Chapter 49 49. Hiding at the home of old friend Lu Boshe

After Cao Cao separated from Yuan Shu and Feng Fang, he traveled alone. Suddenly, Cao Cao’s youthful scene appeared in Cao Cao’s mind. He and his younger brother Cao De were playing in the back garden. After playing, he suddenly became hungry, and he picked up a handful of mulberries from the mulberry tree and ate them...there were many mulberries in his childhood. It's tempting. The sweetest time I ate mulberries in my memory was at the house of my father's friend, Uncle Lu. What's Uncle Lu's name... Lu Boshe! ? In an instant, chickens, ducks, pancakes, wine and meat, and mulberries seemed to fly by before his eyes—quickly find the Lu family to fill his stomach!

When he actually arrived in Lujia Village, Cao Cao found that he didn't need to ask anyone, and his childhood memories were still vivid in his mind.Although this small village has become a little bit more decadent and less populated, the paths have not changed. The life of ordinary people seems to be the same all the time.He walked forward slowly according to the memory of his childhood, and after a while, a unique courtyard appeared in front of him——there was a big bare mulberry tree in the courtyard. It was a young man who opened the door, dressed in rough clothes, and spoke quite politely.Cao Cao saw that his appearance was quite similar to Uncle Lu in his memory, he must be a nephew, but he didn't want to pretend that he wanted to see Uncle Lu.

The front yard was not big, but Lu Boshe seemed to have heard it, and walked out of the house: "Why do you call him uncle?" Cao Cao looked at it carefully.Seeing that Lu Boshe was over sixty years old, kind-hearted, with white beard and hair, a few wrinkles on his forehead, a thin hunchback, wearing a blue coarse cloth, and wearing straw sandals—a very ordinary farmer. "Uncle, do you still recognize my nephew?" Cao Cao quickly knelt down. Lu Boshe looked at it for a while: "You are..." "I'm Cao Aman!" "Cao Ah?" Lu Boshe frowned and thought hard, but he no longer remembered.

"I'm Cao Jugao's eldest son, man!" "Oh!" Lu Boshe's eyes widened, and he stomped his feet, "Oh! Brother Jugao's son, you are...you are so old." Cao Cao quickly kowtowed.Lu Boshe hurriedly helped him up and called his family members to come out.Cao Cao remembered that he had five sons, but now he saw only three sons and one daughter-in-law. "I remember that when I came here in the past, I met four brothers. Later, I heard from my father that you had another son. Why did you meet three brothers today?" Lu Boshe said dejectedly: "The late emperor repaired the West Garden. The eldest was conscripted to work. He had been away for ten years and hadn't returned. I don't know which brick he was buried under. During the Yellow Turban disturbance, the second eldest joined the army and died in Hebei. The third child is left to be the head of the family, but they have not yet raised a child. The fifth child is still young, but the fourth child worries me because the family is poor and cannot marry a wife."

"There are a lot of troubles at home!" Cao Cao also sighed, "I am inconvenient today, so I will go back and talk to my father to help you make a living." "No need! Farmers like us, who doesn't do this now?" Lu Boshe waved his hand, "We are not bad, the two villages five or six miles to the west were called from Xiliang a few days ago The bandits were burned. If it weren't for the remoteness of our place, it would have been over long ago." Cao Cao shook his head again and again: "I'm afraid this place is not safe. I will send someone to pick you up in a few days. Why don't you just move the whole family to our place? My younger brother is a good cook at home. Now that he has money and land, taking care of the old man's family is not worth it." what."

"No need! I've lived here all my life, and I can't bear to leave." "You don't think about yourself, you need to think about your children and grandchildren." When he said this, Lu Boshe was a little tempted, he hesitated for a moment and said: "What can't be moved, my nephew can have such a heart, I will be grateful to you." "It's nothing, if you go, you can still give my father a companion! When the time comes, brothers and brothers, it will be a joy to talk about the past..." Cao Cao wanted to say a few more words, but he felt cramps in his stomach and was already hungry. It was unbearable, so he could only blushed and said, "Master Uncle, what food do you have at home right now?"

"what?" "My nephew has trekked here from Luoyang, and he hasn't touched a grain of rice yet. He is really hungry and thirsty." "Oh! Why didn't you say it earlier?" Lu Boshe hurriedly asked his son and daughter-in-law to cook. Cao Cao didn't care about this much anymore, so he went to the stove, first begged for half a bowl of coarse wheat porridge, and two pieces of dried mustard cakes, and stuffed them all down. "Look at how hungry you are! Let's go to the house and rest, and I'll ask you to get up and eat when dinner is ready...Xiao Wu, bring the donkey here, and I'll go buy some wine from Zhang Dahu."

"Father, let me go!" Lu Xiaowu urged. "You know what? It's a famine year, how can he give it when you go? I'm too old to save face, so he won't give it." Cao Cao interjected: "Don't bother me, old man, forget about the wine." "No, I'm happy today. If you don't drink, I'll still drink!" He took the little donkey led by his son, and said with a smile, "Have a rest, I'll come when I go." After that, he got on the donkey and left.