In the fifth year of Xiping, at the beginning of late spring, Mengjin.

Zhang Shi took Lu Min's hand, chattering non-stop, looking at Lu Min wearing a crown and a brand-new Confucian shirt, she was happy in her heart, but when she thought that her son was going to Shanggu County to face the Xianbei people, she was worried. Lu Min persuaded her softly, and repeatedly told her to discuss everything with Liu Xiu, among the few young people who stayed in Luoyang, although Liu Xiu was not yet twenty years old, he was stable and knowledgeable, so don't treat him as a child.

Zhang listened, but didn't take it too seriously, she felt that her son valued this junior brother too much, if he was really so good, then why did her husband never mention his name? It's just that she is about to break up with her son, and she doesn't want to say anything.

Mao Yan took Mao Zong's hand and solemnly handed him over to Liu Xiu: "From now on, they are all your brothers, you have to take care of them and don't make trouble everywhere." ”

"Am I a troublemaker?" Liu Xiu rolled his eyes angrily.

"It's not a safe place anyway." Mao Yan glanced at him, and said in words: "You have praised all the big words, I can watch what you do, if you don't take it to heart and delay others, don't blame me for not getting along with you." ”

Liu Xiu shrugged his shoulders, and boasted to Wang Chu that day, saying that he wanted to give the Wang family the wealth they wanted, and then thought about it, it seemed to be a bit big. Yes, I helped Lu Min get a 2,000-stone Taishou, but that Lu Min himself has the ability and background, otherwise it wouldn't be so easy, and besides, the Wang family probably won't be satisfied with 2,000 stones, maybe they will go to the general.

Those are all afterthoughts, and the most anxious thing now is how to mess up the matter of Wang Chu's draft first, and it can't make people see the flaws. Liu Xiu was worried in his heart, but he couldn't see it on his face, he always gave people a confident look, which made people feel confident.

"Okay, okay, it's not early, so you'd better start early." Liu Xiu pulled Mao Zong and motioned for Mao Yan to say goodbye to the Zhang family. Mao Yan understood, went to the front of Zhang's and bowed, and then boarded the car with Lu Min.

Seeing off Lu Min and his wife, Liu Xiu served the Zhang family on their return journey, and took a turn in Beibi Mountain by the way. The scenery of Beibi Mountain is beautiful, it is the family cemetery of many dignitaries and nobles again, just after the Qingming Festival, there are many people who go to the green, and the foot of the mountain can be seen everywhere with cars and horses and pedestrians, it is very lively.

Zhang's body was a little weak, and she was a little tired after walking, so she found a clean place to sit down and rest, Lu Shen pinched her back and shoulders for her, and accompanied her to gossip, Liu Xiu and the others walked around the neighborhood at will. Liu Bei and Mao Zong couldn't stay idle, and ran away without a shadow after saying hello. Liu Xiu and Zhang Fei pointed to the mountains and rivers in the distance and casually talked about painting skills, Zhang Fei's level in lady painting has reached the realm of self-realization, Liu Xiu said nothing more, and now began to point him out some of the foundation of landscape painting.

The green mountains are faint, the green water is far away, the two were talking happily, Liu Bei ran over from a distance, and shouted from afar: "Big brother, big brother, come quickly." ”

Liu Xiu thought in his heart, and said in his heart that these two troublemakers wouldn't cause trouble again. There are a lot of aristocratic women around here, don't be two boys flirting with women from good families.

"What's the matter?"

"Come and see who that is?" Liu Bei pulled him and ran, Liu Xiu followed him up a hillside, looked in the direction pointed by Liu Bei, and saw that under the hillside in the distance, a young man was kneeling by the water, and a white horse with a divine horse stood behind him.

"It looks familiar." Liu Xiu thought about it, but he couldn't remember who it was.

"Does it look like Bo Jue?" Liu Bei prompted.

Liu Xiu suddenly realized, but no, although this person knelt on the ground and couldn't see his face clearly, he was burly and had a straight waist, and he did have a bit of Gongsun Zhan's unique momentum, and the white horse next to him was one of his symbols.

Liu Xiu was overjoyed, said to Zhang, and rushed away with Zhang Fei and Liu Bei.

Sure enough, it was Gongsun Zhan.

