Three Kingdoms King of the North

Although Jushou has not made up his mind to serve Han Zhan until now, he was still quite moved when he saw hundreds of people waiting by the road in the heavy snow. How could the Marquis of Labor Ting go out of the city ten miles to meet him in person."

Han Zhan went out today, wearing a black fox cloak, and he didn't feel cold standing on the side of the road.Seeing Jushou coming towards him under the guard of Huang Zhong and others, he quickly went up to meet him.Still far away, he smiled and cupped his hands towards Jushou: "Mr. Ju, I haven't seen you in half a year, don't you come here to be safe!"

Seeing that Han Zhan was saluting to him, Ju Shou could not sit still on his horseback, so he quickly got off his horse and stepped forward to return the salute: "Tinghou has broken Jumou! Jumou has not had time to save Tinghou's life-saving grace to Jumou." Thank you."

Han Zhan saw that the clothes on Jushou were a bit thin, so he quickly took off his cloak and put it on for him, and said with concern: "Mr. Take Hou's cloak to keep out the cold."

Just when Jushou was so grateful, Rob, who was standing not far away, thought to himself: "When I came to Guantao last time, the lord gave Mr. Shan Fu a white sable cloak, and now Shan Fu has become the lord's subordinate; I gave Ms. Cai a white fox cloak, and Ms. Cai became the lord's woman. Now I gave this Mr. Ju a black fox fur cloak, presumably Mr. Ju will soon return to the lord. This is probably what those scholars said Undressing and pushing food, I didn't expect the effect to be so good, it seems that Mr. Hu should prepare more cloaks."

When the group returned to the city, Han Zhan was about to hold a banquet in the lobby to entertain Jushou, but Jushou waved his hand and said, "Thank you Tinghou for your kindness. I want to rest for a while, and I would like to ask Tinghou to send someone to take a break." Meals are delivered to the professor's room."

Ju Shou's words were quite rude, and the military officials standing beside Han Zhan showed displeasure on their faces.But Han Zhan still said with his usual expression: "According to what Mister said, Benhou will send someone to deliver the food to Mister's room later." Then he called a servant and asked him to guide Jushou to rest.When Jushou left, Feng Liang and the jailer followed closely behind.

Looking at the backs of several people, Han Zhan asked Huang Zhong who was standing beside him, "Han Sheng, who are the two people who are following Mr. Ju?"

"Return to my lord," Huang Zhong quickly replied respectfully, "the one on the left is named Feng Liang, and he is a government official under Yuan Benchu. Yuan Shao ordered him to go to the prison with a sword to kill Mr. Ju, but he read Mr. Ju once rescued one of himself, so he violated Yuan Benchu's order and rescued Mr. Ju with Jiang Yu and others. The one on the right is the jailer guarding Mr. Ju. Let's leave together."

"Let them follow Mr. Ju." Hearing that these two people also contributed to the rescue of Jushou, Han Zhan immediately liked the two of them, and quickly told Chen Zhen: "Xiao Qi, I will be with you later." The backyard also arranged a residence for the two of them."

The next step is to reward for meritorious deeds. Jiang Jackal should be the first to rescue Jushou, so Han Zhan not only rewarded him with gold and silk, but also praised him greatly.Huang Zhong led his troops to repel Yuan Shao's pursuers, which is also indispensable. Han Zhan also rewarded him with a lot of gold and silk.

In order to celebrate the achievements of everyone, Han Zhan arranged a banquet in the hall to entertain all the ministers who have made great achievements.After everyone was full of wine and food, Han Zhan announced in public that the class teacher would return to Jizhou tomorrow, which aroused another round of cheers.

After Han Zhan came out of the banquet, he walked directly to the backyard. He wanted to visit Jushou and see if there was any possibility of persuading him.Unexpectedly, as soon as he reached the door, he was stopped by Feng Liang and the jailer guarding the door.Feng Liang said respectfully: "See Marquis Ting, Mr. Ju occasionally feels cold and cannot see guests, so please Marquis Ting stay."

"Why do I feel the wind and cold?" Han Zhan said secretly in his heart: "I obviously don't want to see me, but I came up with such a far-fetched reason." However, he did not expose Jushou's lie, but politely said to Feng Liang: "Since it is If that’s the case, then I won’t bother Mr. Ju. Please tell Mr. Ju that Han Zhan once visited.”

"Don't worry, Marquis Ting," Feng Liang replied with a smile, "I will report Marquis Ting's visit to Mister Ju later."

