The land of Wu County is the place where several clans of the great surnames of the scholars have lived since the Southern Dynasties.

crossing the river is the "overseas Chinese surname", and Wang, Xie, Yuan, and Xiao are the greatest; The southeast is "surnamed Wu", and Zhu, Zhang, Gu, and Lu are the largest; Shandong is the "county surname", and Wang, Cui, Lu, Li, and Zheng are the greatest; Guanzhong is also known as the "county surname", Wei, Pei, Liu, Xue, Yang, Du Shouzhi; Daibei is the "surname of captivity", Yuan, eldest grandson, Yuwen, Yu, Lu, Yuan, Dou Shouzhi.

This is the distinction between scholars and families that have been passed down for hundreds of years. Since the Sui Dynasty stopped the Nine Rank Official Law, the attention to the county has gradually become less than before, but the respect for the family has intensified. The southerners who moved north often took their current residence as their nationality, but when the people talked about the surname, they still remembered Cuilu Wang Xie, even if the once prominent Chenjun Xie clan is now no longer crowned. Even if Taizong and Empress Wu have successively rebuilt the clan history and crowned the Li family and the Wu family on the surnames, it is still difficult to change the deep-rooted understanding in the minds of the people.

From the end of the Han Dynasty to the Wei and Jin dynasties, the four surnames of Wuzhong, Zhu, Zhang, and Gulu were the most famous, and they were still listed in the clan chronicles until the early Tang Dynasty. Looking at the surnames of Zhu, Zhang, Gu and Lu, the prosperity and decline are different.

The Zhu family has been almost unknown since Zhu Zihao, a bachelor of Taizong Hongwenguan, and even if he is a celebrity, most of them are just insignificant petty officials, and his influence in Suzhou, Wu County, is naturally not as good as before. And the Lu family has always been thriving, Lu Deming of Dantuzhi is one of the eighteen bachelors of the Qin Palace, his son Lu Dunxin worshiped the prime minister during the Gaozong period, and settled in Suzhou, Wu County, the Lu Taiwei branch was silent for many years after entering the Tang Dynasty, taking advantage of the Wuhou years to open the imperial examination, the children through the Jinshi Branch, the Ming Jing Department and even the system of the department There are more than a dozen people, among which Lu Yuanfang Lu Xiangxian father and son have worshiped the prime minister, and they were prominent in Suzhou for a while.

Zhang's is since the Zhenguan period Zhang Houyin for the son of the country to sacrifice wine, posthumously presented the Ministry of Rites Lang, after the burial of Zhaoling, the descendants of several generations of illustrious, Zhang Houyin's grandson Zhang Qiqiu once lived in Shuo Fang Jie Du envoy, and now in the court for the military department of Shangshu. The Gu family of Wujun also had a prime minister Gu Cong who worshiped the prime minister during the martial arts period. Among the four surnames, except for the decline of the Zhu family, the remaining three surnames are thriving.

However, the real largest number of people in the entire Wu land is still the Wu family with Wu as the surname and the first to take root in Wu County

Legend has it that after the three uncles let the world, they settled in Jiangnan, because they had no children and passed on the throne to Zhongyong, and their descendants settled in the land of Jiangnan, and then the Zhou Dynasty named Zhongyong's great-grandson as the lord of Wu, with the country as the surname, and this place in Jiangnan had the nickname of Wu. At the end of the Han Dynasty, when the Sun family occupied the Wu land, Sun Ce Sun Quan's mother was the daughter of the Wu family, although the Jin Dynasty Cao Wei, after the destruction of Shu and Wu to dominate the world, the Wu family once suffered a catastrophe, but after the Jin family in order to stabilize the south, once again visited the Wu family and reused, only after the Wei and Jin dynasties, the Central Plains were changeable, and the Wu family was not as good as Zhu Zhang Gu Lu and the family support for many years, and the heritage of the eunuchs for many years was the foundation, not only was it no longer prominent, many children even moved out of Wuzhong.

However, the family door is sluggish, but many of the people of the Wu clan who have moved out want to return to Wu to pay their respects to their ancestors. Wu Qi, who had previously been in Shu to avoid trouble, found an excuse to go out to visit friends and hid, so he took a boat south to Suzhou.

