Fall in love with the technology tree [Three Kingdoms]

When Zhuge Liang and his friends experienced the great escape under the fist of Adjutant He, Ah Sheng was sitting behind the food table waiting for dinner.

It's the season when bayberry is on the market.In front of her was a large milky white petal-shaped porcelain plate filled with a mountain of red bayberries, the fruits were so red that they turned purple.Ah Sheng picked the darkest ones into a small bowl, and put them on Ah Liang's food table next door.After a while, she found another bigger bayberry, so she picked it up with chopsticks and put it in Zhuge Liang's bowl as well.

"Second Uncle does this again, I'm going to be jealous." Ah Zhen was cooking porridge beside the small cauldron in the middle of the hall. While stirring the bottom of the pot with a big spoon, she smiled sideways, "I used to think that my grandfather was the most important person in the family. Those who dote on the younger generation. Tsk tsk, don't think it's because of me that I lost my mind, second uncle spoils people, it's called insanity."

A Sheng was taken aback, quickly retracted his hand like a child who has done something wrong, put down his chopsticks, and coughed lightly.

Sun Ce couldn't help laughing.

Apart from Ah Zhen, Sun Ce, and Ah Zhen's mother-in-law, Madam Wu, at the table, she frequently winks at the young couple.

Mrs. Wu has always been a cautious person, no, just after Sun Ce expanded the territory of Lujiang by one county, she took the initiative to send the second son, Sun Quan, and the third son, Sun Yi, to Juancheng to accompany the Cao family's children to study.Seeing Cao Zhen and Sun Ce seem to be making fun of Mr. Zhonghua now, she couldn't help being terrified.

Ah Sheng didn't take it seriously, the more powerful she is now, the more casual she gets along with the juniors.Probably the prestige has been established, and there is no longer any need for other people's trembling to set it off.

"Bo Fu, this is your fault." A Sheng said with a smile on his face.

Sun Ce tried his best to suppress the upturned corners of his mouth, but naturally he failed based on his expression management ability. "Please second uncle teach me." He laughed.

A Sheng picked up a bayberry: "Under your rule, eating a mouthful of bayberry is still a luxury."

Sun Ce's eyes widened a bit: "Oh...that's really my fault." He slapped his palm on his thigh as he recalled A Sheng's words, and laughed unconsciously: "Oh, it's really my fault—— —Second Uncle, why don't you let Gongjin and Zixiu help me, and I will be able to afford red bayberries in a few years."

At this time, Ah Zhen filled a shallow dish with soup and brought it to Ah Sheng. "Second Uncle, don't worry about it. Sometimes he is like a child, he thinks it out as soon as he thinks it out. Why don't you come and taste my duck soup."

Ah Sheng bowed his head obediently and took a sip: "It's faded."

"Is there?" Ah Zhen also took a sip, then turned her head decisively and went to add salt.

The daughter-in-law is just changing the subject, but the mother is cold-faced: "You are so arrogant! Can the eldest son be ordered by you?"

Sun Ce was extremely wronged: "Isn't it because his internal affairs are stronger than mine?"

"That's also going back to Yanzhou to help Cao Gong. Why did you come to this humid and hot Lujiang River? I'll help you? Your face is as big as a basin."

Mother and son come and go, one is careless, Zixiu comes and goes; the other is cautious, wishing to hold Cao Ang everywhere.Really the contrast couldn't be more stark.Ah Sheng sat on the table and almost laughed out loud.

In the end, Ah Zhen came out to smooth things over. "Okay, okay, as expected, what Uncle Er said is right, duck soup should be salty, and the umami will come out after adding salt." She said in a slightly exaggerated voice, and then ordered her servants to fetch brass bowls , Serving soup to everyone at the table one by one.

Accompanied by the servants walking around, the banquet was suddenly lively.

Sun Ce was the first to serve the bowl and drank it, and as expected, his mouth was scalded.Drinking cold water was another burst of chaos.

