"Master!"

This "master" made Lu Ren's heart snicker, and he shook his head lightly on his face and said, "You little ghost, you won't let go when you seize the opportunity." You can be so shrewd at such a young age, I don't even know if you're right or wrong as an apprentice. Alright, you come with me. ”

After a bunch of messy things, Lu Ren led Deng Ai back to the village with such a little tail, as for Deng Ai's wife, Lu Ren threw it to Zhang Fang to settle down. After sitting in the study, Lu Ren asked Deng Ai, "Xiao Ai, what book do you want to read now?"

Deng Ai said: "The Art of War." ”

Lu Rendao: "The Art of War? It's a good fit for you. Well...... Since you are already my protégé, then I also want you to take two things like your senior brother. In this way, you add "Arithmetic" and "Farming". ”

This was something that Lu Ren had thought about a long time ago, in his memory, Deng Ai was actually very good at these two things before leading the troops, if it wasn't for Sima Yi discovering Deng Ai's military talent and reusing it, it is likely that Deng Ai would have become a capable figure in the later period of the Three Kingdoms.

Deng Ai said respectfully: "The disciple takes the order!" ”

Lu Ren looked at himself, the great disciple of the mountain, and suddenly smiled and said, "Since you are already my disciple now, then I will arrange your work and rest for you." Enduring hardships is certainly indispensable, but it is also for the sake of honing you, do you understand? ”

Deng Ai said proudly: "Disciple understands! ”

Lu Ren nodded, took the pen and paper in the room, and wrote a daily schedule and came out, roughly like this-

Seven o'clock in the morning: get up on time, clean the courtyard, go to the river outside the village to pick up three loads of water, and then have breakfast. The main thing is to let Deng Ai exercise more.

Eight to nine o'clock: Sword practice. Needless to say, Deng Ai was originally both civil and military.

Nine o'clock to twelve o'clock: read the book, if Lu Ren is in the village, you can ask him questions.

12 p.m. to 2 p.m.: time for lunch and nap.

2 p.m. to 4 p.m.: Continue reading, but not mandatory. If you want to move, you can go for a walk outside the village.

Four points: clean up the study and chores everywhere.

Five o'clock: dinner time. After that, the two of them watched and did it. But be sure to turn off the lights and go to bed before 9 p.m.

Of course, these are written in ancient times.

After writing it, Lu Ren read it himself, and said in his heart: "How do you look like something when I was studying in that era?" That's it, it's almost like military training, right? ”

After handing it over to Deng Ai, Lu Ren said again: "From tomorrow onwards, you must act in accordance with this charter. However, on the first and fifteenth days of each month, you will have two days off, and you can play wherever you want. ”

Deng Ai naturally didn't say anything, Lu Ren turned around and walked out of the door with his hands behind his back, and said without looking back: "Only a strict master can produce a high apprentice, since you worship under my door, I will treat you very harshly." If there's anything I said you couldn't do. Spanking in the palm of the hand and spanking in the heavy!! ”

Deng Ai bowed down to receive the order, but when Lu Ren Huang walked out of the small courtyard, he was secretly smiling in his heart: "It feels really good to be a teacher and a gentleman to train people." It's a pity that I'm not a qualified teacher, so will this kid become the Han Dynasty version of 'Truant Weilong'? Forget it, I've watched too many movies too, right? But it's not bad to be able to pick up such a talented baby apprentice and go back. Well...... Now that the small city of Yizhou has a certain population base, the cultivation of talents can almost be started. There's no way, competing for talents with Cao, Liu and Sun, I don't seem to be competitive now. Alas! ”

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Another few days passed. Lu Ren was idle after finishing some things. Thinking about the current time period, it is relatively stable, and there is nothing particularly important at hand, and then thinking back to Zhuge Liang's visit that day, I feel that it is almost time to pay a return visit. I simply asked people to prepare their bags, planning to go to Longzhong to meet this famous demon Taoist military master. As for whether he can touch it or not, Lu Ren doesn't care very much, and it's nothing anyway. If you don't run into it, it's better to go out for a trip.

Longzhong is not far from Xiangyang, and Lu Ren and Minchan are enjoying the scenery all the way and slowly shaking over. Dangling to a three-way crossing, Lu Ren didn't know which way to go to Longzhong. Looking at the sky again near noon, the stomach of the group was a little hungry, so they set up a small stove in the pavilion on the side of the road, and boiled some hot wine and hot food to warm their stomachs.

While eating and drinking, Minchan suddenly raised her hand and pointed in a certain direction and said, "Yihao, look over there." ”

Lu Renshun looked over and saw a donkey cart coming over on the fork in the road. Isn't this just worrying that you can't find someone to ask for directions? Lu Ren got up and stopped the donkey cart when he got closer, and asked the coachman, "May I ask, which way should I go from here to Longzhong?" ”

The coachman didn't reply, but a woman in the carriage responded, "Mr. is going to Longzhong?" Just go over there. ”

"Thank you!"

