After a month and a half of travel, Su Xiu and the two finally arrived in Luoyang smoothly. Originally, according to Su Xiu's prediction, even if Wang Hai didn't know how to ride a horse again, they should be able to arrive in a month, but who expected that Wang Hai, this kid, would fall ill halfway, and it was estimated that he had not been in good health before.

Wang Hai felt quite guilty about this, and felt that he had dragged down his eldest brother's business, but what Su Xiu was worried about was that he might have to fight for a long time in the future, although Wang Hai was thin, he also had a tenacity, which was quite similar to Su Xiu when he just crossed over, so Su Xiu had the idea of teaching Wang Hai martial arts.

Wang Hai was still quite surprised when he knew that his eldest brother wanted to teach him martial arts, you must know that in ancient times, there was a saying that the poor were rich and martial, mainly because the family background was not solid enough in comparison, and it could not support the nutrition, equipment and other expenses of a person who practiced martial arts, so most of the more well-known martial artists in ancient times had a certain family background, and most of the so-called poor families were in the middle of the family, and the ancients' view of the door was also very heavy, and ordinary people had no chance to contact it at all. Like Zhao Liangfu, who Su Xiu saw before, although he said that he had some martial arts, he learned it in the army and then improved it.

Wang Hai was very grateful to this eldest brother who had only known him for less than two months, but after this period of contact, Wang Hai knew that the eldest brother was not a hypocritical person, and Wang Hai did see that Su Xiu had practiced marksmanship in Xiapi, and the dozens of pounds of big guns were flying like a silver dragon in Su Xiu's hands, even a layman like Wang Hai could see that this marksmanship was quite domineering, so Wang Hai was very excited and immediately agreed.

After consulting Wang Hai's opinion, Su Xiu decided to teach Wang Hai to practice swordsmanship. This is not that Su Xiu cherishes himself and is unwilling to teach Wang Hai his strongest marksmanship, but that Su Xiu decided according to Wang Hai's interest and physique. The knife technique has a domineering momentum, paying more attention to the explosion, and the marksmanship is more about a kind of continuous strength, Wang Hai's nutrition did not keep up with the previous one, and the physique is much worse than Su Xiu, but a person's explosive power does not require so much physique, and the physique determines the durability of the outburst more, and Su Xiu originally dabbled in eighteen kinds of weapons in Tong Yuan's library, and it was more than enough to teach Wang Hai.

Just walked and stopped all the way, although it took a lot of time, Su Xiu was also very pleased to see Wang Hai's diligence and progress.

After arriving in Luoyang, Su Xiu began to move around, if he wanted to successfully get the Taishan County Guard, the most direct and convenient way was to bribe Zhang Rang, the great eunuch who was called "Father" by Emperor Ling of Han Dynasty.

Zhang Rang, a eunuch of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was a native of Yingchuan (now Yu County, Henan). When Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling, he was a small yellow gate, a regular attendant and other positions, and was named a marquis. When he was in office, he was known for his looting, arrogance and greed, and Emperor Ling was extremely favored, often saying that "Zhang Changshou is my father". In the sixth year of Zhongping (189), He Jin plotted to punish the eunuchs, and the matter was leaked, and he and the rest of the regular servants designed an ambush to kill He Jin. Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and others heard that He Jin was killed, and entered the palace to kill all the eunuchs, Zhang Rang was desperate and committed suicide by throwing himself into the water.

After two days of inquiry, Su Xiu learned that Zhang Rang had a big house in the eastern suburbs of Luoyang, and he would go back to this house for half a day on the fifth day of the first month of every month. And now it is late June, and there are still ten days before the fifth day of the new year, so Su Xiu found the well-known restaurant "Hero Building" in Luoyang to stay.

Although Su Xiu knew that there were many celebrities of the Three Kingdoms who were now in Luoyang, such as Cai Yong, Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, Cao Cao, Wang Yun, Yuan Shao and so on, he did not visit directly. First, he is still white, most of these people like to see their background, and the Qingliu people among them pay more attention to their talents, although he has made a bit of a limelight in Yingchuan Academy, but he is not sure if he can attract their attention, Su Xiu is a businessman, so he naturally understands the gap between taking the initiative to come to the door and admiring the invitation; Second, the purpose of his trip to Luoyang is to donate officials, in the eyes of these Qingliu people, this is not a glorious thing, there are opportunities, but not now.

Su Xiu, who has nothing else to do, is now in the lobby of the Hero Building every day, listening to people coming and going about all kinds of gossip about the Han Dynasty, including the young master of which family's son was beaten by Cao Cao's 'five-color stick', and which family's young lady wants to recruit relatives. Su Xiu suddenly felt that this restaurant might really be able to play a vital role in gathering intelligence in the future hegemony.

Thinking of this, Su Xiu called the shopkeeper over and inquired about the situation of this restaurant, and the shopkeeper understood that the lord had the idea of bringing down the hero building, but this hero building did not say that it was not his industry, even his industry was reluctant to sell it like this, because this hero building is just at the intersection of the two most prosperous streets in Luoyang, and the daily passenger flow is quite large, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a daily income, but the shopkeeper did not explicitly refuse, in case the boss is willing, no one can say this, I just told Su Xiu's boss that his name was Shi A, but unfortunately he went out to run errands in the past few days, and he didn't come back until half a month.