When they met their old acquaintances in a foreign country, Liu Xiu and others were in a very good mood, Liu Bei and Mao Zong even pulled Gongsun Chan to talk non-stop, and Gongsun Chan was also very happy, but he seemed to be a little preoccupied. Liu Xiu glanced at the wine glass on the ground, and said in surprise: "Bo Jue, who are you?" ”

Gongsun Chan sighed and told what had happened. Last year, the Xianbei people disturbed the border, and Liu Ji, the Taishou of Liaoxi, guarded the territory under Liu Yu's order, and did not send troops to support Ningcheng, but only sent Gongsun Zan to levy and send Wuhuan in Liaoxi to prepare for war. Later, he was attacked by Huai Zong, and returned defeated, many of the families of the Wuhuan people were lost in the Xianbei people, the army was restless, which triggered a rebellion, Gongsun Chan led the troops to hunt and kill hundreds of people, and finally suppressed it, but in the subsequent battle with the Xianbei people, the Wuhuan people did not listen to the dispatch, fled from the battle, and threw the Taishou Liu Ji to the Xianbei people, Gongsun Zhan killed Liu Ji and rescued Liu Ji, but the soldiers and horses suffered heavy losses, and Liu Ji was therefore recruited into the court.

"You sent Mrs. Liu here?" Liu Xiu was taken aback. According to the habits of the Han Dynasty, there is the righteousness of the monarch and the subordinates of the Taishou Zhengbi, and Gongsun Zhan, as the official of the Taishou Mansion of Liaoxi County, has the responsibility to be loyal to the Taishou, but the imperial court is now very jealous of this, and has issued edicts many times, not allowing relevant officials to see off the officials who committed crimes, and it is definitely illegal for Gongsun Chan to come here for this matter.

"I can't sit idly by and ignore my knowledge." Gongsun Chan said lightly. He pretended to be Liu Taishou's servant and escorted Liu Ji all the way to Beijing, but he didn't want to tell Liu Xiu about this. He looked at Liu Xiu, his heart was mixed, he was not only envious of Liu Xiu's exploits in Ningcheng last year, but also a little resentful, it was because of Ningcheng's victory that Xia Yucai was arrogant, and Liu Ji's crime was added to the first degree, otherwise, Liu Ji would be dismissed at most, but now I heard the news that Liu Ji may have to be assigned to Yuenan. Yuenan is a remote miasma land, her husband died early, Gongsun Zhan wanted to send Liu Ji to Yuenan, for fear that he would never return, so he sacrificed to his ancestors in the north, but he didn't expect to meet Liu Xiu and others.

Although he didn't know what Liu Xiu's situation was, Liu Xiu was a hero, at least there would be no such unlucky thing as sending Yu Nan.

Liu Xiu also had a headache, he didn't expect the matter to be so big, and he actually implicated Gongsun Zhan. There was nothing he could do about this kind of thing, so he had to invite Gongsun Zhan to live in the city together. Gongsun Zhan was about to refuse, but after thinking about it, he agreed, anyway, Liu Taishou was still in Tingwei Prison for the past two days, and he was unfamiliar with life in Luoyang alone, and he was very bored.

After a few people said goodbye to each other, Liu Xiu could see that Gongsun Chan was in a bad mood and didn't say anything, but Mao Zong was a little excited, and soon said that Lu Min had been promoted to Shanggu Taishou, Gongsun Chan listened to it, and was even more depressed, although he didn't show it on his face, he sighed a few more times. The more he thought about it, the more embarrassed he felt, and when he was about to enter Luoyang City, he still made an excuse and left alone.

Looking at Gongsun Zhan's back, Liu Bei reproached Mao Zong a few words, Mao Zong also knew that he had made Gongsun Chan unhappy with his mouth, scratched his head, and wanted to chase him, but Liu Xiu grabbed him and said, now he is in a bad mood, it's useless for you to say anything, you go and ask him where he lives, and then tell him where we live, and when he calms down in two days, we will go to see him again.

Mao Zong responded and rushed away.

Liu Xiu and the others returned to Buyunli, and as soon as they arrived at the door, they saw the landlord Luo Shi and a middle-aged man with an unhappy face sitting at the door, as soon as he saw their carriage and horse, the middle-aged man immediately greeted him angrily, Luo reached out and wanted to hold him, but he reached out and pushed a heel, and his forehead touched the door frame, and blood flowed out at once.

"What's the matter with you?" Liu Xiu was very unhappy and motioned for Liu Bei to step forward and help Luo Che.

