After passing Tongguan and entering the jurisdiction of Liangzhou, the horse's hooves finally accelerated and stomped on the post road, like a heavy rain in autumn. After all, the cavalry with thousands of people in the capital was still somewhat powerful, and it attracted the attention of many people in the Northern Liang Dynasty. Most of the cavalry in the Northern Liang Dynasty were stationed outside Liangzhou Pass. In Beiliang Road, the cavalry in Beiliang Road was not only an important dangerous pass that must be fought for by military strategists like Tongguan, but it was more common to have white horses and entourages. Unless they were mobilized in a hurry, it was not common for soldiers and horses to gallop over two thousand cavalry to gallop.

As the nominal envoy of the emperor, this army and horse went west all the way, and truly appreciated the barrenness, bitterness and coldness of Beiliang. It was just apart from the poor. The crops along the way were unique, lush and eye-catching. Occasionally, there were couples in rural villages who were busy with harvest and autumn, stopped working, wiped sweat, and looked at this vast and unfamiliar cavalry with a peaceful look. If there were children playing and playing in the fields, they would even point fingers. This was a completely different situation from the Hezhou area of ​​Jizhou. Perhaps this was the unique spirit accumulated after 20 years of fighting with Beiliang and Beimang. There were thousands of cavalrymen in the world, and only Beiliang was the best in the world.

The convoy stayed at Qingmayi, which was only more than 80 miles away from Liangzhou City. The three eunuchs of the Seal and Strip Prison, who had gone through a lot of hardships, were about to see the royal palace. They were probably a little relieved. After dinner, they made an appointment to travel together and wandered casually along a river bank called Longju River. They followed two eunuchs with clever hands and feet, and six imperial guards with royal swords. The eunuchs of the Seal and Seal squinted their eyes and looked at the riverbed. After autumn, the river water had dropped a lot compared to the summer flood season. The water was revealed. The riverbed near the two sides were exposed with dark stone slabs like the back of swimming fish, clustered together, giving people an extremely stiff feeling.

Compared with the water towns in Jiangnan, even the capital and the capital of the capital, the three eunuchs, the eunuchs, who had been pampering for many years, were used to the cold autumn and winter climate in Tai'an City, and did not feel too uncomfortable after reaching the northwest. However, after walking along the river bank for more than half an hour, the two young eunuchs were also a little complaining, and the two and three seats of the Seal and Strip Supervisor were even breathless. However, the eunuchs, both the eunuchs and the imperial guards, were accustomed to the strict rules, so naturally no one reminded them that if they did not return on the same road, they would probably go back to the inn on fire in the night.

The eunuch in charge of the seal was named Liu. His real name was rarely known among the younger eunuchs. Like many elderly eunuchs, they were all survivors of the country. Whenever the troops of Liyang destroyed a country, a large number of eunuchs followed the king and ministers of the country to move to Tai'an City. However, Hong Jiabei was destined to leave a name in history. How could these eunuchs be displaced by the eunuchs? I believe no one would want to write them in history books.

One or two strokes. Especially the eunuchs, who have always been known for their honesty in the Liyang government and the country, have no need to think about eunuchs interfering in politics. The three generations of emperors of Liyang were all wise rulers, and the court was filled with civil and military officials. It was a great blessing for the older eunuchs to be able to die in the palace safely. Therefore, the two generations of eunuchs who held the bulls from Han Shengxuan to Song Tanglu were all cautious and cautious.

The group walked for half an hour and finally saw a large stone cliff standing tall on the right side of the river bank. Eunuch Liu took the lead on the stone cliff, and for a moment, he was filled with mixed feelings.

The slightly bloated eunuch of the Palm Secret really couldn't stand the sore legs, so he was about to sit on the ground. The young eunuch who recognized him as his master quickly knelt on the ground in a cow-like manner. The elderly eunuch smiled with relief and sat casually on the back of the young eunuch. Another junior eunuch also wanted to show his kindness to the eunuch Liu, the eunuch who was so kind. Unexpectedly, he bent down to be a stool. When he saw Eunuch Liu wave his hand, he had to retreat in disappointment.