Although the family has moved to Shu for seven or eight generations, after more than two hundred years, but his family is rich and generous, and donated money to rebuild the Wu ancestral hall, and now the Wu family in Suzhou is naturally quite welcome, for his purchase of a house and a settlement, and even the purchase of land, are also happy to provide convenience. As soon as he stayed like this, especially when he heard the messenger of Shu report about the dispute over Shu, it ended with Fan Chengming being defeated and Du Shiyi winning a complete victory.

If you can lead the clansmen back to Wudi, it may not be a good thing, Shu is rich and comfortable, and the water and soil in the south of the Yangtze River are not bad, so you can also avoid Du Shiyi's difficult plague god

But where did he expect that he had avoided from Shu to Jiangnan, and he couldn't hide from Du Shiyi. When he heard that Du Shiyi, as a tea envoy, had arrived at the border of Jiangnan, he couldn't help but feel a little confused when he closed his door and enjoyed happiness and walked around with relatives and friends surnamed Wu. There are many states and counties that produce tea in the entire Jiangnan region, and Suzhou is one, but Du Shiyi really needs to come from one state to another in person?

I want to think so, but he, a guest living Shu people, was not qualified to visit the assassin of this county, so he could only think about whether he would quietly avoid it when people came. But early in the morning, the boy at home knocked on his door, and handed it to him with both hands, which turned out to be a post with the word Yuan written on Long Fei Feng Dance.

"What's going on?"

"Jia Weng, this is Yuan Yuanjun's post, please go to the Assassin History Department to see it."

"Yuan Yuanjun?"

Compared with the Chen Jun Xie clan, which used to be the top court in the Southern Dynasty, but now it has disappeared into obscurity, the situation of the Jiangzuo Yuan clan is much better. Suzhou Thorn History Yuan Sheng has been fifty years of seven, more than 20 years old, after the promotion, step by step promotion, also had some political achievements, so the promotion is not slow, has been two Xiazhou Assassin History, and now transferred to Suzhou, the Jiangnan Shangzhou Assassin History, was already satisfied, planning to finish this term with peace of mind, and then told the old Zhishi.

Therefore, when he received the news from Pegasus that Du Shiyi and Pei Ning, the two chief officials of the tea introduction department, were about to arrive in Suzhou, he was taken aback and hesitated at the same time. When he understood that the tea plantations in Benzhou were only a few thousand acres, he also put his mind at ease, during which someone mentioned that there were scholars surnamed Wu from Shu County living in Suzhou City, so he remembered it in his heart, and ordered someone to post to announce it early in the morning.

Since he personally invited him as a thorn historian, Wu Qi naturally didn't dare to slack off, and got up early and hurried after having breakfast, but Yuan Sheng was delayed for a while because he happened to have official business, and he sat and waited for half an hour, and then he looked forward to it.

"Meet Yuan Yuan."

Knowing that the Wu family was also a well-dressed household in Shu, Yuan Sheng smiled and raised his hand to signal Wu Qi to sit down, and then asked: "Wu Lang is from Shudi, I don't know if you can recognize Du Shiyu?" ”

Not only did he know it, but he also dealt with him several times, and Zuihou was so frightened that he hid in Jiangnan

Wu Qi thought so in his heart, but he never dared to say so, and for Yuan Sheng to call him Wu Lang directly, even if he knew that he was indeed a junior in front of others at his age, he was a little unhappy in his heart after all, and he could only vaguely say that he had seen it twice. However, what made him stunned was that Yuan Sheng happily stroked his palms and smiled: "Today, Du Shiyu and Pei Yushi are about to arrive in Suzhou, since Wu Lang is Du Shiyu's old age, let me meet these two guests who have traveled thousands of miles with me."

Yuan Sheng took it for granted that Du Shiyi would know his old friends in another country, and then speak more easily and easily, but he didn't notice that Wu Qi's face was like dirt all of a sudden. The latter didn't even have time to rack his brains to come up with any excuses, so he only heard a voice outside say in a loud voice: "Tell the envoy, Du Shiyu and Pei Yushi have arrived."

"Wu Lang, come with me."

As the assassin of Benzhou, Yuan Sheng is considered to be an advanced age, so naturally there is no need to greet Du Shiyi and Pei Ning in person, after all, although the two of them have important responsibilities, they are not subordinate to him, and there is no order to convey to him. Therefore, one after another in the Assassin's History Department, this is already very polite. When he saw the pair of young people who were almost walking side by side, the most precious years were spent in the last years of hiding from Empress Wu and Zhongzong, and even the political struggles at the beginning of Ruizong's accession to the throne, so that Yuan Sheng, whose career was not smooth, couldn't help but feel a trace of envy in his eyes.

