Lu Dynasty

Chapter 81
Zhang Rang wanted to summon me after hearing Emperor Han Ling's order.But Han Lingdi stopped him and said: "Since he wants to ask me to marry him and Cai Yong's daughter, why not let Cai Yong also come and listen to his good son-in-law!" Zhang Rang listened to Lingdi's words, He nodded knowingly, and asked someone to call Cai Yong.

Cai Yong came to the main hall in a daze, originally he was going to go home, but a little yellow door said that His Majesty had an invitation, so he came.Seeing Emperor Ling, Cai Yong saluted and said: "See Your Majesty, I don't know what your Majesty's orders are for summoning my ministers!"

Emperor Ling said: "Teacher, today I want to meet someone who has something to do with the teacher, so I want the teacher to meet him with me. But, can I ask the teacher to sit behind the screen first?" The emperor gave orders, but Cai Yong did not dare Do not listen.After Cai Yong sat down behind the screen, Emperor Ling asked Zhang Rang to pass me up to the hall.As soon as Cai Yong heard that he was summoning me, he understood that I was here to offer wine.But Cai Yong didn't know why I offered wine. In his opinion, I wanted to offer it to the emperor when I brewed good wine, which was a sign of loyalty to the emperor.

Under the leadership of Zhao Zhong, Abu and I walked towards the main hall.Emperor Han Ling sat on the chair facing the door and saw Abu and me from afar.Lu Bu and I are both nine feet tall. I have a feather fan and a cloak, and I look like a literati, while Abu is dressed in a warrior uniform, which looks very heroic.Walking into the main hall, I saluted and said, "Grassman Lu Feng, and my younger brother Lu Bu, see His Majesty the Emperor!"

Emperor Ling of Han looked at us for a while, then said slowly: "You are Lu Feng? I heard that you make good wine and want to present it to me. Are you not afraid that I will be dissatisfied and kill you?"

"Report to Your Majesty!" I replied: "The grass-roots people think that it is filial piety for a poor son to sacrifice his meat to his parents first; it is loyalty for the people of a country to sacrifice his treasures to the king first." On the mountain, uncarved unparalleled jade was obtained and presented to the king of Chu several times. All because of the incompetence of the craftsman, the jade could not be obtained. The king of Chu thought that Bian He had deceived him, so he ordered Bian He's feet to be cut off, and Bian He's arm to be cut off. However, Bian He’s aspirations remained unchanged, and later the King of Chu got a jade bi, named ‘He’s Bi’! Although the Caomin cannot be said to be as loyal as Bian He, if the fine wine brewed by Caomin’s luck is not dedicated to His Majesty, wouldn’t it be Infidelity?"

Emperor Han Ling smiled and said, "How do you know that your wine is good wine? You know, I am rich in the world, and I have never tasted any wine!"

I replied: "Return to Your Majesty, after Caomin brewed fine wine, I once asked Cai Yong and Cai Bojie to taste it. Cai Daren also thought that this wine was very good, so I dared to present it to Your Majesty. Even if this wine is not The best wine in the world is also the loyalty of the grass people to His Majesty!"

"In that case, why don't you stay in Luoyang, and I'll make you an official?" Han Lingdi laughed.

"Caomin thanked His Majesty Long En!" I refused to Han Lingdi: "Caomin didn't want anything when he came to offer wine. If he accepted His Majesty's official position, wouldn't the loyalty of Caomin be changed! And Caomin also has the ambition to go The frontier is for the great Han to expand the territory, and if the grassroots have outstanding abilities, then the grassroots will come to serve His Majesty again. If the grassroots die unfortunately, it will also fulfill the grassroots loyalty and filial piety!"

Emperor Han Ling nodded in satisfaction. His wish to be an official was just a temptation to me. If I agreed, it would mean that I did not offer wine for no purpose, or that I didn't just want to ask him to do it for me and Cai Yan. The purpose of giving marriage is as simple as that.

