Mighty and Majestic Concubine Wan Gui

He Duwei was very upset, he hated ghosts haunting the world the most, and wanted to arrest them when he saw them.

Yu Qian was not in a hurry: "Ma'am, what do you think of the cloth here?"

Mrs. Dong was very embarrassed and felt that she was not used to it. She had never gone shopping with her husband, and she would never wear ready-made clothes made by outsiders. She whispered: "Just take a look, let's go."

The three of them left here again, wandered around to find a bookstore, and went in to buy a map.

The maps sold to the public are not very clear, and the division of the prefectures, capitals and counties is also vaguely straight lines, but the general orientation is not wrong.

Yu Qian said heartily: Frontier towns usually don’t sell maps, that would give foreigners a chance to take advantage of them, but well, Zhuangguo sounds so powerful, there is a desert outside the city, there are no other countries, it’s quite safe.

He Mingjue said: "This small city is really peaceful, Ting Yi, look at the city wall, it is easy to attack and difficult to defend, and look at the alleys, it is not suitable for street fighting at all!"

Yu Qian took a closer look at the deep and narrow alleys, only allowing two people to walk side by side, with blue brick walls and blue stone slabs on the floor, obviously the left and right families are quite rich, and shook his head: "Brother He's words are wrong, If this alley is used for street fighting, it will only kill few enemies, but it is easy to defend. You see, if many small pits are dug in the ground in the alley, and a small wall is built with earth and bricks within three feet (short wall), leave a hole in the middle, and use a spear to poke people, haha."

"It makes sense."

Yu Qian said again: "The roof is flat and strong, if manpower is placed on it"

He Mingjue interrupted him: "Don't forget the civil ban."

Yu Qian smiled slightly: "Tie animal tendons or belts to the branches, and the roof tiles are enough to hurt tendons and bones. You can also splash the enemy with burning feces and urine. Don't laugh, this is indeed the way to defend the city. "

He Mingjue couldn't stop laughing: "I know, soaking swords and arrows in it can be used as a poison quencher."

Mrs. Dong wiped her cold sweat secretly. The words my husband said are disgusting and terrifying...My husband really knows a lot.

The conversation between the two started, and they almost played a deduction here. They randomly found a roadside shop as an example, and planned that the two sides should have equal numbers of people, with one attacking and the other defending.

Although He Mingjue is a captain, he has no airs, and he doesn't mind if he is not hugged.

Yu Qian doesn't mind even more. He often rides an old horse and takes a servant across the streets and alleys to go to court. It is also common to buy some food on the street-it is more troublesome to pay after buying food after defending the capital. , Stores usually refuse to accept.

Passing by a tavern, I saw many wine jars placed in front of and behind the counter, and two large vats were filled with fine wine, overflowing with fragrance.

The two said in unison: "It's not easy to attack."

"It's not easy to keep."

Mrs. Dong couldn't help asking: "Where did you say that?"

He Mingjue looked at the tavern and said: "Sisters and sisters, look at so many wine jars, the two jars are rice wine and rice wine, and the sealed ones are spirits, if someone outside shoots the wine jars with rockets (the arrow is wrapped around a cloth and ignites), what will happen?" Can it be resisted? In an instant, the shop was wiped out."

"I see." She asked her husband again: "Husband, why is it difficult to attack?"

Yu Qian said: "Brother He is right, but you see, if the front and back doors are blocked, it is not easy to capture alive. Taverns are most afraid of stealing. You see, the door panels are thicker than other people's houses. Another point, this wood The houses are connected from house to house, and once it burns, the whole street may not be spared. Back then..."

He gave a chestnut, no, he gave an example, the example of hundreds of households being burned down in the capital.

"It's a mouse-thrower."

"Yes."

After feeling a lot of emotion, he floated back to the bookstore, where the scrolls of books were lined up in rows, but there was no one guarding the store.Wooden signs are hung on the bookshelves [five texts in one volume] [fifteen texts in two volumes] [fifteen texts in one volume] [twenty texts in one volume]

[Put money in the cash box by yourself, people are doing things and the sky is watching, sometimes the shopkeeper is watching you even when he is not sleeping]

[The owner is a nightmare, talk to the book thief at night].

