Liu An invited Hou Qing, the patriarch of the Jiuyuan Hou clan, and Hou Gonglian.

Prior to this, Liu An had already investigated clearly that the Hou family was only a small clan in Jiuyuan, and there were no more than 200 servants in the family.

However, the Jiuyuan Hao clan has long been in the same spirit, one is prosperous, and the other is lost, even if it is just a small clan, Liu An cannot be moved lightly.

If Liu An moves Hou Qing alone, it will inevitably cause a counterattack from the entire Jiuyuan and even the entire Wuyuan County.

Therefore, Liu An invited Hou Qing just to drink.

In addition, Liu An also investigated that this person loves silk very much, likes to collect silk of various colors, and then makes it into his favorite style and wears it on his body.

This is also the reason why Liu An chose him from more than thirty small families in the entire Wuyuan County.

Hou Qing is not a fool, he does not hold any position in the county, let alone have any relationship with the current county magistrate, and he has never even seen him, but he was suddenly invited to drink.

As long as you are not a fool, you can see that there is something greasy in it.

As the saying goes, when things go wrong, there must be demons.

In order to prevent accidents, Hou Qing brought ten young men with strong skills and good martial arts, all wearing weapons, to Liu An's manor outside the city for a banquet.

It is said to be a manor, but in fact it is just a house made of stone walls and wooden houses.

When Liu An saw Hou Qing bringing ten armed men to the banquet, he knew that he was wary of himself.

But it didn't matter, it was exactly what he wanted.

The first thing he did when he met, Liu An first checked Hou Qing's force, and when he saw that his force was less than thirty, he relieved himself.

Although Hou Qing's guards were all armed, he himself did not, and he was only wearing luxurious and cool silk clothes.

Now that it has entered June, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and silk clothes are the most refreshing and cool clothes in the Han Dynasty.

Liu An saw that Hou Qing did not bring weapons and his force value was low, so he stepped forward with confidence and warmly entertained him.

He dragged Hou Qing into the guest hall of the new mansion and asked him to taste the silk he had brought from the Central Plains.

In the guest hall, Liu An had already put on the other three horses in the set of silk that he had given to Taishou Lin Fang before, and after taking Hou Qing into the guest hall, Liu An went straight to the silk.

Picking up the blue silk, Liu An said to Hou Qing: "I heard that Gonglian is a recognized master of silk tasting in the entire Wuyuan, so I took the liberty to invite Gonglian to come to taste, and I hope that Gonglian will not be blamed." ”

When Hou Qing saw the silk on the table, he focused all his energy on it.

At this moment, he had long forgotten that he was in the dangerous county magistrate's mansion, and when he heard Liu An's words, he shook his senses, and suddenly understood why Liu An suddenly found him, and his vigilance couldn't help but decrease a little.

"It's an honor for the county magistrate to invite him, how can he blame him?"

"That's fine." Liu An said with a relieved face, and then handed the silk to Hou Qing, "Gonglian, how about looking at this silk?" ”

Needless to say, the quality of the silk produced by the system, Hou Qing, as a silk collector, has read countless silks in his life, but he has never seen such a good quality of silk.

Of course, Hou Qing is only a small clan patriarch in a border county after all, and his knowledge is not comparable to that of the shopkeeper of the Lu family's garment shop, even if he loves silk, he has not seen many types of silk, but he has a little reputation in Wuyuan County.

In his stunning words, Liu Anxin said with satisfaction: "I am very happy to be praised by everyone in Hou. There is still a little bit of silk in this way, and the official heard that Gong Lian likes to make silk into clothes, so the official will make these three silk horses into clothes and send them to Gong Lian, come on! ”

Liu An shouted outside the door, and then a few little maids with measuring tools came in.

"Measure the size of Gonglian, make these three pieces of silk into clothes overnight, and the official will give them to Gonglian tomorrow."

"Nuo~" The little maids blessed their bodies, answered gently, and stepped forward to measure the size of Hou Qing.

Hou Qing looked embarrassed, "How can this be done?" I just told a few words of truth, how could I receive such a big gift from County Magistrate Liu? ”

said this, but Hou Qing's body was very cooperative and let the little maid measure the size.

Liu An said: "I have a relationship with the public integrity, and I regard it as a friend, and the public integrity must not be seen like this, just call me a cousin." ”

Liu An's words are immortal, and if an official in the county knows about this matter, it is no different from the powerful in the county.

Even if Liu An doesn't introduce himself, Hou Qing must already know.

"This, this ......" Hou Qing hesitated for a while, and saw that Liu An's expression did not seem to be fake, before finally saying: "To be appreciated by immortality is to be fortunate in the next three lives." ”

Liu An saw that the little maid had finished measuring, waved his hand, and motioned for her to take the silk and walk quickly.

He had already found some delicate and skilled women in advance, and asked them to stay up all night to make three sets of different styles of silk into three sets of clothes at a high price.

Then Liu An asked his subordinates to bring wine and food and drink with Hou Qing.

During the meal, Liu An handed over the only packet of thirteen incense he brought to the cook and made it a good dish.

