A team of thousands of people traveled on the plains not far from Wuji County, Zhongshan County.

At this time, there was no need to be in a hurry to go to Zhen's house, so Lu Bu ordered the speed of the team to slow down.

On the one hand, I calmed down the complicated emotions brought about by seeing so many miserable people yesterday, and on the other hand, I took the opportunity to relax and enjoy the late autumn scenery of the northern country.

"The scenery is different in autumn, and the geese in Hengyang don't pay attention.

The sound of the corners on all sides rises, and in the thousands of mountains, the long smoke and sunset are closed in a lonely city.

A glass of turbid wine is thousands of miles away, and Yan Ran has no plan.

Qiang Guan is full of frost, people are sleepless, and the general's white hair is crying.

The general's white-haired husband tears! ”

Lu Bu saw the golden sunset in the distance reflecting the sky as if it was burning, and couldn't help but feel a little emotional, and blurted out a famous sentence of Fan Zhongyan in the Song Dynasty - "Fisherman's Proud Autumn Thought", with a slightly sad tune to sing out, and there are really some artistic conceptions in the words.

Zhao Yun had already gone to Zhen's house to report the news first, Lu Bu turned his head to look at Gao Shun beside him and asked, "Gao Shun, what do you think of my poem?" Isn't it very feeling? ”

Gao Shun, who was full of seriousness, turned his head when he heard this, and replied in the same cool way as always: "I don't understand." ”

Lu Bu suddenly felt that his head was big, and Young Master Lu finally came to make a commotion...... Uh, no, Yaxing.

As a result, when encountering such meticulousness, it became a pair of cows playing the piano.

And the soldiers who were trapped in the camp around them were as silent as their commanders, and sure enough, what kind of general brought out what kind of soldiers.

I knew that I should let Gao Shun, the stuffy gourd, protect those people, even if it was Zhou Cang's fool who was here, he could accompany me to relieve his boredom, Young Master Lu lowered his head and thought with infinite resentment.

"Here we are." Gao Shun's voice suddenly came.

Lu Bu raised his head and looked, only to see dozens of horsemen and horses in the distance approaching quickly, and the first person was Zhao Yun who went to report the news.

The group of people approached, and behind Zhao Yun was Zhen Yan, the head of the Zhen family who had met before, as well as Zhen Yao and several other elders of the Zhen family, and it could be said that the heavyweights of the Zhen family almost poured out.

"General Lu, I haven't seen you for a long time, but your demeanor is still the same! I heard that the general organized a coalition to crusade against Dong Zhuo, and he is really a model for my generation. Before Zhen Yanren arrived, a hearty voice had already come.

Lu Bu arched his hand and responded: "The head of the Zhen family has praised it falsely, and Lu is ashamed. The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband, but it's a pity that he couldn't really destroy the Han thief Kuangfu Han family, which makes me ashamed. ”

Zhen Yan is worthy of being a person with eight faces, and seeing that this topic is a little out of place, he immediately said: "General Lu must come here for a few more days, you and I haven't seen each other for a long time, but Ling Zai misses it tightly." ”

"This is natural, even if the head of the family is unwilling to come this time, I, Lu someone, will have to be cheeky and disturb for a while, please don't mind." Especially those of us military men who are all born hungry wolves, don't feel sorry for us to eat you poor. ”

Lu Bu also said on the slope of the donkey, and blinked his eyes as he said that, but the action made by the originally handsome face was a little ...... Lewd meaning.

Zhen Yan knew that what Lu Bu said was that he had brought a lot of gold ore this time, which was the biggest cornucopia of their Zhen family in the future.

He hurriedly smiled and said, "Hahaha, General Lu is really funny. General, please rest assured, our Zhen family is not short of delicacies from the mountains and seas, and please rest assured that when you come to my Wuji County, you can rest assured and eat openly. ”

Both sides of the conversation understood the meaning of each other's words, looked at each other and laughed, and then converged in one place and walked towards the county seat.

At this time, in the other direction of Lu Bu and others, in Nanpi City, the county town of Bohai County, Jizhou, another meeting was taking place.

An old man with a gray goat's beard under his chin and a wrinkled face stood up from his position and said respectfully to the person on the throne: "Yuan Gong is blessed all over the world, and my Zhen family has always admired it. ”

The person on the throne is Yuan Shao Yuan Benchu of the Fourth World and the Third Duke, and the old man who spoke was the great elder of the Zhen family, named Zhen Lu.

This time, he personally led the caravan to Beihai to complete an important transaction, and on the way back, he deliberately made a detour to the Bohai Sea to visit Yuan Shao.

It is not easy for these caravans to survive in the troubled times.

Since ancient times, they have valued agriculture over commerce, and their status is low.

In this troubled world, the risks they take are even higher, and in order to survive, they have to rely on one or several forces to survive and develop.

In troubled times, this is true of many business families.

For example, the Mi family assisted Liu Bei, and the Wei family assisted Cao Cao.

Zhen's family is located in Jizhou, and Jizhou Mu Hanfu is weak and incompetent, compared to Yuan Shao, the fourth and third dukes, who is more promising.

Therefore, Zhen wanted to extend an olive branch to Yuan Shao, and this time the large amount of goods obtained by returning from Beihai were all "meeting gifts" to Yuan Shao.

This was the result of an agreement between Zhen Yan and important members of the family before their caravan set off.

At that time, Lu Bu and others in Bingzhou had not yet contacted the Zhen family because of the gold mine, and in the eyes of the Zhen family, although Lu Bu had great potential, he still couldn't catch up with the Yuan family of the fourth and third dukes, and the future was bright.

Therefore, the main goal of the Zhen family's caravan was to use all means to step on Yuan Shao's chariot.

This Great Elder Zhen Lu was even granted the right to dispose of it on the spot.

