Rejuvenation of the Han Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 105
After seeing off Liu Yu the next day, Liu He brought a jug of wine to meet Lu Zhi.

At this time, Lu Zhi was already an extremely popular minister, famous all over the world, known as a great Confucian in the country, as famous as Cai Yong and Zheng Xuan in literature, comparable to Huang Fusong and Zhu Jun in martial arts, truly capable of both civil and military skills.

Lu Zhi has a resolute character and is loyal to the country. He is not well-known in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

In history, after Lu Zhi was restored to his post, he was almost killed because he opposed Dong Zhuo’s chaotic government and deposed the young emperor Liu Bian. However, because he was afraid of Lu Zhi’s status among scholars, he was only dismissed. Lu Zhi escaped from Dong Zhuo’s pursuit and escaped Go to Shanggu to live in seclusion.

There are still three or four years before Dong Zhuo takes power, and the conflict between He Jin and Shi Changshi is intensifying. Lu Zhi has withdrawn from the political vortex earlier, and Liu He hopes that he can play a greater role.

After thinking about it, he had already entered the courtyard gate of Lu's house. Seeing the incense burner emitting green smoke in the courtyard, Liu He paused, and suddenly remembered Lu Xiong's death. Lu Zhi probably went to pay homage, and he was looking for him at this time , Is it a little out of date?
While hesitating, Lu Jun and Lu Yue came out from the backyard. When they saw Liu He, Lu Yue suddenly lowered his head and dodged it. Lu Jun clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty is coming, I'm sorry to welcome you."

"Second Young Master, is this deliberately humiliating me?" Liu He shook his head and smiled, "Is Mr. Lu at home?"

Lu Jun looked indifferent, not as affectionate as before, nodded and said: "I'm in the study, please come with me."

Liu He guessed that it was probably because of Dukangting's affairs. Judging from Lu Jun's attitude, he knew that Lu Zhi was also very dissatisfied with himself. With Lu Zhi's upright and fair character, seeing that scene, he was probably as angry as Liu Yu.

When he came to the door of the study, Lu Jun turned and left. Liu He had no choice but to go in by himself. He saw an old man with gray beard and hair reading a book. He was tall and straight, and he looked like a stubborn old man.

Liu He coughed lightly, and saluted at the door: "Lu Shibo, my junior, Liu He, please see me."

Lu Zhi raised his head, his eyes were shining brightly, but revealed the depth of wisdom, he waved his hands lightly and said: "Liu Junhou is here, how can I be an old man?"

Liu He said with a dry smile, "The Shi Bo and my father had some misunderstandings about Du Kang Ting the day before yesterday, so I came here to pay a special visit and sent a letter by the way."

"Oh?" Lu Zhi looked at Liu He caressingly. In fact, he was quite satisfied with Liu He's performance before, and finally nodded and said, "Come in!"

Liu He stepped into the door and explained the matter of Dukang Pavilion again. In addition, the [-] mu of land was not all turned into a winery at one time. The current production volume is not so large, it is just a plan.

Lu Zhi listened, looked at the pot of wine in Liu He's hand, and smiled softly: "What you brought is the new wine?"

"Not bad!" Liu He put the jug on the table, "This jug was specially brought for Shi Bo to taste."

"Taste?" Lu Zhi tugged at his beard, obviously not paying attention to the wine, and lifted it up suddenly in his hand, obviously with excessive force, frowned and said: "Only half a pot?"

Liu He said with a smile: "That's all that's left, I'm afraid Shi Bo can't finish it!"

"Hahaha——" Lu Zhi stroked his beard and laughed loudly, "I'm afraid you don't know something, this old man is not drunk when fighting wine...Huh?"

In the middle of speaking, Lu Zhi's face suddenly changed drastically. The unsealed cork could not cover the strong aroma of the wine. While shaking the jug, his eyes were fixed on the bottle like snakes.

