After taking the note, Huaxing looked at the content and knew who was looking for him.

After thanking Huzi, he left the place and hurried out of the village......

Three miles west of the village, there is a lonely wooden house.

When Huaxing arrived here, a black horse was parked on the tethered stake outside the house.

Pushing the door into the house, I saw Lu Pu, who was sitting on a chair drinking hot tea, greeted him with a smile:

"I haven't seen you for many days, don't you come to the Chinese team?"

Because it was inconvenient for Lu Pu to enter the village, Huaxing specially found someone to build this cabin outside the village half a year ago to meet each other.

The furnishings in the house are very simple, except for the utensils for boiling water and drinking tea, there is only a bed, two wooden chairs and a square table in the whole house.

"Taste it, this is my new tea that I shipped from Bashu a few days ago. If you like, I'll get someone to send you a car in two days. As soon as Huaxing took a seat, Lu Pu took the initiative to fill the teacups for the other party, and the room was instantly filled with the fragrance of tea.

"Well, that's good! This tea is much stronger than the one I bought in Luoyang! Huaxing tasted tea and nodded and said, "It seems that you can make a lot of money this time, right?" ”

"Hehe, it's not much, it's only a few hundred taels for a car." He shook his head modestly, and then listened to Lu Pu's voice and said:

"By the way, I heard that the Chinese team surrounded the little emperor a while ago. Hehe, is it to solve the iron ore matter? ”

"I really can't hide anything from you, Lord Lu?" After glancing at the other party in a little surprise, he heard Huaxing open his mouth and reply:

"That's right! If this matter is not resolved, he will find someone to deal with me twice in three days, and he will not be depressed to death for me. ”

"Hehe, that's right. What was the outcome of your talk to him? ”

"It's all settled! First, I asked him to give me the iron ore so that he would have no reason to send any more troops; Second, I signed a non-aggression pact with him. In this way, even if someone sow discord, he will not dare to attack me easily! ”

When talking about the words "sowing discord", Huaxing also deliberately aggravated his tone, obviously very dissatisfied with this matter.

As the mastermind behind this matter, Lu Pu immediately showed a weak smile.

Although he kept boasting about Huaxing's actions, he was secretly thinking about it in his heart:

It seems that in the future, the imperial court will not be able to count on it, and if it wants to suppress Huaxing, it will have to find someone else.

"Huh? By the way, the Chinese team, I heard that after leaving Xutian, you took people to Xuchang again? After chatting about the winter hunt, Lu Pu followed up and asked his second doubt.

"Yo? Do you know all about this? ”

After an exclamation, he saw that Huaxing did not answer and asked:

"I thought I was stealthy enough, but I didn't expect you to find out! How did you know I had been to Xuchang? ”

Lu Pu's information channel is naturally the eyeliner hidden in Huaxing's team.

But in this matter, Lu Puding will not tell the truth.

It didn't take long for him to smile and reply:

"Hehe, in a big city like Xuchang, how can I not have eyeliner and acquaintances? If I don't know, that's weird. Tell me, what did you and Cao Cao talk about? ”

Huaxing didn't want to tell Lu Pu about the alliance with Cao Cao.

But at this moment, seeing that the other party not only noticed his whereabouts, but also asked about the matter vigorously, Huaxing couldn't find any other excuse for a while.

After a little weighing, in order not to arouse the suspicion of the other party, he finally told the other party the truth:

"Oh, I'm going to Xuchang...... It was to negotiate an alliance with Cao Cao. ”

Hearing the word "alliance", Lu Pu immediately frowned, and there was a faint look of vigilance in his eyes:

"What? You want to form an alliance with Cao Cao? Why? ”

"There are two reasons for this: first, it is for self-preservation. You may not know, the little emperor met Cao Cao this time just to let Cao Cao send troops to fight me. Although I was ruined by luck, I felt that it was safer to make an alliance just in case. ”

"Oh! I see. ”

"Second, I also want to take the opportunity to find a strong ally. If someone comes to me again, I can ask him to help me through it. Just like last time, if there is an ally, how can Guan and Zhang be outside the village and trap me for a month? As for you, although you are a rich country, you don't have any soldiers in your hands after all. If there is a war, silver alone will certainly not be enough. ”

Said Lu Pu didn't have any soldiers? Are you kidding!

After five years of covert operation, Lu Pu and his teammates can call tens of thousands of soldiers and horses with a casual voice.

He is by no means as simple as a "richest man in Luoyang".

But in front of Huaxing, Lu Puding would not be easily exposed, so he quickly nodded his head and expressed his agreement:

"Makes sense! It would be much safer if there were allies. Ay? So why Cao Cao? Today, whether it is the city or the army, he can't catch up with the Yuan brothers. To put it mildly, even Liu Biao and Liu Zhang are not as good, why don't you pick a more powerful ally? ”

"As the saying goes, far water can't save near fire. How close is Xuchang to Yuanyuan Village? It's a one-day bike ride away. Like the Yuan brothers, Jingzhou Liu Biao and the like, although there are many soldiers and generals, they are too far away from me. If there is a war, it will be difficult for them to send troops to help me in the first place. So after thinking about it, I still chose Cao Cao. Besides, Cao Cao happened to be planted in my hands this time, if I don't look for him to form an alliance, who will I find for an alliance? ”

"Oh, that's right."

After pondering for a while, he heard Lu Pu ask again:

"But as far as I know, Cao Cao thinks very highly of himself. If you rely only on threats, I'm afraid it's hard to form an alliance with them, right? ”

"That's right, at that time in Xu Tian, I persuaded him for a long time, but he refused to agree. That's why I went to Xuchang again that night......" Speaking of this, I saw Huaxing sighing helplessly.

"If you refuse to agree in Xutian, it will be even more difficult to agree when you return to Xuchang, right?"

"That's true. If he hadn't spared him before me, he probably wouldn't have bothered to see me. ”

"So, the covenant hasn't been made?" Lu Pu raised an eyebrow.

"That's not ......"

After a short period of thought, Huaxing decided not to risk lying.

Lupu's intelligence system is very powerful, and if it is discovered by the other party in the future, it will definitely attract suspicion. So soon I listened to Huaxing reply truthfully:

"Covenant...... In the end, it was signed. ”。

"What? He—how would he ally with you? This answer surprised Lu Pu.

"Alas! I'm also lucky to have that. At first, not only Cao Cao disagreed, but even the generals around him did not support it. But then again, I spared his life after all. Even if he was reluctant, he couldn't refuse directly, so he gave me a chance to test! ”