At sunrise, the sky is red like a furnace.

A building ship sailed from the horizon, the scarlet flag was swept over, the dragon's head hit the corner and the morning glare was dazzling, and the huge exposed gear blades at the bottom of the ship crushed the clouds.

Li Buzhuo leaned on the mast at the stern, stretched his knees, stretched his other leg on the deck, and his eyes extended along the separate track of the light golden sea of ​​clouds to the first day when the sky just emerged. He couldn't help but recall the sunrise in the desert that he saw in the dawn of the desert facing the wind and sand when he was guarding the border of Iron Horse City. This was also the same.

He took a puff of the water bag, and the rare and solemn advice of the absurd and boring Iron Horse City guard came to his ears again.

...

"If you want to make a name for yourself, you must go to Youzhou."

"Don't there also be imperial examinations in Cangzhou?"

"No, but in the sixteen prefectures of Fuli, no matter county, prefecture, or prefecture, or Youzhou, they are the top, far ten times higher than border prefectures! Haven't you heard from others that as long as you can pass the Qi Refiner in Youzhou, you can firmly top the list in other prefectures?"

"Isn't this a rumor that makes a fuss?"

"Then you have to have a shadow to capture. Remember, the more prosperous the place, the more dangerous it is. Be careful of everything."

...

Half a month passed in a flash.

Li Buzhuo put away the water bag, clapped his hands and stood up.

I died of congenital heart disease in my previous life and have been reborn in this world for sixteen years.

Sixteen years, not long, but not short, have made him almost forget his previous life's name, and those memories are no longer real like a dream that passes by in a flash.

At first he also had the ambition of a time traveler, but he had always suffered from drowsiness and did not improve until two years ago.

Two years ago, Li Buzhuo joined the army and served in the border for two years. He did not leave the border until half a month ago. He passed through the Transportation and Traffic Department, the best in the water, land and air in the 16 Prefectures of Fuli, Li, and boarded the Hundred Ghosts Dragon Boat, which was known as the peak of the Mechanism of the Mo Shi, and set off from Cangzhou, spending half a month and flying over 49,000 miles.

"Today is the day when the ship arrives..."

Li Buzhuo looked back at the dark yellow glazed tiles of the five-story black-painted boat building, returned to the narrow residence on the bottom of the deck, and packed his luggage.

The luggage is very simple, with only two swords, a few books, and two clothes to change clothes.

After packing up in just a few seconds, Li Buzhuo had just walked out of the door with a long and short sounds of horns coming from the bow of the boat.

"Woo-Woo!"

Someone was shouting: "The ship is coming soon!"

Boom!

The deck suddenly sank, and the eight main sails spread out like wings, driving the dragon head to hit the sea of ​​clouds diagonally downward.

The loud sound of the wheel hub and the blades rotating filled his ears, and his vision was blurred. Li Buzhuo quickly held the rain cover of the bookcase that was about to be blown away by the wind. In the blink of an eye, the entire ship broke through the clouds and his vision became clearer.

Looking down, I looked down: A glorious capital city opened its thin clouds, and its high eaves were close to me! Looking far away, I saw the mysterious black eaves stretching endlessly until the end of the clouds!

Under the double eaves, towers and towers are lined up into the sky. Between the towers, the cloud bridges and roads are connected vertically and horizontally, intertwining in the air like a net, yellow-brown horses, dragons, horses, and wood horses come and go like dragons.

The city is full of tall buildings, so the lighting at the bottom of the city is not good. The intricate alleys are wet and dark, and there is no sunshine. During the day, there are also scarlet red lanterns as bright as ghost eyes.

This is the new Youzhou city that was built after four years of construction and is still expanding.

"It is better to see it at first sight than to hear it. It is worthy of being a place near the foot of the Heavenly Palace." Li Buzhuo took a deep breath.

The newly closed city is surrounded by Xiyi Mountain in the north and Huangshui River in the south, and it is bounded by water, land and earth. The prosperity of the world gathers here.

He spent all his savings from the remote and barren Cangzhou in southern Fuli.

If the imperial examination fails and nothing unexpected happens, he will spend the rest of his life in the dark downtown, and the rest of his life will depend on people's faces.

