Listening to the waves, there were only four kneeling seats in the pavilion, although there were four people, but only three people were seated, and at this time, only the young man in front of one of the kneeling seats whispered: "There should be some collusion, but the really terrible thing is not so." ”

"Oh?" Liu Lan looked at Xu Shu suspiciously, and said, "Could it be that there is something else to do?" ”

"Yes." Xu Shu's eyes were full of excitement, and he cautiously glanced at the two of them on the side, and after seeing Liu Lan's signal, he said in a low voice: "Because the sentry found another strange person on the second day." ”

"What's the strange law?" Liu Bei hurriedly asked.

"This man actually covered his face with a black scarf during the day."

"Wrapped in a black scarf?" Liu Lan muttered in his mouth, the essence in his eyes suddenly flashed, and he snorted: "Even the cunning fox is always going to show his tail, it seems that this person is the inner ghost we have been looking for for many days, otherwise even the person sent by Yuan Shao is not covered with a black scarf, why doesn't he dare to see people?" ”

Speaking of this, he looked at Xu Shu and said, "Do you know that this inner ghost is from our side or Mifu?" When he said this, he was shocked in his heart, and hurriedly said: "By the way, did you startle the snake?" ”

"I didn't startle the snake, the sentry detectives followed this man all the time, and followed him to Xiaopei." Xu Shu's eyes darkened and he sighed.

"I didn't expect it to be our people."

A hint of coldness flashed in Liu Lan's eyes, his palms clenched into fists, and said, "Who is it?" ”

Xu Shu smiled bitterly and said, "Now that Xiaopei's school field has been destroyed, all the generals have gathered in one place, and they have not been identified. ”

Liu Lan nodded, with some regret, and said, "As long as you know where this person is." Saying this, he suddenly smiled and said: "How can a cunning prey be the opponent of a good hunter like Yuan Zhi, sooner or later, he will lose his body." ”

"The lord has praised it, without the lord planning here, how can that person show his feet?" Xu Shu and Liu Lan looked at each other and smiled, and said.

Something succeeds. It's not about how clever a person's calculations are, or how clever the opponent is, but how easy you take when you think victory is in sight, so some people end up succeeding with the intention of breaking the boat, while others have the humility and 120% caution. In the end, it worked. And people who have a fluke in their hearts will often be taken advantage of at this time, and eventually lose to the ground. And some people lose a full game of good chess when they are about to succeed, because they despise their opponents, overestimate themselves, they compare themselves to the proud male lion in the grassland, who cannot be beaten, but they do not know that when the male lion naps, it is when it dies.

Almost all the goals of this trip to the East China Sea have been achieved, and it is time to return to Xiaopei.

This winter is the coldest winter in Xuzhou in recent years. Even Wenshui was covered with ice floe, and everyone stood helplessly at the ferry port of Quxian County and looked at Wenshui full of ice floe, only to hear Liu Lan smile bitterly: "This is really what I want to go and want to stay, I think we should go back and disturb Mi Fang, and the weather will improve in a few days, and then take the ferry after Wenshui thaws." ”

Liu Bei, Xu Chu, Xu Shu, and Sun Qian walked from the ferry to the convoy in the distance. As soon as he took a step, he heard a few merchants lamenting not far away. I only heard one of them say: "Seeing that the end of the year is approaching, why is this Wenshui frozen, and my wife is still looking forward to me going home for reunion." He sighed again and again.

Another businessman said, "Well, this brother and his wife are praying at home. He was very sad and said, "This benevolent brother doesn't know where the fairy township is?" ”

The man before said: "In Xianai, it is from Moling, Yangzhou." ”

"It's no wonder." The man smiled bitterly and said, "There is no war disaster in Yangzhou. How can I compare with Yanzhou? ”

Liu Lan and the others waited for a few steps, and suddenly heard that this person was a merchant from Yanzhou, and couldn't help but stop, and continued to listen to the man say: "I have also heard of this, I heard that Wen Hou and Cao Zhijun are fighting in Yanzhou. ”

"But it's the same." The Yanzhou merchant said here. But with tears in his eyes, he choked up, and said: "Brother Ren doesn't know, I received a letter from my neighbor a few days ago, saying that my lady died in a military disaster. When he said this, he couldn't control the tears anymore, and said, "Pity my unborn child and the hard-working lady who were burned alive to ashes." ”

Liu Bei, who was on the side, heard the man say this, and interjected: "This benevolent brother, I don't know what the scene is in Puyang City at this time?" ”

The man glanced at Liu Bei, saw that his weapons were extraordinary, and the people around him were all majestic, so he didn't dare to slack off, and said: "It's still owned by Wen Hou, some time ago, I heard that Wen Hou used fire to attack Cao to make Jun enter the city and kill him. The man held back his sadness and said, "And my wife died in the fire in this battle." ”

On the side, Sun Gan interjected and said: "Qian has always heard that Wen Hou is a reckless husband, and he doesn't want to defeat Cao Mengde with a fire attack plan, and it seems that the rumors are not true. ”

The Yanzhou merchant glanced at Sun Qian, and saw that he was extraordinary in appearance and eloquent, so he said: "This gentleman doesn't know something, there is a staff member under Wen Hou's account, surnamed Chen Minggong, and all the plans are his own. ”

"It seems that history has not changed much, and everything continues to move forward according to the direction of history."

Liu Lan thought so in his heart, but he looked around, because of the chatter of everyone before, at this time, merchants from all walks of life had already gathered, talking about what was happening in the world, and only heard a merchant who had just come said: "Now the chaos is getting worse, and I don't know other places, but this You, Ji, Qing, Xu, Yan, and Yu are full of soldiers, and there is not even a place to live." ”

"What this brother said is subtle, although I don't know other places, but if you say that these state capitals do not have a place to live, I am afraid that it is exaggerated, just like Yuzhou Xiaopei, I heard that Liu Yuanjun was ingenious, reduced taxes and residential taxes and other miscellaneous taxes, just collected transaction tax, you said such a good place, isn't it the treasure in the eyes of you and me?"

