Yan Fujiu, the king of Qi, and Yan Qinghong, the second prince, the two children of the royal family of Youbei, were sitting at the noodle stall in this bazaar chatting, and a beggar came out of nowhere. The man walked straight to the table, hit Yan Qinghong's shoulder with his buttocks, squeezed into the bench, and without saying a word, picked up a pair of Hsinchu chopsticks in the chopstick barrel on the table, and ate the bowl of noodles in front of Yan Qinghong.

"Who are you, you? Lao Tzu has never seen such a horizontal beggar. I've only eaten two bites of this noodle, and you put it down for me. Yan Qinghong yelled and pointed at the beggar, and Yan Fujiu next to him didn't speak, but secretly moved his body with the noodle bowl.

"Phew" The beggar spat into Yan Qinghong's noodle bowl, then looked up at him and said, "Do you still want it?" Don't you want me to eat it? ”

Yan Qinghong shouted: "You...... You...... ...... the are you? What's going on? With such a big family business, you have lost it in just a few days? ”

Shen Gui, who was disheveled and ragged, had noodles and beef in his mouth, and replied vaguely: "You forgot about it so quickly?" Who else went to the kiln that day, besides you and me? ”

Yan Qinghong nodded lightly, and suddenly realized that he smiled and squeezed Shen Gui:

"You've got a serious job, right?"

Yan Fujiu next to him looked at the two who were talking with complicated eyes, and patted Yan Qinghong's shoulder:

"Yan Xiaoer, uncle, I've heard of your reputation for traveling widely, but I can't imagine that it is such a vastness, and I really admire it."

Yan Qinghong was about to speak, when Shen Gui suddenly shouted in the direction of the flow of people:

"Old man, this is good. It's all meat. ”

Before Yan Fujiu could react, there was a foul smell from the side of his mouth and nose, and his body was also hit, and he slipped far away on the bench......

"Phew"

Yan Fujiu, who hadn't reacted yet, turned around and saw a white-haired and white-bearded old man named Hanako picking chopsticks in the chopsticks tube, and his bowl of noodles was covered with a mouthful of spit.

"How many times have I told you, it's true that we asked Hanako to eat a hundred family meals, but whether it's silver or leftovers, people have to say something auspicious." The old beggar tapped the table with chopsticks as he spoke, and after aligning the lengths, he looked up at Yan Fujiu with a smile:

"This young master, do you still want it? Don't you want to do a good deed and give it to the old beggar? ”

After speaking, he lowered his head and began to 'suck and eat noodles', and muttered to Shen Gui while chewing:

"We haven't eaten meat for a few days, but we can drink more noodle soup and pay attention to our stomach."

Lao Xu, who was cooking noodles, swallowed the wire fence of the noodles and shouted at the old beggar:

"Hey, I said the old five, I'm in the food business, don't say anything about your stomach at the stall!"

Yan Fujiu looked at Yan Qinghong with complicated eyes:

"Who are you dating all these people?"

Yan Qinghong's face was also slightly red, and he tilted his neck and tilted his head to support his mouth:

"That is, I got to know some heroes on the rivers and lakes."

After seeing the two beggars finish eating themselves, Yan Qinghong touched his chin and said, "Why don't we find a secluded place?" ”

The old beggar wiped his mouth with his greasy black cuffs, and nodded his head like a rattle:

"This Lao Xu's beef noodles are good, but the soup is a little greasy. I just ate such a big bowl, I have to drink some tea and scrape. ”

Yan Fujiu frowned and tugged Yan Qinghong's arm:

"I said Xiao Er, are the beggars on our Youbei Third Road all this standard of living now? If that's the case, it just so happens that I, the prince, don't want to be a prince for a long time......"

Yan Qinghong grinned, pointed at the two of them and said:

"If you can live like this, no one will do things seriously. Come along, how easy it is for you to meet both of them? ”

There is a dilapidated teahouse in the south of the city, standing by the pier in the south of Fengjing City. This shabby teahouse has no serious name, and it usually neither recruits ordinary people nor rivers and lakes, and specializes in the business of those coolies who carry work and unload goods at the dock. The tea sold is tea foam mixed with broken straw sticks; A little bit of food, that is, a thousand boiled old corn and pickles.

