The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

A few days ago, I couldn't change it twice a day. It's almost changed. I added one at nine o'clock.

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Compared with the "Fanyang Pavilion", Gaoyangli is very clean.

The road in the middle is straight and paved with bluestone slabs. Every morning, the gate of the inner prison is swept, it is very clean, just sprinkled with water, and it is green and moist.

The houses on both sides of the alley, with pink walls and red tiles, are "connected by households and live in alleys", and they are neatly arranged.

Every family planted trees, either mulberry or elm, or fruit trees, whose branches and leaves rose out of the wall, and looked like a canopy connected from a distance. Whenever the wind blows, the branches and leaves rustle, and the sounds are connected, like someone is whistling, from the inside to the end. I remember many years ago, when Xun You and Xun You were studying with Xun Qu, Xun You liked this kind of sound the most, he often closed his eyes in the courtyard to listen in intoxication, and asked Xun Qu, "Father Zhong, is this what Yan Zi called 'Heavenly Sound'? ?"

Yanzi is Zhuangzi. Emperor Guangwu's son Mingdi was named "Liu Zhuang". In order to avoid his taboos, he renamed "Zhuangzi" as "Yanzi". "Zhuang" and "Yan" have similar meanings. The so-called "taboo for the venerable" was not only renamed by Zhuangzi. The Xun family was named after Xun Qing in the Warring States Period, and the former Emperor Xuan of the Han was named Liu Xun. In order to avoid Liu Xun's taboo, Xun Qing was also renamed "Sun Qing". "Xun" and "Sun" have the same ancient sounds.

Xun Zhen has lived in Benli since she crossed the road. She has lived there for many years. Now that she returns from Fanyang Pavilion, she walks in the alley, and all she sees and sees are people and things that she is very familiar with. home" feeling.

"I can't go back to my previous life home, isn't this my home?"

There are three surnames in Gaoyang, not to mention the Xun clan, they are all descendants of Xun Zhen. The surnames Deng and Hu lived with the Xun family for a long time, and they all knew Xun Zhen. Walking on the street, I occasionally encounter people coming out of the courtyard, or coming back from inside and outside, talking constantly along the way.

Anyone who knew that he went to work in Fanyang, saw him come back neatly dressed, and could not help asking: "Master Xun, how was your life in Fanyang Pavilion?"

Some call him "Xunjun", and some call him "Shilang" or "Ashu", the former is a foreign surname, and the latter is a clan. Among the four Xun Zhen brothers, according to the ranking of "Yuan, Heng, Li, and Zhen", he ranks fourth. The three older brothers above all died before they grew up.

When he met someone who called him "Xun Jun", Xun Zhen replied with a smile: "Not bad." When he met someone from his own family, he stopped and said a few more words to the other party.

He put the Xun family's background, and would rather be a pavilion chief than a county official. Many people in the clan do not understand it, and many say strange things behind their backs, but after all, he is from his own family. The most important thing is that he has studied with Xun since he was a child. Qu, therefore, even if some people think that he has no ambitions and look down on him, they will not speak ill of Xun Qu's face in front of him, and the entertainment on the scene is very polite.

- Xun Qu's father, Xun Tan, was Xun Shu's nephew, and he was the prefect of Guangling. His uncle, Xun Yu, was listed among the "Eight Jun", along with Li Ying, Du Mi, and other names. The fame of their lineage is second only to Xun Shu and Balong among the Xun clan. In fact, this can be seen from the two most famous descendants of the Xun family. Xun Yu, who was praised by He Yong, a famous Nanyang scholar, as a "talent of Wang Zuo" at the age of ten is the grandson of Xun Shu. Xun You, who was praised by the villagers, was the grandson of Xun Tan.

There are hundreds of households in Gaoyang, and most of the Xuns live in Lixi.

Xun Zhen came in from the east gate, and kept talking to people along the way. After passing through the second and third gates of Lizhong, she slowly passed through half a li to the outside of her own courtyard.

