Chapter Twenty-Eight: Man Comes from the River
"Wen Qi really has the style of an ancient minister!" From afar, Liu Yan couldn't help but smile. "I actually personally carried the stone and materials, and built the embankment and dam."
Gongsun Xun just glanced at the other party when he heard this, and then continued to lift a basket of 100 catties of 'stones' with Lou Gui, and walked towards the embankment again, ignoring the other party at all.
"Ha ......"
Liu Yan was not embarrassed, but raised his head and smiled, and then waited beside the stone pile with a bunch of local heroes and officials in the state who did not dare to say anything. Then it wasn't until Gongsun Xun and Lou Gui came back with the empty basket that they stepped forward and grabbed each other's lifting bars and ropes.
"Wen Qi ......"
"Why don't you want to give it a try?" Gongsun Xun finally spoke, but he took advantage of the situation to send the pole to the other party's hand, and then couldn't help but have a mocking expression.
Liu Junlang was stunned.
"He who is the son of man should share the sorrows of his father!" As a filial son, Liu Fan rolled up his sleeves unrelentingly.
"It just so happens that the father and son are together." Lou Zibo is also a person who likes to be funny, so he actually handed over the basket in his hand.
Liu Fan took the basket, and like his father, he was stunned.
Seeing this, several state officials looked at each other...... They are all Liu Yan's subordinates, and in this situation, they naturally have to hurry forward to relieve the siege.
However, at this moment, Gongsun Xun suddenly lowered his face and reprimanded him severely: "You people, are you going to corrupt Uncle Fang's virtues?" β
These state officials were shocked, and then they were also stunned on the spot.
"In the past, Yu Sheng governed the water, calloused his hands and feet, and practiced physically; On the same day, the Han Wu filled the embankment, and the generals and below were all burdened with firewood and Shixia River; Now that I'm a super pavilion marquis, I'm also doing it myself, why do I have to do it on my behalf when I get to Uncle Fang?! Gongsun Xun's words became more and more intense, as if he had been wronged. With so many people watching on the riverbank, wouldn't it be said that people would laugh at your family's hypocrisy? β
The time is in the afternoon and in the afternoon, according to Gongsun Xun's arrangement, the people at this time are eligible to go back to the shed to drink a bowl of millet porridge...... Aged millet is scarce, but even so, it is a rare 'welfare' in this year...... At that time, Gongsun Xun was standing on the embankment, and when he saw the flow of people, everyone was smiling, but in fact, it was a group of people who went to the shed to receive porridge. And when Gongsun Xunwu and Lou Gui went to carry the gravel and said such a thing, it was also to take advantage of the fact that there was no one left and right. But now, a bowl of porridge is easy to eat, and the people are like ants, and they are also coming back to watch the new 'big nobles'!
The state officials were all red-faced, and some were even angry, but after all, they did not dare to bear the sin of 'bad reputation'.
However, on the other hand, the party Liu Yan was quite unimpressed when he saw this, and even a little happy...... As shrewd as he didn't know, Gongsun Xun's tricks of such a small temper just showed that the other party was not ready to stop himself from taking credit!
Everyone at the festival has given in, what is this kind of small thing?
Besides, a dignified clan family, but he has been a private teacher for 18 years, can't he do anything else, can't he pretend?
So, Liu Jianshi immediately put on a conscientious appearance, reprimanded his subordinates one by one, and then lifted a basket of 200 catties of stone with his son, gritted his teeth, and walked to the embankment.
At this time, there are already a lot of people who go to work, and this group of people has already lost some freshness to Gongsun Xun, a 'nobleman', at this time, I heard that there is a new nobleman, naturally they gathered onlookers one after another, but they avoided it one after another, and some timid people heard that they were the number one in the state, two levels higher than the previous Gongsun Xun, and they actually took the initiative to kneel and kowtow.
A group of state officials didn't care about anything else, including Lu Bu, who had been silent before, and they also hurriedly followed behind Liu Yan at this time, ready to take care of one or two.
