Danyang County, Chungu County, on the bank of the Yangtze River, in a pavilion.

Wang Li picked up a white piece on the chessboard, looked at Jia Xu and Xu Shu, and said, "Wenhe, Yuan Zhi, do you think Yuan Shu can succeed?" ”

"Can't!" Jia Xu and the two looked at each other and said with a smile.

Wang Li gently placed the chess pieces in his hand in a corner, raised his head and asked, "Oh?" Why? With Yuan Shu's original plan to stab the tiger, now Cao Cao and Lu Bu are both defeated, isn't it a great opportunity? ”

Jia Xu looked at the chessboard and shook his head, and said with a smile: "The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch is behind." In the past, when King Wu Lu planned to cut down the Yue Kingdom, a young son admonished: There is a big tree in the courtyard, and there is a cicada lying on the trunk.

The cicada chirped in the trees every day, but he didn't know that the praying mantis behind him was eyeing him. The praying mantis fluttered its wings, but it didn't know that the yellow finch had been waiting for the meal to be automatically delivered to the door. The yellow finch smug and ignored me behind him.

The cicada, the praying mantis, and the yellow finch all look at the present, wanting to get the small profits in front of them, regardless of the disasters behind them. Just like today's situation, Lu Bu wanted to kill Cao Cao and then quickly, Cao Cao only had Lu Bu and others in his eyes, but he didn't know that there was still Yuan Shu behind him, and he had bad intentions.

It's a pity that Yuan Shu thought he had a plan, but he forgot that Jizhou's brother Yuan Shao was equally eager to get the puppet emperor. Yuan Shaozheng was remorseful because the lord 'coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes', and the edict of the puppet emperor was in the middle of it. If Jia is not mistaken, Yuan Shao will go to Dingtao to meet the puppet emperor's military horses, and they will inevitably arrive in Dingtao! ”

Wang Li was about to make a bet with Jia Xu, a fluttering sound sounded outside the pavilion, Zhao Hu walked in with a piece of paper in his hand, and there was a sound in Wang Li's ear, as if a thunderbolt almost knocked Wang Li into a scorched exterior and tender inside.

Yuan Shao sent Ju Pei, Yan Liang, Ju Yi and Zhang Nanqin to lead an army of 15,000 to cross the river from Baimajin to Dingtao to meet the puppet emperor.

Cao Cao and Ji Ling were defeated and retreated to Juancheng and Dangshan respectively! However, Cao Cao retreated to Juancheng and attacked Puyang with all his might, Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu's uncle and nephew were defeated, and Zhang Miao and Wang Kai went out of the city to rescue on the same day, and Wang Kai died in battle. Dingtao also had no reinforcements to send, and Zhang Ji's uncle and nephew switched to Cao Cao's account. ”

The battle of Yanzhou has come to an end for the time being!

Wang Li handed the note in his hand to Jia Xu and sighed: "It seems that this Yanzhou War has come to an end, but if you calculate it carefully, it is Cao Cao, Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao who have made a profit, and Lu Bu's family has lost all their money!" ”

Jia Xu nodded and transferred the note to Xu Shu: "Yes, Cao Cao's territory has neither expanded nor decreased, and he has lost a Cai Yang and more than a dozen lieutenant colonels and lieutenant generals, but he has gained Zhang Ji, Zhang Xiu's uncle and nephew, and more than 10,000 elite soldiers.

Yuan Shu took advantage of the fire to rob and sent troops to Yuzhou, although he injured two or three thousand soldiers, but Cao Cao and Lu Bu were almost abolished, and the vitality of the two armies was greatly damaged, laying a solid foundation for the plan to invade Yanzhou and unify the Central Plains on a different day. ”

However, compared with Cao Cao and Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao made a lot of money, not only retreating Yuan Shu's soldiers in one fell swoop, aggravating his impression in the mind of Emperor Xinxin, but also greatly deterring Cao Cao, Lu Bu and others. I can't say when, Emperor Xinxin will automatically enter Jizhou and throw himself into Yuan Shao's net. Xu Shu hurriedly read it, and passed the note back to Wang Li.

