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The places Sheng Jing and Ye Yanhuan saw along the way were different.It was the same as before, and it was no different from the Shengjing that Ye Yanhuan saw a few years ago.Shengjing's high city wall is like a barrier, separating the devastation outside the city, separating the suffering of the world outside the city, and preserving the prosperity and noise inside the city.

Ye Yanhuan's clothes were bright and bright, and the soldiers guarding the city looked at the saber on her body, and they didn't dare to offend her too much.Therefore, she was not yelled at like the few who entered the city before her, but two young and strong soldiers stopped her and said to her: "It costs a tael of gold to enter the city."

Ye Yanhuan was slightly taken aback.

There is no one who doesn't like young and beautiful girls, and now Ye Yanhuan is getting older and more beautiful.A girl with such a natural appearance looks at you in amazement, it is estimated that no one will be indifferent.

And neither can the soldiers guarding the city.He touched his nose, and explained to Ye Yanhuan: "The main reason is that the higher ups are afraid that the refugees will get in, so the tolls for entering and leaving the city have been increased." Glancing at Ye Yanhuan, he tentatively said: "Young lady like this Good looks, I don’t think I’m a refugee, if I don’t have money, I can spend a night outside the city. I only need three taels of silver to enter the city during the day, and it’s the easiest time for people to sneak in at night. It’s hard work for us to defend the city, the prefect said The extra money collected at night can let the brothers eat and drink."

One tael of gold is equal to ten taels of silver. In normal years, the price of goods in Da'an is not high, and three taels of silver is enough for a big family to eat for a month.If it is used as a fee to enter the city, it is enough to keep the poor people out of the door.

In order to maintain the hypocritical prosperity of Shengjing, the people have been oppressed to such an extent, Ye Yanhuan took a look at the heavily guarded army waiting inside the city gate, and sighed deeply.

A tael of gold is nothing to her, but she won't carry it with her.After thinking for a while, Ye Yanhuan took out a 50 taels of silver bill, handed it to the soldier guarding the city, and said, "Leaving home in a hurry, I really don't have enough money, can the silver bill be paid?"

Before the soldier could say anything, Ye Yanhuan said: "The rest of you are going to invite some elder brothers to drink." She put her hand on her sword, but her mouth was full of politeness.

During the stalemate, a man in green clothes came slowly. He was a little surprised when he saw Ye Yanhuan, but he was relieved soon after thinking about it.Giving a slight bow to a middle-aged man in front of him, the man in Tsing Yi explained softly: "Forgive me, my lord, Gu met a friend, so go to meet her first."

The middle-aged man was dressed in military uniform and looked very serious.He is directing Shengjing's army to strengthen its defenses and prevent refugees from sneaking into Shengjing.Hearing Gu Xichao's words, he swept towards the city gate with a pair of tiger eyes, and saw a girl who was holding two swords, but her figure was slim, he laughed and said: "Go, go, don't let your girl be embarrassed .”

Gu Xichao smiled, didn't explain anything, but smiled wryly in his heart - I'm afraid the prince didn't know that it wasn't his Gu Xichao's girl, but his son's girl.

The prince who guards Shengjing is none other than Prince Taiping, the nominal father of Gong Jiu.Gu Xichao is now in charge of the Criminal Department and the Six Gates, and his main job at this stage is to guard Shengjing, preventing those refugees from flowing into Shengjing and disturbing the Holy Majesty.This is not an easy job, and it is a test of conscience and cooperation with the army.Therefore, during the recent days, Gu Xichao had frequent contacts with King Taiping who was in charge of guarding Shengjing.

After getting in touch with him, Gu Xichao discovered that King Taiping... is actually a bit stubborn.It was really hard for him to understand, how did such an honest and loyal father give birth to such a wicked and cunning son as Gong Jiu?At first, Gu Xichao thought that King Taiping was pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, but after thinking about it for a long time, Gu Xichao realized, well, this person is really stupid.

