Deng Ji didn't expect that the brave nephew Liu Xu said was just a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy.

However, although his nephew is still tender, he knows at a glance that he is not very old, but he is already tall and strong, Deng Ji is about the same as him at this age, and his physical strength is not below that of adults.

Liu Xu is of great use at this time, and if he can really solve the problem of shipwrights and ship materials for Deng Ji, he is a great merit that he is seriously injured, and the nephew he entrusted will naturally be looked up to him.

After Liu Xu called his nephew in, Deng Ji first gently asked the young man about his martial arts, what he had learned, and his ambitions, and gossiped for a while before turning his head to Liu Xu and said: "I am entrusted by the younger generation, if I neglect to take care of it because I am busy, it is not beautiful, why don't I ask the second brother to adopt the family, how about it?" ”

It doesn't make a difference if Deng Ji himself stays by his side, and Liu Xu knelt on the ground again: "Thank you, General!" ”

After the matter was decided, the young man Dou Feng spoke: "Although the Dou family was noble at the beginning, he rebelled later, and I was slandered a lot since I was a child. If you have to take in the general's brother, I am willing to abandon this surname and take the surname Deng from now on! ”

Deng Ji shook his head: "Your uncle's nurturing grace cannot be forgotten, and for you, he still has to risk his life and death to wade into the river and Hanze Lake to transport ship materials, it is not easy, if you want to change your surname, it is better to follow your uncle's family!" ”

After speaking, Deng Ji read Liu Feng lightly, and looked at the young man with some doubts, wondering if he was the adopted son of Liu Bei in the original history.

The uncle's surname is the mother's surname, originally the status of the businessman was low, and the young man's ancestor was from a powerful family, and he did not want to follow his uncle's surname, but Deng Ji opened his mouth to speak, and the young man had to obey: "No!" ”

There are very few records about Liu Feng's origin in the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, and there is only one sentence about the son of Luohou Kou. Looking through the history books, there were only two marquis whose fiefdom was in Changsha Luo County in the Eastern Han Dynasty. One is Deng Qiu. One is Dou Zhuo. There is no one else. It is possible that the two events of the Kou people's feudal marquis and then degraded are not recorded or lost in the history books, and it is also possible that because the pronunciation of the word Kou Dou is similar, the Three Kingdoms Chronicles are misremembered or mistyped, here, the author argues from the latter.

Dou Gui is from Fufeng Dou.

Like Nanyang Deng, the Fufeng Dou family is one of the four great families of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the ancestor of the Dou family is Dou Rong, one of the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai. During the Eastern Han Dynasty and Emperor period, Dou Xian, the brother of the Empress Dowager Dou, sent assassins to assassinate the minister. After the incident, in order to atone for the death penalty, he invited himself to lead the troops to attack the Northern Xiongnu, and the two battles were successful, and the official worshiped as the general, and several people of the Dou family were listed as marquis, and Dou Gui was one of them. Dou Xianguan worships the general, several brothers in the clan are marquis, Fufeng Dou's majesty is unique for a while, and the Eastern Han Dynasty also began to have the dictatorship of foreign relatives from this time, but Dou Xian began to usurp the Han throne from his own generation. After the defeat, Dou declined. Dou Gui was first demoted to the Marquis of Changsha Luo, and after arriving in the fief, he was ordered to commit suicide like other dignitaries in the clan.

Dou's crime is rebellion, no one dares to get close to it in the Han Dynasty, unlike many Jiangnan Dou clans in the two Jin Dynasty after the death of the Han Dynasty, whether true or false, all call their ancestors Fufeng Dou, and want to cling to famous families. Liu Feng's family has been in decay for a long time, and he has experienced many blessings and sorrows since he was a child, and it is common for him to be reluctant to be surnamed Dou at this time.

Deng Ji spoke, Deng Zhong and Zhou Zhao adopted Liu Feng, Liu Xu was naturally satisfied, and set off south two days later to invite shipwrights and buy ship materials for Deng Ji.

