Wu County, Sun Quan's Wu Hou Mansion Di.

In the garden of the inner house, a young girl is fiddling with the flowers and plants in the flower garden. Because of the hot weather, the girl was only wearing a short casual dress that was cool and breathable, but she was still sweating under the busyness. Occasionally, there were beads of sweat on her cheeks and foreheads, and the girl just wiped them off with the back of her hand or sleeve, and even if her pretty face was covered with a lot of dust, she didn't care.

After a while, the girl finally stood up straight, turned her head to look at the flowers and plants that had just been collected in the bamboo basket beside her, smiled to herself, and then whispered to herself: "There are almost these." ”

At this moment, an old woman, accompanied by several maids, came to the garden and beckoned to the girl, "Girl Lan, what are you busy doing here early in the morning?" ”

The Lan girl is naturally Lu Lan, and this old woman is Wu Guomu. Lu Ren asked Lu Lan to come to Sun Quan to report the news at that time, considering those messy problems, it was Wu Guomu who asked Lu Lan to go directly to see. In this way, even if Lu Lan will become a hostage, she will only be left by Wu Guomu's side.

However, the identity of this hostage is something that everyone knows but will not say on the surface, so on the surface, Lu Lan is Sun Quan's guest here after all, although he can't run around in normal times, at least in the courtyard of the back house, he is still relatively free. And Lu Lan is the kind of beautiful and cute, smart and clever little girl, it is not an exaggeration to say that everyone loves her, and with the knowledge and skills that Lu Lan learned from Xuchang at the beginning, it is a piece of cake to coax Wu Guomu to be happy. Anyway, after a few months, Wu Guomu didn't like Lu Lanna very much.

Seeing Lu Lan seeing Wu Guomu coming over, she hurriedly saluted Wu Guomu, and then pointed to the flowers and plants that had just been collected in the bamboo basket with her backhand and said: "Last time, Xiaolan made a few pastries at a moment's itch, and the old lady liked it very much after you tasted it, so Xiaolan wanted to make some more for the old lady to try, so I came to the flower garden to collect some ingredients." ”

Wu Guomu smiled: "Do you want to make flower cakes?" The old body really likes it. It's just a Lan girl. No matter how you say it, you are also a guest of our Sun family, how can these things make you busy? ”

Lu Lan hurriedly shook her head: "It's okay, I can't be idle anyway." Besides, Xiaolan is not a delicate person, when she was taken in by the adults, Xiaolan was just a little beggar begging on the street, and even had to steal some food to barely support herself. If she hadn't followed the adults later, Xiaolan didn't know what would have become of her now. ”

Wu Guomu sighed lightly: "At that time, the war in the north was chaotic, and there were thousands of displaced children like you......

In this way, Wu Guomu and Lu Lan chatted in this garden. Seriously, Wu Guomu likes Lu Lan very much. Because although Lu Lan is a little eccentric, because she often had to deal with those upper-class characters when she was in Xuchang, she was extraordinarily stable when she should be knowledgeable and courteous, and she was beautiful and cute, so she was very favored by Wu Guomu. Because of this, Lu Lan has not been wronged in the past few months.

After chatting for a while, someone suddenly came to report that the fleet of Yizhou had arrived at the Lu Wharf in Wu County. Of course, this is not the point, and it is not uncommon for the Lu clan of Wu County to often have a fleet to go to Yizhou to traffic some goods. What really matters. It was someone who reported that Lu Ren personally sent Sun Shangxiang back to Wu......

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To be honest, if it weren't for Sun Shangxiang who caused the first incident, Lu Ren wouldn't have thought of Sun Quan at all. But now there is no way, Sun Shangxiang's identity is not a joke. If Lu Ren didn't come to Sun Quan in person and do some façade work, I am afraid that he would be a little unable to explain it.

Under normal circumstances, Lu Ren would not have been able to see Wu Guomu. Because the current Lu Ren does not have that qualification and identity. After all, although Lu Ren is a little famous now, he is really just a businessman in white clothes, and what is Wu Guomu's identity? But now one is introduced by Sun Shangxiang himself. The second is that Wu Guomu also wants to see if she can ask something from Lu Ren's mouth.

A few months ago, Sun Shangxiang was simply crazy in Yizhou, and everyone was tanned twice, and this time he came back and stood in front of Wu Guomu, Wu Guomu was surprised, and how could she not know that Sun Shangxiang had been crazy in the past few months? It's just that Wu Guomu knows her daughter too well, and knows that if Sun Shangxiang doesn't want to say something, she can't ask no matter how much she asks, so she wants to ask Lu Ren. This situation is a bit like those parents in modern society, who want to know where their children are going, but generally do not ask their children, but knock on the side from other people's mouths.

Lu Ren came over this time and deliberately brought Minchan with him, because Minchan had lived here with Wu Guomu for a few days before, and they could be regarded as acquaintances, so the two sides didn't see each other much. After their respective etiquette and polite words were finished, Wu Guomu asked Sun Shangxiang to take Minchan to play in the mansion and meet Lu Lan, which separated Sun Shangxiang and them, and then signaled the attendants to retreat together, and only Wu Guomu and Lu Ren were left in the hall.

