That year, that cicada, that sword

Chapter 7

Xu Beiyou was finally leaving the land where he was born and raised.

Take a look outside into the wide world.

Xu Beiyou carried Tianlan and a bag on his back, which contained some change of clothes, some loose silver, some soft steamed buns, a piece of bacon wrapped in oiled paper, and the 300 taels of silver bills.No one saw him off, so he walked to the gate of Xiaofang Village alone, looked back and left.

Next, he will go to Danxia Village, and then follow a caravan from there to leave the original boundary of Xihe and go to the land of Longxing, the Taizu of this dynasty, Zhongdu.

Xu Beiyou has never seen the big world, and the biggest place he has been to is Danxia Village, but it does not prevent him from being very arrogant. According to the words of the husband, this is innate, and he cannot force it or envy him.Arriving at Danxia Village, after finding the caravan he had contacted a long time ago near the warehouse on the north side of the village, Xu Beiyou reluctantly gave ten taels of silver to the bodyguard he had known for a long time, and was able to mix with the bodyguards hired by the caravan and sit on the A carriage pulling goods slowly left Danxia Village with the caravan and embarked on a long journey.

The Danxia Village was gradually disappearing behind him, and finally it was out of sight. Only then did Xu Beiyou suddenly realize that he had left the Danxia Village and stepped into a brand new unknown world.To him, Zhongdu seems to be a place in legends. This is the place where Emperor Taizu of this dynasty prospered, and it was also the most powerful border city of the previous dynasty. I just heard a few words from my husband, so naturally I can't imagine it.

Zhongdu is like a microcosm of the outside world, grotesque, hazy and unreal, like a dream.

Yes, the world.

When he was young, his master, the old man with a negative sword, once described to him a different kind of world. In that world, there were no scraps born for the sake of making a living, no forced scrambling for the sake of living, only ordinary people Unimaginably magnificent.

In that world, some people go out to sea with swords, some climb to the sky, some paint with heavy snow and ink, some pull up a river with a sword, some gods swim in the sea and at dusk, and there are warriors who can fight against thousands of troops.There are eminent Buddhist monks who can form a golden body of hundreds of feet by folding ten feet together, and there are Taoist real people who make the earth float and sink, and some people enter the game with swords and run rampant all over the world.Some people sit on the sidelines and play chess in the world.There are iron cavalry battles in the world, there are immortals fighting in the world, there are rivers and lakes, there are the great romance of the rivers and lakes, there are temples, and there are the great rules of the temple people. The world to look up to.

The current Xu Beiyou is not qualified to enter that world, he can only silently look up and be fascinated.

Whether it is the world of the rich and powerful children or the world described by the master, it is too far away for Xu Beiyou now. It is so far away that it seems to be a bright moon in the sky. Limited to looking at it.

After all, the distance between the two worlds is more than ten thousand miles?Traveling thousands of miles, you can't enter another world. The vast majority of people are kept out of the door all their lives.

Nothing happened along the way, after two days and one night of trekking, Xu Beiyou followed the convoy through Xiheyuan and arrived at the city of Zhongdu.

Xu Beiyou's first impression of Zhongdu was that it was tall, almost as tall as a mountain.

Between the two mountains, a majestic city rises abruptly, towering into the sky, perfectly connecting the two originally unconnected mountains.

In fact, Xu Beiyou could vaguely see the outline of this mighty city when it was still more than ten miles away from Zhongdu.The entire city is built against the mountain. Looking from the front, layers of urns are piled up along the mountain. There are seven layers of city walls arranged in sequence like terraced fields, which is enough for anyone who wants to capture this majestic city from the front. The enemy flinched.

Xu Beiyou stood up from the van where he was staying, and looked far into the distance, wanting to see the Zhongdu Wangfu that Mr. once mentioned, the mansion standing on the highest point of Zhongdu, and the legendary Lingfeng that can overlook the whole Zhongdu panorama Court.

Unfortunately, he didn't see it.

But even so, Zhongdu still left the deepest shock to Xu Beiyou.

He looked up at the majestic city, and suddenly remembered a poem that my husband often recited when he was drunk.

"Why don't you take the Wu hook with you, and collect the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun. Tomorrow, you will climb the Lingyan Pavilion, and hold the sword and be granted the title of Marquis of Ten Thousand Households."

——The entire city is built on the hillside, so the terrain inside the city presents a slanted upward angle. The terrain in the outer city is the lowest, and the terrain gets higher as you go to the inner city. Many powerful families in the city build houses according to the terrain. The more powerful the mansion, the higher the position of the mansion, and as the center of the entire Zhongdu, the Zhongdu Palace is naturally at the highest point of the city.

The palace occupies a very large area. In addition to the handicrafts of ordinary dignitaries, such as diverting water into the mansion to make lakes and building pavilions, there is also a mountain built by manpower, which is more than [-] feet high. It is called Xiaoxiang Mountain. The pavilions built on the mountain are respectively named Lingfeng, Linfeng, Tingfeng and Yingfeng from top to bottom.

Located on the top of Xiaoxiang Mountain is Lingfeng Pavilion. Although living in Lingfeng Pavilion cannot overlook the entire Zhongdu as in the legend, you can still see most of it.At this time, a woman was half-lying lazily on a soft couch on the second floor of Lingfeng Pavilion, resting her chin on her hand, looking outside at the half of the center that seemed to be under her feet, a little absent-minded and dazed.

The woman in meditation has a thrilling beauty, like a statue of a goddess carved from pure white jade. Although she is not indifferent and arrogant, she has an invisible sense of awe-inspiring alienation, which makes people elusive.

After a long time, she finally came back to her senses. She sat up straight first, and then stretched her waist, showing her graceful body to the fullest. Unfortunately, there was no one else in the pavilion at this time, so no one was lucky enough to witness this rare movement. screen.

She straightened her clothes, restored her usual dignified appearance, and then clapped her hands lightly.

A maid quietly walked into the cabinet, her hands drooped naturally, overlapping in the lower abdomen.

The woman said softly: "Get ready, it's time to go back."

"No." The maid answered.

The woman thought for a while, and then said: "Don't bother with Duanmuyu, let him have a good time in the northwest for a few more days. As for Aunt Mo Shu, let me know, lest she nag again."

The maids responded one by one.

When there was only one woman left in Lingfeng Pavilion, she changed to the posture of resting her chin with her hands, and began to fall into deep thought again, or in a daze.

After an unknown amount of time, a slight noise woke the woman up.

The woman came back to her senses and called out softly, "Beautiful?"

Bolan is not a person, but a cat, a Persian cat that has been passed down through three generations.

To this day, the woman still does not understand why the ancestors named the snow-white Persian cat a tiger cat.

Beautiful, colorful tiger?
But she once heard from her father that her uncle raised a tiger cat, named Yangchun, Yangchun, who is snowy and snowy, and beautiful. It was not until her uncle traveled across the ocean to Weiguo that the family became herself. dominant.And the white cat Banlan, the "veteran minister of the three dynasties" who served her grandmother and mother, became more lazy and casual after losing the enemy. And relying on the old and selling the old to act like a powerful official, so many maids secretly called it "Miss Beautiful".

A moment later, a snow-white figure jumped off the beam with ease, and landed directly beside the woman.

A pair of blue eyes surveyed the surroundings quietly, revealing a sentimental look of reminiscence with a bit of humanity.

Before Jiazi, this was its home.

(End of this chapter)