The Heavens: Thousands of Households Starting from Number One in the World

Chapter 19

In the morning, Meng Jing opened her eyes from practicing meditation.

The first night at the Longmen Inn was not too unfriendly, not to mention the wind and sand outside, Meng Jing didn't dare to really fall asleep just because the place was full of dangers.

The whole night was spent practicing hard, because Meng Jing didn't want others to think that he was the king of hanging.

There will always be people who question him, is it because he is good at martial arts?Didn't you see him practicing persistently for 25 hours?

After leaving the guest room and walking down the stairs, looking at the deserted inn, Meng Jing yelled at the clerk who was doing bookkeeping: "Didn't there be a lot of people yesterday? Why are there no customers today?"

The guy who was immersed in the calculation looked up and saw Meng Jing, his expression changed slightly, but he forced a smile.

"The guest officer doesn't know, the wind and sand stopped outside last night, several waves of merchants left on their way, and now there are only a few guest officers staying in the inn."

Meng Jing, who knew it well, didn't say much. The gangsters and some wanted criminals saw Meng Jing killing people without blinking an eye yesterday, and his martial arts were strong. They were frightened and braved the wind and sand to leave Longmen. Inn.

Meng Jing sat at the table, looked at the guy who poured tea for him, and asked in a puzzled tone: "Where is your shopkeeper? Why is no one there?"

The clerk's expression froze slightly, and he said with a dry smile: "The shopkeeper, she, she went to the gate early this morning to discuss business!"

Meng Jing, who was drinking crude tea, let out a sigh, and then enjoyed breakfast. Of course, Meng Jing would never eat any meat in Longmen Inn.

Meng Jing, who was eating breakfast, moved her ears slightly, and heard a series of sounds coming from outside the inn, but when she listened carefully, it was densely packed with the sound of horseshoes.

bang!
The tall Bianguan Qianhu walked into the inn with gold inlaid jade in his arms, followed by a group of soldiers, all of whom were dressed in cloth armor and red clothes. The soldiers' faces were weathered and their lips were chapped. When they entered the inn, they turned into hunting dogs. Looked around.

But to their disappointment, there seemed to be no business travelers inside, just Meng Jing who was alone, eating breakfast and drinking morning tea alone.

A large number of border guards quickly filled the entire inn, and some soldiers had no seats, so they sat directly on Meng Jing's table, grabbing the breakfast in Meng Jing's bowl with dirty hands very rudely.

Meng Jing didn't get angry when she watched her food being gradually eaten up by a few ruffian soldiers.

At this time, Meng Jing looked at the gold inlaid jade in Bianguan Qianhu's arms with a smile that was not a smile, and the gold inlaid jade noticed that Meng Jing's eyes met her, and then cast a wink.

It seems that gold inlaid with jade is not dead.

"Little fox, there is no business today! Could it be that the wind is blowing as you said? All your guests have run away?" Bianguan Qianhu laughed and said.

"Yes, Lord Qianhu, there was indeed a gust of evil wind last night... many people were swept away by the evil wind!" Jin Xiangyu winked at Meng Jing again while speaking.

"Where does the evil wind come from in this world? If there is a demon, it must be caused by someone... But my heart is very hot, and I need the evil wind of this little fox to extinguish the fire!" Bian Guan Qianhu squeezed the gold inlaid jade buttocks , while blowing hot air in his ear.

Jin Xiangyu twisted her body in Bianguan Qianhu's arms, and responded: "If you want to borrow my mother to turn off the fire, then my lord has to do me a favor."

Qianhu's tongue became parched, just now Jin Xiangyu deliberately touched his yang-like place, nodded repeatedly and gasped, "You can say whatever you want!"

"It's that person. Yesterday when he came to the inn, he beat his wife and a guest to death, and scared many of the guests away." Seeing the gold inlaid jade picture, she didn't explain the situation at the beginning. Thinking Bianguan Qianhu deceived here, and finally revealed the real purpose.

Displeasure flashed across Bianguan Qianhu's eyes, but looking at the delicate gold inlaid jade, the displeasure also flashed away, but he said with a murderous tone: "If you dare to do this again in the future, be careful, I will kill you directly!" Dude, hum!"

Then he put down the gold inlaid jade, walked towards Meng Jing, and then took out the stack of wanted warrants tied behind him, and compared them one by one. Seeing that there was no one in the wanted warrants that matched Meng Jing, he immediately repeated the comparison again. Yes, Bianguan Qianhu smiled, and he found a wanted warrant that looked similar to Meng Jing.

