Chapter 33: The Court of the Scholars

Hearing Dong Ce's remarks, the three of them were shocked and sighed, Liu Su burst into tears, looked at Dong Ce pitifully and said, "In this way, this child was born without a mother?" ”

"Damn, do you know what I mean?" Dong Ce scolded in his heart, he said that he just wanted to make Liu Su afraid, and then handed over the little tiger to him!

Dong Ce had spent his life in the circus, and it was at that time that he fell in love with large beasts, and with the assistance of animal trainers, he had many contacts with tigers. Moreover, in the previous life, this wild South China tiger did not know if it was really extinct, anyway, it had not been seen for more than 20 years, which made him regretful, and now when he saw this little guy, it was difficult for him to keep his composure.

But it is undeniable that the reason why Dong Ce likes them is nothing more than feeling majestic, think about the foreigners who raise lions and tigers as big cats, especially the local tyrants in the Middle East, what famous car in their eyes is no different from a broken bicycle, the lion is the strongest mount, and Dong Ce, only envy, jealousy and hatred!

However, the South China tiger is not large, so it must not be used as a mount, if it is a Siberian tiger...... Dong Ce almost drooled!

"You have to get this little guy in your hands, as Lao Tzu's protector beast, as long as the white snow moth and they don't stand up for one person is Wu Er, then what is Lao Tzu afraid of?" Dong Ce thought of this, so he looked at Liu Su and said: "You can't say that, if you have milk, you are a mother, how can you say that you don't have a mother?" Only now it thinks so, as for its real mother, hehe, this is probably to ask the hunter, if he didn't catch the tigress, just coincidentally got a scattered, then if you really can't bear to let it have no mother, you can let the hunter go to the mountains and let it go, then the tigress will naturally find the smell to find it, but if the tigress is killed, you release it now, the same as harming it! ”

Liu Su was distracted for a while after hearing this, looking at the little tiger in her arms like a sick child, after a long time, she plucked up the courage to look at Dong Ce and said: "Su'er wants to find that Orion, I wonder if Dong Gongzi can take the time to accompany him?" ”

Liu Su didn't dare to go looking for Orion alone, and her family was not a big family, except for a servant couple who were over forty years old, there were only her and her grandfather, how could they rely on a man?

And Dong Ce, although he is thin, he is very tall, and he is also Cao Luorong's future husband, and even the tiger knows him very well, so it is best to be accompanied by him.

Looking at Liu Su's shiny beautiful eyes expectantly, Dong Ce was unnatural, not that he liked this woman, but he really couldn't stand this kind of gaze, and it was difficult for Dong Ce to guarantee that he would not slap this cute thing and give it a gloomy blow.

"Ruoliu Niangzi is really relieved to let me accompany her, but it is naturally disrespectful to be below, but first we have to feed this little guy, otherwise it is really dying!" Dong Ce wanted to accompany her for a while, after all, under normal circumstances, the South China Tiger can give birth to two to three tiger cubs in one litter, and if you can get one or two more, you will be in a groove!

"Yes, yes, you see how I forgot such an important thing, this little guy wants to drink milk, milk ......" Liu Su said uneasily, and suddenly looked at Dong Ce and said, "I don't know if the dog's milk is feasible?" There happens to be a litter of dogs in my house, but the puppies have been weaned for a few days, and I don't know if it still has milk? ”

"Of course you can, and being able to breastfeed directly is much better than taking milk on a plate." Dong Ce nodded.

"That's fine, then I'll go now." After Liu Su finished speaking, he turned around and ran home, and didn't think of Dong Ce until he was close to the door, and couldn't help but turn around and smile apologetically at Dong Ce, and said, "Please also ask Dong Gongzi to give me some pointers!" ”

Dong Ce hesitated for a while before nodding and saying, "Okay." ”

But he was about to lift his heels, when suddenly he was hit the shoulder, and if it weren't for his good balance, I am afraid that he would have fallen directly.

"Oh, young boy, are you okay?" Liu Fu's eyes were quick, and he immediately put on a posture ready to meet Dong Ce.

