Fairy, Please Let Me Explain

Thinking of these messy things in his mind, Xu Yuan slowly sat up from the soft couch in the inn.

I have insomnia tonight and can't sleep.

Although he was already a strong man in the body, Xu Yuan still maintained the good habit of sleeping, but he was used to the fatigue of traveling and traveling, and suddenly settled in this luxurious inn, and he couldn't adapt for a while.

The bright moonlight shines through the window lattice into the house. The decoration of the inn is quite luxurious, but unlike the restaurants in the hinterland of Great Yan, the furnishings here have a touch of the beauty of the Western Regions.

Putting on a black shirt, he got out of bed and walked to the curtained pavilion in the guest room, looking around.

The moon was sparse and the stars were flying, the wild geese were flying west, and the majestic Hundred Miles Gorge suddenly came into view.

The night wind with a little bit of yellow sand blows on the cheeks and is a bit dry. Yangufang is an inn built on the edge of the giant gorge at the northernmost end of Zhenxi Mansion. One hundred taels of silver.

However, the money tonight was not paid by Xu Yuan himself, but was given to a banquet by a young man he met during the journey.

"The moon is shining like this, and since Brother Zhou is still awake, why don't you have a drink with me?"

After standing on the suspended pavilion on the Wanren cliff for a long time, a slightly hoarse male voice suddenly reached Xu Yuan's ears.

Xu Yuan looked back when he heard the words and saw a young man standing looking at him with a smile.

The young man was wearing a nightgown, his face looked a little haggard because of his paleness, and he looked sickly.

The other party's surname is Mu, Li, and his given name is Xingyi.

It was a caravan leader that Xu Yuan helped on the road.

When passing through a Gobi desert, the other party's caravan was attacked by a wave of more than a thousand small desert wolves. They came to help out of habit. After learning that the destination of both parties was Zhenxi Mansion, they naturally went together.

We had been together for more than half a month, and Xu Yuan had a very pleasant conversation with him.

However, the banquet will last forever. The destination of Mu Xingyi's caravan is the Monan Metropolitan Government. Tomorrow, Xu Yuan will take Treasure Hunting Girl to Qianji Gorge to find the body of Xiao Longnu's brother.

After today, the two parties will officially say goodbye.

After thinking for a moment, Xu Yuan jumped directly from the balcony of his room to Mu Xingyi's side.

This behavior is rude and even offensive.

Even if you are invited, you should enter through the main entrance and only after receiving permission.

However, seeing Xu Yuan's actions, Mu Xingyi's eyes did not show much emotion, and the smile on his face did not change at all.

It seems that he has become accustomed to the unruly behavior of the person in front of him.

But Xu Yuan knew that Mu Xingyi was not doing it because of habit, but because he didn't care.

Mu Xingyi nodded gently at Xu Yuan, walked towards the house, and said in a slow and orderly voice:

"The curfew in Zhenxi Mansion is strict. I'm afraid it's inconvenient to go out. I'll send someone from the restaurant to bring some famous wine and snacks to decorate it. Brother Zhou, please wait here."

"That's not necessary."

Xu Yuan called him with a slight smile, raised his fingertips slightly and directly placed a low table and two short chairs on the terrace from Lieutenant Xumijie.

He sat down on one of the short chairs, his long hair blowing in the sandy night wind, and smiled softly at Mu Xingyi:

"I have been entertained by you for more than half a month. Let me entertain you Xingyi tonight."

Mu Xingyi slowly looked back, stared at the table and chairs that suddenly appeared for a moment, and said:

"Brother Zhou actually has a divine object like Xumijie in his body."

As he spoke, he also smiled and sat opposite Xu Yuan, still maintaining the indifferent smile on his sickly cheeks:

"Then I'd rather be respectful than obey your orders."

Xu Yuan looked at his calm expression and asked with a chuckle:

"You don't seem surprised at all?"

Mu Xingyi shook his head, his voice calm and natural:

"The two beauties beside Brother Zhou have master cultivation at a young age, so their family background must be extraordinary."

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Xu Yuan took a deep look at the other party.

From the first time they met until now, he had never seen any expression other than a smile on the pale young man's face.

Even when he was attacked by wolves and the defense line constructed by the entire caravan was already crumbling, this man still maintained that smile on his face.

Mu Xingyi's body revealed an indifferent temperament, as if he didn't care about anything.

This is probably one of the reasons why Xu Yuaneng was able to talk to this person.

