Qin Shizhi's Confucian junior master

Chapter 210, The Chen Family's Plot
With Chen Shu taking the lead, more and more people left. As for the gifts at the door, no one took them away. Soon there were only Sima Su and Li Ye left in the hall. Sima Su looked at Li Ye, but Li Ye was still It's a state of nothing to do with him. His eyes seem to be only on the food on the table, and other people can't delay his meal even if they leave. Everyone eats absent-mindedly. He doesn't eat much food on the table. Li Ye is the only one. The food on the table was all eaten.

Li Ye put the last piece of meat in his mouth and ate it, looked at Sima Su and Qu Yi and said
"I'm sorry, my father often taught me not to waste food when he was alive. I'm really ashamed."

Li Ye said he was ashamed but he didn't look ashamed at all, he drank the fine wine in the wine glass and poured himself another glass. I don't understand what Li Ye is doing.

"Patriarch Li is really an honest person, and this food really shouldn't be wasted." Sima Su said with a smile, and then began to eat the delicious food in front of him, and it was a joy to eat while drinking.

Qu Yi looked at the eyes of the two, but he didn't say anything. He was also enjoying the food. Although he was the magistrate of Shu County, Qin State had very strict requirements on officials. If it wasn't for a banquet, some delicious food He can't eat good food either.

"Why didn't Lord Lieutenant come this time?" Li Ye looked at Sima Su and said.

The county lieutenant is Sima Su's elder brother Sima Xin, also known as Sima Chang's uncle.

"Recently, the alliance of the Bashu Chamber of Commerce will be held in Chengdu. In order to prevent problems during this critical period, the elder brother personally led people to arrange it." Sima Su said.

Although the Sima family belongs to the edge of the court, the post of county lieutenant in Shu County is still held by the Sima family, just like the prestige of the Li family in the hearts of the people in Shu County. Most of them are descendants of Sima Cuo quelling the civil strife in Shu.

"Brother Sima is really busy recently. When the time is over, I will definitely give Brother Sima time to rest." Qu Yi said.

The Chen family, after Chen Shu returned home, the stewards of the mansion immediately greeted him.

"Homeowner."

"It's inconvenient to talk here, go to the study." Chen Shu interrupted the steward and walked directly to the study.

After coming to the study, Chen Shu sat at the desk and said

"Tell me, what happened?"

"A message came from Mount Shu, saying that they want us to send the body back to them," the steward said.

Chen Shu frowned slightly. This corpse naturally referred to those Yu Yuan guards pretending to be bandits. Chen Shu tapped his fingers on the table and pondered for a while and said

"Let them wait. Now the Master Wang's attitude towards Shu County is unclear. I don't know if he really wants to attack Shu County or is he testing something. Let them wait first."

As a family that has existed since the founding of the ancient Shu Kingdom, the Chen family has a very close relationship with Shu Mountain. The person who started the second rebellion in Shu, Chen Zhuang, the Minister of Shu, was a member of the Chen family. Chen Zhuang killed the King of Shu and led The people of the Shu Kingdom rebelled, and before they could expand the rebellion, they were all killed by the army led by Sima Cuo, and all the members of the Chen clan in Chenzhuang were killed.

"No! There is news from the south. They hope that we can arrange it as soon as possible, and they will send people to help us when the time comes." The steward continued.

"I see. Have the people on Mount Shu got in touch with the south?" Chen Shu asked.

"I don't know this subordinate, but it looks like it is. Our people said that there was a distinguished guest in Shushan a few days ago. As for who this distinguished guest is, we have no way of knowing. This distinguished guest directly broke Shushan's reputation." The Great Array of Protecting the Mountain directly found Yu Yuan's Great Elder," said the steward.

"Send someone to find out the origin of this distinguished guest, and he was able to directly break through the protective array of Mount Shu. This is the only one other than the Eastern Emperor Taiyi from the Yinyang family ten years ago." Chen Shu touched said his beard.

No matter who this distinguished guest is, being able to break through the mountain guard formation of Shushan is enough to show that his strength is unpredictable. If he is recruited by the Chen family, it will be of great help to the future. Chen Shu thought about it and wanted to continue.
"It doesn't matter if you can't find it, but don't alarm this distinguished guest."

"No!" said the steward.

Chen Shu waved his hand to signal the steward to go down. After the steward saluted, he left directly. Chen Shu got up and came to the bookshelf. After shaking the books, there was the sound of gears turning, and the bookshelf slowly opened to both sides, revealing a person Passing through the secret passage, Chen Shu picked up the oil lamp and walked into the dark secret passage. The sound of gears turning was heard again, and the bookshelf closed again.

The dim light illuminated the dark tunnel, and after reaching the end, Chen Shu lit the torch on the wall, pushed open the wooden door in front of him, and walked into a dark secret room.

The weak candlelight was lit by the oil lamp, and as the candlelight was gradually ignited, the candlelight illuminated the entire room, and dozens of tablets appeared in the middle of the candlelight. Chen Shu picked up the agarwood on the side and lit it, bowed to the tablet, and put the agarwood in the incense burner Looking at the name on the tablet, a trace of determination appeared in Chen Shu's eyes.

"My ancestors, bless Chen Shu." Chen Shu bowed again.

Inside the post house, Ziyou, who had already rested, was eating with Concubine Yan, Yan Lingji, Shao Siming and Mo Ya.

"The food in Sichuan has a special flavor." Concubine Yan said feeling the numbness of her lips.

"Yeah, I haven't eaten such a hot meal for a long time." Ziyou also said, the world of Mingyue in the Qin Dynasty is so incredible, peppers, which were introduced from America in the late Ming Dynasty, are now available, and Shu has already It has been planted on a large scale, so why didn't Empress Xuanji bring in corn as well, this would save a lot of work.

