Chapter 5: The Gift of Circumcision
Wei Xiang's feedback is both bland and intense.
The education he received since childhood would not allow Wei Xiang to act too drastically in front of people with unequal status.
But his eyes widened when he ate, indicating that the food in his mouth had brought him enough surprises.
There are no export evaluations, some just taste one dish after another, and then attack the favorite dishes.
Lu Wu knew that the aristocracy paid attention to "food without speaking", although he wanted to be a commentator, he needed to be patient.
And when he was feasting, the servants of the family kept going back and forth, reporting the news to the old grandmother.
Naturally, the slave could not enter the house, and he could not even get within five steps of the house, so he could only look through the gate from a distance, and then run to tell the old grandmother about some of Wei Xiang's actions.
Because of the lack of words, coupled with the limited knowledge of the slaves, they can only constantly use "urgent", "frequent spoon", and "grimaceous、...... And so on.
The old grandmother needed a strong brain supplement ability to figure out what was going on, and she guessed that she could eat everything with a hideous face, indicating that Wei Xiang was not only satisfied, but should have eaten until her soul trembled.
Wei Xiang couldn't eat anymore, put down the dining tools, sat in place and performed a set of sitting postures to Lu Wu.
He stood up, stopped talking for a moment, but said nothing, bowed again, and turned to leave.
This departure was to put down some gifts and leave the Lu family directly with people.
The gifts consisted of a carriage with an unknown load, and nearly two hundred people.
Of the two hundred, there were forty craftsmen of all kinds, one hundred and ten young maids and mans, and fifty samurai.
As a retainer of the Wei family, he was far more respectful to Lu Wu this time than before, and first presented an incomplete list of gifts, that is, bamboo slips strung together, but did not say what kind of way to cooperate.
It's all here, how could Wei not prepare a plan for cooperation.
There is no saying, only one explanation.
After contacting Lu Wu, Wei Xiang thought that the previous cooperation method was not suitable, and he needed to go back to negotiate a new cooperation plan and then finalize it.
Lu Wu, who doesn't understand the social customs of the Spring and Autumn Period, does not mean that he is a fool.
Before leaving, Yu Che handed the box containing the slave Danshu to Lu Wu.
The Danshu is a kind of deed of sale written on bamboo slips with red cinnabar, and when it came to Lu Wu's hands, it means that they later returned to the Lu family.
Yu Che's face was very strange, and he said: "The Danshu of the craftsman and the strong man (follow) is later served (above). ”
This shows that the Wei clan originally did not plan to give the craftsmen and soldiers to the Lu family.
And now it's not a big deal to give people out as gifts.
These may seem very valuable to the old Lu family.
For Wei, it's just a hair.
It's all gone.
Lu Wu needed to retrace the process of entertaining Wei Xiang in detail in his mind.
The old grandmother asked the old family to invite Lu Wu over.
"Wu, in the future, you don't have to tell (me)." The old grandmother deliberately concealed her excitement and said lightly: "Bear it (as long as you can revitalize the family, do your best)." ”
Before, Lu Wu noticed that the old grandmother looked at him very strangely, some things were done unintentionally, and some things were done deliberately, repeatedly testing the old grandmother's "bottom line".
Now, he knew that the old grandmother had given up observation for some reason.
If the Lu family is not transformed, dilapidation will become an established fact, depending on when they are not even nobles.
This year, the country has to make big moves.
Materials, the Lu family actually has some for the time being.
Samurai, on the other hand, had to be hired from outside.
The old Lu family can survive this year, maybe a few more years, but how long?
Now, Lu Wu just went to Lu Cheng once, seduced the Wei family's bloodline, and was obviously valued.
The old grandmother might not be able to succeed in hiring warriors even if she worked hard, but she saw that Lu Wu easily got fifty warriors from the Wei clan.
was changed soul, or anything else, the old grandmother only valued the blood of the Lu family in Lu Wu's body.
Even, even if Lu Wu is not the bloodline of the Lu family, as long as he revitalizes the Lu family and serves the ancestors of the Lu family, it is enough for the old grandmother.
In the Spring and Autumn Period, what is important is not who has whose blood is shed or not, it is not common for nobles to succeed each other, as long as they can sacrifice their ancestors, it is not a problem.
Of course, because Lu Wu didn't understand the social interaction of the nobles in the Spring and Autumn Period, he still knew from some words of Yu Che that those people left by Wei Xiang would belong to the old Lu family in the future.
Leaving his grandmother's house, he couldn't wait to go to the craftsman's place.
On the way, I met the old family.
"Lord." The old man knelt on the ground and bowed, put his head close to the ground, and said in a trembling voice: "The (pro) family of craftsmen and scholars need to talk to the Wei family." ”
Lu Wu understood the words and phrases of the old man in the family.
In other words, before the families of craftsmen and samurai moved over, even if there was a Danshu, it was not considered complete.
Lu Wu's mind was not on this, he just nodded and continued to go straight to the craftsman's place.
Now the status of the craftsman is not lowly, but it is necessary to distinguish whether he is a family slave or a free man.
If the Wei family can send the craftsman out, he must be a family slave.
Lu Wu arrived at the place.
The craftsmen who had changed the environment were still a little scared when they saw Lu Wu immediately kneeling on the ground and saluting.
In fact, they are not happy to go from being the house slaves of the dignified Wei nobles to the property of the small nobles who have never heard of them.
Lu Wu asked with a smile, "What will you all do?" ”
The craftsman searched for the words he knew, but most of them didn't understand what Lu Wu's words meant.
A few craftsmen even guessed what Lu Wu meant, and carefully said their profession.
There was a leader, and seeing that Lu Wu obviously meant that, the rest of the craftsmen also understood what to do.
Of the forty craftsmen, thirty were goldsmiths, five were carpenters, and five were bricklayers.
Lu Wuyi guessed the same.
After all, his cooperation with Wei is about metal, and Wei Xiang brings over most of the craftsmen in related specialties.
He was talking to the craftsman when the old man came again.
The elder of the family had already prepared the things needed for the "cut", and waited for Lu Wu to come over.
The so-called "cession" is simply a set of confirmed subordinate relationships.
And "cutting" is generally only used in the "shi" class.
When Lu Wu arrived at the ground, he saw a sheep that had been roasted.
The old Lu family was so poor that there were only twenty sheep left, but they slaughtered one for barbecue?
It was casually placed on a large wooden plank, with grease flowing from it, and a bronze dagger on the side of it.
In the next step, the warriors cut the mutton one by one with daggers and presented it to Lü Wu on a wooden plate.
Although Lü Wu didn't know what "cutting offering" was, he could not know how to pretend to understand the food, and thought about what it was like for the samurai to retreat to the side after offering food.
Even if each person only cuts a small piece of mutton, it adds up to a lot.
Fifty warriors, they cut the meat and offered it, looking at Lu Wu who had eaten with a blank eye.
He looked at the roast lamb with a lot of meat, and then at the samurai who was waiting for him, and said, "Divide and eat." ”
Although I don't understand it, it can be regarded as conforming to the process of "cutting".
He also instructed the elders on the side to slaughter the sheep again.
The craftsman's lack of confidence in the old Lu family was seen by him, and the samurai were basically the same.
Having already taken the crucial first step, one or two sheep are missing?
It's like who doesn't know how to buy people's hearts.
As for the need to slaughter a few more sheep, I believe that the family elder will depend on the actual situation.
Later, the elders of the family would ask Lu Wu to pick up land from which places in the feudal domain, build houses for the samurai and cultivate the land, so that they could truly complete a set of etiquette to determine the subordination.
What Lu Wu was thinking about now was how to use that group of craftsmen......