In the Hongmen Pavilion, Cao Poshi was looking at the dilapidated pavilion in front of him, with a heavy look of disdain and disgust on his face.

There are few people in this place, so it is not valued by the imperial court.

Although a pavilion was set up here and a pavilion chief was dispatched, everything that should be done had to be planned by the pavilion chief Zhao Yu and others.

The Hongmen Pavilion was also built by Zhao Yu and others on a wasteland.

Although it took a lot of thought, there was no money in the end, so the decoration was extremely simple.

Just like the ordinary people in the house, it is naturally not as good as the pavilions in other large counties.

It's just barely sheltering from the wind temporarily.

There are three houses in the middle of the pavilion.

The middle one is the residence of the pavilion chief Zhao Yu, and the one on the right is the residence of the pavilion father Zhao Yue and others.

As for the room on the left, it is reserved for entertaining. If you come to visit, you will be arranged to stay here.

It's just that Hongmen Pavilion is too remote, so no one comes and goes here all year round, so it is said to be for hospitality, but in fact, it has been abandoned for a long time.

Now it has not been cleaned all year round, and it is already covered with cobwebs and dusty desktops.

Cao Poshi naturally did not live in Zuoshe. He brought a lot of people with him on this trip, and there were sixty or seventy guards around him, and even if he was willing to condescend to the nobles, these people would never be able to live in a single house.

"Pavilion Chief Zhao, you see that there are a lot of people I brought today, and this left house can't live in it. What do you think is the best thing to do? Cao Poshi said with a smile.

Standing in the courtyard, Zhao Yu, who was still thinking about how to deal with Cao Poshi, was shocked when he heard this, "Cao Jun, my Hongmen Pavilion is remote, and there are not many people who come and go on weekdays, so there is only such a big place." Cao Jun can see at a glance, if the hospitality is not good, please also invite Cao Jun Haihan. ”

Cao Poshi smiled, "Pavilion Chief Zhao doesn't need to panic, I didn't mean to blame you." But today these people who have come after me are like brothers to me, and they have eaten and slept along the way, protecting me with their lives. If I live alone in a big house and let them sleep outside, Cao really can't bear it. So Zhao Jun has any other way? ”

As he spoke, he looked at the other two rooms.

Listening to the string song and knowing the elegant meaning, Zhao Yu is also a person who has been in the officialdom for many years, and when he heard Cao Poshi's words at this time, he didn't know what he was thinking.

He had no choice but to put a smile on his face, "Cao Jun is a guest from afar, if you don't dislike the simplicity, we will let Cao Jun and the guards live in the house we live in." I took them to stay in Lizhong for a while. ”

"I know that Pavilion Chief Zhao is a reasonable person." Cao Poshi nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile, "Since this is the case, I can't live up to Pavilion Chief Zhao's wishes, so Pavilion Chief Zhao should move away early." ”

Then he waved his hand, looking a little impatient.

If it weren't for the fact that he had fled now, how could he have such a pleasant greeting with a little pavilion chief?

If he had been in Luoyang, he would have already put the knife on this person's neck, and he would have promised to agree, and he would have promised if he didn't agree.

At this time, Zhao Yu retreated to the side and stood with Zhao Yue, the pavilion father, watching Cao Poshi's men carry the belongings they had brought from Luoyang from the carriage outside to the courtyard.

There is a sake jug with delicate patterns, a copper stove for cooking, and even a bed.

"How can the pavilion chief give up his residence to these people? Although they are from Luoyang and have a noble status, they are too arrogant to do so. In the final analysis, they are guests, we are the masters, where is the reason for the host to vacate the house for the guests. Pavilion Father Zhao Yue said in a low voice.

"What if you don't let it? Lao Zhao, can't you see that these people are aggressive? With your and my bodies, I'm afraid I can't help but punch others. If we don't say half a word, I'm afraid that we will be beaten badly, and we won't even be able to protect our heads. Zhao Yu also said in a low voice.

Zhao Yue was stunned when he heard this, "Is the pavilion chief exaggerating, these people dare to be so domineering?" This is our territory. ”

"Lao Zhao, although you are much older than me, you have spent most of your life in Jixiang, and you have not seen many families. So I don't know the character of such a family. Zhao Yu sighed.

