79. [076] What to do
Shen Xian wanted to find Lu Ji to ask about his brother-in-law, but after thinking about it, Lu Ji's child was only eight years old just after the New Year, and when his sister got married, he was still a little bean who didn't know anything, and it was not popular to go back to his parents' house often to see if Lu Ji knew the situation of the Gu family. Rather than going to be embarrassed for a child, it is better to take Wu County and other places in the future and then wait for the Gu family to come to visit, and it is better to ask for clarity at that time.
As for Old Man Gu...... Hehe, you don't have to worry about this kind of bad thing, just leave it to Jia Xu, who is capable and hardworking.
After making up her mind, Shen Xian was not in the mood to receive the people who visited next, so she directly said goodbye and left to go back to sleep.
Jia Xu silently swallowed a mouthful of blood, thought about it, and decided to "accidentally" leak the fact that Old Man Gu wanted to be a matchmaker for Shen Xian to Sun Ce in a certain conversation.
Outside Sun Quan's room, Lu Xun and Lu Ji leaned over with their heads probed, and when they saw that there was no one left and right, they slipped through the door with a snort, startling Sun Quan and Lu Meng, who were reading.
"What's wrong?" Sun Quan put down the bamboo slip, looked at the indignant Lu Xun and the expressionless Lu Ji, and asked strangely.
"I heard someone want to show my sister's in-laws!" Lu Xun was the first to speak: "It's the branch of the Gu family!" What a big face! β
"What!" Sun Quan was shocked, who would dare to spy on his third sister?!
"What's going on? Make it clear! β
Lu Xun recounted what happened in Shen Xian's study in an impassioned tone, and when he heard Old Man Gu say the name "Gu Zisi", Sun Quan interrupted him with a strange expression: "This name...... People who take care of the family? β
"You know that, too?" Lu Xun glanced at Sun Quan, but his impression of him became a lot better: "Yes, this is the descendant of the Gu family, and he is also related to our family, and his brother Gu Yuanxi is the brother-in-law of Gongji." β
"I'm going to call Uncle Little." Lu Ji said slowly: "But I haven't seen him for a long time. β
"Wait a minute." Sun Quan frowned and said, "According to what you say, this old man Gu is just a sideline, how can he have the right to help the son-in-law of the lineage say goodbye?" β
"Who knows." Lu Xun rolled his eyes: "Maybe he made his own decisions." β
Lu Meng said in a daze: "Then, if the lord really agrees, then the other side does not agree, wouldn't it be ......?"
"How could the third sister agree! What do you call her? Lord! Which lord is married? Even if he marries, it won't be his family! Sun Quan gritted his teeth with a dark face and said, "I have to sue SΓΉ Da for this...... Second brother! β
In Sun Quan's cognition, which man wants to marry Shen Xian, the cliff is in love with the huge territory and identity behind her, all of them are intentional, the cliff is not true love! So you can't get married!
"You wait." Lu Ji grabbed Sun Quan: "I think it's better for my sister to say it herself." β
Sun Quan was a little anxious, he scratched his head: "But the third sister's temperament, I don't think she will say it at all!" β
"Then we'll figure it out ourselves." Lu Ji raised his eyes and looked at Sun Quan seriously, and when he saw that Sun Quan was stunned, he turned his gaze to Lu Xun and Lu Meng in turn: "How is it?" β
Lu Ji said softly: "Let's investigate the meaning of the Gu family first, we still have something to do with the Gu family, and then make the next plan......"
"Is that okay?" Sun Quan was hesitant at first, and then he didn't know what he remembered, he slapped his thigh, and a firm look appeared on his face: "Dare to hit my sister's idea, damn, do it!" β
Shen Xian met Guo Jia, who had not seen anyone all morning on the way back, and she greeted Guo Jia with a good attitude: "Fengxiao~"
However, before Shen Xian finished speaking, she watched Guo Jia's gaze sweep across her face with a shocked expression, and at the same time, he paused at his feet, turned his head and hurried away to the other side, looking at his back, which was a bit of a deserted escape.
Shen Xian stood in place for a long time inexplicably, and when she came back to her senses and wanted to chase after Guo Jia and ask Guo Jia why she was running, Guo Jia couldn't even see her shadow.
What's going on? Where did you offend him? Obviously, it was fine before, ahhhh
Shen Xian cried or laughed, and finally blamed Guo Jia's abnormality on early menopause or the arrival of her aunt. She froze for a moment and continued walking towards her room.
