A little gray misty light penetrated into the room from the window, projecting on Liu Wei and Tang Ji, who were sleeping in each other's arms.

The light is not strong, and it does not feel dazzling when it hits the face. Liu Wei opened his eyes and turned his head to look at the window.

The light sound of the rain hitting the eaves of the porch reached his ears clearly, and the rain was still falling. The rain has been raining for three days in a row, but it has no intention of stopping.

Gently removing Tang Ji's arm on his body, Liu Wei sat up, covered his face with his hands and wiped it.

Tang Ji is still asleep, and Tang Ji who is asleep is especially delicate. The long eyelashes rested on the closed eyelids, the rosy lips pursed slightly, and the small nose fluttered slightly with the breathing. It makes people feel the urge to lean over and kiss when they look at it.

Standing up lightly, Liu Wei walked to the door of the outer room and stretched out his hand to open the door.

The two men who had been guarding outside at night heard the sound of the door, turned their heads and looked at the door, and saw that it was Liu Wei who opened the door, and the two of them hurriedly clasped their fists with both hands, bowed slightly and greeted: "Sir!" ”

"Haven't you slept all night?" Nodding to the two men, Liu Wei said to them, "Go back and rest early." ”

"No!" The two men answered, bowed with their hands in fists, took a few steps back, and then turned their heads and walked down the cloister to the outer courtyard.

As soon as the two men left, Liu Wei saw Zhu Jun leading four maidservants from the end of the corridor towards him.

The maid who followed behind Zhu Jun, holding a white scarf and brand-new clothes in her hands, swinging her willow waist, moved towards Liu Wei with Tingting.

When Liu Wei approached, Zhu Jun clasped his fists with both hands, bowed deeply to him and greeted: "Mr. got up early?" ”

Liu Wei frowned slightly, although Zhu Jun did not call him "Your Highness", but this fist and bowed down, but it invisibly told people with a heart that his identity was extraordinary.

hugged his fists and gave Zhu Jun a salute back, and Liu Wei said: "Dasi Nong is so friendly, I am inexplicably grateful!" ”

"Mr. and Mrs. Servant get up." Zhu Jun stood up straight, explained to the four maids behind him, and then bowed to Liu Wei with his fists in his fists and said, "Sir, but if you have a need, just speak!" ”

"Dasi Nong, go get busy!" Knowing that Zhu Jun stood here and saluted him too many times, he would always be seen by someone with a heart, Liu Wei arched his hand at him and said, "I will take care of myself." ”

"Retire from old decay!" Zhu Jun clenched his hands into fists, bowed and retreated, leaving only four maidservants standing at the door of the room, waiting for Liu Wei and Tang Ji to get up.

Looking at Zhu Jun's departing back, Liu Wei's brows were tightly wrinkled. As a veteran of the imperial court, and the chief general who has led the troops to fight for several years, Zhu Jun should not be so extensive that he can't even pay attention to this detail.

I faintly felt that something was wrong in my heart, if it weren't for those serious injuries that still needed to be recuperated, Liu Wei had ordered everyone to leave the town.

Although his heart was full of doubts, he could only gamble at the moment, and it was indeed negligent to bet on Zhu Jun, so he saluted him in front of the maid.

Under the service of the maidservant, after a while, Tang Ji also got up and walked out of the inner hall.

"Change into deep clothes and go with me." As soon as Tang Ji came to the outer room, Liu Wei, who was sitting in front of the door and looking at the rain curtain, glanced at her in a skirt, and said lightly: "I heard that the town in the rain has a unique flavor, I want to go to the street for a while, you accompany me." ”

"No!" When he said this, Liu Wei did not have any expression on his face, and there was no trace of a pride in his tone to see the beautiful scenery in the rain, although Tang Ji had some doubts in his heart, he didn't dare to ask more, but just responded softly.

"Get a paper umbrella for the two of us!" Tang Ji went into the inner hall to change clothes, and Liu Wei gave an order to the maidservant on the side.

After a while, Tang Ji changed into a blue dark coat and walked out, and the maidservant also brought a brand-new oil-paper umbrella for Liu Wei.

Umbrella, since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, has become a tool for people to shelter from the wind and rain on rainy days, but the original umbrella is to use bamboo strips to support animal skins, propped into a pavilion-shaped, in order to achieve the purpose of sheltering from the rain.

It was not until Cai Lun of the Eastern Han Dynasty invented papermaking that umbrellas with tung oil on paper appeared.

Paper umbrellas were lighter and cheaper than umbrellas covered with animal skins, and soon replaced animal skin umbrellas, and later, even the aristocracy abandoned animal skin umbrellas in favor of paper umbrellas as rain gear for rainy days.

The oil-paper umbrella that the maidservant took for Liu was very different from the umbrella he had seen two thousand years later, the surface of the paper umbrella was painted with thick tung oil, and even if it rained heavily, the water could not soak into the paper. A bamboo pole slightly thicker than a thumb carrying more than a dozen chopsticks is the umbrella bone of this umbrella.

