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Chapter 45 Entering Beijing

The next day, Nangong Qi left the Li Mansion with his luggage and riding a docile mare.

Speaking of which, after entering here, the only benefit Nangong Qi got was probably learning to ride a horse.

emmmmm... Homemade grenades are not a safe benefit, this one needs to be ignored.

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October is coming, and autumn has completely revealed its true nature.

The cold morning breeze blew through the thin long clothes. The originally lush trees on both sides of the road were now bare. The only few yellow leaves drifted with the wind, and some could not withstand the biting cold wind, and finally fell to the ground helplessly.

Telling about the ruthlessness of autumn.

Facing the rising sun, Nangong Qi walked on the official road where people and cars came and went.

He was wearing a hat and carrying a luggage. The black mare under his crotch was not magical.

However, even so, with his handsome face, people will look at him twice as much as he is a clear and clear young man.

Nangong Qi didn't care, and he even looked at the crowd around him with interest.

Riding on a mare, he walked leisurely on the official road. Next to the official road, there was a small path, which seemed to have passed by people for years and years of destruction. There were no grass growing on the road. From time to time, porters or pedestrians walked by.

It's like a sidewalk!

On the official road, most of them are vehicles driven by animals such as horse carriages and ox carriages.

Seeing this, Nangong Qi had to exclaim.

In ancient times, it really gave him a lot of refreshing feelings!

Along the way, there were no bandits suddenly appearing, and no merchants rashly approaching him. Nangong Qiping walked to the capital without any turmoil.

"The address of the Jiumen of Xijing. Ten bronzes!"

"Chongwen Inn, if you want to be a top player, you can come here! This restaurant is always a good person. You can also go to Chongwen Restaurant for a discount when you enter the store!"

"It's not easy to build a city in the capital, just dock the restaurant outside the city at night and it's enough to have thirty cents!"

"A day traveling to Beijing, you can only have hundreds of children!"

......

From afar, Nangong Qi saw the towering city wall. However, it was interrupted by the hawking sounds one after another.

At this time, there were already people dressed in a waiter on both sides of the increasingly widening official road. Looking further away, the number of people was increasing!

This is simply a grand market!

“Spectacular!”

Looking at the crowd that could not reach the end, Nangong Qi was filled with emotion. This was a scene that had never been seen in modern society.

A gentle slope goes up step by step, until the huge city gate at the end, and the road is surrounded by people...

The black mare moved slowly, and Nangong Qi wandered into the ancient gatherings. His heart was filled with extreme enjoyment.

"Is the scholar going to be the best? You can get a good start when you live in the top scholar building in our store!"

"Scholar, I wish the young master the best in the small dining hall to Kuilou!"

"Anping Academy produced a top scholar three years ago. The young master went to the room where the top scholar had lived to accumulate his literary talent!"

"Scholar..."

"Young Master..."

Nangong Qi looked at the waiters who came over from time to time and were full of smiles, and felt speechless. But it was right to think about it. He immediately entered the spring examination. The students who entered Beijing for the exam were about to fall in time. No wonder so many people from restaurants came over.

"I won't take the exam this year." Nangong Qi interrupted everyone's competition. "Everyone, don't fight!"

Sure enough, when he heard his words, most of the waiters left in a little disappointed manner. Only two of them stayed.

"Young master wants to beat the top guy?" asked one of them.

"No, I have a place to live." After saying this, the two of them left completely.

Nangong Qi shook his head. Although he had no place to live, he didn't want to find it here. What's the difference between this and the dormitory owners who just left the train station? It's expensive and dirty.

Not to mention service, you know, this was legal in ancient times!

"Sugar haws! One piece of three, two piece of five piece of them!"

"Dalang scones, the freshly baked scones! Two pieces of paper!"

"Raincoat, straw hat, shoulder pole, gloves. Hammer and scissor knife! Raincoat, straw hat, shoulder pole, gloves. Hammer and scissor knife!"

"Ten Months on the Bench!"

"Moat carp, ten cents per pound."

"Sanwen, all three-word!"

.........

Nangong Qi sat on the mare, looking left and right. It seemed that he could never see enough.

When Nangong Qi heard Dalang cake, he suddenly became greedy. He looked up and saw a short and strong man with a figure as big as a tree stump, carrying two baskets on a shoulder pole and shouting while walking.

Nangong Qi took out two copper coins from his arms and walked a few steps with his horse. "Give me a cake!"

The short and strong man smiled foolishly and put down the basket, carefully removed the cloth on it, took out a piece of cake and handed it over.

Nangong Qi was condescending, and even had to bend over to take the cake. Then he rode his horse and left.

The short and strong man sorted out the cake basket and gently carried the shoulder pole hard. Then he shouted loudly.

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Along the way, Nangong Qi's stomach was already seventy or eighty-eight percent full. He got off the horse early and only put his luggage on the horse's back.

The whole market is about three or four miles long. The higher the steps, the more refined the things people sell. At the end, dancers even played music on the temporary platform to attract customers!

Although Nangong Qi doesn't like to listen, the girl looks good, so he generously donated money and gave her a reward.

When they were about to reach the city gate, Nangong Qi discovered that countless pleasure boats were slowly floating on it with the faint autumn wind.

With the rippling blue waves, literati and poets stood on the pleasure boat, sang from time to time, attracting countless worshipful gazes!

It's like a world that comes out of a painting...

Nangong Qi looked at one of the pleasure boats, the woman playing the piano and the man was having a pleasant look in drinking. He shook his head enviously, and then quickly walked towards the city gate.

Only by standing at the foot of the city gate can people know how majestic and spectacular the ancient city gates were!

The city is twelve zhang high and twelve zhang deep. The city gate is open at this time and the soldiers on both sides can guard it. At most, they can even pass eight of them at the same time!

Although people came and went, the crowd was not congested. Nangong Qi took a quick slap and came to the door of Chen. The soldiers stepped forward and asked Nangong Qi about his identity and direction.

Nangong Qi took out the Lu Yin from the county Zunkai, carefully compared his face, and then asked, "What are the plans to go to the capital?"

"Browse the prosperity of the capital! Broaden your horizons!" Nangong Qi gave a regular answer.

The people of Daqing are rich and have no war records for a century, so there are few relatively sensitive problems.

At most, I would just ask a sensitive question - "Do you bring wine?"

"No."

Yes, when Daqing brings wine into the city, he needs to pay a very considerable tax! It may even be more than five times that of the wine itself.

This is also the reason why many famous nobles in the capital even went to Hongxian to drink and have fun!
Chapter completed!
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