Liu An asked his subordinates to move all the bamboo slips to the bookshelf in his study, and he returned to the study and opened the letter and silk that Cai Yan replied to read.

Unfold the cloth and spread it on the desk, and what catches Liu An's eyes is a beautiful font, the shape is extremely beautiful and atmospheric, like a meteor crossing the sky, like a cliff and a waterfall.

In the majestic, but also weak and tactful, the hook of the corner, like a woman's hair fluttering in the wind.

is worthy of Cai Yong's daughter, worthy of being a talented woman Cai Yan!

Liu An sighed and admired it, and then calmed down to see what Cai Yan wrote in the letter.

At the beginning, he thanked Liu An for the perfume he gifted, and implicitly expressed his inner joy.

After that, there was the danger of the border county, and I hope that Liu An will be careful, and he also gave many examples of officials who went to the border county in recent years, but never returned, etc.

Then there is the catalogue of the volumes transcribed this time, because the time is too short, only two volumes of "University" and "Wei Xuanzi" are transcribed.

Among them, "University" mainly tells the Confucian idea of self-cultivation and Qi family to govern the country and level the world, and "Wei Xuanzi" is a basic book related to the art of war.

Cai Yan thought that the two books might be useful to the current Liu An, so he gave priority to transcribing the two books.

As for the military books requested by Liu An, Cai Yan said that in the future, priority will be given to transcribing the books of the sages related to the art of war.

In the end, Cai Yan was very shy to tell that he was bored at home all day, and rarely had the opportunity to go out, and even if he went out, he mostly sneaked out in disguise to relax, which was too boring, and hoped to get a reply from Liu An, and tell him more interesting things outside, or what he saw and heard in Bingzhou, local customs, etc.

After reading Cai Yan's letter, Liu An shook his head with a smile, I can only say that although Cai Yan is a talented girl, she is still a teenage girl, and she can't stay at home.

Put away the letter and put it neatly in the storage compartment under the desk, Liu An immediately picked up the pen and wrote a reply to Cai Yan.

said some things that happened after he came to the state, such as subduing a super fierce general, being able to carry the crown, and having the courage of an overlord.

Another example is to encourage farmers to open up wasteland, and farmers actively participate; When building the canal, Xiang Yong worked hard to express his gratitude until he was tired, and so on.

After that, he also talked about the landform of Wuyuan, where there are many rivers and mountains, and there are desert wool lands that have never been seen in the Central Plains.

He wrote a large piece of cloth and silk, and Liu An read it again from beginning to end, and after making sure that there were no mistakes, he left the cloth aside and waited for the ink to dry.

Then Liu An wrote a reply to Zhang Qian, asking about the recent situation in Luoyang and the state of the animals at home, especially mentioning the growth progress of the carrier pigeons, telling him that if the young pigeons can be independent, they will all be brought to Bingzhou.

Finally, it was also mentioned that another letter was addressed to Cai Yan and asked him to help pass it on.

After writing, it is also left to the side for the ink to dry.

During this period, Liu An found Cai Yan's "Wei Xuanzi" to check, this book has a total of 24 articles, each of which is not long, but the sentences are classic.

It discusses in detail how to correct the mentality of a qualified general, how to manage soldiers, how to train soldiers, how to set up camp, and so on.

Liu An roughly read a few articles, and knew that the content of this book was concise and to the point, and he needed to calm down and read it carefully.

Raising his eyes and taking a look, he found that the ink on the letter was dry, so Liu An folded the letter silk, among which the letter to Cai Yan was specially packed in a delicate silk bag.

After that, a personal guard was called, two copies of the letter were handed to him, and after some advice, he asked him to send them to Luoyang.

Then Liu An sat in the study and looked at the book with peace of mind.

The summer in Wuyuan was very hot, Liu An only wore very thin satin clothes, and opened the doors and windows for ventilation, and he was still hot and sweating frequently.

Today's weather is hotter than ever.

Sitting in the study and reading a lot of children's books, Liu An was already sweating hot, put down the bamboo slips, Liu An walked out of the house and looked up at the sky.

The sky is clear and the sun is shining.

Seeing this, Liu An muttered depressedly: "The weather is so hot, and it doesn't rain cool and cool." ”

Looking at the sky in all directions, Liu An didn't see a single white cloud, and when he was depressed, he found that in the sky to the north, a dazzling red light dragged a long tail, crossing Liu An's line of sight from top to bottom, and then was blocked by the house.

Liu An rubbed his eyes, and was wondering if he was dazzled or stunned by the heat, when he suddenly heard a loud bang.

At the same time, Liu An felt that the ground under his feet seemed to tremble a few times.

