Before the words were finished, Liu Zheng closed his mouth.

To a certain extent, these words are a bit alienating, which will make Xiahou Sheng mistakenly think that Liu Zheng is guarding against him, causing Xiahou Sheng to chill.

But since he said it, Liu Zheng pondered his rhetoric for a while, and said, "Brother Meng Cai, it's not that Liu doesn't want to accept you. I know where I am now. You can send charcoal in the snow, Liu is grateful. It's just that the Cao family and the Xiahou family are comparable to the sycamore, and Liu is just a dead wood. In the past, your life was saved by Yuanhua Gong, and Liu knew that he didn't do anything. If you really like Liu, he can help me by Brother Mengde's side in the future, why deign to serve me? That is, you agree, your uncles, Brother Meng De, Brother Miaocai, can you be so nonsense? ”

At the beginning, Xiahou Sheng, Xiahou Yuan and others came to take refuge, Liu Zheng was really surprised in his heart, and he also wished that Xiahou Sheng would pry open the mouth of the Cao family and Xiahou family, and pull some people from it to even win over Cao Cao.

But after that, as he saw and heard more, and understood the operation mode of some major clans, he also understood that it was also wishful thinking to just let Xiahou Sheng bow down to him.

In these years, the clan is the top, as long as there are some powerful and well-developed clans, it is not actually up to them to decide whether they want to stay, and everything can only be decided after discussion by the elders of the clan. If you insist on going your own way against the proposition of the clan, it is possible to be expelled from the clan, which is a price that ordinary people who value the bloodline of the clan do not dare to pay at all.

And today's Cao family and Xiahou family are actually such families.

The two families have been inherited for several generations and have a lot of heritage, but they have been relatively alienated by the party because of partisan disputes, but they have always been a strong party in Qiaoxian County. Such a family, in such troubled times, naturally hopes that the clansmen will work together to tide over the difficulties.

On the other hand, Cao Cao raised troops this time, and the two families helped each other, so it can be said that both families regarded Cao Cao as a leader, and it is not an exaggeration to regard Cao Cao as the head of the two families.

At this time, Xiahou Sheng took refuge in Liu Zheng, and the two families would undoubtedly feel that Xiahou Sheng had betrayed the scriptures and betrayed the Tao, and was despising Cao Cao, the two families, and the patriarchy, and he would definitely not have a good face for Xiahou Sheng.

Moreover, Liu Zhengzhi is only a small person to the Cao family and the Xiahou family, at least at the moment, even if he has the Zhongxing sword in his hand, Liu Zheng is now being excluded by the scholars led by Yuan Shao, and it is not a good place for the two families to take refuge, and the Cao family and the Xiahou family are comparable to behemoths to Liu Zheng, and Cao Cao is a character that Liu Zheng must not ignore and does not want to make enemies in a short time.

So for the sake of safety, Liu Zheng also wanted to know Xiahou Sheng's true plan to come over and take refuge, so as not to be self-defeating and make the future go to a worse situation.

"Condescension? The lord is really too modest. ”

Xiahou Sheng came over Xun Yue, Zhang Mancheng and the others bowed their hands in return and smiled, "It's not a secret, a certain family talked about this matter to the uncle in the family before, and the uncle didn't agree." But they just think that I shouldn't leave my clan relatives and go out alone, for fear that my life will be miserable. In the matter of the lord, no matter what the rumors were, there were Brother Meng De and Brother Zhong Fu to defend it, and there was a letter from the Xiaoyan family back to talk about the feat of the lord to determine Youzhou, but the uncles admired the lord a lot, and never had half a sentence of slander. ”

He paused, "Coincidentally, in the past few days, a few people came to Qian County and Yijing Township County, so I asked them to settle a hexagram." And guess what? Xiangshi said that my life is extinct, only because of the help of nobles can I live in the world, if I am too far away from nobles, my life will not be long. Haha, a certain family is actually here to save their lives. ”

"This" Xun Yue and the others looked at each other, all of them were stunned, and Liu Zheng said with a strange face: "Isn't that supposed to find Yuan Huagong?" He's the one who is."

Xiahou Sheng couldn't wait to interrupt: "A few scholars said that if I follow the nobles, he will be honored by the marquis. It's not that I underestimate Yuan Huagong, but he saves the dead and helps the wounded, how can he make me the marquis and worship the prime minister? ”

"So mysterious" Seeing Zhang Mancheng and the others looking at them strangely, Liu Zheng muttered and touched his nose.