This Hou Qing has eaten such a delicious delicacy on the side of the county, where has he eaten such a delicious food, his mouth is full of mellow aroma, and even the wine in the cup is much more mellow than before.

The two drank a lot of wine, from late evening until late at night.

Taking advantage of the fact that Hou Qing was not completely drunk and fell asleep, Liu An warmly invited Hou Qing to stay overnight.

Hou Qing and Liu An drank wine all night, blowing from Tiannan to the north of the earth, from seafood to mountain delicacies, they were already familiar with each other, and they did not object to Liu An's invitation to stay overnight.

He picked out one of the guards who had been guarding the hall and told him to go home and tell him not to return at night.

Although the city gate was closed at this time, Hou Qing, as one of the heroes, his subordinates went back to report the news, and the city guards would naturally open the door and let them go.

Liu An said that his guards had been waiting for him and had not eaten yet, so he proposed to send his own men to deliver the message, and arrange dinner and lodging for Hou Qing's guards to rest.

Hou Qing shook his dizzy head, looked at the guards in the hall who were looking eager because of their fasting so far, and agreed to Liu An's proposal.

Liu An must settle this matter while Hou Qing is awake, otherwise when he falls asleep, his subordinates will never listen to him, and go home to report the whereabouts of the head of the family by themselves, so that Liu An will not be able to operate secretly.

Seeing Hou Qing nodding, Liu An called someone to Hou Qing's house to deliver the message, and at the same time asked Liu Bei to arrange food and lodging for Hou Qing's guards, and then Liu An continued to drink Hou Qing.

After drinking for another quarter of an hour, Hou Qing finally couldn't hold on anymore and fell asleep on the table.

Seeing this, Liu An called Hou Qing several times drunkenly, and saw that he never woke up, so he staggered up and pretended to go to the thatched house.

When he came to the door, Liu An asked his subordinates to bring a basin of cold water, washed his face, felt a little sober, and asked his subordinates to find Liu Bei.

Seeing Liu Bei, Liu An asked directly, "How are things going?" ”

Liu Bei said: "I have arranged for someone to go into the city, and I have told him all the details, and he can memorize the planning process skillfully." ”

"Hmm." Liu An nodded, and continued: "Closely monitor the movements of the Hou Qing family, and report to me immediately if there is any movement." ”

"No!" Liu Bei retreated.

After that, Liu An asked someone to take Hou Qingjia to the wing room to rest, and he also went back to the residence in the new house to rest.

In order to lower Hou Qing's vigilance, he also drank a lot of wine, and his consciousness was not very clear at this time.

At this time, at Hou Qing's house in Jiuyuan City, Hou Qing's wife saw that it was getting late, and her husband still did not return, nor did she send anyone home to report the news, and she was already in a mess.

He called all the backbones of the family to discuss, it had been several hours since Hou Qing was invited by the county magistrate, and there was no news in the dark of night, and everyone doubted whether the head of the family had been killed.

So after some discussion, it was decided to send someone to inform the other patriarchs of the matter, ask them for help, and then forcibly break into the county magistrate's manor to find Hou Qing.

The Hou family sent many people to find the house of the patriarch who had a good relationship with Hou Qing late at night and informed him of the incident.

However, they did not believe that the new county magistrate dared to kill Hou Qing secretly at the risk of the world, and made the people of the Hou family wait for another night, and if there was no news of Hou Qing early tomorrow morning, they would come to the door to ask for someone.

The Hou family was helpless, and went back to tell the mother of the result, Hou Qing's wife was a woman, and she had no opinion, although she was worried about her husband, she still chose to follow the decision of the other patriarchs, and went to ask for someone early the next morning.

On the second day, early in the morning, Liu An was still asleep, and a subordinate came down to report that the Hou family came to ask for someone.

Liu An ordered that no one should be allowed in, and there was no need to explain to them, but no one should be harmed.

Outside Liu An's house, the Hou family was stopped outside the door by Liu An's guards with knives, but those who wanted to break in were all held by knives around their necks, which scared the Hou family and did not dare to break in.

There are few of them, Liu An has a hundred guards, and each of them is strong, they are just a group of servants, where is Liu An's opponent of the guards.

However, Liu An's guards did not hurt anyone, and the intruders were taken down and tied with ropes and guarded.

Liu An was entertaining Hou Qing in the inner courtyard, and his guards were all arranged in the inner courtyard, but they didn't know anything about the movement at the door.

After being woken up by his subordinates, Liu An simply stopped sleeping, got up and washed up, went to see Hou Qing, and saw that he was still sleeping, so he withdrew from the door, and ordered Hou to wake up, report to himself as soon as possible, and went to eat.

Hou Qing's guards had already woken up, Liu An arranged breakfast for them to eat in the inner courtyard, and arranged ten handles between the inner and outer courtyards, and did not allow Hou Qing's guards to go out of the inner courtyard.

At this time, the servants of the Hou family, who were tied up by Liu An, hurriedly returned to the city and reported the situation to the heads of the families.

When the heads of the family heard this, they also thought that something might be big, so they gathered together to discuss what to do.

