Sun Guan and Mi Fang continued to talk, but no third person knew what they said, even Cao Xiu and the others couldn't hear the slightest rumor.

Within a few days, a large number of grain and grass were escorted into the military camp outside Beihai Guoju County by more than 30 sergeants in helmets and armor, and then a large number of people came out to drive the carriage back to Xixian County. It's just that the number of people who came out of the barracks was several times more than the people who transported grain and grass before......

Eight days after Sun Guan arrived in Xi County, that is, the tenth day after Han Yan left Nancheng, Han Yan finally arrived in Linzi.

Looking at the already dilapidated city wall of Linzi, Han Yan was embarrassed.

Linzi City, from ancient times to the present, has been brilliant all the way. Linzi was formerly known as Yingqiu, because it is bordered by the Zi River in the east. Far away in the Zhou Dynasty, Qi Xiangong of Qi changed its name to Linzi, and the capital of Qi was in Linzi City. After arriving in the Han Dynasty, Linzi belonged to the state of Qi and was under the rule of Qingzhou.

If the current Qi State wants to say that there is a lord, it can be regarded as a lord, after all, the current prince of the Qi State, King Qi Liu Cheng, has just inherited the position of the King of Qi for not long ago. But if you want to say that Qi has no owner, in fact, it is also ownerless, after all, no matter what, the current Liu Cheng is said to be the prince king, but the living conditions are not necessarily better than the county guard of a county, who let him have no real power in his hands?

Now in the Han Dynasty, there are actually a lot of royal relatives, but whether they have real power or not has nothing to do with whether they have a title or not, which is also the inevitable development of the times.

However, this time when he came to Linzi, Han Yan didn't plan to meet that King Qi at all. Originally, I didn't know people very well, and I didn't come here to visit them, I wanted to take other people's cities and meet them, Han Yan felt that it was a bit unauthentic to do that. Moreover, Han Yan is at least nominally a courtier of the Han Dynasty, and if he seizes the city in front of the princes and kings of the Liu family, it will be too big a problem to spread out.

Traveling lightly, Han Yan only let Dian Wei and Le Jin accompany him this time, and then accompanied him with the two brothers Yang Mi and Yang Wei.

The five of them walked around the city wall for a small half circle, and the sheep couldn't stand it anymore, "When did I say this is going to go?" It's almost dark, and if you don't enter the city, I don't think we can get in today! ”

"It's okay, it's just right if you can't get in, we'll spend the night outside the city today!"

Glancing at Yang Yan, Han Yan was not angry, but amused as if he was joking.

If you want to talk about the mind of the sheep, in fact, everyone understands. Under normal circumstances, the time to close the city gate at night is when the sun sets, but because the Yellow Turban remnants are rampant in Qingzhou now, the soldiers guarding the city now actually have the intention of closing the city gate.

Han Yan naturally saw this matter clearly, and the reason why he was not in a hurry to enter the city was because he didn't think about entering the city at all now. I don't know the situation in Linzi City, even if I enter the city, it doesn't really have any effect, but because of my identity, the possibility of Han Yan being recognized is much greater, rather than exposing myself, it is better to go around outside first and understand the situation.

Yang Mi didn't know Han Yan's thoughts, but he understood that his brothers' experience in this area was not as good as Han Yan's, so he opened his mouth to explain for Han Yan, "I think Brother Han already has a plan, just follow it, see more and talk less!" ”

"Yes! Brother. ”

As the saying goes, 'the eldest brother is like a father', and Yang Wei naturally won't talk back to Yang Mi, but it is inevitable to be unconvinced.

Han Yan saw it in his eyes, but he didn't open his mouth to mediate. It's not because of other reasons, it's just that he doesn't have a very good impression of Yang Yan, and Yang Wei is not an important person in Han Yan's place, and he only brought him because of Yang Mi, so he ignored it.

He walked around the city wall for a short distance, looked at the situation nearby, and then closed the city gate with a 'creaking' sound under the gaze of Han Yan and others, and at this time, the sky gradually began to darken.

Han Yan, who had been observing for a while, stopped at this time and waved his hand at Le Jin and the others behind him, "Okay, it's not early, now let's find a place to live!" ”

"Shhhh Where else can I go to live when the gates of this city are closed? ”

Pouting disdainfully, Yang Yu's heart was very dissatisfied, but the voice of complaint was also very low.

Glancing at Yang Wei, Han Yan didn't open his mouth to pay attention to such an ignorant little brat, turned straight to Yang Mi, and after clasping his hands into fists, he said, "Today we are going to spend the night at our family's house outside, but we have to be wronged by Brother Yang." ”

"It's not in the way, it's not in the way!"

The sheep secretary waved his hand again and again, without the slightest shelf.

It's just as Han Yan said, tonight is destined to be wronged. After all, no matter how the sheep family declines, but the sheep family is still a family, although the place where the sheep live is not very luxurious, but it can be regarded as clean and neat, but in those scattered homes outside Linzi City, the conditions will obviously not be so good.

Qingzhou was already in chaos, even near Linzi City, the seat of Qi State, in fact, the situation was not particularly good. The people outside Linzi City, those who have the ability have already been involved in the city, and even the worse ones have already packed up their belongings and gone to their relatives. The rest of them are naturally poor people who have no way out.

Pushing open the half-rotten wooden door, Han Yan carefully bypassed the other half of the crumbling wooden door, for fear that he would destroy the already dilapidated door.

Although it was said that the conditions of the family were poor when he entered the door, Han Yan did not turn around and go out. It's not that Han Yan is really informal, it's really that there is only one family with lights on in the neighborhood, and if he is not here, Han Yan has no other choice.

"Excuse me, anyone?"

Said hello very politely, and then Han Yan strode into the courtyard.

"Hey! Who's coming? ”

An old voice came from inside the house, followed by a 'squeak', and the door was opened.

Han Yan could see clearly that the owner's family was an elderly man with gray hair, who looked like he was sixty years old. Taking half a step forward, Han Yan clenched his fists and arched his hands, "Old man, we are here to come to Zicheng to do business, but I didn't expect this city gate to close a lot earlier than in the past, we didn't catch up with the time to enter the city, if you can, I don't know if you can let us stay overnight?" ”