Eunuch Liu raised his arm and pointed upstream, then turned to the two old eunuchs standing and sitting in the python uniform and laughed: "Eunuch Song, Eunuch Ma, you should know that our family was once a native of Northern Han and ancestors... Well, to the words of some young people in Tai'an City, they were once rich."

The two seal supervisors nodded with a smile.

Eunuch Liu turned his back to everyone and continued, "Before the family was in a state of disagreement, our grandfather's generation was not very prosperous, and he could only barely be considered a scholar. However, Ji Guan had also done a study abroad before. At that time, he was also a study abroad. The best was to go to Shangyin Academy in Xichu, followed by the three major academies in the world, and the library of the four surnames of Jiangnan Road. Our family could not afford to go so far, and we really didn't have the friendship between the world. At that time, there were only two roads, either east, today's Tai'an City, or west, or today's Beiliang. Since the Yao people's knowledge was already famous in the Central Plains at that time, our family walked all the way west, and then passed here. But in fact, I couldn't remember the river called Longju River, so I only remember this stone cliff and a small ferry in front of me."

The young eunuch who was unable to write to Eunuch Liu immediately smiled and said, "No wonder my father-in-law has a very good handwriting. The late emperor has praised him many times. It turns out that my father-in-law is a genuine scholar."

Eunuch Liu should have been accustomed to these unpained and flattering beards, but today he is particularly happy. He rubs his chin without a whisker and looks into the distance. His sharp voice softens a little, "The reason why our family remembers this nameless stone cliff so clearly..."

Just as everyone was listening to the following text, the high-powered eunuch had gradually suppressed his voice, and was as subtle as a mosquito and flies trembling, making it impossible to tell whether the old man was talking to himself.

Of course, the old man was talking, and some words were rotten in his stomach for most of his life, and he would not be able to speak up. But when those words slowly crawled to his mouth, they were like stingy old alcoholics, who took out a jar of old wine that had been treasured for decades and wanted to drink it alone. It would be best if others could watch but not drink it, and they could only watch me drink it alone.

The old man was actually talking about a trivial matter. He didn't know why he experienced so many ups and downs in his life. First, his family fell, and then his country was broken, and then he was intrigued in the largest house in the world. He had seen countless energetic generals and ministers in his life, and many heart-wrenching heroes, respectable and pitiful people, and encountered many conspiracies that could make people sweat afterwards. But he was really worried about it in his twilight years.

Things were all trivial things that I laughed at when I was young. The old man's blurry vision was a small ferry that might be unknown in the Liangzhou local county annals, but it was there that the young scholar Liu from the Northern Han Dynasty, who was still young at that time, was also in this early autumn. There were no boats at the ferry. In order to cross the river, he could only cross the river by the villagers by the riverside. There were both strong and dark skin, and there were also old men and women who were old. Most of them were naked in their upper body, even middle-aged women.

No exception, he was so naked, his chest was heavy, like two grains of rice in the world, so that almost everyone blushed when he first saw this scene. However, the villagers who were doing business at the ferry, both men and women, were happy, and among them, he saw a girl like yellow flowers at a glance. Unlike others, she was wearing a thin dress with great sewing. Maybe she was not outstanding in appearance, but there

Among the vulgar villagers, she seemed very different. In the long palace years that followed, the old man felt such a strong sense of abruptness only twice. Once, when the current Empress Dowager Zhao Zhi was still Queen Li Yang, Li Se scolded His Majesty, who was recognized as a wise and powerful emperor. Another time, he was watching the man who was a vassal king of a different surname, with the title of Dazhuguo. When he was retreating to Beijing to attend the court meeting, the ministers retreated like carp in the pond, but Xu Xiao always seemed to be alone.

The old man put away his thoughts, his eyes were peaceful, and he looked from afar.

