"Auntie, are you back?" Liu Chang was outside his aunt's room, and found that his aunt's door was open, and knew that his aunt was back, so he asked outside the door.

"Come in." My aunt opened the door and let Liu Chang into the house.

Seeing that his aunt's expression was good, Liu Chang found a place to sit down:

Liu Chang asked, "How is it at home, are you okay?" ”

Liu Ling said: "What else can I do, although I say that I will return to my family, but now I am alone, and it is not so easy to return to my family." There is no one, there is no home. However, seeing that Xi'er can be safe, I am also relieved. Perhaps, twenty or thirty years later, the Cao family will still be prosperous. ”

"So do you have any plans? Do you want to stay and help him? Liu Chang asked.

"What can I do if I stay? Although Xi'er has a fortune, but his little fortune is not enough to support himself, with me, we must starve to death" Liu Ling smiled helplessly.

Liu Chang grinned and said, "Lack of money? I can't help with the rest, I'm short of money, so let's say, what's the matter? ”

"No" Liu Ling also looked at Liu Chang, knowing that his nephew was a master of scraping money, and when he was bare-handed, he had accumulated tens of millions of gold, and now, coupled with the accumulation of tens of thousands of years in the base, money is no longer a wealth for the base, but a burden. If you simply want to rely on money, it can be said that you can elevate your great-grandson to the richest man in the Han Dynasty overnight. But wealth without foundation is a curse, not a blessing. You may get rich overnight, or you may die overnight.

Liu Ling shook his head and continued: "Funding us now will wear out his character, but it will affect his fighting spirit, and in that case, the Cao family will really have no hope of revival." ”

Liu Chang couldn't bear to say, "Then you can't just look at it, right?"

"Just look at it like this, he is a descendant of the Cao family, and it is his responsibility to revive the Cao family, and the Cao family will not be reborn without suffering. I'm homeless now, and you're going to have to give me my old age. Liu Ling's mood has also improved, and hope is better than no hope.

A witch catastrophe that has affected three generations. It is said that it is a strong man and a strong man, but is the big man really strong? A war against the Xiongnu emptied the entire country, withered away all industries, and reduced the population from 56 million to less than 20 million.

A witch incident almost exhausted the economic, political, and military elites of the Han Dynasty.

Cao Xiang is the husband of the eldest princess, who was the hero who accompanied Huo Qu's illness to seal the wolf Juxu, and finally almost wiped out the race, leaving only Cao Xi alone; The general, the hero Wei Qing who resisted the Huns, was exterminated, and the genius general Huo Quai, who swept the Hun royal court across the desert, was exterminated. What the Huns wanted to do but did not do, Emperor Xiaowu did it for Shan Yu, and now the soldiers of the Han Dynasty have no past majesty in the desert, and they are being chased around by the Huns like dogs, and Li Guangli, the commander of the second division, even surrendered the whole army. Shouldn't he be nailed to the pillar of shame in history?

Liu Chang was also a little embarrassed, but what his aunt said was right. Now that there is hope, let the flame of hope burn slowly.

"How's your doing? Is everything done? Compared with the Cao family, Liu Ling is more concerned about Liu Chang's affairs.

Liu Chang said: "It's going well" and briefly told Liu Ling about the events of the past few days.

"And a female disciple?" Liu Ling's emotions suddenly became excited, and she even forgot what Liu Chang said about the tailor, "What about your apprentice?" Show me! ”

"That's a disciple, not a toy, and I'll show it to you. My own disciples are looking for me by themselves, don't come and rob me. Seeing that my aunt's eyes lit up, as if a hungry wolf was thinking about the little fat sheep, she hurriedly declared.

