No matter how slow the horse's hooves were, they were still moving forward.
The long road always had an end.
Looking at the towering city wall on the distant horizon, Chai Shao knew that Chang'an had arrived.
Even though they are far away, even though they have not been back for six years, Chai Shao now realizes that this city is so clear in his heart.
The majestic city wall stands towering on the periphery of Chang'an City, which is more than five feet tall.
It is tall and made entirely of bluestones.
Even the small line of handwriting carved by the sword on his waist in front of the city gate when he was young is still vivid in his mind.
It all seemed like it happened yesterday.
But now he has a gray beard and his temples are stained with frost marks.
The good old days are gone forever.
Now that I think about it, I have been angry with my wife all these years.
It is really a ridiculous thing.
Chai Shao thought a lot about the fear and fear along the way.
During this short journey, he thought about the things he had not dared to face all these years.
At the beginning, he felt inferior because of Li Xiuning's strength. , so he lived far away from the border for ten years.
During these ten years, he was escaping, fearing that others would look down on him and say that he was not as good as his beloved wife at home.
But during this period, under the threat of a sore that could break out at any time, he unexpectedly figured out that all this was just making things difficult for himself.
Even if others would talk behind his back, so what?
There will be less meat Chai Shao's idea of being a stickman really came to him out of nowhere, or maybe it was because of the things he had been worried about along the way.
In short, the moment he saw Chang'an City, Chai Shao felt tears filling his eyes, and the worry about gains and losses disappeared at this moment.
He felt like he was going back to his home in Chang'an City, the place where he had lived during his childhood.
The place is now called Duke Qiao's Mansion.
Go there to see your wife and children, and the locust flowers blooming in the garden that can only be seen in dreams.
That's right.
There was actually a locust tree planted in the courtyard of Chai Shao's home.
In the middle of the courtyard, this locust tree was like a big green umbrella supporting the large courtyard of the Duke of Qiao's mansion. .
Li Kuan once picked locust flowers from this locust tree and wove them into garlands for his two sisters.
Of course, what Li Kuan wants to return to most now is his small courtyard in Chang'an City, even if it is really incompatible with his identity.
The city gate is in sight, and soldiers standing tall and straight are standing on the top of the city, with spears in their hands on the ground, and the spear points are pointing towards the sky.
He was also wearing dark iron armor.
Each beetle leaf reflects the sunlight and looks so bright, no wonder it is called Mingguang Armor.
Countless people came in and out of the city gate.
Li Kuan and others rode their horses to the city gate, then dismounted.
This time, although Li Kuan went to Tuyuhun according to Li Er's secret order, after all, there was no news to the world that the Tang Dynasty had sent troops, and the news that later reached the army was secretly passed on, so this time Li Kuan There was no welcome ceremony at all when they returned.
Even when they entered Chang'an City, they had to take off their weapons and pay the entry fee before walking in.
They were all wearing leather armor.
He was replaced as early as he came down from the plateau, and apart from the saber at his waist, Li Kuan had no other weapons.
The long bow and his iron spear had been brought back to the eastern suburbs racecourse by the soldiers, and now he was riding a horse.
A knight-errant who wants to enter Chang'an and wears a horizontal sword.
Chai Shao next to him is his servant like a housekeeper.
These days, the rangers can already afford a housekeeper, so the soldiers guarding the city charged him two cents more for entering the city on the pretext that they both Everyone brought their horses.
The streets of Chang'an City are still straight and horizontal, as if they were drawn with a ruler.
On the spacious street, people were coming and going, and most of them ducked away when they saw the two men holding horses and wearing knives.
Because such people are not ordinary people.
They are either knight-errants who travel around the world and practice chivalry, or they are aristocratic family members who come out with knives to show off.
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These two types of people are not something ordinary people can afford to offend.
Both types of people are universally despised.
Because the knight-errants are not engaged in production, they are all thinking about the chivalry in their hearts.
Little do they know that they are actually street gangsters, and those sons of aristocratic families are not even objects.
They dress like humans and are raised by dogs, but what they end up doing is Not even as good as a dog.
They only bring harm to the people and have no other good qualities.
Therefore, the common people hide from these two kinds of people if they can.
If they can't hide, they have no choice but to stay away.
"Let's take a walk and take a look.
The white flour buns here only cost a penny."
"Everyone, come and take a look.
This is a peerless treasure from the Western Regions.
Such a large piece of colorful glaze is priceless.
If you walk past this village, there will be no shop like this one."
The sound of hawking on the street is endless, and everyone is busy for life.
It's just that in this agricultural-based era, the status of businessmen is really pitiful, not far different from those slaves who signed a contract of sale.
Even as a nobleman, if you kill a businessman, you only need to pay a fine of several thousand dollars. will be exempted from punishment.
Therefore, although these merchants shouted loudly, none of them dared to force themselves to the street to solicit customers.
