Chapter 007
Yan Nan grind the cold steamed buns she brought out yesterday into her stomach with her teeth, giving her more effort.
He opened the bag and flipped through it, found two pieces of broken silver and dozens of copper plates, and put them in his pocket.
I also accidentally found a men's jacket, which happened to be replaced quickly.
Look at the chest, it’s good, so it won’t be too tight to wrap your chest.
She put down her hair and tied up a scholar's bun, then put on her makeup bag, put on her sleeve arrows, and walked carefully to the lake.
There was no one along the way. She came to the back of a clump of hidden reeds by the lake, scooped up water and washed her face, and saw her current appearance.
She is fair and delicate, with a small mole on the end of her right eyebrow, which makes her look pitiful.
She took out her makeup bag, and shed a piece of double eyelid patch on her body, pulled down her upper eyelids into a single eyelid, and applied glue. The peach blossom eyes immediately turned into ordinary phoenix eyes.
He also wiped his face yellow and swept some shadows at the edges of his eyebrows, adding a more masculine aura to the man. He also pointed some small pockmarks on the bridge of his nose and both sides, looking at the small mirror in his makeup bag, and the person in the mirror suddenly turned into a timid ordinary young man.
She stood up, tightened her jacket and collar, tried to block her neck, and walked out.
The bustling Youzhou City, which was once prosperous and lively, is like a forest mansion that has become ashes.
The collapsed beams, the unwashed white stone floor, and the scattered shoes or clothes all tell people what they had experienced yesterday.
The long street was empty and there were few people. Occasionally, pedestrians passed by, and they looked at each other like rabbits, and then carefully passed by.
Yan Nan was quite calm.
First of all, the young man said that the Northern Barbarians would be restrained today.
Secondly, since Xia Yong has become the city lord of Youzhou, it means that Youzhou was not given to the Northern Barbarians.
After yesterday's arrogant robbery, there will be some pacification measures today.
So when a group of Northern Barbarian cavalry holding spears came towards him, Yan Nan just lowered her head and stood silently.
The team did not look at her more and galloped past her.
Yan Nan breathed a sigh of relief and saw a small teahouse with a door facing the door of her house. She calmed down and walked in.
To find Chunliu, you have to inquire about the news about those people yesterday. If you want to inquire about the news, the teahouse is the best place.
Since the man could make the Northern Barbarians obey the orders, he thought he was a high-ranking official. He needed to ask the Northern Barbarians to confirm the news about Xia Yong, which means that he did not directly contact Xia Yong and was not from Xia Yong's side.
He is also a high-ranking official from Han Dynasty, not Xia Yong. There is only one situation. This person was sent by Kaifeng Prefecture to hand over Youzhou with the Northern Barbarians.
"Waiter, a pot of tea and a plate of sugar-coated peanuts."
Yan Nan picked up a corner and sat down.
Sure enough, someone was discussing that there was a notice posted at the government office, so that the people would not panic. As usual, the new city lord entered the city today, and Youzhou was still under the control of the Han people, and it was no longer a Daliang.
From now on, all common people under Youzhou will be exempted from labor service for two years and will be reduced by 30% of their taxes.
"Fortunately it was Han people who controlled it, and it seemed that they were a little alive." Seven or eight men sat around the table next door, and someone sighed with satisfaction.
Xia Yong and Yan chewed the name with gritted teeth.
There were not many people in the teahouse, so the tea and peanuts were delivered quickly.
Yan Nan picked up a peanut kernel and put it in her mouth. The sweet coat melted on the tip of her tongue, and her heart felt sour again.
In the past, Brother Yuan always took her to the tea shop outside the back door of Lin Mansion to eat all kinds of candies. Her favorite food was this sugar-coated peanut.
Yan Nan was thinking that there was someone else in front of her.
"Hmph!" the man snorted.
Yan Nan raised her eyes in surprise. A pretty burly young man, about eighteen or nineteen years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, wind-catching ears, and holding his hands in his chest. He looked indignant and looked at her coldly with his nostrils.
"What's wrong with this brother?" Yan Nan clasped her fists politely.
But the man punched Yan Nan’s table with a "bang", which made the plate of peanut Rener tremble.