I remember that he shyly picked the yellow girl who carried him across the river. Two fellow villagers who were studying together and selected two middle-aged women tacitly. When he arrived at the middle of Longju River, he saw with his own eyes the most rigorous and rigid guy who was studying on weekdays, secretly pinching the woman's plump and black breasts. The satisfaction on his classmates' faces was like a Jinshi. Although the other classmate was bold on weekdays, he shrank his hands and feet at that time. The woman who carried her smiled happily, freed up a hand to grab his palm, pressed it on his chest, and then said in the strong local accent of the northwest. It would be not charged for a fee if you touch it, but if you want to touch it, it would only cost five cents.

Only he was always in a proper manner. He was not only a ritual constraint for those who read sages, but also felt a little reluctant. He even lay on the back of her slender waist, for fear that he would scare her. As a result, her body was unstable, and the two of them would really become pairs of water ghosts with the same fate.

After crossing the river, he also wanted to give him a few more cents like his two classmates, but she didn't want it. She lowered her eyebrows and gently twisted the corners of her clothes, shy and shy.

That encounter and parting, there was no reunion again.

Perhaps his obsession with her was not because he really liked her, but because he missed himself who was still a scholar.

But perhaps, the young scholar named Liu really liked her. She couldn't say anything simple, and she didn't have to think about how much she liked her.

The old man suddenly felt a surge of impulse for no reason. He looked up at the sky, turned around and laughed in a deep voice: "Our family is going to the ferry entrance to take a look. Eunuch Song and Eunuch Ma, you two don't need to follow you. Just go back to our family and try not to go back to the inn in the dark."

The eunuch in the python robe sitting on the back of the young eunuch immediately stood up and said understandingly: "Since you've all been here, it's just a matter of one breath. Why not mess with me and return? Anyway, it won't delay the serious business."

In addition, the tallest Eunuch Ma also smiled and agreed: "It is probably only this opportunity to accompany Eunuch Liu to revisit the old place. This journey is not a big deal. The three of us have been doing things for the Tian family for thousands of miles."

Eunuch Liu smiled and nodded, and his expression became more kind. Although the Seal and Strip Supervisor was not too prominent in the 12th Seal and Strip Supervisor in the Liyang Imperial Palace, it was even more incomparable than the Seal and Lijians under the seals of Song Tanglu, it should not be underestimated. After all, he helped the king of a country to monitor the iron certificates and imperial edicts and post yellow seals. When he was in Tai'an City, the Seal and Strip Supervisor was definitely not the current peaceful atmosphere. It should be that this mission to the northwest brought huge pressure to the three Seal and Strip Supervisors, and it turned out that they all had a prosperous and both had a loss. The previous flies were naturally put on hold for the time being.

The old saying goes that the horses are dead when they look at the mountain. At that time, Eunuch Liu pointed to the vaguely visible small ferry crossing, and still let the Yinshoujian and his group walk exhausted. Even Eunuch Liu had to apologize to two sweaty colleagues.

The ferry is still there, but compared to the scene where more than twenty people were waiting to cross the river to make money, now there are only four or five people. Eunuch Liu looked up and saw a little disappointed. The villagers were all rough old men, neither young nor women, and there were few travelers to the other side of the ferry. Eunuch Liu wanted to return, but was a little unwilling to let go, so he walked towards the old men chatting. Those people obviously also found that the group of people, especially the three eunuchs in the Seal and Strip Prison, were too fresh. Even the frog in the well that even the county magistrate looked down on several times in his life, but as long as he was not blind, he knew that he was a powerful person who could not afford to provoke, and he knew that he would never be a guest who came here to cross the river.

It is said that Longju River is the best river in Liangzhou, but after the government built two bridges more than ten years ago, it was used by the garrison and the people respectively. Therefore, even in summer and autumn, there was almost no business. If there was a bridge, it would have to wander into the river. If you were full, you would not be able to eat. Unless it was a merchant and pedestrian in the north, they would be more anxious to travel and do not want to walk more than twenty miles to the bridge in the south, and then they would wading across the river. However, if a big businessman with a good relationship with the government, he could actually borrow the post bridge in the north. It was just that after the young vassal kings took office, they would be more strict. Local garrisons and government offices dared to turn a blind eye and make it convenient for people to be with others like before.