Dong Ce waved his hand to signal that it was okay, looked at Cao Luorong who rushed over after hitting him on the shoulder, and said secretly: "This girl is sick." ”

"It's very dangerous for you to invite someone like him to the mansion, no, I have to help you keep an eye on him!" Cao Luorong ran to Liu Su's side and finished speaking, then turned back and smiled provocatively at Dong Ce.

Liu Su was slightly stunned, then pursed his lips and smiled, and entered the Liu Mansion without saying much.

"Young boy?" Liu Fu asked with his eyes, can we still enter?

"You and her were originally a family five hundred years ago, what are you afraid of." Dong Ce patted his shoulder and strode towards Liufu.

As soon as I entered the Liufu, I couldn't help but smack, not how magnificent the decoration here, but too quiet and elegant, in addition to the stone road in the middle, these two sides are flowers and trees, there is a small pond, flowers, birds, insects and fish are everything, and even the wall is green and green, full of vines, and even the buildings inside are built with bamboo, which is too pleasant!

Dong Ce felt that the air in this mansion was as refreshing as the deep mountains and old forests.

As Liu Su and his party entered the bamboo house, Dong Ce saw that it was not much different from the lobby of the Cao family, and it was all sitting, but the style was more primitive than the Cao family.

Entering the bamboo house, the group passed through the side door, walked through the small corridor two feet long, and came to a wooden house.

As soon as he entered the wooden house, Dong Ce saw a group of small earth dogs pounce on them, wagging their tails at them and begging for mercy.

Liu Su smiled and bent over, drove the puppies to the side with one hand to prevent being kicked by her, and came to the corner of the house with the little tiger in the other hand, glanced at the female dog resting inside, and then looked back at Dong Ce and said, "Dong Gongzi, how to feed this?" ”

"You just let the little tiger suck it, and if the female dog is restless, you can stay aside and pet it a few times." Dong Ce reminded.

"It's that simple." Liu Su smiled, thanked him, and did as Dong Ce instructed.

Sure enough, the little tiger had just been put next to the female dog's belly, and it was still sick, so it immediately cheered up some spirits, sniffed the frankincense is a bite, and then sucked it up, seeing Liu Su couldn't help but show a happy smile.

However, the female dog was indeed a little restless, but fortunately, Liu Su was reminded by Dong Ce in advance, and when she noticed that something was wrong, she quickly attached herself and gently touched its back, which made the female dog quiet.

"Young boy, this little tiger has drunk dog milk, won't it become the same as the dog, and bark, right?" Liu Fu said curiously.

Dong Ce couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard this, and said angrily: "According to what you say, you will scream when you come to the mouthful, you will be a gale lady!" ”

"Huh? Violent...... Who is Gale Lady? Liu Fu was confused.

"It's Madale Dog, his wife." Cao Luorong on the side suddenly said coldly.

Liu Fu heard that he was about to continue asking, but he saw Cao Luorong's expressionless face, as if what she said just now was not what she said, so he couldn't help but be so frightened that he didn't dare to open his mouth, and looked back at his young son, hoping to get an explanation, but who knows, the young son also had the same expression, no joy or sadness, which made Liu Fu even more confused.

The little tiger was really hungry, and he didn't stop drinking a stick of incense, if it wasn't for Dong Ce's words to let Liu Su take it away, I'm afraid that the female dog would have to be sucked dry.

"You can't feed it too much at one meal, you see its little belly is bulging, all right, now go find the hunter." Dong Ce said.

Liu Su nodded, looking at the little guy in his arms who had recovered a lot of energy, and couldn't help but be happy: "If it weren't for meeting Dong Gongzi, Su'er really didn't know what to do." ”

"Oh, thank him for what, this is what he should do, hehe, this little guy is so cute, it's hard to imagine that it is actually a big tiger that can eat people!" Cao Luorong first glanced at Dong Ce, and then smiled and teased the little tiger in Liu Su's arms, but this time the little tiger obviously recovered some of his spirits, swaying the little tiger's head and chasing Cao Luorong's fingers and wanted to bite, so frightened that Cao Luorong quickly withdrew her hand, but the smile on her face was still there, it seems that in front of cute things, no matter how hard and iron and steel the woman is, she will turn into a finger twister!

