Chapter 125 Chapter Eighteen

109 There is a majestic mausoleum in the north of Jizhou City, and Yuan Shao, the overlord of a generation, rests restlessly in that huge tomb. Cao Mengde led a long and magnificent mourning team slowly towards Yuan Shao's mausoleum. After all, Cao Mengde and Yuan Shao have worked together for more than ten years. After all, Yuan Shao is also worthy of a failed hero. Cao Mengde staggered to the towering tombstone, engraved with the words "Tomb of General Yuan Benchu" on the tombstone.He looked up to the top of the stele and said quietly: "At the beginning, you and I belonged to the same sect, but unexpectedly, you left before me." After saying this, Cao Mengde burst into tears.

The civilian and military generals who accompanied the sacrifice also shed tears. "Chen Lin, where is Chen Lin?" Cao Mengde suddenly stopped crying and shouted sharply. Chen Lin was tied up and brought up. "Chen Lin, don't you know how to make a fuss? Why are you in such a mess today!" Chen Lin was disheveled, and she was indeed in a mess. Chen Lin bowed her head and waited. "How well-written your essay is, it almost made my old problem. It's a pity that this essay has become Yuan Benchu's sacrificial essay!" "Behead him!" Xiahou Dun said.

Chen Lin shrank back. "Chen Lin, raise your head and read me a call to mourn the souls of the original dead!" Chen Lin was pushed in front of the tombstone, and he still had a call to action that he wrote a few years ago, to be more precise, he wrote it to revise it. Chen Lin unfolded the proclamation and read in a trembling voice: "Cao Cao's character is Meng De, the small character is A Man, grandfather Cao Teng..." "Why are you insulting my ancestors!" Cao Mengde roared furiously. "Behead him! Behead him!" Cao Ren and Cao Hong shouted. Chen Lin didn't want to finish the call to action, waiting for punishment.Cao Mengde forced him to finish reading the call to action.

The air froze, deathly still. Cao Mengde walked up to Chen Lin who had almost lost her expression, and Chen Lin was stunned.Cao Mengde suddenly made a move that stunned everyone. He untied Chen Lin's rope and said in a low tone: "Don't scold my ancestors anymore. I think you are a rare talent in the world. From now on, you will be a brother of Cao Zhi." Let's practice poetry and prose." It took Chen Lin a long time to retrieve her lost soul, and knelt down in front of Cao Mengde with a plop. Cao Mengde looked up at the towering stone tablet without even looking at him, and said in his heart, "A useless rotten scholar!"

Looking back at Yuan Benchu's tomb, Cao Mengde suddenly felt a sense of aging. Just as Cao Mengde mourned Yuan Shao's tomb on a large scale, Cao Pi entered Yuan Shao's mansion alone. Cao Mengde has long ordered that no one is allowed to enter Yuan Shao's mansion, and sent soldiers to guard Yuan's mansion. "The prime minister has an order that no one is allowed to enter without authorization!" Cao Pi was blocked from the gate. "Do you know who I am?" Cao Pi scolded angrily.A general recognized Cao Pi, so he dared to stop him. Cries filled the spacious and beautiful mansion.Cao Pi had heard that Yuan Shao's second son, Yuan Xi, had married a stunningly beautiful woman, and he heard his younger brother Cao Zhi describe the woman's beauty in poetic language.

The purpose of Cao Pi's intrusion into Yuan's Mansion was obviously to witness the stunning beauty. The two women were hugging each other and crying. "Who are you, Duke Yuan?" Cao Pi pressed his sword and asked. A woman raised her head and said tearfully, "My concubine is General Yuan's wife, Mrs. Liu." Cao Pi estimated that Ms. Liu was a woman who was nearly forty years old, but the woman in front of him made Cao Pi dumbfounded, her complexion was pale. The face is rosy, the body is plump but not bloated, the tearful eyes are even more moving, and the two lips are so red that people will immediately dream about it.

Mrs. Liu saw that the young man who broke in with a sword was red and handsome, and also saw that the young man had lost his anger and looked benevolent.I thought, whose son is this? "Dare to ask this young man, are you..." Mrs. Liu seemed to have seen that the young man had no intention of committing a crime, so she asked softly. At this time, Mrs. Liu had completely raised her head.Cao Pi listened to the woman's voice, showing a bit of coquettishness in the sadness, and looked the woman up and down again.It was summer, and the woman was wearing thin clothes, and the red corset in Luo Chang was also very clear. How could the thin corset hold the mature woman's body? The high breasts and charming voice made Cao Pi walk away with emotion. After two steps, he helped Mrs. Liu up, but his hands were still on Mrs. Liu's back.The other hand grabbed Liu's hand, and consciously caressed it lightly.

