Jun Huailang did not expect that Jun Xiaowu would actually take him to a post house outside the city.
The post house is located outside the north gate of Chang'an. It has been built for some years. The three-storey building, the wooden structure has been worn and mottled.
The post house was not built by an official family. There were many traders and pawns, pedestrians and merchants taking a rest here. There were many carts, horses, donkeys and mules parked at the entrance, which looked very lively.
The two of them went out of the house, and in order not to attract attention, they did not take the carriage of the imperial government. Therefore, the car stopped at the entrance of the post house, and it merged into the lively scene in an instant.
"What are you doing here?" Jun Huailang got out of the car and was taken aback by the scene in front of him. He stopped at the door and asked in confusion.
Surrounded by ordinary people in coarse clothes, chatting and laughing loudly. There are merchants drinking horses and mules by the roadside, and porters loading and unloading goods. People come and go, making a lot of noise.
Although he is not a young man who stays behind all day long and doesn't eat human fireworks, he has never been to such a place with strong market atmosphere.
Jun Xiaowu was like a duck to water, and pushed him in with a smile.
Jun Xiaowu led him up to the second floor with ease, then found a seat by the window and sat down.
There is no decoration in this post house. It is the simplest wooden structure. The tables and chairs are also rough wood with no discernible material, but they are clean.
The setting sun outside the window shone in dimly, which was quite old-fashioned.
The two of them were all dressed in brocade and splendid clothes, and they were not stained with fine dust. When they sat here, they immediately attracted a lot of attention.
"Second guest, what would you like?" The little Er in the store stepped forward quickly and poured tea for the two of them.
"Come warm a pot of yellow wine and cut half a catty of beef." Jun Xiaowu raised his leg up on the stool and said familiarly. "Make a few more dishes that you are good at, and more rights should be rewarded with money."
Saying that, he put a piece of silver on the table.
Xiao Er knew that a big customer had come, and his eyes were so happy that he accepted the money again and again, and then retreated.
Jun Huailang looked at Jun Xiaowu.
Over the years, this kid has developed a taste of a soldier in the military camp. At this moment, here, with his feet up, shouting for wine and meat, how can he seem to have the slightest demeanor of a nobleman
He knocked on the table and said with a light smile, "What does it look like if you don't put your legs down yet?"
Jun Xiaowu smiled and put away his legs obediently.
"You brought me out today just to come here for a drink?" Jun Huailang asked.
Jun Xiaowu propped his elbows on the table, leaned closer and smiled, "Isn't this meant for you!"
Then, he said as a matter of course: "I see that you are not very happy during this time. Thinking about it, you are reluctant to leave home?"
Jun Huailang was taken aback.
He didn't feel that he was in a bad mood during this time, but when Jun Xiaowu said this, he couldn't help thinking of Xue Yan again.
Indeed, he was missing a thank you. When he was in the palace, he left without saying goodbye, but now that he left so quietly, he always felt that it should not be, and he couldn't help but feel a little stuck in his heart.
He looked down at the rough tea on the table, and after a while said softly, "No, I just didn't have the chance to say goodbye to an old friend."
When Jun Xiaowu heard the words, he didn't hear anything at all, instead he raised his legs as he should, and said, "Why don't you have a chance, why don't you invite him for a drink?"
If it was an old friend next to him, it would be easy, but this old friend was an old friend in the palace.
Jun Huailang smiled lightly and shook his head: "But it's not easy."
Jun Xiaowu seemed to understand but he didn't understand, so he lengthened his voice.
While speaking, Xiao Er had already brought rice wine and beef to the table. Jun Huailang simply changed the subject and asked, "How did you find this store?"
Jun Xiaowu's attention was immediately diverted, and he smiled: "When I went to Yumen Pass, I was reluctant to leave home, and I regretted it when I left the city. But when I thought that my father would not let me practice martial arts, I was so angry that I looked for it on the side of the road. A post house, drank a big bowl of yellow wine, dropped the bowl and left."
Jun Huailang burst out laughing.
"How old were you at the time, twelve or thirteen-year-old boy, came here to drink?"
Jun Xiaowu didn't care at all, he picked up a piece of beef and threw it into the mouth: "So what? I thought at the time, I'm going to Yumen Pass, and I'll stay there forever. When I'm an adult, I'll fight with my uncle and never come back. ."
Jun Huailang was so amused by him that he supported the table and laughed.
"But it's still coming back, and you've given your father a bit of a thin face." He said with a smile.
Jun Xiaowu grimaced when he heard the words: "After all, the sand at the border is not delicious. After staying for a long time, I still want to go home."
Saying that, he picked up the wine bowl and touched Jun Huailang's.
Jun Huailang touched him a cup, raised his head and drank the yellow wine.
The rice wine outside the city is completely different from the wine he usually drinks. He was used to drinking wine with a delicate and clear taste, but he had never had such a hot, throat-scorching drink. Jun Huailang's eyebrows wrinkled involuntarily after drinking a cup.
Seeing him frown, Jun Xiaowu patted the table and smiled: "Isn't it very strong? I only took a sip and tears came down."
The strong wine entered his throat, scalding Jun Huailang's stomach for a while, almost provoking him to tears. However, after that, a mellow sweetness spread in his mouth, which attracted Jun Huailang's admiration: "It's a good wine."
At this moment, Jun Xiaowu patted his arm and asked him to look out.
"Brother, look there," he said.
Jun Huailang looked out the window, and saw a plain white covered in silver outside the simple edge of the window.
Unlike the eaves and pavilions seen in the palace, the outside is a flat and vast wilderness, and you can see the horizon at a glance. In the distance, there are continuous hills and peaks.
