How long has it been since you made such a stupid mistake?
Cao Peng couldn't even remember it himself. Since his rebirth, he has been walking on thin ice with trepidation. Although it is not perfect, at least there have been no major problems. But I don't know what happened today, but... Cao Peng broke out in a cold sweat, secretly Look at Kan Ze.
He is now Xun Yan's little book boy.
But as soon as those words came out, didn't they tell Kan Ze that he was a fake book boy?
However, Kan Ze's reaction was somewhat beyond Cao Peng's expectations. There seemed to be no excitement or surprise, but he laughed.
"Afu, you finally let it slip!"
Kan Ze tilted his head and said with a smile: "I feel strange, how could Mr. Xun, a great talent in this world, let you be his little book boy?
You don’t need to be so surprised, in fact, I saw the flaw from the first day."
"What do you see?"
"Remember to pack those books?"
Cao Peng immediately recalled that when he arrived in Wu County the night before yesterday, he had packed up Xun Yan's books because the book box was damaged.
Kan Ze said softly: "Classification is a compulsory course for book boys.
How could a book boy who has been following Mr. Shutong. There are twelve followers around Mr. Xun. In terms of skill, Xun Lan should be the strongest. But I found that Xun Lan obeys your words... This is not normal. Also, you two are obviously different from the other followers. , there is not much overlap with each other, which makes me even more suspicious."
Cao Peng was silent!
After a while, he asked: "Since you have discovered so many flaws, why didn't you report them to Marquis Wu?"
"So what if I tell you?" Kan Ze stretched out and leaned lazily on the doorstep, "If I told him, who would give me a book to read? Besides, who did Mr. Xun find to be his book boy? How can I, a little postman, take care of this matter?"
Obviously, Kan Ze is not loyal to Sun Ce yet.
His eyes wandered and he said to himself: "Although I come from a poor and humble background, I cannot be humble.
You gave me a book and treated me more like a friend. How could I do that thing of betraying a friend for glory? But... I can see that sooner or later someone will see. Ah Fu, there are many capable people in Jiangdong. Do you want to work with me? Jiangdong must be cautious when doing things, and never take it lightly and underestimate Jiangdong Junjie."
"Brother Kan, thank you very much..."
Kan Ze chuckled, closed his eyes, and bathed in the early summer sunshine, looking extremely comfortable.
Cao Peng didn't say anything more and lay side by side with Kan Ze on the doorstep. But in his heart, he was thinking about how to make Kan Ze return to his heart.
It can be seen that Kan Ze has not determined his future direction yet.
This also gave Cao Peng many more opportunities...
Just as Kan Ze said, the Jiangdong scholar family was entrenched and talented people emerged in large numbers.
It would be very difficult for a person like Kan Ze who comes from a humble background to get ahead.
Ten years later, the Battle of Chibi broke out. Kan Ze, who was already in his thirties, was just a small counselor in Sun Quan's account, and was inconspicuous at all. As for the torture plan, God knows if it was Luo Da who made it up. But from one point It can be seen that Kan Ze's status at that time: when Zhuge Liang was debating Confucianism, he gathered the first-class talents from Jiangdong, but Kan Ze did not appear among those people.
From this, it can be concluded that even if Kan Ze becomes a counselor ten years later, he will not be very important.
It is very possible that he was a member of the army or Sima of a person like Huang Gai, and he did not even have the opportunity to talk to Sun Quan directly face to face.
For Cao Peng, people like Kan Ze are the ones he recruits!
The advisors around him now are just one Bu Zhao.
Bu Zhi is good at internal affairs and not good at strategizing. As for Kan Ze, he is knowledgeable about the past and present, has strong powers of observation, and is bold and careful, which can make up for Bu Zhi's shortcomings. The more he thinks about it, the more he feels that he cannot let Kan Ze go. But he wants to
It's not easy to let him follow you.
Three days later, Sun Ce left Wuxian County with a dozen followers and rushed to Liyang to join the army.
At the same time, Sun Bi, the governor of Yuzhang, marched from the Chaisang River to capture Chungu, cutting off the connection between Danyang and Lujiang and Jiujiang counties.
Sun He, the leader of Dantu, led the troops to attack Jurong, Hushu and Moling counties, and approached Danyang County.
Surrounded by enemies on three sides and facing a river on one side, the waterway was cut off.
Zu Lang, the commander-in-chief of Danyang Zong, suddenly fell into the embarrassing situation of being besieged on all sides. But Yuan Shu, who had previously vowed to fully support Zu Lang if he wanted money, food, food, and people, was silent about the matter. Even a single soldier was killed.
None of the support is provided.
Before Sun Ce left, Zhou Yu came up with a plan.
"Danyang is the gateway to the east, west, north, and west of the Yangtze River, and it must be taken over intact.
