Two days later, in the early morning, Cao Shi sat in the back garden of the Hou Mansion to bask in the sun, the end of June coincided with the dog days, the sun rose in the early morning and there were about 20 degrees, different from the dry heat of the Yellow River Basin in the previous life, at this time the east of the river such as the south of the Yangtze River has a humid climate of lakes and marshes, and the clothes were soaked in the dampness and heat after sitting in place for a while.

Cao Shi wore a short-sleeved coat, half-legged shorts, and held a twenty-pound stone lock for a while, and the short-sleeved clothes were soaked with sweat.

Fan Itguang, who failed to persuade him three times and twice, was very angry, and Cao Shi triumphantly retorted: "Why not take off your clothes in the summer heat, not to mention that I exercised in the back garden of my own Hou Mansion and did not hinder people, and I never thought about the idea of losing my manners in front of the guests, if this is not okay, then I should also be neatly dressed and etiquette when I sleep in the room?" ”

The skills of almost sophistry defeated the upright Fan Taguang, but it was Uncle Chen, who has always been stubborn, smiled and instructed the writer to put down his burden, not to be angry about the actions of the prince in the Hou mansion, the young prince is full of vitality is a good thing, as long as he keeps the external etiquette and does not lose his duty.

The two "division" level figures of the Hou Mansion let go, of course, the officials of the Hou Mansion will not ask for their own boring advice, and the back garden of the Hou Mansion has become a forbidden place where only the prince and the maid can enter and exit, and as long as the prince and the marquis do not make unsightly behaviors, it doesn't matter if they exercise and other small things.

The sun rose high, Cao Shi stood up again and simply threw his shirt aside and practiced his family swordsmanship shirtless, the so-called family heirloom originated from the military swordsmanship of Chu and Han when the war between Chu and Han Dynasty was a collection of enhanced versions, when Cao Shen was forty-five years old and held a sword and beryllium for the Han King to conquer the city, he suffered more than 70 wounds such as rotten skin generals, if there was no this set of murderous swordsmanship to protect himself, Cao Shen would have become a dry bone in the mound.

The Han Dynasty martial arts practice came from ancient times, up to the three generations down to the Warring States have the tradition of wearing swords, the sword is a symbol of status and also reflects the ancient martial atmosphere, the etiquette system of the Han Dynasty since the Han Dynasty is in accordance with the Warring States, not only need to be proficient in Han law, Zhou etiquette, but also to practice archery, imperial arts, swordsmanship, horsemanship.

Wei Junru and Wei Shao'er sisters are still running around the back garden, the standard of their morning exercise is fifty sit-ups, jogging for a quarter of an hour, and using a special rattan to skip rope 500 times, the two girls can't understand Junhou's morning exercise method at all, only know that getting up early every day has become the most painful thing, and the morning exercise is very painful to even serve tea and pour water.

In recent days, the situation of the two has improved, they must eat boiled eggs every day, Hou Fu found a few cows from nowhere, the milk produced is boiled and drunk in a small pot, and the three meals a day are very rich.

Not long after the hour, the guests who went to the banquet came one after another, some of them drove the carriage and the ox cart and the twenty people in front of the crowd and blocked the middle of the road, some of them rode a donkey and walked leisurely on the field beside the road, and some came on foot without anything, as if they had made up their minds to eat a big meal for nothing.

Uncle Chen is responsible for the etiquette reception, recording the names of the guests, the gifts given, and the placement of the guests' domestic servants and other miscellaneous chores are very busy, the door doctor Sun Qi changed into a new set of clothes and stood in a conspicuous place in the mansion, and more than 20 sturdy family members patrolled back and forth with sticks in hand, beware of people fishing in troubled waters from mixing into the Hou Mansion.

Fan It Guang in the backyard to supervise the preparation of ingredients in the dining room, the Han Dynasty banquet adhering to the pre-Qin ancient style of etiquette, diet is very important, the selection of ingredients strives to be fresh and fat, can not be cooked with sick and dead things, some of the dishes that need to be stewed for a long time from dawn to prepare, since it is a banquet to invite guests from all over the world, you have to show some real skills, can not let the guests laugh at the Hou Mansion no one.

