5 Loyal Servants (B)
"Knock knock!"
A sharp knock on the door broke the silence of the moonlit night.
"Who?" An old voice asked, the door opened, and a white-haired old servant leaned out, hesitantly looking at the visitors outside the door, "Dare to ask who the son is?" ”
"My husband is polite!" Liu Feng stepped forward and said, "Boy Liu Feng, please see Mr. Cai if you have something, and please ask my father-in-law to see him on my behalf." ”
"Don't dare, don't dare." Seeing that Liu Feng looked good, but he was so polite to a subordinate like himself, the old servant repeatedly avoided it, but he still hesitated and said: "Liu Gongzi, it's so late, if the son has something, why don't you come back tomorrow, the old servant will tell the master for the son early tomorrow morning, how about it?" He didn't know who this Liu Gongzi was, and when he saw that it was late, he politely refused, but looking at the tower-like villain behind the young man, the old man was startled again.
"My husband forgives me!" Liu Feng said politely, "It's not that the kid intends to disturb him, it's just that the matter is urgent, so I have to knock on the door in the middle of the night, and ask the old man to be accommodating." ”
"In this case, then please wait here for the son, and the old servant will come when he goes." The old servant hesitated, and finally looked at Liu Feng's humble and polite face, and it was not good to refuse again, so he responded and closed the door again.
Cai Yong's house in Jinyang is not big, just a few simple in and a few out, although Cai Yong is famous, after all, he is just a poor scholar, in addition to the father and daughter, there is also an old servant, two maids and dozens of boxes of bamboo slips and his Jiaowei qin. This mansion was sent by Tian Feng's special envoy, although it is not big, it is more than enough for Cai Yong. Wei Xing escorted Cai Yan to Jinyang, and naturally lived in Cai's mansion, but he was accompanied by more than 20 servants, but in this way, Cai's mansion seemed too narrow. It was also Wei Xing's wealth, and with a wave of his hand, he bought all the houses on the side, and he lived in Cai's mansion by himself, and those servants and slaves were sent to the side.
After a while, the door opened again with a bang, and the old servant walked out, saluted Liu Feng, and said, "The master is invited, Liu Gongzi comes in with the old servant." 3”
Liu Feng thanked him, let Yan Ming wait outside, and followed the old servant inside. Turning the mirror wall, I saw a brightly lit piece in the hall not far away, and Cai Yong hadn't slept yet. Wei Xing stood outside the corridor in a beautiful manner, looked at Liu Feng coming over, bowed from a distance, and laughed loudly: "Liu Gongzi came to visit late at night, Wei Xing is polite!"
Cai Yan stood beside Wei Xing, hesitated slightly, and nodded as well: "Cai Yan has seen Liu Gongzi!"
"Wei Gongzi, Miss Cai, Liu Feng is disturbed!" Liu Feng frowned slightly, and replied lightly. Looking at Wei Xing's appearance, he has openly regarded himself as the son-in-law of the Cai family, but this person is also too careful, and the first sentence he said was obviously to accuse himself of disturbing in the middle of the night and not welcoming himself. If he didn't know that he "forcibly detained" Cai Yong's intentions before, it would be good to say, but when he arrived, he was still so hostile to himself, which made Liu Feng feel particularly uncomfortable.
Hearing the coldness in Liu Feng's words, Cai Yan greeted him and smiled gently at Liu Feng: "My father is composing a song, it's not good to disturb each other, please come in with the concubine, and wait for a while." ”
"There's Miss Lao Cai." Liu Feng gave a slight salute and followed behind Cai Yan, and Wei walked last.
Walking through the corridor, Cai Yan slowed down and did not enter. Liu Feng also consciously slowed down, only to see Cai Yong kneeling on the straw mat in the hall, sitting on the case, frowning and staring, not noticing that outsiders came outside, and made two strokes on the silk cloth in his hand, then stopped again and fell into a long thought.
Liu Feng was a little discouraged, it seemed that Cai Yong would not be able to wake up for a while. Cai Yan glanced at Liu Feng apologetically, and said in a low voice: "My father is in contemplation, please wait for a while, and the concubine will go and prepare some wine." ”
Liu Feng raised his head, the moon was already in the middle, it was time to have a moment, he apologized to Cai Yan and said, "Please avoid it for a moment!"
Wei Xing was stunned, his face flashed with anger, and he said unhappily: "Why should Liu Gongzi be strong? Mr. is interested in it right now, if he disturbs Liu Gongzi, I am afraid that he will have a grudge for eternity!"
Cai Yan opened his mouth and glanced inside hesitantly. 3 Liu Feng ignored Wei Xing, nodded to Cai Yan, and strode forward. Wei Xing was furious, and followed closely, although he didn't dare to make a noise, he stretched out his hand to force Liu Feng out. Cai Yan was stunned, and stretched out her hand unconsciously, but she didn't know who she was going to stop.
"Liu Feng has seen Mr. Cai!" Seeing that Cai Yong was still unconscious, Liu Feng had no choice but to speak loudly. Although it was rude, I couldn't care about it when I got to this meeting.
"Huh?" Cai Yongzheng was wandering outside the world, and was taken aback, his body shook and the length of his hand fell, and he spilled heavy ink, and raised his head in surprise, but saw Wei Xing forcibly dragging Liu Feng, with an angry face, but his daughter Cai Yan was just standing outside the door in embarrassment.
I didn't know why for a while, Cai Yong was shocked for a long time, and he froze. Seeing this, Cai Yan was in a hurry, hurriedly rushed in, and hurriedly wiped Cai Yong's chest and back, and exclaimed: "Father? Father? Wei Xing was furious and let Liu Feng go hatefully.