The heads of these small families, after some discussion, decided to organize manpower, go all the way to Liu An's manor, take down Liu An, ask the reason for the matter, and then hand Liu An over to the head of the Zhang family, who commanded all the powerful people in their Wuyuan County.

The Zhang family is the largest powerful in Wuyuan County, with thousands of servants in the family, and has been rooted in Wuyuan for a hundred years.

Another Haoqiang with thousands of slaves in the family is Cheng Ze, who is a rising star who has only developed after Cheng Ze became the captain of Wuyuan in the past two years.

Before that, there was only the Zhang family in Wuyuan.

The patriarchs in the city basically knew that Liu An only had one hundred guards, and although there were as many as five or six hundred newly recruited villagers, they had no weapons and were not to be afraid.

And the weapons they left in the armory for the county magistrate couldn't be used at all, so they weren't worried that Liu An would threaten them.

This is also one of the reasons why they can't believe that Liu An dares to touch them.

Several patriarchs summed it up, brought a total of three hundred sword-wielding servants, and slaughtered Liu An's manor.

At this moment, in the courtyard of the house outside the city, Hou Qing, who was having breakfast, chatted with Liu An without a word, and heard the expected system prompt.

[Ding - The system detects that the manor is in crisis, and after thirty minutes, it will usher in the invasion of local heroes, temporarily unlock the wartime lottery plate, and the host can overdraft 100 manor contribution points for the wartime lottery plate.] ]

It's finally here!

Liu An worked hard to plan, waiting for this moment.

He immediately pretended to be unwell in his abdomen and told Hou Qing to leave for a while.

Coming to the door, Liu An asked his subordinates to take a good look at Hou Qing and his men, and hurried to his room.

Closing the door, Liu An casually found a place to sit down, opened the wartime lottery plate, and directly started the three wartime lottery plates.

[Prepare ten consecutive draws to draw the wartime lottery plate, the system is drawing...... Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding-]

Counting the 100 contribution points of the system overdraft, he can use a total of 170 contribution points, and after drawing three ten consecutive draws, Liu An used the remaining 20 contribution points to draw four more single draws.

After consuming all the contributions, a total of 34 lucky draws, plus three ten consecutive prizes, Liu An's income is as follows:

50 pairs of horse harness, 200 swords, 300 spears, 200 horses, 400 pairs of leather armor, 40 medical kits, 100 large shields, 20 medium-sized throwing carts, 20 pairs of pearlescent scale armor, 300 pairs of crossbows, 4 siege towers, 1000 kg of rice, 4 pairs of Jinluan armor, 200 swords, 200 pairs of bows and arrows, 50 vests, and make persistent efforts twice.

However, Liu An did not plan to start a war with Haoqiang at this time, and it was a complete waste to draw two more times.

If his plan goes well, the matter can be resolved peacefully.

After Liu An finished drawing the prize, Liu Bei came to report that several small families in the city had joined forces and were leading people towards the manor.

Liu An asked Liu Bei: "Did the person who was sent out yesterday start to act?" ”

Liu Bei replied: "When the people in the city came to report the news, they learned that the person had gone to the Hou family, and he should have arrived at the Hou family at this time. ”

"Okay, open all the prohibitions in the courtyard, there is no need to restrict Hou Qing and his subordinates, if someone kills outside the door, just let them enter the backyard, there is no need to stop them."

"No!" Liu Bei left in response, although he didn't understand what his uncle was tossing so for, but he had always followed his uncle's orders.

Liu An also returned to Hou Qing again, and his ten guards were also here.

Although Liu An ordered that Hou Qing and his guards should not be allowed to leave the backyard, this order did not work from beginning to end.

Hou Qing slept until three o'clock in the morning, and when he woke up, he had breakfast under Liu An's arrangement, and his guards also came to the room where Hou Qing slept last night after eating breakfast.

And after Hou woke up, he followed him even more closely and never left for a moment.

At this time in the city, Liu An sent the people to report to the Hou family yesterday before they arrived at the Hou family.

After he reported to his home, he was immediately taken down by the people of the Hou family.

Although he claimed that he was ordered by Liu An to report the news of the head of the Hou family, the Hou family did not listen to him, and directly tied him with a rope.

Later, the butler listened impatiently to the man's account of why he had come here.

According to the man, he was sent by County Magistrate Liu yesterday to inform the people of the Hou family that the head of his family had stayed overnight in the county magistrate's mansion.

It's just that I came out in a hurry last night, and I forgot to take the token of the head of the Hou family or my own county magistrate, and I couldn't enter the city gate.

I was afraid of being punished by the county magistrate when I went back, so I waited at the city gate all night, and entered the city as soon as the city gate opened, but I didn't expect to get lost in the city again, and I found the Hou family after looking for a long time.

The housekeeper of the Hou family listened to the man's quibbles, his face was indifferent, he didn't kill this person directly, just because he didn't dare to make a claim, otherwise the person would have died at this time.

After reporting the news to his mother, he ordered him to take him outside the city and hand him over to the other heads of the house, waiting for his fate.

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