Shen Yitang, Anyang Branch.

Li Qi glanced back before going out, and the entire front hall was full of people, of course, a large part of them were just to come and see.

Li Qi looked back at this, hoping that this semicolon with huge investment would not be burned by the people who were angry.

It's still the river, it's still fishing.

Two small horses stand side by side on the edge of the river, the grass is secluded, and the weeping willows are swaying.

The subordinates of the little marquis Cao Lie are scattered all around, not to mention getting close, they will be blocked dozens of feet away.

Li Qi got down from the carriage, and the guards of the Cao family who were on guard around him saluted him one after another.

Twenty days, the twentieth day to Anyang, in this huge city, there may be no one who doesn't know Shen Yitang, and no one doesn't know Shen Yitang's Li Gongzi.

These guards of the Cao family also know that this Li Gongzi is the best friend of the little marquis.

Li Qi politely returned the salute to them, everyone likes such polite people.

People with status are also polite, which makes people more personable and more seductive.

It doesn't take twenty days to become a friend.

When Li Qi walked towards Cao Lie, he thought that hating someone might be enough for a day.

When he leaves Anyang, Cao Lie's hatred for him will burn like a fire.

The appearance of the fire in the sky will probably be very scary.

Because the little marquis is a very simple person, he doesn't like to be deceived even more.

Seeing that Li Qi had arrived, Cao Lie, who was catching grasshoppers, immediately laughed and shook a string of grasshoppers in his hand towards Li Qi.

He wasn't showing off that he had caught so many grasshoppers, but complaining that Li Qi was so slow.

Li Qi looked at the two Mazha side by side by the river, and felt a little sad.

Cao Lie shook a string of grasshoppers in his hand at him, and Li Qi smiled back with two words.

"I can eat it."

Cao Lie was stunned, looked at the grasshopper and then at Li Qi, and then asked, "Why do you think you can eat anything?" ”

Li Qi smiled: "It can indeed be eaten." ”

Cao Lie asked, "Is it delicious?" ”

Li Qi shook his head: "It's not delicious." ”

Cao Lie nodded and threw it away: "Then don't taste it." ”

Li Qi walked to the river and sat down, and said while sorting out his fishing equipment: "Those who are particular about it will be fried and eaten in oil, and those who are not particular will be eaten by burning it with fire." ”

Cao Lie was just about to speak, but Li Qi's words continued.

"In Jizhou, years of war, and famine, this thing is not seen, because when they see one, the people eat one, not fried or burned, just eat it."

Li Qi glanced back at Cao Lie and smiled, there was some bitterness in that smile.

"For the victims, it's meat," he said. ”

Cao Lie was stunned there, he didn't move for a while, he felt disgusting and uncomfortable.

He had heard how terrible the victims were, gnawing on the bark of trees and eating grass roots, and even boiling the skins in water and eating them.

I have also heard that because I am really hungry, I eat dirt.

I also heard that in the year of the great disaster and chaos in the north of the Yangtze River, some people changed their children and ate them.

After a long time, Cao Lie sighed: "Jizhou is really bitter. ”

Li Qi nodded: "Jizhou is indeed bitter, every grain is a human life." ”

Cao Lie just thought that this time Meng Kedi went on an expedition to strengthen grain.

Li Qi adjusted the fishing rod and line for Cao Hunt and handed it to Cao Hunt: "It's ready to use." ”

Cao Lie took it and sat on the bench next to Li Qi, he threw the fish hook into the river, and looked at the fish floating, but he was a little dazed.

After a while, he asked Li Qi: "So you are willing to come to Anyang because Jizhou is too bitter?" ”

Li Qi shook his head: "If you can still live well, don't you ...... If I can barely survive, who is willing to leave my hometown, not because Jizhou is too bitter, but because I know that the Anyang army will attack Jizhou. ”

Cao Lie remembered that Li Qi had said these words at the beginning.

He came only because Meng Kedi would definitely lead the army to attack Jizhou.

