Thinking

There will also be a grand market on the Nayar Festival. Merchants from all over the world will bring all kinds of things to sell, but the market in Gebaiyin is a bit different. There are not only strange and cute things, but also a black market. and Ghost City.

There are many transactions that cannot be seen in the black market, while the ghost market is full of weird and strange commodities, ancient spells, evil Gu from the southern border, and witchcraft from the Western Regions. These are in the gray area of ​​Daliang's law, but Things that are not in accordance with the law can be found in the market of Gebain.

Jiang Xuan naturally understood that what Qi wanted to see was not an ordinary market, it must be a ghost market or a black market, but he didn't object, but it was up to him to decide.

The two turned on the road to Gebaiyin at the next fork in the road, calculated the time, stopped walking at a leisurely pace, and planned to arrive at Gebaiyin Town in the middle of the night, looking for an inn to stay.

It was about three miles away from Gebaiyin Town, and it was already night, but the two of them felt many unusual things.

At first, both Qi Si and Jiang Xuan had some intuitions that were not right, and the horse was also a little weird, breathing heavily when running, and often hesitated in steps, but did not stop or turn around and run away.

The night sky is cloudy, there is no moonlight or starlight on the grassland, the surrounding fields are silent and purely black, and we only move forward with Jiang Xuan and Qi Si's sense of direction.

Qi Si asked Jiang Xuan in a low voice: "Do you feel something is wrong?"

Jiang Xuan gave a "hmm" and said after a while: "Don't ride side by side, you are slightly behind."

His tone was rare and serious.

Qi Si knew that Jiang Xuan had been traveling all over the north and south for many years and was well-informed. He wanted to protect himself, so he didn't refute it. According to what he said, the two of them staggered half a horse's body one after the other, so that Prevent accidents.

When he was one mile away from Gebaiyin Town, Qi Si uncontrollably let down his vigilance that had been raised for a long time because he was a little tired. He didn't even know what he was guarding against.

Mishaps always occur when people are most unprepared. When the horse walked to a grassy hill, a pair of huge monsters suddenly jumped out of the grass at half a person's height, and made a vague and threatening low. Roar, it looks like a beast, but also like a person, but its movements are not agile, and Qi Si can't see their appearance clearly.

Qi Si and Jiang Xuan's horses walked up to these things without realizing their existence. The moment they rushed out, the horses suddenly raised their front hooves, turned around, and let out a long howl, frightened. Then he ran forward crazily.

Jiang Xuan whistled the moment those things rushed out, and while the horses on and off him lifted up and kicked, he quickly turned around and helped Qisi hold down the bridle of the horse, and then the two moved forward one after the other. , those dormant things in the dark did not catch up.

Qi Si galloped side by side with him, turned to him and asked, "You already knew what would happen?"

Jiang Xuan replied: "It's not too early, I just remembered ten steps ago."

When Qi Si heard his words, he resumed his usual playful and casual tone. When he remembered the moment those things rushed out, Jiang Xuan even whistled, and couldn't help but: "Then why didn't you say it? What are those things? "

Jiang Xuan replied with a smile: "It's just that the people in Gebaiyin town released the corpse puppet as a road sign. Its movements are slow. Although it is big, it can't hurt anyone at all, so I didn't say anything."

Qi Si: "..."

Qi Si knew that because of the ghost market in Gebaiyin Town, there would be strange things, but he didn't expect that there would be such unimaginable things before he arrived at the place, and he could not help but place them so generously outside the town. Felt like I had underestimated how weird it was.

Jiang Xuan said: "Don't be afraid. Although they have some strange things, they dare not harm people easily. No matter how strange the means are, they can't overwhelm Wang Fa."

Qi Si sighed softly: "Wang Fa..."

Jiang Xuan said: "Wang Fa is the army of King Daliang."

Qi Si: "..."

I have to say, it does make sense.

Qi Si asked him again: "It stands to reason that a horse should be very sensitive to that kind of thing like a pack of wolves. It must have stopped early. Why did it not react?"

Jiang Xuan shook his head: "This corpse puppet is different from the corpse Gu in southern Xinjiang. It is made of the living and the dead. There is no evil or fierceness on it, and there is no great danger. The horse will not notice it. What."

When the two arrived in the town, the streets and houses here were different from other places, with crooked shapes, high and low, and random building.

Daliang and the Han people have frequent business trips. Over the years, they have learned many habits of the Han people, including the habit of building houses. In large towns, the street houses are very similar to those of the Han people in northern Xinjiang. It lives with the migration of aquatic plants in the four seasons.

The town of Gebaiyin seems to be in a state of being mixed between the two, half of which is the houses of the settlers, and the other half is full of miscellaneous tents. The houses are also built in a strange way, with irregular shapes, and the doors and windows are like giant beasts. eyes and mouth.

Walking on the street seems to be in another world, especially in this dark situation, it seems to be some kind of strange city.

Qi Si is not afraid, but just thinks this place is very interesting. I don't know what kind of strange people live here, and what strange things they do every day.

The two walked through the streets and alleys, riding their horses aimlessly, and came across an ordinary, or normal, inn among the strange houses.