Today, there are four strange people in this broken teahouse, three young and one old. Two are richly dressed, two are in rags. The young man in the tea shed, who is also the son of the boss, quietly asked his shopkeeper's father:

"Shopkeeper, who are these four people? These two look broad, and there is no problem with which rich businessman and official are the children of them. But what kind of road are these two wearing? If you say it's a laborer, it's too worn, right? ”

The shopkeeper leaned against the fence, raised his hand and gave his son a head door:

"I've been working with your father and me for so many years, and my eyesight hasn't improved at all. What about laborers, have you ever seen such an old and young person come to work as a laborer? If the two of them were to work hard, they were purely here to touch porcelain. These two people, at a glance, you can tell that they are called Hanako. ”

The son nodded:

"Dad, you still have eyesight. But you say that these two sons and the two of them want food, what can they talk about? ”

The boss also scratched his head, thought for a long time, and reached out and knocked the child's head hard:

"The little kid asked so much why he was going to work."

Shen Gui only took a sip of water, and then lowered his head and spat the tea foam on the ground. And Yan Qinghong and Qi King Yan Fujiu never touched the teacup at all.

"I said Yan Er, this is your uncle, Qi King Yan Fujiu, right?"

Shen Gui was foaming at the mouth while casually asking Yan Qinghong.

"Yes, yes. It's this kid who wants to pick up your uncle Guo Shuang's cheapness. If you get angry, you can beat him up with Senior Wu. If you can still agree, if you bring me with you for such fun things in the future, I can also help you beat him together. After Yan Qinghong finished speaking, he glanced in the direction of the shopkeeper at the barn: "Hi boss, are there soybeans?" Fry the point to grind our teeth. ”

Yan Fujiu's face was greasy, and he looked at Shen Gui and said:

"You are a child of a family, why don't you like to play, why do you have to play and ask for food?"

Shen Gui shrugged helplessly:

"I said Yan Er, your family should be called Huazi, a fun thing? Besides, it's not that I want to be a beggar, it's that the second old lady in our family has to follow that old thing, what if I don't be a beggar? After Shen Gui finished speaking, he pointed to Wu Chengfeng, who had just slipped into the kitchen.

"Huh? Did you say that the shaman had already calculated that your Guo family's Taibai guards were going to be lost, and arranged a place for your kid to show his strength in advance? Yan Fujiu had a serious discussion with Shen Gui.

"I said Yan Er, your uncle is better than you when he talks cheaply. Who wants to be a beggar and still need his great shaman arrangement? If you scatter all your family foundations, you won't get it."

"What are you talking about?" Wu Chengfeng walked out of the kitchen with some pickles, and became anxious when he heard Shen Gui's complaints: "Are you still a master and I can worship anyone?" ”

Shen Gui raised his eyelids slightly and sneered: "What? Sounds like a meal, the threshold for wanting a meal is quite high, right? ”

Yan Qinghong hurriedly waved his hand and drew everyone's attention to himself:

"I said that you asked the three little ones to ask for food yesterday, blocked the door of the Green Willow Building to find me, and asked me to bring him over, just to fight and grind your teeth, right? If you have something to say, you can disperse quickly if you have nothing to do, I still have business this night. ”

Yan Fujiu nodded after listening:

"Yes, the Qingxue girl in the Green Willow Building hung up a sign tonight."

