Chapter 112: Crying Poor
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Night slowly fell, but the lights were bright on the Taishou Mansion in Anhui City.
General Lu Bu, the new owner of Anhui City, wants to give a banquet to the entire Lujiang clan.
66 continued, all those Lujiang scholars arrived, and they all greeted each other, but none of them took the initiative to say hello to the master here.
Lu Bu didn't bother to take care of these people, there were many kinds of delicacies on the table, and seeing that the people who came were almost there, he was ready to start the banquet.
"Everyone, you must know what you're inviting you to come over!" Lu Bu went straight to the point, "Grain and grass, cloth and cloth's state army are guarding one side for my Han Dynasty, and I shouldn't have bothered you, but the grain and grass of the cloth and state army are already insufficient, so I want to ask everyone here to help me or two!" ”
As soon as Lu Bu opened his mouth, someone on the side answered: "Where, where!" General Lu came to complete the benefit of one party, the general has not much food and grass, and we have also heard that he should have generously helped me to strengthen the army! However, "the head of the Wang family who spoke was very embarrassed" In the troubled times of the world, the people's livelihood withered and it was difficult to continue, so I said that my Wang family had dismissed most of the slaves, and I could only eat enough at ordinary times, so I was really powerless to help, powerless to help! ”
This head of the Wang family is definitely an acting school, sometimes regretful, sometimes sad and angry, sometimes frowning, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go!" General Lu and his Bingzhou army sacrificed their lives and deaths to benefit the people of our Lujiang side, how can the soldiers have no food and grass, my Wang will not starve to death after a few hungry meals, General Lu, I am willing to offer twenty stones of grain and grass to support the soldiers! ”
Twenty stones?! Lu Bu's eyes flashed, and the fist sitting under the main seat had been clenched unconsciously.
Twenty stones, for an ordinary family, may be a year's or even a year's and a half's rations, but for these scholars, their meal is worth more than twenty stones. Maybe a delicacy can cost tens of thousands of dollars, or even a few gold.
Now I use 20 stones, I'm begging for food!
"Yes, yes, the world is hot and cold, and the troubled times are not good! But the generals must not go hungry. My Li family has 30 stones, and I will be on a diet for a few days when I am hungry! Another patriarch of the clan took a stand.
Thirty stones? The killing intent in Lu Bu's heart deepened.
"General Lu has worked hard and made great achievements, even if I smash the pot and sell iron, I will also fund General Lu! I'll give ten stones! ”
If you smash a pot and sell iron, you will sell it for ten stones?!
"I paid fifty stones, and I originally planned to buy a fat pig to go back to see Youshui, but now General Lu is in trouble. We can't help but help! ”
Unlike everyone who spoke, the heads of the three families of Zhou, Chen and Liu did not say a word.
"I'll give you two hundred stones!" The head of the Liu family spoke.
"Two hundred stones? Brother Liu, you're crazy! Someone on the side pretended to be incredulous, "You have 200 stones, how can your family still open a gang, and how can you survive!" ”
"It's okay, it's okay, it's okay to change two meals a day to one meal! No matter how you say it, you can't starve the soldiers! ”
"yes, yes. In the past, when General Sun was here, we couldn't help the generals of my Han Dynasty, but now we can serve the country, even if we don't eat or drink, what is it! "This is Chen Yao's voice, there is something in his words, what is the meaning that General Sun did not have a chance to repay when he was there, this is sarcastic Lu Bu!
Lu Bu felt that he couldn't help it, these people in front of him. These scholars in front of them, they control 80% of the wealth of the entire Lujiang, and their subordinates have 10,000 acres of fertile land, and they are still crying poor in front of Lu Bu, if they can't eat enough, then there is no one in this world who will not starve to death.
Lu Bu took a deep breath, he was really afraid that he couldn't help but kill them with a knife, "It's all bad to blame Bu, I don't know if you are so embarrassed, these delicacies are too poor and extravagant, too extravagant, and I don't know how much people have eaten this meal,"
"yes, yes! This meal may be worth half a year's worth of food for my family! ”
"Can't be extravagant. Being able to eat enough is already a great blessing! These family heads looked at Lu Bu while talking, and they were respectful on the surface but actually laughed.
Don't you want us to donate food and grass? Okay, we donated, we will donate more than ten or twenty stone of grain to you, it's not that we don't want to donate more. It's that we are also "poor", you see I gave you all the money for food.
"Someone will take them all down for me! The world is so hot and cold, we should not be extravagant and wasteful, eating these people's fat and people's ointment, doesn't it make you feel cold! Re-serve me! The corners of Lu Bu's mouth sneered, pretending, you continue to pretend.
One dish, two dishes, and the patriarchs of the Shi clan below frowned a little bit for each dish served.
Three dishes and one soup, two vegetables and one meat, the vegetarian dish is made from the wild vegetables in those fields, and the meat dish is just a few pieces of big fat meat and some wild mushrooms fried together, and there are even pig hair on top of the fat.
Let these pampered old men see the tumbling in their stomachs for a while, and there is still the leisure to eat.
Speaking of this rice, it is even more yellow, and the white rice is hard to find, mixed with bran, millet husks, and even small stones.
