Chapter 41: Cai Family Girl
Liu Pan left and led his troops to Changsha County.
In terms of age, it is indeed a bit difficult for him to let him take charge of the county alone. What's more, his county magistrate of two thousand stones was "guided" by Liu Biao, and it was not a court imperial decree. It was not a legitimate title, and it was no different from a self-proclaimed person. If something happens in the future, it can be imagined how much constraints it will be.
However, Changsha County was too important, and within three years, it was controlled by the two county magistrates of Sun Jian and Su Dai. Sun Jian was too brave. Su Dai was a wealthy family in Jingzhou and had too many problems. If Changsha County was handed over to outsiders in the Liu family, the risk would be higher.
As a dead horse, Liu Pan could only force him to take the lead.
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The other residence of the Cai family in Xiangyang is located in the east of Huarong, Jingling County, and is located next to Yunmengze, the Han River, and the environment is elegant and pleasant.
In the pre-Qin period, Yunmengze was a plain with a lake and swamp. By the Han Dynasty, Yunmengze had been divided into many small lakes by sandbanks, and the Cai family's other house stood by Dujing Lake, one of these Hubos.
Yunmengze Water rises back and forth from time to time from time to time. Although the scenery is beautiful, it is also in danger of flooding for those who rely on for their livelihood around them.
However, when Cai Mao's father Cai Feng was alive, a alchemist had a "burning the turtle shell" for him to make fortunes for the Cai family.
After the alchemist burned Brother Gui, he told Cai Feng that there is a prosperous spirit around Yunmengze, and the spirit of generals and ministers. If a house is built here, it will be prosperous for four generations of descendants within a hundred years.
The Cai family is not short of money or power. What they lack is how to pass on this power to future generations and be protected by generations.
So, the Cai family house next to Yunmengze was found.
Cai Mao doesn't live here on weekdays, and it's too far from Xiangyang. As the head of his family, it's extremely inconvenient to do things.
Therefore, this Yunmengze residence was lived by Cai Mao's second sister Cai Mi.
The older single woman of twenty-five years old, she was not truthful and pragmatic, so she went to Yunmengze to hide in her leisure time. Cai Mao sometimes felt that his second sister was quite unscrupulous.
On this day, Cai Mao made a special trip to Yunmengze to meet Cai Mi.
He rode a horse to the door of the residence by Yunmengze. He was about to go out to buy the maids in the residence. When he saw Cai Mao coming to the residence, he hurriedly bowed and greeted him.
Cai Mao turned over and dismounted, threw the whip to the servant, and said thornyly: "Where is my sister?"
The maid hurriedly said, "Miss the second lady is practicing music and playing flute in the yard and chatting for free."
Cai Mao said slowly: "Take me to see."
The maid knew Cai Mao's violent temper and did not dare to neglect it. She hurriedly turned around and opened the door, leading Cai Mao into the courtyard.
Although the Cai family built a house in Yunmengze in the house is not luxurious, it is particularly elegant. There are no flowers and plants planted in the garden in the backyard, and bamboo is planted alone. Although the viewing will be a little monotonous when viewing this way, at first glance, it is full of bamboo seas, green and lush, which has a unique charm.
Cai Mi was wearing a green curved hem and deep clothes, sitting in the courtyard, holding a long bamboo flute that was five inches long, and was playing the song in a daze.
The sound of the flute held by her mouth was high and low, sometimes light and sometimes sounded. Each syllable seemed to be clearly audible. A gust of wind blew, making the bamboo forest in the courtyard shaking, but it did not affect its rhythm. The sound seemed to be intimately connected with the shaking bamboo forest.
After playing the bamboo silence, Cai Mi raised her head to look at the sky, and suddenly said, "More than a thousand riders in the east, husbands are on their heads. Why do you need to know husbands? The white horse is from the black horse, tied with a horse tail in the blue silk, golden horse head, and a deer and Lu sword in the waist, which can be worth more than ten million. The 15th government officials, twenty dynasties doctors, thirty attendants, and forty special city residences..."
Cai Mao buried his face helplessly in his left palm.
OK! My sister started again.
After the second sister's hairpin ceremony at the age of fifteen, she has been chanting this broken lyrics almost every day, and has been chanting for nine years... But the man who was a doctor of the twenty dynasty and the thirty sermon still did not appear in front of her!
If it weren't for her second sister, if other women in the Cai clan dared to show off like this, Cai Mao would have gritted his teeth and tied her up and sold her to a brothel.
"It's Degui, how can I have time to come here?" Cai Mi heard the sound and turned around and said politely.
Her voice is very sweet, and she is born with a seductive feeling.
She looks very beautiful, but not very orthodox. She has a delicate eyebrows and a charming body, a slight peach blossom in her eyes, and her slender eyes have a hint of eye tips, which seems to be sturdy.
He is a charming woman.
