Chapter 166
In the fifth year of Xiping, at the beginning of late spring, Mengjin.
Zhang took Lu Min's hand and kept talking nonstop. Looking at Lu Min wearing a Zika crown and a brand new Confucian shirt, she was happy from the bottom of her heart, but when she thought of going to Shanggu County to face the Xianbei people, she was worried. Lu Min advised her softly and repeatedly told her to discuss with Liu Xiu more in everything. Among the young people who stayed in Luoyang, although Liu Xiu was not twenty years old, he was steady and had experienced people. Never treat him as a child.
Zhang listened, but didn't take it seriously. She felt that she valued this junior brother too much. If she really wanted to be so good, then for her husband, she never mentioned his name? She just was about to break up and didn't want to argue.
Mao Qian took Mao Zong's hand and solemnly handed him over to Liu Xiu from now on, they are all yours. You must take good care of them and don't cause trouble everywhere."
"Am I a troublemaker, don't you jump. Liu Xiu rolled his eyes in anger.
"Anyway, it's not a person who is still a good person." Mao Qian gave him a blank look, and you praised all the big words in his words. I'll watch you do it. If you don't take it seriously and delay others, don't blame me for being in trouble with you."
Liu Xiu shrugged and praised Wang Chu that day, saying that he would give the wealth they wanted to give the Wang family and the others. Later, he thought, this seemed a bit too big. No, he helped Lu Min get a prefect of 2,000 stones, but that was because Lu Min had the ability and background, otherwise it would not be so easy. Besides, the Wang family would probably not be satisfied with 2,000 stones, so they might be rushing to the general.
Those are all later stories. Now the most anxious thing is to make Wang Chu's draft show ruined first, and people can't see the flaws. Liu Xiu was worried, but he couldn't see it on his face. He always gave people a confident look, which made people feel greatly confident.
"Okay, it's not too early, so you'd better get off early." Liu Xiu pulled Mao Zong and signaled Mao to say goodbye to Zhang. Mao Qian understood and gave a big gift to Zhang. Then he got on the bus with Lu Min.
After seeing off Lu Min and his wife, Liu Xiu served Zhang's return journey and took a walk around Beim Mountain. Beim Mountain has beautiful scenery and is the cemetery of many noble families. Just after Qingming Festival, there are many people going outings, and there are cars, horses and pedestrians everywhere at the foot of the mountain, which is very lively.
Zhang was a little weak, and soon after he left, he was a little tired. He found a clean place to sit down and rest. Lu Shen massaged her back and shoulders and talked with her some gossip. Liu Xiu and others were walking around nearby. Liu Bei and Mao Zong couldn't stop, and they ran away after a greeting. Liu Xiu and Zhang Fei pointed to the mountains and rivers in the distance and talked about painting skills casually. Zhang Fei's level in painting ladies had reached the level of self-understanding. It would be useless for Liu Xiu to say more. Now he began to give him some basics in landscape painting.
The green mountains were faint and the green water was far away. The two of them were talking happily. Liu Bei ran from a distance and called out to the eldest brother, brother, come quickly."
Liu Xiu felt a little nervous and thought that these two troublemakers would not cause trouble again. There are many noble women nearby, not only the two boys teasing good women.
"thing?"
"Come and see who that is?" Liu Bei pulled him and ran away. Liu Xiu followed him up a hillside and looked in the direction Liu Bei pointed. Under the hillside in the distance, a young man was kneeling beside the water, with a divine white horse standing behind him.
"It looks familiar." Liu Xiu thought about it, but couldn't remember who it was.
"Does it look like Bo Gui?" Liu Bei reminded.
Liu Xiu suddenly realized that it was not. Although this man was kneeling on the ground and could not see his face clearly, he was tall and straight, and he did have a bit of Gongsun Zan's unique aura. Moreover, the white horse next to him was one of his symbols.
Liu Xiu was overjoyed, said to Zhang, and ran away with Zhang Fei and Liu Bei.
It was indeed Gongsun Zan.
Meeting an old friend in a foreign land, Liu Xiu and others were in a very bad mood. Liu Bei and Mao Zong even pulled Gongsun Zan and kept talking. Gongsun Zan was also very happy, but it seemed a little worried. Liu Xiu glanced at the wine glass on the ground and said in surprise, Bo Gui, are you?"