"That's very good." Han Zhan nodded, and continued: "Please tell Mr. Ju that we will return to Jizhou tomorrow, and please make preparations early."

As soon as Han Zhan left, Feng Liang pushed open the door, walked in and said to Ju Shou who was sitting on the kang, "Mr. Ju, Marquis Ting has already left."

After hearing this, Ju Shou didn't speak, but nodded silently.

Regarding Jushou's reaction, Feng Liang asked a little puzzled: "Mr. Ju, I don't understand why Tinghou treats each other with sincerity, but you deliberately keep a distance from him?"

"People are not ruthless than plants and trees," Ju Shou sighed and said, "Do you think that you can't see Ting Hou's sincerity? Don't look at him now that he has the upper hand over Yuan Benchu, but he is too young and too powerful. It's not easy to completely defeat Yuan Benchu, the fourth generation and the third prince."

After Feng Liang listened, he nodded half-understanding, and then asked: "Mr. Ju, since this is the case, then it is not suitable to stay here for a long time, let's leave here quickly!"

Ju Shou looked up at Feng Liang, and asked with a sneer, "Do you think we have left Guantao now, is there anywhere else we can go?"

Jushou's words stopped Feng Liang. After thinking for a long time, he shook his head and said, "The Yuan family has four generations and three princes, and there are many disciples and old officials. No matter where we flee, we may be arrested and become a meeting gift dedicated to Yuan Benchu. It seems that returning to Jizhou with Tinghou may be our only choice."

"There must be a way for a car to reach the mountain. Since we don't know what the future will be, we can only take one step at a time." It is said that with a long sigh, he said to Feng Liang: "It's too cold outside, you two should go back early to rest. "As he said, he patted the kang he was sitting on with his hands, and added, "Ting Hou has a lot of wonderful ideas. I heard that this kang for heating was built by his subordinates based on the drawings he drew."

In the early morning of the next day, the army set off to return to Jizhou.In order to take care of Jushou, Han Zhan gave up his carriage to Jushou, and he and Huang Zhong rode at the front of the group.

After a long journey on the road, I finally returned to Jizhou.Han Zhan knew that Jushou didn't want to see him for the time being, so he arranged for Rob to escort Jushou home, while he, Huang Zhong, Xu Shu, Xia Houlan and others went directly back to the state pastoral mansion.

While Han Zhan was discussing with Xun Yu, Guo Jia and others, Ju Shou also returned home and saw his family.When Juhu saw his father coming back, he was overjoyed and hurried forward to kneel down to pay respects.

Ju Shou helped his son up, and asked with concern, "How is everything at home?"

"Father, please don't worry." Hearing Jushou's question, Juhu quickly replied: "The city of Jizhou was broken that day, and the child thought he would die. But after the Han army entered the city, Qiu did not commit any crime. The Marquis of Zhangshuiting even sent soldiers to guard the gate. , so as not to have Xiaoxiao's generation come into the mansion to harass."

After Juhu finished introducing the situation in Jizhou, Jushou was very surprised.He said in his heart that he was an important adviser under Yuan Shao, and after Han Zhan occupied Jizhou, even if he didn't kill his family, he should put them under house arrest.Unexpectedly, Han Zhan's style of doing things is surprising. He neither killed his own family nor put them under house arrest.On the contrary, he sent people to protect his mansion and allowed his family members to come and go freely.

Seeing that Jushou was silent, Juhu quickly added: "Some time ago, my uncle planned to join Tinghou and take up a half-official position in Jizhou, but Tinghou rejected it."

When Jushou heard that his brother wanted to join Han Zhan, but was rejected by Han Zhan, he felt very strange: "What's going on?"

Juhu quickly smiled and said: "Returning to my father, Tinghou said that you were in the prison in Yecheng at that time. If someone from our Ju family is an official in Jizhou, it will definitely threaten his father's life. The family is an official in Jizhou. It will not be too late to arrange official positions for us after my father returns to Jizhou safely."

Jushou knew his brother Juzong very well and was keen on being an official.When Yuan Shao was in Jizhou, he visited many times and asked himself to speak well for him in front of Yuan Shao so that he could be an official.But Jushou could only think that his brother was mediocre, so he refused decisively.

At this time, a servant came to report: "Master, the second master came to visit and is now outside the gate of the house."

Hearing that his brother Juzong was coming, Jushou snorted, and then ordered: "Let him in."

