Chapter 22 Plot to abolish the emperor

Early the next morning, three hundred strong men lined up neatly, each with a jujube stick.The confidants of the Cao family drove out the carriage carrying the goods, and then hung a shaft cart and a tug cart behind the carriage.Cao Cao and Lou Yi were about to set off on horseback with swords each. Xia Houyuan rushed over with a few people, and said that if Ding Chong hadn't been too drunk to wake up, he would go too.Thanks a lot for Cao Cao, he finally left his homeland. The distance between Peiguo and Luoyang is 1,200 miles. Cao Cao walked through it many times, but only this time was the slowest and most tense.Although it still took the land of Zheqi, such a complicated team stretched half a mile, and the walking escort was very slow. In addition, the winter was short, and it could not go far in a day.What's more important is that there are a lot of people and goods, and it is absolutely impossible to go to the city to rest along the way, and the post station can't accommodate them. The only way is to sleep in the open.

Cao De had already prepared sufficient dry food for everyone in advance. At night, Cao Cao stopped the team and shouted: "Let's pack the pack and set up the camp!" Thirty horse-drawn carriages formed a circle, and the animals were untied. It is impossible to take the whole car away.Then the fifty chariots were untied, and a large circle was formed outside, which became a mobile camp. Four gates were opened in the southeast, northwest, and the chariots were tied with hemp ropes and erected, and there were four outposts. Door.People inside draw water and walk their horses to come and go freely, and outsiders want to come in, but there are special people guarding the door.In the dead of night, if there are people on duty at night, they just need to light a torch and climb on the shaft car for a ride.

Xia Houyuan was speechless: "This is like a camp." "This is the barracks," Cao Cao laughed. "It's just an ancient method. Nowadays, chariots are not used in wars, so such chariot camps are not common. But it is very suitable for us to protect property." "Who did you learn from?" "Mozi." Cao Cao shook his head. "Mill? Still grinding?" Lou Yi laughed: "You are such an idiot, I know Mo Di, he loves both, and he is not offensive!" Cao Cao nodded again and again: "That's right, although Mo Zi advocated 'non-aggressive', he was exceptionally good at defense. This car camp method is what he left behind."

In this way, everyone held up sticks to guard during the day, and set up a car camp to rest at night.Such an arrangement can be described as impenetrable.There were indeed bandits who were surveying at night, but they had no choice but to look at the camp and leave with a sigh.After traveling for six days, the team finally arrived in Yuzhou safely. After passing through Zhongmou, Cao Cao refused to let the three hundred men go any further.First, the Son of Heaven in Henan is afraid of causing trouble, and second, he is even more afraid that they will see the Taiwei's Mansion when they come to Beijing, and that nonsense will be exposed!

Xia Houyuan turned back with three hundred men first, while Cao Cao and Lou Yi led their confidants to continue forward.After entering the customs, there is no need to worry about the thieves anymore. Without the people stepping down, the carriage can also let go of its footsteps, and arrived at Dutingyi the next night.Ten miles further on was Luoyang City, but the journey was exhausted, and the city gate was closed at night, so everyone had to sleep in the open for another night. Before dawn the next day, Cao Cao got up, woke everyone up, and ordered all the shaft carts and tukshaws to be burned.

"Why? You can use it later if you keep it." Lou Yi was puzzled. "It's inappropriate to hide the mianbian soldiers in private. This is also called threatening the emperor." Cao Cao said as he mounted his horse, "Hurry up and burn it, because if people see it, it will cause trouble." "promise." "Our own people have suffered more in the past few days, so you can take them to rest in Luoyang for a few more days, and don't rush back." Cao Cao shook the reins and turned the horse's head. "Master, do you not want us to enter the city?"

Cao Cao shook his head, and glanced at the majestic capital city ten miles away: "I don't want to go to Luoyang City anymore. I'll leave as soon as it's dark, lest I meet acquaintances." "Aren't you going to see the master?" "Daddy has already fulfilled his wish to win the title of Sangong. Tell him for me that the wealth of billions of dollars is gone, let him do it for himself." After saying that, Cao Cao whipped Dawan's horse hard and ran southeast.On the way home, the joy of completing the escort gradually faded, and then, the unbearable emptiness once again invaded his mind.

Cao Cao was thinking along the way, do he really want to go back to Luoyang?Could it be that the choice of resignation was wrong?How many times he wanted to dismiss the horse's head, but he still held back.Ding said that he was a layman and couldn't be a hermit, and in front of Cui Jun, he said big things that could not be undone. If he ran back to Luoyang in disgrace, where would his face be?In the end, he made up his mind not to go back. Now that he had a choice, he couldn't turn back... He kept galloping, trying to catch up with Xia Houyuan and the others, for fear that he would change his mind if no one was with him.

