Chapter Four
The thing Li Qiang can't wait for the most is to find people. Anyone is good. He has been walking in the primeval forest for many days. Along the way, he saw towering trees, weeds, thick and dark, and gloomy. Often, he could not see any light after walking for ten miles. However, he could often see some unknown beasts and birds.
Li Qiang kept marveling that the environment without any pollution and the wonderful scenery made him feel very happy.
Finally walked out of the forest.
Rubbing his eyes, Li Qiang saw a city in disbelief. He stood for a long time, feeling that his tears were about to fall. Looking at the city from afar, he felt that it was both strange and familiar. The style of the city wall was like that of ancient China, with blue bricks, square holes, arched round doors, and flying rafters. Pedestrians were walking around on the far road.
Li Qiang thought about it and felt that it would be better to dress up as a tourist. He took out a large backpack, stuffed it with things randomly, and tied his long hair with a long ribbon.
Li Qiang was wearing brown half-waisted hiking boots, jeans, a dark red shirt jacket and a vest, and a travel bag on his back. He walked towards the city gate with excitement and anxiety.
When he walked to the city gate, Li Qiang felt even more strange. He looked around him, dozens of men, women, young and old, staring at him like a monkey trick. Li Qiang kept nodding and smiling, but as long as he approached them and did not wait for questions, these people immediately dispersed like frightened rabbits. But after walking away for dozens of steps, he followed him, and kept pointing and laughing from time to time.
Judging from the dress of these people, Li Qiang cannot be sure of the dynasty of ancient China. What is certain is that it must be from the Ming Dynasty or before, because the Qing Dynasty people's clothes were watched more in TV series, and Li Qiang is very familiar with them.
Although he could not communicate with them, and because of his extremely sharp hearing, Li Qiang still heard the low whispers between them, which were the dialects in Jiaxing, Hangzhou. Li Qiang was excited. You should know that he had studied in Zhejiang and spent four years in Hangzhou. He could almost understand the dialects in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
At the city gate, Li Qiang was stopped by four people with long swords on their waists and soldiers.
"Who? "Lu Yin" brought it." One of the leaders said. The four soldiers were also curious and looked at him up and down. Li Qiang couldn't help laughing, "That's great, I can understand." Li Qiang spread his hands and said with a smile: "Brother, I came from a distant place, and passed by here and wanted to go into the city to take a look." He used the Hangzhou dialect.
The four soldiers were surprised and gathered together and discussed in a low voice. One of them turned around and ran quickly towards the city. The leader of the soldiers was extremely respectful and bowed: "Dear guest, please follow the villain and go and rest for a while. The villain has sent someone to invite the prefect."
"Oh, don't be polite, don't be polite." Li Qiang was very surprised and thought to himself: "I didn't say anything just now, the difference in attitudes before and after is too big."
Li Qiang really didn't say anything, but he spoke the authentic Hangzhou dialect. The Hangzhou dialect here is a special term for royal nobles. It is not something that the royal family and nobles cannot learn and speak. Li Qiang did not understand until later.
"Brother, are you your surname?" Li Qiang wanted to get close to it.
The leader replied in a panic: "The villain dares not be exempted from being expensive, the villain's surname is Hua." Li Qiang suddenly understood that it seemed that the hierarchy here seemed to be very strict. It sounded like a soldier called a villain at a time. People who grew up in modern society have become accustomed to the concept of equality for everyone.
What Li Qiang lacks the most now is information. The Yutong Shop only records things about the cultivation world, and there is no information about the secular world at all. "Brother Hua, what is the name of this city?" Li Qiang began to obtain the information he needed.
Li Qiang called Brother Hua at once. The soldier was at a loss and wanted to tell him the situation of his ancestors for three generations, saying whatever he asked, and answered ten questions. Li Qiang slowly learned some basic situations.
This city is called "Hanlin". It is closely linked to the "Sigh Forest" which is the forest that Li Qiang walked out. It is the first capital built by the "Song Kingdom". Therefore, the capital was moved about three hundred years ago. After the capital was moved, the city gradually collapsed, and its population also decreased from more than 700,000 at its peak to more than 200,000 at its current level.
