Longyou in this era is not a desert everywhere, with green mountains and green waters everywhere, and the vegetation is very luxuriant. It's just that it's sparsely populated, and when you go all the way down, it's often rare to see a cooking smoke even after walking a hundred and ten miles, and only all kinds of wild beasts infested the jungle and grassland.

Even when you go to the outside of Huangshui City, if it weren't for the towering city in the distance and the cattle and sheep grazing on the grassland in front of the city, it would be difficult for people to feel a trace of popularity. However, as soon as I entered the simple city gate made of yellow mud and gravel, it was a different scene in Huangshui City.

In the city of Huangshui, the carriages and horses are in Khotan, the people are gathered, the shops are like forests, the people are abundant, although here is not as prosperous as Luoyang City, but leaving Luoyang all the way to the west, and has not yet entered the Guanzhong, the more prosperous states and counties that have passed through are not necessarily much more lively than here.

Huangshui is an important place connecting the Western Regions and the Central Plains for trade, so Wufu is rich in people and very lively. Of course, unlike Zhongyuan Prefecture, there are fewer people wearing silk and satin, and the streets are full of Tibetan, Turkic and Hu people from more west, almost like an international metropolis.

Further from Huangshui is Shanzhou City, Heishui Changzhi was originally stationed there, although Duoduo is not a well-known person in Shanzhou City, but it is difficult to guarantee that no one will know her there, so Yang Fan discussed with her and decided to let her live in Huangshui, which is closer to Shanzhou.

A woman with a child, how to survive in the future is a big problem in Yang Fan's opinion, and he has also discussed this issue with Duoduo, but Duoduo is very optimistic.

She told Yang Fan that in Longyou, women can engage in more industries than women in the Central Plains, and all kinds of shops and workshops can take on some work, and earn some grain and rice to feed a large and small family of more than enough, there is no problem, Yang Fan has to let it go.

Huangshui City. There are rows of houses on both sides of the avenue, wine shops, foot shops, butcher shops, temples, public houses, medical halls, pharmacies, cart repairs, fortune telling, face and plastic surgery and other walks of life are also thriving. The shop was full of silk and satin, jewelry, spices, silk and porcelain, and other expensive and cheap goods, pedestrians and merchants, and a dozen knights escorted three large carts, slowly passing through them.

Shen Mu said to Yang Fan: "Are you going to see your people first, or are you going to settle Miss Duoduo first?" ”

Shen Mu revealed many secrets to Yang Fan, although Yang Fan still did not tell the true identity of Miss Duoduo and the baby she carried. But it's not good to hide it from Shen Mu completely. Therefore, he had simply told Shen Mu that Duo Duo was a girl whose hometown was already in the Western Regions, and this time he helped her return to her hometown. At the same time, in order to hide his identity, he killed two birds with one stone, and he had no personal relationship with her.

Yang Fan thought for a while and said, "Let's settle Miss Duoduo first." You also said that Longyou is full of Tubo people's ears and ears. I had just arrived in Huangshui, and if I had gone to see those people immediately, it would have attracted attention. In addition, there are many inconveniences with a woman and a child. ”

Shen Mu said, "That's right, do you need my help?" ”

Yang Fan thought for a while, shook his head and said, "No need, this is a place where merchants from the north and south gather." There are plenty of accommodations that can be rented and bought, so there will be no problems. ”

Shen Mu nodded, and glanced out the window. On the streets, there were businessmen, officials on horseback, hawkers, and dependents of people in horse-drawn carts and ox-carts. The Hu people of the Western Regions pulling camels, the various ethnic groups of the Western Regions in strange costumes, the monks carrying baskets, the porters pushing wheelbarrows, and the disabled old people begging on the side of the road are all kinds of things. Who knows which of them is a spy of the Tibetan people.

Shen Mu turned his head to Yang Fan and said, "If you and I do this part, it will be a lot of inconvenience." Yan Zhenhao, the great man of Huangshui, has already set up a banquet and is ready to entertain me. You might as well go with me, and when the banquet is over, my chariot will leave through the main gate, and you and Miss Duoduo will still go out through the corner gate in that carriage, so that it will be easier to conceal your travels. ”

Yang Fan nodded and agreed. At this time, in a pharmacy on the side of the road, a person was limping out. This person was dressed in a beard with lapels wrapped around his waist, a wooden staff under his right arm, and a few packets of medicinal herbs in his left hand.

If Yang Fan could walk opposite him at this moment, he would definitely be able to recognize that this person was Zhang Xitong, the hundred cavalry guards who worked with him, but unfortunately they were walking in the same direction, the curtain was rolled, Yang Fan sat in the car, only saw a limping, like a stray dog's back, and he didn't expect this person to be his own robe.

The carriage drove past Zhang Xitong. Zhang Xitong carried a wooden cane, limped and walked, tired of walking, so he zhanzhu feet, wiped the sweat on his forehead, looked at the bright sun in the sky, sighed long, and said secretly: "The open gun is easy to dodge, the secret arrow is difficult to prevent, I am still a hundred horsemen, and I am actually planted in the hands of a group of small thieves, it is really embarrassing to say it!"

Alas! How can there be so many shear diameter strong beams in Longyou! The weather is so hot, I don't know if Tian Yan's injuries can get better. Yue Zitian's group of people have not yet arrived, and Yang Fan, who is acting alone, is afraid that he is also more than lucky, and only the two of us are left, how can we complete the mission delivered by the general? ”

Zhang Xitong sighed for a long time and limped into a narrow and dirty alley.

