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A string of drops of water slid down from the wet hair roots, Li Mu wiped his face casually, wiped off the drops of water, slid his fingertips down the bridge of his nose along the center of his eyebrows, and paused.

In normal times, she would never say such words in front of a man, no matter what era she was in her previous life or present life.

But in the killing last night, she was provoked by Zhou Yu's words when she was in a trance. What she saw and thought these days is that ancient women can't help themselves. All kinds of messy thoughts formed in my heart since the acquaintance came out all at once.

Li Mu bit her lip, feeling regretful in her heart, and was about to find some excuse to get rid of this, but Zhou Yu nodded her head along with the trend, with a serious expression on her face, not at all the "self-indulgence" she expected. proud look.

As if the air around him suddenly froze, Zhou Yu's inexplicable words of "reporting to the elders in the Ming family" outside Xuzhou City suddenly echoed in his mind like a flash of inspiration.In addition, this trip went north to Wancheng, and then to the mouth of Jiangxia Lake. On the way, it had to detour to Juchao. Zhou Yu said that Juchao was also his father's property.

And his magnanimity that is different from the avoidance of men and women in this era...

"You..." After being stunned for a while, Li Mu finally understood what it was that she had vaguely thought to miss all this time!He gasped in disbelief and stared at him blankly.

Zhou Yu lowered his head and turned his eyes away from her, but his voice softened: "You don't need to worry about this matter, I will make arrangements for it."

"Huh?" Li Mu finally woke up and couldn't help laughing out loud.

She took a deep breath, raised her eyebrows again and again, but finally couldn't hold back the breath, and sneered again and again, "Zhou Gongjin, in terms of calculations, I am far behind you, but I am not a fool!"

Zhou Yu couldn't help being taken aback when he heard this.

Li Mu didn't give him a chance to ask, so he continued directly: "Sun Ce moved to Jiangdong, even though he won many battles, he was as brave as a tiger. But if he really wants to gain a foothold in Jiangdong, he must have the support of the local wealthy families. wrong?"

Li Mu didn't have much idea of ​​the influence of aristocratic families in this era.But the battle of Xuzhou made her see clearly that even a brave man like Lu Bu will end in death, and a city like Liu Bei will also have the embarrassment of abandoning the city and abandoning his wife.Xuzhou changed hands several times and fought several times, but Chen Deng, a scholar, did as the official did, and the days went by in peace, and even Zhou Yu was clearly placed in the city of Xiapi, and he ran to Liu Bei in a grandiose manner, betting to death that he did it for him. Taking into account Sun Ce's reputation will not affect the lives of his entire clan.It can be seen that the children of the rich and powerful families of the aristocratic family, even though they do not have the courage of thousands of people, they are better than tens of thousands of soldiers.

When mentioning the wealthy family, Zhou Yu vaguely guessed what Li Mu was going to say next, and his expression changed slightly.

As in Xuzhou, so is Jiangdong.Sun Ce has worked so hard to build this foundation, and naturally the support of the local wealthy family is also indispensable.But at this time, he himself has no high-ranking official or honor, and he needs food and grass to fight. In terms of wealth and power, he can't promise these aristocratic families anything at all.

The only way to marry a daughter of their family and tie your own interests with theirs, then from now on, if Sun Ce wins, the family will win, and Sun Ce will be king, and these families will benefit from it.

When Liu Biao entered Jingzhou alone, didn't he use this method to establish his foundation?

But Sun Ce has already married a wife, even if he remarries for marriage, it can only be for "acceptance".But Sun Quannian is not as weak as the crown, Sun Yi and Sun Kuang are even younger, but Zhou Yu is a handsome and talented young man who has no wife and family. prestige.Let him marry the daughter of the Jiangdong family as his wife, and add a few other families as concubines, each family will be balanced and each family will benefit. This is the most credible promise Sun made to the Jiangdong family!

Mrs. Qiao in Wancheng has two daughters, Sun Cena's eldest Qiao, and Zhou Yu's younger Qiao.When Li Mu realized the influence of the aristocratic family in this era, he just lamented that Zhou Yu and Xiao Qiao, a loving couple through the ages, were originally just a political marriage seeking balance. , This is the eternal story!

But who would have thought that a casual remark today would actually teach her to find out that Zhou Yu was going to tell her an "eternal story"!

Even Li Mu can think of the trade-offs. Zhou Yu, who has always acted cautiously and thought about ten steps, can't think of it?

