Three Kingdoms: From Hulaoguan to Global Hegemony

Chapter 53 Master Kong and Zhang Qiling

With Xu Huang's help, Liu Yu and his party set up a few tents at the entrance of the village to eat and rest.

Cai Yan also felt tired after riding in the carriage all day, so she came down to exercise her legs and feet with a veiled cap.

Xu Huang thought it was Liu Yu's wife, so he quickly sent someone to prepare more cushions and put them in Liu Yu's tent.

When dinner was dry food, water was boiled. Liu Yu was afraid that Cai Yan would not be used to the dry food in the army, so he took a pot of hot water and prepared to take her to the tent to start a small stove.

"Does sister Zhaoji like noodles?"

Cai Yan felt that the dry food was difficult to swallow, and nodded happily when he heard that there was some food to eat.

The two had no chance to be alone since their ambiguity that night, so Cai Yan was a little nervous after entering the tent.

Liu Yu took advantage of her distraction and entered the system supermarket to buy two bags of instant noodles.

Tear open the packaging bag and put the noodles into boiling water. After a while, the noodles will be softened.

"It's so fast, it's ready!" Seeing the thin and curved noodles with an oily yellow luster, Cai Yan felt a little inconceivable.

The noodles at this time are not so thin and springy, and they have to be boiled in the pot for a while before they can be eaten.

But the noodle pieces that Liu Yu took out didn't need to be boiled, they only needed to be soaked in boiling water for a while to emit an attractive aroma.

At this time, Cai Yan just wanted to pick up a chopstick to taste, but was stopped by Liu Yu.

"Don't worry, there's no seasoning!"

Seasoning?At the end of the Han Dynasty, there were not many condiments, nothing more than some salt blocks.

Seeing Liu Yu take out three small bags and pour them into lumpy, powdery, and green things one after another, Cai Yan was completely stunned.

I saw that the noodle soup in the pot quickly floated a piece of red oil, and then a scent that smelled a little bit pungent but made people couldn't help but swallow their saliva came out.

"It smells so good! What kind of noodles is this?" Cai Yan picked up the packaging bag on the ground in amazement, "These words are so strangely written! Is it written by Master Kang...? The name of this place is Kangjiazhuang, could it be Master Kang is from this village?"

Liu Yu looked at her curious big eyes, thinking that he should have thrown the packaging bag in the "supermarket" if he knew that he would have to explain.

"Yes, it's Master Kong! But he is not from this place, he is my father's royal chef, and he created a lot of delicacies during his lifetime!"

After hearing this, Cai Yan nodded suddenly, thinking that the potato chips and ketchup that Liu Yu gave her before should also be invented by Master Kong.

After making a random explanation, Liu Yu was afraid that she would continue to ask, so he quickly filled a bowl of noodles and put it in front of her.

Cai Yan just took a sip and immediately fell in love with the taste.

"I don't know if there are any descendants of Master Kang. It would be a pity if such a delicacy is lost!"

"Sister Zhaoji, don't worry, I've learned a lot about Master Kong's skills, and I also have a lot of ready-to-eat delicacies like this one in stock. If you live with me in the future, I'm sure you'll have endless snacks."

When Liu Yu said that they would live together in the future, Cai Yan's face turned red.

Thinking that his father is an official under Dong Zhuo's hands, he can't go to him easily, and may have to live in Liu Yu's house for a long time to come.

I just don't know if the hostess in that house is also easy to talk to?

"When we arrive in Luoyang, the younger sister will rely entirely on Brother Muzhi. By the way, how old is the brother and sister-in-law? Are there any special rules in the house?"

Cai Yan was born in the rich family of Chenliu, and he knew that the mistress would set certain rules in the mansions of many big families.

She is going to live in Liu Yu's mansion, so naturally she has to ask the members of the mansion and the rules there in advance.

After hearing this, Liu Yu replied embarrassedly: "I have just reached the crown, and I have never had a marriage contract. As for the Luoyang mansion, it is actually not as complicated as you imagined. My parents are long gone. There are no other relatives in the family. There is only one A small courtyard plus two or three servants."

Before his rebirth, Liu Yu was just a son of a defeated royal family, with a dispensable title of Commander-in-Chief of the Habayashi Army, living a life as a poor and lower-middle peasant.

Cai Yan laughed when he heard that Liu Yu hadn't married yet, but he was afraid that Liu Yu would misunderstand him and laugh at his shabby life.

So he explained: "In the future, my younger sister will help you take care of the family affairs, and brother Muzhi can just go to the court to do errands."

Why can't women take the initiative to pursue the person they like? I, Cai Yan, will be the hostess of the Zhongshan Prince's Mansion.