His first reaction was an earthquake.

Hurriedly ran to the open place in the county government, waited for a while, and did not feel any movement, only to realize that it should not be an earthquake.

Hurriedly called someone to ask what the roar was just now, and asked a few people, but no one knew, but these people also heard the roar like Liu An, and felt the vibration of the ground, which can be judged not to be Liu An's delusion.

After asking a few more people, Liu An found a person who happened to look up at the sky like himself and saw the red light like a fireball.

In this way, Liu An was sure that it was not his own delusion, and he couldn't help but wonder if there was some kind of connection between the red light, the roar, and the vibration.

That red light was streaked from top to bottom from the sky north of Jiuyuan City, and in Liu An's eyes, it looked like some kind of substance had fallen to the north of Jiuyuan City.

In order to verify his guess, Liu An took fifty guards, followed the direction he had seen before, went out of Jiuyuan City, and rode his horse all the way to the north.

After traveling more than 20 miles to the north, Liu An never saw anything abnormal.

As a last resort, he asked fifty guards to work in pairs, leaving only four people by his side, and the rest of the people all looked around and reported any abnormalities immediately.

Liu An waited in place for two quarters of an hour before someone reported that he found a pool of frozen water in summer.

Pools frozen in the summer?

Liu An was puzzled, what he saw was a red light, and it stands to reason that it should be an anomaly such as flames.

However, the freezing in the summer is outrageous enough, and Liu An arranged for the two of them to wait here for the others to come back, and let the person who found the frozen pool take him over.

After walking for a distance of about five or six miles, when he came to the pool, Liu An found that there were already many people around the pool.

Liu Bei, Lu Bu, and Zhang Fei were all here, and there were also many officials in Jiuyuan County, who were also gathered around the pool, pointing and discussing.

The ice on the pool had been broken, and a dozen warriors were searching for it.

Liu An stepped forward and asked Liu Bei, "Xuande, why are you here?" ”

Liu Bei and the three of them connected to a kind of official, and when they saw Liu An, they all saluted.

Then Liu Bei replied: "Uncle Hui, I was training in the camp, and suddenly saw something different in the sky, so I followed the traces to check here. ”

"Did you find anything?"

"There is a boulder with an uneven surface in the water, and the surface of the water is frozen, which is suspected to be related to the boulder." Liu Bei said the guess in his heart.

"Oh? Bumpy boulders? Liu Anxin was overjoyed, thinking that this thing fell from the sky, and he wondered if the boulder was a meteorite from the sky?

He looked around and saw that the pool was surrounded by a fence, and while some of the fence had been broken by the splash, it was clear that it was not borderland.

Then he turned his head to look at Jiuyuan Tian Cao and asked, "Who owns this pool?" ”

Before Tian Cao could answer, Liu An heard a familiar voice behind him: "Go back to Ming Gong, and go to the pool under the name of Naibun." ”

"Oh? It's a pool of Bongxian! ”

Liu An was overjoyed when he heard this, if it was really a meteorite that fell in the water, wouldn't it be a grandiose possession?

So Liu An looked around and said to the officials: "Since this place is owned by Feng Xian, leave this matter to Feng Xian over there, and everyone should disperse." ”

Forced by Liu An's obscenity, although the officials had the intention to wait and see, they had to leave according to the order.

After all the officials left, Liu An immediately asked people to dig up the pool and drain the water in the pool.

waited until evening, the water in the pool was finally almost discharged, and the boulder that fell to the bottom of the water finally appeared in Liu An's eyes.

I saw that this stone is about two meters high, about one meter long and wide, and the surface is indeed uneven, and a huge pit four meters wide has been smashed out under it.

Liu An stepped forward and carefully inspected the material of the boulder, which was dark brown with a dull luster on the surface.

Although Liu An has not seen the appearance of a meteorite with his own eyes, he has seen pictures of meteorites on the Internet in his previous life, and at this time he can already determine that this boulder is definitely a meteorite!

All you have to do is find a blacksmith and determine if it's suitable for crafting weapons.

Liu An inexplicably remembered the Fang Tian painting halberd used by Lu Bu in his memory, and it was rumored that the Fang Tian painting halberd used by Lu Bu was comparable to the divine weapon of the Blue Dragon Glaive Knife, could it be that it was made from this meteorite?

However, according to Liu An's observation, if this meteorite can really create weapons, it is definitely not as simple as creating a Fang Tian painting halberd, and there are more than five weapons with the remaining materials.

I don't know if it was taken by other local wealthy families, or if Lu Bu took it and used it elsewhere.

It was getting late, and Liu An ordered Lu Bu to send someone to take a good look at this stone, so he returned to the county office.

