In fact, there is no need for Lu Ren to specifically ask to see Sun Quan. Sun Quan is a person of great filial piety, and every day after discussing things with his staff, he will come to greet Wu Guomu, and when he comes, he will meet Lu Ren, who is chatting with Wu Guotai. And after the two sides met, Sun Quan wondered why there was a strange thing on the bridge of his mother's nose, but his face was full of smiles, obviously very happy.

However, this is all secondary, and Sun Quan's attention is mainly focused on Lu Ren. Since Lu Ren left Cao Ying and appeared, Sun Quan went to invite Lu Ren several times, but he never returned. Putting aside some messy factors, Sun Quan is indeed full of curiosity about Lu Ren.

In turn, Lu Ren also met Sun Quan for the first time. As recorded in the history books, Sun Quan has a square face and a broad mouth, and his hair is slightly yellow, which is very characteristic of the minority population. And then there is the heroic spirit between Sun Quan's eyebrows, although he is very polite and polite when facing himself, but Lu Ren knows that such a person is by no means a good person, and if he is not careful, he will not be able to eat and walk around here.

"I've heard the name of Lu Servant for a long time, and I can see it today, I'm very lucky!"

Wu Guomu had already gone back to the room at this time, so it was Sun Quan who was receiving Lu Ren. When Lu Ren saw Sun Quan say such a sentence, he immediately replied respectfully: "Wu Houjian smiled. Lu Ren is just an ordinary man and a disciple of the market, and he just gained some false fame by mistake. ”

Sun Quan smiled faintly and said: "At the beginning, under the command of Cao Mengde, he gathered the displaced people, discussed the tuntian, revitalized the agricultural mulberry, and governed the market, from the officials and scholars to the homeless people in the market, all of them praised the Lu servants, is it a false name?" And after the success, Lu Servant Shot quietly retired, and Cao Mengde couldn't keep it even if he wanted to, which shows the excellence of Lu Servant. Ling Quan admires him so much, and if you look at the world, I'm afraid few people can do it. ”

Lu Ren understood the implied meaning of Sun Quan's words, and immediately shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Wu Hou praises it!" Please don't mention these old things again, otherwise I really don't know if Wu Hou is praising me or ridiculing me. ”

Sun Quan thought about it, after all, Lu Ren's original incident had already been ruin, and it involved beautiful women at every turn, so it didn't seem to be very glorious to mention it, so he smiled and changed the topic: "I heard that Lu Servant has been living in seclusion in Jingxiang since he left Xu Du. In addition, do you have a residence in Yizhou overseas? ”

Lu Renxin said that you finally got to the point, so there was a little smile on his face: "Yes, I have a choice of land to live in Yizhou overseas." As for the seclusion in Jingxiang...... Yizhou is a wild land after all, although I intend to settle there, but the agricultural tools, money, food and medicine I need are very scarce, and I can only buy them from merchants in Jingxiang and Jiangdong to make up for the shortage. After coming and going, I somehow became a businessman. ”

In many cases, if you deliberately hide something, it will only have the opposite effect, so it is better to say three truths and seven falsehoods, so that it is easier for people to believe. Did Sun Quan believe it? Lu Ren didn't know, but from Sun Quan's words, it may be clear that Sun Quan should still believe a little:

"And with all due respect, Sun said bluntly, that overseas Yizhou is a wild and barren land, so why bother living overseas. Willing to be a barbarian outside? Although the land of Jiangdong is not as prosperous as the Central Plains, it can also be said to be a fertile land for thousands of miles and outstanding people; Although the right is not talented, he inherited the foundation of his father and brother in the year of the weak crown, and he dare not say that he is better than his father and brother. But he also thinks that he will govern Jiangdong in an orderly manner. I want to learn from Lu Servant, and I have long admired it, and now I see each other. Quan Dou dares to ask Lu Servant to shoot out of Wu, and Quan will treat Mr. with the courtesy of guests! Wouldn't it be better than a land servant shooting to dwell in that wild land? ”

Lu Renxin said you're not, right? Who do you want to woo when you see someone? However, in terms of the facts, the period before Sun Wu's Battle of Chibi was indeed the most fierce period to attract talents, and the main problem should be that Sun Quan succeeded to the throne for a few years and needed to win people's hearts. Therefore, Lu Ren secretly concluded in his heart that Sun Quan did want to win over himself now, but it was just to win him over, and it was another matter whether he would really reuse it. Let's put it more simply and bluntly, if it is not good, it is a false position with a name but no real power at all, after all, Lu Ren is a child of the Lu family, if you want to say that Sun Quan will not be able to prevent Lu Ren from landing a little, then you don't believe that Lu Ren is killed.

However, whether it would be reused or just a fictitious position, this was not what Lu Ren wanted, so Lu Ren just shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Meng Wu Hou is wrong to love, and I am very scared in my heart." It's just that I ask Wu Hou to forgive me, because today's Lu Ren has long been uninterested in officialdom. ”

Sun Quan frowned when he heard this: "Why is Lu Servant shooting like this?" Do you like me Jiangdong, or do you think that Quan is young and frivolous? ”

Lu Ren hurriedly shook his head: "No, no, no, Wu Hou misinterpreted me." In fact, the land of Jiangdong can be the first fertile land in the world in the future, and although Wu Hou is still young, he is a rare young hero in the world. If it had been a few years ago, if I had been able to serve Wu Hou as the master, I was afraid that I would laugh out loud in my sleep, but I ......"

