Soon there was Taizhuang ahead, with people scattered in groups and rows.

However, although Qian Sanniang and others planned to have lunch in the village and then cross the river, they did not plan to go deep into the village, mainly to avoid trouble.

The canal enters the Taizhuang section and reaches Linqing for nearly a thousand miles. The water source of the river mainly comes from Weishan Lake and Shandong Springs. The water flow here is fast and the drop is large. In order for the free force to accumulate water sources to be lost, more gates and dams must be built.

From Taizhuang Town to Xia Town, there are eight gates including Taizhuang Gate, Houqian Gate, Dunzhuang Gate, Dingmiao Gate, Wannian Gate, Zhangzhuang Gate, Desheng Gate, Hanzhuang Gate, etc. Each gate has one gate officer and thirty gatekeepers.

Most of these gate officials are stationed in Taizhuang. Their subordinates, like the gate servants, are also powerful.

There is also an inspection department in Taizhuang, which leads 100 archers and is directly under the jurisdiction of Jining’s military preparation road. Due to the important location, there are also the General River Department Office, Dongyan Road, Lihe Hall, Yixun, Taizhuang Gate and other river management agencies at all levels.

There is also a sydun. When there is an alarm, the news can be directly transmitted to the Guanhe Bing patrol road.

In this era, the reputation of soldiers and horses is not good, so it is okay to walk around. If you go deep into the village, it will probably cause fear of the merchants and merchants and cause unnecessary trouble.

Anyway, the mission of sending off this time has been completed. I have to eat and cross the river and return to the village early.

Now everyone enters the Zhuangzi area from Xiao Peng River. There are many bridges in Taizhuang, stone bridges, wooden bridges and floating bridges. They are known as one hundred and twenty-eight bridges. There are fourteen bridges along the way, which is very convenient to cross the river and enter the Zhuang.

Especially not far away, there is Magong Bridge, which spans the entire canal and is suitable for people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to travel. At that time, Qian Sanniang and others head north and also walked through this bridge.

However, it was a bamboo-wood bridge built by Ma Xizeng, the magistrate of Yi County in the first year of Tianqi. The local people respectfully called Ma Gong Bridge and has always been very strong. After the Qing Dynasty, it was renamed Buyun Bridge.

This place is the west side of Taizhuang. The city has not been built here for the time being. In history, Tucheng was built in the fourth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty and brick walls were built in the seventh year of Xianfeng. However, as a key place in the canal, the way to go south to the village is already very prosperous.

Especially along the banks of Xiaopeng River, all the way to the canal, it is full of various shops and alleys, built along the river, winding and winding.

Qian Sanniang and others walked along the bank and soon arrived near the Five Elements Pavilion. The pavilion was double-layered and five-cornered, shining with golden light. Not far away was the Magong Bridge. There was a corridor on the bridge and a large arch bridge with strange objects. Walk along the bridge and you will reach the south bank of the canal.

There is also a Five Elements Wharf near the Five Elements Pavilion, with boats and oars everywhere. From time to time, I heard the boatman's horn, which was very lively.

Seeing all this, Liu Qilang's eyes flashed slightly, while the people in Li Ruwan Village were restrained. Yesterday, they went to Yixian County and entered the city like countrymen. Unexpectedly, this village was more prosperous and lively, and they were all over the place.

At this time, the official name of Tai'er Village was already known as "Tai'er Village". There were about 2,000 households in the village, as well as various merchants, garrisons, boaters, peddlers, and various people who made a living, with a population of more than 30,000.

In addition, after the 38th year of Wanli, the River Yu completely replaced the Yellow River transport route, becoming the lifeline of the economy and the golden waterway. The main road of Taizhuangju was prosperous everywhere. "The merchants were winding, fishing fires in a river, singing for ten miles, and the market was not stopped at night."

There are more than a dozen piers here, and there are many private piers along the canal.

It is understandable that the villagers suddenly saw such prosperity.

However, Qian Sanniang, Li Ruwan and others didn't care. They had already seen it a few days ago.

Soon they arrived at a big restaurant, not far from the Five Elements Wharf, the bluestone on the road was paved with pebbles, the streets were filled with buildings and courtyards, the horse head walls were staggered, and the courtyard shops were all open to the canal, which was convenient and practical.

Qian Sanniang and Li Ruwan whispered a few times, and decided to have a big meal here.

This place is big, and more than 200 people can stuff it.

They still have a lot of money left for public expenses, so they can spend money with confidence.