On the second day after arriving home, an angel suddenly arrived, and the court enlisted him as an official. Cao Cao hid at Xia Hou's house and refused to meet him, secretly cursing Cui Jun for being troublesome. After the angel left, he returned home.Cao De asked with a smile: "A man, you are really like a hermit, even if you refuse to apply, you always have to meet." "See what? It feels more at ease not to see." "Do you know what official the court assigned you to be?" "I don't want to know." Cao Cao said angrily. "Lieutenant Dianjun."

"What?" Cao Cao was taken aback, "Say it again?" "Lieutenant Dianjun," Cao De said word by word. "Strange! There are Sili captains, five captains of the Northern Army, infantry, Yueqi, Tunqi, Changshui, and Shesheng. Where did the Dianjun come from? What kind of officer is this?" "Dianjun!" Cao De leaned towards him, "Brother, you can go! Doesn't it suit your temper to lead the Dianjun?" Cao Cao turned his head and ignored him. Cao De said, "Brother, there is something I've always wanted to ask you. That day you named your nephew, why did you write the character Pi as..."

Cao Cao immediately interrupted: "I accidentally wrote wrong, can't I?" "Okay!" Cao De secretly thought it was funny seeing him play childish temper at an early age, and went without arguing with him. Cao Cao felt more and more impatient when he was alone, and wanted to go back to the thatched cottage, but he saw Bian leaning against the stable with the child in his arms. "What are you doing here with your son?" "I'm afraid you'll run away!" Bian said coquettishly, "Do you want to go back to your thatched cottage again?" "Yes." Cao Cao lowered his head. "I want to go too, can you wait for another year? When Pi'er is older, I will accompany you and let's live together." She said as she stuffed the child into her husband's arms, "Look, little guy How fat." Cao Cao's heart softened when he hugged his son. Before he could say anything, he heard Ding's voice behind him: "Go away, and never come back. This family can't accommodate you! Show us every day, what's wrong with us? I can't live with you? Go to your place where birds don't lay eggs, and compile your torn book that no one reads! Don't want it, son!" "Sister, don't tell him to leave," Bian said with a smile, "Isn't it just for compiling books, let him do it at home. There is still bamboo at home, let's cut some bamboo slips together tomorrow, okay?" "I don't care, you ask him!" Ding winked. When the two sisters asked and answered, Cao Cao smiled wryly.He treats his two wives differently, he is afraid that Mrs. Ding will be tough, and he is even more afraid of Mrs. Bian who will be soft.The two wives colluded and used housekeeping skills at the same time, so they could only obey everything.He knew in his heart that whether it was his younger brother or his wife, they all wanted him to cheer up, so he stammered, "Okay, I won't go, I won't go." So the next day, Mrs. Ding stopped weaving, and Mrs. Bian entrusted the child to the nanny. The two wives cut bamboo slips for him, and Bian Bing and Lu Zhao also put aside their own work to help.The four of them were talking and laughing, which relieved Cao Cao a lot of depression. When everyone was working hard, Lou Yi ran from the front yard and said that there was an old man asking to see him, and said that he met this person on the way back.Cao Cao was quite surprised and hurriedly asked everyone to disperse. After a while, he saw a man in his forties attracted by Lou Yi. He looked like an old scholar, but he didn't know him. "Dare to ask Your Excellency..." The man was quite humble, cupped his hands and said solemnly: "I don't know Mr. Cao, but I have a letter from an old friend to send me." "Don't call me your lord, I'm a villager now. Please!" Cao Cao let him into the living room and took a seat. "May I ask where is the letter?" The man shook his head slowly: "There is no letter." Cao Cao frowned: Could it be that this person is playing tricks on me?Or is there another conspiracy? "This matter is so important that I dare not put pen to paper, so I am here to dictate." "Oh?" Cao Cao was a little curious, "I don't know what kind of oral letter it is." The man stroked his beard and said, "Xu You from Nanyang and Zhou Jing from Peiguo." Cao Cao was very surprised: Xu You is a student of Duke Qiao and a friend of the capital; Zhou Jing is the nephew of the teacher's relocation and an old friend in his hometown.How could these two people send him to deliver a message at the same time? The man smiled slightly: "Xu You tried to assassinate Shi Changshi in the capital, and escaped. Now he is protected by Jizhou governor Wang Fen. Zhou Jing was framed by Wang Fu since his teacher moved in the past. His family suffered hardships and wandered. The envoy is in charge of the job. The two met in Gaoyi." "Then your Excellency must also be under Wang Shijun's command?" Cao Cao felt that this was strange, "Dare to ask your name, sir." The man bowed his head and said humbly, "I'm Xia Runan, Chen Yi." "So it's Chen..." Runan Chen Yi?Cao