A caravan of about 100 people was slowly marching towards Xuchang City. After passing the Shili Post Pavilion, a gorgeous carriage in the team drilled out of a Fanghua girl, standing on the wheel and raising her hand to shade the sun and look at the Xuchang City Gate. After looking at it for a moment, the corners of the girl's mouth rose slightly, revealing a charming smile: "I'm back!" It's not easy to buy all the things that my husband wants. I just don't know how Mr. has been doing in Meng Village in the past half a month. ”

Lu Xin, who was driving the car on the wheel, raised his head, looked at the thoughtful look on Mi Zhen's face, smiled understandingly, and then asked: "Sister Mi, we have just passed the post pavilion, and there are still ten miles away from Xudu, why did you run out?" ”

Mi Zhen sat down beside Lu Xin very casually, and took out a delicate umbrella from the carriage with her backhand to open the shade: "In late spring and early summer, the carriage is stuffy, where can I sit still?" There was no way on the road before, but now that I am about to enter Xudu, I naturally don't have to be as careful as I was on the previous road, so I just sit out and blow the wind and breathe. ”

Lu Xin glanced at the scorching sun in the sky, smiled and stopped talking.

Mi Zhen took out a silk handkerchief to wipe her sweat and fan it cold, turned her head and looked at Lu Xin beside her for a few moments, and suddenly smiled: "Ashin, although you usually have a bit of a wooden atmosphere, and your teeth are still young, but judging from the things you did when you went to Zhongshan with me this time, you are quite calm and capable, and you are quite young and old...... You're fourteen years old, aren't you? In the next three or four years, you will be able to marry a wife and start a family. I remember that there are many girls in my Mi clan who are the same age as you, and who are also very good in terms of morality and character, why don't you let me help you talk about a marriage? ”

Lu Xin's face turned red as soon as he brushed it: "Sister Mi, you have to play this kind of joke with me every once in a while, and you have done too much, right?" Would you please raise your noble hand? I'm still young, and the boss said that I want to study more, so Sister Mi, you can spare me! ”

Mi Zhen grinned: "Why do you think I'm joking?" I'm serious! To be honest, although you are an orphan child taken in by Mr., since you have taken the surname Lu of Mr., you are a subsidiary of Mr. Lu, and Mr. has always regarded you as a brother. In this case, if you marry the daughter of our Mi clan, you can also be called an in-law between our Lu Mi clan! ”

"......" Lu Xin was speechless for a long time before he said: "Sister Mi, Lu Xin is just a nameless boy under the boss. If you really want to talk about the marriage of the two clans, Sister Mi, wouldn't it be closer to you if you marry the eldest of my family......"

The smile on Mi Zhen's face disappeared immediately after hearing this, and a pair of beautiful eyebrows were tightly locked in one place. After a long time, Mi Zhen sighed softly: "Ashin, don't talk nonsense about this kind of thing in the future." To be honest, when I first came to my husband's side, I actually had a little resentment towards him, because if it weren't for my husband, I would probably have married Liu Xuande by this time. Now that I have been friends with Mr. for a long time, what I see in my eyes is how Mr. takes care of Wanmei, but he never oversteps his ......courtesy to me," Mi Zhen shook her head lightly.

Lu Xin is only fourteen years old, how can he really understand these things? Because he didn't want to talk nonsense with Mi Zhen on this kind of topic, Lu Xin deliberately raised his eyes and looked into the distance. However, under this look, Lu Xin hurriedly stretched out his hand and pointed to the side of the road ahead: "Sister Mi, look at those people!" ”

Mi Zhen was slightly stunned, looked in the direction pointed by Lu Xin, and saw a large circle of people sitting in a circle about a few dozen steps away from the official road in front of her. On closer inspection, there were about two hundred people in this group, almost all of them were ragged and simple, and a few of them were young and strong men with swords and weapons on their hands and waists.

Lu Xin's face changed after seeing those weapons, and he hurriedly said to Mi Zhen: "Sister Mi, get into the car, these people may be thieves!" ”

Mi Zhen shook her head lightly and said, "No, these people won't be thieves." This is under the city of Xudu, and there are elite soldiers and brave generals under the command of Cao Gong in the city, and even if the mountains and grasses have the courage to make trouble, they dare not come here to make trouble. In my opinion, these people look like displaced people...... If you look closely, there are many women among them, and almost all of them are hungry, they must be people who want to go to Xudu to be recruited to Tuntian but run out of food on the way, right? ”

In terms of people's experience, Lu Xin is far inferior to Mi Zhen. And now that he heard Mi Zhen say this, Lu Xinzhi also saw some doorways. However, for the sake of caution, Lu Xin instructed the caravan to be on guard and move slowly. Mi Zhen admired Lu Xin's steady personality and did not raise any objections, but after thinking about it, Mi Zhen called a few family members and asked them to send the remaining dry food in the caravan to these displaced people. Although Mi Zhen usually has a temper as a young lady, she is actually very kind-hearted and often does something to help the homeless.

