Cai Yan was very angry, and the consequences were not serious.

Because Li Su even missed the day of the New Year and did not return to Chengdu. During the New Year, Liu Bei had a banquet for all the ministers, and Li Su did not attend.

Before Li Su left, she agreed to get married with Cai Yan to prepare for the date of the marriage on the Lantern Festival. A person who is about to get married on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month cannot even go home on New Year's Eve. How can this give the girl a sense of security?

Fortunately, Li Su rushed back to Chengdu on the ninth day of the first lunar month.

Cai Yan asked his servants to come to Wuyang County 80 miles in advance every day to wait. He would quickly return the news. So before Li Su returned to Chengdu, Cai Yan stopped him halfway.

This is really not a fault with Li Su, mainly because the traffic conditions are too poor and the road is always delayed.

After all, he was going to open up a no-man's land that was not originally developed by the Han people, which was similar to Columbus' search for a new continent. How could his time be stuck in exploratory work?

As soon as they met, Cai Yan frantically punched her little fist: "I'm so anxious! I'll be so annoyed that I'll never stay home like this in the future! I'll get married in six days and the posts are all out. My father came from Jiangzhou and arrived earlier than you! You didn't even give a sure letter in advance."

"Isn't it back now? Life is not good. If you know you again and delay your life, you won't be more anxious." Li Su slowly comforted the girl and told her not to get angry. In the end, she used a big killer weapon to stabilize the woman's nonsense.

"The people I sent to explore the way have several people who have been poisoned by snake and insect miasma. Can I be reckless?"

As soon as this said, Cai Yan kept silent and didn't dare to say a harsh word. After crying for a few seconds, there was only one sentence left, "It's good to come back, let's go home first, the Marquis's mansion is ready, I'll wait for you."

As he said that, he took Li Su into the car and returned to the Marquis' Mansion, the fief of Pi County.

Liu Bei is not in a hurry to report his work.

After getting on the car, Cai Yan personally put a bowl of soup from a copper clerk for Li Su, so that Li Su could drink it as soon as possible to take care of her health.

"What is this?" Because the soup is thick and opaque, Li Su couldn't see clearly for a while, and couldn't help asking before drinking it.

Cai Yan: "This is Coix seed soup. I heard that it eliminates the fever in the southern middle school. During the reign of Emperor Guangwu, General Fubo Ma Yuan fought against Wuxi Man in the south. He did not accept the water and soil, so he recruited Coix seeds to treat it.

At that time, wasn’t there anyone in the court who went to Emperor Guangwu to frame and slander? He said that Ma Fubo accepted bribes and several carts of pearls. Are you anxious? He should have prepared for you before leaving. Next time he would go south and bring more supplements to relieve heat and fever."

Is there a wife who has been reading for thousands of books? I am very particular about how to arrange my diet and daily life. Drinking cool soup can lead to classics and classics.

Along the way? Li Su also learned from Cai Yan that some colleagues left Chengdu after the New Year because they had other business operations, so they followed the gifts before leaving.

For example, Zhao Yun, I heard that he left Chengdu on the third day of the first lunar month. Liu Bei asked him to lead 5,000 cavalry to Yidu County? He took office immediately? He left 2,000 mobile troops to garrison in Yidu, and divided 3,000 cavalry to go to Fancheng and Xinye to support the upcoming Guan Yu and Sun Jian’s northern expedition to fight Dong.

The date of sending troops to Guan Yu and Sun Jian was February, so it was already Liu Bei who could leave after the New Year in Chengdu. It was because Liu Bei treated him preferentially? Thanks to his troops being full of cavalry, he would not delay his trip.

Lu Su also had to rush back to Nanzheng before the Qinling Mountains melted snow in February to preside over the defense work of the northern line? But Lu Su had a close relationship with Li Su, and there was still time to go? So he insisted on waiting until Li Su finished his marriage on the Shangyuan Festival before leaving. At worst, he could hurry up a little on the road.

