Chapter 21 3. The Beauty in the Dungeon

"How is Sima Yi's recent situation? Is he pretending to be sick?" Cao Shuang welcomed Li Sheng into the secret room in the backyard, and asked straight away as soon as he entered the room. Li Sheng saw that Cao Xun, Cao Yan, Ding Mi, He Yan, Deng Yang, Yu Song and others had already filled the long seats and waited in the room. This time Li went to visit and observe, and Sima Taifu is indeed old and sick. When dealing with people, his hands are a little unsteady even holding the wine glass, and sometimes spilled a little wine. Moreover, Sima Taifu has already sprouted' Carpe diem in time, enjoy the rest of your life in peace', indulge in singing and dancing all day long, leaning on the red and emerald green, his sixty or seventy-year-old body is probably going to be hollowed out by wine and sex!"

"Well...it seems that Master Li's words really confirmed the information we collected." Deng Yang listened to the side, and said with deep sympathy, "We have planted eyeliner in his Sima's mansion to report, Sima Yi since After returning to his hometown in Wen County to recuperate, he became obsessed with a newly adopted concubine Bai Ji. He indulged day and night, and threw his old wife Zhang Chunhua to Java. After Zhang Chunhua learned about it, he He went back to stop him on the grounds of returning to his hometown to visit a doctor, but he scolded Zhang Chunhua face to face: "You old guy is ugly, why do you run around and make a fool of yourself?" Zhang Chunhua was so angry that he wanted to She committed suicide on a hunger strike. Unexpectedly, after she starved for food and drink for two days and two nights, Sima Yi was still hard-hearted and ignored her. Later, Sima Shi, Sima Zhao, Sima Gan and other brothers heard the news and ran back to Wen County to support their mother. Following her on a hunger strike to protest, Sima Yi had no choice but to make a concession. He apologized to Zhang Chunhua and admitted his mistake before calming down the turmoil. But this made Sima Yi a little embarrassed. One after another sent letters accusing him of being lewd and unfeeling, which made him disgraced..."

"So it sounds like Sima Yi is old and sick, and also desolate and unreasonable. He has smashed his reputation as a 'senator of the four dynasties and an important minister of the country'!" Cao Xun said with a smile, " Maybe he really wants to end his life as a proud rich man! He may have figured it out a long time ago, instead of going head-to-head with our Cao family in the capital of Luoyang, it would be better to go back to his hometown to live a happy life and have fun in time No. No, he even shut down his Taifu's government office almost completely, and made our Yu Songjun a redundant official just over thirty years old."

"If he has such an awareness, it would be great. No wonder He recently saw that Sima Shi and Sima Zhao brothers seem to be a little listless... The old guy is so decadent, and these brats naturally follow suit. My son, I heard that even Shi Bao was so frightened that he resigned from office and fled from Master Sima, and disappeared..." He Yan said in a soft voice, while pinching his clean, jade-like palm over and over again. He said, "This is a very good situation! General, when Sima Yi and his son are willing to give in, this is our opportunity to advance!" "Well... gentlemen, in Ding's opinion, it may be too early to say that Sima Yi is willing to retire and return to the Wei family!" Ding Mi was different from them, and he didn't have much optimism on his face. He frowned slightly and said, "Sima Yi has always had great ambitions, and Niannian took it as his mission to rule the world, and he has made great achievements. When he has power for a while, will he really be willing to submit to us from now on? We But you must not be deceived by him, you have to spy in many ways until you get to know his details thoroughly!"

When he said this, the audience couldn't help but fell silent immediately.Cao Shuang blinked his eyes and thought for a while, then asked Li Sheng, "Did Sima Yi talk to you?" Li Sheng thought for a while and replied: "By the way, he also asked Li to bring you a message—he suggested that you grant the position of Sikong to Dr. Huan Fan." "Oh? Isn't Sima Yi trying to please Dr. Huan on purpose?" Cao Yan chuckled, "I never thought that the famous and powerful Taifu Sima would put down his airs to please our Dr. Huan so humbly one day. He It must be hoped that through this action, Dr. Huan will speak well of him in front of us in the future! After all, Dr. Huan was once his classmate and friend!"

