Many years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the world of the Han family has begun to undergo great changes at this time, and Zhang Jiao, a Taiping Taoist, and his followers have revolted in various places, opening the curtain of this troubled era.

But even if the world is chaotic, it can't disturb the interest of a young man to sleep in.

It was the third stroke of the day, and the man was still asleep in bed, and it seemed that if no one woke him, he would probably have been asleep.

"Bonghyo!"

Suddenly, there was a shout outside the door, and the name of the call was the young man who was sleeping in bed.

The door opened, and a man walked in, his name was Guo Tu, a friend of the young man's acquaintance here,

Guo Tu was not surprised to see that he was still sleeping on the bed, as he seemed to have long been accustomed to this person's habits.

Guo Tu said with a smile: "Today, the eldest prince is going out hunting, why don't Brother Guo Jia go?" When the man heard this, he suddenly sat up and said with a smile: "Hunting, that's good, let's go together!" Saying that, both of them happily walked towards the Grand Prince's Mansion.

This is the current Guo Jia, in the eyes of most people, he is a person who is not doing his job properly and is idle, and he often plays with Yuan Tan's gang, and sometimes even does some inexplicable things, so people who know him call him "weird" and "lazy" These indecent titles.

Outside the eldest prince's mansion, a group of family members had prepared horses, and a man in noble clothes was telling frivolous jokes to those family members, Guo Tu walked up to the man and said, "Big prince, look who I have brought here." The man turned his head and looked very happy when he saw Guo Jia, and said loudly: "Guo Jia, it's great that you're here, I'm just about to send someone to find you, and now I don't have to go again, you see, the horses are ready, let's go out of the city now!" "Okay." Guo Jia said.

This is Yuan Shao's eldest son Yuan Tan, who likes to make friends with celebrities and heroes on weekdays, and has learned his father's character, and there are very few acquaintances with Guo Jia in this Nanpi City, but Yuan Tan and Guo Tu are willing to make friends with Guo Jia. Guo Tu does admire Guo Jia's talent, and Yuan Tan, just because Guo Jia's idle personality is very much to his liking, he must be called if there is a banquet or hunting or something like that, and of course, that Guo Tu has become a fox friend and a dog friend.

That Guo Tu is the henchman of the eldest prince, and there is another person named Xin Ping, both of whom are the core figures who support Yuan Tan to become the heir of the Yuan family, and on the other side, Yuan Shao's third son, Yuan Shang, is also vying for the inheritance.

When everyone got on their horses, a servant brought a fierce falcon over, and as soon as Yuan Tan stretched out his hand, the falcon jumped up to his left arm with a leather armor, and then Yuan Tan fed it a piece of meat.

"You two haven't seen my freshly trained falcon yet, have you?" As he spoke, Yuan Tan moved the eagle on his arm to Guo Tu's side, only to see that the eagle's wildness was still very strong, and as soon as it got close to the living, it flapped its wings fiercely and opened its sharp beak to make a terrifying cry.

Guo Tu was so frightened that he hurriedly stretched out his hand to cover his face with his sleeve, and even the horse he sat on was so frightened that he ran away.

Seeing this, Yuan Tan laughed even more proudly: "You are still a strategist that your father relies on, and even a flat-haired beast is afraid of being like this, how can you follow my father to fight the world." Guo Tu also felt a little embarrassed, and hurriedly explained: "It is the duty of a war general to go into battle to kill the enemy, and he only gives advice to the lord after the battle." ”

"That's right, it's useless to be brave if you don't go to war." Yuan Tan looked back at Guo Jia as he spoke, and asked with a sneer, "Guo Jia, what about you?" As he spoke, he moved his hand, as if at any moment he would throw the eagle in front of him. Guo Jia was indifferent to what Yuan Tan did, but turned his head to look at the falcon, and the eagle also put on a fierce look after seeing Guo Jia, but the moment his eyes met Guo Jia, the animal's natural instinct felt that the cold light suddenly appeared in the clear eyes, exposing the vital points on its body, and it couldn't help but slowly withdraw its wings and close its mouth.

