Golden autumn in August. It's the most beautiful time of the year in Crouching Tiger. In this good season of cool autumn breeze and abundant grains, the pedestrians on the street are naturally weaving like a tide, and it seems that everyone has endless things, feasts that cannot be eaten, and endless words.

In August this year, because of the holding of the trade fair, Crouching Tiger City is more lively and dazzling than in previous years.

The Crouching Tiger Welcome Garden, which was originally spacious and easy to live in, has long been filled with envoys and merchant groups from all over the world, and some caravans with inferior strength have to choose small and medium-sized inns with more affordable prices to live in. Of course, although the merchant group from Yanqi in the Western Regions and Dongsheng in the East China Sea from afar, although its strength could not be compared with those super rich merchants who stayed in the Welcome Garden, because of their special status, they were still treated as guests and were very honored to live in the quiet and gorgeous Welcome Garden.

Staying in the small courtyard of No. 25 Yingbin Yuan were Wei Zhen, the envoy sent by Cao Cao, several important members of the merchant group, and a few personal guards. As the eldest son of the Wei family, the richest man in Yanzhou, Wei Zhen has his pride and self-confidence. If it weren't for his father's efforts to fund Yanzhou Mu Cao Cao to recruit soldiers to clean up the Yellow Turbans, there would be no prosperity and strength of the Cao family in Yanzhou today.

And Cao Cao is indeed a person who knows how to repay his kindness, after stabilizing the situation in Yanzhou, he tried his best to maintain the balance between the wealthy families and the emerging aristocracy, and reused the people of the Wei family to govern and run Yanzhou, not only earning a lot of money for himself, but also enriching the people and fattening the Wei family. Although the Wei family is now the indisputable richest man in Yanzhou, Cao Cao still protects the interests of the Wei family everywhere, for example, the head of the Yanzhou business group is served by Wei Zhen, the future successor of the Wei family, such an arrangement is tantamount to stuffing a lot of silver tickets into Wei Zhen's hands.

It stands to reason that with such a prominent identity, Wei Zhen should feel proud and happy. But he has been gloomy for the last few days and doesn't seem to be in a good mood.

Wei Zhen was in a bad mood for a reason, just because the house number on the small courtyard of Yingbin Garden, where the organizers of the Crouching Tiger Merchant Exhibition arranged for him to stay, was No. 25. In front of Wei Zhen were not only Huang Situ, the plenipotentiary envoy of the imperial court who lived in the No. 1 Courtyard, but also representatives of the Qingzhou and Xuzhou merchant groups who were close to the Jin Kingdom, as well as Lu Su sent by Sun Jian of Eastern Wu, and envoys from Yanqi State and Dongsheng State. But even if all the two countries and one division of the eleven states of the Han Dynasty are counted, plus a few countries, how can the envoys and merchant groups of Yanzhou live in the top fifteen courtyards.

Although the difference between twenty-five and fifteen is only ten house numbers, in fact, the layout and furnishings of the courtyard are of the same grade, but Wei Zhen still feels that he has been left out and neglected.

According to Wei Zhen's thoughts, it is understandable for Huang Situ to live in the No. 1 Annex, and it is reasonable for the envoys of Liangguo, Yanqi and Dongsheng to live in the first five courtyards, but from the sixth number, Yanzhou is almost qualified to be ranked. The treatment of Yanzhou is not as good as that of Youzhou, Jizhou, Qingzhou, and Xuzhou, but after all the other states have been arranged, they are still only ranked in the thirteenth annex. From the 14th to the 24th, the eleven annexes couldn't even take Yanzhou's turn, which looked like they were deliberately humiliating Yanzhou.

Wei Zhen's feelings are real, Jin Guo really didn't give Yanzhou a good face. But Wei Zhen's feelings are one-sided, because there are several companies that are as eye-catching as him, such as Yangzhou, Yuzhou and Sili area. There are two other families whose treatment is not as good as Yanzhou, such as Gongsun Du of Liaodong and Sima of Yizhou, these two were directly listed by the Jin State as refusing to come to the exhibition, and they were not qualified to come to the exhibition this time.

