Chapter 137 What a Talent

Because Yuan Xi was staying at the Mi family's residence, Mi Zhen had been confined to the small building for three days, unable to go out.

She gazed at Yuan Xi's figure from afar, unable to see clearly due to the distance, but she sensed that his bearing was upright, and his gestures carried an air of grimness, quite different from ordinary noble scions.

She was also curious about Yuan Xi's background and asked the maids around her, but the maids returned with vague answers, saying that they couldn't even find out his name.

Because Yuan Xi's visit to Xuzhou was secret, only a few core officials of Liu Bei knew his identity.

When Yuan Xi came to stay at the Mi family's residence, Mi Zhu only told the servants that he was a distinguished guest from afar, as a cover.

Naturally, these maids couldn't find out anything.

Mi Zhen thought to herself, 'I don't know how many days this person will stay.

If it's ten days or half a month, wouldn't I be stuck in this small building all the time?'

Moreover, this person was also fishing for her favorite koi carp.

Watching the poor fish being caught and thrown back one by one, Mi Zhen's brow furrowed with a hint of resentment.

In the distance, the Mi family's gate opened, and Mi Zhen's eyes lit up with joy.

Mi Fang was back!

This time, the Mi family's merchant caravan had an important batch of goods, and Mi Fang had personally gone out to handle it.

It had taken him half a month to go and return, and it looked like he had settled everything properly.

Mi Zhen's face showed joy.

Although her two older brothers, Mi Zhu and Mi Fang, were both very good to her, Mi Zhu was older and, as Liu Bei's adjutant, was usually busy with affairs and rarely had time to talk to Mi Zhen.

Mi Fang, on the other hand, managed the merchant business year-round and had more time.

He also doted on his younger sister Mi Zhen, and the two had a very good relationship.

Mi Zhen saw Mi Fang leading some servants, hurrying towards her small building, but he stopped when he passed the pond in the middle.

Immediately, Mi Zhen saw Mi Fang go up to question the young gentleman, who didn't even turn his head and said a few words.

Because they were far away, she couldn't hear what the two were arguing about.

But then she saw Mi Fang suddenly step forward and try to grab the young gentleman's shoulder, but the young gentleman's guard reached out and twisted Mi Fang's arm, pinning him to the ground.

At this moment, the servants Mi Fang had brought shouted and surrounded them, but the guard knocked them all to the ground with a single punch.

Seeing Mi Fang still being held on the ground, Mi Zhen couldn't help but turn pale and hurriedly ran out of the small building, with the maids behind her rushing to follow.

Yuan Xi, holding his fishing rod, listened to Mi Fang on the ground cursing repeatedly, thinking to himself, 'Is this the legendary Mi Fang, the one who screwed over Guan Yu?'

It seems that this person really has a foul temper.

He was just fishing here, and he didn't know how he had offended him.

He didn't even ask who he was and wanted to have his servants tie him up.

It would be strange if this kind of temperament didn't ruin things.

He walked up to Mi Fang, who struggled desperately, raised his head, and roared at Yuan Xi: "Where did you come from, daring to run wild in the Mi family's residence!"

"Do you know the power of my Mi family in Xuzhou!"

Yuan Xi shook his head and said: "Brother Zizhong (Mi Zhu) is kind and generous, how could he have an unreliable younger brother like you?"

"Don't you think about it, how could you, a commoner, recklessly provoke someone who can fish here?"

Mi Fang roared: "What commoner, I am also a member of the gentry!"

Mi Fang's words were also true, Mi Zhu was an official, and although the Mi family was a merchant family, they could be considered to have climbed up the gentry's ranks, but they just didn't have any foundation.

Yuan Xi smiled and said: "Let's not talk about being reasonable, but if you want to act like a member of the gentry in front of me, I'm afraid you're not qualified."

Mi Fang listened and sneered: "What big words, can you be compared to our Mi family?"

Yuan Xi listened and smiled: "Are you called Mi Fang, courtesy name Zifang, right?"

