The city gate official on the opposite side was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly looked at Gao Cheng with an incredible expression on his face. "Gao Ziming, you're actually back?"

This city gate official is called Lu Hong, and the word is positive. Born in the Lu clan of Huai'an, the family is also a local wealthy family in the county, but there are no famous strong and official ancestors in the ancestors, and their status is lower than that of the Gao family. Lu Hong is just a concubine of the Lu family, and his status in the family is not high.

After all, the Han Dynasty is the world of the family, and the local heroes do not have a prominent background and a strong cultivation method as a foundation, so they will not be recognized by the family in the world at all, and at most they will be called good families. There are some advantages to being in the army, and you can also serve as a low-level official, but that's about it. The high-ranking officials above the Taishou and the county are basically monopolized by the world's families. In normal times, when the world is stable, every step forward for the Hanmen and local wealthy families has to pay a huge price.

Gao Cheng had a few encounters with Lu Hong before, but the relationship was not close.

Lu Hong was secretly surprised in his heart, a few months ago he heard that Gao Cheng had become a shop in the seller's house, and went to Yingchuan Academy to study with his coils, but he never thought that Taiping Road would set off a vigorous war, of which Yuzhou, where Yingchuan Academy is located, is the core of the war. The children of the wealthy families in the entire Huai'an City said that this person must die at the hands of the Yellow Turban thieves.

Unexpectedly, a few months later, he returned safely with hundreds of people, and his temperament was very different from before, if it weren't for the fact that his appearance had not changed, he thought that the other party had changed someone.

Hearing the conversation between Lu Hong and Gao Cheng, these officers and soldiers at the city gate reacted, it turned out that this was not a caravan, but Gao Cheng of the Gao clan in the city had returned, and the soldiers showed disappointment on their faces, thinking that they could get some oil and water this time, but now it seems that there is no hope.

The other party's father used to be a county prince, and although he passed away, he also left some connections for his son. If these soldiers dared to stretch out their hands to Gao Cheng, it would be tantamount to offending the dignity of the family. Without Gao Cheng coming forward, the official families in the city will suppress and exclude them.

Gao Cheng noticed the expressions of these soldiers, couldn't help but smile, waved his hand and asked Gao Tai to send a small bag of five baht coins, and said: "Brother Zizheng, I just rushed back from Xiapi, I need to go home to tidy up the house, I can't talk to my brother for the time being, this is three thousand yuan, my brother will take it to buy wine for his subordinates!"

The city gate officials and the soldiers guarding the city are nothing in front of the wealthy family, but they also have a little power in their hands, especially Lu Hong, who is worthy of his relationship.

Gao Cheng has just returned to Huai'an, and he is going to rest for a period of time without attracting attention, and then wait until the soldiers and slaves under his command have settled down, and then come to settle accounts with Mei Lin and Chen Yuan, who deceived the original body and took half of Gao's family business with very low money.

Chen Yuan didn't say it for the time being, Mei Lin was a child of the Huai'an Mei clan and a member of the family. It is not difficult for Gao Cheng to kill the other party with his current strength, but without enough reason, he is easily rejected by other families. After all, when Mei Lin and the original body were traded, both parties were willing to trade.

If Gao Cheng seeks revenge on the grounds of being deceived, it is not enough.

The Lu Hong in front of him is the head snake of Huai'an, and he is very well-informed, much stronger than the nerd in the original body and Gao Cheng now, whether Gao Cheng is gaining a foothold in Huai'an or looking for revenge on Meilin, he can't do without the help of such a person.

Lu Hong is a person with clear eyebrows, otherwise he would not be able to sit firmly in the position of the city gate official with his identity, but the city gate official is also a member of the county order bureaucracy, and it belongs to the official position, I don't know how many disciples of the cold sect are enthusiastic about this position.

Feeling that the other party intended to show goodwill, he did not refuse, took the bag of five baht money and threw it to the soldier next to him, he glanced at the three hundred elite soldiers behind Gao Cheng, and immediately smiled: "I thank Brother Ziming for his generosity on behalf of all the brothers, hey, if it weren't for the rampant water thieves in Baima Lake, we people would not be so embarrassed, some brothers are about to be unable to open the pot at home, these water thieves are really hateful!"

Saying that, he took the initiative to take Gao Cheng towards the city gate, and the two talked for a while, and Gao Cheng also had a simple understanding of the situation in Huai'an City these days.

Since the Yellow Turban Uprising, the world has been full of smoke, and before the Yellow Turban soldiers in many counties and counties have attacked, many bandits and rangers who are unwilling to be lonely have come out and want to take advantage of the chaos. The White Horse Lake water thieves in the south of Huai'an City are one of them. In particular, the leader of the water thieves is very strong. It is said that the merchant ships of the Guangling Chen clan were all robbed and killed by the other party. It doesn't give this county family any face.

When he was about to pass through the city gate, Lu Hong hesitated for a moment, and then said in a low voice: "Brother Ziming, after the Yellow Turban Thieves incident a few months ago, the Gao family's 300 acres of fields and farms outside the city seem to be occupied by other people, and now that you come back, these people may not back down, so you have to be careful yourself!"

After saying this, Lu Hong quickly took two steps back, haha and said: "Brother Ziming, I still have to continue to guard the city gate, it is inconvenient to talk more, and we will drink together again when we have the opportunity in the future......"

Gao Cheng's face remained unchanged, he nodded to him with a smile on his face, and then led Gao Tai, Zhou Cang and the convoy into the city, and walked along the street in the direction where Gao's mansion was located.

As soon as he left the city gate, Gao Cheng's face changed instantly, and a sneer appeared. "It's really a good person who is bullied and a horse is good at being ridden, the original nerd has not been refined into a false scripture, and his personality is weak, as long as he is a friend who is identified, he rarely suspects, and now he has been deceived by his so-called friend and has taken away half of his family business!"

"Even if I went to Yingchuan, the others would treat him as dead in the chaos, and by the way, they took up the only remaining 300 acres of land!"

Gao Cheng also has the skin of the Guangling Gao clan on his body, if he is just an ordinary person, there is nowhere to redress his grievances if his family's land is occupied by other wealthy families. The Han Dynasty governs the world with filial piety, pays attention to relatives and concealment, and the wealthy families in Huai'an are inextricably linked, and covering up each other's crimes is also in line with the national conditions of the Han Dynasty.

The local wealthy families married each other and formed a powerful force entrenched in the local area, even if the county commander of Huai'an City came here as an official, he also had to consider the attitude of the family in the city, and some of the county orders with a weaker attitude simply became the puppet of the family in the city.

However, it's just that these families bully others, if they provoke Gao Cheng, he will definitely not back down in the slightest, and originally planned to keep a low profile for a while, but without the land farm to settle his soldiers and slaves, how can he keep a low profile?

Huai'an City is not as majestic as Shangpi City, but the city is also very wide, Gao Cheng's original memory, there are many merchants in the city, and now under the influence of war and water thieves, the merchants have become a lot less, only some people are left walking on the streets.

Four hundred people escorted several carriages to walk on the streets, and many people looked sideways, and they could feel that this group of men and horses was a little difficult to mess with, especially the elite soldiers with three hundred straight faces and evil faces, giving people a sense of fear.