"Your father came to Luoyang as an official, and your family has three fathers from Han and Han. What is the reason why you have not married yet?" Recalling Zhou Yu's family history, he was both a father and a father. Li Mu couldn't help but sneer, " Zhou Gongjin, if you want to marry me, if you are a wife, how will you marry Jiangdong in the future? If you are a concubine..."

"You think too highly of yourself!"

A gust of wind blows past, and amidst the sound of gurgling water, the leaves rustle.Li Mu and Zhou Yu were both blood-stained and dusty. They stood facing each other. Li Mu raised his chin slightly and pressed his lips tightly. But there was no smile at all, as if as long as Zhou Yu took a step forward, sharp arrows would shoot out from the bowstring immediately.

Neither of them opened their mouths, and remained silent for a while.

After a while, Zhou Yu sighed slowly.

He has always had a very high opinion of himself. From childhood to adulthood, only people praised him for his humility and humility. This was the first time someone accused him of thinking too highly of himself in front of his face.

But he couldn't even utter a half-word rebuttal.

Of course he knew that Sun Ce had plans to get married.

It's just that he never took it to heart.In other words, before that, he never cared what his future wife would look like.

Born in a noble family, he has long been used to this kind of practice of consolidating power through marriage contracts. He wants to assist Mingzhu, reprimand Fang Qiu, and sweep away Qianyu. If he wants to use marriage to stabilize the intertwined forces of all parties, he would Also felt it was okay.

A soft-tempered, elegant and courteous woman from the family manages the house for him and bears children. It seems that the sun will surely rise from the east, which is the established track in his life.The only difference is that this woman is determined by his family to marry an official in the court, or it is determined by the situation in Jiangdong to strive for the greatest support.

For him, it was always a woman, it made no difference.

But Li Mu is to him...

At the beginning, it was only because of the physical relationship in front of him that he couldn't pretend that he didn't know it at all, and didn't care about it at all, so he came up with the idea of ​​marrying this little girl.

I didn't think it was a big deal at first, but I didn't know that as time went by, my originally indifferent mind unconsciously changed its meaning.

The amazement in his eyes when he saw soldiers and horses on display, the reddish ear tips when he was annoyed, but every time he unexpectedly revealed his intentions that had been hidden for a long time.

Staring when angry, blushing after drinking, talking and laughing with soldiers, trying arrows with artisans, drinking with reckless generals in the army, making a bet with him word by word, from Shouchun onwards, even if you have no confidence in your heart, this The little girl still had her back straight, with a stubborn look of not admitting defeat.

He asked himself that he had never been afraid of anything before, but last night he was almost frightened by this little girl, and he became mad with rage.

He was always green robed and silver armored, he rushed to the battlefield, his horses were bloodied, and since he was calm and elegant, he was embarrassed in front of this little girl several times, and he would even pretend to be dizzy than open his eyes.

What else could he do but marry her back?

It's just that Zhou Yu couldn't help smiling wryly—it seemed that he really thought highly of himself this time.

At this moment, Gao Shun sent his own soldiers to ask when he was going to leave, and kept his words shut.Zhou Yu could only take a look at Li Mu first, held his temper, and asked about the injuries of the "two soldiers" who had been lucky enough to come from Xuancheng.

Sun Quan has been staying in Jiangdu with his mother since Sun Ce joined Yuan Shu, and only went south to join the army a month ago, Sun Ce took him to the army tent for a few days, and then there was another battle, fearing that he would be injured in the army, he ordered him to Go south to garrison Xuancheng.

Therefore, there are only a few people in the army who really know Sun Quan, and hundreds of soldiers guarding Xuancheng. Even Sun Jian's old generals only drank a cup of celebration wine when Sun Quan was born, and then fought in all directions.After being swallowed up by Yuan Shu for more than ten years, even if she is standing in front of Li Mu now, as long as Sun Ce does not deny it, how many people can recognize that she is a fake?

But now in the battle of Xuancheng, all the guards died, only Zhou Tai was seriously injured and unconscious, and Sun Quan was stabbed in the back, and he was also seriously injured. Li Mu, the fake Sun Quan, had to hide behind the tent, reasoning He was also injured and gradually avoided people's eyes and ears, and now he didn't even need to cover up.

It was just now that Zhou Yu sent someone to Xiapi to report to Sun Ce, but he only said that the "two generals" were important generals in the army, and ordered them to go to the nearest town to seek medical treatment.

The soldier replied clearly: "I asked a doctor to say that the two generals need to find a place to recuperate. General Gao said that there is no medicine outside the city, and there is no way to recuperate. Therefore, I ask Mr. Quan to order the camp to be withdrawn immediately."