Speaking of which, Li Su is also quite unreliable? The first three or four procedures in the "Six Lies" were taken. Many of them did not ask about it personally, and just let Cai Yan fight with each other and make a statement. Fortunately, the appearances for outsiders were very decent, so they would not lose the face of the "great Confucian scholar" like the Cai family.

However, Nanzheng always had to bring some local specialties. Li Su knew that women like jewelry. When they got home, they would take out the goods that Pang Xi gave him before leaving, which would definitely block Cai Yan's mouth.

The carriage soon arrived at the fiefdom of Pi County. At the gate of the Marquis' Mansion, Li Su jumped out of the car first and helped his fiancée down personally. He was a good man in the late Han Dynasty. He usually needed a maid to support him, and he would never let the male owner hold him down with his own hands.

Before Li Su could show off his gains, Cai Yan first showed off his treasure and asked, "Do you think this marquis' mansion is still so grand? I chose those carvings myself."

Cai Yan pointed to the brass eaves on the roof of the mansion gate, and the copper pattern on the door frame covered the corners. Even the tiles on each facade had simple tones and low-key and restrained paintings. Cai Yan was proud while introducing them.

"With this wife, I don't have to worry about the family's internal affairs in the future." Li Su nodded with relief, still very at ease with Cai Yan's aesthetic and cultural connotation.

When it comes to decoration, my wife who is well versed in etiquette should have the final say. Maybe she will become a fashion trend in the Han Dynasty in the future.

Following Cai Yan in, Li Su counted the numbers while counting. The marquis' mansion was built for seven depths, which was really impressive.

There is also a second entrance inside the gate that can be climbed. It looks similar to the Wei Que at the palace gate, but it is simpler. The height is also reduced to three meters high. In short, it is enough to not exceed the etiquette. Guards and archers can also be stationed upstairs, which is like the defense that a marquis' mansion should have.

At the same time, in order to prevent the guards on the building from peeping at the lives of the people in the inner courtyard, the building began to be raised from the fifth entry, and each entry was raised by one floor, about an eight-foot drop, and the base was built with rammed earth below.

Houses in the Han Dynasty, whether they are imperial palaces or royal residences, were all single-story, but "tables" could be built, such as Tongquetai. The difference between a platform and a building is that the area of ​​use is always only one floor, the foundation can be raised, and the raised part is still solid below, and there is no upstairs and downstairs.

Li Su's three-story platform was raised in the back of the mansion. The visual meter was rammed in the ground and thousands of cubic meters were piled up outside. If it weren't for the "big cake" in the structure, manpower could be piled up to build the house and decorate it in a while, otherwise it would be impossible for a few months to complete the house and decorate it.

It is estimated that thousands of strong laborers were levied to build this house, but Li Su had originally had a fief of 1,500 households. In theory, he was indeed qualified to let each of the people on the fief come to him for twenty days of labor service every year. For the more than twenty days, taxes can be reduced, or each household can be negotiated, and a representative will be sent to work for a longer period of time to make the family members work.

Being a feudal aristocrat is a pleasure. Li Su, a guy who is used to being equal to everyone, is a little addicted to privileged treatment.

"The people who participated in corvee service will be exempted from tax this year." Li Su was not a harsh person. She followed her wife to visit and felt very satisfied. With a wave of her hand, she exempted the construction workers from taxes this year.

Cai Yan was still unsatisfied and pulled Li Su to the wing rooms on both sides of the sixth entrance: "Look at whether these bathrooms are satisfied or not, I moved them according to your previous design and just changed the decoration. This one was for a bath, and the next one was for steam.

You have always said that if you soak a wooden barrel for a long time, it is easy to breed insect mold. If you want the stone-carved pool like the late emperor Biguiyuan, I specially found Xiangxiong merchants from Moshui to buy obsidian glass to build this stone pool. They also asked craftsmen to dig holes and connect the hot water tower. Do you want to try it tonight?"