Ah Sheng took advantage of the chaos and approached Mrs. Wu, and whispered, "What are we worried about? The children are all grown up and smart."

Mrs. Wu sighed again and again: "The Cao family treated this kid too generously. If I don't suppress him a little bit, I'm afraid there will be disasters in the future. Bo Fu married Ah Zhen, and he is already a first-class rich man. I just ask He was able to die so well, don't leave an infamy in the history books."

"Ma'am, you're looking good. It's precisely because of Bofu's temperament that I encourage Zixiu to make friends with him..."

As he was talking, he heard a rush of footsteps coming from far and near.Zhuge Liang rushed in like a shell.

"Cao Zi." Zhuge Liang's shoes ran off, and he was still holding a clay figurine boy in his left hand, "Someone outside wants to beat me."

The young man who was brought in by Zhuge Liang looked at the scene of the bell ringing and eating, with a dazed expression on his face.

An hour later, Zhuge Liang sat cross-legged on the couch and asked Cao Sheng for credit: "Cao Zi, I always think, what will it be like if Cao Zi accepts another disciple?"

Ah Sheng almost stuffed the ginger soup spoon into the naughty ghost's mouth.

"I don't want to be as full of bad water as I am. If you find another one with seven exquisite apertures to be my junior, I will definitely bite him to death."

Cao Sheng: ...

"Amon is so good. Not smart, but not stupid. And the way he lives with his brother-in-law is much like when I first followed you—"

"A stalker?"

"Where am I stalking?!" Ah Liang retorted, "It's clearly tenacity."

"Oh."

"In short, I think Amenshaw and I look like a poor man with both parents dead."

A Sheng put down the bottomed soup bowl with a solemn expression: "A Liang, I don't intend to hit you, but Lu Meng's mother is still alive."

"Eh?"

Ah Sheng nodded: "He is still alive."

"It shouldn't be. When I look at his face, the foreheads on both sides are dull... The so-called black and white corners of the sun and the moon, the separation of parents and children..."

Ah Sheng put his index finger against the boy's forehead, hating iron for being weak: "After learning some specious fake knowledge, I show it off everywhere. I told you, horoscopes, astrology, faces, and even divination are just auxiliary means. Knowing people Knowing people, listening to their words and watching their actions, everything else is false. Put trust on appearance? I don't even have the guts..."

"Cao Zi, I was wrong." Zhuge Liang quickly admitted his mistake, grabbing Asheng's sleeves with both hands, "but I really think Amon is good. Amon is different from me. He comes from a humble background and is illiterate. People appreciate it, but the morals of the world should not be like this. I admire him and want to give him a step up to prove that not only the children of the clan can go to Qingyun Ladder."

Zhuge Liang's rare and sincere speech silenced Ah Sheng, and she patted the young man's head: "Have you ever thought about it, someone will say that you are too big, and you have not yet gained a firm foothold, so you can take the teacher as a favor and give it to others at will."

The cool and confident little genius went online in a second: "Is the siege crossbow I made not big enough, is it because I have too few soldiers crying, or I made a mistake in calculating the astrology? Who gave them the courage to say that I have a foothold?" Unstable? I feel that I have reached the bottom of Jiuquan with Cao Zi.

"Let's talk about Lu Meng, what does it mean to be casual with someone? I can't be casual, I chose him after thousands of choices!"

Did thousands of choices pick a little illiterate?It was with great difficulty that Ah Sheng swallowed those words back to his stomach.She is a mature adult, and she can't follow the bullying of naive teenagers.

But having said that, except for Zhuge Liang who was confused and persistent, no one thought that she would really find an illiterate student as her disciple.Even Lu Meng himself had the expression of being hit by a big pure gold pie.

Also in a bright living room, smooth lacquered wooden floors, layers of rolled bamboo curtains let in golden sunlight.It's hot, and the wind blows like summer.

A Sheng sat at the top, knocked over a few cases, and asked with a puzzled face: "Your mother is obviously very supportive, why don't you want to learn from me?"

