Chapter 17 Members of Yuan's House

After an unknown amount of time, Cao Cao felt cold, and when he opened his eyes, he realized that it was already dawn, and he slept like this all night.After stretching himself, Cao Cao hurriedly got up and called the servant to wash up. "I fell asleep like this yesterday, and you didn't wake me up." "Young master! The master said you were tired and didn't let you call." The boy replied. "Father came last night?" Cao Cao was taken aback. "Yes! Master stayed in your room for a long time, and even read your books for a while!" The servant pointed to the "Sun Wuzi" on the desk case, "Master was very happy last night. I read your books." Book went back and drank some wine. It’s been more than six months since I saw the master so happy.”

Cao Cao was overjoyed in his heart, but kept a smile on his face: "Okay! Don't ask for more, you can go to your work!" After breakfast, he hurried to greet Cao Song.Unexpectedly, Cao Song still kept that bitter face, as if he didn't read anything last night, and only asked, "Why did your fourth uncle call you there yesterday?" Cao Cao's face turned red to the ears: "No ,nothing……" "Hmph! I can't control you, so let's just say it if you don't want to say it!" Cao Song stared at him fiercely. The case is almost over, if you want to go out, go out! Don't stay at home with such a sullen face."

Although the words came sideways, Cao Cao was overjoyed and finally able to see Yuan Shao. He carefully rolled up the thirteen volumes of Art of War, tied them tightly, and put them in a cloth bag.After finishing everything, he called his family to prepare the horses, put the cloth bag on the saddle, and rode to Yuan Feng's mansion alone without asking his followers to follow. There was a lot of traffic in front of the gate of Yuan's house, Beijing officials, disciples, and old officials came to pay their respects one after another, and waited for each of them to hand over famous assassins.Seeing this scene, Cao Cao was worrying about how to get in, when a gatekeeper greeted him respectfully: "Please come in quickly!"

"Me!?" Cao Cao didn't expect so many people with status to wait, but the gatekeeper greeted him alone, "Do you know me?" The gatekeeper suddenly covered his head: "Ask this again! Don't hit me , sir, please come in as soon as possible!" It turned out to be the servant Cao Cao beat up when he broke into the mansion a month ago.Cao Cao was so anxious at the time that he naturally didn't remember, but that family member feared that he would never forget him in this life!This time at the second gate, he hurriedly explained his purpose, and a servant reported to Yuan Shao.After Yuan Shao heard about it, he personally greeted him out of the second door. Seeing that he didn't bring a single follower, and there were more than a dozen volumes of books under his arm, he hurried forward to take the books and let them pass to his study in the side courtyard.

"Brother Benchu ​​took the book without even asking. Could it be that this book is for you to read?" "Meng De still likes to joke so much." Yuan Shao said with a smile. Cao Cao was still thinking about He Yong: "Brother Benchu, Uncle He..." "He Bo marries a wife, and Ximen Leopard exterminates witches. This matter is recorded in "Warring States Policy". The book is very deceitful. Brother, it is better to read less." Yuan Shao quickly changed the topic. Yuan Shao lowered his voice when he walked to the quiet place in front of the study, "There were too many people just now. There are also two guests inside, this matter is not busy, we will discuss it later."

Cao Cao responded, and saw that there were already two guests sitting in the room. "Don't you recognize Meng De?" Yuan Shao said, pointing to the person in the red dress, "This virtuous brother is Cui Jun, the son of Tingwei Lord Cui." Cao Cao heard that he was the son of Tingwei Cui Lie who had a close relationship with his father, so he already felt close.Seeing that he was tall and big, with a thick back and waist, red face, bright eyes, head to toe red, with a martial spirit, he fell in love with him, so he cupped his hands and said: "My father is currently in the position of Dahonghe, and he is with you. Your father is very friendly. I have also heard about my elder brother's name for a long time, but I only wish that I did not have the chance to meet you. Please be polite."

Cui Lie hurriedly returned the courtesy and said: "So it's Cao Mengde! This can be regarded as my father's lifelong friend. We are so close." After finishing speaking, all four of them laughed. Yuan Shao pulled another person to introduce him: "This virtuous brother's surname is Xu, his name is You, and his name is Ziyuan. He is from the same town as me. He is a student of Duke Qiao." Cao Cao couldn't help raising his eyes to take a closer look: Xu Ziyuan was less than seven feet tall, with a bun wrapped in a square scarf, wearing a white coarse linen gown, a black cloth belt around his waist, and a white and yellow cloak. From the outside, a pair of sparse meaty eyebrows, small and exquisite ingot ears, a flat nose and big thick lips are really ugly, but she is born with a pair of big round and bright eyes, the eyeballs are rolling around, revealing With an aura of beauty.

Xu You opened his mouth and said, "Brother, is that Cao Aman who left wonderful pens on the walls of Sili Xiaowei's mansion, drowned in fine wine in the hall, and picked green tiles on the house?" Cao Cao was taken aback, and thought to himself: "How could he know my nickname? That's all, but it's really strange that he even knew the absurd things about painting on the wall, urinating in the hall, and uncovering tiles in the house when I was young!" And this kid has such a sharp tongue, Qiao Xuan's disciples are really different." "Exactly, Ziyuan has such a sharp tongue!"

