The Southern Kingdom is always gentle and soft. Even though the Hu people's cavalry crossed the Yellow River, the wind and sand overflowed the city walls of the century-old capital, and the blood rain dyed the land red, and the Jin Dynasty lost two-thirds of the world, the Southern Kingdom can still be seen everywhere.
The children in rich clothes and horses can always be heard singing and playing music. Whether they are children of aristocratic families or ordinary people, they are all peaceful, contented and contented.
This kind of comfort and scenery should not have appeared, especially when the northern capital of Luoyang and Chang'an was lost one after another, and the Hu people were brutally killing Jin compatriots, and the people were displaced.
The sun is setting in Xi'an, and the sky is getting dark, but the lights on the ground are lighting up Xiangyang City one by one. The East Market is connected to the docks, gambling houses, brothels, restaurants and inns. Many businessmen and wanderers stay here, so this east market has everything you need.
At night, the market entrance does not fall silent but becomes more lively.
"Drink! Drink! Those who don't drink... are all wood! Hahahaha."
A red-robed man of seventeen or eighteen years old staggered out in front of the tavern. The man was dressed in gorgeous clothes. He was as handsome as an immortal walking out of a painting, but he exuded the aura of the world. His figure was swaying,
He didn't move at all, but he held the wine bottle in his hand very steadily. He uttered a few nonsense words that no one else could understand, and then raised his head and took a sullen breath.
The man staggered forward along the street, taking a sip of the wine in his hand from time to time. After walking for about half a street, when he raised his head again, only one drop came out of the bottle. He shook the wine bottle, and another drop came out.
After a drop of wine, I couldn't help but spit: "Damn it, there's no more wine!"
"Qu Lang, we have wine here, whether it's daughter red or drunken lotus, you can drink whatever you want." Qu Gao raised his head and met two graceful and pretty women. When the two women saw the man turning back, they were busy smiling to greet him.
He came forward, pinched Qu Gao's arms on the left and right, and walked forward with his plump chest raised, saying, "Qu Lang, you haven't been here for a long time. I miss you so much." Another woman continued: "
Yes, my sister misses you and doesn’t care about eating. Look, Qu Lang, my sister has lost weight."
Qu Gao raised the woman's chin with pity, looked at it carefully, and said with a click of his tongue: "I'm really thin, but I can't do this. I'll ask Ayan to give you double the amount of food every day, so that you can be fat and white."
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When the woman heard this, her face suddenly smiled like a flower. She gently brushed her fingers over the man's half-exposed chest line, raised her eyes and said with a smile: "It turns out that Qu Lang likes fat people!"
"I like thin ones!" Qu Gao laughed twice, pushed the two of them away, and got into the crowd. The two women looked around for a few times, but Qu Gao's figure disappeared, and they walked toward the door with smiles on their faces.
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Qu Gao threw away the two girls and went straight to the second floor. The second floor was mostly decorated with elegant rooms and pavilions with red lacquer and carved pillars. Qu Gao walked to a corner and gently knocked on the door.
"Who?" came a slightly solemn reply from inside, and then the footsteps gradually became clearer, and with a "squeak", the door was opened, and the red face with heavy makeup poked out her head, and looked at Qu Gao.
The two of them entered the house, and the door was gently closed.
"How are the arrangements going?" Qu Gao's expression was condensed at this time, and he was not drunk at all. Zhu Yan calmly replied: "Brother, don't worry, Uncle Chang will personally escort you, there will be no mistakes."
Qu Gao Gao said in a low voice: "Shi Hu's envoy has entered the prefect's mansion, and the banquet will start soon. I will ask Jun'er to come back with Cui and Yang later, and evacuate with you!"
Zhu Yan lowered her eyebrows, stood up and walked slowly to the window, looked at the red clouds on the horizon, and sighed: "The sunset is so beautiful!" Qu Gao stood up and walked behind her, glanced at it, and then said, "Ayan Ruo.
If you like it, you can go up to the city tower and take a look. When the sun sets in the west city, you can see the sky change color." Zhu Yan looked back, smiled bitterly, and said: "My sworn brother said it looked good, so Ayan wanted to see it, but...
"After hesitating for a long time, Zhu Yan said calmly: "It's just that Ayan is a white woman and can't go to the tower!"