Liu Lan and the others waited to hear the man praise his father-in-law, all of them looked at me, I looked at you, the four of them looked at each other, smiled knowingly, and continued to listen to those people say: "I just don't know how to pay this transaction tax?" ”

"The transaction tax is only a tenth of the profit of the transaction amount from the trader, and if the two parties to the transaction are not successful in Xiaopei, they will not take a penny." Speaking of this, he thought about something, and said with a smile: "There is also the fact that Liu Yuanjun has even banned the city gate and the poll tax in Pei County. ”

When many merchants and travelers heard the man say this, they couldn't help but exclaim, "There is still such a thing? ”

"Of course it's true."

Everyone had mixed feelings in their hearts, and they all thought about how good it would be if the governor of their state capital could be like this. I only heard another person say: "This Liu Yuanjun is a respected relative of the Han family, and he is the queen of Guangyang Qing in Zhuo County, who is called a hungry wolf in the north, and in the world, he is called Xiao Weiqing, but in our Zhuo County." The people said that Liu Yuanjun was really a heavenly Wenjun, otherwise how could he be so popular with the people of Xiaopei? ”

I only heard the merchant from Yangzhou sneered and said, "It's just a matter of gods and ghosts, it can't be true." ”

"There is a god when you look up, this brother can rest for a while and say some nonsense, be careful of being punished by the gods."

The Yangzhou merchant snorted coldly and didn't say anything, and Liu Bei on the side had a pair of round eyes, and said secretly: "When did I become an immortal monarch?" ”

I was secretly amused in my heart, but at the same time, Liu Lan thought of a classic sentence: 'It is human nature to create myths. to certain characters. If there is something surprising or confusing about their lives, people will cling to it with hunger, and will make up all sorts of myths, and they will believe it and become almost fanatical. This can be said to be a kind of protest against the ordinary and bleak life of romanticism', and this is undoubtedly the case with the people in front of him, but what he did not expect is that his current reputation has reached such a point? I only heard another person say: "What this brother said is true. But it's not true, but I heard that this Liu Envoy Jun is a martial artist. ”

And they heard him say so. Qi Qi looked at the person who spoke, only to hear the man continue: "I don't know if you can know about the dispute between Yuan Yuanjun and General Gongsun in Jizhou the year before last?" ”

Some of the eyes of the people were confused, and they nodded to show their understanding, and said: "I've heard of it, I heard that Yuan Yuanjun also lost the Hejian Kingdom." ”

The man laughed, "But it's the same, but how can you know?" This is because Liu Yuanjun helped him, otherwise how could General Gongsun have this victory. ”

"Is what this brother said true?" Everyone on the side said in disbelief.

"Of course it's true."

The man swore and said: "Look at the present, it only took Yuan Yuanjun a year to start a war with General Gongsun again, but he was defeated in less than ten months, and even the country of Hejian that he had so hard to get was lost. ”

Liu Lan already knew about this matter. At this time, I was not shocked to hear this person say it, but I only heard the man continue: "You only need to think carefully to know the key, that day Liu Yuanjun helped General Gongsun get Hejian, but after Liu Yuanjun came to Xiaopei, General Gongsun immediately lost the Hejian country, and the original words of Liu Yuanjun were that Liu Yuanjun had eagle eyes and a heroic rhino head, and his reputation was heard in the sky and he made meritorious contributions to the desert. He also borrowed the "Book of Han" Wei General Changping Huanhuan, the Yuan of the general, saying that it has the wind of Wei Qing, borrowing the past to metaphor the present, and saying that Liu Yuanjun can be compared to Sun Wu Baihan in the future, quite Mu Wei Huo, everyone, you say that Liu Yuanjun is not a martial artist, where will it be Wenjun. ”

"I still believe that Liu Yuanjun is Wenjun, and Wujun I think is Wenhou." looked at the crowd: "You don't know, a few years ago, the princes gathered, Liu Yuanjun and the tent Xiaguan, Zhang Erjiang and Wen Hou in Xingyang, but failed to get the slightest bargain, and at this time Wen Hou was even more defeated by Cao Cao, just by virtue of this, this Wu Jun is not Wen Hou and who is it." ”

"It's just a reckless husband, how can it be compared to Cao Gong, it's just a small victory for a while."

"You ......"

The man was about to get angry, but he heard one of them laugh and say, "Don't be angry, everyone is strong, who is inferior in the end, I think we will know next year." ”

said here, but said in a low voice: "But I heard that Liu Yuanjun Yanyan is very blessed, and he actually took the eldest lady of the first beauty of the Mi family in Xuzhou as a concubine." In the end, he showed an obscene color.

"What kind of news is this, but I heard that Yuan Er's envoy Jun gathered his troops this winter, but I don't know which county guard will be unlucky in the spring next year."

"What?" Everyone was shocked, only to hear that the merchants in Yangzhou reacted the most quickly, and hurriedly spoke: "Yuan Er envoy Jun drove Liu Zhoumu (Liu Xuan) to Moling, isn't this time to cross the river and completely control the entire Jiangdong?" ”

Liu Lan listened to the talk of these merchants, smiled slightly, and looked at everyone: "Okay, we should also go back." As he spoke, he left quietly, but he thought in his heart: "But I don't know whether Yuan Shu wants to cross the river or deal with Xuzhou, it seems that I have to let Chen Guo go to Chen everywhere to find out what his real purpose is...... Yuan Shu's true thoughts! (To be continued.) )