"Except for two outsiders, the old man has only seen three. Now there are many people who are blessed, and twenty-one people have died on the road this month. ”

"Shopkeeper, bandits are rampant in Feiyi, don't you care about Yizai?" I wondered.

"I can't do it!" The shopkeeper sighed, turned his head to look at the deserted market, and said, "I'm afraid that in a few months, no one will be willing to come to our Feiyi to do business." Before the two foreign guests return, let's go to the north of the city to hire a few rangers to escort them along the way! ”

"Thank you for the reminder." Shirtless gave a salute to the store and dragged me out of the store.

"I haven't asked yet?"

"What if you ask? Do you want to stay and kill the thieves for that city? The sun was shining outside the shop, and Wushirt pulled off his collar slightly, and walked towards the right side of the market, "As far as I know, the Jisun clan has reduced most of Feiyi's garrison soldiers and horses since the Zaigong Mountain in Fei Yi was not in chaos. The governor of this place has no power to transfer troops, how do you call Fei people to suppress bandits? ”

"Yi Zai doesn't have the power to transfer troops, so why doesn't the Ji Sun clan care?"

"The difficulty of governing the country and the family is far more difficult than you can imagine. The Ji Sun clan is now in charge of the government of the Lu State, where does he have time to pay attention to the sporadic bandits on this road. ”

"I don't have time to take care of it, and my subordinates can't be trusted, so I responded to Master's words, the more power you have, the fewer people you can trust."

"Taishi still said such things to you?"

"Hongyun'er, aren't you afraid that you will be like this Ji Sun clan in the future, and there will be no more credible people around you?"

"Afraid, why not afraid. But as you said yesterday, it is not easy for the Zhao family to build a family in a hundred years, and if there is a talent among the sons of the Qing father who can overcome me, I will naturally not fight for this hard work. A hundred years ago, there were more than 20 prominent clans in the Jin Kingdom, and now there are only four left, and after Zhiyao succeeded to the position of Shangqing, I don't know how many are left. The ancestors of the Zhao family have suffered several catastrophes, and now I just want to keep this foundation for the ancestors. ”

Wuxian's expression became more and more solemn as he spoke, and I hurriedly changed into a smiling face and waved my hand: "Okay, okay, let's not talk about this." It's just a carriage ahead, right? Let's go and pick the most spacious and comfortable one. ”

"You wait for me under the tree over there, it must stink in the carriage on such a hot day."

"It's okay, let's go together." As soon as I finished speaking, a carriage drove on the left side of the street, and the horses pulling the cart actually snorted and pulled a large pile of steaming horse manure in the middle of the road as they passed in front of us.

There was a moment of silence between me and Wuxian, and then we both covered our noses and laughed at each other.

"I've wronged you, husband! The little woman is waiting for you under the tree, and the husband will go and come back quickly. I smiled and saluted, looking up and jokingly.

Wuxian raised his head and smiled bitterly, covering his nose and running towards the carriage.

It's the end of June, and the weather in Ludi is going crazy. On the big tree beside the road, the branches hung listlessly, and the Zhizhi hidden in the leaves squeaked incessantly, completely ignoring the irritable thoughts of passers-by.

I stood under the tree for less than half an hour before I felt sweaty on my back, and my mouth was so dry that it looked like a puff of smoke could come out of one mouth. Under the big tree, in addition to me, there were several coachmen who drove the cars for others, and while they fanned the wind with bamboo hats, they excitedly boasted about their experiences of escaping death at the hands of bandits. Some people say that they have met two robbers, another says that he has met ten, and the remaining one does not say that he has met a hundred. Whether it is a nobleman or a commoner, when men get together, they will inevitably brag.

But their words reminded me of the thief. The thieves are Lu people, and I don't know if these bandits who are rampant in Feiyi have anything to do with him. I was thinking in my heart when a coachman suddenly patted his ass and stood up from the ground: "Hey, don't say it, I am thirsty." Which of you has the money? Go buy a bowl of pulp for your eldest brother to hydrolyze and relieve the heat! ”

Slurry water? When I heard these two words, my mouth immediately burst into vowel.

"Old plum soup, old plum soup-" At this time, a vendor pushing a cart to sell plum soup happened to appear at one end of the street.

Thinking of the sour taste of the aged black plums, I couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, pursed my lips, and took a coin from my belt and walked towards the vendor.

The midday sun was white, and the yellow mud-tamped streets had accumulated a scorching fire after a long period of exposure. The fire rushed through my feet the moment I stepped out of the shade of the tree, and it was so dark that I stumbled after only five steps.

Dizzy...... Isn't it a heat stroke?

I secretly screamed in my heart that something was wrong, and quickly covered my head and retreated into the shade of the tree and slowly squatted down.

At this time, a man in brown wearing a hat suddenly came out of the alley on the right side of the street: "Little brother, bring me a bowl of plum soup." ”

The man's familiar voice, long lost, drifted into my ears far away. My heart shook, and I involuntarily stood up and walked towards the man who bought the plum soup.

"Ah Shi, where are you going?" Shirtless ran up from behind me and grabbed my arm.

