In the second half of the month, Li Su, who had eaten the wind and snow and sand for more than half a month in western Liaoning, finally returned to Jixian County with a dusty face.

He also brought with him an update on the progress of Liu Guanzhang and Gongsun Zhan's complete elimination of the remnants of the enemy in Youbeiping and Liaoxi—the fleeing rebels in these two counties were finally wiped out as scheduled or Huairou succeeded.

After returning to the city, as usual, he asked the envoy to hand in the task.

When Liu Yu saw him, he inevitably looked up and down first, and asked a little about the outline of the task. He knew that it was really not easy for Li Su, so he patted him on the shoulder and teased:

"It's been a good job, but it's been well done. This rush, he looks stronger, taller and thinner, and the young man is not as good as the crown, so it is good to work a lot of his muscles and bones. ”

Liu Yu's words are also crooked.

At the beginning of Li Sugang's crossing, because the basic quality of the flesh was too poor, he was just a small guy with fine skin and tender meat who was less than one meter five in height.

After a whole year of hard workout, plus paying attention to nutrition after having money, I barely caught the last train of development. In a year, he was raised five inches, and now he is more than one meter six.

It's just that he lied about his three-year-old age, and now his physical body is actually only sixteen, but Liu Yu thought that he was nineteen, so he was surprised how he could grow so fast.

Li Su didn't know why Liu Yu suddenly mentioned this, and couldn't help but be a little embarrassed: "The envoy made fun of you, your subordinates...... Maybe it's a latecomer. ”

To speak human is to admit that "my brother is developing slowly".

Liu Yu looked at his nephews with kind concern: "Approaching the end of the year, official business is leisurely, Boya has never thought about dealing with any private affairs?" Sure enough, you have a belly and a strong spirit, and I haven't seen that you are so short-looking, but there are also famous Shuyuan who are worried about you and come all the way to visit the news to intercede for you. ”

Li Su reacted at this time, it is estimated that when Liu Yu sent him on a mission, a girl was worried about his safety and came to the door.

Li Su secretly thought in his heart: "I don't know a few girls, it's not Cai Yan, it's the young ladies of the Zhen family, but the young lady of the Zhen family still has filial piety, and she must abide by the etiquette law, and it's probably Cai Yan." ”

After thinking about it, he hurriedly smiled: "Could it be that the daughter of Duke Cai disturbed the envoy?" ”

Liu Yu saw that Li Su actually guessed it himself, and praised: "In this way, you have a heart, could it be that in the two months when Wuji was writing books behind closed doors, what personal feelings did you have?" Tsk, although the "Letter of Request for My Brother" is useless, it is also sincere and sincere. ”

The Han Dynasty did not have such a serious defense of men and women, and even widows remarried as many as a cow, Li Su and Cai Yan were unmarried, and others didn't think anything when they saw the jokes, but they treated him as their own performance.

Li Su: "I smiled when I saw it, I just don't know a few Shaohua women, and there is only Senior Sister Cai when I guess it." ”

Liu Yu: "What's so funny about this?" Marriage between men and women is the right way to be married. You are so young, in a high position of a thousand stones, and you are unmarried, this is dignified.

As for the little lady of Cai's family, although she looks reckless, she is also a famous lady, and she is a good match for you. What's more, there is also a friendship with the same family, and it is not known that it is a good story that will go down in history. ”

Li Su was a little overwhelmed, and hurriedly confirmed: "As soon as the envoy came, he mentioned this matter, could it be that he was entrusted by his mentor Cai Gong?" ”

Liu Yu's face turned pale: "How can I be invited by Cai Bojiao?" I just saw that you came from a poor background and had no relatives alive, so I regarded you as a nephew and persuaded you. ”

Li Su hurriedly said: "That is the case, thank you for your care, but the young man is lonely and poor, and his body is weak, so he has the opportunity to study this year, and he has the art of maintaining health in an old village, which is exactly ...... The young man of the body of a boy cultivated. What's more, the junior sister of the Cai family is also too young, so it is better to postpone it for a year or two, and wait for Su and Guan, and Senior Sister Cai will also be in the age of Lu, and she will know how to cook, and she will not dare to bother to make you worry about such a trivial matter. ”

These words actually don't stand up to sales, but Li Su's real idea is that approaching women too early will lead to the end of development. He had grown so short and thin in the first 15 years of his body. If you don't take advantage of the opportunity to run high and work hard at the age of 16 to 18, but lose your virginity so early, wouldn't it be a joke about your lifelong health?

