"Master Zhang, do you have time to have a drink?"

"Bold! Why don't you worship when you see the Heavenly Master! Zhang Jiao's entourage shouted.

Zhang Jiao's eyes looked here, only to see these three people, the leader of the instrument Yu Xuanang, dark skin, bright eyes, the corners of the mouth with a smile, the cloud is light and light, the person on the left, two meters tall, if standing in the crowd, that is standout, unique, carrying a double halberd, the appearance is also fierce and vicious, the person on the right, the face is delicate, the figure is slightly thin, but with a noble temperament, at first glance is unruly, full of self-confidence.

Several entourages saw that these three people did not move at all, and looked at them with a smile, and immediately became angry, Since following Zhang Tianshi, he has never seen anyone who dares to be disrespectful to Zhang Tianshi, which also raises their arrogance.

"Hey! Say about you! I didn't hear that! ”

Liu Hu stepped forward and said, "Who are you talking about?" ”

"You! That's you! ”

The entourage crossed the people who bowed their heads and bowed, came to Liu Hu, pointed at Liu Hu's nose and said, "This is Zhang Tianshi of Taiping Dao!" If you bow down sincerely, maybe the Heavenly Master will be able to send blessings to you, but if you are so arrogant and rude to the Heavenly Master, you will be rewarded in less than three days! ”

"I don't like people pointing at my nose and talking."

Liu Hu grabbed the finger of the attendant and used it lightly, and he heard a crisp click, and the finger of the attendant was still broken.

"Ahh The attendant screamed and fell to his knees.

The other entourages immediately surrounded Liu Hu and surrounded him, carrying weapons such as wooden sticks in their hands.

"You actually offended the Celestial Master's retinue! I don't think you want to live anymore! ”

The people around felt the abnormality, and when they raised their heads, they saw that the Celestial Master's entourage had a conflict with the three of them, and they all retreated to the side, freeing up a large open space.

The onlookers cheered for the entourage, they were loyal believers in Taiping Dao, some people offended the majesty of the Heavenly Master, they must not tolerate it, and some people took the vegetable basket and threw the food on Liu Hu's head.

Xiang Qing and Cao Chun didn't know where to take out two umbrellas and blocked the rotten eggs that were thrown over, but Liu Hu was smashed on the head by the rotten eggs, and the egg whites and yolks were all over his face.

Liu Hu and Cao Chun passed by Liu Hu, patted him on the shoulder, and then walked towards Zhang Jiao, Liu Hu didn't know why, waved his hand to wipe the egg white and yolk off his face, and then quarreled with those entourage.

The sedan chair fell to the ground, Zhang Jiao walked down from the sedan chair, the long sword was tied to his waist, and he took a whisk in his hand, and the whisk was a long stick, and the head of the stick was full of white long hair.

"What are you doing? Why disturb my parade? Zhang Jiaowen asked politely.

Xiang Qing waved his hand: "Well, it's not a big deal, I just want to discuss something with you." ”

Before Zhang Jiao could speak, Cao Chun's right hand had already grasped his arm, and feeling the strength of Cao Chun's hand, Zhang Jiao immediately chose to compromise, and he had no time to greet his entourage.

"Everyone! I have something important to talk about with Zhang Tianshi, let's all disperse! Continue to pay again another day! Xiang Qing raised his hand and shouted.

Cao Chun and Xiang Qing walked into the Bafang Inn with Zhang Jiao in their arms, and went directly upstairs to Xiang Qing's room.

When the onlookers saw Cao Chun and Zhang Jiao, they thought they were acquaintances, so they all knelt down and left on their own.

Liu Hu quarreled with those entourage, and he also felt troublesome, so he simply put them all down on the ground, and when he entered the inn, he guarded the door, and Zhang Jiao's entourage did not dare to act rashly.

Entering the room, Xiang Xu woke up when he heard the voice and asked, "Brother, who is this?" ”

Xiang Qing said: "It's okay Xiao Xu, you can continue to sleep, if it's noisy, then go to Ah Chun's room to sleep first." ”

"Then I'll continue to sleep here." Xiang Xu turned over, covered the quilt tightly and fell asleep again.

Xiang Qing pulled over a cushion, dragged Zhang Jiao to sit down, and said with a smile: "Zhang Tianshi, the conditions are simple, you can make a living." ”

Xiang Qing and Cao Chun sat opposite Zhang Jiao, both of them cross-legged, put their long swords on the table, poured a cup of herbal tea from the teapot and put it in front of Zhang Jiao.

"What do you two have to say now?" The old god Zhang Jiao said.

Although there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, Xiang Qing's eyes were like sharp knives, staring at Zhang Jiao deadly, but he found that there was no trace of panic in Zhang Jiao's eyes, as if he had been prepared.

"Looking at you like this, did you already know that there would be today's conversation?" Xiang Qing asked.

Zhang Jiao nodded and said: "That's true, someone dreamed of Poor Dao, and he told Poor Dao that there would be four people sitting with Poor Dao today, so Poor Dao specially came to Chang'an to arrange today's parade, and deliberately did not bring an entourage, so that you can see me smoothly." ”

Xiang Qing asked suspiciously, "Dream?" Did he mention what you talked to us? ”

"Nope." Zhang Jiao said while shaking his head.

Xiang Qing breathed a sigh of relief, in this era at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, this kind of ghost and god theory is too popular, and there are such very mysterious things in various works of art, and Xiang Qing is also very taboo about this kind of superstitious behavior.

