Chapter 7 Chapter 7 Mother·Wife·Friend

Lu Bu stretched out his claws.The beast finally bit its master's hand. However, he was not the kind of villain who planned and planned to act.His behavior was pure and simple, like a beast on fire.After the desire is satisfied, he will even appear to be condemned by conscience. After Lu Bu occupied Xuzhou City, he posted a list at the city gate and in the streets and alleys on the same day to show his feelings. notice I have enjoyed Xuande's kindness for a long time.Even so, it is not an act of forgetfulness.The only way is to suppress private fighting in the city, expel those who are beneficial to the enemy, and remove the root of disaster after the conquest.I hope that the army and the people will quickly return to their daily tasks and live and work in peace and contentment under my rule.

Lu Bu also visited the back room of the city in person and warned the soldiers: "You are not allowed to abuse captured women and children." Xuande's family members live in the back room.Lu Bu originally thought that the city had fallen, and except for women and children, the rest of the main figures had fled.But he accidentally discovered that Liu Bei's noble mother, young and beautiful wife, and young children were all huddled together in a room in the back garden. "Oh... are you Liu Xuande's family?" Lu Bu immediately noticed: One is Xuande's mother.

Standing by is Mrs. The young child who is holding hands is probably Xuande's child. "..." The old mother was silent. The lady also stared blankly. Only crystal clear tears flowed down her face.She didn't seem to know what was going on, she was speechless with fear, her face was pale, and her hair and lips were trembling slightly. "Hahahaha...wahahaha..." Lu Bu suddenly laughed. It's for laughing on purpose. "Ma'am, Mrs. Liu, you can rest assured! I am not the kind of heartless person who wants to kill you women and children... But, disloyal slaves who abandon the lord's family and flee for their lives, what face do you have to see Xuande again! These guys were very embarrassing and despised just now."

Lu Bu spoke proudly to himself, summoned his generals, and ordered: "Send a hundred soldiers to protect Xuande's mother, wife and children. No one is allowed to come in and out at will. The guards must also be merciful." After Lu Bu explained, he looked at Xuande's wife and mother again.He thinks they should be relieved now. However, the faces of Xuande's mother and wife were as white as jade, without any color or expression. Tears flowed endlessly on their faces.Their lips were tightly shut, as if they had forgotten to speak. "Don't worry! Don't worry about this." Lu Bumai said.But the madam and the old mother held their heads high, and their eyes were full of resentment, which had nothing to do with joy and gratitude. Their eyes pierced through tears and shot straight into Lu Bu's face like needles.

"By the way, I'm going to get busy soon... Hey, soldiers on duty, I will hand over the security affairs to you!" Lu Bu left a sentence in self-deception, and then left. It is said that Xuande didn't know that Xuzhou, which was left behind, had undergone such a mutation, and he was still chasing the enemy general Ji Ling.On this day, I came to Xiazhai by the Huaiyin River. dusk. Guan Yu led his men back from patrolling the forward position. At this moment, the Sentinel set up an awning with his hand guards, looked at the end of the field, and immediately became agitated, asking: "Is it the enemy army?"

"It seems to be the enemy army!" Looking over, there was indeed a group of people walking heavily towards this side from the end of the wilderness of the western mountains, carrying the setting sun on their backs. Guan Yu also looked around suspiciously.Soon, the soldiers who ran to inquire loudly said: "It's General Zhang! General Zhang Fei and Shibaqi's own people are here!" "What... Zhang Fei is here?!" Guan Yu was even more surprised.He shouldn't have come, and if he did, it would be... not a good thing. "What happened?" Guan Yu waited with a gloomy face.

Not long after, Zhang Fei and Shibaqi came in front of Guan Yu, dismounted from their horses, and looked like desolate warriors. Seeing Zhang Fei's appearance, Guan Yu suddenly "thumped" in his heart, feeling ominous.Because Zhang Fei was completely different from usual, listless and without any smiles.The bold and upright man was completely wilted, and stood in front of him with his head drooping. "Hey, what's the matter?!" Guan Yu patted Zhang Fei's shoulder and said. Zhang Fei said weakly: "I've lost my face! I don't have the face to see you and my brother alive... I came here with shame to apologize. Please tell my brother!"

Guan Yu first accompanied Zhang Fei to Xuande's tent.Xuande also looked surprised, welcomed him into the account, and said: "Hey, Zhang Fei is here?" "I'm so sorry!" Zhang Fei crawled on the ground like a flat spider and reported that Xuzhou City was taken by Lu Bu due to carelessness.He truthfully told the story of how he had broken the covenant of quitting alcohol that he had sworn to make, and how he had lost his way while drunk, without looking up, and deeply apologized. "..." Xuande was silent, and asked after a while: "It's helpless. But what about my mother? Is my wife and children safe? As long as my mother, wife and children are safe, it's okay to lose a place or a city for a while. As long as there is martial luck, when the time comes , the city and the country will return to my hands.”

