When Liu Xin heard this, it turned out that he was not worried about whether to go to Jingzhou, but something else. He was being sentimental, so he couldn't help but laugh, and said: "Brother Guo, you and I hit it off right away. If you have anything to say, it doesn't matter."
Guo Jia seemed to have made a lot of determination, and then said: "Master Liu, I lost my father when I was young, and I was raised by my mother alone. Now I am traveling far away from home, but I can't worry about her. I wonder if you can help me."
Take care of mother."
Liu Xin laughed and said: "Brother Guo, it turns out you are still a filial son! I did not misjudge the person, so he is worthy of being my good brother! No problem, just leave it to me."
Guo Jia was overjoyed, bowed his head to the ground, and said, "Then I would like to thank you sir for sending my mother to Xiangyang first when I go on a study tour."
Liu Xin suddenly remembered something and said, "No!"
Guo Jia was stunned for a moment, not knowing what he meant.
But Liu Xin said again: "Brother Guo, you can't stay in Yingchuan for a long time, we are leaving soon. 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.
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Although Guo Jia didn't understand why Liu Xin said this, he still agreed. How did he know that Liu Xin came from later generations and had already foreseen the Yellow Turban Uprising in early February, and he also knew that Yingchuan was the leader of the Yellow Turban Uprising.
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The team left the academy and continued to move forward. After walking for two more days, they passed Yingchuan and reached the border of Jingzhou. Liu Xin breathed a sigh of relief and finally arrived at my territory.
He looked up and saw a group of people in the distance. He couldn't help but become nervous and sent a group of soldiers to explore the way. After a while, the soldiers came back and brought an official. When the man saw Liu Xin, he hurriedly bowed down.
: "Dong Cang, the magistrate of Deng County, is here to greet Mr. Zhou Mu."
Liu Xin smiled and said: "It turns out to be Magistrate Dong. No need to be polite, just lead the way."
It turned out that Dong Cang learned that the new Jingzhou shepherd was coming, and sent people to Yingchuan area every day to inquire. 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 Magistrate Liu Xin
Xin and his party welcomed Liu Xin into the county town and held a banquet at the county government office to welcome Liu Xin.
During the banquet, Liu Xin didn't drink much, but asked Dong Cang more about the situation in Jingzhou. There were many things he needed to know now, including the customs and customs of various places, the temperament and temperament of officials, and the famous local families. But
Since it was divided into counties in the past, Deng County was under the jurisdiction of Nanyang. Except for Nanyang, Dong Cang didn't know much about the situation of other counties.
The next day, after breakfast, everyone continued on the road. At least, Liu Xin had now figured out that Xiangyang, the seat of Jingzhou Mu, was located in Nanyang County. He was still in Nanyang County and needed to pass through Wancheng and Bo.
There are four county towns: Wang, Xinye, and Fancheng. Among them, Wancheng is the seat of Nanyang County, and the current Nanyang prefect, Chu Gong, is located in Wancheng.
At noon, Chu Gong, the governor of Nanyang County, had received the report sent by Dong Cang on Pegasus, and hurriedly brought all the officials in the county to greet him. Nanyang County is the largest county in Jingzhou, with thirty-seven jurisdictions under its jurisdiction.
County has a population of more than 2.6 million, while the entire population of Jingzhou is only more than 6 million, and Nanyang accounts for more than 40%. This scale is one of the best in the country.
The governor of Jingzhou has been vacant for many years, and the governor only has the power to supervise local officials. Therefore, the governors of all counties in Jingzhou are used to living the life of being the most important person except the emperor. As the governor of the largest county, Chu Gong has always had an eye for things.
On his forehead. Although he knew that Liu Xin was the new shepherd of Jingzhou and not the governor of Jingzhou, seeing that he was young, he still didn't take him seriously. He came to greet him just to follow the official convention.
Liu Xin felt a little unhappy when she saw Chu Gong's arrogant expression, but his face was full of smiles without any trace of it. He had been a thief for more than ten years, so he was very good at pretending.
Chu Gong and others followed Liu Xin into Wancheng, and held a reception banquet in the prefect's mansion. This banquet was much richer than the one in Deng County. Chu Gong had been the governor of Nanyang for many years and had a rich eunuch. Although he did not
I look up to Liu Xin too much, but I don't want to offend him too much.
After three rounds of drinking, Chu Gong asked someone to carry two big boxes and said to Liu Xin: "Your Excellency has come a long way from the river with his family and friends. The people and the place are unfamiliar. I will prepare a small gift to help you settle down."
fee."
Liu Xin put down the glass of wine and refused, but said: "Liu accepted Governor Chu's kindness. As officials, we should put the interests of the people first. On the road just now, I saw the city was in dilapidated condition, as if there were mountains.
The bandits broke out and Wancheng was in danger, so it would be better to leave the money to Governor Chu to repair the city."
Liu Xin's words were a little ruthless. In fact, there were reasons for him to say this. First, he knew that Yingchuan was one of the centers of the Yellow Turban Uprising. If the Yellow Turbans in Yingchuan moved south, Wancheng would be the first to bear the brunt.
Second, he really wanted to beat Chu Gong and give him a signal, I am the shepherd of Jingzhou, and you must be under my control from now on.
Chu Gong was naturally displeased after hearing this, but he couldn't help it. He waved his hand and asked people to carry the box down, and said to Liu Xin: "Your Majesty is absolutely right, I will bear this in mind."