Cao suddenly realized who this person was, and hurriedly got up and left his seat to greet him, "I don't know if Mr. Chen will be far away to welcome you." Chen Yi helped Cao Cao with both hands, and instead gave him a big gift: "Meng Dexian had to resign his official position because of his father Zhaoxue. Yi deeply felt his great virtue. Today, he sent a letter and came to express his thanks. Yi came so abruptly. Brother Haihan." Runan Chen Yi is the son of old lady Fu Chen Fan.Back then, the whole family of the Chen family was killed by Wang Fu and Cao Jie. He was the only one who escaped from Luoyang under the protection of Zhu Zhen, a celebrity from Chenliu. Afterwards, Zhu Zhen's family was killed because of this.How many lives were exchanged for the only flesh and blood of the Chen family.The direct reason for Cao Cao's resignation from Jinan was also because he wanted to reverse Chen Fan's case. Cao Cao hurriedly supported him again: "Mr. Chen, I can't afford your respect." Now that his identity has been clarified, Cao Cao felt relieved, and quickly asked, "What can I do for you, sir and Xu Zhou?" After Chen Yidao expressed his intentions, Cao Cao was terrified: Today's son Liu Hong was originally a descendant of the Hejian king. After renovating the Nangong Palace, he wanted to expand the old Hejian palace.Now the people in Jizhou are struggling to make ends meet, Wang Fen repeatedly remonstrates, but the emperor refuses to obey, and even wants to tour the old house in the north.The officials and people in Jizhou were all furious, so Wang Fen made a blood alliance with Xu You, Zhou Jing, and Chen Yi, and wanted to detain the faint king during his northern tour, and establish another clan, Hefei Hou, as emperor.Now it is heard that the imperial court intends to recruit Cao Cao's Dian army, and they specially invite him to join them, thinking that it should be an internal response, and they are accomplices in the abolition of the establishment. "Brother Meng De, they can't come in person because of the confidentiality of this matter. The world knows that you and them are acquainted, but you and I have never met, so no one will suspect me when I come. Are you willing to join me in this conspiracy? "Chen Yi looked at him eagerly. Cao Cao woke up from his astonishment, got up and walked a few steps: "Forgive me for not obeying my orders." "Ah?" Chen Yi didn't seem to have thought of this result, "Could it be that Meng De still has any doubts about me?" He took out a scroll of letters from his arms and handed it to Cao Cao, "I'm here from afar, this thing You must know." Cao Cao unfolded it and looked at it, and he couldn't help feeling a lot of emotion: How can we not know this thing? This is the "Book of Rites Chapters" written by Qiao Gong's family in the past!Seeing Qiao Xuan's handwriting, Cao Cao choked up. Seeing this, Chen Yi hurriedly hit the iron while it was hot: "Meng De, this is something that Duke Qiao bestowed on Xu Ziyuan, do you think we can help you in front of Duke Qiao?" Cao Cao closed his eyes and shook his head: "If Duke Qiao knew it, he would not tolerate Ziyuan's lack of father and king." Chen Yi said again: "What about Zhou Jing? Back then you beat someone to death for fighting over a maidservant. , Zhou Jing and you are only acquainted on one side, but they manage from top to bottom. The crime of Pei Guo Xiangshi's relocation is also related to this matter. Don't you remember such a great kindness?" Cao Cao's heart was shaken again, and he sighed: "This servant girl is now my younger brother's wife. My younger brother should be grateful for Zhou Jing's virtue, but if there is a spirit in the sky, the general of Shijun will definitely not agree to abolish the establishment without permission. Seeing that the two are useless, Chen Yi hurriedly got up and bowed again: "It doesn't matter whether you are the two, my father is famous all over the world, and he is the respect of a generation of scholars. He was finally killed by the eunuch of the faint king. The filial piety of pity is the solution to the upside down of the people of the world." Cao Cao's mood was even more chaotic, so he had to support him and said: "Brother Chen is obsessed with obsession, and your father demoted him three times for fighting traitors. How many times have he ever had the heart to abolish the establishment? Back then, he had the honor of the Grand Tutor, and Dou Wu had the prestige of the head of the country. The two were loyal. Serving the country only eliminates traitors and sycophants without overstepping. Is what brother is doing worthy of your father? Is it worthy of Zhu Zhen who sacrificed his life to save him?" Chen Yifan was left speechless by his question, and could only look up to the sky and sigh: "Ah... people have their own ambitions, but don't force them. If this opportunity is lost because of stupid loyalty, the people of the world will still suffer. Righteousness is now, righteousness is now! How dare you not read it?" What is the meaning of Yi Yin and Huo Guang?" After saying that, he was about to