Chapter 254: Gift-giving

Only Liu He and Cai Yan were left in the house, and Sister Cai, who was still menacing, suddenly revealed her "lamb" nature, and was fiercely hugged by Liu He in her arms, and came to a suffocating fragrant kiss.

Cai Yan struggled a lot and finally broke free from Liu He's embrace.

"Bad guys, where have you been all this time?"

"Is it a long time? It seems like I've only been out for a month, huh? Liu and Gu talked about him left and right.

"Hmph, don't be like me! What's going on with the Wu woman named Wu Mingyue you brought back from Juyong County? ”

Sister Cai's gaze is aggressive!

"What? You don't even know that! Liu He was really taken aback.

Cai Yan showed a smug expression: "Hmph, look at your memory!" You asked Guo Jia to lead that Wu Kangning to visit my father, that Wuhuan barbarian is very honest, and told my father everything about you in Juyong County. ”

"This mallet! Why do you want to talk about everything? Liu He muttered.

"You mean that he and that Wu Mingyue are only inside? Me and my dad are outsiders? Sister Cai's eyebrows were upside down, and she was about to go crazy.

Liu He hurriedly took the angry Cai Yan into his arms, and said flatteringly: "This is jealous? Are you embarrassed to compare yourself with a Uzbek woman? Don't be afraid of losing your identity! Let me tell you, when I left from Juyong County this time, I really didn't plan to return to Jicheng with the two Wu brothers and sisters, the old fox in that building had to let his son come to ask the university scholar for advice, and that Wu Mingyue didn't know what kind of ecstasy soup Lu Dao poured into her father, and he was cheekily stuffed into the accompanying team, saying that he wanted his daughter to come to Jicheng to see the world. ”

"There is a saying that 'I eat other people's soft mouths and take other people's short hands', I have taken so many benefits from other people's tribes, and I am embarrassed to worry about a girl, right? Besides, Juyong County is only two hundred miles away from Jicheng, even if I don't bring that Wu Mingyue. The little girl may also follow their caravan to Jicheng. ”

"Then tell me honestly, are you tempted by other girls?" Cai Yan refused to give up and forced Liu He to ask.

"The conscience of heaven and earth, all my heart is in you! Leaving Jicheng this time, it's not because your father hid you in the back garden like a baby, and didn't even let us see you, I was bored alone, so I had to go out of the city to relax. Alas, ......, I would have been to the bright moon, but the bright moon shines on the ditch......"

Liu He said this. With a long sigh, it seemed to be full of countless resentments.

"What a mess of chanting! Don't do that outside, or you'll be laughed at! Cai Yan's face finally turned cloudy, but there was still a long way to go.

"Hey, by the way, why did the scholar allow you to come to see me today?"

"Hmph, you're too embarrassed to ask! You went back to Jicheng on the twentieth day of the lunar month, it's been six days, and you don't come to the house to say hello. He has put our father and daughter in his heart! The clouds on Cai Yan's face seemed to show signs of thickening.

"Didn't I get into trouble as soon as I came back! I haven't even slept well in the past few days, and I have come back from a trip, and there are many things waiting for my approval and solution. Let me count on my fingers for you: Zhang He of Liaoxi sent someone to send an urgent report, asking for instructions on how to deal with the clansmen of the Gongsun clan; Nanpicheng Xian Yufu and Liu Zheng jointly came to report. Ask for instructions on what to do next; Gao Liucheng Zhao Yun asked for instructions on how to deal with Wen Chou, who was captured again; Gaoyi Chengtai Shici asked for instructions to take the initiative to attack the first division of Koyi; Macheng Liu Hui asked for instructions on the number of acres of tuntian and the number of young and strong laborers to be recruited next year......"

Liu He said many big things in one breath, which fully showed that he really didn't need to be idle after returning to Jicheng, but Sister Cai's cherry mouth was still muttering and didn't give him a good face.

"Good. You said you had a lot to deal with when you came back, and I believe it. But why did you forget my father and the scholars who went north this time? This time, Cai Yan finally told the truth. Don't go around in circles with Liu He.

Liu He slapped his head and suddenly realized: "Oops, this time it's really self-defeating!" Why did I forget Lord Taishan and the soldiers who went north with me? ”

"You really forgot!" Cai Yan raised an eyebrow.

"Hey, how can you! You go back and tell the scholars, so don't worry, I have carefully prepared a New Year's gift for everyone, and when my affairs are done, I will go to cash it for you immediately! ”

"Hmph, that's pretty much it! Let's say it first, if the New Year's gift you prepared this time can't make my father happy, don't even think about entering my house in the future! After Cai Yan said this, he walked out with a smug face.

"That's it? It's not easy to come out, stay with me for a while! Liu He shouted in the room.

That afternoon, after Liu He was busy in the northern military camp, he changed into a new set of black scribe clothes, and then boarded an equally new wide ox cart and squeaked towards the mansion of the scholar Cai Yong. Behind the ox cart were a group of Wuhuan slaves leading horses, carrying sheep, and carrying wine jars.

The oxcart is the great love of the scribes in the late Han Dynasty, don't look at the slow action of this thing, but the scholars and doctors like this quaint taste, and they have to follow the Taoist Lao Tzu who rode the green ox out of Kunlun in the west. In order to please the future father-in-law, Liu He specially invited the craftsmen with the best skills to spend more than a month to make this spacious and comfortable ox cart, which can not only carry three or five people, but also store books, incense, wine and food in the car.