Carrying the bookcase, he walked down the boat stairs, on the deck, the people waiting to get off the boat were already bustling. After glances, he saw the little girl who was trying hard to squeeze out from the crowd. Li Buzhuo shouted: "Three jin!"

"Oh!" The little girl with her backpack ran over hurriedly and covered her pockets tightly.

Sanjin is a little maid who grew up with Li Buzhuo. She is short and flat-breasted, black and wearing simple green cloth clothes and jute shoes. She has nothing to do with the word "beautiful".

Fortunately, there were two round buns on my head and a bit of watery energy in my big eyes. Finally, I could tell that it was a girl.

At this time, she looked at Li Buzhuo with her eyes muffled, looking guilty. Li Buzhuo looked at her pocket: "Have you bought snacks again?"

"No!" Sanjin's head was shaking like a rattle.

Li Buzhuo sighed helplessly and bent down to wipe the candy stains on the corner of her mouth: "Remember to eat it clean next time, how much is left?"

Sanjin opened the dark green satin flower purse embroidered on his waist, and glanced at it, and whispered: "There are two silver crocks left, ten silver crocks, and about forty copper crocks left."

Li Buzhuo smacked his lips and made up his mind.

A foot-colored silver turtle weighs one or two taels, and can be filled with a thousand copper coins cast with the word "Fuli Tongbao". One silver turtle is a silver-cast Fuli Tongbao, and ten pieces can match a foot-colored silver turtle.

Cangzhou, where you can eat meat with ten copper coins, takes out the tuition fee of four silver baht paid to the school every month. This money is enough for Li Buzhuo to live with Sanjin for two months, but in Youzhou Xinfengfu...

During the boat, Li Buzhuo found out that even a bowl of plain noodles without eggs were sold on six copper coins to the city. Before the Mid-Autumn Festival boy could start the exam, he and Sanjin would be left on the streets.

At this time, the Baigui Dragon Boat was approaching the ground and landed on the "flying platform" outside the north gate of Xinfengfu City. With a bang, the ladder was lowered on the side of the ship, and the flow of people walked down the deck in an orderly manner.

Li Buzhuo gathered his mind and was about to take Sanjin off the boat when he suddenly heard a singing voice coming from the edge of the boat corridor.

When I turned around, I saw an actor wearing plain clothes, with very beautiful lipsticks, and he pulled up his long tune and sang a farewell song: "You are from your hometown, you should know the story of your hometown..."

Three people wearing costumes and peach blossom faces beside them, and three-foot-high Yanshi dolls sat obediently, one playing the pipa, one playing the sheng, and the other playing the drum with a very slow beat.

Li Buzhuo hesitated for a moment and said to Sanjin: "Get ten bronzes."

I took a few more than three pounds, a total of fifteen copper coins, and ran over to give the money to the actor.

The actor cast a grateful look, Li Buzhuo nodded and took Sanjin off the boat.

The place in Cangzhou is remote and barren, and birds do not lay eggs, so he has no homesickness.

But before his mother Qi Caiyi gave birth to him, she was a singer who was a performer on a water boat.

The soap-clothed clerk under the flying platform checked the pass and released them one by one.

Returning to the earth, Li Buzhuo's eyes followed the city wall that crawled like a stinging dragon to the end of the ground, and finally landed on the three words "Xinfeng Mansion" at the top of the city.

The people and carriages lined up in a long queue, Li Buzhuo and Sanjin were at the end of the line, and half an hour later, they entered the city.

As soon as you enter Yaoguang Street, tall buildings on both sides block your vision one after another, and the dim smell of tinder oil is filled with.

The cables in the air are intertwined, and the giant pulleys are slowly rotating, and boiling white steam is emitted. Many mechanism suspended cars are hanging between the cables and moving slowly.

Li Buzhuo is surrounded by the car booth of "Beimentai".

Behind the pavilion is a small table sitting with heavy bags in her eyes. The white-haired old man in black clothes is swaying. The turbid light on the table is illuminating the words "Five Articles for Asking for Directions" on the cloth banners beside the table.

Li Buzhuo found three jin and took five cents, and placed it on the table.
Chapter completed!