When Su Liu heard Shi A's name, he was shocked, Shi A was the swordsmanship teacher of Emperor Cao Pi of Wei Wen in the official history, and it was rumored that he studied under the sword saint Wang Yue, and his swordsmanship was superb, and he was a rare assassin talent. However, the relationship between Shi A and the Hero Building is not recorded in the historical materials, but Su Xiu analyzed the information searched from his memory, and it is very likely that this Hero Building is not as simple as the restaurant on the surface, so he pressed the idea and did not mention it again, so he could only wait until he had a certain foundation.

In a blink of an eye, it was the fifth day of the new year, and Su Xiu came to Zhang Rang's house with the gifts that had been prepared and waited. After a while, I saw an eight-lift sedan chair coming towards the house.

Su Xiu knew that the main lord was coming, so he stepped forward and said: "Su Xiu, the grass people, has long admired the virtue of Lord Zhang, and specially came to pay a visit. ”

However, although the sedan chair stopped, the sedan chair did not speak, but followed the small yellow door behind the sedan chair and hurried over with small steps to reprimand: "Where did the Diao people come from, they are not ashamed to speak, the Chang Shi Da has all the opportunities, if everyone sees it, the Chang Shi Da should not rest." ”

Su Xiu also knew that this Zhang Rang was a celebrity around Emperor Ling, and there must be a lot of people looking for him to ask for official affairs, so he was not angry, took out a pearl from his arms and quietly handed it to Xiao Huangmen: "Please ask your father-in-law to pass the message to Lord Zhang on your behalf, just say that Su Xiu really has something important to see, and there must be a heavy thanks." After speaking, he handed Xiao Huangmen a small silk wrapped box and said, "A little heart, I hope to pass it on to Lord Zhang." ”

Xiao Huangmen saw that this person was quite upright, and he didn't say anything, he put the pearl in his hand into his arms without a trace, turned around and walked to the sedan chair and whispered a few words before handing the cloth bag in, and after a while, he heard a shrill voice coming from the sedan chair: "Please Su Gongzi living room for a while." After speaking, he got up again and entered Zhang's mansion.

After meeting Zhang Rang smoothly, Su Xiu said his intention to donate the official, but it was not the few hundred gold estimated before, Su Xiu slandered in his heart, and finally negotiated the official position of Taishan County Guard at a price of 1,300 gold.

Next, Su Xiu waited for the appointment letter in the Hero Building, and during this time, because the donation of officials had been completed, there was nothing particularly important for the time being, so he took Wang Hai to walk around Luoyang City.

On this day, Su Xiu and Wang Hai were admiring the prosperity of Luoyang City on the street, when they suddenly heard the shouts of 'dodge' from behind, and turned around to see that it was a gentleman walking on the street. In this corrupt Han Dynasty, although not all of them are like this, at least more than half of the children of official families rely on their backgrounds to do evil.

Seeing that the galloping horse was coming, a little girl not far behind Su Xiu was standing in the middle of the street with a panicked face, and she was about to collide, but this gentleman still showed no signs of slowing down. said that it was too late, it was too fast, Su Xiu flew up and picked up the little girl, kicked the horse's belly and returned to the street safely, and the horse was kicked like this, and he fell down unsteadily. The gentleman on the horseback did not expect such a result, and immediately fell off the horse, thanks to the fact that he usually rides a horse, and has a little effort to get around, so he was not crushed under the horse, even so, he also fell into a mess.

After a long time, this gentleman stood up, pointed at Su Xiu and said, "Boy, you have eaten the bear's heart and leopard's guts, and you dare to cause Young Master Ben to fall off the horse, do you know who I am, Young Master?" Hurry up and kneel down and kowtow to me to admit your mistakes, maybe the young master, I'll let you go as soon as I'm in a good mood. ”

Su Xiu has never seen anyone, how can he care about this kind of relying on the influence of his ancestors, so he replied indifferently: "I don't know who you are, and I don't want to know, but you hurt people, not only did you not compensate the victim, but the wicked person sued first, according to this, Cao Mengde's five-color stick is not very good, and it did not deter a small person like you." ”

When he heard the 'five-color stick', he was immediately frightened, it was really because Cao Cao had accumulated a lot of power after serving as the captain of northern Luoyang in Luoyang City, and even the uncle of Jian Shuo, one of the ten permanent attendants, was killed by the stick. Although I heard that Cao Cao was dismissed last year, the five-colored sticks of the northern lieutenant were still hanging at the door, and Cao Cao was still very deterrent in Luoyang, especially in the eyes of this group of gentlemen. But after thinking about it, he hadn't seen Cao Cao himself, and he knew that Cao Cao had a dark face and was seven feet tall, which was far from the one in front of him, so he must have used the threat of the five-color stick to intimidate him, so he restrained his expression and said: "Bold maniac, how can Cao Duwei be arranged by you randomly." I have a very good relationship with Cao Duwei, so let's stop today's affairs for the time being, and don't do it in my hands in the future. ”

"Yo, I'll see which of my friends is here? Let's have a drink upstairs. ”