When Hua Mulan Met Zhu Yingtai

Zhe Luocheng.

"Yi Xu, you said that Zheluo City is also known as the City of Pearl, which Hu language did you translate it from?" Zhu Yingtai and his party of 30 people escorted three carts full of goods to conceal their identities. On the way, Zhu Yingtai suddenly thought of this question and asked Yi Xu, the guide of the trip.

Not long after joining Hua Mulan's tent, Yi Xu naturally didn't dare to neglect the general's confidant to join the army, and said with a smile: "The Shaodong family doesn't know something, not to mention that the Zhe Luocheng Han and Hu live together, and each of the two clans has four or five forces in it. , It has been a hundred years, so this language is extremely chaotic. I don’t know why the word Zheluo was translated into the meaning of pearl, but both Chinese and Hu agree with this meaning.”

Zhu Yingtai nodded and didn't bother with this issue any more. Even Yi Xu, a guide who grew up in the North and knew four or five kinds of Hu languages, didn't know why.

However, judging from the bustling people on the street, this Zheluo City did not live up to its meaning of being a pearl.In this denser crowd than Yanxi City, Zhu Yingtai saw Han people with hair tied in a bun, Hu people with shaved left lapels, and Arabs with high noses and deep eyes.

Moreover, the streets in the city were paved with bluestone slabs, and the wheels of the carriage rolled on it, making a rattling sound, bringing out the fine mud moistened by the melting snow in the cracks in the ground.

Such an extravagant paving method led Zhu Yingtai to draw a conclusion that the builder of the city was either richer than Hua Mulan, or extravagant.But judging from the long caravan when she entered the city today, the answer should be the former.

Those who are close to vermilion are red, and those who are close to ink are black.A thought suddenly came to Zhu Yingtai's mind: "What a fat sheep, where should I start?"

"Young master, do you still ask the villain?"

Yi Xu's words awakened Zhu Yingtai who was in deep thought, and Zhu Yingtai realized that she was stunned on the street.

"It's nothing, it's just a few things. Yi Xu, tell the brothers to go, work harder, and I'll buy you a drink after you stay in the inn!"

After a while, there were murmurs of cheers in the caravan, presumably it was Yi Xu who passed on the order.

The caravan marched again. Amidst the rattling sounds, Zhu Yingtai looked more curiously at the caravans that were said to come from the far west and were called Arabs by Empress Xiaosu. Zhu Yingtai calmed down and led the crowd to the joint inn.

According to the original plan, as long as Zhu Yingtai sells the goods used to conceal her identity here, earn a sum of military expenses, and then bring back the topographic maps of mountains and rivers drawn along the way and the information collected, she will be considered as a successful mission.

Instructed Qi Wu and the others to guard the goods. After Yi Xu, an old hand, went to find the buyer of the goods, Zhu Yingtai went to the room alone, closed the door to make sure there was no one left, and then picked up the teapot on the table and poured himself a large glass of water. .

All the manners of the aristocratic family and the virtues of the famous family are all forgotten. At this time, she is just a person who has traveled a long distance to drink water.

The cold water entered Zhu Yingtai's throat, which made Zhu Yingtai feel a lot better. The burning tingling sensation in her throat dissipated, and Zhu Yingtai coughed out a mouthful of sandy saliva.

Zhu Yingtai now understands why Hua Mulan's voice is so thick. She was not as good as herself when she was a soldier. Her voice must have been damaged by the long-term wind and sand, so she had to get it back after returning. Order a decoction that clears the throat and nourishes the lungs.

Seeing that her skin was at least a lot darker than before, Zhu Yingtai suddenly smiled softly.

Nice to follow her path a few more steps.

Regardless of washing off her tired body with hot water, Zhu Yingtai took out the kraft paper specially used for military scouts from the interlayer of her clothes, polished it and wrote down her journey in small letters, so that the hidden personnel here can be sent back in time, so that Make a reference for Mulan.

While Zhu Yingtai was writing furiously, there was the sound of tables and chairs breaking downstairs.

After tidying up everything quickly, Zhu Yingtai pushed the door out and saw Yi Xu who hurried up to the second floor.

"what happened?"

Yi Xu was sweating profusely, obviously frightened: "Young master, it's bad, someone has taken a fancy to our product."

"Take me to see."

"Young master, you can't go, Qi Wu has already fought with them..."

Before she finished speaking, Zhu Yingtai had already gone downstairs.

"The bastard raised by the little maid has the ability to come to Naigong!"

"Young master, get out of here!"

As soon as Yi Xu chased him down the stairs, he saw Zhu Yingtai expressionlessly pulling the dagger out of the abdomen of a man wielding it.Blood spattered, dyeing Zhu Yingtai's entire right sleeve red.

Pushing away the murderous gangsters wielding knives, Zhu Yingtai walked towards the center of the hall which was already under the control of Qi Wu, and calmly watched the rest of the gangsters being killed by the sticks one by one by Hua Mulan's personal guards.

"Qi Wu, what's going on?"

Qi Wu has a simple and straightforward personality, and he is a good player in the front line, but it is a big problem for him to repeat things.

