Chapter 47: The rich mountain city has experienced
After everyone took a boat across the river road and arrived at Chaotianmen, Xu Jingmiao left first and returned to his mansion. However, before leaving, he had made an appointment with Yao Ruoyu and would hold a banquet in the mansion in a few days to entertain Yao Ruoyu and others.
After Xu Jingmiao left, Zhang Ziqiang led his red-eyed black dragon horse and walked over, laughing and said, "I'll take you to the royal palace first."
"Do you have to live in the royal palace?" Jiang Siyu was standing alone, frowned slightly when he heard this, and said softly, "I think the inn outside is also very good."
Zhang Ziqiang was stunned when he heard this. Before he could speak, Yang Renjie smiled and said, "Haha, just treat it as a guest at the big guy's house! Eat, take it, and play..."
"That's right, Sister Jiang, don't be arrogant, let's go!" Fu Feng nodded, and said hilariously, while winking at Chen Meng and Hou Jingru. The two of them understood and quickly pushed Jiang Siyu and poured into the carriage with a smile.
Seeing that Jiang Siyu was pushed into the carriage by Chen Meng and Hou Jingru, Yao Ruoyu, who was holding his hands behind his back, smiled and nodded: "Ziqiang, please lead the way, let's follow us."
"Okay." Zhang Ziqiang nodded and turned his head over the horse. After Yao Ruoyu and others boarded the carriage, he waved his right hand and rode his horse directly in front of him, leading the way to the Chu Palace.
Yao Ruoyu did not sit in the car, but sat in front of the car with the driver. In this way, he could naturally enjoy the scenery beside the street.
Unlike Fuling City, which often has to accept the fire of war, Chongqing, which belongs to the center of a province, has obviously not been attacked by war for many years. Therefore, there is no defensive sentry tower in the city every hundred steps, and there will be no horse-rejecting and iron thorn nets everywhere on the streets.
Starting from Chaotianmen, there were almost all over the surrounding area of dozens of feet of tiny skin bags, and the rows of wooden buildings built above the river, as well as the dense crowds of merchant pawns from all over China, which made everyone feel the first to feel a sense of a unique sense of the era.
After leaving Chaotianmen, Yao Ruoyu and his team sat in a carriage and entered a street. In an instant, they looked around and saw that the streets were crowded with people, one by one, and they were standing on the stalls on both sides. Yongchuan peel eggs, sheep horn pears, and Hechuan peach slices. These specialties that could be bought at will in the market in later generations made the eyes of the people in the Literature and Art Department lit up.
Zhang Ziqiang also deliberately slowed down his horse, retreated to the carriage, and smiled at Yao Ruoyu, "Haha, when I first came, I was stunned. I thought about running out for shopping all day long, and it took several days to get used to it."
Yao Ruoyu, who was scanning the surroundings, smiled and said as if nothing had happened: "Ziqiang, don't you have to go to the military camp?"
Zhang Ziqiang was stunned when he heard this, and then replied: "No! I have only entered the military camp for more than half a month, and I am temporarily serving as one of the deputy generals of the Shura camp. However, as the adoptive father said, it seems that he is planning to arrange another position for me in a while."
Yao Ruoyu nodded slightly and smiled and said, "Come on, then! Now it seems that your adoptive father values you very much!"
Zhang Ziqiang smiled and nodded, "Of course! After all, I am the only person close to the fifth level among the younger generation of Yanggu Army now, okay? Although I don't have many experiences, my combat effectiveness is also excellent."
(The strength of the military power can be gathered by the Great Perfection of the Four Realms, and there are still positions that have not been actually arranged so far. Could it be that Chu Kuangge intends to make Ziqiang become... Well, although this is a bit dangerous, with his ability and Chu Kuangge's emphasis on him, there should be no accident.)
Thinking in his heart, Yao Ruoyu put his attention back on the street.
It has to be said that Chongqing Prefecture, far away from the war, can be regarded as a prosperous and prosperous place. The people around are not as strong as the people of Fuling who are full of war and the perseverance left behind. The people here are full of warm and satisfied smiles.
Working from sunrise and resting from sunset, the simple and clean rhythm of life, coupled with the countless urban specialties around it gathered along the business roads, forming a huge business circle, allowing the people of Chongqing to exude a unique atmosphere at all times.
Looking at all this and feeling the unique atmosphere, Jiang Siyu, who was sitting by the car window, suddenly murmured: "It's very different."
"What a different thing?" Hou Jingru, who was sitting next to her, was slightly stunned, blinked her eyes, and said blankly, "What's the difference?"
"Hehe, the people here are more handsome!" Wu Xue lay beside the car window, looking at the people passing by from time to time outside the car, "Hou Jingru, don't you show up? The people in the main city are more handsome!"
"It's just because their clothes are cleaner that you think they are handsome, right?" Fu Feng looked at Wu Xue with a funny look, but suddenly understood something, turned to Jiang Siyu and asked, "Sister Jiang, do you think the people here are more energetic?"
