Night fell slowly, but the Wancheng prefect's mansion was brightly lit.
The new owner of Wancheng, General Lu Bu, wants to entertain the entire Lujiang gentry.
One after another, those Lujiang gentry arrived, exchanging pleasantries with each other, but none of them took the initiative to say hello to the owner here.
Lu Bu didn't bother to pay attention to these people, there were many kinds of delicacies on the table, and seeing that there were almost enough people, he prepared to start the feast.
"Everyone, you must know what it means for Bu to invite you to come here!" Lu Bu went straight to the point, "Food and grass, Bu and Bu's Bingzhou Army are guarding one side for our big man. I shouldn't bother you, but Bu's Bingzhou Army is running out of food and grass, so I want to Please help me out here!"
As soon as Lu Bu opened his mouth, someone picked up the conversation, "Where, where! General Lu is here to benefit one side. The general has little food and grass. We have also heard that he should have generously donated money to help my big man strengthen the army! But, but" said The head of the Wang family looked very embarrassed, "In this troubled world, the people's livelihood is dying and it is difficult to sustain. Let's say that my Wang family has dismissed most of the servants, and usually can only eat enough. It is really powerless to help, powerless to help. !"
The patriarch of the Wang family is definitely a showman, sometimes remorseful, sometimes sad, sometimes frowning, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Come on! General Lu and his Bingzhou military house will sacrifice their lives to benefit the people of our Lujiang side. How can we let the soldiers We don’t have food and grass, and I, Wang, won’t die of hunger even after a few meals, General Lu, I’m willing to donate twenty shi of food and grass to support the soldiers!”
Twenty stone? ! Lu Bu's eyes flashed, and the fists sitting under the main seat were unconsciously clenched.
Twenty shi, for an ordinary family, may be a year or even a year and a half of rations, but for these gentry, the value of their meal is more than twenty shi, perhaps a delicious meal can be worth tens of thousands of dollars. money, even a few gold.
Now with twenty shi, you are begging for food!
"Yes, yes, the world is hot and cold, and troubled times are hard! But the generals must not go hungry. My Li family pays 30 shi. If you are hungry for a few days, you will be on a diet!" Another patriarch of the noble clan expressed his opinion.
Thirty stone? The killing intent in Lu Bu's heart deepened.
"General Lu has done a lot of hard work, even if I sell everything I can, I still have to subsidize General Lu! I will pay ten stones!"
Smashing pots and selling iron for ten stones?!
"I offered fifty shi. I originally planned to buy a fat pig to go back to meet the oil and water. Now that General Lu is in trouble, we have to help!"
Unlike everyone who spoke, the Patriarchs of Zhou, Chen and Liu didn't say a word.
"I'll pay two hundred shi!" The head of the Liu family said.
"Two hundred shi? Brother Liu, you are crazy!" Someone beside him pretended not to believe it.
"It's okay, it's okay, two meals a day can be changed to one meal! No matter how you say it, you can't starve the soldiers!"
"Yeah, yeah, we couldn't help my big fellow generals when General Sun was here, but now that we can serve the country, it's nothing if we don't eat or drink!" This was Chen Yao's voice, and there was something in his words. In other words, what does it mean that General Sun has no chance to repay you when he is here? This is mocking Lu Bu!
Lu Bu felt that he couldn't bear it anymore. The people in front of him, the gentry in front of him, they controlled 80% of the wealth in Lujiang, and their men had thousands of acres of fertile land, and they were still crying poor in front of Lu Bu. If they all If you don't have enough to eat, then there will be no one in this world who will not starve to death.
Lu Bu took a deep breath, he was really afraid that he couldn't help but kill them with a knife, "It's all Bu Bu's fault, I don't know why you are so embarrassed, these delicacies are too poor and extravagant, too extravagant." I don’t know how much Min Zhi Min Gao I ate for a meal.”
"Yes, yes! This meal may be worth what my family eats for half a year!"
"Don't be extravagant, it's a great blessing to be able to eat enough!" These patriarchs talked to Lu Bu while looking at them, mocking on the surface respectful.
Don't you want us to donate food and grass! Okay, we donated. We donated more than ten or twenty shi of grain to you. It’s not that we don’t want to donate more, but we are also “poor”. You see, I gave you all the money for food.
"Come here and remove them all for me! The world is so cold and we shouldn't be extravagant and wasteful. Eating these people's fats and people's creams will make you feel cold! Serve me again!" Lu Bu sneered, pretend, you continue to pretend .
One dish, two dishes, and the brows of the patriarchs below frowned every time a dish was served.
Three dishes and one soup, two vegetables and one meat. The vegetarian dishes are made from those wild vegetables in the wild. The meat dishes are just a few pieces of fat meat fried with some wild mushrooms. There are even pigs on top of the fat meat. hair.
Let these pampered elders see their stomachs tumbling for a while, so there is no leisure for eating.
Let’s talk about the rice, it’s even more withered and yellow, and it’s hard to find white rice, which is mixed with chaff, chestnut husks, and even small stones.
