Li Fang's face was straight, his cynical expression instantly converged, he stood up, bowed respectfully to Wei Zhixing, his waist was parallel to the ground, not bad at all, it was a model of etiquette, he was silent for a long time before he stood up, a pair of tiger eyes were already full of tears, and the young general, who had always been high-spirited, choked up and said: "Lord Wei, why did Li come here, you must know it well, my father failed to save Uncle Wei's life, Li Mou's father expressed his deep apologies to Uncle Wei, Uncle Wei's spirit in the sky and you." But the matter of salt is related to the safety of the frontier and the fortune of the country, please put aside your personal grievances and think twice. ”

Wei Zhixing smiled indifferently, his already moodless face was even more expressionless, like a silent piece of rice paper, and said slowly: "General Li is too modest, my father died for the loyalty of the emperor, and he died a hundred honors, how dare he scold Hou Ye, let alone be angry." The matter of military salt, above the court, there is a quartermaster in the military department, and there is Lord Xue in the military department, and there is Lord Xue in the family of Si Nong, and when he came to Chaoyang County to find someone in Wei, he was suspected of overstepping the robe, and General Li still asked the capital for transfer through the military post and the whip. ”

The disappointment in Li Fang's eyes lingered, his eyes stared at Wei Zhixing tightly, wondering if there was still room for turning around, those eyes, like a bottomless ancient pool, were as dark as ink on the surface, and the vortex was tumbling inside.

After a long time, Li Fang laughed unexpectedly, took a sip of wine and said: "Lord Wei, although I, Li, am leading troops to fight, I am careless but not rude, although there are two big farmers in the imperial court, Lord Wei also gave full authority to Lord Xue to be responsible for transportation before he traveled. But if you talk about this court, who can get salt and stone from the salt pot, from the harem, from the back houses of various officials, and even from the black market, except for Lord Wei, I can't think of a second person who has the courage and courage to do so. ”

Li Fang is determined to settle down today no matter what, Wei Zhixing, okay, yes, no, yes, I asked you to meet the soldiers, I can't explain clearly.

Obviously, Li Fang thought simply, Wei Zhixing not only didn't look like a showman, but even the level of a scoundrel's belly didn't look like a showman.

Wei Zhixing took a bite of the dish, raised his eyes and glanced at Li Fang, chewed a mouthful of the dish, and praised it: "In this scene, it is rare to eat such a delicious dish, Lord Li will eat some more?" ”

Li Fang's eyes were still staring at Wei Zhixing, if his eyes were lethal, he would definitely be blind, and Wei Zhixing would be stared at a thousand holes.

Wei Zhixing tasted the dishes in turn, and praised them with a neck.

Until Li Fang's face completely changed to the background color of the pot.

Wei Zhixing put down his chopsticks leisurely, shook his head and said, "General Li, do you imagine someone Wei as a salt dealer who risked his life to sell smuggled salt?" There is only one person left in the Wei Mansion, who is alone and alone. To others, Wei's life is not worth any money, gone, there is nothing less than one Wei family in this world; But for someone in Wei, this life is unspeakably precious, he is here, the Wei family is there, he is not there, and the Wei family is not. It is related to the destruction and survival of the entire Wei family. Major General Li is also the old son of Marquis Li, so he will be cautious in his words and deeds in the future, and don't lose the meritorious position that the old general desperately saved and obtained. ”

Li Fang twitched the corners of his mouth mockingly, raised his hand to drink another glass of wine, his eyes were bloodshot, and he roared like a wounded lion: "If the skin does not exist, the hair will be bound?" can't keep the home, can't defend the country, where did the meritorious marquis come from, where did the Li family and the Wei family come from? Where did the country and the people come from? ”

Wei Zhixing's eyes were like ink and said: "General Li, you are drunk and drunk, and you have committed the name of Emperor Taizu, which is 'great disrespect'." ”

Li Fang was choked so that his throat hurt, and this Wei Zhixing was gagging his mouth with his own words.