Hou Mansion was busy all over the world, only Cao Shi was the most relaxed, after the morning exercise, he took out the world to read for a while, and spent a quarter of an hour figuring out the key details of papermaking, and then bathed and changed clothes on the bed to close his eyes and recuperate, he was not in a hurry to go to the front yard to deal with the guests he didn't know, I heard that the thirty hundred scholars who were invited to the banquet were trying to fight for the upper hand at the banquet, and it was terrible to go out and bump into a scholar casually at this time.

Cao Shi was not anxious at all, but Wei Junru and Wei Shao'er were in a hurry, according to the etiquette system, the host of the banquet had to meet the guests and salute, if they did not do so, it would be considered arrogant and rude, but the prince had the heart to lie on the bed to rest, but the sisters were worried.

"I'll sleep for a while, and then I'll wake up when the Taishou and Du Lieutenant arrive."

It didn't take long for Cao Shi to really fall asleep, and Wei Shao'er tightened his sleeves nervously: "Sister, what should we do?" ”

"The prince can't be disturbed when he rests, go out and wait outside the room." Wei Junru's face was also pale with nervousness, and the position of the maid was not hot yet, and he didn't know how to handle it, so he hurriedly exited the room and turned his face sideways: "Sister, you go to the backyard gate and wait, and come back quickly when you hear the loud roll call in the front yard, I'll wake up Junhou." ”

"Whoa!" Wei Shao'er ran out of the smoke, and his actions were indeed much faster than just now.

A mile away from the Pingyang Hou Mansion, dozens of soldiers wearing county armor galloped on the trail, and behind the team was a loose team of less than twenty people desperately chasing, Zhou Yang rode his horse with a sword in the captain's suit, and Hou Ling Chang Ding Hui rode a horse and chased after him.

Zhou Yangyou glanced at the green corn on both sides of the road, the peasants ploughing in the fields singing rough folk songs weeding and watering, sometimes the peasants raised their heads curiously and looked at the galloping soldiers, and the knowledgeable old man recognized the identity of the lieutenant and looked worriedly in the direction of the Pingyang Marquis' Mansion.

The old people with good memories remember the scene of Jiangyi more than 30 years ago, when the Hedong county guard also rushed to the Jianghou Mansion with dozens of officers and soldiers, and after the founding father of the country who had made a lot of contributions, Zhou Bo was afraid that the county guard had conspired against him and killed him, and took his family with knives and guns to fight in vain, but was arrested and put into prison, and was humiliated by the prison officials in every way and almost committed suicide, and finally relied on a bribe of 1,000 gold to get the chance to get out.

After marching half a mile, the soldiers in front of him suddenly decreased, because the road was blocked by a line of carriages, Zhou Yang rode forward and saw the carriage of Taishou Mansion and was shocked: "Why is Shentu Gong here?" Yesterday, he also said that he would take a day off to go to the banquet, could it be that this banquet was invited by the Marquis of Pingyang? ”

"Du Weiyou, what are you doing with the soldiers of the county to the Marquis of Pingyang? I invited you to the banquet and was pushed by you, but you changed into formal clothes and rode a horse to lead the troops, did you want to attack the Pingyang Marquis Mansion? Shen Tu Gong glanced at the number of county soldiers, and his originally gentle eyes immediately became much sharper.

The Han system stipulates that the inner county Taishou is the county magistrate, and the commander is the county military governor, and the two sets of Hedong Taishou and Duwei are like this, and the border county is the military and political power, such as the Yanmen Taishou and other border counties close to the Xiongnu, but whether it is the inner county or the border county, the Taishou must know the soldiers and take charge of the soldiers, so that the border county can replace the dead Taishou at any time in the event of a major war.

Of course, a county is too shou to know the soldiers, Shen Tu Gong was a young man under Wei Shang in Yunzhong, and later served as a lieutenant in Yunzhong County for three years, led the troops to counterattack the Xiongnu who entered the Kou and also saw the Han generals Li Guang and Cheng Bu knew how powerful, and he thought that the war was not as brave and strong as the two generals, and the ability to know the soldiers honed on the battlefield was not bad at all.

