Trainer Bu obediently followed Zhuge Jin back to his new home.
The respectability of Zhuge Jin's residence made Bu Lianshi, who had lived a hard life for several years, feel pleasantly surprised, but had to be cautious for fear of breaking things.
This is only Zhuge Jin’s second meeting with Bu Lianshi, and for Bu Lianshi, it is only the third meeting (the first time Bu Lianshi hid behind the curtain of Bu Zheng’s house, peering in one direction)
Fortunately, the little girl is still very ignorant and doesn't know anything about men and women. She just feels that if Brother Zhuge is willing to take her away and take her home to raise her as a younger sister, she should also do some housework.
"This will be your new home from now on. I'm going out soon. How are your water skills? Will you get dizzy if you take a boat on the river?" As soon as Zhuge Jin got home, he asked some very pragmatic and plain questions.
Trainer Bu was a little nervous at first. He was too shy to say anything along the way, and he also imagined various possibilities.
Seeing how attentive Brother Zhuge was, she quickly calmed down:
"I can swim, but I dare not swim in the big river, but swimming across the canal is no problem. When I was a child, I often took boats in the canal. My family had some businesses in Huaiyin and Guangling.
Unfortunately, my father died early last year, and then the Zeirong dog robbers ransacked the entire county. We lost most of our family property, so we lived in Guangling and never went out by boat in the past two years. "
When Zhuge Jin heard her mention "the death of his father", he was still a little uneasy, and suddenly thought that he had ruined the Bu family's filial piety period?
After careful calculation, I found that this year is already the end of the year. The three-year filial piety in the Han Dynasty is actually twenty-seven months. What happened at the beginning of the year before last has now expired for half a year.
No wonder the Bu family has recently been willing to push the Xu family out and let her marry Chen Dao instead.
It is estimated that the uncle of the Bu family has supported the Xu family in the past two years because of the family's face and must be kept full. After the expiration of the period, they will no longer be willing to give up the subsidies. Now it's just a good time to give it away as a favor.
Thinking this way, Zhuge Jin felt more at ease. It seemed that he had done a good thing.
In history, Bu Lianshi's life was even worse than now. Because of the Guangling War, she was almost a prisoner when she fled to Wu County.
In this life, Zhuge Jin resolved the Guangling War and allowed Liu Bei to quickly take over the basics.
It also avoided the tragic disaster of "great hunger and cannibalism" in Guangling due to the tug of war - maybe many of the other relatives of the Bu family and Wei family were dead in the original history?
After all, after Liu Bei fought this battle in history, his remaining soldiers went to the extent of boiling the corpses of their dead comrades. If the soldiers were so hungry, what would happen to the ordinary local people?
If a speck of dust from the troubled times falls on the heads of the people, it will be an unbearable burden.
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There is nothing to go into detail about that night.
When she got up the next day, Zhuge Jin did not give in to the trainer and started doing housework immediately. She could continue to live a life where the servants would prepare porridge as soon as she got up.
Zhuge Jin looked at the little girl and felt a little uncomfortable.
From now on, a woman will live in my home again, and I hope my life can be organized again.
Ever since he allowed his uncle and stepmother to start their own business, the family didn't even have a housekeeper, and Zhuge Jin felt very uncomfortable for a while.
Although servants do specific housework, a busy man like him is not used to directing servants.
While the other party was drinking porridge, he explained a few words: "We will leave in a few days. You can stay at home by yourself these days and take care of your health. Don't be unable to bear it when you hit the road."
Trainer Bu obediently put down the porridge bowl and stared at him with big eyes: "Brother Zhuge, do you have anything else to do? You are about to go out, so you should rest more."
Zhuge Jin touched her hair: "Originally I could rest, but I couldn't rest if I took you with me. I originally promised Xuande Gong that I would help him figure out a way this winter to let the Mi family The sand boats are more stable to sail and less likely to be bumped by wind and waves.
I originally thought that my second brother was more ingenious than me. After I went to Yuzhang to meet my second brother, I asked him to come up with more ideas and brainstorm. Now that I want to guide you, I have no choice but to introduce myself first. If we don’t have enough time, we will just change our boat and try to make the boat more stable when we set off. "
Trainer Bu was immediately moved: "Brother Zhuge, are you worried that I'm too young to bear the bumps, so you're worried about it? I'm actually not afraid of bumps."
