Three Kingdoms: From Yinlin to Great Wei Xiongzhu

Chapter 134 Once encountering Lu Yu mistakenly for life, he doesn't like red clothes but arms
Chenliu County, Cao Mansion, Cao Mu came back from the back door carrying a small wooden box.

During this period of time, going back and forth between Cao Mansion and Cai Mansion, leaving early and returning late, my mother, Mrs. Ding, turned a blind eye.

But after all, she is a girl, so she should pay attention to some influences. Therefore, Cao Mu would sneak back through the back door every evening.

Every time she came back, she would bring the bamboo slips recording the steel-forging process into her bedroom, and place them on the ground to classify and summarize them one by one.

The scale of Cao's mansion is very large. Even at the back door, there are also a pair of stone lions and a gold plaque.

Chenliu County is very close to Luoyang, and it is not very conspicuous. Therefore, this mansion was originally the place where Cao Song, the former chief minister, stored his money.

As the finance minister of the empire, the wealth in his pocket is immeasurable, and the mansion in Chenliu County is also unusually well-built.

Cao Mu came back a little early today, when he thought of this, he couldn't help pouting and complaining to Lu Yu in his heart.

As in the past, she quickly returned to her pavilion with the small bookcase in her arms. At this time, the maids in the pavilion would take down the bookcase for her, and then took out the bamboo slips recorded earlier, which filled the entire floor... Let the lady summarize and study.

This is not an easy task, Cao Mu needs to repeatedly calculate every step of melting iron and forging steel based on his day-to-day memory.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Cao Mu has only been forging for a few days, but he is practical, and he has summed up a lot of theoretical knowledge.

"what?"

Today is a bit different. When Cao Mu came back, there were no maids in the courtyard to greet her, not even a nurse. Where are they?

Cao Mu frowned, and before she could think about it, she saw her mother, Mrs. Ding, came out of her bedroom with a pale face, and sat on the stone bench in the courtyard with a serious face.

Cao Mu was slightly surprised, her mother's face was quite frightening, she quickly saluted. "Mu'er pays respects to her mother..."

"Why are you back so late..." Mrs. Ding said...

ah... ah...

Cao Mu was slightly taken aback. Didn't she ask this question knowingly? It was her mother who asked her to worship Miss Cai Yan as a teacher. Besides, didn't she come back at this time these days?

But... Mrs. Ding's aura is too strong, and Cao Mu dare not argue. "I learned a lot of homework today, so I came back a little late."

"Homework? Look at your dirty body. Does this look like you're studying homework?" Madam Ding's expression froze, and her tone suddenly became colder. "Is this forging?"

"Mother...I..." Cao Mu still wanted to explain, but in fact she didn't have much to explain. She mentioned to her mother in the past that she wanted to learn all kinds of crafts and forging like her father did when he was young... Why is my mother's expression wrong today! "

"Alas..." But at this moment, Mrs. Ding let out a long sigh. She had a feeling that Mu'er was not up to par even though she had tried her best.

"Mu'er, you said that you are a girl, even if you learn all kinds of crafts, you can't learn mat weaving, basket weaving, embroidery, and cooking? Why do you learn blacksmithing? Now it's better... you are all disheveled, like a... A girl from the countryside, she looks like this... and... what else..."

Mrs. Ding originally wanted to say, how can she still attract Lu Yu, how can she still be with Lu Yu's childhood sweetheart..."

But... After all, this sentence was not said.

"Why did mother give birth to you so...such a...ah, that's all..."

Madam Ding wanted to cry, so he took a juan handkerchief and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes. "Forget it, Mu'er, from now on, you don't have to go to the Cai Mansion anymore, and you are not allowed to learn forging. Your father has already betrothed you to Xia Houmao, the eldest son of General Xiahou. Today, he sent a special messenger to deliver a message... Xiahou's family is about to hire someone, in the future...you have to settle down!"

ah... ah...

Cao Mu was startled, betrothed?Her father betrothed her to Xia Houmao?
This…

No wonder she was surprised, even Mrs. Ding was dumbfounded when she heard the news. It is true that Mu'er has reached the marriageable age. In ancient times, women often married at the age of 12. Similar to Cao Mu who was not married at the age of 15, according to The law of the big man requires a huge fine!
Of course, the Cao family doesn't care about this little money, but they have to care about the opinions of the world...

Fifteen years old, not married yet, is there something wrong with her health?