At this time, the sun was thin, and the golden sunset cast a golden glow on the wilderness and sky outside the window.
Jun Xiaowu smiled smugly: "Brother, isn't it good-looking? I was sitting here when I left. After drinking that bowl of wine, I just glanced outside and saw such a vast world. I immediately stopped. I can't bear it anymore, I just want to go out to Chang'an and see what the place is like in the distance."
Jun Huailang looked straight out the window.
The white snow on the plains is connected to the blue sky, and a long and narrow khaki-yellow commercial road spreads all the way to the north. It was already dark, and there were very few merchants traveling, but many people came from afar, and traveled to Chang'an from a distance.
It is indeed a rare sight in the city.
Jun Huailang couldn't help but think of another person in his mind.
Xue Yan.
A year ago, he was also on this road, walking alone, all the way from Yan County in the extreme north to Chang'an, right
With this thought, Jun Huailang felt a little absurd.
What's the matter, Xue Yan Xue Yan, is it because you have been with him for a long time, and you have to think of him in everything you do
But Jun Huailang also had to admit that Xue Yan saved his life, but he didn't have time to repay anything. This kind of debt to others caused people to miss him the most.
At this moment, Jun Xiaowu suddenly made a "huh".
"Why are there still officers and soldiers here?" He looked downstairs, surprised.
When Jun Huailang heard the words, he also looked down.
Sure enough, a team of officers and soldiers riding fast horses, with a hundred and ten people, quickly surrounded the post house. This group of officers and soldiers were obviously well-trained. As they walked all the way, they could only hear the sound of neat horse hooves and the sound of knives and guns colliding.
The group of merchants and pawns at the door were all driven into the inn like mules and horses, and none of them were allowed to come out.
Behind it slowly is a carriage, surrounded by a few guarding soldiers.
The carriage was not in a hurry, it drove all the way calmly, and slowly stopped at the door of the inn.
One of the soldiers opened the curtain and spoke a few words inside. It was dark inside the carriage, and it was impossible to see who was sitting inside from upstairs.
Then, the soldier bowed respectfully, and ordered loudly, "Search!"
The group of officers and soldiers set off immediately, guarded the doors and windows, and went in to search.
"...Looks like someone from the Ministry of Punishment." Jun Huailang frowned for a while and said.
Jun Xiaowu Nahan: "What are you searching for here, is there a fugitive?"
Jun Huailang didn't know it, so he just shook his head.
Jun Xiaowu was crooked by the window, looking bored and lively. He suddenly remembered something, smiled and said to Jun Huailang, "Brother, have you heard? The Fifth Highness in the aunt's palace entered the court at the beginning of this year, and it was the Ministry of Punishment who was arranged by the emperor."
Jun Huailang was taken aback for a moment: "Entering the court... going to the Ministry of Punishment?"
He didn't know at all.
Jun Xiaowu said: "Yeah, I heard about it when I went out to play with someone a few days ago. I heard that the emperor suddenly used him very much, and he said that he handled the case in the Department of Prudence and Punishment well, so he found him directly in the Department of Punishment. There is a vacancy... Mother, not to mention that he is only sixteen after the new year, doesn't he still have two emperor brothers? Why does the emperor suddenly favor him so much... "
The second prince has never been able to have the Sacred Heart, and the emperor only said that he should study for two more years, which Jun Huailang knew. The fourth prince was originally outstanding among princes, but when it was time to enter the dynasty this year, it was only natural that it was put on hold because of an accident with his biological mother.
When the prince entered the dynasty, he would naturally not be involved in the affairs of the dynasty and China at the beginning, but followed the officials to practice and learn.
But even so, it is naturally clear at a glance who the emperor prefers and values.
Could it be that Emperor Qingping was not at all afraid of the so-called evil star coming into the world
Jun Huailang only felt a little magical.
Could it be because of his rebirth that disrupted many things in his previous life, so that Xue Yan's time to enter the court as an official was so much earlier
He remembered that in his previous life, Xue Yan first came to prominence, when he was in the Jiangnan rebellion in his previous life, when there was no general in the court, and he was sent south to pacify the rebellion.
It's so different now...
While the two were chatting, the officers and soldiers had already searched upstairs. Both of them were young masters in brocade clothes, and they were let go without being questioned.
After a while, several people were escorted out of the guest room on the third floor.
The leader was a young man dressed in commoner clothes. Although his clothes were simple, he could see the extravagance of his body. Behind him were two young women, one of whom was older, holding two young sons in his hand.
It's a big family.
"This... how did the Ministry of Punishment arrest a group of women and children?" Jun Xiaowu was surprised, and stretched his neck to look.
Jun Huailang tapped the table and said, "Don't be right or wrong."
Jun Xiaowu responded, but was still curious.
They sat far away from the stairs, and when the group came down, they couldn't see anything.
Jun Xiaowu stretched out his head and looked out the window again.
Jun Huailang had never been so curious as he was, so he drank tea by himself and waited for those people to escort them away. But the people were escorted down, but there was still silence below, and there was no sound of officers and soldiers retreating.
Jun Huailang casually glanced out the window.
Then, he saw that the curtain of the carriage was lifted by the soldiers, and a footstool was placed in front of the carriage.
The man sitting in the car slowly got out of the car.
He was tall and tall, tall and straight, without a crown, and his long hair was tied in a golden belt.
He was wearing a heavy black brocade cloak, and when he got out of the car, the cloak was bulging up, which was quite graceful and extravagant.
As soon as he stopped in front of the carriage, a soldier stepped forward and bowed to invite him into the building.
Jun Huailang's eyes froze, the teacup in his hand shook slightly, and it swayed a little and landed in his hand.
The person who got off the carriage turned out to be Xue Yan.