When Lu Ren returned to Fudi, it was already the second watch. He was dragged by Guo Jia to drink, but it was still the same, that is, when Lu Ren was not doing well, Guo Jia was already drunk. Speaking of alcohol, Lu Ren is originally better than Guo Jia, and wine also depends on the body. People with good health can withstand it, not to mention those with poor health, and Guo Jia's body is really not as good as Lu Ren.

With a little drunkenness, Lu Ren jumped out of the carriage. was about to raise his legs to climb the stairs, but found that Lu Lan had a small face, sitting sullenly on the steps in front of the door, and the branches in his hands were also tapping on the ground again and again. As soon as I saw this, I knew that something had upset the little girl.

Lu Renle was happy, squatted down with great interest, leaned in front of Lu Lan and asked, "Xiaolan, what's wrong with you?" Who messed with you? ”

Lu Lan raised her hand and pushed: "Go away!" A mouthful of wine, Kaoru was killed by you. ”

"A mouthful of wine?" Lu Ren sighed into the palm of his hand and sniffed it again, pouting and saying, "It's okay!" At least I'm still awake and don't walk in an S-shape. ”

Lu Lanqi said: "Hey, silk? What's the silk type? ”

Lu Ren slapped his head, and then sat down beside Lu Lan, taking advantage of the cool breeze of the spring evening to blow away some of the wine on his body: "It's a catwalk!" Xiaolan, have you ever seen a cat walking? When a cat walks, it walks forward with its feet crossed. ”

Lu Lanpi smiled a few times and said, "My lord, don't you just say that you can't walk well?" ”

Lu Ren also smiled: "Okay, just know what it means." Hey, I said, why are you so sullen here, little girl? ”

"Call me a little girl again!" Lu Lan punched Lu Ren's waist: "I'll be thirteen after the first month!" ”

Lu Ren smiled: "It's not time yet, you still have to wait for two years." ”

(PS: And the rod is to hold the hairpin, that is, the coming-of-age ceremony of women in the Han Dynasty, and the "crown ceremony" of men is the same meaning.) However, the crown ceremony is generally 20 years old for men and 15 years old for women. Again, the rod should be "笄", but there is no such word in the Wubi font, and the bottle has been replaced by the word "rod". ）

Lu Lan glared at Lu Ren and said sullenly: "My lord, you are still so heartless." ”

Lu Ren shrugged: "Okay, right?" What the hell is going on, making you crouch at the door so late. ”

Lu Lan pouted: "Sister Wan'er hasn't come back yet." And listening to Sister Wan'er, I'm afraid she won't come back in the next few days. ”

Lu Ren was stunned, but immediately remembered that Cao Cao had come here to borrow Wan'er, so he shook his head and said, "Your sister Wan'er has gone to accompany Zhaoji, and she will naturally come back after a few days." ”

Lu Lan's muffled voice continued: "I know!" That Miss Cai is still here today, taking a bath with Sister Wan'er, and even I won't let me in to wash together. ”

As soon as Lu Ren heard this, he almost didn't squirt out the wine in his stomach: "What did you say?" Cai Yan, she came to us today? ”

Lu Lan said "um", and then said to Lu Ren with twelve points of dissatisfaction: "My lord, I have a hunch that you may be about to get married, but the person you marry will not be Sister Wan'er......"

"......" Lu Ren's body tilted to the side, and at the same time looked at Lu Lan with a very strange gaze, and after a long time, Lu Ren cried and laughed: "I said, what are you thinking about this little girl?" And what are you talking about? Looks like I've really brought you to ruin. No, it seems that I have to throw you to Aunt Ding for a year and a half, and let Aunt Ding teach you how to be a virtuous woman. ”

Lu Lan was furious, and the branch in his hand twitched at the corner of Lu Ren's clothes: "Say me again!" Hmph, Sister Wan'er is not here, look at how you sleep alone at night! ”

Didn't Lu Ren drink a few more glasses and get a little dizzy? At that moment, he smiled evilly at Lu Lan: "It's okay! Wan'er isn't there, don't you still have you? Come and sleep with me at night! ”

Lu Lan's little face turned red all of a sudden, she stood up and hit Lu Ren's waist with a kick, and after scolding "Dengzi", she ran into the mansion, but then Lu Lan's voice came out: "The water in the bath is hot, you stinky adult, go and wash the wine off your body!" ”

Lu Ren was happy, and said in his heart that it was really comfortable to flirt with the cute little Lori. Standing up and looking at the doorman standing in front of the door, Lu Ren patted his head and said to the doorman: "It's just a joke, don't take any of you seriously." ”

It's not once or twice that the two people say this kind of thing, who the hell will take it seriously?

Seeing that Lu Ren deliberately took a cat step into the mansion, but when he walked to the bottom of the corridor, he remembered what Lu Lan had just said, and couldn't help but shake his head secretly: "Marriage? Just because Cai Yan came to me to take a bath? You little girl is too ignorant, and it's not something that a little girl like you can understand...... Lao Cao saw Cai Yan, the mouse saw the rice, the hungry wolf saw the lamb, how could he give it? Finding Wan'er to be Cai Yan's companion is just to let Cai Yan feel relieved. ”

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In a blink of an eye, a few days have passed, nothing has happened here in Lu Ren, and Wan'er is still accompanying Cai Yan at Cai Yan's place. In fact, whether it is Wan'er or Cao Cao, they all understand that the matter between Lu Ren and Cai Yan has to be done slowly, and if Lu Ren and Cai Yan suddenly meet each other but there is no good excuse, I am afraid that things will become troublesome.