Cao Shuang mused for a while with his hands on his cheeks, and finally he gritted his teeth and said, "Humph! He has a good idea! This great general just doesn't allow him to please him! This position of Sikong should be given to Wei Zhen as a favor. This old guy has always done things in an even and stable manner, without edges and corners, and is quite senior, so he can be put on the stage and placed in the position of Sikong so that we can play with him. Let Huan Fan be excused, he is full of thorns, After coming up, it is not easy to control." Yu Song, who was sitting at the bottom of the chair, was shocked when he heard what he said: it turns out that people like Cao Shuang are so narrow-minded and shallow!Thanks to Huan Fan who has worked tirelessly for them for many years, advised them, and worked diligently, yet they treated him worse than an outsider like Wei Zhen!It seems that Cao Shuang and the others are weapons for fighting, they only like flatterers, and they have no way to control the real virtuous and talented people.How much future will I have if I follow them up and down with the times?If they treat a national scholar like Huan Fan so hypocritically, what about themselves?For a moment, Yu Song couldn't help but think of all the courtesies he had received in Sima Yi's shogunate, and his heart was full of tastes, and he sighed secretly.

Here, Ding Mi continued to speak along his previous train of thought: "General, for Sima Yi's recuperating and retiring, we can come to him to try out his plan of 'throwing stones and asking directions': start from Yi to Difficult, slowly cut off his party members in the court from the outside to the inside, and then quietly observe all his reactions, and then make a decision before making a move! If he is really content, he can only sit idly by; if he is really ulterior motives, we You can also adapt to the situation, see the tricks!" "Cutting off Sima Yi's party feathers?" Cao Shuang looked timid, "Ding Jun, is this too aggressive? Let's wait and see."

"General, you are so confused! Didn't Master He say just now—"When Sima Yi and his son gave in, it was our opportunity to advance"!" Ding Mi stomped his feet heavily, "At this moment, we should return to Sima's party members. If you don’t hurry to cut it off, when will you wait in the future?” Cao Shuang raised his head hesitantly and looked at He Yan, Cao Xun, Cao Yan, Deng Yang and others around him. Seeing that they all nodded to him to show their approval for Ding Mi, he asked in a muttered voice: "Then, Ding Jun—who do you think we should cut off from the Sima Party first?"

"Sun Li, the long history of your great general's shogunate, should be the first one to be cut off! He is a wedge for Sima Yi to break into your great general's shogunate through the hands of Sun Zi and Liu Fang!" Ding Mi said gloomyly. He said, "After all, he is not an old confidant of your Cao family. It is really uncomfortable to stay in the position of your shogunate for a long time, like a thorn in your back. Let's do it! You can use 'Ming Sheng Dark' The method of surrendering, let him go out to which state capital to be the governor, and let him stay away from the general's shogunate!"

Cao Shuang also felt that Sun Li stayed in the shogunate and restrained him a lot, so he nodded slightly, and said in a deep thought: "Ding Jun's words are very true. After the general released Sun Liwai, I simply hired you into the shogunate." Come to take up the post of long history, how about it?" "Thank you General Ding for falling in love with you by mistake. There's no need for that." Ding Mi hastily resigned, and after thinking for a while, he replied: "You should hire Linghuyu, the nephew of General Wang Ling of Zhendong, into the shogunate as chief historian. Officer, so that we can join hands with Wang Ling to deal with Zhuge Dan, Wang Chang, Zhou Tai and other important officials belonging to Sima's party."