The convoy drove through the city for some time and came to an alley with wide streets and few pedestrians. This street is lined with high walls and wide-beamed gates, and at a glance you can tell that the people living in this area are either rich or noble.

Guangliang Gate is second only to the specifications of the palace building, it stands to reason that there can not be so many high-ranking officials here, because Longyou is not as good as the Central Plains, these requirements are not strict, as long as you have the money and power to build it, no one will investigate your trespassing.

The carriage drove through the long alley for some time, and stopped under a lintel with a very high pedestal and ornaments such as finches and three clouds under the eaves. Yang Fan and Shen Mu lifted the curtain and walked out, followed by Zhang Yi.

A man who was nearly forty years old and dressed as a scribe stood at the foot of the stairs with a smile, waved his head to Shen Mu, and said loudly: "The son is far away, Yan has lost his welcome, forgive his sins, forgive his sins!" ”

This person is Yan Zhenhao, the richest man in Huangshui, Yan Zhenhao controls jewelry, leather goods, silk, porcelain, salt and ...... in the Huangshui area, almost all profiteering businesses, and also owns two large ranches and thousands of horses, which can be described as rich and rivaling the country.

A few years ago, he was just one of the four richest people in Huangshui. is not ranked first, but now he can dominate the crowd in Huangshui, the reason is that he has Shen Mu's support behind him.

Yan Zhenhao is not Shen Mu's person, he has absolute freedom and can decide all trade-offs at his own, but because of common and long-term interests, who can let him betray Shen Mu? To do so would be to betray himself. So he is a person that Shen Mu can definitely trust.

Shen Mu stepped out of the car. Holding up Yan Zhenhao with both hands, Haha smiled: "Old Yan, I haven't seen you for a long time!" ”

Yan Zhenhao smiled: "Yes! Last spring, I said goodbye to Chang'an. It has been more than a year now, and the son is as heroic as ever, which is gratifying. This is ......"

Yan Zhenhao's eyes froze. looked at Yang Fan.

What is Shen Mu's identity and how big Shili he has, he knows best, how dare he underestimate the person who can walk side by side with Shen Mu and travel in the same car.

Shen Mu smiled: "Come on, come on, let me introduce you, this is my brother, Yang Fan!" Just call him Erlang. Jiro. This is Yan Zhenhao, the richest man in Huangshui, I mentioned to you, Brother Yan. ”

"Little brother Yang Fan, I've seen Brother Yan!"

Yang Fan hurriedly stepped forward to salute, this Yan Zhenhao was wearing a turban, wearing a casual robe with pine and bamboo patterns, his figure was long and thin, with a high forehead and a high nose. The three wisps of whiskers under the chin, without the slightest bit of the merchant's philistine copper smell, look free and elegant, like a famous person, it is difficult for people to associate him with the identity of a merchant.

The two sides have finished their meeting. Yan Zhenhao diligently let the two in, and at this time, the Qiqi girl and Duoduo also got out of the car with the child in their arms. Shen Muwei introduced Qiqi's identity to Yan Zhenhao, after all, the identity of the eldest lady of the Li family is too prominent, and she, a big girl who has not been out of the cabinet, has followed her all the way to Longyou, and it is difficult to explain the lonely man and widow.

Yan Zhenhao also has business dealings with the Li family, and his jewelry business is done with the Li family, so it is a little embarrassing for him to know that this girl is the pearl of the Li family.

Yan Zhenhao was a little surprised when he saw that there were two female dependents in the car, one of whom was still holding the child. However, he knew that Shen Mu was romantic, Shen Mu did not break it, he didn't ask, but quietly instructed the steward to go to the back house to inform his wife.

Yan Zhenhao led the guests into the mansion, passed the main hall of the front hall, bypassed several corridors, passed through several houses, and arrived in the back garden.

When I entered a moon gate with vines and hanging flowers, I saw that the forest was luxuriant, and a small stone path in the middle was winding and secluded. To be able to create a garden that looks like a garden in the south of the Yangtze River, I don't know how much effort it takes, only this end, which shows that the Yan family is rich.

The nine-curved path came to the end, the front suddenly opened up, a pool of the size of an acre of land, sparkling scales, a carved pillar of the red pavilion on the water, one side of the ground opened the door, the other three sides of the window, at this time it is summer, the windows are open, the wind comes from all sides, it is very cool.

A woman in front of the pavilion was waiting with two maidservants, and when she saw the guests coming, she greeted them with a smile. This woman is Yan Zhenhao's main wife Gong, whose maiden name is Nian Xi, and she is also from a high family in the Western Regions. Although she is about thirty years old, she has a clear water face without fat powder, her face is smooth and fair, her facial features and eyebrows are beautiful and graceful, and she looks like only twenty people.

It's funny to say, the Central Plains characters like to wear Hu clothes, this Longyou is the closest to the Hu people, but the local characters like to wear Han clothes. Mrs. Gong wore a floral narrow-sleeved short undergarment, a lotus leaf skirt tied around her waist, a plain gown on the outside, black and bright black hair, and a peony bun.

This kind of dress is not luxurious and graceful, which is in line with her noble status. It is important to know that the giants and merchants of the Western Regions are very different from the merchants of the Central Plains, they are actually the leaders of the local politics, economy, culture and education.

Seeing that Mrs. Gong was about to step forward to salute, Shen Mu hurriedly took a step forward and smiled down. After the two sides greeted each other, Mrs. Gong, as the hostess, invited the guests to sit in the pavilion affectionately.

There are already several cases in the pavilion, everyone is seated, all kinds of delicacies are served like water, the musicians drum under the door, two beautiful orchids come in, and the reception banquet begins......

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