Lu Ren thanked him and prepared to go back to the pavilion, but as soon as Fang turned around, he felt that something was very wrong, but for a while, he couldn't tell what was wrong. Tilting his head and wrinkling and walking a few steps, Lu Ren suddenly reacted, slapped his head and looked at it carefully. And this closer look, Lu Ren's jaw almost hit the ground: "This, this coachman...... How can there be such a rigid expression? Wrong wrong! ”

After looking carefully again, Lu Ren was dumbfounded: "It's actually a wooden man?" But this carving, coloring...... Wooden people? Trap dolls? No way! I've met the right one...... Wrong, wrong, wrong, it should be the lady of the right lord. ”

By this time, the donkey cart had already gone some way, and it was just the fork in the road to Longzhong. Lu Ren no longer had any doubts at this point, and hurriedly chased up to the carriage and asked loudly: "Dare to ask if the person sitting in the car is the wife of Mr. Wolong Kong Ming, the daughter of Xiangyang Huang Chengyan, and Mrs. Huang Yueying Huang?" ”

The donkey cart stopped immediately, and the woman in the car also responded: "It's the concubine...... Dare to ask who Mr. is, and how do you know about the concubine? ”

Lu Ren smiled secretly in his heart. In fact, if it was a face-to-face encounter, Lu Ren would probably not know who it was, and the key was on the wooden man coachman. Zhuge Liang's mechanical products are very famous, and the most famous ones are the wooden oxen and flowing horses and the repeating crossbow. Whether it is in historical materials or folk rumors, it is very clear that many of Zhuge Liang's things are thanks to the guidance of his wife Huang Yueying, in other words, Huang Yueying was a rare mechanical inventor at that time.

Now Lu Ren is in Jingzhou in this era, and suddenly he saw such a sophisticated wooden robot, and he could really guess who the people in the car were with his toes.

"In Xia Luren, I was about to go to Longzhong to meet Mr. Wolong. Since I met my wife here, I dared to ask my wife to go with you...... Oh, and you also have a female dependent, so the lady can rest assured. ”

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Roadside kiosks.

A pair of petite but not delicate hands picked up the bamboo cup in front of him, and then looked at the color of tea, smelled the fragrance of tea, and tasted the taste of tea in one go, and his demeanor was as natural and smooth as flowing water. Although it is only a cup of tea, its dignity and cultivation are convincing enough.

Lu Ren was carefully drying Huang Yueying on the opposite side at this time, and his heart was full of surprise. How so? Historical materials say that Huang Yueying's appearance is ugly, "yellow head and black", but there are also many wild history rumors that Huang Yueying is actually a beauty, but she hides it from the outside world in order to avoid those senseless harassments.

In fact, whether Huang Yueying is beautiful or ugly, Lu Ren would not be surprised, but the problem now is ...... Huang Yueying feels very "weird".

To be precise, if you look at her appearance alone, Huang Yueying is actually above average, but this upper middle is from the perspective of a modern person, and it will be difficult to accept the aesthetics of people in the Han Dynasty. Didn't Huang Chengyan say to Zhuge Liang that Huang Yueying was "yellow-headed and black"? This is not a lie, because Huang Yueying, as an Asian Oriental race, is actually a rather rare yellow-brown hair, and her complexion is really dark, and these two points alone are incompatible with the traditional beauty standards at that time, so if you look at it, it is easy to see Huang Yueying as an ugly girl.

But if you really look carefully, Huang Yueying's facial features are actually very exquisite, and her temperament is dignified and elegant, she belongs to the typical type that is inconspicuous at first glance, but the more you look at it, the more durable you feel...... Of course, this has to be from Lu Ren's point of view, after all, Lu Ren is a traverser, and in modern society, there are more girls who have to dye their jet-black hair into yellow hair, so Lu Ren will not think of Huang Yueying's "fashionable" long yellow-brown hair, but it is difficult to say if it is replaced by an ordinary Han Dynasty person.

To put it simply, if Lu Ren is to describe it, Huang Yueying is like a pretty black girl with yellow hair and healthy wheat-colored skin, and she is very attractive. To be precise, if Huang Yueying dresses up well, that style will remind Lu Ren of a similar type of stick star: Lee Hyori.

"Ahem......"

Minchan's light cough pulled back Lu Ren's thoughts, and Lu, who knew that he was out of shape, hurriedly raised the bamboo cup to pour tea, covering up Fang Cai's gaffe.

In contrast, Huang Yueying seemed generous and natural, holding a bamboo cup and exclaiming softly: "It's really good tea." This should be the high-grade Tieguanyin produced in Yizhou, right? I remember that at the beginning of the spring, several relatives and friends of my father came to pay homage to the spring and gave two catties of Yizhou tea they bought. ”

Don't read the book at every turn to say "boiling tea to entertain guests", but in fact, tea in the Han Dynasty was a luxury that belonged to the scholar class, not everyone could afford to drink, and the grade of tea is also different.

On the other hand, although tea in Yizhou is a good export, due to the shortage of labor in the early stage, the output has not been able to rise, and it has not increased until the labor situation has improved in the past two years. But in general, it has to be exported to Xuzhou, Jingzhou, and Jiangdong, and the apportioned quantity is still in short supply. So it's normal that Huang Chengyan will be reluctant to drink...... (To be continued.) )