old grace

"This is the royal capital?" Fu Chuan couldn't believe it.

Different from the imaginary majesty and magnificence of the majestic city walls and high palaces, the place Xie Qinghe pointed out as the capital of the king is next to the remaining veins of the Spring Mountain. In the distance, you can see the Taimiao where the Qin court worshiped the ancestors, and a circle of old buildings in the center It is the so-called imperial city, surrounded by dilapidated brick and earthen houses... It has only rained heavily all night, and the ground is muddy, making all the buildings look dank and embarrassing.

There are no neat and high city walls and towers, no smooth stone paving roads, and the facade of the capital, the Nancheng Tower, has large and small potholes at the entrance, and the stagnant water can reflect the shadows of people passing by. Level some gravel!

The sparse teams entering the city were all disgraced by the big and small pits, but they were all used to it. Every team that drove out was equipped with one or two male servants who followed the car with muddy feet. If you can't get around the puddles, just help push the cart...

"Is this specially leading the servants to push the cart?" Fu Chuan took Xie Qinghe's hand, dumbfounded at the situation in front of him.

"Is this... selling stones?" Fu Chuan became more confused as he watched.

There are large and small pits at the gate of the city. After the wheels sink, if the vehicle is heavy, it is basically difficult to push it out.At the gate of the city, there are some civilians who stand by the stones on the rooster cart and sell them. The stones are used to cushion the sunken potholes.

Almost all sales teams will line up to buy stones, even if there is plenty of manpower and the vehicles are equipped with padding tools, it is still worth paying for them.

After reading it for a while, Fu Chuan understood: "Is this a transaction by the city gate officials?"

The caravan horse-drawn carriages that bought the caravan stones entered the city very smoothly. The city gate officials who were in charge of inspecting the goods were very kind and let them go through after talking and laughing.

If you don't know the rules and refuse to sell the trucks that are padded with stones, there is a high probability that the city gate officials will search them with a sullen face. Seven or eight strong men will pull the ropes that bind the goods, and the neatly stacked goods will be thrown into pieces. Luo... At this time, if the owner of the cargo is sensible, he will immediately apologize and can go in without hesitation. If the owner of the cargo loses his temper and prepares to fight, there will be many small things on the car that should not be smuggled.

At this time, there was a fledgling peddler from other places who was completely ignorant. Two iron daggers were found on the truck. Arguing with the city gate official with a red face, or in a hurry, he stretched out his hand to push the city gate official, but was twisted to the ground in an instant, and dozens of nearby city gate officials rushed over, facing the merchants. Punch and kick.

Fortunately, not all the city gate officials were murderous villains. Some older city gate officials stepped forward to fight, and in the end they saved the merchant's life.

There was such a commotion at the gate of the city, the peddler was beaten with bruises and swollen face, and he vomited blood from the mouth. The city gate official who searched his truck first still refused to give up. The older city gate official came forward to make peace, and the peddler handed over all his money When they came out, most of the goods were unloaded, and an old horse pulled a small half of the goods, staggered across the checkpoint, and disappeared at the south gate.

Fu Chuan's eyes turned red: "Is the emperor blind? The emperor doesn't care if the gatekeepers abuse the people like this?"

Xie Qinghe patted his head to comfort him.

The identity check at the city gate of the royal capital does not look at any evidence. The world has been in chaos for so many years, and the Qin court has long lost control of the states. The registration system established at the beginning of the dynasty has become useless.City gate officials do whatever they want to check your identity, listen to your accent, ask about your background, and if you think you are a spy, you will be arrested and questioned carefully.If the money is given, you can still drink hot soup while waiting to pass the customs.

Even so, Xie Qinghe and Fu Chuan couldn't enter the city smoothly.

The two of them are too young, it is difficult for wild people to survive outside the city now, and it is difficult for them to explain their origins when they walk into the city.Even if you want to spend money on bribes, if you have spare money to bribe the city gate officials without servants around you, you will be even more unable to explain your origin.

"This broken city wall..." Fu Chuan looked down on him extremely, "Eldest senior brother, let's take a detour and turn in."

The guards of the Qin court were relatively lazy. Most of the soldiers guarding the city dozed off under the parapet. The guards who were far away from the tower would even gather together to gamble. Not the "enemy spies" outside, but the governor inside the city.

The city walls of the royal capital were built along the terrain, sometimes high and sometimes low.Fu Chuan and Xie Qinghe found a section along the base of the wall. Not surprisingly, the guards were more heavily guarded where the wall was low and easy to climb, and where the wall was slightly higher and dangerous, the guards would desert.

