Chapter 428 of the text volume persuades the monarch to drink a glass of wine

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In the Wenyuan Pavilion of Tongquetai, Cao Cao, who is described as withered, is lying on the sleeping collapse, and there are Cao Pi and Cao Zhi kneeling in front of the collapse, and a little farther away are close civil and military ministers such as Sima Yi, Cao Hong, and Xu Chu.

The guards knocked on the door and reported that Tang Dou was asking to see Cao Cao outside Wenyuan Pavilion.

Hearing that Tang Dou was coming, Cao Cao suddenly opened his eyes and moved his body, as if he wanted to sit up from his sleep.

Cao Pi hurriedly stood up and walked quickly to the bed, stretched out his hand to support Cao Cao, and whispered comfortingly: "Father must not work, and his son will wait to see him in Jincheng." ”

Cao Cao glared at Cao Pi, closed his eyes and breathed for a moment, opened his tiger eyes, and said weakly: "Jincheng Hou is a celestial, he is here to send the old man to the end." The old man slammed the horse, he could only sit and live, and he could never lie down and die, so he helped me sit up. ”

Cao Pi didn't dare to disobey, and hurriedly helped Cao Cao to sit on the sleep with Cao Zhi, and pulled a brocade quilt and draped it on Cao Cao's shoulders.

Cao Cao looked very tired, he grabbed the two corners of the brocade quilt with both hands, wrapped it tightly around himself, hung his head and said, "Zihuan, you personally go and invite Jincheng to wait, and everyone else should retreat." ”

Cao Pi received the order and hurriedly walked towards the outside of Wenyuan Pavilion.

Sima Yi concealed the lust that flashed in his eyes, and silently followed the ministers and bowed down.

Sima Yi was originally Cao Pi's right-hand man, and he has always been regarded as a dependent by Cao Pi, but since the appearance of Tang Dou, the golden city, Sima Yi obviously felt that the relationship between him and Cao Pi was estranged, and he simply made a look of indifference to fame and fortune, and lived on the shore of Zhangshui outside Yecheng, no longer participating in the government of Yiqiē.

If it weren't for Cao Cao's critical illness this time, Cao Pi insisted that he come to see him off, I'm afraid Sima Yi would not have appeared here.

The ministers all retreated, including Cao Zhi, who was also waved down by Cao Cao, only Xu Chu stood up without saying a word, and stood on the side of Cao Cao's sickbed with one hand holding the hilt of his sword.

Cao Cao didn't raise his head, he lowered his head and asked in a low voice, "Zhongkang, why don't you retreat?" ”

Xu Chu replied angrily: "It is the duty of the last general to protect the King of Wei. ”

Cao Cao glanced up at Xu Chu, lowered his head and said tiredly: "If even you can't trust the king, who else can the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty trust?" If you want to stay, stay. ”

Outside Wenyuan Pavilion, Cao Pi saw Tang Dou standing with his hands in his hands, and hurriedly shouted: "Jincheng is exempted, please come with this king to meet your father." ”

Originally, Tang Dou also planned to give Cao Pi a face in front of the ministers and guards and give Cao Pi a salute, but now when he saw Cao Pi shouting out the exemption in advance, he took the opportunity to give up, and just nodded to Cao Pi: "Weichen thanked King Wei." ”

Cao Pi grabbed Tang Dou's arm and whispered, "Jin Chenghou, my father is probably about to die." ”

Tang Dou sighed and said in a low voice: "I know, once we met, I came here to say goodbye to Prime Minister Cao Cheng." ”

After the ministers who followed behind Cao Pi came out, Cao Pi did not directly pull Tang Dou into the hall, but whispered with an anxious face: "Jin Chenghou, this king inherits the throne of his father King Wei, and the Chinese Wuduo of the dynasty is not satisfied, and some people say that after his father returns to heaven, he will support Cao Zhi, the king of Chen, to inherit the throne." A few days ago, the king ordered Cao Zhang and Cao Rui to rush to Yecheng immediately, but these two people also disobeyed the order. Sir, teach me what to do. ”

Tang Dou waved his hand and said, "It's okay, let's go see the prime minister first." ”

Cao Pi's cheeks twitched and asked, "Is it really okay?" ”

Tang Dou frowned: "If I say it's okay, it's okay." ”

Cao Pi exhaled: "Fortunately, Jincheng waited for the arrival in time, otherwise this king would simply be uneasy." ”

Tang Dou raised his feet and walked into the hall, Cao Pi followed closely by his side, looked at Tang Dou and asked hesitantly: "Jin Chenghou, you said that this king will become the emperor of Wei, but this king has no bottom in his heart at the moment, there will be no variables in this matter, right?" ”

Tang Dou sighed, even if Cao Pi was about to become the founding king of Wei, Tang Dou had the urge to kick him to the ground and crack and beat him on him.

Your father is about to breathe, and you are still pulling your own little abacus here, is this heart of yours made of iron and stone?

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Cao Cao, who was asleep, raised his head and looked at Tang Dou who walked in, and a smile appeared on his face: "Hehe, Zidou, come over and come to me." ”

Seeing Cao Cao, who had been thinned into a handful of bones, Tang Dou's nose was sour, and tears instantly filled his eyes.

Tang Dou walked quickly to Cao Cao's collapse, grabbed Cao Cao's big hand stretched out to him with both hands, and two tears burst out of his eyes, and fell on the back of Cao Cao's dry hand.