Wang Li took the note and laughed: "Let's go, Yuan Shu and Emperor Weixin are about to move, Cao Cao and Lu Bu are too busy to take care of themselves, Yuan Shao is out of reach for the time being, we should also set off for Moling and Xiapi!" ”

……

When Wang Li took Jia Xu and Zhao Yun to pass through Moling and sneaked into Xiapi in batches, it was only ten days before the Buddha Bathing Festival.

It is different from the Xiangfan, Lujiang, and Spring Valley that Wang Li passed.

If we say that Xiangfan and other places can more or less see a little cloud of war

Words, then here you will definitely not see any panic caused by Cao Cao's large-scale pressure some time ago, all you see is the "peace", "happiness", "stability" and "tranquility" on people's faces that seem to be from the inside out.

This place has become a Buddhist country, and even the few ploppy men outside the largest "Silver Hook Gambling House" in Xiapi City have no more ferocity on their faces, and they have a "kind" smile on their faces.

It's a pity that the meat of the bun is not on the pleats, and behind the "kind" smile is still the cold-blooded gamblers and the madmen of the gamblers.

Wang Li is now in the Silver Hook Gambling House, and he is accompanied by him, or he is accompanied by Gan Ning, the future leader of the First Water Army.

The inside of the gambling hall is very different from the outside, with more than a dozen tables lined up in the hall, and hundreds of people gathered around the tables. These 100 people were all hysterical, and their faces were also filled with indescribable emotions, but this emotion was definitely not the kindness that a Buddha should have, but indifference, excitement, greed, and even fanaticism.

These people are standard gamblers, and they don't have Wang Li and Wang Li in their eyes at all, they only have dice in their eyes, pai gow, copper coins, and gold and silver jewelry on the gambling table.

Of course, Wang Li didn't need them to greet him, and the person who greeted him had already greeted him.

The so-called gambling prostitute is no longer able to eat only in the Qinglou, so she has to actively develop her own business and shuttle through the gambling house.

They are both artists and bodies.

The gambling prostitute was dressed in revealing clothes, with drunken eyes and sideburns, and a red skirt, like a butterfly floating in a casino. Although it was a cold spring in March, an unfathomable ravine was still exposed, and when I saw Wang Li's crisp voices, I heard from afar: "Two masters, but the slave family has a fun time with you?" ”

It's a pity that Wang Li and the others are not here to have fun, they are here to find the owner.

If they want to know the news of Zhi'er, they can only haunt the land of the three religions and nine streams. Therefore, Jia Xu and Xu Shu went to the Qinglou, and Zhao Yun and his wife went to the restaurant and teahouse, so they could only break into the gambling house.

What happens to be interesting is that there is such a sentence in the description of the "Silver Hook Gambling House" in the Jiangdong Hall of the Diting Camp: A volume of wind and clouds, including Jianghuai characters. To put it bluntly, this Silver Hook Gambling House is also an intelligence agency that sells information about the rivers and lakes.

Gan Ning shook his hand, took out ten copper coins from his sleeve and threw them to the gambling prostitute: "I won't look for fun, find me the owner here!" ”

"This lord, the real body of the owner is not so easy to see, why don't you go and see the real body of the slave family?" The gambling prostitute grabbed the copper coin, looked at Gan Ning's thick and sturdy body, her eyes were about to drip water, and her apricot fingers swept across Gan Ning's palms and chest.

Gan Ning laughed and pinched the fat buttocks and the softness of the chest of the gambling prostitute: "Your real body will come to you at night, and the master wants to see the true face of the owner now!" ”

The gambling prostitute looked at Gan Ning with a smile: "Ye is from outside, right?" Don't you know the rules of the owner? ”

"What rules?"

"If you want to see the owner, you must win the bet to win the sheep driver, and the winner can fight with the owner!"

"Haha, your owner is your majesty today?"

"It's not!"

"Then your owner is a famous prostitute in the world?"

