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Chapter 1 The Temple of War

Zuo Xiaoyou stood in a vast huge hall full of strange flowers and plants, his eyes full of confusion.

I just dozed off during the filming period, why did I come to such a strange place when I opened my eyes?

Shaking his head, pulling his energy back to reality, and carefully observing his environment. He is now in the giant hall, and is shocked by the vast and high space of the giant hall. Just like a villain from a Little Man Kingdom, after a moment of missing, he came to the hall built by the giant. The front end of the giant hall and the palace on the left and right sides were at least forty feet away from him, and he was as small as a twig ant. On the giant wall facing the entrance, a row of large seal scripts were carved from top to bottom, and lined up from the top of the hall, at least thirty feet away from the end, each word was about 10 feet square, and he wrote: [The heaven and earth are unkind and treat all things as straw dogs].

Seeing this sentence, Zuo Xiaoyou's heart was shocked. He seemed to have thought of something, but he was not sure and hurriedly continued to observe.

The giant hall was shrouded under the soft green light, which complemented the red light that penetrated from the exit. Looking left and right at the top of the hall, about forty feet above the ground, there was a circular object embedded in the center of the hall, two meters in diameter, emitting green and yellow light, like an indoor sun, bathing the entire giant hall under the thousands of green lights.

With this light source as the center, the roof of the hall had a large circle with a diameter of twenty feet. It was the same as the star map at the entrance of the secret passage, but it was several times larger. It covered the giant hall under the infinite stars. There was no pillar or object on the giant hall. There was a relief about two feet square on the ground in the center of the hall, and there were twenty-four reliefs about two feet square on each side of the left and right walls, plus the reliefs at the center of the hall. It happened to be forty-nine.

The relief on the ground in the center of the hall is exquisitely carved with a god wearing strange armor and covered with masks. A monster that looks like a dragon but not a dragon is sitting under his crotch. From the nine thick clouds that have been split into pieces, they flew down from the upper left corner and rushed straight to a blood-red fireball in the lower right corner. Next to each thick cloud, the Nine Heavens, the Eighth Heavens, and the lowest ones are written from top to bottom. There are five big characters above the relief, which is "Catalog of Gods of War 1".

Seeing this, the left and right side suddenly showed an expression of excitement, excitement.

This is the Temple of War!

After being excited, Zuo Xiaoyou began to guess the world he was in: "Is it "The Legend of the Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" or "The Legend of the Border and the Legend of the Border and the Wild"?"

There was no answer for a while, so I could only wait until I practiced the "God of War Catalogue" and went out to take a look.

Zuo Xiaoyou also felt that he was a little overwhelmed. He had obviously experienced great changes, but he accepted reality very easily. This is also good. Survival of those who are competitive in the fittest, and the faster they adapt, the better they can survive.

When I first read the novel, this God of War was called the first of the four great books, which could understand the mystery of heaven and earth. Zuo Xiaoyou looked at the first picture and looked carefully for a long time. Sure enough, it was so mysterious that he could read poetry and books well and was well-versed in ancient Chinese, and almost suffered from internal injuries.

He quickly looked away, took a breath, walked towards the left wall, and came to the last picture, except for the [God of War Forty-Nine Broken Void], there was nothing else on it, and he was a little disappointed.

Turning over a picture, it wrote a book on it [The God of War Catalogue forty-eight Return to the Nine Heavens]. The God of War, who looked like a god of heaven, rode on the monster that looked like a dragon but not a dragon, flew up from the lower right corner, passed through the Nine-level clouds, and flew to the upper left corner, which was exactly the opposite direction from the first picture.

Zuo Xiaoyou sat down cross-legged and thought silently. After a long time, he stood up and patted his butt: "Try practicing and see!"

...

Yangzhou City is gradually becoming lively.

After the city gate opened at the hour of Mao, merchants and farmers rushed to enter and exit the city gate.

The boats and ships that arrived yesterday were unloaded at the dock and sent them into the city at this time. The carriages and horses were rushing and making a lot of noise.

From Yangzhou to the east, you can go to Japan, Ryukyu and the Southeast Asian regions. Therefore, Yangzhou has become one of the most important foreign transfer stations in the country, and is busier and more tense than any city.

However, the atmosphere today is a bit strange. There are a large number of officers and soldiers in and outside the city, and the inspections for passing the customs are much stricter, so tired that there are long queues. However, although everyone is anxious, no one dares to complain. Because those who are used to running around the world can see that there are many big men wearing imperial guards uniforms among the local officers and soldiers. Unless they don’t have their lives, who dares to commit crimes from the most domineering imperial guards in the capital.