Therefore, the population of Song State is about 70 to 80 million. Among the three major countries in the "Green Basin", it is a relatively weak country. The other two countries are "Li Tang State" and "Great Han State". Among these three countries, the Great Han State has the most powerful national power.
There are also some small countries on the Tianting Star, distributed in some places with extremely harsh natural conditions. The more famous ones are the "Wangming Kingdom" in the "Storm Forest", the "Qingfeng Kingdom" in the "Red Rock Petrochemical Mountains", etc. There are also some famous ethnic groups, including the Qin, Wu, Chu, Xia, Shang, etc.
Li Qiang understood that the State of Song must have been established by people who migrated from the earth during the Song Dynasty. The same should be true for other countries and ethnic groups.
Li Qiang also learned that on the Green Basin, the most fertile land of the Heavenly Star, the Three Kingdoms fought endlessly, and wars occurred every ten years. Every country wanted to destroy the other side's unified green basin, but never succeeded for various reasons. The main reason was the intervention of the cultivation world. The royal nobles of each country and every famous ethnic group had close ties with the cultivation world. Among these royal nobles, many of them were cultivators.
The soldier told Li Qiang that the prefect of Hanlin City was named Feng Kaiyun, who was born as a Juren, probably because he offended someone and was demoted to this remote city. The garrison officer was named Tong Fangzhen, who was promoted to accumulating merits and was born as a corps.
"The prefect is here!" A soldier reported.
Li Qiang looked up and saw two rows of yamen runners holding water and fire sticks. The four people in front held "Silent" and "avoid" two cards. One and four people carried the official sedan chair slowly. Li Qiang almost laughed out loud and thought to himself, "Be good, this is too exaggerated. With such a big show, I really seem to have returned to ancient times."
The sedan chair stopped in the distance, and the sedan chairman fell down the pole. The yamen runners beside the sedan chair hurriedly lifted the curtain and walked out of the sedan chair. He put on the shoulders of a yamen runner, stomped his feet, retracted his hands and twisted his beard to look at Li Qiang. A trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, and then he smiled and walked slowly over in all directions.
Li Qiang was also carefully observing the highest official in Hanlin City. His national character face, two black eyebrows, thin lips, three long whiskers, and a hooked nose. He was obviously a very cunning person. His blue official uniform, a jade belt, and two official wings were flat behind the hat.
Li Qiang thought it was too funny. He went up to him and scared the yamen soldiers for the first time he said.
"Haha, you are Feng Kai Yunfeng! Li Qiang, please take care of me for the first time when we meet!"
The soldier surnamed Hua thought to himself: "So this adult calls me brother when he sees people. No wonder he calls me that too."
Feng Kaiyun was stunned and did not dare to neglect, saying, "I don't know if Lord Li has arrived. I have misfortune. I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" I thought to myself, "Why is his palace official language so awkward?"
Li Qiang's next move almost scared the yamen runners to death.
He stepped forward and patted Feng Kaiyun on the shoulder and smiled, "Don't be polite. Lao Jia, I just want to go into the city to see it. It's okay, Brother Feng, you don't have to accompany me, just tell me where the hotel is."
Feng Kaiyun's doubts grew bigger and bigger, and he asked, "Slowly! Please show your official documents, so the official should prepare for official duties." The atmosphere suddenly became a little nervous.
Li Qiang felt inexplicable and asked, "What official documents? I don't have any official documents, it's strange."
The yamen soldiers slowly surrounded him.
Feng Kaiyun shouted, "Bold! How dare you pretend to be a royal noble and say, what are you doing?"
Li Qiang also became popular: "Bastard! What's the matter? When did I pretend to be? Are you in charge of what I do? ***." The more I scolded, the more I became angry, and for some reason, I became angry.
"Hey, why are you kneeling down?"
The inner armor of the starry sky appeared again with purple flames. In an instant, Li Qiang's clothes turned into ashes again, which was pissed out.
