Lu Yunzhi and Chao Xing rode on their horses and waved goodbye to the leopard's departing back, before that, they discussed for a few days and made detailed arrangements, which echoed the agreement between Lu Yunzhi and the ghost witch to form a complete plan. Lu Yunzhi was full of confidence in this plan, thinking that he would definitely be able to enter the capital in a short time and revitalize the Zhongzheng line.

The leopard sent Lu Yunzhi and others to the Timurid border, and there were still a few miles away from Timur's border post before they returned. After getting along day and night, his relationship with Lu Yunzhi is deepening day by day, and with the relationship between Yingzi as a bond, the two are now considered to be in the same breath.

Lu Yunzhi and Chao Xing and other iron swords said goodbye to the leopard, and continued to walk for a few days, arriving at Samarkand, the capital of Timur. This is no longer the first time Lu Yunzhi came, the feeling of the grassland city has long been gone, and it is as lively as the capital city. Lu Yunzhi smiled at Chao Xing and said: "Originally, the name of Samarkand means fertile land, and Hui and indigenous languages are mixed here, but now you see that this is not only fertile land, but also a prosperous land, people of all colors are talking in various languages, it seems that the energy of the second brother is really not small." ”

Lu Yunzhi and the others walked to the middle of the road, and a man dressed as a shy businessman walked out of a shop on the side of the road, and turned back to the shopkeeper as he walked: "Hurry up and prepare a batch of black yarn, there are more than 1,000 horses on the side of Tianfang, this group of bastards is really black-hearted, don't give the full amount of the deposit, I have already collected the deposit, and want to play the trick of selling the goods first and then giving money with me." You wait until you get the full amount immediately, don't sit on the ground and let them rise by another percent, let's participate in the sale and transaction, otherwise it will be shipped back and not sold, and the deposit will not be refunded. The shopkeeper was a dark-skinned Tianzhu man, and after listening to the businessman's words, he smiled and said: "That's natural, the second shopkeeper, you can rest assured, I will do it beautifully at this time." Although this shopkeeper is from Tianzhu, he speaks fluent Chinese, Lu Yunzhi looked at the shop and smiled slightly, knowing that this is also Fang Qingze's affiliated business, and the shopkeeper must be Fang Qingze's subordinate. Because there is a small fingerprint on the corner of the plaque of the silk village, and the plaque also reveals a faint smell of spices. This is the identification method that Fang Qingze once mentioned on the way to escape, and Lu Yunzhi still remembers it vividly.

The person who spoke to the shopkeeper with a big belly nodded and turned away after hearing the answer, the pace was very fast, and his body bumped into Lu Yunzhi, Lu Yunzhi avoided it sideways but still rubbed shoulders, Lu Yunzhi hurriedly said: "I'm sorry, brother." The man turned his head and glanced at Lu Yunyi, and said with a smile in his eyes: "It's okay, it's okay, it's just that I'm not careful when I walk, and I still have some things to deal with next, so don't leave it at that." "The shopkeeper called him the second shopkeeper, who was supposed to be a high-ranking and powerful person but didn't have a shelf at all, and his attitude was excellent. Lu Yunzhi watched the man turn around and leave, but he smiled slightly and stopped, as if he had calculated that the man would come back soon.

Sure enough, the man took two steps and suddenly said "ah", turned his head, his eyes blurred instantly, and he shouted: "Lu Yunzhi, Lu Nerd heard that you are getting old, why did you become like this." As he spoke, he stepped forward and hugged Lu Yunzhi, shaking Lu Yunzhi excitedly.

Lu Yunzhi smiled and said: "What's the matter, the eldest husband is standing between heaven and earth, why bother with changing his face." But Brother Snake, you have really changed a lot, the thin Diao Shanshe turned into a big-bellied poop, it is really rich and devouring people's bones, you can be regarded as being damaged by Fang Qingze. ”

It turned out that the person just now was Diao Shanshe, the former eighteenth brother Lu Yunzhi, and their favorite "snake brother". Diao Shanshe wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, grabbed Lu Yunzhi's arm and walked forward and said, "Let's go, go to the big shopkeeper, phew, go to his big shopkeeper, find Fang Qingze." ”

Lu Yunzhi had never felt so relaxed, but when he saw Diao Shanshe's mood, he was no longer heavy, and his heart became happy. This is the feeling that Diao Shanshe brings to himself, although his body shape has changed, he is still his "snake brother". This intimacy has never changed. Lu Yunzhi and the others followed Diao Shanshe, walked all the way to a small money village, turned the counter and walked into the inner hall.

On an unusually large table was stacked like a hill of notebooks, and a large, fat body was sitting behind it, constantly fiddling with an abacus larger than the tabletop, and the two ends of the abacus popped out of the table, and the ends of the table were almost like they were set on the table. In addition to dialing the abacus, the man also picked up his pen from time to time to write a few strokes on the open notebook. Lu Yunzhi opened a notebook stacked on it, which was full of various accounts, these were account books, which were estimated to be thousands of copies, and they were everywhere on the table on the ground.

The man who bowed his head to do the account was Lu Yunzhi's sworn brother Fang Qingze, Fang Qingze heard that someone was coming, and felt that the person picked up an account book, his brows were slightly furrowed, but he didn't raise his head, he just kept fiddling with the abacus and said: "There is something to say, nothing to leave." There are no rules, put down the ledger. ”

"What kind of abacus is this, so big." Lu Yunzhi asked with a smile in his eyes. Fang Qingze still didn't raise his head, his brows furrowed even tighter, and he scolded angrily: "The great abacus of the king of Hades, can calculate the accounts of the world, I said do you have .......... or not" Fang Qingze raised his head suddenly, because the account book in front of him was pushed to the ground because of the excessive force, and he kept shouting: "Third brother, third brother, you are here." But after shouting, he was stunned straight, looking at the old age of Lu Yun in front of him, he couldn't help but tremble a little, and stretched out his hand to stroke Lu Yunzhi's white sideburns.

Lu Yunzhi laughed and said: "Second brother, what are you doing, it's a happy thing for brothers to see each other, but the atmosphere is so sad, I'm hungry, take me to dinner." Fang Qingze paused, moved his throat and patted his arms on Lu Yunzhi's shoulder and said, "That's right, don't be sad." Let's go, let's go drinking, my brother wants to kill you. Big brother knows your news, I already asked the people from Annan to convey it to big brother a few days ago. You don't know, the eldest brother is thriving over there, let's go and talk about it at the wine table. Third brother, hehe, if you don't say I'm your second brother, others still think you're my eldest brother. ”

"Second brother, you're playing tricks again, you still haven't changed at all." Lu Yunzhi smiled and followed Fang Qingze out, but have they really not changed? It's changed, everyone has changed after all this ordeal. But they themselves are unaware of this change, and perhaps only the bystanders know.