Chapter Twenty-Four: Eating Behind Closed Doors

Yan Bei rarely took off the iron armor and rhino leather armor that he loved so much, and even wore a brand-new silk robe, with a hanging jue borrowed from Duwei Wang Zheng on his waist...... This dress is as if he is the same as his third brother Yandong. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

is like a scholar who far surpasses a martial artist, if it weren't for Yan Bei himself, he would feel a little strange if he wore such a suit.

If the soldiers in the Puyin camp had all read the books, they would definitely see from Yanbei's posture that 'Mu Monkey and Crown'. It's a pity that there are few scholars among the more than 2,000 men in them, and they will only go over and over to secretly say that the military marquis is really awkward today.

To be honest, Yan Bei still looks like that when he wears such a body, his eyebrows are heroic, his figure is slender and strong, but the only thing that is a little awkward is his temperament.

The momentum of the bandit leader and the state and county rangers around him has the intention of killing, how can it not look awkward to wear this graceful and luxurious straight-lined regular clothes?

No matter how awkward it is, Yanbei has to wear it like this today.

This is the second day he returned to Puxian County in Jizhou from Youzhou, and he wants to find a good place for his third brother.

Yan Bei took the famous thorn given to him by Zhen Jiang, took Wang Yi and Jiang Jin's two guards, and of course Yan Dong, and a group of four people went straight to the southernmost city of Zhongshan Kingdom, Wuji County.

He is not a man who gives favors, but if it is for the sake of his brother, he is more than willing to do such a thing. In the final analysis, it is nothing more than making people remember their kindness and immediately exchange it for what they deserve.

Zhen is a big family in the county, the ancestors can be traced back to the Jiuqing of the pre-Han Dynasty, even if the family is still in the middle of the county, it is still the chief of the county, and it is a wealthy family in Jizhou.

Yanbei thinks that it is far better to place the third brother in the Zhen family, and it is far better to study and live than to follow him around, although it is not so comfortable to send people under the fence after all, but Yanbei also thinks that this is an opportunity for Yandong!

His brother must have knowledge, although he reads all scriptures and classics, which is useless in the battle array, but when it is his turn to govern the world, govern politics and educate the people, Yan Dong thinks that he is much stronger than himself.

This can be regarded as a relatively clumsy trick in Yanbei, if he encounters anything in this rebellion that affects Erzhou, at least the Yan family can still leave an incense.

The scholars, and even the families of the scholars, that is, the scholars, are very strange beings in this era. They were detached from production and did not engage in farming, but they owned the vast majority of the land in the entire empire, and the proletarian tenants could only cultivate the land for them, using the annual harvest as rent, and even worse, the common people, who did not even have cattle and farm tools, could only rely on the large households to earn a living by exchanging their labor for a meager monthly income.

They relied on land and officials for generations to survive, but they rarely rebelled or participated in rebellions, and even when the world was in turmoil, people still loved them, because the nobles were the nobles of this era, and they paid attention to their reputation and morality, and rarely did anything that damaged their reputation.

Not only did they win the respect of the people and the court, but even the rebels had enough respect for them.

Just like during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, they could break through the counties and kill the chiefs, but they rarely entered the real warrior Wu Fort. At most, it is to besiege the Wu Fort of the Shi clan, asking for some food and money, but this is also the point to the end, people will give it, it doesn't matter if they don't give it, and then go to find the next household.

The Wu forts that were breached by them were often wealthy families.

Taxi represents a kind of class. But in this day and age, more often than not, a scholar means to be respected, to be a model of morality.

Of course, a person like Yan Bei, no matter his humble background or murderous experience, determines that he can't fight with the proud son of the sky, but who let him have Zhen's famous thorn?

At noon, Yan Bei and his entourage of four people rushed to the Zhen family's mansion outside Wuji City.

Zhen's Wu Fort is much larger than Yan's Wu, it is like a wall around a pavilion, on which there are many arrow towers, and thousands of acres of land around it are owned by Zhen.

Jiang Jin also saw Zhen's Wubao for the first time, looked around and raised his hand to hook Wang Yi's shoulder, looked around and swallowed saliva left and right, and said: "His grandmother's, this is magnificent, really magnificent!" ”

Even Yanbei looked at the high gate of the Zhen family with envy, and only after a while did he return to his senses and came to the door to offer a greeting to the family at the door and said: "Yanbei, a native of Lower Liaodong, has a request for the Zhen family, hoping to meet with the eldest son of the Zhen family." ”

Although the family in front of the mansion saw that Yanbei was tall and well-dressed, and their clothes were neatly dressed, they had the appearance of a country scoundrel in their expressions, so they were a little underestimated, and some nodded arrogantly and turned away.

The time to wait for the return was long, and after a stick of incense, the porter opened the door and poked out his head and said to Yan Bei: "The eldest prince is still meeting guests, you can wait, and I will inform you later." ”

Yan Bei wanted to enter the Zhen mansion with joy, but the door slammed shut, leaving only Yan Bei, who had a smile on his face, looking at the closed wooden door.

Turning his head slowly, Yan Bei asked in some surprise, "This, this is ...... Shut Yan out? ”

"Damn, Erlang, wait a minute, Jiang will help you smash this broken door!" Jiang Jin has the hottest temper, where can he withstand such a humiliation, he immediately drew a knife and wanted to come forward and knock on the door, Yan Bei turned around and hurriedly stopped him: "Slow, don't mess around!" ”

Yan Bei smiled self-deprecatingly, just now he could hear clearly, it was not that the master of the Zhen family refused to see him, but that the slave was afraid of disturbing the master and did not dare to report at all.