This sycophant is to shoot a few words first, and then the conversation will be good: "Don't hide it from Wu Hou, I'm already afraid of being an official." I think that I invested in Cao Gong's account back then, and I actually had a little ambition to leave a name in history, but the things I experienced before and after, even now I will be terrified when I think about it. ”

"Well...... this"

Sun Quan was noncommittal. In fact, there will always be some rumors about the affairs between Lu Ren and Wan'er, and Sun Quan has naturally heard about them.

Lu Ren sighed again at this time, and continued: "Actually, it's just a sentence, and people's hearts are terrifying!" It's even more terrifying in this power field. After seeing these things clearly, I have vowed not to go out of office and never get involved in officialdom again, because once I get involved in officialdom, I will involuntarily fall into these messy power struggles, and no matter how much I try to hide, I can't hide.

"Moreover, the Han family has been in turmoil since Hengling, and it has long been a battle between the heroes and the deer, and all parties have been fighting with each other for many years. What can I do even if I am an official? Today, he may be able to gain power and be high-spirited, but if he doesn't do it well tomorrow, he will be a prisoner under the stairs and like a lost dog. Why did I travel to Yizhou with my family? To put it bluntly, I just want to avoid the distractions of this world and live my little life with peace of mind and happiness. There are several beautiful women around me, and I just hope that I can spend the rest of my life on my knees without worry, and I don't think much about other things. ”

To tell the truth, although Lu Ren's words that he had prepared a long time ago were half-true, when he said it at this moment, it really touched the sad past in Lu Ren's heart, and this mood involuntarily appeared on his face...... Anyway, when Sun Quan saw Lu Ren like this, he already thought that Lu Ren was a person who had no heart and no ambition and just wanted to live his own small life.

In addition, Sun Quan didn't really want to recruit Lu Ren, because Lu Ren was a descendant of the Lu clan in the actual sense, and if Lu Ren was sincerely willing to help Sun Quan, it would of course be a good thing, but with Lu Ren's current mentality, if Sun Quan forcibly recruited, then it would become very troublesome on how to place Lu Ren. It's easy to say if it's well placed, but if it's a little bit inappropriate, God knows what kind of trouble it will cause.

To put it another ugly way, Sun Quan is still counting on those wealthy families in Jiangdong to help him, but if Lu Ren's problem attracts criticism from some people, then Sun Quan's group will more or less lose some harmony, and this is not what Sun Quan wants to see. Since this is the case, it may be a good thing to let Lu Ren stay at home as he wishes, and the two families are polite to each other.

It would be a bit wordy to say more. Anyway, when Sun Quan saw Lu Ren like this, he pushed the boat down the river and said: "Since Lu Servant has no intention of becoming an official again, Quan can only sigh to himself." However, since Lu Servant has traders in Wu Realm, he may as well come to the power house to sit if he has time. Thinking that Lu Servant is Cai Zhonglang's proud apprentice, he must have excellent knowledge in his chest, and he is willing to become friends with Mr. Cloth, and he also takes this opportunity to ask Lu Servant for advice. ”

This is standard kind words. To know what is Sun Quan's identity? Even if there is really this so-called "friend of cloth", it is by no means easy for Lu Ren to meet Sun Quan. And Sun Quan is like this, but he is just establishing a good image of "condescending to others, respecting the virtuous and loving others...... Lu Ren has been mixed up for so many years, if he still doesn't understand this thing, then it is better to find a piece of tofu and kill him.

followed by some polite words that were not salty or light, of course, Sun Quan also asked Lu Ren about some things about Yizhou, and Lu Ren was prepared for this, saying that Yizhou was neither good nor too bad. In short, in Lu Ren's mouth, he just built a decent village in Yizhou, and had trade contacts with many places, so as to make a living.

And here in Sun Quan, it is false to say that Sun Quan will not pay attention to Yizhou, but he will not pay too much attention to Yizhou at this time. The reason is very simple, Lu Ren has always recruited people from Xuzhou and Wu County to move to Yizhou, Sun Quan will of course have heard of this, but the key problem is that most of the people that Lu Ren can raise are only some old and weak women and children, and young and strong men do not want to recruit, but it is difficult to recruit.

In any era, young and strong men are the main source of soldiers and labor, and in the era of cold weapons, the control of young and strong men is even more important, because it will be directly related to the national strength of their group. If Lu Ren had taken away a large number of young and strong men, Sun Quan might have already attacked Lu Ren, but most of the people Lu Ren took away were old and weak women and children, to put it mildly, Sun Quan was a little grateful to Lu Ren for pulling away a lot of "rice worms" that did not help the national strength, and indirectly regarded Lu Ren's Yizhou as a "refugee camp" that he didn't have to pay for and pay for food. Of course, this also has a lot to do with Lu Ren's experience in dealing with this kind of thing for so many years...... (To be continued.) )