38. It is better to give birth to a boy than to give birth to a girl
Higashigaki Castle.
The crescent moon is like a hook, shining on pedestrians, Dongyuan City, which was originally a small city, the alleys in the city are silent, the houses are lined up one after another, with the jagged trees in the shade, like a gloomy waterhole, only one or two dog barks from afar, can break this night immersed in darkness, and there is a trace of ripples.
A few pedestrians walked in the darkness of the night, they did not ride horses, and their footsteps were very low, and they walked through the streets and alleys of the city, and the leader only played a dim torch, and the torch swayed in the night wind, as if it would be blown out by the wind at once.
Their muffled footsteps finally stopped in front of a house.
After the start of the war, the residents of Dongyuan City fled many people's homes, coupled with the wanton plundering of the soldiers and horses under Lu Bu's command, the city was actually ten rooms and nine empty, and when it came to the night curfew, except for the occasional night patrol soldiers, the rest of the time was empty, without any popularity.
Many of the generals under LΓΌ Bu's command had brought their families with the army or the women who had been taken captive, and they were greedy for comfort and disliked the accommodation in the camps outside the city, and they all moved to the houses and courtyards in the city, using this place as their temporary residence.
Because of their stay, the city is a little more lively at night.
A few pedestrians observed for a while in front of the house, the room was still bright, and the people inside did not seem to have fallen asleep, and after repeated observations, a tall figure spoke again and asked:
"It's clear during the day, but here?"
"That's right, this is it."
The tall figure nodded in satisfaction when he heard this, and with a wave of his hand, one of the pedestrians stepped forward and gently knocked on the wooden door of the house.
"Who?"
With the sound of the knock on the door, there was soon a sound of footsteps behind the door, and a young female voice sounded, listening to her voice, it was still a little vigilant.
In these years, the army was in chaos, Lu Bu's army fled in exile, military discipline was difficult to maintain, many soldiers in the army were outlaws without families, and at night, there would always be illegal things happening in the cave chamber cardinal, although the city was a little peaceful, but it could not be completely avoided.
Therefore, the woman behind the door was still very cautious, and the person who knocked on the door could only lower her voice.
"It's the prince!"
"Oops-"
The cautious maid behind the door heard that it was the arrival of the prince, and after a little thought, she almost burst into fright, and she quickly covered her mouth and tried to calm her heart as much as possible.
The knocker outside the door was already impatient, and he urged again:
"Hurry up and open the door."
"Uh-oh."
The little maid behind the door thought that there were dignified princes and generals waiting outside, and hurriedly began to move the latch, slowly opening the wooden door, and by a glimmer of light from the crack in the door, the little maid glanced out of the door, and the person standing next to the torch, although he was not wearing armor, was tall and burly, with a broad forehead and square face, and a beard, wasn't it Wen Hou.
Lu Bu, who was standing outside the door, saw that after the wooden door opened, there was a little maid behind the door who had already met several times peeking at him nervously, and he no longer chose to stand outside the door, and motioned his guards to stay outside the house here, find a sheltered and warm corner to take refuge, and wait until he came out to meet him.
Lu Bu immediately pushed the wooden door open a little more, and then his tall body flashed sideways through the gap, and the wooden door closed again, and the outside of the door returned to calm.
Lu Bu entered the door, he glanced at the somewhat thin maidservant, and said:
"You can stay in the courtyard for now."
After finishing speaking, Lu Bu ignored her and walked towards the house with a low pace.
The lighting in the room was still relatively bright, and there was a woman who was lazily lying on the bed in a light gown and veil, and when she heard the footsteps, she did not look back, and asked directly:
"Who's coming?"
"It's me!"
Lu Bu saw this familiar and pretty figure, his face was already full of smiles, he smiled, and walked towards the woman on the bed.
Hearing Lu Bu's voice, the woman on the bed also woke up, and after she was surprised, she immediately asked in surprise:
"Junhou, why are you here?"
"Because I miss you so much, I came to see you tonight."
Lu Bu laughed, sat on the bed and hugged the woman who wanted to get up, looking at the woman's smooth and white skin like goose feathers, and smelling the body fragrance, Lu Bu's heart suddenly rose, and he couldn't wait to put his face on the woman's chest.
"Haha" The woman was not frightened, and suddenly Lu Bu's movements made her eat and laugh, she wrapped her arms around Lu Bu's neck, and said coquettishly when she wanted to refuse:
"No, no."
Lu Bu had already been up and down, but when he heard the woman's voice, he was stunned, thought about it, and asked:
"What's wrong?"