Mi Fang said smugly: "Since you know my great name, why don't you hurry up and let me go!"

Yuan Xi shook his head.

Mi Fang's personality and intelligence were far inferior to his older brother Mi Zhu.

It seemed that he was used to running rampant because his family was rich.

No wonder he screwed over Guan Yu in later generations, creating a mystery that everyone couldn't understand for thousands of years.

He had a headache.

Even if he beat Mi Zhu to death, it was estimated that Liu Bei wouldn't care, but he would have a feud with the Mi family.

The Mi family had a lot of commercial connections in Xuzhou, which was still very useful to Yuan Xi at the moment.

Just as he was hesitating, he heard a timid female voice say: "Young master, can you let my brother go?

If there is anything that offends you, please let me apologize on my brother's behalf."

Yuan Xi turned his head in the direction of the voice and saw a young woman standing not far away, dressed in luxurious clothes and with extremely moving features.

Yuan Xi looked at her carefully and saw that her skin was very fair, her facial features were very straight, making her look delicate and three-dimensional, and her big eyes were dark and seemed to be able to talk.

In terms of appearance alone, although she couldn't compare to Zhen Mi, she was also a top-notch beauty.

Yuan Xi thought to himself, 'Could this be the legendary Lady Mi?'

It seemed that this Lady Mi was also a beauty with a short life.

In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, she died by throwing herself into a well, but in later history, her ending might have been even more tragic.

After Lady Mi married Liu Bei, she probably wasn't very favored, and there were only a few records of her.

It seemed that she disappeared around the time of the Battle of Changban.

Some people speculated that she might have died of illness.

Others speculated that she might have been captured by Cao Cao when Liu Bei was defeated and became Cao Cao's concubine.

Later generations respected the deceased, so the historical records were vague.

The young woman saw Yuan Xi staring at her and couldn't help but shrink back in fear, lowering her head and saying softly: "I usually like the koi carp in this pond the most.

My brother must have seen the young master fishing and said a few words, which offended the young master.

Please forgive him."

Mi Fang snorted: "Little sister, I'm fine, you go back quickly, how can you bow your head to this kind of person!"

Yuan Xi thought to himself that Mi Fang was really an unsupportable Adou.

He gave Tai Shi Ci a look, and Tai Shi Ci understood, let go of his hand, and took a few steps back to Yuan Xi's front.

Mi Zhen breathed a sigh of relief when she saw this.

Mi Fang got up in a disheveled manner, still shouting: "Dare to run wild in our Mi family's residence, get out of here now!"

Yuan Xi shook his head, thinking that if the Zhen family and the Mi family cooperated on commercial routes, he didn't know how much trouble it would be to have this brain-dead person in the way.

Mi Zhen quickly took a few steps forward, pulled on Mi Fang's sleeve, and whispered: "Brother, this is a guest that the eldest brother invited back!"

"You just offended General Guan a few days ago, so you should restrain your temper!"

Mi Fang couldn't save face for a while, and didn't want to give in.

He couldn't leave, and he couldn't stay.

Yuan Xi heard Mi Zhen's words and thought that Mi Fang had also offended Guan Yu, which was really talented.

Mi Zhen stood behind Mi Fang, secretly looking at Yuan Xi, seeing that he had a dignified appearance.

Apart from his slightly sparse beard, he could be considered a handsome man.

Yuan Xi's handsome appearance was due to the inheritance from Yuan Shao, a famous handsome man of his time.

Yuan Xi suddenly smiled slightly: "The woman is talking about Guan Yunchang, the adjutant of Duke Xuande (Liu Bei)?"

"That is a heroic figure."

Mi Fang spat: "What heroic figure, a pair of thieving eyes staring at my little sister.

I scolded him a few times, and he even took out his knife to scare me!"

Yuan Xi thought to himself, 'Is it so bloody?'

It's useless for you to complain to me in a wronged tone.

