"My lord, Zhao You has been captured." A patrol officer knelt down on one knee in front of Liu Hong and said with his hands.

Liu Hong was still long-bodied and jade, and Yue Zhi Yuanyu was not moved, but just glanced at the patrol officer approvingly: "Yes, bring it up." ”

The patrol officer obeyed Liu Hong's order, got up and turned around and said, "On the orders of the lord, bring Zhao You up." ”

With the shouts of this patrolman, surrounded by the four people, a down-and-out and familiar figure appeared in Liu Hong's eyes.

Liu Hong's heart became excited-the big thing is decided!

Liu Hong is actually not as calm as he seems to be, anyway, besieging the Zhao family is not a trivial matter after all, although the possibility of success is great, but the possibility of failure is not small, and if it fails, Liu Hong will definitely bear a painful price, but Liu Hong has gradually learned how to hide and express his emotions.

Seeing Zhao You's stupid appearance, Liu Hong frowned and asked, "How did he become like this?" ”

The four soldiers who escorted Zhao You up glanced at each other, and then one of the soldiers standing on Zhao You's right hand replied: "Back to the head of the family, Zhao You originally wanted to escape through the secret passage, but the chamber where the secret passage was hidden was full of medicinal herbs, blocking the entrance to the secret passage, and then Zhao You became like this. ”

After listening to this explanation, Liu Hong didn't know how to describe his feelings, it was like a joke, how important the secret passage was, how could it be- wait, medicinal herbs, could it be......

Thinking of this, Liu Hong asked out loud: "Medicinal herbs? What is the herb. ”

"This ......" The soldier who answered Liu Hong's question thought for a while, and then said with some uncertainty: "It seems to be medicinal materials such as Chuanxiong and realgar." ”

Liu Hong was silent, he should have laughed, because the two medicinal materials of Chuanxiong and realgar are the main medicines on that recipe, Zhao You caused the disaster of destruction for this recipe, and it was this recipe that blocked his last point, what a hilarious irony.

But Liu Hong only felt extremely cold, and some coincidences would always make some smart people inexplicably frightened, such as - is there really a so-called karma in this world?

Liu Hong didn't think too much, in front of so many people, especially his subordinates, he didn't want to show his distracted side, because it would damage his majesty, and majesty is an indispensable quality of a superior person.

"Take it down." Liu Hong waved his hand and said flatly.

"Whoa." The four soldiers replied in unison, taking Zhao You down, waiting for him will be endless darkness, maybe this is not a bad thing for Zhao You.

The soldiers came out of the Zhao Mansion one by one, and one by one the small leaders stepped forward and whispered to Liu Hong, and Liu Hong bowed his head one by one and encouraged the last two sentences.

After a while, the gate of Zhao's mansion was full of soldiers, who stood motionless in the cold wind, waiting for orders from Liu Hong.

Liu Hong didn't say any so-called inspiring nonsense, he knew what these people wanted to hear most at the moment, and after a week of majestic gaze, Liu Hong said in a deep voice:

"The people who are dispatched this time, whether they are tenants of my Liu family or the county government patrol, will be given five hundred dollars."

The cheers were thunderous, but the silence immediately returned, and in Liu Hong's gaze, the people who rejoiced in the windfall lowered their heads in disdain.

Liu Hong shook his head, he seemed to be a little out of shape, he didn't regret his choice, and he didn't think it was wrong, but after all, some people died because of him, and there may be innocent and poor people among these people. He wasn't born a cold-blooded butcher, and some things ultimately require a process of adaptation.

"Wang Wu!"

"Humble duty."

"You go and go back with the patrol and keep order in the city."

"Whoa." Wang Wugong replied, and then led the patrol to leave.

After Wang Wu left, there were only forty-one people left on the field, including Liu Hong, and Liu Dan, the captain of the militia, was impressively listed.

Liu Hong estimated the time in his heart, and stood quietly in the wind and waited until the sound of the horse's hooves of "Dada" sounded.

Liu Shan turned over and dismounted, kneeling on one knee in front of Liu Hong: "Meet the head of the family." ”

Liu Hong didn't speak, but looked at Liu Dan, who nodded slightly.

"It's finished." Seeing this, Liu Hong sighed in his heart, and there was an unspeakable taste that flooded again, unlike other people, Doctor Zhao actually helped him a lot, he actually didn't want to be like this.

But everyone has their own position, like Doctor Zhao, although he is only a son of the Zhao family who is not taken seriously, but after all, the Zhao family, at a critical moment, will still put the interests of the Zhao family first, which is what he has been taught for many years; Another example is Liu Hong, for whom everyone needs to pay for their actions, and betrayal is not worthy of forgiveness.

"Liu Dan, you take someone to surround the Zhao Mansion, take strict care of it, and don't let idle people wait in."