"You say you think about concubines, but that's not necessarily the case in your heart."
"How could this be, if I hadn't been thinking about you all the time, why would I have come to you tonight?"
"But if you think about concubines, how can you let concubines live in this despicable house, aren't there still a few mansions with high walls in the city, concubines want to live there, and there must be a group of concubines and slaves who serve their daily lives, and there is only one little maid by your side, how can you serve concubines?"
Lu Bu heard the woman's grumbling request in her arms, and suddenly secretly complained in his heart. This Dongyuan City is just a small city, there are a few big houses and high houses in the city, after capturing Dongyuan City, it was then rewarded by Lu Bu to Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and other generals who have made military achievements, as well as close Wei Xu, Cheng Lian and others, where is there any remaining mansion to give to the woman in front of him!
The woman in front of her was Du Shi, the wife of Qin Yilu, a military official under Lu Bu. It is said that Qin Yilu has no military exploits, and he does not have much prestige in the army, and he can get a house in the city, which was specially ordered by Lu Bu in order to take care of the Du family.
But Du's brocade clothes and jade food are used to it, how can he live such a medium-sized life.
Lu Bu used to be a great hero of the Han family who killed Dong Zhuo and Kuang Fu the Han family, and made great contributions. The prosperity and wealth in Chang'an City, with thousands of mansions, is not something that can be obtained by opening your mouth and stretching out your hand.
But now that he has fallen to the border of Hedong County and Hanoi County, the garrison eats, and for the arrogant Lu Bu, there is no need to mention how aggrieved he is!
Du Shi is just a little woman, where does she know her own difficulties.
Lu Bu coveted Du Shi's body at the moment, so he could only vaguely agree, and then he buried his head between Du Shi's twin peaks regardless of it, and the movements in his hands gradually became rude.
Du Shi was unwilling, and began to push Lu Bu, exhaling like an orchid, and the humming sound of the bone-eroding ecstasy made Lu Bu burn with desire, and he shirked and said:
"Don't, the concubine's husband may come back."
"You don't have to worry, Qin Yilu has already asked me to send him to the military camp outside the city to patrol the night, he will definitely not come back, tonight, you beauty, it is mine!"
After finishing speaking, Lu Bu did not hesitate any longer, and immediately pounced Du Shi under him, like a hungry tiger pounced on food, Du Shi felt that Lu Bu's strong body heated up sharply, she ate and laughed, and let Lu Bu Hu comeγγγγγγ
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Outside the camp outside the city
Seeing that there was no general to patrol the night tonight, the two soldiers asked their soldiers to find a sheltered and clean corner to rest, and the two of them hooked each other's shoulders and put their backs close to a corner.
The old chief opened the wine bag around his waist, took a sip of wine, and when he saw the young chief's envious expression, he smiled and reached out and handed it to him.
The young chief hurriedly took the wine bag from his hand with great gratitude, and then poured it into his mouth, because he was in a hurry, and some wine overflowed from the corners of his mouth, so frightened that the young chief hurriedly touched the corner of his mouth and quickly sucked back the little wine.
The older Shi Chang saw the young man's busy appearance, although he felt a little sorry for his wine, but he still pretended to be generous and took back the wine bag, and scolded with a smile in his mouth:
"Look at you like you, it's like eating your wife's milk."
"Hey, uncle, don't say it, in this year of famine, there is no last meal, every household has to run out, this woman is so hungry that her skin and bones are full, the milk on her chest has long been cut off, and the children are exchanged for soup to eat, this woman's milk is really rare."
The young Shi Chang reluctantly watched the wine bag being taken away by the older Shi Chang, wiped his hands, and sucked the residual wine on his fingers, which seemed to be relished, and after a while, he sighed, and continued:
"My wife has starved to death a long time ago, and during this famine year, there was a shortage of soldiers, and there were starving people everywhere, if it weren't for the fact that I was young, I could still hold a knife and a spear, and I became this chief, and I took this city with the army, and I could barely get a little brown rice every day, but I was afraid that I would have starved to death like those starvation on the road."
"But the current wine, if you want me to say, is really scarcer than milk, this year the grain in the field is gone, where will there be a winemaker, I heard that Hedong County is prohibiting alcohol, although there is grain and grass in the city, but there is no wine at all, Uncle is a good skill, he can get wine."
Facing the envious gaze of the young chief, the older chief was triumphant in his heart, and he grinned:
"You don't know this, although there is no official wine cellar in the city, some big families still have private brews in their homes, and after conquering the city, the general searched the city, and the wine obtained was distributed to the generals around him."
"Uncle's wine?"
