Chapter 215: New Year's Eve
For several days of dark clouds and heavy snowfall, even when the sun melts and the snow melts cooler than usual, people in this situation will most choose to stay in the airtight house that has been set up to roast the fire.
If the conditions are poor, it is inevitable that they will not be able to survive recently, coupled with all kinds of livelihood problems, or starve to death, or freeze to death, and all kinds of tragic human tragedies may occur.
Liu Zheng is naturally not in such a ranks, but keeping filial piety is simple, and it is impossible to have a steaming hot pot, barbecue, or lie on the kang and hug Geng Qiuyi to live a leisurely life.
He doesn't care about reputation, generally out of guilt for Liu Shi, as he lives in this world for a longer time, under the influence of the environment, he now feels a little taken for granted for some etiquette rules at this time, at least he feels that it can make him feel better.
Naturally, to be able to get through, in addition to the company of Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Gongsun Yue, and most of them also have the guidance of Lu Zhi.
Although the old man has been a big official and has enjoyed it, he is essentially a Confucian who abides by etiquette and law, and he was scolded by Liu Zheng that day, although Lu Zhi finally made a compromise, but in Liu Zheng's opinion, the other party may also think that he is too apopathic, so he has been guiding him to abide by those etiquette rules as a teacher these days. The attitude is also kind, it seems that because he has experienced too many things to change his mentality, or because he is afraid that he will rebel, Lu Zhi at this time is not as strict as he remembers, everything is carried out in a gentle way.
It is also for this reason that for most of the past few days, Liu Zheng has been led by Lu Zhi, kneeling in front of Liu Shi's tomb with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to talk, occasionally clearing snow in Taoyuan, or going to the village, gathering everyone to listen to Lu Zhi explain some of the scriptures and classics sent by Xun You, or talk about interesting stories from all over the world.
The old man is a person with great wisdom, who was a doctor of Taixue before, but he does not have the kind of literary crepe tone of Confucianism at all.
Although for Liu Zheng, some of the content is inevitably a little boring because he listens to it and listens to it, but at this time, the mood is different, and when entertainment is banned, it is generally a pleasure to listen to Lu Zhi's lectures and tell some anecdotes about the court and various places.
And most people in the village don't have the opportunity to study, even if they listen to it, they feel quite honored, not to mention that Lu Zhi has served as a high-ranking official, and even lectured for the emperor, including Liu Zhengnei, and sometimes everyone only feels that they are at the peak of their lives. Similar to Geng Qiuyi, Bao Li and other female dependents, they can get Lu Zhi's consent to observe the class, and their eyes are slightly red at every turn, inciting Zhu Ming and others to be excited, thinking that there are no regrets in life, and it is also quite an honor to be able to rely on Liu Zheng.
Of course, there is literature and martial arts, after Li Yan came back that night, Liu Zheng also met with him, and Li Yan was also a lot more calm in a few months, he used to be a little stubborn because of some false names, but after seeing Lu Zhi, he was also blushing and speechless, just like an ordinary person who had never seen the world saw the emperor for the first time, and then after being polite by Lu Zhi, he also set an example and taught everyone to learn knife techniques.
Then Xiahou Yuan has some experience in archery, Xiahou Sheng learned the five bird plays, Gongsun is better at riding horses, Zhang Renshan is good at using guns, Zhang has a chance to heal, Liu Zheng is about arithmetic and scriptures, and even some superficial things on marksmanship, boxing and vomiting can also be at hand, Zhuang has almost become a small private school, the learning atmosphere is unprecedented, even if most of the time Lu Zhi and Liu Zheng are in Taoyuan, but the learning atmosphere in the village has been endured for a long time, and everyone even has a sense of rebirth.
Of course, this situation is not in the farm, but in the farm.
On the third day after Lu Zhi came back, the people of the Bao family and the Cai family arrived one after another, and in those days, Lu Zhi also let Liu Zheng hang up the free card in advance, so that everyone could not see Liu Zheng and Lu Zhi, so they could only go to the farm to atone for their sins, Cai Yu did not disappoint Liu Zheng, the squeezing of labor can be described as thorough, and the learned stuffed into private school or went to file and sort out some irrelevant things, and the uneducated went to the ground, and even incorporated into the army, there was no discussion at all.
