The beggar was unkempt, and his face was black and gray, but when he looked closely, he could vaguely see that his skin was very white. What surprised Liu Xin the most was that this person didn't have a beard under his chin!

The custom of the Han Dynasty, after a man is weak, he begins to grow a beard, and there is no one like Liu Xin who insists on shaving every day. And even Liu Xin began to think about whether it was time to grow a beard, otherwise he would be very different in this group of people. Judging by the appearance of this man, he must be in his thirties, long past the age of beard. If he has the same "hobby" as Liu Xin and doesn't like to grow beards, but a beggar who doesn't even comb his hair and wash his face, how can he have such leisure and leisurely to shave the beard under his chin?

There are only two possibilities for this situation, either the beggar is a woman disguised as a man, or he is a eunuch. Seeing that this beggar's Adam's apple protruded, it was clearly a man. Liu Xin, the eunuch in the palace, didn't have much contact, and even fewer were familiar, so Liu Xin couldn't help but stop.

Seeing this, Zhu Rong turned his head and asked, "Brother, why don't you leave?" ”

Liu Xin snorted at the beggar's side and said, "I see that person is a little kind, let's go, let's go over and ask?" ”

The beggar also kept secretly looking here, and when he saw Liu Xin and Zhu Rong walking towards him, he hurriedly picked up the broken bowl on the ground, and turned his head to turn into the small alley next to him.

Liu Xin was even more firm in his judgment, this beggar must have recognized himself, and couldn't help shouting: "Zhang Gou'er, you stop me!" ”

When the beggar heard Liu Xin's shout, he trembled all over, his legs weakened, and he fell to his knees with a "plop". With a crisp sound of "pop", the broken bowl had already fallen apart, and a few copper coins were dripping and whirling, not knowing which corner they were rolling to.

When Liu Xin saw his pretentiousness, he knew that his guess was exactly right, but he didn't understand why he had fallen to such a point, so he couldn't help but take a step forward and asked, "Are you really Zhang Gou'er?" ”

When Zhang Gou'er saw him approaching, he became more and more frightened, kowtowed like pounding garlic, and said in a loud voice: "Lord Liu, the slave knows that it is wrong, please spare the slave's life." ”

The man's voice was sharp and thin, and there was no doubt that it was Zhang Gou'er.

"Where do you start with that? Hurry up. Liu Xin was surprised, and he didn't care about the dirtiness on his body, so he stretched out his hand and pulled him up, and sighed, "Zhang Gou'er, I think that back then, you and Gongming and they sent Liu from the nest to the river, the past is still vivid, but now they are reunited here, it is really a creation and a trick." ”

"Lord Liu, the dog still ...... from you back then" Zhang Gou'er's face was covered with dirt, and he couldn't see his expression clearly, but from the movement of his head down, he could feel that he was a little embarrassed.

Liu Xin waved his hand and said, "I gave those things to you and your brothers back then, so you don't need to mention them again." It's just how did you end up here? Now that you're in Jingzhou, why don't you go find me? ”

Zhang Gou'er sighed and said, "Alas, it's hard to say! When Yuan Shu and Cao Cao led troops into the palace, many of the servants were poisoned by them, but fortunately I was not on duty that day, so I escaped. Later, Dong Zhuo entered Beijing and made Luoyang City a miasma, chickens and dogs jumped, and the servants who escaped with their lives were not frightened, for fear that one day Dong Zhuo's butcher's knife would fall on his head. ”

After a pause, Zhang Gou'er continued: "There are a lot of treasures in the palace, and there is no one to control them, so the clever chamberlain stole out and fled, and Dong Zhuo didn't pay attention to it. On that day, I also stole some gold jewels, wrapped them in a piece of rhubarb silk, and hid them around my waist, trying to sneak out of the palace. Unexpectedly, at the gate of the palace, I was interrogated by Dong Zhuo's sergeants, and they searched for those gold and jewelry shells, beat me up, and drove me out of the city, only to end up with the yellow silk cloth. ”

Liu Xin smiled: "Dog, don't sigh, they just beat you, so they saved your life, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune." ”

"Lord Liu, you don't know. If the sergeants guarding the palace gate killed the minions, it would be difficult to hide those gold and jewels, so it would be better to put the blame for stealing property on the minions, so they escorted the minions out of Luoyang City, and then gave up. Zhang Gou'er smiled bitterly and said, "Although the slave's family still has some property hidden, it is a pity that he can't return to the city, so he has to flee to Jingzhou." At that time, the slave was penniless, thinking that the cloth was the best silk used in the palace, maybe it could be exchanged for two coils, but when the slave opened it, he only screamed bitterly. ”

Liu Xin wondered: "Why is this? ”

Zhang Gou'er sighed and said, "Lord Liu, do you say that the slave should be like this?" At that time, when the slaves stole those gold and silver, they were also worried, and happened to see a piece of yellow silk and used it casually, but they did not look at it carefully. When the slave wanted to change it to a little bit of entanglement, he found out what kind of yellow silk it was, which was clearly a map of the territory of the Han Dynasty left by Guangwu. You say, who would dare to take this thing? The slave then begged all the way to Xiangyang ......"

