The two of them ate this meal from noon to dusk.

Later, Fan Yongdou obviously drank too much, and he was quite interested, and after listening to a small song, he asked Yan Xiucheng with a big tongue:

"Xiu Cheng, it's freezing this day, even I, an outsider, know that it's the time to go out of the mang, why are you so free to accompany me for an afternoon?"

Yan Xiucheng snorted coldly, a trace of fierceness flashed in his eyes, "Fan Gongzi, I'm not afraid of being laughed at by you, Zhou Chengyun is not used to seeing me, all the Huizhou pharmacists who are good friends with him, no one is willing to buy my miscanthus salt, and the goods of the previous year have not yet been delivered." ”

"Oh? No wonder you don't have to visit Yantian in person. This is the first time Fan Yongdou has heard that since the miscanthus can't be exchanged for white silver, then who is willing to go to the lake to suffer in the cold.

To tell the truth, if he hadn't asked Yan Xiucheng for help this time, he wouldn't have talked so much with this person.

In his eyes, this guy is just a lackey of the Fan family, does he need any communication with the dog?

This week, Chengyun acted decisively, and found out that Yan Xiucheng had hooked up with the Fan family in private, and immediately cut off his sales of manganese, so as to make an example.

But having said that, doing so pushed Yan Xiucheng more and more towards the Fan family, which can be regarded as helping his Fan family.

"I'm sorry, I can't really help with this mangshi." Fan Yongdou pretended to sigh, it is not that there is no medicine on the grassland, but the use of miscanthus is small, and there are restrictions on the use of drugs, and there is no market outside the plug.

"Then your salt pans are barren in winter?"

Yan Xiucheng shook his head, "I still arranged for someone to collect the manganese, otherwise, wouldn't it be cheaper for others." ”

This is true, if you don't send someone to guard it, the miscanthus in Yan Xiucheng's salt field will definitely be taken away by others, and it will help increase the strength of others in vain.

In this case, you might as well add some more manpower, and by the way, you can collect the manganese, even if you can't sell it, you can't cheapen others.

"Okay, let's not talk about these bad things." Fan Yongdou raised his glass, "Since Xiu Cheng is free today, then we might as well get drunk and rest." ”

Yan Xiucheng raised his wine glass as he said, he was a little disappointed in his heart, he didn't hesitate to expose his own shortcomings, he just wanted to ask for some help from Fan Yongdou, can he help find some sales channels in northern Jinbei, but it seems that this time it is no show.

"What?" Yan Xiucheng put down his wine glass, and when he saw that the person who reported the news at noon was guarding the door again, he lowered his face and asked.

"Master, another guard will come back in the afternoon,..."

"Didn't I already say that they should rest on their own and not have to come back again?" Before this person finished speaking, Yan Xiucheng said impatiently.

Don't look at him smiling in front of Fan Yongdou, he looks submissive, but in the face of his own subordinates, he is full of power.

"No, old... Master, it was Yan Xiaojia who asked the little one to ask, if there are guards coming back after dark, can you still open the city gate and let them in? The messenger said with some grievances.

Yan Xiaojia, who was called Yan Tou among the three guards in the city gate tower, could be regarded as Yan Xiucheng's henchman, and was arranged to be in charge of the front gate of Yanjia Village.

"Go down, go down!" Yan Xiucheng waved his hand impatiently and drove away the maid and the Qingqi people.

"Alright, let's talk about it."

"The little one heard Yan Xiaojia say, the guards have arrived a lot, and it is estimated that someone will come back at night, open the city gate this night, he doesn't dare to specialize, let the little one come and ask the master what he means."

Successively? That is, the matter has not been done yet, otherwise we should have arrived together.

"How many guards have returned? All of them were bruised? Yan Xiucheng asked with a sinking face.

"There are more than 20 people, and they all fell."

So much? Is something wrong, shouldn't it, can't you even take a bunch of refugees?

"What the hell is going on?" Yan Xiucheng was a little worried, more than twenty percent of people were injured by falls, it was not normal, if something happened to these 100 people, then he would lose his strength.

"It is said that many sections of the road have been splashed with water, and the road surface is covered with a very thick layer of ice, which is why so many people have been injured by falling, and Chengjiao can't bear to see them cold, so he sent them back by himself."

Splashing the pavement with water? This is not a method that ordinary refugees will use, what does Fan Dagongzi like about others? Yan Xiucheng began to be a little curious about Fan Yongdou's true purpose.

This group of refugees may not be as easy to deal with as I thought at the beginning.

"Hahaha...", just as Yan Xiucheng began to worry a little about the safety of the guards, Fan Yongdou laughed beside him.

"Xiu Cheng, don't worry, these thieves can only use these means that can't be put on the table."

"Think about it," Fan Yongdou explained with a flushed face and dancing hands, "if they are strong enough, why don't they face off against your people." ”

Yan Xiucheng didn't agree with this, the two armies were opposite each other, and they were both unscrupulous, so how could there be any dignified duel.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Fan Yongdou knew that his words were not convincing, and continued: "If they have the strength to fight, why don't they ambush and attack while your men and horses are falling?" ”

There is some truth in this, if you attack while your own side is falling in pieces, it is really unbearable, and the reason why you don't do it is probably because they are too weak.

"They have set up roadblocks again and again, in fact, with only one purpose, that is, to slow down our pursuit as much as possible, so that they can escape."

Yan Xiucheng nodded secretly, it seemed that this did make sense, otherwise why would these refugees set up so many roadblocks.

Call! Fan Yongdou breathed a sigh of relief, which can be regarded as initially dispelling Yan Xiucheng's doubts.

Fan Yongdou didn't believe in his heart at all that these refugees could make any moths, but Yan Xiucheng felt sorry for his own people and had to find a way to make him feel relieved.

But he was well-founded and well-organized, and in the end, he was convinced.

"Besides, Xiu Cheng, do you think that your heavily armed escort will suffer in front of a group of hungry and poorly clothed refugees?" Fan Yongdou finally asked.

This sentence became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

He was indeed too worried, Yan Xiucheng laughed at himself, even if this team of guards was injured by a fall, it was not comparable to that group of refugees, if they could threaten the guards, then all the money he had spent all these years would be spent on the dogs.

"Fan Gongzi, you say, will they hide it?" Since you don't have to worry about your own people, you naturally start to think about the whereabouts of the other party.

"Hahaha, Xiucheng, I'm too worried." Fan Yongdou laughed wildly, "Are the two guards you sent out to me ornaments?" ”

"Oh, Fan Gongzi, these two...?"

"One of them is fine, and the other person who can't even speak Chinese, I won't hide it from you, but one of the guards of the Jurchen Great Khan Huang Taiji specially sent to my Fan family," Fan Yongdou was triumphant and a little out of shape.

"This person is not only good at riding and shooting, superb knife skills, but also good at field tracking, in the snow, these refugees want not to be caught up by him, it is a fool's dream."

Yan Xiucheng was silent when he heard this, he knew that the Fan family had colluded with Jiannu, but it was the first time to hear Fan Yongdou say so blatantly that there were Jurchens in the guards.

In order to develop and grow the Yan family, he chose to take refuge in the Fan family, and he didn't know whether it was right or wrong.

However, since he knew that there were such people in his team, Yan Xiucheng was completely relieved, he was worried not that the Yan family's guards would not be able to defeat the refugees, but that he was afraid that if the other party had any more tricks, his team would be ambushed.

In his mind, with this Jurchen, the ambush of those refugees was not a concern.

"Master, don't let people in at night?" The messenger asked again.

"Those pieces of garbage, don't open them, let them reflect on them for me in the doorway."