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Chapter 152 Li Zhuer

Li Bochen thought about it while feeding the horse, but his heart was always at ease. He simply leaned on the horse's back and the ghost left his body. He went down the road in the direction where the old man and the child left, and passed through a forest. He really saw that they were squatting on the ground and digging shepherd's purse. He secretly observed the expressions of the two, but did not realize anything wrong, so he could only return to his body.

Maybe he was so worried. He thought so, so he got on his horse and headed to the Sanguan City ahead.

When we were about to get outside the city, we saw more and more pedestrians on the road. Some were carrying loads to go to the city to sell fragrant herbs, some were selling rouge and powder, and some were selling various foods. In addition, some Lifu carried their own shoulder poles and gathered on the side of the road to talk and laugh. When they saw Li Bochen riding a horse, they asked, "You can help the officials."

In his memory, he rarely heard people speak Li Guo dialect. Now the noisy surrounding him is full of "home accent", and a wonderful feeling suddenly arises in his heart, not so dull.

He dismounted through the crowd and arrived at the city gate. He realized that it was because a ox cart carrying alum had overturned and blocked the city gate. A group of people were busy cleaning up. Someone behind wanted to step on the ox cart, but was pulled by the owner and arguing. The soldiers guarding the city gate came over with a Sui accent and persuaded him a few words, but they saw that there were too many people and couldn't pull them away, so they ignored them.

Li Bochen didn't pass for a moment, so he stood in the crowd and looked around. He saw a wooden notice next to the city gate, with many list documents posted on it. He looked closely and found that as expected, he also had his own reward notice.

He pressed his hat down and thought to himself, Li Bochen, I am really famous all over the world now.

Just as I was thinking about this, I heard a man watching Mu Qiaoxian say, "In this year, pigs and dogs are in power, and the great hero will be imprisoned."

He was stunned when he heard this and thought to himself, was he talking about me?

As soon as the idea arose, I heard the few people around the man echoing: "That's right. Kill them well! Let them eat and eat each other with rich clothes and food, and now I also taste the feeling of having their heads cut off."

Someone said, "These Sui people are really stupider than the other. Isn't this notice coming to us? Are you asking us to help this hero escape? Haha!"

It was indeed talking about himself. Li Ding usually called himself a hero, but he knew that it was a polite word and did not take it to heart. But the three of them spoke were Lifu, the other was dressed as a scholar, and the other seemed to be a hawker. After hearing them praise him as a hero, they felt comfortable.

He also said that these three people should have no intersection, and they were not familiar with each other, but the words they said made a group of people laugh and applaud, which shows that the Sui people are not popular here. The Li Kingdom was destroyed for more than ten years, and it seems that the five countries have not yet conquered people's hearts. No wonder Linxi Jun can become a climate.

At this time, a soldier at the gate of the city laughed and walked over to the hilt of the knife and shouted, "What are you laughing at?"

Nalifu immediately whispered loudly: "Mr. Jun, let's laugh at the prosperity of the country and the people, and the prosperity of the ages!"

After he said this, people around him burst into laughter.

The soldier was from the Sui Dynasty. Perhaps he had just been dispatched to Liguo to take the turn. He didn't understand what Lifu was saying for a while. But when he saw someone laughing, he felt that it was not a good thing. He frowned and took a step forward.

Unexpectedly, when he took this step, a group of people behind Na Lifu immediately shouted: "June, be careful to kill someone by showing off his power here!"

Li Bochen had always heard that the people in Li Jing were so fierce, but he didn't expect that they were so fierce. The soldiers should have known what kind of atmosphere was like here. For a moment, their faces turned pale and they were embarrassed to advance and retreat. Fortunately, another companion came and pulled him back, and spat: "As with them!"

Then he took the donkey to go back to the city cave.

The people in front of the door burst into laughter again, and the man just pretended not to listen this time.

When Li Bochen saw this scene, somehow, his heart was filled with gloom. Although he had never lived here, he felt like he was going home. The folk customs here are like this, so there should be many like-minded people with him. Unfortunately, he is in trouble now, otherwise he would have met many confidants if he lived here.

After a while, the car alum was finally loaded. The owner led the cow into the city, and he also mingled among the crowd and walked through the city gate hole.

After entering the city, I found that the cityscape of Li State was also different from that of Sui State. The Sui State had mountainous land and the flat land was sparse, so the roads in the city were not very wide. However, most of the country in Li State were plains, and the land seemed not precious, and the roads were extremely wide.

The avenue entering the city can accommodate four ox carts in parallel, and the buildings on both sides of the road are taller. Although the Sanguan City is not as prosperous as Zhangcheng, it should not be a small city. However, in this way, it is even more difficult to find the place where Chang Tingwei has been.

Li Bochen led his horse around the city gate for a while and decided to go to have a meal first. When he first came here, he didn't know what good food there was, so he picked up a random person named "Li Zhuer Food Shop", tied the horse in front of the door, and walked in.

Look at the dishes on the wall, I ordered a white meat of sauerkraut, hot liver tip, lotus pod tofu, sauce bone, and order another pot of Heyi cake. When the guy served the first dish, he asked, "Brother, do you have Suye cake in your store?"