"It is said that this kind of pepper was brought back by the caravan from the Shu region in the south of Baiyue, and it was widely planted in the Shu region. I think it would be a good choice to incorporate it into the hot pot of Dingxianglou," Yan Lingji said. Said with Shimizu.

Dingxianglou's spicy hot pot is made with cornel, onion, ginger and garlic. If there is chili, it will be another flavor.

While everyone was still discussing chili peppers, the soldiers came in with a lot of gifts, and the captain of the soldiers, Yan, saluted his son and said
"Sir, these were sent by the governor of Qu County. They said they were the wishes of the officials of Shu County and some big families. I hope you will accept them."

Looking at the dazzling array of jewels and volumes of ancient books, Ziyou felt that these people really prepared these gifts carefully. After Ziyou asked the ancient books to be displayed separately, he selected some jewels and said
"You take the remaining jewels and divide them up. I'll keep them for future use."

Soldiers, you look at me and I see that you haven't touched anyone. These jewels are all priceless, and any one of them can be worth their lifetime military pay. They dare not take things that are too expensive.

"Nothing, let's carry it down and divide it." Ziyou waved his hand and said.

The soldiers looked at each other, knelt down on one knee and said to Ziyou
"Thank you sir, I am willing to die for you from now on!"

"Well, let's go down." Ziyou looked at the soldiers and said.

"promise!"

The eyes of the soldiers looking at Ziyou are full of loyalty. What Ziyou did for the fallen soldiers in the army has conquered these soldiers, and now a lot of rewards have completely made them willing to serve Ziyou. A soldier who goes to die.

"These people are all elites in the army. How can you explain to the king when you have gathered people like this?" Yan Lingji asked.

"I am also a marquis anyway. The king's imperial edict allowed me to have fifty armored soldiers as guards." Ziyou said, rewarding armored soldiers as guards is a great grace. There are 200 and [-] diners, but the number of soldiers they own is only [-], and they are the most common soldiers.

Rewarding a soldier as a guard is not just about giving a soldier, anyone who can be called a soldier is a person who can wear armor. Rewarding a soldier as a guard means rewarding weapons and armor together, which means permission in disguise The armor is collected at home, but the number must be the same as the number of soldiers, and it must be registered with the Tingwei.

Before Yingzheng allowed Ziyou to go to the army to select the elite as his guards, but Ziyou felt that he was strong enough, so he never went. It is convenient now, and these people are all accepted by the Iron Eagle Those who trained, but those who were not as good as others were rejected, this is the elite of the Qin army.

"These jewels are for you, and Moya's share is yours. I know you fell in love with a girl in Xianyang." Ziyou looked at Moya and said.

Hearing that Mo Ya fell in love with a girl, flames of gossip appeared in the eyes of Yan Lingji and Concubine Yan, and even Shao Siming stopped his chopsticks, looked at Mo Ya, Mo Ya scratched his head in embarrassment , a rare look of embarrassment appeared on Xie Mei's face.

"I accidentally rescued a girl when I went out, and then I became acquainted with each other."

"The hero saves the beauty, let's talk about it." Yan Lingji said.

"You hide it deeply. I said why you were not at the house every day during those few days. So you went to meet your lover privately. Whose girl is it?" Concubine Yan asked gossip.

Looking at the ink crow who was being questioned, Ziyou picked up the bamboo slips. Looking at these bamboo slips, he knew that they were some isolated ancient books. Ziyou opened one casually and held it in his hand to look at it, his eyes were full of astonishment. And surprise, astonishment and surprise flashed by, Ziyou closed the bamboo slips again and put them in his arms, Shao Siming blinked at Ziyou, indicating what happened to Ziyou?
"It's nothing, I didn't expect to have a windfall." Ziyou said.

"What windfall?" Concubine Yan asked.

"This scroll of bamboo slips records the history of the ancient Shu royal family, which is very helpful to us. You mentioned Shushan and Yuyuan many times." Ziyou said, touching the bamboo slips in his arms, Ziyou felt that this was wrong. A small harvest, this is the royal family of ancient Shu, not the royal family of Shu who was enshrined after the Qin State captured the land of Shu. The things recorded in it are very valuable.

"As long as it works," Concubine Yan said.

Everyone ate again.

At Sima's house, Sima Chang was talking to his mother about his life in Xianyang these years. Sima Chang's mother was crying while listening to her son's life in the officialdom. Pushing open the door broke the warm picture.

"Chang'er, follow me to the study." Sima Su said.

"Go, go, haven't we talked enough this afternoon? What's wrong with me talking to Chang'er?" Sima Chang's mother pushed Sima Chang away and shouted at Sima Su.

After being called out like this, Sima Su became sober for three minutes, and quickly said with a flattering smile

"Ma'am, don't I have something important to say to Chang'er? Don't worry, let Chang'er accompany you as soon as I finish speaking. If this matter is done well, I will be able to achieve the goals of our Sima family in the past. "

Sima Chang's mother looked at Sima Su angrily, but considering that this was a matter related to the Sima family, she punched Sima Su hard and said
"You go."

After being punched hard, Sima Su showed a pained expression on his face, but he still smiled and talked kindly to his wife. There is no way his wife is not an ordinary weak woman. After coaxing his wife well, he took Followed Sima Chang to the study.

"Your mother's strength is still undiminished." Sima Su said while rubbing the place where he was beaten.

Sima Chang didn't speak, but his eyes were full of sympathy and fear. As a standard second generation, he didn't live a life of walking dogs and birds when he was a child, but grew up under his mother's stick.

(End of this chapter)