Minchan glanced at Lu Ren angrily, and snorted lightly before saying, "You are a person...... If you still know that if you want to inquire about some other people's family affairs, you have to let us female relatives go to those seven aunts and eight aunts to inquire, don't you know that these seven aunts and eight aunts, especially the women who have been widowed for a long time, have the most gossip in their mouths? Besides, what you want to inquire about is Liu Jingzhou's family affairs, although you and Zhenmei have some business dealings with the Kuai clan, and even the personal relationship between Zhenmei and the Tan clan is not bad, but many things can't be asked directly, you have to go around the bend and use gossip to get out. ”

Lu Ren scratched his head when he heard this, and said, "Also, this is my negligence...... Did you ask about anything? ”

Minchan glanced at Lu Ren with a pair of wonderful eyes, and then swept the table where Lu Ren was seated, suddenly smiled slyly, stepped forward and hit Lu Ren's side with her shoulder: "Get out of the way!" I talked so much gossip with Tan, and I was so thirsty! Let's drink some of our own beer first! ”

Minchan's shoulder collision came a little suddenly, Lu Ren's body lost his balance under the guard, and when he withdrew diagonally, his leg tripped over the pavilion railing again, and he fell on his back on the lawn by the pavilion with a plop. When he climbed up in embarrassment, he saw that Minchan occupied the seat and raised a glass to drink, and Mi Zhen occupied the water fan, and they all grinned at Lu Ren. Lu Ren entered the pavilion again with tears and laughter, shook his head at the second daughter with both hands in his arms and asked, "You two...... Now you've learned to join hands to bully me, haven't you? ”

Mi Zhen smiled: "Didn't I often tease you like this before? It's just a little joke, and it doesn't hurt. ”

Lu Ren hurriedly waved his hand again and again: "You have to get it, the joke is enough, can you say something serious?" I'm dying here. ”

The second daughter smiled again, and Minchan said with a straight face: "We did inquire about some of the things you want us to inquire, and the eldest prince Liu Qi claims to be not tolerated by the Cai family." So far, what has been said is true. ”

Lu Ren said: "I have heard a little rumor about some things, but the specific situation is not clear, to be honest, if the eldest prince Liu Qi didn't come to me today, what does it matter to me about these family affairs of Liu Jingzhou?" Do you think I'm willing to get into such a mess of trouble in the Jingxiang area? ”

Minchan said: "This matter is indeed very troublesome. Oh, when I came out of Tan's mouth, I was talking about everything in the east and west, so where should I start now......"

Lu Ren thought for a moment and said, "Today's meeting is all because of Liu Qi. Let's start with Liu Qi. What is this Liu Qi's character in Tan's mouth? ”

Minchan closed her eyes and sorted out her thoughts before saying, "This eldest son Liu Qi...... Perhaps in the eyes of ordinary people in Jing Xiang, he was a dissolute with bad conduct, but according to Tan, Liu Qi was not like this before he reached the crown. To be honest, Liu Qi six or seven years ago was actually a very studious and very pure person. It's a pity......"

Lu Renqi said: "What? What a pity? ”

Mink Chan said: "Liu Qi's mother, that is, Liu Jingzhou's original wife, died of illness more than six years ago. At that time, Liu Qi lived alone in the suburbs of the city according to the uniform, and Liu Jingzhou was afraid that he would invade Jingxiang because of the growing prestige of the enemy overlord Sun Ce, who swept Jiangdong, and was busy with military and political affairs all day long, so he was a little negligent in disciplining Liu Qi. As a result, people with ulterior motives took advantage of it. ”

Lu Ren frowned slightly: "Being taken advantage of by someone with ulterior motives?" ”

Minchan nodded and said, "Yes." At that time, the Tan family said so, saying, 'The eldest prince is twenty-four this year, but he is still not married, and he has violated human ethics and filial piety, Liu Jingzhou turned a blind eye, and you two know why this is so?' Sister Zhen and I naturally asked, and Tan said vaguely that when Liu Qi's filial piety was about to expire. There are already some messy fox friends around him, pulling Liu Qi in and out of those Fenghua places to drink and have fun all day long. The name Fengya is actually degenerate, and Liu Qi was only sixteen or seventeen years old at that time, it was when he was young and ignorant, and there was no one around him to guide him......

Lu Ren suddenly said: "Then needless to say, these fox friends must have been secretly sent by the Cai family to teach Liu Qi badly, right?" ”

Minchan said: "Although Tan Shi did not say it explicitly. But there is indeed this meaning in his words and deeds, and he seems to have a lot of disdain for Cai's actions. In the later days, some of the wrong things that Cai did to Liu Qi were deliberately concealed in front of Liu Jingzhou, so that Liu Jingzhou did not have time to restrain Liu Qi in time, and Liu Qi's wrong things gradually increased. It seems that when he was in a deep position with mud feet, he slandered Liu Jingzhou more, which made Liu Jingzhou disappointed in Liu Qi and then fell out of favor, and now he doesn't even bother to care! ”

Lu Ren shook his head and sneered: "What a trick to capture and indulge!" I knew that Cai's doing this was actually to dominate Jingxiang in the future, so he first made Liu Qi fall out of favor in front of Liu Jingzhou, and then ...... When I arrived in Jingzhou, I inquired that Liu Jingzhou's second son Liu Cong was not born by Cai's family, but was born to Liu Jingzhou's side room, but this side room died of illness in the second year of Liu Cong's birth, and Cai's family took Liu Cong with him to raise him because he had nothing to do after marrying Liu Jingzhou. Although it is called pro-raising, it is actually cultivating a puppet who obeys the orders of the Cai clan, and then helping this puppet to the position of the lord of Jing Xiang, and Jing Xiang actually fell into the hands of his Cai clan. ”

(PS: In the romance, Liu Cong was born to the Cai family, but Liu Cong in the history books was very popular with the Cai family because he married Cai's niece, so the history books were taken here and some changes were made)

Minchan also frowned at this time, looked around with a little vigilance, and then approached Lu Ren's side and whispered: "The Tan family secretly told us that in fact, the death of Liu Cong's mother is likely to be inseparable from the Cai family......"

