"I'm dying, and you're joking with me." I brushed my shirtless hand away, turned around and brought up the clay kettle in the corner, "I haven't eaten for the night, I've left you a piece of soup." ”

"After looking for a day, I didn't even have time to drink saliva." Wuxian rubbed his hands and smiled and knelt down beside Xiao Ji, "Don't worry about innocent things, it's the smartest thing to do." By the way, did you tell Grandma today? We're leaving tomorrow. ”

"By the way, I'll leave the rest of the bag of millet to her." I filled a bowl of soup in a small bowl for Wuxian, and poured out two small dried fish from the small bag I carried and put them in his bowl, "This bag is cooked dried fish given by Grandma, and she said that she was going to take it to eat on the road." In addition, Grandma told me today that she has a granddaughter who was sold to Qufu as a slave by her daughter a few years ago. ”

"Well, and then what?" Wuxian took a sip of millet soup and asked vaguely.

"She wanted us to find her granddaughter in Qufu and then ask someone to help her send her back. Grandma wanted to pay me two sea pearls, but I didn't. ”

"And what do you buy slaves for?" Wuxian took a bite of the small dried fish and chuckled, "Little woman, have you forgotten that we don't have a single coin in our house now." ”

"Don't cry with me! Since you can have five industries in the Qi country, you will definitely have a business in the Lu country. A big merchant like you, I don't believe you don't even have the money to buy a slave girl. Oh, this is your dagger, I got it back for you. I took out the dagger that had been exchanged for wine by Innocent and put it on the small table, "This white-bladed dagger seems to be a rare thing, how can it be casually exchanged for two jars of thin wine." ”

"Where is this rare thing, there are many weapons workshops." Wuxian laughed and put the dagger back into his sleeve, "I've already drunk half a jar of wine, what are you going to exchange for this time?" But gave someone the sea pearl I picked for you the day before yesterday? ”

"How can I give up the beads you picked to others, they were exchanged for the gems torn off Lu Ji's clothes."

"Before you took off your clothes to the woman, you also pulled the gems off your clothes?" Wuxian raised his eyebrows and smiled happily.

"Well, make the most of it!" I saw that Wuxian had almost eaten, so I got up and sat on the bed and continued to pack up the burden of going on the road tomorrow, "Hongyun'er, did you say that Ah Yu and they are in Qufu now?" ”

"If they hadn't been caught up by Chen's people along the way, they would have been in Qufu by now. After Meng Tan and Dong Shu sent the Marquis of Qi to Gaowan City, they would also go south to meet us in Qufu, and the calculation day would arrive in about two days. ”

"So, we're the last to arrive? The only way to get to Qufu from here is by land, and we don't have the money to hire a car now, so it will take many days on the road. ”

"We don't have to go all the way to Qufu. After crossing Jiaoyuan Mountain, we can get to Feiyi, the fiefdom of the Jisun clan, and we can hire a car there. ”

"What about the money for a car?"

"Little woman, who swore that I must have a business in the country of Lu? Don't worry, when you get to Feiyi, I will be able to hire you a beautiful and comfortable carriage. ”

Feiyi is the fiefdom of the first quarter of the "Three Huan" of the Lu State. And "Sanhuan" refers to the three major clans of the Lu State - the Jisun clan, the Mengsun clan, and the Shusun clan. Because these three clans are all after Lu Huan, the world will collectively refer to these three families as "Three Huan". If it is said that the rulers of the Jin State are the four families of Zhao, Zhi, Han, and Wei, and the rulers of the Qi State are the Chen family, then it is the "Three Huans" who hold the military and political power of the Lu State, or the master of Feiyi, the Jisun clan of the head of the "Three Huans".

After resting for the night in the fishing village, we set off for Feiyi early the next morning.

Four days later, he finally entered Feiyi before the city gate closed.

Although Feiyi is one of the most important cities in Lu, it is much more crude and simple than several big cities in Qi. At night, there was not even a single figure in the streets. We walked around the city for a long time, and finally found Feiyi's pavilion on a narrow street in the east of the city.

There weren't many visitors in the inn, so I paid for the store with a few perforated amethyst stones that Lu Ji had torn off his clothes, and the director of the post station immediately led us to a room on the second floor facing the south facing street.

After the post station manager left, I picked up a small wooden stick on the desk and propped up the window of the room: "Hongyun'er, the rebellion in Yi Zaigongshan was more than ten years ago, why is Fei Yi still in such a situation?" ”

"When Gongshan rebelled against the Fei people, Feiyi was destroyed, and the city wall was later demolished by the Confucian faction. What we just saw when we entered the city was the newly built city wall of the Jisun clan. ”

Kong Qiu's demolition of the walls of Feiyi happened when he was the great secretary of the Lu State, and I was not yet born that year. When I was eight years old, my master explained the Zhou rites to me. He said that Zhou Li had a rule that the walls of the princes should not exceed 18 feet, and the walls of the "Three Huan" of the Lu State were higher than the Qufu of Ludu, which was an arrogance, so Kong Qiu had to send people to knock them down.

In my young opinion, tearing down the wall is a trivial matter, so Confucius's dedication to the demolition of the wall and the fact that Fei Yi Yi Zaigongshan led the Fei people to attack Ludu and rebelled because of the demolition of the wall.

Later, Wu Feng mentioned this matter again when he talked to me about Lu Guoji Sun's family, and I took the opportunity to ask him.

