Chapter 7 Mo Dao has no confidants, and no one in the world knows the king
The setting sun shines slantingly, everything is picturesque.
On the road heading south from Feng County, two horses were galloping.
Among the people on horseback, one has a wine gourd as big as a fist tied around his waist, and the other has a long bow on his back and a pouch of arrows hanging on his waist.
After a long time, the sky was getting dark, and the man with the wine gourd tied to his waist suddenly reined in his horse and walked slowly, and the man with the bow on his back also quickly reined in his horse and walked beside each other.
"We have already traveled more than 20 miles, they should not be able to catch up."
After Zhou Ping finished speaking, he untied the wine gourd from his waist, pulled out the stopper, lifted the wine gourd and took a sip.
"Young Master, why are you so afraid of getting married?"
Zhang Wu couldn't understand why Shaojun was running away from marriage when he was already twenty years old and should have gotten married long ago. This was already the third time.
Zhou Ping smiled: "It's not that I'm afraid of getting married... I can't tell you why a man would worry about not having a wife, and why should he be anxious about it right now!"
"There is no way to go without friends. No one in the world will know you."
Zhou Ping suddenly howled out two lines of poetry.
Zhang Wu looked at Zhou Ping with a silly smile on his face, feeling that his young master's madness was about to break out again.
"Why are you laughing? Do you know what it means?"
Zhou Ping couldn't help but ask when he saw Zhang Wu looking at him and giggling.
Zhang Wu shook his head: "What do you mean?"
"This means that there is no one in the world who doesn't know me... Hahaha, I told you to study but you didn't."
"Young Master, I can only shoot arrows."
"Then you also need to be literate, otherwise how can you become a general in the future?"
"Young Master, can I also be a general?" Zhang Wu couldn't believe it.
"You must be able to do it, but you have to practice riding and shooting more in the future."
"oh."
Zhou Ping felt that he was very lucky. He met Zhang Wu by chance on the road two years ago.
At that time, Zhang Wu was only fifteen years old and fell hungry on the roadside. If he hadn't encountered him and rescued him home, he might have died of starvation at that time.
After questioning, we learned that Zhang Wu was from Yangzhai, Yingchuan. His father was a hunter and his mother died young. He had followed his father into the mountains for hunting since he was a child.
Later, Dong Zhuo's troops looted and killed people everywhere. Zhang Wu followed his father and fled to Xuzhou for refuge. However, when he fled to the Liang Kingdom, his father died of illness. He used the money he brought to buy a coffin to bury his father, and then wandered around alone.
, begging to survive.
But the war was chaotic, and it was not possible to get food every day. Finally, he fell hungry on the roadside and met Zhou Ping.
Zhou Ping did not make Zhang Wu his servant, but took him as his bodyguard.
Zhang Wu has been hunting with his father since he was a child, and his bow skills are very good. Zhou Ping also lets him train every day. Although he can't compare with Lu Bu, Tai Shici and others, it is already very rare for Zhang Wu who is only seventeen years old.
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"Come on, let's go to the village in front and find someone to stay overnight."
As Zhou Ping said this, he and Zhang Wu clapped their horses and ran southward. By this time, it was already dark.
In Zhoujiazhuang, Zhou Qi was cursing angrily: "This kid ran away again. Ah Shui, you knew that Shaojun ran away, why didn't you come and tell me earlier?"
Ah Shui lowered his head and said nothing.
What can I say? Before Shaojun left, he told himself to wait two hours after he left before telling the head of the family that he had already followed Shaojun's instructions.
"You...you said, did Shaojun go to Qiao County again to find that person named Xu?"
Zhou Qi was so angry that he pointed at Ah Shui and asked loudly.
Ah Shui quickly replied: "Shaojun only said that he was going to Qiao County to find an old friend. He should be looking for the man named Xu."
"Then Xu Chu is a bandit leader. He leads a group of knight-errant swordsmen and acts tyrannically. I really don't know why Wen An goes to him several times. Does he also want to be a gangster?"
"A twenty-year-old man is still so ignorant. It's all because I'm too indulgent towards him..."
Zhou Qi's wife Chen Rong came up to him at this time and smiled at him: "Mr. Lang, don't be angry. It's not like you don't know Wen An's temper. In my opinion, you don't know good from evil."
The servant Ah Shui lowered his head and pursed his lips, smiling to himself, thinking that since Shaojun had been ill more than two years ago, the family's rules were not so strict, and sometimes they would even tell some jokes to the servants.
However, the relationship between the family seems to have become more harmonious. They talk and laugh on weekdays, and there are almost no loud arguments. If there were, it must be that Shaojun left home to avoid marriage, which made the head of the family scold him.
"You...how can I not know what is good and what is good?" Zhou Qi looked at his wife in shock.
