Chapter 23: The Mi Family of the East China Sea

Wang Ping heard Changba say that he was a master at the peak of the day after tomorrow, and pretended to be extremely surprised and shouted to Zhao Yun: "Senior brother, this person is a strong man at the peak of the day after tomorrow, I can beat him, or you should go up and take him a punch." ”

Changba was amused by Wang Ping's words and laughed: "You kid is so slippery, when you hear that I am a master of naΓ―ve innocence, you are so frightened that you find someone else to die for you, or I will send the two of you to be brothers on the Huangquan Road." ”

After Changba finished speaking, he swung his fist and smashed it at Wang Ping, but he didn't expect that his hard punch was easily opened away by Zhao Yun next to him with his palm. At this time, Wang Ping walked past Changba and picked up Mi Fang, who was sitting on the ground, and then turned around and said to Changba: "The little acquired realm dares to shout in front of my senior brother, hurry up and check whether your arm is still obeying." ”

At this time, Changba's arm was not only numb and unable to move, but the true qi in his body was rushed around by Zhao Yun's qi, and he began to adjust his luck before he had time to sit down, for fear of being shocked by Zhao Yun's true qi and hurting his internal organs.

After a while, without waiting for Wang Ping to speak, Changba first asked the surrounding soldiers to leave, and then hugged his fist at Zhao Yun to make amends, he didn't know Zhao Yun, but he could make him lose his combat ability with one palm, he must be a master who has entered the innate realm, at such a close distance, it is easy for the other party to take his life, so he withdrew the soldiers and lowered his posture for fear of angering Zhao Yun.

Wang Ping saw that he had been shocked, so he asked: "Lord Chang, I don't think there is anything to hand over to this Taishou Mansion, you can take all the original things in it if you want, as for the 200,000 stone grain and grass you said, I will forget it." Changba listened and hurriedly borrowed the slope to get off the donkey and replied: "It's all a joke, don't drive the things agreed between the adults and my family, who dares to violate them, I will accompany Mi Taishou into the house to hand over and check." ”

Mi Fang didn't understand why Changba suddenly became honest, and when he heard him say that he wanted to accompany him into the mansion, he shrank straight behind Wang Ping in fright, Wang Ping thought that this Mi Fang was so timid and afraid of things compared to his brother-in-law Mi Lun, it was really far from it! Just when Wang Ping wanted to help Mi Fang into the house, the Mi family's family courtyard arrived, looking at the formation, it was really not small, hundreds of strong family members with sticks and arrays neatly stopped on the opposite side, one of the old men walked towards Wang Ping under the escort of several family members.

Mi Fang saw that his family's soldiers had become bolder, and he said to the old man with some complaints: "Mi Bo, are you too old to walk, why did you come so slowly!" The old man was not angry, and replied to him: "Mi Gui is indeed old, and I hope Lord Taishou will forgive me." ”

After speaking, the old man turned around and gave Changba a salute, but Changba didn't dare to ask him to return the salute, so he heard the old man say: "The old man Migui has transported 500,000 stone of grain to the north gate according to the instructions of the head of the family, and Lord Chang should hurry up and take his men to the north gate to take over the grain." ”

Changba originally wanted to capture Mi Fang and knock Mi Jia hard, but now that the Mi family's escort team has arrived, and Zhao Yun, who has not spoken, makes him even more afraid, looking at Zhao Yun standing there like a sword, it makes Changba think for a while that Zhao Yun is an unborn master, and the reason why his face looks young is because the cultivation of the exercises has reached a very high level, so that he has the effect of rejuvenation.

Changba is very confident in his own martial arts, has crossed the level and studied martial arts with Sun Guan of the innate realm, and can barely hold out for more than ten rounds without being defeated, but just now Zhao Yun only used one palm to make him really angry and unable to accumulate strength, the Mi family has such a master in charge of Changba, how dare there be any wishful thinking, just as he gathered his subordinates to prepare to evacuate, the old man Mi Gui spoke again, "The two little brothers must be the righteous brothers of the third prince Mi Lun, don't drive the master has already sent a letter to tell the family that he will fully cooperate with the two, If it's something here, please go back to Mifu with the old slave to see the next master. ”

Wang Ping and Zhao Yun saw that Changba was about to lead people to evacuate, and Mi Fang still had a few hundred Ding guards, so they decided to go to meet the head of the Mi family first. It's just that Changba, who was not far away, was shocked when he heard what Mi Gui said, this Zhao Yun turned out to be the righteous brother of the third son of the Mi family, and Mi Lun was only in his early twenties, so wouldn't this person be even younger than him.

After Mi Fang brought people into the Taishou Mansion, the two brothers followed the old man called Mi Gui to Mi Mansion, and Wang Ping thought that the strength of the Mi family would definitely build this Mi Mansion extremely luxurious, but when he personally came to the gate of Mi Mansion, he found that this Mi Mansion could not be described as luxurious, not that the building here was not tall enough and the decoration was not luxurious enough, but that this Mi Mansion could not be called a house at all.

Just look at the gatehouse of this mansion gate, there are three zhang high, the wall is also very high and very long, each extending several miles from east to west, the top of the wall is about one zhang wide, and there will be two or three people standing guard every other short distance.

Wang Ping looked at the plaque in the gatehouse blankly, which said the word 'Mifu', but how he looked at the word 'Fu', it was like the word 'city', whose gate would be built as high as the city gate, and whose courtyard wall would be as wide as the city wall, and the area of the entire mansion was only larger than the general county seat.

