The heavy snow had just stopped, and the road had not yet been opened, but in order not to lose the deadline and lose their trust, the three Gongsun Zhan brothers discussed it and decided that it was better to set off immediately, at least to rush to Fanyang Lu's house in Zhuo County first.

After all, after arriving there, no matter how people arrange to go to Luoyang, it is not their own responsibility.

However, traveling is not a simple matter these days, let alone going all the way from Liaoxi to Luoyang.

Not to mention anything else, the road is not smooth these days, tigers, bears, wolves, do you think there will be none? Bandits, thieves, and local landlords who are interested in making money are also inevitable, right? Although the three brothers are all skilled in arching and horses, in the words of Gongsun Auntie, it is estimated that their strength is already worth more than seventy...... Can't they let the three brothers go all the way through in person?

Then domestic servants, guests, and guards who have experience in going out and have some courage are naturally indispensable.

But it's not over, a group of big men, although there are pavilions and posts to rest and stay along the way, but who will wash the clothes? Who cooks?

Therefore, there must be maids, maids, and cooks.

Moreover, if you really think about it carefully, the epidemic is so severe these years, and suddenly there is a big epidemic that has swept several states, so you can use those pots and spoons that anyone in the pavilion can use?

So, in addition to a large number of belongings, a change of clothes, books, weapons, dry food, and gifts, there are also pots and spoons!

Of course, if a poor family really goes out, a person, wearing straw sandals, carrying dry food, and carrying a change of clothes and a robe or bedding for warmth, the family can still walk all the way through thousands of miles. The point is, isn't our Aunt Gongsun rich? Isn't this the end of the matter and feeling sorry for this only son?

Moreover, Gongsun Zhan is also a newlywed Yan'er, like glue, and the marriage of Taishou is so rich, Mrs. Hou is naturally 10,000 reluctant and 10,000 Zhang Luo.

"It's a pity, it's a pity!" Aunt Gongsun originally wanted to complain that she was a useless liberal arts student, but when she thought that her son was also going to be a liberal arts student this time, she had to change her words. "Why wasn't I an engineering dog? At the very least, you can build a four-wheeled carriage...... That's a lot more comfortable. ”

Gongsun Xun bowed his head and was silent, this old lady in his own family, as long as he can't do anything, then he must blame someone else's engineering student, and even scold other people's engineering dogs! Dig what charcoal can't dig out so scolded, research what efficient textile machine failed to scold like this, burn what cement glass burned into a paste and scold, now the carriage is not suitable and still scolded, as if people engineering dogs should know this...... I really don't know how much resentment she has against this engineering student?

Judging from the results of my own questioning, isn't this the difference between engineering students, liberal arts students, and science students like today's Confucian scholars and the modern literary school and the ancient literary school? Why resent this?

Of course, there is actually a reason why the two have different mentalities at this time.

After all, the difference between mother and child nature plus age and experience is here. At this time, Aunt Gongsun is a mother, worried about this and that, and Gongsun Xun is a young man who goes away for the first time, and he is actually looking forward to the future and the distance in his heart...... The so-called 'poetry and distant places and dogs'! Before this fight, I went to Youbeiping and Liaodong vassal countries on both sides of Liaoxi County, and the farthest time was just to touch the edge of Yuyang County.

And Luoyang, that is the center of the whole world!

"There are too many carriages, aren't they?" Next, Gongsun Xun really had more and more headaches like a college freshman in later generations. "It's so hard to walk on this road."

"I don't want you to catch the car!"

"Can there be less maidservants?"

"Food, clothing, shelter and transportation, people who are not used to it are uncomfortable."

"It can't all be Samhan and Goguryeo's maidservants, right? Mother seems to have always liked to use the slave girls in these places? ”

"The maidservants of Samhan and Goguryeo are loyal, and in my experience...... Sanhan female slaves are waiting, and they are not afraid to talk in their dreams at night and recite the change of dynasty. ”

"Why does Aunt Jin want to go to Luoyang with me?!"