"Second sister, why are you reciting this poem again... Alas, the world is so big, how many men who live in the thirty-year-old school and forty-year-old city? It's almost ten years, why are you still so stubborn?" Cai Mao said a lesson with a bad tone.
But Cai Mi was not used to this younger brother.
She put down Zhu Xiao, her tone was like an icicle: "You came here from afar, are you going to teach your sister a lesson?"
"Hehe, I don't dare, I don't dare, I just think that the second sister's husband's conditions are too high. Where can anyone in Jingchu reach the level in the lyrics?"
Seeing that Cai Mi's tone was not good, Cai Mao immediately changed his tone.
He can't afford to offend this second sister at the moment. His next plan, even the Cai family's future, will rely on this scary-eyed sister... He can't offend her now.
"How come it's gone?"
Cai Mi's apricot eyes slightly raised: "How can Qin Luofu find such a husband, how can you not find your sister?"
Cai Mao sighed.
Cai Mao felt helpless about Cai Mi's behavior of treating her lack of education as a pride in capital.
I still read too few bamboo slips.
"Second sister, what you are talking about is just the lies that Qin Luofu made to reject the rude behavior of the county magistrate..."
Cai Mao’s implication was that Cai Mi took the bragging words of other women as real things to listen to.
Cai Mi's charming face became quite heavy.
"If you come and blame Sister Yu for nothing, you can leave now. I am also twenty-four people, and you don't need to teach you a lesson every day."
Cai Mao kindly reminded her: "Sister, it's not twenty-four, it's twenty-five soon..."
"Is there nothing wrong with Degui's clan today?" Cai Mi stood up, and the words seemed to be expelling guests.
"Hey, my brother doesn't mean that." Cai Mao waved his hand quickly and said, "Stop, let's talk to his second sister about serious business!"
"Serious business?" Cai Mi frowned and said, "Ha, how did you say your important business to me? Forget it, don't you just want to choose your second sister's husband? Tell me, who is the man from?"
Cai Mao said: "The second sister is really a smart person. Not bad. I came here to be a matchmaker for the second sister. If the second sister marrys this person, she will definitely live up to her life."
"Oh?" Cai Mi was quite surprised: "Who made you so optimistic?"
Cai Mao smiled and said, "Although this person has not been able to live in the city forty, he is now the leader of a state! It is Liu Jingsheng, the new governor of Jingzhou."
"Governor of Jingzhou?" Cai Mi was stunned when she heard this, and frowned, "You are just saying that he has not been able to live in the forty city... Then how old is he now?"
Cai Mao showed an embarrassing smile on his face: "Well... that, the specific brother hasn't asked yet, but it probably is around fifty, right?"
Cai Mi's pretty face gradually covered with a layer of frost, and her delicate face kept sneering.
Cai Mao found him a thirty-five or sixty, even if he was in his forties, she felt that he really cared about him.
Over fifty?
The average life expectancy of the Han Dynasty was not high, and frequent wars led to extremely low life expectancy.
Even if they die without war, most men will live to be about forty, and those who can pass fifty will be considered a long life.
If you live past fifty years old, you can say that you will make a living day by day.
Cai Mao asked him to marry Cai Mi to a fifty-year-old, but it would not be surprising if Cai Mi was a widow within one or two years.
No matter how many people live in the city at the age of 40 or as governor of fifty years, if a person dies, what's the use of a great official?
"At fifty years old? You are still my sister's brother. Do you hope that my sister will not be widowed as soon as possible?"
Cai Mao hurriedly said, "Second sister misunderstood. I think Liu Jingsheng is old, but he is in good health and in good spirits! Besides, such a person is older and is also the lord of a state. If the second sister marrys him, in the future, there will be millions of households in Jingzhou, and when he sees his second sister, who dares to disrespect him?"
Cai Mi's almond eyes were a little red. She turned her head and tried her best to resist crying.
"My second sister is a little more energetic. She wants to find a high-ranking hero, but she has not yet fallen to marrying a dying person! After all, it is not for the benefit of the clan that you have become interested in sending your second sister to the Liu family Aweng!"
Cai Mao sighed helplessly and said, "Second sister, what can I do for the Cai family? My aunt is the same as well as my eldest sister. Even my younger brother is the right wife who is the benefit of the clan."
After a pause, Cai Mao said again: "After all, he is the lord of a state, and he will not be humiliating his second sister... Let's do this, five days will be the 24th birthday of my younger brother. Jingzhou is now a troublesome. I didn't want to celebrate this birthday. Since my second sister has doubts, I will hold a banquet in the mansion, invite the leaders of all clans, and Liu Envoys to come. At that time, my sister will take a look and see if she likes it or not. We are discussing, how about it?"
Cai Mi secretly said to a fifty-year-old man, what can you tell if you look good?
But Cai Mao has already said this, so what can she do?
Although Cai Mao respects him quite much, he is the patriarch after all. If he forced himself to marry Liu Biao with the order of the patriarch, Cai Mi would be quite difficult.
Chapter completed!