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Chapter Thirteen Guangcheng

After walking for a few more days on the road, Chen Mu did not talk to Bai Yuanjie or Zhang Yongshou anymore, and was far away from the car when he was walking. To be honest, he was a little scared of these hundred households and Xiaoqi.

The night battle in Heiling made him feel that he was no different from these Ming people. He even started to be more fierce than them. He killed the most people in the whole battle! People also feared him, but somehow, since Bai Yuanjie said those words to him that night, Chen Mu felt fearless in his heart for no reason.

He didn't know what everyone was thinking behind his face, nor did he understand the subtext that only people of this era understood. But he knew that these wise people might not be more powerful than him, but they must be more cruel than him.

Even if they can kill people, there is a difference between the murderer and the murderer.

He remembered what he looked like after killing people. He killed people because the thief was coming to kill him. Even so, he still couldn't suppress the impact of life that the legal education formed over the past 20 years and the impact of his experiences from five hundred years ago, which made him worried, afraid, afraid, nervous, and frightened.

He had seen Bai Yuanjie kill people more than once. He took a piece of paper and said something, nodded slightly, and the old lame man was hanged on the platform by a rope; at night in Heiling, Chen Guan dropped his spear and turned his head and ran faster than a rabbit. Chen Mu, who was confused, ignored others at all, but Bai Yuanjie could take care of him and pulled the bow and shot the arrow without hesitation. After killing, Chen Mu could always hear Bai Yuanjie's sigh. What made Chen Mu feel ironic was that he sighed that those who died under him had gone the wrong way.

Chen Mu was not in the mood to inquire about what the flag dean who was dragged into the forest had done to meet this, and was not even curious whether the person was dead or alive. He only knew that just taking care of himself would have exhausted him physically and mentally. He was like a beast covered in the outer skin of a Ming man hidden in the human world to learn their principles of conduct, or the world five hundred years ago was full of human faces and beasts.

All this is nothing to Chen Mu. If he wants to survive, only by living is important.

After crossing three mountains and crossing two rivers, the people next to the road are no longer as sparse as those near Qingyuanwei. The terrain becomes flat, and you can see endless paddy fields. There are more villages next to the road, and people even paved stalls along the road to sell sea fish transported from the seaside hundreds of miles away. The spacious dirt road where three carriages can be used to run parallel gradually became crowded. The people saw them, officers and soldiers wearing military uniforms, knives and guns, avoiding them, not to mention that they were carrying more than a dozen bodies behind their horses.

Zhang Yongshou became excited and came to the front of the queue to talk to Chen Mu and other country bumpkins about the glory of Guangzhou City. He pointed to the dark shadow gradually rising from the horizon and shouted: "Look, Guangzhou City!"

Chen Mu had never seen such a large city wall. The walls of Guangzhou Prefecture were taller and more majestic than he thought. As they walked forward, a huge and wide black shadow gradually formed, which was the gate and wall in the southwest corner of Guangzhou City. Zhang Yongshou said that the four walls of Guangzhou City were 3,796 meters around, totaling 151,92 steps. In Chen Mu's eyes, the huge and prosperous Guangzhou City was like a mountain. The city rose on a slope four or five meters high, and there was a city wall close to three meters high. In fact, the battlements and muzzles were majestic.

Through the distant city, you can also see the eaves of the towering buildings in the city walls intertwined, and the sunlight is extremely magnificent.

"I've never seen such a big city!"

Zhang Yongshou did not find a shocked expression on Chen Mu's face, and was bored by his pilgrimage expression. Instead, Shao Tingda, a silly man, looked at the city wall in a distance with dull eyes, as if he couldn't move his legs. Then he leaned over there and smiled, "Walk for more than ten miles, the people outside the city are densely covered with no footsteps. Humph, I will surely open your eyes in a while!"

As he said that, Zhang Yongshou sent two flag directors who could ride horses to run first, and went to Guangzhou Government Office to ask about the Heiling thieves' head-level reward. After that, Zhang Yongshou seemed to have no desire to continue showing off, but his pace unconsciously accelerated a lot. During the journey, there were more small movements such as gently rubbing his index finger with his thumb.

He was nervous, thinking about something.

Chen Mu thought that he was calculating whether the head level he brought was enough to be promoted to the 100 households.

In fact, Zhang Yongshou did not have anything to show off. As he got closer and closer to Guangzhou Prefecture, people felt less and less shocked at the beginning. Instead, they fell into curiosity about the scenery around them. Just like the world in the past, it was shocking to look down on every city, but people living there did not feel this way, because before they knew it, Chen Mu was already in it.

Pedestrians on the road were shoulder to shoulder, and there were hawkings one after another along the streets outside the official road city. There were even streets full of food shops. Merchants selling sea fish, river crabs and other plain cloth clothes in blue, black put aquatic products in the jar and hawk them; vendors selling roasted suckling pigs, smoked pork, and stewed dog meat hung the prepared pig outside the shop to attract diners; farmers selling frogs used a short wrist-removing knife to open the mouth from the frog's back and picked out the flesh quickly; the people wearing silk clothes and silk clothes on the road were "given for one" and "borrowed" and heard noise everywhere in their ears.

Further away, a huge and luxurious pleasure boat is docked on the bank of the moat with a wide wall. There are all pavilions and towers on the boat. In between, you can even see young scholars wearing square flat scarves and quiet light-colored shirts and robes drinking at each other.

There are so many things that make people dazzled.

Chen Mu and his group did not enter the city, and most of them were not allowed to enter the city with muskets. Bai Yuanjie found a hotel to settle them. After all, he and Zhang Yongshou also had to do some things to pay their respects to the city and stayed in Guangzhou Prefecture for two days.

Everyone handed over the account post to the shopkeeper and registered it on the storefront. Bai Yuanjie whispered to Chen Mu and told Chen Mu about the precautions in the city, "After changing the money, you can visit the three streets and six cities outside the city. You should buy a pair of good boots. If it is good wine, Guangzhou Mansion Soup and Nan wine are available, and even Jinhua wine can be bought easily. Guangcheng Jia people are mostly gentle in nature, with prices equal to one or two interest rates, not like Wuzhong."

Although Guangzhou Prefecture is a hundred miles away from Qingyuanwei, they should have given up their way out, but the hundred household seals on Bai Yuanjie are the best way out.

As he said that, Bai Yuanjie opened his hand on Chen Mu and Shao Tingda's shoulders, and showed an intriguing smile and said, "If you go to look for flowers and willows, the average price of those who are leaning against the door is only three to five cents of silver. If you really want to bear it, even a famous prostitute in Guangcheng can stay for one night. As long as you don't miss it, you will leave for two days after the trip!"

Shao Tingda's eyes were shining with light, and she wished she could get more knowledge now. When Chen Muze heard Bai Yuanjie's words about looking for flowers and asking about willows, he suddenly had goose bumps on his body. The willows were sick!

At this moment, Zhang Yongshou walked from the hotel patio with two flags and red lights, clapping his hands and smiling, "Chen Erlang, you are rich!"

Note: Store sheet - the account book of the registered household of the store, submitted to the government office for inspection every month, and there will be inspections by official officials from time to time.
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