Just as Eunuch Liu was about to return home, someone suddenly rushed over the river on the other side of the river, frolicking white clothes and wearing a long sword on his waist. He squinted the water several times on the river surface and then crossed the river.

After landing on the shore with a casual movement, the white-clothed swordsman ignored the surprised eyes of the rural villagers and turned around to look at the group of friends from the river and lakes across the river.

They bet who can cross the river at least by stepping on water, so that their sects with better light skills are more advanced.

However, although this young man from a famous family was arrogant and arrogant, he was extremely afraid of the eunuchs with pythons behind him with a jade-clad eunuchs in their pythons and their waists?

When will eunuchs appear in Beiliang? Everyone knows that the Northern Liang Palace is different from the mansions of other vassal kings of the Liyang Dynasty, and eunuchs and eunuchs have never been used.

After the old man named Tu of Xu led the iron horse to enter the rivers and lakes, he always had to stay away from the imperial government without striking his head to deliberately make friends. He had never heard of any sect or gang that could compete with the official family. The young man standing by the river in Yushu was familiar with the rules of the officialdom, but he was not familiar with the high-ranking Tai'an City and was not sure where the eunuchs were qualified to wear the eye-catching red python robe. But I thought it would be certain that they would not be some small fish or shrimp, otherwise they would not be able to leave the palace to do business openly. Both sides had a huge difference in their identities and status, so he simply pretended not to see anything.

The young eunuch who was a cattle and a horse was good at observing his expressions. He found that all the three father-in-laws frowned and immediately explained in a low voice: "Previously, the female leader of the martial arts world in Huishan, Xuanyuan Qingfeng, called on the heroes of the martial arts world to go to Liang to encircle and suppress several demons. He killed all the way to the Western Regions before he stopped. Afterwards, many people in the martial arts world did not rush to leave Beiliang Road. I believe these characters were all young people from the martial arts world in the Central Plains."

Eunuch Liu snorted coldly, "The hero uses martial arts to ban the ban. Even Cao Changqing, a rebel thief in Western Chu, has repeatedly shown his martial arts and power in Tai'an City!"

The fat and Buddhist Eunuch Song laughed in a low voice: "There are not only people who rely on force to ban the ban on the brigade."

Neither Eunuch Liu nor Eunuch Ma spoke.

Afterwards, two children of similar age swept across the Longju River one after another.

Eunuch Liu suddenly turned his head and asked a smile at a front guard commander, "Chief Qian, what is the cultivation level of these young people? What is the difference between the legendary master level in the world?"

The burly guard with a dull expression said calmly: "Eunuch Liu, not to mention the first-class fourth-level master, even if he is a second-level junior master, it is definitely not the height that these embroidered pillows can reach. With the qualifications of the few of them, they can only reach the second-level realm in twenty or thirty years unless they have a great opportunity."

Eunuch Liu nodded and no longer had any interest in exploring it.

The world is far away, and the temple is high.

What kind of martial arts masters are not those few martial arts masters, they are nothing more than carp in the cage and pond raised by the king at will.

Just as Eunuch Liu was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly narrowed his eyes and looked into the river.

A young man who was crossing the river was probably only good at external kung fu. Even the eunuch of the seal and ribbon prison felt that he was unbearable to his eyes. He didn't say that he had stepped on the river many times, and the splashes of water were even more amazing. If someone was flying on the grass, then this guy was really rolling in the grass.

But this was not something that Eunuch Liu paid attention to. The old man saw a young man slowly crossing the river with a vaguely looking like an old woman's crossing.

As a result, he was trampled by the young man with poor light skills, and his head was splashed all over.

In the Longju River, the old woman helped the young man wipe the river water on his forehead. She was a little kind and a little distressed, and said helplessly: "You have suffered a lot. I have said that my mother-in-law can cross the river by herself, and I have to carry me. My mother-in-law, I have been carrying people across the river for decades. Even if I am blind, I can cross the river when there is a flood. How can you carry me?"

