Lu Rui was lying on a high bed in the room, with a wool cushion made of wool purchased from foreign merchants, covered with a tiger skin quilt, a pot of small hot tea next to him, and two maids helping Lu Rui rub his shoulders beside him, hehe, this is a comfortable life! Compared with running around with Cao Song every day in the cottage, eating stinky wowotou, and living in heaven, the ancient ruling class was really luxurious!

Just when Lu Rui was enjoying a heavenly life, Cao Cao and a group of military generals were discussing how to reward Lu Rui in the Taishou Mansion.

Cao Cao sat on the main seat, drank a little wine, and then looked at everyone, except for Guo Jia, who looked like a prodigal son and drank the wine in the wine jug, the rest of the people sat upright, waiting for Cao Cao's speech. Cao Cao coughed a few times and said: "Everyone, this time Rui'er saved my father by chance, which is a great credit to my Cao family and our army, how to reward Rui'er has become a problem in my heart, what are your plans to solve my worries?" ”

Xiahoudun looked at Cao Cao, then took a bite of the chicken leg and said: "Big brother, Rui'er should be rewarded for his merits, children, reward more gold and silver treasures, rare and exotic beasts, this Rui'er should have no opinion!" ”

When Cao Cao heard this, he secretly scolded in his heart: Yuan Rang is really stupid, if it were so simple, I would still have to convene civil and military consultations? Wouldn't it be nice to take the money directly from the Cao family? Hmph, anyway, I, Cao Mengde, am not short of money! I still have Captain Touch!

Cao Cao did not answer Xiahoudun, but looked at Cheng Yu. Cheng Yu immediately stood up and said: "General Xiahou, it is a small matter to reward the Marquis of Qi, but it is important to gather the heart of the whole army. If the marquis is meritorious and not rewarded, the whole army will no longer be a life-saving soldier, how can our army compete for supremacy among the princes of all walks of life? ”

Xiahou glanced at Cheng Yu, and then said, "Sir? Reward Rui'er? How do I get a reward? Rui'er is the marquis, if you say knighthood, can you seal it? What if you want to increase your food estate? Can you increase? Conferring official positions? How can a child who has not yet arrived be crowned an official? Qin Ganluo is twelve years old to pay homage to the prime minister, Rui'er is still a few years away! After speaking, I snorted, a group of literati dared to shout in front of me!

When Cheng Yu and the others heard this, they were stunned for a moment, Xiahoudun still understood very well in his heart, this is where Cao Cao is difficult to do, it is not appropriate to be an official and a knight, give money, is Lu Rui short of money? If you can't show sincerity, you can't do it well, and you will lose the hearts of the army and the people!

Cao Hong saw everyone looking at each other, put down the wine glass in his hand, and said loudly: "Brother, what's so difficult about this, Rui'er is still old and close, it is not suitable to be rewarded, and it is not okay to reward after his crown ceremony, why bother so much?" ”

When Cao Cao heard this, his eyes immediately showed a fierce light, and he glared at Cao Hong, Cao Hong was stunned, and quickly shrank his head, did he say the wrong thing? Looking at Cao Hong, Cao Cao shook his head, stupid, this kind of thing can be said, and the young are meritorious but not rewarded? Is that also true?

Xun Yu stood up and said: "General Cao Hong, in the past, Gaozu of the Han Dynasty set the world to reward the ministers, first the people who did not like it, and then the ministers were convinced, loyal to the ancestors, and became the foundation of the Han family for hundreds of years. ”

Xun Yu took the allusion of Han Gaozu rewarding meritorious heroes to warn Cao Hong: Han Gaozu first canonized his most hated person Yongya as a marquis, and the originally excited ministers were immediately as tame as rabbits, that is, what does it mean to seal the enemy as a marquis? It means that other people's rewards must be higher than Yongya! Yong Tooth has become a benchmark!

