A team of Xiliang soldiers happily left the building where Liu Wei and the others were staying, standing in the backyard of the building, looking at the group of Xiliang soldiers who were leaving with food bags, Deng Zhan whispered to Liu Wei who was standing in front of him: "A team of miscellaneous soldiers, why let them ask for it?" ”

"Miscellaneous soldiers are easy to raise, but big ghosts are difficult to deal with!" With a faint smile on the corner of Liu Wei's mouth, he said to Deng Zhan in a very small voice: "From the fact that they only need food and don't want money, Mr. Deng can't see anything?" ”

Deng Zhan, who didn't understand what Liu Wei saw, turned his head to look at him, although he didn't answer his question, there was a look of confusion on his face.

"Chang'an is short of food!" There was a faint smile on the corner of Liu Bian's mouth, and he said to Deng Zhan: "As long as the Chang'an grain road is cut off, within March, there will be crises in the city." ”

This sentence seemed to be explaining to Deng Zhan, and it seemed that nothing had been explained, and before Deng Zhan could understand the deep meaning, Liu Wei turned his head and shouted to a soldier who had just moved a bag of grain and stacked it under the canopy: "Someone!" ”

When the soldier heard Liu Bian's call, he hurriedly trotted to him, bowed his head and stood aside, and did not say a word to ask Liu Bian what he was calling him for.

"Before it's too late, you will leave the city immediately." When the soldiers arrived in front of him, Liu Wei whispered some words in his ear before waving his hand at him and saying, "You go, after the matter is completed, there is no need to return to the city." ”

After receiving Liu Bian's orders, the soldiers resolutely picked up their fists, arched towards Liu Bian, turned around and ran outside the building.

Looking at the back of the departing soldiers, Liu Wei waved at Deng Zhan, lowered his voice and said to him: "Please Mr. Deng enter the next place to talk in detail!" ”

Deng Zhan nodded, turned his head to look at the back of his soldiers running to the outside of the pavilion, and followed Liu Wei towards Liu Bian's room in the building.

This building should occupy a wide area in Chang'an City, but the houses of the pavilion are much simpler than those built along both sides of the city gate when they first entered the city.

In the room, except for a well-laid bed, there were only two straw mats and two shabby low tables.

The low table is made of cedar wood, which is just a common piece of furniture used by ordinary people. It may be that the surfaces of the two low tables in the room are polished a little shiny, and there are still one or two stains on the table that cannot be wiped off.

After entering the room, Liu Wei first held the door with one hand, and when Deng Zhan also walked into the house, he stretched out his head and looked out, and saw that there was no one else in the courtyard in the distance except for the soldiers who were busy stacking food, so he closed the door, made a gesture to Deng Zhan and said, "Sir, please sit!" ”

"Your Highness......" Liu Wei closed the door, Deng Zhan clasped his hands into fists, bowed deeply to him, and asked him in a low voice: "We have already entered Chang'an, what are your Highness's plans?" ”

"This Chang'an City occupies an extremely large area, and even if you ride a horse, you have to walk for a long time before you can complete it." Liu Wei sat down behind a low table in the house, and only after Deng Zhan also sat down did he say to him: "Back then, this king only grew up in the palace, although he was also forced to leave Luoyang, but he has been sitting in the carriage and does not recognize the path in the city. The king of Chang'an City has never been here, and I don't know where Wang Yun lives, I'm afraid we will have to spend some energy to find out the layout of Chang'an Market and Wang Yun's residence before we can start! ”

"What Your Highness said is very true!" Deng Zhan nodded, furrowed his brows tightly, and thought for a moment before he said to Liu Wei: "Why don't Your Highness wait in the pavilion, go to the city to investigate and then make plans." ”

"No!" As soon as Deng Zhan's words were finished, Liu Wei raised a hand, put his palm in front of him to reject his proposal, and said to him: "The streets in the city are crisscrossed, and there are patrol soldiers passing by from time to time, and there are many people waiting for us to enter the city. If only Mr. is familiar with the path, in case of failure, it will be difficult to evacuate Chang'an! This king must work with his husband, and the two of us will explore the city in the name of selling rice and grain, and we will be on the right path. ”

"It's still early in the morning, and the wine shops in the city are open to welcome customers, and the wine shops have always been the most well-informed places, although the rumors are true and false, and most of them are exaggerated by the market. Mr. went out of the building with the king and looked for a wine shop to eat. As he spoke, Liu Wei stood up, walked to the door, opened the door a little, and shouted to a few soldiers who had just finished unloading food and were guarding the outside of the house not far away: "You wait here!" ”

Several pro-soldiers heard the greeting and hurriedly gathered in front of Liu Wei.

Because they were in Chang'an at the moment, and there were many people in the pavilion, these soldiers did not salute Liu Wei, but gathered around him, and even watched the surrounding environment vigilantly.

"I'm going out with Mr. Deng." The soldiers gathered in front of him, and Liu Wei lowered his voice and said to them: "You wait to tell everyone that you must not make trouble in the hall. ”

"Is it okay to be accompanied by Mr. Deng alone?" Before Liu Wei finished speaking, a personal soldier whispered: "Why don't I wait for a few more people?" ”

"If there is a disaster, in this Chang'an City, even if there are thousands of people, it will not be worth it!" Liu Wei waved his hand and whispered to the soldiers: "Mr. Deng is accompanied by himself, it is enough, you just do what you are told!" ”

"No!" Liu Wei clearly said that he didn't need to be accompanied by many people, and several pro-soldiers didn't dare to say more, so they all whispered a word, and then dispersed.