"Obey the orders of the head of the house."

Liu Shan got up and began to organize manpower and assign work, Liu Hong watched from the sidelines, did not say a word, was silent for a while, and then walked to his mansion under the escort of two soldiers.

When he came, in order not to disturb the Zhao family, Liu Hong did not take a carriage, but fortunately, this section of the road was not too far.

The next day, countless people in Zhuo County, who were huddled at home, received the shocking news that the Zhao family had contracted the plague and died violently overnight.

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Three months later, Zhuo County has gradually recovered some life, and there are already walking people on the road, although it is not much, but this is a good start after all.

As for the Zhao family, it is like a weed growing on the side of the road, which is forgotten intentionally or unintentionally, and occasionally the gossip of the little people inadvertently mentions this matter, and then it is like a thief, looking around weakly, and then breathing a sigh of relief and keeping silent.

However, Liu Hong's contribution to the "Zhao family" is far more than that, whether it is the profit sharing of the epidemic prevention credit, or the money used to seal his mouth, Liu Hong is quite heartbroken, but some efforts are necessary.

The only one who complained a little about Liu Hong's actions was Liu Hong's senior brother Lu Zhi, and Liu Hong could only be silent about this. Everyone is a different individual, with their own three views and interests, so it is inevitable for some people to drift away - even if they are close friends, well, such as Yuan Shao and Cao Cao in the original time and space.

Liu Bei began his county school career again, and his "Hundred Family Names" began to gradually spread due to the end of the plague, and began to make a name for Liu Bei, but this is still a long process, in this era of underdeveloped transportation.

In the county school, I haven't seen him for a few months, Liu Bei already has some feeling of being out of the world, and the classmates also seem to be in low spirits, and they all look sad, the plague is not a child after all, it always has to die.

Zhang Fei's mood is not high, Liu Bei knows what this is for, because Wang Xu is dead, although Wang Xu and Zhang Fei fought fiercely at the beginning, but later under Liu Bei's reconciliation, their relationship is not bad, at least in today's youth, they can be regarded as friends, and in the face of the death of a friend, few people will be indifferent.

In the afternoon, at the end of the day's classes, the students left one by one, Liu Bei said goodbye to Zhang Fei, and went to the teacher Lu Zhi's study.

In the study, Lu Zhi and Liu Bei sat opposite each other, Lu Zhi moved his mouth, Liu Bei bowed his head, a harmonious scene of teacher and apprentice.

Liu Bei is asking Lu Zhi some of his questions and doubts about "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" at the moment, and the questions and doubts are naturally fake, just a layer of "step-by-step" clothing shown to the world.

This plague has changed a lot, for example, the political pattern of Zhuo County, and for example, some of Liu Bei's ideas, during this three-month closed-door period, Liu Bei, who has nothing to do, can only find something to do for himself, otherwise loneliness will drive him crazy.

So, Liu Bei began to really study "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", and began to solve mathematical problems that he had despised before, but this process was not as simple as Liu Bei thought, just like the college students who disdained to do elementary school math problems for their little nieces and nephews in later generations and then were dumbfounded, Liu Bei was embarrassed to find that a lot of his mathematical knowledge had been returned to his primary and secondary school teachers many years ago.

However, this aroused Liu Bei's fighting spirit, and in the process of working hard to solve the problem day by day, a little bit of sporadic memory was recalled by Liu Bei Shunteng, and then Liu Bei fell into the point of forgetting to sleep and eat, because the sense of achievement caused by the kind of IQ explosion of mistakes given by this kind of solution is really inextricable.

Then after Liu Bei re-sorted out the "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", looking at the new formulas he had sorted out, Liu Bei found that he could actually copy more than just Arabic numerals and those mathematical symbols.

He can invent some new formulas, put forward some conjectures that he vaguely remembers, and he can try to sort out the classical Chinese arithmetic represented by the "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" to make it more systematic and theoretical.

It was also because of these sudden ideas that Liu Bei gave up his plan to quickly put forward "Xuande Numbers" and "Xuande Symbols", and some things should be slowed down a little longer, too much.

After coming out of the county school, Liu Bei walked unhurriedly in the direction of home, and when he returned home, the housekeeper Zhongbo, who had just arrived, opened the door for Liu Bei.

In the courtyard, his father Liu Hong was taking a walk with his little sister Liu Yu, who was actually more than a year old, but what made Liu Bei helpless was that his father still doted on her, which was an unprecedented treatment for him and his younger brother Liu Ping at the same age.

Then Liu Bei saluted Liu Hong and greeted him, Liu Hong reprimanded him in a cliché, and Liu Bei went to the wing room to eat.

This was Liu Bei's solemn, calm and ordinary day after the Great Plague.

And at this moment, thousands of miles away in Luoyang, a thrilling palace game is being staged without seeing the shadow of swords.