Daily life of noble ladies of the Three Kingdoms

Zhou Buxin ran into Sima Yi who happened to come outside Siqi's study.

Zhou Buyi heard that a letter from Liu Bei had just been delivered from Chengping. Seeing that Sima Yi was about to open the door to enter, he hurriedly stopped him and said, "When the lord is composing poems in the study, he doesn't like being disturbed by others."

Sima Yi was stopped by Zhou Buyi, stunned for a moment, and said: "In the past, I only heard that Mrs. Weng is both wise and brave, and has experienced people, but I have never heard that Mrs. Weng has such hobbies on weekdays."

Zhou Buyi also wanted to stop him in a moment of urgency. Hearing what the other party said, he also realized that it seems that the king doesn't like to write poems on weekdays, and he is not good at these things.

But since I said that, I can only bite the bullet and continue to lie: "Yes, the lord...she really likes to compose poems, but she is a bit too refined when composing poems. It has been revised for a long time, and if there is any dissatisfaction, it will be destroyed, so there has been no new work in the past few years..."

Sima Yi felt that this topic was a little awkward to talk about, and he didn't know how to continue, but he still said politely, "I really didn't expect that Lord Weng is so talented. If you have time in the future, Yi will definitely read about it." masterpiece."

Thinking of Siqi's real level of poetry, Zhou Buyi fell silent for an instant, and began to think seriously, if Sima Yi really wanted to see the king's "masterpiece", whether he should ask Cao Zhi to write a few poems on her behalf to deal with it.

At this moment, Si Qi opened the door and came out, seeing both of them standing here, he couldn't help wondering: "What are you two doing standing here?"

Sima Yi: "We're chatting."

Zhou Buyi: "Bask in the sun."

Si Qi: ..., these two are really carefree!

Now that everyone is here, it really doesn't make sense not to invite them into the house for a cup of tea.

Si Qi waved at him twice: "Come in and have a seat."

Zhou Buyi rushed into the room before Sima Yi, and took the seat next to Si Qi first. Sima Yi had no choice but to go around and go to the opposite side of Si Qi.

Sima Yi didn't understand, he and Zhou Buyi had been fairly well-behaved during the time they worked together, why Zhou Buyi was always guarding against him consciously, as if he was going to do something bad.

Si Qi flipped through the tea cabinet, and said to the two: "I have finished drinking the tea here yesterday." Recently, too many people came to her for a meeting, and they would inevitably drink her tea every time they had a meeting. Now the tea bucket is empty It was empty twice.

"I only have flower tea here now. If you two don't dislike it, you can drink it with me. If you don't like it, there are white water and honey."

Zhou Buyi said, "Just give me plain water."

Si Qi smiled, said "OK", then turned to ask Sima Yi, what do you want to drink?

Sima Yi said: "I drink scented tea with some honey."

Zhou Buyi glanced at Sima Yi in surprise, and thought, this man doesn't treat himself as an outsider.

Si Qi also thought to himself, I really didn't see that people like Sima Yi have a lot of interest in life.

Si Qi ordered the servant girl to serve Sima Yi tea, Sima Yi said "thank you", and said to Si Qi that they have been in He'an for nearly a month now, and asked Si Qi about when the disaster relief work will be completed.

Si Qi did the math, and the way is that He'an is almost done, but it will take some time, at least another month, to complete the disaster relief work in the surrounding counties.

Sima Yi said: "Master Weng is the person in charge, so it's no wonder that Wei Guild trusts Master Weng so much and entrusts you with all these matters."

Si Qi felt that Sima Yi was not just asking casually, and there should be other purposes behind this seemingly plain, so he asked him, "Sir, is there anything else that needs to be dealt with?"

Sima Yi said: "I don't have any important things here, but I have always been concerned about the battlefield in the south, thinking that after the disaster relief work here is completed, I can go to the battlefield earlier and serve for the Lord."

Si Qi understood what Sima Yi meant in seconds.

Sima Yi now is very different from Sima Yi 13 years ago in Jian'an. He began to want to make contributions, so he wanted to go to the battlefield quickly and show his face in front of Cao Cao.

But he is the imperial envoy appointed by Cao Cao to assist Lord Chengping to go to the He'an area for disaster relief. He also wants to complete this matter beautifully and satisfactorily.

After thinking about this level, Si Qi said to Sima Yi: "I will ask them to allocate and distribute the food as soon as possible. As long as the food and grass are in place and distributed to the counties, I will take care of the chores in the future, and the master can go back to his job." .”

Sima Yi also knew that Si Qi was doing it for his own good, so he bowed to Si Qi and said, "Thank you, my lord."

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The disaster situation in several counties around He'an City was more serious than that in He'an City. The food brought by the first wave before Siqi was also distributed to the counties and counties according to the disaster situation. Liu Xie got Cao Cao's instruction and sent someone to send some Food, but these days the wars have been going on for years, the princes have separated their regimes, they don't pay annual tribute, and the court is not rich, and the food they bring can't last much time.

Si Qi still wrote to Chen Xing, asking him to open a warehouse, and then send some grain similar to the last time, so that he could basically overcome this difficulty and let Sima Yi go back earlier, which was regarded as a favor for him.

After Chen Xing received the letter from the lord, he quickly responded to Si Qi, and immediately opened a warehouse for people to escort the grain and grass, please be safe and don't be impatient.