Because Lu Zhi is here, and Zhang Ke appears in the farm from time to time, those people are also very acquainted, and they know that if the vanity of the scholar clan is brought to the surface again, it will only ruin the already dilapidated clan, Liu Zheng doesn't care if they have complaints or dissent, at least for a few months, these people will definitely not dare to make any unnecessary moves.
Then on November 12, the Lu family migrated to Zhuo County again in Lu Zhi's letters, and this time, almost all of Fanyang's family property was sold, and the Lu family officially settled in Zhuo County.
But in fact, in addition to Lu Zhi's reasons, most of these people came because of Gongsun Zhan.
Because of Liu Zheng's previous slander, there were many people in the Lu family who insinuated to Lu Zhi, but Lu Zhi didn't speak, and these people also understood that Lu Zhi wanted to defend Liu Zheng, so they naturally didn't dare to go to Zhangjiazhuang again, and then walked around Zhuoxian step by step to visit, began to buy properties, and prepared to officially settle down.
In the process of the Lu family taking root in Zhuo County, Liu Zheng did not have the delusion that the Lu family would come to help him, in fact, he, like the Lu family, was also waiting for Gongsun Zhan to come over.
However, the Lu family has the intention of relying on Gongsun Yue to strengthen the family, but Liu Zheng just wants to find out what kind of attitude Gongsun Chan has. It's just that even if Gongsun Chan gets the news of Lu Zhi, he will have to go to Luoyang to pay for the seal ribbon first, and he may not be able to officially come over to take office until December, and the letter will come, and it may take a few days to arrive on a snowy day.
This kind of weather also affects the progress of the Yan family and Liu Yan's side, the Yan family has a letter from the Yan family, and they are still on the road at this time, and about Liu Yan, Liu Zheng also knows that Liu Yan is not afraid of Lu Zhi, and his slander has nothing to do with Liu Yan in the end, the other party really has to be guilty, although it is not really unscrupulous about Lu Zhi's face, but it is also possible to delay it for a few days before responding, so Fei Boren's side did not respond for a long time after the first few days of commotion, plus the progress of the Yan family is slow, It also made Liu Zheng angry about whether he could not test the system and whether his plan was counted.
But this kind of thinking is also occasionally thought about, these days he is very busy except for accompanying Lu Zhi, sometimes he carries Lu Zhi Professor Fang Xue Li Lang some Arabic letters and compares them with the usual arithmetic, or walks around with Xiahou Yuan, Zhang Ren, Gongsun Yue and others, makes some emotional investment, and occasionally takes Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to see Li's Geng Qiuyi and other female dependents.
Li is also comfortable, Geng Qiuyi is still working hard to read and weave clothes recently, but occasionally he is in a trance, Liu Zheng also knew that the words after seeing Cai Xiao that day must have aroused the other party's mind, so he could only take time to chat with the other party on weekdays, explain the doubts about Lu Zhi's speech, and even teach the method of vomiting and some self-defense techniques, and then praise the other party's clothes for wearing a really warm fit, which can be regarded as a gesture of heart.
It may be that Geng Qiuyi is working too hard, or his own thoughts are troublesome, Liu Zheng occasionally has a sense of guilt in his heart, and when he receives Ke Hai's report on the situation on Xianzhang Street on weekdays, he doesn't dare to think nonsense, and he doesn't even ask a few more words about Cai Xiao's situation.
Speaking of which, Lu Jian hasn't seen Lu Zhi recently, he seems to be addicted to role-playing, that is, he occasionally walks around with Zhang Ke, and he also considers himself Zhang Ke's nephew, and he usually talks peacefully, everyone knows what happened to him and Cai Xiao on Xianzhang Street that day, and there are many rumors that he went to see Liu Zheng later, and after a while, he has become a typical example of knowing his mistakes and changing them, as for whether this move has hooked up a few people with ulterior motives to tempt, with Cai Xiao Kehai taking care of him over there, Liu Zheng didn't pay attention.
