The matter was unfortunately told by Cao Ying, and in the following month, Lu Min wrote many times but was lost in the sea, and there was no news, and he didn't even know if the Son of Heaven saw it. Lu Min was anxious, and went to find Cai Yong again, Cai Yong couldn't help it, he had already gone to the book, and he didn't respond. He whispered to Lu Min that the book may have been suppressed by the eunuchs, and now the commanders of the various offices in the palace are all eunuchs or the minions of the eunuchs, and all the books must pass through their eyes before they can reach the hands of the Son of Heaven, if they don't like it, it is estimated that it will never be known by the Son of Heaven.

Although Lu Min was angry, he couldn't enter the palace gate, and it was useless to be angry again, so in desperation, he had to ask Liu Xiu to come forward to see Duan Cheng. Duan Cheng is the captain of Si Li, and he has a very close relationship with Wang Fu, who is a regular attendant in the middle school, and if he comes forward, it may be effective. Although Lu Min's position is a little biased towards Liu Yu, he is also the hero of Ningcheng's victory, and he was once Xia Yu's long history, Duan Cheng has to give some face.

It's a pity that this time not only did Lu Min not expect, but even Liu Xiu didn't expect that he would eat Duan Cheng behind closed doors. As soon as Liu Xiu reported his name and said his intentions, the housekeeper of the Duan family was very polite, but he said very resolutely, my family is sick and does not see the guests, and then he seems to be very serious and said that my family has been sick since last winter and has not been well. In the end, he suggested, this matter is under the control of the Taiwei Mansion on the outside, and Shangshutai on the inside, you should go to them, my family has no right to take care of these things.

Liu Xiu understood, last year's winter moon was not the time when Liu Yu and the others began to argue, it seems that Duan Cheng is a wise man to protect himself, knowing that his identity is sensitive, so he simply pretended to be sick and did not get involved in this matter. Liu Xiu was very disappointed, but he was not angry, this was not Duan Cheng's disguised love for him.

The problem is that this love can't solve the problem, if you can't even send the book to the Son of Heaven, then how can you solve the problem? Do you think I don't know that this matter belongs to the Taiwei Mansion Monk Shutai? Taiwei Chen Wei was originally polite to Lu Min, but when he heard that he was Xia Yu's long history, he immediately changed his face and directly blasted Lu Min out, Shang Shutai simply ignored them and couldn't even enter the door. As soon as Lu Min reported Lu Zhi's name, the guards at the gate glared, celebrities? Luoyang lacks everything, and there is no shortage of celebrities.

Liu Xiu returned to Buyun dejectedly, and Lu Min knew that things must not have been done as soon as he saw his face, and sighed depressedly. Liu Yu and Xia Yu both had high hopes for them, they originally thought that this matter was not difficult, and none of us were biased, they just wanted to tell the court the truth of the matter, and the rest would be decided by the court, but they didn't think that the first step would not work, and the situation appeal they wrote could not reach the Son of Heaven at all.

"What can I do about this?" Lu Min was a little irritable, and kept patting his thighs, and Liu Xiu estimated that his thighs were going to be swollen.

"Senior brother, this is ...... It seems that it is not possible to take the right path. Liu Xiu hesitated for a moment, raised his head and said to Lu Min. Although he is not in a good mood, he is not as helpless as Lu Min, thanks to the development of information in the Internet era in his previous life, which made him understand how serious the bureaucratic style is under the magnanimity of the Beijing Division, and the people's political axe serving the people must have a Beijing office to be responsible for the relevant affairs of the capital, knowing that no one in the court is difficult to be an official, not to mention this evil feudal society.

Lu Min frowned, he didn't say anything, he knew what Liu Xiu said, but he couldn't swallow this breath, and he couldn't pull this face. Liu Xiu saw that although he didn't nod, he didn't shake his head either, knowing what he meant, he silently put away Jian Ce, who was about to wear out, got up and walked out.

Lu Min looked pained and lowered his head in frustration.