"Where did you come from? Where are you going? What's your name?" Bianguan Qianhu said coldly holding a wanted warrant that he thought resembled Meng Jing.

Meng Jing looked up at Qianhu at the border, and said seriously, "My lord, I'm not a wanted criminal. My lord needs to be aware of the details!"

"Laughing so lasciviously, it looks like Li Zhen, the wanted criminal who raped young girls." Bianguan Qianhu said in a cold voice, and then threw the wanted warrant in front of Meng Jing's eyes.

Originally, it didn't matter to Meng Jing when he heard the other party say that his smile was obscene and lascivious, after all, framing is common in this chaotic Longmen.

It's just that the arrest warrant fell, and when he saw the portrait above, his smile stopped abruptly.

Is there really such a lewd and wretched thing?

Meng Jing took a deep breath, calmed down the heart that wanted to turn Qianhu's head off, and returned to her usual smile, picked up a cup of tea and said: "My lord, I am not Li Zhen, my lord made a mistake!"

On the way of speaking, he stuffed the bank notes of Qianliang into the hands of Qianhushi at the border gate.

When Meng Jing took out the 1000 taels of silver notes, Jin Xiangyu and her fellows almost stared at the silver notes in Qianhu's hands.

Thousands of households at the border gate saw that it was 1000 taels from the corner of their eyes, and they immediately smiled, then looked at Meng Jing seriously, and said: "It is indeed not Li Zhen, the obscene demon, it is my mistake."

"My lord has insight, I'm new to Longmen, and I'm not familiar with the place where I live. Today I see Lord Qianhu's burly body and mighty aura, so I can't help feeling like a friend. Would you like to invite him to have a cup of tea?" Meng Jing said.

"There's no need to make friends or drink tea. For the sake of money, let me tell you something. Because a famous felon wanted to take the criminals out of the customs later, the imperial court pardoned Longmen Pass. The border pass has not been peaceful during this period. It’s better to leave Longmen Inn to avoid disaster!” Bianguan Qianhu said.

Just about to order the soldiers to 'send' Meng Jing out of the inn, Qianhu Bianguan found that Meng Jing had handed him another thousand silver bills, and he couldn't close his mouth with a smile for a second, and said: "Okay, what do you want to talk about? But I want to tell you, I will not do anything that violates the military discipline of the Ming Dynasty!"

In the distance, Jin Xiangyu, who was surrounded by inn clerks, pouted, looked at Qianhu who saw Qianhu opening his eyes resentfully, stomped his feet and said, "I knew it was unreliable, and I forgot everything when I saw Qianhu!"

"Shopkeeper, I found out that we lost money. That guy is really a fat sheep, and he took out 2000 taels at once!" said a clerk with a look of missing a good opportunity.

"Aren't you the one who sent me to find Qianhu today?" Jin Xiangyu blushed angrily and said angrily.

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In the guest room, Meng Jing introduced Qianhu from the border gate and several guards behind him, and when he was about to make tea for reception, he heard Qianhu say.

"Longmen doesn't have so many rules, you fart fast, I'm waiting to vent my fire!" Bianguan Qianhu said.

Immediately, Meng Jing took out a token under the watchful eyes of Bianguan Qianhu and others, and Meng Jing threw the token to Bianguan Qianhu calmly.

Bianguan Qianhu took the token suspiciously, saw the engraved handwriting on the token, his expression changed slightly, and then he said with a smile: "So it's Meng Qianhu, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

"However, my official and Meng Qianhu both work for the Ming Dynasty, but they have different bosses in different systems...Of course, if Meng Qianhu has an imperial mission, as long as you notify me, I will naturally help you if you can. But... Longmen Inn is the official site, I hope Meng Qianhu won't make plans with it! Otherwise..." Bianguan Qianhu's tone was a little murderous at the end.

Meng Jing, who showed the Jinyiwei waist badge, had already guessed that the other party would not take him seriously. Maybe the status of Jinyiwei had a deterrent effect on the administrative officials in the mainland of Ming Dynasty, but what was that to the border guards?
Even the gaining power of Dongchang, the border guards only dealt with it with a perfunctory attitude.

In this regard, Meng Jing still said that he had done enough homework.

According to the location of the dragon gate, it is not difficult to guess who the defenders are. Before Meng Jing came, Liu Shiyi had prepared his trump card.

Immediately, Meng Jing took out a golden scroll from the luggage under the curious eyes of Qianhu at the border.