Liu Ling was amused when she saw Liu Chang's nervousness, and then said, "What's yours and mine, can my aunt still rob you?" Look at your stinginess. ”

The next day, Liu Chang and Liu Ling withdrew from the room and walked out of the Barbarian Mansion. Liu Ling saw five people dressed as chamberlains following behind Liu Chang, and asked puzzledly, "Who are they?" ”

Liu Chang said: "Tailor, didn't I tell you yesterday." ”

"Oh, oh" Liu Ling thought about it all of a sudden, Liu Chang did say yesterday that the emperor sent him five eunuchs who were still in the clothes, but he put all his attention on Liu Chang's newly accepted disciples and didn't care.

Liu Ling glanced at it, and couldn't help but 'poof', happy, she recognized the steward who was shouting and desperately running away, and he was also among them, his face was full of defeat, his head was lowered, and he didn't say a word.

"Didn't you say that it was given to you by the emperor, why are they all sullen?" Liu Ling looked at their expressions one by one, a little puzzled.

When the steward heard Liu Ling's words, he hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "Madam, the emperor said that it was borrowed, not sent." Lend us to you and help you make your clothes. After finishing our work, we have to go back to the palace. ”

"Whether it's borrowing or sending, you don't have to be like your father and mother are dead" Liu Chang has a lot of things to do in the past few days, and after sending them to Binshe, he didn't ask again, and when he heard his aunt say this, he noticed their expressions, and he was very angry, so he scolded.

"Childe forgives sins, Childe forgives sins." The leading steward saw that Liu Chang was angry, and quickly knelt down to plead guilty, but he still said what he had to say: "Childe's request, I really can't complete it!" ”

Liu Chang thought that they still didn't dare to make dragon robes, so he said: "The emperor asked you to make clothes for me, the emperor is not afraid of my rebellion, what are you afraid of?" ”

"Childe, Childe misunderstood, we are not afraid of Childe's rebellion, you have to make a dragon robe, we will do it, anyway, the emperor has a decree, everything is subject to Childe's arrangement."

"So what do you mean?"

"Childe, making a dragon robe, relying on the five of us, it can't be completed in twenty or thirty years. Twenty or thirty years later, when we go back... Woo."

"The dragon robe is so troublesome?"

"Yes, Childe. Each piece of fabric of the dragon robe must be woven separately, and every silk thread must be carefully selected, including gold and silver threads, which are required to be fine, and every texture must be balanced and symmetrical, and it will take three years to embroider a dragon robe. Dragon robes are divided into winter, summer, and spring and autumn clothes; and formal and casual wear..."

"Stop..."Liu Chang felt that his hands were cramping when he heard this, okay, it will take several years to make a dress: "Does the emperor also know that you came to make a dragon robe for me?"

The steward said: "Hui Gongzi, yes, the emperor knows, we dare not hide it." ”

"Hahaha" Liu Chang couldn't help laughing and said, "I'm sick, I'm sick, I'm even playing tricks with you, uncle." ”

Liu Ling looked at Liu Chang, who was smiling and groaning, suspiciously, and asked, "Sick, deceive us?" They won't do it? ”

Liu Chang still kept a smile and said: "Of course they will do it, haven't you heard, this set of dragon robes is made, relying on the five of them, without twenty or thirty years, it can't be done at all." In other words, auntie, you don't want to be a dragon robe. ”

Liu Ling asked the tailors: "How is the emperor's dragon robe made?" ”

The steward replied, "Return... Mrs. Hui, Shangyi supervisor to make a dragon robe, to organize hundreds of weavers and embroiderers, it will take a year. ”

"Dead boy" Liu Lingxing's eyes widened, scolded, and then said: "I'll settle accounts with him." ”

Seeing her aunt who was about to run away, Liu Chang hurriedly grabbed her sleeve, but said to the tailors: "Your craftsmanship, how is it in Shangyi Prison?"