"..." "Zhang Fei, why didn't you answer?" "Uh..." The voice was as small as a mosquito, not at all like Zhang Fei.Sniffing his nose, he sobbed, "I'm so ashamed! I was so drunk that in the end... I didn't have time to run to the back room to rescue them from the city." Hearing this, Guan Yu panicked and shouted, "So you escaped alone? Did you hand over the eldest brother's mother, wife and children to Lu Bu?" "Ah! Why am I such an idiot?! Brother, forgive me! Guan Yu, please laugh at me!" Zhang Fei cried and shouted.Two or three times, he hit his head with his fist, but he still couldn't get rid of his hatred for his "dumb self".Suddenly he drew his sword and was about to cut off his own head.

Seeing Zhang Fei suddenly draw his sword and try to kill himself, Xuande was shocked and shouted: "Guan Yu, stop him!" "Ah!" Guan Yu snatched Zhang Fei's sword and shouted, "What are you doing!? Nonsense!" Zhang Fei struggled and cried bitterly: "For the sake of a warrior, please use that sword to cut off my head. What else do I have to live in this world?" Xuande walked to Zhang Fei's side, and said in a comforting tone, "Zhang Fei, calm down. Don't say such things over and over again." The gentle words made Zhang Fei even more miserable.He thought it better to give him a good beating with a whip.