Feng Kaiyun was so scared that she was sweating profusely and knelt on the ground. He knew that he had caused a big disaster.
Because only the royal family can practice "heart armor", and they have always been secretive, thinking to themselves: "Oh, I can't keep my head this time."
Feng Kaiyun was walking back and forth in the study, twisting his beard with his hands in his hand. He was still scared until now. Fortunately, Li Qiang did not blame him, otherwise he would not know how to deal with this deadly situation.
His chief officer Cheng Zizhong also lowered his head and thought.
"Master, Chunxiang from the guest room asked for a meeting and said she had something to do." A young man in green said with his waist bent.
"Hurry, let her come in!" Feng Kaiyun looked a little panicked, and Master Cheng Zizhong said, "Master, keep calm. I think Lord Li is not the kind of person who is hard to talk to." Feng Kaiyun sighed, "Master, I am already confused, you have to help me hold it."
"I, Haruka, kowtowed to the master."
"Tell me quickly, what's the matter?" Chunxiang knelt on the ground and replied, "Mr. Li is going to go out to the street. Sister Qiuxiang is dragging him to speak. I dare not take the initiative. What should I do if I ask the master for it?"
Chunxiang, who was kneeling on the ground, couldn't help laughing. She had never seen a guest like Mr. Li. She was young and handsome, and was shocked. She chased four maids who served her, calling her sister and calling her sister. She was angry at all, without any airs. She was so fun. She also gave them candies they had never seen before. It was so delicious. She licked her lips and thought about the bag of candy in her arms. When would she have to ask someone to take it home so that her parents, brothers and sisters could also taste such good things.
"Hunxiang, go back first and tell Mr. Li that our mansion will arrive later."
"Yes, Master." Chun Xiangba couldn't go back quickly, slowly exited the study room, turned around and ran away.
"My master, let's go together." Feng Kaiyun was really afraid of seeing Li Qiang, so Cheng Zizhong cheered him up and said, "Master, no matter what Lord Li makes, agree first. Let's be careful to give him your promise and must not offend him anymore. I don't think Lord Li won't live for long."
Feng Kaiyun understood what Cheng Zizhong meant that as long as Li Qiang was satisfied in Hanlin City, he could spend as much money as possible. When he was satisfied and left, nothing would happen.
Li Qiang is not an unreasonable person. When he moved into a expensive guest room in the prefectural office, he no longer cared about Feng Kaiyun's rudeness. Although he didn't quite understand why Feng Kaiyun was so afraid of seeing the inner armor of the star in the sky, he was still satisfied with it. After all, it was very troublesome to fight, and it went against his original intention of visiting the star in the sky.
He changed into the new clothes and pants sent by the prefect Feng, and was hurrying to go out to the streets. He was very curious about everything. Seeing the four little maids stopping him, Li Qiang couldn't help but joke with them.
Feng Kaiyun came to the outside of Gui's guest room and waved his hand at Cheng Zizhong, signaling the old master to advance. Cheng Zi nodded heavily and was about to go in, a burst of laughter and laughter came from the room, and the two stopped at the same time.
"Sister Qiuxiang, don't pull me, just go out for a walk, why are you nervous?"
"Master, you think about the difficulties of my servants. Sister Chunxiang said, "Master will be here soon. Can you wait?"
"I've said it many times. Don't call me master. Call me brother, come and listen, I love listening."
Feng Kaiyun felt his bones slimming and thought to himself, "This Lord Li is so frivolous and disrespectful to etiquette. This is too much." Thinking about it, there was no way to deal with him, but he really couldn't listen. He coughed and pulled Cheng Zi back into the door.
Li Qiang's face was sometimes very thin and sometimes very thick. When he saw Feng Kaiyun coming in, he wanted to get angry with him, but he actually smiled and approached him with a smile, reached out and grabbed his hand, and said with a smile: "Big brother, you are finally here. I want to go out for a walk. A few little sisters insisted on waiting for me. Are you going to accompany me?"