"You little bastard are so corrupt? When you see the thief of the Northern Barbarians, you salute others? Is it a man? The egg was cut?" The man was so angry.
Yan Nan looked up and looked out the door, and saw where she was standing just now.
It turned out that she met the Northern Barbarians and looked down at the taboo. This man thought he was celebrating.
She hummed coldly, she had seen many such people in the 21st century.
There is something wrong, and I like to scold people more than anyone else, pointing at this cowardly, that shameless, and that idiot again.
If he really lets him get on, he will slip faster than anyone else.
Yan Nan didn't even look at the man, "Brother, I don't know what the Beiman did when he entered the city yesterday."
The man punched the table again and pointed his hand back, "Yesterday? If these turtles hadn't knocked me out, grandpa, I wouldn't have tear up a few Northern Barbarian thieves?"
Yan Nan looked behind him silently. The people at the table were chatting happily. Someone noticed Yan Nan's gaze. Then he realized that the man had come to Yan Nan's table. He immediately jumped out and pulled the man back. He said embarrassedly: "Little brother, sorry, our brother Dou is very angry, sorry."
It seems that this person was really knocked out yesterday. It turns out that he is not a coward!
Yan Nan had an idea and said coldly: "Since brother is full of righteousness, why don't you settle the score with the person who sold Youzhou? Instead, you praise others."
Brother Dou broke free from the person who pulled him, turned around and said in surprise: "Who sold Youzhou?"
The few people behind him also calmed down and looked at Yan Nan in surprise.
Yan Nan sneered: "The new city lord, Xia Yong."
Brother Dou was stunned, "What does it mean?"
"Xia Yong betrayed General Lin, and Emperor Daliang handed over Youzhou City to the death. Don't you know yet?"
The tea shop suddenly became silent.
Everyone only knew that the Lin family army was defeated, Daliang was defeated, and the Northern Barbarians entered the city, but they didn’t know that there was still this relationship later?!
"New City Lord?" someone murmured.
"Little brother, are you serious?" A gentle man stepped forward and asked with his fists.
Yan Nan's eyes were slightly red, "If this were not the case, how could the Lin family army block the 100,000 Western Qiang army, but how could it not be blocked by just 50,000 Northern Barbarians?"
"But is there any evidence?" the man in Naswen asked again.
"What evidence do you want from Grandma's? I believe it!" Brother Dou slapped the table, and the blue veins on his forehead jumped high, "I don't believe that General Lin can't defeat the Northern Barbarians, so he must have been tricked!"
“I don’t believe it either!
"Me too!"
"No one of the Lin family troops came back, but Xia Yong came back!"
"No, there must be a problem!"
The tea shop suddenly had a lot of emotions and talked about it.
Yan Nan raised her eyes and said, "It's very simple to find evidence. As long as you find the capital official who came from Kaifeng Prefecture recently, you can know whether Youzhou was sent out!"
"Are there any high-ranking officials from the capital coming to Youzhou?" Brother Dou asked with his eyebrows.
Everyone around looked at me, and I saw you, and they shook their heads.
Yan Nan's heart sank. Even these people from all walks of life didn't know where she was going to find Chunliu's whereabouts?
She suddenly remembered the cold boy and should ask him.
Yan Nan sat in the tea shop until dark.
When the lanterns and candles outside the shop were lit up, she put down a few copper plates and walked out.
To the north of the long street is the government office, and there are occasional windows next to the street with starry lights.
Rows of cavalry on the long street were heading south with guns, preparing to welcome the new city lord into the city.
Yan Nan pinched the sleeve arrow in her sleeve and decided to go to the government office to try her luck.
She turned and walked through several alleys, walked around the government office for a whole circle, and finally came outside the south wall at the gate.
This place is nice.
It was a forest of locust trees. It used to be a place where horses were tied up in the yamen, but now all the guards of the government office ran away and the forest was empty.
Yan Nan glanced at a large locust tree that was thick with her arms, rubbed her hands, hugged her and climbed up.
Fortunately, the skill of climbing trees taught by Brother Yuan has not yet fallen behind.
Chapter completed!