Gongsun Xun calmly put on his clothes, and led a group of silent Zhao magnates to slowly walk behind, climbed the embankment, and then condescendingly waited for Liu Yan, who was still wearing official clothes, to come back after transporting the stones...... Everyone understands that if nothing else, seeing that this embankment is about to be completed, this Jizhou assassin should formally discuss the matter of the performance with Gongsun Xun, who is in charge of Zhao State, this afternoon.
That is, to discuss how to divide the work!
And in any case, even if it comes naturally, this is a very serious and necessary thing...... This is true from all angles:
For Liu Yan, the term of office of the assassin is short, and in a year or two, he Liu Junlang should be appointed as a big county guard. However, big counties and big counties are different, Dong Zhuo is now a county guard in Hedong, and he is also a top big county, but it is definitely not as good as Nanyang and Hanoi! In fact, Liu Yan's most perfect tenure ending should be Nanyang Taishou, the largest county in the world...... This is the last place to take office before Liu Kuan, who is now the imperial lieutenant and an important minister of the clan, before he was transferred to the center.
But it is precisely because of this that he probably needs the credit of this Xiadi more urgently, and even needs the credit of Handan Public School to embellish his tenure...... This 'conscientious' clan official tolerated so many things from Gongsun Xun, not just because he bullied the weak and feared the hard. In other words, it is not contradictory to be timid to make certain investments because you see that they are profitable.
On the other side, the magnates in Zhao Guoguo also had their own expectations in silence...... It is a great thing that the dry land of the original family has been turned into fertile land for irrigation, but what should be said that the swamp in Yiyang County, which has always been only able to produce wild ducks, will suddenly become a good fertile land in one winter?
It's good to be honest, even Wei Song and Cai Bojiao are a little tempted...... Especially the latter, Cai Yong is only a distribution after all, and there are still a lot of goods in the family, and now he can't go back to his home, and he can't be an official, so he finally settled down in Zhao State, and there are a bunch of people holding himself while teaching and educating people.
Of course, there is also Zhao Ping, who I said before. Although this guy knows that his father will definitely make arrangements, why doesn't he Zhao Ping want to be more direct? If Liu Yan and Gongsun Xun can mention him in their recitals, then no matter where they go in the future, I am afraid that they will not be treated like Zhao Yan, another patriarch of their own family, right?
A dignified 2,000-stone Taishou went to dance for Cai Bojiao, a prisoner who had just been released from prison, but people ignored it!
What's even more terrifying is that everyone thinks so, just because this Taishou is a eunuch's son.!
Back in front of him, even Gongsun Xun is actually not shocked...... Because after the New Year, when the embankment passed the 'initial inspection' of the spring flood, his Gongsun Xun was barely twenty-five years old, and according to the merits he had accumulated before and the fact of building water conservancy this time, he should be able to be promoted to a term of 2,000 stones, right?
Two thousand stones, Pavilion Marquis, then who can stop his footsteps at that time?
Even going deeper, once Gongsun Xun is promoted to two thousand stones, many things will have chain interactions.
The most obvious one, according to the three-mutual law, Gongsun Xun's father-in-law Zhao Bao can no longer serve as the Taishou of Liaoxi...... In fact, Zhu Ling's arrival before had already shown that both the imperial court and Zhao Bao had noticed this situation.
You must know that Gongsun Xun didn't know that his father-in-law was a figure who was revived. But in fact, the original Zhao Bao should have died depressed after the battle of Liucheng because of the loss of his family, but now he is doing his position as the first important minister outside the Han Guan, and he is becoming more and more indispensable in his career.
Just imagine, when the world is full of thousands of horses, how much ripple will a strong backer (Zhao Zhong), rich qualifications (many years of service, travel to various places, both civil and military), huge prestige (the drama of the godson before the battle can be filmed as a model drama), and he is still a countryman...... I'm afraid it's really hard to say, right?