Zhen Lu took out a pair of brocade books from his arms and said: "Yuan Gong, our Zhen family ancestors have a good relationship with the Yuan family, and we hope to continue our friendship. ”

At this time, it was the third day that the news of Dong Zhuo's edict reached here, and Yuan Shao was about to prepare to attack Han Fu.

Originally, he was born in a famous family, and he never liked to contact these profit-heavy businessmen, but he was reluctantly met under the persuasion of Guo Tu, Xu You and others, after all, the war was about money and food, and Yuan Benchu also knew it.

Yuan Shao took the brocade book from the attendant's hand and watched it, and the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became.

There are not only gold, silver and jewelry, but more importantly, 200,000 stone grains and grass.

The war is imminent, this is really a relief in the snow, and when he saw the end, Yuan Shao's mouth couldn't close.

After carefully reading it back and forth twice, Yuan Shao put down the brocade book.

Noticing that he was a little out of shape, he coughed softly twice before he spoke: "Mr. Zhen is too polite." You and I are friends in the world, and it is necessary to communicate with each other, and there is impermanence and frequent exchanges. I accepted this gift with shame. Mr. Zhen, please! ”

With that, he lifted the bottle and drank it all.

Zhen Lu hurriedly followed and drank it all, he was extremely happy at the moment.

I'm not afraid that Yuan Shao will turn his face when he accepts those gifts, on the contrary, if Yuan Shao insists on refusing, he will be uneasy.

At this time, it can be said that the big stone in my heart fell to the ground, and I felt very relaxed all over my body, and I spoke more casually: "Yuan Gong, it seems that you are also a good drinker, and your wine here is really good." However, Xiao Lao'er has really drunk better wine when he travels from south to north, and the jade liquid elixir of the fairy family is nothing more than that. ”

Indeed, as Zhen Lu said, Yuan Shao is also a high roller in wine.

The good wine he has here has taken a lot of effort to collect, and even the fine wine of the Son of Heaven is not much stronger than it.

But listening to Zhen Lu's tone, it seems that the wine he has here is nothing more than that.

This did not provoke his anger, but aroused his interest, you must know that the drunkard hears the wine is like Seng meets a beautiful woman.

He asked eagerly, "Is there really such a fine wine in this world?" Can you ever bring it with you? ”

Zhen Lu took out a delicate jade pot from his arms, stroked it carefully as if he was caressing "qgren", and ran to Yuan Shao's side in small steps.

Yuan Shao didn't care about Zhen Lu's somewhat rude behavior at this time, and hurriedly took a clean wine bottle from the side and looked at the wine poured out of the jade pot.

I saw that this wine was clear and pure, not as yellow as ordinary wine.

This pouring suddenly came to his nose with a fragrance, and the aroma alone made Yuan Shao a little uncontrollable.

Before the wine in the small jade pot was full, it was already clean, which made Zhen Lu's heart ache.

He has always been moody, and the corners of his mouth can't help twitching slightly at the moment.

Yuan Shao didn't pay attention to the change in Zhen Lu's expression, the wine in front of him had already attracted all his attention.

He reached out and placed the wine bottle on the tip of his nose and took a deep breath. Suddenly I felt very comfortable, as if every pore on my body had opened, my spirit was lifted, and I secretly thought in my heart: it is really the best in the world.

Carefully brought to his lips and took a small sip.

He felt a rich fragrance instantly fill his mouth, and he couldn't help but shiver with comfort.

Looking at the wine bottle again, his eyes bloomed with dazzling brilliance, and he took a small sip shallowly, only to feel a warm current burning all the way down his throat to his stomach, and a warm current appeared in his stomach and spread throughout his body with a snap of his fingers.

Yuan Shao closed his eyes and reveled in this refreshing feeling, "Good wine!" It's really good wine! ”

Seeing Yuan Shao's reaction, Zhen Lu also smiled, this small pot of wine was the only one left on his body, but it seemed to be very worthwhile at the moment.

After Yuan Shao finished drinking, he turned his head and said, "Sir, this wine is really a jade liquid elixir." How many more are there, sir? I'm willing to pay a premium for it. ”

"This ...... Don't blame Yuan Gong. Zhen Lu hurriedly explained: "This fine wine was also given by others, and it is said that it came from the grassland. If Yuan Gong likes it, he will collect it for Yuan Gong after he goes back. ”

"Hahaha, then there is Mr. Law." Yuan Shao smacked his lips, a little regretful that he drank most of the wine in excitement just now.

"Father!" A young man walked in briskly.

Yuan Shao turned his head to look, "Oh? It turned out to be Xi'er. Come on, come and see this Mr. Zhen Lu, he is the great elder of the Zhen family in Zhongshan, how close you are, the Zhen family will have to advance and retreat with us in the future. ”

Zhen Lu's eyes lit up when he heard this.

Yuan Shao said such a sentence on such an occasion, which was tantamount to announcing the alliance between the Yuan family and the Zhen family.

You must know that most of the people present at this moment are important ministers around Yuan Shao, whether it is Guo Tu, Xu You, several civil officials, or Yan Liangwen Chou and other military generals are Yuan Shao's confidants and important ministers.

Zhen Lu felt that this day was the happiest moment in his life, and looked at the young man who strode in with a smile and took a closer look.

I saw that the person who came was eight feet tall, and his appearance was eight points similar to Yuan Shao, inheriting all the advantages of Yuan Shao.

Dressed in a white samurai uniform, he became more and more heroic, a jade belt around his waist was carved with exquisite patterns, and a richly decorated long sword swayed with the youth, and a pearl the size of a dragon's eye at the hilt was dazzling.

Zhen Lu hurriedly got up and saluted: "It's really a tiger father without a dog." The old Zhen Lu has seen the eldest son. ”