Scratching his ears and cheeks, but unable to say one, two, three, four, Qi Wu became anxious, and directly carried Yi Xu who was still in a sluggish state.

"Young master, I'm stupid, I can't say anything, you can ask Lao Yi."

Zhu Yingtai's question made Yi Xu recover from the shock.He was sent out as a guide after only three months in Hua Mulan's tent, but his thinking has not yet changed from the original caravan guide.

He has always paid attention to making money with kindness, and he didn't realize how tough he had found a backer until he saw Zhu Yingtai killing people without changing his face.

Even the weakest-looking joined army is so fierce, you can imagine how brave Qi Wu is.Don't even think about it, seeing the red and white on the ground, Yi Xu can already restore the scene when Qi Wu swung the fine iron whistle stick in his hand and smashed heads one by one.

Thinking of the complicated situation in Zheluo City, Yi Xu opened his mouth to persuade him, but the words came out: "It's just a bunch of little thieves who have taken a fancy to our black goods."

Heihuo is caravan slang, which means iron.After all, the nomadic tribes did not have complete iron smelting technology, and all iron had to be smuggled from the Central Plains.Even in some remote tribes, half an iron pot is a dowry worth passing down from generation to generation.

Because of carrying iron, Zhu Yingtai used the opportunity of selling iron to go deep into some remote tribes along the way, earning a lot of money.Those tribes who honored her may never have imagined that the caravan that brought them pig iron took the opportunity to describe their mountain terrain.

Naturally, there were many troubles along the way.However, under Zhu Yingtai's secret command, Qi Wu led the guards to solve it, and kept Yi Xu, a newcomer, in the dark.

But looking at Yi Xu's flustered performance just now and now calming down, Zhu Yingtai can already be sure that this person has completely joined his own chariot, so the future commercial road transportation can be regarded as a successor.

Greeting Xiao Er to bring hot water to wash everyone's hands and faces, Zhu Yingtai even felt a little better.

Standing up and pouring a cup of tea for Yi Xu, Zhu Yingtai asked, "Yi Xu, do you know who is troubling us?"

Yi Xu was flattered, took the tea respectfully, and after thinking for a while, said: "I don't know this villain, but just looking at his clothes, he should be a swordsman of the Qiang people, but it is not ruled out that someone framed him."

Zhu Yingtai picked up the teapot and served herself a cup of tea: "Really? Tell me your opinion."

This is Wendao Yixu's old profession.

In the lobby of the inn with the door closed, Yi Xu was the only one talking eloquently: "Young Master, you should know that this Zheluo City is located between Rouran and my Dayan, it is a buffer place, and it is rich because of the salt pond."

"I know."

"With caravan dancers and good wine, there will naturally be desperadoes from all directions. Among these desperadoes are bandits who have washed their hands, generals who have lost their country and city, and young people who have seized wealth."

"It sounds like a lot of power."

This time it was Yi Xu's turn to smile: "Young master's words are wrong. No matter how these people change, they are just some small shrimps. They live on a little bit of residue exposed from the mouths of the three major forces, and they have to pay for their dirty work. , If you are not careful, not only will you not get paid, but no one will even collect the corpse."

Thinking of Qi Wu's cursing words just now, saying that corpses should be collected in wars, and corpses should be collected as caravan guards, Zhu Yingtai laughed out loud.

"go on."

"These three major forces are the caravan alliance of our Great Yan Dynasty, the cavalry of Rouran King Khan, and the city lord's guard of Zheluo City."

"Just the city wall that can be jumped over in a single jump, what kind of guards do you need?" Qi Wu sat beside Yi Xu carelessly, and the strong smell of blood made Yi Xu's stomach churn.

"Qi Wu, go take a shower." Zhu Yingtai frowned, and unceremoniously issued the expulsion order.

Qi Wu: When you joined the army when the general smelled so bad, you still went forward to help disarm me, but now you despise me?I am wronged, but I can't say it.

"Young master, at least let Lao Yi answer this question for me, otherwise I won't feel at ease."

Zhu Yingtai knocked on the table, implying acquiescence.

"Old Qi, you don't know that the city walls of Zheluo City were designed like this on purpose. Be safe and listen to me. This Zheluo City is beyond the reach of Rouran and my big swallow, but smuggling and trade are common. Nearly half of the salt in the land comes from the salt pond here, if you build a higher wall and gather more soldiers. If you are Lao Qi yourself, maybe you can rest assured?"

"Naigong is not worried about these grandsons, he will definitely..."

Zhu Yingtai cut off the conversation: "Understood? Hurry up and wash up, there are things waiting for you later."

After getting the answer, Qi Wu happily went to take a bath, but Zhu Yingtai fell into a question: "Which force hired these Qiang swordsmen to trouble me? It's just two hundred catties of refined iron. That’s all, it’s fine to send people to intimidate and threaten to sell at a low price, and it’s not in line with the underlying rules here to get started directly.”

Even if she broke her head, she would never have imagined that the city is really short of hundreds of catties of fine iron, and Qi Wu, who was born in the army, directly took the threat of Qiang swordsmen as a provocation and moved the knife.

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One more chapter tonight