"Okay!" Cao Shuang clapped his hands very loudly, "Ding Jun's strategy is very clever, and this general immediately adopted it!" Ding Mi squinted his eyes, and there was a faint coldness in his eyes: "Next, Sima Yi's eight confidantes in the imperial hall-Shang Shu Ling Sima Fu, Zhong Shu Ling Sun Zi, Zhong Shu Supervisor Liu Fang, and Minister of Officials Lu Yu , Du Zhi Shang Shu Wang Guan, Tai Chang Wang Su, Ting Wei Gao Rou, Da Hong Lu - we should all eradicate them one by one!" Cao Shuang pressed his right palm firmly on the table in front of him, and nodded solemnly. "Oh...by the way, General, do you know about this? He and Deng Shilang have long decided to appoint Zhang Dang's nephew Zhang Han as the county magistrate of Anyi County in Hedong County. You also agreed to this matter It's..." He Yan seemed to think of something, and said, "But that Lu Yu insisted on not getting approval from the Ministry of Officials! His apparent reason was that Zhang Han was not fit for the job and could not be selected, but in essence he was He didn't take your opinion seriously, General! He kept claiming that he would send a letter to Sima Yi, asking him to come back and uphold justice." "What! It's really against this old man! I am a dignified general of the Fuguo, and he dares to refute the order of appointing a mere county magistrate?" Cao Shuang was furious, and the veins on his neck swelled instantly. Lao Gao, "He Yan——you will go to the official office of the Ministry of Officials and hand in the seal of his Minister of the Ministry of Officials to me, and immediately seal and issue the document approving the appointment of Zhang Han as the county magistrate of Anyi...Look at him Do you still dare to run into this general?" "General—please think again!" Yu Song couldn't bear it anymore, and persuaded him, "Forcibly handing over Lu Yu's official seal is equivalent to dismissing Lu Yu's official official—removing his official official, You have to issue an imperial decree after the court meeting! It seems a little too impulsive for you to ask Mr. He to take extraordinary actions based on this angry words..." "What do you know, kid? How can you talk about it here?" Cao Shuang glanced at him fiercely, "It's unbearable that an old man like Lu Yu dares to openly stand up to the will of this great general! This general wants to surrender his official seal in public and sweep his face, so that he will not be able to hold his head up in front of civil and military officials for the rest of his life, let's see if he dares to be arrogant again in the future?" Cao Shuang's General's Mansion suddenly tripled in size in the past six months, occupying almost half of the street frontage in Nanfang.His previous neighbors' homes had all been demolished, voluntarily or involuntarily.Even though they are all nobles in the court, their ranks are not low, and their power is not small, why is Cao Shuang now the assistant general who is "above ten thousand people and has power over the world"?Even Sima Taifu, the respected elder of the four dynasties, voluntarily retreated to his hometown and stayed away from the capital because he was afraid of his power, not to mention these officials in Beijing. However, although the Sima Mansion standing at the end of Nanfang seems to be getting deserted and lonely day by day, every time the dusk falls, Huan Fan, Ding Mi and other wise men of the Cao family feel that it is like A gigantic beast crawling silently is ready to jump up and devour its prey in one gulp! In fact, Cao Shuang also faintly felt this way.Otherwise, he would not have arranged for warriors and servants to guard the newly expanded 18-acre back garden of his mansion. And at dusk, Cao Shuang would be drunk and protected by his family guard Sun Qian, walk into a majestic rockery in the back garden, twist the mechanism on the mountainside, and the two doors are carved into the appearance of jagged rocks The bluestone cave door opened slowly, revealing a deep stairway leading down to the depths of the earth. Cao Shuang stepped on the stone staircase and walked down the stone staircase—it turned out that there was a large underground secret room inside!On the stone walls on both sides of the stairway, there are bowl-sized luminous pearls tributed by Fan Guo from the Western Regions. The crystal light is bright, like burning candles illuminating the inside. At the end of the stairway, there are two golden gates again—the green jade plaque on the top of the gate frame is engraved with four elegant and elegant flowing cloud patterns of "Elysium Cave Heaven", which looks particularly pleasing to the eye. Cao Shuang stopped here, turned his head and told Sun Qian who was following behind him: "Sun Jun, you are waiting here, you must not allow anyone to approach this door, not even your wife! Anyone who dares to trespass, you Can shoot to kill!" Then, he shoved open the two golden doors and walked in, and immediately closed them tightly with his backhand. No matter how