"Huh? Out of the way. Cai Yong wiped a cold sweat and smiled at his daughter with relief, only then did he see that the person who came turned out to be Liu Feng, stood up with Cai Yan's support, and smiled at him, "It's Chengze, I haven't seen you for a long time, I didn't expect you to come?" Hehe, old man, thank you for protecting my precious daughter to come to me. As he spoke, he patted Cai Yan's little hand lightly, indicating that he was fine, and there was not the slightest displeasure on his face.
"Disturbing Mr. Qingxiu, Liu Feng's crime!" Liu Feng bowed apologetically to Cai Yong and said sincerely.
"Hehe, it's okay." Cai Yong shook his shirt, he didn't care at all, he just looked down at the heavy black under his placket, smiled bitterly in his heart, and said strangely, "Cheng Ze came to me today, but what's the matter?" Hehe, my old man just has these few pounds of old bones, I'm afraid I can't help you or anything. ”
As he spoke, Cai Yong came over and took Liu Feng's hand and motioned for him to sit down on a high chair, he knew that Liu Feng was not used to kneeling on the ground, otherwise he would not have tossed out so many styles of benches and benches.
Although he didn't get along with Cai Yong for a long time, Liu Feng knew that he was a very soft person, and threats were easy to make him bow his head, but he didn't have much of a fight in the younger generations. Bowing to Cai Yong, Liu Feng glanced at Wei Xing and Cai Yan, and said with a smile: "Sir, forgive me, the kid flipped through a few old books today, and inadvertently found a few words. ”
"Oh?" Cai Yong's eyes lit up and he became interested, "Chengze is Lu Gong's master, what book can be difficult for you?" The old man wanted to see it, did Cheng Ze bring the book? Cai Yong was born in poverty, and he relied on the tenacity of borrowing books and reading hard to achieve today's achievements, and when he heard that Liu Feng had a remnant of an ancient book in his hand, he couldn't wait.
Wei Xingda was depressed, and he was even more dissatisfied with Liu Feng, and he also said that there was a big deal, but he didn't recognize a few words! But there was also a little strange in his heart, as far as he knew, this person was not a tireless learner.
Cai Yan glanced at Liu Feng, smiled knowingly, and said, "Liu Gongzi, please sit down first, and Yan go and prepare some wine." ”
"There's Miss Lao Cai." Raising his eyes to look at Cai Yan's incomparably intelligent deep eyes, Liu Feng lost his mind slightly and hurriedly leaned down.
Cai Yong is a little strange, her daughter used to be the most studious, why did she avoid it today? Wei Xing smiled indifferently and said: "What kind of ancient books can be rare to defeat Liu Gongzi, Wei Xing is brave, please borrow it and take a look?" ”
Cai Yan was trying to persuade Wei Xing to leave together, but he had to withdraw his hand, glanced at Liu Feng, smiled lightly, and turned out. Liu Feng sneered and scratched his head helplessly: "The ancient book is not by my side, I just want to ask Mr. to go with me, Wei Gongzi and wait, it will not be too late for Mr. to come back and teach you later." ”
Wei Xing was speechless for a while, and suddenly came to his senses, knowing that Liu Feng was deliberately supporting others, his face turned red, and he gave Cai Yong a deep bow, and turned to leave.
Cai Yong's face was strange: "Chengze, you didn't bring the book, but you want to go with you now?" ”
Watching Wei Xing go away, Liu Feng shook his head with a wry smile, and said, "Please forgive me, the talented boy had no choice but to tell a lie, and only implore Mr. to accept two students!"
"Huh?" Cai Yongda was surprised and a little disappointed, and glanced at Liu Feng strangely, "I have promised to make Lord Jun open school here, who has the heart to learn, just come to me directly......" Speaking of this, Cai Yong suddenly realized that things were a little strange, so he closed his mouth and looked at Liu Feng suspiciously.
"That's the case, today I passed by the prince's mansion, and saw that the prince's mansion was preparing to move the family to Chang'an, I was a little relieved, please Mr. Wang's second son as a student, and leave the two sons in Bingzhou."
"Huh?" Cai Yongda was strange, "Is this what the master means?" The old man and the son are also old friends, as long as the son teacher says a word, the old man should do his best to ......"
"I did it myself." Liu Fengdao.
Cai Yong was stunned for a moment, then he understood a little, and he didn't understand a little, and said suspiciously: "According to Chengze's meaning, is it to ask the old man to come to the Zishi's mansion in person and persuade the wife of the Zishi to keep the two sons?" ”
"Yes." Liu Feng responded, "Please Mr. go to the Wang's Mansion immediately and bring these two sons over, if you wait until tomorrow, I am afraid that the whole palace will leave Jinyang." ”
After a pause, Liu Feng said again: "Please don't tell anyone about this, even Miss, don't tell her." ”
"Huh? The old man knows. Cai Yong responded suspiciously, he was highly educated, and the subsets of astronomy and geography were all proficient, but he was extremely unfamiliar with the change of power, and he didn't understand why Liu Feng was so secretive, and even his closest daughter couldn't tell her. But when he thought that Liu Feng forcibly detained himself by his side, but it was also for his own good, he was also relieved, and he responded without hesitation.
Liu Feng breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "I have prepared a carriage outside, let's go." ”
Cai Yong looked down at the placket of his heavily inked clothes, and shook his head with a wry smile: "Let's go." ”
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Extra words: In historical facts, Cai Yong is not the only daughter of Cai Yan, who was framed by eunuchs earlier, and Cai Yong once "died in the rivers and seas, and traveled to Wuhui from afar." Coming and going according to the Tai goat, accumulated twelve years, in Wu" ("Later Han Shu Cai Yong Biography"), the later Western Jin Dynasty famous general Yanghu is his grandson.