"If these people are temperamental, don't say that they are ordinary leaders, even if I am a small pavilion chief, I can kill if I want to, and there is no need to hesitate. Anyway, if you cause a big thing, you will naturally have the family background behind you. It is true that a murderer in Hanlu will die, but the one who will die will not be a murderer. Zhao Yu smiled bitterly.

The family has a lot of yin to raise the dead. And the so-called dead soldiers are naturally not as simple as just being well-guarded.

When necessary, when it is necessary, death is death.

At this moment, this middle-aged man, who always looked lazy, had a heavy mockery on his face.

Zhao Yue glanced at him, it seems that his pavilion chief also has some unknown sad things, could it be that those rumors are true?

"Lao Zhao, you better take the people in the pavilion to pack up and give these people a place to live, so as not to cause trouble again." Zhao Yu came back to his senses, "Let's go to Lizhong first to find a few places to stay for a few days." These people don't want to stay long. ”

Zhao Yue responded and turned away.

Zhao Yu glanced at the guards who were coming and going, moving things towards the house, and smiled mockingly.

There are some things he has never told Zhao Yue and others.

He was also a high-spirited young man back then, and the reason why he fell into such a field today was only because he had prevented several families from robbing the people's daughters.

The truth is naturally on his side, and at that time, his Shangguan County Commander also arrested several family members, and praised what he did as a heroic act.

At that time, he thought that there was still a sense in this world.

Good people have good retribution, and evil people have evil retribution, it turns out that it is not just an empty phrase in a book.

It was only later that those sons of the family were quickly released from prison. And he, a young man who had been praised by the county order and originally had a great future, was pressed to this Jixiang and became a pavilion chief who had nothing to do all year round.

Good people, always too naïve.

The wicked are always more cunning than the good ones.

Zhao Yu shook his head and laughed at himself, they were all stories of old people.

For him, it is not bad to be able to live such a carefree life now.

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In the middle of Ji Township, Lu Bu and the others from Hanoi were leading their horses.

There are not many people he brought this time, even if he counts Wei Xu and the three of them, they are only seven or eight horses.

It's just that although there are few people, they are all capable people among the people of Bingzhou, and they are all warriors who can be a hundred.

Now he only took Wei Xu around inside, and everyone else was waiting inside and outside.

"Fengxian, I don't want the Central Plains to have such a poor place."

The two of them wandered around the middle for a while, and saw that the ground here was dusty when they stepped on it slightly, and most of the houses in the room were old.

Wei Xu seemed to be quite emotional.

"It's not bad here. If you only look at whether the road is wide or not, and whether the houses are new, it is not difficult to see the poverty here. ”

"It's just a matter of looking at a place, not just looking at it on the surface. You see the pedestrians on the road, although they are coarse linen clothes, but they all have smiles on their faces. That means that the customs here are not bad. Lu Bu admonished.

"Got it, got it." Wei Xu responded, "Let's do our own thing, and forget it, regardless of the customs of this place." Bongxian, you always like to think about these things that you don't have. If you have this leisure, you might as well practice more equestrian skills. ”

Lu Bu smiled, "Do you think I can't think about it so much?" It's just that these things seem trivial now, and they may become major events that will determine our life and death in the future, such as ambushes in densely forested places. I really shouldn't think about these things, you and I are martial artists, it's enough to charge ahead, and we should really find someone to give advice. ”

The two of them entered the center this time in order to find out where Cao Poshi was in advance, so that they could directly enter the center and kill this person.

Jixiang is not big, and the movement on Cao Poshi's side is not small, so they quickly determined the location of Cao Poshi.

The two of them also watched the excitement in front of the pavilion for a while.

"This Cao Poshi is really a son of a family, even if he is out of Luoyang, he is so domineering." Lu Bu smiled, "Now that we know where he lives, the rest is easy to say." Next, let's go and find a place to live, and when it gets dark, we will come and take his head back to restore his life. ”

Wei Xu answered, and followed Lu Bu towards the center.