Yuan Tan didn't know what to do, and said to himself: "Why is this beast suddenly stupid? ”

Guo Jia took the previous question at this time and said: "I think what Brother Guo Tu said makes sense, but gall is one of the six internal organs, you can be idle and don't use it, if you don't have it, you won't become a person with incomplete six internal organs, isn't it strange." ”

"No matter how strange it is, I can't blame you Guo Jia."

"I'm weird, it's not here," the three of them laughed.

Everyone was about to go out of the city, but just met a majestic Hebei division from outside the city and returned, headed by the two generals majestic, the leader of the arrogant look, the other one was deep and indifferent expressionless, they are the famous Hebei Shuangxiong Wen Chou, Yan Liang, but also Yuan Shao's proudest general, Yuan Shao often said to people: "As long as there are two of them in the Yuan family's army, it is enough to sweep the entire Hebei!" ”

When Yuan Tan saw these two people, he greeted them enthusiastically and shouted: "The two generals have worked hard outside!" The two of them immediately bowed and replied: "The eldest prince is polite, this is the duty of his subordinates." At this time, the evil-looking general said: "It's not that I boast, with me and other guards, which thief in the north dares to move?" ”

Yuan Tan said: "What General Wen Chou said is very true, it is really a blessing from heaven for my Yuan family to have two generals sitting in charge!" ”

Another general with an indifferent expression said lightly: "Forgive me for waiting for official business, and I can't delay long if I have to return to see my lord." ”

"General Yan Liang has always put public affairs before private affairs, so don't delay the two generals, after the official business is done, come to the house in the evening for a small banquet and two cups to wash the dust for the two generals."

The two generals glanced at each other, and naturally thought that Yuan Tan was deliberately currying favor with the two. Wen Chou disagreed, and responded: "After the two of us have met the lord, it will not be too late to disturb the prince's mansion, thank the eldest prince first!" Yan Liang was silent, only nodded slightly, and then they led the team to move on.

Guo Tu was dissatisfied with the attitude of the two, walked up to Yuan Tan and said, "These two people are too rude to the eldest prince, why should the eldest prince be so polite to them?" ”

Yuan Tan said: "Those who achieve great things must have a heart that is inclusive of the world, what does it matter if such a fierce general is humble." ”

Guo Tu said yes again and again, but Guo Jia behind him was secretly laughing, thinking that people who were not even compatible with their own brothers dared to boast of their courage.

Speaking of Yuan Shao's son, the eldest son is Yuan Tan, the second son Yuan Xi and the younger son are named Yuan Shang. The three sons were suspicious of each other because Yuan Shao had not decided on a successor for a long time, and they fought openly and secretly, in order to suppress their brother as a competitor so that they could inherit the family business of the Yuan family.

Originally, Yuan Tan, as the eldest son, should be the most reasonable heir, but Yuan Shao loved the handsome youngest son Yuan Shang more, so he hesitated in this matter, and even his subordinates were secretly divided into two factions, one faction was led by Guo Tu and Xin Ping to support Yuan Tan's eldest son's party, and the other faction supported Yuan Shang's three princes' party represented by trial and Feng Ji.

Guo Jialai had already heard of these things before, and after he arrived, he saw the fierceness of the internal strife, although he had no intention of participating in the internal struggle of the Yuan family, but he got close to Guo Tu and his ilk, and was naturally regarded as a member of the Dagongzi Party. Tian Feng, who recommended him, once warned him not to get involved in the whirlpool of the succession dispute, but Guo Jia didn't seem to care about it, and still went his own way, drinking with whomever he wanted.

This is a crisp autumn day, Yuan Tan and his entourage went all the way south after leaving Nanpi City, sometimes walking slowly while talking and laughing while enjoying the suburban scenery, and sometimes galloping horses, unscrupulous.

