"If these things are not done well, my head will leave my neck anytime and anywhere."

After listening to Lu Ren's self-deprecation, Cai Yan glanced at Lu Ren a few times, and said thoughtfully: "This kind of thinking of yours is quite similar to my father. ”

Lu Ren was stunned: "How do you say this?" ”

Cai Yan said: "Back then, my father was trapped by traitors, exiled to the north, and then exiled to Wu, and I was already afraid of the court dispute in my heart, and I didn't dare to become an official again, for fear of suffering from the court again. But my father always thinks about the world in his heart, hoping to do something more for the country. Therefore, my father was always caught in a dilemma of wanting to be a leader again, but he didn't dare to do it. ”

Lu Ren nodded. According to historical records, Cai Yong was forced by Dong Zhuo to go to Luoyang as a last resort. Originally, Cai Yong could play soy sauce above the court, and Dong Zhuo didn't plan to let Cai Yong do anything, Chun Qu just used Cai Yong as an advertising sign to attract scholars, but Cai Yong still made a lot of suggestions to Dong Zhuo in this situation, and he also "hated Zhuo without saying his own words", which shows that Cai Yong still wants to be an official and do things. It's a pity that Dong Zhuo is a person...... Don't talk about it.

Cai Yan then continued: "You recovered from your injuries and left, and then I heard that you were appointed to the Puyang Order." I thought you were seeking a career in the name of your father, and I had a lot of disdain for you. But now it seems that you really can't help it, and I blame you for it. ”

"...... "What can Lu Ren say about this?" The fact that he embezzled Cai Yong's name is true after all. But after another thought, Lu Ren said curiously to Cai Yan: "What's wrong with you today?" You didn't necessarily have to say a few words to me all day. ”

"Huh?" Cai Yan was also slightly stunned, and then smiled very reluctantly and said: "I've been too depressed in the room these days, and now I want to talk to someone." But today, you are the only person I know and know around me......"

"......" Lu Ren was speechless for a moment, and after thinking about it again, he put down the pattern in his hand: "Do you want to go out for a walk?" ”

Cai Yan obviously didn't expect Lu Ren to be like this, and people were stunned.

Lu Ren moved his shoulders and said with a smile: "Hearing you say this, I realize that I haven't been out for a few days, so I should go out for a walk and breathe." Are you going or not? ”

Cai Yan's expression immediately became very complicated, looking like he wanted to go, but he seemed to be worried about something. Lu Ren didn't have a problem with this, and even wanted to say to Cai Yan, "I almost killed you as a bow girl, if you want to hate me, just hate me, okay?" What does this virtue mean now?"

But Lu Ren wasn't stupid enough to say such a thing. Cai Yan is a girl's family, and she is deliberately avoiding these when facing herself, isn't she looking for interest if she says it? I didn't think much about it at the moment, put the things on the table casually, got up and left my seat, and walked out of the room by myself.

Seeing this, Cai Yan's expression became a little more complicated. I wanted to open my mouth but couldn't, seeing that Lu Ren had already walked out of the way, he lowered his head and groaned for a while, then he bit his lip and got up and chased after him. But although he followed, Cai Yan always kept a distance of more than one meter from Lu Ren.

In a word, Cai Yan's heart is actually very conflicted. Cai Yan always remembered clearly that day that Lu Ren kicked over the lampstand and burned Cai Yan's collection of books. In the eyes of others, although it is just a book, for Cai Yan, those books left by Cai Yong are Cai Yan's spiritual things, which have extraordinary significance. Now that it has been burned by Lu Ren, it would be a lie to say that Cai Yan would not hate Lu Ren in his heart.

What's more, that night, Lu Ren ripped Cai Yan up...... Although Lu Ren didn't do anything to Cai Yan in the end, for Cai Yan, who was born in a high-ranking family and has a very strong concept of courtesy, righteousness and shame, what does it mean for his innocent body to be looked at like this? In this way, it is natural to hate Lu Ren even more.

But on the other hand, Cai Yan clearly realized that it was Lu Ren who saved him, and Lu Ren would do such an excessive thing, largely because he angered Lu Ren. In addition, Cai Yan is now a broken family and has nothing to rely on, so Lu Ren who saved him will naturally have a "straw heart". It's a pity that under the indelible hatred, this straw is not a straw, but a thorny vine branch that really reaches out and grabs the flesh and blood......

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A few more days passed, and on this day Lu Ren was working at the desk, while Cai Yan was absent-mindedly reading the book in a corner of the room, but from time to time he would raise his eyes to look at Lu Ren. And when he saw Lu Ren concentrating on his work there, and he had no time to take care of himself here, Cai Yan's heart would feel a little relieved.

Suddenly, there was a sound of horses' hooves outside the courtyard, and then someone came to report that Li Dian asked to see him, and of course Lu Ren immediately asked the doorman to lead Li Dian into the house. Cai Yan originally wanted to avoid it, but for some reason he didn't move, but still sat there quietly.