Cao Cao laughed out loud: "If you can get two tears from Zidou, the old man's life is worth it, come, Zidou will collapse, and the two of us will chatter." ”

Tang Dou said emotionally: "Prime Minister, you are less clear than the last time I asked you for words. ”

Cao Cao laughed and said: "Zidou, don't make me happy, when you asked me to write "Dragon Boat Festival" last time, the old man was still able to write, and now the old man even needs to be fed by the servant woman when he eats, not to mention the reduction." People are about to die, their hearts are full of regrets, the old man only hates the broken mountains and rivers, and he can't see the reunion with his own eyes. ”

Tang Dou took off his shoes and sat cross-legged opposite Cao Cao, holding Cao Cao's knee with his hand and sighing softly.

Cao Cao smiled and ripped off the brocade quilt draped on his shoulders and put it on the legs of the two people, patted Tang Dou's two knees with both hands, and said with a smile: "Zidou, tell me what's going on, I'm thinking about you and afraid of you for a while, sometimes I want to sit with you and chatter, listen to you talk about those new things that the old man has never heard of, but the old man knows that he will live one day less when he sees you, and sometimes he will be scared to wake up by you in his sleep." Alas, it seems that the old man said it beautifully, but he still can't put aside birth, old age, sickness and death in his heart. ”

Tang Dou sighed: "The moon is cloudy and sunny, and people have good and bad luck, and this matter is difficult to complete." ”

Cao Cao smiled: "That's right, since this matter is difficult to complete, then why not just look at the present dynasty." Ziheng, bring the wine. ”

"Father, Doctor Zhang has told me a thousand times, and my father must not drink alcohol." Cao Pi fell to his knees and pleaded bitterly.

Cao Cao glared at Cao Pi and said, "The old man is not dead, do you want to disobey?" ”

Cao Pi was startled, hurriedly jumped up and bowed down, and came in with a tray in both hands, on the tray was a jade pot, two jade cups, and a plate of steaming pods.

Cao Pi walked to the front of the collapse, hesitating where to put the tray, Cao Cao smiled and stretched out his hand to point to the brocade quilt that he and Tang Dou's legs had propped up, Cao Pi bowed down and carefully put the tray on the legs of the two people.

Cao Cao reached out to take the jade pot, but Tang Dou grabbed the jade pot in his hand first.

Cao Cao looked at Tang Dou and asked with a smile: "Zidou also wants to block my last request?" ”

Tang Dou shook his head and said with a wry smile: "The prime minister calls me Douzi, my relatives in my family call me like this." At that time, we only had names, and there were no more words, and I made up the word Zidou myself. I hold the pot not to stop the prime minister, but to hold the pot for the prime minister. ”

Cao Cao paused for a moment and laughed: "Zidou? Bean? It's really interesting to wait for you in Jincheng, okay, the old man will call you Douzi, and you can get the name of Douzi's relatives, and the old man is very lucky. ”

Tang Dou held the wine jug to fill a glass for Cao Cao, and also filled a glass for himself, holding the wine glass with both hands and saying to Cao Cao: "Prime Minister, I respect you." ”

Cao Cao picked up the wine glass and drank it all, and Tang Dou drank it all without hesitation.

After a glass of wine, Cao Cao's face was extra red.

After refilling the cup, Tang Dou peeled off two beans and put them in Cao Cao's hand, Cao Cao smiled and threw the two beans into his mouth, waved his hand, and said: "While the old man can still move, let the old man do it himself." ”

Tang Dou smiled bitterly and no longer helped Cao Cao peel beans.

Cao Cao peeled a pod and took out the bean, but did not throw it into his mouth.

Cao Cao looked at Tang Dou and asked, "Douzi once told Zihuan to beware of Sima Yi, I don't know what it means?" ”

Tang Dou's hand paused for a moment, he didn't know if he was influencing history again, but he knew that now his words could decide a person's life and death.

Cao Cao laughed: "Douzi, I know the rules you set for Zihuan, a treasure is a problem, the old man has already prepared it for you, people come, go and get the treasure......"

Tang Dou hurriedly reached out and pressed Cao Cao's hand, and said sincerely: "Prime Minister, that's just a joke, okay, I'll tell you......"

As Tang Dou spoke, cold sweat rolled down on Cao Pi's forehead, he asked Tang Dou a lot of questions last time, but he didn't ask who would destroy the Wei State in the future and replace him.

Xu Chu, who was standing with a sword next to him, almost didn't get out of his eyes, he didn't expect that Tang Dou, who taught him a lesson on Tongque Tai last time, would be able to predict the future, and he didn't expect that Sima Yi, who had always been forbearing, would have a heart of disobedience and usurp the country of Great Wei after Cao Pi.

Anger rose from his heart, evil was born to the side of his guts, and Xu Chu strode out of the hall without saying a word.

Cao Cao snorted: "Zhongkang, what are you going to do?" ”

"I'm going to kill that old dog and behead him all over the house, leaving no chickens and dogs." Xu Chu said viciously.

Cao Cao exhaled and said in a deep voice: "You come back, and let Zihuan deal with those things by himself." ”

Xu Chu stomped his feet and returned to the sickbed again.

Cao Cao was far-sighted, he knew that after his death, there would be chaos in the court, and the most worrying were Sun Quan and Liu Bei, who would be strange if they did not take the opportunity to make trouble.

Cao Cao was worried about too many things, but he knew that there were some things that he could help Cao Pi do before he died, and some things that Cao Pi had to use a few heads to establish his prestige, and he couldn't do this kind of thing for him.

Being able to penetrate the heavens is already a great favor for him and Cao Pi, but unfortunately his time is really running out.

Cao Cao sighed, stretched out his hand and picked up the wine glass and raised it to Tang Dou: "It's March 14 today, let's have another drink with the old man." (To be continued.) )