Lu Ren's affairs here are not concerned for the time being, anyway, Lu Ren is nothing more than continuing to run between Zhutun, but now there is no Wan'er by his side.

However, when Lu Ren was about to leave the city gate on this day, he happened to meet a bunch of people who came to the city from the tundian to exchange some daily necessities. And as soon as these tun people saw Lu Ren, they paid a big salute, because it was Lu Ren who made their tuntian harvest last year, and they really don't know how many times better their small days were better than the exile and hunger before they were recruited, so they all had a sense of gratitude to Lu Ren.

This was originally just a very ordinary episode, whether it was Lu Ren or Tunmin, no one took it to heart, but when one person saw this scene on the city wall, there were only two words in his heart: unhappy! And this person is Cao Hong, who had some personal grudges with Lu Ren before.

After Lu Ren went out of the city, Cao Hong, who was in an unhappy mood, returned to the mansion angrily, and after pouring a few sips of wine, the horse whip in Cao Hong's hand began to greet the big tree in the courtyard desperately, until the bark was full of whip marks, and Cao Hong had not stopped yet.

Finally stopped, Cao Hong shook the horsewhip in his hand vigorously, scolded words such as "thief Lu Ren" and "erector", and sat on the porch steps. The several house slaves who accompanied them looked at each other a few times, and after looking at each other enough, finally one of the house slaves came up to Cao Hong and whispered: "The lord is resentful of Lu Ren and Lu Yihao?" ”

Cao Hong said hatefully: "Who else can there be besides him?" I remember that he killed the guests of my clan last year in vain for his personal feelings, but he kept saying that he was talking about the correct law, and even the lord was deceived by him, which is really hateful! ”

The house slave said: "Does the lord want to take revenge? ”

Cao Hong said angrily: "Nonsense! If this revenge is not avenged, where is my face? ”

The house slave said: "The villain has inadvertently learned something, and he may be able to make the lord revenge." ”

Cao Hong was stunned: "What did you say?" What did you know? ”

The house slave said: "After the autumn of last year, the lord was ordered by General Cao to conquer Nanyang and Zhangling, so the lord may not know that there was a large caravan of nearly 1,000 people here in Xudu at that time, right?" ”

Cao Hong said: "Nonsense! How wide the road is in Xudu, what's so strange about some big caravans coming from time to time? I'm leading my troops, so where will I pay attention to this? ”

The house slave said: "The lord doesn't know that the person in charge of this caravan is Lu Ren's old acquaintance Mi clan. Of course, the most important thing is that the villain accidentally learned that this large caravan had not paid a single tax because they had a tax exemption order issued by Lu Ren. And not only did he come from time to time, but even when he left, Lu Ren issued a tax exemption order. And when he said goodbye, he also openly received money. ”

"What!?" Cao Hong slammed the ground hard, and the expression on his face couldn't tell whether it was joy or anger: "Okay, you Lu Ren!" keeps saying that you enforce the law impartially, and you always look like you have a clean breeze in front of people, but in the end, you are just a villain in the market after all! Since it is a villain in the market, how many people are not greedy for money? Your caravan of so many people from the Mi clan is exempt from taxes, you can make a lot of money this time, right? When the caravan left, you even issued a tax exemption order, and when you left, you openly accepted bribes from merchants! Hmph, do you really think that with the care of the lord, no one will be able to participate in you? ”

The house slave then reported: "There is another strange thing. Last year, when the winter was about to begin, the price of iron in Xudu rose sharply, presumably because of the shortage of iron goods due to the severance of trade routes in various places. But after the winter, a lot of high-grade iron suddenly appeared on the surface of Xudu City, and the price of iron was flat, and the iron purchased by Fucang was more than 23,000 catties! The villain secretly visited the origin of these irons because of the strangeness in his heart, but he could not find a single record from the four tax collectors......

Cao Hong was taken aback, and after a little hesitation, he immediately waved his hand and said: "Needless to say, the tax on salt and iron has always been the heaviest in the tax, and tens of thousands of catties of high-grade iron suddenly appeared in Xudu City, but there was no record of paying the tax...... Hum! In addition to Lu Ren's caravan of nearly 1,000 people, who has the ability to transport tens of thousands of catties of iron for sale? The most important thing is that only the tax exemption order he issued can make these tens of thousands of catties of iron flow into Xudu without any record being found. Lu Ren, Lu Ren, you are so bold! But how heavy is the tax on salt and iron, and how can it be avoided? If the quantity is small, it is fine, but you get tens of thousands of catties in one breath and then sell them to fill your pockets...... Hmph, I originally just wanted to catch your mistake and make you lose your official position, but now it seems that you are killing yourself! ”

After going back and forth in the room a few times, Cao Hong waved his hand and ordered: "Come on, quickly go and invite Brother Zixiao to come to the house, just say that I have something important to discuss!" ”

(Today is the fourth watch, make up for yesterday's two watches!) Nanchang is so hot these days, I will fall asleep when I am confused...... Shamelessly ask for tickets, ask for collections, ask for recommendations! ）