Forty miles outside the city is a wooded mountain forest, this mountain forest is full of birds and beasts, so it is occupied as a hunting ground for the powerful, and the common people are forbidden to enter.

Yuan Tan sat on a famous horse, much faster than the others, he took the lead in coming to the mountain, and then stopped the horse and waited leisurely for the others to come one by one.

Everyone arrived fast and slow, but Guo Jia was the only one missing. Yuan Tan asked, "What about Guo Jia?" Guo Tu looked left and right and couldn't find any trace of Guo Jia, and said: "This is strange, wasn't they still together just now, why didn't they see anyone after a while?" ”

At this time, a family member said: "Just now the villain saw him riding a horse slowly, and did not follow us, and after a while, he was left behind by us and disappeared." ”

Yuan Tan smiled: "It's worthy of Guo Jia, people are lazy and horses are lazy to follow him, forget it, let's hunt first, and wait for him to climb slowly on the road!" The crowd laughed.

Speaking of Guo Jia, he was slowly riding a horse on the road at this time to enjoy the scenery, only to see a good scenery in the suburbs, the wheat fields were connected into a golden blanket, and the autumn wind blew and blew up bursts of wheat waves, which also made people feel comfortable when the wind blew on the body, and couldn't help but close their eyes and absorb the breath of nature with their hearts. I have to say that the local agriculture and economy under Yuan Shao's rule are quite well governed, and if the personnel can be handled well, then he may have the qualifications to dominate the world, but now, he feels that at most he can divide one side.

I recalled the time before I came, there was an old man who came to him that day, his name was Tian Feng, he was the most resourceful strategist under Yuan Shao's account, Tian Feng was old enough to be his grandfather, but the two had been in contact as friends. I saw that the old man had a white beard and a rattan cane in his hand, but it was not because he was inconvenient with his hands and feet, but because he had always had a habit of drawing a rough map on the ground whenever he was thinking about strategy, and using a point or a stroke to indicate the distribution and advantages of friend and foe.

It is this simple picture, but it has shocked Guo Jia, and the strategic awareness he understands is thorough and sharp, just like a soaring goshawk looking down on the earth in the sky, the battlefield has become a game of chess for him, and the opponents in the game are all the prey he hunts, only at that time Guo Jia deeply felt the murderous aura that the old man has been hiding.

If you work with such a person, you can easily achieve great things by assisting a Ming Jun. Guo Jia has this feeling, not to mention that when it comes to the strength of today, Yuan Shao's side can be regarded as unsurpassed.

Perhaps it was because of this consideration that Guo Jia decided to meet Yuan Shao to see if he was a hero who could dominate the world.

But the result was disappointing, even his sons did not have any decent, Guo Jia once thought that if Yuan Shao himself lacked the qualifications of a hegemon, then any of his sons could also do it on his behalf, but there was no one with such conditions among the sons, so there was no need to stay here. It is precisely for the sake of clarity that the qualifications of these people will be approached to theirs.

Guo Jia is often like now, thinking about things when he is quiet, so that he completely ignores the surrounding environment, and everyone who sees him thinks he is a fool.

Unconsciously, they had come to the place where Yuan Tan and them were hunting, and they heard the shouts of chasing their prey from a distance, which startled many birds, which did not need Guo Jia to look for them, and they knew where they were now at a glance.

Guo Jia walked to them, only to see that Yuan Tan had already caught a lot of prey at this time, which were rabbits and wild roe deer. Yuan Tan saw Guo Jia and asked, "Why did you come, it's almost dark this day." ”

Guo Jia smiled and replied: "The goals of the hunting are different, Gongzi hunts birds and beasts, and I hunt the beautiful scenery of autumn, and the harvest is not small." ”

Guo Tu suddenly woke up and praised Guo Jia: "Brother Guo is so elegant, I also came all the way, but I missed such a big prey, it's a pity!" ”

Yuan Tan sneered and said, "You can't eat it, what's the use?" Guo Jia smiled and said nothing, thinking: short-sighted people really have no pursuit of spiritual food, and only care about the feeling above the tongue.