leave. "Brother Chen, please stay." Chen Yi turned around: "Has Meng De changed his mind?" Cao Cao still shook his head: "You guys are too idiots! This matter is absolutely impossible to accomplish. My little brother will try to explain it to you, can you?" "Appreciate further details." "It is the most ominous thing in the world that the husband abolishes the establishment. The ancients have the right to success or failure, and those who act according to the importance, as my brother said Yi Yin and Huo Guang. Yi Yin has the utmost loyalty and sincerity. According to the position of minister, he is above the lawsuit. As for Huo Guang, he was entrusted by Emperor Xiaowu to the country, and he was a member of his relatives. Inside, there was the queen mother who lived in the palace to make decisions, and outside, there were a group of ministers at the court to echo, and the king of Changyi As soon as he ascended the throne, he has no noble favors, lack of party ministers, and close discussions, so he can abolish and stand under his control, and everything will be destroyed." Cao Cao walked up to Chen Yi and took his hand, "Brother Chen, Today, all the lords have seen the ease of the past, but have not seen the difficulty of today! Think about it, how is this different from the chaos of the Seven Kingdoms in the past when you formed a party and colluded with the princes? Is the prince of Hefei as expensive as Wu Wang Liu? Bi, Liu Wu, the king of Chu? If you do such an extraordinary thing, your desires must be suppressed, isn't it dangerous!" It can be said that a single word awakened the dreamer, and Chen Yi couldn't help being horrified: "This, this..." "You persuaded me to change my mind, and I advise you to turn around! Brother, quickly return to Jizhou, and tell the king Shijun Xiao, and persuade him not to do this evil thing." "It's too late! It's too late!" Chen Yi turned pale, "Wang Fen has borrowed the matter of Montenegro to recruit troops, and I'm afraid he has already placed his cronies in the army." Cao Cao clapped his hands: "Even if it's unsolvable, brother Chen should try to rescue Xu Zhou and the others." Chen Yi walked out in a daze: "I'm deeply trapped and I can't turn back." "Brother Chen, where are you going?" "I said you came, but if things don't work out, how can I have the face to meet Wang Shijun? How can I say Xu You and Zhou Jing? After leaving your house, I will drift all over the world and wait for the time..." Chen Yi turned his head for a moment Clasping hands, "Meng De, see you again if you are destined." After saying that, he staggered away. Cao Cao looked at his back and felt more and more unhappy: Although he had reason and evidence, he also offended Xu You and Zhou Jing, all old friends!Qin Yilu wooed me for He Miao and was deceived by me, Cui Jun asked me to come out of the mountain but I rejected it, Chen Yi came to beg me on behalf of an old friend but I rejected it, and I also avoided the court's call... What's wrong with me?All popularity is ruined!I gave up so much just to be this rural hermit, but why am I still not satisfied? After walking around for a few times, Cao Cao became more and more annoyed that he couldn't get rid of it, and everything was not pleasing to his eyes.Exasperated, he left the living room and saw Ding, Bian, Lu Zhao, and Bian Bing coming back to cut bamboo slips in the yard, stepped forward and kicked the piled bamboo pieces flying all over the sky! "What are you doing?" Ding frowned and stood up. Cao Cao ignored him and continued to kick.Bian Bing grabbed him quickly, and said with a smile: "Brother-in-law! Brother-in-law! Calm down, who are you angry with?" Cao Cao is being unreasonable now: "I, I... I am angry with you!" The four looked at each other.Cao Cao lowered his head and picked up a piece of bamboo, and said, "What do you eat? Can the bamboo slips be cut so wide? Have you never read a book or seen a book? These bamboo slices are cut so wide, how can you wear them into a slip!" Bian Bingye was really good-natured, knowing that it wasn't wide enough, he took it over and played with it, saying, "It's okay, I don't want the front ones, I'll make the back ones narrower." "Don't cut it!" Cao Cao yelled, pointing at his nose, "Did the money of my old Cao's family come from the strong wind? I just spent 100 million yuan, and you still have to waste it like this! If you don't want it, you don't want it, you go Plant bamboo for me?" Xiao Luzhao came over to persuade him: "Master, we..." Before he could speak, Cao Cao yelled at him, "Shut up! Who are you? If you don't study hard, what are you trying to do? Let's go and study!" Ding became angry, and threw the knife in his hand: "You old enemy, you spread evil fire on us for no reason! I know you are unhappy, we adults and children have been coaxing you. I expected you not to pull that donkey face, You are good, the more you coax the more energetic you are!" "I don't need you to coax me!" Ding waved his hands angrily: "Let's go! Let's go, no one pays attention to him! It's more comfortable without him, and