After Liu Xu left, Deng Zhong and Deng Ji brothers also left Wancheng with their families and returned to Anzhong to worship the ancestral tomb.

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There is a wealthy landlord in the township of Yuxian County, surnamed Xu, whose parents and relatives have all died of the plague, and now there is only one male Dumiao, named Xu Ang.

Xu Ang has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and when his parents were still there, he liked to wander with the young people in the county, going in and out of the city and countryside to cause trouble. He had superb marksmanship, a generous shot, and a shrewd mind, and soon gathered dozens of rangers around him.

The rangers roamed the countryside all day long, and their peers were very happy, because they were reluctant to part with their friends, Xu Ang agreed with everyone that each family would not relocate, and when the plague was prevalent, he did not change his original intention.

As a result, both of Xu Ang's parents died of the plague.

The Xu family originally had more than 300 acres of land, but after Deng Ji became the owner of Nanyang, he forcibly implemented the policy of the fourth-class people and returned the surplus land of the Xu family to the government.

When the counties of Nanyang posted Deng Ji's exhortation list, Xu Ang and his companions watched it, and after reading it, they were even more furious: "Bajun Ganning acts, so that we will respect it!" Deng Muan is called a hero in vain, can't he tolerate this hero? Deng Ji is so narrow, how can the righteous festival of Ren Xia be evaluated? ”

Xu Ang is not the only one, after watching the list, all the rangers are in turmoil, and in the midst of the chaos, some people are eager to eat Deng Ji's meat.

Anzhong is adjacent to Sui County, Deng Ji wants to go back to his hometown to worship his ancestors, and the news is still halfway back, and when he learns about this, Xu Ang secretly said that the opportunity has come.

Inviting a companion, Xu Ang said to him: "Nanyang is no longer a place for us to live in. Deng Ji, this thief is insulting and deserves to die! Why don't I go to the people, find an opportunity to kill this fang, get famous in the world, and then vote for the princes, or the marquis of ten thousand households can also get it! ”

The ranger athletes who stayed in Nanyang with Xu Ang were friends of life and death with each other, and after listening to Xu Ang's words, everyone was willing to follow each other to do this big thing.

Horses in Jingzhou are rare, and the rangers only have one inferior horse, and the rest take the ox cart, and the sharp blades and bows are hidden on the ox cart, and they all go to Anzhong County.

Deng Ji's former residence is also in the township, not the county seat. The brothers dragged their families with their mouths, the team traveled slowly, and it took a few days to return to their hometown from Wancheng, and it was really dilapidated for a long time, so they had to clean up the old house first, and live for the time being, while Dian Wei and others found an open space to camp.

The young son of the Deng family has now become a hero, a big man in the world, and he wants to return to his hometown? When the news came back, there was a heated discussion in the countryside, and when it really arrived, the old relatives who could climb the relationship around them came one after another, and there were many spectators outside the Deng family's former residence, all day long.

Xu Ang and the others were mixed in the crowd and were not conspicuous.

Dian Wei was afraid that there would be many accidents, so that the Black Iron Guard stopped the crowd on the periphery, but it was impossible to be completely impersonal in this era, and Deng Ji didn't remember much among the original old relatives, so Deng Zhong came forward and invited acquaintances to come in to talk, each time two or three people were invited, chatting for three or five moments, and then changing people to enter.

In fact, the real relatives of the Deng Ji family either died in the Yellow Turban Uprising or died in the plague, and there is no one still alive. The old in-laws who came to visit had no good relationship before, and when they came, they were just reminiscing, or climbing relatives, or going to Luoyang, or asking for a change in their household registration, or seeking an official position, all kinds of differences, Deng Ji could only be sent casually depending on the situation.

Only two of them are more special, Deng Zhong opened his mouth to receive support from Luoyang: one is the cousin's house of the brothers, the population is dead, only one of his two brothers and cousins is left, the old woman is blind, and life is not easy; The other family is also surnamed Deng, is the uncle of the Deng Ji clan, the two families are next to each other, and they defected to Zhang Mancheng together during the Yellow Turban Incident, and took great care of the Deng Zhong brothers in the army, and then the team was separated, and he returned to his hometown after four or five years.

