Not long after returning to the bedroom and sleeping, Jia Xu was sleeping sweetly, and the servant who had reminded him earlier to go to the study hurriedly ran into the house and called softly: "Zhonglang, Your Highness has come down......"

Because he stayed up all night and was so tired, Jia Xu was immersed in his sleep and snored heavily, but he couldn't hear the voice of the servant.

Seeing that Jia Xu didn't wake up, the servant who entered the house to report the news moved closer to the bed, his voice was much louder, and he almost shouted to Jia Xu: "Zhonglang, Your Highness has come down ......"

Speaking loudly towards the master's house, the servant was also very panicked, and when he shouted, he hurriedly lowered his head, stood on one side with his hands down, and peeked at Jia Xu.

But Jia Xu, who was lying on the bed, still didn't wake up, he smacked his mouth twice, turned over, and then let out a snoring sound like thunder.

"Nakaro! Your Highness is here! Jia Xu didn't wake up twice in a row, and the servant was also a little anxious, so he leaned closer again, bowed down, completely let go of his voice, and yelled at Jia Xu.

Jia Xu, who was asleep, heard this cry in his sleep, and he got up with a bone, stared at the bloodshot eyes, and looked at the servant.

Glancing at him, the servant hurriedly bowed down, lowered his hand and retreated to the side, not daring to move, let alone peeking at Jia Xu again.

"Your Highness is here?" Sitting on the bunk cover for a while, making sure that he was not dreaming at the moment, Jia Xu raised his head and asked the servant standing in the house, "Have you entered the mansion?" ”

"I'm already in the house!" The servant bowed his waist, looked at Jia Xu with a little panic on his face, and muttered twice, as if he had something to say, but in the end he didn't say it.

"Quick! Fast! Hearing that Liu Wei had entered the mansion, Jia Xu hurriedly stood up and shouted to the servant: "Wait for Ben Zhonglang to change clothes." ”

When Jia Xu got up, Liu Wei and Deng Zhan had already entered Zhonglang's Mansion. The area of the courtyard in the mansion, which was originally guarded by the generals, has also been replaced by dragoon guards.

The dragoons in the courtyard maintained a posture of pressing the hilt of their swords with one hand and the other at their waists, each of them standing upright, their eyes looking straight ahead, like a statue standing still. The only thing that could move was the golden feathers on their helmets that trembled slightly in the wind.

After entering Zhonglang Mansion, Deng Zhan asked a servant of Zhonglang Mansion about the location of the study, entered the backyard of the mansion with Liu Wei, and went straight to the study.

On the root of the wall on the left side of the study, there are many bamboo slips. Next to the bamboo slips, there is a row of cages neatly stacked, one of which has an open lid and a whole box of paper books stacked inside.

In addition to books, Liu Wei also found that on the low table in the study, there were two crystal clear and green tigers.

Walking to the low table, bending down to hold the two little tigers in his hands, Liu Wei played with them, and handed one of them to Deng Zhan behind him, and asked him: "General Deng traveled the world in his early years, I don't know what material these two tigers are made of?" ”

Taking the jade tiger handed over by Liu Bian, Deng Zhan looked at it carefully for a moment, then raised his head and said to Liu Bian: "The material of this thing is Khotanese nephrite, although the jade quality is superior, it is not a superb. Your Highness asks what is this? ”

"Jia Xu invited Yuan Xi to come to the mansion, did General Deng think that Yuan Xi would only send such a pair of ordinary jade tigers?" Taking back the jade tiger from Deng Zhan's hand, Liu Wei put the two tigers back on the low table, smiled at Deng Zhan, and said to him: "The pile of things in the corner of the wall is probably the real gift." ”

Glancing at the corner behind the low table, Deng Zhan found several bundles of burlap wrapped in the corner.

The baggage is bulging, it looks very soft, and from the outside, it is at most some silk and satin, and it is really impossible to see what valuables are inside.

Just as Liu Wei and Deng Zhan were talking, Jia Xu, who had just been woken up by the servant, stumbled to the study. I don't know if it was because of nervousness or hecticism, but when he entered the study, his foot tripped over the threshold and he almost fell to the ground.

"Your Royal Highness......" was very embarrassed to stabilize his body, did not fall to the ground, Jia Xu just stood up, and he hugged his fists and bowed deeply to Liu Wei.

"How?" Seeing Jia Xu enter the house, Liu Wei didn't care about his embarrassed appearance, turned to look at Jia Xu, and asked him, "It should be a pleasure to talk to that Yuan Xi, right?" ”

"Your Highness!" Jia Xu maintained a posture of clenching his fists and bowing, and said to Liu Wei: "Your Majesty has been playing against Yuan Xi all night, and I will send him back this morning." At the time of the game, Yuan Xi had already made an appointment with his subordinates and returned to Jizhou, so he asked Yuan Shao to send troops to attack Gongsun Zhan. ”

"What are those corners?" Liu Wei nodded, didn't answer Jia Xu's words, and turned his face to look at the neatly stacked baggage in the corner.

Following Liu Wei's gaze towards the pile of baggage, Jia Xu responded calmly: "It's just the fur of some beasts in northern Hebei." ”

Before Jia Xu's words were finished, Deng Zhan had already walked quickly to the baggage and untied one of the burdens.

Unraveling the outer layer of linen, when Deng Zhan shook off the animal skin wrapped inside, a pile of golden beads rolled out in an instant.

Seeing the gold beads rolling all over the ground, Jia Xu was stunned and stunned.