Now Cao Cao's reward for Lu Rui is also a benchmark, although Lu Rui is Cao Cao's adopted son, but he is not a parent, and rewarding Lu Rui is also a benchmark for rewarding meritorious people in the future! In the future, the reward of meritorious people cannot be higher than Lu Rui, because Cao Cao's adopted sons are all sealed like this, what else do you want? Yong tooth is the lower limit of the benchmark, and Lu Rui is the upper limit of the benchmark!

Of course, Cao Hong didn't know the mystery of Gaozu's reward for his ministers, he just realized that he had said the wrong thing, so he munched on the pig's feet! Cao Cao looked at it and sighed secretly in his heart, the Cao clan still lacked political plotters!

At this time, Cao Ren stood up and said: "Eldest brother, since Rui'er is already the adopted son of the eldest brother, why don't the eldest brother accept Rui'er as a clan and let her join my Cao clan, wouldn't this be the best of both worlds?" ”

Cao Cao looked at Cao Ren, worthy of Cao Ren, the general of the Cao family, and his idea was different. Although Lu Rui is Cao Cao's adopted son, but the adopted son is always an adopted son, and he cannot share the wealth with the Cao family.

Xun You looked at Cao Cao, the lord was moved? Xun You stood up and arched his hand and said, "Lord, outsiders may not know, but has the lord forgotten that Lu Gong Bo is only left with Lu Rui?" ”

When Cao Cao heard this, his body shook, by the way, Lu Bohao, Brother Lu, he is Rui'er's bloodline, if Rui'er's surname is Cao? Isn't that the heir of the Lu family? Brother Lu saved himself, this is not kind, especially in the late Eastern Han Dynasty in the era of filial piety, others sacrificed their lives to save each other, and you included other people's sons in your own family? This will be ridiculed by the world!

Cao Cao sighed and asked, "Gongda?" Is there a good plan? ”

Xun You's eyes rolled, and then said, "Lord, I have a way to reward Lu Rui!" ”

Cao Cao hurriedly asked: "Gongda, please speak!" ”

Xun You arched his hand and said: "Lord, there is a daughter under him, who is about the same age as Lu Rui, and his subordinates are willing to recruit Rui'er as a son-in-law, and the lord will reward the ministers and marry the in-laws of the family, it is not impossible!" ”

Cao Cao listened, Gongda? It turned out that this was the idea? Marrying a family in the late Eastern Han Dynasty is to obtain a political status and identity, this is very important, why Mi Zhu has to assist Liu Bei when he is bankrupt, it is for the word identity! The identity of a businessman is not qualified! That's a way to do it! But?

Xun Yu listened, Gongda? How can you do that? Xun Yu immediately stood up and said: "Lord, Wen Ruo also has a daughter who can be married to Lu Rui, please marry Lu Rui in the name of the middle father!" ”

When most of the generals were still ignorant, Xiahou Yuan had already reacted, and immediately stood up and said: "Lord, the Xiahou family also has a suitable woman to match with Lu Rui, please call the shots!" ”

Cao Cao only understood at this time, okay, you all have planned? Recruit my Rui'er as a son-in-law? Grandma's, why do you come to yin me like this?

Guo Jia listened to the crowd arguing, suddenly laughed, drank the wine in the gourd, and looked at everyone playfully.

Cao Cao asked: "Feng Xiao, why are you laughing?" ”

Guo Jia arched his hand and said, "My lord, if you are honored with the Cao family, how can you only be accepted as a clan?" The lord can also accept Lu Rui as his son-in-law! ”

As soon as Guo Jia's words fell, everyone looked at them brushed, die Fengxiao, if you don't speak, you will die! Guo Jia knew that he had offended people, so he only drank with his head bored, in fact, when Xun You proposed to marry the daughter of the family, Cao Cao had already thought of the method of marrying Lu Rui with his own daughter, but Cao Cao couldn't say it, say it, don't you rob it? My old Cao accepted Lu Rui as his son-in-law, so he grabbed his son-in-law with his subordinates, and lost face! But when Guo Jia proposes it, it's different, that is, a way to discuss how to reward Lu Rui, and the decision is in the hands of the lord, Lao Cao!

