The beggar was unkempt, his face was black and gray. Upon closer inspection, he could vaguely find that his face was very white. What surprised Liu Xin the most was that the man was naked without a beard.
It is the custom of the big man that men begin to grow beards after they are weak. It is unique like Liu Xin who insists on shaving every day, and even Liu Xin began to consider whether he should grow a beard, otherwise he would appear very much in this group of people. Alien, judging from the appearance of this person, he should be in his thirties. He is early than the age of beard growing. If he has the same "hobby" as Liu Xin and doesn't like beard growing, he doesn't even comb his head and face. A beggar who doesn’t wash, how can he have such a leisurely mood, shave his beard clean,
In this case, there are only two possibilities, either the beggar is a woman disguised as a man, or he is an eunuch. Seeing that the beggar’s throat is protruding, it is clearly a man. The eunuch Liu Xin in the palace doesn’t have much contact with him, and he is even less familiar with Liu Xin. I couldn't help but stop,
Upon seeing this, Zhu Rong turned around and asked, "Brother, why aren't you leaving?"
Liu Xin snorted at the beggar's side, and said, "I think that person is a little kind. Let's go, let's go over and ask."
The beggar also kept peeking at here secretly, seeing Liu Xin and Zhu Rong walking towards him, panicking and picking up the broken bowl that was on the ground, turned his head and wanted to turn into the small alley next to him.
Liu Xin firmed up his judgment. The beggar must have recognized himself, and couldn't help shouting: "Zhang Gou'er, stop for me,"
Hearing Liu Xin's shout, the beggar shivered, his legs softened, and he fell to his knees with a "plop". With a crisp sound of "pop", the broken bowl fell to pieces early, and a few copper coins were dripping. Slowly and swirlingly, I don’t know which corner I rolled to,
When Liu Xin saw his pretentiousness, he knew that his guess was not bad, but he didn't understand why he had fallen so far, so he couldn't help but take a step forward and asked, "You are really Zhang Gou'er,"
Seeing him approaching, Zhang Gou'er became more frightened, knocked his head like garlic, and said repeatedly: "Master Liu, the slave knows that he is wrong, please forgive the slave for his life,"
That person’s voice was high-pitched, and it was Zhang Gou’er no doubt.
"Where do you start? Get up quickly," Liu Xin was surprised, and ignored his filthy body. He stretched out his hand to pull him up, and exclaimed, "Zhang Gou'er, I think you and Gongming and they took Liu directly from Juchao to Hejian. The past is still vivid, but now they meet again here. It's really good luck."
"Master Liu, the dog was still from you back then..." Zhang Gou'er's face was covered with dirt, and he couldn't see his expression, but from the movement of his head down, he could feel that he had such a lack of self-confidence.
Liu Xin waved his hand and said, "I gave you and your brothers those things back then. No need to mention them. It's just how you ended up here. Once you have arrived in Jingzhou, why don't you go to me,"
Zhang Gou'er sighed and said, "Oh, it's hard to say a word. Back then, Yuan Shu and Cao Cao led troops into the palace. Many of the servants were poisoned by them. Fortunately, I was not on duty that day and escaped. Later, Dong Zhuo Entering Beijing, the servants who made Luoyang city smoky and furious, and escaped by chance, who are not terrified, for fear that one day Dong Zhuo’s butcher knife will fall on him."
After a pause, Zhang Gou'er continued: "There are so many treasures in the palace and no one is under control. So the clever servant stole it out and escaped. Dong Zhuo ignored it. That day, I also stole some gold. The jewel shells were wrapped in a piece of rhubarb silk cloth and hidden at the waist. They wanted to get out of the palace. Unexpectedly, they were interrogated by Dong Zhuo's sergeant at the gate of the palace. They searched for the gold jewel shells and beat me up. Out of the city, only the yellow silk cloth was left."
Liu Xin smiled and said, "Dog, don't sigh, they just beat you, and they saved your life. It's a blessing in misfortune."
"Master Liu, you don't know anything. If the sergeants guarding the palace gate killed the minions, it would be difficult to hide those golden jewels. It would be better to put the blame for theft on the minions, so the minions I have been escorting out the city of Luoyang, and then I give up," Zhang Gou'er said with a wry smile, "Although the slave still has some belongings hidden in his house, it is a pity that he can't return to the city, so he has to flee to Jingzhou. The piece of cloth is the finest silk used in the palace, maybe it can be replaced by two coils. Who knows that when the slave opens it, it only screams bitterly."
Liu Xin said strangely: "Why is this?"
Zhang Gou'er sighed and said, "Master Liu, do you think that the minion should be fate? When the minion stole those gold and silver, he was also worried. He happened to see a piece of yellow silk and used it at will, but he never fined it. Look, when the minion wanted to change it, he found out what kind of yellow silk was, it was clearly a map of the territory of the Han Dynasty left by Guangwu. You said, who dares to take this thing, and the minion begs all the way. Coming to Xiangyang..."
Liu Xin was stunned for a moment, then interrupted him and said, "Wait, what did you say about that piece of yellow silk?"