Thinking in his mind, Xu Yuan casually placed a few bottles of spiritual wine worth a thousand taels on the table, and took out a few plates of drinking nuts bought on the road. While pouring wine for the two of them, he chatted:

"Speaking of family background, with your surname Xingyi and the size of your caravan, you should be from the Mu Chamber of Commerce, right?"

Mu Xingyi did not deny the words and nodded slightly:

"Mu Shanhai is my father."

Xu Yuan raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this, handed the filled wine glass to the other party, and said with surprise:

"Xingyi, you are actually the legitimate son of the Mu family? But why don't you even have a grandmaster in your caravan?"

"He is not a legitimate son. My mother is the third wife of the head of the family. She made some mistakes more than ten years ago and is not well received by the head of the family."

Mu Xingyi took the wine glass and explained calmly: "As for the caravan offering, there was originally one, but he died in the battle not long before he met you, Brother Zhou."

"Monster?"

"Um."

"Condolences."

Xu Yuan whispered, raised his glass, and drank it down with the other party.

Feeling the sweetness of the wine on his taste buds, Xu Yuan asked in a low voice:

"Since Xingyi, you are a member of the Mu Chamber of Commerce, then the supplies for these dozens of carriages should have been sent to the Zhenxi Army?"

The Mu Chamber of Commerce is the largest chamber of commerce in Xizezhou.

After the Xiangfu extended the Tianan Chamber of Commerce into Xizezhou by means of the "war reparations" of the Wanxiang Sect, many conflicts arose with the Mu's Chamber of Commerce.

With each resorting to different means, the Tianan Chamber of Commerce did not get any benefits from them, and directly blocked the rapid expansion of the Tianan Chamber of Commerce in Xizezhou.

There are many reasons, the most difficult of which is that the Mu's Chamber of Commerce and the Zhenxi Marquis's Mansion have a very deep connection.

The Zhenxi Marquis has a very high prestige in Xizezhou, but compared with the Wucheng Marquis's Mansion, the old man Zhenxi Marquis lacks a virtuous wife like the Fuguo Lady. It can't be said that he knows nothing about the management of his own industry, but it can only be said that it is a mess.

If it weren't for the heavy military and abundant martial virtues, according to business logic, the property of the good brother Li Junwu would have been eaten up by other large chambers of commerce long ago.

Zhenxi Marquis is also very self-aware. If he can't do it himself, he will ask professionals to come and take care of it.

And his partner is the Mu's Chamber of Commerce.

The Zhenxi Marquisate provided various raw materials and government-level assistance, while the Mu's Chamber of Commerce provided industrial management, as well as traded food and various war materials.

According to the investigation of the Black Scale Guard,

the supply of the Mu's Chamber of Commerce accounted for 50% of the Zhenxi Marquisate's military equipment needs, the remaining 30% was provided by the court, and the remaining 20% ​​was produced and supplied by the Zhenxi Marquisate itself.

A deformed and huge war machine, but it was this deformity that created the "imperial franchise" of the Mu's Chamber of Commerce in Xizezhou.

When Mu Xingyi heard Xu Yuan's question, his hand stagnated slightly while pouring wine. After a little hesitation, he said softly:

"Because of my mother, I am not well received. This trip is only responsible for supervising the delivery of this batch of materials to the Mo Nan Duxu Mansion. I don't know the other details of the transaction, but it is likely to be sent to the Zhenxi Army. After all, the Tartar Chao people have recently once again pressed their troops, and the Zhenxi Marquis is ready to face the enemy head-on."

Hearing the end, Xu Yuan raised his eyebrows.

Due to the travel, he had no source of intelligence from the inner court of the prime minister's mansion, so he knew very little about some recent world events.

After a brief pause, Xu Yuan took a sip of wine and said in a strange voice:

"But I heard that the Tartars suffered a great loss last year. How dare they send such a large army this year?"

Mu Xingyi glanced at Xu Yuan and said:

"Brother Zhou, don't you know?

"The goddess of the Tartars was captured by Lord Junwu and thousands of cavalry at the end of the year."

As he said,

Mu Xingyi shook his head gently in Xu Yuan's increasingly surprised eyes:

"But this is not a good thing.

"After capturing the goddess, Lord Junwu only had time to send a message back to the capital, and then disappeared with the thousand cavalry guards.

"Now, the Tartar court and Lord Zhenxi Hou are fighting for this matter. "