"Not either!"

"Since your owner is nothing, the pomp is still bigger than that of His Majesty and the world's famous prostitutes? I really took myself as a corner! ”

Gan Ning frowned, and his anger gradually rose. Wang Li had already stepped forward and nodded at the gambling prostitute: "Follow the customs, since this is the rule of your owner, it is inconvenient for us to break the rules from afar." Girl, please lead the way! ”

With the gambling prostitute came in the gambling house

Shuttle back, soon up to a deep gambling house in an accord, in the pavilion there is only a monk with his back to the door, but there is a large table, on which are neatly stacked with thirty-two pai gow and six dice.

Wang Li looked at the monk in surprise: "You are the sheep herder?" ”

The monk didn't reply: "The poor monk is!" Where do you come from and where do you want to go? ”

"From where you come from, where you go!" Wang Li took the opportunity to sit down opposite the monk, and the two of them greeted each other as if they were acquaintances, which was natural and natural.

The gambling prostitute quietly closed the door and walked out, and the monk turned around, only to see that the monk's bitter gourd face was inverted, a scar from the chin to the depths of the placket, his left arm was also broken, and a pair of royal blue eyes seemed to see through the world.

Although the monk's expression was plain, Wang Li's heart swelled with earth-shattering waves! Didn't this person die already in Luoyang, why did he appear in front of him again?

Wang Li stabilized his nerves, and looked at the monk with straight eyes: "Dare to ask the master's name?" ”

The monk smiled: "Where do the monks still remember the names of the common people?" Poor monk Fa Luo! ”

Wang Li's face was sneering, but his words were pressed step by step: "The body hair and skin are subject to the parents, but the name is subject to the ancestors' family." The master really deserves to be a real monk, and he even forgot his name!

It's a pity that many things may be forgotten by the master, but Wang still remembers, which is really ridiculous! ”

"The Buddha said: color is emptiness, and emptiness is color. To remember is not to remember, and not to remember is to remember, so why should General Wang be obsessed with the past? The monk clasped his hands together and bowed.

General Wang? Do you know yourself? It seems that this person is right!

Wang Li smiled coldly, and did not accept the monk's kindness at all: "The yellow sand car is far away, and Luo Yi has entered the Jade Pass!" Master Luo, no, Tang Zhou! You may have forgotten the past, but do you think Wang can forget the souls of those who died under your hands in Ji, Yan, and Qingshuzhou? ”

It turned out that this monk was Tang Zhou!

Tang Zhou, the Yellow Turban traitor who escaped with his life under Zhang Jiao that day!

"If you want to know the past life, the recipient of this life is. If you want to know the fruits of the next life, the one who does it in this life is! Tang Zhou pointed to his cheek and broken arm with his only right hand: "Yesterday's cause, today's effect." The poor monk has already had retribution, is General Wang still unwilling to let the poor monk go? ”

"Spare you? If you just cut off one arm and then the ancient Buddha green lantern, you can get rid of the wrongs of tens of thousands of people, Tang Zhou, are you thinking about it too simple! ”

"Of course not, but if General Wang is here for the poor monk, the poor monk naturally has nothing to say. But if it is for the owner, then please ask General Wang to temporarily calm his anger, and after you have met the owner, the poor monk will be at the disposal of General Wang! ”

Wang Li raised his eyebrows, tried his best to suppress the fierce beating of his facial muscles, and looked at Tang Zhou with cold eyes: "How can I meet the owner?" ”

Tang Zhou pushed the pai gow and dice on the table in front of Wang Li: "If you don't follow the rules, you can't make a square circle." Since this is a silver hook gambling house, of course, you have to follow the rules of my silver hook gambling house to meet the owner! ”

"What rules?"

"Bet to win the poor monk!"

Wang Li's eyes narrowed into a line: "Monks can also gamble?" ”

Tang Zhou nodded: "Monks can also kill!" ”

Wang Li Huoran got up, slapped it on the desk, and shouted: "Okay, General Ben will make a bet with you here today!" ”