Deng Ji was in his former residence, the Black Iron Guard was heavily guarded, and Xu Ang and other rangers were difficult to approach, so they could only return to the twilight and wander around the periphery to look for opportunities, their accents were no different from the local people, and the Black Iron Guards who patrolled never noticed the abnormality.

Three days later, Deng Zhong and his wife Deng Ji prepared sacrifices and led the children to worship the ancestral tomb, and it was believed that more people came from near and far to watch.

After worshipping his ancestors, Deng Ji must have to go back, and the opportunity is only today.

Although the guards are strict, but there are many women and children in the foresight, presumably they are all Deng Ji's family, if there is chaos, the guards must be distracted and take care of each other, Xu Ang believes in his own archery, as long as he can shoot within sixty or seventy steps, he discussed with his companions: "You can frighten the cattle to drive everyone into chaos, we will take advantage of the chaos to cover in, or blades, or long shots, and work together to punish Deng Ji, and they will flee separately, and don't complain about life and death!" The survivors will meet at my home tomorrow, and they will leave Nanyang the day after tomorrow! ”

After the crowd, some of them gathered the oxen pulling the cart and stabbed the cattle with their swords, causing the cattle to frenzy and drive them to the crowd of onlookers.

This time he couldn't catch off guard, and there were all kinds of exclamations and screams in the crowd of onlookers.

Four or five frightened cows rushed through the crowd and rushed towards Deng Ji, Deng Zhong and others, the outer crowd was already in a commotion, the injured screamed in the ground, frightened and scurryed, the scene was very chaotic, Dian Wei rushed to Deng Ji and Deng Zhong to guard, and shouted: "Stabb the frightened cow to death, don't get close!" ”

Six or seven people ran after the frightened ox, as if they were trying to intercept the ox, and the black iron guards in front of them heard the sound of Dian Wei, and they all waved their halberds to stab the mad bull first.

Outside, a black iron guard reached out to stop the man behind the bull, but the man who was close to him suddenly flashed his short sword in his sleeve and stabbed him in the throat.

"Assassin!"

The light of the blades, the splash of blood, and the screams of the robes startled the nearby Black Iron Guards, who abandoned the mad bull and turned four or five halberds to meet the assassins.

Since seeing the frightened cow rushing in, Deng Ji's attention was on his wives and concubines and children, beware of them being hurt and colliding, so he knew that more than ten steps away, the newly accepted Liu Feng was holding a sword in front of the women, Jiao Qin pulled Deng Shi behind him, Wu Xiao hugged Deng Wei and covered Deng Zhang with his body, and Zhou Zhao hid Deng Qing on his back.

When the assassin showed his identity, Deng Ji was stunned for a while, but soon realized that the assassin's target would only be his own family, and he was afraid that the sword and arrows would affect the children and women, so he hurriedly left a few steps and called out to Dian Wei: "Ugly ghost, protect the family!" ”

"Whoosh!"

Deng Ji was not wearing armor today, and when he turned around and opened his mouth to speak, a sharp arrow was already rushing towards his chest.

After many years of life and death, Deng Ji reacted quickly, heard the sound, caught a glimpse of the afterimage of the arrow flying in the corner of his eye, and hurriedly turned sideways to avoid it.

"Shhh

"Whoosh! Sou! ”

The first arrow hit him in the arm, and immediately blood splattered, and when Deng Ji grinned coldly, two more arrows came from behind. Although he was on guard this time, he was accompanied by two arrows, a black iron guard on his side waved his halberd, and knocked down one arrow halfway, and Deng Ji turned sideways to avoid the other arrow.

Seeing his father bleeding from an arrow in his arm and frequently in distress, Deng Wei screamed "ah" in fright in his mother's arms, and Wu Yao and others were also frightened.

Deng Wei's exclamation, but he didn't know how to attract a crazy cow that no one cared about, and it suddenly changed direction and ran towards Wu Wei and Deng Wei. (To be continued.) )