Guo Jia leaned on the back of the corridor and listened to the sound of Shen Xian's footsteps slowly moving away, he held the jade pendant that Shen Xian forced into him that day, his eyes turned around on the lifelike phoenix, and the corners of his lips pulled up a very shallow wry smile.
Shen Xian didn't understand anything in a daze, it didn't mean that Guo Jia didn't know, he knew very well that the material of the jade pendant in his hand was not something ordinary people could afford at all - of course, Shen Xian's family was not an ordinary person, but this jade pendant still seemed to be a little too expensive on her.
Don't underestimate the value of a piece of jade, gold is priceless and jade is priceless, and some jade may not be able to win the palm of your hand even if you go bankrupt and make the country powerful. For example, in order to make peace with the clan, Zhao and Qin fought for fifteen cities, and later Qin Shi Huang made a jade seal for the country. Although the value of Shen Xian's jade pendant is not as good as that of He's bi, it is enough to make many people who love jade crazy.
In addition to the material of the jade pendant itself, there is also something that makes Guo Jia feel inappropriate. At that time, Shen Xian gave him the jade pendant, and in that case, the two of them only cared about doing other things, who would carefully study a piece of jade? After Guo Jia carried the drunk Shen Xian back to the house, poured a bowl of sobering soup and covered the quilt to let her sleep well, he had nothing to do, and turned out the jade pendant to look at it casually. It doesn't matter if you look at it, Guo Jia found that the carving technique of this phoenix pendant is very exquisite, and the lines at the tail of the phoenix are flowing and flowing, but they stop abruptly at the tip of the tail.
This jade pendant does not look like a defective product, and there is only one explanation for this situation: this is a pair of pendants, and there is another jade pendant that can be put together with it.
It's just that it's nothing to wear, it's just that even Guo Jia, a layman, can see that the carving technique on this fast jade is definitely not something that an ordinary carver can do, but the specific complexity is what Cheng dΓΉ, Guo Jia can't say well, maybe when he returns to Yizhou, he can go to Xun Yu to ask, Xun Yu's family is well-informed, although he is not a major in tasting and appreciating, he has also been exposed to it since he was a child, and he is much more professional than Guo Jia.
Guo Jia vaguely felt that Shen Xian might not be an ordinary person, although she was deviant enough, but the court did not suppress her but praised her all the way, this matter itself is very suspicious, isn't it?
There are other ...... All kinds of clues are mixed together, which makes Guo Jia more and more headaches the more he thinks about it.
Guo Jia used to like to tease Shen Xian when she had nothing to do, and did some casual movements, at first Shen Xian didn't know his purpose at all, but sometimes she would frown or break away seriously, but then one day she suddenly opened up, and when Guo Jia was flirting with each other, she would shoot back. Guo Jia was surprised and thought it was funny, and the two became more and more entangled.
At first, Guo Jia didn't care much, anyway, he had always been debauched and uninhibited, and it was almost intolerable to see a beautiful girl not playing tricks with her. But Shen Xian is not an ordinary girl, her identity is above the beauty and the word lord, these two words firmly pull out a deep line, before this line, either joking or sincere, as long as it doesn't cross the line, no one will care.
But once you cross over...... There are some things that need to be considered.
If people are drunk and uncontrolled, they will always do something that they don't dare to do in their hearts, so there will be a "saying that they spit out the truth after drinking", and the substitution is similar in behavior. Shen Xian grabbed Guo Jia by the collar and gave him a kiss after she got drunk last night, and the gaze in her eyes at that time was not completely bantering, but also deeply serious.
She took Guo Jia to heart, maybe she was ready to go further, maybe she ...... That's it.
Did Shen Xian think clearly, Guo Jia didn't know, but he knew that he was starting to mess up. If Shen Xian is just a young lady from an ordinary official eunuch's family, why should he try his best to marry someone home, but it's a pity that this girl is not destined to shrink into the back house to teach her husband and children, she will have greater achievements in the future, and she will go further, so far that no one can catch up.
If so, then continue? Before you figure it out...... Let's converge.
Guo Jia lowered his eyes and took the jade pendant into his palm.
So smart people just think more, think more and worry more, in short, Guo Jia began to worry seriously, in some ways this is a good sign, at least it can mean that he is not a person who runs away after flirting.
Shen Xian originally thought that it was just an accident to see Guo Jia running away halfway, but she soon found that Guo Jia seemed to be hiding from herself.