The people who escorted the food this time were the young general Zhao Chuan from Shanggu County and Huo Qiulan's cousin Huo Xin, and Siqi sent Zhen Shu out of the city to meet them.

Two days later, Zhen Shu returned empty-handed, his face was very dark, and the two people who escorted the food and grass were also disheveled, and Zhao Chuan was injured by a knife on his arm, which looked very bad.

Si Qi asked: "What happened? How did you get into such a mess?"

Zhao Chuan knelt down and said to Si Qi: "My lord, all the food we brought this time was robbed by the bandits. The opponent has a lot of troops and sent out several teams. After a series of attacks, the general will be defeated. If you fail to keep food and grass, ask the king to punish you."

Si Qi signaled Zhen Shu to help Zhao Chuan up, and said, "Have you found out who did it?"

Zhao Chuan sighed: "I don't know for the time being, I only know that they have a lot of people, sneak attack in the middle of the night, and are very familiar with the terrain."

Huo Xin was Zhao Chuan's deputy. He saw Zhao Chuan answering the old man there, so he kept silent, but now he couldn't help but interjected: "Those people don't look like complete robbers."

Si Qi said: "How to say?"

Huo Xingdao looked like a soldier who had undergone systematic training, not that kind of wild way.

Si Qi frowned, thinking that since the matter was suspicious, it would be better to go to the field to investigate, so he sent a letter to convene everyone to discuss the matter, and finally sent Xun You, Liu Yun, Zhou Buyi and Sima Yi to the scene to see if they could find him. What useful evidence.

Si Qi made an appointment with them to set off early the next morning, and sent them out of the city gate according to the time on the second day.

After watching Xun You and others leave, another patrolling soldier came to report that General Zhao Yun Zhao had arrived, and he had already walked outside the city gate.

Si Qi cheered up and went to meet Zhao Yun.

Judging by the time, it is estimated that the other party rushed to He'an day and night, and the journey was very hard.

After Si Qi received Zhao Yun, he took him back to his residence to rest.

King Chang's palace is big enough, but there are not many people in the house. Si Qi told King Chang early in the morning to prepare a room for Zhao Yun, and Tan Xin took the soldiers to the residence.

After Zhao Yun moved in, he took a shower and changed clothes, took a rest, and slept until Shen Shi in the afternoon. After waking up, he found Si Qi and gave Liu Bei's letter and list to Si Qi.

Si Qi flipped through it hastily, and saw that there were some things that she and Liu Bei had agreed on that day, but Liu Bei had written and planned these things in detail.

Si Qi took the list and said that he would go back and study it later.

Anyway, Zhao Yun is not in a hurry to return to Jingzhou now, since he came to He'an, he will stay for a while.

While talking, Ah Fei came to report that it was His Highness Chang Wang who came to visit.

Chang Wang is also usually a person who likes to listen to gossip, and he also heard about Zhao Zilong's savior riding solo and coming from afar to rescue Chengping who was besieged by Wuhuan, and he felt that the other party was very powerful. Immediately changed into new clothes and came to visit.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Yun has been resting since he stayed here, Chang Wang had no choice but to turn back, and now he heard that Zhao Yun woke up and was discussing matters at Siqi's side, so he went back and forth, and came to Siqi's side again, wanting to see him Zhao Yun.

Si Qi introduced to Zhao Yun that this is Wang Bochang, who has always been close to my family, and then introduced to Chang Wang, this is Zhao Yun, Zhao Zilong, the general beside Liu Bei.

Chang Wang exchanged pleasantries with Zhao Yun first, and then asked Si Qi: "I just heard that Mr. Xun and Mr. Zhou have left the city. Is there such a thing?"

Si Qi answered "Yes".

As Cao Cao's counselors, Xun You and others have been quite famous over the years. In the past, Chang Wang had no access to these high-end people. Now that these stars are within reach and right in front of his eyes, it is inevitable that Grandma Liu will enter the Grand View Garden The feeling of Zhenbaozhai, I wish I could come and touch it every day.

Knowing that Xun Yu and others were not there, Chang Wang asked Si Qi again: "Where is my brother? But he also left the city? I still have something to discuss with him."

Chang Wang has recently studied farming, gradually started to get started, and has gained some new experience, so he is going to discuss it with Liu Yun.

Although Chang Wang started late, he was very self-motivated. Si Qi silently praised him in his heart and said, "Something happened to the batch of grain that Governor Chen brought over. Father and Mr. Xun went out to investigate together. It will take a few days to come back."

Chang Wang didn't expect this kind of thing to happen. He sighed for a long time, and then comforted his eldest niece and said that he still has some spare money. Seeing that Siqi is under a lot of pressure for disaster relief now, and now that he has lost food, he plans to Send someone to buy some food and come back to accompany Siqi to tide over the difficulties.

Si Qiqi asked, "Where is Uncle Wang going to buy food?"

This area has suffered a lot of disasters, where is there any surplus food to buy for Chang Wang?

Chang Wangdao: "It's in Qinghe County, not far from He'an. I heard that there is a local gentry surnamed Cui. Solved, willing to monopolize the purchased grain at a low price."

Si Qi realized that something was wrong.

Huosing said that those people are not like pure robbers, but more like a well-trained army.

Si Qi and Zhao Yun looked at each other and made a bold guess.