When the soldiers dispersed, Liu Wei turned his head to look at Deng Zhan, who was sitting in the room, muttered to Deng Zhan and said, "Mr. Deng, come with me to the wine shop in the city to drink some water and wine." ”

The door was open, and in order to prevent others from hearing it, Deng Zhan didn't call Liu Bi "Your Highness" anymore, so he just nodded, stood up and walked out of the hall with Liu Bi.

On the way to find the building, Liu Wei had already explored the street conditions from the city gate to here, and he had even memorized a few alleys that could be evacuated by everyone in case of failure.

Out of the building, Liu Wei did not choose the streets they had walked before, but walked side by side with Deng Zhan to the streets they had not walked before.

Deng Zhan is burly, and Liu Wei is still very thin because he has not yet reached the weak crown, and he is easily ignored by passers-by when he walks with Deng Zhan.

Most of the shops on the street are open, but they are full of shops and have no business at all. Passing by the doors of several shops selling grain, Liu Wei deliberately slowed down and looked.

The doors of those shops were closed, and there was no intention of opening them for business. Presumably, it is not that the store is hoarding food for the purpose of making it a strange commodity to live in, that is, it is indeed sold short.

Walking through two or three streets, a faint smell of wine floated out of an alley, smelling the smell of wine, Liu Wei stopped, sniffed, took a deep breath, and asked Deng Zhan beside him, "Sir, do you smell the smell of wine?" ”

"A certain traveler in the world, there are only two preferences!" Smelling the aroma of wine, Deng Zhan was already intoxicated, the corners of his mouth were almost drooling, and he said to Liu Wei: "One is swordsmanship, and the other is this wine......

"Sir must have smelled this wine excellent." Seeing a look of intoxication on Deng Zhan's face, Liu Wei smiled, raised his hand to compare in the alley, and said to Deng Zhan: "Let's go and see if we can buy a few bottles to eat." ”

Hearing that he was going to buy wine in the alley, Deng Zhan was not happy, so he hurriedly answered and followed Liu Wei into the alley.

The alleys are very narrow, and the air does not circulate as smoothly as on the streets, and the aroma of wine becomes more and more intense when you enter the alleys.

Following the aroma of wine, until he walked to the middle of the alley, Liu Wei saw that outside the door of a house, there was a wine sign embroidered with linen.

It is said that it is a wine trick, but in fact, it is just a boxy piece of linen cloth on the bamboo pole, slightly larger than a handkerchief, and the linen cloth is crookedly embroidered with the word "wine".

The door of this family was closed, and standing at the door, Liu Wei looked up at the wine trick inserted in the door, and then knocked lightly on the door a few times.

No one in the room answered, Liu Wei turned his head to look at Deng Zhan on the side, stretched out his hand and gently pushed the door.

At first, Liu Wei didn't use much force to push the door, and after pushing twice, he didn't push, and he added strength to the palm of his hand.

There was no latch on the inside of the door of the house, and Liu Wei didn't push it just now, but because it was blocked from the inside by some heavy objects, Liu Wei pushed it vigorously, and the door was pushed open by him with a "bang".

As soon as the door was pushed open, Liu Wei only felt a strong wind coming towards him. A thick wooden stick slashed towards the top of Liu Bian's head with a strong wind, and without waiting for Liu Bian's side head to avoid it, a long sword with a scabbard suddenly stretched out from the side, and slammed it towards the wooden stick, picking it apart.

As soon as Liu Wei felt that the wooden stick was being picked open, Deng Zhan, who had set up the wooden stick, had already drawn out his long sword, stepped forward, and put the tip of the sword against the neck of the old man who was wielding the wooden stick just now and wanted to hit Liu Wei.

"If you want to kill, you will kill, and there is no half food!" The sharp sword pointed against the hero's neck, and although the old man's eyes were wide in fear, he still held his neck and yelled at Deng Zhan.

Deng Zhan forced the old man, Liu Wei glanced into the house, and saw that in addition to the old man, there was an old woman of about fifty or sixty years old and two children, a man and a woman, who were only five or six years old.

The old woman leaned against the wall, hugged the two children tightly in her arms, and stared at Deng Zhan, who forced the old man into the house, and was still trembling uncontrollably.

There was only an old couple and two children in the house, and there was no one else, Liu Wei followed up in the room, stretched out his hand and pulled away the long sword that Deng Zhan was holding on the old man's neck, arched his hand towards the old man, and said with a slight smile: "The old man thought that it was a misunderstanding, and the two of us did not come to grab food." ”

"My family only has wine made in the early years, and there is no food!" Deng Zhan's long sword moved away, and the old man turned around and ran quickly to the old woman and the two children, opened his arms to protect them behind him, and said to Liu Wei and Deng Zhan: "If you want wine, I will give you some, and if you want food, you really don't have half a grain!" ”

"It's when we smell the wine that we come to bother." After glancing at each other with Deng Zhan, and making sure that the old man just split the stick just now to protect his family, Liu Wei said to him with a smile: "My husband has wine at home, so I will take some for the two of me to eat, and the wine money will not be enough for my father-in-law." ”

"You can't buy food even if you have money." Seeing that Liu Wei and the others had no malicious intent, the old man breathed a sigh of relief, walked to the door, closed the door, pressed the door against a shabby low table, sighed and said to the two: "The little old man was just abrupt and almost injured the guest, so I will go and get a barrel of wine and give it to the guest to eat." ”