They all shouted at the top of their lungs from behind their stalls.
The louder they shouted, the more people came to buy their goods.
Li Kuan originally wanted to part ways with Chai Shao, but he was held back because Chai Shao had not been home for a long time, so he wanted to buy some gifts for his wife and son.
However, he had been at the border for these years and had never come back.
For the capital I'm not very familiar with it now, because Chang'an City has changed a lot in recent years.
Most of the original snack bars or small vendors are no longer where they are.
So if you want to buy something you like, you don't have an acquaintance to guide you.
It's really not an easy task.
Li Kuan was caught as a young man.
Although this boy had not been around Chang'an City for more than half a year, he was much better than Chai Shao himself.
In addition, although he is not in Chang'an City, his gang of brothers and gangsters are still inside.
There will be no news that can be hidden from these dudes.
"Okay, I'll contact the three brothers of the Cheng family and ask them to lead the way together."
Li Kuan thought for a while and agreed to Chai Shao's suggestion.
After all, he came back with him this time.
If he was left like this, He ran away, a little uncharacteristically.
"Are the three brothers of the Cheng family successful?"
When Chai Shao heard these people mentioned by Li Kuan, he suddenly felt dizzy because the three brothers of the Cheng family really didn't know what to say.
Even if they were far away from the border, they could be called The three bastard Cheng family brothers are also very familiar with each other.
In recent years, Chai Lingwu has Fortunately, under Li Xiuning's discipline, even though they were among a group of women in the Detachment of Women, they did not do much bad deeds.
However, these three guys did not calm down so much.
Together with the two silly boys from Yuchi Gong's family, they became Chang'an City is notorious for several disasters.
Not to mention other things, not many of the civil servants in Chang'an City could escape their fists.
Of course, this is also caused by the lack of dealing with each other between civil servants and military generals.
Most of the children of civil servants' families were forced by their parents to learn poetry and calligraphy, so they all despised the brats from military commanders' families who were full of foul language and had muscles all over their bodies.
I thought they were just vulgar people, but their father often got angry at home and scolded those famous generals who only knew how to use their fists to reason.
How could such people govern the Tang Dynasty well?
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So they were barbarians, and they were all useless people who could not be cultivated.
What else can they do besides fighting the enemy with knives and guns?
Now that the Tang Dynasty is developing rapidly, these people are of no use at all.
It is precisely because these so-called scholars look down on the children of military commanders that they have to face physical threats at any time.
Those guys with muscle bumps, who can't get any advantage with their mouths, will use their fists to get back the lost face.
Among them, the three brothers of the Cheng family who are not good at words and the eldest and second fools of the Yuchi family are the most violent.
If it weren't for Cheng Both Yao Jin and Yu Chi Gong were the kind of shameless thugs who might have beaten these troublemakers to death long ago.
In the past few years, these two veterans have been impeached by countless people, saying that they were incompetent in educating their children, and that they were arrogant and domineering.
However, they have never seen Li Er punish these two people.
They should do whatever they want, while Wen Chen Still persisting in complaining, this became a home-cooked dish in the court.
Li Kuan knew where to find the three brothers of the Cheng family.
These three guys were the least fond of reading, but even though Cheng Yaojin didn't know a few words himself, he still wanted a few gangsters from his family.
The boy went to the Imperial Academy to hang out.
After all, this was Li Er’s order.
Come, he has to obey the order no matter what, so these three guys must be drinking in the tavern outside the Imperial College now.
Although Li Kuan has not been in Chang'an City much in the past two years, these three guys still don't know how to move.
The Lord, so I can definitely find it.
Sure enough, in a tavern outside the Imperial College, three men as big as iron towers were sitting at a table, drinking a plate of side dishes and a jar of wine.
Xianju's Huangliang Yimeng, which is a kind of sorghum wine with a high alcohol content. , but the entrance is very soft, which makes people drink too much without knowing it, and then fall asleep, so it is called Huangliang Yimeng.
"Come and drink this bowl!"
A man with a dark face, ringed eyes, a high nose and a full beard raised the bowl of sea in his hand, shouted, threw his head back and drank.
"Come and drink this bowl."
Another man with dark eyes, a high nose and a beard raised the bowl of sea in his hand, then he shouted and started drinking.
"Come and finish this bowl!"
There was also a man with a dark face, ringed eyes, a high nose and a beard, raised the sea bowl in his hand, and then he shouted the same and threw his head back to drink.
"Damn it, we haven't seen each other for only two years.
How come these three scourges have grown up like this?
They are really Cheng Yaojin's sons.
Uncle, look how much they look alike." came a joking voice.
"That turtle grandson is tired of living."
The three black-faced men slammed the table at the same time, and then stood up with a bang.
Only then did they see the difference between the three of them.
Although the three of them looked the same, they stood up.
After arriving, they were all shorter than the other.
The one sitting at the top was the tallest, and the one with his back to the door was the shortest
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