Zu Lang was only bewitched by Yuan Shu, so he rebelled. Now that the Marquis of Wu has been conferred by the court, he should be aware of it. If you can fight without losing blood, it is better to fight without losing blood. Zu Lang must be regretting it at this moment.
At this time, Wu Hou only needs to send people to persuade him to surrender, and Zu Lang will definitely be moved... If Zu Lang is willing to surrender, it will be difficult for Tai Shi Ziyi to succeed. Wu Hou loves Tai Shi Ziyi's courage, why not subdue him?"
Sun Ce almost obeyed Zhou Yu's advice, and immediately said that he would try his best to avoid the Danyang war.
After he left Wu County, he handed over Wu County to Zhang Zhao. He entrusted Zhang Zhao with all civil and military affairs, which also showed his trust in Zhang Zhao.
Before leaving, he earnestly asked Xun Yan to stay.
"When the war in Danyang is over, I will return it with Boyang.
The wedding date can be agreed upon at that time... I have admired Mr. Cao for a long time, and naturally I am very willing to become a family with Mr. Cao. Please forgive me, sir."
For this reason, Wang Lang and Xun Yan couldn't say anything else.
After Sun Ce left Wu County, Wang Lang often went boating on Taihu Lake with Zhang Zhao; while Xun Yan led Xia Houlan and Cao Peng to visit friends in Wu County.
Xun Yan is a famous scholar today, and he is also famous after Xun Shu.
In addition, he was talented in learning and had great literary talents. Therefore, he was quite praised among the local scholars.
Today I am a guest at this house, and tomorrow I will have a banquet with that house. In just a few days, Xun Yan visited several scholar families in Wu County, and both parties had a very happy conversation. For a time, Xun Yan's name became famous in Wu County.
Word spread, and everyone in Wuxian County knew that there was a famous scholar in the Central Plains who was outstanding in talent and learning.
Cao Peng had been observing Xun Yan, but he did not find that Xun Yan was alone or in private contact with anyone.
He visited the local gentry all day long, but what did he want to do? Cao Peng couldn't figure it out.
For this reason, he asked Xun Yan privately: "Sir, didn't you say that you want to intensify the conflict between the Marquis of Wu and the Jiangdong scholar family? Why didn't you take action?"
Xun Yan laughed and shook his cattail leaf fan lightly, but refused to answer.
This also made Cao Peng even more confused...
On this day, Xun Yan asked Xia Houlan to hitch the carriage, take Cao Peng with him, and drive out of Wu County.
"Sir, who are we going to visit today?"
Sitting in the car, Cao Peng couldn't help but ask.
Xun Yan laughed and said, "Why, you can't bear it anymore?"
These days, it is really difficult for Cao Peng to take Cao Peng around everywhere.
In essence, Cao Peng is not a person who likes to join in the fun and socialize. Otherwise, he would not have gone out alone in his previous life, and was eventually killed by his most trusted friend. In this life, Cao Peng has tried his best to get rid of this problem.
He tried to get in touch with people and take the initiative to socialize. But deep down, he still didn't like such things. It was fine for a day or two, but after four or five days in a row, Cao Peng couldn't help but feel bored. Regarding Cao Peng's behavior
Of course Xun Yan can also feel emotions...
"Today we are not going to have a banquet, but to visit the descendants of an old friend."
"oh!"
Cao Peng responded, but did not ask who the old friend was.
"Sir, how do we go?"
"Huating, let's go to Huating!"
Xun Yan was in the car, reading a book, and answered softly.
Xia Houlan raised his whip to urge his horse, and drove the carriage along the official road.
After coming to Wuxian for so many days, Xiahoulan also has a general understanding of Wuxian. Huating is located at the bottom of the saucer-shaped depression in the Taihu Lake Basin, about half a day's journey from Wuxian. Its terrain is flat, high in the southeast and low in the northwest. There are twelve
There are small mountains running southwest and northeast. They are Xiaokun Mountain, Hengshan, Jishan, Tianma Mountain...
Wait, wait, little Kunshan?
Cao Peng listened to Xun Yan's introduction, and his heart suddenly moved.
Could it be that Huating is the Shanghai of later generations?
"Sir, who is your old friend in Huating?"
"My old friend was acquainted with the third generation of the Xun family. Hehe, you may not know that his reputation is not particularly famous. However, his family belongs to a prominent family in Jiangdong and is quite famous in Wuxian County. Do you know Lu Kang, the former governor of Lujiang?
?Haha, it’s their home.”
Huating, Lu family... Lu Kang?
A name suddenly appeared in Cao Peng's mind.
Then Xun Yan continued: "The Lu family of Huating is also a famous family for a century. At that time, Lu Xian, the captain of the city gate, had a good relationship with my father. During the Xiping period, because he offended someone, he resigned from office and returned to his hometown. Lu Xian died in depression.
