I am not in the position of Zen [Three Kingdoms]

Lu Bu replied helplessly: "At that time, under Dong Thief's command, that lecher wanted to marry Cai Wenji, so he ordered me to prepare a dowry."

Wen Ji's husband died at a young age.After her husband died, Wen Ji was taken back home by Cai Yong who loved her daughter dearly.Now in her twenties, she was born dignified and elegant, just the age for a girl, and her talent spread far and wide, Dong Zhuo remembered her not long after entering Beijing.

Liu Xie began to gossip, and asked, "What happened after that?"

"Cai Yong naturally refused." Celebrities pay most attention to marrying well-matched families. After Cai's family is famous, how could he take a fancy to such a despicable and reckless person like Dong Zhuo.

"How could Dong Zhuo let it go?"

"Cai Yong wasn't happy at all, and Dong Zhuo wanted to win him over again, so the matter was temporarily shelved."

Lu Bu raised his beautiful eyebrows and said flatly, "But there is another reason."

Liu Xie's almond eyes were full of curiosity: "What?"

"Gao Shun introduced a beautiful girl from Goulan to Dong Zhuo. Afterwards, Dong Zhuo gradually forgot about the matter of marrying Cai Wenji."

"Gao Shun? Recommendation? Overwhelming country and city? Goulan beauty?" Every Liu Xie recognized these words, but they were bombarded dizzyingly when they were connected together: "No way, such a serious person like Gao Shun doesn't usually drink alcohol. , how would you know Fengyue?"

Lv Bu didn't hold back: "Gao Shun came to me at the time, hoping to save Cai Wenji. Zhang Liao thought of such a way, and I don't know how the two of them can find someone later."

Liu Xie asked again: "Then what happened later?"

Lu Bu gave him a strange look, a little unaware of the gossip mentality of finding out the cause and effect: "What happened later?"

"Why did Gao Shun save Wen Ji?" Liu Xie was still full of curiosity: "For example, how did they know each other? After this incident, won't Cai Wenji come to thank Gao Shun?" A touching love story like Jun?

"I don't know, it's just the way it is now, each living its own life."

"Aren't Gao Shun going to propose?"

"It's not the right family, I'm afraid we won't be able to talk together." Lu Bu shrugged, but his reaction was still flat: "Cai Yong, a sour literati, doesn't look down on people in the army."

The ancient people's family background is still very deep, Liu Xie sighed silently, quite regretful.

"Where are you going now?" Lu Bu interrupted his contemplation.

"Oh, go to the listening book building next to it." Seeing the quietness in the corridor and no one around, Liu Xie said in a low voice: "The civilian guard said that Bao Xin would come to the Luoyang Inn every night and order people to take a bath and massage, and then Open a VIP room in the listening library to listen to books."

Lv Buqi said: "Why didn't you summon him a few days ago? Instead, we have to meet here." Dong Zhuo is dead, seeing that the courtiers no longer need to hide.

Liu Xie shook his head: "Above the court, seeing may not be true, I want to know what he thinks. For a while, I will pretend to be your servant, and you ask him what reward he wants, and how he wants the emperor to reward his subordinates."

In the listening building, the storyteller is telling the famous story "The Peacock Flies Southeast".Speaking of it, this story is quite similar to modern house fighting dramas, but the ending is very tragic.Because of the intervention of the evil mother-in-law, a couple both died in love, which is very sad.

Lu Bu thoughtfully ordered red bean cakes, shortbread, various fruits and tea, and asked roughly, "Anything else?"

After reading the menu, Liu Xie added another item: "Yangmei wine."

Tea brewing in this era was rather dark, and tea leaves were often boiled with pungent smells such as "onion, ginger, jujube, orange peel, dogwood, and mint" before drinking.Just now, he suppressed the protest in his heart, barely finished the tea made by Wen Ji, and Liu Xie didn't want to continue to poison his stomach.

The storyteller speaks vividly and pays attention to details.Liu Xie, who hadn't had any entertainment for many days, listened very engrossed.After listening for a while, I was a little dumbfounded: "Even folks, are marriages so extravagant?"

For example, in "Peacock Flying Southeast", the prefect gave Liu Lanzhi's family a gift, "300 million yuan, all worn with black silk. Three hundred pieces of miscellaneous colors, handed over to Guangzhou City Salmon Treasure."

