Hearing the sound outside the door, Xi Zhicai felt agile and suddenly realized that it was indeed Liu Qiao's voice. He said to Xi's wife:

"This is Liu Zigao coming!"

Xi's wife nodded when she heard this. Liu Qiao was also a friend who could leave some impression on her among the friends Xi Zhicai was dating. Although this person was very philanthropist, he was also a friend who was impressed by his husband Cai's learning. Every time he came, he had to drink and play with Xi Zhicai, but he would deliberately lose some coins or bring some wine, meat and food to help Xi Zhicai. He was considered one of Xi Zhicai's friends.

Xi Zhicai looked a little excited. Liu Qiao went shopping everywhere and brought him some interesting news every time he came back. At present, the army in Kanto was in chaos and everything was in chaos. The last time Liu Qiao left, it was said that he was going to Luoyang, Kyoto to sell goods. This time he came back, he happened to ask him about the current situation in Luoyang City.

He responded loudly outside the door and was about to go out to the yard to open the door.

"shoe!"

Seeing that he was barefoot while walking, Xi's wife quickly reminded her in a low voice. Xi Zhicai only realized this time. He looked at his barefoot, but didn't care. He smiled. In the urging eyes of Xi's wife, she casually tilted her straw sandals, walked out of the yard, moved the latch behind the door, and slowly opened the wooden door.

The wooden door creaked and opened slowly. Xi Zhicai's face was exposed from behind the door. With a glance, he quickly brought the scene outside the door into his eyes.

It was indeed Liu Qiao, and he was carrying a food box in his hand. This time he must have brought wine and meat. However, Xi Zhicai quickly noticed that Liu Qiao's expression was a little reluctant to smile. Behind him was a burly young man wearing thighs, and he was smiling at him at this moment.

The burly young man naturally asked Liu Qiao to lead the way and Yan Xing, who came to visit Xi Zhicai. When he saw Liu Qiao still staying in place, he poked Liu Qiao with his finger without revealing his trace. Liu Qiao felt nervous and said with a smile:

"Zhicai, I haven't seen you for many days. It's so good at home. Finally, I can see you again..."

As he was talking in a nagging manner, Liu Qiao smiled and rushed in from the door that had not been completely opened. Xi Zhicai suppressed his suspicion and simply opened the door so that Yan Xing, behind Liu Qiao, would also follow him in. However, when he opened the door and expanded his sight, he also noticed that in addition to these two people, there were two more big men cruising outside his door. Although they were wearing coarse gauze clothes, judging from their pace, they seemed to be people who practice martial arts.

Xi Zhicai smiled without hesitation. After the two of them came in, they slowly closed the door and said with a faint smile:

"As these days, I heard that there are military disasters outside. Early this morning, even Yangcheng suffered military disasters. The whole city is on guard and idle people are not allowed to enter and exit without authorization. Where did you come from? You can still come to me."

As he spoke, Xi Zhicai casually pointed to the west direction. The looting territory controlled by Yan Xing's army in the east of the city was better, and there was no sign of plundering. However, other places in the city did not have such good luck. The military officers led their soldiers to plunder the wealthy households, and a few soldiers took the opportunity to run to ordinary Qianshou's houses to cause trouble. There were also some rogues in the city. The evil boys also took this opportunity to fish in trouble and plunder the good households.

Most of the Yangchengs were in trouble of the robbery of the Xiliang soldiers. The sound of horse hooves and shouts of the Xiliang soldiers, coupled with the crying and wailing of the people who were suffering from the military disaster, floated intermittently from afar with the light breeze. In comparison, the east of the city is really a peaceful and quiet paradise on earth.

Listening to Xi Zhicai's question, Liu Qiao smiled awkwardly, and quickly followed Yan Xing's instructions before coming, pointed at Yan Xing and said to Xi Zhicai:

"I will first introduce you to a new friend, Yan Jun, whose name is Yan and whose courtesy name is Yanming. He is a merchant who travels to and from the north. This time I met in Luoyang. We followed the military city of the imperial army all the way to Yangcheng. Because of the familiar military officers, we got the passed documents, so we were able to come to your house. Let's not stand outside the courtyard first, go into the house to talk. I have talked to Yan Jun about your knowledge and talent. Yan Jun admires him very much and must come to see you."

After hearing Liu Qiao's words, Xi Zhicai laughed, quickly saluted Yan and said:

"Yan Jun should not listen to Liu Zigao's nonsense. But there is a drunken man in Yangcheng, so how can you learn what you can learn."

"Mr. Xi is too humble. Liu Jun once talked about Fan Li's learning. It is said that he was the guidance of Xi Jun. After hearing this, he was extremely impressed. Although he had been in business for many years, the way of merchants was so thorough was still the words of Xi Jun. Therefore, when he came to Yangcheng, he must let Liu Jun lead the way and come to see Xi Jun in person. Please forgive me for the abruptness of Menglang!"

From the beginning before entering the door to the meeting with each other, Yan Xing had always focused on Xi Zhicai except for looking at the situation in the yard.

Xi Zhi was over 30 years old and his face was a little yellow. His thin face was covered with black and bright eyes. Although he had already grown beards, his beard was messy, which shows that he had become accustomed to undressing on weekdays.

The clothes she wore looked quite depressed. Although the clothes were not as ragged and miserable as Liu Qiao said at the time, she was wearing a dark blue Confucian robe and was washed white. There were also some patches on it, which showed that this poor man lived a difficult life.

Although there are pigpens and chicken slabs in the yard, there are no poultry or livestock. The few vegetable beds cultivated in the corners are covered with crooked weeds. Obviously, although Xi Zhicai was living a difficult life, he was not a person who was willing to farm.