Shen Gui looked at Wu Chengfeng, an old beggar who was eating the nest, and his face was a little helpless:

"Actually, there are indeed two things that let you bring King Qi here. One of them is naturally related to Taibaiwei. Speaking of this, Shen Gui looked into King Qi's eyes, and his tone was extremely humble and sincere:

"I know, Your Royal Highness King Qi, you have received the holy decree, and you will take the entire Taibai Janissary in a few days. Thinking that the veteran of the Taibai Praetorian Guard, who was originally from the Orion family of Zhongshan Road, most of them were the protégés of my Guo family. After you take over the whole army this time, Your Majesty will inevitably order a purge. Therefore I entrust it to you today that when you are cleansed in the future, if anyone has the slightest offense against the Holy One, I will do my best to save his life. After all, these veterans have also fought on the battlefield for my Youbei Three Roads. I don't know if this invitation will make King Qi feel embarrassed? ”

After listening to Shen Gui's request, Yan Fujiu's expression was slightly surprised. Tsai thought for a while before answering, and his tone was full of helplessness and weakness:

"The family affairs of the Qi Wangfu have long been spread all over Youbei Third Road. According to common sense, it is impossible for people of our bloodline to have the opportunity to take charge of the army again. But I don't know why, now His Majesty has inexplicable trust in the people of my Qi Palace, there is no way, I don't have the courage to resist and disobey the order. What's more, I have been serving in the Taibai Forbidden Army all these years, although I have never asked about the affairs of the army on weekdays, but after all, I have eaten in the same pot with these soldiers of the Taibai Guard. I and the deputy commander Guo Shuang, because of our different temperaments, our friendship is not too deep, but we also have such respect in our hearts. So I can't promise you anything of what you ask for today, but I'll do my best to accommodate it. ”

Yan Fujiu's tone of voice was extremely slow, and sometimes he would stop to think about it, and there was a look of struggle and exhaustion between his eyebrows, which looked slightly sad.

After listening to Yan Fujiu's answer, Shen Gui nodded heavily, and then turned his head to look at the second prince Yan Qinghong:

"It's much easier to trust you. You must also know about my Guo family affairs, so I won't say more at this time. When my uncle left, only Tie Jia was left with my grandfather. There is no problem on weekdays, but now that my uncle is gone, the Guo family no longer has any support in the court. The trees fell and scattered, the old men of the clan mansion, and the prime minister Dongyou Li Deng, would not give up this opportunity to beat the water dogs. Nothing else, I just want you to keep my old man and the iron armor safe. It doesn't matter if anything else, but I hope to stay alive. ”

Yan Qinghong saw that Shen Gui's face was extremely solemn, and his words were no longer the frivolous Meng Lang of the past:

"You don't need to worry too much about the clan mansion, this group of old men is under the protection of my Yan family, and their sharpness has long been gone, and they want to step on your Guo family. And in the court, don't worry, right now, your Guo family is too white and white, and Lao Jiu doesn't say it...... Hey, in short, your Guo family is now just a sick tiger with teeth and claws, and if you fall into your house, you won't get any benefits, not to mention, you have to end up in a commotion. So the most troublesome thing is still the prime minister of Dongyou. Your family, the Zhongshan Guo family and the Dongyou Li family, have not been very opposable for three generations. Of course, it is impossible for the one in charge of the army and the one in charge of logistics and supply to fight against each other, and it is not obvious on weekdays, but now that your Guo family has lost power, it will naturally break the balance of this situation. Therefore, in my opinion, the only person who has the most reason to make up for this knife in the entire Youbei Third Road is his Dongyou Li family. ”

Yan Fujiu, who was originally listening to the side, suddenly stretched out his hand at this time, pointed at Yan Qinghong, and said to Shen Gui: "Don't look at him analyzing everything so thoroughly, but he must not be sure." I said Yan Qinghong, don't forget, you kid, you are just a second prince, your mother Concubine Lan, or a foreigner sent by the steppe wolves in the west. What is your identity, and what is the identity of your family boss? Still want to protect the King of Zhongshan? …… You, like me, the son of a defeated army, are afraid that you can't even protect yourself. Also, are you two really willing to take over the hot potato of Taibaiwei? ”

Yan Fujiu sneered and stopped talking. After listening to what he said, Yan Qinghong's face turned red and white for a while, and he bowed his head and was silent.

"I trust the two of you today, in fact, because I am going to follow the old beggar to leave Fengjing City......"

Yan Qinghong raised his head and looked at him blankly:

"Why are you two going?"

Shen Gui smiled and pointed to the sleepy old beggar sitting on the side:

"My master has to take me on a study tour."