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Zhuge Qiao and his entourage came and went in a hurry; Just arrived in Wuchang City, but now they are outside the city gate, but they have no momentum when they entered the city, only more than 20 of them drove out of the city gate alone.

"The surname is Deng Ai Zi Shizai, he is in his twenties this year, he works as a pawn farmer in Tuntian somewhere in Runan, and he also has a mother," Zhuge Qiao said slowly, this is still an introduction he once accidentally saw;

"Just this clue, I have to look for it in a county and a town in Runan County, I don't know when I have to find it, but Tun Chief, do you tell me who he is?" Liu Yu asked with a sigh, full of curiosity.

"I don't know, this is what the prime minister asked me to find, as for what the relationship is, you can ask the prime minister, by the way, he still stutters" In the face of Liu Yu's questioning, Zhuge Qiao had to move out of Zhuge Liang to suppress him; Liu Yu really didn't ask, but continued to bury his head in the road.

Gradually, Zhuge Qiao's group had moved away from the city gate and rushed in the direction of Jingzhou, but stopped again when they reached an intersection;

"Brother Young Chang will say goodbye, Chengdu will meet again," Zhuge Qiao bowed to Ma Yan

"Take care," Ma Yan sighed and responded.

Then Zhuge Qiao and the nine wolf teeth turned over and ran straight towards Runan; Looking at Zhuge Qiao's distant back, I hope you can bring back good news again this time, Ma Jian read silently

Deng Ai lost his father when he was a child, lived in an era of frequent wars and social turmoil, and lived in the Central Plains, where land was highly concentrated and powerful mergers were fierce, and the difficulties of life can be imagined. However, Deng Ai received a good education from an early age, which had a significant impact on his life.

In 208 A.D. (the thirteenth year of Jian'an), after Cao Cao conquered the Central Plains, he forcibly moved the local people north, and Deng Ai, his mother and clansmen were forcibly relocated to Runan as Tuntian people at this time. Because of his young age, Deng Ai initially worked as a cattle herder. But he had big ambitions since he was a child and was determined to change his destiny through struggle. When he was twelve years old, he followed his mother to Yingchuan, and read the two sentences in the inscription of the late Taiqiu Chang Chen Yu, "the text is the world's fan, and the behavior is the rule of the scholar", and he was happy to admire, so he named himself Deng Fan, and the word Shize. Later, there was a man in the clan who had the same name as him, so he changed his name to his present name.

Among the people of Tuntian, there are very few talented people, Deng Ai was recommended as a bachelor of the Diannong Duwei (equivalent to the county) by virtue of his talent, so that he could serve as a subordinate official such as the Diannong Duwei, such as the cadre and cadre, and if there is a performance in the future, it may be gradually promoted, which is a way for people from humble backgrounds to change their careers. However, because of his stuttering, the captain of the pawn farmer decided that he was not fit for an important position, so he assigned him to be a straw guard. An elder in the same county often supported him when he saw that his family was poor, but Deng Ai did not express his gratitude at first.

Deng Ai likes military affairs, and whenever he sees mountains and rivers, he has to survey the terrain there, point out the military camp premises, and he doesn't mind being ridiculed by others.

After several days of non-stop hurrying, Zhuge Qiao and his party finally came to Xiangxin, a county seat in Runan County; The first thing I did after entering the county seat was to take the wolf's teeth to a restaurant and have a full meal;

"Haha, happy! It's been a long time since I've eaten like this, son, what should we do next?" Liu Yu patted his stomach and said;

The eyes of the rest of the people in the store have also stayed on Zhuge Qiao and their two tables, starting from the moment they entered the store, they called for two buckets of rice first, but in the end, the eyes of the surrounding people did not shift; According to Liu Yu's words, it has been too long since he touched rice, and the dry food along the way has already made his stomach hungry.

"Later, we will divide into three teams, scatter to find in Xiangxin County, and gather here tomorrow to rush to the next county seat; Remember to be sure to find out clearly, don't let go of any clues," Zhuge Qiao instructed them, and then the table slammed and paid and left;

Ten fast horses galloped out of this inn again, and Zhuge and Fu Yan, Chen Qi, and Liu Yu each led a team to run out of the city、、、

Runan County is also a large county in Yuzhou, with more than 10 county seats, and the spanning area is very broad; It was also a month later, after Zhuge Qiao searched nearly ten county seats, he finally made a discovery on this day.

"Uncle, do you know where there is a temporary residence for the people of Tuntian around here?" Zhuge Qiao asked an old man, and his tone was not as expectant as the first time, after all, he had been asking this sentence for a month;

"Just twenty miles ahead, I guess you're outsiders!" The old man asked in a deep voice.

"We are from Jingzhou, I don't know how we will know," Zhuge Qiao asked with doubts

"It's not simple, I will ask if the people of Tuntian are outsiders, and who else will there be! Who are you looking for or what are you looking for? The old man smiled smugly

Zhuge Qiao also understood what the old man meant, many of the Tuntian people in the Three Kingdoms period were composed of displaced people who had lost their homes, and their social status was relatively low;

"Looking for a friend of mine, Jingzhou was separated in Jingzhou in the past, and then there was news that he moved to Runan to become a Tuntian citizen, so I have been looking for this friend" Zhuge Qiao continued to move out with the excuse he had used many times.

The old man stared at Zhuge Qiao and pondered repeatedly, "If your friend knows that there can be someone like you, he will definitely be excited if he is still looking for it, but the life of the people of Tuntian is very bitter; Tell me what your friend's surname is, the old man is very familiar with most of the people in front of him, and there may be someone you are looking for," the old man sighed

"His surname is Deng Ai Zi Zizai, he is in his twenties this year, he has a stutter, and he has a mother; I don't know if the old man has ever heard it" Zhuge Qiao read it very fluently, and then waited for the old man's answer with an expectant face.

When the old man heard this, he did not reply hastily, but took his beard and laughed;

"Don't hide it from this son, I really know their mother and son, Deng Ai is very talented and learned in Tunzhong, and now he is a pawn farmer, and his life is much better than that of other Tuntian people, and his family is in the village more than 20 miles ahead," the old man said slowly to Zhuge Qiao

However, Zhuge Qiao was very anxious when he heard it!

"Thank you" said and handed a bag of broken silver to the old man, and he immediately turned over and ran straight ahead, Fu Yi saw that the matter of searching for people had finally come to an end, and he breathed a sigh of relief and followed behind Zhuge Qiaoma.

These twenty miles of road are too small for the footprints that Zhuge Qiao has left in Runan, but it is quite a long time for Zhuge Qiao at this moment, but it is relieved to think that this month's efforts are about to bear fruit.