At this time, Yuan Tan handed a pair of bows and arrows to Guo Jia and said, "I haven't seen Fengxiao's archery yet, how about opening our eyes today?" ”

The family members also coaxed in, and Guo Jia said: "Okay." Then he calmly took the bow and arrow, and saw that he casually mounted the arrow, and then pulled it slightly, and shot the arrow, which was completely powerless, and flew out of the arrow and fell to the ground after only a foot of it.

Seeing this scene, Yuan Tan almost fell off his horse with laughter, only to see him holding his stomach and laughing breathlessly: "Shoot like you, you can't guarantee it。。。。。。 And shoot on your toes, and three-year-olds shoot better than you, hahaha。。。。。。 ”

Guo Jia handed the bow and arrow back, looked at the arrow that landed and nodded, seemed to be quite satisfied with his archery performance, he said calmly: "For me, this level of archery is enough." While he was talking, a man suddenly exclaimed, "Look, there's a fiery red bird over there!" ”

Everyone looked at the other side together, and saw that there was indeed a strange bird with bright red feathers all over the forest, jumping back and forth between the branches, like a dancing flame, no one had ever seen such a bird, and naturally they didn't know what it was called.

Yuan Tan motioned for everyone to be silent, and then quietly pulled his bow and arrow and aimed at the strange bird whose name could not be named.

The bird was unguarded and waited until the bow sounded to alarm it, but the arrow was so close that it heard the bird cry and fell down with the arrow. Everyone cheered and praised Yuan Tan's archery skills, and Yuan Tan proudly showed off: "Look, this is called archery!" At this time, Guo Tu congratulated Yuan Tan: "Congratulations to the eldest son, today's event is a good omen!" ”

Yuan Tan smiled: "Tell me, what is the auspicious omen?" ”

Guo Tu said seriously: "Han Gaozu beheaded the White Snake Uprising and finally won the story of the world, the son has heard of it, the white snake is the son of the White Emperor, and Gaozu Liu Bang is the son of the Red Emperor, so after the white snake was killed, he replaced the position of the true son of heaven, the bird encountered today is red, and the red is just the color of Liu Han, the Han family is immoral, the hearts of the people are gone, and the momentum of qi decline is irretrievable, everyone in the world has the intention of drawing the old and welcoming the new, it is when the new son of destiny will appear, maybe it is just to confirm today's things! Yuan Tan was overjoyed when he heard this, and urged his subordinates: "Hurry, hurry, go and bring me that red bird!" ”

At this time, the housekeeper who ran to pick up the prey ran back with a confused look on his face, and said, "My son, I can't find the bird everywhere after it falls." When Yuan Tan heard this, his face changed instantly, and he said coldly: "I raised you for nothing, it's better to bring a dog!" The rest of the family were silent at this time. So Yuan Tan personally led everyone into the woods, and everyone searched everywhere, but there was really no trace of the strange bird. Yuan Tan threw his bow and arrow on the ground, and angrily reprimanded everyone: "Waste, all of them are waste, not even a dead bird can be found, what use do I want you to have!" As he said this, he rode away in a rage, and all the family members looked dejected, and some dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, so they could only swallow their anger and follow their master.

Guo Tu shook his head and sighed, and said to Guo Jia, "Brother Guo, let's go too." Guo Jia said, "Okay." The two of them walked out together, and then Guo Jia accidentally saw something red in the grass, so he got off the horse and pushed away the grass, only to see that it was a bright red feather, which should have fallen from the strange bird.

When Guo Tu saw Guo Jia dismounted, he asked him, "Brother Guo, what's wrong?" Guo Jiaying said: "It's nothing, let's go." After saying that, he returned to his horse and left with Guo Tu.