Volume 1: The First Entry into the Three Kingdoms Chapter 55: Post-War Reconstruction (2)
After another two days, with the help of many people, the broken walls were finally repaired, the moat outside the city was filled in, and the entire county returned to its former peace.
The martyr's cemetery is about to be completed under Liu Yi's personal supervision, because it is October, the weather is still very hot at noon, and the corpses of those martyrs should not be put for a long time, so Liu Yi ordered people to prepare for the burial of these martyrs tomorrow, because there are too many dead soldiers, it is unrealistic to use coffins and horse leather to bury, but it can't be buried directly, Liu Yi ordered people to prepare a lot of straw mats, straw mats to wrap the body, which can be regarded as some respect for these martyrs.
In the past two days, under Cheng Yu's orderly arrangement, the people who lacked daily iron tools at home also received some pots and pans and other necessities of life in the Arsenal Division, not only that, Liu Yi also arranged for people to distribute the stored grain in the warehouse to the people, and each family received their own share of the grain according to the records of the previous grain collection, and the people who received the grain saw Liu Yi believe in this, and he was happy and respected Liu Yi even more.
In the past two days, because of the post-war reconstruction, Liu Yi had not had time to see the reinforcements from the rest of the counties, and as soon as the affairs of his subordinates stopped, Liu Yi hurriedly asked Cheng Yu to invite the leaders of those reinforcements into the mansion.
In addition to Cui Si's father-in-law Lu Duyou, the reinforcements who came to support that day also included soldiers from five nearby counties, all of which were led by local county lieutenants, and the five county lieutenants had gathered at Liu Yi's mansion at this time.
"The next person has seen Lord Liu!" After the five of them arrived at the lobby, they respectfully bowed to Liu Yi.
When Liu Yi killed the Yellow Turban and confronted Liu Bei that day, these five people were also present at the time, and Liu Yi's god-like momentum is still fresh in everyone's memory, so when they heard that Liu Yi was going to summon him, several people couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
"Everyone, please get up!" At this time, the blood stasis in Liu Yi's left eye had all been eliminated, and his face was full of harmless smiles.
Hearing this, everyone stood up, Liu Yi hurriedly asked everyone to sit down, and then ordered the people to serve tea to the five people.
Seeing that Liu Yi's appearance was no longer as scary as before, and that he was still so polite to everyone, the nervous mood just now eased.
I saw Liu Yi stand up from the mahogany chair on the main seat in the hall, walk slowly to the front of the five people, and then bow deeply to the five people under the stunned gaze of the five people.
"Liu Yi would like to thank you for your previous rescue! If it weren't for you, I'm afraid that my Zhuo County would have fallen into the hands of the enemy by now. ”
Seeing this, the five people hurriedly got up and saluted Liu Yi back.
"Lord Liu is polite, several of our counties belong to the same county, Lord Liu was in trouble that day, how can you sit idly by as a neighbor!"
"yes, yes," the rest chimed in.
Liu Yi nodded gratefully at a few people when he heard this, in fact, Liu Yi knew in his heart that the reason why the county magistrates of these five counties were able to send troops to help was not as noble as they said, if it was really as they said, then there was no need to wait for Liu Yi to ask for help, as early as the beginning of Deng Maogong's arrival, everyone would definitely send troops to help. The reason why Liu Yi and the others finally sent troops when they couldn't support it was because Liu Yi's sentence "lips and teeth are cold" woke everyone up, these people were afraid that after Zhuoxian County was breached, it would be their turn to be next, so they hurriedly sent troops to rescue.
Liu Yi knew this truth in his heart, but after all, people came to save him, and if these people didn't come, he was afraid that he would be in a different place by now, thinking of this, Liu Yi didn't care if those people were really here to save him, whether they were sincere or false, in the end, they saved their lives.
Liu Yi slapped his hands twice outside the door, and then saw the people outside the door respectfully carrying a wooden box five and a half meters square.
The people neatly placed the wooden boxes on the floor in the lobby, and then carefully lifted the lid of the wooden boxes, only to see that the five boxes were full of jewels and coins, which were reflecting brilliant light in the sunlight.
These five boxes of jewelry were specially prepared by Liu Yi before arranging for the housekeeper Wang, just to thank these five counties for their saving grace.
At this time, the five people sitting on the side seat stood up at once after seeing the box full of gold, silver and jewelry, and looked at the wooden box in front of them with greed in their eyes.
"Everyone, in order to express my gratitude, I have prepared some small gifts below, and please smile!" Liu Yi said to the five of them with a smile.
"Your Excellency is polite, your Excellency is polite!"
The five of them said politely, but their eyes kept staring at the jewelry in front of them, if it weren't for Liu Yi and the others, I'm afraid these people would have pounced on them.
"There are still a few letters written to the county magistrate of your county here, and there are still many matters to be dealt with in the lower city, so I can't come to thank you in person, and I ask you to help hand them over to your lords" After speaking, Liu Yi took five letters from the hands of his subordinates and handed them over to the five people.
"The villains must transfer Lord Liu's wishes to my family!" Several people took the letter and hurriedly bowed.
Liu Yi knew that everyone would definitely not hand over all those jewels, but these things were no longer Liu Yi's concern.
After everyone had a polite conversation with Liu Yi again, they then walked out of the house happily with jewelry and letters.
Liu Yi saw that everyone was out of the house, so he got up and prepared to go to see Cui Si, and by the way, he saw Lu Duyou, saying that Lu Duyou had been taking care of Cui Si's room in the house since he learned that Cui Si was injured that day.