He was not a staunch materialist, he grew up in the countryside, and in their place, there was a saying that "scared the soul", in dialect it means scared, and most of the people who were scared were children, and the legend has it that children could see things that adults could not see.

When the child is "scared", there will be an old lady in the village, called: Shen Mama, Xiang Qing remembers clearly that the "Shen Mama" in his village has never cut the nails of the little thumb in his life, and the nails are bent like sheep's horns, no matter how he recalls, he can never remember what the Shen Mama looks like.

With the fingernails of her little finger, she scratched twice on the ground, sang a special melody in her mouth, and then poured a bowl of water for him to drink, and by the next day, she was back to normal.

Xiang Qing retracted his mind, he looked up at Zhang Jiao, Zhang Jiao's eyes were Xiang Qing's figure, Xiang Qing always felt that this Zhang Jiao seemed to be able to see through himself.

"Zhang Tianshi, we don't have any malicious intent, you must have seen it." Xiang Qing said.

Seeing Zhang Jiao nodded, Xiang Qing continued: "There are a few things I want to ask you. ”

Zhang Jiao said with a smile: "When that person was dreaming, he told Poor Dao that he must know everything about you, but it doesn't hurt for you to say it." ”

"The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the age is in Jiazi, the world is auspicious, you should be familiar with these sixteen words."

"That's right, this is what Poor Dao said, of course I remember."

Xiang Qing took a sip of water and asked in a low voice: "If you want to rebel, you have hundreds of thousands of believers, as long as you raise your arms and shout, these hundreds of thousands of believers will immediately become your most loyal supporters, and they will become the Yellow Turban Army!" You want to rebel in the year of Jiazi, yes or no? ”

As soon as these words came out, Cao Chun's eyes immediately widened, he didn't know anything about this matter, this Zhang Tianshi, preaching in the world, Kyushu was full of his followers, I didn't expect him to plot a rebellion?

Xiang Qing patted Cao Chun's shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't be surprised, the eldest brother has long been eyeing these strange believers, I am busy with the Liangzhou battlefield, and the eldest brother has been secretly investigating Taiping Dao, in order to prevent the leakage of the news, I didn't tell others, only me and the eldest brother know about this matter." ”

Cao Chun immediately pulled out his sword and pointed at Zhang Jiao, lowered his voice and shouted, "Second brother! arrested him and dedicated it to the court, such a credit should be enough for you to wash away your grievances, and if you don't do it at this time, when will you wait! ”

Unexpectedly, Zhang Jiao was not surprised, and drank all the herbal tea on the table by himself, looking at Cao Chun with a smile.

Since Xiang Qing was able to invite him here and tell him frankly about this matter, it means that Xiang Qing has no murderous intentions towards him, if he really has the idea of arresting him for meritorious service, why should Xiang Qing bother to talk about it, just arrest him directly.

Xiang Qing grabbed Cao Chun's wrist, took the sword and put it back in the scabbard, and pulled Cao Chun to sit down.

"Second brother! Why not catch him? Cao Chun asked anxiously.

"Rest easy." Xiang Qing appeased Cao Chun.

Zhang Jiao lifted the teapot and poured himself a cup of tea, and said with a smile: "This young man, if your second brother really wanted to make meritorious contributions to the poor road, he would have done it a long time ago, you might as well sit quietly and listen to what your second brother wants to talk about with the poor road." ”

Cao Chun sat down, his eyes narrowed slightly and stared at Zhang Jiao to prevent this Zhang Jiao from suddenly escaping, his posture was that he could draw his sword and kill Zhang Jiao at any time.

Xiang Qing asked, "Tianshi Zhang, I don't know how you are preparing now?" ”

Zhang Jiao replied: "It's still a little worse, the armor and banners are not yet finished, plus in the past few years, natural disasters and man-made disasters have continued, Kyushu is starving everywhere, and the army's food baggage is not ready at all, if you raise troops in a hurry, I am afraid it is not the opponent of the Han army." ”

"Well, that's a big problem." Xiang Qing pondered for a moment, and then asked, "Then according to your calculations, when will you be able to complete the preparation?" ”

"At least until the year of Jiazi, it will take about five years." Zhang Jiao replied.

"Five years? It's too long, can it be faster? Xiang Qing asked.

Zhang Jiao drank the tea, the room was silent for a while, and Zhang Jiao said, "Three years!" If you give the poor road five years, the poor road will be able to preach Kyushu, when the world Kyushu is full of smoke, according to the declining military strength of the Han court, five years later, the Han will be defeated, if only three years, all the preparations are lacking, then you can only fight steadily, gradually eat away at the Han, it will take longer. ”

Cao Chun couldn't help but ask, "What's the use of talking about this?" ”

The two didn't seem to hear Cao Chun's words, Xiang Qing was still asking Zhang Jiao about the details of the army, and Zhang Jiao was also answering truthfully.

After chatting for a long time, Xiang Qing slapped the table and replied, "It's set in three years!" I only have three years. ”

"Okay." Zhang Jiao replied crisply.

Xiang Qing emphatically explained: "I told you in advance, I am not one of you, and I will not participate in the war if you make trouble, but I hope to get what I want, the greatest benefit." ”

Zhang Jiao said with a smile: "You are the general of Zhengxi who has just made a name for himself in Liangzhou, if you participate in the war, Poor Dao may be defeated faster." ”

Xiang Qing asked suspiciously, "What do you mean by this?" Did you know that the Yellow Turban Rebellion would fail? ”