Qu Gao heard her tone of voice frustrated and lonely, which was inconsistent with her usual temperament, and asked worriedly: "Are you feeling well?" Zhu Yan let out a "puff", with a smile as bright as a flower, and replied: "Is it possible that my sworn brother thinks that
The Ayan people are about to die, so they feel sad and sentimental?"
Qu Gao's thoughts were revealed by her words, and his face turned red with embarrassment. Seeing that she was smiling heartily and not looking sick at all, he was probably fine. He cleared his throat, but before he spoke, Zhu Yanjiao smiled and said, "Okay, look.
You are so thin-skinned, how can you let Ayan rest assured after a narrow escape tonight?" As he spoke, he threw himself into Qu Gao's arms, put his ear to Qu Gao's heart, closed his eyes and listened for a long time, and murmured: "Brother, I am worthy of the heaven.
My husband must not bring down the world because of an affair! Go ahead, Ayan is waiting for your brother here."
At night, Xiangyang City still continued to be noisy. When the high carriage passed by the prefect's mansion, he saw that in addition to a lot of guards, there were also many women wandering around. Those women were all young, beautiful, and wearing makeup.
, obviously intentional.
In fact, there is no shortage of such girls in front of every noble family's house, and they are not wandering girls, they are girls from serious families. These girls from common people's families expect to be taken into the palace by the young men of the official family.
, as a maid and a concubine, in order to be able to rely on the power of the scholar family in the future to ensure a safe life.
Living in troubled times, delicate flowers are as cheap as ants. Being protected and safe is already a great luxury for them.
Qu Gao looked on, silent. In troubled times, even a seven-foot-tall man like him couldn't do anything by himself, let alone these women from ordinary families.
When he arrived in front of the mansion, he was interrogated by the guards before he was allowed to go. At this time, the banquet had not yet started. There were warriors in iron armor everywhere in the mansion. Those warriors were dressed in pitch-black armor, but there was a dazzling cold light on the tips of their spears and blades.
Qu Gao glanced at it secretly, feeling a little panicked in his heart.
After checking around, the security was indeed several times tighter than before. Qu Gao knew that assassinating Zhang You in tonight's dragnet would be an unwise move with a narrow escape from death, but his heart was as strong as iron, and he would not hesitate even if he died together with Zhang You!
After secretly arranging Yang and Cui to leave the house, Qu Gao held the baby Yang had found and sat alone in the courtyard, quietly waiting for the banquet to begin.
When Zhong Lijun and the others arrived at Changlefang, they saw Zhu Yan fainting in the room and vomiting several pools of dark red blood on the ground. When they woke up Zhu Yan, her face was as golden as paper and her vitality was gone.
"Jun'er, arrange for the evacuation boat of Ah Zhi and Yang to be at the east dock of the city. You stay and help me...one last thing!" Zhu Yancang held Zhong Lijun firmly under her sharp fingers and was out of breath.
He gasped out breathlessly.
"Aunt, it's your arrangement, Jun'er will do it." Zhongli Jun saw Zhu Yan trying to get up and hurriedly supported her and said.
Zhu Yan shook her head, insisted on getting up from the bed, staggered to the desk, picked up the pen, and wrote tremblingly: "Pay tribute to General Fenwei, Your Excellency Zu Yuzhou: The general defends the country, resists the enemy alone, punishes the rebellious ministers in Jianghuai, and blocks
Zhao Hu lives outside the river, and his courage and talent are worthy of admiration! However, the country is in trouble, with internal and external troubles..."
After writing, he wrapped the yellow paper in an envelope, handed it to Zhongli Jun, and said: "Jun'er, you rush to Yuzhou at night to ask for an audience with General Zu Ti. You must hand this letter to him!" After saying this, he vomited!
His mouth was bleeding, his body went limp, and his mind fell into coma again.
"Ah Zhi, you go first, I'll stay and take care of the girl." Yang covered Zhu Yan with a quilt and said to Cui Zhi. Cui Zhi also didn't want to leave alone. Zhong Lijun thought about it and made a decision: "I can save it now."
One person is one person, and my aunt's body cannot move long distances. Yang, you are from Jianghu. You can stay to take care of your aunt, and you can also take care of your uncle. Ah Zhi, you and I will rush to the dock together, you go to Changsha, and I will go to Yuzhou!"
He was the only man in the room. Although he was still young, a year of training in the military camp made Zhongli Jun's words full of authority. Both women believed in his arrangement and acted separately.