It's not surprising, if he wasn't stupid, he wouldn't have found out that his son was a counterfeit for so long, let alone discovered the high-end mystery of "his son is not his son".It was bloody and tearful to say the least, Gong Jiu felt that he owed this cheap father a little, and tried to leave him with his own blood. As a result, after so many years, Gong Jiu's beauties were sent one after another, and the backyard of Prince Taiping's mansion was It's full - of course, there is also the reason why Gong Jiu deliberately made things difficult for his mother, but after so many years, King Taiping didn't even have a daughter.

The soldiers guarding the city were under King Taiping's command. They had strict military discipline, and they dared to accept things from the prefect who respected them, but they dared not accept bribes from ordinary passers-by.Therefore, for a while, the two soldiers guarding the city gate neither dared to accept Ye Yanhuan's money, nor dared to just let her into the city.

At this moment, Gu Xichao hurried over, handed a tael of gold to the two soldiers, and then said: "This is my friend, let someone come in quickly, it's not safe outside the city."

The adults and the soldiers still recognized him, not to mention that he paid the passing money, so without further ado, the two quickly put away their weapons and let Ye Yanhuan in.

Ye Yanhuan originally planned to fly directly up.

It wasn't that she had a sudden whim and acted independently, but just a moment ago, Ye Yanhuan had seen three or two martial arts people do this.Today's Da'an royal family has limited restrictions on martial arts people, and these soldiers dare not go head-to-head with those martial arts people who are unreasonable and have higher force values ​​than them. Therefore, before the emperor has no clear order for those martial arts people's reckless behavior, they These little soldiers all turned a blind eye and closed their eyes, absolutely avoiding their edge.

Now that he happened to see Gu Xichao, Ye Yanhuan didn't make any further incidents.Smiling at the two soldiers, Ye Yanhuan walked into the city gate.He conveniently stuffed the bank note in his hand to Gu Xichao, under Gu Xichao's confused eyes, Ye Yanhuan scratched his head and said with a smile: "Your salary is only a few dollars, how can I use your money."

Ye Yanhuan has recently studied Da'an's official salary with great concentration, so she knows that Gu Xichao's current salary happens to be one gold a month.Even if a high-ranking official like him is like this, it is not difficult to imagine how meager the salaries of officials at the next level will be.In the officialdom, people need money everywhere, whether it is management or entertainment, so it is not difficult to understand why officials in Daan are so corrupt. Even Li Xunhuan has been vigorously cracking down on corrupt officials over the years, but he can only catch the big and let go of the small. .

After all, if everyone was convicted and punished, the emperor of Da'an would be in a predicament where no one could use him.

Gu Xichao looked at the bank note that the little girl stuffed into his hand, and couldn't help but be a little bit dumbfounded.However, he also solemnly collected the banknotes, and did not explain to Xiao Yanhuan that in fact, he still had many channels for getting money, so he was not short of money.

Gu Xichao walked in with Ye Yanhuan, Taiping Wang saw them all the way, and smiled at Gu Xichao playfully, he waved his hand and said, "Master Gu, let's go back early today, I am enough here alone .”

Gu Xichao did not refuse him, bowed to King Taiping and wanted to take Ye Yanhuan away.King Taiping looked at them, and suddenly said: "Oh, what a pretty girl, she is a perfect match for my son. It's a pity."

Ye Yanhuan looked back at him, smiled slightly, and did not explain.There is nothing to explain, she can't just say "My lord has good eyesight", can she?

Although King Taiping was straightforward, he always felt that the little girl's smile was meaningful.He scratched his head, and was about to go back and tell his son that Gong Jiu didn't go with Ye Yanhuan, but went for a few days first, in order to deceive others.

Although Gong Jiu himself has not been in Shengjing for a long time, his face is very familiar in Shengjing.After all, although the royal family has always been upright, there are very few people who are crooked.But it is rare to grow into Gong Jiu's monstrous appearance.

Therefore, although the counterfeit kept a low profile every day, anyone who had seen "Prince Taiping's son Mingrui" would always be deeply impressed by his face.It is not an exaggeration to say that Sijiu City is a place the size of a palm, and it is not easy for Gong Jiu to come in from outside the city carelessly, let alone with Xiao Yanhuan.