The guy was a young man, frowned and thought for a while, saying, "No. But if the official wants to eat dessert, there are sweet dumplings - the Suye cake is made of red beans into fillings, and the glutinous rice is made of skin, which is actually similar to sweet dumplings. But the sweet dumplings are bean paste cake, which is thinner, so no one has eaten that in these years."

Li Bochen said, "Then let's have another sweet dumpling."

The guy was stunned and said, "Official, you can't eat these."

Li Bochen smiled in his heart, thinking, you may not have learned my appetite, but he just said, "If you can't eat it, just pack it and take it away - and, do you have any glutinous rice wine here?"

The guy laughed: "Your official, you really know how to eat and drink. We don't have that thing here, and now the Sanguan City is gone. I heard from the old man in my family that there was a special one in the city that brewed that wine in the early years, but the shop had already poured it."

Listening to the word "special", Li Bochen's heart was shocked and said, "Is that one of the only ones selling this wine in the city? Where are the other cities?"

The guy smiled and said, "Ligua is only available in our Sanguan."

Li Bochen breathed lightly and said, "Okay, thank you."

When the guy left, he immediately said to Beichen blessing in his heart - Chang Tingwei said that she drank liquor when she ate Su Ye cake, but she didn't expect that she had found the right place as soon as she entered Lijing!

But when she thought about it again, it was reasonable. She was about to escape to Sui State at that time, and she must have arrived at Sanguan. She knew that she was about to leave the country and was going to be safe, so she had the heart to drink.

After a while, all the food and drink were prepared. Li Bochen realized what the friend said was "can't eat". Although Li Jing's meals were not as delicate as Sui Jing, they were extremely large in weight. The Heyi cake and sweet dumplings were piled up on a hill.

But these days he only ate dry cakes, and there was no oil and water in the Wudian Temple, so he was not afraid. He simply threw his cheeks and ate and drank. In two quarters of an hour, the basins and plates on the table were all seen. When paying the bill, the shopkeeper and the clerk were quite surprised, even praising him as a warrior. Li Bochen secretly teased in his heart, saying, "It's also the name of your shop that is good."

He had enough drinks, so he went outside the store to lead a horse, intending to inquire along the street. But at a glance, there were a few idle men gathered on the opposite side of the street, basking in the sun by the wall. Look at the people's eyes, their hands were not rough, and they didn't look like they were strong men. They should be idle men in the city.

Such people make a living by looking at people's eyes. If the news is very good, he will lead the horse over.

When several idle men saw him approaching, they all stood up. They smiled and said, "Master, do you have any work?"

Li Bochen said: "Ask a question."

The man immediately smiled and said, "Then you have found the right person. Whose lady in and outside Sanguan City has stolen love? Whoever has taken a concubine, I don't know - just call me Hun San'er, please give me some instructions if you have any questions."

Li Bochen said, "Okay, there was a restaurant selling Polygonatum wine in this city, do you know?"

Hun San'er turned her eyes and thought for a while, and said, "I know! I know!"

He frowned again: "But I can't remember it for a moment--I was in the middle of spring last night, and I was frozen all night, and I had a headache and fever at this time..."

Li Bochen reached out and touched five big money in his arms and threw it to him, saying, "Can you be more intelligent when buying some hot soup?"

Hun San also smiled: "Sure, naturally, it can."

But he just stood there and stopped talking. Li Bochen sighed inwardly, and simply touched the money and the eyes of Hun San'er immediately lit up.

He said, "It doesn't matter if you don't know. You guys go and inquire about me, and I'll wait here. Be sure that these are yours."

Hun San'er immediately turned around and shouted: "Brothers, should you move?"

The few people behind him immediately dissipated with smiles. Hun San'er turned around and smiled and said, "The great official will wait for a moment. In less than half an hour, come back and pay the order!"

After saying that, he went out to spread his legs.

Li Bochen then led his horse to avoid the roadside and stood against the wall. While waiting, he looked at the pedestrians on the street and gradually discovered the difference from the Sui realm. Although many cities in the Sui realm were prosperous, there were also many idle men, beggars and strong men in the city. However, most of the people walking on the road in the Sanguan city were dressed neatly, and it was very difficult to see the poor. Even though some of the people in Hunsan'er had broken cotton clothes just now, they could wear warm clothes.

Li State had been suffering a catastrophe for more than ten years, and the large areas of fields outside the city were deserted, so it would not be richer than the Sui realm. This phenomenon should mean that those poor people were no longer in the city - it was difficult to make a living, so they should all escape.

When I left Fenghua Valley and went to Sanguan City, I didn’t see the post station or the checkpoint forty or fifty miles away. I just saw the Sui soldiers at the gate of the city and were humiliated in public... Perhaps it was because the government here could only maintain peace in the city and was unable to rule outside the city.

From this point of view, Linxijun's situation is better than he thought, and the people in Li seem to have lived a harder life.

Although the five princes of the five countries all served a high emperor, for the people of Li, they are indeed slaves to the destruction of the country.
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