Lord of the House

Chapter One

It rained a while at night, and the weather was very cold in the early morning. The yellow soil of Shiliang River was frozen solid and turned white. It was as cold and silent as the calm Shiliang River. A few black crows perched on the sparse and desolate branches. , croaking, and occasionally a yellow leaf or two drifted past.

The horse bells jingled, and the passers-by looked back, and first saw the bow of an official ship sailing in the Shiliang River. There were two lacquer plaques with gold painted black heads standing on the bow, each with the characters "Jiangdong Deputy Commissioner" and "Left". Duchen Yu Shi Gu", each sign is three characters in a row, someone who can read is puzzled and asks: "What kind of official is Zuo Du Yu, and what kind of official is Yu Shi Gu?"

Weeping willows and leaves on the river embankment were sparsely weeping, and the official boat dragged out long white water marks. On the yellow dirt road on the left bank of the river, a group of cavalry came meandering. Come. Among those cavalrymen with knives and armors, there was also a young scholar with a long blue shirt tied around his waist, walking in bridles, chatting and laughing with the officer next to him, who was wearing fish scale armor, soap uniforms, and iron pockets.

The young man in green shirt on horseback was Lin Fu, and the officer next to him was Liu Xilin, the deputy lieutenant of Yunqi, who was sent to **** the deputy envoy Gu Wuchen to Jiangning. Okay, Zhou Pu, Zhao Hu, and Chen Enze all rode behind the cavalry.

They only left Shiliang County yesterday. Although it is only two hundred miles away from Jiangning by waterway, the Shiliang River flows smoothly in winter, the wind is small, and the boats travel very slowly. The cavalry could only hold the snail's speed of the official ship, and walked slowly on the river bank, thinking in their minds that there was a place for sharp feet ahead.

It seems that Gu Wuchen is not anxious to go to Jiangning to take office. Lin Fu did not see Gu Wuchen and the others mentioning the assassination in Shiliang County, as if it didn't matter to him. Lin Fu doesn't talk too much. He knows that his position is too low in front of the fourth-rank deputy inspector. Even if Gu Wuchen has other plans in his heart, he will not discuss it with him.

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In the cold weather, the cavalry walks against the wind, and the cold wind blowing from behind still hurts the ears. In the afternoon, the permafrost thawed, and the yellow dirt road on the river embankment, which was rarely walked by many people, looked smooth and watery, as if it had been smeared with a layer of oil. The horse's hooves stepped on it and stepped on a deep mud hole, and when it was pulled out, it was "poof". of sound. The horse's hooves still slipped from time to time, and Lin Bie rode on the horse's back, always beware of being thrown off.

Liu Xilin looked at Lin Fu's hard work and said, "Lin Juren, what are you doing with us to suffer so much? We eat soldiers, these cold weather, and such a bad road are unbearable. You'd better take the initiative. Come to the shore to find hardship. The horse's hooves keep slipping all the way, and it will be good if you are thrown into the river!"

"General Liu, don't curse me, I really want to fall into the water, and I have to make you go into the river to fish," Lin Fu said with a smile, "I am an active person, and I feel bored on the boat, and then I will take care of you. Your Excellency, Young Master Gu, they recite poems against each other, I'm also bothered by this, I might as well ride a horse with General Liu and brag about it..."

"Lin Juren, you're joking. There are only thirteen or fourteen people in Dongyang Mansion who can be admitted to the ranks of Juren in three years. Even if you are not as knowledgeable as Master Gu, you are still better than that Master Gu..." Liu Xilin listened. Lin Fu has a Liu general on the left, a Liu general on the right, and he is happy. He is only a deputy lieutenant of Yunqi from the seventh rank. In this dynasty, he respected the culture and suppressed martial arts. Juren even had a higher military rank than the military attache from the seventh rank. Ignore the general's attitude. Lin Fu's riding skills are clumsy, but he is not afraid of hardships. He talks casually to these soldiers, and he doesn't know how to speak in a polite manner. He also likes to listen to them bragging about the troublesome things in the military camp. Liu Xilin and his two junior colleges feel that Lin Bie Shifen had an appetite for them, and joked to him, "I think Lin Juren wants to learn to ride horses well, and go to Jiangning City to deceive those girls and wives..." The people next to him laughed when they heard it.

"...The girl and the daughter-in-law are also deceived," Lin Fu also laughed and said, "In these days of chaos, it is better to learn two more things than not learn it... Besides, the six arts of a gentleman, ritual, music, archery, imperialism, Books, numbers, archery, and horseback riding are also among the six arts, and I am unfamiliar with Jiangning. If others can ride horses and archery, but I can't, wouldn't I be looked down upon?"

"With Master Gu, who can look down on you, Lin Juren..." Liu Xilin said, with envy in his tone.

Lin Fu smiled, and in other places, the deputy envoy of the censor of Zuo Xiedu could be said to be a high-ranking officer. The situation in Jiangdong County is a little more special. Regardless of whether he has real power or not, in Jiangning Prefecture, the southern capital of the empire, Pin Yi is more powerful than Gu Wuchen. High officials abound. Besides, Lin Fu doesn't care whether others look down on him or not. He wants to integrate into this world completely, and there are still many things to learn and try. It is said that traveling ten thousand miles and reading ten thousand volumes of books, there are various means of traveling in this era, none of which is as convenient and fast as riding a horse. It is comfortable to be on a boat, the speed is always too slow. In later generations, I got used to that kind of high-paced life, and I always felt that it would be unbearable to walk for a long time even if I took a carriage for thirty or forty miles. Besides, if one day the secret help of the horse pirates to gain a foothold on Changshan Island happens to the public and they have to pack up and leave, it is also easy to escape from afar when riding a horse erratically.