They are all outlaws who are used to doing such "business", and now how the pavilion is arranged and how the guards are, you can see it at a glance.

Although there are many guards around Cao Poshi, in their eyes, they are just local chickens and dogs.

At this time, the two were wandering around, trying to find a "good Samaritan" to take them in.

It's just that although the people here are friendly, they are not bad at guarding, and when they see that both of them are tall foreigners, they dare not let them stay overnight.

Although there have been no major incidents in Jixiang for many years, it is always right to be careful. Especially when Zhao Yu has nothing to do, he will often come to wander around, telling stories to warn them of some farmers and snakes.

"Feng Xian, the people here are very wary. The money we gave out is not small, I don't want them to be tempted, it seems that this time we can't say that we have to sleep outside. Wei Xu sighed.

Who would have thought that the two of them would not even be able to find a place to live when they entered the interior, and if they went back in such a dusty state, they would definitely be ridiculed by Hou Cheng and others who were left outside.

"Fengxian, we can't just go back like this, let's look for it again."

Lu Bu nodded, he was not afraid of being ridiculed by Hou Cheng and the others when he went back, but he stayed in it to better observe Cao Poshi's movements.

He was thinking about it here when he suddenly heard Wei Xu whisper.

"Fengxian, you see a little girl in front."

Lu Bu looked up, and sure enough, he saw a little girl carrying a large bundle of dry firewood.

The little girl was thin and struggling to carry firewood, moving step by step, and her face was already covered with sweat.

Seeing this, Lu Bu took a few steps forward and picked up the firewood behind the little girl with one hand.

There was no firewood behind her, and the little girl's back was so light that she almost fell over.

She stood still and looked at the tall man with the firewood in his hand.

"That's not what you little girl should do." Lu Bu smiled.

"Tell me where your home is, and I'll send you into your home." Lu Bu laughed again.

The little girl's face turned red, she glanced at Lu Bu, hesitated for a moment, but still led the way and returned home with Lu Bu and the others.

Wei Xu scolded in his heart, Lu Bu was just a little more handsome than them.

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On the way, they each reported their names, and it turned out that the little girl's name was Shen Zhi, who grew up in this township since she was a child.

The group soon arrived at the little girl's house.

The little girl's house was a dilapidated courtyard fenced with wooden fences, and there were only two thatched huts connected by mounds of straw.

After entering the courtyard, Lu Bu put the firewood in his hand on the ground.

An old man in the room hobbled out.

"Father." Shen Zhi shouted while dragging the firewood.

The old man glanced at her lovingly, and then looked at Lu Bu and the others.

"Thank you two gentlemen for helping the little girl." The old man thanked him.

"It doesn't matter, I'm just idle, and when I was wandering around, it was a bit laborious to see the little girl dragging these firewoods alone, so I came to help. It's not a big deal. The elderly don't need to take it personally. Lu Bu said with a smile.

"Fengxian, it's time for us to go. Today's dwelling has not yet been found, and if it is any later, it will be impossible to say that he will sleep on the highway. At this time, Wei Xu reminded Lu Budao just right.

"I'll have to find a place to stay, so I won't stop here, go first." Lu Bu apologized, turned around and left with Wei Xu.

"The two of you are slow, if you don't mind, why don't you stay here for one night?" The old man spoke.

"How dare you bother the elderly, I'll just find another place to live." Lu Bu shirked.

"Lang Jun shirks it like this, is it because he looks down on old decay? Think I'm not worthy of a guest like you? The old man turned angry.

Lu Bu said helplessly: "Then I have to disturb the elders."

"Don't bother, I haven't been so lively here in a long time." The old man smiled, "Zhi'er, go and kill the chicken at home to entertain the guests." ”

Lu Bu hurriedly stopped, "There is no need to do this. ”

"The two Lang Jun are guests from afar, how can they be lazy and sit in the house."

The old man refused to excuse them, and drove them into the house.

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When the old man was busy working in the courtyard, Zhao Yu suddenly rushed over with Zhao Yue.

The two of them were chatting with Limin in Lizhong, but suddenly learned that the Shen family had come to a stranger from another place, so they hurriedly rushed over.