The young man smiled and said, "In that heavy rain, the stack of silver notes in my bag were almost turned into paste. I didn't bring any money at hand, so I gave my mother-in-law jade pendant and didn't accept it. I owe this favor for so many years. After finally meeting my mother-in-law this time, I should have been carrying my mother-in-law back."

The old woman said softly: "Not to mention the jade pendant, even the mother-in-law dares not accept the broken silver. She can only spend three cents when crossing the river. No matter how small the broken silver is, it will be bigger."

Some poor people live hard life, but if they feel uneasy to live hard life, they will be really painful.

The old woman suddenly asked with a smile: "Young Master, Lao Huang, who crossed the river with you back then, is the one who lacks the front teeth when she smiles. My mother-in-law remembers it very clearly. He was following us at that time. He was short and the river water was almost at his neck."

The young man whispered: "Old Huang, he left, he walked a long way from Beiliang, and I couldn't see it."

The old woman sighed, wondering how to comfort this young man who had been remembering for so many years just because he had been five cents.

Maybe in her village, I can remember anyone who owes me a penny for half of my life, but the young man who carries me doesn’t look like a child from a poor family.

How could I carry him to cross the river once? I could give him a jade pendant just because I didn’t have copper coins on hand. Even if it was worthless, it would be a jade pendant.

The old woman asked with a smile: "Young master, are you married? Are you children?"

The young man said a little embarrassedly: "It's almost time to get married."

When the two approached the ferry crossing on the shore, the old woman asked, "Are you tired?"

The young man smiled and said, "Mother-in-law, you are so light, how can you be tired?"

Then the young man joked: "Mother-in-law, you must be very good when you were young, and there must be many people who come to ask for marriage."

Although poor but clean-dressed old woman smiled, she did not nod or said no.

When she arrived at the shore, the young man gently put the old woman down. She asked, "Young Master, you just put that horse on the other side of the river. Isn't it really a big deal?"

The young man smiled and said, "It's okay, I can't lose it."

The old woman helped the young man who rolled up his sleeves to carry her and gently lowered his sleeves, saying, "When I get married, I can't think so in everything."

The young man smiled and nodded, "I know, I'll be careful when living."

After the old woman got ashore, she waved her hand to the young man standing shallow by the river, "Go back quickly and see if there are fewer objects on the horse's back."

The young man who lowered his sleeves but rolled up his trousers laughed and answered.

The old woman slowly walked towards the ferry.

Then she saw an old man in strange clothes, and saw it at a glance, even though there were two old men in "red clothes" standing beside him.

The eunuch in charge of the seal and the eunuch Liu, the same is true for the seal.

He wanted to speak but stopped.

And she just smiled slightly, turned her head slightly, stretched out her thin fingers, and sorted out her sideburns.

He looked at her and was about to take a step forward, but in the end he laughed at himself, withdrew his steps, turned around and strode away.

And she still waved her hand gently to the back of the young scholar like many, many years ago.

It was dim and the eunuchs in the python and the guards in front of the imperial guards left first. The villagers at the ferry, who felt that it was difficult to have business, left the river bank, just like the old woman.

The down-and-out young man who was flowing to the other side suddenly turned around and trotted all the way. Although his skin was excellent, he finally relied on clothes and Buddhas and gold makeup. Who would look at a poor boy who crossed the river and earned copper money? He approached them in the disdainful look of the young heroes of the No. 7 or 8 Jianghu, and smiled, and said inexplicably, "When I was digging the world with my brothers, I had long wanted to do something to you masters who floated across the river."

Whether it was a handsome swordsman in white clothes or a beautiful and charming young heroine, they were kicked on the butt by this guy who seemed to have his brain on the door panel and kicked it into the Longju River. The picture was like a pot of dumplings.

The young man with his boots on the other side stood barefoot at the ferry, looking at the cocks who were cursing at him, and said seriously: "Technical work!"

If those young and female heroes in the world knew the identity of this lunatic, they would probably not be angry, but were grateful.

Being able to be kicked by a figure who is one of the four great masters of martial arts, according to the rules of the world, is equivalent to a fight. This may be the treatment that the founders of their sects must be envied.

Such a lucky thing can be bragging for thirty years.
To be continued...