After seeing off Xiao He, Cao Shen and others, Liu Bang sat alone in the courtyard, the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt.
Why can others have good fortunes, but I can't achieve anything?
Is it because I lack a noble person?
But Peixian County is so big, where can I find noble people?
Liu Bang, who was a little depressed, picked up the wine bowl and took a sip of the wine. He was about to get up and clear the table when he suddenly heard a call from outside the door: "Liu San'er, are you here?"
"Not here!"
When Liu Bang heard the shouting, he was stunned for a moment and replied angrily.
A burst of laughter suddenly came from outside the door:
"Hey Liu San'er, no wonder you didn't treat me to a drink today. I'm eating alone here! Tell me, where did you get the official money?"
"What official money? I caught the fish from the water, the rice was given by neighbors, the vegetables were from my sister-in-law's house, and the wine was bought with my own money. Stop talking nonsense!"
Liu Bang was already in a bad mood, but when he suddenly heard that someone had unfairly used his public funds to eat and drink, he couldn't help but become angry.
However, the visitor didn't care at all, and still smiled and said to him: "I saw Xiao Li and others coming out of your place just now. Did something big happen?"
"As a driver, why do you care about this?"
Liu Bang replied impatiently and continued to clear the table.
The visitor looked at Liu Bang carefully and suddenly felt that the Liu Bang of today was a little different from the Liu Bang of the past.
In the past, every time he drove back after seeing off his guests, he would come to Surabaya Pavilion to chat and drink with Liu Bang.
And Liu Bang never neglected him.
The two had a very close personal relationship and talked about everything.
But Liu Bang today was obviously absent-minded and even a little depressed.
"I don't want to care about your nonsense. I'm just passing by to see you. Since you don't welcome me, I'll just leave!"
"Hey, hey, wait, wait, Xia Houying!"
Seeing that the person was about to leave, Liu Bang suddenly realized that his attitude just now was a bit wrong, and he quickly chased after him to stop him.
Xia Houying paused in his steps and looked back at Liu Bang expressionlessly: "What else does Mr. Liu Ting have to do?"
"Chief of the bird's pavilion! It's better to call me Liu San'er more affectionately!"
Liu Bang laughed and cursed, raised his hand and took Xia Houying's arm and walked back. As he walked, he asked, "It's almost dark, why are you still driving?"
"The County Magistrate Wang has an order, and no one dares to disobey it!"
"Magistrate Wang?"
Liu Bang was slightly stunned and couldn't help but said: "He actually asked you to pick someone up in person? Who is he?"
"Do you want some wine?"
Xia Houying smiled slyly.
Liu Bang was very curious and nodded repeatedly like a chicken pecking at rice: "Yes, yes, yes! You sit down first and I'll clean it up!"
Soon, Liu Bang cleared the table, found a bag of dried fruits from somewhere, and handed it to Xia Houying.
Xia Houying ate a piece of dried fruit, took a sip of rice wine, and then said slowly: "The man I went to pick up is a good friend of County Magistrate Wang. It is said that he is a single father and is known as Lu Gong."
"Mr. Lu?"
Liu Bang frowned, not impressed at all.
But Xia Houying said again: "Gong Lu moved his family to Peixian County to avoid revenge from his enemies. Magistrate Wang not only personally arranged for me to pick them up, but he was also prepared to take care of Gong Lu!"
"Oh? Does this Mr. Lu have a great background?"
"I don't know if he has a great background, but to be so valued by County Magistrate Wang, he must be a noble person!"
Noble person?
Liu Bang was shocked and thought to himself, didn't he just want to find a noble person?
It's true that you can't find anything even if you wear iron shoes, but it doesn't take much effort to find a 'noble person'!
Liu Bang, who was ecstatic in his heart but pretending to be nonchalant on his face, asked Xia Houying with great interest: "Do you know where the banquet will be held? Let's go to congratulate him too!"
“In the county seat”
Xia Houying answered casually, but suddenly felt something was wrong and waved his hands repeatedly: "I'll forget it, you can go alone!"
"how?"
Liu Bang raised his eyebrows and said angrily: "Are you afraid of being embarrassed?"
Xia Houying shook his head in embarrassment and said, "No, it's mainly because I have no money."
"What's wrong with not having money? If you don't have money, you can't congratulate?"
"Since it's a congratulation, you can't go empty-handed."
"Ah!"
Liu Bang snorted noncommittally, and chatted with Xia Houying for half the night.
The next day, it was dawn.
Liu Bang got up from the bed, washed himself briefly, and then went to Peixian County.
At this time, a restaurant called Zhujintai in Peixian County was bustling with people.
Officials of all sizes in Peixian County gathered together to build a golden platform with gifts and money.
County Magistrate Wang saw that there were so many people that the entire inner hall of the Zhujin Platform could not fit in, so he made it clear: "Anyone with a gift of less than one thousand should wait to sit outside the hall."