After feeding the little tiger, Liu Su was reluctant to put it down, and kept holding it in his arms, waiting for the group to walk out of Liufu, Liu Su suddenly frowned, looked at Cao Luorong with some embarrassment, and said, "Sister, can you borrow the carriage from your house?" ”

"My family's carriage was used by my father, but ......" said, Cao Luorong turned to look at Liu Fu and said: "Didn't you hear, put down the car ladder, you really don't have any qualifications to be a servant, how can you serve me in the future?" ”

Liu Fu was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't dare to move, just looked at Dong Ce.

"You're not tired of living, you obviously don't want to, but you want to say it!" Dong Ce sighed lightly, but Cao Luorong looked like a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water, and obviously took Dong Ce's words as a fart.

Dong Ce shook his head again, ignored her anymore, and ordered: "Ah Fu go, hurry up." ”

"Yes!" Liu Fu immediately ran to the carriage and carried the ladder out and put it on the back of the carriage.

Liu Su smiled gratefully at Dong Ce, and then got into the car.

After the group sat down, Liu Su said: "Go to Lu Mansion first, I want to ask Lu Xiaoxiao where the hunter is." ”

"Well, the first time I came to Gusu Mansion, I have to count on the two ladies to guide me along the way." Liu Fu scratched his head and said.

"Who doesn't know that you don't know the way, let the horses run first, turn right out of this alley, and then remind you." This Cao Luorong looks domineering, and Dong Ce is really depressed, he is also a scholarly family, look, Liu Su is knowledgeable, you are wild and untamable, this person is really incomparable!

Liu Su also wondered, although Cao Luorong has a very poor character, she has never dealt with a servant, she usually directly satirizes the master, but today she ignores Dong Ce and picks on the servant's thorns, what is this called?

How does Liu Su know, it's not that Cao Luorong doesn't want to sarcastically mock Dong Ce, but she is not sure, she is thinking about knowing herself and knowing her opponent before doing it!

The group sat in a carriage and walked around Gusu Mansion for a long time before they came to the door of Lu Xiaoxi's house.

Lu Mansion is worthy of being a big family in Gusu, with a tall courtyard and a magnificent style, and half a door is worth more than three times that of the Cao family.

If Dong Ce is not mistaken, the alley he passed by just now, there is a long row of bluestone brick walls inside, which should be the wall of the Lu family, so it seems that its overall area is at least dozens of acres of land!

"Scholars!" As soon as this thought appeared, it was immediately recognized by Dong Ce, and only the scholars could own such a mansion!

Looking at Dong Ce's somewhat stunned look at the Lu family's courtyard, Liu Su explained with a smile: "The Lu family has been an official for generations, and it has been since the previous dynasty, and now in addition to the three big officials in the central capital, there are also Lu family members in the yamen of the three prefectures and twelve counties of Suzhou, so this Lu Fang can be so magnificent." ”

"Lu Fang? Could it be that this used to be a workshop? Dong Ce exclaimed.

"Exactly!" Liu Su smiled and said: "Since the imperial court revoked the fang market system in Nanning, Jiangsu, Yang, and Shanghai sixteen years ago, to this day, all the walls of the fang market in the entire Gusu Mansion have been eradicated, but only this fang remains, because it was given to the Lu family who was the founder of the country early by Taizu. ”

"it!" Dong Ce couldn't help but scold secretly after hearing this, a local tyrant!

How big is a square, even if it is small, it is enough for hundreds of people, or even thousands of people to live in it, and the Tang Dynasty Chang'an, Luoyang, etc., which he knows, is only more than a hundred squares, and can account for one of them, what a noble identity! Even the prime minister can't be!

But this is the case with the scholars, although the Jiupin Zhongzheng system was changed before the Ning Dynasty, and they began to favor the Hanmen in order to be preferred, but it was still the Shi clan who held the power to choose the scholars, and the official positions they gave to the Hanmen were only county orders, and the official positions above the seven grades were still controlled by them.

This led to the fact that there were only four people who finally came out of the cold door and became a big official and mixed into Luoyang Mansion in Kyoto, from the founding of the Ning Dynasty to the present! And one has resigned, and the other has died, but even so, they have made their family a new clan, and many of the heirs of the clan have mixed into the officialdom, as long as they do not occupy the wrong position, they can naturally enjoy the glory for generations!