The good luck may have been used up when he left Gu Ya, but the rest is not necessarily bad luck. At least he met Shi Dan, that little girl who can make people feel at ease for no reason. It's not that Li Luo didn't plan it.
Traveling alone, but after careful consideration, I gave up the idea. Being alone can easily expose your whereabouts. The reward of tens of thousands of taels of gold is enough to make many people take risks countless times.
I heard that Feipeng Castle has an unwritten rule. If the person to be killed dies before Feipeng Castle's killer takes action, then Feipeng Castle will give half of the money to the person who killed him.
Half of the 50,000 taels of gold are still 25,000 taels, which is still far above the bounty of Boritiechina who has the Canglang treasure.
Ten miles away, it’s not a close walk. The original novelty of Shidan has long been gone. I followed the old man and Uncle Beard with a grimace. I didn’t cry or complain about being tired. I walked on my own in a very sensible way. I’ll walk as soon as I can.
She always walks like this and is rarely held by grandpa, and now grandpa can’t hold her anymore.
At dusk, the three of them finally arrived in front of Burqin City.
Shi Dan opened his mouth wide and looked at the city in front of him with a wall. He didn't close his mouth for a long time. The old man trembled and secretly looked at the soldiers guarding in front of the city gate. He still remembered what the knight said before leaving,
If you see them again, I'll break the legs of three people.
At first glance, the three of them looked like country bumpkins who had never seen much of the world, and there was also a kid who had just learned how to run. After a quick glance, the guard lost interest, yawned boredly, and looked anxiously into the city gate from time to time. It was time to change.
It's time to wait, and now everyone is thinking about a mouthful of hot rice and soup in the pot.
Shi Dan stretched out his little hand and grasped the old man's clothes tightly. When he entered the city, he couldn't run around. Grandpa had warned him many times that there were many people in the city. If he lost it, he would never find it again.
After entering the city, Shi Dan exclaimed in surprise: "So many people!" This caused a few strangers who were entering the city to look at Shi Dan and the three of them more, and laughed at them, which was probably good-natured.
Shi Dan was startled, his face flushed, and he leaned close to the old man, timidly looking around.
There were indeed many people, and even Li Luo was a little surprised. In such a small city, when Mu Tianlang was roaming the Western Regions, Li Luo didn't know how many of them he led his army to crush, and he didn't do it intentionally. Under Mu Tianlang's tent,
It seems that it would not be difficult for a hundred-man cavalry squad to capture the city of Burqin in front of us.
A city with more than a thousand people, even if the city is full of soldiers, is still no match for the brave and skilled Mu Tianlang soldiers.
The Burqin city in front of him was no different from the small towns in the Western Regions that Li Luo had seen in the past, with monotonous streets, low earth-and-stone houses, messy shacks, uneven roads, and the same gray-yellow color as always.
However, there were far more pedestrians in this Burqin city than in the small towns in the Western Regions that Li Luo had seen. They were not so crowded as to be crowded, but there were still quite a lot of them, in twos and threes, and it was really lively.
Along the street, there are hawkers selling melons and fruits, merchants selling cloth and knives, wine shops, teahouses, and stalls selling livestock, all scattered together in a vague and chaotic way.
Shi Dan was dazzled and kept shouting excitedly. He had never seen so many people before. Even the year before last, when the most beautiful sister Reyihan in Hutu got married, there were not so many people. But then
Not a lot. Shidan still remembers that time, there were so many delicious things and so many fun things, but I just don’t know why Sister Reyihan was crying.
The old man was also shocked. Unlike Shidan, the old man had been to the city before and knew that there were many people in the city, but he did not expect that there would be so many people in Burqin. The streets were packed with people at a glance.
Although shocked, the old man was also worried. There were so many people in the city that it would be even more difficult to find a job to make ends meet.
A large number of people but a small number of people is normal in Li Luo's eyes. There are about thousands of people in this small town, maybe close to ten thousand, which is quite a lot in the Western Region. However, if it is in Dagan, except for the Xifu prefectures, it can't even compare to a county seat.
Not to mention the big city in the state capital.
The people on the street wore different clothes and behaved differently. They were not from the same place. In addition, the city knight said that something big would happen in Burqin City, so Li Luo concluded that most of the people on the street were not Burqin.
The local people come here for the so-called big events.
Burqin City is actually not as prosperous as it seems now. After entering the city, all the city gates are guarded, the city defenses are arranged, and the layout of the city is clearly visible. If you are just a passerby, you will probably not be able to see any doorways, but for someone like Li Luo who is guarding one side,
The generals can naturally see the advantages and disadvantages in them. Even if the so-called ravines in Burqin City are not worth mentioning, they are not much better. They are not as good as some gentry families with long family backgrounds in Dagan.
Li Luo didn't care, but Shi Dan and the old man couldn't help but care. An old man and a young man were walking cautiously on the street. To Shi Dan, everything was almost dazzling. His little mouth had no chance to close since he entered the city.
Stars appeared in his little eyes. He looked at it with pleasure and marveled, but he did not bother the old man to buy even the smallest item.
As long as I have seen it, I will be satisfied.
The three of them walked aimlessly along the street. Before the novelty and novelty of Shidan wore off, their stomachs began to growl.
Shi Dan looked up at the old man and said crisply: "Grandpa, when are we going to eat? I'm hungry."
The old man reached out and touched the money bag in his arms, squeezed out a smile from his deep wrinkles, kindly wiped the traces of dried saliva on Shi Dan's mouth, and said with a smile: "Okay, grandpa will give it to you."
Buy food, what do you want to eat?"
"I want to eat... let's eat dry food cakes." Shi Dan stretched out two fingers to calculate, smiling and obediently leaning against the old man.
The old man felt sour. If he hadn't been robbed of two carts of millet, he might have had enough money to buy some snacks for Shidan. The seven-year-old boy had only eaten candied snacks a handful of times.
I don’t have much money, and things in Burqin are very expensive. The old man once asked about cakes made of dried fruits, which he stared at and swallowed. One piece cost nearly half of his money, which shocked the old man.
, making the hawker laugh at him.
After that, Shi Dan just watched from a distance and never came to the stall again. He drooled a lot. When he made up his mind, he still wanted to eat dry food cakes because dry food cakes were cheap. Shi Dan knew that his grandfather worked hard to make money.
, but didn’t realize that most of grandpa’s hard-earned harvest was robbed by those three people outside the city.
"Young man, you're hungry after a long day of walking. Come on, let's go have some food together." The old man greeted Li Luo without any reluctance or distress.