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Seeing that he was about to get home, Zhu Youzhen was not in a hurry. After the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info turned over Ziyun Mountain, he first led Li Zhenyan into Lantian County and wandered around the market.

Li Zhenyan couldn't help but wonder: "Lord, it's not yet noon, if we hurry up, maybe we will be able to enter Qin Wangzhuang tonight, but why are you staying here?" Are you a little homesick? ”

"Even if it's it!" Zhu Youzhen agreed absentmindedly, but a pair of eyes roamed back and forth in the bustling flow of people in the market. Suddenly, he stabbed Li Zhenyan with his finger and said forward: "Look at that person!" ”

Li Zhenyan followed Zhu Youzhen's point, and saw that it was a middle-aged man with a big belly and gorgeous clothes, so she pouted and said, "It's just a rich man, what's so beautiful." ”

"I want you to see where the money is on him?" Zhu Youzhen smiled sheepishly.

"Lord Wang, you... You don't want to steal, do you? Li Zhenyan immediately had black lines on her head.

"Don't say it so badly." Zhu Youzhen said with a smile, "We have been away for so long, and now we are finally home, so we can't be empty-handed, at least bring some small gifts to the people in the palace." So now that silver is of great use, you see, this guy is a rich and unkind lord, and it is not a big deal to borrow a few dozen taels of silver from him. Zhenyan, you are very skilled, this glorious and difficult task is handed over to you! ”

Li Zhenyan wanted to comply, but Zhu Youzhen insisted again and again, and even threatened to tell Rui'er and others about the private affairs of the two on the fishing island. Li Zhenyan was so helpless that she had to come once empty-handed, and stole sixty or seventy taels of silver from that person without much effort.

Zhu Youzhen got the silver, and immediately dragged Li Zhenyan to find an inn to live in, and then bought a silk shirt for each, and went back to the room to bathe and change clothes. Silk clothing is very expensive, a set costs thirty taels, and now Zhu Youzhen's pocket is empty again, Li Zhenyan couldn't help teasing: "Isn't the prince going to buy a small gift, and now there is no silver, do you still want to steal it?" This time, they will not steal it! ”

Only then did Zhu Youzhen tell the truth: "Zhenyan, in fact, I don't want to buy any small gifts, you think that the two of us can go back safely, it is the best gift for the people in the palace." The reason why I want to dress up is actually to sneak into Qinwangzhuang and see what is going on in Qinwangzhuang now. In addition, I have to trouble you, so we'd better be easy to disguise and not be recognized. ”

Li Zhenyan said curiously: "If you want to see Qin Wangzhuang, can't you just go directly to the city?" Why disguise? ”

"I want to see the real thing." Zhu Youzhen's eyes were blazing and said, "Qin Wangzhuang can recognize a lot of my people, if you see me, they are all singing praises, it will be boring, I want to listen to their heartfelt thoughts, to see what can be improved in the previous policy."

"In addition, I am also a little worried about the East Factory. You think we have to pass through Xi'an City, the last time Dongchang didn't harm me, we will inevitably arrange a large number of secret agents near Xi'an, and organize a more vicious assassination before we enter Qinwangzhuang. If you disguise yourself as a businessman who goes to Qinwangzhuang to do business, it will not attract attention. ”

Li Zhenyan suddenly realized this, and she couldn't help but feel admiration for Zhu Youzhen's meticulous thoughts. So she asked the shop guy for some ink and a brush, and began to change Zhu Youzhen's appearance.

It turns out that Li Zhenyan's disguise technique is similar to Yan Ling's, both of which start from temperament and change a person's external image. She drew many wrinkles on the corners of Zhu Youzhen's eyes, and thin forehead lines on her head, including on her neck. And asked Zhu Youzhen to walk with his body bent and not to hold his head high.

After Li Zhenyan was busy, Zhu Youzhen examined himself from the bronze mirror, and he really became a philistine businessman about fifty years old.

And Li Zhenyan also carefully groomed the bronze mirror and pretended to be a long-term follower. The two walked around the inn, and the shopkeepers they had just met really didn't recognize them, and thought they were new guests.

Zhu Youzhen was overjoyed, and he didn't have the heart to rest in the room, so he dragged Li Zhenyan and rented an uncovered donkey cart with the only five taels of silver left, and went straight on the road back to Jingyang.

For the first time in many days, the two of them were on the official road in a grand manner. This official road leads from Lantian to Xi'an, and there are many merchants who buy and sell along the way. Zhu Youzhen casually talked to a few people and took the opportunity to learn about the price situation in Xi'an.

From the mouths of these merchants, Zhu Youzhen learned that now the price of grain in Xi'an has begun to skyrocket again. Last year, when Zhu Youjian was here, the price of rice was only 321 stone, but now it has risen to 621 stone, and there is a trend of continuing to rise.

Zhu You couldn't help but be gloomy when he heard this, thinking that in the past, he pointed to the Yellow Sea Merchant Gang to buy rice from North Korea and used strategic reserves to stabilize prices, so that he could barely maintain the price of rice at a low level. Now that North Korea has surrendered to Houjin, and Li Zhenyan, the deputy gang leader, is nowhere to be found, of course, the Huanghai merchant gang can no longer buy rice from North Korea. If there is not enough food, the price will inevitably skyrocket, and there is no way to do it.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but tighten the cloth bag containing the seeds of the New World crops, and secretly thought that this grain, as the most important strategic material, must be self-sufficient, and cannot be pinned on external purchases. Even if you have a lot of silver, people don't sell it, and you have no problem, and this is the case now. It seems that these seeds will soon be of great use, and they must not be damaged in the slightest.

The official road from Lantian to Xi'an is only thirty or forty miles, and if this distance is galloped by horse, it will arrive in one hour at most. But this official road is in disrepair, full of big pits and ditches, donkey carts go slowly, and when they reach the gate of Xi'an, it is already sunset, and the two are almost locked out of the city.

After entering Xi'an City and settling a donkey cart with the car owner, Li Zhenyan was going to the Champs-Elysées. Zhu Youzhen stopped her, saying that he wanted to see the situation in Xi'an first.

"But my lord, we are now penniless, and if we don't go to the Champs-Elysées, will we sleep on the street tonight?" Li Zhenyan said angrily.

"Don't always think about sleeping," Zhu Youzhen said with a hippie smile, "When I get home, I will sleep comfortably for three days and three nights with you in my arms!" ”

Li Zhenyan was so angry with him that she couldn't cry and laughed: "Even if you don't sleep, don't you even eat?" ”

"Lord Qiqi, there will be bread!" Zhu Youzhen smiled and said, "You forgot what I said before, we want to visit in Weifu, so we simply visit this Xi'an City, so we can't go to the Champs-Elysées." But how can I be willing to let you starve, and come with me, the mountain people have their own tricks! ”