Warring States Eagle

It was dusk.The autumn wind is bleak, and the silk is like a knife.Behind the thatched hut is an old tree several meters high, which is already full of yellow leaves.The yellow leaves on the trees were cut down mercilessly by the autumn wind, and fell one by one, covering the front of the thatched cottage with a piece of golden yellow.

Zhengliang stood in front of the thatched cottage.I saw a wooden sign hanging above the door, reading: Xianyunju.

Zheng Liang found it very interesting after watching it. How does a scholar who lives in a den of bandits live in the wild?

"Withered vines, old trees, dark crows, small bridges and flowing water, people, old roads, westerly winds and thin horses, the sun sets, and heartbroken people are at the end of the world." At this time, a voice came from the thatched cottage, and the voice seemed to be full of helplessness.

"Hey!" Immediately after a long sigh, the voice in the room continued, "It's such a joy to have friends coming from afar. Young master outside the door, why don't you come in and get together?"

Masaragi smiled slightly when he heard the words, waved his hand, and signaled Yoshida Shigemasa to be the guard outside, and he gently pushed open the wooden door and walked in.

After entering the house, I saw that the furnishings in the house were quite simple.A wooden bed, a wooden table, that's all.On the open-air wooden platform near the creek, a thin middle-aged man dressed as a scholar was picking up a tile bowl to toast Zheng Liang.It seems that the middle-aged man's clothes and shoes are thin, but he doesn't feel the slightest chill in the howling autumn wind. Judging from his expression, it can be said that he is chatting and laughing.Is it also a strange man?

Zheng Liang was also polite, strode to the wooden platform, and sat down cross-legged like a middle-aged scribe. ()

"My next Luo Liang, please be polite." After sitting down, Zheng Liang gave a slight salute to the middle-aged scribe.

"Liu Le, Macheng County, Huguang," the middle-aged scribe replied, "I don't know if the young master is a literary drink or a martial arts drink?" After the salute, Liu Le took out a tile bowl and said to Zheng Liang.

Zhengliang felt more and more interesting.An ancient literati suddenly invited a stranger to his home as a guest.And judging from the current situation, the two seem to be drinking with each other like old friends.It was a strange scene indeed.But since the other party invites me to drink, it is not easy to refuse. Anyway, there are people guarding outside, so I am not afraid that this strange scribe will play some tricks.

"How does Wen drink drink, and how does Wu drink drink?" Zheng Liang asked with a slight smile.

"Hahaha" Liu Le was slightly taken aback when he heard this, and then laughed out loud.He didn't make an analysis, but enthusiastically served Zheng Liangman a bowl of wine, and finally raised his newly filled wine bowl to Zheng Liang.Said, "Come".After finishing speaking, he raised his neck and drank a bowl of wine in one go.

"Brother Liu is proud."Zheng Liang sighed in admiration. After finishing speaking, he also raised his neck and drank the bowl of wine in one go.A spicy taste rushed into the throat.ah!This is the real wine, this is soju.The unique shochu in the Ming Dynasty (distilled liquor originated in the Yuan Dynasty. Li Shizhen, a medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, wrote in <<Compendium of Materia Medica>>: "Shochu is not an ancient method, and it was created in the Yuan Dynasty. The method uses strong wine and lees, steamed On the steam, use a vessel to take the dew. Any sour wine can be steamed. Recently, only glutinous rice or japonica rice or millet or barley is steamed, and Puwa is used for steaming. It is as clear as water and has a very strong taste. Covered with wine dew. Pungent, sweet, hot, and poisonous. Excessive drinking destroys the stomach and gallbladder. Severe heart damages life, and even black intestine rots the stomach and dies. Eating with ginger and garlic can cause hemorrhoids. Salt, Cold water, mung bean powder to detoxify).It's really shochu, and the taste is really not comparable to that of Japanese sake.Suppressing the burning heat in his heart, Zheng Liang lifted the drained bowl to Liu Le.

"Hahaha" Liu Le laughed again, and then started talking to himself regardless of Zhengliang. "It's rare to be confused in life. The more sober you are, the more troubled you are."

oh?After hearing Liu Le's words, Zheng Liang knew that this was a person with a story.So I didn't bother, but had a drink with him while listening to what he said.

It turns out that Liu Le has been extremely smart since he was a child, and has an amazing memory, and he can often never forget it.As a descendant of the Liu Han royal family, Liu Le's father saw the hope of rejuvenating the family from his son. Although the family was not rich, he still supported Liu Le's education.

Liu Le was also very competitive. After obtaining the qualification of Tongsheng, he passed the college examination in one fell swoop and obtained the status of a scholar.From then on, he got rid of his status as a commoner and gained certain privileges, such as exempting one person from corvee and not kneeling when seeing the county magistrate.But Liu Le's goal is to become an official.So he participated in a higher level of rural examination.This time, he passed in one fell swoop and became a Juren.Having achieved such a result, the two elders were also very happy.However, his good luck came to an end. In the subsequent examination, he lost his name and was unable to obtain the qualification of Gongsheng.

Liu Le was not discouraged either. While finding a writing job in his hometown to make a living, he was reviewing and preparing to continue taking the exam.It is a pity that the two consecutive participations ended in failure.During this period, the two elders also let go.Of course, they left with a smile on their face.Being able to achieve such a result can be regarded as a glorious ancestor.

In other words, Liu Le is a Juren, so he is qualified to be an official.The reason why it is said to be qualified is because this level does not guarantee you to be an official, which is similar to today's university graduation that does not include distribution.Then how can a person become an official? It's very simple. If the official dies, you will have a chance.Liu Le is also considered upright but a bit tactful, but unfortunately, he met someone who was more tactful and sophisticated than him and had a background, so several opportunities to be an alternate official were secretly snatched away.Coupled with his lack of decisiveness in doing things, he often behaves like a woman, and often hesitates when it comes time to make a decision, which eventually leads to being seized the opportunity repeatedly.

In a blink of an eye, Liu Le is already in his thirties, and his family fortune is gradually declining.That night was windy and windy, and he felt ashamed of his parents, weeping bitterly in front of their parents' graves, and finally realized that these so-called official positions were nothing more than floating clouds.After a period of hard work, his business gradually got on the right track.And at this time, because of business needs, he learned Japanese by virtue of his amazing memory.

That day, I suddenly remembered my father's expectations before he left.It turned out that Liu Le had been married to the daughter of a friend of his father's friend since he was a child.Now this friend has moved to Ningbo Mansion.Before his father left, he always wanted to see the birth of his grandson, but it was a pity that Liu Le was obsessed with the imperial examinations and never considered it. When thinking of his father's expectations that day, he couldn't help crying.So, he decided to go to the fiancée to propose marriage in person.In the end, he was caught by this group of bandits while passing by the foot of Taiping Mountain.

The bandit leader saw that Liu Leneng could write well, so he spared his life and appointed him as the warehouse manager, responsible for managing the warehouse and registering the account books.

From then on, Liu Le, who was under house arrest in the cottage, lived a life with freedom but no freedom. (To be continued..)

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