Pei Pochuan and Ling Zhanyun ignored these trivial matters. The two of them just looked at Liu Qilang and his cavalry from time to time. Ling Zhanyun was eager to try it out, and obviously wanted to compete with Liu Qilang or his subordinates.

Liu Qilang's cold face was a little hesitant, and a penny stumped the hero. For many years, he has been short of money. Even if he has some money, he basically has to keep some additional horse materials to save for horses.

This restaurant is obviously high-cost, can it afford to eat? Or do you ask Captain Qian and the others to treat you all the way? Liu Qilang suddenly realized that it was so embarrassing to have no money in his hands.

The firearms and cavalry behind him were silent, and some people were eager, but looking at Liu Qilang, they said nothing. Not disturbing the people and breaking the law is the principle followed by their group of people. Therefore, they can't survive in this world, and they are even more disliked by the army.

Not to mention their ideas, in fact, after a large group of people entered the village, the pedestrians and merchants were worried. Where did the soldiers come from? There were many elite cavalry inside, all of them were murderous, which made people frightened at first sight. I hope these people don’t make trouble.

The restaurant shopkeeper even secretly called it unlucky, why did these military masters choose their own store? Not paying for food is just a trivial matter. When the restaurant gets into trouble, it's just him who is unlucky.

And come for lunch so early?

However, Qian Sanniang and others chose his restaurant. At this time, one is the big one, and the other is that it is just the right time (10 am). There are no guests at this time, otherwise there will be no seats if there are too many guests.

Li Ruwan is experienced in the world, and she arranged most of the meals and accommodations that the riders along the way. She walked in proudly, looked at the shopkeeper with a sad face, and looked like she had just married a wife.

She glared and said, "Why, I'm so sad that I think I'm a poor man and have no money to eat?"

With a loud bang, she slapped a silver ingot on the table, and the entire restaurant was shaking.

The white one was actually twenty taels of silver, and the restaurant shopkeeper opened his eyes widened.

Li Ruwan glanced at each other with her eyes squinted: "I think I have no money? Is this money enough?"

The restaurant shopkeeper smiled like a flower and kept saying, "Enough, enough, enough."

Li Ruwan said: "Just serve good wine and meat, and you have to serve horses and mules."

The restaurant shopkeeper agreed repeatedly and asked the staff to quickly call the customers to enter the store to take a seat. For a moment, the entire restaurant was full of crowds.

Qian Sanniang arranged for people to take turns to take care of the horses, and to look at Liu Qilang's side, and arranged for people to take care of the horses in turn.

"By the way." Li Ruwan grabbed the restaurant shopkeeper, "There are people singing small songs here, and ask some girls to come and cheer up."

...

"Hahaha, eat, drink..."

Qian Sanniang, Li Ruwan and other riders, the young and strong in the village, and Liu Qilang and others were all upstairs, while old, weak, women, girls and children were downstairs.

Sitting upstairs, you can see the winding streets and alleys below, the canal views outside, and there are large villages on the other side. However, compared with the north bank, the south bank is mostly thatched huts and thatched huts, mud walls and grass roofs, and many are home to boatmen.

The water-like wine and vegetables have already come up. I first ate soup and stone cakes to fill my stomach. There are soups such as old turtles and riverside, which are also a kind of noodle cake. Adding the soup to fish, broiler and vegetarian dishes to mingle. The taste of the soup is soaked into the noodle cakes with the moisture, which is quite well-known locally.

Then all kinds of dishes, such as fish, mutton, chicken and duck, and Shandong famous wine, Lanling, and everyone was very happy.

Especially Li Ruwan Village people, men, women, young and old, were all very satisfied. After leaving the village, Mr. Li arranged wine and meat for every meal. This kind of life was so refreshing.

However, although Liu Qilang enjoys each other and is very satisfied, he is restrained. Everyone is silent in eating and drinking, and is still vigilant.

The shopkeeper really found someone who sang the song, a opera troupe, and the girl in the inner circle was a tactful person, so she first sang the song that she liked and enjoyed to adjust the atmosphere.

The two girls in the inner circle sang "Sister's surname Qi".

"Lang's surname is Qi, and my sister's surname is Qi, and I will marry a maid. Qi'er married to Qi'er. In the middle of the night, she was in a body. Lang's surname is Mao, and my sister's surname is Mao, and I will marry a maid. In the middle of the night, she was in a body with hair and hair, and in the middle of the night, she was in a body with hair."