There was still a small candle burning in the lobby of the store, and the clerk Mao was on duty behind the counter. The two pushed open the door, Jiang Xuan called a few times, and the clerk stood up with a confused face.

Then the man led the horse to the stable for them first, Jiang Xuan and Qi Si went into the living room and sat down, the room was warm, Jiang Xuan found a kettle and cups as if entering his own home, and the two drank some hot tea.

It can be seen how a person lives all year round. Qi Si looks at Jiang Xuan like this and feels very comfortable wherever he goes, as if everywhere is his own home, and nowhere will become his home.

How do others see themselves?A very well-behaved boy?

The guy went out and soaked in the cold wind, and when he came back he was very refreshed. He entertained the two of them to the room.

The two rooms are adjacent to each other, so they tidied up and went to sleep that night, Qi Si lay on the couch, thinking about what to do tomorrow, how to find out the poison that killed Rui Chu?

His specific purpose of coming here cannot be told to others, neither A Sigu, Yuan Feng, nor Jiang Xuan. In this way, he can only play it by ear to inquire. When he fell asleep in a daze, he couldn't stop thinking about it. Lu Yingqiu described Rui Chu's various symptoms after being shot by an arrow at that time.

Early the next morning, after leaving the room, Qi Si went to knock on the door of Jiang Xuan's room, but no one answered. He turned around and went downstairs, only to see Jiang Xuan sitting in the lobby.

The lobby is very lively during the daytime, all kinds of people come and go, the clothes are much more exaggerated than the people in other places, many people have tattoos on their necks and cheeks, their hair is combed in strange ways, layers of skin The coats and the jingling belongings hanging on their bodies indicate their respective possible identities and where they came from.

Jiang Xuan was still dressed in Qiang costumes, but was simply set off by the people around him. Sitting there, he looked like a fairy among the demons.

He was talking to a bald businessman with a friendly look on his face.The man was dressed in a sheepskin coat, tall and tall, holding a wine bag in his hand all the time, and he was about to drink a few words.

When Qisi came downstairs, he didn't notice anything. In fact, he was the same as Jiang Xuan. Even though they changed into Qiang clothes, they were different from the people here.

It's not the same for a gentleman with a first-class appearance, mixed in with a group of the most elusive and strange people in the rivers and lakes.

They should only be thankful, if they ran out wearing Yan Kingdom's brocade clothes and fur cloak, I am afraid that no one here would talk to them.

Jiang Xuan saw Qisi from a distance, and while the bald sheepskin jacket businessman beside him was not paying attention, he gave Qisi a look and asked him to wander around by himself first and come to him later.

Qi Si couldn't help smiling, Jiang Xuan probably didn't know that his winking was very coquettish, he had a pair of bright peach blossom eyes, and the corners of his lips always seemed to be raised, winking was like flirting Yan'er, if he is not someone who knows him, he will probably be very puzzled: Why does this person flirt with me?

After all, going out is a lot more sensitive, and Qi Si also realized that his skinny and tender appearance was too different from the people around him traveling around, so he pulled a veil to cover most of his face before going out.

He was not in a hurry to inquire. He wandered around the stalls around the inn, ate a few things, carefully observed the way the people here talked and did things, and returned to the inn to find Jiang Xuan after reckoning that it was almost time.

The businessman next to Jiang Xuan had already left, and he sat alone in the hall drinking hot milk tea leisurely. It's not uncommon for a noble son, but it doesn't get in the way.

Qi Si pulled off the veil, sat next to him, and handed him the soufflé cheese she just bought.

Jiang Xuan poured him a bowl of hot milk tea, and the two of them ate and drank, tasting slowly, and the food here was not unsuitable.

"I asked that person about something just now." Jiang Xuan said.

Qi Si asked him, "Do people here speak the Qiang language?"

After Qisi went out for a while, he heard that the people around him basically spoke the Qiang language, while the official language of Daliang should be the Khitan dialect.

Jiang Xuan spoke Qiang and Khitan very well. It is said that Jiang Xunyan said that he had traveled back and forth between Daliang and the Western Regions for two years.

Jiang Xuan nodded: "When you come to Great Liang to do business, you must learn the Khitan and Qiang dialects, otherwise you won't make money and don't talk about it, you may be deceived and lose your fortune. The former dynasty of Great Liang was still a place of Qiang people. , Gebaiyin Town was also built in the previous dynasty, and the Qiang language is more useful here."

Before Qi Si came, he learned the language outside the Great Wall with Jiang Xuan for a while, and now it is no problem for him to talk about simple things with the people here. The Qiang language is easier to learn than the Khitan dialect.

Jiang Xuan said: "What do you want to see today? The ghost market is from noon to midnight. If you want to buy something strange, I will help you."

Qi Si shook his head: "I want to see what kind of poison and medicine Gu techniques are available here, so as not to encounter Duji Falcon in the future and be unprepared - next time I will poison him."

Jiang Xuan laughed loudly, shook his head and said: "You two are deadly enemies, you have to think about each other even after thousands of miles away, thinking about how to poison each other to death."

Qi Si couldn't help laughing out, love and hatred in the world, don't they all remember each other?

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