In Xudu City, there is a medium-sized inn that is not big or small: Yunlai Inn. Clean, clean and hygienic and fair price. So business is very good.

The innkeeper Xu Maocai, with a round body and a round face. Smiling every day, he bends down and nods when he sees everyone, and he is born to do business.

Shopkeeper Xu doesn't have many hobbies, only two. One is to eat, and the other is to listen to the stories of the guests.

Speaking of food alone, those who fly in the sky, those who run on the ground, and those who have four legs eat; The two-legged ones are eaten except for people, and the rest are eaten.

Shopkeeper Xu's favorite food is pork stewed cabbage. Fat and thin pork belly, stewed with sweet cabbage, a bite is oily. Every time he eats, Shopkeeper Xu has an intoxicated look, as if he is recalling something, and he seems to be immersed in delicious food.

People in this era rarely eat meat, but there is no one who can still eat intoxication after eating pork.

The inn is a place to stay and eat. This afternoon, it was time for dinner again, and the inn lobby was full.

The voices of people were noisy, they were all talking, and the shopkeeper Xu sat behind the counter, watching the guys running around in a hurry, and there was a sense of satisfaction.

His hand was tugging at the abacus beads, which had spread from Liaodong to the world. Good things spread quickly, and within a few years, all the bookkeepers in the world are equipped with this standard calculation tool.

His little ears were on the verge of listening to the conversations of the guests.

The table against the wall in the west head is full of scholars, wearing Confucian robes, and the literary quality is polite. They were talking about Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty.

A young Confucian said: "Since Concubine Dong Guifei went last year, His Majesty has not accepted a new concubine. ”

Among these people, there was a relatively frivolous scholar who said: "If you stand in vain, won't you be cut off by the prime minister in the end?" ”

An old Confucian scholar stopped him and said, "Silence! Silence! ”

After Emperor Xian moved the capital to Xuchang, he guarded the vacant position in vain, and the guards and guards were on duty, and there was no one who was not Cao Cao's old henchmen and close relatives. Zhao Yan once offered advice to Emperor Xian, but Cao Cao was so disgusted that he killed him. Most of the rest who did not agree with Cao Cao inside and outside were killed.

Cao Cao later went into the palace to see Emperor Xian, and Emperor Xian was extremely angry, because he said: "If you can assist me, then I hope you will be kind to you; Otherwise, I hope that you will abandon me with affection. Cao Cao was shocked and kowtowed to beg for help.

The old rule was that the three princes led the troops to meet the emperor, and they wanted the tiger soldiers to hold sharp weapons and coerce each other. After Cao Cao withdrew, he looked forward to the left and right, sweating profusely. From then on, Cao Cao did not dare to meet the emperor like this again.

Dong Cheng's daughter was a nobleman, Cao Cao killed Dong Cheng, and asked to kill Dong Guiren. Emperor Xian thought that Dong Guiren was pregnant, and repeatedly asked for exemption, but he couldn't get it. was still killed by Cao Cao.

This is an open secret, although Cao Cao has not yet raised the literary prison, and what kind of harmony is engaged. But in public, it's not a good thing to talk about prime ministers.

A few Confucian students no longer talked about politics, only about the wind and snow, and talked about the new sister in the Qinglou, who played the guqin better, and made an appointment to enjoy the elegant art together.

In ancient times, Qinglou was an elegant place, and the practitioners were not selling their bodies; Of course, there is also a place to sell one's body, and that is a brothel. Both green houses and brothels are open to the public.

Since ancient times, rich people and powerful people will have more than one woman, which was called concubine in ancient times; In modern times, it is called Little Three.

The common denominator is: they are all not illegal!

No one will arrest you in the bureau because you maintain the junior, fine you 5,000 yuan, and close it for another 15 days.

And visiting green houses and brothels was a romantic and elegant thing in ancient times. In modern times, it is expressly forbidden. If you are fined and confined.

This is also a kind of protection for the poor, for those who have no money and no power, so that you can save some money! It is the progress of history!

So, if you want to blame, blame yourself for not having money and power!

Women are also a resource, and they are very important resources. If they are not allowed to become prostitutes, they can have more juniors and give the upper class more resources to choose, isn't it a good thing?

It's late at night, and it's going to be curfew. The guests have dispersed, and the guys have finished cleaning up the tables and chairs, and they have all gone to bed.

Shopkeeper Xu was still working hard, and he used rice soup to write something on a blank piece of paper. When the white paper is dry, nothing can be seen, and it is still a blank blank paper.

This piece of white paper was carefully folded by the shopkeeper Xu and put into a small bamboo tube. Every day, a reliable fellow who buys vegetables will go out of the city and hand over this bamboo tube to the big housekeeper in the manor outside the city.

How to deal with it after that, Shopkeeper Xu is not very clear. His responsibility is to report the stories told every day in the inn. It's easy and there's nothing dangerous.

Shopkeeper Xu is very satisfied with his current life, and he is deeply afraid of the bumpy life in his early years, and he doesn't want it to happen again.

At that time, the biggest dream in life was to be able to eat a bite of fat. It took more than 20 years to realize this ideal!

In Xudu, there are many people who are engaged in the same thing as Xu's shopkeeper; There are also many people like the grand steward of the manor outside the city. All forces are intervening in Xu Du.

In Xiangping, there are also forces sent by various princes who are listening to information.

Cao Huachun has already monitored many of these passers-by, and he has not fully arrested them, but he has successfully converted some of them into his own.

Boss Li runs around Jingzhou and Liaodong all the year round, running a leather business.

On this day, a rough-looking man came to him, and the guy knew that this was a friend of Boss Li, so he hurriedly introduced him into the inner hall.

After serving the hot tea, Boss Li waved his hand to let the guy stand down and watch the door.

The man drank the fragrant tea in one go, wiped his mouth and said, "The lord intends to go to Jingzhou, you should prepare your identity, waist card, road guide and other things as soon as possible." ”

Boss Li cautiously asked, "How many people are there?" What status is required? ”

"Six people, one is an old Taoist priest, one is a young man, and the rest are servants." That man seems to be a confidant and knows so much inside information.

"Is the relationship between the Taoist priest and the son a master-apprentice?" Boss Li asked in more detail.

"It's a brother-in-law relationship" The rough man smiled bitterly: "Where is the master who is willing to suffer, how can he allow an extra master to come to his head?" ”

As soon as he said this, Boss Li had a score in his heart. He asked some details in more detail, and then patted his chest and promised: "There is no problem, when the lord goes to the border of Jingzhou, everything will be delivered!" ”

The rough man looked at him deeply, didn't say anything, got up and left.

Boss Li sat alone for a long time, thinking about everything before and after. Then start to do all kinds of preparation work in an orderly manner.

(End of chapter)