Fu Chuan wanted to rape Xie Qinghe behind his back, but Xie Qinghe shook his head and refused.Unless it is absolutely necessary, the dignity of the eldest brother cannot be easily abandoned.

"Then I'll go first." Fu Chuan applied to explore the way.

Xie Qinghe nodded.

Fu Chuan stuck his hands on the city wall. After the heavy rain, the city wall was wet and slippery. He looked at his hands covered in mud and grinned at Xie Qinghe: "It's so dirty. Senior brother, I'll carry you. Your hands are dirty. "

Xie Qinghe actually hesitated for a moment.

Fu Chuan pawed his hands on the wall twice desperately, and he grabbed off the moss and dirt that had accumulated on the city wall for many years: "It's very dirty."

Xie Qinghe felt a little uncomfortable and took out a small handkerchief to wipe his hands, then climbed up on the junior brother's back with a cheeky face, and said in a low voice, "Thank you for your hard work, junior brother."

"It's not hard, it's not hard, I'm not..." Fu Chuan jumped two feet away with Xie Qinghe on his back, and he was already hanging on the slippery support. However, his little hand wiped by Xie Qinghe was white , never got a little bit of dirt on it again, "it is cushioned by the real yuan screen."

Xie Qinghe listened to his low-pitched complacency, with both arms hanging on his slender shoulders, a little helpless and especially funny.

Junior brother can cultivate, and junior brother has cultivation, that's why it's so amazing.Eldest brother had to hold back even if he was not convinced.

What's more, the elder brother is not unconvinced.

Xie Qinghe listened to the even and gentle breathing of the younger brother, enjoying the blessing of being led away by the younger brother.

Fu Chuan Quietly □ was purely bullying the defenders, there was no suspense in the process.He judged the distribution and positions of the soldiers on the city wall through his six senses, found the blind spot of the opponent's vision, and then turned over at the fastest speed, and soon hid near the uninhabited soldier cave.

The place is still not safe enough.The walls of any city are restricted areas, and ordinary people cannot approach them at will.

Fu Chuan carefully slipped out along the wall with Xie Qinghe on his back, walking, he and Xie Qinghe frowned at the same time.

Not far away is a dead corner, if you don't think about it with the Cangbing Cave, the soldiers guarding the city probably won't walk there.Fu Chuan judged that that place might be a forbidden area, and with his skills, it was unlikely to be caught, so he could just take the opportunity to take a dangerous detour to the city.Unexpectedly, when I got closer, I found that the situation there was not very good.

Fu Chuan turned around and asked Xie Qinghe: Do you care?

Xie Qinghe nodded immediately without hesitation: tube.

Fu Chuan changed direction and ran quickly towards the direction where he heard the movement.

More than a dozen carriages had already parked in that corner, and there was no road ahead for them to pass. The person in charge seemed to be reporting the situation to the owner. Soon a middle-aged man got off the carriage and asked, "The person in charge here..."

Before the words were finished, the city gate officials scattered all over the place had already shrunk to a distance, and a rain of arrows shot rapidly, and the middle-aged male servants and guards who followed the convoy were all killed by arrows.Fu Chuan and Xie Qinghe arrived, and the rain of arrows had already been shot.

After the main combat force of the convoy was dealt with, the city gate officials hiding around rushed out like hungry wolves, dragged the women and children out of the carriage and stabbed them to death one by one.

This is carnage.

More than a dozen carriages were blocked together. After the arrow rain shocked the horses, the carriages collided with each other, and none of them got out of trouble.

Under such a chaotic scene, Fu Chuan and Xie Qinghe couldn't be comprehensive.The two of them aimed at the carriages they could reach, and rescued the women and children under the sharp knife of the gatekeeper.

After Xie Qinghe rescued the two servants, a jewelry box rolled out of the carriage guarded by them, and gold beads scattered all over the place.

With this handful of golden beads, Xie Qinghe, with his uncultivated body, instantly knocked down the city gate officials who killed eight people nearby.After Fu Chuan dealt with the culprits in the other cars, he just pulled back and got rid of the city gate officials who were brought down by Xie Qinghe.

Almost in an instant, the chaotic situation became dead silent.

At this moment, a ferocious rain of arrows erupted from the heights again, shooting all at Xie Qinghe and Fu Chuan.

"Little Junior Brother!"

Xie Qinghe asked himself that his fingers were not strong enough, and sprinkled a box of gold beads on Fu Chuan.

However, Fu Chuan had already fired 21 sword qi from the Purple Mansion, stabbing at the soldiers guarding the city wall.

