Chapter Thirty-Seven: Trickery
In the third year of Jian'an, in 198 AD, the first day of the first month, the day of the national ceremony. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The place where the sacrifice is held is no longer in the palace, but on the ten-track wide stone road that leads directly to the imperial city in Xudu City, this kind of big day of universal celebration, the emperor naturally wants to have fun with the people, and play the sacrifice in the palace, who can see it.
The people of Xudu all knew that there was a dance today, so the wide road before dawn was already full of people, but no one dared to step on the stone slab, but stood in the narrow place between the stone slab and the houses along the street.
The liquor shops, inns, and even shops along the wide road are already full of people, because if you look down from the windows of these buildings along the street, the view is definitely better than from the side of the road. On this day, the merchants along the street naturally tried their best to make money, and there were many people who sold clothes and rice, all of which charged a fee for land occupation per capitation, as for the wine shops. The location along the street of the inn is even more expensive, but there is no shortage of dignitaries and nobles, so it is still crowded.
However, these places are not the best places, and the best places are on the gatehouse of the high wall of the main entrance of the palace. This is the special seat of the Son of Heaven, the Third Duke, and the Jiuqing, and no one can sit there except for the palace guards and Cao Cao's personal guards.
Cao Pi is no exception. On this day, Cao Pi was free, so he let Dianman prepare his horse early and galloped out of the city by himself. As for Dianman, he returned to Xudu and waited somewhere near Liu Ye's mansion.
Liu Ye didn't go out early, and he also knew that the position along the street of the Nu Dance had been occupied by others, but he was a smart person, and he knew that he could watch the Nu Dance right in front of the wall of the palace, and with his status as an errand boy in Sikong, no one dared to stop him, not to mention that the chief who was guarding the city was also on an errand in Sikong Mansion before, and it was better to be with him, so he had the confidence to go out slowly with his six-year-old son Liu Yu.
Liu Ye took his family to Xudu after several journeys, and the family business had almost failed, and now he was just Cangcao Peng of Sikong Mansion, and he was not tall and couldn't afford to raise a carriage, so he could only take his son on foot.
As soon as I walked through a street, I saw Dianman coming out of a wine shop, at this time Dianman was wearing a wide robe and big sleeves, wearing a virtuous crown, with a beam on the crown, and he was also an official person. Liu Ye took a closer look and found that the person who came was actually the entourage of Sikong Gongzi who he had seen in Xiahou Yuan's mansion that day, and there was only a scarf on his head that day, which made Liu Ye think that Dianman was just an ordinary entourage, but he didn't think that he was also a person with an official position.
At this time, Dian Man had already greeted Liu Ye, Liu Ye hurriedly returned the salute, and said: "I saw my brother Tai in General Xiahou's Mansion that day, but I didn't know my honorable name, which was rude." ”
"I am Lang Zhongling, Dian Boying."
Liu Ye sighed in his heart when he heard this, Lang Zhongling was ordered to be the entourage of Sikong Gongzi, which means.... Too obvious, right? Although many officials in the DPRK and China knew about this, Liu Ye was a small official and did not care about the documents of the Sikong Mansion, so he naturally did not know the joints. Now that he is full of self-report, he is even more impressed by Cao Pi.
"It turns out that the official position of the driver is still above me, which is rude and rude." After Liu Ye finished speaking, he had to make another move.
Dian Man grabbed it and laughed: "Salute like this, you come and go, and you miss the dance." ”
Liu Ye didn't insist when he heard the words, and after letting his son give Dian Man a salute, he said that he would go to the city wall to watch the dance, and Dian Man smiled and said that he was also about to go out of the city from that direction, and he could go along, Liu Ye had just arrived, and Dian Man was a personal guard of his son, and he was definitely a person who could make friends, so he gladly accepted Dian Man's proposal, and took his son and Dian Man to the city wall together, because there were many people in Kuandao, they chose to walk away from the city street of Kuandao, and there were few people along the way, all waiting to see the Nu dance.
On the road, the two had a small talk, on the road Dianman said that he was following Cao Pi last year, that year his father had just died in battle, Sikong Gongzi followed Sikong to break through successfully in that battle, and after returning to Xudu, he did a series of things, such as exchanging a poem for a Xiannong altar, playing chess with Diannong Zhonglang to get a paddy field, and then earning several sergeants in the military tun.
Liu Ye also felt interesting when he heard it, and even listened to the Yuefu poem "Li Ling has no Husha", and suddenly felt that this commoner boy was erudite, and he couldn't make such a battle and a meaningful Yuefu in a moment. At the same time, he vaguely felt that this Dianlang lieutenant didn't seem to have met him by chance, but he didn't ask out loud.
After talking for a while, he was almost at the city wall, and Dianman said casually: "In fact, before I met Mr., Childe admired Mr. Manners, but he had no chance to make deep friends. ”
Liu Ye heard the words of his heart, but he didn't plan to follow the other party's words, because although he had followed Cao Cao for a short time, he had the ability to distinguish between words and colors, and he also knew that Cao Cao hated the matter of forming a party for personal gain. So he said: "How can you be a lower official, Meng Gongzi is wrong to love." "I brought it in a word, and I didn't refuse because he thought that Sikong Gongzi would always have a time to gain power, and it would not be too late for him to use it when the time came. If you don't show goodwill, you feel that you have no reason to risk offending Sikong and get too close to the eldest prince.
Dian Man smiled when he heard it, and disagreed: "In fact, Gongzi appreciates Mr. Gaocai, because he got an old poem made by Mr. when he was in Yangzhou, and Gongzi admires Mr. very much for his mind and courage." ”
Liu Ye heard it and wondered, although he had written something, but it was only circulated in Jiujiang County, Yangzhou, at that time, the news was blocked, and Cao Pi had never been to Yangzhou, how could he get his own poems? Did he send someone to inquire? Seeing what Dianman said, he suddenly became curious again, so he asked: "I don't know if Gongzi has seen Xiaguan's clumsy work?" ”
Dian Man smiled slightly, but did not answer, but took out a roll of bamboo slips, handed it to Liu Ye, and said with a smile: "Dian is illiterate, I only know that Mr. Yangzhou is old and met with Gongzi in the wine shop, and when he talked about Jiujiang Gaocai, he gave this old work to Gongzi when he mentioned Mr., and Gongzi said after reading it, 'There are such characters in the world'." After that, I never forgot the name of my husband. ”
After Liu Ye took it in confusion, Dian Man arched his hand and smiled: "Dian still has something important, so say goodbye." After speaking, without waiting for Liu Ye to reply, he strode away.
"This boy is empty..... I don't know if it's a trick. Liu Ye frowned and unfolded the bamboo slip, but saw that there was a font engraved with a knife and pen on it, the glyph was very ordinary, and it was quite rough, it didn't look like it was written by a person who studied and studied, but it seemed to be written by a person who was happy with martial arts. After sweeping the font, Liu Ye had already seen the content clearly, with an "ah" in his mouth, his hand shook, and the bamboo slip fell to the ground, but in an instant, he immediately picked it up, rolled it up, and hid it in his sleeve. He took his son and walked quickly towards the city wall.