Taking the paper umbrella from the handmaiden's hand, Liu Wei stretched the umbrella open and put it away a few more times, making sure that there was no problem with the umbrella, so he beckoned to Tang Ji and took her out of the room.

The two walked side by side on the wooden cloister, their feet on the hollow wooden plank, and the ground made a "empty" echo.

Outside the corridor, the raindrops beat the branches and leaves of the grass and trees in the courtyard, making a soft "popping" sound, bringing a little noise to the quiet early morning.

At the door of a house in the outer courtyard, Zhou Cang crossed his hands on his waist, looking up at the air like it was raining endlessly, not knowing what he was thinking.

Looking at the gray sky, Zhou Cang was smacking his brows straight, and he heard a clear sound of footsteps accompanied by the sound of rain.

He hurriedly turned his head and looked in the direction where footsteps were heard, and happened to see Liu Wei and Tang Ji holding a dark yellow oil-paper umbrella side by side, walking towards the gate of the house.

"Sir?" Seeing the figures of Liu Wei and Tang Ji, Zhou Cang hurriedly beckoned to the house, and said to a few men who were lying in the room: "Mr. and Mrs. have gone out, quickly call some brothers to follow me, don't have an accident." ”

As soon as they heard that Liu Wei had taken Tang Ji and went out without even saying hello, several men in the room suddenly panicked and jumped up like springs on their buttocks, and two of them quickly jumped out of the room and called the others to go; The other two people followed Zhou Cang, rushed out of the door, and chased Liu Wei and Tang Ji in the rain.

Under the watchful eyes of several gatekeepers, Liu Wei and Tang Ji walked out of Zhu Jun's house with umbrellas.

The rain is getting heavier and heavier, and a lot of water has accumulated on the bluestone-paved road. Raindrops fall in puddles, stirring up ripples in circles.

Liu Wei opened the umbrella with one hand, put his arm around Tang Ji's shoulder with the other, and walked along the path towards the entrance of the town.

Probably because of the rain, there was not a single pedestrian on the road. Liu Wei didn't seem to care about this, and when he walked along the path, his eyes always wandered between the alleys on both sides.

Hugged by Liu Bian, Tang Ji would glance at Liu Bian every time he took a few steps forward.

Liu Wei didn't have the slightest expression on his face, just kept looking towards the alleys on both sides of the road, as if there was something in the alley that particularly attracted him.

"Hit him, hit him!" The two of them were walking along the street in the rain, and suddenly there was a noisy shout in an alley not far ahead, and they looked forward following the sound, only to see a burly man like a hill jumping out of the alley quickly, followed by dozens of men with sticks in their hands trying to chase after him.

The burly man jumped out of the alley, turned his head to look left and right, briefly identified the direction, and ran towards Liu Wei and Tang Ji.

This man is half a head taller than Zhou Cang. With broad shoulders and strong muscles, the tattered little jacket on his body exploded, and a few gray hemp floc emerged from the opening of the small jacket, making him look like a sloppy feeling.

The man has a big cake face, and the face is dotted with a few pockmarks, and the most prominent thing about the whole face is the pair of eyes that are bigger than a bull's eye as long as you open it hard.

"Dian Wei, you are cheating!" One of the men who was chasing after him screamed, bent down and picked up a rock from the ground and threw it at the man who was running wildly in front of him.

The stone flew past Dian Wei's ear in a parabola, and flew straight to Tang Ji, who was standing beside Liu Wei, and was about to hit Tang Ji's handsome little face.

Liu Wei put one hand around Tang Ji's slender waist, twisted his body, and while his body was spinning, he grabbed the void with the other hand, and actually grabbed the stone that almost hit Tang Ji in his hand.

Grasping the flying stones with bare hands, relying on quick eyes and hands, if it was just crossed over a few days ago, Liu Wei's reaction could have kept up, but his body coordination was definitely not good.

After a period of escape, his body was stronger, his physical coordination was much better, and it was not very difficult for him to grasp the stone empty-handed.

Seeing that Liu Wei not only hugged Tang Ji to avoid the stone, but also reached out to grab the stone, Dian Wei, who was running towards them, was stunned for a moment, and the speed under his feet slowed down slightly.

Slowing down was just a matter of an eye, but the group of men who followed behind caught up at this time and surrounded Dian Wei.

"Dian Wei, you kid dare to cheat!" Surrounding Dian Wei, one of the men held a wooden stick in one hand, pointed at him with the other and scolded: "Obediently hand over the money and property we are waiting for, otherwise you will definitely look good today!" ”

It was only at this time that Liu Wei saw clearly that in Dian Wei's hand, he was holding a hanging copper coin. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the imperial court scraped the people's fat and ointment for more, and the coin control was chaotic.

This kind of money copper quality is poor, and the volume is relatively small, Dian Wei's palm is thick, two palms are closed inward, the palm of the hand is close to the waist ribs, the waist ribs cover the copper coin, a hanging copper coin in the hand, if you don't look closely, you really can't see the slightest trace.

"A certain old lady has gone, and a certain needs some money for a burial." Holding the copper coins with both hands, Dian Wei frowned, and said to the group of men: "If the brothers let go today, they will be ......rewarded in the future."