Speaking of horseback riding, it's easy. Although the dirt road is rotten, Lin Bie can talk and laugh like the wind with Liu Xilin and other generals in Dongyang Mansion, but when the horse's hooves rush like flying, people must walk on the horse's back. On the flat ground, it is somewhat difficult. When facing the enemy, it is even more difficult to slash and sprint to destroy the enemy. Besides, Yang Pu, Yang Shi's father and son, and Gu Siyuan, the son of the Gu family, all regarded Lin Fu as a domineering and snobbish person, and they were very indifferent to him, and Lin Fu was uncomfortable staying on the boat.

Wu Qi and others temporarily stayed in Shiliang County to help the seventh lady. Zhou Pu, Zhao Hu, and Chen Enze were nominally Lin Fu's domestic servants and squires, so naturally they could not stay on the boat lazy.

From noon to noon, there were no sharp cottages in front of you. A woman in a blue calico jacket emerged from the cabin and shouted to the bank across the river: "Liu Xiaowei, Master Gu said to stop the boat. After an hour's rest, please invite Lin Juren and General Liu to board the boat for dinner..." This woman was the lady of the Xiao family, the female shopkeeper of the tea hotel in Shiliang County, and her voice was very pleasant. Lin Bie was shocked when he saw the beauty's little widow, the lady of the Xiao family, who was going to Jiangning with the Gu family. Later, she learned that the lady of the Xiao family was recommended by the county magistrate Liang Zuoren to the Gu family to follow him to Jiangning as a cook. Three taels of silver, I think Liang Zuo's official salary as the county magistrate is no more than this amount.

Throughout the ages, the subordinate's intention to please the boss has always been the same. Lin Fu thought to himself that a few days ago, Liang Zuoren invited Gu Wuchen to eat at the Xiaojia Tea Hotel, probably because of this idea.

Liu Xilin restrained the horse, and the cavalry behind him did not need to call him, they all stopped together. Not knowing how long Master Gu would stop the boat to rest, Liu Xilin asked his men to lead their horses away from the muddy yellow dirt road to rest at Caopeizi.

Lin Fu looked ahead. He and Zhou Pu went back to Lindu during this waterway. He thought that if he didn't hit the tip, he should be able to see Jiangning City before dusk. Not knowing what Gu Wuchen was thinking, Lin Fu dismounted his horse and tied it to the willow tree on the bank. Liu Xilin felt a little resentful and said to Lin Fu, "This stop-and-go, the two hundred-mile waterway will take three or four days... Resting here, it’s better to be hungry for a while, and then stop to eat hot soup and rice when you meet the shop ahead.”

The cavalry and saber-archers subordinate to the Fuxian Bingma Division are all of the local army. Their status and treatment are far inferior to those of the town army, which is regarded as a regular army by the imperial court. In addition to catching robbers and bandits, they are sent to officials to do the work. With hard labor, the combat power will naturally become weaker and weaker, and it becomes the so-called miscellaneous army, which can only be responsible for the public security in the prefecture and county. The rising village soldiers just filled the vacancies of catching robbers and bandits in the villages. It should be said that the team of cavalry that Liu Xilin led over to **** Gu Wuchen to Jiangning was still quite elite. After Gu Wuchen was assassinated in Shiliang County, the prefect of Dongyang Prefecture did not dare to play with Gu Wuchen's safety, but in the eyes of Gu Wuchen and his family , This team of cavalry is no different from ordinary duty soldiers. They are only polite to Liu Xilin, who is the leader. Even Liu Xilin's two junior officers are not qualified to board the ship and have dinner with the squires at this time.

"I met the shop in front of me, and I asked the Lord to stop again, so that the brothers can eat hot soup and rice, and eat some meat dishes," Lin Fu said, "I will go to the boat first to see if the boat can cook some hot soup. Bring it ashore."

"Thank you Lin Juren, I'll go over later." Liu Xilin said, feeling that Lin Fu was much easier to get along with than other people with eyes above the top.

After a while, the boatmen supported the official boat to ashore~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Lin Fu and Zhao Hu helped to tie the cable to the quay willow. Why don't you dare to be?" He jumped onto the boat and went around the stern first to ask the lady of the Xiao family to help cook a bucket of vegetable soup for the cavalry on the shore. A young man happened to get out of the cabin, and he asked Lin Fu, "You What are you delaying on the shore, waiting for you to eat." There was a hint of accusation in his tone.

Lin Fu ignored him, thinking that he didn't see that the boat hadn't stopped yet.

This young man is Gu Yingxiu's distant cousin Gu Siming, and Gu Wuchen's closest blood nephew in the Gu family. Gu Siming had been studying for a few years, but he failed to get any fame, so Gu Wuchen decided to take him with him to see if he could cultivate it. In addition to Gu Siming, Gu Tianqiao, a child of the Gu family who is a little distant, also went to Jiangning for training. The Gu family has been sinking for ten years. There are no outstanding people among the elders, and the younger generation has also been abandoned. It is also easy for the Gu family to revitalize.

Lin Fu saw the lady of the Xiao family sticking her head out of the cabin and asked her, "Ms. Xiao, have you made some hot vegetable soup? It's not good for the soldiers to eat cold and dry cakes on the shore in such a cold day."

"You don't need to tell Lin Juren any more, it's already cooked, I'll bring it to you!" The lady of the Xiao family agreed crisply, turning around and entering the cabin.

"I'll help you." Gu Siming eagerly followed.

Lin Fu smiled in his heart, this guy really thought that Liang Zuoren recommended Xiao's wife to the Gu family's wife as a cook, but he really didn't even look at it, that is, Gu Wuchen didn't dare to rush into the matter of taking a concubine because of Gu's stare.

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PS: Tomorrow morning, the traffic regulations will be tested, and there may be a chapter missing tomorrow!

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