Chapter 353: Master Lu Liu
Lu Songli was looking at the exam questions her father had prepared for recruiting talented students. These were examples from previous years, and her father had selected some to create two sets of papers. The two papers seemed pretty standard, right? She thought about it and added a tricky question to each.
"...Master, this is the whole story." Wu Ren said, waiting by the side with his hands hanging down.
Lu Songli put down the pen in her hand and said, "Don't worry about this matter for now. Let's just do what needs to be done."
This time, when Young Master Ji and Young Master Gu arrived, Lu Songli did not personally receive them like he had done the last time Ji Wuyin came, but instead asked Wu Ren to do the reception. Firstly, he was familiar with the two, and secondly, he had just returned from the Southland and was taking a few days off.
"But Master, Young Master Gu is quite arrogant. If we don't show him some respect, will he go back to the South and tell Young Master Gu about us?" Wu Ren felt a little uneasy when he mentioned Young Master Gu. Wouldn't it be better for both sides to proceed step by step? Why was he so impatient?
Lu Songli: "Isn't this perfect?" There is no rush to cooperate with the Gu family. Let's wait and see what the Gu family's subsequent reaction is.
Wu Ren: “Hmm?”
"As the saying goes, even strangers cannot separate close relatives. If Gu Huaisheng believed Gu Er's words without a doubt, it proves that he has a problem with judging people. He is unaware that his brother has such a proud and arrogant character flaw. He has a poor judgment of people and is biased towards others."
"If he didn't listen to Gu Yi, it means he still has a certain ability to distinguish right from wrong, and he knows what kind of person Gu Er is. Sending him here is either a test, or he trusts his brother so much that he has unrealistic fantasies and expectations about him."
Regardless of the reason, Lu Songli has decided that from now on, they will just treat Gu as an ordinary trader and forget about the strategic partner.
In fact, Gu Huaisheng was quite wronged. He asked Gu Er to come here to show his goodwill to Liaodong County. He thought, Gu Er came here just to spend money, isn't that enough?
If you don't know how to do it, don't you have Master Ji? Just follow his lead. If you follow his example, there's no way you can go wrong, right?
How could he have known that his brother, who always loved and knew how to spend money, would not only remain arrogant after arriving in Liaodong County, but would also suddenly become frugal and stingy?
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On the other side, Xue Xu and his clansmen hurried and finally caught up with the large army led by Qin Liuye in Xuzhou in the afternoon of a certain day.
"Mr. Lu Liu, look who's here?" Liu Erxi personally led the person to Qin Sheng.
Lu? Mr. Xue's gaze on Qin Sheng suddenly became meaningful.
Qin Sheng was neither surprised nor unsurprised to see Xue Xu.
"How are you, Mr. Lu Liu?" Xue Xu asked, his voice drawn out.
Qin Sheng remained calm, humming inwardly, "What's wrong with him using the alias Lu Liuye when he's out there?" "Mr. Xue, the water route is so much faster. You're bringing so many people with you, why don't you take the water route? It's fine if you don't care about yourself, but don't you care about your people too?" Come on, let's hurt each other.
Brat! You're bringing up all sorts of issues! "I'm just worried that you can't handle it," Xue Xu said.
Qin Sheng curled his lips, but didn't say anything else.
At the end of the day's journey, when they were setting up camp, Xue Xu said to Qin Sheng, "Sixth Master, how about a duel with these two?"
"Okay." Qin Sheng also saw that the two men's skills should be extraordinary.
They quickly found a well-known venue, and Xian Feng fought with Alice and Qin Sheng.
Alice is big, strong and good at defense; Xian Feng is agile and good at attack.
The two of them joined forces and fought Qin Sheng to a standstill.
There were a bunch of people watching around. Xue Xu glanced at the Hou brothers and sisters standing in the front row, then looked away.
After about two hundred moves, Xue Xu came out and called a halt.
In fact, all three of them have their killer moves that have not been used, but this is a competition and they are all family members, so they should just stop at the right time and there is no need to end up with everyone getting hurt.
After Alice returned to Xue Xu, she said honestly, "Second Uncle, he's so strong!"
Xian Feng also felt so.
Xue Xu smiled and said, "He is very strong, and you are not bad either. This competition is over, don't think too much about it."
Xian Feng and Alice both nodded.
“Dinner is ready!”
Xian Feng, Alice, and the others were new recruits and hadn't been assigned any work yet, so the meal was brought to them by Qin Sheng's personal guards.
Xian Feng asked, "Big brother, can you bring some more food? We can eat a lot." For six normal people, the food would be enough, but they had Alice in their team.
"Okay, I'll bring you another bucket! As for you, just eat your fill. We don't have much else, but we have plenty of food." The guard thought to himself, "Mr. Xue brought back all his own people. How could he let them starve?" Looking at the six of them, he thought that bringing another bucket would be enough.
At this time, Xue Xu happened to come over and after hearing this, he said, "Bring two more buckets of rice."
Although the guards were surprised, they still brought two buckets of rice as he instructed.
Alice's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she looked at her second uncle expectantly.
Xue Xu nodded, "Eat it with peace of mind."
They used large bowls for their meals, not the small palm-sized bowls.
Soon, the other five tribesmen, including Xian Feng, had eaten their fill, but Alice was still eating.
They each ate two large bowls of rice, and Alice was already on her sixth.
The people around noticed this and were very surprised. They had never seen anyone who ate so much, and she was a woman.
After finishing the sixth bowl, Alice found that there was still a layer of rice at the bottom of the rice bucket. She quickly took a wooden spoon and scraped it into the bowl, not leaving out any grain of rice on the edge of the bucket.
Seeing that everyone was looking at her, she stammered, "We can't waste food." Then she buried her head in eating.
After finishing the last bit of rice in the bowl, Alice put down the bowl reluctantly.
"Are you full?"
Alice touched her stomach and nodded with satisfaction. In fact, she was only 80% full, but 80% full was already very good. She used to only dare to eat three bowls of rice, and sometimes she couldn't help but eat four bowls, and she was often very hungry.
It was only then that Xue Xu realized Alice's true appetite. The child was shy, so he figured she could probably eat a little more. But forget it this time. She'd been hungry for a long time, so eating too much all at once wouldn't be good.
Qin Sheng, who was standing nearby, saw this and ordered, "Give her a separate bucket of rice from now on. She doesn't have to share it with others." This was the female guard Xue Xu found for his wife. How could he let her go hungry?
Alice was very happy when she heard this.
When she was taken out of the clan, her second uncle had secretly told her that he had found a mistress and she would be a guard to protect her. She also knew that the man in front of her was the mistress's husband.
The heroine's husband keeps her well fed and is a good man. The heroine must also be a good person and will definitely protect her well in the future.
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