There were more women than men in the different races in Jiaozhou, but Liu Xin sent 100,000 agricultural reclamation troops over at once. The soldiers of these Reclamation Corps had taken many of the local women to be married, and even some of the unmarried men of the alien race could not marry women. Now, Liu Xin has issued a new decree that even officials must marry local women as wives and concubines. As a result, local women, who are already in "short supply", have become sought-after goods.

While Liu Bei was marching towards Rinan, he asked passers-by to inquire who had an unmarried woman of appropriate age. As a result, all the passers-by shook their heads at him.

Why choose an unmarried woman of the right age? Because Liu Xin had already issued a decree before, whether it was a soldier in the Agricultural Reclamation Corps or an official stationed in the three counties of Jiaozhi, Jiuzhen, and Rinan, he could only marry an unmarried woman or a widow who had reached the age of fifteen, and anyone who forcibly married a woman with a family or a young girl under the age of fifteen was guilty of a capital offense.

Along the way, Liu Bei was not idle, he had already thoroughly studied these decrees promulgated by Liu Xin, it can be said that there are traps everywhere, and if you are not careful, you will fall for Liu Xin's tricks and die without a place to be buried.

Liu Bei had no choice but to inquire while hurrying, until the west roll of Rinan County, he did not find an unmarried woman of the right age, and today is the tenth day that Liu Bei left Xiangyang, that is, the last day stipulated in the deadline.

At the opening of the gate of the West Scroll City, Feng Lie, who was dressed in military uniform, came out in person, and said: "I thought I would have to wait a few more days, but I didn't expect that Lord Liu would act so vigorously and resolutely that he would arrive in Rinan so quickly." Haha, haha, Feng has already set up a banquet in the Taishou Mansion to pick up the wind and wash the dust for Lord Liu. Lord Liu, please! ”

Liu Bei's heart was in his mind, what kind of reception banquet, it was clearly a Hongmen banquet! It's just that Liu Bang had Fan Hao to help him back then, and there were 100,000 troops behind him, but he was alone.

But how can a person not bow his head under a low eaves. Not to mention that there are hundreds of fierce barbarian soldiers standing behind Feng Lie, even these flying tiger guards around him are probably also buried by Liu Xin. Liu Bei sighed and said, "Thank you for your kindness. Unexpectedly, Liu is also a generation of heroes, and he will die here today! Liu is not going into the city anymore, so the general should do it here, so as not to dirty the ground of the Taishou Mansion. ”

Feng Lie had an innocent expression on his face and said with a smile: "Lord Liu, what are these words, you were sent to Rinan by the lord, how could Feng kill you?" Feng sincerely invited Lord Liu to the banquet. ”

At this point, Liu Bei has nothing to fear, it's just a big deal to fight to the death, but he wants to die vigorously, like a hero! Liu Bei took a step forward, pressed the hilt of his sword tightly with both hands, and said in a deep voice: "Liu is now an official from the fourth grade, according to the decree, should he marry four local women as wives and concubines?" But Liu has traveled all the way, and not a single local woman has been married, and today is the last day of the deadline, is it time to carry out the order to kill Liu without forgiveness? Hmph, since that's the case, then what are you waiting for, let's do it here! ”

The situation was there, Liu Bei was in front of Feng Lie and hundreds of soldiers of the Seventh Legion, and behind him were a hundred Flying Tiger guards, and he had fallen into the encirclement. Although Liu Bei has also been in the army for many years, his martial arts are actually mediocre, and it is impossible to kill him.

At this time, the captain of the Flying Tiger guard suddenly arched his hand towards Feng Lie and said: "General Feng, I have been ordered to escort the new literary promotion envoy Lord Liu, fortunately, I am not dishonoring my mission, I now ask for the order to return, please show the general!" ”

Feng Lie waved his hand and said, "Okay, you guys go back." ”

The team of flying tiger guards got Feng Lie's order, and they all arched their hands at Liu Bei, turned around and left, and Liu Bei's back was suddenly empty. Liu Bei didn't know why, so he took a step back, but his hands never left the hilt of the sword.

But listening to Feng Lie laughing: "Lord Liu is tired from the journey, he must be too nervous, please relax a little." Having said that, Lord Liu's worries are not unreasonable. Indeed, don't talk about marrying four local women now, even if you marry one local woman, it will be difficult to go to the sky! However, Feng has admired Lord Liu for a long time, but he has not been able to meet him. I heard that Lord Liu was going to come to Rinan to take up a post, Feng couldn't help but be overjoyed, the difficulties faced by Lord Liu, Feng had already considered it, your four wives and concubines, Feng had already prepared for you. When Lord Liu drank this wine banquet, Feng sent Lord Liu into the cave room. Lord Liu will thank me as a big matchmaker when the time comes. ”

Liu Bei's nervous mind suddenly relaxed, but he had always praised himself as a gentleman, but he didn't expect that he had spent the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain.

Now that he thinks about it, the Flying Tiger guards who escorted him here did not disadvantage him, and they all respected him very much along the way. Feng Lie came with a large group of people, not to disadvantage him, but to make the welcome ceremony more grand.