Moreover, Mi Fang, don't you reflect on how you offended everyone you met?

He saw Mi Fang smugly saying: "But that guy won't have a good ending either.

I heard that he suffered a defeat in Qingzhou and injured his arm, and it hasn't healed yet."

"See, people who offend me, Mi Fang, will become unlucky!"

"Hahaha!"

Yuan Xi looked at Mi Fang with a look of pity, thinking that there was a lot of joy in brain-damaged children.

He pointed to Tai Shi Ci and smiled: "General Guan's arm injury was caused by my brother here."

Mi Fang and Mi Zhen were surprised and widened their eyes when they heard this.

Mi Fang took two steps forward.

Yuan Xi thought he was going to do something, but he didn't expect Mi Fang to laugh and say: "So that's how it is, why didn't you say so earlier!"

Yuan Xi thought that this Mi Fang was quite smart and guessed his identity at once!

Just as he was about to report his family name to show off, he saw Mi Fang step past him, take two steps forward, grab Tai Shi Ci's hand, and shout: "Brave warrior!"

"You are too awesome!"

"That Guan Yu is known as the enemy of ten thousand men, and you were able to injure him, you must have succeeded in a sneak attack in the dark!"

"I have taken a fancy to you!"

"What future is there for you to be a guard for this person now?"

"I will give you three times, no, five times, no, ten times the price!"

"As long as you are willing to be my guard, my Mi family has plenty of money!"

Yuan Xi was stunned.

Tai Shi Ci was also stunned.

So much self-confidence!

Yuan Xi smiled at Tai Shi Ci: "Congratulations, Brother Ziyi."

"Everyone has heard, ten times the price."

"How many stones is Brother Ziyi's salary?"

"What official position should ten times the salary be converted into?"

Tai Shi Ci smiled bitterly: "Young master, don't make fun of me."

The adjutant's salary was one thousand two hundred stones, converted into ten times the price, which was higher than the three dukes.

Mi Fang and Mi Zhen looked at each other, and Mi Fang realized that something was wrong.

The guards opposite were all officials, obviously not ordinary scholars!

Mi Zhen quickly pulled on Mi Fang's sleeve, and the latter retreated a few steps in a daze, unable to speak for a moment.

Mi Fang reacted, how could an ordinary person swagger around fishing in his own mansion!

He began to feel a little at a loss.

At the moment when the Mi family was gradually entering the circle of the gentry, no matter how stupid he was, he would not offend the person in front of him who was likely to be from a prominent family.

Yuan Xi smiled: "My surname is Yuan."

Mi Fang thought for a while and suddenly said: "Are you from the same clan as Yuan Huan?"

Yuan Xi shook his head: "He is from the Yuan clan of Chen Commandery and has little to do with me."

He suddenly remembered that during the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, only Cheng Yu, Cao Ren, and Yuan Huan were praised for their bravery.

In that case, Liu Bei actually had a lot of talents under his command at this time, but they were scattered by Lu Bu and Cao Cao one after another, and the subordinates he had finally recruited were all used as wedding clothes for others, which was really sighing.

Mi Fang listened and thought that he was just a collateral descendant, but he had a very big air.

He wanted to say something, but he saw Mi Zhu hurrying over from a distance.

The servants had already notified Mi Zhu that Yuan Xi was beating Mi Fang, and when he heard it, he was so frightened that he hurried back from the official residence.

When Mi Zhu saw that even Mi Zhen had come out, his heart skipped a beat, and he immediately imagined a big drama, thinking of Yuan Xi's rumored lust for women.

Yuan Xi didn't like those mediocre maids, and when he saw Mi Zhen, he stepped forward rudely, and Mi Fang came out to stop him, but was beaten violently!

His face turned bitter, and he thought that this was bad!

He quickly bowed and said: "Please let go of my little sister, young master, I am very grateful!"

As soon as he said this, Mi Zhu suddenly felt that it seemed very good if Mi Zhen could marry Yuan Xi?