Is it infertile?Did she have an affair with someone else... These rumors spread very quickly, the so-called words are terrifying!

Of course, it stands to reason that Xiahoudun's eldest son, Xiahoumao, is not bad, but recently, Lu Yu, a young man who appeared out of nowhere, is too shining, one after another, one after another, one plan after another, let alone Xiahoumao. Men of the same age, even Yanzhou's civil and military talents, are far behind.

It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. The same is true for choosing a son-in-law. After seeing such an outstanding Lu Yu, Xia Houmao looks ordinary, doesn't he?
"Alas..." Madam Ding sighed helplessly again.

But...Mu'er doesn't live up to it. If she has a better and closer relationship with Lu Yu, Mrs. Ding can propose to her husband Cao Cao, and dare to explain to Xiahou Dun, at least fight for it.

...But now, Mu'er was just at war with Lu Yu a few days ago, and recently became obsessed with this forging technique. Where...is there any trace of femininity, this is clearly a female man, Lu Yu...how could he like it? What about her?

Helpless... Thinking of this, Mrs. Ding's brows were full of helplessness.

The matter has come to this point, there is no other way, Lu Yu...such a good son-in-law was lost in vain, I can only blame my daughter for not being up to date, not seizing the opportunity, and now that she is going to marry Xia Houmao, then the Cai Mansion must not be able to go again.

A daughter who is about to be engaged and married, runs to another man's mansion every day?What kind of system is this?If this spreads, it will not be guaranteed... There will be rumors that Mu'er is not self-loving and unclean.

"I won't talk about the previous things. From now on, I will stay at home honestly and not go anywhere." Mrs. Ding covered her eyes with a look of regret. "It's good for you as a mother. Now that you have a family, you can take good care of your husband and children in the future. Your studies are not important. If you still want to study, you can read "The Female Precepts" and experience the 'way of three obediences' And the 'Four Virtues'! Follow your father at home, obey your husband when you leave home, enter Xiahou's house, many things...it's inconvenient for your father and I to take care of it, and you are very stubborn, mother, worry!"

"Female Precepts" was written by Ban Zhao, the younger sister of the writer Ban Gu. It mainly tells about women's three obediences and four virtues. This is what every woman's mother would say earnestly before she gets married...

Of course, despite the fact that the Cao family and the Xiahou family are as close as one family, in fact, Mrs. Ding looks down on these warriors, and she would rather let her daughter marry a talented young man with a literary talent, but... oh... thinking of this, it is inevitable Feeling sorry for Lu Yu, Mrs. Ding couldn't help shaking her head.

"My mother won't think too much in the future, and you shouldn't think too much, remember? You are not allowed to go to Cai's mansion from tomorrow..."

In front of Mrs. Ding's powerful aura, Cao Mu lowered her head and said nothing, but her heart was fighting fiercely.

Seeing that her daughter was silent, Mrs. Ding raised her tone. "You...you should say something!"

Only then did Cao Mu raise his head, "Mother, forgive my daughter for being hard-pressed."

Phew... Madam Ding was shocked when she blurted out this sentence. In my impression, this was the first time Mu'er disobeyed and contradicted her!

Cao Mu's words continued. "Mother, I didn't go to Cai Mansion for anything else, but to forge a class of Baigong. The scolding of Mr. Lu in the past woke me up."

"The sky has its time, the earth has spirit, the materials are beautiful, and the workmanship is ingenious. Only the perfect cooperation of heaven, earth, and people can forge a weapon that attracts the attention of the world. For this reason... I specially devoted myself to these hundreds of crafts to spy on these The way of forging a subject in the middle of the work..."

"Now, my daughter's forging practice is in a critical period, and what my daughter is doing is also an extraordinary thing. If it succeeds, it will be related to the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers under my father, and it will be related to the strength of my father's soldiers... It is related to whether the father's army can be invincible and invincible, the regret of father's all kinds of engineering subjects when he was in Taixue, daughter... daughter wants, wants to make up for her!"

This…

Mrs. Ding was about to jump up, and she said angrily, "Lu... Mr. Lu Yu is right, but... but forging is a man's business! Why... why are you so stupid, because what he said... just do it?"

"You are going to marry soon. How can you always run to other men's mansions? If it spreads out what it looks like, what will the Xiahou family think? What will others think? Is it possible that you want to force your Uncle Xiahou to refuse? This marriage, from now on... can't I get married again?"