Wait for the people in the gatehouse to determine the identity of a few people before asking people to open the door, the reason why it is said to be opened, because the big wooden door is very thick, there are three people on each side to pull the move, listening to the squeak of the wooden door when it opens, Wang Ping has a kind of illusion of coming to the big city of Xiongguan.

After entering the mansion gate, the two brothers were even more surprised, what they saw in front of them was not the courtyard road of the ordinary mansion but a spacious street, the street was all made of bluestone and extended far ahead, there were many courtyards and attics on both sides of the road, Wang Ping, who was walking on the street, looked at the pedestrians coming and going, and could only remind himself in his heart that this was Mifu, not the county seat.

At this time, Wang Ping suddenly remembered a ballad he heard in the market when he first entered Xuzhou: "Mijia is rich in Donghai City in the Middle Mansion, Taishan is strong in Kaiyang County, Tao Gongzu in Xiapi City, and Chen Yuanlong in Guangling County." These four ballads talk about the four major families in Xuzhou, and today he came to the mansion in the city of Donghai, and he really realized the wealth of the Mi family.

There is a main road in the north and south and east and west of Mifu, and there is a courtyard where the two roads intersect, which is the core of the Mi family, there are six other courtyards in the middle of this core area, and the five door plaques are hung with the salt courtyard, the iron courtyard, the grain courtyard, the land courtyard and the sea courtyard, listening to Mi Gui introduced that these five courtyards are in charge of the five businesses of the Mi family, for example, this grain courtyard is responsible for the grain business of the Mi family, and the person in charge here is called the dean, and Mi Lun is the president of the grain courtyard. And each dean also has the authority to promote a thousand family members.

There is also a special courtyard in the middle of these five courtyards, not only does not hang any plaques here, but also looks very simple from the outside, this special courtyard is the residence of the head of the Mi family.

Migui led the way and did not need any notice to enter the courtyard, at this time in the pavilion of the courtyard there was a young woman who saw a few people enter the courtyard and greeted them, this woman's light gait gave people a very quiet and elegant feeling, when she came forward to see Wang Ping and the two were very unfamiliar but still not rude to the chin of the head, and then took Mi Gui's hand and asked anxiously: "Uncle Gui, my second brother is fine, why didn't he come back with you!" ”

Mi Gui said kindly: "Miss Zhen don't need to panic, the second son is busy with some official business in the Taishou Mansion, and it is estimated that he will go home later." As he spoke, he saw Mi Zhen secretly looking at the two brothers next to him, so he hurriedly introduced: "These two young people are the two sworn brothers of the third prince mentioned in the letter of Lord Beijia the day before yesterday, and before I arrived at the Taishou Mansion, it was thanks to their protection that the second prince did not suffer." Hey, this Taishan thief is still a big problem in the hearts of our Mi family! ”

Wang Ping and Zhao Yun listened to Mi Gui's introduction and knew that the beautiful woman in front of them was the person they were looking for, whether they could climb the fairy island to find Huang Lao Taoist Temple was all up to her, the two brothers took a step forward and made a big gesture to Mi Zhen after they were dressed up, Mi Zhen thought that these two young people with extraordinary temperament would give her a trick, so she was at a loss for a moment and replied to the two of them shyly: "Two brothers, get up quickly, how can I accept your big gift!" ”

Wang Ping didn't feel polite, but still bent his body and said: "Our brother came from Luoyang to ask Miss Mi for a lesson, but he came in a hurry and forgot to prepare a gift, and he felt very guilty. ”

Mi Gui, who was standing on the side, interrupted Wang Ping's words with a smile and said to the two brothers: "The two little brothers should be polite, the head of the family is still waiting for the two of them in the house, if there are any questions, it is not too late to see the head of the family and ask." The two brothers also felt that it was indeed rude to come to Mi's house and not greet the eldest brother's father first, so they had to temporarily put aside the eagerness in their hearts and go to the house to meet Mi Tu first.

When the two brothers saw the father of the eldest brother, they bowed their heads, and Mi Tu personally helped the two of them up and praised: "The apprentice of the emperor is really of good character, the two virtuous nephews quickly get up and take a seat." After Wang Ping got up, he took out a brocade box from his arms and handed it to Mi Tu's hands, here is the mountain meat is a tribute in the palace, Mi Tu is very happy to see the two of them.

After drinking a few sips of tea, Wang Ping couldn't help but ask about the Huang Lao Taoist Temple, Mi Tu listened to it and didn't ask the reason, so he asked Mi Zhen to quickly tell the two brothers what he knew, and the two listened to Mi Zhen say that the Huang Lao Taoist Temple is indeed on an island, the island is called Zhong Island, and there are still hundreds of fishermen, she once went to the island with a girl to play and went to the Huang Lao Taoist Temple to pray for the safety of her family, and the girl is responsible for buying food and supplies in the Taoist Temple.

After the two brothers understood, they wanted to ask Mi Zhen to introduce the girl to know, but unfortunately the girl would only come to the city at the end of the month, and now it was just the middle of the month, Wang Ping didn't want to wait and begged Mi Tu to send a boat to send his two brothers to the island, but Mi Tu agreed to Wang Ping very happily, he called a young steward named Mi Ji and told him to prepare the boat as soon as possible, and set off early tomorrow if it was sunny, and asked Mi Gui to arrange for the people in the house to treat the two brothers as VIPs. After Wang Ping and Zhao Yun thanked Mi Tu, they followed their subordinates to the guest room and settled down.