our sisters will be widows. No one pays attention to you, madman!" Seeing the four of them dispersed, Cao Cao paced back and forth in the courtyard, and finally shouted: "You guys go... I will go too! You are no longer an official, and I don't want this family anymore!" Find Dawan in the stables, step on the Just go outside.Leaving the manor on horseback, he met Lou Yi, "Master! Where are you going? It's cold and put on some clothes..." Cao Cao didn't even look at him, he galloped on his horse and arrived at the thatched cottage in half an hour.Tie up the horse and push Chaimen hard—the bamboo slips are everywhere in the house, the clothes are scattered, and everything is still the same as the day Cao Pi was born.The harsh winter wind was harsh, the hut leaked, a layer of soil fell on the tables, and the ink in the inkstone was frozen. "Could this be the destination that I, Cao Mengde, expected?" He sat down in disappointment, took the inkstone and let out a sigh of relief. While thinking, he wrote on the table with his fingers dipped in ink: 〖Rice is not enough to be pounded, and an inch of cloth is not enough to sew. There is no bucket in the poppies, and there is no ruler in the hair case. My friend borrowed from me, but I don't know why. 〗 "It's not just a friend, but now my family doesn't care about me..." Cao Cao rubbed his writing fingers on his clothes, then lay down in the cold thatched cottage, silently listening to the howling north wind outside. After an unknown amount of time, there was the sound of a carriage again, followed by the cry of my younger brother: "Brother! Come out." "I won't go out." Cao Cao turned his back to Chaimen. "Come out and have a look, a friend is here." "I have no friends! I, Cao Mengde, don't know how to make friends, so I don't deserve anyone to visit me!" Cao De didn't answer again.Suddenly there was a clear and pleasant piano sound, the rhythm was so refreshing, it was like a warm wind on this cold day, so melodious and refined.Cao Cao couldn't help standing up, and gently opened the chaimen. I saw that it was already snowing outside.Under the sky, beyond the fence, Cao De and Bian Bing came in a car, and Lou Yi stood in front of the car.On the side, sitting impressively was a scribe in white, wearing a white fox fur, a Wensheng scarf on his head, and a fox fur hat.That appearance is gentle and handsome, extraordinary and refined, with three slender black beards growing on the white face, moving in the wind, like a fairy.It was he who closed his eyes and fiddled with Yaoqin casually. "You are..." Cao Cao didn't dare to admit it, "Ziwen...is that you?" It was Wang Jun who came.He stopped, opened his eyes and smiled, "Meng De, don't you consider me a friend?" Cao Cao blushed: "How could it be? How could it be? We haven't seen each other for ten years, it's cold outside, please come in..." He stopped suddenly, and there was no fire in the hut. Cao De laughed and said, "What do you have in this ghost place?" He said to Bian Bing and Lou Yi to move things from the car, such as charcoal basin, lamp oil, fur, incense burner, and some wine utensils and dishes, everything that should be prepared brought them all. In a short time, three people cleaned the thatched cottage.The warm charcoal basin was lit, the fluffy furs were laid out, the wine was sieved and the dishes were served. Cao Cao and Wang Jun sat opposite each other, with Cao De and Bian Bing as companions.As soon as Wang Jun entered the room, he noticed the little poem Cao Cao had just written, and said with a smile, "Since there is wine and food, why do you say 'I don't know why I should'? You are moaning too innocently." "A game, a game." Cao Cao smiled and offered him a glass of wine, "How is Qiao Gong?" "The old man has been dead for more than two years." "Alas..." Hearing what he said, Cao Cao had no intention of drinking, "I will never have the chance to repay his kindness to the old man." "You don't have to worry about it. The master is cheerful by nature and never wants anyone to worry about him. He died without any illness, and I have been by his side." Wang Jun said and returned a cup, "Brother Qiao Yu left the government for the funeral, and the master's family has no money left It was his nephew Qiao Mao mobilizing Suiyang scholars to help set up the coffin. It is good to come here innocently, but the two sisters Daqiao and Xiaoqiao are pitiful." "How are they now?" "The funeral was over and the Yellow Turban incident happened. Qiao Yu's brother and sister escaped from their hometown. I heard that they went to Jiangdong. I thanked them in Suiyang, but I couldn't find them in Yangzhou, so I wandered everywhere. Cosmopolitan." "Aren't you going back home?" Wang Jun smiled miserably: "My parents passed away, I have no brothers, the tribe is separated, and the family property is in decline. Wherever I go, there is my home." Cao Cao felt a little sympathetic: "Are you still unwilling to be an official?" "What about you?" Wang Jun asked softly, but Cao Cao choked, "You don't want to be an official, why should I go to the