"I'm thirsty and want to buy a bowl of plum soup to drink. Have you hired a car? As I spoke to Wuxian, my eyes glancing again at the soup cart. But the man with the hat was gone.

"Why is your face so ugly? The sun is poisonous outside, you get in the car first and wait for me, and I'll fill a tube for you and come back. As he spoke, he whistled to his left, and then a coachman drove up in a carriage with red tops and light veils.

Wuxian helped me into the carriage, took a bamboo tube from the carriage and ran towards the vendor as fast as he could.

There are often secret reports from Lu Guolai in the study of the General's Mansion, and since this Feiyi is the fief of the Jisun clan, it is not impossible for the Qin people to set up a secret pile here. It's just that the Qin State and the Lu State, one in the west and the other in the east, he can't come here, right?

I endured the feeling of dizziness and lifted the light veil and looked around. There were only a few hurried passers-by in the streets at noon, and there was no figure among them that I knew.

After buying the plum soup, the shirtless quickly got into the carriage. The coachman flicked his whip at the command, and the horse pulling the cart neighed and galloped toward the city gate west of Feiyi.

"When you just bought plum soup, who did you meet?" I took the bamboo tube handed by the shirtless and poured it a few times.

"No, do you see innocence?" Shirtless wiped the sweat from my forehead and asked softly.

"Nope. Hongyun'er, I seem to be suffering from heat stroke......" I handed the bamboo tube to Wushirt and half-lay down on his lap.

"Sleep for a while, I'll call you at the next station." The shirtless brushed away the sweat-soaked hair on my neck and gently fanned me with his sleeve.

"Hmm."

In the next few days, we traveled during the day, rested at night in the post stations along the way, and finally arrived in Qufu after five days.

In that year, King Zhou Cheng enshrined the Duke of Zhou in Lu, the place was 700 miles, the leather car was thousands of times, and the Duke of Lu was ordered to worship the Duke of Zhou with the rites of the Son of Heaven. Lu is the only country that can play the music of the Son of Heaven except for the Zhou royal family. The construction of Ludu Qufu is also said to have imitated the layout of Hojing, the old capital of the Zhou royal family. Zhongzheng and symmetrical, this city, which is closely related to the Zhou royal family, has its own heroic righteousness.

"Hongyun'er, when I get to the residence later, you can send someone to buy a few sets of men's robes for me!" I looked at the street outside the car through the light veil, and the situation in Lu in recent days really made me a little annoyed.

"What, suffocated?" Shirtless leaned behind me, lifted the veil and poked his head out with a smile.

"Come back quickly, be careful of being seen!" I pulled the sleeve of my shirtless shirt and pulled him in suddenly, "You are a man sitting in a woman's car and looking around, I don't want to be called an unruly ** as soon as I enter Qufu." ”

In the country of Lu, the defense of men and women is far heavier than that of the Central Plains, and a few days ago, I ate with Wuxian in the same case at the post station, which provoked many people to point fingers behind their backs. Now that we are in Ludu, if we are seen in the same car, it is certain to provoke a few scoldings, and maybe a few stones.

"I knew that I should have bought a few men's robes to keep in place when I was in Feiyi. It's all you, you have to let me wear women's clothes, and I'm suffocated to death. I glared at Wuxian in exasperation.

"You don't blame Lu people for being pedantic, why do you blame me." Wuxian smiled into my ear, "You say, if Kong Qiu knew that the Jin people had made a woman a sacrificial 'corpse', would he scold the Jin people for dying in the world?" ”

"You reminded me of that. I've never heard that Confucius has accepted female disciples, so let's visit Confucius Mansion tomorrow, and you can give me a big beard! ”

"Visiting Confucius tomorrow?" Wuxian smiled and turned my face, looked up and down, and said jokingly, "Little brother, dare to ask who you are interested in visiting Dr. Kong tomorrow?" ”

"For the sake of the incumbent?"

"Confucius bowed heavily, but whenever the younger generation visits the elders, and the younger generations visit the Venerable, someone needs to be introduced from it. If you don't hand over the prayer post, no one will intervene, do you want to rush directly to the Confucian Mansion? ”

"This ...... "Confucius, if I lose my courtesy on my first visit, how can I be worthy of the Master's teachings to me during his lifetime?" Hongyun'er, didn't you compare swords with Kong Menzi back then, or would you ask him to introduce Dr. Kong to us? ”

"You forgot, Zilu is now serving as the governor of Pucheng, Weiguo."

"And who are we looking for?" I held my chin and searched for the right candidate in my heart, and suddenly a man wearing a golden crown and holding a lot of gold calculations appeared in my mind, "By the way, we can go to Duanmu Ci!" ”

"Duanmuci?" Wuxian smiled and said, "Over the years, the Confucian Duanmu Ci has indeed been famous, but if you know him, he may not know you!" ”

"You don't know! Speaking of which, I still have some friendship with this Duanmu Ci. I proudly lifted my chin at Wuxi, who was still kept in the dark when we met Duanmu Ci on a snowy night.

"What friendship?" Shirtless looked suspicious.

"I'm not telling you."

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