A gentry patriarch picked up the bowl of rice and even found cooked rice worms. Is this for people to eat
"What? Isn't everyone hungry?!" Lu Bu was the first to move his chopsticks, and Lu Bu ate those things that the patriarchs of the gentry clans and the rich clan chiefs didn't seem to eat at all, but he ate them with relish.
Seeing that none of the people below moved their chopsticks, Lu Bu sneered in his heart and said, "I'm sorry everyone, our army is running out of food and grass. I hope you can understand it!" Lü Bu borrowed food and grass from these gentry and powerful families, and each of them shirked that life was hard and there was no food in the house, but he would rather starve and grit his teeth to squeeze out dozens of food for the sake of the army. Stone out.
It is very sensational, but it is actually crying for poverty.
"Understand, understand!" Those who said they understood were those who cried poorly.
"This is already a delicacy. You can't eat such a good food at home! Look, there is still meat!"
"Come, come, everyone here is the mainstay of this Lujiang River. Without you, there would be no whole Lujiang River. Bu leads me and the state army to offer a toast to you all!" Lu Bu held up his wine glass and toasted to the various patriarchs and patriarchs below.
Lu Bu is the current owner of Wancheng, and his official position is also General Pingdong, and he also wears a Xuzhou shepherd on his body. No matter how much the people below look down on Lu Bu, they don't dare to be too polite, so they all hold up their wine glasses one by one and want to return the gift.
As soon as he took a sip of this wine, his face turned green. These wines were all sour, and the wine that was supposed to be clear turned muddy.
"Ahem!" An elderly patriarch even choked on the wine, spitting out small stones from his mouth from time to time.
Lu Bu had already drank the wine glass in one gulp, these people had no choice but to save face, they just had to endure the pain and drink down the wine glass.
"Everyone, Bu is new here, and I still need your support in the future, so I will respect everyone here!" Lu Bu drank another cup.
Still want to drink? The following patriarchs and family owners are in a hurry, can this wine be drunk? Drinking one cup is a last resort, but drinking two cups is fatal.
"What's the matter, everyone, this drink is not to your taste!" Lu Bu asked looking at the ugly patriarchs and patriarchs below.
It's not that the wine is not to your taste, but that it's not for people to drink at all. I think so in my heart but don't say so in my mouth.
"General Lu, it's not that the wine is not to your taste, but that it's too strong, too strong!" A patriarch stood up and said.
"Too strong to drink? This is only two glasses, oh, I know it's because there is no food in my stomach, so I can't drink too much! Come, eat some food, so that I can drink!" Lu Bu asked the maid on the side to talk to that The main dish of the house.
Either wild vegetables, or mushrooms, or the fat with pig hair, let the owner eat it with bitterness.
"Come and drink!" Lu Bu raised his wine glass again, and the head of the family below behaved himself, saying that he would eat the pig food if he couldn't drink enough. Compared with those hard-to-drink meals, this wine is already considered good.
Lu Bu has been toasting, and the patriarchs and patriarchs below have been drinking the sour wine with sullen faces.
"Patriarch Chen, why don't you move your chopsticks? Does Patriarch Chen dislike these meals?!" According to what these gentry said, these dishes are already the best they can eat. To say you dislike them is not to slap yourself Well!
"It's not that I hate it, it's the truth. It's just that I have a bad stomach recently and can only drink porridge, but I can't enjoy such delicious food!" It would be better to kill him than let him eat these things! Where is this for people to eat? Even their dogs don't eat them.
"Drink porridge?!" Lu Bu glanced at Chen Yao, he was the one who satirized himself the most fiercely just now, and told you not to eat because you have a bad stomach.
"Patriarch Chen, why didn't you say it earlier! Say it earlier and let Bu prepare for you first!" Lu Bu complained.
"Don't bother, don't bother!" Chen Yao was already relieved to not eat this kind of food.
There were even quite a few people around who shouted that they had an upset stomach and could only drink porridge.
"Hehe, fortunately, Bu also likes to drink porridge at night, so he cooked a little. Naturally, Patriarch Chen can't eat, so let Patriarch Chen drink my porridge! Someone serve the porridge!"
Is this porridge? ! The corners of Chen Yao's mouth were twitching. The porridge in his memory should be made from fine rice, with lotus seeds, goji berry honey juice and ginseng slices added, and this could be considered a bowl of porridge.
And what is this yellow and black one in front of me, with no grain of white rice in sight? Are those green grasses? There's even something moving around the sides of the bowl? Rice bug
"Come here, I'll serve a bowl for everyone who has a bad stomach! Drink carefully and don't choke!"
A dinner party until a messenger ran in and kowtowed to Lu Bu, wanting to say something but saw the crowd present but prophesied.
"If you have anything to say, just say it, everyone here is the mainstay of Lujiang!"
"I tell my lord that the newly obtained grain has been put into storage, but the storage is full and there are still four thousand stones left. Lord Chen Gong asked the lord what to do with it!" (To be continued.)