Li Su looked at it with interest. The sauna was similar to what he built when he was in Nanzheng, but the bathing pool was much upgraded, so he finally didn't have to soak it in a wooden barrel anymore.

Li Su knew that natural stones such as marble, granite, basalt would definitely have more or less radiation, and building a bathtub might not be good. So before leaving, when Cai Yan talked to him about the decoration plan of the Hou Mansion, Li Su also mentioned a few words and eliminated some of the best stones.

Unexpectedly, Cai Yan also made a big deal and actually found someone to buy obsidian pools!

Obsidian is not very rare in America or Japan, but it is still rare in China. It is easy to produce areas where volcanic activity is relatively frequent. It is only produced in snowy areas in China. The ancient Xiangxiong people and the Tubo people also took obsidian plates and Dzi beads.

Although this stone is also a volcanic product, it has been vitrified and is pure silica black glass, so it has no radiation, is harmless to the body, and looks grand. It is also easy to clean and remove insects.

In Shu in the late Han Dynasty, you can only trade obsidian by going to Nan'an County, Jianwei County and looking for merchants from Xiangxiong who entered Shu along Moshui (Dadu River).

When other rich people were still taking obscured glass plates and bracelets, Li Su directly used them to build a bathhouse. This luxury level was something that Emperor Ling of Han dared not think about when he was alive. Emperor Ling of Han used granite, marble and the like in the bathroom in Biguiyuan. Who made Luoyang too far from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau? He couldn't imagine it when Bi Lan of Yeting designed it.

Li Su couldn't help but gasp and asked his wife secretly: "How much does the obsidian glass in this pool cost in total?"

Li Su was a little mentally prepared and knew that the unit price of obsidian should be less than agate or even as good as jade (Agate in the late Han Dynasty is more valuable than jade, and jade in later generations is more valuable than agate), but he couldn't hold on to the fact that there were more materials here. Even if the eight-foot-long pool was just for surface veneer, it would probably cost hundreds of kilograms.

Cai Yan was actually a little embarrassed: "I spent 600 pieces of Shu brocade to exchange for the materials... But my husband is rich. This year, due to the war, Shu brocade is not easy to sell. We just think it is to find a way out for the unsold Shu brocade in the fief."

Li Su suddenly realized that Cai Yan was trained by him to become a senior shopping party. Alas, it was all his fault that he took the lead and did not take advantage of.

"Okay, thank you, it's all for me." Li Su knew that he still had at least hundreds of millions of cash flow assets, so he was not afraid. He had to return a gift to the girl, "I have brought back a lot of local specialties in Nanzhong, and I think you will like it."

As he said that, he asked the servant to send the gems to the house first. There were three dou of jade, two dou of agate, and a liter of pearls. The agate and jade were not in the shape of a grinding instrument, but the stone skin had gone, revealing the green and crimson stone flesh. After sculpting the shape, you can wear the decorations.

Cai Yan was also slightly surprised to see it: "So many gems... Isn't that good?"

Li Su touched his back and said with peace of mind: "Don't worry, I insisted on giving money, but the money given according to the value of the origin of the South Central region is not worth much. The money Pang was unwilling to collect the money he received, so in the name of Pang, they all rewarded the military farm officials and soldiers who performed outstandingly during the military farming, and some of them paid pensions to the families of the soldiers who died in the expedition team."

Li Su is still very principled in being a human being. He does not do anything that obviously violates the Han law, and he cannot lead the way in governing the country. Jade agate is paid at the price of Yongchang County, and the target used for payment is Shu brocade, which cannot be calculated at the price of Shu brocade in Shu county, and it must be calculated at the price of Shu brocade in Yongchang County. In this way, there is actually not much.

"Let the craftsmen choose some good materials, carve a few pieces these days, and they can be easily worn during the wedding, so they just treat it as a local custom." After seeing it, Cai Yan couldn't say she liked it very much. After all, she had seen a lot of jewelry, but she felt heartwarming because her husband was still thinking about herself in such a dangerous place in such a miasma.

