After the first cup of tea, the two sides can officially enter the conversation. Lu Ren was about to speak, but he saw Huang Yueying staring intently...... didn't stare at Lu Ren, but looked at Minchan beside Lu Ren. And the kind of eyes that Huang Yueying revealed/came out really made Lu Ren feel strange and a chrysanthemum tightened. As a last resort, Lu Ren had no choice but to cough hard, trying to get Huang Yueying's attention back.

Fortunately, after Lu Ren coughed dryly, Huang Yueying did come back to her senses, and she knew that she was out of shape, so she smiled apologetically to Lu Ren and Minchan, but she still couldn't help but look at Minchan a few more times, and sighed sincerely: "Lu Servant, Mrs. Zun is really beautiful, even if the concubine is also a woman, she can't help but lose her mind." ”

Lu Ren looked at Huang Yueying, and didn't know what to say, but responded very normally: "Madam, you are also very good." ”

Huang Yueying smiled and shook her head. In her opinion, Lu Ren obviously said a general polite word: "Lu Servant shot and laughed." The concubine is still quite self-aware of her ugly appearance, otherwise the folk proverb here would not say, 'Don't be a Kong Ming to choose a woman, just get an ugly girl'. ”

Huang Yueying's indifferent response made Lu Ren's heart a little surprised. Women often attach great importance to their appearance, and in that era, whether they looked good was not only important to women, but also to men, and it could even be said that if a scholar was not good-looking, his career would be affected. Don't think this is nonsense, didn't Cao Cao once feel that he didn't look good and was "not strong enough to be far away", and asked the dignified Cui Yan to pretend to be himself when he met with the Hun envoy?

Anyway, in that era, people's concepts attached great importance to appearance, and Huang Yueying, because of her "yellow hair and black face", was an ugly girl who belonged to "it's your fault when she came out to be scary" in that era, but she was able to say the folk proverb that humiliated her very indifferently, and this calm attitude made Lu Ren feel very surprised. But seriously. From the point of view of Lu Ren, a modern person, Huang Yueying is really not an ugly girl, and she is about seventy points in terms of face alone, the main problem is that Huang Yueying doesn't know how to dress up.

But then again, the yellow-haired man is wearing a standard Han and Tang Dynasty style costume, which does feel weird. This is fortunate that Huang Yueying has the face characteristics of an Oriental person, if you want to change to a Western woman and wear a Han and Tang Dynasty costume, judging from the aesthetic concept of Chinese people alone, I am afraid that it can only be described by the four words "nondescript".

Perhaps it was precisely because of such a concept that Lu Ren said casually: "Actually, Mrs. is by no means an ugly girl. It's just that the dress and makeup don't match the lady, so it looks a little ugly. ”

Huang Yueying's eyes lit up, and then she shook her head gloomily and said, "Lu Servant doesn't need to say such words of relief anymore. In fact, from childhood to adulthood, the concubine body has long been unconcerned about this. But today, when I saw Mrs. Zun, I saw that Mrs. Zun was so beautiful and peerless, and the concubine was really envious. ”

Lu Renxin said that you are full, and you have nothing to compare with Mink Chan? Although it is a woman's nature to compare their appearance and figure with each other, but you Huang Yueying insist on comparing with Minchan, isn't that self-discovery for yourself?

And when he thought of this, Lu Ren subconsciously glanced at Diao Chan. Originally, I didn't mean anything else, I just glanced at it. Unexpectedly, Minchan was a little wrong here, thinking that Lu Ren was asking her to do something, so Minchan took Lu Ren's instruction to make a big move for her, and smiled at Huang Yueying: "Sister, look at what you said." In fact, Yihao is right. You're not ugly, you just don't know how to put yourself up. If you don't mind, when you get to Mr. Kong Ming's residence, I'll help you take a good look at it. Guaranteed to make you look like a different person. ”

As soon as Minchan said these few words, Lu Ren knew that Minchan would be wrong about him. But it's no wonder that Lu Ren is followed by Cai Yan. Then Lu Ren's main direction when visiting others is poetry classics; If she is followed by Minchan, she will let Minchan play lady diplomacy with the other party's family. And when she came back to Jingzhou this time, she was more inclined to have a relationship with Liu Biao's Mrs. Cai, so naturally she asked Minchan to discuss some things about women's charm with Mrs. Cai.

Just as topics between women are often inseparable from topics such as cosmetics, perfumes, and clothing, Minchan is also particularly handy when playing these. It's really not good, isn't there Lu Ren helping Minchan to stand on top? Don't think that Lu Ren won't do this, you must know that Wan'er was not an outstanding beauty at the beginning, didn't Lu Ren just dress up Wan'er? After all, Lu Ren is a time-traveler in later generations, and when the cultural precipitation of more than 1,000 years of this kind of thing is really reflected in Lu Ren, don't really treat it as if it doesn't exist.

Now that Diao Chan's words have been spoken, although Lu Ren can't cry or laugh a little, it doesn't seem to be a big deal to follow Diao Chan's words, so he nodded to Huang Yueying. And Huang Yueying said that she didn't care that it was a lie, she was still a little moved, and there was some weird light flashing in her eyes.

