When Liu Xin heard this, it turned out that he was not worried about whether he would go to Jingzhou, but that there was something else going on, and he was making himself amorous, so he couldn't help but laugh and said: "Brother Guo, you and I are like each other at first sight, but it doesn't hurt to say anything." ”

Guo Jia seemed to have made a lot of determination, so he said: "Lord Liu, I lost my father since I was a child, and I was raised by my mother alone, and now I am traveling away from home, but I can't rest assured of her, I don't know if adults can help me take care of my mother." ”

Liu Xin laughed and said, "Brother Guo, it turns out that you are still a filial son!" I'm not wrong, so I'm worthy of being my good brother! No problem, just leave it to me. ”

Guo Jia was overjoyed, shook it to the ground, and said: "Then I will thank my lord, and when I go out to study, I will send my mother to Xiangyang first." ”

Liu Xin suddenly remembered something and said, "No! ”

Guo Jia was stunned for a moment, not knowing what he meant.

But I heard Liu Xin say again: "Brother Guo, Yingchuan can't stay for a long time, we are about to set off." You also go home and pack up and send your mother to Xiangyang as soon as possible, remember, you can't delay 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 had come from a later life, 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, continued to move forward, walked for two more days, crossed Yingchuan, and was in front of Jingzhou territory. Liu Xin breathed a sigh of relief and finally came to my territory.

He looked up and saw a group of men and horses faintly in the distance, and he couldn't help but get nervous, and sent a team of soldiers to explore the way. After a few moments, the soldier returned, bringing with him an officer. When the man saw Liu Xin, he hurriedly bowed: "Xiaguan Deng County ordered Dong Cangte to come to greet Lord Zhou Mu. ”

Liu Xin said with a smile: "It turned out to be Dong County's order, you don't have to be polite, you need to lead the way." ”

It turned out that Dong Cang learned that the new Jingzhou pastor was coming, so he sent people to the Yingchuan area to inquire, and in the past two days, he personally brought officials of all sizes to greet him ten miles outside the city, and finally received Liu Xin. Dong County ordered Liu Xin and his entourage to welcome Liu Xin into the county seat, and set up a banquet in the county government to catch Liu Xin.

During the banquet, Liu Xin didn't drink much, but more to learn about the situation in Jingzhou from Dong Cang, he needs to know a lot of things now, including the customs of various places, the temperament and surname of officials, and the local famous families. However, due to the past division of counties, Deng County is under the jurisdiction of Nanyang, except for Nanyang, Dong Cang also knows the situation of the other counties.

The next day, after breakfast, everyone continued on their way. At least, Liu Xin has now figured out that his Jingzhou Mu's seat of governance Xiangyang is located in Nanyang County, and he is still in Nanyang County, and he still needs to pass through the four county towns of Wancheng, Bowang, Xinye, and Fancheng, among which Wancheng is the seat of Nanyang County, and the current Nanyang Taishou Chu Gong is in Wancheng.

At noon, Chu Gong, the Taishou of Nanyang County, had already received a report from Pegasus sent by Dong Cang, and hurriedly brought all the officials of the county to greet him. Nanyang County is the largest county in Jingzhou, with 37 counties under its jurisdiction and 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%, which is one of the best in the country.

The history of Jingzhou has been vacant for many years, and the history of the assassin only has the authority to supervise the local officials, so the county guards of Jingzhou are used to living this kind of life except for the emperor. Chu Gong, as the Taishou of this largest county, has always had eyes on his forehead. Although he knew that Liu Xin was the new pastor of Jingzhou, not the assassin of Jingzhou, but seeing that he was young, he still didn't take him seriously, and he just followed the practice of officialdom when he came to greet him.

Liu Xin saw Chu Gong's arrogant expression, and his heart was slightly unhappy, but his face was full of smiles, without revealing any traces. He has been a thief for more than ten years, and his ability to disguise is still very high.

Chu Gong and others surrounded Liu Xin into Wancheng, and set up a reception banquet in Taishou Mansion, which was much richer than the one in Deng County. Chu Gong has served as Nanyang Taishou for many years, and he has a lot of eunuchs, although he doesn't look down on Liu Xin very much, but he doesn't want to offend him too much.

After three rounds of drinking, Chu Gong asked someone to carry two large boxes and said to Liu Xin: "My lord brought his family and his mouth from the river, and he was unfamiliar with the people. The lower official prepared a small gift to help the adults settle down. ”

Liu Xin put down the wine glass, refused to accept it, and said: "Chu Taishou's kindness, Liu Mou understands it." We are officials, and we should put the interests of the people first. On the road just now, I saw that the city was dilapidated, if there was an outbreak of bandits, Wancheng was in danger, and the money was better left for Chu Taishou to repair the city. ”

Liu Xin's words were a little 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, and if the Yingchuan Yellow Turban moves south, Wancheng will bear the brunt. The second is that he really wants to knock on Chu Gong and reveal to him a signal, I am Jingzhou Mu, and you will have to be in charge of me in the future.