There are five markets in the city, among which the Nanmen Market facing the Yangtze River is the most prosperous. There are at least dozens of stalls that provide various food preparations, of varying sizes, so it is an ideal place for passengers who are preparing to take a boat to the river to enter the early repairs.

In addition to being a hub of transportation, Yangzhou is also a fireworks resort that has been famous all over the world since ancient times. Whether it is rich businessmen who are rich, famous scholars who claim to be literary and elegant, or fencing Ren Xia's rogue, if you don't visit here, you will not be considered a hero in the romantic scene.

So the situation is so prosperous, you can imagine it.

Among the food stalls at the south gate, Lao Feng's vegetable, meat and buns are the most famous. In addition, Lao Feng's concubine Zhensao, who is specialized in selling buns, is beautiful and beautiful, and has become a signboard for attracting business.

When Lao Feng came into the kitchen and handed a steaming plate of vegetable and meat buns to the shop for Zhensao to sell, the impatient customers rushed to hand over the money.

Mrs. Zhen was sweating profusely when suddenly a young man's head came out from the crowd, and smiled and said, "Eight vegetables, meat buns, hello, Mrs. Zhen!"

This boy was Xu Ziling. Because he was afraid that Lao Feng would see it, he deliberately arched his body and was half shorter than the others, and his shape was funny.

Fortunately, his appearance is very likable, with long and elf eyes, a high nose, wide forehead, and a sunny smile on the corner of his mouth. If it weren't for the oily face, ragged clothes, and being beaten by Boss Yan, his face was blue and swollen, and his appearance was really good. Now! I'm not very complimentary.

When Mrs. Zhen saw him, she looked back worriedly and looked at the old Feng and the evil lady who were unable to enter the kitchen. She felt relieved when she saw that they could not see the situation here.

While dealing with other customers, she pretended to be coquettish and said, "What kind of buns do you have to learn from others if you don't have money?"

Xu Ziling smiled and said, "I will pay you back tomorrow."

Zhen Sao held four buns as fast as possible, hesitated for a moment and took two more, wrapped them in paper, stuffed them into his hand, and cursed: "This is the last trip, alas! It depends on what you have beaten to someone."

Xu Ziling cheered and withdrew from the crowd. He thrust his waist and immediately became more energetic.

It turns out that although he is young, he is as tall as an adult man, with wide shoulders and narrow waist, but he is thin because of malnutrition.

After squeezing through a row of fruit and vegetable stalls, Kou Zhong snatched it out, reached out and grabbed a bun, stuffed it into his mouth, and said vaguely: "Is it the last trip again?"

Kou Zhong was one year older than him, but he was half an inch shorter, with wide shoulders and thick arms, and quite thick.

Although he owed Xu Ziling the handsomeness, his face was big, his outline was full of masculinity and his expression was indifferent, which was very attractive. His eyes were deep and lively, and he was definitely not inferior to Xu Ziling, making people feel that this son would never be a thing in the pool in the future.

However, his clothes were more dirty than Xu Ziling and were not much better than the little beggar.

Xu Ziling was already eating the third bun and frowned and said, "Don't tell me about the length of Mrs. Zhen? How many people in Yangzhou are like her kind-hearted? It's a pity that her parents owed silver and her father treated wealth as his life, so he sold her to the stinky old Feng as a concubine. God must be blind."

As they were talking, the two of them collided with one person.

"Two little brothers, be careful." When he was secretly shouting badly, he heard a kind voice coming into his ears. The two were just two gangsters in Yangzhou. In the past, it would be nice to meet someone without being scolded. Who would speak kindly to them? This person is so kind that they didn't feel comfortable both physically and mentally.

Looking up, my eyes lit up. It turned out that they were hit by a young scholar. The scholar looked twenty-four or five years old, with a face as tall as a jade, a sword-like eyebrows, a starry nose, a smile on his lips, and a white scholarly outfit. Although it was not luxurious, it was very clean and tidy. His height above eight feet made him look a little more heroic, which made the two of them feel at first sight.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I've hit the young master, a young death sentence." Even so, but after being in the world for more than ten years, the two of them knew that their identities were completely unequal, so they immediately bowed their heads to admit their mistakes.

"Little brother is so serious." The scholar in white smiled and said, "If the two little brothers really want to admit their mistakes, then tell me which snacks are the most delicious? I'm the first time I'm in Yangzhou and I'm not familiar with it at all."

Hearing these words, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling's eyes lit up. Kou Zhong quickly smiled and said, "Young Master is right. If you want to tell me the best snacks in Yangzhou, Lao Feng's vegetable, meat buns are the most delicious." Speaking of this, Kou Zhong's saliva flowed out again.