It's not the kind of deliberateness on the surface, Guo Jia didn't turn around and run away like last time when he met, but when Shen Xian was okay to pick up a handful of little fresh meat, Guo Jia didn't react!
He neither responded nor blushed, as if he hadn't heard what to do, if it weren't for the little maids passing by, they would have been shocked by Shen Xian's occasional "affectionate confession", and their faces were flushed, Shen Xian would have thought that her own flirting methods had regressed.
So what's going on? There is a problem, there is definitely a problem!
Soon, even Jia Xu discovered the abnormality between Shen Xian and Guo Jia.
At the beginning, when Shen Xian and Guo Jia got together, Jia Xu was shocked at first sight, and he didn't object too much later, he was just used to snorting to Guo Jia to express his dissatisfaction. However, when there seemed to be some kind of indescribable contradiction between Shen Xian and Guo Jia, Jia Xu frowned.
"Lord, what's the matter with you two?"
One day, Jia Xu took advantage of the fact that there were only Shen Xian and himself in the study, and asked straight to the point. A long time ago, Jia Xu was also a man with eighteen bends in the unfathomable mountain road, but when he found out that Shen Xian didn't like to accompany people in circles unless he was in a particularly good mood, he was not so twisted, and no matter what he said to Shen Xian, he was straightforward.
Usually Shen Xian appreciates Jia Xu's directness, but today she can't wait to let Jia Xu make another big turn.
"How do I know?" Shen Xian said expressionlessly, and then her face changed, she threw the bamboo slip on the table, raised her hand and grabbed her hair and pounced on the table and pretended to be dead: "After the first day of junior high school, he looked like he was dead." β
It's really hard to solve emotional problems! Jia Xu looked at Shen Xian's tangled appearance, and a strange sense of comfort suddenly rose in his heart, you must know that the last time on the street, Shen Xian opened the two or three things that Jia Xu and Diao Chan had to say without saying a word, even if Jia Xu pretended to be calm on his face, what he wanted was to dig a pit on the spot and bury himself or Shen Xian in it!
Jia Xu, who watched the lord suffer and was a strategist, shouldn't have laughed, but ...... Who told you to pick me ohhehehe.
After laughing, the matter had to be resolved, Jia Xu coughed and asked tentatively, "Does he know that Gu ...... What's going on? β
Well? Shen Xian sat up straight with her desk propped up, her eyes stared at Jia Xu with burning eyes, and the temperature of the sun seemed to burn in her eyes, making Jia Xu almost sweat. Shen Xian said slowly: "You mean to say that he ...... Jealous? β
Jia Xu pouted: "This should be asked by the lord himself." β
After a pause, Jia Xu suddenly asked sternly, "Lord, do you want to ......?"
"I didn't want to play, and I didn't want to joke with him." Shen Xian sighed, she pressed her temple and said incoherently, "I don't know either...... Well, but how can this kind of thing be said clearly? β
"If you like it, you like it, and there's nothing hard to admit, who knows how it started. When I woke up one day and saw him, I suddenly felt that I could eat three more bowls of rice today. β
Shen Xian told her feelings in an affectionate tone, but Jia Xu felt that the more she listened, the more wrong she became.
Eat three more bowls of rice? Wasn't it really hungry that day!
Jia Xu asked tactfully, "Lord, can you eat two more bowls when you look at Gongjin?" β
"Yes!" Shen Xian said excitedly: "Second brother is so handsome!" I could eat several more bowls! β
Jia Xu: "...... What about Bo Fu? β
"It depends, right?" Shen Xian frowned and said: "Big brother sometimes makes people think that he is handsome and scum, and sometimes he can't bear to look at ...... directly."
Are you qualified to speak of him? Jia Xu thought expressionlessly, and he continued to ask, "What about Gongda?" What about Wen Ruo? What about Akihime? Wait for the last one. β
"Why forget it!" Shen Xian stopped, she patted the table and said, "Wen Ruo's kind of gentle and elegant is also good for cooking?" And Sister Zhaohime, when I'm in a bad mood, I look at her and feel like it's all sunny! As for you and Gongda, I always feel that something bad is going to happen right away when I look at the two of you. β
Jia Xu: "...... Hehe. β
This is Yan control, it is a disease to be cured, not to like others. Jia Xu just wanted to ruthlessly announce his conclusion to Shen Xian, and then he heard Shen Xian continue: "Although I look at Guo Fengxiao, I also feel that something bad will happen soonβhe is simply a crow's mouth, saying anything. But...... Well, I still want to look at him. β
"I ......" Shen Xian said but suddenly blushed, the strange thing was that she didn't say anything inappropriate at all, so Jia Xu could only guess that Shen Xian might have made up something unspeakable and bubbling pink peach.
