The Yuan Family of the Three Kingdoms I call the shots

Chapter 425 Both enemies and friends
Five hundred miles to the northwest of Baima, it is located between Muye and Pingqiu, and belongs to the line of contact between Yuan and Cao for the transfer of land.

Not far from the agreed meeting, between the east and west camps, there is a dilapidated small village named Ziyou Village, which was named after the villagers believed in the words of Confucius when the village was first built.However, it is obvious that the spirit of the famous Confucianist in the sky does not care about the affairs of this place, neither blesses the villagers here with great wealth, nor blesses them with good harvests.

Think about it too, how can people living on the edge of Yuancao Jiaojing live well?Today Yuan Bing went south to fight and passed by to grab a chicken. Tomorrow Cao Jun went north to fight and passed by to grab a duck. When Yuan and Cao mobilized troops together, they ran into each other here. It is not uncommon for them to bump into and accidentally injure a few villagers. .

The capable people in the village have left this place of right and wrong long ago, and those who stay here are mostly old, young, women and children who are lingering on their last legs, or they are decadent with no purpose in life.

But in the past few days, Ziyou Village, which has always been deserted, has suddenly become lively. There are knights in full armor, or men in plain clothes, who are coming and going in the village, buying some dry food and wine. , staying and stopping, not knowing what they were going to do.

But after a few days, these people still made this dilapidated village a little more angry, and by the way, a little more money.

And today, Ziyou Village welcomes some extraordinary people.

Yuan Shang was wearing a black silk shirt, leading Pang Ji to come here today.

No one knew Yuan Shang's purpose of coming here, nor did Pang Ji who came with him.
Walking in the village, I saw people coming and going in the village, the scene was quite lively, and there was no sign of silence at all.

Pang Ji looked around, frowning as if muttering something.

Yuan Shang turned his head to look at him, saw him staring wildly, and said, "What are you looking for?"

Pang Ji said angrily: "My lord, my subordinates are looking for wine shops, tea shops, or inns. We have been walking for a long time, and we need to rest... The problem is that this is really a place where birds don't shit. Find a place to rest." The place is so difficult!"

Yuan Shang said lightly: "Why, do you think there will be an inn here?"

Pang Ji was taken aback, and said, "Isn't there?"

Yuan Shang turned his eyes to look at the people coming and going on the street. The clothes of these people were old and new. Although some were rich and poor, they didn't seem to be the hard-working people in the village.

"Have you been here before?"

Pang Ji touched his nose and said, "Who is full enough to come to this wretched place!"

Yuan Shang glanced at him and said, "That's right, there are no outsiders coming to this place, and the local villagers are poor, what do you want an inn for?"

Pang Ji was dumbfounded when he heard the words.

Beside the roadside stall, a fortune-telling alchemist who set up a stall saw that Yuan Shang and Pang Ji were dressed in luxurious clothes, and they were foreigners. He hurriedly opened his mouth to solicit business, and said, "Two gentlemen, let's take a test and calculate the fleeting years!"

Yuan Shang smiled and said nothing, Pang Ji turned his head, and said disdainfully: "My master's rich appearance, God-given appearance, still counts, just stay and go!"

The fortune-teller curled his lips and fell silent.

At this time, a handsome young man in a white Confucian shirt walked up to the fortune-telling stall, dropped a handful of baht, and said calmly, "Fortune-teller, give me a test."

When the fortune teller saw the baht coins on the ground, he immediately smiled happily, picked up the coins one by one, put them in his arms, then took out a wooden stick from his close-fitting cloth bag, and threw it on the sand on the ground: "My lord, Write a word!"

The young man in white looked at Yuan Shang, picked up the wooden stick, and said with a smile: "I'm going to meet a business partner recently to discuss a big deal. I won't write anything else, just write down my name. Help me?" Let's see how much the deal will win or lose when I meet my opponent."

After finishing speaking, he raised his hand and scratched a big character on the sand with a wooden stick.

The fortune teller looked down: "Zhi?"

The young man in white nodded and said, "Yes—Zhi!"

The fortune-teller pretended to do the math, and said nonsense: "Young master, you have wood in your name, and wood is born of water. You were born with a flat temper, but you were inspired by the words "Pang Zhi" and turned wood into fire." , this is the fate of being unwilling to fight with others, but you have to fight with others! It's cold now, the water is freezing, and the fire is extinguishing, young master, I'm afraid you will lose money in this transaction!"

The young man in white had a smile on his face and said: "Thank you." After finishing speaking, he took out another palm of baht coins from his sleeve and threw it in front of the fortune teller.

"I have a friend who also wants to do a business. Please help me to test for him."

The fortune teller hurriedly said, "Please write it down, sir."

Before he finished speaking, he saw Yuan Shang coming over, took the wooden stick from the hand of the young man in white, and wrote the word "Shang" on the ground.

"Fortune teller, take a look."

The fortune teller looked at it, shook his head and said: "Shang Zi Zun Chong belongs to gold, and gold produces water. Why is this poor and remote village not related to Zun Zong? If this young master does business here, it may not have a good omen."

Yuan Shang raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, and looked at the young man in white in the blink of an eye, and said, "What do you mean, this young man Zhi and I are doing business at a loss?"

The fortune teller was stunned for a moment, and said, "That's what the wording says."