Ju Zong followed behind the servant, striding in.Still far away, he shouted at the top of his voice: "Brother, I heard that you are back, and my younger brother came here specially to visit."

Although Ju Shou didn't like this brother, but for the sake of blood relatives, he politely asked him to sit down, and then asked knowingly: "Second brother, why do you have time to come to Brother Wei today?"

"Brother," Ju Zong said with a quick smile, "I heard that brother is back, so I came to see you."

"Is there nothing else to do besides this?"

"No more." Juzong naturally wouldn't ask Jushou to plead with Han Zhan and find an official position for himself as soon as they met, but pretended to say, "I just came to visit my brother."

"Okay, since you've read it, go back." Ju Shou said, stood up and said to Ju Zong, "I've been tired all the way, and I want to rest."

Seeing Jushou getting up to leave, Juzong suddenly panicked. His purpose of coming today was to use Jushou to find an official position in Centralized City.If he doesn't tell the truth at this moment, it will not be so convenient for him to say anything after Jushou rests in the backyard.So he quickly stopped Jushou: "Brother, please stay!"

Ju Shou stopped, turned his head and asked, "What else is there for the second brother?"

"Brother," Ju Zong said with a little helplessness, "Tinghou just captured Jizhou, and because there are not many people available, many affairs in Jizhou cannot be carried out for the time being. I am bold, and I ask you to speak a few words in front of Tinghou. I don’t know if my younger brother can get an official position or a half job?”

"Now I'm a wild crane with no official status, and I don't want to deal with any Ting Hou." Ju Shou snorted and said, "Even if I go to plead with him face to face, will he listen to me?"

Ju Shou's words made Ju Zong completely dumbfounded.He originally thought that his elder brother was rescued from Yecheng by Han Zhan, so he would be highly regarded by Han Zhan, and it would be easy for him to say a few words for himself.Who knows now that his elder brother doesn't have any official position.

Just when Juzong was about to leave dejectedly, he saw a soldier standing guard outside the door rushing in.He knew that Han Zhan had issued an order that no one was allowed to enter the Ju mansion without his permission.Seeing a soldier enter the mansion at this moment, there are only two possibilities: one is that the house was raided, and the other is that a big person came to commit the crime.

Copying the house, this is definitely impossible.How can there be a situation where just after rescuing people from Yecheng, they will kill people all over Jizhou as soon as they return.Then it can only be the second possibility, that there are important people visiting.And the soldiers who can stand guard outside the gate can enter the Ju Mansion at will, which proves that the person who came is not small, and it may be Han Zhan himself.

Thinking of this, Juzong quickly stopped in his tracks, and turned to look at the soldier who rushed in.The soldier came to Ju Shou, bowed his hands and saluted: "Mr. Ju, my lord is asking to see you outside the mansion!"

Hearing that it was Han Zhan who really came, Ju Zong couldn't help being overjoyed. He didn't wait for Ju Shou to speak, and said first: "This military master, how can you make Ting Hou wait outside the mansion for a long time, please invite him in quickly."

With little effort, Han Zhan walked into the Ju Mansion surrounded by several guards.Seeing Han Zhan's visit, even though Ju Shou didn't want to deal with him anymore, he still came out of the main hall to greet him: "Shou sees Ting Hou!"

"Mr. Ju, no courtesy!" Han Zhan hurried forward and reached out to support Ju Shou, and said with a smile: "This Marquis is taking the liberty to commit an offense, please don't take offense, Mr. Ju!"

"Not to blame, not to blame!" Ju Zong said excitedly at the side: "Tinghou, outside is not the place to talk, so please go inside and discuss in detail."

Jushou saw that Juzong was expressing his opinion again on his behalf, and gave him a dissatisfied look, then turned to Han Zhan, and said politely, "Tinghou, please go inside and talk."

A group of people walked into the main hall, and several guards brought by Han Zhan stayed outside the door.Without waiting for Jushou's order, Ju Zong shouted outside: "Come here, serve tea for Tinghou!"

When the servants put the tea on the table in front of everyone, Jushou asked Han Zhan calmly: "I wonder if Marquis Ting is here today, do you have any opinions?"

Han Zhan hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Mr. Ju, Mr. Han is here to ask Mr. to become an official and help Mr. Han."

Chapter 173

Regarding Han Zhan's request, Ju Shou said instinctively: "Ju has little talent and learning, and is difficult to be competent. Tinghou should hire someone else."