"Yo, I can't see that you're still a womanizer, I beat my wife, it's your business?" The middle-aged man sneered and said coldly. Only then did Liu Xiu understand that this was Wu Bo of the Yue Cavalry Camp called An Quan, Luo's husband, and it was really not good to say that he was so bad. He held back his anger, and while letting Lu Shen and Mao Zong help the Zhang family in, he said to Wu Bo according to his surname: "Didn't we just pay three months' rent, what's the matter?" ”

An Quan crooked his mouth and hooked his finger at Roche, who seemed to be very afraid of him, covered his forehead with a handkerchief, and walked over nervously. "Say it to them." An Quan stretched out his hand and said very majestically. Roche was very embarrassed, and he said a lot about his intentions. It turned out that after she made the decision and rented the rest of the house to Liu Xiu and them, An Quan said that she made her own opinion, and the rent was going to be low, so she came to ask for it again, and she wanted to double the rent, otherwise she would not rent it to them.

"If you say you don't rent, you won't rent?" Liu Xiu snorted, "We have paid three months' rent, you just want to raise the price, and you have to wait for three months before you talk about it, now come and ask for money, do you think money will fall from the sky?" ”

"That's not what I said, I don't agree." An Quan stretched out a hand and shook it in front of Liu Xiu, glared at the beads of his eyes and shouted, "Either give me money, or I will move out for Lao Tzu today." ”

"She's your wife, isn't she?"

"Of course it is, it's not my wife, is it your wife?"

"Since it's your wife, what she says is equal to what you say." Liu Xiu waved his hand and dismissed: "If you want to fight or kill, go back to fight, go back and kill, I don't care." He turned around and left, took two steps, and then turned back to Luo and said, "Mrs. Luo, don't blame me for not saving me when I see death, if you want to blame myself, you will blame yourself for your bad life and unladylike encounters." ”

Luo was frightened inexplicably, looked at Liu Xiu at a loss, and looked at her husband An Quan nervously. She was forced by An Quan, so she followed him to ask for rent, originally hoping that Liu Xiu and others would sympathize with her, add a little more, and let her pass this level, but she never thought that Liu Xiu looked like a very good person, but he was a German surname who could not be saved when he saw death.

An Quan was also stupid, he heard Luo Shi say that these tenants were easy to bully and soft-hearted, so he came to the door to make noise, relying on the fact that he was from Luoyang and a minor official in the Yueqi Battalion, although Wu Bo was a petty official who couldn't be mentioned at all, but he felt that it should be enough to bully a foreigner, as for what kind of Confucian the Lu family was, he didn't pay attention to it at all, there were more Confucians in Luoyang.

But Liu Xiu directly asked him to go home and kill his wife, which made him not mentally prepared at all, and he was stunned for a while, watching Liu Xiu and others drive the carriage into the courtyard and close the gate.

"Alas-" An Quan didn't think too much, he rushed up with an arrow, stepped into the door with one foot, and shouted in vain: "This is my home, you can't do this to me?" ”

"Now that I've rented it, if you talk well, of course I'm welcome to come as a guest, if you want to be brutal, do you believe it or not, I'll sue you for trespassing now?" Liu Xiu was more fierce than him, and his eyes widened: "I want to ask Luoyang Ling Zhou Yi, whether there is a royal law in Luoyang." ”

As soon as he heard him call Luoyang Ling Zhou Yi's name, An Quan suddenly softened, he had been at the feet of the Son of Heaven for a long time, and he also knew that many of Luoyang's tenants were very big, and the other party didn't even pay attention to Luoyang Ling.

Seeing that An Quan had softened, Liu Xiu also breathed a sigh of relief at the right time, opened the door, invited the couple to the side room, and sat on the front seat in a big way, and let An Quan sit on the side seat. Just as he was about to speak, someone came outside again, Liu Xiu went out to take a look, but it was a eunuch, it was the little yellow gate that he saw on Tonghuo Street that day.

"Are you ......" Liu Xiu was inexplicable, not knowing what he was doing. The little yellow door was smiling, glanced at the room, and said with a smile: "You talk about things first, talk about things first, I'm not in a hurry, just let people pour me a bowl of water to drink." Alas, I chased you all the way, but I was thirsty. ”

Liu Xiu was even more puzzled, and said in his heart, what are you chasing me, although you love the orchid finger, but you are not a beauty after all, and I have no hobby for men. But as soon as he saw An Quan's pale face, he was also happy to take advantage of the situation, and said a few words to Xiao Huangmen who looked very familiar, asked Liu Bei to bring him water, returned to the table by himself, and said impatiently: "If you have anything to say immediately, you can also see it, I'm busy." ”

Seeing Liu Xiu talking so casually with the little yellow door in the palace, An Quan's heart was like a little rabbit, going up and down, where did he dare to mention any rent, and he couldn't wait to leave immediately. Liu Xiu smiled secretly, but changed his gentle face: "Don't be in a hurry to leave, I have something to look for you." ”

"Your Excellency, please speak, your Excellency." An Quan fell to the ground, his body began to tremble, even Liu Xiu was a little surprised, the eunuch of Xindao has such a great power in Luoyang, just a small yellow gate can scare the officers of the Yue Cavalry Battalion like this?

