Chitose words

It is not difficult to guess from this posture that Peng Xiao must have been combing through the Forbidden Army to see if there were any suspicious people on the roads leading into the city a few days ago, so he had not yet thought of sending additional personnel to guard those leaving the city.

If the opportunity is too late to come back, how can a few of them hesitate now?

They each adjusted their breath speed and headed towards the gate of the North City.

If it had been half a year ago, Ling He and Han Changsheng, two honest children, might have felt guilty and suspicious due to their lack of experience in the world.

But obviously after these few months of experience, they have gained a lot of knowledge from traveling around.

Today, let alone fooling a few city gate guards guarding the city gate, even when the border guard general Peng Xiaopeng arrived, they still looked at Xie Zhao with their usual expressions as they fooled him into lameness.

"What do you do? Why are you leaving the city at this time?"

Seeing several young people dressed as Jianghu people entering and leaving the city gate during the first month of the year, the city gate guards would inevitably take a second look and question them.

Xie Zhao blinked with a smile and took over the conversation without any hesitation:

"Uncle, the hometown of our four brothers and sisters is in the Gejia Village in the mountains more than 70 miles outside Lanling City. I thought that I would be late this year and I would not be able to go back to the village to pay homage to our ancestors.

Unexpectedly, I heard that the princess and the queen were getting married, and the emperor had pardoned the city gates so that they could not go in or out. So a few of us thought of taking the opportunity to rush back to our hometown and go to the ancestral hall to burn incense and kowtow to the heads of our relatives who died young and renew the incense. "

The city gate guard who asked the question was an older man who looked like he was in his forties.

He had been blowing the wind at the gate of the city all morning, and now his face was full of weather. Hearing this, he frowned and looked at the clothes of several people, and then his eyes flickered on the weapons and swords held in their hands. pause.

Although Han Changsheng and Bo Xi carried warrior weapons with them, they never hid their heads or tails, so that was fine.

However, in the hands and waists of Ling You and Xie Zhao, they each had heavy swords and double maces that were half-hidden, making it difficult not to be suspicious of them.

The city gate guard frowned in a deep voice and said: "Since you are from Gejia Village and you want to pay homage to your ancestors, why don't you return home before the first month?

Judging from your appearance, you don't look like children in the village. You are obviously a member of the world, why are you lying? "

Xie Zhao didn't panic after hearing this.

She casually placed the famous sword "Golden Platform", which was wrapped in hemp rope and soil and had changed beyond recognition, on the ground, and sighed with a lonely look on her face, saying:

"Uncle, you don't know something. I'm not lying. In the first few years, there was a drought in Gyeonggi Province. Ten rooms in our village were empty, and several of our parents were gone.

The clan members in the village couldn't afford to support so many of us, and we thought we would starve to death, but suddenly we heard that there was a new "Support Department" established by the imperial court in Beijing.

Rumor has it that the 'Maintenance Department' is not only responsible for the food and accommodation of the refugees, but also provides children with free education!

So the village elders gathered together and decided to send us children, who were unable to work and had lost our parents, to Zhaoge. It was at that time that the four of us, brothers and sisters, entered Zhaoge together. "

Xie Zhao had a look of reminiscence on his face, and his acting was really like that.

She half-truthfully said: "Later, because we were young and had some talent for learning martial arts, we were sent to the largest escort bureau in Beijing, 'Qinglongzhan' by the chief of the 'Maintenance Department'. It has been more than ten years since the martial arts master took him as his disciple and taught him martial arts."

Xie Zhao's authentic Zhaogejing movie sounds immediately dispelled the vigilance of the city gate guards, not to mention that the "story" she told was true.

Many years ago, Gyeonggi Province was hit by a drought, and many villages suffered.

The "Maintenance Department" was established around the time of that incident, and it also rescued many nearby refugees at that time.

However, since the "Maintenance Department" had very limited manpower when it was first established, most of them were seconded from the Shentai Palace and the Ministry of Household Affairs, so it was unable to coordinate and accommodate too many people at once.

