Among the three people who came to visit suddenly, Bu Qi and Yan Jian were all Zhuge Jin's classmates, but Wei Jing was not.

It's just that Wei Jing is the same age as Bu Qi, and they are both Guangling villagers, so the two of them fled to Wu County together, and now Bu Qi will pull him back with him.

Zhuge Jin hurriedly let a few people into the house and asked if they had seen the local officials.

Bu Qi also said directly: "I have seen Liu Envoy, and I will not give up on the envoy, even if we are awarded the position of Cao Engaged and Scholar." Brother Yan has rich experience and is directly engaged in it.

After all, Brother Wei and I are young, and we have the right to serve as a secretary for a few months, and the envoy also advised that as long as there are no mistakes, we will wait for the crown next year and then be promoted. ”

Bu Qiu and Wei Jing are two years younger than Zhuge Jin, and they are only nineteen this year, so it is indeed a bit unconvincing to be directly engaged in them.

Liu Bei was already for the sake of Bu Qi is Zhuge Jin's classmate, so he didn't care about it and directly tested the water for a deputy position of Cao.

Several people greeted each other and encouraged each other, and then Zhuge Jinliu drank a meal of wine, served all kinds of good dishes, and steamed a huge sea bass of seven or eight catties, seasoned with green onion and ginger cooking wine.

This cooking method is not only simple, but also surpasses the common practice at that time - people in the Han Dynasty generally ate fish boiled, not because they couldn't steam, but because they thought that the fire was too slow to steam, and it was troublesome to waste firewood.

Bu Qi and the others only felt that it was extremely delicious, and while admiring the Zhuge Brotherhood for enjoying life, they also felt curious.

Because in the process of arranging the banquet, Bu Qi saw with his own eyes that although Zhuge Jin did not cook himself, he would occasionally give instructions on cooking. There seemed to be very few servants in his house, and the maidservants did not see it.

Although the poor have been cooking by themselves these days, Zhuge Jin is already a captain of two thousand stones, which is obviously abnormal.

They didn't know that Zhuge Jin just couldn't stand some of the details of the cooking techniques of the ancients, so he had this scene.

After the banquet, Yan Jian and Wei Jing left first after talking about the old days.

Bu Qi had been friends with him recently, and after staying to chat for a while, he couldn't help but remind: "Brother Ziyu, you are now in an important position, a gentleman is far away from cooking, even if you don't have a family, don't you even have a cook and maidservant around you?" ”

Zhuge Jin casually explained: "Originally, there were, but at the beginning of the month, the family divided the property and sent them away." I thought that I was going to go out soon, so I didn't toss anymore, and it was not too late to buy another house and buy a maid in Yuzhang. ”

Of course, Zhuge Jin is not a simple person, and he also wants to raise a group of professionally driven people, with a clear division of labor, to help him improve the efficiency of his work and life.

It's just that I'm about to leave Guangling, and I'm too lazy to toss this little time, so I can endure it and pass.

Bu Qiu shook his head: "You went to Yuzhang, and you are also unfamiliar with life, what kind of person can you find to serve you temporarily?" It's better to bring some henchmen with you.

I didn't expect you to suffer so much, no wonder before I came, my uncle asked me to convey it, saying that he wanted to express the gratitude of the step family, and I didn't think it was appropriate at the time......"

Zhuge Jin saw Buqi talking, his face was a little embarrassed, and he roughly guessed a few points.

After hesitating for a moment, Bu Qiu still said: "Uncle said, thanks to Ziyu's kind words in front of the envoy, except for me, the children of the clan can have more opportunities to make up for the officials. There are only orphan girls left in the fourth aunt's family, and they also relied on the king's money and food to support them.

The uncle learned that the brother seemed to have a good impression of the fourth sister, and if the brother didn't give up, he could take her away. She is still young, so she won't talk about concubines or not, she will take them with her first, and let her sprinkle and serve. ”

Zhuge Jin was a little surprised and reminded: "Brother Zishan, with your friendship with me, how can I be the one who takes advantage of people's danger?" ”

Bu Qi: "How can I not know my brother's character? This is not taking advantage of people's danger, this matter is not what I thought of, it was my uncle who thought about it. I am far away from my fourth sister, and it is not my turn to take care of their affairs.

It's just that my uncle didn't have a chance to ask you in detail, so I had the opportunity to convey it. If it weren't for the depression in my brother's house today, I wouldn't have planned to speak, and the fourth sister was lost, which is the best of both worlds. ”

Bu Qi's humble performance of staying out of the matter and just bringing a word made Zhuge Jin relax a little.

He could see that Bu Qi didn't really want to rely on nepotism to get to the top, and he seemed to be very confident in his strength.

At this point, it is very similar to Zhuge Jin - Zhuge Jin asked his uncle to set up a household and his stepmother to return to his parents' house, and let the "uncle take away his mother's will", but he didn't want to say that after his stepmother married a powerful person in the future, the world said that he Zhuge Jin relied on his stepmother's relationship to ascend to the throne.

With the strength of the Zhuge family, do you need this kind of thing?

As for the potential nepotism that may occur, of course, it was all given to the Song family, and the Zhuge family did not take a penny!

So Zhuge Jin understood it at once, and Bu Qi didn't want the world to think that he was on the throne by selling his cousin.

People who have real skills want to be used as a vase.

Zhuge Jin felt anxious for a while, and sighed: "At this point, the virtuous brother is secretly in agreement with me. It's just that aren't the three of you from the same ancestor? Why is there still a saying about kinship? ”

Bu Qi concisely introduced two sentences: his father was a concubine, and he was the same as his uncle and fourth uncle. And the uncle and the fourth uncle are the same mother, so the uncle has the final say in the affairs of the fourth aunt's family.