None of the soldiers holding bows and arrows on the city wall fell, and all of them were killed by the sword energy.

At the same time, Fu Chuan was smashed all over the face by the golden beads sprinkled by Xie Qinghe, he hurriedly picked up the beads, grinned and looked back at Xie Qinghe, feeling a little guilty.According to the tacit understanding between him and Xie Qinghe, it should be him who took the golden beads and hit the archer with a hidden weapon.

Isn't this... the previous tacit understanding was squandered by his latest favorite... He didn't receive the move from the big brother.

Xie Qinghe put down the two servants he had saved, and touched the face of his junior brother: "Does it hurt?"

Fu Chuan shook his head obediently.

"It's not suitable to stay here for a long time." Xie Qinghe neither wanted to understand the ins and outs of the matter, nor did he want to accept any gratitude.

The massacre was so urgent that he and Fu Chuan had no time to hide their faces in order to save people. In order to be able to walk smoothly in the king's capital in the future, they naturally ran as fast as they could.

Unexpectedly, the two of them just turned around, and a hidden weapon hit them from behind.

Fu Chuan conveniently pulled out the long knife of the dead gatekeeper on the ground, cut the "hidden weapon" in half with a ding, and flew out.

It was not a flying needle dagger, but a piece of pure white jade pendant, before it was cut in half, it could be said to be very valuable.According to Fu Chuan, the one who smashed this jade pendant was not the city gate official who had not yet died, but the young man in brocade clothes who had just been saved by Fu Chuan.

The boy had a bruise on his forehead, blood covered half of his face, he was holding a dead woman in his arms, staring at Fu Chuan with hatred: "You bitch! Why don't you save my mother, go save the bitch! "

Fu Chuan glanced at him and the woman in his arms and remembered.

He does not distinguish between high and low in saving people, he only seeks efficiency.For a moment, it is natural that there are many people nearby who can be rescued, so they will go there to save them.

The servants are of low status, and several people are crowded together, while the noble lady usually rides alone in a car, bringing a personal servant with her when she is exhausted.After all, a carriage is not as spacious as a home, and if there are too many people in a small space, it will be easy to feel stuffy and uncomfortable.

This leads to a problem.

The first ones Fu Chuan and Xie Qinghe rescued were servants with relatively low status, and the most honorable mistresses and young ladies had to take a step back.

Xie Qinghe used gold beads to save the eight chariots, and Fu Chuan rescued the seven chariots, but the dead woman was too far away, and the city gate officials seemed to know the identity of the lady in the chariot, so they pulled her out first Carriage to kill.Among the trade-offs, the servant woman with many people survived, and the noble lady died.

Fu Chuan didn't think there was anything wrong with him, so he frowned and said, "I also saved your life. If you are not satisfied, give it back to me."

At this time, a few older men and women went to persuade the young man in brocade clothes, and some people wanted to come up and talk to Xie Qinghe Fu Chuan.

Fu Chuan knew that the senior brother wanted to get away as soon as possible, and he didn't want to argue with the young man who had lost his loved one. Xie Qinghe took his hand, and he turned around to go with the senior senior brother.Who would have thought that the two of them had only taken two steps before the young man in brocade clothes rushed out from the crowd, picked up a heavy steel knife from the ground, and slashed wildly at the servant woman who had just narrowly escaped death and knelt on the ground!

The steel knife of the city gate official weighed at least ten catties, and the young man in brocade clothes had no strength to hold a chicken, so he was very reluctant to hold the knife.

However, this does not detract from his lethality when he is insane.

The servant woman kneeling on the ground knew that he was mad at killing people, but she didn't even dare to move. No matter how clumsily he slashed with a knife, horrific wounds appeared on his neck and forehead.The servant did not dare to shout, but the young man in brocade yelled angrily with red eyes: "Give it back to you! Give it back to you! My mother is dead, how can a bitch live! You are all going to die!"

Fu Chuan cursed a curse word, Xie Qinghe kicked it suddenly, and the saber left by the city gate official flew out sideways on the ground.

The young man in brocade clothes flew up into the air like a polo hit by a crossbar.

The relatives who had surrounded the young man watching him kill the servants were shocked, but now they were really anxious. Several female family members rushed to take care of the young man in brocade clothes who was beaten to the ground by the steel knife and sprayed blood. A man stepped forward to stop Xie Qinghe from "doing murder" again: "Little gentleman, calm down, little gentleman Haihan..."

Seeing Xie Qinghe turn around, Fu Chuan was the first to push away the men rushing forward, and Xie Qinghe went straight to the servant girl who was chopped down.