A patriarch of the Shi clan flicked the bowl of rice and could even find cooked rice worms, is this what people eat?
"What? Aren't you hungry?! Lu Bu was the first to move his chopsticks, and those things that the patriarch of the Hao clan, the head of the Shi clan, didn't seem to be eating at all, but they were eaten by Lu Bu, and they ate with relish.
Looking at the following without moving chopsticks, Lu Bu sneered in his heart and said, "I'm sorry everyone, our army is already short of food and grass, I wanted to help you, but who would have thought that you are also embarrassed in this troubled world, so this is so coarse and light, I hope you can understand!" Lu Bu borrowed grain and grass from these noble clans, and they all shirked it and said that life was not good, and there was no food in the house, but for the sake of the army, he would rather be hungry and grit his teeth and squeeze out dozens of stones.
It's very sensational, but it's actually crying poor.
"Understand, understand!" Those who say they understand are those who cry poor.
"It's already a delicacy, you can't eat it at home! You see, there's still meat! ”
"Come on, come on, everyone here is the mainstay of this Lujiang River, without you there would be no entire Lujiang, take me and the state army to give you a cup!" Lu Bu raised his wine glass and toasted to the various family heads and patriarchs below.
Lu Bu is the current owner of Anhui City, and his official position is also General Pingdong, and there is a Xuzhou Mu hanging on his body, and the people below dare not look down on Lu Bu too much, so they all raise their wine glasses one by one to return the salute.
As soon as I took the sip, my face turned green, and these wines were all sour, and the wine, which should have been clear, was muddy.
"Ahem!" An elderly patriarch even choked on the wine, and spit pebbles out of his mouth from time to time.
Lu Bu had already drunk the wine glass, and these people couldn't help but give face, as long as they endured the pain and drank the wine glass.
"Everyone, Bu has just arrived, and I still need your support in the future, and I will respect you here!" Lu Bu took another drink.
Still want to drink? The patriarchs below are in a hurry, can you drink this wine? One drink is a last resort, and two drinks are not fatal.
"What's the matter, you guys, this drink is not the right one!" Lu Bu looked at the ugly patriarchs below and asked.
It's not that the drink is not appetizing, but it's not a human drink at all, and I think so in my heart but don't say it on my lips.
"General Lu, it's not that the wine is not the right appetite, but that the wine is not strong, and the wine is not enough!" A head of the house stood up and said.
"Can't drink enough? It's only two cups, oh, I know it's because there's no food in my stomach, and that's why I'm not strong enough to drink! Come, have some food, so you can drink! Lu Bu said and asked the maidservant on the side to serve the food for the housekeeper who spoke.
Either wild vegetables, or mushrooms, or the fat meat with pig hair, let the head of the family eat it with bitterness.
"Come and drink again!" Lu Bu raised his wine glass again, and the head of the family below learned to be obedient, saying that he would eat that pig food if he was not strong enough to drink, compared to those meals that were difficult to swallow, this wine was already good.
Lu Bu has been toasting, and the patriarchs of the family heads below have been drinking the sour wine with a sullen and bitter face.
"Master Chen, why don't you move your chopsticks, does the head of the Chen family dislike these meals?!" According to what these scholars said, these dishes are already the best they can eat, and it is not a slap in the face to say that they dislike it!
"It's not disgust, it's true, it's really bad stomach lately, I can only drink porridge, but I can't enjoy such a delicious food!" Let him eat these things than kill him! Where is this for people to eat? Even their dogs don't eat that.
"Drink porridge?!" Lu Bu glanced at Chen Yao, he was the one who sarcastically said the most fierce just now, so you won't eat it if you have a bad stomach.
"Master Chen, why didn't you say it earlier! Earlier, let the cloth prepare it for you first! Lu Bu complained.
"Don't bother, don't bother!" Being able to skip eating this kind of food already made Chen Yao breathe a sigh of relief.
There were even several people on the side who complained that they had an upset stomach and could only drink porridge.
"Hehe, fortunately, Bu also likes to drink porridge at night, so I cooked a little, naturally the Chen family master can't eat, so give my porridge to the Chen family master to drink! Come and serve porridge! ”
Is this porridge?! The corners of Chen Yao's mouth twitched, and the porridge in his impression should be boiled with fine rice, with lotus seeds and wolfberry honey and ginseng slices, which can be regarded as a bowl of porridge.
And what is this yellow and black in front of you, where you can't see a grain of white rice? Is that the green grass? There's even something moving on the side of the bowl? Rice worms?
"Come on, come on, serve a bowl for all of you who have a bad stomach! Don't choke on it! ”
A dinner party until a herald ran in and bowed down to Lu Bu, wanting to say something, but seeing the people present, he stopped predicting.
"If you have anything to say, just say it, everyone here is the mainstay of Lujiang!"
"Tell the lord that the newly obtained grain and grass have been put into storage, but the grain depot is full, and there are still four thousand stones left, Lord Chen Gong asks the lord what to do with it!"
ps: Historical essays are really hard to write! The plot scene and even the background should be carefully considered! I went to bed late these two days with a gun! All thinking! Yesterday even at half past three was still coding words! I'm so tired today! I'm sorry, but you can only do two more.
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