Chapter 3 3. Cao Song went out to pave the way for Cao Cao

Time flies so fast, four years have passed in a blink of an eye. The clever ghost back then is now a bold and free-spirited young man.One day, Cao Cao was practicing sword in the back garden. Just as he was practicing swordplay, his younger brother Cao De ran over and said, "Meng De, father asked you to meet guests in the front hall." Cao Cao wiped off his sweat and said, "What kind of Laoshizi's character, Fan Ling and Xu Xiang, two veterans? I'm almost sick of seeing it." "Wang Fu is here." "What is he here for?" Cao Cao's ears were already filled with eunuch Wang Fu's bad deeds, but he never thought that he would appear in his home.

"You don't know if you haven't been here these years. Wang Fu often comes to our house, and every time he takes a small car, secretly." "It's no good to carry someone back—then what did he see me for?" "I think you're going to be lucky. He met Fan Ling in our mansion back then. In a few days, Fan Ling was promoted from a Sanzhilang official to Jingzhaoyin; the same is true for Prime Minister Xu. He wants to meet today. You must be a blessing, not a curse." "It's a disaster that can't be avoided." Cao Cao immediately thought of his rescue of the political prisoner He Yong.

"You just go to see him generously, and let the old eunuch see the demeanor of our Cao family's descendants." "That's natural." Having said that, when he really saw Wang Fu, Cao Cao couldn't be unrestrained.As an incomplete man, an eunuch ages rapidly after the age of thirty.Wang Fu was nearly sixty years old, with a fair face wrinkled, but kind-hearted, pleasant, and gray-haired, just like a kind old lady.Cao Cao was even a little skeptical: Could such an amiable person really be a domineering, arrogant and traitorous minister? "Boy Meng De has become more and more respectable." Wang Fu smiled more and more wrinkles, "When you were one year old, I came to hug you!" Cao Cao really didn't know how to reply: "Xiao Ke vaguely remembers , vaguely remember." "You really know how to climb vines. You were only one year old at that time, what can you remember?" Cao Song joked.

Wang Fu was amused and burst out laughing.The laughter was shrill, high-pitched, yin and yang, like the cry of a night owl: "Today is my rest day, and I came to see Brother Cao. You are so polite, and you even asked your son to come to see me. I am very honored..." When he said this, he suddenly changed the subject, "We are old friends, if you have any questions, you can speak directly." Cao Song touched his son's shoulder: "My boy is ninety-nine this year. He has studied poetry and books since he was a child, and he has a little knowledge of the art of war. He aspires to serve the court. You can always see if you can clear it up a little so that he can How about entering an official position early?"

Cao Cao now understood why everyone who met Wang Fu in his mansion was lucky. It turned out that his father had always "recommended" talents to him in this way.In fact, he was not in a hurry to become an official, because the influence of his seventh uncle Cao Yin even had a little resistance, but now he couldn't help himself. Wang Fu nodded, but said: "As the saying goes, children and grandchildren have their own blessings, so don't be a sinner for your children and grandchildren. Nowadays, Mingjing, Xiaolian, who is fifty years old, and a nephew who is less than twenty, you are busy. Are you too impatient to work hard for his official career?"

"It's not impatient. Although the child is small now, he will grow up in a short while. While our old brothers are here, give him a good support, not for him, but for the reputation left by my ancestors of the Cao family! What do you say? Isn't that the reason?" Cao Song smiled, "I don't ask for high officials and rich salary, I just hope that he will become a filial and honest man as soon as possible, and the future will depend on his own ability." Wang Fu ignored his complaints, and sighed to himself: "According to me, the investigations in recent years have been too hasty. It doesn't matter whether they are capable or not, as long as they have connections, anyone can become an official. It’s too disrespectful to the imperial court. Do you know what the common people say in the streets and alleys? To be a scholar, you don’t know the book; Are these all good words? In our position, there are human favors everywhere, so it’s inappropriate to ignore it, it’s difficult..."

Isn't it rooted in you that the imperial court employs unknown persons?Cao Cao listened to his official accent, and knew that his father was going to waste his efforts. Seeing that Wang Fu couldn't be shaken without something real, Cao Song laughed and said, "Master Wang, you are right, our Meng De is filial. If such a child can't be filial and honest, wouldn't he be wronged to death? What's the point of asking me to spend tens of thousands of family money?" The reason why Wang Fu pushes back and forth is because of his words! Cao Cao witnessed bribery for the first time in his life.I saw this old eunuch who had just sworn to be filial, suddenly stopped smiling, and said with a serious face: "Oh? Listen to you, this child is really worthy of being a filial piety, and the old man also cherishes his filial piety." It's amazing, it's amazing...I'll try to do it for you."