The two of them fell silent all of a sudden, and from the time they entered the house to the present, Li was so angry that he didn't have a mouthful of food, and Wei Zhixing took the initiative to help him clip a piece of bacon.

Li Fang stabilized his mood for a while, and then he chewed carefully, the more he chewed, the more fragrant it became, the chopsticks flew, and he didn't want to eat and drink.

Li Fang has been here for the past few days, asking to see Wei Zhixing every day, either eating at the inn or eating at the county office, and he has never come to this famous Zhenwei Fang to eat, and the whole city is cautious in using salt.

As the saying goes, the wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will urge it, and this treasure shop has stood for five years, which shows how deep the water behind it is.

Li Fang finally understood the reason why Wei Zhixing did not refuse to see him this time. Maybe he just specially asked himself to come here, and it is even more meaningful to let himself eat vegetables all the time, one is to tell himself that there is another way to think of it, there is no need to hang himself on the tree of Yan Tiecheng; The second is to use this to push the hot potato of getting salt to others, and choose Wei Zhixing by himself, whether he can get salt or not, and what channel to get salt has nothing to do with him.

Although Wei Zhixing is the same age as Li Fang, he seems to be more sophisticated in the other party's Taoism, and has cultivated into a thousand-year-old fox!! The tricks that Li Fang played, like the play between children, and Wei Zhixing's play, were like the ups and downs between the courts, and the situation was changing.

Li Fang couldn't help but secretly admire, no wonder for so many years, the real power of the royal relatives has been almost deprived (although King Luo sent the princess's family daughter to win over the relationship, but from King Luo, it is not a direct relative, but an imperial uncle), only the queen's younger brother Zhixing of Wei Mansion still occupies an important position as a big farmer, in charge of salt and iron mines, which shows how strong his ability to see the wind and steer and avoid the heavy is light.

After thirty years of wine and five flavors of food, Li Fang burped, hugged his fist slightly, and said: "Lord Wei's meaning Li knows well, and I also thank Lord Wei here." There is a way, help, Li remembered the five; Not to help, is also the duty; mentioned it, Li Mou thought twice; Don't mention it, Li doesn't dare to make a mess, Master Wei put his heart in his stomach. ”

Wei Zhixing was noncommittal, put down the cup, Wei Lai brought the basin, carefully quieted his hands, wiped his hands with a snow-white towel, raised his eyes to look at Li Fang, his eyes narrowed slightly, narrowed into slender fox eyes and smiled: "You and I work together to serve our emperor, and we should help each other, besides, this table of meals doesn't represent General Li's heart?!" ”

Li Fang's eyes also narrowed slightly, what kind of prime minister is he talking about? It's a good thing to say, a meal is pushed back, this is good, the original rubbing to eat and drink, in the end it has become a treat, the most important thing is that the thing has not been done.

The lack of salt in the army is not a day and a half, Zhenguo General Li Xian has applied to Beijing for deployment many times, and he has no choice but to pay a cup of water, in desperation, Li Xian paid out of his own pocket and used the silver in the Hou Ye's mansion to pretend to be a salt seller to the border of Zhou to secretly change a lot, but it is not a long-term solution, I am afraid that it will be detected by the enemy country if it is not criticized by the court, so I went to Wei Zhixing to explore the inside story and tone.

Because of the shortage of money in the house, Li Fang's hands are naturally not rich, and he only lives on military salaries, and he has to support him in the backyard...... Countless women, every time they are stretched, some of their peers have begun to laugh at him behind his back, so he clearly wears all his net worth on his body to show his generosity, lest anyone laugh at him, the marquis and major general Zhennan, who will inherit the title in the future.

Li Fang is pitiful, there are more people than him who are pitiful, that is, his father Li Xian, even the dowry of the righteous daughter three years ago is nine lifts, the first four lifts are real, and the last five lifts are empty and face-filling, two years ago his grandson was born, and the golden locks he gave were bought as a dowry for his wife.