When Liu Bang rushed to Zhujin Platform, he happened to see a wooden sign erected in the corridor between the inner hall and the outer hall, and he couldn't help but frown.
He hated this kind of occasion in his heart, and he looked down upon these ungrateful Pei County officials, so he didn't bring any money with him when he came.
But thinking that my good brother Xiao He had a bright future, I was still struggling, and I didn't feel comfortable, so I bit the bullet and walked into Zhujin Platform in a swagger.
At this time, a servant came forward and stopped him: "Please register the gift money here!"
"What gift?"
Liu Bang looked sideways at the boy.
With a smile on his face, the waiter nodded and said, "County Magistrate Wang has stipulated that those whose gifts are less than one thousand must wait outside the hall!"
Liu Bang rolled his eyes and asked a little funny: "Where will those who receive more than a thousand gifts sit down?"
"Of course it's the inner hall"
The boy answered casually, but suddenly felt that his answer was not perfect enough, so he added: "If the gift exceeds one thousand, even if you go to the inner hall, you have to reserve a seat based on the gift!"
"hehe!"
Liu Bang laughed angrily at the young man's words, and he felt a sense of 'muddle-headedness'. Without saying a word, he walked directly to the desk where he was writing the famous calligraphy, grabbed a writing brush, and wrote four big characters: " Ten thousand gold in congratulations!"
Then, under the dumbfounded eyes of the waiter and others, he walked into the inner hall with great swagger.
Soon, he found a seat and sat down.
"Liu Ji, the head of the Sishui Pavilion, congratulated me with 10,000 gold!"
When the county servants sang Liu Bang's famous calligraphy, everyone was shocked.
"What's going on? Where did Liu San'er get so much money?"
"Yes! Isn't this deceiving people?"
"I think he is so tired of living that he actually dares to disturb Magistrate Wang's situation!"
All the colleagues were not surprised at Liu Bang's financial resources, but at his courage.
You must know that the power of ancient county magistrates is not ordinary. It is not just a small official, but it is not something that can be manipulated at will.
Just when Magistrate Wang had a dark face and was about to order people to drive Liu Bang out, Lu Gong, who didn't know the details, came out with a smile: "Oh, I don't know which friend is so generous. I'm glad to meet you!"
"Are you Mr. Lu?"
When Liu Bang saw an old man with white hair smiling at him, he couldn't help but froze on the spot.
"Exactly."
Lu Gong stroked his beard and looked at Liu Bang carefully. The more he looked at him, the more surprised he became.
It turns out that he knows some physiognomy.
Judging from Liu Bang's appearance, he felt that this person was extraordinary, so he respected him.
"Come on, come on, please take a seat."
Seeing that Liu Bang was still stunned, Lu Gong warmly greeted him to sit down.
Liu Bang can no longer be punished at this time.
He could only follow Lu Gong obediently and came to sit in front of the desk not far from County Magistrate Wang.
As soon as he took his seat, several sharp glances were directed towards Liu Bang.
Liu Bang was a little restrained at first, but after drinking a few glasses of wine, he simply let go.
Anyway, you can’t stand me, and you can’t kill me.
Love so and so.
While pushing cups and changing cups, Liu Bang suddenly glanced at Xiao He sitting below him, and couldn't help but smile and joke: "Xiao Liju, you are here too, you must have spent a lot of money!"
"Liu San'er, don't talk nonsense, Xiao Lipu is in charge of the banquet and order!"
Cao Shen was afraid that Liu Bang would make things worse, so he quickly whispered in his ear.
Xiao He glanced at County Magistrate Wang awkwardly, then looked at Mr. Lu, and said apologetically:
"Don't blame me, Mr. Lu. Liu Ji always talks nonsense and rarely accomplishes anything big!"
"Of all the people in the world, how many can accomplish great things?"
Lu Gong didn't seem to understand Xiao He's words, but instead became more and more fond of Liu Bang's bohemian character.
The more Liu Bang drank, the more energetic he became. Later, he simply turned the banquet into a personal show for himself.
After the banquet, Lu Gong sent away the livid-faced Magistrate Wang, specially invited Liu Bang to his new home, and said to Liu Bang sincerely:
"When I was young, I met an old immortal who taught me the art of fortune-telling. Later, I liked reading people's faces very much. There are countless people who have read their faces to me, but none of them can do as much as you Liu Ji. !”
Hearing this, Liu Bang, whose head was groggy from drinking, suddenly woke up and looked at Lu Gong blankly.
Seeing this, Mr. Lu smiled, stroked his beard, and said in a more solemn tone:
"I have two daughters to be married. One is sixteen years old, and the other is twelve. If you don't give up, I would like to betroth my second daughter to you and be your wife who sweeps the couch!"