"It was given by Qin Baijiang, he ate wine in the tent, drunk like a lump of mud, it happened that I entered the account to tell him about the matter, he was drunk and couldn't see people clearly, he pulled me to eat wine, and poured wine into my arms, where did I see this wine bad, I made a bag of it and came back."
The relationship between the two was already close, and the older Shi Chang was proud, so he babbled and told the younger Shi Chang the whole story, and he opened his mouth to smack his tongue, and he was annoyed that he didn't go to Qin Baijiang to report the matter at that time.
The young chief could only say with a look of envy:
"General Qin Bai is really a general, and the general treats him favorably and respects him on weekdays, but I didn't expect to get this rare good wine and give it to the generals, even General Qin Bai remembered it, and it didn't fall behind!"
The elder Shi Chang, when he heard his words, almost burst out laughing, mysteriously, and pretended to sneer profoundly:
"Of course, this kind of weight is not something that everyone can have, and whoever else can have this blessing."
The young chief looked at the expression of the older chief, recalled what he had just said, was stunned for a moment, and became curious, and said in a low voice:
"Uncle, what else is going on here?"
"It's nature." The elder Shi Chang smiled and leaned into the young Shichang's ear, and said in a low voice:
"I heard the drunken Qin Baijiang sprinkling wine in the tent, and he was still shouting vaguely that he was going to kill his wife."
"Ahh Why is there such a thing? β
The young chief opened his mouth in fright, and looked at the older chief with an incredulous expression, I heard that this Qin Baijiang at his head had a beautiful wife, how could he become a murderer?
"Hehe, why, it's not because this wine is changed for milk! Otherwise, why does the general always like to let General Qin Bai patrol the camp outside the city at night, and every time General Qin Bai patrols the night, he is either drunk or goes to a woman to vent. β
The elder Shi Chang is good at human feelings, and the young Shi Chang was enlightened when he said this, and after he reacted, he exclaimed:
"I see, I said why every time General Qin Bai spent the night in the camp, his face was ugly, it turned out to be because of such things, I always thought it was a drudgery, worried that the soldiers and horses from Hedong would be killed?"
", that's a great errand. I have heard other local military officials in the army say that this Dongyuan City, also called Yuanqu, is the place where Emperor Shun cultivates the mountains, crosses the Wangwu in the east, stands in the mountains in the west, borders the big river in the south, and connects Taihang in the north. β
After the elder Shi Chang finished teaching the junior, and after selling off the mountains and rivers that he had heard and mixed together in many places in the army in front of the junior, he was even more proud, and the big tongue continued:
"Therefore, the woman is not useless, you look at Qin Baijiang, you don't have to go into battle to kill the enemy, and you don't have to bury yourself in the case, you have been assigned such an idle position, it's not thanks to the woman's credit!"
The young chief, who was taught a lesson, could only respond, and the older seemed to know everything, although the two were in the same position, but their experience in the army was a big difference, which always made him unable to interject.
"It's the woman's credit, or it's better to give birth to a daughter!"
After the elder Shi Chang said such a big call, and told the young junior not to talk nonsense, he re-tied his wine bag, clapped his hands proudly, and beckoned the soldiers in the other corners to leave with a sense of presence.
And after the young chief saw him leave, he opened his eyes to look at the pitch-black four fields outside the camp, and when he thought of the old man's words, he didn't feel so terrible for a while.
"The soldiers and horses from Hedong won't come over."
He muttered, and then stepped out of the corner, beckoning his staggering soldier to get up and leave.
A gust of night wind blew, sweeping from the pitch-black four fields to the corner where they had just stopped, and there was something fishy in the air, it was the smell of blood.
ps: Let's talk about the plot of Lu Bu, Qin Yilu and Du in this chapter, according to Wang Cang's hero, Lu Bu is suspected of fornicating with the wife of the general, Du is Qin Yilu's wife, she is a beauty that Cao Cao and Guan Yu both fancied, and the plot here is temporarily set as Lu Bu fornicating with Du.
"Heroes": Bu Wei Taizu said: "Bu treats all the generals thickly, and all the generals are in danger of rebellion." Taizu said: "Qing betrays his wife and loves the generals' wives, why is it thick?" "Boomeran.
At the beginning of "Huayang National Chronicles", Yu followed the ancestor from the public to surround Lu Bu in Puyang, and Qin Yilu begged Zhang Yang for help. Yu Qigong: "My wife has no children, go to the city, and beg for a wife." "Permission is granted. and when he reached the gates, he was white. The public suspects that it is colorful, and accepts it.