"I reckoned that Miss Xiaoxiao would be here soon, but I didn't expect it to be today." Gu Xichao walked half a step behind Ye Yanhuan, and said softly.Being an official in the same dynasty and taking the imperial examinations at the same time, Gu Xichao naturally received Li Xunhuan's invitation, so it was not surprising that Ye Yanhuan would also come.

Ye Yan smiled happily, with a tired look on his face.

Gu Xichao could smell the faint smell of blood on her body, and his complexion changed, Gu Xichao said: "Miss Xiaoxiao has fought with someone?"

"It's some people from the Jianghu. The world is chaotic outside, there's nothing to do about it." Ye Yanhuan patted Gu Xichao's shoulder, and asked hesitantly, "Does the court not care about such a serious disaster?"

Gu Xichao realized something in his heart, he lowered his head and stroked his cuffs, and said: "Master Li just took over the household department a few years ago, and now the household department has given out a lot of money and bought a lot of grain and grass from merchants and other countries. It's just exploiting layer upon layer, the place closer to Shengjing is better, if it is farther away, the imperial court will inevitably be out of reach, it is not hard to imagine what kind of situation it will be."

The Master Li that Gu Xichao said was Li Xunhuan, now that a disaster suddenly broke out in Da'an, Li Xunhuan was transferred to the household department, and together with the third young master of the Hua family, was in charge of allocating funds for disaster relief.

Ye Yanhuan was silent for a while, and then slowly said after a long time: "The court's accumulated malpractices did not last for a day or two, and now they are just taking the disaster as a trigger, and it has erupted across the board."

Gu Xichao flashed a reward in his eyes, and there was no one around, he casually broke a willow stick, put it on his fingertips and kneaded it slowly, and said after a long time: "If it doesn't break, it won't stand."

Ye Yanhuan's eyes suddenly widened, but Gu Xichao just smiled at her calmly.The wicker was wound into a wreath by him, with a few yellow flowers dotted in it.Gently placing the wreath on Xiao Yanhuan's head, Gu Xichao sighed: "Miss Xiaoxiao has grown up."

Ye Gucheng retreated, and the little lady of Baiyun City became the young city lord. Although Gu Xichao is in the temple, he is not ignorant of the affairs of the world.This girl is growing up rapidly, from a little girl who is held in the palm of the hand and pampered, to an adult who is in charge of her own.

Gu Xichao counted in detail, during the six months of Ye Gucheng's retreat, Ye Yanhuan shot seven times, seriously injuring six people.These people are all young people who think that the Lord of Baiyun City is in seclusion, and that Baiyun City has no one to guard it.And Gu Xichao's natural way, the only way to make people in Jianghu recognize a woman's status is to convince them.

Obviously not a belligerent person, Gu Xichao took a look at the rough wreath, but looked like a little girl wearing a crown, and felt a little complicated for a while.

Ye Yanhuan blinked, and quickly changed the topic: "Sister Lin and Li Xunhuan's wedding, Xiao Gu, what gift did you prepare?"

Gu Xichao said in a polite manner: "It's just something common officials do."

"Little Gu doesn't like Li Xunhuan very much, does he?" Ye Yan laughed, because to be honest, she didn't like Li Xunhuan too much either, and always felt that he was indecisive.

"I don't like the person who beat me, he is the champion." Gu Xichao said half-truthfully.

Yes, he doesn't like people who beat him.Li Xunhuan is like this, so is Gong Jiu.

The author has something to say: Caught off guard to see parents hhhhhhhh

Xiao Gu is showing his loyalty to Xiaoxiao.Hmm, coronation or something, good middle school two.

It's better to stop for a few days, Uncle Kawen.I hope Xiaoxiao's "growth" can be more natural, not so abrupt.Little Fat Jiu must be on his own after all, it is impossible for this child to be soft and cute all his life.There should be an update today... right... 【Guilty】

☆, the clouds are scattered and the sky is long.