"It's a map of the territory of the Han Dynasty," Zhang Gou'er said without hesitation: "The slave arrived in Xiangyang. Who knows that there will be no people begging here, and the slaves will be sent to forced labor. This comes to Wuling. Your lord, you know, the slaves are here. How can the body be able to do that..."
Liu Xin waved his hand and interrupted him again, and asked, "Where is that map of the Great Han territory now?"
"The minion begs in the city during the day, and at night, he sleeps in the bridge hole outside the city. That piece of yellow silk is used as a mattress," Zhang Gou'er replied casually, and went on to tell his story. "The minion did two things. God, my family can’t stand it, just take a chance..."
"Okay, okay, let's not talk about it yet," Liu Xin was overjoyed when he heard that the map of the Great Han territory had not been lost, and stopped him saying, "Take me to see the map of the Han Dynasty, let's talk while walking. "
These eunuchs got the knife in their lower body, and they have been dripping since then. They often have the smell of urine on their bodies. In addition, Zhang Gou'er does not take a bath all the year, and it is even more stinking. Zhu Rong couldn't stand it, so he covered his nose and stayed far away. After that, Liu Xin came to this world and had never seen a complete picture of a big man. He learned that Zhang Gou'er had such a thing in his hand, where he was concerned about the unpleasant smell, but he talked and laughed all the way. , I also know that Zhang Gou'er has not been easy to live in the past few years,
After he escaped from Luoyang, he had nowhere to go, and he did want to go to Liu Xin, so he came to Xiangyang, but when he arrived in Xiangyang, Zhang Gou'er became frightened again, but he took a lot of money from Liu Xin back then. Money, in case Liu Xin was investigated, he even had ten heads and he was not enough to cut. This hesitation was taken as a refugee and was sent directly to participate in forced labor.
He was not the material for these heavy tasks. He cleaned his body and was very inconvenient in his daily life. Within two days, he took a chance and ran away. At this time, the engineering team was different from the past. In a few, the leader of Zhang Gou’er’s team quietly brought in one of his relatives, to overcome Zhang Gou’er’s shortcomings.
After a while, Zhang Gou'er started begging "righteously" in Wuling City without hearing the wind of arresting him. The people here are prosperous and begging is easy, but it's hard to find a place to live in the city. He found a bridge hole outside and settled down, and the map of the Han Dynasty became his bed sheet.
Liu Xin held the slightly broken and smelly map of the Dahan's territory, and couldn't help but laughed and said: "Zhang Gou'er, you are so courageous, you dare to sleep the entire Dahan Jiangshan on your body. under,"
He just joked casually, but Zhang Gou'er was so scared that he fell to his knees in a hurry, and repeatedly squatted his head and said: "You deserve to die for the crime of a slave, please forgive me,"
Liu Xin put a smile away and said with a serious face: "Zhang Gou'er, although you are a little disrespectful to this map of the Great Han territory, you have some merits in maintaining it. If your merits and demerits are equal, I will not blame you. I take it, and I will go back to Xiangyang with me tomorrow. I need to live a good life in the future, and I can't do those illegal things anymore."
Zhang Gou'er knew that with Liu Xin's words, he would have no worries about food and clothing in the future. He fell from the sky to the ground, and now he can come back to life. Since then, he has worked hard and is loyal to Liu Xin.
Liu Xin didn't expect that he would come to Wuling City today and actually picked up a treasure. You know, under the conditions at the time, drawing a map was very difficult, let alone a map of the whole country, with such a picture. With a map, Liu Xin can more easily understand the general trend of the country and provide him with more convenience for planning a war to dominate the world in the future.
Liu Xin, who usually doesn’t drink much alcohol, made an exception today and made two big cups with the Wuling civil and military officials led by Jin Xuan. After drinking for three rounds, Jin Xuan took the civil and military officials to get up and resign. I was very interesting. Knowing that Liu Xin was accompanied by the female family members, he gave up all his residences. It was a big house. Except for a few maids, everyone else moved to the post house. Outside the house, Hou Qinu took a few. The soldiers took turns to guard the sentry, and the whole house seemed extraordinarily quiet.
Liu Xin is not a hypocritical person, so he is not polite to him, led by two little maids, walks to the back house, turns a long corridor, the front suddenly opens up, and can be seen vaguely by the hazy moonlight. Going to a small courtyard flickering and appearing among the bamboo forest, it is very quiet,
At the end of the corridor, Zhu Yu was looking forward to it. When he saw Liu Xin, he quickly greeted him and said, "Master, sister is in the front yard."
Liu Xin couldn't help asking, "Who lives there on weekdays?"
A pretty maid said hurriedly: "Back to your lord, that is my lady's boudoir,"
Liu Xin frowned and said to Zhu Yu: "What is Rong'er doing? How can I single out the lady's boudoir with so many houses in this mansion?"
Zhu Yu hurriedly said: "Sister A just saw the elegant environment here and liked it very much. She didn't know that it was his wife's boudoir, or she could change it to another place.