The four of them sat down and chatted speculatively, and they got to know each other well after a while. Cui Jun is also a martial artist, and he is also the oldest: "Brothers, do you know that there is a rebellion in Kuaiji County. A local leopard named Xu Shao came out of Kuaiji County, and he pulled a team near Yin County. Now they call themselves 'Emperor Yangming'!" "Hmph! Daydreaming." Yuan Shao sneered, "These local leopards are wishful thinking. They want to be emperor no matter what their background is. Man's destiny is determined, and he must farm well! What kind of madness are you?"

For some reason, these two words did not catch Cao Cao's ears.In his hometown of Qiao County, he often saw poor people being bullied, and he had long felt sympathetic.He also made friends with Qin Shao, and his family background has long since disappeared.But after all, I am a guest, and I have a good relationship with Yuan Shao, so I can't say anything. Cui Jun smiled and said, "Don't underestimate this Xu Shao, he really has some tricks." "What's wrong?" Xu You asked. Cui Jun's eyes lit up and said: "He led the mob to defeat the official army. Think about who is the governor of Yangzhou? Yin Duan! A veteran who has led troops and released horses all his life, was defeated by him. It's not bad. ?” Cao Cao couldn’t help sighing: “Although we were defeated, I’m afraid that the crime is not on Senior Yin.”

"How do you say that?" Cui Jun showed doubts on his face. "Yin Duannai is a well-known general in the Northwest. He assisted the old general Zhang Huan in all battles and invincible attacks. But after all, he is only a good fighter against the Qiang people, so he may not be able to fight against the Nanren. Besides, Yangzhou has not had a war for many years, and its military equipment has already been relaxed. " Yuan Shao added: "The most important thing is actually not on the battlefield. Duan Jiong colluded with the eunuchs to frame Zhang Huan, and Yin Duan was also unlucky. On the surface, he became the governor of Yangzhou, but in fact he was transferred from the original army. Soldiers don't know generals, generals don't know soldiers, how can we fight this battle?" "Hmph! In the end, eunuchs are still hateful, and there is nothing bad in the world that has nothing to do with them." Cao Cao gritted his teeth, "Old General Yin was defeated, will the court reprimand him?" Yuan Shaodao: "He was dismissed. If his subordinate Zhu Jun hadn't bribed the eunuch to buy his life, he would have been executed by Duan Jiong!" Cui Jun said: "Now the imperial court sent Zang Min to fight Xu Shao again, and the outcome is still unknown! I heard that Zang Min got a village guide called Sun Jian, who is the successor of Sun Wuzi." "What after Sun Wuzi? It's amazing, but I think it's mediocre, and it may not have any real skills." Cao Cao didn't take Sun Jian seriously at that time. Yuan Shao had always been thinking about the affairs of the imperial court, and he didn't care much about the war. He changed the subject and said, "Just now you said Duan Jiong, such a person is not worthy of being a captain! Now he has raided all the imperial schools. After the imperial students They are all officials of the imperial court, if they were arrested and killed like this, who will the imperial court rely on in the future?" "Rely on us!" Cui Jun was very conceited. "Hey! You have a good idea. Now the emperor has his own people to use. I heard from my uncle that he is planning to let those who used to play with him become officials. What singing, writing, painting, etc. Gamers, even cockfighters, are now officials. They call it Hongdu Menxue, and they are governed by young people like Ren Zhi, Jia Hu, and Le Song. Really..." Yuan Shao still He was merciful and didn't dare to speak ill of the emperor. "Could it be that years of cold windows and successive years of military exploits are not as good as a painting by a painter?" Cao Cao was a little unconvinced. "Don't be a joke, Jiang Lan, the painter of Hongdumen, the emperor wants him to be a servant." Yuan Shao smiled bitterly, "Uncle has advised the emperor several times about this matter, but it doesn't work! Jiang Lan and Zhang Rang The relationship between them is hard, and no one can change it." It's really an anecdote that the nobles of the three men can't bring down a painter.Cao Cao couldn't help thinking: When Brother He entered Beijing, he planned to contact the officials to write a letter to impress the emperor. Now it seems that Long Live is not as good as the late emperor!Although the first emperor ignored government affairs, he would never make arbitrary government orders, but today there are a lot of bad ideas.Of course, such dissatisfaction cannot be expressed clearly. "Brother Aman! Brother Aman!" "Hmm." Cao Cao turned around and saw Xu You holding his book of war, no wonder he hadn't spoken for a long time. "This set of "Sun Wuzi" is full of comments, but what did you do?" "yes." "My little brother is an eye-opener!" Xu You cupped his hands. "Dare not dare." "You want Brother Benchu ​​to take a look at it. I have a merciless request, can you let me watch it for a few days?" "This... Ziyuan, if you don't mind taking it and looking at it." Although Cao Cao said so, he was not very happy. After all, the first time we met, he had to leave the things he showed Yuan Shao, and he really didn't see anything.But Cao Cao probably never dreamed that it was because he lent the book to Xu You that he attracted the first nobleman in his life!