Zhuge Jin: "It's okay, I have to do it sooner or later. I don't like procrastination."
Trainer Bu's eyes were slightly moist, and he pulled up his sleeves and asked: "Then why are you going to Yuzhang this time? You have to bring so many soldiers and horses."
Zhuge Jin smiled calmly: "Isn't this a coincidence? After the thief Zuo Rong caused harm to Guangling, he ran to Yuzhang again and almost forced my uncle to a desperate situation. Now that I have borrowed soldiers and horses from Xuande Gong, of course I will go there Take his dog’s head!”
Trainer Bu was very excited: "So powerful? I remember that the dog thief was very grand and confused many people. If I can really kill it, it will be regarded as revenge for everyone."
Zhuge Jin comforted Trainer Bu and paid no more attention to her.
In the next few days, he was mainly busy improving the boat he was about to use.
Because time was too short and he couldn't do much work, Zhuge Jin just asked the Mi family to urgently allocate a few shipwrights to him.
Then, two very long but not wide and strong wooden boards were nailed to the sides of the hull below the waterline.
The front and rear ends were also tapered as streamlined as possible to reduce frontal resistance and imitate the stable fin structure of later ships.
Stabilizing fins do not bring much sailing resistance and have little impact on speed, but the additional rolling resistance they bring is very large, which can greatly suppress rolling - this is something that later generations of players who have assembled aircraft models and seen the bottom of the hull Neither will be unfamiliar.
After finishing all this, it was already the sixth day of December. The departure time was delayed by another three or four days than originally expected. It was mainly due to a series of minor troubles such as Bu Lianshi, which delayed the time, but the problem was not major.
Zhuge Jin calculated that he could still reach Poyang Lake before his brother.
Early that morning, Guangling civil and military officials, led by Liu Bei, came to the dock on the Yangtze River to see Zhuge Jin off.
He brought a total of two thousand Danyang soldiers, as well as Chen Dao's three hundred elite cavalry guards, and set sail in dozens of large and small warships.
The largest one is just a streamlined fast fighting ship carrying 300 people, and the rest are sterns carrying between 50 and 100 people, which are completely first-class small boats.
At most, they only brought a few light sentry boats for communication and ordering, but they were all placed on the deck of the fighting ship, or tied to the stern of a large stern and towed, and they did not sail independently.
Liu Bei took Zhuge Jin's hand, repeatedly told him to be careful, and made three toasts before setting off.
Liu Bei stood on the dock, watching the fleet finally disappear on the river level upstream, feeling very melancholy in his heart.
The feeling of confidence that I had been used to for three or four months suddenly disappeared.
Liu Bei felt guilty no matter what he did for a while, always feeling that he would make a mistake if he didn't listen to Tzuyu's opinion.
If Liu Bei was a time traveler and had common medical knowledge in later generations, then he would definitely know that this symptom is called obsessive-compulsive disorder - unfortunately, he is not a time traveler, so he cannot diagnose himself.
Liu Bei is now like a guilty person who has to go home and turn the doorknob again to make sure it is locked every time.
Beside Liu Bei, there were two other people accompanying him, one was Mi Zhu,
The other one was Chen Deng, who had just made excuses in the past few days to come over from Lu Bu to "maintain friendly relations."
Chen Deng has not yet dared to openly vote for Liu Bei. Because he found that the situation on Lu Bu's side was still relatively complicated. If he left now, Lu Bu might wake up immediately and fall out with Liu Bei.
So Chen Deng decided to stay undercover at Lu Bu's place for another half a year and continue to destroy the relationship between Lu Bu, Cao Cao and Yuan Shu.
He was also afraid that Liu Bei would not trust him, so when he knew that Zhuge Jin was leaving this time, he found an excuse to come over for a meeting and show his loyalty.
Of course, Liu Bei never showed any distrust from beginning to end. He only said, "Yuanlong has always seen things clearly. You can stay undercover as long as you think you should. It has its own reason."