Jia Xu opened his mouth, feeling that he couldn't talk about it anymore.
If Shen Xian asked Jia Xu "on how to kill Yuan Benchu without blood", Jia Xu would definitely have ten and eight schemes at his fingertips for Shen Xian to choose, and thoughtfully divided them into three categories: upper, middle and lower; However, if Shen Xian asked Jia Xu, "What should I do if I am in love, my partner is not suitable", Jia Xu could only shrug her shoulders and spread her hands to show that she could not do anything.
How can a single dog magician who is in a crush save another pseudo-single dog who seems to be in love with each other but is blocked by status and other messes?
"I wonder why the hell he's avoiding me?" Shen Xian sighed and said distressedly: "If you don't want to talk about it, let's make it clear, everyone is an adult, will I still force him to marry him home?" If you want to talk, you can continue to develop it, and if it's not suitable, you can break up. But what do you mean by him hanging me from two ends for three days......"
Shen Xian babbled for a long time, Jia Xu was already confused, and when he came back to his senses, he heard Shen Xian making a final summary: "...... In a word! If you can't be together, if you can't do it, you can divide it, why is he making it so complicated for such a simple thing! β
Before Jia Xu could react, his brain had already automatically controlled his mouth and gave a suggestion: "Have you sued Gong Jin or Bo Fu about this matter?" β
"Nope." Shen Xian glanced at Jia Xu sadly, and said bluntly: "I'm already very careful, there is a good saying, show affection, break up quickly, I didn't expect that I didn't show it at all, but I had to face the crisis of breaking up, or on the second day after exchanging tokens." β
Has it developed to the point of exchanging tokens?! In this way, Zhou Yu and Sun Ce still don't know? Lord, you're going to be finished!
"Let's say goodbye." Jia Xu thought for a while and persuaded: "After the beginning of spring, we have to prepare to fight Jingzhou, and it is best not to be distracted by other things at this time...... Lord. β
The last "lord" Jia Xu almost sighed, and Shen Xian's heart trembled when she heard the helpless tone of a hundred turns, so she had to nod and say, "Okay." β
Originally, Shen Xian wanted to find a good time to tell Zhou Yu about the matter first, she was still sensible, if Sun Ce knew about the cliff first, it would be upside down. However, before Shen Xian, who was struggling, found an opportunity to confess under Jia Xu's gaze and condemnation, other places had accidents one after another.
First of all, there was a letter from Yizhou, Xun You dispatched an urgent mail of 800 miles, and sent three letters to Shen Xian in a row, the main content of the first letter was that Ma Teng and Han Sui finally fought, and the two took Longxi as the boundary, the west of Longxi was Ma Teng's territory, and the east of Longxi was Han Sui's territory. Ma Teng united with the Qiang people and sent a letter to Yizhou inviting them to send troops to fight against Han Sui, and Han Sui denounced him for colluding with foreign tribes to destroy the Han Dynasty, and his heart could be punished; The second letter said that Han Sui gathered the soldiers and horses to Chencang Pass, and he didn't know whether he was going to attack Yizhou or intending to plot the division, anyway, Zhang Lu had already transferred the soldiers and horses over just in case, and Duan Xuan on the court side also sent people over to guard against it; The third letter has nothing to do with Liangzhou, it is about Cao Cao's side, Yuan Shao has been rubbing for so long to send troops to help, and the poor boss Cao, who was chased by Lu Bu and scurrying around, finally raised his eyebrows and turned over, and pressed Lu Bu out of the boundary of Yanzhou little by little, and now Lu Bu went in the direction of Qingxu Erzhou, I don't know if he wants to take Xuzhou from Liu Bei, or occupy the boundary of Qingzhou.
The content of the third letter Shen Xian also received a similar military report here, and she also knew that Yuan Shu had already fought with Liu Bei, although it was only a small-scale contact battle, but looking at this tentative posture, there would definitely be a fight after the beginning of spring. Once the competition between Cao Cao and Lu Bu is decided, and Yuan Shu's side also wins, they should free up their hands to deal with Yangzhou, and Liu Biao in Jingzhou has almost cleaned up Fan Chou, although he has no intention of expanding outward at this time, and the soldiers and horses are still in place and have not been mobilized, but who knows what will happen in the future?
