In the past few days, Wang Ping saw that the master was recuperating and did not dare to bother, so he took his senior brother Zhao Yun to the tavern in the city to pass the time, and the two came to the tavern in the city and took a seat, and they heard everyone talking about the 'Yuedan Review', which was founded by a person named Xu Zijiang, which was originally used to record the most outstanding heroes of the moment, and later due to the interference of the court, it was changed to the evaluation of the strong with superior force, and even selected ten masters of the Divine Realm to be ranked into the 'Divine List', with the withering of the masters of the Divine Realm, the Yuedan Review stopped updating ten years ago.

Wang Ping pulled Xiao Er to the hall to ask why everyone would be so concerned about this Yuedan review that had been stopped for several years, and after asking, he learned that the original Yuedan review seemed to be about to be reopened in the near future and would be updated every month, and the number of contributors to the writing has also increased to four, these four people now live in Jingzhou, and they are close friends with each other, so they are called 'Jingzhou Four Friends', respectively, Sima Hui, Pang Degong, Huang Chengyan, and Xu Zijiang, who originally founded the Yuedan Commentary. Wang Ping asked a few people about Xiandao again, but no one knew, and it was getting late, Wang Ping also felt bored, so he shouted Zhao Yun to go home.

A few days later, Emperor Liu Xie issued an order to advance to Luoyang City, Anyi was only two days away from Luoyang, all the way to Luoyang City, the brigade came to Luoyang City, the emperor entered the city, naturally there were hundreds of officials to greet him, and Liu Biao, who stayed in Luoyang, prepared a grand ceremony to receive the wind for the emperor, Wang Yue did not like this occasion, so he took Wang Ping and Zhao Yun back to his residence first on the grounds that his internal injuries had not healed.

The next day, in the court, the emperor Liu Xie rewarded hundreds of civil and military officials, among which Yang Feng and Dong Cheng escorted the meritorious service, and were even more sealed, and the general and the general Wei were called to jointly take charge of the defenders in Luoyang City, and even Xu Huang under Yang Feng was also named a miscellaneous general, and the two saw that Liu Xie was honored one by one in the city of Anyi, and they were very satisfied, and they both stepped forward to thank them.

In the evening, a eunuch came to Wang Yue's residence with a reward, Liu Xie promised Wang Yue in Anyi City, and when he arrived in Luoyang, he would give him a knighthood, but Wang Yue didn't care about fame and fortune, and rejected the emperor's kindness at that time, just hoping that Liu Xie could give Wang Ping and Zhao Yun a reward for their official bodies, because both of them were white and had no foundation, they were only named palace guards, Wang Yue thought that although the palace guards were not big, they could often follow the emperor's side, and there would be opportunities for promotion in the future, so they hurriedly called Wang Ping and the two to receive the order and thank him. In addition, the emperor also asked someone to bring a lot of precious medicinal materials, and after Wang Ping took it, he directly took it to the back to boil the medicinal soup, hoping to bring some benefits to the master's injury.

After Zhao Yun sent the eunuch away, he casually returned to the seat of the rewarded military uniform waist card and ran to the back hall to help Wang Ping decoct the medicine, Wang Yue saw that the two of them didn't care about this reward, so he preached: "You two were white before, and it is not easy to want to be crowned an official and promoted to a knight, although the emperor appointed you to be this palace guard, but after all, it has solved the problem of identity for you, and if you can make great achievements in the future, you will definitely rise to the top." ”

Zhao Yun knew Wang Yue's intentions and hurriedly said yes, but Wang Ping was not very satisfied, and muttered later: "Master, it doesn't matter if you are an official or not, I just want to find that immortal and ask for the elixir, and now that I have this position, I will not be bound in the palace." ”

Wang Yue smiled: "What I asked for for the two of you is only a title and not a specific position, and no one can restrict your freedom by your side with me." Wang Ping applauded in his heart when he heard this: "That's the best, there are many people in Luoyang City, and I am planning to go to the city tomorrow to find out some news about the fairy island." ”

In the early morning, Luoyang City looked very peaceful and peaceful, but at this time, the court was already in a mess, it turned out that there were Tanma to return Guo Yan's sworn brothers Zhang Ji and Hu Zhen raised 20,000 troops to kill Luoyang City, and now the army has been stationed in Anyi City. Luoyang now has less than 5,000 defenders, and the city defense facilities are not built completely, there is no defensive role at all, Zhang Jiruo really called, it is difficult to resist the ministers have proposed to flee, but where can they flee to?

At this time, Dong Cheng gave the emperor an idea and asked Yuan Shao of Yecheng and Cao Cao of Yanzhou for help, hoping that these two could lead the army to serve the king. It's just that this kind of militaristic event Wang Ping and they don't know that in the past few days, he and Zhao Yun have been in the city's major wine shops and teahouses to inquire about the news of Xiandao, but these people are either talking about the Yuedan commentary, or they are hotly discussing the topic of Wang Yue killing three thousand enemies alone, and they can't find any news about Xiandao at all, Wang Ping looked at the vain efforts of day by day, and felt a little deflated.

Zhao Yun comforted him and said: "Senior brother, don't worry, most of the people in the wine shops and teahouses in Luoyang are locals, otherwise let's go to the shops in the east of the city to inquire, there must be merchants from the East China Sea over there, maybe they know something about Huang Laodao." As soon as Wang Ping heard that he was really right, he decided to try his luck at the market in the east of the city. The owner of this shop saw that the two of them took out the waist card of the palace guards and did not dare to hide it, so they told them the address of this group of merchants, Wang Ping was very happy after hearing this, and gave the shop owner a few coins as a thank you gift, and then he and Zhao Yun hurried to find this group of merchants.