He told me that the world was in chaos, and Kong Qiu was using his own methods to reverse the chaos. He demolished the wall of Feiyi in order to weaken the "Three Huan" and assist the Kuangzheng clan, and the Jisun clan, the head of the "Three Huan", was willing to let him tear down the wall because his retainer Gongshan was not ruthless in Feiyi and did not listen to him.

The king of Zhou was seized by the princes of various countries, the princes were seized by the Qing clan in the country, and the Qing clan was seized by the retainers. It's like a bear being eaten by a wolf, a wolf being eaten by a dog, and a dog maybe one day being eaten by ants.

"In this world, the Lu people love to talk about etiquette the most, they used to always say that the Qin people were border barbarians and didn't understand etiquette, but they themselves even dared to make a small crime to attack the national capital and plot to assassinate Lu Jun. In this way, it is really useless to sit in a room and teach the ritual every day. ”

"Little woman, are you mocking Confucius?"

"It's not to mock him, I mentioned to you before that my master studied under Confucius in his early years. The Master admired Confucius's idea of governing the country with etiquette and music, and he taught me a lot, and I really learned a lot of principles of life. It's just that many of Kongqiu's ideas of governing the country are still incomprehensible to this day. ”

"Maybe when we get to Qufu, you can ask him face to face."

"Don't you want to ask him why he scolded your father back then?"

"Hahaha, I didn't plan to listen to the school under Kongqiu, but if you asked, I wouldn't mind listening together."

"If you don't listen to it, you will be foolish, but if you listen to it, you will be holy. If you are a person who does great things, you should listen to different people. Look at the current Fan family, Zhongxing family, and then look at the fox family back then, the Zhao family has been difficult to build a family for a hundred years, but it is very easy to destroy! ”

"The disciple can save it, female master!" With a smile, he took a step back and bowed respectfully.

"Hey, don't talk about it, you must be calling me a verbose old woman in your heart now."

"You're an old woman, but you're not verbose." Wuxian grabbed my shoulders and pushed me to the bed with a smile, "Don't worry about the Zhao family's affairs, I know it." Tired from a day of walking today, right? Don't think so much and rest early! ”

"Let me sleep on the ground tonight, you've been working harder than me these days."

"Even if I, Zhao Wuxian, stand and don't sleep, I will never let you sleep on the ground." Wuxian pressed me and sat down on the bed, "You go to sleep first, I have to go out tonight." ”

"Where are you going so late?"

"Go and see my business in Feiyi, and come back with some money by the way." Wuxian helped me lie down, and then pulled the quilt over me, "Feiyi to Pingyi, and then to Qufu, all of them are official roads." Hire a car tomorrow, and in three days at the latest, you'll be able to see the four girls, and maybe Wuxian is there. You've been frowning these days, if you don't want to become an old grandmother, don't think nonsense, sleep well, and nourish your spirit is the most important thing. ”

"Then you come back early." I grabbed Shirtless' hand and whispered.

"Well, you go to sleep first." Shirtless leaned over and kissed me lightly on the forehead, got up, blew out the oil lamp next to the bed, opened the door and walked out.

I don't know what the business of Wuxian in Fei Yi is, but the next day we suddenly had a lot of shell coins and broken gold from Lu in our baggage. So, early the next morning, two people who got rich overnight appeared in the west market of Feiyi.

The weather in Lu was unusually hot, and the linen clothes he had begged from the fishing village were thick and stiff, making him extremely uncomfortable to wear. So, before going to the carriage and horse shop to hire a car, Wuxian planned to take me to buy a few summer clothes at the market in Feiyi.

If it is said that the fabric of Qidi is superior to ice and fine silk, then Lu is rich in an undyed vegetarian silk. It does not have the bright luster of Qi Xuan, nor does it have gorgeous and complicated embroidery, but Lu Minsheng is light and soft, and the dress made with it is most suitable for wearing in the hot summer.

Short clothes, skirts, embroidered shoes, in the blink of an eye, I bought four large bags of clothes for me without a shirt.

"Hongyun'er, the two of us are dressed like this, why didn't anyone from the city prison question us about the origin of the money?" After walking for a few days on the mountain road, the burlap clothes on my body were already dirty and torn. If there were people dressed like us in Xinjiang who spent a lot of money in the market, they would have been interrogated by the people under the market a long time ago. But in Feiyi, everyone seems to be surprised.

"Maybe you and I are outstanding, elegant in conversation, not like ordinary people!" Wuxian smiled and raised an eyebrow at me, and casually took a painted wooden flute from a stall in a shop and measured it in my hair.

"Nonsense, Lu is prevalent in private schools, and there are not a few people who read poetry and etiquette." I took the wooden flute from my shirt and put it back on the stall, "I like what you made, so I don't need to buy anything else." ”

"Well, that's not worth it for you." Wuxian glanced at the shop casually, turned to me and said, "It's not like you said that you were afraid that you would worry, Lu Country has suffered from drought and locust plagues in the past two years, and bandits are rampant on the roads. The lucky ones were given all their clothes, chariots and horses; The unfortunate were brutally killed, and their bodies were left on the road. However, as long as the robbed person did not die and was a nobleman, he could go to Fei Yizai to receive a subsidy to buy clothes and hire a carriage. ”

"You got your money from Yi Zai?"

"Not exactly." Wuxian shook his head with a smile, turned around and asked the owner of the shop in Lu language: "Shopkeeper, how many people have been robbed like us this month, and how many people have survived?" ”

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