stupid Sun Qian is, he still understands the allusion of "Golden House Cangjiao".And he is the watchdog that General Cao used to guard this golden house built underground!So, what kind of beauty will the general hide in this golden house?Is he afraid of other people's spying or is he not willing to share it with others, so he keeps her hidden in this golden house that is buried deep in the ground and never sees the light of day?What kind of stunning beauty would she be, to make General Cao so obsessed? Just as Sun Qian was thinking about it miscellaneously, the familiar sound of panting and moaning softly flowed out from the thin crack of the door in the "Cave of Paradise" golden room.It is so long, soft and beautiful, and so tactful and clear, it seems to tickle his heart and make his ears feel hot!However, when Cao Shuang's heavy breathing sounded like a bear, Sun Qian felt a sudden chill in his body, and immediately scolded himself in the bottom of his heart: You, an unskilled servant and guard, are worthy of thinking like this entertainment?Such a stunner, so alluring, only General Cao can afford it!You kid is such a toad that you want to eat swan meat! General Cao trusted him so much, that's why he let himself, the family guard who grew up with him, stand silently on duty for him outside the two golden gates. How could he live up to his trust? The sound of moaning and panting in the room continued.General Cao is really an extraordinary person. Every time he does these things, he will never stop without tossing one or two times.Sun Qian only felt that every part of his body seemed to be hardened and heated up!There was a bang in his head, and then he pinched himself on the thigh almost instinctively, trying his best to wake up his gradually lost consciousness!damn it!The voice of that woman in the golden room can really drive people crazy! Just as the panting in the golden room of "Elysium Cave" gradually calmed down, Sun Qian suddenly heard the stone door on the ground being slapped four times from the outside! At that moment, he condensed his voice and said to the door of the house: "General—an emergency military intelligence report has arrived from the border!" There was a sudden silence in the golden room of "Elysium Cave", so quiet that all sounds disappeared in an instant.After a while, Cao Shuang rushed out wearing a purple robe, muttering: "These Wu thieves and Shu bandits! They disturbed my general so much that I can't be quiet at this time. Sooner or later, my general will deal with them." ..." He seemed to have ignored the fact that there was a wooden man Sun Qian on duty at one side of the two golden gates, and without even glancing at him, he closed the two golden gates and walked along The stone staircase ran up anxiously to the top! It turned out that no matter how lewd and lustful Cao Shuang was, he also knew that the border military situation should not be delayed at all, so all the thoughts and thoughts that filled his mind were thrown to Java in a panic!But Sun Qian was completely forgotten by him in this underground cave! In fact, when Cao Shuang slammed the door out of the golden room, Sun Qian once thought that he should jump over and follow Cao Shuang out of the hole, but today his steps suddenly slowed down a little bit in the dark like a ghost. When he suddenly came back to his senses, the sound of Cao Shuang's boots had already disappeared at the top of the stone steps. His heart trembled, and he wanted to follow him in a hurry—at this moment, there was a voice so tender that it seemed to drip honey from the crack in the door of the "Cave of Paradise" golden house: "This Military Lord, why are you in such a hurry to go?" In an instant, the voice attracted his whole mind like an invisible magnet, and a hot thought rolled in his heart like boiling water: Push open the golden door to see her!Take a look at her real face!Take a look at the true face of this woman who can turn all living beings upside down just by her soft voice!Even if I was whipped and severely injured by the general for this move, I can't care about it! The two heavy golden doors were slowly pushed open, and a soft and bright brilliance greeted us - a silver orb the size of a lantern was hung on the golden roof, and it sprinkled strands of light, illuminating the room. Under the brilliance of the pearly golden flower, there is a woman with an extremely slim figure who is standing up from the couch, standing with her back against the wall, and looking at him leisurely——Sun Qian looked at him, and suddenly felt that the eyes of his eyes Dazzling, the woman's radiant demeanor covered all the jewels and jewels in the room in an instant, and a graceful fairy who had stepped down from the mundane world stood out like a beautiful relief! However, this Fairy Pianpian has a somewhat different spirit.Her dignified and elegant temperament seems to be mixed with a touch of indescribable surprise - a thin black gauze gently covers the double peaks on her