His house is not big, with two entrances in the front and back. The courtyard door was unlocked, he pushed open the door and walked in with a horse.

Although I haven't been back for a few days, the yard is very clean. To the east of the front yard is a hall, spacious and bright, used to receive guests. To the west are stables and chicken coops. Facing the west wall, a small piece of vegetable field has been cultivated, which is divided into several pieces with soil ridges, and there are small cabbage, leeks and other things planted. The cabbage is still early to germinate, the leek is growing very well, and it is very green and very gratifying.

A woman in her thirties came out of the backyard and said in surprise, "Ah, Young Master is back!"

She is the maid of the Xunzhen family, her surname is Tang, and her single name has the character "er".

Xunzhen's family is not very rich, but his grandfather served in the county, and his father took care of the family and managed the family business well. There are hundreds of acres of fields outside the city, and there is a maid in the family.

There were originally two great slaves who used to farm the fields. When Xun Zhen's "parents" died, Xunzhen was still young, and the elders of the clan were worried about slaves and bullying the master, and secondly, when his "parents" died one after another, the funeral expenses were not small, so they decided to act on their behalf. The two great slaves were sold, and all the money from the sale paid for the funeral, and the land was temporarily handed over to the clan to take care of them.

Last year, he was crowned an adult, and the clan returned the land to him, but his mind was not on it, and he had no intention of taking care of it, so he simply turned it over to Xun Qu on the grounds of concentrating on his studies.

Xun Qu was his elder brother and his teacher, and unlike Xun Shu's lineage, he was a little poor. His family had thousands of acres of fertile land, so he would not take advantage of him. At that time, it was agreed that he would not charge him at all, and would only help him rent the fields to his own disciples and guests.

Seeing Tang Er come out to greet him, Xun Zhen replied with a smile, "Yes, I'm back."

As he spoke, he led the mount into the stable. Seeing that the trough was empty, he said, "After running for dozens of miles, the horse is also tired. Er, get some feed to feed it." The sweat on the horse was not dry. When it was wet, he wiped it off, then wiped it dry on the pillar, and said, "It's cold, wipe the horse's body too. I have to rely on it tomorrow, so I can't be called sick!"

"Go back tomorrow?"

Tang Er was originally from Haiyan, Wu County, but her family went bankrupt. She was sold by her husband within two years of marriage. She traveled to many places and was bought by the Xun family more than ten years ago. Accent, soft. Xun Zhen was used to listening to Beiyin, and liked listening to her talk very much. She felt that there was no style, so she replied, "Although the pavilion is small, he is not free. Xiu Mu only has one day. I will spend the night at home tonight, and I will leave early in the morning. ."

"It's fine at home, Young Master, what do you think you have to be a pavilion master? The lowly maid thinks what Xun Gong said is quite right, even if you want to go out, you don't need to travel dozens of miles to go there. Fanyang is the head of the pavilion? Isn’t it good to be a civil servant in the county? Although you can’t live at home all the time, you need to live in the county house, but at least it’s close to home and it’s convenient to come back, so you don’t have to work so hard.”

Tang Er was only in her twenties when she was sold to Xun's house, and Xun Zhen was not even ten years old at the time. Although she was a maid, she was actually like a sister. Especially after the death of Xun Zhen's "parents", most of the household chores were handled by her. She took care of it, and Xun Zhen could be said to have been "taken care of" by her. The two live together like sisters and brothers, they are familiar with each other, and they speak freely.

"Even though there are thousands of benefits to being an official in the county, in my eyes, it's better to be a pavilion chief and feel free."

Tang Er took out the fodder from behind the courtyard gate, spread it out into the manger, and fed it to the horses. The horse was so hungry that he even ate and chewed happily, and from time to time he flicked his tail and raised his head. Seeing that she couldn't take care of her, Xun Zhen simply went to the hall to find a rag to wipe the horse's sweat.

Tang Er grabbed it and said angrily, "What kind of person is Young Master? How can you do such rough work!"