Everyone applauded, and even the children clapped their hands hard, and Li Ruwan and Qian Lijue slapped the table even harder.

The girl in the theater sang two other small songs in Shandong, "Jie Erniu", and then sang Bangzi, and finally turned to the popular song of the Ming Dynasty and turned into deep affection.

In the Ming Dynasty, the small songs were extremely prosperous. At first, the songs of the south branch were locked and the mountainside were raised. Later, there were songs such as jujube poles and hanging branches. They did not ask the north and south, men and women, or the old and young, and good and humble. Everyone was accustomed to it and everyone liked to listen to it.

The girl from the opera troupe sang "Universal Heart".

"Come on the eyebrows and go away. I will take a fancy to you together. I have cultivated it for hundreds of years and have a love story with you. There is a wonderful person who can't get into you. If you see you as a man and I are a woman, how can you know that I have a heart to be together? If you put me on the scale, you will be half a pound and I will be eight taels. Will this scale be bullied? Otherwise, the two of them will be destined to die of love."

The tune is graceful and charming, and the singing inside is bold and affectionate. Qian Sanniang, Li Ruwan, Pei Pochuan, Liu Qilang and others listened to it, and they didn't know what they thought of, and their expressions were a little fascinated.

The girl in the troupe sang "Clay Man".

"The clay man is like two of us. Twist one you, mold one me, see how it is. Knead him and re-twisted one you, re-shape one me. I have you in you, and you have me in you."

After drinking and eating, everyone left the building and soon stepped onto the Magong Bridge. On the other side of the river was the Pizhou area of ​​Huai'an Prefecture, Nanzhili. Qian Sanniang Ce was on the horse, and behind him were the riders following him, as well as hundreds of men, women, and young and old in the village.

The river breeze made the sound of her cloak, and the sound of the song just now still echoed in her ears.

I thought to myself: "I have you in me, and you have me in you. Will this love really take hundreds of lifetimes to cultivate?"

He thought again: "If he doesn't want me... he will kill him with one sword and practice it again in the next life."

She thought, the snow-hoofed rouge horse under her crotch was crossing the bridge with mixed sounds, and the canal was at her feet.

...

"Xilulu" war horse neighed, and then the hooves were like thunder.

Outside Luming Gate on the east side of Lingbi County, eight strong horses were galloping, and the horse's hooves were stepping on the official road of loess. If dense rain hits the window, large streams of dust rose up.

The eight riders were all red in red, wearing felt hats, and wearing thick felt cloaks. They were all fast and powerful, strong and strong. The leader was a knight with wide shoulders and thick back, fierce eyes, and a ruthless manner.

He first entered through the collapsed city gate. After being captured by Li Guo and other bandits, the city walls on all sides were gone because of the "shuocheng". In addition, the residents were wrapped and left. In just two months, the large county town quickly became abandoned.

The devastated eyes were full of burnt walls, demolished doors and windows, even weeds appeared on the street, and several lying corpses appeared from time to time.

The entire county town has been beyond recognition, and the houses and buildings have basically collapsed, and there is thick dust everywhere. It is dead, desolate, no sound or movement. Only occasionally can I see some broken, blood-stained fabric blowing around by the wind.

No people!

Where there are no protection of the city walls, not to mention residents, even bandits are unwilling to live.

After the bandits passed, the entire Lingbi County was finished, especially in the county town.

The leader of the knights led the riders to walk in the ruins of the county town. They turned from the Luming Gate to the south to the Jingmen, then to the Fengyi Gate to the west, and finally to the Laibi Gate to the north, but they were all covered with weeds and piled with white bones, but there was no living person.

He took the cavalry into some wealthy families to see what treasures there were left.

There is a wonderful method for their camp. When they see a rich room, they can get oil and candles. When they encounter a hidden gold, the fire will be extinguished. They also use water to fertilize the bedroom. If they are fast and dry, there will be gold under them. There is no secret solution. In this way, the landlords and wealthy families will have their gold, silver, and treasures, and they will all take these two methods.

After leaving a few houses, it was obvious that the campers knew more than them, and they were shining everywhere, without any money.

"Bo Sun is beaten." The knight couldn't help but curse, "I heard that Lingbi County was attacked by a tiger? You big guy, this blind man's camp is so clean."

Eight riders stood on the deserted street, and an indescribable smell filled their mouths and noses.

Still dead, desolate, devastated!

It was May 4th, and this is the ruins of Lingbi County.
Chapter completed!