It's good to be young

He greeted Du Shiyi and Pei Ning with a smile, and Du Shiyi also took two quick steps with a smile, but then noticed the person behind Yuan Sheng. For Wu Qi, he has only met a few times, and he is not very impressed, but no matter what, he will not forget the head of the family, one of the four families of Shu County. I heard that people have not returned for more than a year when they visit friends in other places, and he has long forgotten about it, who would have thought that they would meet again at such a time and on such an occasion So, he respectfully and diligently complimented Yuan Sheng, and nodded slightly to Wu Qi.

"I actually met an old man here, and I really had a fate to meet thousands of miles away."

"Oh, Du Shiyu really knows Wu Lang?" Knowing that he had done the right thing by casually mentioning this hearsay, Yuan Sheng was suddenly in a good mood, "It's really a coincidence that he met someone else in a foreign country." ”

What a coincidence, if you don't make it clear when you post it, I just fought to buy a house and land in Suzhou before all in vain, and I have to avoid it first

Wu Qi, who was crying bitterly in his heart, almost wanted to cry, but he had to reluctantly squeeze out a smile to echo Du Shiyi and Yuan Sheng's words. However, when Yuan Sheng personally hosted a banquet to entertain Du Shiyi and Pei Ning in the hall of the official party behind him with a smile, and even cast a clear and unmistakable look when he accompanied him, clearly telling him to help entertain his old acquaintance, he was completely like sitting on pins and needles.

Wu Qi looked like he was roasting on the fire, Du Shiyi could naturally see that after three rounds of drinking, he softly asked Pei Ning to soften a little and help Yuan Sheng perfunctory, and then raised his glass and motioned to Wu Qi: "Duke Wu, since you have a fate to meet in a foreign country, can you accompany me outside to have a glass of wine and gossip?" ”

Drinking outside on this cold day?

Although Wu Qi was very unhappy, in the face of Yuan Sheng's encouraging eyes, he had no choice but to agree, and accompanied Du Shiyi out of the hall. Sure enough, as soon as his hot body came out of the warm room, he felt the cold wind blowing in his face one after another, and it was even more biting cold on his face, so cold that he shivered when he always felt that the weather in Jiangnan and Shuzhong was similar. Just as he was anxiously waiting for Du Shiyi's upcoming verdict, Du Shiyi asked something that surprised him.

"Wu Gong is here, except for me today, have you met other acquaintances?"

"Other acquaintances?" Wu Qi's eyes widened suddenly. Could it be that besides him, there are other people who have also escaped from Chengdu? No, I heard that Rhodes defected halfway, as for Cui Tang and Li Tianyi, they had already followed Du Shiyi, and as for other small fish and shrimp, they would not be so bold. So, although he really wanted someone else to share the pressure with him, he had to honestly shake his head and say, "I haven't heard of this." ”

"It seems that Wu Gong's plan to avoid disaster has made others squeeze you out of the circle." Du Shiyi stabbed lightly, seeing that Wu Qi's face was blue and white for a while, and he struggled for a while, as if he was about to kneel down, he suddenly stretched out his hand and held it on his wrist silently, and then changed the topic and said, "So, when Duke Wu came from Shudi, didn't he think about planting a few tea gardens in this Wu land?" ”

Could it be that this Du Shiyi has clairvoyance and ears? How did he know that he had bought a few pieces of Shanghaode Mountain Land here, and let the tea farmers he brought from Shu all the way teach people to plant tea trees?

Wu Qi felt that he was like seeing a ghost today, and one by one he was completely unsatisfactory and completely unexpected. Being entrusted by Du Shiyi just now, he knelt on the ground and asked him to blame him for it, so he could only grit his teeth and raise his head and ask: "Du Shiyu, in the past, I didn't know whether to live or die, and it was also because of selfishness that I avoided living in Jiangnan, I just ask you to have a lot of them, let me go of this insignificant character......

"Wu Gong said this, as if I would definitely kill you. You haven't been like Li Tianluo, so what do I have to do not let go? Do you know that Cui Weng Li Gong Luo Gong, for more than a year, he has actually been in the land south of the Yangtze River. ”