In and out of the words, it is emphasized that he does not sell his sister, at most his uncle sells his niece, he just talks.

Zhuge Jin saw that he was so eager to clear up, so he responded quickly: "Even so, I'm not hypocritical, but I don't know if Sister Ling feels wronged." I don't like to be strong, and I don't like to see the elders sacrifice orphans. ”

Bu Qi: "This shouldn't be enough, the fourth sister is young and ignorant, but she should think that you are humble and gentleman, you can be close, I know this." Her uncle also asked her, and she did not object.

And the younger brother has also heard about it in the past few days, and the brother seems to be very reluctant to 'talk about marriage before going out to the envoy and commanding the army', and the subordinates under Liu Yuanjun in Guangling City all said that the brother thinks this kind of discussion is unlucky-

Therefore, the uncle said, the fourth sister is not a young lady, but a house in distress, Pu Liu's posture, you can see it, just take it away, and you don't need any gifts. ”

Zhuge Jin struggled for a while in the end, and finally figured out a lot of obstacles, and made up his mind: "Then I'll say it bluntly, Sister Ling is too young, and the position of the wife is impossible." I am twenty-one, and I will be twenty-two at the end of the year.

In the first two years, I was unable to marry a wife because I fled and was displaced from place to place. When Yuzhang settles down, he will definitely have to find a candidate for a wife, and he can't wait for so many years.

I am the eldest brother in the family, if I don't find a sister-in-law for my brother and sister, it will be difficult to order the affairs of the inner house, and there will be no one to help Zhang Luo with the trivial matters of marrying his sisters in the future.

Therefore, I can only wait for Ling Mei to get married and give her the status of a concubine. Before that, I kept her by my side and didn't let her do rough work. ”

Bu Qi also nodded in response, he brought the words, said a few more words, and then got up to say goodbye.

He chose to do things directly for Liu Bei this time, instead of doing things for Zhuge Jin, because he also wanted to prove himself.

So now I am holding back a breath of courage, hoping that the next time we meet, I have already made achievements, so that I can talk to my old classmates on an equal footing.

……

After Zhuge Jin sent Buqi away, he didn't do anything else that day, just rested at home and thought quietly all night.

The next day, he went to Bu's house, first confirmed the situation with Bulong, and then went to Xu's and Bu Trainer's house.

At Bulong, he learned that the other party was full of fists, and even said that it didn't matter if he was a concubine or not in the future, just take the person away.

Zhuge Jin only added one question at the end: After she took the step trainer away, whether her widowed mother Xu could return to her parents' house and whether there was anyone to support her.

Bu Long said that there is no mother's family, but if there is no one to support her, the Bu family will give her a bite to eat. She didn't give birth to a son, only a daughter, and if her daughter was taken away, the Bu family didn't need her to be widowed.

Zhuge Jin thought about it for a while, and then proposed: "In this case, I will find a wife and concubine for the guard general next to me, and persuade her to remarry, so that I can go to Yuzhang with my husband, how about it?" ”

Bu Long hurriedly expressed his gratitude, and said that a widow of the Xu family was almost thirty years old, and it was her fate to be a concubine for the guard officers around Zhuge Jin.

But Zhuge Jin still respected the opinions of the parties, and forced Bu Long to go to his younger siblings' house to confirm first, and only after getting the other party's voluntary answer did Zhuge Jin start to operate.

He didn't say a word, and found Chen Zhi who Liu Bei dialed to protect him that day: "Uncle Zhi, I remember that you followed Xuande Gong to fight for two years, and you haven't married a wife yet, right?" ”

Chen Zhi hurriedly admitted.

Zhuge Jin said unceremoniously: "Recently, I had to be a classmate and a friend of the clan to give me a maidservant, but his mother is widowed. Although he is twenty-seven or eighteen years old, three or five years older than you, he is not ugly.

You don't have to marry a wife, just take a concubine first, and there are people around you who know whether they are hot or cold. If you agree, I will not give in to my family's despises.

This is to tell Brother Xuande, you have accumulated merit before, and it is time to be promoted from Qu Junhou to Junma. You take a concubine as a military horse, and the Bu family doesn't feel ashamed. ”

Chen Zhi and Tian Yu have similar status in the army, but only because Chen Zhi originally led the henchmen under Liu Bei's guards, and the number of people was small, so the military position was one level lower.

But in fact, the strength of Qu Junhou, who led the white soldiers, was not weaker than that of the military Sima who led the miscellaneous army.

This time, Zhuge Jin wanted to let people take concubines, so he helped Chen Zhi say a good word by the way, and let him promote the military position that had been stuck for a long time.

"Mr. Xie's kind words! The grace of the gentleman is unforgettable! Chen Zhi didn't care about taking a widow a few years older than him as a concubine, but when he heard that he could be promoted by the way, of course he immediately agreed and gave Zhuge Jin a big gift.

Zhuge Jin was very satisfied.

not only threw out the widow who was in the way, but at the same time, Chen Zhi would follow him all the year round, so that the Xu family would have a lot of opportunities to see their daughter in the future, so that the mother and daughter would not be separated.

Liu Bei stayed in Guangling for the past two years and would not go out, and he did not need to go to the battlefield in person and let the guards protect him.

Zhuge Jin brought Chen Zhi to Yuzhang for Liu Bei's good, to give him some sense of urgency, and to urge him to get Zhao Yun back as soon as possible.

After everything was negotiated, Zhuge Jin asked people to take some property and go to the Xu family, which can be regarded as a decent gift.

Three days later, Xu hurriedly remarried Chen Zhi as a concubine.

Of course, the step trainer was also directly taken back to his home by Zhuge Jin, and at present, he can only be a maid for a few years.