The fine house is not big, and after a while, Li Dian entered the house, hugged his fists and saluted Lu Ren: "Brother Lu! I haven't seen you for a long time, are you okay? ”

Lu Ren smiled and returned the salute, and before he could speak, Li Dian saw Cai Yan in the corner of the room, and subconsciously smiled: "Miss Wan'er has always been good...... Belch! Not Miss Wan'er? ”

At that moment, Lu Ren had to introduce it, and at the end he added emphatically: "Man Cheng, you know that I have an old relationship with the Cai family, and now Miss Cai has nothing to rely on, so I will take care of it first, and I can also ask Miss Cai some questions by the way." ”

In fact, how could Lu Ren ask Cai Yan for advice? Cai Yan is good at poetry and songs, but what Lu Ren is doing now is some science problems, and Cai Yan can help a fart. However, Cai Yan also knew that this was Lu Ren saving face for himself and not embarrassing himself, so he nodded to Lu Ren, and then greeted Li Dian very politely.

Li Dian was also very surprised at this time, not only amazed by Cai Yan's beauty and temperament, but also marveled at Cai Yan's identity, after all, Cai Yong's reputation has always been no joke, and Li Dian has always been "studious, love and respect people", so he quickly put away his laughter, solemnly returned the salute to Cai Yan, and said that he also wanted to ask Cai Yan for teaching when he had the opportunity.

After a few polite words to each other, Lu Ren pulled Li Dian to sit down at the table. After all, Juancheng is where Lu Ren first started, and now it is indispensable to ask a few words first, Li Dian smiled and said: "This year, Lu Ren is not in charge of the field, and the yield per acre has decreased slightly, but the yield is still quite gratifying, and the people in Tunzhong are all singing when they are harvesting." A few days ago, the order was delivered, and the people in Tunzhong blocked the road to see me off, and I almost couldn't leave. Oh, when the people of Tunzhong knew that I was here to assist Brother Lu, they sent a lot of new grain this autumn for me to bring to Brother Lu, but because the quantity was a bit large, and I was in a hurry, so it was placed in the back team, and it would take a few days to deliver. ”

Hearing that he had such an evaluation, Lu Ren was of course relieved. But after a slight change of thought, Lu Ren feigned anger to Li Dian: "What are you doing in such a hurry? Don't you know how to help me send Wan'er and them over? ”

Li Dian said: "I want to go to Juancheng first, and I don't have a good way with Puyang!" Let's talk ...... again."

At this point, Li Dian subconsciously looked at Cai Yan, which means that you are not satisfied with having such a big beauty by your side?

Seeing this situation, Lu Ren quickly opened the topic, so as not to make any more messy words, so he pointed to the pattern on the table and said to Li Dian: "That's it, Mancheng, you came just in time!" I've been looking at the drawings since I was instructed, and I've now chosen some places where you can take someone to do it. ”

Then he pointed to a place in the picture: "The vicinity of Xudu is the Wei River, and now a large number of bricks are needed to build a new city corridor, and a lot of clay is needed to fire the bricks, which should not be difficult to find around the Wei River." However, when you dig clay, don't dig indiscriminately, in principle, dig according to these lines, and by the way, you can also dig out some of the canals needed to come to Chuntuntian. ”

Li Dian said: "When I was ordered, I already knew that I wanted to assist Brother Lu to build a new city, so I specially selected some brick and mud craftsmen who had been refined from Tunzhong and brought them to Xudu, and they would arrive later." ”

Lu Ren nodded: "Then it couldn't be better." However, the bricks used to build the city wall today will be different from the bricks we used to build houses and waterways. In the past, we fired solid slab bricks with a length of foot, but now we want to fire semi-hollow slab bricks that are much larger. ”

Solid slab bricks are similar to the most common kind of slab bricks in modern society when building ordinary houses, and hollow slab bricks are also common in modern society, that is, the middle part of the brick will have several cylindrical holes.

Of course, Li Dian was puzzled by this, and Lu Ren explained the difference between solid slab bricks and hollow slab bricks, in addition, hollow slab bricks are in a sense to burn the entire brick body thoroughly, so as to improve the strength of the brick body. In fact, the solid slab brick is not burned through many times, and can only be regarded as dry. In terms of strength, hollow slab bricks will be stronger than solid slab bricks, and they are more suitable for building buildings such as city walls.

Li Dian listened to it and wanted to fully understand that of course it was not something that could be done so quickly. Of course, Lu Ren had been prepared for this, and handed over the instructions prepared in the past few days to Li Dian with bamboo slips and patterns. The pattern is easy to say, but as soon as this bamboo slip was unfolded, Li Dian cried and laughed: "Brother Lu, Brother Lu, you can say that everything is good, it makes me admire, but these few words of yours are the only ones...... It's been so long, Brother Lu, can't you practice your characters well? ”

Lu Ren glared at Li Dian angrily and said, "! When I was in Puyang, I had to run between the ten camps all day and night, and I was much busier and more tired than when I tried to do it, so how could I have time to practice calligraphy? I'm going to look at you, although my words are a little worse, but I can understand them! ”

"......" Li Dian adjusted the bamboo slips speechlessly, pointed to a certain character on the bamboo slips, and said, "Then what is this character?" ”

"Uh......" Lu Ren was also speechless, after all, many times it is difficult for him to change the habit of writing simplified characters.

At this time, Cai Yan on the side suddenly said softly: "Can you show me?" ”

(Look at the pitiful 30,000-plus clicks, the bottle is also helpless.) Although the contract has been signed, the bottle has not received any news so far, and it may have been forgotten by the editor of the starting point, right? If that's the case, does it make sense to write it down in a bottle? ）