Thinking of this, Cai Yan's face flushed with embarrassment, and she quickly lowered her head and ate noodles to cover it up.

Liu Yu also didn't pay attention to the deep meaning of her last sentence, and agreed happily directly.

Now Cai Yan was as happy as a deer bumping around, and her red face drooped even lower.

After dinner, Liu Yu asked Cai Yan to stay in the tent to rest, while he went to squeeze Liu Bei to avoid suspicion.

After getting out of the tent, Liu Yu saw a bonfire on the opposite side. Liu Bei and Zhang Da were sitting and chatting together, and vaguely heard that they were chatting about their own affairs with Cai Yan.

Seeing Liu Yu approaching, the two dared not say much, so they hurriedly got up to meet.

"Okay, please, I was just trying to talk to you two about something."

"This Kangjiazhuang is not an important place, but Li Jue has stationed thousands of troops here. It's really strange!"

Liu Yu asked the two to sit down closer, and observed the situation of the defenders at the opposite checkpoint, and found that no one was paying attention to them, so he was about to tell the strange things he saw at the other end of the village in the afternoon.

Liu Yu said: "I saw a small mountain bag at the other end of the village in the afternoon. The strange thing is that Li Jue asked his men to surround the small mountain bag with red cloth, and there were still figures moving around inside, as if they were digging something!"

Liu Bei shook his head to express his ignorance, but Zhang Da, the school lieutenant, laughed.

Liu Yu looked at his expression and knew that the old man in the Xiliang army really knew something inside, so he motioned for him to speak directly.

Zhang Da said: "They should be robbing tombs. They all say that the treasures in the ground have spirituality. If you wrap them in red cloth, you won't be afraid that the treasures will slip away."

"Tomb Raider!"

Liu Yu was very surprised. Unofficial history records said that Cao Cao had no money to buy food when he attacked Xuzhou, so he thought of killing people.

General Faqiu Zhonglang and Captain Mojin were named after him, so later generations regard Cao Cao as the ancestor of tomb robbers.

It's just that I didn't expect Li Jue, Dong Zhuo's subordinate, to have come into contact with this business earlier than Cao Cao.

At this time, Liu Bei also asked curiously: "Lieutenant Zhang is so sure that the entire Xiliang army has the habit of robbing tombs?"

"That's right!" Zhang Da replied unabashedly, "Every army in Xiliang has a thousand-man team dedicated to tomb robbery, and I used to be the school lieutenant in charge of tomb robbery in the Fan Silk Army."

Zhang Da explained that their Zhang family has been proficient in the art of mechanism for generations, and there are so many hidden weapon mechanisms in the underground palace. It is because of his extraordinary skills that he has become the captain of the tomb robber.

Liu Bei was very surprised when he heard this, and Liu Yu was even more surprised to rely on me again and again.

"Damn it, Zhang Da's word Qiling, this Qiling shouldn't be the ancestor of the little brother in the tomb robber's notes!"

I just ate Master Kong, and I heard Zhang Qiling talk about tomb robbery. Is life in the Three Kingdoms sometimes very pleasant?

Through Zhang Da's narration, Liu Yu also knew that Li Jue was not the first person to do this, and that the person who actually ordered to move the dead was actually Dong Zhuo.

Dong Zhuo started his career by digging graves when he was a general in Xiliang, and later took control of the court and became the most powerful person in Luoyang City.

But with the increase of power, the Xiliang army under him is also expanding, and the problem of insufficient food and pay has plagued him again.

Dong Zhuo was not good at agriculture and business, and all his food and salary came from robbing. Now that there was no one in Luoyang to rob, he ordered his subordinates to ask the dead for money.

There is a total of 500 years of history from the Qin Dynasty to the end of the Han Dynasty. During this period, no fewer than thousands of princes and generals were buried in the Central Plains.

In this way, the wealth buried under the ground is really huge.

But the ancients paid special attention to burrowing into the earth for safety, and powerful people would even find someone to build underground palaces before they were alive.

In order to prevent someone from robbing the tomb after death, they will not only kill all the builders, but also set up various hidden weapons in the underground palace.

Liu Yu thought of the screams that came from near the hill in the afternoon, probably the people who went down to the underground palace tomb robbers were caught by the trap.

At this time Liu Bei asked again: "Tomb robbing is just tomb robbing. Why does Li Jue insist on trapping us here temporarily, afraid that we will leak the news?"

Zhang Da replied: "That's exactly the case. Because some underground palaces are very large, Li Jue is also worried that other Xiliang tribes will send capable people to find a second entrance elsewhere after they know that there is an underground palace here."

It seems that if you want to pass Kangjiazhuang smoothly, you can only wait for Li Jue to get out the treasures from the ground.

(End of this chapter)