Xiahou Sheng bowed his head and said: "After that, I led those scholars to meet your uncles, and your uncles were impressed by their physiognomy and agreed. As for Brother Meng De and his brother, although he said that he didn't want me to serve the lord, but in the past, a certain family was sick, and they couldn't help, and they have always felt guilty. ”

Xiahou Sheng paused and said, "Naturally, Brother Meng De said that if the lord treats me badly, he will come to the lord to seek justice one day." ”

"Hey, I also said that the lord was too humble. Where do you put the lord in your eyes with your posture of overwhelming people? Seeing Xiahou Sheng smiling and joking, Zhang Mancheng echoed.

The crowd burst out laughing.

Zhang Mancheng took the lead, plus Xiahou Sheng was approachable, and everyone didn't care about Liu Zheng, who was stunned and speechless, and greeted Xiahou Sheng and began to call him a brother.

Xu He said curiously: "Brother Meng Cai, are those few Xiangshi really so capable?" Where is it now? You said that Xu also wanted them to do a hexagram. ”

"Yes, I've never met such a powerful scholar. The number of lives is extinct, and what makes me frightened when I hear it is not that I have been eyeing your Xiahou family before, and I have secretly checked it, and you said that you missed your mouth again, so that they can guess it, right? And then they said good things to make your uncles happy, so you were released? Sima Ju coaxed: "Let me guess, could it be that they say that your family has the appearance of a princely court?" ”

"Well, this matter must not be revealed." Xiahou Sheng's expression froze.

Probably guessed correctly, Xiahou Sheng's words of lack of confidence were noticed by Sima Ju, and there was immediately another commotion, which made Xiahou Sheng blush.

Xun Yue couldn't cry or laugh, and interjected: "Meng Cai, what about Zhongfu?" Why didn't you come? ”

When Liu Zheng heard this, he also glanced at the convoy that followed Zhu Ming and the others a few times, but did not find Xun Di's figure, and looked at Xiahou Sheng with some doubts.

Xiahou Sheng reacted and hurriedly arched his hand towards Liu Zheng, "My lord, Brother Zhongfu is waiting for you in Sour Jujube with Brother Meng De." In the letter sent to you by Brother Fang Cai, there is also a handwritten letter from Brother Zhongfu. ”

Liu Zheng nodded, beckoned Zhang Mancheng and the others to lead Xiahou Sheng to rest first, and here Zhu Ming withdrew his gaze from Xi Wei, who was helping the soldiers count the boxes, and hugged his fists and said: "According to the orders of the lord, the brothers in Yanzhou began to sort out these things more than a month ago, and sent them to Chen Liu. However, some of them were destroyed by the brothers in desperation because of the encounter with bandits, vendettas, and forced recruitment by the government. The steward over there has already sent someone over there to ask for it again, let me ask, does the lord still want it? If he wants, he will send someone to send the sour dates at that time. ”

"No need, just leave it alone, I'll come and see it when I have a chance later. And what about the brothers? Is there a lot of damage? All of this was expected, Liu Zheng nodded, took a torch from someone else, and walked around Zhu Ming towards the convoy.

"Not counting those who can't escape, there are a lot of injuries in other accidents, and more than 100 brothers died. The lord can rest assured that the bereavement has been taken care of. Zhu Ming's expression was a little serious, "Vendetta, whether it is a personal grudge or a grudge because of business, there are already brothers who have gone over to take revenge." Mostly done cleanly. If the bandit is a thief, Peng Tuo's brother Jiang Gong also brought people to the door to theorize a few times, and also brought people to bring a lot of cottages.

Seeing that Zhu Ming wanted to speak and stopped, Liu Zheng said, "Huh? With a sound, he walked around several carriages and found a large wooden box with the word "Chen Liu" engraved on the lock, and then asked one of the guards accompanying the carriage to open the box.

