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Chapter 56 The daily life of Cao Shuang and Sun Luban, the envoy from Soochow to Jingzhou

 After the messenger went down to rest, Yang Zong, the chief secretary, asked doubtfully: "This Chen Qun and Chen Shangshu helped Zhou to do evil before?

He committed a serious crime of treason and almost lost his life at the hands of the old thief Sima. Why did the master spare his life and ask someone to express his condolences on his behalf after his death and send him a personally written memorial?"

Cao Shuang said with a smile: "Uncle Chu, you don't know something right now? If he hadn't participated in the conspiracy of the old thief Sima,

I have to rush back to Luoyang eight hundred miles away. Not to mention offering condolences, I can personally hold his coffin.

It's a pity that he was involved in the major conspiracy of the old thief Sima, so I won't go there in person. I will send a memorial message and ask Uncle Chu to go on my behalf. This will reassure Chen's heart and make Chen grateful. This is enough.

That’s it!”

The chief secretary, Yang Zong, stroked his beard and said with a smile: "My lord is really good at it. My subordinates are really ashamed of themselves, so they can only carry out the lord's military orders without compromise."

Cao Shuang said with a smile: "Uncle Chu, go down and prepare. We will set off back to Luoyang early tomorrow morning. I won't see you off."

Yang Zong smiled and cupped his hands and said: "My lord, I will leave first and go down to prepare."

On the way back to his residence, Yang Zong thought to himself that his lord's acting skills were getting better and better, and he was so good at crying and laughing.

He casually manipulates the person who delivers the message in the Chen family, and his methods are getting more and more sophisticated, and he has the heroic demeanor of Emperor Wu.

Then I thought about whether I was praising the lord in my heart, or hurting the lord. I looked at myself again, and it seemed that I was the same, and my acting skills were quite extraordinary.

After the two left, Sun Luban slowly walked into the meeting hall wearing a green skirt, and asked the maid to follow him, carrying the iced sour plum soup he had just made.

Sun Luban asked the maid to put the sour plum soup on the desk, put the prepared lacquer bowl and lacquer spoon, and then asked the maid to leave.

Then she slowly knelt down beside Cao Shuang, gently picked up the lacquer spoon with her slender bare hands, and slowly filled the lacquer bowl with sour plum soup. Her graceful and plump body was clearly displayed against the backdrop of the green gauze skirt.
A feminine fragrance filled the air around the two of them. At this moment, Cao Shuang temporarily let go of his mind and quietly admired Sun Luban's figure and elegant movements. An inexplicable feeling spread between the two...
After a while, Sun Luban filled a bowl of sour plum soup, put in a small lacquer spoon, picked it up gently, took a small spoonful, put it into his mouth and tasted it.

He said softly: "General, I have already tasted this iced sour plum soup made by myself. It is not hot, but not too cold. It is just right at this moment. General, please try it quickly."

Cao Shuang smiled and took the lacquer bowl, drank the sour plum soup in one gulp, wiped his mouth with his sleeve and said: "Dahu's craftsmanship is good, I don't know which famous teacher he learned it from, give me another bowl!"
Sun Luban took the bowl from Cao Shuang's hand with a sweet look on his face, and said with a smile: "As long as the general likes it, it's fine. I learned my craftsmanship from my mother-in-law when I was a child." Sun Luban filled a bowl and handed it to him.

Cao Shuang.

This time, Cao Shuang lived up to Sun Luban's intention and tasted the delicious sour plum soup carefully, saying: "It turns out to be Mrs. Bu. I guess your mother-in-law is also as beautiful as a tiger, and virtuous and capable?"
Sun Luban thought for a while, immersed in the time spent with his mother and concubine in the past, and said with a touch of sadness on his face: "My mother and concubine are the most beautiful women in the world in my body and mind, but it is a pity that she passed away too early.

It has been eleven years since I left my concubine and my sister. She has always been very kind to my sister and me when she was alive. That is, my mother-in-law taught me and my sister how to make soup and other things in life.

Something to live in."

Cao Shuang took a few more sips and said, "What about your father? How does he treat you two sisters?"

Sun Luban said: "My father is very kind to my sister and me, and he dotes on us two sisters very much. But my sister and I both know that this is probably because my mother and concubine dote on the Sixth Palace and love the house and the bird, so he is like this.<

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In addition, in front of his mother and concubine, he also tried to help her to the lower position many times, but was repeatedly opposed by civil and military officials.

Only after the death of the mother-in-law could he help her to the throne. With a little guilt towards the mother-in-law, he wanted to treat us twice as much to make up for his previous debt to the mother-in-law."

Cao Shuang hugged her and said solemnly: "Don't worry Dahu, I will definitely treat you well in the future. If you don't want to go to Luoyang and insist on going back, I can send someone to take you back to Jiangdong."

Sun Luban thought for a while, frowned slightly and said: "I have always wanted to return to my father and sister, but now, I know that even if I want to go back, I will probably not be able to go back to Jiangdong.
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With his father's temperament, he would most likely give his concubine to the general. Even if his father doted on her before, a princess who had been captured by the enemy would make him look disgraceful. Besides, there were many people in the Soochow Dynasty.

I don’t want you to go back!”

Cao Shuang smiled and said: "If Dahu doesn't go back, then he won't go back. In Dawei, I can still protect you and support you!"

Sun Luban was in Cao Shuang's arms, pretending to complain: "General, maybe you dislike me for eating too much, then it will be better for me to eat less at each meal from now on!"

Cao Shuang smiled and said: "Dahu has misunderstood. You don't eat as much as me at each meal. How can I dislike Dahu for eating too much?"

Sun Luban patted his plump chest and said, "That's good. Just now I thought the general didn't want me anymore."

Cao Shuang smiled and said: "How can I be the kind of person who abandons women like clothes? Dahu thinks too much."

Cao Shuang then continued to stay in Jingzhou to guard against Bi Yaner's comeback. However, by the beginning of July, Sun Wu had no intention of sending troops to Jiangbei, so he planned to return to Luoyang in a few days after the situation in the five counties in Jiangbei was completely stabilized.<

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Cao Shuang is also happy to be with Sun Luban every day, but the weather in Jingzhou is getting hotter and humid.

On the first day of the seventh lunar month, Sun Quan personally sent a delegation sending his eldest daughter's "dowry" out of Xuanyang Gate, the main gate of Jianye City.

He Shao, Ding Feng and a group of 500 people left the city and headed for the port outside Jianye City, boarding the building ship that had already docked here.

The corresponding dowry had been transported to the ship a few days ago and placed there. The soldiers of the Soochow Navy were heavily guarded around the ship. It was not until He Shao, Ding Feng and his party boarded the ship that the building was handed over to them.

On the high-rise boat heading to Jingzhou, Ding Feng, who was enjoying the cool river breeze, said with a worried look on his face: "Xingbo, do you think we can complete the tasks assigned by His Majesty this time?"

He Shao smiled and said: "As long as we follow your Majesty's plan, this matter will definitely come true!"

Ding Feng said calmly: "Alas, Cao Shuang is an extremely cunning thief. His majesty's previous scheme was discovered by this thief. I hope I can hide it from Cao Shuang this time!"

Obviously he did not have full confidence in this "wonderful plan". The last failure left a deep shadow in his heart.

Two days later, the Soochow envoys arrived at Jingzhou Ferry...


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