Liu Bei's hands gradually left the hilt of the sword, he was silent for a moment, and suddenly bowed deeply to Feng Lie, and said, "It's Liu who is too careful, and I hope the general won't blame him." ”

Feng Lie waved his hand disapprovingly and said, "Those who don't know are not guilty." Feng is just a rough man, which accountant is much more. Let's go, eat and drink! ”

Although Nishimaki is the county seat of Nissan, the scale is far less than that of the small county town in the Central Plains, and there is only one street running through the north and south in the whole city, and there are only two city gates. It is said that it is a street, but in fact, the alley is not much wider than the slightly larger one in the Central Plains County. The Taishou Mansion is in the middle of the street, and it won't take long to get there.

Compared with the dilapidated state of Xijuan City, this Taishou Mansion is very luxuriously built, and I don't know how much Lang has spent on the people. Of course, the Taishou Mansion was not newly built after Liu Xin occupied Rinan, but the original Nishou, which was built with a huge amount of money, and the local people contributed both money and effort, and it is said that in order to build this Taishou Mansion, a large number of people were tired to death. It is no wonder that the local government is unpopular, and it was beaten to the ground by a small Cham clan.

However, the huge Taishou Mansion has now been divided into three parts. The commanders of the Jiaozhou garrison, Feng Lie, and Rinan Taishou** each occupied a small part of them as their official residences, and most of them were distributed to those homeless ordinary people. This practice alone has made Liu Xin's prestige among the local people skyrocket.

Today's reception banquet was held in Feng Lie's official residence, and Liu Bei's temporary residence was also arranged here, which shows that Feng Lie was very friendly to Liu Bei. The Rinan area is close to the sea, and the dishes at the reception banquet are mainly seafood, and the wine drunk is the spirits brought by Feng Lie from Xiangyang, but the table for eating is a large round table.

Feng Lie sat down on the main seat himself, pulled Liu Bei to his side, pointed to a large plate of sea cucumbers in front of him, and said with a smile: "Feng Mou saw that the complexion on Lord Liu's face was not good, it must have been caused by rushing for days. These sea cucumbers are the most replenishing qi and blood, and Lord Liu can wrap this plate round. ”

Liu Bei usually has coarse tea and light rice, and he rarely eats high-end food such as sea cucumber. Of course, due to the difficulty of transportation and preservation, other seafood on the table cannot be seen in the mainland. Liu Bei held the chopsticks, not knowing how to start. In fact, the original Liu Bei would not be like this, but today he thought he was going to die, but it was also a false alarm, which made Liu Bei's mentality gradually change. He even thought that he had been hiding at home for a long time and not asking about political affairs, which had made Liu Xin lose his vigilance against him, and let him come to Rinan to really give him freedom.

At this time, Liu Bei didn't know that Huang Chengyan had already completely fallen to Liu Xin's side. He knew that those subordinates in the mansion might be Liu Xin's eyeliner, so he acted extremely cautiously, and only in the homes of Sima Hui, Pang Degong and others did he dare to say something from his heart. But there is no way to have Liu Xin's eyes and ears there, so Liu Bei is confident that no handle will fall into Liu Xin's hands, where did he think that Huang Chengyan himself is Liu Xin's eyes and ears.

When the mood relaxed, Liu Bei drank the wine heartily.

After three rounds of drinking, Feng Lie suddenly looked embarrassed, frowned and said, "Lord Liu, it's better to talk to you about something in Feng, lest Lord Liu blame Feng for not being able to do things." ”

Liu Bei's heart couldn't help but tighten again, and his hands subconsciously pressed to his waist, where it was empty, and then he remembered that when he entered the hall, he had handed over the double-strand sword to Feng Lie's personal soldiers. After all, it is very impolite to participate in a banquet with a sword, and Liu Bei wants to be a moral model, which is naturally to be paid attention to.

Without the weapons he carried, Liu Bei became apprehensive. However, he was a generation of heroes after all, and he quickly calmed himself down, squeezed out a smile, and said: "What's the inconvenience, General Feng, but please make it clear." ”

Feng Lie sighed "sigh" and said, "Lord Liu has traveled all the way, and he also knows how difficult it is to find one or two unmarried women of the right age now. However, Feng learned the news that Lord Liu was coming to take office, it was too late, most of the young and handsome girls were already famous, and Feng couldn't do anything to snatch love. So, so ......"

Liu Bei saw that Feng Lie wanted to speak and stopped, and became even more worried, this is like a dying person who suddenly sees the hope of life, but there is a knife across his neck, this feeling makes Liu Bei unable to sit still, "Huo" stood up and said: "So what, General Feng said it directly!" ”

Feng Lie seemed to have made a lot of determination, gritted his teeth, and said, "Feng Mou is really difficult to speak. Anyway, I can't hide it from the left and right, so I'll just say it. The four women selected by Feng for Mr. Liu were all widows over thirty years old, and their appearance was mediocre, so Mr. Liu must not like it when he saw it. But Feng was also helpless, just these four women, it took Feng a lot of effort, and asked Lord Liu to ......"

Liu Bei originally thought it was a big deal, but when he heard Feng Lie say it, he couldn't help but be stunned, and only after a while did he laugh loudly: "General Feng scared Liu Mou, I thought it was a big deal. It's okay, it's okay, if you don't violate the law, Liu will be satisfied, where do you dare to pick fat and thin? General Feng is too worried! ”