Therefore, that year, some famous martial arts families in Beijing or nearby Gyeonggi Province and aristocratic families with innocent family backgrounds also volunteered to help the country under the appeal of the imperial court and accepted some refugees who were also beneficial to them - Zhao The No. 1 Escort Agency "Qinlongzhan" is one of them.

After Xie Zhao's hard-to-distinguish combination of punches, not to mention the forty-year-old simple-minded city gate guard, even Ling You, Han Changsheng and others all had expressions on their faces. Squeaked.

I was filled with emotion in my heart. Xie Zhao is really lying to others without any discussion!

Just open your mouth and come! It sounds like the truth! The old city gatekeeper believed what he said. Not only did his eyes warm up, but he even looked at them with eyes full of pity and sympathy.

"Ah! I remember the drought. The situation that year was really miserable! At that time, thanks to Her Royal Highness Princess Tianchen's advice to His Majesty the late Emperor, she immediately organized the priests of the Shentai Palace to establish the 'Support Department' and saved the There are many old, weak, women and children who should have died."

In fact, when the "Maintenance Department" was first established, in addition to the Shentai Palace, the first noble family in the Southern Dynasty headed by the Xunyang Xie family contributed the most.

It’s just that the Xie family of Xunyang and Xie Lin of Shangzhu Kingdom have always kept a low profile. They were worried that being too famous would be a bad thing, so they didn’t want to make any public announcements.

Therefore, not many people know about it, and most people think that it was the "Shentai Palace" and the imperial court that started it under the advice of Princess Tianchen.

When the old city gatekeeper said this, he looked at them up and down for a moment and sighed:

"Although your life was miserable when you were young, you also met great nobles. Look, after so many years, how well have you fared?

Nowadays, all of them have grown into good children with outstanding talents, and the hard work of the noble people in the past has not been in vain! If Princess Tianchen sees what you are like now, she will definitely be happy for you. "

He nodded with great comfort and said:

"It is a big deal to go back and worship your ancestors, but you should not forget your roots, and don't forget to kowtow to the noble person in front of the everlasting lantern enshrined to the eldest princess in the ancestral hall."

Most of the villages in Gyeonggi Province that suffered disasters were rescued by the "Secretary of Support". Later, almost every village ancestral hall spontaneously set up an ever-burning lantern for Princess Cheonchen.

Every year when worshiping the ancestors, the lantern must be renewed for Princess Cheonchen. This has long been a custom in the villages near Gyeonggi Province where people suffered.

Xie Zhao scratched his chin with rare guilt.

She hesitantly said "Huh" and smiled a little reluctantly.

"What uncle said is, you must knock, you must knock."

Let her kowtow to him?

But pull it down!

Ling You and others glanced at her with smiles in their eyes, and couldn't help laughing.

At this time, the city gate guard also checked the four of them one by one. After confirming that they were correct, he handed the road back to them, raised his hand and urged:

"Okay, okay, young man, soon the steward at Princess An Ning's residence will finish counting the fleet and will leave the city. Please hurry up and don't block the road at the city gate."

Ling You's road guide was really unreal, but Xie Zhao, Han Changsheng and Bo Xi's were fakes that were more genuine than real. The old city gatekeeper really didn't see anything special about them.

In addition, he had just been relaxed by the story Xie Zhao had told before, so he allowed them to pass without any grudges.

"Hey!"

Xie Zhao quickly nodded with a brisk expression.

"Thank you, uncle. I wish you a happy new year and a happy family. See you soon."

The old city guard was old and naturally liked the sweet-tongued juniors. Hearing this, he burst out laughing.

"Let's go!"

Several people were hurriedly preparing to leave, but suddenly, from a distance, someone quickly approached!

Xie Zhaoren didn't turn around, but when he heard the sound behind him, his expression changed immediately!

She urged in a low voice with a cold face:

"go!"

The expressions of Ling You, Han Changsheng, and Bo Xi also changed. They knew that the situation was different, but this was not the time to ask more questions, so they quickly cheered up and left!

The man behind him saw several people trying to escape, and immediately said in a deep voice:

"I am the priest of Shentai Palace, the city gate guard, and I close the city gate!"