This made Chen Deng even more moved, and he was eager to take the time to help Liu Bei with some advice and repay the kindness of knowing him.
At this moment, Mi Zhu, Chen Deng and others saw that Liu Bei was dejected and helpless.
Mi Zhu was not good at strategy, so he had to comfort Liu Bei by repeating the old words, but all he said was trying to find a way to get married.
Liu Bei was a little irritated and told Mi Zhu not to repeat it, he understood.
When Chen Deng saw this, he reminded on the other side:
"Why should Xuande be unfounded? I think the Zhuge family, although they never surrendered to their master, did attach great importance to the Han Dynasty. Last time Xu Du paid an audience and His Majesty had appointments. Didn't he accept them all?"
In this case, if the Duke only needs to perform meritorious service and recapture more counties and counties in Yangzhou occupied by the rebels, the court will naturally reward him based on his merits.
Once Liu Yao can be replaced as the shepherd of Yangzhou, the governor of Yuzhang will naturally be the subordinate of the public, so why do he need to donate privately?
As long as His Majesty is not kidnapped by national thieves, Gong and Ziyu will serve His Majesty together for one day. Once Your Majesty is kidnapped by national thieves, Ziyu will listen to the Duke's orders and work together to help the Han Dynasty and drive out the national thieves. "
Liu Bei was still worrying about gains and losses, but Chen Deng's words gave him a head start, and he suddenly felt that his obsessive-compulsive disorder had been cured.
"That's right! Why didn't I think of that? I just want to help the Han Dynasty and drive out the traitors, so naturally I share the same goals with Tzuyu.
If I work hard for the country, but the imperial court does not grant me the title of Yangzhou Shepherd, it must be because Cao Cao is holding the emperor hostage and blocking his voice - Meng De should not be like this. "
Liu Bei rubbed his hands excitedly, patted Chen Deng on the back, held Mi Zhu's shoulder with the other hand, and whispered to his face:
"Zizhong, you are diligent and careful in your work. But if you want to be far-sighted, you still have to learn from Yuan Long!"
Mi Zhu was also convinced: "I'm not good at planning grand plans."
"That's all, let's not talk about it anymore. You all have your own strengths. What Yuan Long said today should come to light."
Liu Bei laughed and took everyone back one by one to drink.
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After Zhuge Jin set out from Guangling, he sailed upstream, using both manpower and oars, and sailed past Dangtu in just three days.
Dangtu was located between Wuhu and Ma'anshan in later generations, and it was also the upstream Yangtze River port controlled by Sun Ce.
After safely passing this section of the river, the threat from warlords such as Xu Qian and Zu Lang along the river will be much smaller.
The remaining 700 miles can be driven at a leisurely pace.
At the same time, Tang Guang, the messenger sent by Zhuge Jin, finally arrived in Xiangyang again.
The latest round of family letters was delivered to Zhuge Liang.
Because he had already met the messenger twice, Zhuge Liang was familiar with the road and did not treat him politely.
I opened the box directly in front of me, took out all the things my elder brother gave me, and looked through them. They were piled everywhere, and then I started to read the letters from home.
Zhuge Jun watched eagerly from the side. When the second brother finally opened the box and started to read the letter, he climbed onto the pile of gifts from his elder brother like a monkey and started to play with them curiously.
What’s so good about the letter? It was enough for the second brother to read the letter, he only wanted a novel gift from the eldest brother.
Zhuge Liang, on the other hand, looked shocked after just reading a few sentences:
"What? My uncle has finally been appointed the governor of Yuzhang by the imperial court? Our Zhuge family finally has a righteous name! My uncle's hard life should be over!"
"The eldest brother is already a young craftsman who will serve as a prisoner, and he is also a Pinglu captain with two thousand shi? He was ordered by the imperial court to attack the Yuzhang thief Zuo Rong? He also borrowed four thousand elite soldiers from General Zhengnan? I hope I can find an excuse as soon as possible. Get away and go with him to serve your uncle?"
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PS: There are already 199,900 words, so the third update today will not be updated until 12 midnight.
If it breaks 200,000 words, it will be kicked off the new book list. Let me stay on the list for another half day.