chest that look like a jade bowl upside down, as she moves Between exhalation and inhalation, the black veil trembled and slightly opened and closed slightly, revealing the bright skin light and fresh bright red faintly, and Sun Qian was so shocked that his soul almost disappeared in a flash! Sun Qian hurriedly gritted his teeth to hold back the burning desire, looked away quickly, and looked at the beauty's feet in embarrassment, only to see a silver chain as thick as a little finger tightly wrapped around her jade white ankle. The other end of the chain was tied to the silver ring at the foot of the wall of the golden house—this silver chain restricted her range of activities to within a radius of two feet. The beauty looked at him with a smile and annoyance, and slowly lifted the black veil on her chest: "Come on! I have been waiting for you for a long time..." Sun Qian let out a low growl, only to feel that the blood all over his body was burning up, and he couldn't control it anymore... After the spring breeze was over, Sun Qian slowly woke up from the dream, only to see that beauty was sitting on the side of the couch with her knees folded, watching him with great interest. "Oh! Damn Sun! Damn Sun!" Sun Qian hurriedly put on his clothes and jumped up as if stung by a bee. "Damn you—you dare to touch the little girl hidden in the golden house of your great general. You should have died more than a hundred times!" The beauty looked at him, as if she had changed into a different person. He said unhurriedly in a stern tone, "Master Jun—are you afraid that I will report to the general what you did today in the Golden House of Bliss Cave when he comes here again!" "Yes...you seduced me!" Sun Qian murmured. The beauty smiled lightly and tugged the silver chain tied around her ankle: "Do you think the general will believe your excuse? Look, I can't even get through the gate. What can I do?" Seduce you?" "It's your voice, your voice..." Sun Qian stared at her as if seeing a devil, "You, why did you do this?" "Oh, don't be afraid—as long as you obey me obediently, I won't report you to the general." The beauty shook the silver chain back and forth with her fingers, and said with a leisurely smile: "Besides, I will always treat you like this in the future." "The general treats me with great kindness to Sun Qian, what Sun Qian did today is really sorry for him!" Sun Qian said tearfully. "Hehehe... Between you and Cao Shuang, it is impossible to talk about who is sorry for the other." The beauty glanced at him coldly, "You don't understand these words today, but you will understand them one day. Forget it, time will tell you." It's not short, you go!" When Sun Qian walked to the door of the golden house in a daze, he suddenly remembered a question, turned around and asked the beauty: "You...what's your name?" The beauty looked at him from a distance, with a strange and inexplicable smile on her face: "Me? I am a talented person from the Crane Pavilion in the palace who once served the late emperor." ... Cao Shuang was not aware of the affair between Sun Qian and Shishi this time, and later, every time he came to enjoy the Quartz in the Golden House of the Bliss Cave, he would take Sun Qian behind him and lock him outside the door; Everything, still every time stood guarding for Cao Shuang like a stone man amidst the gentle and seductive groans and the heavy panting like a cow. Finally, one day, Sun Qian took advantage of Cao Shuang's opportunity to go hunting in the suburbs of Beijing, and sneaked into the Tianjin House of Jile Cave again to have an affair with Shishi.After this time, Shishi made a request: "After you go out today, bring me something to pawn at the Babaolai pawnshop in Xifang, Kyoto..." "What?" Sun Qian asked in astonishment. Quartz took a crane-shaped gold hairpin from her bun and handed it over: "You take this crane-shaped gold hairpin to the Babaolai pawn shop and give it to the shopkeeper...the shopkeeper will exchange it for you with a green luan Zhuhua, you bring it back to me..." Sun Qian held the crane-shaped gold hairpin in his palm and looked at it again and again: "Why do you go to the pawn shop to pawn this gold hairpin? What are you doing in exchange for that pearl flower? Don't you play tricks?!" "That's right, there is something famous here." Quartz looked at him with a slight smile, "However, you promised to listen to me." "No! The General has treated me with great kindness, I can't do what I'm sorry for him!" Sun Qian's voice hardened, "If you force me again, I will plead guilty and surrender to the General!" "The kindness is as heavy as a mountain?" Shi Shi pouted slightly at him, "Do you think Cao Shuang really treats you family members very well?" Sun Qian stared over with puffy eyes: "He treats us like children!" "As close as a child? Hahaha... I have only heard in the harem that only Grand Tutor Sima Yi really treats his Ding family generals as close as children. Niu Jin was originally a family general of his