There was a big wooden box on the counter, and there was not a penny in it.There is also a wooden sign on the wall behind the counter: [Sell Tianshu Yujian, 100 taels of gold, if you want to buy it, come and knock on the sign, if you ask, you will be killed immediately]

He Mingjue sighed: "Humans and monsters live together, live together."

They flipped through it here, and found that the feel of the paper was slightly different from that of the Ming Dynasty, but the degree of whiteness and fineness was similar. However, it didn't seem to be rice paper, it was a little harder than rice paper, and harder paper was more durable.

There is no need to open the scrolls one by one to see, there is a thin rope hanging on the axis, and there are labels hanging on the rope, just flip these labels, and soon turn to a scroll 'Zhuangguo Global Map', pull it out and open it, sure enough It is the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains in Zhuangguo. The mountains, rivers and lakes are all on the map. The roads and cities can't be more clear. This scroll is very long. The first thing that catches the eye is a reduced map of the whole area, which is only divided into provinces. Big picture of every state.

He Mingjue began to take out money, took out some scattered silver from his purse, and said hesitantly: "I don't know what kind of money Zhuangguo's money is." It's troublesome.

Yu Qian took out a golden peanut, intending to borrow his knife to cut a small piece, or go to a big city to find a bank to exchange for silver. The wheat ears, peanuts and chestnuts made of gold are all offered by the emperor, and they are no longer available now. Started: "Let's ask the shopkeeper."

The nightmare tapir who was sleeping was awakened mercilessly, He Mingjue fiercely grabbed the little black and white animal and asked: "Can gold and silver be used as money here!"

The nightmare was so frightened that his feet were shaking, he twitched and said, "Yes, yes, what are you going to do!"

He Mingjue said firmly, "Buy books! Shopkeeper, don't be afraid!"

"Hey, you let me go"

Yu Qian reached out and took this cute little dog, which was similar in shape to a sleeved dog, and placed it on the counter, holding golden peanuts and broken silver coins: "How much money can one tael of silver exchange for?"

The nightmare's peasy eyes rolled around: "No, I don't know, two hundred words..."

Yu Qian was startled, and gave him another piece from the broken silver, took the scroll and walked out with some doubts.

Mrs. Dong looked thoughtful beside her, as if she had thought of something.

He Mingjue really couldn't figure it out: "What are the Xian couple thinking?"

"The ratio of this silver to money is not right."

"What the lady said is exactly what I thought in my heart. The county magistrate's salary is 40 taels of silver per year, and one tael of silver can be exchanged for more than one thousand copper coins."

Mrs. Dong added: "Pork costs 20 renminbi a catty, the same price as a bucket of rice, and [-] taels of silver per mu of fertile land."

"A soldier's daily diet is two cents or even one cent of silver." Yu Qian briefly concluded: "Either Zhuangguo is rich in silver, or it is short of copper, or it is a land of fish and rice, rich and rich."

"Oh." He Mingjue asked calmly, "Ting Yi, what are you doing researching?"

Yu Qian took it for granted: "Know this country."

Mrs. Dong said in her heart: I want to live.Although I don't know why, my husband seems to want to take me to live here, that's good.

The three of them rode the clouds all the way south, passed several big cities, and bypassed several mountains. Along the way, they saw ordinary people living in the plains, and gods and demon kings living in the mountains. This place is really chaotic and harmonious. .

He Mingjue wanted to blow up several times, but when he saw a ghost king Chuichuidada marrying a mortal woman, he almost wanted to blow up: "It's unreasonable! He even forcibly robbed the women of the people!"

Yu Qian hurriedly said: "Be safe and don't be impatient. You can see that the red luan stars are moving on their bodies, and the relatives of the married woman are happy. Maybe this is a good thing for them."

Mrs. Dong murmured in her heart: [Husband, this place is so dangerous. ]

Walking forward again, seeing the scholar and the rabbit having a sweet and greasy sex, He Mingjue wanted to explode: "Shameless! How dare you do such a thing behind the scenes!"

Mrs. Dong covered her eyes and tugged at her husband, shyly drifting away: [Husband, don't look at it...]