If you say it small, it may not change anything, but if you say it big, maybe in the future, the princes will be unconsciously blocked in the middle of the road by Gongsun Xun, a good father-in-law.
In addition, once Gongsun Xun becomes 2,000 stones, he can recruit talents on a large scale and openly, and he can also provide unprecedented help to his own Amway and his wife...... For example, if he goes to Xiapi, believe it or not, Xuzhou Mijia will be acquired by Amway on the spot? For example, if he is going to Wu County or something, will the Amway be able to get out the tea that the eldest lady has been working so hard for?
For example......
"What's the noise?!"
Just when Gongsun Xun saw Liu Yan's father and son walking up with their waists and their minds drifting at the same time, suddenly, an exclamation sounded on the riverbed not far away, causing him and Liu Yan to turn their heads and look at it together.
"Lu Zhi, let's go and see what's going on!" I don't know if it was intentional or unintentional, Liu Yan's governance gave a casual order, but he sent Lu Bu to investigate.
After a while, Lu Fengxian immediately reported: "Returning to the king, the prince, the sludge on the riverbed in the afternoon becomes soft, and there is a man who dug out auspiciousness in it, it is an old turtle with a strange texture on its back, which looks particularly mysterious!" β
Liu Yan was immediately surprised, and he didn't even support his waist, even Cai Bojiao and Wei Song were also shocked, not to mention the local buns of Zhao Guo...... However, Gongsun Xun couldn't help but sneer in his heart when he heard this!
What are you kidding, is it strange to dig up an old turtle from the sludge of a river that hasn't been cleaned up for hundreds of years?! As for the texture on the back of turtles, turtles and other things, you say that it is mysterious? Lao Tzu and Emperor Wei Wu have seen Huanglong and slaughtered poisonous Jiao together! Especially the latter, who was crushed to death with one palm!
After passing through the vortex river and his party, what kind of miracle will you tell me...... Isn't it the class to get an axe?
It's just that I never expected that Lu Bu, such a native bun from the state, would become so sleek after only a few days in the state...... Still mysterious?!
"Feng Xian quickly assisted those people to get this mysterious thing!"
Gongsun Xun didn't believe it, some people believed it, Liu Yan thought about it for a while, and then straightened his waist and showed joy. "Brother Bo, as I remember, the thing that is now in this river should be a good omen, right?!"
"Ah...... Truly! Cai Yong opened his mouth and looked up for a moment, and then gave a positive answer. However, specifically speaking, the auspicious omen is not the turtle and turtle itself, but the texture on the back of this thing...... there is a cloud in the Book of Changes: "The river produces a picture, Luo produces a book, and the sage makes it." 'The river map is the dragon horse out of the Yellow River, and this Luo book is a divine turtle from the Luo Shui negative book...... Some people say that this Luo Shu is not a real book, but a book on the turtle shell...... It is said that someone has seen this turtle shell with words on it......"
If Aunt Gongsun is here, she will definitely spray a sentence, it is called Oracle!
Of course, not to mention Aunt Gongsun, although Gongsun Xun who was here didn't believe it in his heart, and even disdained it, he just stood aside and didn't speak, but these magnates of Zhao State and state officials were stunned and shaken by Liu Yan and Cai Yong.
To put it bluntly, what harm is this matter to his Gongsun Xun? Back then, didn't Chen Sheng and Wu Guang also collect books and make everyone make up their minds? As long as these people don't make things out of the sky and make people laugh, it doesn't matter anything else.
Sure enough, it is quite a big turtle, which is as big as the grinding disc used to grind noodles that has only been popularized for several years now!
Lu Bu led in front, and the two sturdy men carried one left and one right in the back, and the patterns on the turtle's back really looked a little mysterious in the sun...... Everyone looked at each other for a moment, and then couldn't help but look at Liu Yan and Gongsun Xun, who were the leaders.