Gongsun Zan sighed and told the story. Last year, the Xianbei people disturbed the border. Liu Ji, the prefect of western Liaoning, protected the territory under the order of Liu Yu, and did not send troops to support Ningcheng. He just sent Gongsun Zan to recruit Wuhuan in western Liaoning to prepare for war. Later, Tadun was attacked by Huai Zong and was defeated. Many of the families of Wuhuan people were lost among the Xianbei people. The army was unstable, which triggered a rebellion. Gongsun Zan led his troops to capture and kill hundreds of people, and finally suppressed them. However, in the subsequent battle with the Xianbei people, the Wuhuan people did not listen to the dispatch and fled in the battle, and threw the prefect Liu Ji to the Xianbei people. Gongsun Zan broke into the siege and rescued Liu Ji, but the troops suffered heavy losses, so Liu Ji was conscripted into the court by the chariot.
"You sent Liu Taishou?" Liu Xiu was shocked. According to the custom of the Han Dynasty, there was a monarch and ministerial relationship between the prefect and the subordinates of the prefect who were conquered. Gongsun Zan, as a clerk in the prefect's office in Liaoxi County, had the responsibility to be loyal to the prefect, but the court is now very afraid of this and has issued several edicts to prevent relevant officials from seeing off the Shangguan who was infringing on the matter. It must be illegal for Gongsun Zan to come here for this matter.
"The prefect has the kindness of knowing me, so I can't sit idly by." Gongsun Zan said lightly. He was dressed as the servant of Liu Taishou and escorted Liu Ji to the capital, but he didn't want to tell Liu Xiu and the others about these things. He looked at Liu Xiu, and felt mixed feelings. He envied Liu Xiu's military achievements in Ningcheng last year, and he was also a little resentful. Because of Ningcheng's victory, Xia Yucai was arrogant and Liu Ji was punished first. Otherwise, Liu Ji would be exempted from office at most. But now he heard that Liu Ji might be exiled to Rinan. Rinan is a remote place with malaria and died young. Gongsun Zan wanted to send Liu Ji to Rinan, for fear that he would never return, so he paid homage to his ancestors in the North Miao ceremony, but he didn't expect to meet Liu Xiu and others.
Although he was not Liu Xiu's situation, Liu Xiu was a hero, and at least he would not have had any unlucky things like being exiled to the south of Rinan.
Liu Xiu was also a little troubled, but he didn't expect that the matter would be so big that he would implicate Gongsun Zan. He had no choice but to invite Gongsun Zan to live in the city together. Gongsun Zan had to refuse, but after thinking about it, he agreed. Anyway, Liu Taishou was still in the prison of Tingwei these two days, and he was unfamiliar with Luoyang alone, and he was very bored.
After saying goodbye to each other, Liu Xiu could see that Gongsun Zan was in a bad mood. Without saying much, Mao Zong was a little excited and could not hold back. He quickly told the story that Lu Min had been promoted to the prefect of Shanggu. Gongsun Zan was even more depressed when he heard this. Although he did not show his face, he sighed a few more times. The more he thought about it, he felt embarrassed. When he quickly entered Luoyang City, he still found an excuse and left alone.
Looking at Gongsun Zan's back, Liu Bei blamed Mao Zong for a few words. Mao Zong also talked too much and made Gongsun Zan unhappy. He scratched his head and wanted to chase him, but Liu Xiu grabbed him and said, "He is in a bad mood now, and it's useless if you say it's useless. Go and ask where he lives, and then tell him where we live. After two days, we will go and see him."
Mao Zong responded and ran away.
Liu Xiu and others returned to Buyun. As soon as they arrived at the door, they saw the landlord Luo and a middle-aged man with an unhappy expression sitting at the door. As soon as they saw their carriages, the middle-aged man immediately rushed up angrily. Luo reached out to pull him, but he stretched out his hand and pushed it, and his forehead touched the door frame, and bleeding suddenly came out.
"What's wrong with you?" Liu Xiu was very unhappy and signaled Liu Bei to come forward and help Luo family up.
"Oh, I can't tell you that you are a lustful person. What's your business if I hit me?" The middle-aged man sneered and said coldly. Liu Xiu then realized that this was Wu Bo from Yueqian, named An Quan, and Luo's. It would be really not a big deal to say that. He held back his anger, and asked Lu Shen and Mao Zong to help Zhang in, while saying to Wu Bo according to his temperament, "Didn't we just paid the rent for three months? Is there something wrong?"