When he arrived in the next city, he saw a minotaur buying pig heads in jerky, and He Mingjue was about to fry them again. He had just fried half of them, and he suddenly felt that it was nothing.

In addition, there were many other things, and the whole process depended on Yu Qian's persuasion, so he could barely control his emotions, gritted his teeth and said, "I must buy a copy of "The Law of the Great Village" and read it." Mrs. Dong said with sincere admiration: "My brother and sister's city is very deep, and they are not moved when they talk about these things."

Madam Dong covered her face with a small fan, and said with a smile, "I'm ashamed, I'm also scared." It's just that girls can't be surprised.

He Mingjue laughed hehehe: "If I had known that this trip was so far away, I should have brought my wife along and let her be your company."

Yu Qian: Tired.Calm down, Captain He Du, I know you hate evil, so you don't have to shout and kill monsters and ghosts when you see them. In Zhuangguo, they all have household registration documents, and those who open shops also have permission.Ma'am, pretend not to be afraid, and yell for help in your heart...

The surrounding environment has become prosperous and rich. It is obviously close to the capital of the Zhuang Kingdom. The city wall is low and exquisite, with large and large paintings on the wall. The entire outer wall of the city wall is colorful. In addition to the painted characters and stories, There are also landscape flowers, cats, dogs and butterflies. Obviously, there has been no war for a long time, and it has been peaceful for a long time.

Only peace can make culture and art develop rapidly, and only long-term stability can keep the city walls from being worn out.

From a distance, I saw a big mountain standing on the other side of the city, soaring into the clouds, surrounded by clouds and mist, and there was some faint golden light. This is not the golden light from the sun, but the five-colored clouds that are transformed by the influence of immortals living in the surrounding aura. Ni.There are some pavilions and pavilions on the mountain, green pines and cypresses, and colorful flowers. It is not clear at the foot of the mountain. It seems to be the palace. change.

Next to the palace is a school similar to Guozijian, and many people wear the same clothes and walk in it.Cranes, phoenixes and phoenixes fly back and forth, bluebirds and orioles sing cheerfully, and colorful big parrots quack and laugh on the trees.

Looking carefully at the past, the city is planned to be square and square, which is somewhat similar to the Fangshi in the Tang Dynasty. There are countless houses in a big square. The distance between the inner and outer walls is not much. There are avenues extending in all directions in the city. The avenue is very wide and magnificent, full of green trees and red flowers.

Yu Qian vaguely saw that there are thousands of auspicious auras above the city, which are quite different from the thousands of resentments above the palace of the Ming Dynasty. This place makes people feel comfortable, quiet and peaceful when they look at it .He couldn't help but sighed: "It's really a kingdom of heaven." The gods can know 500 years before and 500 years later, and the country they govern is just different, which is beyond the reach of mortals.

He Mingjue looked at it carefully for a long time, pointed to one place and said: "The second one in the eighth column from the left is a brothel. Oh, don't laugh at me, I have been catching two little bastards from green screens and green lamps recently. I am very special to brothels now." care."

Madam Dong turned her head to look at the cranes and wild geese flying in the sky, pretending she didn't hear anything.

Yu Qian looked over carefully, and his expression changed slightly. He saw a few naked women being profaned by a group of men in public, with torture instruments and leather whips beside them. Kind of thing?Could it be that this place is only glamorous on the surface, but filth is hidden in the dark?I just finished talking here: "Brother He, are you going to find out?"

He Mingjue squinted his eyes and looked at it for a long time: "No, it seems that there is an acquaintance. If he is asked to report to King Qin Guang and my family, it will be a catastrophe."

"Brother He, King Qin Guang strictly forbids his subordinates to have affairs?" Yu Qian said that I was self-disciplined, and you seemed to be forced.

He Mingjue scratched his head in embarrassment: "My wife is the third daughter of King Qin Guang... others can go, but I can't." Father-in-law and old man stared at me with a dark face!

"Hehehe, Brother He has a prosperous official career."

Pedestrians on the road are bustling, and occasionally you can see sword-wielding and cloud-riding practitioners coming and going here, but when they come to the gate of the city, they all fall down and enter the city on foot.