No wonder everyone said that they should be in the same family. If Gao Shun were to be asked to pay the bride price to marry Cai Wenji, it would be impossible to get it together, even with Lu Bu's support, he couldn't afford it.

"How can common people be so exaggerated? Don't they all live their lives?" Lu Bu was quite disdainful: "The officials and aristocratic families in the Central Plains are so poor and particular. In our border counties, they lead cattle and sheep, hunted tiger skins, teeth, you can marry a good girl."

Liu Xie: The folk customs in Bian County are a bit primitive. No wonder neither the Bingzhou Army nor the Liangzhou Army are ideal marriage partners for Luoyang people.

The two had two glasses of wine, but Bao Xin hadn't finished bathing yet.Liu Xie couldn't bear it, and wanted to relieve himself. Lu Bu naturally got up with him and escorted him over: "Let's go."

It was the first time for Liu Xie to go to the toilet outside, and he felt two wars.

In order to accumulate manure and fertilize, it was very popular in the Han Dynasty to build toilets near the pigsty. The sanitary conditions are a bit hard to describe.

At this time, no matter it is a public toilet or a common people's toilet, it is generally two-story, with toilets on the top, pigs on the bottom, and a ladder next to it for people to climb to the second floor.

The Luoyang Inn is no exception. It is built higher and the pit is dug deeper out of the consideration of the large number of people.The second floor is divided into more than a dozen small rooms with wooden boards, which are blocked by half-person-high wooden doors with bolts.

This toilet is tall and big, and there are huge ventilation windows behind the second floor.Liu Xie glanced at it, and finally understood why Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, could escape by going to the toilet at the Hongmen Banquet. Maybe it was through the back window.I took a look at my feet, uh...it probably didn't swim out from below, that would be too much humiliation.

He squatted tremblingly on the toilet, not because he was afraid of heights, but because he felt that if he accidentally fell from such a high distance, he would become the first emperor to be drowned in the toilet, leaving a mark in the history books. Funny page.

After finally finishing the convenience, I went to pull the toilet paper, but... there was no paper!

Simply outrageous!The first-class inn unexpectedly failed to change the toilet paper in time. Liu Xie secretly made a note to the shopkeeper, and when he was about to go back, he would write about "Unannounced Visits—Five Complaints for Toilet Improvement in Luoyang Inn".

At this time, he was also embarrassed to call out to Lu Bu who was waiting for him below, Liu Xie lightly knocked on the wooden board next to him, and asked in a low voice with faint hope: "Is anyone there?"

Unexpectedly, there was actually a thick voice responding: "What's the matter, brother?"

Liu Xie raised his eyebrows happily: "Brother, do you have a toilet in your cubicle?"

"Yes." This man was very forceful, and passed a few "toilet chips" made of wooden boards from the gap under the partition.

Liu Xie only felt that the chrysanthemum was tightening, it was really not easy for the common people.There are tiny burrs on the board, which looks very cruel.Unlike in the palace, there are soft toilet paper and silk to take care of vulnerable parts.

Liu Xie said weakly: "Is there a softer one?"

Fortunately, this man was very considerate and didn't dislike him for being troublesome. After a while, he handed over a small silk cloth from the gap.

Liu Xie was overjoyed, knowing that the silk cloth was not cheap, he took out a few copper coins from his sleeve, and passed them through the gap, "Thank you."

The man smiled heartily, he didn't take any copper coins, he seemed to be a wealthy man who didn't care about money: "No need, little brother, it's just a matter of little effort."

Liu Xie was unwilling to take advantage of the civilians, and insisted repeatedly that the other party was willing to accept it.

Not long after going back and sitting down, Lu Bu, who had excellent eyesight, said, "Here we come."

Liu Xie followed his gaze and saw a middle-aged man with a length of seven feet coming up. He was wearing a blue robe, with regular features and a honest face. He was a typical image of a Shandong man.

Sitting in this hall, Lu Bu seemed to stand out from the crowd.Bao Xin recognized it at a glance, and humbly stepped forward to say hello: "General Lu."

Lu Bu got up lazily and bowed his hands.

It was inconvenient to address each other in the lobby, so Bao Xin invited the two of them to talk in the VIP room he reserved.

Lu Bu didn't refuse, and took Liu Xie over.Bao Xin asked curiously: "This little brother is unfamiliar, he seems to have never met him when he was in Lushan."