His son, Lu Jun, was once the captain of Jiujiang and passed away five years ago. I came here this time just to visit his children. Once Lu Kang died, the Lu family's momentum was far from what it was before."
"By the way, Lu Jun's son is said to be the same age as you."
"ah?"
"What is his son's name? I can't remember clearly... Lu Yi! It is said that he is also a young hero and talented... and he is very similar to you!"
"Similar to me?"
“Same young and mature, equally talented, and equally young, yet able to stand alone.
Speaking of which, the child was quite pitiful. His father passed away early, so when he was a child, he followed his grandfather Lu Kang and lived in Lujiang... It was only three years ago that Yuan Shu ordered the Marquis of Wu to attack Lujiang. Lu Kang fought to the death, but was eventually defeated.
Wu Hou broke it, Lu Jining's soldiers died, and the Lu clan was even more brutally massacred. Fortunately, Lu Kang sent Lu Yi and other brothers back to Huating in advance to avoid disaster... I heard someone say before that Lu Yi was getting married. As a
Elders, you should always come to visit and see if you can help, and lend a little by the way."
Is it Lu Yi?
never heard of that……
Cao Peng immediately put down his thoughts and stopped thinking about the matter.
Along the way, Xun Yan changed his cautious attitude from earlier and chattered endlessly, seeming to have turned into a chatterbox.
What he said was nothing more than how outstanding Lu Yi was and why he was so rare... He started to rule the family at the age of twelve and took on the responsibility of the entire family.
"Although the Lu family is no longer what it used to be, it still has a legacy.
I have heard people say that Lu Ji Ning’s son Lu Ji is eleven years old this year and is very smart; Lu Yi’s brother Lu Mao is also talented and learned... When they become adults in the future, they will definitely have a great future."
Lu Ji?
I know this!
At Yuan Shu's banquet, there was Mr. Huaiju Lu.
When debating among the Confucian scholars, Lu Ji was a staunch capitulator, and was criticized to a pulp by Master Zhuge.
Can such a person achieve great success?
Cao Peng was a little unsure. Anyway, he remembered one thing. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, after Lu Ji was embarrassed by Zhuge, he seemed to have never appeared again. According to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Lu Ji was just a clever guy.
There is no powerful person. But Cao Peng is not sure now! So is Lu Ji really as unbearable as said in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms?
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms respects Liu and slanders Cao, Wei and Sun Wu.
Therefore, Cao Peng was not sure which parts of the novel were true and which ones were false.
It can only be said that he is not very interested in Lu Ji.
During the Three Kingdoms era, the only person with the surname Lu that most aroused Cao Peng's interest was Lu Xun and Lu Boyan, who defeated Liu Bei in the Burning Company. But why haven't you heard Xun Yan mention this person? In other words, Lu Xun and Lu Boyan's "Lu"
, not the ‘Lu’ of the Huating Lu family.
"Sir, do you know Lu Xun?"
"Lu Xun?"
Xun Yan tilted his head and thought for a moment, "Who is that?"
"Uh, I just want to ask."
Xun Yan thought carefully for a while, then sighed and said, "I really can't remember that there is a person named Lu Xun in the Lu family. Maybe he is a branch of the Lu family... What, do you know him?"
"Uh... I don't know."
"Why do you ask if you don't know me?"
"Well... I just occasionally heard people mention this person in Wu County, so I asked this question."
"I see."
Xun Yan's series of questions made Cao Peng sweat dripping.
Next time, don't ask people easily. Otherwise, it will easily cause misunderstandings... A name is easy to say, but it is too troublesome to explain. Fortunately, Xun Yan was immersed in the memories with his old friends today, so he didn't
Didn't ask too much.
Otherwise, Cao Peng would never have thought it would be so easy to pass the test.
However, where is Lu Xun now?
Cao Peng regretted that he knew these names but never paid close attention to their life experience and background. Otherwise, how could there be so much trouble?
After everyone had a simple meal on the way, they set off again.
About dusk, the carriage stopped.
After Cao Peng got off the car and inquired, he learned that Luzhuang was not far ahead. After further inquiry, he found that the Lu family was quite famous in Huating. It was located at the head of Luzhuang Village and was very easy to find. Cao Peng and others followed the path they found.
Soon we drove into Luzhuang. The sun set in the west and the sunset reflected the sky. A house was located at the entrance of Luzhuang village... The front door was deserted, and in the setting sun, there was an air of desolation.
"Sir, this is it!"
Cao Peng helped Xun Yan get out of the carriage and said softly.
Looking at the closed door, Xun Yan sighed slightly, "Ah Fu, please bear my name and knock on the door."