"Think about it, who is the person Liu Shijun came to visit today? It's Wen An. Why did the Shijun want to see Wen An? That shows that Wen An is capable and a person who can do great things. If he doesn't make friends with those knight-errant swordsmen, how can he make friends with farmers?
Aweng?"
Chen Rong's few questions left Zhou Qi speechless and could only sigh: "Then what should we do if the Gan family has agreed to the marriage but he runs away again?"
Just now, the matchmaker came back and said that the Gan family had agreed to the marriage and were willing to marry Gan Qian to Zhou Ping.
"It's easy to handle. Wen An just wants to marry a beautiful woman. Ah Shui, you go to Pei County Beauty Township tomorrow and take a private look at the appearance of the Gan family daughter. If she is really beautiful, go to Qiao County to capture Shao Jun.
When you get it back, tell him, have you ever seen the Gan family's daughter, who is as beautiful as a fairy from heaven descending to earth, compared to... to... to our county magistrate's concubine?"
Ah Shui nodded quickly: "I've seen him before. I went to the city with Shaojun last time and saw him once on the street."
"Have you seen Mr. Shaojun too?" Chen Rong asked again.
"I saw it, and Shaojun also said that the county magistrate's concubine is really beautiful. Shaojun stared at it for a long time, hehe..."
"Then you tell Shaojun when you get there, the Gan family's daughter is ten times more beautiful than the county magistrate's concubine, do you understand?"
Ah Shui responded quickly: "I understand, I understand."
"Go ahead."
Watching the servant leave, Chen Rong said to Zhou Qi again: "Mr. Lang, Wen An is handsome and intelligent, why worry about not having a wife? I see you, don't worry about him anymore."
Zhou Qi sighed and said, "But my eldest brother is like my father. How can I feel at ease if he doesn't get married?"
"Wen An is no longer a child. He can make the decision on his own affairs."
"well……"
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The next day, Liu Bei summoned Chen Qun and other state officials to discuss how to distribute food to save the people.
Chen Qun and other state officials were very supportive of this kind of thing.
Chen Qun was treated as a surrogate by Liu Bei. All he wanted was to assist Liu Bei in governing Yuzhou, and he had no intention of helping Liu Bei to strive for world supremacy.
Therefore, he fully supports things that are beneficial to Yuzhou, such as stopping recruiting troops and spreading food to save the people.
At noon, just as Chen Qun and others left, Peiling Feng Yong arrived.
But there was no smile on his face today.
"Your Majesty, uh... uh..."
Seeing Liu Bei, Feng Yong forced out a smile that was uglier than crying and hesitated to speak.
"Speak directly if you have something to say."
Because Liu Bei was able to distribute grain to save the people without any hindrance, the state officials were more supportive, and he was in a good mood, so he didn't pay attention to the wry smile on Magistrate Feng's face.
"Yesterday... what the official said yesterday, that... the daughter of the Gan family has... the Gan family has agreed to be betrothed to another family. It was only agreed yesterday. It would have been better if the official had come to tell the envoy two days earlier.
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Feng Yong didn't expect that he would do something bad this time with good intentions. He had just found out a few days ago that the daughter of the Gan family was not married yet, nor was she promised to be married. But what a coincidence, he came to tell the envoy yesterday that she was promised to be married yesterday.
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Liu Bei felt a little disappointed: "Oh."
"Your Majesty, do you want... do you want me to go down to persuade the Gan family to break off the engagement and marry their daughter to your Majesty as my concubine? If your Majesty goes there in person and persuades them, they will definitely agree."
When Liu Bei heard this, he understood that what County Magistrate Feng meant by "persuading" was actually "forcing". His face could not help but darken, and he looked at Feng Yong who continued to speak in disgust.
Just listen to Feng Yong continue to say: "I heard...I heard that the person promised by the Gan family is Zhou Wen'an from Feng County. Oh, the same Zhou Wen'an who changed the straight shaft of the plow into a curved shaft..."
Liu Bei was afraid that he had heard wrongly, so he quickly asked: "Who are you talking about?"
"Zhou Wen'an and Zhou Ping of Feng County may have some reputation, but they can't be compared with Shi Jun. I heard that when the Gan family's daughter was young, there was a person with good looks among them who said that this daughter will be noble in the future...
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Snapped……
While Magistrate Feng was still talking, Liu Bei had already stood up, quickly walked out from behind the case, hurriedly walked in front of him, raised his hand and slapped him.
Feng Yong staggered and almost fell to the ground. Only then did he realize that he had slapped the tiger on the butt.
I saw Liu Bei's face full of anger, pointing at him and scolding: "Since I arrived in Xiaopei, I heard about your bad reputation for running rampant in the countryside. I thought that when I was in Xiaopei, you would change your evil ways and do good things for the people. I didn't expect that you would change your evil ways and do good things for the people."
You are still like this. Stop being the county magistrate and leave today, lest I kill you."
"No, no."
Magistrate Feng did not dare to say anything, covered his face and left in a hurry.