muddy water? My home is everywhere, and I am at home with books and qin, so I am at ease." "Meat eaters are contemptible, and vegetable eaters are bright. I envy your life like this!" Wang Jun smiled and said: "I have no parents, no wife and children, and I stand alone. What about you?" When Cao De heard him mention this, he was afraid that his brother would lose his temper again, and even Wang Ziwen would be offended. Raised the lamp: "Brother Ziwen, when we met in the past, my younger brother was still in Zongjiao (childhood), and I thought you were handsome and elegant at that time. Now, Brother Wang is even more elegant, and my younger brother admires you so much! Please... " "Don't dare." Wang Jun took a sip and said again, "When I was in Jinan, I heard that Meng De had resigned from office, so I came here to visit. I think we are all guests of Yanju now, so there must be something in common!" Cao Cao was shy: how does this hermit compare to others? But Bian Bing interjected: "My younger brother is abrupt, and I would like to play a duet with Brother Wang." Then he took out the flute that was always inseparable.Wang Jun didn't refuse either, one plucked the piano and the other played the flute, and cheerful tunes came out.It's like a bird chirping in spring, or like a wicker fluttering in the wind. When he finished playing when he was young, Bian Bing wiped his mouth: "Haha! I'm an ordinary person, I only know this kind of music. It's hard to be elegant, brother Wang laughed at me." "Great vulgarity is also great elegance, and what you play has an elegant rhyme." Cao Cao said with a smile: "My brother-in-law was originally a singer, but in fact he also relies on food." "That's no wonder," Wang Jun nodded frequently, "everything in the world is elegant, why attack heresy and escape the world?" Cao Cao knew there was something in his words, but he pretended not to hear it, and said with a smile, "I don't know how to play the zither or the flute, so let me sing a tune for you!" Then he cleared his throat and sang: 〖Going to the sky clearly, shining down on the earth. I conquer the west, as far as the wild. The first month of February is auspicious, carrying away the cold and heat. The heart is worried, its poison is very bitter. Thinking of the other people, I shed tears like rain. Don't you want to return home, afraid of this crime. 〗 This "Book of Songs·Xiao Ming" hadn't finished the first que, Wang Jun said with a smile: "Where is the destination you cherish? But here?" Cao Cao stopped singing: "That's why I returned home for my younger brother." "Oh?" Wang Jun stroked his handsome long beard and stood up, looked around the room, first pointed to the bow and arrow hanging on the wall, then suddenly reached out and touched Cao Cao's legs, and asked: " The arrows and crossbows are still there, but the flesh of the legs has not yet grown, and the house has been closed, how can the bow and the horse not be abandoned?" "Shooting at leisure is nothing more than fitness." "You also said that." Wang Jun smiled, and picked up another volume of books from the ground, "The Art of War Festival Essentials, but Meng De's masterpiece?" Cao Cao was not modest either: "Exactly." "Soldiers are fierce. You are a country hermit, why are you playing dangerous things here?" Cao Cao fell silent. "Meng De, you don't want to live like this." Wang Jun sat down again; Cao De and Bian Bingju all nodded, and everyone could understand this year. Cao Cao sighed: "Even if I, Cao, are dedicated to my official career, but the situation in the court is not clear, how can I give up my life?" "Hmph!" Wang Jun sneered, "You finally said something of your conscience." Cao Cao laughed too, and told all about Cui Jun's visit, the imperial court's recruitment of Dianjun Xiaowei, Chen Yi's sending a letter to Xu You, and his father's billions of dollars in exchange for a captain, and finally took out the bag from his bosom. The volume "Book of Rites Chapters" was handed over to Wang Jun. Wang Jun was surprised when he saw this volume: "Oh, Xu You actually took the master's book as a mark. This set of "Book of Rites Zhangju" has 66 volumes and is scattered everywhere. When the teacher passed away, there were more than 30 volumes left. They are kept in the collection of two sisters, and I, Zibo, and Ziyuan each have a few volumes." After opening it, I saw Confucius talking about Taoism at first glance, and read it out, "The journey of the great way is also related to Heroes of the three generations, Qiu Weizhi caught them, but had ambitions. The way of the great way is also, the world is the public. Select the virtuous and capable, trustworthy and repair harmony. Therefore, people are not only close to their relatives, not only their sons. So that old age will end, The strong are useful, the young are strong, the widowed, the lonely, the disabled, and the sick are all supported. Men are divided, and women are returned. Goods, hate it, throw it on the ground, don’t hide it in yourself; strength, hate it, don’t come out of the body You don’t have to do it for