Seeing a bit cold, Zhang Rang said: "Lu Feng, don't offer your wine yet!" I hurriedly asked Abu to put two ouu of wine on the imperial case, I patted the wine sealing mud, and the aroma of the wine blew away. It started to drift away.

Emperor Han Ling sniffed the scent of wine in the air and said, "Hey! This wine is really extraordinary, no wonder my father asked him to offer it." After speaking, he asked Zhang Rang to pour him a bowl.At this time, a little yellow door stood up and said: "Your Majesty can't, how can you taste the wine offered by outsiders first! What if the wine is poisonous? You must find someone to try it first!"

Zhang Rang glanced at the little yellow door, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, it's so good. If Lu Feng offers wine, please ask Lu Feng to test the wine for His Majesty. If it is poisonous, he must poison himself to death first!"

Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty glanced at Zhang Rang and said to me: "Lu Feng, you heard what Zhang Rang said. Would you like to try wine for me?"

"Father is sick, and the son must taste the medicine first!" I replied sonorously and forcefully: "Today Lu Feng is presenting wine. Since he wants to test the poison, naturally Lu Feng will drink first!" I took down the wine bowl on the Ou and said: " Her Majesty's imperial items, grass people dare not use them without permission, so prepare a bowl for yourself..."

"No!" It was the little yellow door who said just now: "Who knows if there is an antidote in your bowl! Come and bring two silver bowls!"

Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong looked at each other and smiled, and saw Zhao Zhong take out two silver bowls from his arms, and said to Han Lingdi: "Your Majesty, I have prepared two jade bowls, can I use them?"

Emperor Ling smiled and said, "Zhao Zhong's bowls are certainly useful! Lu Feng, you can use these two bowls for wine."

I held the jade bowl with both hands, poured the wine, first picked up a bowl and signaled to Emperor Han Ling, Zhang Rang took the wine.Then I picked up another bowl and said: "Cao Min respectfully wish Your Majesty, long life without bounds!" After speaking, I drank it down.After drinking, I pretended to be choked by the wine, and my face was flushed.

Emperor Han Ling looked at me very strangely, and said, "Baxian doesn't drink often? Why do you look like this?"

With difficulty, I said to Emperor Han Ling: "Your Majesty! Although the capacity of the grass-roots people is not as good as your Majesty, it is definitely not wrong to describe it as a large amount of wine. Ordinary wine, the grass-roots people will not be like this after drinking twenty or thirty altars. But this wine It's very strong, you need to drink it in small sips, in order to let His Majesty taste it earlier, the grass people drink it in a hurry and choke a bit."

Han Lingdi laughed and took the wine from Zhang Rang, and looked at it carefully.The wine in the jade bowl was crystal clear and fragrant, even a man of Han Lingdi's status couldn't help swallowing his saliva.

After waiting for a while, Emperor Hanling saw that I was still alive and knew that the wine was not poisonous, so he squinted his eyes at the little Huangmen who blocked him and said, "Zhen, can I drink it?" Hearing Emperor Ling's words, he immediately knelt on the ground.Then I heard Emperor Ling say coldly: "Drag on! Death!" Xiao Huangmen kowtowed immediately, and shouted: "Your Majesty, I am so loyal, Your Majesty!"

Han Lingdi said: "Are you loyal? Do you really think I don't know how much bribes you have accepted from them? Even the people around me dare to bribe them. What do they want to do! Guards, drag it down!" The wolf-like Imperial Forest Army dragged that little yellow gate down like a dead dog.Lingdi picked up the jade bowl in his hand, took a sip, fell in love with his eyes, savored it for a while and said: "Good wine! It has a long history and endless aftertaste! It is really good wine, and it is not an exaggeration to say it is fairy wine!" Said After finishing, I saw Han Lingdi sip one sip, and he didn't put down the bowl until he drank all the wine in the bowl.

(End of this chapter)