Seeing his appearance, the scholar in white chuckled: "It seems that my little brother didn't lie to me." He threw out ten copper plates: "I'm sorry, my little brother, help me lead the way."

Seeing ten copper plates, Kou Zhong's eyes became brighter, and Xu Ziling was also ready to move. These ten copper plates were ten vegetable and meat buns! Although the two had decided to go out of the city to join the rebel army, they were just taking three or five steps, so how could they not take advantage of this time?

"It's easy to say." Kou Zhong quickly stuffed the copper coins into his arms, smiling flatteringly: "Please, please, young master."

The two of them left not far away and soon took the scholar in white to the stall of Lao Feng's vegetable and meat buns, but the scene they saw at this time made them vengeful.

"Secretly give the gangster bun, I'll beat you a bitch to death!" I saw Lao Feng and his evil lady slapped hard on the delicate Zhen Sao with a rolling pin. Zhen Sao was weak, so she could not bear such a beating. She couldn't help crying and rolling on the ground with her head in her arms.

"Stop!" Xu Ziling shouted loudly, rushed forward and kicked Lao Feng away. Kou Zhong was not willing to fall behind. He kicked the evil wife away, turning the vicious couple into a rolling gourd.

"Sister Zhen, are you okay?" Xu Ziling helped Sister Zhen up. Seeing Sister Zhen's miserable appearance with her hair disheveled, her cheeks flushed, and bleeding from the corners of her mouth, her eyes suddenly turned red and tears fell: "What a cruel old Feng! Sister Zhen, I'll avenge you!"

"No!" Although Zhensao was beaten very miserably, she didn't want Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling to get involved. After all, she was Lao Feng's concubine. In this era, it was natural for men to beat women, and it would be over after the beating. But if outsiders got involved, they were afraid that things would become very troublesome, which was something Zhensao absolutely didn't want to see.

"But……"

"Xiaoling, I beg you." Zhensao begged with tears in her eyes.

Seeing her look like this, Xu Ziling was shocked. He was about to say something, but he heard Lao Feng and his evil lady sitting on the ground and shouting: "Old man! You're killing someone! Someone is going to kill someone, come quickly!"

When the onlookers saw this scene, they all showed contempt on their faces, but as Zhensao thought, this was Lao Feng's housework after all, and they were not easy to interfere, but there were also good people who were making trouble, asking Lao Feng and the evil lady to stand up and fight with Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling. Old Feng and the evil lady were so angry that they gritted their teeth.

Just in this mess, the scholar in white walked into the venue and asked, "Little brother, what's going on?"

Facing Zuo Xiaoyou's inquiry, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling were stunned for a moment, and then talked about Zhensao's miserable life experience, and then explained the reason why Zhensao was beaten with embarrassment.

After hearing this, the scholar in white nodded: "So that's it." He looked at Mrs. Zhen carefully and couldn't help but sigh: "What a beautiful flower, it's so aggrieved to be a concubine like this."

After saying this, Mrs. Zhen blushed, especially when she saw the young master's appearance, her blushed even more.

Old Feng was so angry that the Three Corpse Gods were furious and jumped up from the ground on the spot: "Nonsense!"

The scholar in white turned his head and glanced at Lao Feng, and a faint purple edge flashed in his eyes. Lao Feng was immediately struck by lightning, and his hair stood up all over his body, as if he was a frog staring at by a poisonous snake, and he did not dare to make any moves.

The scholar in white turned his gaze back to Zhensao: "How much did your father buy you?"

Zhensao looked gloomy and whispered: "Twenty taels of silver."

During this period, one tael of silver is equivalent to one hundred copper coins, twenty taels of silver is two thousand copper coins, and a bun is one copper coins, and the purchasing power of a copper coins is equivalent to modern 50 cents. In other words, Zhensao's father bought his daughter for only one thousand dollars.

The scholar in white couldn't help but shook his head, took out a heavy ingot of silver from his sleeve, and said to Lao Feng: "This is twenty taels of silver, go and get Zhen'er's contract to sell his body."

If it were normal, Old Feng would never sell Zhensao Zhen at twenty taels, but the white-clothed scholar's eyes just now were too terrible. The fear of facing the black and white impermanence made Old Feng dare not resist. He lowered his head and hurriedly went to get Zhensao's body sale contract, and presented it with his hands trembling: "My... Master, this is that cheap... Her body sale contract, please check it out."

The scholar in white took it and handed it to Zhensao: "Is this one?"

When Zhensao saw the content and signatures on the contract, she was very familiar with it. She nodded after hearing this: "Young Master, it's this one."
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