Now that the Shen family only has Shen Shen and Shen Zhi, the old and the young, Zhao Yu is afraid that someone will have any bad intentions.

"Old man Shen, what did you do today? I've been smelling your food from afar. ”

Zhao Yu hadn't entered the door yet, but his words had already arrived first.

"No good food can escape your mouth, you just put the chicken on the pot and you came." The old man also laughed.

Since Zhao Yu became the head of Hongmen Pavilion, his favorite thing is to wander around. In addition, in addition to collecting taxes in the past, he never did anything to work the people in the middle, so most of the people in the middle of the house got along very well with him, and he would often come to the people in the middle to eat.

"Why, you didn't fire in your pavilion today? It's Zhao Lao'er who is lazy again. Shen Shen smiled.

"Shen Lao'er, don't talk nonsense, when have I ever been lazy." Zhao Yue took a few steps forward when he heard this, and drank deeply.

The two have known each other since childhood, and they have been playing around on weekdays, but they have also gone through so many years together.

Zhao Yu ignored them and walked towards the house by himself, and at this time, Lu Bu and the others heard the movement outside the house, and they also happened to walk out of the door.

"I have not seen you, but they are from outside." Zhao Yu was not surprised at all, and asked with a smile.

"We are from Youzhou, and we want to return to Youzhou here." Lu Bu also said with a smile.

"I see." Zhao Yu nodded, "I'm the Pavilion Chief, if you encounter something, you can talk to me directly." Even if I say it bluntly, it's probably useless. ”

Lu Bu smiled, "I have to thank Zhao Jun first." ”

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The sky is getting dark, and everyone is sitting around a wooden table in the courtyard, which is not a prominent family, and naturally there is no custom of those wealthy and high-ranking men and women not having different seats.

Although it is the most common bean rice, the little girl's craftsmanship is not bad, and several people have a different taste when they eat it.

"I don't know what the two Lang Jun did when they were in Youzhou?" Zhao Yu picked a quick pickle and asked as if inadvertently.

"My brother sells horses for a living in Youzhou, and this time he just sold some in Yuzhou. I earned some money and thought about going home early to meet my family. Lu Bu said with a smile.

"Selling horses is a good livelihood, and there are many horses in the borderland, but our Central Plains is the most rare horse, and I want to make a lot of money by coming to the two Langjun on this trip. Don't look at me as a pavilion chief now, it seems to be majestic, but in fact, year after year, the pockets are cleaner than the face. Zhao Yu looked envious.

"Pavilion Chief Zhao laughed, I'm barely enough to wait." Lu Bu smiled, "I see that the pavilion chief is not like an ordinary person in his conversation, why is he an official here?" Lu didn't mean anything else, but he just felt that with the talent of the pavilion chief, even if he changed to a large county, he was competent. ”

Zhao Yu smiled, "The past is unbearable, in the final analysis, Zhao has no ability, and he can't take on the big responsibility." In fact, it is not bad here. ”

"Speaking of which, the old man is going to argue for the pavilion chief." Shen Shen said, "Although the pavilion chief never said why he came to our township, the little old man has also heard them discuss it in private. It is said that Zhao Tingchang was pressed here to prevent a few sons of the family from robbing the people's daughters and offending the people of the family. ”

Zhao Yu was stunned for a moment, and then looked as usual, "It turns out that you have known all this for a long time, and it is difficult for you to pretend not to know these days, and deliberately take care of my face." ”

"I'm not waiting to save Pavilion Chief Zhao's face, it's really that since Pavilion Chief Jue doesn't mention it himself, he must have a hard time." The old man sighed, "Besides, it's not good for me to ask the pavilion chief in person, right?" ”

"So it's my fault." Zhao Yu smiled, "Actually, these things are not a big deal, I have already figured it out." It's actually not bad to live a lazy life like this now. ”

Lu Bu, who was silent on the side, suddenly opened his mouth and smiled: "I don't know if Pavilion Chief Zhao has really figured it out, whether he really figured it out."

Zhao was stunned.

Lu Bu suddenly became a little interested, such a person who boasted of bowing his head and accepting his fate, what would happen if he encountered injustice again?