So they do as the Romans do, and they also landed on the ground, intending to enter this famous city.

The same goes for the fat monks and skinny arhats who flew over with the Buddha's light. They fell on the ground and walked in unsteadily.

There are six gates in total, three for exit and three for entry.Immortal Arhats and practitioners go through one door, monsters and ghosts go through one door, and mortals go through another door.Before entering the door, I saw several couples letting go before entering the door, each running to their own door to enter.

It is very simple for other people to enter the door, there is almost no need to check, just line up and walk in.There are tables next to the three entrances to the city. The city guard wears a bamboo hat to block the sun, and sits next to him, drinking tea and eating melon seeds, watching the people coming and going. He looks very leisurely and content. One can tell that this official position is very easy. .

The three hesitated for a moment, and asked each other: "Husband, are you a god now?"

"I, I'm probably a ghost, but I'm still a ghost in the final analysis. Although I'm a god of incense...it doesn't seem to be qualified now. Aunt Wen said that the real god of incense will receive a talisman from heaven." Yu Qian asked: "Brother He, are you Is it a fairy?"

He Mingjue thought about it carefully, then shook his head regretfully: "It doesn't count. I'm actually a ghost too."

So the three of them walked towards the 'ghost' gate, awkwardly queuing up among a group of monsters.I heard someone in the front say: "Hey, why are you crying? Although I am a tiger, I have already inedia, and I don't eat live animals."

There was a little deer who kept crying: "Brother, can you stand in front of me, my legs are weak..."

"Don't make trouble, my whole family went to the city to travel and send me to school. The next 23 are my ancestors, are you afraid? Hohohoho~"

Behind this strong man, a group of muscular men and women burst out laughing.Pretty scary.

The team moved very fast, and basically passed by after meeting the city guard.

The little deer and the family of tigers in front walked in without hindrance, and soon they were Yu Qian and the others.

The city guard suddenly said: "Stop, I'm talking about you three foreign ghosts, come here."

Yu Qian finally confirmed that this strange but understandable accent was not the regional accent of the border town, but the tone of this country.

"Good eyesight, you can see my roots." He Mingjue walked over sharply, and revealed his identity: "The instructor of the underworld, the former captain of King Qin Guang, and three thousand soldiers and horses."

The city guard stood up abruptly, raised his bamboo hat, and revealed a woman's face: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. It turns out to be Captain He Du, who has admired his name for a long time."

You are the Captain He Du who, because of mania and obsessive-compulsive disorder, ran amok everywhere and forced Hades to give you a holiday!She took the waist card and printed it on a piece of white paper. For some reason, the pattern of the waist card appeared on the white paper immediately, with all the patterns and fonts.He looked at the other two people again: "Unfinished Incense Fire God, Xingui, you are from abroad, please fill out this form."

Mrs. Dong couldn't help asking: "Sister, how do you know that we are from...a foreign country?"

The city guard smiled indifferently: "Those who can become city guards are not in vain." Our exams are super difficult!It has to go through layers of screening and hard work, not only has outstanding observation skills, but also needs to be very good at fighting!Hmph~ "I'll give you a pen, you can fill it out now. After entering the city, find a place to exchange money, or find a teahouse to fill it out slowly. After filling it out, send it to Jing Zhaoyin by yourself."

The book implies that this paper looks like ordinary paper, but it is not. The person holding this paper will be collected a trace of real qi, which is equivalent to obtaining a temporary residence permit to confirm the identity.

He Mingjue talked to her: "I heard that a woman from Zhuangguo can be an official, but I didn't expect to see her so soon. You are so beautiful."

The city guard said: "Listen to Lieutenant He Du's tone, is it strange that I am so beautiful? I heard that there are also women working in the underworld."

"That's right." He Mingjue: "But there is no distinction between male and female ghosts in our place, and they all have an extremely scary and ugly face."

"What kind of ugly face?"