"What kind of wine is this?" Lu Zhi stared at Liu He, his eyes sparkling.

"This wine hasn't been named yet, I'm about to ask Shibo to taste it, please come up with a name..."

While Liu He was talking, Lu Zhi reached out to take away Misai, leaned forward to take a deep breath, and shouted with wide eyes: "Good wine!"

"Of course it's good wine!" Liu He said with a smile, "If it wasn't good wine, how dare you bring it to Shi Bo to taste?"

"That's right, such a strong wine, even if it's hidden in the palace, can't compare, it's worth doing a lot of construction and brewing."

Lu Zhi laughed loudly, suddenly grabbed the jug, raised his head and poured it into his mouth.

Liu He hurriedly stopped him: "Uncle Shi, although this wine is good, don't be greedy..."

"Hey, hiccup—" Lu Zhi hiccupped and drank it all in one go.

He shook the wine bottle, caught the last few drops of wine, licked his lips, and squinted his eyes slightly to reminisce.

"You kid, don't underestimate the old man's drinking capacity. Even in Luoyang, no one dares to compete with the old man." Lu Zhi smiled triumphantly: "This wine pot, the old man can drink twenty or thirty, hurry... go to the mansion to get it Come!"

"This is no ordinary wine!" Liu He didn't expect that Lu Zhi, as a great man of literature, would drink so boldly. He wondered if he could bear half a catty of liquor.

"Hurry up and get the wine, and when the old man drinks to his heart's content, he agrees to the marriage of the two families." While speaking, Lu Zhi's eyes were blurred, his face was flushed, and his tongue began to stiffen.

Although this distilled wine is not pure enough, it is still around [-] degrees. Normal people would not dare to drink like this, let alone have never seen such a strong wine. Lu Zhi's large alcohol capacity is completely useless now.

Liu He had no choice but to say: "Uncle Shi, I came here to explain the misunderstanding, and to discuss the marriage between the two families. But before that, the Zhen family has proposed a marriage. What should I do?"

"What is true and false, old man... I want to drink, hurry up, get the wine!" Lu Zhi's tongue was straightened, and he grabbed Liu He and asked for wine.

Liu He said helplessly: "Uncle Shi, you are so drunk that you really can't drink any more."

"What uncle?" Lu Zhi stared, and grabbed Liu He's hand: "I want to call brother——"

"Ah? This..." Liu He was taken aback. He didn't expect Lu Zhi to be so weird after being drunk, so he couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded. It seems that today's discussion is not a serious matter.

"The Zhen family's affairs... go to the back." At the moment of embarrassment, Lu Zhi seemed to understand what he said. He took out a letter from behind the desk and slapped it on the table: "Look... this ,What's this?"

Seeing that the envelope was worn out, Liu He saw that it was the family letter he had brought to Lu Zhi during the expedition. He opened it up in doubt and found a paragraph in which Lu Jun suggested that Lu Yue should marry Liu He, and Lu Yue also liked Liu He's words. .

Thinking about what Liu Yu said before, perhaps they had already discussed it in Luoyang, and said with a helpless smile: "In this way, Shi Bo agreed to this matter a long time ago?"

"Hey, there is no woman who doesn't love heroes, you... you are young and famous now..." Lu Zhi said, and suddenly shed two lines of tears, "It's a pity, it's a pity that my Xionger, he... He doesn't have... such a blessing..."

Seeing that he was drunk, Liu He remembered the sad things again, and knew that there was no way to discuss the following matters, so he hurriedly called Lu Jun and helped Lu Zhi go to bed to rest.

"Not drunk, I'm not drunk..."

Lu Zhi was still talking about Lu Xiong, crying and scolding Shi Changshi for a while, and laughing for a while, praising Liu He's awesome young people.

Lu Jun was taken aback when he heard this, he had never seen Lu Zhi lose his temper in such a big way, and once wondered if Liu He had given his father some medicine to make him so obsessed.

(End of this chapter)