Listening to Fu Feng's inquiry, Jiang Siyu smiled slightly, but did not answer. He just looked at Wu Xue with a smile, and then nodded slightly.
When everyone in the carriage heard this, they turned their heads and looked at the energetic man, woman, and young outside the carriage. They were inexplicably silent.
Listening to the communication in the car behind him, Yao Ruoyu quietly leaned against the car door. Although he didn't say anything, the smile at the corner of his mouth revealed his relaxed mood.
(We from peaceful times, fell into troubled times without any preparation, experienced the flames of separation from life and death, and suddenly returned to this prosperous and prosperous rich, full of vitality. This feeling... is really beautiful!)
With a smile, Yao Ruoyu reached out and took off his glasses, allowing himself to rest against the car door for a while.
Chongqing is a mountain city that has been famous all over the world since ancient times. It can be said that the entire city is composed of countless mountains of all sizes. The roads in the city are also high and low, ups and downs, surrounding countless mountains, connected to each other, and separated from each other.
So Yao Ruoyu and his team went along the way, and there was almost no moment when they were bumpy. They were up and down, causing everyone to stagger, whether they were riding horses or riding cars. If they hadn't been riding too many cars before, someone might have been sick and vomited.
In the previous world, although Yao Ruoyu and the others had been in Chongqing for many years, the modern Chongqing roads were much better than the current roads. Even if there were ups and downs, they would not be as exaggerated as they are now.
After closing his eyes and sleeping for a while, Yao Ruoyu opened his eyes helplessly and put on his glasses again. Seeing his eyebrows frowned, the soldier in charge of driving quickly apologized: "Sorry, this is the road in Chongqing..."
"Oh, it's okay, it's also an experience..." Yao Ruoyu was slightly stunned when he heard this, then reacted and laughed, "It's quite interesting, just like riding a roller coaster."
"You're so old demon, you dare to ride a roller coaster..." Wu Xue poked her head out in the carriage and muttered, "Don't you have a fear of heights? Isn't you scared your face so much that you turned pale?"
Yao Ruoyu was embarrassed when she heard this and hurriedly snorted: "What nonsense? Who has ever sat on this thing?"
Wu Xue was immediately anxious, stretched out her fleshy little hand and pointed it at him, and said anxiously: "You actually deny it? Did we sit with Song Kai before?"
Yao Ruoyu rolled his eyes and sneered: "Oh? Where is Kaikai?"
"He..." Wu Xue suddenly stopped, and Song Kai, the current Minister of the Literature and Art Department, naturally traveled over with everyone. But now he knows where he is now. How could he find a witness at this time?
Seeing Wu Xue's face turned blue, Yao Ruoyu smiled and said proudly: "What's wrong? Don't accept it? Do you have the ability to bite me? Square head!"
"Ah!" Wu Xue was furious and didn't care about the image of a lady at all. Cough, it seemed that she didn't have it at all. In short, she was furious and rushed out of the carriage, grabbed Yao Ruoyu's neck, and shook it desperately.
"Hey! Hey! Still on the mountain road!" Hou Jingru and others in the carriage were shocked. The roads in Chongqing in this era were not smooth, not to mention that now everyone happened to drive on the suspension bridge between the two mountains. As the carriage swayed, the entire suspension bridge began to stagger.
After the carriage staggered across the suspension bridge, Wu Xue was finally pulled back into the carriage by the extremely frightened people. Yao Ruoyu also rubbed his neck helplessly and sat back.
Seeing that it finally became quiet, Zhang Ziqiang suddenly whispered: "Brother Yao?"
"Hmm?" Yao Ruoyu turned his head and looked at him. Seeing Zhang Ziqiang's face hesitant, he laughed unconsciously, "What's wrong?"
"Do you really... don't plan to stay?" Zhang Ziqiang said solemnly, "Although I have said it a few times, don't you think it's too dangerous to go out for a cloud trip in this environment?"
(Is it finally here? You have been enduring it for a long time, Ziqiang...)
He sighed in his heart, and Yao Ruoyu said softly: "If we stay, what about the others?"
"Others?" Zhang Ziqiang was slightly stunned. Before he could understand, he heard Yao Ruoyu continue to say: "I have recalled that there were more than 20 people on the stage that day. Since we all traveled over time, they must have traveled over time as well."
Taking a deep breath, Yao Ruoyu said in a deep voice: "But until now, only nine of us have gathered together, and no one else knows whereabouts. In this case, how can you let me stay here with peace of mind?"
"But..." Zhang Ziqiang argued with some difficulty, "Yanggu Army is the number one strong army in China after all. If he can hold a high position here, it would be easier to use the Yanggu Army's channels than to go out and run around?"
"But that's just a method, right?" Yao Ruoyu shrugged casually, and smiled, "You have joined the Yanggu Army, so it means we already have this method. Since that's the case, why don't we try other methods? Maybe the two methods will work together and we can find everyone soon!"