Cao Lie sighed again.

"War is terrible," he said. ”

Li Qi snorted.

Cao Lie said: "It's all to blame for those who fled from Jizhou, it was they who told General Meng about the current situation in Jizhou, so General Meng was ready to raise troops." ”

Li Qi said: "Not necessarily, many things in this world are not so straightforward, and what you see is true." ”

Cao Lie was just about to speak, but Li Qi pointed to the river: "It's fishing." ”

Cao Lie hurriedly lifted the fishing rod, and a fish that should have been about three catties was pulled up, but the fish refused to be appointed, and was still struggling in the river.

Li Qi looked at Cao Hunt but didn't help, he didn't move, but Cao Hunt's guards moved.

Immediately, someone jumped down and walked back to shore with difficulty holding the fish with both hands.

Cao Lie said excitedly to Li Qi: "It's the first time I've caught such a big fish, and the largest one in the past is the size of a palm. ”

He was laughing, and Li Qi was laughing too.

So Li Qi endured the words later.

Just now, Li Qi wanted to say that many things in this world are not so straightforward, and what you see may not be true.

Like what...... Those who fled from Jizhou.

And there are some things in this world that seem to be destined, such as those who fled to Anyang, most of them failed to enter Anyang City.

Those people ran to Anyang to take refuge, but Meng Kedi was worried that there were spies of the Jizhou army among them.

When these people enter Anyang, it will make Anyang unstable.

No one was sure that none of these people were scouts of the Jizhou Army, so at that time, Meng Kedi just caught a few people and asked about the situation.

Meng Kedi would not leave them in the city, because they were all hidden dangers.

There can be thousands of people running over, the scale is too large, if there are two or three hundred spies of the Jizhou army among these thousands of people, the threat to Anyang will be extremely terrifying.

He just ordered these people to be driven away, but the person who carried out the military order was Xue Chunbao.

In the wilderness, these people were taken as prey by Xue Chunbao, killing hundreds of them, and the rest fled in the wilderness.

Li Qi knew about this, which is why he came directly.

If Meng Kedi had put all these people into Anyang City at that time, Li Qi would not have had this plan at all.

His plan was only how to capture more supplies after Meng Kedi's army entered Jizhou.

"What are you thinking?"

Cao Lie looked at the stunned Li Qi and asked.

Li Qi said: "Today is the day when General Meng sent his troops, and early in the morning, Anyang's army will march out of the city. ”

Cao Lie snorted and asked Li Qi, "Are you worried about your person?" ”

Li Qi shook his head and said, "Don't worry, they should be fine." ”

Cao Lie: "I don't believe it. ”

He patted Li Qi on the shoulder, and said with a little pride: "But you really don't have to worry, I told General Meng that you must not touch your people." ”

Li Qi was silent for a while, then suddenly got up, took two steps back, and bowed down towards Cao Lie.

Cao Lie was stunned, squinted his eyes and said, "Are you sick?" ”

Li Qi said seriously: "You must thank you, and you must remember that if one day in the future, I will do the same, telling others that no one can touch Cao Hunt's people." ”

Cao Lie laughed and said, "Then I'll wait for you to have that ability." ”

Li Qi also laughed.

Maybe.

"I need to go back early today."

Li Qi looked at Cao Lie and said, "There are also some things to do at home. ”

Cao Lie smiled and asked, "I'm afraid that the only one who can let you go back is my sister-in-law." ”

Li Qi shook his head and said, "No, have you forgotten, today is the day when Shen Yitang shipped for the first time." ”

Where would Cao Lie remember this, he asked, "What kind of goods?" ”

Li Qi said: "I discussed with Lord Liu, the governor of the prefecture, all the ships on the Anyang wharf should be equipped with first-aid medicines, and all the medicines have been prepared and sent to the wharf today." ”

Cao Lie laughed and said, "I forgot that you are a profiteer, and you just arrived in Anyang."

has already won over Liu Yao, and in the name of the government, he ordered that the ships must be equipped with first-aid medicine, and this medicine must be used by your Shen Yitang, you have long colluded...... No wonder Liu Yao helped you so much. ”

Li Qi said with a smile: "The first order of shipment, I always have to go with it to see, although it is all small money, even if it is allocated to thousands of ships, it is only a matter of thousands of taels of silver." ”

Cao Lie said: "This kind of trivial matter, why do you have to go in person." ”

"I still have to go."