yourself. It’s because you plan to shut it down and don’t prosper, you don’t steal and mess with thieves and you don’t do it, so you don’t shut it up when you’re outside, that’s called Great Harmony.” "All these are known to all scholars." Cao Cao also recited, "Nowadays, the Dao is hidden, and the world is home. Everyone kisses his relatives, and each son is his son. Goods and strength are his own. The adults in the world regard it as a courtesy, Cities, gullies, ditches and pools are regarded as solid, propriety and righteousness are regarded as disciplines; they are based on the righteousness of the monarch and ministers, on the harmony between brothers, on the harmony between husband and wife, on the establishment of systems, on the establishment of fields, on the virtues, courage and wisdom, and on merit. From now on, Yu, Tang, Wen, Wu, Cheng Wang, and Zhou Gong were selected from them. Among the six gentlemen, there is no one who is not serious about etiquette. Use their righteousness to test their credibility. Benevolence speaks for concessions, showing the people that there is permanence. If there are those who do not follow this, those who are in power will go, and everyone will think it is a disaster. It is called a well-off...not bad?" "Meng De really has a good memory, but I will take away the master's things." Wang Jun rolled up, "Since Meng De can memorize, why waste time here, he can go to be an official." "You persuaded me to become an official, why didn't you become an official?" Cao Cao retorted. "Didn't you realize it just now? I am a man of Great Harmony, and you are a minister of a well-off society." "You are so confident." "It's not self-confidence." Wang Jun's eyes sparkled, "Everyone has his own ambitions, and he puts away his fame and fortune. I, Wang, can do it, but you Cao Mengde... I'm afraid you can't let go?" Cao Cao finally lowered his head. Seeing this, Bian Bing clapped his hands: "Oh! Finally someone who can cure him is here!" At this time Lou Yi came in: "Uncle, it's snowing heavily outside." "Then let's go home quickly." Bian Bing got up immediately, "It's getting late, won't my second brother go home with me?" "I'm not leaving!" Cao De slapped his thigh, "If my brother doesn't go home, then I won't go back either." "Why are you making trouble?" Cao Cao said. Cao De laughed and said, "Brother, what you said is wrong. I am more qualified to be a hermit than you. At least I have never been an official before." Cao Cao has nothing to do, look at Wang Jun.But Wang Jun said: "I planned to spend the night with Meng De today." "Okay, okay, the three of us are living in seclusion here together." Cao De laughed. "I think there is only one real hermit here, and the other two are just pretending. Let's not say more, I have to go." Bian Bing said as he put on his fur clothes, "Even the whole family has offended the elders and the younger ones." , I have to go back and coax them. Isn’t it, brother-in-law? Let’s not say more.” "You gossip a lot!" Cao Cao gave him a blank look.Bian Bing followed Lou Yi, and even drove away the carriage.It was snowing heavily outside again, Cao De and Wang Junhong couldn't leave.Cao Cao lay down on the couch and ignored them. Cao De and Wang Jun didn't care about him, they drank and ate vegetables, talked, laughed and sang songs.When it was dark, they lit the lamp, and the two continued to sing, "No Clothes", "Zhan Bi Luo Yi", "Rabbit", "Broken Axe", except for the battle songs, they sang meritorious deeds.The singing made Cao Cao's head grow big, and he covered his head and endured it.I don't know how long it took before I fell asleep in a trance... A gust of cold wind hit Cao Cao. When he opened his eyes, he realized that it was already dawn. When he sat up, he saw the dishes in the room were messed up, and his younger brother fell asleep with him.What about Wang Jun? Cao Cao hurriedly opened the door, only to see that the heavy snow had dyed the world white, and the air was cold and refreshing.Leaving a continuous footprint on the thick snow, Wang Jun is heading for the distance in fox fur and Yaoqin on his back. "Ziwen! Ziwen! Where are you going?" Wang Jun turned his head and shouted: "I should go...to find brother Qiao Yu and sisters Daqiao and Xiaoqiao." "And what if you can't find them?" "If you can't find it, keep looking until you get tired, then find a place to live." Only now did Cao Cao realize that the pursuit of a hermit is so far away from him, can we meet again after this trip?He shouted: "Ziwen! Take care of yourself...you have no legs, you can ride my horse." Wang Jun had already walked a long way, and shouted: "A thousand-mile horse should serve in the battlefield! Don't sink into the countryside..." After saying this, he suddenly raised his voice again, "Cao Mengde! Back then, Xu Zijiang's comments you still don't agree with. Do you remember? A capable minister who governs the world can’t do it, you still have another way!” Traitor in troubled times!Cao Mengde's heart trembled, he looked up again, only to see Wang Jun turned back in a