"You mother, I have to put an eyeliner next to you, right?" Aunt Gongsun took it for granted. "When you come back, do you want those little girls who don't say anything to repay your every move?"

"But Aunt Jin is your mother's right-hand man......" Gongsun Xun persuaded weakly.

"Of course." Aunt Gongsun sighed when she heard this. "Back then, including the nine people of Girls' Generation, I bought forty or fifty Dongyi female slaves from Goguryeo and Samhan in one go, and then trained them myself. From Girls' Generation to the Crown Regiment to the Function Troupe, there are many of them. Originally, I wanted to never leave the family, and then take it all the way to the grave to be buried. The result? The sick and the sick died, the defected and the defected, and the worst had to count the two who went to the Liucheng Foreign Business House to check the accounts, who could have thought that they would meet the Xianbei people, and they would not see the dead or the corpses! It's a bit of luck in this girlhood, eight out of nine people survived, and I've always been treated as a sister......"

"Then you should stay?" Gongsun Xun was too lazy to complain about his mother's level of taking the name of the group from the account office of his subordinates and cronies at this time, although he didn't know how many times he had complained since he was a child.

And here is one more nonsense, this girlhood can survive eight times, all because they are cronies in the general ledger room, and they follow their housemother all the year round, of course, there will be a super high survival rate; And the so-called person who can't see the dead or the corpse is originally responsible for secretly patrolling and checking the accounts, and of course he will encounter all kinds of dangers; As for the defectors, it is the various groups that are stationed in the field branch, I think that the Amway was still in its infancy, although there was the name of the Gongsun family, but after all, the prestige was not lost, these three Korean maids only learned to settle accounts and did not know the word loyalty, inevitably they were easily seduced by strong men in the past, but fortunately, their own mothers were black-hearted, and they directly returned to the clan to call dozens of rangers of the Lingzhi, and rode over with open fire, and even those deflated three were chopped off in bed...... In short, all kinds of incidents are for a reason, where does the bullshit luck come from?!

"No way!" Aunt Gongsun didn't care about the family members and guests around her, and her tears rippled. "I'll tell you, I know I'm a bit of a fool. But son, if you leave, it is estimated that it will be less than two years or more than three years. And these days, even a letter may not be delivered on time, where can I rest assured? You just let your mother be willful! ”

Speaking of which, what else can Gongsun Xun do? can only half-push and half-accept, half-moved and half-helplessly shut up.

In this way, Gongsun Xun himself had more than a dozen cars, dozens of livestock, plus seventeen or eighteen horseback riding companions with strong martial arts, each of whom rode three times, which was already very scary. And although Gongsun Yue's family is poor, he can't stand Gongsun Auntie's preparations, so she just halved and arranged various things and manpower. When Gongsun Chan got there, there were also seven or eight cars, and a dozen or so companions who rode in one person and two horses came over again...... Well, it's clearly a small group of immigrants escorted by the army!

It's not that there are no elders who can't see it, there is indeed an older senior in the clan who wants to come up and say a few words, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he was sprayed back by Aunt Gongsun:

"What is this?! The year before last, the Mi family in Xuzhou went to Luoyang to seek officials, bringing hundreds of cars and more than 2,000 servants on the road! The essence of the next generation of our Gongsun clan is the three of them, go to Luoyang to study, only bring about a hundred or so people, and have already lost the prestige of the Gongsun clan of 2,000 stones, okay? ! If your son is also promising, he can also go to Luoyang to find Confucianism to study scriptures, and I will give it to you according to this grade! Have it? Have it?! ”

The elder was so shocked and ashamed that he ran home in fright, and now, no one dared to talk more.

However, the consequence of no one talking was that the cleaning up became more and more neat, and by noon, even the local officials, brothers in the clan, and friends in the city who saw off the three of them had all said goodbye. Our grandmother was poignant and wanted to say more, but she finally relented and let her only son go to the political center of the messy Han Dynasty...... She was helped back by a group of henchmen to touch up her makeup, and by the way, she cleaned her baby black-framed glasses that were stained with tears.

