The corridors, courtyards, attics, garden pavilions, and the drizzle washes the white stones and green tiles with exceptional clarity.
Perhaps because of the rain, there were not many pedestrians on the street. Occasionally, some men and women passed by with umbrellas, but most of them walked in a hurry and soon disappeared at the end of the street.
A waiter in blue cloth walked quickly across the street, avoiding the dripping eaves and patting his wet clothes on the stone steps of the attic.
While beating the clothes, the waiter would occasionally raise his head and look strangely at the three figures across the street.
The three men were all tall men. Although their faces were different, they were all handsome or heroic. Among them, the elegant and noble young man with dark red eyes was even more beautiful than the courtesan of Jinfeng Tower.
However, these three young men with extraordinary temperament were just staring blankly at their own shops.
Looks a bit silly...
The waiter hesitated for a moment, then remembered his son-in-law's training, and immediately raised his voice and asked:
"The three guests over there, are you coming to my cloth shop to look at the cloth?"
As soon as these words were spoken, they immediately attracted the attention of the three young men opposite.
The most handsome young man among them smiled and politely declined, "No, I'll just take a look at the plaque!"
...look at the plaque?
The clerk was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and walked into the cloth shop with a somewhat amused look on his face.
What? There is actually a person in Jiangning who is even weirder than his own son-in-law!
Look at the plaque...
The clerk walked into the cloth shop and couldn't help laughing behind the door.
The three young men opposite ignored the waiter's reaction. They looked at each other, and then all turned their eyes to the plaque above the shop.
On the plaque were four large characters engraved in a flamboyant style - Su's Cloth Shop!
"…Is this really the world of a son-in-law?"
Zuo Yu looked at the two people in front of him with surprise.
There is no doubt that the three young men who were described by the guys as silly were Zuo Yu, Li Yun and Ye Zixun from the Time Travelers Alliance.
After receiving the news from Ye Zixun, Zuo Yu and Li Yun stayed in the world of immortal cultivation for another two days, dealing with the Jinyang Stone mine and the cooperation between Kunlun Group and Zhou family. Then they left Zhao Lihe and others behind and came to the new world as invited.
This world was discovered not long ago.
Ye Zixun from the Marvel world has been free recently, so he took the right to explore the new world and planned to come here to relax.
Before he could even finish his fun, Ye Zixun discovered a very serious problem -
This is actually the world of "The Son-in-Law"!
"The Son-in-Law" was a very popular online novel in the previous life. There are three versions: novel, TV series and animation. But no matter which version, the protagonists Ning Yi and Ning Liheng traveled through time to Jiangning City in the Wu Dynasty and became the son-in-law of the Su family.
As early as the founding of the Time Travelers Alliance, many time travelers had discussed this issue.
That is the time traveler who appeared in the original story. Is he a time traveler?
Let’s say they are time travelers. After all, they appear in the original work, and in a sense, they can be considered natives of that world.
But if you say they are not time travelers, the original book has already clearly stated that they are time travelers!
Alliance members often discuss this issue, but until now, no serious result has been reached.
Although now, Lin Zhongtian knows the existence of the "source world", the real traverser should be someone who comes from the source world and travels to the heavens and myriad worlds through the gaps in the void.
But when the alliance was first established, there was no such restriction on background.
Therefore, according to the concept when the alliance was founded, this type of "indigenous travelers" should also be included in the category of travelers...
Both the positive and negative arguments make sense.
That's why Ye Zixun was unsure and had to ask Zuo Yu for help.
Hearing Zuo Yu's words, Ye Zixun nodded and said with a wry smile: "Yes, if not for this, I wouldn't have asked you to come over."
"The members of the alliance who have done the most in-depth research on the soul, besides Boss Lin, are you and Legolas. But Legolas is not Chinese after all, and he has never seen The Son-in-Law, so I called you."
"It's no use calling me!" Zuo Yu frowned and said, "Even if the protagonist of the Son-in-law, Ning Yi, is an indigenous time traveler and is not from the same world as us, it does not mean that he is not qualified to join the alliance."
"According to the character setting in the novel, he definitely meets the criteria for joining the alliance."
At this point, Zuo Yu asked curiously, "By the way, I forgot to ask, is this a novel world or a TV drama world?"
Ye Zixun hesitated: "I'm not sure, but I feel it should be a novel world."
"Before you came, I took a quick look around Jiangning City and found out that the brothel where the courtesan Yuan Jin'er worked was called Jinfeng Tower, not Xinmen Art Hall as in the TV series. The Su family is also very prosperous, with many branches, far more than just the first and second branches as in the TV series."
Zuo Yu nodded and said, "That's the world of novels!"
Ye Zixun had a strange look on his face, and shook his head again, saying, "Not necessarily. Su's Cloth Shop does have a special fabric called Muyunsha, which is somewhat similar to the plot of the drama."
Zuo Yu was speechless: "So it's a mixed world again?"
Ye Zixun shrugged: "It's hard to say."
Li Yun stood up from his seat, turned his head and looked at the Su's cloth shop across the street and said, "After saying so much, let's go meet Ning Yi first, at least to confirm whether he is our fellow villager."