When he returned, he immediately asked his men to go to the city to find a few famous blacksmiths, and asked them to follow him the next day to do some errands.

Several blacksmiths were summoned by the high-ranking county magistrate, and were named to follow him to do things, flattered, and when they heard that Liu An wanted to pay them, they hurriedly refused one by one, saying that it was a blessing for them to be favored by the county magistrate.

Liu An had no choice but to retract his words, instead prepare a sumptuous meal for a few people, and issued an invitation to do things with him in the future.

Several people were overjoyed when they heard the words and expressed their loyalty, and Liu An decisively used the death card for a few people.

In this way, even if the ultra-high value of the meteorite is discovered tomorrow, Liu An does not have to worry about the news leaking out.

At dawn the next day, Liu An got up.

After breakfast, several blacksmiths were already waiting at the county office, and Liu An arranged two carriages for several people, took a kind of escort, and rode out of the city.

When he came to the pool yesterday, Liu An only saw Lu Bu here, looking left and right around the meteorite, looking overjoyed.

Liu Bei and Zhang Fei are not here.

Liu An turned his head to a blacksmith and said, "Do you see that stone?" I hope you will help to identify it, how is this stone worth? ”

"No!" Several people answered, gathered around the boulder, took out their tools, and began to examine the stone.

When Lu Bu saw that Liu An had arrived, he no longer surrounded the meteorite, and after stepping forward to greet Liu An, he stood beside Liu An and waited for the identification results of the blacksmiths.

About a quarter of an hour later, after a group of blacksmiths identified and discussed, one of them, a middle-aged man who was about forty years old and the oldest among the blacksmiths, said to Liu An:

"Hui Xianzun, according to my opinion, this stone can be forged into weapon armor after smelting, but the specific quality needs to be determined after smelting."

"That being the case......" Liu An turned back to Corporal Lu Bu and said, "Immediately dig out this stone and bring it back to the city for smelting!" Remember, don't damage this stone, dig it out completely! ”

When Lu Bu's corporal was digging the pool yesterday, he brought digging tools, which had not yet been returned, so he could hand them over to dig.

While the soldiers were digging for meteorites, Liu An took a turn around the pool in Lu Bu.

The pond is located right at the foot of a large mountain, and less than a mile north is at the foot of the mountain.

Among the several blacksmiths, two were left to supervise the excavation of the meteorite, and the rest of the blacksmiths followed Liu An one after another, and at the behest of his orders, Lu Bu naturally followed Liu An's left and right.

Since he was in charge of the army, Lu Bu rarely followed Liu An's side.

Although Lu Buzhi is making contributions, I have to say that he also misses the time when he taught himself the principles of life and the principles of life when he served Liu An.

Liu An asked Lu Bu that the pond was five miles in radius, all of which were his farmland, and there happened to be many ponds and ditches nearby, so Liu An thought about whether he could open up an orchard on the mountainside, with the right season, and plant the apple trees in the inventory on the mountainside here.

The land that Meng Lan was looking for was suitable for farming, and although it was close to the mountain, the mountain ground was too hard for growing apples.

Apple trees are planted on the mountainside, which can take advantage of the terrain to form a temperature inversion, causing the temperature on the mountainside to be higher than elsewhere, which can make the apple tree bloom early.

Coming to the foot of the mountain, Liu An squatted down, took the sword scabbard and pestle a few times on the ground, and couldn't help frowning, this place is not suitable for planting fruit trees.

Lu Bu and the blacksmiths around him didn't know why, but they also followed suit, either with swords or tools to hit the mountain a few times.

"Huh?"

There was a puzzled sound behind him, Liu An couldn't help but look, and saw a blacksmith suddenly use his hands to disperse the soil on the ground under his feet, revealing a dark yellow mountain.

"What's wrong?" Liu An asked.

The blacksmith did not reply to Liu An immediately, but chiseled the rocks on the ground a few times with a chisel, pinched the little dark yellow stone in his hand and observed for a moment, before raising his head and saying to Liu An with a shocked face:

"Back to the county, here, here...... Suspicious of gold! ”

"Jinshi?" Liu An had never dabbled in the knowledge of stones, and he did not know what gold and stones were.

The blacksmith next to him saw that Liu An didn't understand, and explained: "Gold is mined from gold and stone. ”

Isn't that a gold mine? Liu An reacted, his face couldn't help but show joy, and he immediately said, "Let's see if there is anything nearby?" ”

When the rest of the blacksmiths saw Liu An's words, they also took out their tools to explore the vicinity, or knocked, or chiseled, or swept the soil, and soon found many gold and stones nearby.

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