Cao Cao looked at Guo Jia with satisfaction, Feng Xiao really won my heart! Cao Cao thought about it thoughtfully, and then said: "The law of filial piety is feasible, my family has a daughter's birthday, and she happens to be married to Rui'er, everyone, what are your objections?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, can there be any objections? Isn't that robbing a son-in-law with the lord? There was no way, only arched his hand and said, "The lord is wise!" ”

Cao Cao nodded, as if he remembered something again, and then said: "Everyone, if you want Rui'er to agree to this marriage, I'm afraid it will still depend on his temperament, but Rui'er? I wonder what you can do? ”

Marriage in the Han Dynasty was still very free, and the words of the matchmaker were the Song Dynasty, not the Han Dynasty! He is the only one left in the Lu Rui clan, if Lu Rui rejects Cao Cao in public, this face is not good-looking! And it is possible that Wen Ruo and them snatched Lu Rui, lord, others don't look down on your daughter, but it is still possible to fall in love with our daughter!

Those who wanted to marry Lu Rui naturally shook their heads, hehe, lord, you can solve it, if you can't solve it, Rui'er is ours! Cheng Yu really couldn't stand it, but there was no good way, so he had to say: "Lord, Feng Xiao is Lu Rui's master, Feng Xiao must have a way to let Rui'er marry the lord!" ”

Guo Jia hurriedly coughed a few times, choking on the wine, Zhongde, how can I do anything without you doing this? Cao Cao smiled and said, "Fengxiao? ”

Guo Jia heard this, my lord, this is nothing to do with me, if I provoke your baby adopted son, it will be a thankless thing, thinking of this, Guo Jia arched his hand, and said: "Lord, although my subordinates are Master Rui'er, but this matter really can't be done, please forgive me!" ”

"What, even Bonghyo flinched? But Guo Jia has already become a substitute for the dead, so don't force him. Thinking of this, Cao Cao looked at everyone, and everyone basically wrote on their faces, Lord, don't look for me! I can't help it!

Just when Cao Cao was at a loss, a voice suddenly came from the side: "Lord, there is a way for his subordinates to make the little marquis agree to this marriage." ”

Everyone was stunned, and they all looked over, it turned out to be a new doorman recruited by Cao Cao, this person was wearing a hat, not tall, and there was a white beard faintly, it should be an elderly person, Cao Cao trusted him very much, but everyone didn't know who this person was.

When Cao Cao heard this, he smiled and said, "Okay, I'll leave this matter to you!" ”

Cao Cao waved his hand, and the man wearing the hat left. Everyone looked at the man with strange eyes, but suddenly, the man disappeared. Everyone looked in amazement at the place where the man with the hat had disappeared, and Cao Cao just smiled and said, "Come on, everyone, drink!" ”

Everyone only picked up the wine glass and drank with Cao Cao, Guo Jia's eyes narrowed, who is it?

"You idiot, hurry up, get ready for more."

"Quick, get someone to fix this door!"

It's about to enter the Spring Festival again, the people in Cao Cao's mansion in Puyang are busy working, this Spring Festival is an unusual Spring Festival for the Cao family, Cao Song is also back, and the people of the Cao family have finally gathered together!

Cao Cao came to Lu Rui's room with an IOU at this time, opened the door, and shouted: "Rui'er? ”

Lu Rui was enjoying the bell's shoulder rubbing, and saw Cao Cao's lewd smile, grandma's, middle father, are you going to borrow money again? During this time, Cao Cao always borrowed money from Lu Rui on the grounds that the Cao family's wealth was insufficient, but Lu Rui had no choice, didn't Lao Cao recruit all the family wealth? The money brought by Cao Song was rewarded to the meritorious soldiers, and Cao Cao only came to Lu Rui every day to cry poor! It takes time to touch the gold captain to rob the tomb! It doesn't take time to borrow money from Lu Rui!

