Jian An Kee

Note 1: Qingxian, a poor and white rogue.

After a drink, my whole body was sore, and the expression on my face was rigid.It was at least midnight when I returned to the Dudu Mansion. As soon as I got back to my room, I kicked off my shoes and threw myself on the bed. I fell asleep without washing my face in a daze.

When I got up the next day, I took a walk in the garden with a teacup in my hand, saw the leaves being blown by the wind, and realized something, so I recited a poem, which said:

"Piece by piece, two pieces, three pieces, four or five pieces, six pieces, seven pieces ... ... Dendrobium beads, what do you think?"

Pearl looked blank, "Huh?"

Hey, after all, he is a child at heart, and he has never mastered the rules of being a slave, and occasionally he will show his true nature in front of his master.I hope to establish enough trust and understanding with this little girl.

While talking and laughing, Qin Se, the eldest maid beside Mrs. Xiao Qiao, came into the court, saluted slowly, and said, "Greetings, miss."

I put the teacup aside and asked curiously, "What's the matter?"

"Miss Hui, our wife said that there are outsiders today, so Miss Wrong has lunch alone."

"Auntie is back?" I was surprised.

The maid named Qin Se only nodded, and refused to reveal a word next to her.

I was vaguely aware of something inside, and said: "Go and tell your aunt that I know, and the lunch will be brought here."

"No, the servant will leave."

As soon as Qin Se left, I regained my energy immediately, ran back to the room and changed into casual clothes and soft-soled shoes before going out.Zhu'er scratched her head and frowned for a while, and asked nervously: "Where are you going, Miss?"

"I'll go outside to see what kind of guests are coming. How about you, come with me?"

"Miss, this is not good." Hu Zhu stammered, "Sister Qin Se reminded us just now that foreign ladies should not go out."

"Then you keep it. See you later!" After I said that, I picked up the hem of my clothes and ran out like flying, and none of the maids could stop me.

I ran to the front yard in one breath, and I looked around for no one. I stepped on the rockery by the wall and climbed up to the top of the wall, peeking inside.

In the front yard, there is a row of main houses plus side rooms on both sides, and a courtyard with pine, bamboo, orchids hanging down the steps, containing wind clusters and exhaling fragrance.What is incompatible with this beautiful scenery is that under the eaves of the main hall, several guards in black clothes stood expressionlessly in a row, looking straight ahead, as if they were guards.

After a while, several plain-clothed maids walked gracefully with tea and food at the end of the corridor. Someone in the hall came out to take the tray and sent all the maids away.

That person was Mrs. Little Joe.Who would be the foreign guest that she wanted to receive in person?

A guard seemed to be aware of it, suddenly raised his head, and swept his eyes straight towards me.I hurriedly turned around and jumped off the wall, straightened my clothes, and walked back nonchalantly.

There must be important people here to discuss important matters with Zhou Yu!Yesterday's banquet was definitely a cover, otherwise, how could Mrs. Xiao Qiao, who claimed to accompany her elder sister to stay in Beppu, appear here?

Speaking of which... after the beginning of summer, there are many things in the north and south: Zhou Yu is always away from home, squatting outside the city every day to train the navy, Sun Quan's gang also runs to Gantang Lake from time to time; At that time, Prime Minister Cao and Yuan Shao were fighting fiercely in the border of Hebei, ahem, no, it was a fierce battle, and now it has come to an end; it is estimated that he will use troops against that nomad called Wuhuan in the next few months.

The spread of information is really slow these days, events that go back two months are considered news.

One night, I wandered like a wolf on the veranda leading to the front yard, hoping to find an opportunity to sneak in and see who the distinguished guests in the mansion were.And the cruel facts have proved that the method of knocking out attendants and pretending to be service personnel to enter the core area is not feasible at all!Not only the maids serving tea and water always go together, but the guards on both sides are also short-clothed and armed with knives, and their vigilance is higher than that of Xiaoqiang.

Since the meeting was held in secret, the guests must not go through the main door when they return.After thinking about this verse, I simply found a pavilion on the road leading to the backyard and sat down and waited.

The maid brought me scented tea and dried fruit. After more than half an hour, the scented tea was cold, but there was still no one there.I was so frustrated that I had to tell Pearl to go back to the room together.

A maid came forward to salute and called Zhu Er who was behind me to follow her.

I asked: "What's the matter?"

"If you want to go back to Miss, Madam will invite Miss Huzhu to come over."

"What's the matter?" I became impatient, "There are four or five maidservants in my room, you have to call me the one next to you?"

The maid looked at the timid look, lowered her head and replied, "Madam said that the general's mansion has brought a reward, and asked the girl's personal maid to choose some materials that suit the girl."

After thinking for a second, I promised Zhu'er to go, and I went back to my room first, feeling a bit frustrated that the plan had failed.

When I passed the Qushui hall, I found a man standing outside the hall door, which was strange, where did the male guests come from in the inner courtyard?That person was obviously not Zhou Yu, but I took a few glances and felt familiar.

While I was stunned, Zhou Yu appeared out of nowhere, stuck out her tongue and squinted at me, which meant: Don't get in the way, get out!

I glared back at him angrily, and hurriedly slipped away while the guest hadn't turned his head.

After a while, I have deduced the identity of the guest.I remember that when I was studying Three Kingdoms, he was the one person I didn’t like to see, not only because he ordered Lu Meng to attack Guan Erye, but also because of his indiscriminate killing of heroes and harsh treatment of subordinates... Well, let’s not mention it.

