In the early morning of the next day, when the moon was bright and the stars were scarce, there were already groups of people pushing wheelbarrows of various goods on the official road in groups of three or five towards the direction of Zhending.

In the opposite direction of them, they ushered in three people and three horses, all the way to the west, passing by pedestrians on the road, and before they could see the faces and clothes of the three people, they galloped past.

I don't know how long it took to walk, but the three of them gradually slowed down, and at this time it was already noon.

These three people are the three Liu Lan who left from Xiao Zhaoli, the three of them walked slowly, seeing Sima all the way to the west, confused, Zhang Feinai asked: "Lord, where are we going?" Don't go back to the plains? ”

"If you don't go back to the plains, let's go to Wuji County!"

Liu Lan temporarily decided to go to Wuji, and originally wanted to wait for the battle in Jizhou to go to Wuji to propose marriage, but yesterday the dream was strange, and he was very worried that Zhen Jiang would change his itinerary. Coupled with the old Taoist he met when he went to Zhenji, since he said that Xiangxi Daji could pass by Zhao Yun again, could this auspicious word be on Zhen Jiang?

Putting this aside, the reason why he chose to go to Wuji is still in the dowry, as Zhen Jiang said that day, Wuji's local custom is that most of them are hired by daughters, and he is a poor boy, even if he secretly controls Liaodong, he can govern more leniently, and even if he doesn't even take a penny of rank, how can he have so much money, and even if he really uses the Liaodong Treasury, Zhen Jiang's mother 'Mrs. Zhang' may not agree to the marriage between the two, so the ultimate purpose of his trip is more like throwing stones to ask for directions to see Mrs. Zhang's attitude.

It is precisely because of these ideas that Liu Lan went to Wuji to see if he could come to Jitai.

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A few days later, a group of three people came to the territory of Wuji. At this time, there were many merchants and peasants queuing up to enter the city, and the queue seemed to be a long dragon with twists and turns. Slowly moving forward, only this one. It can be seen that the people of Wuji County are prosperous and prosperous.

Although the waiting was relatively boring, the atmosphere of entering the city today was a little strange, and a large number of officers and soldiers gathered inside and outside the city, holding atlases in their hands, and conducting a strict inventory of every merchant and villager entering and leaving the city.

The team marched slowly, and more and more people began to be anxious, but looking at the fierce eyes of the county soldiers, none of them dared to say anything as a bird, but they didn't dare to guarantee it in private.

and so on. It was more than an hour, and the three of them peeked at the notice on the side of the city wall while paying the entrance tax, but two of the three were worried, why, naturally the content of the notice was wanted by Zhao Yun, fortunately, Liu Lan and Zhang Fei had seen the wind and waves, and they walked towards the city casually in an instant.

Until the three of them walked away, one of the county soldiers sighed, Wang Xian walked up to him and said, "What a good sigh!" ”

The man wept and mourned. said in a low voice: "Big brother, the revenge of the younger brother can't be avenged, the three people killed ...... before" finally found out the enemy and recognized their identities at the same time, not to mention how uncomfortable the pawn felt in his heart.

Wang Xian glanced at his younger brother. He looked at the backs of the three people again, and whispered, "Do you see clearly?" These three people? ”

Wang Zhong stared at the backs of the three people in the distance viciously, and said with a resentful expression: "Recognize it clearly." Can you not recognize it clearly! Even if it's burned to ashes, I can recognize it! Although these people were masked that day, the bones and contours of their bodies can't be wrong, right? ”

He hated Liu Lan and the others very much. Thinking about revenge all the time, if it weren't for the three of them, how could he be relegated to Wuji County to be a little gatekeeper. is also under the hands of his eldest brother Wang Xian, who he has always looked down on, how can this make him willing.

At this time, seeing the true faces of the three people, he was happy but full of the loss of revenge, he had followed Yuan Shao to ask Dong, and Liu Lan often appeared in Yuan Ying, he saw it with his own eyes and recognized it, and although the three of them were masked that day, Wang Chong found that he was very familiar, but he didn't dare to really think about Liu Lan's head, and today he recognized the three people at a glance, and he was inevitably disappointed in his heart, and sighed secretly, there was no hope of revenge.

"Brother, why bother, haven't you heard that Liu Lan is going to fight Yuan Zhoumu with Gongsun Zan in the plains? In this way, won't you and my brother have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions! ”

Wang Xian showed a look of joy, and continued: "But you and I can't do it blindly, let people follow first, see where they live, what they want to do when they come to Wuji, and if you are a brother, you will go and inform the county commander, as long as the county magistrate agrees, then we will be able to start!" ”

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Liu Lan and the three of them entered the city, first found an inn to play the tip, and the shopkeeper asked the location of the Zhen Mansion and then walked out of the inn, but the three of them came to Wuji for the first time, and how to find the Zhen Mansion according to the map, in desperation, they could only ask the passers-by where the Zhen Mansion was while walking, and after turning a few alleys in a row, the three of them stopped in place and didn't know what to do, looked around, where were the passers-by to ask, and wanted to knock on the door to ask, but at this time there were high-walled courtyards all around, but where was there any front door and back door for them to knock on the door and ask.