"Jiang Jin, what are you angry with a slave? Alright, since they made us wait, then let's just wait. Yan Bei took out a big piece of money from his arms, threw it to Jiang Jin casually and said: "In this way, I just arrived in Wuji City, where there are many merchants coming and going from Zhao Guo's hometown, you and Wang Yi go into the city to find a place to play." ”

After that, Yanbei slapped Jiang Jin's hand again and said: "But remember, this is not our Puyin City, collect your stinky temper in the city, don't cause trouble!" ”

At present, the situation in Jizhou is very strange, in the counties of Zhao, Julu, and Anping to the south of Zhongshan Kingdom, the county soldiers are strictly guarded, for fear that Zhang Chun's rebels will go south, and the county guards are limited by the law to stick to the county boundary before the imperial edict is issued.

In the Zhongshan Kingdom, although it was nominally under the jurisdiction of Taishou Zhang Chun, since its rebellion, except for the north of Lunu City, where Pershing, Wang Zheng, Chen Fei and others were garrisoned, all counties south had different voices, neither following the rebellion nor sending troops to fight, showing the appearance of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight...... In other words, in fact, Wuji City is not the territory of their rebels now.

Yan Bei was a little worried that Jiang Jin and the others would cause trouble here.

"Don't worry, what kind of mess can you make if you go to the county to sell some wine?" Jiang Jin didn't care, glanced at Yanbei and said, "You can suffer such idleness here alone?" ”

Wang Yi looked at Yanbei and saw that he had been humiliated by the slave but seemed to be fine, so he didn't say anything, tied the horses of the four people outside Zhen's Wu Fort, and went to Wuji City not far away with Jiang Jin.

Yan Dong waited until Jiang Jin and the others left, and then saw that there was still no abnormality on his brother's face, but he was a little unhappy in his heart, and said to Yan Bei: "Brother, it's a big deal, I'll be with you, our brothers are going to live or die together, what do you ask them to do?" ”

"What's the matter, Xiao San feels humiliated?" Yan Bei smiled, walked to the side door and tied the horse stake, took the water bag from the horse's hip sac, drank two sips and said: "Who let us come from a humble background, and besides, we should ask people to do things without relatives, and we should wait outside, it's okay!" ”

Saying that, the brothers of Yanbei Gang spread out the wrinkled robes and whispered: "What do you say about dying or living, my brother can come so far in this life, the great famine after the yellow scarf has not killed me, and the sky will not accept it, but my brother is afraid that you will suffer too much with me, you will be a human being in the future, but you don't have to suffer these hardships." ”

"Then brother, why do you directly say that you are the Marquis of Zhongshan?" Yan Dong looked at the Zhen family's high gate and said, "If the identity is revealed, I don't believe that any of the Zhen family's servants will dare to show us a look." ”

Yan Bei took a deep breath, shook his head and said, "I can't say it, it's not good." ”

In fact, it is still the inferiority complex in his heart that is at work, Yan Bei still feels that he is a small leader of the rebel army who can't make a living on the stage, how dare he make an axe in front of a big family like the Zhen family that has been inherited for hundreds of years, not to mention that the reputation of the rebels is not very good, he doesn't want to leave this thing to the Zhen family as a first impression.

"Hey, why are you here?"

At this moment, a few horses galloped in the distance, and the leader was the red-clothed girl who was harassed by the Wuhuan people outside Lunu City that day, but today this Zhen lady was dressed much more normally, wearing a blue and white brocade robe, and did not carry a knife and bow, kneeling on the carriage looked luxurious and dignified, and asked Yan Bei at the door: "Since you are here, why don't you go in?" ”

Zhen Jiang!

Yan Bei looked sideways, and suddenly saw the figure of the beautiful woman who rode the horse and stretched the bow that day, and only after a moment did he straighten out his robe and said: "It turned out to be Miss Zhen, Yan had a request for Zhen when he encountered difficulties, so he waited at the door for a while." ”

"Wait a minute? The servant must have not reported it to you, you wait! Zhen Jiang got out of the car without saying a word, and after knocking on the door, he reprimanded the servant: "Who closed the door of Zhen's guests?" Have you forgotten what adults usually teach you? Come on, connoisseur law! ”

Yan Bei's eyes suddenly widened when he heard it outside the door, when had he seen his daughter's house with such a resolute temperament? Immediately ran into the door of the mansion and said to Zhen Jiang: "Miss, Miss, there is no need to be like this, Yanbei is a guest from afar, how can the master's family blame the slave because of this?" ”

Yan Dong looked at his brother's impatient appearance from behind, and secretly shook his head. His brother was a very conflicted man, he had seen him angry too many times, but rarely because of himself. If it were just himself, his brother would really be called a humble gentleman, but when it comes to siblings, he will become very strong.

He knew very well in his heart that his brother did not look down on the slave and put it in his heart.

"Yan Junhou don't have to worry, this matter is not for you." Zhen Jiang's face only improved a little when he saw Yan Bei, his graceful figure saluted, bowed his head and said to Yan Bei: "Regardless of your kindness to the Zhen family, the behavior of the slave will corrupt my Zhen family's style, making people think that the Zhen family acts like this, so it must be punished...... Yan Junhou said a few days ago that he had a request for Zhen, please follow me into the house, today my brother invited Mr. Liu, a minister from Jizhou, to look at his children, and he should be in the main hall. ”