When I got back to Dongyuan, Le Ling was already waiting at the door, she was very happy when she saw me, and she was about to put on a robe for me: "Miss is back."

"A Ling, please forgive me, it's really not cold." I hurriedly pushed her hand away and walked into the room, Le Ling followed closely, and asked again: "Miss, where did Hu Zhu go and didn't follow you?"

I waved my hand: "Let her help me pick out the clothes, it's okay."

Le Ling hastened to hold a midnight snack again—a cup of almond tea and a small dish of sesame cakes for me.Although it is June, the cautious maids are still afraid that I will freeze to death or starve to death outside.

The backyard of the Governor's Mansion was originally divided into four small gardens, east, west, north, south, and north. Zhou Yu and his wife lived in the North Garden, arranged for me to live in the East Garden, and opened a door in the South Garden next door and turned it into a small garden for me to take a walk when I have nothing to do.After I was full, I went for a walk in the small garden to relieve my hunger, and Le Ling was not allowed to follow me. It was too hot to walk alone, so I took off my clogs and went to the small pond in the garden to play on the water.

I was surprised that someone was behind me, and it was too late to put on my shoes.The smell brought by the evening wind made me sure that it was a man. I turned around slowly, intending to give the visitor a smile as normal as possible.

It's Sun Quan.Has he lost his way, come all this way?A lost prince will not always meet a princess to be married, and the princess and her stepmother, the old witch.

I was amused by my own whim, but my face was still neat and solemn, I lifted the hem of my skirt to cover the feet of the alder fruit, and saluted him cautiously.

He was dressed casually at the moment, with a dark blue robe, a clear leather belt, and no sword, and looked at me expressionlessly. "Alan has seen the general." Since I couldn't ignore it, I simply saluted him.

"Put on your shoes." His voice was low and majestic, with the natural arrogance of a superior.

I was a little unhappy in my heart, but his next action really exceeded my expectations.I saw him squatting down, picking up one of my clogs, knocking on the edge of the steps, shaking off the sand inside, and putting it in front of me, and doing the same with the other one.

I almost laughed out loud.This guy is actually quite interesting.With a smile on the corner of my mouth, I put on the clogs gently, keeping my head down.

"You are Gongjin's niece? What's your name?"

With my head spinning quickly, I replied, "Nuo, my father, Zhou Yan, is my uncle's cousin."

"I asked what is your name?" There was actually a bit of reluctance in his tone.

Unrelentingly asking other people's little girl's boudoir name, the dignified general of Dongwu turned out to be like a frivolous libertine, really worthy of his grandfather's "light twist (Note 1)" title.

"My name is Zhou Lan, um, the small character Guanglan."

He laughed strangely, three parts pissed off and seven parts insolent: "It is said that you and Xiangxiang are very close? That day at the mansion, you still covered up for her."

"Uh……"

He is asking the teacher for his crime.I didn't want to say anything more, so I saluted and left.

He didn't care much about my recklessness, and waved his hand and walked to the other side of the garden alone, with unclear emotions in his glazed green eyes.

In July of the 12th year of Jian'an, Cao Cao's Qingqi raided Wuhuan, the three northern counties, and returned with a big victory. Since then, the north has been basically unified;

In December of this year, Zhou Yu finally got a holiday to stay at home.I watched with cold eyes, and found that he still had a lot of official documents to deal with from time to time.

At the same time, the Governor's Mansion became lively. A group of people, including Sun Quan himself, gathered in the mansion from time to time to discuss the situation in the north in the three-acre area in the front yard: It is said that Prime Minister Cao built a Xuanwu in Yecheng. Chi drills soldiers and horses, and claims to march south, drink horses and hunt rivers, which sounds very important.

Will he fight Uncle Liu Huang next?Naturally, this dozen made Mr. famous, but I was secretly worried.

There are banquets every day during the New Year. I don't want to see this kind of scene. I push it away if I can.Also, what I'm most worried about is, where is Uncle Liu Huang going?

After listening to my question, Zhou Yu rubbed his chin with a smirk, and said to me in Mandarin: "Why, I'm tired of being here with you, and you want to go back?"

Seeing him lowering his head to draw crosses on the bamboo slips again, I snatched the brush in displeasure.

"Come on, you have a bad temper." He smiled and took the pen back from my hand, took out a silk map in his sleeve and spread it on the curling ear table.

"Is this the so-called map of the battle situation?" I stretched my neck to look carefully, and commented: "It's nothing special."

"Stupid, you can see the map of the battle situation? It's just an ordinary map." He pointed to the direction where the Han River flows through Jingzhou, and said: "Pay attention to the direction from south to north. Look, this is Jingshan ; Calculated, Liu Bei's army is still in Fancheng, and most of Cao Cao's troops are stationed in Xudu and Yecheng, and a large-scale battle is imminent."

I sighed and took a sip from the cup on his tea table, "This tea is cold."

Zhou Yu let out a "hmm" and slid his fingers across the overflowing and undisciplined Jingjiang River on the map, heading a little closer to the south of Ezhou: "The expansion of the army has been going on for several months, and it seems to have some effect. When the weather is warm, we will first attack the Yellow River in Xiakou." Zu, let’s talk about the rest of the chores, to fight a war, we have to take it step by step.”