Chapter 15 The road meets a madman, and the envoys arrive
As an ancient city with a long history, Xuzhou City has been famous for its prosperity since the Tao Qian era, although after the competition of Liu Bei, Lu Bu and Cao Cao, the city's administrators have been constantly changing, but it has not let it decline. At least Liu Mingyi could still clearly feel the surging vitality hidden in the city when he walked on the main street, but he didn't come to shop, at the moment he was hurrying to Sima Mansion in other departments, and he only glanced at the exquisite goods on both sides, and all kinds of travelers.
"This official, go slowly!"
Just when Liu Mingyi passed by the oncoming vendor again, he felt that his shoulder was gently patted, Liu Mingyi turned his head to look, but saw a middle-aged man in ragged clothes looking at him with a smile.
"What for?"
Liu Mingyi shook his shoulders, his new clothes were bought for him by Yun Ying not long ago, and it can be regarded as a little comfort to him who is about to go to Hebei, which Liu Mingyi was originally a little scoffed at, he thought that the relationship with Yun Ying should be regarded as a one-day couple, so there was still some resistance to her behavior like the care that a wife made for her husband who was about to go away. Of course, the real reason may also be that Yun Ying is a cheating woman with a criminal record after all, and Liu Mingyi is afraid that he will wear a certain straw hat soon. But no matter what Liu Mingyi thought, this new dress made a person who looked like a beggar dirty before he even left Xuzhou City, which still made him intolerable, and even he could imagine that there was a black paw print printed on the back of his shoulder at the moment.
"Hey, hey!" This ragged middle-aged man didn't mind Liu Mingyi's dislike, he smiled, and wiped Liu Mingyi's shaken hand on his chest, Liu Mingyi was even more speechless for a while, but obviously the middle-aged man's purpose was not to deliberately stain Liu Mingyi's clothes, "Official, forgive me for talking too much, just now I found out that you were walking in a hurry, could it be that there is something urgent to do?" ”
"What's the matter with you?"
Liu Mingyi is still struggling with the matter of new clothes, and his attitude towards this middle-aged man is also very bad.
"No, it's really none of my business."
The middle-aged man was still not angry, but he was not angry, but Liu Mingyi was completely angry, he scolded a word of neuropathy, and he wanted to continue on his way.
"Although it's none of my business, but it's related to your life, doesn't the official want to hear it?"
The middle-aged man's slow voice sounded in Liu Mingyi's ears, which made Liu Mingyi, who had only taken two steps, couldn't help but turn around.
"Damn!"
Liu Mingyi, who turned around, made a God-supremacy gesture to the middle-aged man, and finally continued to hurry with relief.
After a while, Liu Mingyi finally arrived at the Sima Mansion of the other department. This mansion is very small, and at first glance, it looks like a small courtyard in the city that is still intact has been slightly transformed. Although the yamen is small, the head of the door is still relatively complete, and the two sturdy soldiers stand in front of the door meticulously, guarding against all suspicious people who may approach, of course, Liu Mingyi is not a suspicious person, so he walked directly into the courtyard.
The courtyard is not big, but everything is well organized, but Liu Mingyi found that there seemed to be some gifts and other things stacked in the corner of the courtyard, and this discovery made Liu Mingyi still very envious.
Liu Mingyi himself doesn't have any mansion like Sun Qian, not even a one-room house of his own, he still lives in the military camp stationed outside the city, as for these gifts or something, the premise is that there must be a person who gives gifts first, of course, this does not include Yun Ying, in fact, even Yun Ying does not live in the barracks, she and Mi Zhen live together in the city specially prepared for female dependents, not the original Assassin Mansion, where the murderous spirit is too heavy and not suitable for women to live.
"Defoe, you're here!"
Just as Liu Mingyi was looking at the courtyard and thinking nonsense, Sun Qian walked out of the door, he beckoned to Liu Mingyi and made a gesture of please. Liu Mingyi understood that Sun Qian was letting him go to the room to talk to him, so he quickly put down those cranky thoughts and followed Sun Qian into the room.
