Meeting an old friend by chance

If you take action slowly, Chen Yuan is in a very passive situation. He must withstand Pang Ji's attack in order to have the ability to fight back. What can Su Xiaoyou get pregnant is not something that Chen Yuan can decide.

He didn't know what kind of alliance Pang Ji and Liao Xingzong reached, whether their relationship was mutually exploited or that Pang Ji had betrayed the Song Dynasty.

Yelu Luling was a bait thrown by the other party. As for whether Yelu Luling himself knew that he was a bait, Chen Yuan couldn't figure out where the bait would be thrown to lure him, he didn't know.

Sitting on the carriage, Chen Yuan took a deep breath. He looked no different from before. That was because he became mature and learned to hide. It was really tiring to pretend at that time. When he sat in the carriage, when there was no one else around, Chen Yuan subconsciously leaned on the corner of the carriage, trying to make the space occupied by his body narrower.

Psychologically, this is a manifestation of fear.

He was really scared! This was completely different from the battle he had in Liao Kingdom before. If he lost that battle, he would at most be a life.

But this time, I bet on all my net worth.

Just like gambling, Chen Yuan and Lao Pang have already got their cards and are ready to bet. At this time, if you know your opponent's trump card, you can easily lure your opponent into the bait, or even win the opponent with nothing. But Chen Yuan doesn't know what Lao Pang will do next!

Shen Rui wanted to ask Chen Yuan for some reason, but Chen Yuan refused. Lao Pang is a cunning man. Although Shen Rui is deeply in favor of him, if he asks, he will still be suspicious if he shouldn't ask. If Yelu Luling could tell what she would do next, Chen Yuan could guess where Lao Pang would place the trap, but Yelu Luling wouldn't say it, and Chen Yuan didn't want to force her. The last time he had used her in Liao Kingdom, this time he didn't want to use Yelu Luling to do anything. He didn't want this woman to be the weapon he used when fighting with others.

Is there any other way? Chen Yuan hasn't thought of it yet.

When he came out of Liu Yong, Han Qi kept waiting at the door: "Shopkeeper, are you going to the inn now?"

Chen Yuan looked up and looked at the sky, it was still early.

He suddenly remembered that he had not gone shopping for a long time. It was seven or eight miles from here to the inn, and half an hour was enough for him to walk: "You go back first, I'll go out on the streets by myself."

Han Qi was a little worried. He knew that Chen Yuan was staring at him recently. If Chen Yuan had any accident, he, a broken pseudo-knight, would have difficulty even stuttering: "Then I'll drive the car to follow you in the back."

Chen Yuan shook his head: "No, I'm not conspicuous when walking alone on the street. If you follow a carriage, it will make people suspicious."

Han Qi thought about it and found that his skills were really not good. Instead of following him, it would be better to turn around and notify Hu Yanping and the others. If Chen Yuan took a slow walk, Hu Yanping and the others would come to him later.

Thinking of this, he nodded: "I'll go back first, the shopkeeper."

Chen Yuan walked on the street alone, and only then did he realize that he had really not seen the vendors on the road for a long time.

With the resolution of the food problem, the business of the vendors has improved a lot. After the shipyards started construction, the number of refugees was greatly reduced. The shipyards not only hired technical workers, but also needed some physical work to be done. What's more, the development of transportation and logging industries driven by this requires the joining of labor. Bianjing City has really restored the prosperity before the war with the Dangxiang War.

The vendors were yelling their goods, and some passers-by occasionally stopped in front of their stalls and would attract their enthusiasm. Regardless of whether the customers bought it in the end, they would politely say hello and send them away.

Of course, there are also quarrels. Not everyone can do business. Some people can turn a small stall into a big deal, some people can barely make a living, and some people can't even run a small business.

This has nothing to do with human talent. It’s just like Chen Yuan couldn’t read books well in his previous life. Some people just couldn’t do business well.

Not far away, Chen Yuan saw a few guys wearing clothes and shaking their heads walking towards him, and gave in to him.

These people are all gangsters. They stopped in front of every stall and said nothing. When they stretched out their hands, the sellers would give them dozens of big money. Chen Yuan saw this situation a lot, so he would not pay attention to such people if they could ignore them.

Chen Yuan also told all the business names under his command that if they only ask for some small amount of money, forget it for them.

This is Chen Yuan's attitude, but these merchants who do small business transactions are different. They can't make much money in a day. If they are taken away some more, it will be a bit difficult for them to take.

Chen Yuan heard a woman beside him swearing: "Didn't it just collected it yesterday?"