More than twenty Mi family members rushed towards the gang of homeless people with dry food bags on their backs, Mi Zhen saw that the first few homeless people gnawed on the dry food as soon as they got it, so he nodded with a smile, and Lu Xin smiled noncommittally. But soon Lu Xin's smile froze on his face, because several people over there were rushing over, and these people were carrying weapons on their waists and backs. Seeing this, Lu Xin hurriedly called to the family: "Stop them!" Don't let them scare Sister Mi!! ”

Immediately, a family member stopped these people, but when these people approached, they may have noticed that the other party's expression was wrong, and they saw that the leader of the other party was a woman, so they knew that it was not convenient to go in this way, so they quickly stopped and bowed to Mi Zhen's side and said, "Thank you Miss for your food!" ”

Mi Zhen froze when she heard this accent: "This is the accent of Jiangzuo Wudi!" And looking at the behavior of these people, they should be people from the Shuli Sect, how could they come to Xudu? Ashin, go over and ask them who they are. ”

Lu Xin understood, jumped out of the carriage and greeted the people. After asking a few words, Lu Xin rushed back with an extremely shocked look, and in the midst of the consternation, Lu Xin's words were actually a little knotted: "Mi, Sister Mi, they said that they are the Lu clan members of the four surnames of Jiangdong Wu, and they are all here to defect to the boss!" ”

"Huh!?" Mi Zhen's pretty face was also shocked and deformed: "I, I can hear that they are Wu Di accents, but no, it can't really be so coincidental, right!?" ”

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South of Xuchang City, Meng Village.

The poultry farm run by Lu Ren was named "Xiaoming" by Lu Ren, and Lu Ren was holding a bamboo slip in his hand at the moment, loudly giving a "breeding technology lecture" to many women in the village who came to learn the experience of raising chickens:

"Everyone, during this period of time, you have interned in the chicken coop, and you have also gained some experience in raising chickens and ducks, right? I'm going to explain to you some things to pay attention to when raising chickens and ducks in captivity today......"

At that time, especially in the era of war, it was already good for ordinary people to have enough to eat, and all kinds of meat were relatively simple luxuries that could only be enjoyed by the aristocracy. As soon as Lu Ren moved out the scientific, systematic and large-scale breeding technology under the condition of sufficient basic conditions, the large-scale breeding of chickens and ducks was successful in one fell swoop.

At present, if the newly hatched chicken and duck seedlings are counted, the number of them is already more than 6,000. If it is calculated according to three months out of the cage, it will not be long before Lu Ren can sell at least 3,000 chickens and ducks to Xuchang City. At the price of chickens and ducks at that time, the money earned was by no means a small amount. Not to mention in that era, even in modern times, according to a chicken and duck thirty soft sister coins, three thousand chickens and ducks are a large amount of soft sister coins.

With such a large sum of money, aren't all the displaced people who moved to Meng Village so desperate? As a result, as soon as he heard that Lu Ren was going to hold a training course on breeding techniques in Xiaoming's farm, and that it only needed women who were not the main labor force in the family to learn it, a large number of peasant women immediately came to learn. These people's requirements are not high, and they dare not covet to raise chickens and sell them on a large scale like Lu Ren for profit, so they just want to raise enough chickens and ducks to improve their lives...... After all, the mentality of ordinary people as a small-scale peasant economy is not something that Lu Ren can change in a short period of time.

Lu Ren was also happy. When this large group of women came to him, they must go into the farm to learn through the practice of helpers, and this helper is equivalent to a lot of labor that does not need to be paid. On the other hand, he taught the breeding technology, which can not only achieve the desire in his heart but also earn back the people's good reviews, why not? As for the economic mentality of these people's small farmers, although Lu Ren is a little helpless, in a sense, doesn't it just ensure that his meat and poultry business will not be robbed?

saw that Lu Ren was speaking the stage, and the women in the audience listened carefully, and on the side of the stage where Lu Ren was standing, Xiao Lu Lan was quickly recording Lu Ren's words on a bookcase. You must know that the bamboo slip in Lu Ren's hand is to write a prompt outline, Lu Ren's explanation is basically to read the information in the chip, and the real transcription and reprinting are all here in Lu Lan.

Finally, after explaining a section, Lu Ren stopped, and the women asked some unknown questions, and at the same time gave Lu Lan a little time to rest and tidy up. Looking at Xiao Lu Lan as soon as she put down the pen, she shook her hand straight, after all, it was really reluctant to ask a thirteen-year-old girl to do shorthand work, and in many places Lu Lan took the fake borrowed words first, and then sorted it out after asking Lu Ren.

Suddenly, Lu Cheng ran in and called to Lu Ren: "Boss, boss, Ah Xin, he's back!" ”

Lu Ren was taking the time to drink tea, and as soon as he heard Lu Cheng's shout, he immediately sprayed the tea in his mouth on the ground: "Ashin is back?" That's great! I'm waiting for them to buy something to use! That's all for today, everyone, and let's go home and rest. If I have something at home, I'll go first! ”

Without waiting for everyone to give gifts, Lu Ren ran out, leaving only a little Lu Lan angrily shaking her hands, while packing up the pen and ink utensils and preparing to go back alone, even with a small mouth, Lao Gao: "There are so many bamboo slips, where can I move them!" ”