By the time it was November 17, the investigation in the farm was over, and Liu Zheng was naturally satisfied with the result, in the case of family honor, the Cai, Bao, and Yan families did not dare to mess around during such a sensitive period, and others naturally did not come forward, although it is not guaranteed that there are still internal traitors hidden, but at least the harmony on the surface is also a deterrent to those with ulterior motives.
That afternoon, Zhang Ren learned the five poultry operas, and when the farm had already prepared grain and grass and candidates, he also took Ke's and Song Shun Jinma to Nanyang officially.
In addition to protecting Jian Yong this time, Zhang Ren naturally also took Liu Zheng with the task of encircling Huang Zhong.
Liu Zheng has also practiced Wufowl Opera, and now he is also a master of boxing, and he also has a thorough understanding of the exercises to strengthen the body of Wufowl Opera, and also has further ideas, such as pushing the idea of Xingyi Boxing, or pondering Taijiquan by himself, after all, the Hundred Birds Chaofeng and the Broken Sky Knife are also kung fu with strength, and perhaps mutual confirmation can further accelerate the understanding.
But he was originally a layman, and now he has a short time to master, so he is naturally still in the stage of crossing the river by feeling the stones, but he also feels that Hua Tuo is really good at it, this exercise moves the entire body, and almost all parts are taken care of, which is indeed simpler and more effective than the polishing kung fu of ordinary martial arts, and it is not easy to hurt the body and cause hidden diseases.
In these years, the medical conditions are too poor, and it is difficult to guarantee safety, but I am afraid that it is also because of this consideration that Huang Zhong, who loves his son, does not dare to let Huang Xu practice martial arts so much that he will work too hard, and even leave hidden dangers.
This time, there is a health preservation exercise like five poultry operas, as long as he benefits from Huang Xu, presumably Huang Zhong should remember this kindness, and maybe he can be won over by Jian Yong.
Since then, Liu Zheng has continued to live a step-by-step life, and some ideas that are not there are naturally still carried out in the open and secretly, such as the development of sleeve arrows, horseshoes, and saddles, iron smelting, epidemic prevention, recruitment, military tun, and rumors. Disaster relief...... Everything is in order.
However, this made Zhang Ke lose weight again.
There are some things that can only be carried out by Li Cheng and Zhang Ke at this time, Li Cheng is naturally responsible for various matters and intelligence in the farm, and about the hidden things such as horseshoe and iron smelting, after Liu Zheng brought it up, Zhang Ke, who was taken aback, could only recruit another group of people to monitor and do it secretly.
These things are covered by Sun Hao's horse farm, and Zhang Ke's official identity, but it is not difficult to hide, but Zhang Ke's psychological pressure is really heavy.
In addition to taking care of the farm and the county government, in fact, he is still not very relieved that there are only some thieves in the vicinity of Zhuo County after the amnesty of the world, and he also knows that Cai Nu is still on Yang Feng's side, but some things have begun to get out of his imagination, especially after there is no more small fights, like the calm before the storm, even if Liu Zheng assures that with all kinds of news about the assembly of thieves entering his field of vision, he is always worried, and always feels that Liu Zheng may mess up this time.
Halfway through the winter in November, the temperature will not be lower any longer, and most of the time it will be cloudy and snowy, and people will live and die according to their own destiny......
Then on December 15, a rare sunny day, Sun Zhan, the Taishou Gong of Zhuo County, led a group of officials to officially arrive in anticipation from all parties.
At noon that day, Gongsun Zan led Fei Boren and other Fei clansmen who had already arrived in Zhuo County to Zhangjiazhuang to worship Liu Shi, Fei Boren brought Liu Yan after a long period of inaction, brought Liu Yan "Youzhou bandits are rampant and difficult to get out", and also showed that Fei felt embarrassed after listening to Liu Yan's reprimand, and would let the clansmen atone for a period of time here.
Liu Zheng naturally dealt with these scenes decently, and then exchanged a few words with Gongsun Zhan, who left Gongsun Yue and Gongsun Xu, and led Le Hedang, Gongsun Fan and others to leave.
Gongsun Zhan's scene is about just taking office, to grasp the situation in Zhuo County, not to mention that the charges of the ten permanent servants are now circulating everywhere in Youzhou, and it is suspected that it is spread by the bandits who joined forces, in order to prevent abnormal movements, he must be prepared, but Liu Zheng looked at the favorability of the other party's "-70" and the "Liu Bei (word Xuande)" in the phase, and always felt that the other party and Liu Bei said something in Luoyang.