Therefore, Wei Zhen uses himself as a dish, but in the eyes of the organizers of the Crouching Tiger Exhibition, he is not even a fart. If it weren't for Zhao Xing's need for Wei Zhen to bring a few words back to Lao Cao, it is estimated that he would not even be able to live in the No. 25 annex. Yingbin Garden is not a simple profit-making organization, but a "foreign affairs" hospitality center for Zheng'er Bajing, and cats and dogs don't want to live in it.

Wei Zhen, who was regarded as a cat and a dog, was very angry, so he held back an evil fire and wandered around in Crouching Tiger City, hoping to find an opportunity to spend a lot of money and show off himself, so as to express the depression in his heart.

Wei Zhen took a few guards and walked slowly from the food street to the clothing street, and then swayed to the gold and silver jewelry street. This street gathers the world's rare treasures, jade calligraphy and paintings, gold and silver ornaments and precious spices, which can be described as the most gold-selling street in Crouching Tiger City. Those who can come to this street to make a sale, they must first touch whether the silver ticket in their purse is enough, otherwise if they say the price but can't take out the real money, they will become a laughing stock if they spread it.

When Wei Zhen came to a delicate headwear shop, his eyes suddenly lit up, just because he saw several women with graceful backs in the store bargaining with the shopkeeper.

One of them, a young girl of about fifteen years, said to another young woman in her early twenties: "Wu Niang, this headdress is too expensive, so don't buy it, otherwise my father will see it and blame me for loving vanity." ”

The young woman said with a nonchalant face: "Don't be afraid, this time Wu Niang also wants to buy a good headdress for Qi'er, a few days ago, Wu Niang and I patronized to help your father raise money, and I can't care about buying some beautiful jewelry for you who have grown flower bones." ”

In the end, it is a girl's feelings, I can't resist the temptation of the silver headdress inlaid with jade and agate, and the workmanship is extremely fine, I want to buy it but I am worried about being blamed by my father, and I am really reluctant to buy it.

The young woman who was called Wu Niang by the girl must also be a very pungent and capable person, and she couldn't help but explain to the shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper, how many headdresses like this are there in your store?"

The shopkeeper of the headdress shop must have been accustomed to seeing a rich young lady, but he didn't show too much surprise, but kindly reminded: "This lady, I still have ten sets of such headdresses in this store, if you buy them all, you can get a nine-percent discount, a total of three thousand six hundred taels of silver!"

The woman listened to the shopkeeper's offer, but did not express any objections, and was about to take out the purse to pay the bill, but heard a man's voice behind her: "Madame, slow, Xiaosheng Chen Liuweizhen, I happened to pass by this store today, and saw Mrs. and Ling Yuan, I was shocked! ”

The woman who was interrupted frowned, and said with some displeasure: "Since you know that you are abrupt and presumptuous, why don't you disappear from my eyes quickly! The richest man in Yanzhou also dares to show off in Crouching Tiger City, do you really think that there is no one in the Jin Kingdom?"

Wei Zhen was given a cold face in public, and he was naturally very unconvinced, and said: "Why does Madam not know how to be polite, just because she saw Miss Gui's graceful demeanor, she felt admiration, and she showed favor with gifts, but you added cold words, which is really unreasonable." ”

When the woman heard Wei Zhen's words, her face became even more displeased, and she was about to reprimand, but she was stopped by another girl who was even younger. The girl turned her head to Wei Zhen and said: "We still have something to do today, we are too lazy to rap with you here, I will only tell you one sentence, the richest man in the world is only surnamed Zhao, and you, the richest man in Yanzhou, should not be extravagant in Crouching Tiger City!"

After speaking, several women left a door-to-door delivery address for the shopkeeper, and then ignored Wei Zhen and walked away.