Endure it for another two years, no hurry.

Liu Yu was stunned for a moment, and patted Li Su on the shoulder with a smile: "I just saw them come to the door, and I mentioned it casually." This is your private matter, as long as you know it yourself. I left Cai Gong's father and daughter in Jixian County for the New Year, and you have time to walk around before the year. ”

"Yes."

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After Li Su said goodbye to Liu Yu, he also felt a little tricky, and at the same time, he was also moved in his heart.

He didn't expect that Cai Yan would care about him so much, and he would be worried about whether he offended people as an envoy and was killed by Qiu Liju.

Although Li Su is not in danger from beginning to end, there are girls who think about you all the time and make things bigger, which is still quite proud of a straight man like him.

In his previous life, he was a Buddhist man, but that doesn't mean he hasn't found a woman - he just knows that he can't afford to raise children, so he doesn't want to harm those good girls who want to marry and teach children.

But if the woman is just playing with dew marriage, he is single anyway, and he may not refuse.

So he experienced it in his previous life, and as for unforgettable love, it does not exist - love is a luxury in life, and humble ordinary people don't want to take on too much pressure, how can they force it?

After the crossing, because of the aforementioned health reasons, he has also been avoiding the issue of women. He knew that if he exercised and paid attention to nutrition in the next two years, he would not be able to grow eight feet tall like Zhuge Liang and Zhang Fei.

But Nu works hard, and there is still hope for seven feet and five inches like Liu Bei, as long as he often finds a cow that has fallen to death to eat beef, endures the sour taste of today's dairy products, drinks more milk from cows and sheep in Youzhou, and learns from Hu people to eat more cheese. (In ancient times, the milk of ordinary cows had a sour taste and was not very tasty, mainly for nutrition.) Later, after the emergence of black and white cow breeding, there was tasteless and mellow milk)

He is also very glad that in the first two years after he crossed over, he lived in Youzhou, and if he went to the south, where would he get so much beef and milk.

"That's it, it's come to this, go to Cai Yong and make it clear, and see what he means. I am a meritorious person of the court of Qianshi, it is estimated that I must be willing to talk about marrying the Cai family, and in history, Cai Yong did not like to cling to the powerful on the issue of his in-laws. The Cai family felt insecure, so they made a decision first and made an appointment to wait for their junior sister and Lu to marry again. ”

The year of a woman and her hair refers to the age of fifteen, and when she reaches the age of fifteen, she must take the hair and re-braid her hair, which can be regarded as a wife at any time.

Thinking of this, Li Su turned his horse's head and went straight to Cai Yong's apartment.

He's just that, and that's how he works.

"Master Cai, junior sister, I'm back. You are worried, and you are guilty. ”

When he arrived at the place, he did not wait for anyone to be informed, but threw the horse directly to the servant at the door, and lifted his feet and went inside.

"It's Boya, Zhao Ji has often been talking about it these days, it is bitter cold in western Liaoning, and the road is very difficult." Cai Yong twisted his beard to greet him, and he didn't dare to put on the nominal mentor's shelf.

"Senior brother! You have no conscience, such a dangerous errand, and you won't write us a letter if you succeed. In the middle of the month, I thought you had been killed by Qiu Liju! I hid at night and cried secretly. Cai Yan came out with a spring breeze on his face, poked Li Su with his fingers, and told while pointing fingers.

Cai Yong's face was flat: "Zhao Ji! How indecent! ”

Cai Yan turned around and crossed his waist: "Senior brother is his own person, he doesn't mind." ”

Li Su touched the little girl's hair: "Senior sister, let's go in first, don't stand in the snow, I have something to talk to the master." ”

Cai Yan unconsciously felt a little faster in his heartbeat, and said with a sigh of smoke: "Then you talk, I'll give you a hot pot of wine." ”

Alas, in the era when there was no habit of drinking tea, chatting was troublesome, no matter how big or small, it was all drinking and talking. It's just that the alcohol content is a little lower, and it is not easy to get drunk if you drink too much.

This is also the reason why the standards for the quality of wine in the late Han Dynasty were so divided: people generally regarded wine as a banquet drink during a meal, or as a lubrication for entertaining and chatting with guests. As the former, it is required that the alcohol content is higher, preferably seventeen or eight degrees like Zhongshan Dongjiu, but the wine as a chat tool should be low, fresh and elegant.