On the other side, the three brothers also breathed a sigh of relief, and they bowed down in the direction where the Gongsun Auntie had left, and went straight out of Lingzhi City with a team like a long dragon.

In the evening, as it grew dark, the convoy began to carefully pass over a pontoon bridge in front of a river that appeared to be extremely steep.

Taking advantage of this moment, a well-dressed elderly family member jumped out of the car, stepped on the creaking snow and walked to Le Ma and stopped beside the three young gentlemen by the river, and roughly introduced the geography of the neighborhood - this is exactly the old shopkeeper of the Amway who often travels back and forth between Yecheng and Lingzhi, which was specially arranged by Gongsun Auntie, ready to be sent all the way to the edge of the Yellow River and back.

"Don't worry about the three sons." The old shopkeeper pointed to the river in front of him. "This big water (the steep river and Tang River in later generations, Tangshan City was washed out of it, and it was still a swamp by the sea at this time) is the boundary between Youbeiping County and our Liaoxi County, and everyone is used to it. Although the water is very fast, the river is narrow, and the pontoon bridge is often repaired, so there will be no problem. ”

"Maybe there's no problem with the pontoon." Gongsun Zhan, who was riding a white horse, frowned slightly, and then secretly held the double-headed lance he had placed behind the horse. "But isn't there anything else wrong here?"

"The eldest prince is...... What do you mean? The old shopkeeper caged his sleeves, completely puzzled.

"What do you mean, big brother, are there a lot of bandits around here?" Gongsun Xun also held down his black eagle bow, not only that, but some of the horseback companions and guests around him also began to look sensitively and nervously towards a dense forest in the north across the river.

Just as the convoy began to cross the river, a large group of sparrows suddenly flew in the black and white dense forest, as if there was a sudden movement in the forest.

"How is that possible?" Although the old shopkeeper didn't see the sparrow, he understood what everyone meant, but he still shook his head again and again. "There have never been bandits here! Three sons, don't you know? After crossing the river, turning around the forest, and walking less than five miles upstream, it is the right Beiping County to govern the Tuyin City, which is also where we rest tonight! And thirty miles behind is our Lingzhi City, to the south is the sea, and to the north is the impregnable Lulongsai. If you want to say that there are bandits, there can be bandits everywhere in the world, and I have seen a lot, but here, I have been in business with my master mother for nearly 20 years, and I have really never seen bandits here...... It is that forest, which is where firewood and charcoal are collected and burned in the city every day. ”

Whether it was the three brothers, or the guests who held the knife, they each breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this. Then Gongsun Yue greeted him, took seven or eight guests, crossed the car and rushed through the big water, and went directly to the dense forest.

And in less than half a pillar of incense, Gongsun Yue led people back, and there were two more horses.

Gongsun Xun had excellent eyesight, and at a glance he recognized that the leader of the two horses was an old man with a slender bearded eagle, which made him both a little uneasy and a little expectant...... So, without waiting for the group to come over, Gongsun Xun also crossed the car directly, hit the pontoon bridge, and greeted the other party.

"Shaojun!" When the man saw Gongsun Xun coming to greet him in person, he turned over and dismounted directly, and knelt down in the snow with a saber in his hand. "Han Dang has been waiting here for a long time. Contemptible people are not talented, only a knife can be used, barely a minion. Now that the army can't use me, after thinking about it, it's better to go with the master, I don't know if the young gentleman is willing to take me in? ”

Gongsun Xun was overjoyed.

"(Han) When he was a young soldier in Lu Longsai, he was repeatedly unsuccessful, and Wen Taizu studied in Luoyang, but he first started in Daozuo and followed him on the way." - "Old Yan Book". Volume sixty-nine. Biography XIX