He Mingjue raised his hand and turned into a cloud of black air, which turned into a face. This face was like... like a hot roasted sweet potato that was a bit mushy. He was holding it in his hand and was about to eat it, but it didn't work. Carefully fell on the ground and fell to pieces. A man wearing spikes stepped on a sweet potato while running. Suddenly, a child riding a dog came over. The child was young and was just being forced to eat a bunch of vegetables and was feeling sick. , I saw this scorched and golden rotten sweet potato and observed it carefully for a while, thinking whether it was dog poop or sweet potato, I felt like vomiting when I looked at it, and spit out a bunch of green crumbs on it.

It was so black and yellow mottled, potholed, and somewhat moldy green, basically not recognizable as a human face.

"Oh, it's disgusting!" The city guard exclaimed, and quickly covered his eyes: "No wonder you are irritable. Everyone is irritable when facing such things every day."

He Mingjue put away his phantasmagoric grimace, and veins popped up on his forehead: Who's being irritable!You fucking say it again!

There was a murmur of discussion among the crowd: "That man is Captain He Du?"

"Lieutenant He who was forced to go on vacation?"

"I heard that he was so stupid that King Qin Guang couldn't stand it."

I heard that he was forced to take a 200-year vacation! "

"Oh, is this the expulsion?"

"My god, she looks really fierce."

Yu Qian expressed shock at the speed at which rumors spread.

He Mingjue stared at him fiercely. Wherever his eyes looked, everyone pretended not to speak, looked up at the sky, looked down at the ground, and just didn't look at him.

The city guard put on the bamboo hat again: "Please come in, welcome to Zhuangguo, the Taixue founded by Princess Xuanzhen is recruiting students, you can try it."

After entering the city gate, there is a wide avenue in front of you, and at the end ten thousand meters away is the gate of the imperial palace.

They went to a bank first, and Yu Qian took out one tael of gold, exchanged one tael of gold for 100 taels of silver, and exchanged five taels of silver for Tongtong coins.

The usual copper coin is one thousand Wen, and it is heavy to carry in the hand, and the 100 taels of silver is even more heavy.

It can be seen from this that the silver here is indeed worthless. In the Ming Dynasty, one tael of gold could be exchanged for 40 taels of silver, but the gold here is very valuable.

Thoughts were flying in Yu Qian's mind, as if he had thought of something, an idea flashed by, but he didn't grasp it.

Next to the money shop is a pawnshop, and there are banners hanging on the pawnshop [collect old books and ancient books at high prices, natural treasures, strange metals, wild beast cubs] [collect bones on behalf of the ghost king]

Next to the pawnshop was a five-story restaurant called Xinghuacun. The three of them chose without hesitation... the small restaurant opposite.

Captain He Du: Wife does not give pocket money...

Yu Qian and his wife: Live frugally.

The little guy was very enthusiastic: "Please come inside, there is a private room, do you want to eat in the private room or in the lobby? The private room is five yuan more expensive than the outside."

"Private Room." He Mingjue did his part: "Sliced ​​meat, yellow vegetables, and fried orchid beans. Ting Yi, younger siblings, you can order."

Yu Qian thought for a while: "Stir-fry a piece of green vegetables without meat. If there is stewed meat and eggs, cut it into a plate." As a Hangzhou native, you must eat green vegetables!

Madam Dong covered her face with a fan: "Your signature dish is seafood soup?"

"Yes, madam, good eyesight. There are two kinds of seafood soup, meat and vegetables. The meat soup is stewed with scallops, scallops, prawns and fish, and the vegetarian soup is seaweed and seaweed stewed with kelp."

He Mingjue: "Hehehehe, it's really seafood."

Mrs. Dong wants to order vegetarian seafood. She likes seaweed soup very much, but she just thought that Captain He has accompanied us so far. He loves meat like that. Don’t be too stingy.If it's just us husband and wife, we can eat whatever we want: "I want meat."

"You bring pen and ink here, I want to write something."

While waiting for the food, I started to fill in the form. At the beginning, the questions were normal, such as name, place of origin, ancestral home, species, whether I was married, what I did for a living, and why I came here. Then I asked later: Are you here to seek revenge and kill?Do you understand the principle of doing as the Romans do?Memorize the simple law behind the paper?

Yu Qian turned over the form with great interest, and began to look at the simple laws and regulations. When he saw it, he was shocked.