlight shines on them, forming an inexplicable luster.

Because it was a gathering place for nobles, there were not many guests staying at the inn in the city, so Xie Fengyue and his party quickly settled in.

Seeing Hu Er and others just wrapped up in their coats and staying next to the carriage, Xie Fengyue gave Xiao twenty taels of silver and pointed outside. People who can work in these places have good eyesight. .

Waiting for Xie Fengyue to return to the room, the waiter carried a basket of steamed buns and placed the six people in the corner room.

It's not that Xie Fengyue didn't give them a room to live in. The main reason was that the current trend looked down on the common people too much. This kind of wine shop and inn in Zhongcheng would only become more popular.

There has always been a saying in the gentry circle: "It is better to sleep with the raccoon slaves and yellow ears than to eat with the common people."

Hu Er and the others obviously didn't expect that they would be able to sleep in the house tonight and have white-flour steamed buns to eat. They were grinning from ear to ear.

"This hostess is so kind." Someone exclaimed.

Hu Er quickly put down the steamed bun in his hand and made a silencing gesture: "Shh, a person who can enter Zhongcheng in the middle of the night, but Miss Jun, is not a young lady. When working in front of these nobles, you must be smarter."

The man immediately made a begging gesture: "I am stupid, and my elder brother will teach me a lesson."

The next day, Xie Fengyue asked Li Xiaobao to take the documents to find the Yaren of Zhuangzhai, and settled on a house located on the edge of Zhongcheng. Although it was also a small courtyard, the area of ​​Lingnan was not only half smaller, The price has also doubled.

After everything was settled, Xie Fengyue felt down to earth.

After coming out of Chen County, there were many twists and turns, and her heart was never at peace. But when she finally settled down in Shengjing City after traveling thousands of miles, she felt a little relieved.

Xie Rong has not acted like a monster in the past few days, and it is precisely because of this that Xie Fengyue feels anxious and wants to settle things quickly.

Thinking of this, he simply summoned Hu Er. Seeing him kneeling on his knees with his head lowered and looking cowardly, Xie Fengyue was too lazy to care about him. He was not polite to common people. Those complicated and complicated etiquette were not meant to restrain him. Ordinary people.

"Do you know where Shengjing South Alley is?"

Xie Fengyue did not forget what Gongzi Yan once said, that her mother and brother ended up in Nanxiang after coming to Shengjing.

Hu Er thought for a moment, raised his head but did not dare to look at Xie Fengyue. He looked at the pair of exquisite embroidered shoes and said: "There are many south alleys in Shengjing City. I wonder which one you are looking for."

Xie Fengyue twisted the curtain hat and gathered the gauze: "South Lane in Zhongcheng Circle."

　The layout of Shengjing City refers to the layout of Luoyang City, the eastern capital during the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)