Fanjiawu is about twenty miles away from the county seat of Juchao, and Yuan ordered Zhang Niucalf to pick up fifty fine horsemen to accompany him, and he has found Fanjiawu under the guidance of the villagers in less than an hour.

Looking from afar, only to see two mountains sandwiched by a dock fort, the fort wall is made of bluestone, the stone wall is about two zhang high, there are battlements at the head of the wall, the corner and the gate are also built on the hope tower, it is simply a small military fortress.

There were also people patrolling back and forth on the walls of the fort, armed with spears or carrying bows and arrows.

Seeing Yuan Fu leading fifty elite cavalry approaching the dock fort, the horn of the fort immediately sounded, and in less than a moment, the fort wall was already full of black and suppressed people.

Zhang Niuli and the fifty cavalry accompanying him had already seen the surprise and did not react to this.

In fact, since the Yellow Turban Thieves rebelled, every state and county has been like this, but all the nobles who have a little money and food, or a clan with a little power, will all build dock forts and recruit people to protect themselves.

Yuan Wei was worried, Juchao Fan's family had food and soldiers, and he was afraid that it would be difficult to speak.

Although Yuan Wei had defeated the Jiangdong Army twice in a row in Xia Cai and Long Kang, and the news had also spread in Lujiang County, Yuan Wei knew very well that it was almost impossible for the Lujiang Shi clan like Fan to donate their money, food, soldiers and horses to support the Yuan family.

In the end, the facts also proved that Yuan's worries were not unreasonable.

The patriarch of the Fan clan is called Fan Yang, and he is said to be the sixteenth grandson of Fan Zeng.

Fan Yang received Yuan Fu in the main hall, and ordered the servants to cook tea and treat each other, and the etiquette was thoughtful.

But just like in Liu Ye's mansion, here, Yuan Wei also felt the alienation that Fan Yang revealed from his bones, and Fan didn't seem to have any intention of having too much entanglement with Yuan.

Although Fan Yang's words were polite, there was only one meaning revealed in his words: the Juchao Fan clan had no intention of tying his vital interests to the remnants of the Yuan clan, at least for the time being.

However, Yuan Wei is not a person who is willing to give up easily, and finally decided to make his intentions clear.

Yuan Wei said: "Taigong, the truth is not hidden, due to the shortage of military food, a certain intention to implement the military tun, but the farm tools, cattle and seeds needed in the tuntian are not found, the Fan family is a big family living in the nest, and there is a lot of money and grain, so I hope that the Fan family can borrow one or two temporarily, Taigong can rest assured, when the spring grain comes down next year, it will be returned in full." ”

Fan Yang said with a smile: "Childe is the queen of the famous family, and now it is my Lujiang pillar, Childe has difficulties, and the old man should help him, but I don't know, how many ploughing cattle, how many farm tools and how many seeds does Childe need?" ”

Yuan Wei glanced at Fan Yang with some surprise and said, "Naturally, the more the merrier." ”

Fan Yang pondered for a moment and said, "Childe, are two ploughing cows, ten farm tools, and a hundred catties of seeds enough?" ”

Hearing Fan Yang's words, the tea that Yuan Wei had just drawn into his mouth almost squirted out again, Ni Mei, two ploughing cows, ten farm tools, and 100 catties of seeds, are you embarrassed to take out your hands? And his sister asked if Lao Tzu was enough?

At that moment, Yuan Wei was not patient, and said dissatisfiedly: "Taigong, is he joking? ”

Your sister, although my Yuan clan is at the end of the road, no matter what, it is also a famous family, how can you be so humiliated?

Fan Yang smiled a little wryly, and then said: "It's not a secret, if the son came yesterday, the old man could at least lend a hundred ploughing cattle, a thousand farm tools and 10,000 buckets of grain seeds, as for now, ......."

Seeing that Yuan Wei didn't mean to ask, Fan Yang continued: "Childe, it's really not a coincidence, these more than 100 ploughing cattle, more than 1,000 farm tools and 10,000 buckets of grain seeds have already been used by the old man to buy land. ”

"Buying a field?" Yuan Wei was displeased and said, "Taigong didn't bully someone who didn't know about farming?" Buying land has never been bought with money, so how could it ever be bought with cattle and seeds? Besides, more than 100 ploughing cattle, more than 1,000 pieces of farm tools and 10,000 buckets of grain seeds are enough to buy hundreds of hectares of fertile land. ”

Fan Yang lowered his head and thought for a while, and said: "The old man originally didn't want to tell the son, but since the son asked, then the old man simply said it directly, Sun Ce recruited hundreds of thousands of Huainan refugees, and is now building water conservancy in Chaohu Lake, enclosing the lake to build fields, and clearly said that the Lujiang clan can buy it, and the price is slightly lower than the market price, but Sun Ce made it clear that it must be compensated by the discount of ploughing cattle, farm tools and seeds, and Fan's ploughing cattle, farm tools and grain seeds are used to buy fields. ”

"What, Sun Ce?" Yuan Wei was stunned and said, "He's in Chaohu Tuntian?" ”

This was really beyond Yuan Wei's expectations, he never expected that Sun Ce was actually in Chaohu Tuntian.

After settling down, Yuan Wei said again: "Sun Ce Ying looks at the wolf, sooner or later he will definitely covet the Lujiang River, and the war will inevitably burn together, isn't Taigong afraid of chickens and eggs?" ”

Yuan No's words are almost threatening Fan Yang, which means that you, Fan Lao'er, are you Fan Lao'er and Sun Ce eyebrows and secretly communicating with each other, aren't you afraid that Liu Xun will trouble you?

