When Liu Xin heard that, it was not that he was worried about going to Jingzhou, but something else. He was passionate and couldn't help but laugh. He said, "Brother Guo, you and I hit it off right away. It doesn't matter if you have anything to say."
Guo Jia seemed to have made a lot of determination, and then said, "Master Liu, I lost my father since I was a child, and I was raised up by my mother alone. Now I travel far away from home, but I can’t rest assured of her. I don’t know if the adults can help me. Take care of your mother."
Liu Xin laughed and said, "Brother Guo, so you are still a filial son! I didn't misunderstand the wrong person, so I am worthy of being my good brother! No problem, just leave it to me."
Guo Jia was overjoyed and said: "Then I would like to thank the adults. When I go abroad to study, I will send my mother to Xiangyang first."
Liu Xin suddenly remembered something and said, "No!"
Guo Jia was stunned, not knowing what he meant.
But Liu Xin said again: "Brother Guo, Yingchuan shouldn’t stay for long. We are going to leave soon. You also go home to pack up, and send your mother to Xiangyang as soon as possible. Remember, you can’t postpone this month. Remember, remember. ."
Although Guo Jia didn't understand why Liu Xin said this, he still agreed. How did he know that Liu Xin came from later generations and had foreseen the Yellow Turban Uprising in early February, and he also knew that Yingchuan was a center of the Yellow Turban Uprising.
The team left the academy and went on for another two days. After passing Yingchuan, the Jingzhou boundary was ahead. Liu Xin breathed a sigh of relief and finally came to my site.
He looked up and saw a faint group of people in the distance. He couldn't help feeling nervous and sent a group of soldiers to explore the way. After a short while, the soldier came back and brought an official with him. When the man saw Liu Xin, he hurriedly bowed: "Xiaguan Deng County magistrate Dong Cangte came to greet Master Zhou Mu."
Liu Xin smiled and said, "It turned out to be Dong County Order, so you don't need to be polite and lead the way."
It turned out that Dong Cang knew that the new Jingzhou Mu was coming, he sent people to Yingchuan every day to inquire. In the past two days, he personally brought officials and officials ten miles outside the city to greet him, and finally received Liu Xin. The county magistrate Dong welcomed Liu Xin and his party into the county seat and held a banquet for Liu Xin in the county government.
During the banquet, Liu Xin didn't drink much, and he asked Dong Cang more about the situation in Jingzhou. He now needs to know a lot about the local customs, the temperament of officials, and local celebrities. However, due to the fact that Deng County was governed by counties in the past, Deng County was under Nanyang's jurisdiction. In addition to Nanyang, Dong Cang did not know the situation of other counties.
The next day, after breakfast, everyone continued on the road. At least, Liu Xin has now figured out that Xiangyang, the governor of Jingzhou animal husbandry, is located in Nanjun, and he is still in Nanyang. He still needs to pass through the four counties of Wancheng, Bowang, Xinye, and Fancheng. Among them, Wancheng is The governing office of Nanyang County, Chu Gong, the current Nanyang governor, was in Wancheng.
At noon, Chu Gong, the prefect of Nanyang County, had received a report from Dong Cang sent by Pegasus, and hurriedly brought all the county officials to greet him. Nanyang County is the largest county in Jingzhou, with 37 counties under its jurisdiction, with a population of more than 2.6 million, while the population of Jingzhou as a whole is only more than 6 million, and Nanyang accounts for more than 40%. The country is also one of the best.
The governor of Jingzhou has been vacant for many years, and the governor only has the power to supervise the local officials, so the prefects of all counties in Jingzhou are used to living the best life except the emperor. As the prefect of this largest county, Chu Gong has always had eyes on his forehead. Although I knew that Liu Xin was the new Jingzhou pastoralist, not Jingzhou governor, but seeing him at his young age, he still didn't put him in the eyes, and coming to meet him was just following officialdom.
Liu Xin saw Chu Gong's arrogant expression, and his heart was slightly unhappy, but his face was full of smiles, showing no trace. He has been a thief for more than ten years, and his ability to pretend is still very high.
Chu Gong and others escorted Liu Xin into Wancheng, and set up a banquet to receive the wind in the Prefect's Mansion. This banquet was much richer than the one in Deng County. Chu Gong has been the prefect of Nanyang for many years, and he has a lot of money. Although he doesn't look down on Liu Xin too much, he doesn't want to offend him too much.
After three rounds of wine, Chu Gong asked someone to carry two large boxes and said to Liu Xin: "The adults come from a long way from the river with their family members and they are unfamiliar with people and places. The lower officials will prepare a small gift to help the adults settle down. fee."
Liu Xin put down the wine glass and refused to accept it. Instead, he said, "Premier Chu’s kindness was accepted by Liu. I am waiting for the official side, and the interests of the people should be the top priority. Just on the road, I saw the city in dilapidated condition, if there is a mountain. The thieves broke out and Wancheng was in danger. It would be better to leave the money to Chu Taishou to repair the city."
Liu Xin's words were somewhat ruthless. In fact, there are reasons why he said this. One is because he does know that Yingchuan is one of the centers of the Yellow Turban Uprising. If the Yingchuan Yellow Turban moves southward, Wancheng will bear the brunt. The second is that he really wants to beat Chu Gong and give him a signal that I am Jingzhou Mu, and you have to be under my control in the future.