Mao Yan helped Zhang out from behind, and glanced at Lu Min, who had lost a lot of weight, with pity, Zhang turned his head to look at Liu Xiu's back outside, and comforted Lu Min: "Zixing, don't you think too much, don't you know, straight as a string, on the edge of the dead road, curved like a hook, anti-feudal marquis." Your father is so well educated, the court is the first to think of him when there is an emergency, but when the matter is done, he is thrown aside, isn't it because his temper is too straight? ”

"Mother?" Lu Min reminded. Zhang knew that he was speechless, and said with some snort: "Actually, this is not a bad thing, if he hadn't directly admonished the Dou family and offended the general, maybe he would have been implicated by the Dou family now." You see how majestic the Dou family was at that time, but now, alas...... The world is unpredictable, officialdom is risky, it's good to be slow, it's good to be slow. ”

…… Cao Ying came out with a gust of wind, and Lao Yuan laughed and stretched out his arms: "Deran, which gust of wind blew you here?" ”

"It's the bureaucratic style of Luoyang." Liu Xiu smiled bitterly, got out of the car, and entered Cao's mansion arm in arm with Cao Ying. Liu Bei went to park, and Zhang Fei followed closely behind, not leaving an inch. Cao Ying was also familiar with them, and he was not polite, leading them straight to the main entrance.

Compared with Cai's mansion in the cangis, Cao Ying's courtyard was larger, more luxuriously decorated, and had more servants, which made Liu Bei and Zhang Fei a little dazzled. Walking more than thirty steps along the corridor, Cao Ying led them into a small but relatively quiet courtyard, went up to a small building, and entered a room full of books.

"This is the place where I study, although it is simple, it is quiet, and no one will disturb me." Cao Ying explained, walked to the door and said hello, a young handsome woman in a simple cloth dress walked in with a food case, and when she saw Liu Xiu and the others, she blushed slightly, and bowed to her: "Concubine Liu, I have seen Liu Jun." ”

Liu Xiu hurriedly returned the salute, Liu put the wine jug and a few side dishes on the table, and gave another salute, then retreated behind Cao Ying and sat down in a proper manner. Cao Ying smiled: "This is my new concubine, I hope it won't scare Deran." ”

Liu Xiu smiled, raised his wine glass, and motioned to Liu: "There is Mrs. Lao, dare to thank you with this wine." ”

Liu Shi was a little surprised, his face flushed, and he glanced at Cao Ying with some restraint. Cao Ying smiled faintly: "It's okay, De Ran is not the kind of person who is bound by vulgar etiquette, otherwise I wouldn't have invited him to the study, you take it easy." ”

When Liu heard this, he raised his glass and took a sip with confidence, sat for a while, and then got up and went out.

"Born in a small family, I haven't seen the world, please don't be surprised." Cao Ying said a little embarrassed.

"This is your concubine?"

"Well, the main room Ding has been childless for many years, and only accepted this concubine last year." Cao Ying said lightly: "This woman has just become pregnant, so she is a little self-conscious, and she is not as easy-going as before. ”

Liu Xiu's eyes rolled, and then he understood. As the saying goes, a wife is not as good as a concubine, just because the wife has the same identity as her husband, but not as flattering as a concubine, which makes people with more machismo naturally feel unhappy, so most people like concubines and don't like wives, not because concubines are beautiful and concubines are not as good as their wives, but because concubines have no status in the family, and if they want to survive or even squeeze out the main room, they must please their husbands. This Liu must have liked Cao Ying when he first entered Cao's Mansion, but the Ding family in the main room had no children, and Liu is now pregnant, and the possibility of Fuzheng's surname in the future has increased greatly, and he unconsciously raised his identity, but he inadvertently lost Cao Ying's favor.

"There are guests here, and it is natural to be a little reserved, which is also for the sake of Brother Mengde's face." Liu Xiu persuaded: "In the boudoir, it is normal to be careful when you are pregnant, this is the bloodline of your Cao family, you can't be careless, and the master also said that the seat is not right and does not sit." After she gave birth to a child, she would naturally be as easy-going as before. ”

Cao Ying glanced at him, and couldn't help but smile: "Deran, I didn't expect you to still pity the jade, and when we met for the first time, I thought about explaining my concubine." Well, it's a pity she's pregnant, otherwise I'd just give her to you. ”

Liu Xiu was embarrassed, and said this in his heart, as if I had taken a fancy to your woman.

Seeing that he was embarrassed, Cao Ying laughed heartily, waved his hand and said, "Joke, joke, don't take De Ran to heart, and get down to business." ”

Liu Xiu said what he meant.

Cao Ying seemed to be mentally prepared, and he was not surprised, he picked up the wine glass and took two sips slowly: "Deran, you came to me, you look up to me, I am very happy." In that case, I won't go around in circles with you and talk nonsense about the scene. There are two options to solve this problem. ”

Liu Xiu suddenly came to his senses and took a step forward: "Brother Mengde, please speak." ”

"The first way, I'll introduce you to Yuan Benchu." Cao Ying put down the wine glass, raised his head to look at Liu Xiu, and said very seriously: "The fourth and third princes of the Yuan family, the reputation is so great, I don't need to say more, I have a lot of friends at the beginning, and he will come forward to write, this thing will be done." ”

"Yuan Shao?" Liu Xiu hesitated for a moment, and said in his heart Yuan Shao is awesome now, but later he was killed by the Cao Ying in front of him, so I need to give up Cao Shao and hold Yuan Shao's stinky feet instead? He glanced at Cao Ying, and saw that his eyes flickered a little, and his expression was a little reluctant, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised.