After reading the jewelry, Li Su clapped her hands again and ordered her servants to carry two iron cages over. Cai Yan was shocked when she saw it: "What is this!"

Li Su: "Don't be afraid, this is the beast that "Ailaoyi, a beast" mentioned in the "Dongguan Han Ji. The Biography of the Southwest Yi" written by your father."

Cai Yan heard that this was what was in the historical materials written by her father, so she was no longer afraid: "This is a beast? I have read my father's manuscript and it was written that it was 'The big one was as big as a donkey, and it looked quite like a bear. It had a lot of strength to eat iron, its color was pale, and its skin was warm'. Can this iron cage be locked up? It doesn't look as fierce as it was written."

Li Su smiled: "Even if you eat iron, you can only tear the iron sheet. It eats bamboo and mutton. How about it? Do you want to raise it?"

Cai Yan's eyes turned: "It's really bamboo? Not ferocious? I want to know if 'the skin is warm' is real. Is it dangerous to touch it?"

Li Su thought for a while, first found a servant, holding a fork to hold it at any time, and then said, "I'm asleep now, I should be fine when I touch it a little. This thing can sleep for ten hours a day."

"So lazy." Cai Yan was so lazy that he was no longer afraid of being so lazy. After touching it, he found that 'the warm skin' was indeed true, and he felt a sense of pride in his heart, "Hmph, it seems that my father knows more knowledge than Ban Gu. When Taishigong and Ban Gu wrote the biographies of the Southwest Yi, they didn't know what the beast looked like. You said my father had never seen it with his own eyes, so where did he hear it?"

Li Su couldn't help laughing: "It cannot be compared like this. Comparing the knowledge of the geographical and physical properties of the Siyi must be that later generations have an advantage over the ancients. When Taishigong wrote "Records of the Grand Historian", there were only King Yelang and King Dian, which was equivalent to the current Jingxian County and Jianning County.

Where did Ailao State and Yongchang County come from at that time? Ailao State was attached to the Ming Dynasty. The tribal barbarian king on that land did not know about it until the death of Taishigong and Ban Gu."

Cai Yan's eyes rolled, holding Li Su's arm and shook it: "Then I will also like Ban Zhaoxu's "Book of Han", and I will tell my father that I will write "Biography of the Southwest Yi" in the future. You secretly tell me the customs and customs of those places, and I will write it."

Cai Yan already felt that the records of the Southwest Barbarian specialties left by Cai Yong were too indetailed. Women have extra racial talents for shopping and looking for specialties, so women should write this kind of thing.

Li Su didn't want to continue these nonsense topics, so she interrupted Cai Yan and asked, "You haven't answered me yet. I plan to keep these two beasts in the mansion as ferocious beasts in the mansion.

You also know, 'Shuofu Dong Tongyingyang', although I am still a general of the Central Army, the general of the Western Expedition allowed me to govern the country, and also allowed me to set up my own guardian Dianwei, aide Zhuge Jin, and other staff members to open the government. Other shofus have to raise some tiger and bears to strengthen their military power. I think this is not bad, it is not as dangerous as the tiger and bears."

Li Su didn't like to make it too bloody. Just put on tiger skins in the shogunate festival hall and raise a few beasts.

Cai Yan read a lot and of course knew very well about the court's etiquette and law. He immediately knew what to do: "Yes, I'll take care of this matter. Otherwise, I'll see we'll change the two stone lions at the door?"

Li Su was startled: "The stone carving at the door? This... is so shocking, and it is black and white. The ones carved into stone are pure white. Others think that the stone bears we are guarding."

Cai Yan: "I have it! I have built an obsidian glass bath for you before, and there are some chiseled scraps. Let the craftsmen carve two white bears in the form of this beast, and their limbs and ears are chiseled with obsidian glass, which is so grand."
Chapter completed!