Lu Ren is not a stupid person, seeing Wu Guomu like this, he naturally understands what Wu Guomu wants to do. And then again, this is exactly the situation that Lu Ren wants, so before Wu Guomu could speak, Lu Ren took a step ahead of Wu Guomu, and directly left the table to bow down to Wu Guomu and apologize: "On that day, the county lord boarded the ship in disguise and followed the fleet to Yizhou, where he lived, but he couldn't persuade the county lord to return to Wu immediately, and he was guilty of capital crime!" ”

Wu Guomu sighed, left the table and helped Lu Ren up: "What is the crime of Lu Servant?" Shang Xiang is the daughter of the old body, what is her temperament, how can the old body not know? If you can persuade her to come back at that time, I'm afraid it will be a strange thing. The old man is worried that this child will be rude in the past few months, and will offend the gentleman? Or did you cause some trouble for your husband? ”

These are all polite words on the scene. When Lu Ren came over this time, he made up for the character information of Eastern Wu, and knew that this Wu Guomu was actually a very powerful character, like when he was young, he saw that Sun Jian was a "potential stock", so as to persuade the clansmen to marry Sun Jian; Later, during Sun Ce's attack on Jiangdong, he dared to stand at the mouth of the well to persuade Sun Ce, who was high-spirited...... This is not something that ordinary women can do, so Lu Ren is also very careful about Wu Guomu. At this time, Wu Guomu's words sounded very polite, but Lu Ren knew that once he didn't deal with it well, he would definitely be in a lot of trouble.

Lu Ren returned to his seat at the signal of Wu Guomu, and then cautiously responded to Wu Guomu: "The county lord suddenly appeared in Yizhou that day, but he couldn't persuade the county lord to return to Jiangdong quickly, and he was only afraid that the hospitality would not be good. If there is any rudeness and neglect, look at the old lady Haihan! ”

Sun Shangxiang's previous happy expression and the general appearance of the "black girl", as well as Lu Ren's respect at this time, have already made Wu Guomu have a rough bottom in her heart, so she didn't embarrass Lu Ren at this time, but just smiled and said: "Alas, speaking of which, this is also the old body has no way to discipline, Shangxiang has been good at martial arts since childhood, and he also likes to swim and hunt, not only the old body can't control her, but the Jiangdong generals will not have a headache when they see her." The old man could see that Shang Xiang had a lot of fun in the past few months, and in the past few months, Lu Servant must have suffered a lot, right? ”

Lu Ren hurriedly behaved: "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be!" There are many commercial goods in the Wu realm, and Wu Hou takes care of them, and the county lord is a distinguished guest of my small place. To be honest, I really can't invite you. Suddenly, the county lord was uninvited, and he was overjoyed in his heart, but he ......"

Speaking of this, Lu Ren frowned, and immediately changed his words: "Old lady, please forgive me for speaking bluntly." Speaking from the heart, as a cloth merchant, he can have such an opportunity to please the county lord, and take advantage of this to win the convenience of the merchants in the Wu realm in the future, although he is very happy in his heart, but the old lady, after all, the county lord has a noble status, and he is young and beautiful but likes to play around, but Yizhou, where he lives, is just a barbarian land. In case the county lord accidentally makes a mistake, he really can't afford to be guilty. ”

Lu Ren's words still made Wu Guomu more satisfied, and he sighed lightly and said: "Please rest assured, Lu Fuji, the old body will definitely discipline Shang Xiang strictly in the future, and no longer cause any trouble to Mr." ”

That's kind words, but it's also true. After all, in the hearts of the people at that time, Yizhou was a barbarian land, where did Wu Guomu dare to let Sun Shangxiang go to Yizhou to play again?

Lu Ren saw that his goal in Wu Guomu had basically been achieved, so he didn't say anything more, so as not to add to the snake. At that moment, the conversation changed again, and began to curry favor with Wu Guomu...... So many gifts are for white belts, huh? Of course, it is mainly based on Yizhou's unique local products, nothing more than seasonal fresh fruits, rare seafood and the like. In addition, it was supplemented by a small number of "high-precision" products that were exquisite and unique at the time, such as the lamp holder of clear glass.

But what interests Wu Guotai the most is a pair of reading glasses...... To be exact, it should be a set of reading glasses, because the prescription of the glasses is to be matched. Lu Ren couldn't help Wu Guomu match it in a standard way, so he could only get a set of reading glasses of different degrees to come over, and then ask Wu Guomu to choose one by one.

All in all, Lu Ren is now doing enough of a businessman's drama to curry favor with officials......

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Since Lu Ren went to Wu Hou Mansion and sat for a long time, he would naturally meet someone, that is, Sun Quan, the lord of Wu.

In fact, Lu Ren could see Sun Quan several times when he passed through Wu County, but Lu Ren didn't want to bump into Wu Quan very much, and even the last time he only let Minchan go once. However, this time Lu Ren came prepared, after all, the development of the situation was somewhat unexpected by Lu Ren, and it was necessary to deal with Sun Quan. This is also just as Lu Ren himself expected, some things are destined to be unavoidable...... (To be continued.) )