Chu Gong was naturally displeased when he heard it, but he couldn't feel it. He waved his hand and told people to still lift the box down, and said to Liu Xin: "My lord said it very well, the lower officials should remember."
In this way, the banquet is not very pleasant. At the end of the wine feast, Chu Gong pretended to leave Liu Xin to play in Wancheng for a few days, but Liu Xin naturally wouldn't agree, and led his team out of Wancheng to move on.
After walking for a long time, Xu Huang pointed to the front and said, "Brother, Bowangpo is ahead."
"Bowangpo?" Liu Xin suddenly felt an ominous feeling when she heard it, and immediately said decisively, "No, you can't take Bowangpo! Detour to Xinye."
Liu Xin thought of the story of "burning Bowangpo". In fact, he was a little too careful. Although Chu Gong didn't put him in his eyes, he still didn't arrange an ambush to openly kill him, the superior.
Although everyone was a little puzzled by this order, Liu Xin was always nagging sometimes. He could even dream of Ma Yuanyi and Feng Zhe. Maybe he had dreamed about what danger was happening on Bowangpo. As a result, the team turned a fork in the road according to Liu Xin's intention.
The journey was also very peaceful, but it took three more days to come to Xinye, which happened to be the Shangyuan Festival. The lanterns of Xinye County have long been high, and the county magistrate Kuailiang and the county officials and squires waited outside the city gate early. Seeing the word "Xinye" on the city gate, Liu Xin was excited. This is where Liu Bei was stationed in the past! Looking at the people in the city who are preparing to celebrate the festive season, you can see that the people here are living happily and peacefully. Liu Xin couldn't help but think of the story of burning Xinye, and secretly made up his mind to prevent this place from being burnt to nothing.
Kuailiang's attitude towards Liu Xin was quite different from those of the officials he met before. After the banquet, he insisted on letting Liu Xin and his colleagues rest, and instead moved his whole family to the post house temporarily. Tian Feng, Jushou, and Cai Yong were followed by family members, and they also lived in the county government. The others were scattered and arranged to other large families, leaving only Dian Wei and Xu Chu as guards. Liu Xin looked around and thought that when the fire started to burn Xinye, Cao Ren and others lived in this county office, and suddenly felt a little uneasy.
Everyone just settled down. Liu Xin was talking with Ma Yun, but when Mrs. Cai came over, she wanted Ma Yun to come over. Ma Yun was surprised and wondered if something had happened to Cai Yan. It turned out that it was Cai Yong's family who wanted to hold the ceremony for their daughter. Ma Yun is the wife of Zhoumu, the highest status among these women, so the Cai family wanted to invite her to preside over the ceremony for their daughter.
Although Cai Yong is now destitute, he still attaches great importance to his daughter's gifts. As early as the first day of the new year, his first thing was to calculate the auspicious days for his daughter to go and to give gifts. Three consecutive times showed that the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was an auspicious day. . Originally, Cai Yong planned to settle down in Xiangyang, and then give gifts to his daughter. Unexpectedly, Liu Xin refused to go to Bowangpo. After three days of delay, he arrived in Xinye County on the fifteenth of the first lunar month. After dinner, Cai Yong made another calculation, and he was sure that today was an auspicious day. So he made up his mind to hold a ceremony for his daughter in this county office.
At that time, men were crowned at twenty and women were crowned at fifteen. In fact, a coming-of-age ceremony was held, indicating that they had reached an adult and could discuss marriage. The procedure of this ceremony is very complicated. It is divided into welcoming guests, taking place, opening ceremony, taking place, guest washing, first addition, one prayer, two additions, two prayers, three additions, three prayers, placing glutinous rice, and glutinous rice. There are seventeen steps in, the word 笄者, listening training, 笄者 thank you, and rituals. The three most important procedures are initial addition, additional addition and three addition. The first addition is to put on the hairpin and Luopa, change the clothes-picking clothes on the body to a plain skirt, and add a hairpin on the hairpin, and put on a dark dress with a squat. The third addition is to get a hairpin and a crown. , Put on a long dress with big sleeves. The three-time dresses have different meanings, and they symbolize the process of girls' growth—the pure color of the dresses, symbolizing the innocence of the girls; the light and elegant skirts, symbolizing the innocence of the cardamom girl; dignity The curly attire of the Han nationality is recognized as the most beautiful dress that can reflect the beauty of the Han nationality women, symbolizing the beauty of the young girl in the blooming season; the final grand sleeve dress reflects the grace and elegance of the Han nationality woman.
Ma Yun knew nothing about this. Fortunately, the two wives of Tian Feng and Jushou were also invited to serve as emcee and guest of honor. With their help, after an hour of tossing, finally completed this complicated set of procedures, Cai Yong also took the word for his daughter-Zhao Ji.
Back in the house, Ma Yun still talked about this ceremonial ceremony. This was the first time she participated in a relatively important ritual event in ancient times, especially when Cai Yan finally put on the dress, more beautiful and dignified, she couldn't help but say to Liu Xin. : "Husband, when do you make me a dress with big sleeves, you don't even have any decent clothes."
Liu Xin smiled and said, "What's the problem? When Xiangyang settles down, I will personally design some fashions for you to wear."
Ma Yun pretended to disdain and said, "Huh, the clothes you designed? I'm afraid I will go out to meet people without a face." In fact, she felt very happy in her heart.
The two were gossiping there, and suddenly there was a shout outside: "The water is gone! The water is gone! The county government is gone!"