When the guard opened the box, Zhu Ming opened the guard and whispered, "Zhu heard some gossip before. It is said that Peng Tuo went to Luoyang with Ciming Gong and did not call Shangjiang Palace, so Jiang Gong was dissatisfied, and because of the recent crusade against Dong Zhuo by many Taishou in Yanzhou, Jiang Gong was affected and did not go well, so it was a little centrifuged. I inquired about a few more shopkeepers, saying that several batches of goods from Jiyin County to Chenliu County had been intercepted recently, and I guessed that Jiang Gong did it. ”

Liu Zheng casually rummaged through the wooden slips in the box, and lowered his face slightly: "Rumors? ”

Zhu Ming nodded, "There is no evidence for the time being." It is also said that he has been co-opted by several Taishou, and he has not surrendered on the surface, but secretly he is already someone else's person. Jiang Gong's identity is special, and many shopkeepers in Yanzhou don't dare to mess around, according to the lord's orders, I sent someone to summon Derun and Qin Jin's brother. ”

Derun is Cai Yang's word after the crown ceremony, this time he and Qin Jin also broke away from the Cai family, and followed Liu Zheng with their families, but Cai Yang's wife Lu was pregnant with Liujia and was unwell halfway, so they left Liu Zheng and temporarily settled in Dongjun.

Before Zhu Ming set off, Liu Zheng also instructed Qin Zheng to entrust Qin Jin to handle it when an accident occurred, at this time, listening to Zhu Ming, Liu Zheng opened a roll of bamboo slips, "Send them another letter, let them be careful, and save their lives first." This matter was also told to Brother Gongmo of Shanyang County and asked him to deal with it. In addition, let Brother Gongmo summon the entire Yanzhou, and let the brothers usually pay attention to some Yanzhou This time people from all parties gathered in Chenliu, maybe there will be turmoil at that time. ”

Gongmo is the word Xun Su, and Xun Su is the son-in-law of Xun Qilong Xun Su. According to the age ranking, Xun Yu is only a few months younger than Xun Yan and older than Xun Yu, so Liu Zheng also has to shout "Brother Gongmo".

Speaking of which, after Xun Su separated from Xun Shuang in the past, he took refuge in Yanzhou Prefecture, that is, Changyi County in Shanyang County, after which Xun Shuang resigned and returned to Yingyin and began to spread in Yuzhou, so he also contacted Xun Su, thinking of letting Xun Su come back to help him.

However, Xun Su's temperament followed the late Xun Sanlong Xun Jing, indifferent to fame and fortune, regardless of the world, and rejected Xun Shuang's commission, Xun Shuang felt that he could not waste Xun Su's talent, so he simply united with Xun Yue, Peng Tuo and others, and began to lay eyeliner in Yanzhou, let Xun Biao sit in the past, and asked Xun Su to help take care of it.

Xun Su was hindered by Xun Shuang's face, but he didn't refuse, but he didn't meddle in his affairs, basically no different from not interfering. After that, Xun Shuang repeatedly asked for letters, and Xun Qi, who was good friends with Xun Su, went north this time to persuade Xun Su, Xun Su and his son thought about it for a long time, and when Liu Zheng went south, Xun Shuang, and Xun Biao went west, they agreed to let Xun Su temporarily replace Xun Biao and help Liu Zheng take care of Yanzhou's affairs.

This time, Liu Zhenghui specially emphasized that he was also afraid that Xun Su would have an accident because of him. Zhu Ming knew the ins and outs of the matter, so he went to explain the matter in person.

Liu Zheng flipped through a few more bamboo slips, muttering something in his mouth, Xi looked at Zhu Ming, who was talking to the two guard commanders, leaned towards Liu Zheng, and vaguely heard the muttering of "palace position".

He was about to open his mouth with a shy face, when he saw Liu Zheng holding up the box that needed to be carried by two big men, and looked left and right, and his eyes lit up when he looked at him, "Hongyu, come just in time, greet a few brothers, and help bring me all the other boxes related to Chen Liujun." ”

Seeing Liu Zheng holding the box and muttering "palace position" with a smile on his face, Zhang Mancheng and the others complimented Liu Zheng to go in with a smile, Xi Yu was already stunned when he saw Liu Zheng lifting weights, and his eyes swept over a group of people nearby who were also stunned, and the corners of his mouth twitched for a long time.

Speaking of which, before he took refuge in Liu Zheng this time, Sun Qiangong Sun Fang and others did not persuade him not to beach Liu Zheng's troubled waters, but he was a little stubborn, since he had already told Sun Qian and others that he wanted to take refuge in Liu Zheng, he naturally would not change his mind easily.

After that, Liu Zheng was rescued from the army and returned to Zhuo County with injuries, he used to serve, and he always thought that he could be reused, but even Guoyuan's attitude was temporarily unclear by Xun Yuzheng and transferred to the county official, but he has been kept by Liu Zheng to do some errands.