Bianguan Qianhu paused, and then stared at the golden scroll excitedly. It was a brocade fabric made of silk. The pattern was auspicious clouds and auspicious cranes. The giant dragon, Bianguan Qianhu's lips began to tremble when he saw the whole picture of the scroll.

"This...is the Holy...Holy...Decree?"

Bianguan Qianhu, who had never seen the imperial decree, was at a loss and looked flustered.

"Lord Qianhu, this is what Master Liu specially sought for you. It's a good job." Meng Jing didn't read the contents of the imperial decree, but said seriously to Qianhu at the border.

Hearing that it was a good job, Bianguan Qianhu was immediately excited, and said in a trembling tone: "I have never seen an imperial decree in my life, can Master Meng touch it for me?"

This edict was indeed requested by Liu Shiyi from the emperor, as for how Liu Shiyi obtained it, Meng Jing had no way of knowing.But Meng Jing had discussed with Liu Shiyi before setting off that if Cao Shaoqin really wanted to be killed, it was best to get rid of it, and not allow a person from Dongchang who knew about it to escape back to the capital.So Liu Shiyi suggested that Meng Jing borrow the strength of the border guards.

Meng Jing handed the imperial decree to Qianhu.

Qianhu took the imperial decree carefully, opened it slowly, and read the content of the imperial decree word by word, then his face became rosy and joyful, and then he looked at the imperial decree as if he were looking at a peerless beauty.

"Master Meng, you haven't proclaimed the will of the Holy Spirit!" Bianguan Qianhu said respectfully.

Bianguan Qianhu was in a state of excitement, and he read the content directly, which is indeed a great thing!It is what he wants most in his life.

If he can complete it, he will be able to leave this desolate desert and go to Beijing to report on his duties. From then on, he will join Jinyiwei and go to the prosperous place of the capital to enjoy his life.

He had been guarding Longmen Pass for more than ten years, and his money was pitifully low. He heard that Jin Yiwei ransacked his home once, and the Jin Yiwei headed by him could make thousands of taels of money in one go.

He is a rough man, and he struggles in this world for money and women.In this pass, with a little oil and water, a woman with a radius of a hundred miles can only be seen with gold and jade.

"You have read all the content!" Meng Jing said: "Why don't you read it yourself? Don't put too much pressure on it. The function of the imperial decree is nothing more than to make those who hear the decree obey the order! As for whether I read it or not, the main thing is Will those who hear the will obey the will of the Holy One?"

"That's right, what Master Meng said is right."

Qianhu stood solemnly, straightened his body, slowly unfolded the imperial decree, and read in correct words: "Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, the imperial edict said: I checked the documentary files of Longmen Border Pass in the early years, and saw that Qianhu Xu Dali worked hard...not working hard...guarding Longmen... It can be seen that it is upright, it can be seen that it is the pillar of the country... But now the country is in trouble, the amnesty guard Xu Dali followed Jinyiwei Meng Jing to co-handle the case of the Minister of the Ministry of War... This is the case! Afterwards, he was allowed to have more than [-] families of Jinyiwei..."

In fact, there are many imperial decrees, except for the main content, the rest of the emperor praised his outstanding political achievements and those insignificant words... Seeing Xu Dali who was in high spirits, wanted to read it again after reading it, Meng Jing immediately stopped him.

"Master Xu, do you still have doubts?" Meng Jing asked.

"No more, I'm afraid of the lowly position. Master Meng can just call me Dali in the future!" Xu Dali turned into a licking dog and said next to Meng Jing: "The lowly position can go through fire and water for Master Meng at any time!"

"Daily?" Meng Jing was taken aback.

"Hey!"

Xu Dali showed Meng Jing a dog-licking smile, and the corners of Meng Jing's mouth twitched.

Xu Dali turned to the envious and respectful soldiers, and said with a cold expression: "If anyone else knows what happened in the guest room, I will chop off your heads... and that bitch with gold inlaid jade who offended Meng My lord, tell the brothers below to capture her and sacrifice her to Lord Meng!"

Meng Jing drank his tea calmly, and when he heard the other party's immediate action, he secretly added a wave of points to Xu Dali, but Meng Jing weighed the pros and cons in his heart whether he should catch the gold inlaid jade or not.

But suddenly he heard that he wanted to dedicate gold inlaid jade to himself, and the tea he had just swallowed spouted out, and the tea just sprayed on the face of the courteous Xu Dali.

"My lord, even the posture of spraying tea is so elegant, it's worth learning for a lifetime!!" Xu Dali wiped off the tea on his face, and said seriously.

Meng Jing looked at Xu Dali in shock.

(End of this chapter)