Hou Jingru pouted her little mouth, and the green little fox's eyes were full of curiosity: "But Brother Yao, we don't know where everyone is! Do we have to look for it one by one?"
"Do you find it troublesome?" Yao Ruoyu smiled and said softly, "You probably don't know how backward the communications in ancient times were, but you have to think that there is no Internet, no telephone, newspaper, and no mobile phone in this world. You have to find everyone through the Yanggujun channels. There is still a chance in the Song Dynasty, but what about the other three countries?"
Fu Feng was muffled and said at this moment: "I think what Brother Yao said makes sense."
Wu Xue flattened her mouth and muttered in a low voice: "Vii..."
"What?" Yang Renjie, who was sitting next to her, didn't hear it clearly and said in confusion, "Wu Xue, what did you say?"
"No!" After making a face, Wu Xue smiled and picked up a string of candied haws and licked them.
He glanced at Wu Xue speechlessly, Yao Ruoyu turned to look at the few people who didn't say anything, and said lightly: "I know this decision is hasty, and I have not notified everyone in advance, but I think this is the best method at this stage. On the one hand, let Ziqiang find everyone in the territory of the Song Dynasty through the Yanggu Army, and on the other hand, we travel around the world, visit other Three Kingdoms, and find everyone's traces."
"I always feel that Lao Yao, you have the feeling of committing suicide by separatism and apologizing..." Yang Renjie first joked, then smiled bitterly, "To be honest, I actually want to stay here to help the big trick, but after hearing what Lao Yao said, I think your plan is actually the best."
"Then let me listen to Brother Yao," Jiang Siyu, who had not spoken, suddenly raised his eyebrows and said calmly, "Only in this way can we find Li... everyone as quickly as possible."
Li Yilin shook at Jiang Siyu and laughed: "Actually, Sister Jiang, do you want to find Brother Jian as soon as possible?" It's a pity that no one noticed his words.
Chen Meng scratched her head with her thick eyebrows twisted into a word of embarrassment. It was obvious that he was also very worried. Seeing his frowning face, Wu Xue giggled, "Chen Meng, why do you think so much? Isn't it okay to follow the public anyway?"
"That's right!" Chen Meng suddenly felt enlightened when she heard this. She slapped her thigh hard. Just as she was about to continue speaking, Fu Feng beside her hit her shoulder hard.
When Chen Meng looked at him in confusion, he saw Fu Feng rubbing his shoulders and complaining, "Master, can you beat me even if you are excited?"
Wu Xue, who was watching coldly, smiled and complained: "Actually, the cute master wanted to pat his thigh, but accidentally patted your shoulders by the mad dog..."
"Don't stop me, I'm going to kill her!"
"Hey! Mad dog, calm down!"
"We are going up the mountain road again...Help!"
"Wow! You can't kill me!"
A few minutes later, everyone finally left the crumbling suspension bridge and lay on the car window with pale faces.
Wiping the cold sweat on his forehead, Yang Renjie said tremblingly: "We... are we still alive?"
"Well, it should be... still alive." Chen Meng, who hugged Yang Renjie's thighs tightly, nodding in a daze, as if he couldn't believe his escape from death.
Just as everyone was still immersed in the atmosphere of escaping death, Zhang Ziqiang slowly let go of the hair on the back of the black dragon's neck, wiped the cold sweat with lingering fear, but then he realized that there was still a handful of thick black hair in his palm. He suddenly became embarrassed, and quickly turned his head and pretended not to see the aggrieved gaze of the mount beneath him.
After passing several suspension bridges and several streets in succession, everyone finally arrived at the Chu Prince's Mansion.
The Chu Palace is located on Exiang Ridge in the west of Chongqing City. The entire mountain is located on the steep wall where the Yangtze River and the Jialing River meet north and south. Its shape looks like a goose neck, so it is named.
The terrain of Exiang Ridge is dangerous and steep, and it happens to be in the west of Chongqing City, becoming a natural defensive barrier for the city. Because of its special geographical environment, Chu Kuangge specially widened the size of the Chu Mansion, making it cover almost half of the Exiang Ridge.
In order to guard against the enemy army of the Jin Kingdom to the west, Chu Kuangge specially stationed the five armies of the Green Armor Camp, Kuangtu Camp, Peacock Camp, Yulan Camp and Miqing Camp to the Jade Army in the Chu Palace.
These five armies, which were close to one-third of the Yanggu Army, stood around the Chu family's private house and established five camps coded as gold, wood, water, fire and earth.
Because of this, the Chu Prince's Mansion showed no sign of standing on the mountain. On the contrary, the Chu Prince's Mansion with towering courtyard walls looked like a mountain. Starting from the outer courtyard wall to the Chu family's private house in the center, it completely covered the entire Exiang Ridge.
Chapter completed!