He can become the first batch of people recommended by Zheng Xuan along with Sun Qian and others, naturally he has some talents, in fact, he himself thinks that he is no worse than ordinary people, but after arriving in Zhuo County, in addition to practicing the five poultry operas on weekdays, it can be regarded as a benefit to him, and at other times, Liu Zhengzhen really didn't see him as a strategist.

This time he followed Liu Zheng south, knowing that Liu Zheng had no competitors around him except Xun Yue on this trip, he had always been longing, and felt that Liu Zheng would not just let him go to Yu Poison's side to let him use his fists, but also treat him like a confidant on weekdays, even when he went to Chenliu County, he thought that Liu Zheng was going to let him know that the matter of intelligence was ready to reuse him, and he also wanted to test it and ask Liu Zheng for something that needed to be done with his brain, but now seeing Liu Zheng beckoning him to do something trivial, Xi Wei felt some resentment in his heart.

He has always liked to speculate on the minds of others, but he still can't understand what Liu Zheng thinks of him, thinking that as a beginner disciple of the Zheng family, he is only worthy of doing these things by your Liu Zheng's side

"Hongyu, hurry up." Listening to Liu Zheng's urging again, the big box was as light as a feather in his hand, Xi Yu took a deep breath a little timidly, gritted his teeth, and responded with a shy face, and then beckoned the convoy to enter the camp.

Here Liu Zheng returned to the middle of the camp, Zhao Yun and the others were still searching for bamboo slips, Liu Zheng asked, Zhao Yun hurriedly picked up a piece of wooden slip and came over, "Lord, this looks like it, and the original wooden slip can be read in conjunction with the record on it." It's just that the corners are eaten by insects, and I can't see the name and the wooden number, there is only one table word, and I don't know if it's not. ”

Liu Zheng put down the big wooden box, took the wooden slip, only to see the word "Yuan Zhi" written at the beginning of the broken wooden slip, and immediately smiled, after a while, he finished reading the content on the wooden slip, and said excitedly: "Studying in the township, it's a good thing." ”

As he spoke, he immediately put down the wooden stump, and saw that Xi Wei beckoned a few big men to push the two cars over, and hurriedly said, "Come on, come on, everyone continue." Find out quickly, Chen Liudianwei has it. The canon of the classics, the Wei of Lü Buwei. ”

Liu Zheng's eyes flashed when he spoke, and his tone trembled a little.

When he saw Xiahou Yuan, he thought of Chen Liu, and then remembered Xu Shu's matter, and Liu Zheng turned it out from his vague memory, Dian Wei, who had been looking for Chen Ping but couldn't find it, was Chen Liuren, and he had done the same thing as Xu Shu to kill people for friends.

Of course, he didn't know if Dian Wei had done anything to kill people for his friends and spread his fame now, and he didn't know if Dian Wei had defected to Cao Cao, but he was so excited that he couldn't do it when he thought that he was very close to Dian Wei and might be one step ahead of Cao Cao.

Of course, he was so excited, and Liu Zheng suddenly had a bolder plan, a plan that would not let him be bored even if he was squeezed out by the princes in Sour Zao.

Xun Yue was beckoning Xi to come over, and looked at Liu Zheng with a strange expression when he heard the words, "Deran, you still say it's not physiognomy?" ”

"Thou shalt not speak, thou shalt not speak." Liu Zheng smiled, played with the wooden slip in his hand, and then urged Zhang Mancheng and the others who didn't know why, took out the envelope and walked to the side of the bonfire.

After a long time, Liu Zheng threw the cloth silk in his hand into the fire, his expression was gloomy, and he suddenly snapped his fingers and shouted, "Hongyu." Come over here. ”

Xi worried: "Huh? After reacting, he hurriedly threw away the bamboo slip in his hand and ran over with a look of surprise.

The two whispered for a while, and suddenly there was a dispute, and after a while, Xi Wei gritted his teeth with a cold face and said, "Liu Deran, you trick me!" The shaft is not enough and conspiracy! ”

Seeing Xi Wei brushing his sleeves away, Xun Yue, Zhang Mancheng and the others were stunned, and they all got up and wanted to stay, but they heard Liu Zheng say coldly: "Don't chase!" ”

"Deran!" Xun Yue shouted, but he chased after him regardless of it, and after a while, Xun Yue led Zhang Fei and Li Cheng, who were out of breath, back, and the three of them showed some dissatisfaction to Liu Zheng, and then they didn't say hello, and Zhang Mancheng, Xiahou Sheng and others who were a little overwhelmed got together and said something.

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