As soon as he walked to the door of Cui Si's room, Liu Yi heard the lewd laughter of two people coming from inside.
"Your stepmother's skin is so tender, that white, your stepfather and I decided that she would not marry in this life as soon as I saw her, and when I married home, I found that your stepmother is not only beautiful, but also very good at the bed, if it weren't for your stepfather's natural strength, I'm afraid he would have been squeezed dry!"
"Father-in-law, don't say it, I'm starting to feel uncomfortable about what you said!"
Hearing this, Lu Duyou looked at Cui Si's lower body that had already set up a small tent, and patted it angrily.
"You kid even dares to be lustful with your stepmother, I think you're looking for a beating!"
Cui Si was beaten by Lu Duyou so hard that he grinned, covered his lower body with both hands, and said vigorously in his mouth, "Don't dare, don't dare"
Liu Yi, who was outside the door, saw that the two of them were chattering more and more yellow in the house, and couldn't help coughing softly at the door.
"Ahem~"
The two people in the room fell silent when they heard the coughing sound at the door.
"Isn't it time to take your medicine? Hurry up and get out of here, don't disturb our father and son chatting. Lu Duyou thought it was the person who delivered the medicine, so he opened his mouth and scolded.
Liu Yi outside the door was stunned by Lu Duyou scolding inside, and turned around to go back, just turned around Liu Yi reacted suddenly, thinking that I am not a subordinate, and besides, this is my home! Liu Yi straightened his clothes, and then respectfully shouted inside: "Little nephew Liu Yi came to visit his uncle!"
When the two Lu Duyou insiders heard that it was Liu Yi outside, they suddenly became a little in a hurry.
"Damn, the lord is here, hurry, hurry, hurry"
Liu Yi outside the door only heard that the two people in the house didn't know what they were busy with, and after about a minute, the voice of Lu Duyou finally came from the house.
"Big nephew, come in!"
Liu Yi pushed open the door and walked in when he heard the sound, only to see that at this time, Lu Duyou was looking like a loving father, carefully tucking the quilt corner for Cui Si, and Cui Si on the bed was also depressed at this time, and kept whispering "oops" in his mouth, as if he was in pain.
"The little nephew has seen Uncle Lu!"
"Virtuous nephew doesn't need to be polite, sit down quickly!" Lu Duyou stood up and smiled at Liu Yi with a tired face.
Cui Si on the bed also turned his head "with difficulty" when he saw this.
"I've seen the lord!"
Seeing that Cui Si wanted to get up, Liu Yi hurriedly sat down on the side of the bed and pressed Cui Si to the bed again.
"Si'er, lie down quickly, don't get up"
After speaking, Liu Yi looked at the quilt, and then patted the position of Cui Si's lower body vigorously, and then said with a concerned face, "Si'er, how are you feeling these days?" ”
Cui Si was photographed by Lu Duyou and Liu Yi in the same place one after another, and he suddenly gasped in pain, grinning and about to sit up.
"Lord, you're too ruthless," Cui Si's tears were about to fall.
"I see that you and your uncle didn't talk quite happily just now, why did you wilt when you saw me?" Liu Yi smiled maliciously.
Lu Duyou's face turned red when he heard this, knowing that the conversation between the two just now was heard by Liu Yi.
After a few people chatted a few words, Lu Duyu said to Liu Yi meaningfully: "The virtuous nephew spent a lot of money in order to send away the soldiers in those counties, right?" ”
When Liu Yi heard this, he knew that this old boy was going to take the opportunity to knock on his bamboo pole, so he replied, "Money is not a trivial matter, it is all from a county, and talking about money hurts feelings!" ”
When Lu Duyou heard this, he knew that Liu Yi was prevaricating himself, so he pretended to be helpless and sighed, "Alas~ I didn't expect the virtuous nephew to be so aware of righteousness!" Originally, I wanted to keep the 2,000 soldiers and horses I brought with me to enrich the army, but now it seems that I am underestimating my nephew! Anyway, the virtuous nephew is so powerful, it's not bad for this person! ”
Liu Yi was overjoyed when he heard this, and quickly changed his words.
"Uncle, uncle, the little nephew is now short of soldiers!"
"The point is, look..."Lu Duyou said as he made a gesture asking for money.
Seeing this, Liu Yi immediately knew what this old fox meant, and hurriedly said, "Uncle, later!" Then he hurried out.
After a while, Liu Yi ran back with two boxes of jewelry, and the size of the boxes was larger than the specifications that Liu Yi had given to those county lieutenants before.
Lu Duyou looked at the two boxes of jewelry, looked at Liu Yi with a smile, and then only took half a box, wrapped it in a square cloth and stuffed it to Cui Si.
"Virtuous nephew, although my uncle loves money, he knows what money he can ask for and what money he can't want, you have just experienced a big war now, and the place to spend money is still to come, today I asked you for this money to save some money for my righteous son to marry a wife, and you can take the rest back, as for the two thousand soldiers, they were originally meant to support you!"
Liu Yi was speechless with emotion when he heard this.
Just when a few people were greeting each other, Zhang Fei, who was sent out by Liu Yi to train those yellow turbans to surrender the army, hurriedly ran back to the house, shouting as he ran, Liu Yi and Lu Duyou in the house hurriedly went out to greet him.
After Zhang Fei ran to Liu Yi and the others, he carefully took out an object from his arms and presented it to the two.
"Lord, the soldiers just now found such a thing from Cheng Zhiyuan's body!"