"But I have something to say." Seeing Liu Xiu's hesitation, Cao Ying smiled embarrassedly and explained: "Although I have a relationship with Ben Chu, but just with my face, I can't please move him." If you want him to help you do this, it is inevitable that your senior brother will enter his Yuan family. The Yuan family took a fancy to you and recommended you to become a leader, and it would be impossible for you to get rid of the influence of the Yuan family in the future. Of course, leaning on the Yuan family is not necessarily a bad thing, you must know that there are not a few people who want to follow the path of the Yuan family. ”

Liu Xiu blinked, pondered for a moment, and shook his head: "I just want to owe you favors, and I don't want to owe the Yuan family favors." ”

Listening to Liu Xiu's words, Cao Ying was very excited to meet his bosom friend. He smiled: "De Ran values me so much, I really can't repay it, I'm ashamed." However, I advise Deran to think more and not rush to make a decision. If Deran must refuse to attach himself to the Yuan family, then there is another way. ”

As he spoke, he raised his head and looked straight at Liu Xiu, as if he was hesitant whether to say it.

Liu Xiu waved his hand: "Brother Meng De said it directly. ”

"The people in the palace are said to be resting for five days, and the day after tomorrow is the middle servant Lu Qiang on duty, if you go to the book, the possibility of success is much greater." Cao Ying blinked, touched the short beard on his lips and said, "It's just that in this way, you will be scolded by those Qingliu again." ”

"Lu Qiang?" Liu Xiu hesitated a little, although the Cao family has a eunuch background, but after all, he is not a eunuch now, his father Cao Song is one of the Jiuqing, and he is a court official of Zheng'er Bajing, although it is not the best way to ask them for help, but it is better than directly asking the eunuch for help, if this is okay, he might as well go directly to Wang Fu, Wang Fu is the object of Duan Cheng's attachment, and he must not object to earning some credit to Duan Cheng's old department.

"Lu Qiang's character is Hansheng, although he is also a regular servant, but he is loyal and loyal to the public, and the Son of God named the eunuch as a marquis according to the rules, and he wanted to make him the marquis of the capital, but he refused, and he also wrote a book for this purpose."

Cao Ying roughly told Liu Xiu about Lu Qiang's situation, and Liu Xiu suddenly realized that there were also clean eunuchs, but no matter how clean they were, they were useless, and after being labeled as eunuchs, they would not be recognized by celebrities no matter how upright they were, so Liu Xiu had been in Luoyang for so long, and he had never heard anyone talk about him.

"In that case, I'll do what I do." Liu Xiu said without thinking, "Thank you Brother Meng De for your advice." ”

"Deran, you have to think clearly." Cao Ying shook his head and persuaded: "From my personal point of view, I advise you to follow the path of the Yuan family, which will be of great benefit to your reputation in the future." Once you fall into the reputation of being a eunuch, it is definitely not a good thing for your career. ”

Liu Xiu smiled mysteriously: "Fame is a very empty thing, sometimes it is useful, sometimes it may not be useful." He picked up the wine glass and touched it with Cao Ying, the wine glass "dang" sounded, and he squeezed his eyes at Cao Ying: "The sergeant is named, the sergeant is named, and the corporal is named." The sergeant uses his name, and between the name and the reality, the middle and lower soldiers are burdened by the name, and it is insignificant. ”

Cao Yingpin smacked for a moment, laughed, raised his wine glass, drank it all, wiped his beard, and said loudly: "Happy, happy, Deran is really a real celebrity." Being able to get acquainted with Deran is the happiest thing for me over the years. ”

"Me too." Liu Xiu smiled, his heart was really early than coincidental, if it was thirty years later, when the man in front of him had already become the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, he was afraid that talking to him like this would be in danger, how could he make it so easy for him to lead himself to his acquaintance.