Another woman who lowered her head raised her head at some point, Cao Pi was stunned. The woman's eyes were full of resentment, reminiscent of two pools of intoxicating green mountain springs. Although there were tears on her face, she was extremely tender , the slightly parted lips revealed two rows of fine white teeth, the long neck, the narrow and round shoulders, the graceful figure, the plump buttocks, the trembling breasts, the white and tender hands... Cao Pi took two steps back unconsciously, he never imagined that there is such a beautiful woman in the world.At this time, he was not impulsive at all, as if he was appreciating a poem, a painting, or a piece of music. He couldn't help but think of the description of a beautiful woman in the Book of Songs: "The skin is like creamy fat, the jaw is like a grub, the hands are like catkins, and the teeth are like catkins." Like a gourd..."

The woman was also embarrassed by the look, and lowered her head slightly. "This is..." Cao Pi remembered this sentence that should have been said a long time ago. "She is Zhen Shi, the wife of the second son Yuan Xi. Yuan Xi guards Youzhou. Zhen Shi refuses to travel far, so she stays with the concubine." Liu said. Cao Pi had long since lost interest in Mrs. Liu, and took a closer look at this beautiful woman with beautiful muscles and beautiful appearance. On the way Cao Mengde returned to Jizhou City, he heard that Cao Pi ran into Yuan's mansion, so he angrily led a group of people into Yuan's mansion.

"Pi'er, what are you doing..." Before finishing the rest, Cao Mengde's eyes stayed on Zhen Shi. Cao Pi quickly went up and knelt down and said to his father, "I want to take Mrs. Zhen as my wife." Cao Mengde's eyes were still on Zhen Shi. Mrs. Liu also knelt in front of Cao Mengde and said: "Only the son can save the whole family of the concubine." Cao Mengde looked at the elegant and elegant Cao Pi, then at the pretty and delicious Zhen Shi, thought for a while, and then said: "Since the child is like this, I can't interfere." Cao Pi quickly thanked his father.

At this time, Cao Zhi also entered Yuan's residence, seeing his elder brother supporting Mrs. Zhen, he understood to three points what had happened. Cao Zhi looked at the Zhen family, compared with the imagined Zhen family, the Zhen family in front of him was more vivid and pleasant. "Flying like a frightened bird, graceful like a swimming dragon, looking forward to flying like a dragon..." He described it in his heart. So far, Zhen Shi no longer appears as a sister-in-law in Cao Zhi's mind, but a god. After Cao Mengde comforted the Liu family, he ordered people to count and return Yuan Shao's relatives and treasures, and decided to give him a fixed salary. Soon, Gao Gan, the governor of Bingzhou, also sent an envoy to express his sincerity to Cao Mengde. Cao Mengde still named him the governor of Bingzhou, so that Bingzhou belonged to the imperial court in name.Cao Mengde proclaimed himself Jizhou Mu.After that, he led his army back to Yanzhou. 110 When Cao Mengde fought with Yuan Shang and Shenpei in Yecheng, Yuan Tan, who was trapped in Pingyuan County, took the opportunity to recruit troops to Qingzhou, and captured the four counties of Ganling, Anping, Bohai, and Hejian in the east and west of Jizhou . When Yuan Shang fled to Zhongshan County, Yuan Tan also led the army to follow him.Although it is impossible for both of them to hope for the position of great general, Yuan Tan already hated Yuan Shang to the bone, wishing to eat his flesh and bones.Yuan Shang's scattered army did not dare to confront Yuan Tan, so they fled to Gu'an. Yuan Xiyuan made up his mind to remain neutral, and it is not bad to be able to survive under the current situation.But I heard that Cao Jun broke through Yecheng, his beloved wife was snatched by Cao Pi, and all of them were burned.Thinking of his gentle and beautiful wife sleeping with Cao Pi, and thinking of the days and nights when he and Mrs. Zhen were lingering in bed, Yuan Xi wanted to hang himself several times.A series of emotions of humiliation, resentment, and grief contributed to his complex motives for cooperating with Yuan Tan. Yuan Tan and Yuan Xi reorganized their father's old department.Intended to revive Yuan's glory. Cao Mengde was well aware of Yuan Tan's ambitions, so he sent someone to send a letter to Yuan Tan, condemning him not only for not bringing back the four states to submit to the imperial court, but for wanting to join the army to separate the regime, which obviously violated the agreement when he asked for aid. However, Yuan Tan also wrote back and scolded Cao Mengde for his dishonesty. Instead of marrying his daughter Princess Qinghe to him, he threatened him in the name of the court. Cao Mengde wanted to recruit Yuan Tan again and send Princess Qinghe to Zhongshan County, but Guo Jia immediately opposed it. Guo Jia said: "The young master accepts the Zhen family as his wife. Yuan Xi must be humiliated and angry. According to his current strength, he may have formed an alliance with Yuan Tan. If the princess is sent away, wouldn't it be sent to the wolves?" Cao Mengde suddenly realized, and said: "The knowledge of filial piety really impresses the old man." He felt a kind of fear. Cao Mengde formed another army, ready to attack Yuan Tan's forces in the northeast of Jizhou.