Sun Gan's room was as clean as the courtyard, but Liu Mingyi noticed that there were already several people in the room at this moment.
A middle-aged man dressed as a scribe, and two burly men. This scribe naturally suggested that Liu Bei send an envoy to Yuan Shao to unite with Chen Deng and Chen Yuanlong, who resisted Cao, and one of the two burly men was the former general of Zhu Ling's account, and captured Chen Fang's Zuoyuanmen captain Jin Ming, while the other strong man Liu Mingyi did not know. But this is not a problem, because soon Sun Qian introduced them one by one.
It turned out that this other big man was surnamed Zheng, a single lieutenant, and his ancestors were retainers of the Chen family for generations, and this man had a thousand catties, and Liu Mingyi could see that there were two meteor hammers pinned to that person's back, and it seemed that he was always on guard against any possible attacks.
Sun Qian quickly finished introducing the three people, and at the same time he introduced Liu Mingyi to the three of them, Jin Ming and Liu Mingyi already knew each other, but Chen Deng was obviously enthusiastic when he heard Liu Mingyi's name.
"Could it be Liu Mingyi who retired from Yuan Shujun in Yingshui?"
Chen Deng's tone was full of surprise and excitement, which made Liu Mingyi a little embarrassed.
"Exactly, but it's also a fluke!"
Liu Mingyi said modestly.
"Not bad, yes, really young and promising!"
Chen Deng smiled and nodded, obviously having a good impression of Liu Mingyi, so he looked back at Zheng Wei beside him and continued, "You and Liu Mingyi are also the same age, you can learn more from him in the future, don't be reckless in everything, use your brain more, so that you can get twice the result with half the effort. ”
"No!"
Zheng Wei replied, and then bowed his hand to Liu Mingyi.
Well? Liu Mingyi suddenly shuddered, this style of painting is not right, Sun Gan said very clearly when he introduced, Zheng Wei is a retainer of Chen Deng, but now it looks like Lao Tzu training his son. Liu Mingyi's eyes drifted to the main family Sun Gan, obviously Sun Qian didn't expect this situation, but he was old and refined, he just smiled and didn't say anything, ignoring Liu Mingyi's floating eyes.
Everyone greeted each other again, and at this time, a person Liu Mingyi didn't expect walked in, but it was Liu Mingyi's brother blacksmith Lu Ke. Oh, no, it should be said that it is Lu Ke, an official of Cao Yuan, another soldier, since that quarrel, Liu Mingyi has not had contact with his eldest brother, and only occasionally heard Yun Ying mention it. Yun Ying and Lu Ke are obviously plotting something, but although Liu Mingyi is aware of these things, he does not point them out, after all, he has the handle in Lu Ke's hands, as long as it is not too much, Liu Mingyi still chooses to turn a blind eye.
Lu Ke walked into the room, he first greeted the main family Sun Gan, and then met Chen Deng and others one by one under Sun Gan's introduction, but then he stood aside silently.
Lu Ke didn't say anything to Liu Mingyi, to be precise, since he entered here, he didn't even look at Liu Mingyi, Sun Qian seemed a little surprised by this, but he didn't know the reason, and he didn't say anything. However, Liu Mingyi has a new idea in his heart, maybe he can take this opportunity to reconcile with his eldest brother this time, after all, Lu Chan is the first woman Liu Mingyi likes after coming to this world, so he shouldn't have too stiff a relationship with the brother of the person he likes. At the same time, Liu Mingyi also had an idea, that is, to find out Mi Zhen's situation from Lu Ke's mouth, why did Mi Zhen voluntarily ......
"Okay, since all of us are here, let's briefly discuss the matter of this mission!"
Sun Qian saw that everyone was here, and after he clapped his hands to attract everyone's attention, he finally began to talk about the purpose of this time.