The three of them had no choice but to walk along the high wall, and when they turned around, they found a little boy of eleven or twelve years old dressed in colored forging sitting on a stone pier not far ahead. He sat straight, his hands shaking from time to time, and he didn't know what he was doing because he was facing away from the three of them.

The three of them couldn't find Zhen's mansion and naturally wanted to go up to inquire about the child, but when they came behind the child, he didn't notice it, Liu Lan poked his head forward, and it turned out that the child was holding a book made of bamboo slips in his hand and memorizing it.

Liu Lan smiled and turned to the young man, with a smile on his face that he thought was kind, and said, "Little brother, let me ask you about the location of the Zhen Mansion and how to get from here, do you know?" ”

The young man didn't know if he heard his voice or not, as if no one had ever appeared beside him, and he didn't even raise his eyes, staring directly at the bamboo slip in his hand.

Liu Lan saw that the little boy didn't care about himself at all, and he was really stumped for a while, if he couldn't ask the specific location of the Zhen Mansion from the child's mouth, how could he find the Zhen family. After thinking about it, he took out a few five-baht coins from his arms, dragged the palm of the copper coin and stretched it between the child's eyes and the bamboo slips, so that he could only see the five-baht coin in front of him, and coaxed and said: "How about it, little brother, as long as you tell me the location of Zhen's mansion, the money is yours, and you can use the money to buy some small snacks to eat." Just tell me where you are, and you'll get these copper coins. Isn't it a good deal? ”

The little boy is very cute and cute. At this time, Liu Lan's big hands blocked most of the contents of the bamboo slips, how could he continue to look at it, and finally raised his head and glanced at Liu Lan, seeing their brave appearance, and one of them was still holding more than ten five-baht coins in his hand, thinking that he was the one who spoke in his ear before he came, snorted coldly, took out a five-baht coin from his cuffs, and put it in Liu Lan's palm. Very impatient: "This is a hundred five-baht coins, as long as you don't bother me anymore, these five-baht coins will reward you, and then you can find a casual wine shop to eat some wine, which is very cost-effective." ”

Damn, this is definitely an insult, an insult to Chi Guoguo! Liu Lan felt that his super self-esteem was trampled under the feet of the kid in front of him who had not yet receded his milk hair!

Can you swallow this breath? Unless Liu Lan really does something to destroy the flowers of the motherland, he can only swallow it, and he can't really deal with children. It's just that after saying a few 'good' in a row, he said, "Boy, do you dare to tell me what your name is?" ”

The kid snorted and said disdainfully, "Tell you my name?" It's not that I can't. It's just that I'm afraid to scare you out when I say it! You'd better hurry up! ”

"Oh, you kid has a lot of breath, come and see. I want to see which child can scare my Liu Lan's guts! He teased the child, causing Zhang and Xu to laugh and laugh repeatedly.

"Liu Lan? It's a terrible name! ”

The little boy peeked at the trio before. I saw two of them, one of whom had a tiger's whiskers upside down, and a leopard's head and eyes. There was already a sense of vigilance, but the child's competitive psychology finally made him proudly say: "It doesn't hurt to tell you!" Suddenly remembered that his mother told him not to tell his name to outsiders, so as not to cause trouble, and then the conversation changed, and the little guy pouted a little reluctantly, and said: "My mother said that she would not let me mention my name to outsiders!" ”

"What? Don't let you say? ”

If the little guy doesn't take the bait, it will be difficult for him to probe the Zhen Mansion, so he sneered and said: "I think you are afraid, I dare not say that it is true!" ”

"Who said I was scared!"

The child stood up suddenly, he was not tall, slightly fatter, and just stood up between Liu Lan's waist and crotch, although he was not tall, he looked unconvinced, raised his head high, stared at Liu Lan and shouted: "I, I, my name is ......"

"Forget it, you don't need to say your name, just tell me which direction the Zhen Mansion is!"

The little child's face in front of him was flushed, Liu Lan couldn't bear to continue teasing him, looked at the boy standing in front of him, and saw a jade pendant pinned to his waist in vain, and when he saw him, he was about to open his mouth, so he hurriedly interrupted him and said, "If you don't say it, I also know what your name is!" ”

"You know? What if you can't tell? ”

"Haha, I can't tell? Listen, see if I'm right or not! ”

As soon as Liu Lan's words fell, Zhang and Xu also looked at him curiously, after all, the young man in front of him didn't know each other, but the lord could know his identity, how could this not make the two of them full of doubts, and stretched their necks to listen to the following.