Chu Gong was naturally displeased when he heard this, but he couldn't help it, waved his hand, asked someone to still carry the box down, and said to Liu Xin: "My lord is very right, and the lower officials should remember." ”

In this way, the banquet was not very pleasant. At the end of the banquet, Chu Gong pretended to leave Liu Xin to play in Wancheng for a few days, Liu Xin naturally would not agree, and took the people out of Wancheng to continue to move forward.

After walking for a long time, Xu Huang pointed to the front and said, "Big brother, there is Bowangpo in front." ”

"Bowangpo?" When Liu Xin heard this, he suddenly had an ominous feeling, and immediately said decisively, "No, you can't go to Bowangpo!" Take a detour to Shinno. ”

Liu Xin thought of the story of "burning Bowangpo", in fact, he was a little too careful, although Chu Gong didn't take him seriously, but he didn't arrange an ambush and openly kill him, a Shangguan.

Although everyone was a little puzzled by this order, Liu Xin was always chattering sometimes, and he could even dream of Ma Yuanyi and Feng Yu, and maybe he had also dreamed of any danger on Bowangpo. So, the team turned a fork in the road according to Liu Xin's intentions.

The road was also very calm, but it took three more days, and when I came to Xinye, it happened to be the Shangyuan Festival. Xinye County has long been hung with colorful lanterns, and the county commander Kuai Liang and the county officials and squires have been waiting outside the city gate early. Seeing the word "Xinye" on the city gate, Liu Xin was excited, this was where Liu Bei was stationed back then! Looking at the people who are preparing to celebrate the festival in the city, it can be seen that the people here live happily and peacefully, Liu Xin can't help but think of the story of the burning of Xinye, and secretly resolves that he will prevent this place from being burned to the ground no matter what.

Kuai Liang's attitude towards Liu Xin was very different from those officials he met earlier, after the banquet, he insisted on giving the back office to Liu Xin and his party to rest, and his family moved to the post house for a while. Tian Feng, Fu Zhu, and Cai Yong all had their families to follow, so they also lived in the county office, and the others were scattered and arranged to other large families, leaving only Dian Wei and Xu Chu to guard in the front office. Liu Xin looked around and remembered that when Xinye was burned, Cao Ren and the others lived in this county office, and his heart suddenly became a little unsteady.

Everyone had just settled down, and Liu Xin was talking to Ma Yun there, but they saw Mrs. Cai coming over and wanted to invite Ma Yun over. Ma Yun was surprised in her heart, secretly wondering if something had happened to Cai Yan. It turned out that Cai Yong's family wanted to hold a ceremony for their daughter, and Ma Yun was the wife of the state pastor, and she had the highest status among these female dependents, so the Cai family wanted to invite her to preside over their daughter's ceremony.

As early as the first day of the Lunar New Year, the first thing he did was to calculate the auspicious day of his daughter's line and ceremony, and three times in a row 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 pay a salute to his daughter. Unexpectedly, Liu Xin refused to go to Bowangpo, delayed for three days, and arrived in Xinye County on the fifteenth day of the first month. After dinner, Cai Yong calculated again, 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, the man was twenty and crowned, and the woman was fifteen, which was actually a ceremony of sincerity, indicating that he had reached adulthood and could talk about marriage. The procedure of this and the ritual is very complicated, and it is divided into 17 steps: welcome, take the position, open the ceremony, take the place of the flute, bin, add the first hat, bow first, add two, bow twice, add three bows, add three bows, place the liquor, make the Jiaozi, write the flute, listen to the training, thank the person who is in charge, and make the ceremony. The three most important of these procedures are the initial addition, the additional addition, and the third addition. At the beginning, he put on a hairpin and a ropa, changed the clothes on his body into a plain skirt, and then added a hairpin on a hairpin, and changed into a curved deep coat, and the third plus was to remove the hairpin and add a hairpin crown, and put on a long-sleeved skirt dress. The costumes of the three additions have different meanings, symbolizing the process of the girl's growth - the color of the clothes is pure, symbolizing the innocence of the girl; The light and elegant skirt symbolizes the innocence of the cardamom girl; The dignified curved deep coat is recognized as the clothing that can best reflect the beauty of the Han women, symbolizing the brightness of the girl in the flower season; Finally, the grand large-sleeved dress reflects the graceful atmosphere of the Han woman, elegant and beautiful.

Ma Yun didn't know anything about this, but fortunately, the wives of Tian Feng and Fu Yu were also invited to serve as the master of ceremonies and guests. With their help, after tossing for an hour, they finally completed this complicated program, and Cai Yong also named her daughter the word - Zhao Ji.

Back in the house, Ma Yun still talked about this ceremony, this was the first time she participated in a major ceremonial event in ancient times, especially Cai Yan finally changed into that dress, which was more beautiful and dignified, and couldn't help but say to Liu Xin: "Husband, when will you make me a long-sleeved dress, you see that I don't have any decent clothes." ”

Liu Xin said with a smile: "What's so difficult about this, when Xiangyang settles down, I will personally design a few sets of fashions for you to wear." ”

Ma Yun pretended to be disdainful and said, "Hmph, the clothes you designed? I'm afraid that I won't have the face to go out to meet people. Actually, she was happy in her heart.

The two were gossiping there, when suddenly there was a shout outside: "It's water!" Walk the water! The county government is gone! ”