Lu Rui is also very happy to lend to Cao Cao, anyway, Emperor Han Xian will give Cao Cao a lot of rewards in the future, at that time, hehe, Lu Rui earned, Cao Cao's IOUs are all gross profit!

Lu Rui stood up, arched his hand and said, "Middle Father? ”

Cao Cao immediately sat down and said, "Rui'er? ”

Looking at Cao Cao's ugly appearance, Lu Rui shook his head and said, "Middle Father, let's say, how much to borrow?" ”

Cao Cao stretched out his hand and said, "Fifty thousand yuan, not much!" ”

Lu Rui nodded, and then wrote Lu Rui's two big characters on the IOU that Cao Cao brought, which is the word that Lu Rui practiced in Cai Yong's study, which is tall and powerful, Lu Rui feels that it is a kind of enjoyment when he sees it, Xun Yu and others praise Lu Rui's calligraphy is good!

Cao Cao took the IOU, then smiled and said, "Rui'er? The middle father still has something to do, so let's go first! With that, he hurried away.

Lu Rui looked at Cao Cao's back, and was also very puzzled, what do you mean? Cao Cao ran so fast? Always weird lately? Cao Cao took the Huang Juanbu signed by Lu Rui himself, smiled, and then slipped out of Lu Rui's courtyard.

There are seven days left before the Spring Festival, Yanzhou's civil and military have come to Cao Cao's state pastor's mansion, today is Cao Cao's reward for the merits of the civil and military for a year, the meritorious civil and military will be rewarded by Cao Cao, and the civil and military who make mistakes will be punished by Cao Cao. It's similar to the annual commendation meeting in later generations.

At the reward meeting, after Xiahoudun received the gold rewarded by Cao Cao, Cao Cao looked at everyone and said: "Everyone, this time Mengde's father got out of danger in Xuzhou, all thanks to my adopted son Lu Rui, today I want to reward Rui'er!" ”

When everyone heard this, they arched their hands and said, "The lord is wise! ”

When Lu Rui heard this, his heart blossomed, hehe, Lao Cao is going to reward himself? Surely it is not for knighthood, but for official positions? What official position? Get a military priest to sacrifice wine for me? Robbed the master's job? Although he is still a half-strategist!

Cao Cao looked at Lu Rui, showed a weird smile, and then said, "Rui'er? ”

When Lu Rui heard this, he hurriedly stood up, arched his hand and said, "Middle Father!" ”

Cao Cao nodded and said, "Rui'er, since you have agreed, I have decided to marry Jie'er to you, so that the two of us can kiss each other." ”

Lu Rui listened? Lao Cao? Isn't it enough to adopt me as an adopted son? Do you want to take me as a son-in-law? Cao Jie? That little girl is good-looking, but wait, what do you mean? I haven't agreed yet, and Cao Cao said I agreed?

Lu Rui arched his hand and said, "Middle Father? ”

Cao Cao looked at Lu Rui, laughed and said, "Rui'er? What's wrong? Don't you forget, this is the wedding book you signed with your own hands! ”

After speaking, the servants around him took out Lu Rui's marriage book and showed it to everyone. Lu Rui was stunned at this time, what's going on? How can this marriage certificate have its own signature? This is a very ordinary marriage letter, but the signature is in my own handwriting, and it is definitely written by myself! Myself? I really haven't written a marriage book myself!

Both the knowing and the unaware arched their hands and said, "Congratulations to the lord for getting this good son-in-law, and congratulations to the lord for getting a good spouse!" ”

After saying that, waves of people came to congratulate Lu Rui, and Lu Rui could only return the gift one after another, grandma's, middle father, you yin me, hard work, hard forced marriage, why is the marriage book signed by himself in Cao Cao's hands? Why? What went wrong?