When Liu He came to the gate of Cai's mansion in an ox cart, Xu Huang, who was accompanying him, took out a token to a guard guarding the door, and then whispered a few words. The guards learned that it was the eldest prince's car that arrived, and hurriedly ran into the mansion to report to Cai Yong.

There are not many people in Cai's mansion now, except for the Cai family's father and daughter and the maid Xiaoyao, there are more than a dozen soldiers in charge of guards, and there is no other domestic servant. It may be that the Cai family was hurt by the group of snobbish servants when they were in Chang'an, so after Cai Yong came to Youzhou, he simply didn't even want a servant, and it was quiet and undisturbed.

Cai Yong had already learned from his daughter that Liu He would come to visit today, so he didn't go out of the house, and when the guards came to report, he shouted to Cai Yan in the backyard: "Yan'er, Liu Shiren is here, why don't you go to the front yard with me to have a look?" ”

"Hmph, what's there to see! Daddy, go see it yourself, my daughter still has to transcribe this article and sort it out......" Cai Yan's voice came from the backyard. I wasn't going to go to the front yard to greet Liu He.

"What's going on? When I can't see it, I mutter it every day. After meeting once, it seems that they have never been able to get along with each other. Alas, it's really a big woman......" Cai Yong came to the door of the mansion with a muttering to himself, and was then startled by the huge formation that Liu He had come out.

"The scholar is above, please bow to the boy!" Liu He jumped out of the ox cart with a smile and saluted Cai Yong.

Cai Yong glared at Liu He angrily and said, "You kid, haven't you always liked to dress up as a martial artist with fresh clothes and angry horses?" How did you change sex today, and you actually came to my house in an ox cart. ”

Liu He took Cai Yong's hand. took a turn around the brand-new ox cart, and then motioned for Cai Yong to board the cart to feel it.

"This is the New Year's gift you gave to the old man?" Cai Yong boarded the ox cart and poked his head out to ask Liu He.

"It's just one of them, it's all the ones that follow!" Liu He stretched out his hand and pointed to dozens of tall horses, a group of fat sheep carrying fat sheep, and dozens of slaves carrying wine jars behind the ox cart.

Cai Yong was sitting in the carriage enjoying himself, but when he heard Liu He's words, he quickly jumped out of the car, and then waved his hand vigorously and said, "This can't be done!" With this ox cart you sent, the old man is already satisfied. Those slaves and wine and meat in the back, you still have to give it to others, all the expenses in our family are personally taken care of by Zhao Beijia, there is no need to be so extravagant and wasteful! ”

Liu Hecai doesn't care about this. He said to the group of carefully selected slaves behind him, "Why are you still stunned? Hurry up and move the things into the university scholar's mansion, and in the future, if you are happy with the bachelor's family, my son will take off your slave status and allow you to settle down in Youzhou! ”

Liu He's voice just landed. The group of slaves moved quickly, some were busy carrying sheep to the house, and some were busy leading horses to the house. Someone was busy moving wine to the house, and Scholar Cai couldn't stop him.

Cai Yong's face really couldn't hold it anymore, he dragged Liu He aside and whispered: "Shiren, what are you doing!" Is the old man the kind of person who covets pleasure and rare wealth? These horses are clearly high-quality war horses, and if you send them to the old man, you might as well send them to the battlefield! There are so many fat sheep, it is clear that they have just been slaughtered and skinned, and there are only three masters and servants in the old man's family, how can they eat so much? There are so many slaves, all of them with a good appearance and a light body, how can the old man be summoned? I have taken your heart, leave the ox cart behind, and take the rest of the things! ”

Liu He was not anxious with Cai Yong, and said patiently: "Don't be impatient, and listen to me after I finish speaking." The New Year's gifts I have sent today are not all for the sake of honoring you and the elderly, but these excellent horses are for those scholars, and I want you to persuade them to take as few carriages as possible in the future, and to ride more horses to exercise, so as not to decay before they are old. These slaves were carefully selected by me from among the three thousand Wuhuan slaves, and they are not only healthy and clean, but also down-to-earth and obedient. These slaughtered mutton and good wine are also a little bit of my heart, and now that the Chinese New Year is coming, it is my responsibility to let everyone have meat to eat and wine to drink. ”

"Why don't you send it to everyone yourself? Do you have to sell a favor to an old man? Cai Yong asked with some puzzlement.

"These scholars were all picked by you at the beginning, but now that you are here in Youzhou, you are still the only one in your heart, and you will come forward to appease you, which is better than the effect of me, anyway, I am not worried that you will fake the public and enrich your private pockets!"

"Stinky boy, the more you talk about it, the more you don't talk like it! Is the old man like that? Cai Yong was not lightly angered by Liu He, so he almost kicked him.

"You can rest assured that I will handle this matter, I know that you have a lot of things, so I won't invite you to sit in the house." After Cai Yong finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards the courtyard, without the slightest intention of letting Liu He enter the house to have a cup of tea.

Liu Heleng paused for a moment, smacked his lips and said to himself: "Father and daughter are both weird tempers, I gave such a big New Year's gift, one didn't come out to see me, and the other didn't let me enter the house, I really didn't treat me as an outsider!" (To be continued......)

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