Zhou Yu pondered for a while, then nodded and ordered the army to pull out the camp immediately.

With such a slowdown, Li Mu calmed down from the initial shock.

Her reaction...was it too exaggerated?

Zhou Yu is a man of this era. Knowing that she is a woman, he walks with her all the way. When he met Zu Lang, he slept in the same cabin and took off his clothes while bandaging the wound. To him, marrying her should be just to worry about her reputation. liability for the damage.

And in this sense of responsibility, it would be even better if there is an eternal story about being famous and beneficial to the army.

With a good family background, good looks, great resourcefulness, bravery in battle, and great ambition, it is probably not unusual for him to have three wives and four concubines.In this era when it is most popular to run away after leaving the family behind in a war, it should be an extremely rare and rare sense of responsibility for such a man to still remember to marry her.She just doesn't want to marry or not. Anyway, there is Tai Shici, an elder brother. If she refuses to marry at the end of her life, can Sun Ce force her?Why should you be too harsh on Zhou Yu?

Thinking of this, Li Mu slowly let out a breath, and slowly lowered all his defenses.After the soldier left to deliver the order, her tone naturally softened: "You are a gentleman who does not bully the dark room, stand upright and shoulder responsibility on both shoulders, I admire it very much. Just think it's me reneging on this time," blinked her eyes , Narrowed up slightly, spread his hands, "You have been hit by a arrow, and I won't bandage your wound. Could it be that I watched you bleed to death?" And the pedantic Confucian who can't be saved?"

What do you mean by "just treat it as her repudiation"?This matter... How could she refuse to pay her bills!

And it's as if he's always reneging on his bills!

Zhou Yu's thoughts turned from Sun Quan and Zhou Tai, and when he heard this, his chest was suffocated, and he didn't know whether to be angry or laugh.As long as Tai Shizi's elder brother nods his head on behalf of his father, and Bo Fu is the matchmaker, can she still renege on her debt?

But no matter what, he finally calmed down completely, knowing that if he said this immediately, the little girl in front of him might jump on the horse and go back to Xiapi to look for Tai Shici immediately.He could only suppress a feeling of depression in his heart, and shook his head: "I'll talk about this later, while there are doctors in the army, hurry up..."

"Can I go?"

Seeing Zhou Yu's slip of the tongue for a moment, Li Mu laughed loudly as he looked annoyed that he wanted to bite off his tongue.

She lowered her head and pulled out the corners of her middle clothes from the hem. Ever since Zhou Yu was injured, she had always thought about cutting a small hole along the fabric texture of the corners of the middle clothes on her upper body, in case she needed them. , Just tear along the small opening, you can tear off a strip.

The awareness of disinfection in this era is too poor, and it is not easy to find a piece of clean cloth. Whether it is bumped, bandaged a wound, or washed your face and wiped your body, it is always better to wear it next to your body.

"I've thought about it. From now on, you'll just think of me as an ordinary man," Li Mu stepped back, and instead of asking Zhou Yu for help, he only tilted his head and raised his eyebrows at him, tilting his head and eye corners slightly. Suddenly, a row of white and neat teeth grabbed one end of the cloth strip, like a little beast showing its teeth, freed up the other hand to wrap the cloth strip around the wound on the forearm, "Although I can't lead soldiers, I also don't know much about government affairs, but if Sun Ce summons craftsmen to make ordnance, he will come to consult me ​​just because of the range of four hundred paces at the top of Xiapi City."

"The body of Xiapi's city crossbow is too long, and the wooden knot of the winch is too short. If I build it all, the string mouth and the body of the crossbow are all made of iron, and it doesn't have to be installed on the city head. The wheel is installed under the crossbow. , only one person can push it, and it can go around, with a range of [-] steps, and the accuracy is guaranteed to be within two steps."

If you ask for something, you can get it.With Tai Shici, she will have her own place in Jiangdong in the future.But when Zhou Yu mentioned it now, it also made her suddenly think of another urgent problem.

Now that she is turning fifteen this year, she is about to reach the age of Jiji. Zhou Yu still has to consider marrying a wealthy family in Jiangdong when marrying a wife, and Tai Shici is Sun Ce's general. As Tai Shici's younger sister, she may have plans to move her come on.

Once Sun Ce wanted something from her, before moving his mind, he had to ask her if she was willing.

The girl with loose long hair talked eloquently, the faint sunlight outlined a circle of golden outline along her shoulders, casting hazy phantom shadows, but her eyes were like the brightest stars, proud and firm, like staring at world.