Hearing this, Cao Mu raised her head, and she took off her hairpin, her jet-black hair spread out, and her gaze was extraordinarily firm: "If you can't get married, you can't get married, who cares! Daughter... Daughter only does things according to her own principles. Heart, now... my daughter is full of heart and mind, and she is full of forging, what mother said is useless! As for... the marriage of Xiahou's family, after I finish my busy days, I will explain it to Uncle Xiahou in person! My daughter is resigning!"

Watching Cao Mu enter the dormitory with the small wooden box on his back without looking back, close the door and window tightly...

Mrs. Ding had mixed emotions in her heart, her breasts kept rising and falling, as if she had added a cup in vain, but soon, "Puchi Puchi" gasped out again and again, and the cup was completely wilted like a deflated ball up.

"Mu'er...Mu'er...you...you..."

Mrs. Ding clenched her fists tightly, and her slender palms were stunned with blue veins. For a moment, she felt that she had raised such a big daughter for nothing.

Mu'er's temperament is still like her mother, like Liu's...

But then, Mrs. Ding let go of her hands again, and she cried. She regretted her clever arrangement for a while.

"Mu'er, what's wrong with me, Mu'er... Did Lu Yu's words just... make her so stupid?"

Mrs. Ding, who had always stood proudly like an iron tower, was bending over and weeping at the moment... she couldn't stop muttering. "How did this happen? It's just... just half a month of contact with Lu Yu, that... that obedient child has changed, changed..."

Staggering across the threshold, it is now ten o'clock at night, and the beginning of spring is not as warm as imagined. Madam Ding, with tears in her eyes, disappeared in front of this courtyard helplessly, hesitantly, and lost. Mu'er...is no longer the obedient child!
Could it be--one encounter with Lu Yu mistakenly for life!

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In the boudoir, Cao Mu's eyes were also red at the moment, and she didn't know... What's wrong?
What's there to cry about?

Or, are the tears shed because they couldn't be forged?Or because... I am about to get married, and I can no longer have any other fantasies.

After a long while, Cao Mu stood up slowly, opened the wooden box, and took out the bamboo slips from it skillfully.

call…

Breathing softly, she unfolded the previous bamboo slips on the bookshelf one by one, and subconsciously said: "Molten iron and forged steel, 150 days, 370 times of success, [-] times of failure! When the iron solidifies..."

In the silent house, only her voice echoed leisurely.

She seems to be used to this kind of hard work in the middle of the night, suppressing the unpleasant throbbing in her heart, slowly grinding the ink, and picking up the pen for the second time. "Today's four furnaces, two successes, maybe the outdoor temperature is suitable, or maybe..."

In the candlelight, Cao Mu's eyes are shining. She is a persistent person, a resolute person, and a person who does not tolerate sand in her eyes. She has a vision in her heart, and she will never give up until it is realized!

She wants to increase the success rate of this forged iron to more than [-]%, and she wants to tell Lu Yu with her actions... She is not that bad, and she can definitely do what she wants to do!
And in this process, she is doomed to be alone...

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Early in the morning, Lu Yu could smell the aroma of sesame seeds, no need to think about it...the backyard must have started pressing sesame oil again!
Speaking of which, it's nice to smell this smell once in a while, but... if you smell it every day, you'll get a little tired.

Lu Yu pondered... Anyway, now that the oil extraction experiment has been successful, he can choose a place in the south of the city and set up a special oil workshop.

Thinking of this, Lu Yu went to the backyard...

When passing by the "Forging Experimental Base", I saw Cao Mu and Dian Wei talking about something inside...

"This girl, you came so early! Are you so serious?"

In the past few days, Lu Yu's inherent impression of Cao Mu has changed drastically. This girl seems to be not only as abominable as...in history, she joined her brother-in-law to frame her husband...

At the very least, they are very persistent in doing things, and you can see some clues from learning the art of forging, a girl from every family, guarding the edge of the furnace from morning till night!
Thinking about it, Lu Yu felt that her body must be wet!
Nodding slightly, Lu Yu didn't stop...

For the forging side, Dian Wei was temporarily transferred, and it is expected that there will be no major problems, although the success rate of forging steel is still a big problem.

The consumption of iron and iron is a terrible figure, but... a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and it is a step by step.

Lu Yu was very open about this...

Of course, if forging costs money... Then in the yard next door, making oil is a profitable business...