An Quan tilted his mouth and hooked his fingers at Luo. Luo seemed to be very afraid of him. He covered his forehead with a handkerchief and left nervously. "Tell them." An Quan stretched out his hand and said majestic. Luo was very embarrassed and hesitantly said the purpose of the trip. It turned out that after she decided to rent the rest of the house to Liu Xiu and the others, An Quan said that she had made her own decisions and the rent was lowered, so she came to ask for it again, and wanted to double the rent, otherwise she would not rent it to them.
"You said you don't rent it, then you won't rent it?" Liu Xiu snorted, "We have paid three months of rent. Even if you want to raise the price, you have to wait three months before you talk. Now you come to ask for money, do you think money will be lost in heaven?"
"That's not what I said, I don't agree." An Quan stretched out a hand and shook it in front of Liu Xiu, staring at his eyes and shouting, either giving money or moving it out for me today."
"Is she you?"
"Of course, it's not me, was it you?"
"Since it's you, what she said is equal to what you said." Liu Xiu waved his hand and looked at him disdainfully. I don't care about you if you want to fight, kill, kill, and kill." He turned around and walked, took two steps, then turned around and said to Luo, "Don't blame me for not saving you when you see death. If you want to blame, it's bad luck. If you meet someone wrong."
Luo was frightened and looked at Liu Xiu at a loss, and then nervously looked at An Quan. She was forced by An Quan, so she followed him to ask for rent. She originally hoped that Liu Xiu and others would sympathize with her and add some more to make her pass this level. She never thought that Liu Xiu looked very disgusted, but she was a virtue that would never save her.
An Quan was also stupid. He heard from Luo that these tenants were easy to bully and were weak-hearted, so he came to the door to make a noise. Relying on being from Luoyang and a small official in Yueqi Camp, although Wu Bo was a small official who could not be raised at all, he felt that bullying a foreigner should be enough. As for the Lu family, he didn't take it seriously at all, he didn't take it seriously. There were more great scholars in Luoyang.
But Liu Xiu directly asked him to go home and kill him, which made him mentally unprepared. He was stunned for a moment, watching Liu Xiu and others drive the carriage into the yard and close the door.
"Oh--" An Quan didn't care about thinking too much, so he rushed up, stepped into the door with one foot, and begged for nothing and said, "This is my family, can't you treat me like this?"
"I have rented it now. If you are good, of course I welcome you to visit us. If you want to be rude, do you believe it or not, I will sue you for a trespassing in a private house?" Liu Xiu was even more fierce than him. He glared at me and wanted to ask Zhou Yi, the Luoyang ruling, if there is any other kingly law in Luoyang."
When he heard him calling Zhou Yi the name of Luoyang Order, An Quan suddenly became soft. He was at the foot of the emperor for a long time. Many of the tenants in Luoyang were very famous. The other party didn't even take the Luoyang Order seriously. The young official Wu Bo of Yueqi Camp was not worth enough in front of Luoyang Order, and he couldn't scare him. He was bored to pretend.
Seeing that An Quan was soft, Liu Xiu breathed a sigh of relief at the right time. He opened the door and invited the couple to the side room. He sat in the main seat in a big manner, letting An Quan sit on the side seat. Just as someone came outside, Liu Xiu went out and saw that it was a eunuch, which was the small yellow door that Ai Qiao Orchid pointed to on Tongtu Street that day.
"You are..." Liu Xiu was puzzled and didn't come to do it. The little yellow gate smiled and looked at the room, and said with a smile that you talk about things first, talk about things first. I don't have to ask someone to pour me a bowl of water. Oh, I'll chase you all the way, but I'm so thirsty."
Liu Xiu was even more puzzled and thought to himself that you chase me. Although you love to pick up orchid fingers, you are not a beauty after all, and I don’t like male style. But when he saw An Quan’s white face, he was happy to take advantage of his power and said a few words to Xiaohuangmen, asking Liu Bei to bring him water. When he returned to the table, he said impatiently that he had something to say immediately, you saw it, I’m busy.”
Seeing Liu Xiu and the little yellow gate in the palace so casually, An Quan felt like he was carrying a little rabbit in his heart. He was so excited that he would not dare to withdraw rent, so he wanted to escape immediately. Liu Xiu laughed secretly, but changed his gentle face. Don’t rush to leave, I’m just looking for you if I have something to do."