The reward meeting ended with Lu Rui being recruited by Cao Cao as his son-in-law, and at night, Lu Rui sat in the room, knocking on the marriage book on the table, which was the marriage book collected by Lu Rui. (The ancient marriage book is generally divided into two, one for men and one for each woman) carefully recalled that Cao Cao recently took an IOU for himself to sign, and other than that, there was no other place to leave Lu Rui's signature, but why is there a marriage letter?

Lu Rui scratched his head, looked at the marriage book again, and couldn't understand, how could Cao Cao have this marriage book? Autographed by yourself? Lu Rui knew that this time he was completely in line with Cao Cao's way, showing the marriage book in public, Lu Rui didn't even have a chance to say no, although he was a child, but as the Marquis of Qi, he should also be honest, if he regretted the marriage, the consequences would be very serious, and you would definitely not be able to mix in the Eastern Han Dynasty in the era of filial piety! Cao Cao understands that although he is young, he still understands this truth, after all, he is a child of the family!

Just when Lu Rui was puzzled, Cao Cao came to Lu Rui's room and shouted: "Rui'er? ”

When Lu Rui saw it, Cao Cao came again, and Lu Rui said with displeasure: "Middle father! ”

Seeing Lu Rui's appearance, Cao Cao knew that Lu Rui was angry, but for the sake of his face in front of his subordinates, there was no way, Rui'er was almost eight years old, and he should be sensible. Thinking of this, Cao Cao shouted and said, "Rui'er? ”

Lu Rui glanced at Cao Cao and said, "Father Zhong, you lied to me!" ”

Cao Cao sat down, smiled and said, "Rui'er, the middle father has no choice, if Rui'er rejects me in public, won't the middle father have no prestige?" Rui'er can rest assured that the money owed by the middle father will be returned to Rui'er according to the contract, and it will be used as the dowry of Jie'er! ”

Looking at Cao Cao's sincere expression, Lu Rui was also helpless in his heart, Cao Cao was really like Yi Zhongtian's evaluation in later generations: Hehe, I, Cao Cao, is such a villain, a villain with a true temperament, what do you do with me? There's really no way to take him, anyway, Cao Jie can look good, and it's okay to be his wife, it's better than being Cao Cao to find a woman who doesn't know the details to be his wife in the future, and the marriage of the children of the family is helpless!

Thinking of this, Lu Rui smiled and said, "Father Zhong is hardworking, Rui'er understands, but Rui'er doesn't understand why there is a marriage letter written by me in the hands of Father Zhong?" ”

Cao Cao saw Lu Rui smile, Cao Cao also smiled mysteriously, and said, "Rui'er, such a mystery lies in this ink!" ”

Then Cao Cao took out an inkstone and a bamboo tube of ink, handed it to Lu Rui, and left. At the same time, he left a note: God-given divine ink, Rui'er likes to be curious about strange things, this ink is sent to Rui'er! Don't ask about the marriage book again!

Lu Rui looked at the note blankly, and then looked at the ink, isn't this ordinary ink? Then Lu Rui drew a portrait of Cao Cao's big turtle on a piece of paper, there was no way, only to take this to relieve his anger!

After painting the turtle, Lu Rui went to take a bath, and then went to Cao Pi and others to throw pots and shoot arrows, and he wanted to relax his depressed mood! In the middle of the night, Lu Rui returned to the room, at this time, Lu Rui was stunned, the words written by Cao Cao were gone, and the turtle drawn by Lu Rui was also blurred! Ink that can make handwriting disappear! How could Cao Cao have such a thing? (Readers, you can guess who Cao Cao's mysterious think tank is, this is a character processed by rabbit reading a little of his own opinions in the history of the Three Kingdoms (there must be this person in history) Readers hope this is a different think tank)