Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 52 Nothing happened in the car
Yanzhou, Chenliu County, outside Puyang City.

A very small carriage was parked by the side of the road, the wheels were extremely strange, covered with several layers of animal skins.

The driver was Qu Yi, he turned his head and said to the inside of the carriage: "Master, we're here."

After a while, the carriage opened, and Yuan Xidang jumped down first.

His original face was easily recognizable by others, so with Wu Zhao's help, he drew some eyebrows, and put some Koji's beard on his chin, and his whole person changed a lot.

In contrast, Qu Yi's beard has been cut a lot shorter, and the image of Beixincheng is quite different.

Wu Zhao poked his head out, his face was a little flushed, but luckily it was covered by the spots on his face, so it was hard to see.

The space in this carriage is extremely small, and the two of them were huddled in it while rushing along these days, and their bodies collided frequently, which made Wu Zhao's heart beat often faster.

No one would have expected that Yuan Xi and others would appear here.

Seven or eight days ago, Yuan Xi led a motorcade of dozens of people, and even dozens of women, to leave Beixin City grandly and grandly, and walked southward slowly, as if for fun.

Counting the time, the convoy is still hundreds of miles north of Yecheng, and it will take a few days to reach Yecheng.

In fact, Yuan Xi, Wu Zhao, Qu Yi and several personal guards sneaked into a special small carriage when the convoy camped for a rest on the first night, and traveled southward day and night.

They drove lightly along the way, changed a few horses, bypassed Yecheng in Weijun, the southernmost part of Jizhou, and came to Puyang City in Chenliu County, Yanzhou, more than a hundred miles south of Yecheng!
Yuan Xi stretched out his hand, Wu Zhao naturally put his hand on Yuan Xi's arm, and jumped off the carriage.

Wu Zhao reacted, his face flushed slightly.

This whimsical idea of ​​changing her identity like a powerful and unconstrained style made Wu Zhao also secretly admire. Yuan Xi asked her to pretend to be Mrs. Yinhu, Wu Zhao was not only not angry, but also secretly pleased.

But when Wu Zhao asked Yuan Xi about his pseudonym, Yuan Xi told a cold joke.

"My name is Yinhu, you can be called Maotu."

After hearing this, Wu Zhao unconsciously tightened his legs.

Seeing that he had said something wrong, Yuan Xi said casually, "Why don't you call him Baihu?"

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Yuan Xi felt something was wrong and turned his head away quickly.

Wu Zhao's legs clamped tighter. Ever since her husband passed away, she has been extremely sensitive to this kind of Koff's statement.

And Yuan Xi just said it casually, or did he calculate it with some stargazing technique?
If that's the case, then you don't need to be called Yinhu, just called Yinhu!

Qu Yi called to several followers dressed as peasants who were following the car, and began to remove the animal skins from the wheels.

At that time, the wheels were all made of wood, and the speed was fast, and the bumps were severe, and the wheels were easily damaged.

In this world, there is no rubber or other things to make car tires, so Yuan Xi thought of a way to wrap straw on the wheels, then wrap them with cloth strips, cover the outermost part with animal skins, and wrap them tightly with wire to fix them.

In this way, the bumps are greatly reduced, and the sound is slight, which can be said to be much more convenient than wooden wheels.

Qu Yi and the others put up the wheels of the carriage, removed the wire, animal skin, straw and other things on it, and the wheels returned to their original shape.

In this way, it will not attract attention when entering Puyang City.

Seeing that everyone was almost busy, Yuan Xi said, "Except for Brother Qu, you should go to the city separately to find out the news. Brother Qu and the two of us will go into the city together in a carriage."

After hearing this, several guards took orders and left.

Yuan Xi and Wu Zhao got into the carriage, and Qu Yi drove the carriage towards Puyang city gate swaggeringly.

At the gate of the city, there were more than a dozen soldiers dressed as Cao Jun guarding outside. Seeing the carriage approaching, they stopped the wooden gun in their hands and shouted: "Stop!"

A soldier came over and picked the end of his gun at the curtain of the carriage. When Qu Yi saw it, his eyes lit up.

As a result, a faint voice came from the car, "If you want to break my car curtain, I will make you regret it."

The soldier was furious when he heard the words: "Who is inside, get out of the car!"