Deng Zhan was about to untie the rest of the package, when Liu Wei waved his hand at him and said to him, "No need! ”

It wasn't until Liu Wei spoke and Jia Xu, who was standing in the study dumbfounded, came back to his senses, hurriedly knelt on the ground, and said to Liu Wei: "Yuan Xi told his subordinates that these are animal skins, and his subordinates didn't open them to check, so they really didn't know that they were wrapped with gold beads inside!" Your Majesty will send him the gold beads back......"

"Get up!" Raising his hand towards Jia Xuxu, Liu Wei put his hands behind his back and said to him: "If you send the gold beads back, this whole night's chess will be in vain!" You can put away these gold beads, and this king should not know it! ”

After speaking, Liu Wei raised his feet and walked towards the door of the study. Deng Zhan also stepped over the low table and followed closely behind, and when he passed by Jia Xu's side, Deng Zhan also lowered his head and glanced at him meaningfully.

knelt on the ground, until Liu Wei and Deng Zhan had a study, Jia Xu didn't dare to raise his head.

After kneeling for a long time, the dragoon guards in the courtyard had already withdrawn, and the servant who had called him up earlier entered the study and called Jia Xu softly.

Hearing the servant calling him, Jia Xu raised his head, turned his face to look at the servant, and asked in a cold sweat, "Your Highness is gone?" ”

"Gone." Standing beside Jia Xu with his hands down, the servant glanced at the gold beads scattered all over the ground, and cold sweat broke out on his back in shock.

He had earlier reminded Jia Xu to come to the study to see the gold beads wrapped in animal skins. But at that time, Jia Xu was too sleepy, so he was negligent. Now that these gold beads have been seen by Liu Wei, this matter can be big or small.

If it is too big and Liu Wei and Jia Xu are more serious, Jia Xu is afraid that his head will fall to the ground because of accepting bribes; Even if it is a big thing, I am afraid that Jia Xu will end up with a dismissal.

Once Jia Xu is not good, those of them who serve Jia Xu will also fall into the water, and I am afraid that they will not be able to raise their heads in Luoyang City from now on.

"Whew!" What surprised the servant was that Jia Xu heard that Liu Wei had left, raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat on his forehead, stood up, and said to him: "Put away the gold beads first, and stay until a few days, when Ben Zhonglang leaves Luoyang, you will take ninety percent of them to the treasury for confiscation, and the remaining one percent will be handed over to the account room and kept for subsidizing the family." ”

"Zhonglang, this ......" After listening to Jia Xu's words, the servant asked him with concern on his face: "Is this okay?" ”

"Just do what Ben Zhonglang says!" Jia Xu didn't give the servant much explanation, waved his hand at him, and walked towards the door of the study.

Looking at Jia Xu's departing back, the servant licked his lips. When Jia Xu left, he looked at the gold beads all over the ground, and wanted to hide a few, but he didn't dare, for fear of being found and punished.

Leaving Jia Xu's mansion, surrounded by Deng Zhan and a team of dragoon guards, Liu Wei rode a horse and slowly walked towards the palace.

Along the way, Deng Zhan didn't speak. His face was gloomy, and his brow furrowed tightly, as if he was thinking about something very important.

"But I don't understand why this king asked Jia Xu to put away the gold beads?" Riding a horse in front of Deng Zhan half a step slowly, Liu Wei glanced back at Deng Zhan with a gloomy face, a smile on the corner of his mouth, and asked him lightly.

Hearing Liu Bian's question, Deng Zhancai clasped his fists with both hands, arched at Liu Bian, and said: "Exactly, since His Highness is guarding Luoyang, who among the ministers dares to accept gifts from outsiders?" If this wind opens, I am afraid that in the future, officials will be planning to accumulate people's wealth, so ......"

"It's not that serious!" Without waiting for Deng Zhan to finish speaking, Liu Wei waved his hand at him and said to him: "What Jia Xu received was the property given by Yuan Xi. He didn't know beforehand, so how could the king blame him for it? And at this time, Jia Xu wants to return the property to Yuan Xi, I am afraid that the tacit agreement he and Yuan Xi just reached will be swept away. And Yuan Xi thought that the king didn't know about this matter, why didn't the king do a favor and let Jia Xu accept the gold beads, so that Jia Xu got the benefits, and the king also got the benefits, and the two benefits of the thing, why wouldn't the king do it? ”

"Your Highness has seen it thoroughly!" After Liu Bian's explanation, although Deng Zhan was still a little bored in his heart, it was much better than before, he hugged his fist and arched towards Liu Bian, then he didn't say much, and walked towards the palace with Liu Bian.

At the same time that Liu Wei went to Jia Xu's mansion, at the junction of Yuzhou and Henan Yin, many soldiers wearing tattered clothes and armor were busy packing up the camp tents.

Lu Bu, who was wearing scaly armor and a gold crown dipped in gold on his head, pressed the hilt of his sword with one hand and crossed his waist with the other, looking at the towering mountain in front of him.

Behind Lu Bu stood a woman wearing a big red Luo skirt, this woman had a slender waist and round buttocks, and she was full of the charm unique to mature beauties.

She held the flowing cloud bun often combed by aristocratic women, and stood behind Lu Bu's side, with a pair of beautiful eyes not looking at the undulating mountains in the distance like Lu Bu, but looking at the direction of Luoyang.

Her eyes were as crystal clear as Bitan, but her eyes were extremely complicated. In those eyes, there was nostalgia and longing, but more than that, it was full of shame and anger.