Liu Lan smiled: "Therefore, Cai Ling Zhen Yi is your father, right or wrong." ”

How did this man say his father's name in one bite? The little boy was unconvinced, and even more unwilling to lose to the other party or admit that the person in front of him was right, and snorted: "No, no, you said wrong, you said wrong!" ”

"Wrong?"

Liu Lan looked the boy up and down again as he walked, turned around beside the little boy and returned to the same place, with all the affirmation in his heart, and said with a smile: "You have a sister named Zhen Jiang, Zhen Yu is your brother, and you are the third son of the Zhen family, Zhen Yao, am I right?" ”

The young man's eyes turned and turned, looking back and forth at Liu Lan, his heart was shocked, seeing that the stranger in front of him actually said his life experience word for word, only to listen to him dumbfounded, knowing that it was useless to quibble, but he still pouted, and said with great certainty: "Wrong, you said wrong, you said very wrong!" ”

Since the brother-in-law didn't admit it, Liu Lan could only sacrifice a killer weapon, took out the jade pendant that Zhen Jiang gave him before from his arms, brought it to the child, raised the jade pendant with a smile, and said, "Zhen Yao, you don't have to admit it, what do you think this is?" This was given to me by your sister, and then again, you have to call me brother-in-law! "I started to trick Zhen Yao again.

Zhen Yao was a little worried: "You, how did you have it?" Did you rob my Zhen family's jade pendant and want to be unfavorable to my Zhen family! I'm fighting with you! "He said fiercely, but he was really not a stunned boy, he really dared to go up and fight with adults, but he secretly retreated backwards while scolding like this, escaping from Liu Lan's clutches.

Suddenly, there was the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and the owner of the healthy horse was stunned for a moment after seeing Liu Lan and the others, and then heard the abuse here, and scolded: "The third brother is presumptuous!" Then he greeted him with a spring breeze on his face, and said with a smile: "Why did Liu Xianjun come to Wuji!" ”

After hearing the cheers, Liu Lan looked at it from a distance, and immediately smiled, and the person on the horse was none other than Zhen Yu, who had seen him in the plains.

Dismounted to usher in, Zhen Yu and Liu Lan exchanged pleasantries, and then brought Zhen Yao to make amends to him, how could he be really angry with his future brother-in-law, even if there is no relationship at this level, he has his own measure as a child, waved his hand disapprovingly, and then explained to Zhen Yu that he was leading towards Zhen's mansion.

It wasn't until this moment that Liu Lan learned from him that Zhen Jiang had gone to the market, and Zhen Yu was the first to come back to inform Mrs. Zhang.

The two walked and talked, just turned a corner, that is, came to the door of Zhen's mansion, there was already a family to call the door, the door cymbals were printed with a pepper pattern, just a few sounds, there were people who asked, I heard that the son returned to the house, and hurriedly opened the middle door from the inside.

The sound of 'Karma, Karma' sounded, the gate of Zhen's Mansion opened inward, and the group crossed the threshold, only then did they enter the mansion, and it was not until this moment that they knew that it was a big mansion.

Just now outside the courtyard looking at the surrounding walls, I don't think how spacious, at this time into the courtyard to know that the yard covers a wide area, is the old man of Beiji that day, there is no hole, there is also more.

Entering the courtyard, it is really the pear blossom courtyard dissolving the moon, the catkins pond is faintly windy, the indescribable courtyard scenery, you can see the ancient willow of Gaohuai, the ancient cypress and silver fir everywhere, all kinds of flowers and trees will be Zhen Mansion dotted like a paradise in general, at this time the three of them seem to have entered the Grand View Garden, and frequently look around.

Zhen Mansion is a three-in-one courtyard, it is composed of the former heavy building, the rear watchtower, the cooking room, the meeting hall, the wall, etc., the front building is the heavy building, the ground floor is three bays, it is the place where the people live. The cooking room, the meeting room, and the toilet are lined up, including the dining room where the family usually eats, and the miscellaneous house where the family does chores. (Of course, the toilets and kitchen are remote.) ）

Then the watchtower is divided into left and right, the right side is the wing room, the left side is the inner courtyard, and the wing room is another single courtyard, if you want to go to the inner courtyard, you must go around to the main entrance. The inner courtyard is where the old man, young master, lady and lady of the house live, and behind it there is a garden.

Zhen Yu led the way, and the three of them followed him along the road, and there were miscellaneous maids and servants everywhere, each performing their own duties, with a clear division of labor, such a luxurious mansion is difficult to compare with some wealthy families, and there are only a handful of families in the entire Han Dynasty who can be compared with it!

In the living room of Zhen's mansion, there will always be maids to serve, and the three of them came to the living room with Zhen Yugang, and the three of them had already served tea and prepared pastries and fruits. (To be continued......)