panic, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" Wang Jun stopped and shouted: "Meng De, I almost forgot one thing. Although Xu Ziyuan is resourceful and clever, he is greedy for profit; Lou Zibo is resolute and handsome, but he is stubborn and honest. These two are from my family. You, I hope Mengde will tolerate you a lot." After saying that, he bowed. "I see, I will definitely take care of them." Cao Cao vowed now! Wang Jun seemed to sigh something, hesitated to speak, but turned around and left.Wearing a white fur coat, he melted into the icy and snowy land in a short while, and was never seen again, leaving only a lonely footprint... "Brother, it's cold outside, come in quickly." Cao De woke up. Cao Cao sat down with a long sigh, and after a long moment of silence, he said: "I plan to apply for an official position!" "I knew it would be like this." Cao De picked up the pen and wrote a character Pi on the table, with a horizontal line at the end but a bend, "Look, this is the character you wrote that day. You may have I want to give my nephew the word 'Pi', but I think of 'no' in my mind, and I have to do whatever I want in a hurry, so I can't make a turn." Cao Cao nodded. "Pi and No are similar in sound and shape, but have very different meanings. No, it is fierce. The so-called 'no is extremely peaceful'. You are not happy at all, and this kind of seclusion is not what you want. In your heart now it is 'no', it is you Worst time of life. You've been lying to yourself! I've wanted to talk to you for a long time." Cao Cao had no choice but to nod: "We have been together since childhood, and you know my thoughts best." "I don't know!" Cao De threw his pen away, "I didn't know that you would still deceive the villagers, and that you still had the heart to recruit soldiers! I didn't expect that you would take this as a joy and achievement, you The happiest thing this year turned out to be leading the escort! At that time, I thought that you were leaving soon..." Cao Cao sighed: "I want to be a capable minister, but the world forces me to be a traitor." "You are born to be dependent on others. Don't put on a show, can you count the people who cheated you since you were young? You didn't rape today!" Cao De got up to pack his things, "Let's go! This world is just right for you , I’m a useless wretch who can only talk but can’t do it, and to honor my Cao family...it’s up to you, brother!” "Brother!" Cao Cao pulled him into his arms. The two brothers rushed back home together, and immediately ordered Lou Yi to buy chariots and horses as gifts, and pay homage to the envoy Yuan Zhong in the coming day.Having a chance, Cao Cao fled to Ding's room again. Seeing her husband coming in, Mrs. Ding ignored him and just pushed the loom. "Wife, don't be angry!" Ding didn't even look at him. Cao Cao stroked her back and said, "Say something to me." She remained deaf. Cao Cao pressed her hand: "Grandma, from tomorrow onwards, I will ask my servants to prepare ten bamboos for you every day, and you can cut them as you like!" Ding laughed "puchi" and poked him on the head. : "My life is ruined by your mouth." "Hey, just smile." "Are you going to leave? I thought about it a long time ago, and it should be the case. When you arrive in Beijing, talk to your father-in-law and say something nice, so that you can plan your official career in the future. When Ang'er grows up..." "Okay, okay, don't worry, here we go again." "Let's not talk about that." Ding looked him up and down, "Do you have anything else to say?" "As worthy of my wife." "What's up?" "I want... um..." Cao Cao twisted his clothes and said in his stomach, "I mean it kindly! I want to bring the two of them to Beijing, so that I can have someone to take care of my father. When Ang'er grows up, he will go out and delay his studies. Pi My son is still young, so I just want to make my father happy... I have no other intentions." "Huh! When have I ever been jealous? If I want to take you, I will take it with me. Why make so many excuses. As the saying goes, thirty is like a wolf and forty is like a tiger. It's good to have someone watching you, so as not to make you restless and smelly." mess around." "Then I'll ask Huan'er to prepare to go with them." "Wait!" Ding heard something wrong, "Are you thinking about the big one or the small one?" "I miss children and adults." Cao Cao said with a silly smile. Ding sneered: "Don't pretend to be stupid! You know who I'm asking. You're thinking about Shanghuan again, aren't you? As soon as you're out of breath, you're going to take another inch." "How could it be? Huan'er is still a little maid." "Why not? How did you take over Ang'er's mother back then? You, the catastrophe has not faded, but you are so talented again! You have to think about the matter of Huan'er, she and A秉那么好，你可别弄得大家都不好看。”丁氏正色道。 “环儿和阿秉不合适，她是那边的义妹，论起来跟阿秉也是干兄妹，兄妹成亲成什么了？” “我算是把你看透了！兄妹成亲不合适，你就想来个亲上加亲。”丁氏不看他，继续织布，“反正我管不了你，你自己看着办吧。” “那我就看着办了。”曹操坏笑道，“我去忙了，今晚我一定过来！”说完兴冲冲去了。 丁氏把梭子一丢，眼泪簌簌而下：“我是心太善，还是太傻呀……”这时门一响，曹昂蹦蹦跳跳跑进来，好奇地问道：“娘，您怎么了？”丁氏紧紧搂住儿子，哽咽道：“昂儿……娘谁都可以不要，但是你要好好读书，将来得为娘争气啊……”