Xu Xingzhi and his companions walked in front of Gu Wei and Xie Ling, disguising themselves as a family fleeing famine, and passed through easily.
When it was Gu Wei's turn, the soldier frowned fiercely, looked at the portrait and then at him, his eyes serious, and touched his chin, not knowing what he was thinking.
Gu Wei narrowed his peach blossom eyes.
Inner thoughts.
Could it be that this soldier had such sharp eyes that he could actually see his own appearance from the portrait with a crooked mouth and face, and then recognize himself?
Xie Ling narrowed her eyes, stuffed a silver ingot into the soldier's hand, and said with a flattering smile, "It's so hot, sir, buy some wine."
The soldier's brows relaxed instantly and he waved his hand, "Go, go."
His face clearly showed: You two are the ones who know how to handle things.
Gu Wei frowned and was pulled away by Xie Ling, with a puzzled look on his face.
After walking away, Xie Ling signaled Gu Wei to look back.
Only then did Gu Wei realize the soldier's ugly appearance.
It turned out that whenever a man of the same age as the one in the portrait passed by, the group of soldiers would deliberately frown to put pressure on the passerby.
If you give him benefits, he will let people go.
If he didn't give him benefits, he would threaten him in a vicious tone, saying that he would take him to jail for interrogation.
Anyway, the soldier will not be fined if he catches the wrong person, but the pedestrian will have to spend a few days in jail for nothing.
So no matter how confused and angry pedestrians are, they have no choice but to pay this shameless "toll".
Gu Wei's eyes were filled with coldness. He shook his head with disappointment, "The officialdom in Beijiang is really too dark. Even when catching a criminal, the people below are so shady."
A country has its own destiny. Beijiang’s luck has run out, but the royal family is struggling to survive and maintain its last dignity.
I just don’t know who will be the first Purple Star to break through the siege and take over this crumbling empire.
When they reached a deserted place, Xie Ling took out a horse from the space, and the two rode towards Ningzhou.
The horses raised in the space are extraordinary. They are strong, tall, handsome and very fast.
Gu Wei is an excellent horseman, and he can travel through the mountains as if he were walking on flat ground.
When they crossed an extremely narrow mountain canyon, he pulled the reins and the horse's legs quickly crossed, stirring up a gust of mountain wind. Xie Ling's whole body retreated due to inertia and fell into his broad arms.
Gu Wei clenched his arms tightly, carefully protecting the person in his arms, and when the horse reached the wide official road, his thin lips raised an arc, and his tone was a little excited.
"This horse is better than the horses I had in the military camp before. It was just an ordinary war horse, but now it is almost as good as a Ferghana horse."
The most important thing is that I have a mutual understanding with him.
Even the warhorse he had raised himself at the age of seventeen could not reach this level.
In just half a day, the two arrived at the gate of Ningzhou City.
After all, Ningzhou is one of the largest cities in the south, and there are many carriages and horses at the city gate, and pedestrians are bustling about.
Gu Wei pulled the reins, stepped off the horse with his long legs, turned around, stretched out his hand, and carried Xie Ling down.
Everyone around looked over with curious eyes.
"Why do this master and servant look so strange?"
"Although the boy has rough skin, his waist is thinner than a woman's. The two of them might..."
Gu Wei had excellent hearing and he glanced over with a cold gaze, and the two men shut up in disappointment.
Xie Ling, who was standing aside, looked into the distance and found that there were still soldiers at the city gate holding portraits and judging people. She immediately pulled Gu Wei to a deserted place and added a few more strokes of heavy ink to his face.
The most important step in changing bone shape with makeup is contouring.
Xie Ling held a makeup brush and a contouring palette in her hand, deepening the shadows and changing the shape of the eyes. After a while, Gu Wei looked in the mirror and felt that he did not look like himself.
Xie Ling tied all her hair up and hunched her back, looking like a teenage book boy who had not yet grown up.
The two of them blended into the crowd and entered Ningzhou City safely.
Ningzhou City was very prosperous, with pedestrians coming and going everywhere, but there were relatively few soldiers on duty on the streets. I only saw three or five soldiers patrolling the city after walking two streets.
It is estimated that most of the soldiers were taken to Wuming Mountain by Chen Daoyu, and then wiped out by Xie Ling and his men.
The Ningzhou prefect probably doesn't know yet that his 3,000 elite soldiers have been wiped out, otherwise he would have been so angry that he died.
Ningzhou City was really big. The two of them walked through the streets and red-light districts, and when they arrived at the West Market where chickens, ducks and other poultry were sold, it was already dark.
Outside the West Market, you still have to walk through more than a dozen blocks before you can get out of Ningzhou City.
Gu Wei asked, "Do you want to rest for a night and leave tomorrow?"
Xie Ling nodded. "Xu Xingzhi and his men are numerous and slow, so they are probably still on the way. It won't hurt to wait for them."
The two planned to find an inn nearby to stay in and set off early the next morning.
After all, Xishi is a place for buying and selling poultry. By the evening, people had dispersed and there was a lot of sewage on the ground. After being exposed to the bright sun at noon, it gave off an unpleasant smell of animal excrement.
Near the poultry stall was a slave trading shop. There were many bamboo cages on the ground, most of which were empty. Only two of them still had people in them, which were particularly conspicuous.
Xie Ling glanced at it inadvertently and her eyes suddenly paused.
There were two people squatting in the bamboo cage, their hands and feet were handcuffed.
The figures vaguely resembled two girls, huddled in the depths of a bamboo cage like poultry, with ragged clothes and unkempt hair.
Xie Ling tugged at Gu Wei's sleeve and said, "Look, do those two look like Gu Yunshu and Gu Yunhuan?"
Gu Wei followed Xie Ling's gaze and frowned slightly.
“Something like that.”
The man guarding the bamboo cage noticed Gu Wei's gaze and immediately came over enthusiastically, shouting excitedly, "Sir, do you need servants? Those two girls are new. Although their faces are disfigured, they are very nimble and can do anything! It's getting late today. Originally, it was thirty taels per person, but now it's fifty! How about it?"
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