Li Qi said: "Your sister-in-law said that she has not been on a boat yet......"

Cao Lie laughed again, and said while laughing: "I just said, it must be my sister-in-law who asked you to go back, otherwise, I don't believe that you will run by yourself for a few thousand taels of silver." ”

He asked Li Qi, "Do you need me to send a ship to protect me?" ”

Li Qi shook his head: "No, just take a boat from the dock to the dock, and then go to see how my ship is built, only about twenty miles, let her feel it." ”

Cao Lie said: "You are such a perfunctory sister-in-law. ”

He pushed Li Qi: "Hurry up, hurry up, don't let my sister-in-law wait for me, I will go back to Yuzhou tomorrow, so I will ask you out today." ”

"My old man is coming back soon, and he comes home a few times a year, but he can't come back and I'm not at home."

Cao Lie sighed: "The next time you and I meet, it may be a long time later." ”

Li Qi nodded: "After all, we will meet." ”

Cao Lie said: "You know how lazy I am, from Yuzhou City to Anyang City, it will take about twenty days, it's too troublesome......"

He exhaled slowly and said, "I'm such a lazy person, I don't want to come out again when I go home, wait for you to come and see me." ”

Li Qi smiled: "I must go." ”

Cao Lie snorted: "Phew! You're also a lazy person. ”

It was almost noon, Li Qi's team escorted the medicine to the dock and set off, and there were still many people in Shen Yitang, still operating.

It's just that no one noticed that the people who stayed in Shen Yitang were all recruited from the local area.

The truckloads that were transported to the docks were not medicinal herbs, but silver.

More than half an hour later, the team arrived at the dock, where the three boats were already waiting.

Load the ship and set sail.

When I left the dock, the sun was just a little offset.

Just as Li Qi and the others left the dock, the people looked at Anyang City with some panic, because they saw the pillar of smoke rushing into the sky.

I don't know where the fire is in the city, it looks like it's on fire.

Many people are worried that something will happen at home and run back, and who will pay special attention to the three ships.

And before that, Li Qi asked his men to learn how to sail a boat, under the pretext that sooner or later they would have to use it.

In twenty days, although his men were not proficient, they had mastered the basic skills.

In addition to these guys, he also hired a local old boatman as a guide, and there was no need for Cao Hunt to give Li Qi's people.

Black smoke billowed from the city, and three boats sailed upstream.

Of course, the Nanping River can't reach Jizhou, but if you go north from the place where the Hutuo River flows into the Nanping River, you can go to Guzhou.

From Guzhou and then turn into the Dading River to the west, walk 200 miles into Baipo Lake, Baipo Lake is considered the reservoir of Jizhou.

Li Qi calculated that half a month was enough time to cross the city and take the waterway.

Anyang City.

Cao Family Manor, on the second floor, Cao Hunter held on to the railing and looked at the smoke, his brows furrowed deeply.

"Report!"

The men ran back, panting.

"Little Hou Ye, the place where the fire started is the medicinal herb warehouse of the Anyang army, I don't know how it burned up, and the stored medicinal materials may not be saved."

Cao Lie asked, "Why did it burn so fast?" ”

The subordinate replied: "Some people said that when they smelled the gunpowder, there was a crackling sound when it was burned, and it was suspected that someone had deliberately set it on fire." ”

Cao Lie's brows furrowed even deeper.

Taoyuan Town is most famous for peach blossoms, followed by fireworks.

Li Qi and they stayed in Taoyuan Town for two days, watching peach blossoms during the day and fireworks at night.