Chapter 309

After dawn, the city gates opened, and the commoners entered the city.

Before dark, the city gates closed, and the commoners left the city.

After dark, those who could remain in Luoyang were mostly wealthy merchants, wealthy families, and high-ranking officials and nobles.

As the center of the world, Luoyang was also the place where trade was most developed.

The Gold Market, the Horse Market, and the West Market occupied a vast area.

Emperor Guangwu, Liu Xiu, had also been a grain merchant before restoring the Han Dynasty, so he was relatively open and valued merchants.

In the Gold, Horse, and West Markets, there were specially established rows of shops for merchants to reside in, equivalent to inns and wine shops.

This was to centralize and facilitate management.

The development of trade evolved and drove other industries in Luoyang under the night sky.

Such as brothels, gambling dens, wine shops, eateries, and tea houses.

At this moment, in front of a three-story wooden building on the street side, on the way to Duan Yu's home in Yongheli, a luxurious carriage slowly came to a stop.

A person stepped down from the carriage.

After lifting the curtain of the carriage, the person first looked around.

"Hus... Young Master, we have arrived," the maid beside the carriage said with her head lowered.

The person who got off the carriage first glared at the little maid beside the carriage.

"If you say the wrong thing again, I will sew your mouth shut when we get back."

The person who stepped off the carriage was wearing a purple robe embroidered with phoenixes riding the clouds, a high mountain crown on their head, and black shoes on their feet.

Their skin was fair, and even their hands were very delicate.

After being reprimanded, the maid lowered her head, her body trembling slightly.

After glancing at the three-story gambling den beside them, the person who got off the carriage was about to step inside.

However, just as they were about to enter, their eyes suddenly fell on the group on the long street.

"It's him!"

A flash of surprised joy crossed the eyes of the person who was about to enter.

Not far away, Duan Yu, dressed in a black robe and riding on a black jade qilin beast, was chatting with Tie Shitou and Wang Hunu beside him.

Seemingly sensing something, he turned his head to look in front of a brightly lit three-story wooden building not far away.

The building was ablaze with light, and faint shouts and cheers could be heard from time to time.

But Duan Yu's gaze fell on the person standing in front of the building.

"Big Brother Duan, that should be a gambling den," Tie Shitou, who was beside him, said with some eagerness: "Does Big Brother Duan want to go and play?"

Duan Yu shook his head.

Gambling in this era was not like in later generations; there were no mahjong or poker games.

Duan Yu had already seen it when he was in Jinyang.

The way high officials and nobles gambled in this era could be described in six words.

"Dun Liubo, Tou Gao Hu."

The so-called "Dun Liubo" refers to a type of game.

It is similar to a board game.

It's not quite chess, and it's not quite Go.

In any case, Duan Yu was not very interested in it.

There was also another type, which was "pitch-pot."

This was actually very simple.

But now, in Duan Yu's home, including Dong Yi and Diao Chan, they no longer played with him.

There was no help for it; he was too accurate.

But at this moment, Duan Yu's focus was not on the wooden building of the gambling den.

It was on the person who had just stepped off the carriage and was standing not far away, looking at him.

Strange.

Why did this person seem familiar, yet he couldn't recognize them?

Duan Yu, riding his horse, tilted his head and looked at the person standing in front of the gambling den.

The warhorse did not stop, and Duan Yu just tilted his head and looked.

However, because it was dark, Duan Yu did not see clearly; he just simply felt a bit familiar.

As it happened, a carriage passed by at that moment.

The torch at the front of the carriage illuminated the front of the gambling den.

It also illuminated the figure wearing the purple robe embroidered with phoenixes riding the clouds.

Just one glance, and Duan Yu recognized those eyes.

It was her!

It was the noblewoman who had been sitting in the carriage at the Pingcheng Gate.

Duan Yu's gaze was slightly surprised.

It wasn't because of anything else.

It was because he was surprised that she was dressed as a man.

But after a second thought, looking at the gambling den behind her, Duan Yu understood instantly.

Dressing as a man was to go into the gambling den behind.

Thinking of this, Duan Yu smiled slightly.

Although he had only seen a pair of eyes clearly during the day.

He was still absolutely certain that this person standing in front of the gambling den, looking at him with a smile on their face, was definitely the woman from the carriage at the Pingcheng Gate during the day.

At this moment, the night was hazy, just like when it was separated by a layer of black veil.

And in the distance, the woman standing in front of the gambling den, who had originally thought that Duan Yu hadn't recognized her, couldn't help but be stunned when she saw the smile on the corner of Duan Yu's mouth.

"He... he recognized me?"

The look in the woman's beautiful eyes was very shocked.

"That's impossible, we are so far away, and I was in the carriage during the day, how could he recognize me?"

The woman shook her head slightly, wanting to deny the thought in her heart.

But seeing the slightly raised corners of the mouth under the handsome face riding on the horse in the distance.

That confident smile.

The woman was not sure.

Until the two of them passed each other across half a long street, and Duan Yu's figure gradually disappeared into the darkness, the woman finally came back to her senses.

He...

He must have recognized her.

However, since he recognized her, why didn't he stop?

"Could it be that he forgot that I told him I would give him a surprise next time he recognized me?"

"Young Master... shall we... shall we still go in?"

The maid's voice pulled the woman from her reasoning and imagination back to reality.

At this moment, the woman, whose mind was full of the figure that had just passed by, bit her lip with her teeth.

The next morning.

The front courtyard of Dong Zhuo's residence.

Duan Yu held the Heavenly Dragon Halberd level with both hands.

He thrust it fiercely at the air in front of him.

The tip of the halberd carried a whistling wind, and every time it pierced the air, it stirred up a shrill sound.

【Ding, the "Tenfold Entry" effect is triggered. The host has swung the war halberd once, the effect is increased tenfold. Congratulations to the host for gaining +1 experience, "Force Like Bamboo-Blue 9999/"】

"Just one more time!"

Duan Yu endured the numbness and soreness in his arms and thrust out another strike.

【Ding, the "Tenfold Entry" effect is triggered. The host has swung the war halberd once, the effect is increased tenfold. Congratulations to the host for gaining +1 experience, "Force Like Bamboo-Blue/"】

【Ding, the "Tenfold Entry" effect is triggered. The host has swung the war halberd once, the effect is increased tenfold. Congratulations to the host for gaining a new entry 0/"Unwavering-Red"】