Lu Ren waved his hand, and said in his heart that he knew about these things, but the main thing he didn't understand the most was why Liu Qi came to him in the eighth year of Jian'an and said that he wanted to save his life, and was Liu Qi's situation really so dangerous? After carefully sorting out the words, Lu Ren asked Minchan about it.

After listening to Lu Ren's question, Minchan shook her head lightly and said, "How could you be so confused?" After all, Liu Qi is the eldest son, if he does not die for a day, there will always be an obstacle for Liu Cong to inherit his father's business. At the same time, Liu Jingzhou is old, and if the Cai family doesn't start as soon as possible, he will have a lot of dreams at night...... Maybe it's all nonsense here, right? But the next thing may be what Yoshihiro is more interested in. ”

Lu Ren raised his eyebrows: "Let's hear it." ”

Minchan said: "I'm not sure if that's the case, but at least that's how I see it, that is, Cai and Kuai, who are also members of the Jingxianghao clan, are not in harmony. Cai's wants to use Liu Cong to make things happen and then dominate Jingxiang, I think this is not something that the Kuai family wants to see, but after all, the Kuai family can't afford to provoke the Cai family, so he can only quietly help Liu Qi say a few good words in front of Liu Jingzhou, and don't show any clear support for Liu Cong, so that he will often contact Liu Qi.

On the surface, he was dissuading Liu Qi's debauchery, but it was uncertain whether he had given Liu Qi any tricks behind his back. According to Tan's words, more than a year ago, Kuai Yidu (Kuai Yue) had persuaded Liu Qi bitterly, and after that, Liu Qi had a lot of repentance in his heart, and his behavior was much more restrained than before. It's a pity that Liu Jingzhou has been too disappointed in Liu Qi, and it has become a habit to listen to and believe in Cai's partiality, and he has long been unwilling to pay more attention to Liu Qi. ”

Lu Ren came back to his senses after hearing the words, looked up at the sky thoughtfully for a while, and when he lowered his head again, he already had a smile on his face, pointing at Minchan and smiling: "Having said so much, this matter is the most valuable, and it made me figure out a lot of things at once...... Hmph, why did I ignore the battle between the Gatekeeper factions? ”

It may be that the discord between the Kuai family and the Cai family completely woke up Lu Ren, and Lu Ren's originally chaotic mind suddenly became clear. He sat on the edge of the small pool, put his feet in the water, folded his arms and thought to himself, "Sure enough, I'm disturbing myself!" Since Liu Qi is secretly protected by the Kuai family, what do you have to worry about me here?

"And then again, it is said that tiger poison does not eat children, Liu Qi is still just behaving debauchery and disappointing Liu Biao, but he has not done anything wrong, Liu Biao naturally will not harm his own son, at most, he thinks that Liu Qi is not qualified and capable to inherit Jingzhou. Therefore, only Cai's one wanted to kill Liu Qi, but as long as Liu Biao was still there, Cai's didn't dare to do it. And if something happened to Liu Qi at this time, wouldn't it be obvious that it was Cai's ghost?

"On the other hand, as long as Liu Biao doesn't die, Liu Qi won't have anything to do, so I don't have to pay attention to anything here with Liu Qi, the only trouble is that Liu Qi came to me, and then I have to worry about being targeted by the Cai family...... It just so happens that people from several quarters are staring at me now, and I also plan to leave Jingzhou for a while to avoid these storms, and since Liu Qi will not have anything to do here, I can also go out and hide with peace of mind. ”

As soon as he thought of this, he turned around, and saw Mi Zhen taking the wine handed over by Minchan with a smile, so he asked with a smile: "Ah Zhen, has your eldest brother Zizhong ever come to you?" ”

It's okay not to mention it, but as soon as she mentioned it, Mi Zhen pouted and said, "Just a few days ago, when you were still a guest at Mr. Shuijing's village, my eldest brother came to look for me. He had no objection to our marriage, but he opened his mouth to us. ”

"The lion's mouth?"

Mi Zhen's eyebrows frowned and said, "Didn't you buy 30,000 pieces of grain from the Cai family this time?" Big brother, as soon as he opened his mouth, he wanted to leave halfway......"

Lu Ren said dumbly: "Half? No, you can't give that much! Although the 30,000 grains were originally prepared to lose money, it doesn't matter if your eldest brother and Uncle Liu Huang give money or not, but if they give too much, Liu Jingzhou and Cai Mao will be suspicious. We still have to mix here in Jingzhou, and it's not okay to pay attention to this kind of thing. ”

Five thousand Hu, it doesn't seem like much to say more, but it's definitely a lot to say less. For example, when Zhou Yu asked Lu Su to borrow grain, Lu Su was a well-known wealthy man, and the grain stored at home was only 3,000 Hu for each of the two tuns.

Mi Zhen said: "I know! I really didn't expect to grow so big, and there would be a time to bargain with my eldest brother. Anyway, I discussed it with my eldest brother for a long time, but he refused to let go. Seriously, if I hadn't discussed it with you before, I had a bottom in my heart, and then I bit a quasi-head, do you believe that the eldest brother would want to leave all the 30,000 hundreds? (To be continued.) )