Therefore, a high and a low wine is a good wine, as long as it is pure and clear enough, but the middle degree and turbidity are bad wines.

Taking advantage of Cai Yan's hot wine to walk away, Li Su is also ready to have a showdown with Cai Yong - from this point of view, Li Su has completely adapted to the etiquette of the Han Dynasty.

Anyway, if the result is good, if you can give people happiness, and you will be happy, then you will be happy. What kind of ritual sense of free love is emphasized, and he Li Su is not a sentimental romance lover.

"Master Cai, this time my junior sister dragged you to Jixian County to inquire about my news, it seems that the powerful people in the city have already known about it, and there will be no violation of my junior sister's reputation, right? Even the envoy intervened to set his beak.

If it really bothers Master Cai, Su is also willing to be responsible - I know that I said this personally, and there are many inconsistencies in the etiquette law, but the elders of the Su family have been dead for many years, and only the envoy treats me as a nephew, so I have to say it myself. ”

Although he knew that Li Su and his daughter were a little ignorant, and hearing Li Su say so frankly, Cai Yong was still a little confused.

Are scholars looking for wives so righteous and strict these days?

It also seemed that Cai Yan was responsible for "Qianli cares about his senior brother and has a bad reputation".

It's really not pretentious at all.

Cai Yong also has to maintain a little face: "Zhao Ji's temperament is jumpy, all because I have no children under my knees to inherit what I have learned all my life, so I taught her to learn too much since I was a child, so I have such a temperament." Thousands of miles to find her brother, but it will not damage her reputation. If Boya doesn't have any love for Zhao Ji, there is no need to be in a hurry to be responsible!

She is still young, and she can afford to wait for another year and a half—besides, I have one thing to say, my family does not need to cling to the powerful, and it is certainly a blessing for Zhao Ji to choose a son-in-law in the future, and to have good academic and moral character. But money, family background, is not important.

Since I finished refuting "Refuting Disasters and Differences" and "Blessings in the Palace", I also have a faint premonition that after the complete destruction of the rebels in Youzhou, I am afraid that sooner or later I will be recalled to the court as an official.

The longer I wrote "The Treatise on the Prosperity of the Palace", the more I felt that the arguments in it were deeply true, and the Han family had fallen to this point, and although the initiator would eventually be punished by heaven, before he was punished by heaven, the center of the court was afraid that it would inevitably be a bloody storm. The court asked me to be an official, if I could be a noble and loose official, or go out to a quiet and rich place, that would be the best.

If I have to live in the center, I would rather choose a peaceful family to entrust Zhaoji to the place of herding, so as to avoid my worries - Boya, you and I are a teacher and student, and I am at ease with your talent and character. I'm afraid that you will be ambitious as a young man, climb too fast and get carried away, suddenly enter the center, and get lost in the danger of the capital. If you can always let go of the outside world and wait for the day, there is nothing to worry about marrying your daughter to you. ”

Li Su secretly thought: This Cai Yong can be regarded as seeking truth from facts and not playing false, and he was worried that he would be promoted too soon to be a Beijing official.

Maybe in history, after Cai Yong was recalled by Dong Zhuo to Luoyang as a Beijing official, he just had a premonition that Dong Zhuo would not be able to stay in Luoyang for a long time and that it would be a dangerous place, so he hurriedly yelled to marry his daughter to Hedong. Otherwise, the powerful families and marriageable young talents in Luoyang City are more decent than the Hedong Wei family.

To put it bluntly, Cai Yong is cowardly, leaving a way out.

That's just right, anyway, after the death of Emperor Han Ling, Li Su will definitely not be a Beijing official, and he will definitely have found a base with Liu Bei by then.

"That being the case, you and I both have doubts, and it just so happens that I promise not to discuss a wife for two years. I think that today's saints will only have a two-year life span at most, which is known to the world. It is difficult to say what will happen to the DPRK and the Central Committee in the future, but if I can ensure that I am detached from the center at that time, I will talk about today's discussion. ”

Li Su generously wrote a blank check first and sold a favor for nothing.

"This ...... This is not to make the virtuous nephew suffer too much, you are about to reach the crown, let you wait for two years in vain, Zhao Ji is already young, she is fine...... That's it, the virtuous nephew is willing to eat such a loss, I naturally promise, unless the virtuous nephew changes his mind and comes to the door, the rest of the people ask for marriage, and the old man will definitely not reply. Cai Yong suddenly felt very guilty and owed Li Su a favor.