The more the two talked, the more speculative they became, and they talked nonsense. Although Cao Ying is good at ancient learning, he often runs to Taixue and asks Cai Yong for advice, but as Lu Min said, he just uses Cai Yong's reputation to clear his name, and he is not interested in Haoshou at all. His interest is in the art of war, in poetry, the art of war is the knowledge of martial artists, poetry is a small way, all serious scholars disdain to be attentive, Cai Yong is good at this, that is people are too smart, once they learn, they will be fine after a while, and it is not the result of careful research. Cao Ying usually has a swollen face and a fat man in front of Cai Yong, if he really wants to discuss knowledge, where can he reach Cai Yong's level, but Liu Xiu is not, if you want to talk about scriptures, Liu Xiu's level is worse than him, but in others, Liu Xiu is on par with him, and even "quite creative" in some places, which is enough to make Cao Ying's eyes light up and cry out for reason.

The two of them said that they were very shocked, and now when they look at it closely, they feel that the Suzaku Que is unattainable, and they must look up to see it.

Alas, Dong Zhuo is really a sin, if you move the capital, move the capital, what kind of fire. Liu Xiu looked at the bustling flow of cars, horses and people on the horizontal and vertical avenue of Luoyang City, and sighed secretly. Why don't I get rid of this guy first?

Cao Ying suddenly slapped the railing and shouted, "Yo, why did she come back again?" ”

Liu Xiu heard that his tone was a little displeased, and he hurriedly looked in the direction of his sight, only to see a few carriages outside the main entrance, more than a dozen knights in red clothes were clustered left and right, and the two mothers-in-law opened the middle car and helped out a woman from inside. Far away, Liu Xiu couldn't see the woman's appearance clearly, but judging from the posture of her when she walked, this woman's background was not low, and the kind of beautiful girl was very obvious.

"What is this?"

"I'm from my sister." Cao Ying said a little unhappily.

Liu Xiu was a little surprised, why was Cao Ying so unhappy to see his sister? Cao Ying saw that his expression was wrong, for fear that he would think that he was not on good terms with his family, so he simply told him about it. It turned out that this woman's name was Cao Luan, and she was the daughter of Cao Ding's uncle, Cao Ding, who was accused of corruption when he was a minister in the river, and lost to Zuo Xiao, and then he never came back. In order to be an official again, Cao Ding married this daughter to Song Qi, the younger brother of Queen Song, thinking that she was so beautiful, she would definitely be able to please Song Qi, and she would not worry about such a relative of the Song family in the future, but she never thought that Cao Luan was looked down upon because of Cao Teng's eunuch uncle in the family, so she reminded herself all the time to obey the female commandments in every move, and she was more polite than the Great Confucian, Song Qi soon lost interest in her appearance, and the relationship between the two was very bad, so many years, even no children.

Liu Xiu also learned that the current queen was not surnamed He, but surnamed Song, and the general He Jin didn't know where to mix in the future. However, the Song family did not become a relative of the powerful government and the opposition according to the rule, and the father of the Empress of Song, Song Feng, was just a ruling Jinwu, the least powerful of the Jiuqing, to put it mildly, that is, the fire captain of the capital, which was far from the practice of the father or brother of the Empress of the Eastern Han Dynasty as a general. He just didn't expect that the Cao family and the Song family would still have a marriage.

Liu Xiu's heart suddenly moved, his eyes rolled, and he suddenly smiled: "You sister is a concubine who is begging along the street with a heavy treasure." ”

Cao Ying raised his eyebrows, quickly understood what he meant, and smiled helplessly: "No, I married her to the Song family because she was beautiful, but I never thought about it...... It's really hard to know what to say about her. ”

"I can't say that, she was also taught to be stupid." Liu Xiu smiled and looked at the direction of the Liu family in the room: "People can change, they can not only change from amorous to rigid, but also from rigid to stiff. ”

Cao Ying was stunned for a moment, and didn't understand for a while.

"This one in your house is very easy to do, as soon as you tell her that you like her as she is, I think she will immediately understand what to do. As for your big Confucian sister, you have to take some fierce medicine, such as the future of the family and the like, I think since she can read so many books, she must be a smart person, but no one clicks on it, she just reads the book to death, as long as someone breaks through this maze, she will not be stubborn. Liu Xiu straightened up and beckoned Zhang Fei to walk out the door, "Brother Meng De, thank you for your advice, I won't bother you more, say goodbye first, and if the matter is done in three days, I will invite you to have a drink." ”

Cao Ying smiled and sent Liu Xiu out of the door suspiciously. When passing through the atrium, Liu Xiu and Cao Luan passed by, Cao Ying specially introduced, Cao Luan glanced at Liu Xiu expressionlessly, polite, but refused to be thousands of miles away.

(To be continued)