Lu Bu took the initiative to take over the conversation, and did not say that Liu Xie was his servant, after all, Liu Xie was the Son of Heaven.He introduced: "He's the youngest brother in the family. He doesn't serve in the army. Today I brought him here to relax." After finishing speaking, he grabbed a handful of fresh fruit on the table and gave it to Liu Xie, with a look of caring for brothers: "I and Xiang Bao has something to say, you go and play on the side."

Liu Xie didn't open his mouth, as soon as he spoke, he would probably expose the embarrassing thing about buying toilet chips in the toilet just now.He just nodded, obediently sat down at the small table next to him, and continued to look at the storyteller through the fence.

Bao confidently sighed, he had heard that Lu Bu was the only grandson of Lv Hao, the captain of the Yueqi school, so why did he say that he was a younger brother?

What's more, the two look very different at first glance.One eyebrow is curved, the skin is fair, the eyes are agile, there is a little baby fat on the cheeks, the lips are like cherries, and the temperament is gentle and elegant.On the other hand, Lu Bu was more than nine feet tall, with a very handsome appearance, sword eyebrows and star eyes, healthy wheat-colored skin, and a domineering aura on his body.

Bao Xin regretted that Lu Bu, a majestic general, was infected with such romantic habits like those dissolute scholars. Fortunately, he still wanted to marry Lu Bu to find a good husband-in-law for his daughter.

Lu Bu was unaware that a misunderstanding had already formed, and the two exchanged cups, drinking and chatting about the differences in customs and customs between Jibei and Luoyang.But after all, I just met him in Lushan, so I don't have much to say.Lu Bu was not a patient person, so when Liu Xie pricked up his ears and wanted to listen to the terroir of Jibei for a while, he asked, "I wonder how Prime Minister Bao thinks about rewards for soldiers?"

Bao Xin shook his head: "It's difficult for everyone to make a choice. The emperor has a decree that whoever kills one enemy will get ten acres of fertile land. Now the only places where the land is divided are Sizhou and Jingzhou. Most of the soldiers have family property in their ancestral home. The land has been relocated, and now the family members have traveled thousands of miles to bring them over. The road is not smooth, and the cost is heavy. But if they don’t accept the reward, they will miss the good land for nothing, and the soldiers will feel unwilling." Lu Bu raised his eyebrows: "What do you think, Prime Minister Bao?"

Bao Xin replied: "I heard that today's major events are all chosen by the emperor. I want to ask the emperor if it is possible to convert the land into silver money."

Lu Bu twitched his eyebrows: "How much money?"

"It all depends on the emperor's reward." Bao Xin asked: "The general often accompanies the Holy Cross, so do you know that this method is feasible?"

"The emperor is sympathetic to the soldiers, it's not difficult."

Bao Xin said happily: "If so, everyone will have an explanation when they return home."

Lu Bu asked again, "What about Prime Minister Bao himself? Can I ask for something?"

"Xin has nothing to ask for. It is an inescapable duty for a man to stand up when the country is in crisis. How can he ask for a reward?" Bao Xin said with a smile: "And when Dong Zhuo was in chaos, the emperor crossed other states. Mu directly issued a secret decree, asking me to cooperate with General Huangfu to encircle the Liangzhou army, this trust is already a priceless reward."

Lu Bu said calmly: "Your Majesty has clear rewards and punishments. Prime Minister Bao has made great achievements this time, so there must be rewards. Gold, silver, silk, and rich salary for high officials are all within easy reach."

But Bao Xin waved his hands again and again: "Grand officials and generous salaries are all fleeting. All I ask is God bless the great man, and the country will last forever."

Lv Bu raised his eyebrows: "President Bao's righteousness is admirable."

Bao Xin was a little embarrassed, and smiled honestly: "Xin has something to ask the general."

The author has something to say: People will drink tea after boiling it together with pungent smelling "green onion, ginger, jujube, orange peel, dogwood, and mint". According to the Internet information quoted, this is how people in the Han Dynasty drank tea. Very refreshing.

In "The Peacock Flies to the Southeast", the prefect gave Liu Lanzhi's family a bride price, "the money was 300 million, all of which were worn with black silk. Three hundred pieces of miscellaneous colors were handed over to the salmon treasures of Guangzhou City." It comes from the original text of Peacock Flying Southeast.

Confucian philosophy, loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, Bao Xin is a person with a strong sense of loyalty to the emperor (after all, Jibei Prime Minister, Shandong is the birthplace of Confucian culture).

Alas, this is a flavorful chapter.