He did have something to look for Roche. Mao Yan accompanied Lu Min away, although he left two maids to serve Zhang's family, but after all, there were not enough people, he wanted to ask Luo Zhang Luo to find a few old and stable women to do some rough work, waiting for Zhang's in the backyard, and at the same time solve the problem of washing and cooking these people. Before they came, these things were done by the Zhang family themselves, but now that the Zhang family is different, they can't let the Zhang family wait for them.

When An Quan heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly pushed Luo Shi in front of him, and scolded repeatedly: "You stupid woman, why don't you have any knowledge at all, and you don't know how often you come to Mrs. Lu to wait, where you eat so much food." ”

Luo Shi agreed, and promised to find a good person to send it over for Liu Xiu to see.

"Madame, I'm relieved." Liu Xiu said with a pleasant face: "My old lady has always praised Mrs. for being steady, kind, not bullying outsiders, and having the generosity of Jingshi. I can't thank you enough to have Madame help. ”

Roche smiled embarrassedly. An Quan saw it, swallowed his saliva, and no longer dared to speak ill of Luo.

Liu Xiu turned his head and asked An Quan about some things, especially the location of the Yue Cavalry Battalion. An Quan is an old native, he is very familiar with the area of Taixue, and when he saw Liu Xiu's kind words, of course he didn't dare to miss the opportunity to flatter, and explained the surrounding situation in detail. Liu Xiu didn't say much, just asked An Quan to take him around when he was free. An Quan responded, and then took Luo Shi to salute politely, nodded and left.

The little yellow door walked up with a smile and gave Liu Xiu a thumbs up: "Little brother is a good means." ”

"Awards, awards." Liu Xiu invited Xiao Huangmen to the hall and asked. Xiao Huangmen blinked very narcissistically, pinched his orchid finger and said: "My name is Liu Yunshuang, you also saw it that day, I am the person next to Lord Bi of the Imperial Order, and I came here today on the orders of Lord Bi." Before I talk about my intentions, I want to ask you something, is it okay? ”

Liu Xiu was given goosebumps by his unman and unfemale appearance, but maybe it was because he was used to seeing more paradoxical pseudo-mothers, shemales and the like in his previous life, and he knew how to respect the choice of other people's surnames, maybe because he knew that eunuchs were not easy to mess with, and he was unwilling to offend them for no reason, and he also had some sympathy for such a young man being castrated, although he was uncomfortable, he could not show it, unlike Liu Bei, who put all their disdain on their faces.

"You say." Liu Xiu said in a calm tone as much as possible.

Liu Yunshuang blinked her eyes again, and asked curiously, "How do you know that the thirsty crow made by Master Bi will be smashed by someone?" ”

Liu Xiu couldn't help but blink his eyes, and it took a long time to remember that he seemed to have said this, and at that time it was just to express his disdain for Bi Lan, and he didn't mean anything else, but he never thought that this prophecy would come true. Looking at the admiration on the face of this little yellow door named Liu Yunshuang, it is estimated that he already sees himself as a great immortal.

It turns out that this is how Daxian is refined. Liu Xiu covered his fist in front of his mouth and coughed, not letting himself laugh out loud, and then pretended to be deep and said: "Well, everything has a cause, and there must be a cause and an effect, nothing strange." ”

Liu Yunshuang looked at Liu Xiu with bright eyes and listened quietly.

"If it can be used in an all-round way, it can replace a lot of labor, and it is a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people. However, the wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it, although there are many people who want to admire, there will be no jealous people, and even those who hate it to the bone are not lacking. How many people who dare to be the first in the world are not criticized? ”

Liu Xiuyun Mountain said it in a foggy way, and the more he talked, the more he felt that he had the potential of a great immortal. Liu Yunshuang thought about it, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that it made sense, and finally patted her thigh, and said coquettishly: "Alas, you are really a god, more accurate than those who are diviners." This thirsty black is not just smashed by someone. Guess who it is, the stinky coolies who hate Lord Bi for taking their jobs. ”

Liu Xiu suddenly realized, and suddenly remembered the working class who smashed the machine. Once Bi Lan's thirsty sprinkler is fully activated, at least half of the people who make a living from it will lose their jobs, so it's strange not to smash your thirsty water.

(To be continued)