However, Lu Ren didn't dare to go too far on this kind of topic, after all, it was now to stay in the pavilion on the side of the road, and it was obviously not the time to talk about these things, so Lu Ren adjusted his mentality a little and changed the topic, and asked Huang Yueying: "Why did Madame travel alone?" What about Mr. Kong Ming? ”

Huang Yueying smiled a little helplessly: "My husband Jun Kongming often goes out to look for teachers and friends after he graduated from Mr. Shuijing, and I don't know when he will return home. At home, although his uncle Zhuge Ziyu has been born in Wu, his uncles are still young and still live at home. Uncle and aunt living together are afraid that it will be inconvenient, so although the concubine is married to Kong Ming, she still lives in her mother's house on weekdays. At the beginning of each month and in the middle of the month, I went to Longzhong Caolu to see if Kong Ming returned it, and by the way, I sent some food and clothing to my uncle, so as not to make him missing. ”

"Oh...... I see! ”

Lu Ren touched his chin, and began to wonder maliciously in his heart whether Zhuge Liang thought Huang Yueying was ugly, so he didn't go home all the year round and fooled around outside, otherwise Zhuge Liang wouldn't have "at the beginning, Liang had no heirs", and Liu Bei had never met Huang Yueying when he looked around. Of course, Lu Ren also knew that he was purely living the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, and he was just thinking about it as a joke, and there would be no problem.

Huang Yueying said again: "I have heard of Lu Servant's name for a long time, but I don't know why Mr. wants to visit my husband?" ”

Lu Ren said with a smile: "Making friends is a great joy in life. In fact, a few years ago, when Shuijing Academy was not closed, I often heard Mr. Shuijing mention Mr. Kong Ming, so I have long had the heart to make friends with Mr. Kong Ming. It's just that at that time, the situation was restless, and I had too many chores to do, so I couldn't spare time to go to Longzhong. It just so happened that Kong Ming had visited me some time ago, and now I am fortunate to be free, so I went to Longzhong to visit Kong Mingquan for a return visit. ”

Huang Yueying shook her head and said, "I'm afraid that Lu Servant's trip will be empty." Half a month ago, the concubine received a handwritten letter from her husband, saying that he was now planning to travel to the Patong area, and he was afraid that he would not return until the spring and summer of next year. The husband is not at home, and the grass and reeds are very simple, so it is really inconvenient to greet a distinguished guest like Mr. ”

This is a very tactful eviction order, and Lu Ren is not a stupid person, so he can naturally hear it. However, Lu Ren didn't have much expectations for this trip, so he didn't care about anything. Although the scenery in Longzhong is beautiful, it is late autumn at this time, and the weather has become a little cold, so it is much more comfortable to be able to hug your family at home in front of the stove?

So Lu Ren immediately bowed to Huang Yueying and said: "Even so, it is really inconvenient for Lu Ren to come to the door to chat, so I can only visit the door another day." However, it is rare to meet Mrs. here, and it is already such a time, Lu Ren dares to ask Mrs. to have some refreshments and talk a few more words, I don't know what Mrs. thinks? ”

After all, Lu Ren has a mink chan by his side, and he can also say that he is suspicious of etiquette and religion, so Huang Yueying did not refuse, otherwise it would be very rude. In addition, Lu Ren and Huang Yueying are both very interested in some things from each other, and they also have the heart to talk.

Now there are three small stoves in the center of the three people, one is for making tea, and the other two are placed in two steamers, and in the steamers are the things that Lu Ren took to eat on the road. Speaking of which, Lu Ren often has to run around in Jingzhou, and there will naturally be no shortage of such small and convenient things. However, Huang Yueying didn't care about this, but the small briquettes burned in the furnace.

There are coal mines in Yizhou, but in the Han Dynasty, coal resources were not mined as in later generations, so there are many surface coal resources that are easy to mine, and to put it simply, it is not difficult to mine. Although Lu Ren and Shirley have not yet begun to formally develop the coal mining industry in Yizhou, a small amount of mining has been carried out, and the coal dug out is completely used at home, which can be regarded as an early trial and preparation.

At that time, people didn't know what coal was for, but Shirley wouldn't let go of these resources, would she? Coal is the treasure that drives modern industrial society, and it is a fool not to use it well! As for the trial...... It is impossible for Lu Ren to really pin his hopes on the Zhen clan for this kind of thing, if the Zhen clan did not be able to get to Yizhou at that time, wouldn't Lu Ren and Shirley dig coal?

However, because the mining volume is relatively limited, most of it is only used for some things in Lu Ren's own family. Lu Ren only brought some to Jingzhou this time. Normally, it will still be ordinary wood or charcoal, and when you encounter things like going out, you will bring small briquettes that are more resistant to burning with you to use.

Huang Yueying's heart was very thoughtful, and she immediately noticed the difference in this thing, and after watching for a while to determine what she thought in her heart, she asked Lu Ren in surprise, "What is this?" It looks like earth and rock, but it can cause fire like this. ”

"Oh, I call this thing coal, it comes from underground, and now it can be regarded as a specialty of my Yizhou." (To be continued.) )