So Li Fang looked at a table of sumptuous banquets, and the first thing that came to mind was his father's black face that seemed to be asking for debts, and Wei Zhixing's unsmiling face had to fight, phew, Li Fang hurriedly took a sip of himself, how could there be a fool who compared Wei Zhixing with his own Lao Tzu.

Wei Zhixing looked at Li Fang's colorful face, and said with a slight smile: "Brother Li is inconvenient at hand? I see, Wei knew that Wei Yan sent Li Zhutou back to the county government office to get the official's silver ticket to ......"

Li Fang hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop Wei Yan, who was about to go out, his face was gloomy, and he gritted his teeth and said: "This little silver, this general still has it, don't bother Lord Wei, Xiao Er, Xiao Er!! ”

Li Xinli is not happy, what does it mean to "I see" and "He knows", is it an insinuation that he knows that he is short of silver and gold as passed on by the prince of Beijing? And let Li Yu go and get the silver quickly? Don't Wei Lai and Wei Yan have long legs? Isn't the silver on your body enough for a meal? Slippery world! Asking Li to catch his head is not an edict to the world, and the world-famous General Li Shao eats like a big family and eats Lord Wei! How many good things do you have to eat, so Lord Wei sent someone back to the county post to get the silver ticket!! It's not silver, it's silver!! This is another after-dinner conversation for the sons and brothers in the capital, which is different from the romance, it is too embarrassing, he can't afford to lose it.

Xiao Er came in with a sneer, nodded to Li Fang and said, "Official, a total of twenty-five taels of silver and seven hundred and fifty wen, and twenty-five taels of silver will be collected." ”

Li Fang looked at the shopkeeper's mouth open, and only listened to the sentence "twenty-five taels", and all the others couldn't listen to it, this is too expensive, a meal in an ordinary post house only cost him two taels of silver, but it was the food of him and his twenty people, here, only the food of the two of them! But it's more than ten times more expensive!!

Li Fang put his hand into his waist, and with a trembling hand, he tore off the purse and handed it to Li Xiaowu, Li Xiaowu seemed to have been cut meat, and counted out twenty-five taels of silver in fright, almost emptied the entire purse, and even the broken silver was gathered in one place, and after counting three times correctly, he handed it to the shopkeeper, and the second child put the silver in the chain in front of him with a "whoosh", and shouted loudly: "The guests in the water and clouds collect the table and prepare tea." ”

Li Fang reflexively looked up at Li Xiaowu, Li Xiaowu understood, secretly followed Xiao Er out, and when he came back, he stood behind Li Fang, gave the young general a slightly calm expression, and vaguely spit out three words in his mouth: "Tea is not cashier." ”

Li Fang looked at almost half of the meal left on the table, and glanced at Li Xiaowu again, Li Xiaowu looked at Wei Yan and Wei Lai embarrassedly, and saw that the three masters and servants of the Wei family didn't even look at the two, so he breathed a sigh of relief and went out of the private room again.

After a while, the little second brother entered the house with a tea tray, set up the tea cup, put the dishes on the tea tray one by one, and saw that there was only soup left in a large bowl and no meat, and looked at Li Fang hesitantly and said: "Official, this soup is too thin to bring back, so I only wrap these dry dishes in oil paper, okay?" ”

Li Fang's face changed again, and he couldn't tell what color it was, so he hurriedly said goodbye without even eating tea, looking at the rickety back, I don't know if it was because of the waist injury or the reason for the panic.

Wei Lai couldn't help laughing: "Master, you still have a way!" Let him also taste the suffocating bear! ”

Wei Zhixing looked at Wei Lai with deep eyes, and gritted his teeth for a long time before he said, "What do you mean by 'also tasting the bear like a turtle'?" Do you mean that this official is the first bear to eat a turtle? ”

Wei Lai's smile froze on his face, and he couldn't bloom and couldn't take it back, not to mention how embarrassing it was.