Xun Yu and Cao Chun are very trustworthy, and early in the morning, they sent someone to send the 500 million yuan they invested in each of them. In fact, it is equivalent to tens of thousands of yuan in the previous life, which is still affordable for Xun Yu and Cao Chun. rise.

As for... the person in charge of the oil workshop, who should I choose?

As soon as he thought of this, Lu Yu saw that Zhuge Jun had come here, and he had already begun ordering the workers to extract oil in an orderly manner.

This little Kong Ming is very diligent...

Although he doesn't look very smart, and there is still a huge gap with Lu Yu's idol Zhuge Liang, but Lu Yu found that he is very diligent and hardworking.

Maybe it's just the lack of a chance to get enlightened?Lu Yu pondered...

According to the normal timeline, Zhuge Liang will learn from Mr. Shui Jing, Sima Hui... Maybe it will be easier to get enlightened there.

Of course, there is another possibility. In the interpretation of novels, Zhuge Liang is often portrayed as miraculous, but in real history, Zhuge Liang is not so magical... Liu Bei’s mastermind is Fazheng, and Zhuge Liang is better at governing states and counties, recruiting soldiers Ma, the proper logistics minister!

This function is quite similar to Xun Yu's... If you think about it in this way, Zhuge Liang is not outstanding in learning strategies, but he can still explain it!
"Master Lu..." Zhuge Jun trotted over after noticing Lu Yu was in front of the courtyard gate.

"Ahem..." Lu Yu coughed lightly, and immediately patted Zhuge Jun's shoulder approvingly. "Kong Ming, work hard, it's up to you whether this oil factory can flourish. Let's not worry now, take it step by step. What you have to do is to figure out how to make more oil with the same amount of ingredients... Wait until our oil factory Really opened, I will remember your credit! I will promote you!"

Lu Yu remembered that in his last life, his leader always liked to fool him like this...

Such ignorance when working overtime, such ignorance when arranging heavy work, even when marriage leave is halved and paternity leave is completely waived.

Thinking about myself at that time, when I heard this kind of words, I was extremely excited, screaming, thinking that promotion and salary increase are just around the corner, let the leader give all the work to me...

Thinking about it now, I was so stupid and naive back then!

And now, it seems... This advanced way of deceiving people is used on Zhuge Liang again.

It doesn't matter whether he will be promoted again and again in the future, or whether he will remember his achievements. First, draw a big cake for him. It is essentially different from salted fish, and it even turns green into leeks!
Hmm... Kong Ming, Kong Ming rolled up his sleeves and worked hard.

Sure enough, Zhuge Jun replied excitedly: "Master Lu entrusted me with such an important task, I...I will do my best, please rest assured, Master Lu."

Lu Yu patted him on the shoulder very pleased. A nine or ten-year-old kid can say these words. Sure enough, boys in ancient times matured prematurely, which is gratifying!

Leek needs to be cultivated from such a young age...it will be convenient to cut it when it grows up like this!

at this time…

"Brother Yu...Brother Yu..." But he heard Sister Zhaoji's voice from behind, Lu Yu hurriedly turned around, and saw her stepping into the pavilion with an urgent tone.

"I found you, Cheng Sima has been waiting for Brother Yu in the front hall for a long time..." Cai Zhaoji reminded...

Procedure?Cheng Sima?
Lu Yu didn't realize it for a while. Recently, a lot of people call him Xun Yu Xun Sima...Where did Cheng Sima come from?

Wait... Lu Yu suddenly realized that he really had a military commander, Cheng Yu, in the Longxiao camp, but he was away all the time... Dealing with the undead all the time, he didn't have much sense of existence!
Of course, although Cheng Yu and Xun Yu are both Sima, but the level of Sima in the army is different from that of other Sima!
and many more?

Why is Cheng Yu here?Some time ago, it wasn't the tomb robbers that were booming...

Some time ago, didn't you stabilize the counties and counties in the hinterland of Yanzhou, establish protection from Fan County to Dong'e County, persuade Lu Bu to dismiss, and just received an award?
It stands to reason that now that the situation has stabilized, he should go back to his old job and go back to the old job of Captain Mojin. Why is he here?
Thinking so in my heart... Lu Yu hurriedly turned around and walked quickly to the front hall...

The ghosts of the Central Plains must have something important to do when they come to see you, so you have to see them!

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(End of this chapter)