Nowadays, the turbulence of the times has led to the banditry in various places is very serious, so the merchants who generally go far away will go in groups, and some even hire warriors to help escort them, so that ordinary caravans will have hundreds of people, and the number of some large caravans can exceed a thousand, and they are equipped with war horses and weapons, but such a large team can not live in the inn in the city, and can only find open space to camp on their own.

Wang Ping: The group of merchants they are looking for lives in a vacant space near the south gate of Luoyang, which is very empty, and it is easy to see the caravan's tent, but when the two of them came to the camp, they saw a lot of soldiers searching for something, and the leading captain was even more ruthless and unreasonable, and saw that he broke into the tent with a few people, as long as he found some valuable items, he directly put them into his arms, how dare these merchants stop them, they all dare to stand aside angrily, At this moment, a young man with a rich appearance came out, he respectfully saluted the captain, and then took out a piece of gold, handed it to the captain, and said: "Your Excellency, please calm your anger, these subordinates do not understand the rules, please raise your noble hand and let us go." ”

The young man looked respectful, but his heart was unusually angry, their merchants did not know how many hardships and dangers they had to go through along the way to come to Luoyang, when they entered the city to buy and sell, they paid a lot of transaction taxes, and when they lived in this vacant land, they were required by the government to pay rent, and now there are people in the army to extort money, so if this business continues, I am afraid that it will not even be able to earn back the cost.

The lieutenant took the gold and said contemptuously: "I asked you to pay the money just now, but now this ingot of gold is probably not enough." The young man held back his anger and took out a piece of gold from his arms and handed it to the captain, Wang Ping, who was standing aside, did not expect this captain to be so domineering, a strong step forward snatched the gold from the captain's hand, the captain saw that someone dared to rob his gold, pulled out his sword, beckoned his subordinates to capture Wang Ping, but Zhao Yun flew up from behind and kicked the captain's sword directly into the distance, and then a sweep knocked several soldiers around to the ground.

Seeing that Zhao Yun's strength was so strong, he didn't dare to step forward, but he just bluffed and said: "I am the captain under General Xu Huang, and I was ordered to come here to search for spies, and you two dare to step forward to obstruct it, are you impatient." At this time, the soldiers in the distance heard the movement here, and all of them surrounded him with weapons, and the young merchant saw that the situation was serious, and hurriedly took out a few more ingots of gold from his bosom and said: "Your Excellency, please calm your anger, these two little brothers are young and ignorant at first glance, I am willing to hand over all the gold on my body, and I hope that my lord will not embarrass the two of them." The young man was grateful when he saw Wang Ping and Zhao Yun making a righteous move, and he didn't want the two of them to offend the officers for the sake of money.

Zhao Yun saw the intention of this young businessman, and thought that there were righteous people in the rich and noble families, and Wang Ping didn't believe the lieutenant's nonsense at all, he hated this kind of bullying and unreasonable soldier the most, and strode up to him and asked: "Even if you catch the spies, why do you extort money from others, and let your subordinates rob them, do you dare to leave your name, I want to ask General Xu if you filthy people are really his soldiers." ”

After speaking, he took out his palace guard's waist card and showed it to the captain, this palace guard is not as good as the captain with soldiers in the official position, but because of the proximity to the palace Ouchi, even the general miscellaneous generals are unwilling to offend them easily, this captain is also a knowledgeable person, after seeing the waist card, he immediately changed his face, sycophant and said that he misunderstood, Wang Ping thought about asking about the overseas fairy island, and did not want to continue to entangle with them, so he lied: "This team of merchants is to transport goods for the people above, today the two of us came to check, If some valuables are missing, I'm afraid everyone will not be able to explain it. ”

The lieutenant listened to his heart tightened, he wanted to get some valuable items to bribe his boss, but he didn't want to touch the guards in the palace, although he knew that what Wang Ping said was not necessarily the truth, but he didn't dare to ask the truth of the matter in person, after thinking about it in his heart, he ordered the return of the looted goods and materials, and returned the gold to the young merchant with his own hands, and before leaving, he hugged his fist to Wang Ping and said: "Lord Guard, I hope you can forgive your mistakes, don't tell General Xu about this." ”

Wang Ping deliberately snorted coldly and ignored it, while the young merchant returned the ingot of gold to the lieutenant and said: "The military master is also a routine business, you lead the troops to defend the family and the country, this little meaning means that we should be filial to the adults, please accept it." Seeing that Wang Ping and the others did not make a sound to stop him, he led his troops and left.

After the young merchant waited for the officers and soldiers to go away, he hurriedly thanked Wang Ping and the others: "Thank you, Lord Guard, for helping to relieve the siege, if you have anything, you can arrange it below." Although they helped to scare away the officers and soldiers, but the two people in front of them were the palace guards, and they could not have come to help them break the siege, so the young merchant was still a little uneasy in his heart, for fear that he had just sent away the jackals and attracted tigers and leopards.

Zhao Yun saw that he had misunderstood, and the two of them hurriedly explained: "This brother, don't be suspicious, the two of us are just here to find the merchants of Langxi County to ask about something, and there is no other malicious intent. Seeing that the two of them were extraordinary in appearance and upright, the young merchant was indeed not like those ruffians just now, so he said apologetically: "In Xia Mi Lun, he is a person from Donghai County, Xuzhou, and just now he mistakenly thought that the two adults were also treacherous people who came to blackmail us, and he really had the heart of a villain, so please forgive me." ”