Liu Xin was stunned for a moment, interrupted him and said, "Wait, what did you just say about that piece of yellow silk?" ”

"It's the map of the territory of the Han Dynasty." Zhang Gou'er said without thinking: "When the slave arrives in Xiangyang, who knows that there is no one to beg here, and the slave will be sent to forced labor, and this time he will go to Wuling." Your Excellency, you know how a minion can do that......"

With a wave of his hand, Liu Xin interrupted him again and asked, "Where is that map of the territory of the Han Dynasty now?" ”

"The slave begs in the city during the day, and at night sleeps in the bridge outside the city, and the yellow silk is used as a mattress." Zhang Gou'er replied casually, and continued to tell his story, "The slave has been working for two days, and the family can't stand it, so I'll ...... when I see an opportunity."

"Alright, alright, let's not talk about it yet." When Liu Xin heard that the map of the territory of the Han Dynasty had not been lost, he was immediately overjoyed, stopped him and said, "Take me to see the map of the territory, let's talk while walking." ”

These eunuchs were stabbed in the lower body, and since then they have been drenched, and there is often a smell of urine on their bodies, and Zhang Gou'er does not take a bath all year round, which is even more foul. Zhu Rong couldn't stand it a little, so he covered his nose and followed from afar. Liu Xin came to this world, and he had never seen a full picture of the Han Dynasty, and he learned that Zhang Gou'er had such a thing in his hand, where did he still care about the bad smell, but he talked and laughed with him all the way, and he also knew that Zhang Gou'er had not lived a good life in the past few years.

After he fled Luoyang, he had nowhere to go, and he did think about defecting to Liu Xin, so he came to Xiangyang. It's just that when he arrived in Xiangyang, Zhang Gou'er was scared again, he took a large amount of money from Liu Xin back then, in case Liu Xin was investigated, he would not be able to cut off ten heads. This hesitation led to being arrested as a homeless person and sent directly to participate in forced labor.

He was not the material to do these heavy work, and he cleaned his body, and his daily life was very inconvenient, and within two days, he found an opportunity to desert and run. At this time, the engineering team was different from the past, and there were not a few people who broke their heads and wanted to drill into it, so the leader of Zhang Gou'er's team quietly got one of his relatives in and took Zhang Gou'er's shortage.

After a while, there was no news of his arrest, and Zhang Gou'er begged "openly" in Wuling City. The people here live a rich life, and it is easy to beg, but it is difficult to find a place to live, so he found a bridge outside the city to settle down, and the map of the territory of the Han Dynasty became his bedsheet.

Liu Xin took the map of the territory of the Han Dynasty, which was slightly damaged and exuded a peculiar smell, and couldn't help laughing: "Zhang Gou'er, your courage is really not small, you dare to sleep under the entire Han River." ”

He just made a joke casually, but Zhang Gou'er was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt on the ground, kowtowed again and again: "The slave deserves death, please spare your life!" ”

Liu Xin put away his smile and said: "Zhang Gou'er, although you are a little disrespectful to this map of the territory of the Han Dynasty, you also have some maintenance merits, and the merits and demerits are offset, so I will not blame you." You hold this picture for me first, and go back to Xiangyang with me tomorrow, and you need to be a good person in the future, and you can't do those illegal things again! ”

Zhang Gou'er knew that with Liu Xin's words, he would be able to worry about food and clothing in the future. He fell from the sky to the ground, and now he can come back to life, and since then he has been conscientious, and he is also loyal to Liu Xin, and he no longer dares to have the slightest arrogance.

Liu Xin didn't expect him to come to Wuling City today, and he actually picked up a treasure. You know, under the conditions at that time, it was very difficult to draw a map, let alone a map of the whole country. With such a map, Liu Xin can more easily understand the general situation of the whole country and provide more convenience for him to plan a war to dominate the world in the future.

People are in good spirits on happy occasions, and Liu Xin, who usually doesn't drink much, also made an exception today and made two big drinks with the Wuling civil and military officials led by Jin Xuan. After three rounds of drinking, Jin Xuan took the civil and military officials to get up and retire. He was very knowledgeable, and knew that Liu Xin was accompanied by his female dependents, so he gave up his residence. A huge house, except for a few maids, the rest of the people have moved to the post house, outside the house has its own Hou Qinu with a few teams of soldiers to take turns to patrol and guard, the whole house is extraordinarily quiet.

Liu Xin is not a person who likes hypocrisy, so he is not polite to him, led by two little maids, and walks to the back house. Turning a long corridor, the front suddenly opened up, and through the hazy moonlight, you can vaguely see a small courtyard flickering in the bamboo forest, which is very quiet.

At the end of the corridor, Zhu Yu was looking forward to it, and when he saw Liu Xin, he hurriedly greeted him and said, "Master Qiqi, Sister is in the courtyard in front." ”

Liu Xin couldn't help but ask, "Who lives there on weekdays?" ”

A pretty maid hurriedly said, "Go back to my lord, that's my young lady's boudoir." ”

Liu Xin couldn't help frowning, and said to Zhu Yu, "What is Rong'er doing?" There are so many houses in this house, why did you pick out the boudoir of the young lady? ”

Zhu Yu hurriedly said: "Sister just saw that the environment here is elegant and likes it very much, but I don't know that it is his young lady's boudoir, why don't you change it again?" ”