The young Lu Meng refused to sit down, and stood in the middle of the living room in a daze, with hands and feet that had nowhere to rest and were incompatible with this elegant room.Facing the eyes of the superior, he hesitated and couldn't speak.

"me……"

Ah Sheng tilted his head: "Could it be that the folk customs in Huainan despise women's knowledge?"

This is the first time she took the initiative to mention the difference between men and women. Sun Ce, the prefect of "Huainan", almost fell off his seat. "Nothing!" Sun Ce shouted hastily, "Who dares to look down on my second uncle, a child from my direct army? Besides, His Majesty the late emperor called him Cao Zi. Are they more honorable than the late emperor?"

Zhuge Liang, who was so anxious that he couldn't sit still, tried his best to wink at Lu Meng from behind A Sheng.

Lu Meng blushed, and finally revealed the truth to everyone's expectant eyes: "I... my family is poor, and I can't afford Cao Zi's Shuxiu..."

Everyone: ...Your focus is not right!

However, Lu Meng didn't notice it, and was still immersed in his own logic: "I am 15 years old this year. I have hands and feet. It is time to take care of my mother. How can I let her weave and embroider day and night to support my education?" , he hung his head.

Ah Sheng glanced at this precocious child in surprise, and deeply felt that he was a non-human being, the son of a vicious ruling class family: "I am rich all over the world, why should I accept your Shu Xiu?"

Zhuge Liang had recovered from Lu Meng's astonishing words, and opened his mouth to laugh, when he heard Cao Zi say, "Apart from the initial etiquette, A Liang eats my clothes, wears my clothes, and lives with relatives and friends with me. Whenever there is a big job done, I have to pay him."

Zhuge Liang: "Cao Zi, I don't want to lose face?"

"This is true."

Zhuge Liang suddenly turned into a little cabbage beaten by Shuang, unwillingly murmured in a voice that only he could hear: "Then let's modify it a little... Anyway, I am a big brother... I even cooked it with Cao Zi Salt...it's hard work..."

The one on this side is obsessed with thoughts, but Lu Meng on the other side has not yet accepted the golden pie of "free admission plus scholarship", he is still struggling and said: "Cao Zi is rich in the world, why do you like me? I have never I’ve read the book, but I’m afraid it’s not the material. I might be more suitable to enlist in the army and support my family with courage.”

Ah Sheng gradually restrained his smile, and focused on the stubborn boy in front of him.The fuzzy word "Lu Meng" in my memory has faded away, replaced by a fresh person: self-respect, tenacity, not easy to persuade.

Lu Meng is still racking his brains to describe his ideal, perhaps using his best literary skills: "I am not born well, and I am born to eat rough food, just like tigers and leopards, even if they put beautiful feathers on them, they cannot become singers. Nice Phoenix."

"You're wrong." A Sheng interrupted him suddenly, his expression was rare and cold since he was recovering from his injuries, "How can you be a tiger or leopard if you are not born well? According to those soldiers, if you are not born well, you are an insect, and you should be renting land. Toil for a lifetime, until the last drop of blood and sweat is drained, rotted in the soil, and not even a surname is mentioned."

Lu Meng first clenched his fists, and after listening to her description, he was frozen from head to toe, and his teeth were chattering.

Ah Sheng stood up, his blue clothes dragging the ground, tall and straight like jade. "There is no distinction in human nature. If you exercise your physique the day after tomorrow, you can become a tiger or leopard; if you exercise your intelligence, you can become a phoenix bird. I see that you are not willing to be an insect. I think you at least know this truth, but if you don't want to, I think highly of you." It's gone." She raised her chin slightly, and said the words resoundingly, "Those who speak talent before fighting, my main room is not to the point of begging you to come in!"

"Boom." The boy knelt on the spot, his forehead covered in cold sweat.

"I would like to learn from Cao Zi." He said.

This is Zhuge Liang's elder brother and Cao Sheng's second apprentice.