Chen Yuan looked back and suddenly found that the woman looked familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen her. He couldn't help but stop and glanced at her for a few more times.

"Bang!" A fist hit the stall hard, and a guy with a candid tumbling voice said: "You had eaten yesterday, can you not eat today?"

After this shout, seven or eight people immediately gathered around, just waiting for one person to smash the stall if he didn't like him.

The woman seemed a little frightened: "Don't get me wrong. It's not that I won't give it to you, but you've collected it too hard. Our small business can't stand it."

A gangster looked at the woman: "Oh, I said, little lady, you are unhappy when you see you a few times, aren't you?"

As he said that, he touched the woman's face with one hand.

Chen Yuan looked more carefully. He was sure that he must have seen this woman! Where did he? He really couldn't remember it.

The woman was very pretty, in her twenties, and was a woman full of seductive age. When the gangster's hand was about to touch, a person suddenly jumped out from beside her. The man was moving very quickly, and he reached out and opened the gangster's hand.

The gangsters were a little surprised, and the man quickly hugged his fists and bowed around: "Brothers, don't be angry, let's just take a look, give it to me."

He said that as he took out all the money from the money box and brought it to the gangsters, smiling constantly.

This man was in his forties. After seeing his face, Chen Yuan smiled secretly in his heart: "This world is really too small, and he didn't expect to meet him here."

The gangster glanced at the man: "I said you are her father or her man?"

The man bowed humbly: "This is a lowly person, a lowly person, and he doesn't understand the rules. Good things, please don't bother with her."

A gangster glanced at the man and suddenly punched him.

The man started to try to avoid it, but after shaking his body for a while, he actually shook back, standing honestly, waiting for the punch.

The fist hit the man in the face, and he staggered back five or six steps, and fell to the ground. The gangster next to him immediately wanted to go up and smash the stall when he saw the elder brother taking action, but the man who punched him waved his hand and stopped everyone, and went up and pulled the man up: "Brother, have you practiced?"

The man smiled bitterly: "I have been a soldier before."

The gangster leader nodded and whispered: "Yes, you give your brothers face, I will not accept you here in the future. We two can have two drinks when we have time."

After saying that, he left with seven or eight people. The woman hurried over and looked at the man's face: "Is it okay?"

The man smiled: "It's okay."

"Xiao Yuanmou."

The man was stunned when he heard this name, and suddenly turned around and looked at Chen Yuan, with a smile on his face: "It turns out that he is the prince consort, and I was really shocked."

In the elegant hall of the teahouse, Chen Yuan and Xiao Yuanqiu sat face to face. Xiao Yuanqiu is no longer like a general. He is just an ordinary person who is doing some small business and supporting his wife and children.

"Is the business okay?" Chen Yuan poured him a cup of tea.

Xiao Yuanqiu nodded: "Last year was not very good, I barely survived, so I've been much better this year. Looking at this stall, I didn't think about it. I still had two meals of rice a day. I sent my child to school. Now they all think I am a Song Dynasty man and speaks very standard in the official language."

He said that he was laughing very happily here, and Chen Yuan also smiled: "I really don't know how you are in Bianjing. Is there anything you need to help?"

Xiao Yuanqiu shook his head: "No need. I don't call him Xiao Yuanqiu now. I have a Song Dynasty name called Qiu Yuan, which I chose myself. When the prince-consort gave me a way out, I was really grateful. Now I know that it doesn't matter if I can stay with my wife and children even if it's a little tired or hard."

Chen Yuan was also happy for him: "There is no one here, so I'd better call you your original name. In fact, you helped me a lot. If you hadn't told me that tunnel, I might not be able to walk out of Yanjing City alive. If you have anything dissatisfied with your current life, just talk to me. To be honest, I just saw you being bullied by those gangsters, I felt like I owe you something. Do you know my house?"

Xiao Yuanqiu smiled and said, "Of course I know that you are the son-in-law of the Song Dynasty now, who doesn't know you. But I don't think I need to find you anymore. I'm pretty good now, really. I'm afraid that those acquaintances from the past will recognize me, so I keep trying to bow my head as much as possible, but I didn't expect you to see it."

It was obvious that he was very satisfied with his life now, and Chen Yuan was also happy for him: "Then you can think that you don't know me. You can be your Qiu Yuan in the future, but if you have any trouble, remember to come to me."

Xiao Yuanqiu nodded: "I understand, you won't eat these pastries anymore, right? If you don't eat them, I'll take them back for my son to eat."
Chapter completed!