Regarding the overall trend of Youzhou, Lu Zhi was originally unaware, and after learning about the situation from Gongsun Zhan, he naturally looked at Liu Zheng deeply, but the old man didn't ask much, Liu Zheng fortunately got along with him as usual, occasionally the two of them baked a brazier in the grass hut, shared a quilt to cover their feet and chatted, but also quite a sense of teacher and friend.
The days passed day by day, and the Yan family, which Liu Zheng was thinking about, was looking forward to waiting until December 20. But only two elders from the Yan family came to visit, saying "Those juniors are really reckless, and the old people will compensate for them" and other scenes, and then revealed the idea of clinging to Liu Zheng through Yan Yu, but the actual action has not been taken so far.
But after that, Liu Zheng knew a piece of news that made him stunned, Tong Yuan, Zhao Yun and others who came over this time, and even the entire caravan of the Yan family, were actually pulled over by Cai Nu to be thieves, among them, I heard that there was also Yang Feng's persecution, but who knows how much the news on the surface is, anyway, he entered Cai Nu's circle, Liu Zheng was also a little embarrassed to let the other party stay there without protection, and he could only hope that the other party would make good use of Tong Yuan and Zhao Yun.
Of course, from the news from Li Cheng, he can generally know Cai Nu's ability through Cai Yu's lazy and boring state, and it is not difficult to make good use of Tong Yuan and Zhao Yun, and since then he has been looking forward to the news of Zhang Mancheng and Chu Feiyan, and also looking forward to Gongsun Zhan's obvious attitude towards him.
So I looked forward to it, the New Year was getting closer and closer, and it was December 26, but I was looking forward to Chang Jiwen and others coming over and saying that they wanted to go home.
In fact, many people left because of the amnesty in the middle of the world, but there are homeless people everywhere, and it is not difficult to recruit people.
However, Zhu Ming's group of people in the camp did not leave, at this time Chang Jiwen and others wanted to go home, in fact, they just went home for a period of time, regardless of whether there were parents and relatives in their hometown, sometimes they missed it, and they always had to go back to see the clansmen, that is, they were lonely.
When Chang Jiwen came over that day, he took Wen Renchang and a big man, and called Zhao Qian, who was still in weak health.
When he heard the amnesty of the world, Chang Jiwen would cry bitterly, but also because when he was forced to kill for the first time two years ago, his father and mother pleaded for him everywhere to go to the relationship, and as a result, he was robbed and killed by someone who leaked money, this wealth is actually only a small end, but there are always people who will take a fancy to it, and when his father and mother died, he survived because of the amnesty in the world, and since then he has always touched the scene.
The big man who came with him was named Huang Chang, who looked like a tiger with a bear's waist, and had calluses in his hands, when he saw Liu Zheng and Lu Zhi, Huang Chang was also respectful and a little restrained, but Liu Zheng was vigilant, listening to the news that the system prompted that the name could not be matched, and pretended to have something to say to Chang Jiwen to bring the excuse of Gu'an, so that Chang Jiwen was secretly vigilant, but listening to Chang Jiwen say that the other party performed well in the farm, Liu Zheng could only let Chang Jiwen pay attention, but the thing of cutting the grass and eradicating the roots could not be done, so as not to kill by mistake and lose people's hearts.
Since then, the days have passed, although filial piety is kept, but other people in the village are also going to celebrate the New Year, and in the atmosphere of those people sticking wallpaper and hanging red letters, Liu Zheng and Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Gongsun Yue, Lu Zhi chatted around the brazier in the thatched house of Taoyuan, thinking about the lively atmosphere of firecrackers in the future, and the first year of Zhongping has passed......
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Shouxiao naturally did not have to visit other people, and the ceremony of worshipping ancestors was also controlled by Li and others, but many people came to mourn Liu Shi. There are people who know and don't know, Liu Zheng naturally accompanied the mourning, and stayed until the night was deserted, thinking that he could breathe a sigh of relief, but the arrival of several uninvited guests made him dare not relax for several months after that.