Xuande bent his knees and grabbed his hand, squeezed it tightly, and said: "The ancients said, 'Brothers are like brothers and feet, and wives are like clothes'. If the clothes are torn, they can still be wrapped around the body if they are mended. It can be recovered. Did you forget, Zhang Fei? The three of us became sworn brothers in Taoyuan, brothers toasted, and vowed not to be born in the same year, the same month, on the same day, but to die in the same year, the same month, and the same day. We are brothers who swore an oath!" "Woo... woo..." Zhang Fei cried loudly while nodding. "We are three brothers, from all over the world. Although we have shortcomings and deficiencies, we can complement each other. This is a true brotherly brother. You are not a god. I, Xuande, am also an ordinary person. I am an ordinary person, how can I ask you to be like a brother?" As perfect as a god?! It is helpless for the city to be taken away by Lu Bu. In any case, Lu Bu would not do such a cruel thing as killing my mother, wife and children who have no power to restrain the chicken. Don't sigh like this, you will have to Stay with me, Xuande, and help me make suggestions and give me a helping hand. Zhang Fei, do you understand?" "Hey... hey... hey..." Zhang Fei kept his hands on the ground, tears rolling down the bridge of his nose. After hearing Xuande's words, Guan Yu also shed tears.The other generals were also moved. That night, Zhang Fei came to the Huaiyin River alone and looked up at the moon, as if he hadn't cried enough. "Stupid! Stupid!...I'm just a fool! I want to die so stupidly, I think it's really stupid to think that if I die, I will be able to apologise...Okay, I swear to live! I will be smashed to pieces for my elder brother Xuande! Only Only in this way can we thank today's crime and the shame of this life." Zhang Fei said loudly to himself.The war horse by the river looked at his face puzzled. The war horses are playing under the moon, playing with the river, chewing grass, and seem to be recharging their energy for tomorrow. There was no fighting that night. There was no decent fighting the next day.On the front line, the enemy does not move, and our army does not move.For several days, there were occasional arrows flying by. However, during this period, Yuan Shu freed up his hands early and launched a diplomatic offensive against Lu Bu. "If you attack the back of Xuande with one step, it will benefit our Nanyang army. After the war, I will give you 50,000 shi of rice, 500 horses, 10,000 taels of gold and silver, and 1,000 pieces of silk." Yuan Shu took out a good bait to win Lv Bu over. Of course, Lu Bu readily responded to Yuan Shu's secret agreement. He immediately dispatched 30,000 troops to Gao Shun, his subordinate, and told them to rush to Xuyi, saying: "Go and attack Xuande's back!" Xuande had already heard the news in the Xuyi village, and asked his staff, "What should I do?" Zhang Fei and Guan Yu said in unison: "Even if they are at a disadvantage, Ji Ling and Gao Shun have nothing to fear!" They made a tragic determination, put all their eggs in one basket, and urged a decisive battle.Xuande, on the other hand, was very serious and persuaded them: "No, no. This is a critical juncture and requires careful consideration. Last time I went to war, everything was not going well. Fate is at a low ebb. Thinking about it, Xuande's fortune is not going well because of The image of going against the waves. Obey the destiny. It is foolish to rush to ruin yourself if you insist on breaking the boat to withstand the wind and waves." "My lord has no intention of fighting, so what?!" The other generals comforted Zhang Fei and Guan Yu. In the end, everyone agreed: escape. Rainy night.The Huaiyin River estuary was flooded, and Ji Ling's army was unable to pursue them.Taking advantage of the storm, Xuande pulled out of Xuyi Dazhai and fled to Guangling. Gao Shun's 30,000 riders arrived the next day.I saw that the grass had been beaten down by the wind and rain, the trees were broken, and the river was soaring. Not to mention the traces of people and horses, there was not even a pile of horse dung on the site of the village. "The enemy army heard Gao Shun's name, and fled! Laughter!" Gao Shun soon came to Ji Lingzhai, and after seeing Ji Ling, he made a request, saying: "We will drive away the Xuande army as promised, please hand over the gold, silver, grain, rice, horses, silk and satin as conditions I wait." Ji Ling replied: "Oh, that's the condition that my lord Yuan Shu negotiated with your lord Lu Bu. I haven't heard of it. Even if I heard about it, I can't afford so much wealth by myself. In short, After I go back, I will report to my lord, Yuan Shu. I have the right to go back and wait for an answer." Makes sense.Gao Shun returned to Xuzhou and reported to Lu Bu truthfully. Later, Lu Bu received the letter sent by Yuan Shu, opened it and read: Xuande is now hiding in Guangling.Please take his head as soon as possible in exchange for the treasure of the previous appointment.Why don't you pay the price, but only know how to ask. "What a disrespectful guy! Do you think I'm his servant?! I proposed the conditions, but said that if I wanted to, I would exchange Xuande's head. Why are you making such deceitful words?" Lu Bu was furious. He even threatened to raise troops to attack Yuan Shu and asked him for the crime of deception. As always, it was Chen Gong who came out to comfort him. "Don't forget, the Yuan family has a great figure, Yuan Shao. Even Yuan Shu, who is entrenched in Shouchun City, is now the most powerful force in Henan. Why don't you invite Xuande who escaped, and make clever use of it, let Xuande live in Xiaopei, and wait for the opportunity When the time comes, raise your troops immediately, use Xuande as the vanguard, defeat Yuan Shu, and then destroy Yuan Shao, the leader of the Yuan Clan. In this way, half of the world's major events will be in your hands." the next day.Lu Bu sent an envoy to Guangling (the seat of the government is now Yangzhou, Jiangsu). Later, Xuande hid in Guangling Mountain Temple with only a few confidants. Although it is the law of troubled times, if one step is wrong, the decline will be so fast. "Being a general for three days, becoming a beggar overnight." This sentence is an excellent portrayal of the ups and downs of countless heroes and powerful princes in the world at that time. Even Xuande can't stay out of the situation.Later, Xuande was constantly attacked by Yuan's family and various clans, and suffered repeated defeats and bad luck.Without food and money, the soldiers stole horses and weapons one after another, only saying "if you don't leave now, when will you wait", and fled before the battle, taking it for granted.This is also their troubled life. Hiding in the abandoned temple deep in the mountains, Xuande looked around, only Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and a dozen other direct ministers and dozens of soldiers remained. At this time, Lu Bu's envoy arrived here. "What kind of tricks are you playing again?!" Guan Yu flatly opposed it regardless.Zhang Fei also stopped him: "No!" Xuande comforted them and planned to accept Lu Bu's invitation. The reason was: "He has also discovered his conscience and sympathized with me. To insult the virtues of others is to cast aside the conscience of being a human being. The reason why human society is in this dark and chaotic world is because of It is precisely because human beings have a conscience in their nature that they did not degenerate into beasts. Therefore, we must respect the conscience and virtue of others." Zhang Fei smacked his tongue behind his back, "Brother is a bit poisoned by Confucius. Generals and Confucius have different vocations. Guan Yu, you are not good either." "What's wrong with me?" "As soon as you have free time, you teach the elder brother knowledge and recommend books according to your hobbies, so it's not good. Anyway, you were originally the teacher of the children's school." "Nonsense! If only Wu has no Wen, what kind of character do you think will emerge? Only the same man standing here!" Guan Yu poked Zhang Fei's nose with his finger and said.Zhang Fei was speechless at once. Xuande chooses a day to go to Xuzhou. In order to relieve Xuande's suspicion, Lu Bu sent Xuande's mother, wife and other family members halfway so that they could meet each other. Xuande embraced his mother and wife with both hands, surrounded by children, looked up to the sky, thanked God for keeping his family safe and sound, and said, "Oh, thank God!" Mrs. Gan and Mi told him: "Lü Bu sent people to guard our house, and they gave gifts from time to time, and they often came to visit us." Not long after, Lu Bu personally greeted Xuande at the gate of the city, explaining: "I have absolutely no intention of taking this city. Because there is a private fight in the city, showing signs of self-destruction, in order to prevent trouble before it happens, I am only temporarily taking on the role of defense. " "Oh, I had the intention of surrendering Xuzhou to the general from the very beginning. To be precise, I am very happy that this city has its rightful owner. Please respectfully promote the government and love the people." Lu Bu repeatedly refused with duplicity.Xuande withdrew and locked himself in Xiaopei City, satisfying Lu Bu's ambition.He also often comforted the aggrieved left and right, saying: "Bend down and keep your points, and wait for the right time. Flood dragons dive into the abyss in order to emerge from the sky."