Although Tang Er is illiterate and born in the countryside, but in a famous family like the Xun family, there is no white person in and out, and all the famous people are handed over. He would come to visit Lizhong in person. Hearing and witnessing, he was nurtured day and night. He was very proud of Xun Zhen.

Xun Zhen teased and said: "I don't have to do such rough work at home, but without you in Fanyang Pavilion, I will do the same!"

"Nonsense! Although A'er is a woman and a maid, he doesn't know much, and he knows that there are pavilion fathers and pavilions in the pavilion. The rough work of washing horses, feeding materials, opening and closing cleaning, it is not the young master's turn to do!"

The stable of the Xun family is not big, similar to Fanyang Pavilion, only two horses can be put down.

Tang Er took the rag away, took care of the horse for a while, wiped the horse's sweat for a while, and turned around, taking up more than half of the stable. Xun Zhen couldn't compete with her, and she had nothing to do, so she said, "I just met a few clan members in the alley. I haven't come back for a few days, so when I come back, I can't help but visit the elders of the clan. Er, you are busy, I will go to their house to see."

"This hour has just passed, you must have come back without a meal in the morning. Even if you go to see your elders, you don't have to rush. Wait for the cheap maid to cook some food for you, and then go after eating! ... I don't know what the meal is in Ting She. What, a group of men cooking, it must be tasteless and hard to swallow." Tang Er observed Xun Zhen's face and said distressedly, "Look at you, your face has lost weight. It has turned black."

"It's only a few days, even if you want to get dark, even if you want to lose weight, it can't be so fast?"

Xun Zhen laughed, but refused to wait. She went to the well to get some water from a wooden bucket, washed her face, wiped it clean, and sorted out her towels and clothes, saying, "You can eat rice anytime. You can't be rude when you meet your elders, the sooner the better. . . . Ah, don't tell me, these few days in the pavilion, I really miss the chicken head rice you made. You do it first and eat it when I come back. "

Tang Er grabbed her hand and couldn't hold him, she watched him push the door out, stomped her foot beside the stable, and mumbled as if blaming and complaining, "Since I got better from the cold that year, UU reading www. The young master of uukanshu.com is like a different person. He doesn't care about anything, and entrusts all the fields to Xun Gong! It seems that he has his own ideas, but now he has to be a pavilion chief! In short, there is no such thing as before cute."

I remember that when she first came to Xun's house, Xun Zhen carved jade, so cute, she looked like the younger brother of her family when she was not married. At first sight, she fell in love with him. After the death of Xun Zhen's parents, she put all her heart on him, taking care of him as a younger brother and serving him as a young master. And now, in a blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed. The boy from that year has grown up and has grown into a weak youth.

She threw away the rag, came to the door unknowingly, looked into the alley, looked for Xun Zhen's figure, and saw him standing in front of a house not far away knocking on the door.

The children of the Xun family are so beautiful and handsome. Although Xun Zhen is not as beautiful as Xun Yu and Xun Yue, he is also a beautiful man. Knowing that the troubled times are approaching, he has practiced martial arts since he was young. The legs are long and the body is well-proportioned. At this time, he is wearing a black robe, with a short beard under his chin, and there are no other accessories except the long knife around his waist.

She didn't know what to think, leaning against the door, her cheeks flushed, and she thought, "Although it's not as cute as before, but growing up has the advantage of growing up."

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1. Xun You had an insight into his traitor: "You Shaogu. When Tan died, the official Zhang Quan asked to guard Tan's tomb. When You was thirteen years old, when he was suspicious, he called his uncle Qu and said: 'This official is very lustful, and he will be a traitor!' Qu Kuo is a questioning question, and if he kills someone, he will die. That’s why it’s different.”

2. Tanger: In the Han Dynasty, it was common for women to take male names, such as Wei Zifu, Wang Nan, the nurse of Emperor Shun of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Deng Mengnu, the queen of Emperor Huan of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Added a dash.