The steward said, "Go back to Gongzi." In Shangyi Prison, the craftsmanship of the five of us is considered to be the best. ”

"Hey, hey, hey" Liu Chang still laughed tepidly twice and said, "Then you don't have to go back." ”

The five people looked at Liu Chang's unhappy and angry face, they didn't know what he was going to do, thinking that Liu Chang was going to kill all the five of them with the best skills to take revenge on the emperor, so frightened that they slammed their heads on the ground, bangbang, and kept begging for mercy in their mouths: "Son, madam, madam, spare life." ”

Liu Chang restrained his smile and said, "What do I want your life for, get up!" From now on, you will be my tailor. ”

"I'm so angry" Liu Ling knew that Liu Chang had already settled the account to prevent her from looking for a doctor, but she was still uncomfortable in her heart, and couldn't help muttering to herself.

Leaving five tailors waiting outside the city, the two of them went to the residence of Liu Chang's first disciple, Nizi.

It was a dilapidated grass hut, with most of the surrounding earthen walls crumbling and the thatch on the house decaying. After signing the deed of sale, both of them lived in the maid's room of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and rarely came back.

Yesterday, Zhao was stunned during the whole process, and when she came back, she found that even if she didn't have to raise her daughter, her life still couldn't be maintained, and when Liu Chang and they came, Zhao was still sitting on the couch in the house crying, and her daughter wiped her mother's tears with her sleeve. When they saw Liu Chang and the others coming in, the mother and son immediately held back their tears and knelt together on the muddy floor in the house, which had just been sprinkled with some water and looked a little damp.

This situation, Liu Chang was not surprised, thirty years ago, when he was the leader of the gang, he had seen it, although through more than thirty years of rest with the people, the situation has improved somewhat, but the land annexation is serious, it has always been a cancer of the Han Dynasty, and it cannot be cured, even Emperor Xiaowu suppressed Haoqiang with iron blood, and there was no obvious change.

"Get up," Liu Chang motioned for their mother and daughter to get up.

"This is your new disciple?" Liu Ling fell in love with this girl at first sight when she saw Nizi, and threw the unpleasantness just now out of the clouds: "It's so good-looking, it's so fun!" ”

"What do you mean? What is so funny. Liu Chang pretended to be angry and glared at his aunt: "Come, Nizi, I've seen Uncle Shizu"

Nizi also saw Liu Ling, dressed luxuriously, and didn't know what to do, when she heard her master's instructions, she immediately knelt in front of Liu Ling and made a big salute: "Nizi has seen her uncle and ancestor."

For these etiquettes, it's not that she has any family education inheritance, but that she has seen a lot in Bingji's family, and Bingji Mansion also has special teachings, what kind of elders do what etiquette.

Before Nizi finished kowtowing, Liu Ling pulled Nizi up and looked left and right: "Okay, good, very aura." In the future, it is not allowed to call Shi Shuzu, it is too ugly to hear, call and call Shi Guzu. I am your master's aunt, so you call me my aunt. ”

"No, my aunt and ancestor," Nizi obediently agreed.

"Okay, good apprentice, good nephew and granddaughter" Liu Ling was so happy that she couldn't see her teeth when she smiled: "Let's go, my aunt will buy you a few clothes and a few pieces of jewelry"

"Auntie, she's still a child, what jewelry is she wearing." Liu Chang had the feeling that his apprentice had been abducted.

"Senior Aunt Zu is willing." Liu Ling pulled Nizi and walked out, so that Nizi was at a loss. Look at her mother, don't mention it, her mother didn't get up when she lay on the ground, and she didn't dare to raise her head.

"Okay, okay, your old man is happy. We'll have to deal with what we're doing here. ”

"What else?"

Liu Chang glanced at Zhao lying on the ground, that is, Nizi's mother: "What should she do?" We don't care? ”

"What the hell is she doing?" Liu Ling was puzzled.

Liu Chang said: "We don't care, she can't starve to death." ”

Liu Ling's eyebrows furrowed, and she said, "Then, why don't you give some money, this girl will be bought by us." ”

Just bought a girl, Liu Ling didn't care at all. The girls in the princess's mansion in their past, which one was not bought, they can buy them, they can be sold to the princess's mansion, and it is also their luck, those who are sold to Yuefu or Nulu, they are not allowed to accept their fate. Liu Ling doesn't think there's anything wrong with buying an apprentice.