The curtain of the car was lifted, Yuan Xi poked his head out, threw a letter of guidance to the soldier's chest, and said with a cold snort, "Look carefully."

The soldier caught Lu Yin and was about to have a seizure when he glanced at the sign on Lu Yin, and then his face changed drastically.

He carefully looked at the road guide several times, and a small team leader came over long ago, and shouted: "Who is making trouble here?"

The soldier hurriedly handed Lu Yin to the team leader. The team leader took a look, his expression changed immediately, and he put on a smiling face. He handed Lu Yin back with both hands respectfully, and said with a smile: "The villain has eyes but no eyes. Please don't blame me, sir."

"I don't know what the gentleman is doing in the city?"

"What if you don't want the villain to help guide the way?"

There is no other reason for the soldiers to be so respectful. The sign on the Gein Road was issued by the Yuan family of Jizhou to the gentry.

At that time, the gentry were masters, and the Yuan family controlled the four states. Even Cao Cao's Yanzhou was also the Yuan family's territory, so these soldiers dared not speak.

Yuan Xi snorted coldly: "Do you need to ask about my affairs?"

"Is it time to enter the city?"

He made the gentry's frivolous and arrogant style full, because in the eyes of the gentry, these big soldiers are no different from ordinary people.

The more he resembled a gentry, the less the soldiers dared to ask more questions.

If he put on an air of humility, the soldiers would become suspicious instead.

Sure enough, the team leader stepped aside quickly, and said with an apologetic smile, "Yes, sir, please go slowly."

Everyone watched the carriage enter the city and disappeared into the street. A soldier snorted, "It's really big."

The other soldiers laughed and said, "Who made him a nobleman? We'll spend our whole lives together, and we won't be able to say a few words to him. Thank God that you didn't cause any trouble."

The carriage was driving slowly on the street. Wu Zhao was curious and looked out through the gap in the curtains.

Since she was robbed by the Huns in Luoyang, she worked hard all the way until she was rescued to Beixin City, and then came all the way to Puyang City.

At that time, Luoyang was hit by a fire, and the walls and buildings were destroyed everywhere, the streets collapsed, and starvation was everywhere.

She stayed in Beixincheng for more than half a month, and found that Beixincheng was much better than Luoyang in terms of streets and other aspects, and it was only because Luoyang suffered a military disaster.

As a result, after entering Puyang City, I realized that the streets were dilapidated, and hungry people fell to the ground everywhere. Then I realized that Beixin City was a special case?
Wu Zhao expressed his doubts, and Yuan Xi was silent for a while after hearing this, and then said, "I don't know, but I heard that Yecheng is pretty good."

"Cultivate your voice with the people and avoid fighting, the people below will naturally live well."

"Yanzhou has been in constant war for the past few years, and the gentry control the land. How could people not starve to death?"

Wu Zhao thought of Yuan Xi's throwing the nobles who had collected grain from the city, and thought that this man dared to do it.

In Wu Zhao's view, everything Yuan Xi did was against the gentry, and he had no aristocratic demeanor.

However, she remembered that when her group left Beixin City, almost all the men, women, old and children in the city went to the outside of the city to see each other off, and she couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

It's a strange thing to belittle scholars and value servants.

The carriage walked a few streets, and stopped behind a house. Qu Yi looked around and found that he had arrived at the agreed place.

He took out two strips of cloth, one black and one white, and tied them to the left and right shafts respectively, and then pretended to sit and take a nap, while squinting his eyes slightly, and kept looking around.

It took a full half an hour before someone came over and made several gestures to Qu Yi.

Qu Yi said a few words, the man nodded, came up to lead the carriage, and led the way.

Wu Zhao felt the carriage start to move, and his heart thumped involuntarily.

Yuan Xi had told her earlier that this trip was to pretend to be a hermit with a magic stick, but the key point was to be familiar with Wu Zhao, who was a gentry in Yanzhou.

The person on the other side will definitely ask some probing questions. If you don't respond properly and show your flaws, all the efforts of this trip will be in vain.

After driving around the city for a long time, the carriage finally turned into an alley and entered a small courtyard.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, Qu Yi's pupils shrank slightly in front of the carriage.

There was a man sitting with his back facing them in the yard. Although his body remained motionless, Qu Yi was alerted by the faint murderous aura emanating from him.

He is a master who has experienced the battlefield!

(End of this chapter)