Gongsun Xun was not reserved, so he and the impatient Liu Yan stepped forward to meet him, and everyone followed closely and hugged him.
However, at this moment, Gongsun Xun suddenly felt that something was wrong - since the sludge in the river had just been dug up, why was the back of this turtle so smooth, only the limbs and lower abdomen were muddy? It's as if someone has just been put into a mud pit. And if you think about it this way, compared to ordinary people, the two people carrying the turtle are too strong, and the clothes are exceptionally clean and thick.
Was it deliberately arranged by Liu Yan or someone like Zhao Ping?
Gongsun Xun's first reaction was like this...... Because the former needs this kind of thing to embellish, and the latter people need to please themselves and Liu Yan.
But if you look closely, whether it is Liu Yan or Zhao Ping, or those Zhao Guotu buns, and the state officials, they all seem to be really curious, and they are really amazed...... Even Cai Bojiao was taken aback by the size of this thing.
Something isn't right!
It was too late to say that it was too fast, just as the huge live turtle met with Liu Yan and Gongsun Xun who were going down, the two of them suddenly threw the giant turtle in their hands to Lu Bu, who was standing aside and was the tallest and most powerful, and then instantly took out the dagger from his waist.
The others were still at a loss, and Gongsun Xun, who had already woken up, grabbed the lifting bar in Liu Fan's hand behind him and smashed it towards the person in front. But this move only knocked back one person, and this person quickly grabbed the bar and threw it out, and then still rushed towards Liu Yan desperately! Not to mention that the other person had already rushed to the side of Liu Yan, the assassin of Jizhou!
Gongsun Xun went to Liu Fan behind him to touch something, but only touched a basket.
However, when he turned back to throw the basket, he was shocked to find that while the others were still at a loss, the two sturdy assassins had all been restrained.
One of them was smashed to the ground directly by the angry Lu Bu with the live old turtle backhand, and he was afraid that even the turtle would be out of breath; The other man fell to the ground, but there was the lifting bar that should have been thrown out by this person?!
In a trance, the people around them reflected one after another, and they all rushed up, surrounding the 'bodies' of the two assassins on one side, and on the other hand, they hurriedly protected Gongsun Xun and the frightened Liu Yan Liu Junlang!
After a while, everyone returned to the well-equipped 'shed' where the magnates lived, and Liu Yan and the others came back to their senses.
"Why is that?" Liu Junlang dragged Gongsun Xun's hand, half acting, but more of it was really sad and inexplicable. "Wenqi, who wants to kill me?"
Gongsun Xun was also confused, and even everyone around him was confused...... Yes, God is pitiful, why would anyone want to kill this conscientious, bullying the weak and fearing the hard?
People are just here to be officials!
If it's really an assassination, if you want to kill Gongsun Xun, is it okay? Just like the previous Shenhu...... Gongsun Xun has done too many bad things, and he deserves to be stabbed! However, everyone really saw it just now, although these two people didn't shout any slogans, they were clearly only going for Liu Yan alone, and judging from the preparation of such a big Wang Ba, they had already premeditated, as if they had found out the whereabouts of the assassin and arranged it in advance.
"Uncle Fang, rest in peace." thought for a while, but got nothing, and Gongsun Xun could only try his best to comfort him. "Since this incident happened in this Handan, I will definitely explain it to you."
"I can only rely on Wen Qi." Liu Yan said a sincere word at this time...... At this moment, he seems to really only be able to trust Gongsun Xun, not to mention Gongsun Xun's ability, just say that if the other party hadn't raised the pole and threw it out just now, I am afraid that he would have been caught off guard.