"Old Ye, have you found out the location of Su's house?"
Ye Zixun nodded: "Of course, but... Ning Yi and his wife Su Tan'er are not in the Su family right now."
"Oh?" Zuo Yu raised his eyebrows and asked with interest, "What timeline is it now?"
Ye Zixun turned his head and looked at the peaceful and harmonious street, and replied softly: "August, the ninth year of Jinghan in the Wu Dynasty, early autumn."
The Son-in-Law is a semi-fictional world. The deviation between the first half of China's history and the real history is not that big. It existed from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the powerful Han and Tang Dynasties, until the so-called Wu Dynasty at present.
This is a fictional dynasty based on the Song Dynasty. It replaced the Song Dynasty in the original time and space, and of course, inherited the fate of the Song Dynasty.
In the ninth year of Jinghan in the Wu Dynasty, a major event occurred in the south. The dragons near Hangzhou turned against the Qing Dynasty. Fang La, who was honored as "Shenggong" by the Green Forest, took advantage of this opportunity and suddenly led his army to revolt. He captured the city of Hangzhou in one fell swoop, and made Hangzhou the capital, establishing the Yongle era.
"If I remember correctly, in the world of the Son-in-Law, the Fang La Uprising should have happened in July of the ninth year of Jinghan. Now it is August, so Ning Yi should be trapped in Hangzhou now, right?"
Zuo Yu said thoughtfully.
Ye Zixun nodded: "I read the original novel again before I came here. Before Fang La's uprising, Ning Yi happened to go south to Hangzhou with his wife."
"After Fang La's uprising, he first helped with disaster relief and defended the city in Hangzhou. After the city was captured, he escorted his wife, children and the victims away, and used gunpowder to kill Fang La's generals Shi Bao and Liu Dabiao in Taiping Lane."
"After that, Ning Yi led his people to flee Hangzhou, and on the way he met up with other refugees and the remnants of the Wude Camp in Hangzhou."
"Fang La sent people to hunt down the fleeing troops. Ning Yi gave advice to the Wude Camp and won several battles. He also gained some fame. Liu Dabiao, the commander of the Tyrant Blade Camp under Fang La, took a liking to him and wanted to capture him to be his military advisor."
"After hearing the news, some people in the escape team started to think about it, so they secretly discussed and used Ning Yi as bait, and successfully escaped the pursuit."
"It is now August of the ninth year of Jinghan. Ning Yi should have been captured by Liu Dabiao of the Nabadao Camp and is currently trapped in Hangzhou..."
At this point, Ye Zixun said with a sigh, "I also watched it once in my previous life, but that was a long time ago. Now that I watch it again, I still think that Ning Yi is really amazing. He can achieve this without a cheat code!"
Zuo Yu nodded in agreement, and then said with regret: "It's a pity that Banana is so slow..."
Listening to the conversation between the two, Li Yun twitched his lips but said nothing.
He had never read novels in his previous life, only watched TV dramas, so many of the plots did not make sense to him and he couldn't get a word in.
Zuo Yu suddenly asked, "Where is the heroine Su Tan'er now?"
Ye Zixun thought for a moment and said, "He must have fled to Huzhou."
Zuo Yu smiled: "Let's go to Huzhou..."
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Ever since Fang La's army took over Hangzhou, the situation in the southeast has become delicate.
In the past, the post road leading to Hangzhou was mostly filled with merchants and carriages in gorgeous clothes, as well as ambitious young men from wealthy families, bookish scholars from the south of the Yangtze River, and officials from all walks of life with large groups of people.
But now, of course, these people can’t be seen.
At this time, those who gathered on the official road were either ragged victims, farmers with their families, or travelers with strange behaviors and groups of big men.
Most of the former were disaster victims fleeing northwards, but some went the other way and seemed to want to head south to Hangzhou.
Zuo Yu had inquired and found out that these people were basically the families of the soldiers who had joined Fang La in the uprising. Now that Fang La had established his capital, they had sent messages to their families, asking them to bring their families to Hangzhou to enjoy a good life.
As for the latter, they often have different expressions and temperaments, but they all carry weapons.
After meeting, these people skillfully clasped their fists to each other, greeted each other, and spoke some underworld jargon that ordinary people could not understand.
——This is the so-called man of the world, the hero of the green forest.
When Fang La started the rebellion, he relied on the momentum of Manichaeism. He already had a great reputation in the martial arts world, so when he started the rebellion, many people in the martial arts world followed him.
Now that he has taken Hangzhou and established the Yongle reign, many people who yearn for wealth and glory will naturally gather here to curry favor with the Saint and gain the title of a founding hero.
"Now that the Holy Archbishop is about to be crowned emperor, we will naturally follow his lead!"
"It's a pity that my mother passed away a few days ago. In order to fulfill my filial duty, I had to stay in my hometown and was unable to follow the Holy Lord to achieve great things. Now I think that I really missed a great event!"
Among the groups of gangsters, a big man holding a copper stick sighed with regret on his face.