While Yan Xing saw everything in the yard, Xi Zhicai had secretly looked at the burly horse merchant in front of him. His appearance with a big shoulder and a round waist, a tiger-back and bear-waisted waist was also very strong. Although Liu Qiao said that Yan Jun was a Northland horse merchant, Xi Zhicai didn't believe it in his heart.

Although it is now a chaotic world, many merchants who travel around the country are skilled and skilled. Such horse merchants in the north are even more of a high-risk and profit-making business. Although war horses are sold from the Hu tribes on the grassland to the Central Plains, a war horse can often make several to ten times more profitable, but horse thieves along the road and thieves who cut the path are all cruel people who make money and are not real ruthless characters, and it is difficult to really start by selling horses.

But this Yan Jun is not a simple ruthless character of Ma Shang. His aura of a ruthless Yue Zhi is absolutely unusual. Xi Zhicai has also seen many merchants who smuggle and sell salt and iron. They may have a fat face and show their fierceness, but their aura is nothing more than a fierce fighting spirit.

The momentum of this Yan Jun was calm and calm. At first glance, he didn't realize the depth, but it was like a mountain or a pool of abyss. While it was relieved, he couldn't help but feel a sense of awe in his heart.

The two of them had their own thoughts, but the diligent words did not stop. The three of them entered Xi Zhicai's house.

Seeing a guest entering the house, Xi's wife hurried over to greet Liu Qiao and Yan, and presented hot soup with her own hands. Yan Xing saw that although she had a cloth skirt, she had a pretty face and was virtuous and polite manners. She remembered that Liu Qiao said that Xi Zhicai had a virtuous wife in her family. She couldn't help but feel respect for this woman who was willing to accompany Xi Zhicai, such a poor man who was struggling with a difficult life, and did not dare to neglect her. She quickly reached out to take the hot soup with her own hands and thanked her.

The wife of the opera knew that her husband had something to talk to with these two guests, and according to her past habits, they would drink in the house until night before they disperse. So after she served the hot soup, she took the clothes to sew and left the yard.

After seeing his wife withdraw, Xi Zhicai turned to Liu Qiao, Yan Xing and the others. Although Liu Qiao brought a friend over here, he was smart and wise, free and easy, and had no wealth at home. He was not afraid of chaos and was coveted by others. He immediately took the food box from Liu Qiao, and opened it while saying:

"Liu Zigao, didn't you say you wanted to go to Luoyang City to sell goods? Why did you become hang out in the military city? Could it be that the businessmen were not good enough to pay all the goods and owed all the debts, so you could only hide in the military city to avoid disaster."

Xi Zhicai and Liu Qiao are also familiar friends. He also talked about the businessmen who teased Liu Qiao without any chance. At the same time, he praised each time he opened the food box on the upper and lower floors:

"Hu cake, how long has it been since I smelled this fragrance? Hey, there is also dog meat. It's great. These days, war disasters have been everywhere, and the prices of food in the city have soared. I have eaten the chaff and wild vegetables that have been fruit for more than half a month. It's just like Master. I don't smell the meat in March. Ah! There is still wine, but bamboo leaves are green. This is really a relief to my verbal greed."

Xi Zhicai quickly placed the wine and meat in the food box on the table on the bed in the room, kept talking, and quickly brought the wooden sticks, served three cakes and some dog meat, and then ran to the yard again.

Seeing Xi Zhicai running around, Liu Qiao smiled knowingly, but when he saw Yan Xing's scrutiny look beside him, his face collapsed instantly. He said to Yan Xing softly:

"Yan, Yan Jun, Zhicai and his wife are very loving. His wife suffered a lot for Zhicai. Zhicai's most concerned about his wife is his wife. In the past, when we had drunk and played with Zhicai in the house, Zhicai was often afraid that his wife would be frozen and hungry outside the house. He would always have to serve food and deliver it to the outside of the yard before returning to the house. After a long time, my friends would think it was common."

Yan Xing nodded when he heard this, but he didn't say anything, but couldn't help but think in his heart that Xi Zhicai was a passionate person.

After Xi Zhicai returned to the house, he became smiling and looked casual and wandering. He smiled and took out his blog and said:

"Do you two, should you have a play first or drink first?"

After Liu Qiao glanced at Yan Xing's wink, he looked at Xi Zhicai again and said:

"Zhicai, since all the wine and meat have been put on the bed, let's drink and talk while I'm drinking."

"Okay, then Zigao, let me talk first, why did you run into the military city and get stuck?"

Xi Zhicai didn't care, so he threw down his utensils and jumped onto the couch to sit opposite the two of them. The table table was filled with wine, meat, wooden bowls, chopsticks and wine cups. Xi Zhicai asked, and he had already raised the wine cup full of wine to toast the two of them. Then he impatiently put the wine into his mouth. As the wine poured into his stomach, Xi Zhicai's face gradually showed a blood red. He shook his head and shouted joy.

When Liu Qiao heard Xi Zhicai ask about his wandering in the military market, his face became a little embarrassed. More importantly, with Yan Xingao, he could not tell the truth.

Yan Xing looked at Xi Zhicai who looked like a drunkard and thoughtful. He knew that Liu Qiao was hesitating about how to answer, so he took the initiative to answer:

"Liu Junhui, in the military market, merchants all want to sell goods for profit, but Liu Jun is a tyrant who profits from it. He avoids competing for profit with many wealthy merchants, and is able to make good friends. Such a way of abandoning me and taking me is to reconcile Fan Li's learning, which is guided by the emperor!"

When Xi Zhicai heard Yan Xing talk about Fan Li's knowledge that he had guided Liu Qiao, he immediately burst into laughter, grabbed the dog meat greasy and stuffed it into his mouth, and said vaguely:
Chapter completed!