Sima Mansion, right? But Sima Taifu insisted on promoting him all the way so that he could become a second-rank general and a general of cavalry, with two thousand households in the city! What about you, Sun Qian? It can be regarded as working hard for his Cao family for so many years, but he still let you be a little A petty and unrefined servant and head of the bodyguard!" Sun Qian's throat was choked: "Sun has never had the opportunity to go out with the first great Sima Duke Cao and General Cao to conquer and kill the enemy..." "It's not that you don't have these opportunities, but that the Cao family doesn't give you these opportunities—perhaps, they have always thought that the servants of the Cao family should be humble servants all their lives, and they should be locked up in the mansion for the rest of their lives. It's not like Sima Tai Fu, as long as you have real skills, even the most humble slave can be promoted to a majestic general!" Sun Qian fell silent.yes!This Quartz is right. Once General Cao came to power, he was nepotism. Not only did he install various high-ranking officials and important positions for several of his brothers, even Cao Shou, the most ineffective dude of the Cao family, was appointed by him Infantry Lieutenant of the Inner Guards!This made Sun Qian secretly laugh when he saw it, what kind of thing is this Cao Shou?Apart from spending time, drinking, and having fun, where does he have any real ability to lead troops in battle?Isn't this treating the important task of the country as a child's play? Quartz looked at him, and said politely: "Sun Qian, to tell you the truth, there are some things I can't tell you. Do you know how the master you have been loyal to, that General Cao, treated you? He There is actually a different kind of intention behind deliberately asking you to stand guard outside the golden house in the Paradise of Paradise..." "What kind of intentions?" Sun Qian was surprised. "He just wants to make me scream inside on purpose, to let you hear my voice outside on purpose, and to show off his sense of authority that almost controls everything in front of you on purpose. He, he is a full-fledged Do you know?" Quartz's eyes suddenly turned red, and he choked up and said, "You think, doesn't he know that you are a man? Can't he see the desire in your heart? Doesn't he understand that you are facing only a man on the outside? Will I instinctively have boundless thoughts when I hear his voice but don't see him? Hehehe... How depressing it must be for him to hide such a rare beauty like me, but he can't show it off to any outsiders! "So, he deliberately chose you as the object to show off all of this. That's why he took you to the door of the golden house every time in the name of 'you are the most loyal'... You know? He gave you more than once As I mentioned before, he just likes such a sense of authority that manipulates everything. Men and women are all played by him at the same time, even if they are as beautiful and elegant as my quartz, even as tough as you Sun Qian, it is actually him A doll used to vent one's desires..." "Don't talk any more!" Sun Qian punched the shiny gold wall with a "boom", and drops of blood dripped from the wound on his knuckles. Quartz closed her cherry lips, quietly looking at this heartbroken man, her bright eyes were filled with tears. After a long time, Sun Qian's chest was still heaving violently, unable to restrain himself.He suddenly turned his head, stared at Shishi and said, "I see, so you are Sima Yi's secret agent! Huh! But, why did you, the Sima Taifu who you keep claiming to praise endlessly, let you, a loyal dead man, be the secret agent?" Falling into this dark dungeon of the golden house and being ravaged by others without rescue? Where is the kindness they treat you?" Shi Shi stretched out his slender jade fingers, slowly stroking the silver chain tied around his ankle, and said slowly: "The benevolence, righteousness and kindness that Sima Taifu treats us is not a matter of one moment, one thing, one person, he prepared for it at the beginning of his administration. Let the Zhongshu Province draw up an edict to bring the late emperor into Ye Ting's talented people and maids, all sent out of the palace, and returned to the people to reunite with their relatives..." At this point, a bright smile appeared on her face, "That Time is the happiest day for those of us claustrophobic talented people and maids! Really! There is nothing happier than hearing this news! "Unexpectedly, Cao Shuang, who secretly had his own thoughts, suggested that he should do nothing against Taifu Sima's benevolent policy... It wasn't until that day when I was secretly tied up in the dungeon of the golden house by them that he admitted it himself. What he did at that time was to delay his occupation of us until one day he had gained power! As the old saying goes: "Playing with things loses morale, playing with people loses virtue." Downfall, I'm afraid God is really blind!"