Fairy, Please Let Me Explain

Chapter 574 Unexpected News

Thinking about 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 has become a strong man, Xu Yuan still maintains a good habit of sleeping. However, he is used to the fatigue of traveling and traveling, and he suddenly cannot adapt to this luxurious inn.

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 all have a touch of the beauty of the Western Regions.

Put on a black shirt, get out of bed and walk to the curtained pavilion in the guest room, looking around.

 The moon was bright and stars were scarce, and 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 silver 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?”

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

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, so I’m afraid it’s inconvenient to go out. I’m going to send someone from the restaurant to bring some famous wine and snacks to decorate the place. Please wait here, Brother Zhou.”

This behavior is rude and even offensive.

 After today, the two parties will officially say goodbye.

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

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

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, so I will entertain you Xingyi tonight."

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

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

“Then I would rather be respectful than obey your orders.”

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

 “That’s not necessary.”

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

Xu Yuan heard the words and looked back, only to see a young man standing looking at him with a smile.

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

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.

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

But there is no end to the banquet. The destination of Mu Xingyi’s caravan is the Monan Capital Mansion, and tomorrow Xu Yuan will take Treasure Hunting Girl to Qianji Gorge to find the body of Xiao Longnu’s brother.

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

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.”

 is a caravan leader who Xu Yuan helped on the road.

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 are already masters at such a young age, so their family background must be extraordinary.”

ˆ “.”

Xu Yuan took a deep look at the other party.

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

Even when he was attacked by wolves and the defense line built by the entire caravan was 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 and said:

“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?"

“I don’t count as 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 sacrifices, there was originally one, but he died in the battle not long before he met you, Brother Zhou."

 “Monster?”

"Um."

 “Sorrow.”

 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?”

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

After the Prime Minister's Office extended the Tian'an Chamber of Commerce's hand into Xizezhou through the Wanxiang Sect's "war indemnity", many conflicts occurred with the Mu Chamber of Commerce.

Through various means, Tianan Chamber of Commerce did not obtain any benefits from its hands, which directly blocked the rapid expansion of Tianan Chamber of Commerce in Xizezhou.

There are many reasons, one of the most troublesome is that the Mu Chamber of Commerce and the Zhenxi Marquis Mansion have an extremely deep connection.

The Marquis of Zhenxi has a very high prestige in Xizezhou, but compared to the Marquis of Wucheng Mansion, the old man of the Marquis of Zhenxi lacks a virtuous wife like the Fuguo wife. It cannot be said that he knows nothing about the management of his own property. It can only be said that a mess.

If it weren’t for the strong military strength and moral integrity, according to business logic, Li Junwu’s family assets would have been wiped out by other large chambers of commerce.

Zhen Xihou is also very self-aware. If he can't do it himself, he will hire professionals to take care of it.

 The partner of its cooperation is the Mu Chamber of Commerce.

The Zhenxi Marquis Mansion provides various raw materials and government-level assistance, while the Mu Chamber of Commerce provides industrial management, as well as supplies and trades of grain, grass, and various war materials.

 According to the Blackscale Guard’s investigation,

 The supply of the Mu Chamber of Commerce accounts for fully 50% of Zhenxihou Mansion's ordnance demand, the remaining 30% is provided by the imperial court, and the remaining 20% ​​is produced and supplied by Zhenxihou Mansion itself.

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

Hearing Xu Yuan's question, Mu Xingyi's hand when pouring wine hesitated slightly. After pondering for a while, he said softly:

"Because of my mother, I am not welcome. This trip is just to supervise the delivery of this batch of supplies to the Monan Metropolitan Government. I don't know the other details of the transaction, but there is a high probability that it will be sent to the Zhenxi Army. After all, the Tachao people have recently Now that the army is approaching again, Lord Zhenxihou is ready to face the enemy head-on."

 Hearing the end, Xu Yuan raised his eyebrows.

Since he was traveling all the way and had no source of information from the inner court of the Prime Minister's Mansion, he knew very little about some of the recent world events.

Humbling slightly, Xu Yuan took a sip of wine and said in a strange voice:

“But I heard that the Tatar and Chao people suffered heavy losses last year. How dare they attack the territory with such a large army this year?”

Mu Xingyi glanced at Xu Yuan and said:

“Brother Zhou, don’t you know?

“The goddess of the Tachao people was captured by Princess Junwu and her thousands of cavalry when she was about to turn into a new year.”

He said,

Mu Xingyi gently shook his head in front of Xu Yuan's gradually surprised eyes:

 “But this is not a good thing,

“After capturing the goddess, Princess Junwu only had time to send a message back to the capital, and she disappeared along with the thousand cavalry guards.

“Now, the King of Tartar Chao and Lord Zhenxihou are at war over this matter.”

 (End of this chapter)