As a result, the banquet was not very pleasant. After the banquet was over, Chu Gong pretended to keep Liu Xin in Wancheng for a few days. Naturally, Liu Xin would not agree and led his troops out of Wancheng and continued on their way.
After walking for a long time, Xu Huang pointed ahead and said, "Brother, Bowang Slope is ahead."
"Bo Wangpo?" When Liu Xin heard this, she suddenly felt an ominous feeling and immediately said decisively, "No, you can't go to Bowang Slope! Take a detour to Xinye."
Liu Xin thought of the story of "Burning Bowang Slope". In fact, he was a little too cautious. Although Chu Gong did not take him seriously, he would not arrange an ambush and openly kill him, a superior officer.
Although everyone was a little confused about this order, Liu Xin was always nagging at times. He could even dream of Ma Yuanyi and Feng Xu. Maybe he had also dreamed about the danger on Bowang Slope. So, the team
Then he followed Liu Xin's instructions and turned onto a side road.
The journey was very peaceful, but it took three more days. When we arrived at Xinye, it happened to be the Lantern Festival. Xinye County had already hung up its colorful lanterns, and the county magistrate Kuai Liang and the officials and squires from He County were waiting at the city gate early.
Outside, Liu Xin was excited when she saw the word "Xinye" on the city gate. This is where Liu Bei stationed his troops back then! Looking at the people all over the city who are preparing to celebrate the festival, you can see that the people here live well.
Happy and peaceful, Liu Xin couldn't help but think of the story of the burning of the new land, and secretly made up her mind to prevent it from being burned to a white ground no matter what.
Kuai Liang's attitude towards Liu Xin was very different from the officials he met before. After the banquet, he insisted on letting Liu Xin and his party rest in the back office, and instead moved his family to the post house temporarily. Tian Feng, Ju Shou, Cai
The three Yong families all had their families following them, and they also lived in the county government office. The others were dispersed and arranged to live in other wealthy families. Only Dian Wei and Xu Chu were left to guard the front office. Liu Xin looked around and thought of the burning of Xinye.
, Cao Ren and others lived in this county government office, and suddenly felt a little uneasy.
Everyone had just settled down. Liu Xin was talking to Ma Yun there when she saw Mrs. Cai coming over and wanted to invite Ma Yun over. Ma Yun was surprised and wondered if something had happened to Cai Yan. It turned out to be Cai Yong's family.
A ceremony was to be held for their daughter's haircut. Ma Yun was the wife of Zhou Mu and had the highest status among the female relatives, so the Cai family wanted to invite her to preside over their daughter's haircut ceremony.
Although Cai Yong is now impoverished, he still attaches great importance to his daughter's hairpin ceremony. As early as the first day of the Lunar New Year, the first thing he did was to predict the auspicious day for his daughter to perform the hairpin ceremony. Three consecutive times 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 tribute to his daughter. Unexpectedly, Liu Xin refused to go to Bowang Slope and was delayed for three days. He did not arrive in Xinye County until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. After dinner, Cai Yong came again.
After a divination calculation, he was sure that today was an auspicious day. So he made up his mind to hold a hairpin ceremony for his daughter in this county government office.
At that time, men were crowned when they were twenty, and women were hairdressed when they were fifteen. In fact, it was a coming-of-age ceremony, indicating that they were adults and could talk about marriage. The procedures for this ceremony and hairpin ceremony were very complicated, including welcoming guests, taking seats, and opening ceremonies.
, the person with the hairpin takes his place, receives the banquet, first bows, one bow, two bows, two bows, three bows, three bows, places the wine, serves the wine, the person with the hairpin, listens to the instruction, the person with the hairpin bows and thanks, the ceremony is completed to seventeen
Steps. The three most important procedures are the first addition, the second addition and the third addition. The first addition is to put on hairpins and ropa, change the children's clothing on the body into a plain undershirt, and add hairpins.
Put on a hairpin, put on a deep dress with a curved train. The third plus is to remove the hairpin, add a hairpin crown, and put on a long dress with long sleeves. The three times of adding hairpins to the clothes have different meanings, symbolizing the growth process of girls -
—The pure and beautiful color of the clothing symbolizes the innocence of girls; the light and elegant skirt symbolizes the innocence of cardamom girls; the dignified deep skirt with curved train is recognized as the clothing that best embodies the beauty of Han women and symbolizes
The beauty of a girl in the flowering season; the grand and grand long-sleeved dress at the end reflects the grace, elegance and beauty of Han women.
Ma Yun didn't know anything about this. Fortunately, Tian Feng and Jushu's wives were also invited to serve as emcees and guests. With their help, after an hour of struggling, they finally completed this complicated program. Cai Yong also gave his daughter
The character was chosen - Zhao Ji.
Back in the house, Ma Yun still talked about this hairpin ceremony. This was her first time to participate in a major ceremonial event in ancient times. Especially when Cai Yan finally put on the dress, she looked even more beautiful and dignified. She couldn't help but say to Liu Xin
: "Husband, why don't you make me a long-sleeved dress? You see, I don't even have any decent clothes."
Liu Xin smiled and said: "What's so difficult about this? When we settle down in Xiangyang, I will personally design a few sets of fashions for you to wear."
Ma Yun pretended to be disdainful and said, "Humph, the clothes you designed? I'm afraid I'd be too embarrassed to go out to meet people if I wore them." In fact, she felt very happy.
The two of them were chatting there, when suddenly there was a shout from outside: "It's leaked! It's leaked! The county government is leaked!"