"Sir, please speak, please speak." An Quan lay on the ground, his body began to tremble. Even Liu Xiu was a little surprised, thinking that the eunuchs had such great power in Luoyang, could any small yellow gate scare the officers of the Yueqi Camp be so?
He did have something to find Luo. Mao Qian accompanied Lu Min away. Although two maids were left to serve Zhang, the staff were not enough. He wanted to ask Luo to arrange some time, find a few mature and steady women to do some rough work, and wait for Zhang in the backyard, and solve the problem of these people's laundry and cooking. These people may be good at fighting, but when it comes to housework, it is not as good as Mao Qian alone. Before they came, these things were done by Zhang, but now Zhang has a different identity. You can't let Zhang serve them.
When An Quan heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief and quickly pushed Luo in front of him, calling you stupid, with no insight at all, and did not often come to Lu to serve you, where did you eat so much food?"
Luo agreed and agreed to find a good person to send him to Liu Xiu in two days.
"I feel at ease in doing things." Liu Xiu said with a happy face. My family always praised me for being steady, being kind, not bullying people from other places, and being generous as a capitalist. I am very grateful for help."
Luo smiled embarrassedly. An Quan looked at it, swallowed, and never dared to speak ill of Luo again.
Liu Xiu turned his head and asked An Quan about some things, especially the base of Yueqi Camp. An Quan was an old native and was very familiar with the Imperial Academy. Seeing that Liu Xiu was kind to ask, of course he did not dare to take the opportunity to flatter him, so he told him in detail. Liu Xiu didn't say much, but asked An Quan to take him around one day if he had time. An Quan agreed, and then bowed politely with Luo's guest, nodded and bowed.
The little yellow gate walked up with a smile and gave Liu Xiu a good trick."
"Give me a prize." Liu Xiu invited Xiaohuangmen to the hall and asked. Xiaohuangmen blinked narcissistically, pinched the orchid and said that my name was Liu Yunshuang. You saw it that day. I am a person next to Lord Bi's side of Lord Bi. When I came here today, I was also following Lord Bi's order. Before I talk about my purpose, I want to ask you something, will it be done?"
Liu Xiu was so furious that he was not a man or a woman. But maybe it was because he was used to seeing more paranoid sissies, shemale men and others in his previous life, and he respected others' personality choices, maybe it was because he was not easy to mess with eunuchs and was unwilling to offend them for no reason. In addition, he also had some sympathy for such a young man being castrated. Although he was uncomfortable, he could not show it, unlike Liu Bei and others who put all contempt on their faces.
"You said." Liu Xiu tried his best to speak in a calm tone.
Liu Yunshuang blinked again and asked curiously, would the thirsty black made by Lord Bi be smashed away?"
Liu Xiu couldn't help but blink. It took him a long time to remember that he seemed to have said this sentence. At that time, he was just to express his disdain for Bi Lan and had no other intentions, but he never thought that this prophecy would come true. When he saw this little yellow sect named Liu Yunshuang, he probably regarded him as a great immortal.
It turns out that this is how the great immortal was refined. Liu Xiu covered his fist in front of his mouth and coughed, not letting him laugh out loud. Then he pretended to be deeply and said, "All things have causes, and there must be results. There is no wonder."
Liu Yunshuang looked at Liu Xiu with her eyes lit up, listening to the following words.
"Mr. Bi's thirst and ingenious work, if it can be used in full, it can replace a lot of labor. It is truly a good thing that benefits the country and the people. However, the wood is in the forest and the wind will destroy it. I think there are many people who admire it, and there will be no jealous, and even those who hate it to the bone. How many people who dare to be the first in the world will not be criticized?"
Liu Xiuyun said it in a foggy way, and the more he said it, the more he felt that he had the potential of a great immortal. Liu Yunshuang thought about it, and the more he thought it was more reasonable. He slapped his thigh and said softly, "Oh, you are really a magical person, more accurate than those fortune tellers. Isn't this thirsty black beard just being smashed. Guess who it is, the smelly coolies who hate Lord Bi who took their jobs."
Liu Xiu suddenly realized and suddenly remembered the working class who smashed the machines. Once Bi Lan's thirsty water sprinkler truck was fully launched, at least half of the people who made a living would be unemployed. It would be strange if they didn't smash your thirsty water.
It is by】.!!!
Chapter completed!