"Okay, don't surround yourself. Thinking of your son's sudden loss of a loved one, let him spare his life today. If you become a servant in the future, you will have your own harvest."

Fu Chuan really wanted to kill this madman with a single knife. It is normal for a dead mother to be sad and go crazy. What kind of aristocratic temperament is it to chop an innocent servant girl when she is angry?However, the senior brother picked out a sheathed saber among several sabers and kicked it out, because he didn't want to kill people, and Fu Chuan would not step forward to make up the knife.

Xie Qinghe checked the servant girl's wound. The young man in brocade clothes didn't know how to hold a knife and didn't have much strength. , this wound medicine will reveal his identity.

It is a well-known secret that Xiangzhou has trauma medicine that can stop bleeding and save lives. Even if the control is strict, some medicine will leak out.

Therefore, outside of Xiangzhou, it is not that there is no hemostatic cream.It's just that this medicine is too rare and precious, worth thousands of gold.

——Except for people from Xiangzhou, who would use hemostatic ointment worth thousands of gold on servants?

Xie Qinghe wrapped a cloth band around the maid's wound as a superfluous superfluous act, preventing outsiders from looking at her wound, and said: "Your young master hates this woman so much, if she continues to serve here, I'm afraid she will die. Call her follow me."

He spoke in a negotiating tone. However, he and Fu Chuan descended like divine soldiers and saved everyone present. Who could refuse his deal?

No matter whether it is due to emotion or strength, the family has no objection: "Just tell her to follow the gentleman."

This group of people really wanted to talk about their own experiences, and some of them wanted to hire these two ragged kids as guards.

Fu Chuan said impatiently: "When you see injustice, you just draw your sword to help! I don't have time to be your bodyguard. Don't pester me anymore. When you see that eccentric young man of yours, you want to hack him to death! Tell me to go with you all the way. Don't be afraid that I'll kill him and hang him on a tree in the middle of the night!"

This sentence frightened everyone.

Xie Qinghe had already ordered some pills for the injured servant woman to replenish her strength. After confirming that she could walk, she said: "This place is not suitable for staying for a long time. We will leave immediately, and you should also leave this place as soon as possible, lest you be found by the soldiers defending the city again. "

There was a middle-aged man who said with a sad face: "I was going out of the city, but I spent a lot of money to find the way, and said that I could take us away quietly... Who would have thought of being dragged into this dead end and blocked, almost slaughtered?" The whole family. Now people are in the city, and there are dead bodies everywhere... Alas, the disaster of destroying the family is inevitable after all."

Fu Chuan was surprised to hear: "Your family is in danger of being slaughtered by the city gate officials, but going to the government office to complain and sue is inevitable?"

The family looked at each other in dismay after hearing this, and asked after a while: "The two little gentlemen..."

Several cleverly looked up at the city wall.Just flipped in?

Fu Chuan immediately realized that he had said something wrong.

The middle-aged man raised his hands and bowed, and did not mention the sensitive topic of "are you two spies who just turned in?" He explained: "Now the king is allowed to enter but not to leave. Alas, it is said that there are no barriers at both ends, and there is no family wealth." The poor and small households go out as soon as they go out, and the rich and wealthy can find their way in the court, and they can also go out of the city in a big way, but we are the only ones like us who want to go out, it is against the law of heaven..."

Volts understands in seconds.

Last year when the Chen family attacked the capital, if the king of Yancheng hadn't come out to save his life, the world would have changed hands.

However, even if the King of Yancheng gave Qin Ting his life, Qin Ting's situation is not very good.Firstly, Chen Qi's Jedi counterattack hit Qin Ting severely, and secondly, just looking at the slack defense of the king's capital, it is known that the king of Yancheng has not always held military power.

The whole world knows that if Chen Qi's war goes smoothly and he is in a good mood when he loses a little, he will not massacre the city to vent his anger.However, if he fought hard and suffered heavy losses, he would probably allow Chen's soldiers to burn, kill and loot after he entered the city.The people living in the royal capital of the Qin court are panicked from top to bottom, and they don't have much hope for the unreliable royal family-everyone wants to escape to a relatively safe place.

This wind of fleeing made the Qin court royal family deeply angry. The emperor issued a decree that the people were not allowed to flee, and those who fled would be executed immediately.

Therefore, the actions of this family, according to the current emperor's will, really cannot escape the crime of destroying the family.

"It took a lot of money, and it was not easy to find this door. The master even sent two beautiful young girls to be concubines of the urban management of Naqi..." The middle-aged man said with tears in his eyes, "Who I used to think that people looked down on 'heavy money' and just wanted to catch them all."