"Grandma, we are accepting disciples, not human traffickers." Liu Chang said, in this case, if you don't see it, you don't see it, and if you see it, you have to find a way to deal with it, after all, it is the mother of his disciple, and it is easy to cause a shadow in the child's heart.

"So what do you say?" Liu Ling can't help it, a woman, even if she buys him a few acres of land, she can't farm, and she has to sell it in the end.

Liu Chang said: "How about sending her to Xi'er?" Didn't you say that Xi'er was short of people? She is a cook and can take care of Xi'er's food."

Liu Ling said: "I said that Xi'er lacks people, because of the lack of brothers and sisters, the lack of relatives, the lack of helpers, and the lack of subordinates. ”

"I don't care if he lacks people, he must be placed."

Liu Ling said: "Okay, okay, you have the final say." "Cao Xi's manor is not small, and it is not a big problem to settle one or two subordinates. Besides, she likes this girl a lot, so she doesn't have any opinions.

When it was time to set off again, Liu Ling fulfilled her promise that the consequence of 'buying, buying, buying' was to hire three carriages.

"In the future, I will train each of my disciples to become nobles! Let's start with what we wear! This is Liu Ling's bold words.

The three-month vacation ended soon, and the black and white aunts and brown aunts were coming back one after another.

Unlike Liu Ling and Liu Chang, the three of them have been in the base for a longer time than Liu Ling, their relatives in their hometown are gone, homeless, and there is nothing to worry about, and this holiday is just for fun.

In the same place, this time it was not a barbecue dinner, but a snack party. Brunette, Mel. Jones brought African suvenirs; White girl, Maria brought a native product of Rome in Europe. Brown people, Gannidu brought Australian suvenirs, and Liu Ling was of course a susarabre of the Han Dynasty. All kinds of snacks are not uncommon to them, and they are better than nothing.

Liu Chang uh, bring a mouth. I haven't seen each other for three months, so Liu Chang has thoroughly seen what it means to have three women in one ruin, four women, and one and a half ruins.

"Hey, Sister Lingling" Jones looked at Liu Ling staring at a few children playing together, and asked.

To be honest, Jones's actual age is much older than Liu Ling, but he can't stand people looking young, Maria and Jones are used to calling Sister Lingling or Sister Ling, for this title, Liu Ling was depressed for a while, but in the end, I had to accept the reality, that is, I did look older than them.

I looked a little anxious, and now, the other three have disciples, even my stinky nephew Liu Chang has disciples, and what's even more excessive is that this Jones actually brought back three at once. Now, he is the general of the light pole.

Hearing Jones beckoning herself, Liu Ling turned her head.

"What are you looking at, so distracted?"

"How did you apprentices find it, so quickly?"

"Isn't it easy" Jones heard Liu Ling talk about her strengths, and immediately came to the spirit: "Screen out those who meet the requirements, verify them at the door, and take away those who are qualified." I didn't pay attention to these three months, mainly playing around. If I put my mind to it, it's not just three, it's seven or eight. ”

"What if his parents don't agree?"

"His parents don't agree? He dared to disagree! If you don't agree, you will be killed. It's the other way around. Speaking of this, Jones pointed to the taller of the three, and said, "His master disagreed, saying that he would be able to work immediately, and would not be given life or death." I beat him to death. "The tone of his voice was unusually calm, as if he was saying, 'I boiled three eggs today, and I ate two'.

Liu Ling was a little surprised, this was too violent, right: "This is dead?" Why don't you give some money to buy it? ”

Jones didn't seem to know Liu Ling, looked at it carefully, and said, "Give money?" Don't dare to get used to this problem, it will attract hatred. ”