Shen Tu Gong said coldly: "The Han law stipulates that the dispatch of fifty people must be used by the Son of Heaven with a tiger talisman, and the ordinary county country only calls thirty people to suppress bandits, so what is the reason for the commander to use forty-five people?" Why has he never heard that the Commander has a plan to send troops, could it be that the Captain has something unspeakable and unspeakable? ”

Sen Leng's gaze crossed Zhou Yangyou and fell directly on the cowering figure, that person was the Hou Ling Chang Ding Hui he would see every month, Shen Tu Gong had been an official for many years and was familiar with the Yin damage methods of lower-level officials, this juncture Hou Ling Chang Ding Hui appeared next to Zhou Yangyou, and he almost guessed the two of them.

Shen Tugong sneered, put down the curtain and urged the carriage to hurry, leaving more than forty county soldiers on the road at a loss, Zhou Yangyou's face turned blue for a while, and he was secretly ashamed: "Ding Hui, what do you say is going on?" Did you block the news of the Hou Mansion's banquet and me? Why don't I know about this feast, you say! ”

"The lieutenant has been wronged, the minister returned to the Hou country in the starry night to summon the messengers and beware of the spies of the Hou Mansion, and he didn't know the news that the Hou Mansion was preparing for the banquet guests!" Ding Huishu's cold sweat was dripping and he hurriedly explained that he didn't know that his servant had sent a prayer post, but that worship post happened to coincide with the two of them to discuss the overthrow of Pingyang Hou, and he waved it aside as an idle matter, and the banquet and worship post of Pingyang Hou's Mansion was also thrown into the garbage heap.

At this moment, it was difficult to ride a tiger, and he caught a glimpse of a carriage passing by the county soldiers on the trail from time to time, and the carriage carrying the nobles stopped and lifted the curtain to look carefully, Zhou Yang ordered to continue to move forward with a long sigh, this time he didn't pay attention to Ding Hui's shouting, and hurried away without saying a word.

Half an hour later, several halls of the Hou Mansion were full of guests, Cao Shi wore a solid color formal suit to warm the guests on behalf of the crown, under Fan Itguang's intentional arrangement, several living rooms were arranged by category, the hall of the hundred scholars had already been noisy, and the hall of the merchants on the other side was like a spring breeze blowing in his face, and he couldn't help but be speechless when the ice and fire were separated by ice and fire on both sides.

The Hou Mansion requirement: "Hedong is too guarded!" ”

Hearing the arrival of the county's parents and officials, no matter the high-ranking gentry, the scholars of the hundreds of schools, and the well-known businessmen in the county, they all couldn't help but straighten their waists and sit upright, and the noisy scholars were dark and stern one by one, as if the addition of fists and kicks just now was just a game and a dream.

Shen Tu Gong stepped in and said to the full house: "It turns out that the gentlemen arrived early, but they came late. ”

The guests didn't dare to return the salute in the air, and the pedestrians of the Hou Mansion led the Taishou to take a seat, and Shen Tu Gong and Cao Shi greeted each other: "The recovery of the prince is a great joy for the county, and a certain plan was to set up a banquet in Anyi before the prince returned to Beijing, but the prince and the prince let a certain abacus fall short one step in advance......"

Cao Shi said with a smile: "The public is too guarded, shouldering the well-being of all the people, and there is a time to rest after hard work, I am just an idler in the Hou country, and I occasionally have a cold illness before I can be cured for a hundred days, in addition to recuperating from illness, I am thinking about how to make people healthy and long-lived, especially a capable minister who has made meritorious contributions to the county like Taishougong, so I set up a big banquet to invite famous people in the county to share my little tips with Taishougong." ”

Shen Tu Gong was slapped by Pingyang Hou's sycophants, and suddenly had a good impression of this young prince in his heart, and it is also a great skill to be able to talk and make people feel like a spring breeze, and Shen Tu Gong felt that it was necessary to have more dealings with the little prince of Pingyang Hou.

At this moment, the speaker took a roll call and said: "The captain of Hedong has arrived!" ”

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