Feng Kaiyun almost turned his nose into a crooked anger and pulled his hand back hard.
Seeing that the face of the prefect Feng changed, Cheng Zizhong hurriedly said, "Mr. Li, the Lord of the Mansion comes with me. One is to pay tribute to the Lord, and the other is to visit you, the Lord of the city's garrison, Lord Fangzhen, is coming to visit you. Our mansion has no intention of neglecting. Since Lord Li wants to patrol this city, I will temporarily accompany you on behalf of the Lord of the Mansion. How about it?"
"Is this one..." Li Qiang looked at Feng Kaiyun.
"Oh, he is the master of our mansion, Cheng Zizhong, Master Cheng." Feng Kaiyun breathed a sigh of relief and asked him to accompany him. He did not make people angry all the way, and bowed and said, "Since Lord Li is eager to patrol the city, my mansion will not force me. Master Cheng will accompany you, and I will not be with you. I will welcome you to the emperor in the evening and say goodbye."
"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious. I promised to take these little sisters to the street with you. I have no objection." Seeing Li Qiang stretching out his ghost claws again, Feng Kaiyun was really annoyed and hurriedly said, "Please, please."
The four little maids, Chunxiang, Qiuxiang, Juxiang, and Lanxiang, followed Li Qiang and Cheng Zizhong happily, whispering and laughing. They didn't expect Li Qiang would really take them shopping.
Cheng Zizhong didn't expect that Lord Li was like a child, not only neither big nor young, but also spoke as he wanted without any scruples. Cheng Zizhong had been to countless government offices, met countless officials, and had never seen such an adult. He thought it was quite interesting.
When he walked into a ready-to-wear shop, Li Qiang couldn't help but sigh. Compared to the big supermarkets and shopping malls on earth, the supplies in this place are so poor.
The shopkeeper of the ready-to-wear shop is a fat man with a chubby face with a chubby chin and a shrewd little eyes. He ran out from behind the counter with a smile on his face: "Two masters, welcome to the shop, what are you looking for? The little guy brings it right away." The shopkeeper turned his head and waved to the servant: "Hurry up, take out the things and ask the child's mother to come too, there is a female customer."
Cheng Zizhong didn't know what Li Qiang was going to buy, so he had to look at it with both hands.
Li Qiang smiled and said, "Shopkeeper, I want four sets of autumn clothes and four sets of winter clothes." He pointed his hand at the four maids and said, "It's for these four little sisters. It's best to have ready-made ones. If not, measure the size and deliver it." His eyes swept over the clothes hanger and said, "Put the black cloak."
The shopkeeper took off the black overgrown cloak and said, "Master, this is a cloak made of the skin of the 'Piqi Beast'. You have a good eye. This is the best cloak in the shop." Cheng Zizhong said in surprise: "This is the fur of the 'Piqi Beast'? It's the name Dingding Ding." Li Qiang didn't feel that it was good when he touched the fur: "What is the 'Piqi Beast', what is it?"
Cheng Zizhong said, "Good thing, the 'Pixie Beast' lives in a swamp and is extremely difficult to capture. This fur can be soaked in water, it can prevent rain and wind, and it is light and warm when worn on the body in winter." The shopkeeper grinned and said, "Oh, this old man is an expert."
After a while, the four little girls seemed to be dreaming. No one was so kind to me when they grew up, so I couldn't say that I felt grateful.
"Okay, I bought it, and I will wrap the eight sets of clothes I just asked for and send it to the prefect's office."
The shopkeeper was so scared that he shrank his neck and thought to himself, "Oh my god, it's the official family. If I don't give the money, I'll jump into the river." He was worried. "How much?" Li Qiang asked and said, "Oh no, I don't know what kind of money is used here."
"The cloak costs 715 taels, eight sets of clothes cost 47 taels and four cents, a total of 762 taels and four cents of silver." The shopkeeper finished his calculations.
Li Qiang turned around and asked Cheng Zi again, "Where is a jewelry store here?"
Chapter completed!