"this"
Liu Bang's eyes widened and he looked at Mr. Lu in disbelief.
He never thought that there could be such a good thing in the world?
I just came to seek help from the 'noble man', but I didn't expect that the 'noble man' would betroth his daughter to me.
In Liu Bang's heart, he already regarded Lu Gong as his 'noble man'.
Lu Gong betrothed his daughter to him, which made him feel like a pie in the sky.
"My father-in-law is here, please accept your respects from my son-in-law!"
Liu Bang did not refuse, and he begged the daughter of the good friend of County Magistrate Wang openly and with peace of mind.
As soon as the news came out, the whole county was shocked and there was a lot of discussion.
"Hey, tell me, what does the newly moved Mr. Lu want?"
"I don't understand, I really don't understand!"
"It is said that the daughter of Lu Gong's family is as beautiful as a fairy. She really takes advantage of that boy Liu Ji!"
"Who says it's not the case? Let me see, the most angry person is County Magistrate Wang. Liu San'er will have a better time in the future!"
"Shh, I don't want to say that!"
While the whole city was talking about it and watching the Lu family's jokes, Lu Gong's wife was so angry that she wanted to hang herself from the beam.
"Old man! You are confused!"
Lu Gong's wife held a white cloth in her hand and stepped on a wooden stool. She scolded Lu Gong in tears.
The women of this era, unlike those of later dynasties, had stronger personalities.
The three obediences and four virtues, such as following the chicken when marrying a chicken, following the dog when marrying a dog, and the rules that cannot be violated by the husband's fate, are almost non-existent in this era.
Lu Gong and his wife have experienced many hardships together, and the two have a deep relationship. So when Lu Gong saw his wife preparing to hang herself from the beam, he was so frightened that he quickly comforted her: "Don't worry, let's talk about it when we get down!"
"What are you talking about? Now the whole city is watching our joke. What on earth has happened to me? I shouldn't have married you in the first place. Not to mention suffering from you, you gave away my children. Wuwuwu. "
Seeing his wife crying in front of all the servants without any image, Lu Gong couldn't help but blush, but he still suppressed his temper and comforted: "Stop crying, you are not embarrassed at such an old age."
When Lu Gong's wife heard this, she became angry: "You know how old he is! Look at Liu Ji, how different he is from us?"
"You, don't talk nonsense!"
Mr. Lu was so angry that his wife was shaking all over, and his eyesight turned black.
Seeing that he was crumbling, his wife was worried that he was in danger, so she quickly jumped off the wooden bench and helped him: "Old man, don't scare me!"
"lady."
Mr. Lu calmed down, calmed down, and looked at his wife very seriously: "Just trust me as your husband once."
Lu Gong's wife was still a little dissatisfied: "Old man, it's not that I don't believe you. Back then you wanted our daughter to be betrothed to a noble man and lead our family to become successful;
The magistrate of Peixian County has a very good relationship with you. We have come to seek refuge with him. We are helpless and it is appropriate for our daughter to marry him. But you chose to betroth your daughter to that poor boy Liu Ji. Why is this? "
"What do you, a woman, know?"
Lu Gong didn't want to explain to his wife any more, so he walked away immediately.
In fact, it is not to blame Lu Gong for insisting on his own way. The main reason is that people in this era believe in those mysterious things.
After all, things like metaphysics cannot be explained by science even in later generations.
Anyway, Mr. Lu has more than one daughter. Let’s gamble on one. What if it works out?
However, the pretty woman who was secretly hiding behind the door curtain suddenly felt dizzy and despairing when she heard her parents' conversation.
Although the etiquette of this era was not as strict as that of later dynasties, parents' orders were still strictly enforced.
Now that Lu Gong has made up his mind, she is destined to marry an old bachelor who is more than ten years older than herself.
"Maybe this is my life."
The pretty woman came back to her senses, leaving behind two lines of sad tears, feeling a sense of uneasiness and loneliness in her heart.
Her name is Lu Pheasant.
If history develops smoothly, she will become Empress Lu, a strong woman in politics as famous as Wu Zetian in Chinese history.
The marriage between Liu Bang and Lu Pheasant was put on the agenda as if it was being 'rushed to the shelves'.
Lu Gong didn't even ask him for the bride price.
Anyway, I know he can't take it out.
As for the Liu family, they happily married this daughter-in-law they picked up for free.
The elders of Peixian County were even more envious of Liu Bang for marrying a capable daughter-in-law.
But who knew that this capable daughter-in-law would almost take away the Liu family's power.
Of course, this is all a story for later.
Now Liu Bang believes that Lu Gong is his "noble man", but he doesn't know whether Lu Gong can help him rise to the sky.
Perhaps marrying Lu Pheasant to him was to help him make a fortune.
But no matter what, Liu Bang still embarked on the trajectory of his own life and began to move towards another stage.
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