What's more important is that Liu Yan is Liu Yan after all, and he has already figured it out at this time, although this matter is puzzling, it seems that everyone is suspicious, but it is unlikely to be Gongsun Xun...... This is not just because of Gongsun Xun's performance just now, but because the embankment is about to be completed, a hard year, and when the harvest is about to be harvested, the other party has no reason to make trouble. And besides, if Gongsun Xun really wants to make trouble, he shouldn't make trouble in this place...... This is Handan, it is the construction site under the control of Gongsun Xun, the so-called melon field and Li Xia, the place of suspicion, at this time Liu Yan is not dead, he is responsible, then if he is really dead, he Gongsun Xun jumped into the Qilu River and couldn't wash it clean.
After comforting Liu Yan and the rest of the frightened old men such as Wei Song and Cai Yong, Gongsun Xun went directly out of the shed and began to investigate the matter.
"How?" On the side of the corpses of the two of them, Gongsun Xun also had a rare black face.
"Prince, I'm ashamed!" Lu Bu knelt down and pleaded guilty.
"It's none of your business." Gongsun Xun hurriedly waved his hand to signal the other party to get up. "You are not guilty! Zhang was in the situation just now, but fortunately, you can react first......"
"Junhou," Lou Gui on the side suddenly stepped forward and reported a situation. "Just now Shuzhi asked among the people, and it seems that someone vaguely recognized that these two people are outstanding figures among the Zehu bandits in the downstream Julu Continent......"
Gongsun Xun's scalp was numb instantly, and instead of being relaxed by the fact that this matter was said so quickly, his heart tightened.
"Let ......" Gongsun Xun already had a guess in his heart, but when he looked back and saw the corpse under his feet, he remembered something else. This...... How did one of the two assassins die when he was killed by Feng Xian's backhand? How do I remember that the lifting bar I threw out was easily pulled away by this person? β
Lou Gui was also in a trance.
"Returning to the lord," at this time, Fu Zong bowed and gave an answer. "I caught a glimpse of the man throwing his backhand into the pile, only to be grabbed by one of the extremely tall men and struck the assassin in the neck with a single backhand, killing him instantly."
The sun was slanting in the west, Gongsun Xun raised his head thoughtfully, but after a while, he suddenly asked, "Extremely tall?" β
"The physique is not weaker than Feng Xian." Fu Zong said calmly.
"Where is this man?!" Gongsun Xun became more and more curious.
"This person is from out of town, and he makes money by transporting stones to the construction site, and he just received a reward from me, so he pushed the cart and left." Wang Xiu held a book of documents and replied from a distance. "Junhou, my subordinates are ashamed to let the lake bandits ......"
"Let's not talk about it." Gongsun Xun stretched out his hand to interrupt the other party. "That person is from outside, and he is gone?"
"Yes!" Wang Xiu said frankly. "Don't hide ...... from your lord"
"Where's the accent?"
"And the state...... And the state is northern, and it's a bit like Jingzhao? β
"How's it looking?"
"Tall, no weaker than Bongxian, red-faced, although young, some have begun to grow beards......"
Gongsun Xun was suddenly lost, but for a moment, he looked back at Lu Bu, who was still in frustration and looked extremely embarrassed, but suddenly shouted: "And bring my mount!" β
βββββ I was suddenly missing the dividing lineβββββ
"During the period of Guanghe in the Later Han Dynasty, Taizu repaired the Lu River, and it was done, and there was a turtle from the river, and everyone was auspicious, and Cai Bo was on the side, and he was afraid of it. The crowd was puzzled, Yong Nai said: 'The turtle bears the book, the book is in the tortoise shell, the auspicious and evil of the matter lies in the book, and now looking at it, it is the text of the war!" The Lord has rebelled and will cross this river! 'Everyone's slammed. At the end of the year, there are stars that contradict the sky wolf and the sky arc, and everyone is gradually terrified...... At that time, Taizu, Liu Yan, Lu Bu, Lou Gui, Wang Xiu, Dong Zhao, and Guan Yu were all in Heye, or Yun, and the Qilu River went straight into the Julu Continent, and the Zhang Jiao brothers were also in Heye. Cai Bojiao's words, shouldn't they also care? - "New Yanshu". Five Elements
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