It really doesn't make sense.

Surreptitiously wanting to spend money to buy a way to escape, who would have known that the city gate officials and the city guards teamed up to blackmail him.

The family's male servants and guards were basically all dead, and the male master who was supposed to be the master also got out of the car first and died under the rain of arrows.The few remaining men are obviously not as noble as the young man in brocade clothes, and they probably don't have the ability to lead the family.

Xie Qinghe thought for a while, and then pointed out a few words: "If you are willing to give up your family wealth and break it up into pieces, you should be able to escape."

The family looked at each other.Thinking of giving up more than a dozen cars of property, it is really difficult to make a choice.

Fu Chuan stood by Xie Qinghe's side and said: "Is there no kind-hearted person in such a big capital who can save lives? I heard that Donggong is benevolent, King Jing is just, and Princess Suchang loves money the most. You still have so much money, take it out." Half of them come to find a way out, and they will always survive."

"Let's go." Xie Qinghe was afraid that Fu Chuan was using too much force, took his hand, took the injured servant and left in a hurry.

The family still wanted to chase after him, but Fu Chuan turned around and threatened, "Aren't you leaving quickly? Get caught carefully!"

This blind spot has always been used by city gatekeepers and city guards to massacre small fleeing families. The surrounding area has been raided, and few people pass by here.Going out is a deserted kiln factory, which was converted into a place for burning gold juice during the war. There is a lot of excrement, and the stench is so bad that normal people don't want to come near it.

Xie Qinghe and Fu Chuan took the servant named Lin Gu not far away, and then they hid in the abandoned kiln factory.

Lin Gu watched in a daze as the two teenagers took off their outer robes, turned them out for a while, and tore them apart for a while. It was clearly a very ordinary piece of clothing, twisting and twisting it into a completely different outfit, and wearing it had a different temperament. .The older boy took out a few flat copper boxes from his bundle, and dipped the powder on his face with a brush, and even his eyebrows and eyes became different!

When the two of them took apart the bun and combed it again with a wooden comb, Lin Gu who was originally drowsy was immediately stimulated!

Just now, the two young men who were full of vigor and vigor have now turned into two little girls who are timid and full of sorrow?

Fu Chuan held the bronze mirror to see the disguise made by the elder brother.

With Fu Cao Niang's experience, he has no resistance to women's clothing.As for the senior brother's women's clothing...he also adapted well.To be precise, this is Chen Cong's women's clothing.Perhaps, after another ten years, the elder brother will use Chen Cong's skin to dress up as a woman, and he will be excited.

Xie Qinghe picked up the brush and said to Aunt Lin: "Auntie, for the sake of safety, you should also dress up a little bit."

He has no trust in the family he just saved.In order to survive, the family has a [-]% chance of betraying him and Fu Chuan.

Lin Gu who was taken away is the best clue, and the age combination of Xie Qinghe and Fu Chuan is also easy to identify.However, with the blessing of Xie Qinghe's Disguise Technique, the injured woman and her two brothers, one older and one younger, can become a sick woman and her two daughters, and they can disappear completely.

Xie Qinghe took Lin Gu away because he didn't want to expose the medicine used on her wound, but also because of the consideration of hiding his identity.

With his medical skills and disguise skills, Gu Lin's features are not a problem and can be easily hidden.However, the fact that he and Fu Chuan are both children is a flaw that cannot be concealed—there must be an adult by their side to rationalize all their actions and make them inconspicuous.

Lin Gu didn't have too many thoughts, her mind went blank, Xie Qinghe wanted to make up for her, so she obediently let her do it.

Xie Qinghe removed the cloth strips wrapped around Gu Lin's forehead and neck, and the hemostatic ointment had already sealed the wound.Xie Qinghe carefully combed the hair on the wound for Lin Gu, cleaned the blood from the hair, rewrapped a finer bandage, cut a piece of Fu Chuan's clothes, and made a cloth for Gu Lin to cover the wound on her forehead cap.

"Auntie, you are our mother now. You are suffering from dizziness, you bumped your forehead accidentally, and you are ill. I am your eldest daughter, what name do you want to call me?" Xie Qinghe didn't choose his own name, He was afraid that Gu Lin would show her flaws if she was not familiar with it and would not speak smoothly.

Lin Gu thought for a while and said, "Daughter."

Xie Qinghe: "..."

Fu Chuan stuffed the bronze mirror deep into the bag, showing an "innocent" smile: "Then, am I a little girl?"