So Shen Xian didn't care about worrying about what happened to Guo Jia, she notified everyone to come over for a meeting.
Sending the military report received by Lujiang and the three urgent letters sent by Xun You to the people present, Shen Xian said, "Let's take a look at these." β
Everyone distributed the information and passed it on, and after reading it all, Shen Xian stood in front of the big map with her arms crossed, and she turned her back to everyone and asked in a low voice, "Tell me what you think?" β
Zhou Yu took the lead and said: "The soldiers have almost been trained, there is no problem in fighting water wars, the food can be mobilized in another month, I have temporarily prepared two months' weight, and the rest needs to be collected slowly." Xingba wrote from the other side saying that he was also ready, and he would attack together just by waiting for the next day. It's just that Mr. Gongqi seems to be in a bit of trouble there. β
"He transferred most of his troops to Sanguan to guard against a possible surprise attack by Han Wenyue." Shen Xian pointed to the location of the border between the boss and Liangzhou on the map: "Although I don't think it's very likely, after all, Ma Shoucheng is still chasing him, and at this time, Han Wenyue is asking for his own death if he dares to fight on two fronts." β
"This operation must be fast, it is best to take Jiangxia and Jiangling before all parties react, and the remaining chaos can be slowly calmed down." Guo Jia said lightly: "Except for us, Liu Jingsheng and Yuan Highway don't know that the lord is in Lujiang, and it has been sealed here for a while, and the news is not so easy to pass on, and the outside world thinks that the person who took over the affairs of Lujiang is Liu Yuanjun, so it can be disguised as a joint action between Yizhou and Bofu, and Lujiang can be temporarily removed." But some big families in the city are already suspicious, my lord, you are in charge of Lujiang, and you can do it when necessary. β
Shen Xian nodded and said lightly, "I know." β
"Will you stay?" Sun Ce frowned: "I originally wanted to ...... I'll leave you some soldiers and horses to guard. β
"No, just go." Shen Xian smiled slightly: "Just leave it to me here, there is a danger of the Yangtze River, it's a big deal that I will cross the river and retreat first, and then fight back." β
"I don't feel the need to keep people, either." Jia Xu said: "Fiction and reality, whether it is Yuan Highway or Yuan Benchu's side, there is containment, and the gang can't take care of it here for a while, so let's hurry up." β
"It's bold." Tai Shi Ci grinned: "But I like it." β
After discussion, it was finally decided that Shen Xian and Liu Xian would stay in Lujiang to guard, and if there were envoys from other places coming, let Liu Xian come forward to deal with it, and Shen Xian would try her best to regulate and appease the various scholars in Lujiang, at least to ensure that when they attacked Jingzhou, these people would obediently and not make trouble, instead of secretly colluding with other forces.
Zhou Yu was in the rear affairs of the president of Yuzhang County, and Zu Mao went to Huiji County to sit in the town, these two people, plus Shen Xian, belonged to logistics, recruited soldiers and horses to hoard grain and grass, and provided sufficient supplies for the soldiers and horses on the front line; Sun Ce was the main general, Tai Shici was the vanguard, Jia Xu supervised the army, Guo Jia was the strategist, Han Dang, Huang Gai and Cheng Pu led the troops respectively - Sun Jian's old department plus the soldiers and horses borrowed by Danyang, as well as the soldiers recruited in the three counties of Yuzhang, Huiji and Lujiang these days, a total of more than 30,000 people, marched towards the border of Jiangxia County and Yuzhang County.
Before leaving, Lu Ji suddenly found Zu Mao and wanted to go with him. For the child's request, Zu Mao did not rashly refuse, but asked him the reason.
"I want to go back to my hometown." Lu Ji showed an innocent and shy smile: "My hometown is in Wu County, and I haven't been back for many years, and I don't know how my sister and brother-in-law are doing." My brother-in-law's name is Gu Yuansi, and he is a well-known local virtuous person. β
Lu Ji spoke with a slight pride on his face.
"Brother-in-law?" Zu Mao raised his eyebrows slightly: "Young Master Lu's brother-in-law is...... Gu family? β
"Yes."
Zu Mao rubbed the top of Lu Ji's soft hair, and took his hand to find Zhou Yu: "I'll take you to ask Gong Jin, he happened to be worrying about the Gu family and the Yu family recently, you should ...... Can you help? β
"Really?" Lu Ji blinked and said in a low voice, "That's great." β