Yuan Shang laughed when he heard the words, and suddenly said: "The fortune teller said that this time we both pay for one and two. Do you think what he said is right... Prime Minister Cao?"

The pupils of the young man in white contracted slightly, and his voice became a little low, saying: "I don't think what he said makes sense, Yuan Weiwei!"

Following the words of the two, the invisible pressure on the street suddenly rose unknowingly.

Yuan Shang turned to face Cao Zhi, and Cao Zhi also turned around at the same time.

The two young men looked at each other coldly on this simple street.

There was silence all around, and the fortune-teller squatting on the ground suddenly felt that something was wrong, the pressure around him seemed to increase suddenly, and he turned his head to look, almost urinating in fright.

I don't know when, around these two young people, there are many people who seem to have nothing to do with this place, some are dressed in fancy clothes, some are dressed as traders, some are dressed as peddlers, some are listening, or peeking, and some are simply Staring directly at the place where the two were, he quietly drew out his weapon, as if he was about to let go and kill at any time.

The atmosphere in the arena was unusually quiet and tense, and the feeling of fortune-telling was almost overwhelming. He was not a fool. At this moment, he could see that the two handsome men in black and white were not mortals, and those around them who were dressed as pawns and traders People are obviously their respective guards!

It was in this chilling atmosphere that the scene was too stiff...

After a long time.

Cao Zhi first showed a smile: "Brother Yuan, it's been a few years since we left Mobei, and we can finally meet again today. Cao feels very comforted."

Yuan Shang's complexion also eased: "How are you doing recently?"

Cao Zhi wiped his nose and said with a smirk: "It was good at first, but after seeing you, I feel terrible."

As the faces of the two of them began to smile again, the murderous atmosphere around them gradually calmed down.

Those people of all kinds who were just about to move around just now seemed to have not seen the change just now, yelling, shopping, and doing business, all turned their heads to do their own things, but still faintly looked at the two. Scan where the person is.

As for the fortune teller, he was so frightened that he cleaned up his stall and ran away without a trace.

Yuan Shang and Cao Zhi seem to have no identity barrier at this moment, just like they were in Mobei back then, their words are full of sincerity, mixed with playfulness.

The two walked side by side towards the distant market, and Pang Ji followed behind leisurely.

"Brother Yuan, you will really make things difficult for me!" Cao Zhi walked with his hands behind his back, and complained shamelessly to Yuan Shang: "You are dishonest in your big days, and you have to go on the table to be a great general. The prime minister made you compare, you said you have nothing to do, why do you want such a famous name? Can it be eaten?"

Yuan Shang shrugged casually, and said: "There is no way, I am not a person who can be idle by nature, and I have been sitting in the position of Weiwei, the Jiuqing, for several years. I am tired of it and want to change it."

Cao Zhi glared at him sideways, and said, "Your official position in the court is a cheap Chinese cabbage in the market? You can change it if you want? I won't change it for you!"

Yuan Shang shook his head and sighed: "You are now the prime minister anyway, you are not the kid who followed my ass back then, why are you talking so casually! The court has amnesty, and those who rank as the third prince are eligible to call themselves the third." Gu, you are already the prime minister, and you still have me and mine, so you have to be called Gu!"

Cao Zhi squinted his eyes and said, "I'm not used to it!"

Yuan Shang lightly stopped, took a deep look at the distant street, and said: "Actually, today I came to this village closest to the camp where the two armies were stationed, just to try my luck and see if I would meet Seeing you, I don't think you really came, after all these years, your personality still hasn't changed!"

Cao Zhi sighed, and said: "I came here thinking as you do, to see if I can meet you. It seems that I am not wrong, and you have not changed."

Yuan Shang turned his head to look at Cao Zhi, with a strange expression on his face.

"In this street market, you and I are friends in common clothes, but from tomorrow onwards the formal negotiations between the two armies will start, and you and I will be life and death enemies. There will be no such opportunity to speak again."

Cao Zhi was silent for a while, and said: "Brother Yuan, you made me understand a lot when Mobei and his party were there. I thank you here, but although my father didn't die at your hands, he died because of you. Qiu, I dare not forget each other at all times, I have established a mansion in Xuchang, and sooner or later I will invite you from Hebei to live permanently, to avenge the shame of my father."

Yuan Shang raised his eyebrows and said, "Can you beat me? Don't forget, your father called me a cunning person, Liu Bei called me a traitor Xiaoxiao, and Zhou Yu said I was a shameless person... All capable people in the world are all Hit a nail in my hand."

After a pause, Yuan Shang's face seemed helpless, but there was no hesitation, he just smiled and said, "I'm not a good person."

Cao Zhi said word by word: "If you can't fight, you still have to fight! This is the ending that is destined to be indelible since your father and my father... But I will still regard you as an elder brother and a friend!"

Yuan Shangchang sighed, and said: "You have grown up, and you are no longer the child who ran away willfully. God's will tricks people. If your second brother Cao Pi succeeds your father, I can still give it a go. What's wrong, but It's you, but it's a little hard to do."

Cao Zhi smiled and said, "I will definitely win against you in the negotiation tomorrow."

Yuan Shang also laughed, and after a while he nodded heavily: "It's good that you have confidence, but in fact, I have never lost."

(End of this chapter)