Be careful that the last two ends fall short, and the whole clan will be harmed!

Fan Yang smiled slightly and said: "The old man is just a field of house, not an official of the imperial court, so the old man can't control the things on the official side, he just wants to buy some properties for future generations, that's all." ”

Fan Yang's words were in return to Yuan No, saying that although the old man was secretly friendly with Sun Ce, he did not lose Liu Xun's filial piety, and the old man was planning for future generations, is it wrong to bet on both sides? Even Liu Xun has nothing to say, if you really want to force my Fan family to be anxious, I will fully fall to the Sun family, what can you do to me?

Yuan Wei touched a soft nail and was speechless for a while.

After the confrontation just now, Fan Yang didn't have the heart to play dumb riddles with Yuan Wei anymore, so he knelt down from the seat and said to the steward standing on the side: "Fan Er, send off guests." ”

Yuan Wei came out of Fanjiawu angrily, and the loss in his heart can be imagined.

To be honest, before coming to Lujiang, Yuan Wei actually still had illusions in his heart.

In any case, the Yuan family is the fourth and third dukes, and the domestic wang clan, although they are temporarily experiencing difficulties at the moment, how can there be a few scholars who come to vote?

But the cruel reality shattered Yuan Wei's illusions.

Except for the Qiao clan in Wancheng who reached out to the Yuan clan because of Jin Shang's personal friendship, the rest of the major scholars in Lujiang all respected the Yuan clan, even a master like Liu Ye, and a far-sighted scholar like Liu Ye was not optimistic about the Yuan family, nor was he willing to burn his Yuan family's cold stove.

Could it be that the Yuan family is really so unbearable?

Could it be that Yuan Shu's usurpation of the title of emperor is really so fierce?

Yuan Wei originally didn't believe in evil, but after coming into contact with Fan, he really felt that Yuan's reputation in Yangzhou had fallen to the bottom.

However, the general trend of the Sun clan sweeping Jiangdong has taken shape, and the scholars of Lujiang County, although most of them are still interested in Liu Xun, are secretly already in contact with the Sun clan and are already reserving a way back.

What is the general trend, this is the general trend.

Yuan's attempt to buck the trend is simply in vain.

Although Yuan Wei defeated the Jiangdong army twice in a row in Xia Cai and Long Kang, this alone was not enough to change the Jiangdong Shi clan's perception of the Sun clan, and the Jiangdong Shi clan did not think that Sun Ce's small defeat would frustrate his vitality, and the Jiangdong Shi clan also did not think that the Yuan clan would have a chance to turn over if he won two battles.

Therefore, no one cares about the Yuan family's lonely and poor guest army at all.

Or even if someone cares, they just regard the Yuan family as the watchdog of Anhui City, that's all.

The more Yuan Wei thought about it, the more discouraged he became, and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and after turning over and getting on the horse, he galloped towards the front.

Zhang Niucal and the fifty horsemen accompanying him also saw that Yuan Nuo was in a bad mood, so they followed Yuan Nuo from a distance, but they didn't dare to come forward and touch the mold.

When passing through an intersection, Yuan Wei took the wrong road for a while.

When Yuan Wei stopped his horse, he found that he had fallen into a swamp with his men and horses, but he saw that the water was vast and there was no way ahead.

Yuan Wei was about to return the same way, but the mount under his crotch was frightened for some reason, and he stood up at once.

Yuan Fu was caught off guard and fell off the horse's back at once, and when Yuan Fu got up from the mud, he saw that his mount had already run away, and only a vague shadow was left behind.

Yuan Wei cursed, and was about to find his way out of the swamp, when a bone-eating cold suddenly enveloped him.

The hairs on Yuan Fu's body stood up in an instant, and his intuition told him that he had been locked by some unknown and dangerous beast!

With a very small movement, Yuan Fu slowly stretched out his right hand to his waist and drew the knife.

Then, he turned around suddenly, but to Yuan Wei's confusion, there was nothing behind him.

However, Yuan Fu's confusion only lasted for a second, and after a second, the turbid water in front of Yuan Fu churned as if it was boiling, and then a huge snake head rose from the turbid water.

The giant python is actually a giant python with the waist and abdomen and feet the thickness of a crockpot!

Yuan Wei cursed, turned around and wanted to run, but he was fast, but the giant python was faster!

Almost as soon as Yuan Nuo moved, the huge python body of the giant python had already been thrown out suddenly, and Yuan Nuo was entangled in one fell swoop.

The python's crockpot-sized python body tightly wrapped around Yuan No's body, leaving only Yuan No's head outside, and then, the giant python raised its python head high and opened its bloody mouth at Yuan No's head.

Nima, is this going to die in the belly of a snake? At the moment of life and death, Yuan Fu found that he was surprisingly calm, no fear, no struggle, no anger, just a little regret, he finally crossed over, and he didn't do anything, so he died again immediately, God is too tricky.

Just when Yuan Wei thought that he was going to die, a scream of "sigh" suddenly sounded in his ears.

In the next moment, a thumb-thick wolf tooth arrow had swooped into the giant python's blood disc mouth, reaching the feathers, the giant python let out a sharp hiss, and the huge head fell into the swamp at once, and the python body that was originally tightly wrapped around Yuan No's body suddenly became loose.