Chapter 22: The Ten Great Tonic Soups
Liu Xun achieved those so-called military exploits, in the Sword Pavilion, not only Jia Long was worried, but there was also a person who was also worried, but Jia Long was worried about seeing the hidden worries behind, but he was worried because of another thing, he was Liu Yan's third son and illegitimate son, Liu Zhang's third brother, and Liu Xun's third uncle - Liu Mao.
Since he is Liu Yan's illegitimate son, of course Liu Mao cannot be made as his son-in-law, but Liu Yan's eldest son died in the rebellion of the Ten Standing Servants in Luoyang, and the son-in-law Liu Yan was cowardly and incompetent. Liu Mao is not convinced by Liu Zhang, but also worried that after Liu Xun succeeds to the throne in the future, he may not even have the qualifications to die without a place to be buried.
Liu Mao was stumbling, and someone suddenly said outside the door: "Is the third prince here?" Zhang Song asked to see him. Liu Mao was upset, he didn't want to see Zhang Song, but he knew that although Zhang Song was despicable, he was extremely trusted by Liu Yan, and if he wanted to win the heir, he couldn't do without Zhang Song's help, so he had to slowly get up and open the door and introduce Zhang Song into the house.
"Does the third prince have anything on his mind?" Zhang Song saw that Liu Mao was the only one in the room, Liu Mao had a worried face, guessed his thoughts, and had to admire Jia Xu's uncertain prophet, and deliberately asked knowingly.
"Nothing." Liu Mao shook his head in frustration, and asked again: "Zhang Beijia suddenly came to visit, I don't know if I have any advice?" ”
When Zhang Song heard this, he bowed down from the table and bowed to Liu Mao: "Congratulations to the third son, congratulations to the third son, the villain has said hello to the third son." ”
"What do I like?" Liu Mao was inexplicable, and said in her heart that I was about to die, so what kind of joy did I have? Zhang Song was not in a hurry, and said in his ear: "The villain congratulates the third prince in advance on the big defeat of Dong Zhuojun and the rescue of Yizhou Sheji, and the future is limitless." ”
"What do you mean by that?" Liu Mao was shocked, but Liu Mao reacted immediately, immediately helped Zhang Song to sit down, and arched his hand: "Sir, don't you have any advice?" Please make it clear to Mr. Liu Mao that he will remember Mr. 's great kindness. ”
"The third prince is too polite." After being polite, Zhang Song pretended to be mysterious and said: "Do you know the third prince, what are the weaknesses of the Dong thief army?" Can it be broken with one hit? ”
"The weakness of the Dong thief army?" Liu Mao was confused, and then Zhang Song continued: "If the third prince personally led an army and burned down Dong Thief's granary, do you think Dong Thief will retreat or even be defeated and captured?" ”
"It's good, but no one knows where Dong Thief's granary is?" Liu Mao spread his hands and said, but when Liu Mao saw Zhang Song's mysterious smile, he was suddenly excited and his heart almost jumped out of his chest, "Mr. Yongnian, do you know?" ”
Zhang Song smiled and nodded, and then leaned into his ear and whispered: "Among the Dong thief captives captured by the young master today, there is a person named Ma Zhong, although he is wearing ordinary soldier clothes, he is a captain in the Dong thief army, and his official position is not small. The villain pried open his mouth with all kinds of punishments, and asked from him where the Dong thief's granary was, so he came to give gifts to the third son. ”
"Great!" Liu Mao was so happy that she danced with her hands, but she didn't sing and sang in her heart, but Liu Mao suddenly calmed down and asked Zhang Song again: "Mr. Yongnian, to say something unpleasant, then Liu Xun is like the sun in the sky, such a great achievement, why don't you go and give him the icing on the cake?" But come to give me charcoal in the snow? ”
"Who does the third prince think of Zhang Song?" Zhang Song pretended to be angry, his expression was so pure that it could be compared with the purity of the old poison Jia Xu, and continued to push Liu Mao into the fire pit and said: "On weekdays, Liu Xun's father and son have always been unreasonable to Zhang Song's words, only the third son took more care of them, and gave Zhang Song a pair of jade ruyi last year, Zhang Song kept the bits and pieces of these things in mind, third son, who do you say Zhang Song should give this credit to?" ”
Liu Mao was overjoyed, bowed to Zhang Song, and said: "Mr. Yongnian, your great kindness, Liu Mao remembers it in his heart, if Liu Mao has a bright day, he will not forget Mr., otherwise God will punish him, and the earth will punish him." ”
Zhang Song hurriedly helped Liu Mao up, "The third prince is serious, this is what the villain should do." Without further ado, the third prince should take advantage of the panic of the Dong thief's defeat today, and go to attack his granary overnight. ”
After Liu Mao thanked him repeatedly, he was busy carrying Liu Xun and Jia Long to organize the 10,000 imperial forest troops he brought from Chengdu, bringing more fire-causing things such as sulfur and hay, and after a while, Zhang Song, who looked pure, brought Ma Zhong who looked more pure and kind, Liu Mao carried out some ideological education and money promise to Ma Zhong, Ma Zhong made a deep review of his previous sins with a handful of snot and tears, and expressed his willingness to abandon the darkness and return to the people's arms. At this moment, Liu Xun was still immersed in the joy of the victory over Dong Zhuojun, and was accepting the congratulations of the Yizhou army and people, while Jia Long was sick and was recuperating in the room, and no one came out to stop Liu Mao's reckless actions......
In this way, Ma Zhong, who looked loyal and honest, accidentally brought Liu Maojun into the ambush circle of Zhao Yun and Ma Chao, and unfortunately he didn't know where to conjure a sharp short knife to cut the rope and disappear into the night, Liu Mao's 10,000 army was naturally wiped out, and Liu Mao himself was captured by the angry Zhao Yun and escorted to Dong Zhuojun's newly built camp......
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"Hahahaha......." Kang Peng's joyful appearance of laughing at Liu Mao kept laughing, as if it made people feel that Zhao Yun had caught another Wenlu-level beauty for him, and his two fat and thick hands kept rubbing, "Liu Sangongzi, your life and death are now in the hands of this prime minister, whether you are dead or alive depends on your performance." ”
"Master, please wait a moment." Jia Xu smiled happily than Kang Peng, and that look was very compassionate and compassionate, Jia Xu reminded Kang Peng: "Taishi, you are too excited to see Liu Sangongzi, have you forgotten the generous gift we prepared for Liu Sangongzi?" ”
"Oops!" Kang Peng patted his shiny and smooth head, and said with emotion: "Look at the memory of the original appearance, if it weren't for the reminder of the military advisor, I almost missed a big event!" Kang Peng turned to the outside of the tent and shouted: "Wenhuahou, Wenhuahou, it's time for you to do it." ”
"Yes, Xiaohou is here." The short and thin Hua Tuo rushed in from outside the tent with a bowl of things, and he also smiled very purely-the degree of purity can be compared with Kang Peng's Jia Xu, nodded at Kang Peng and said: "Taishi, do you want Xiaohou to feed the third prince to take this nourishing yin and aphrodisiac to strengthen the body and nourish the brain?" ”
"Of course, the third son has worked hard from afar, of course he has to make up for it." Kang Peng's fat face wrinkled into a flower, and he looked at Liu Mao with a smile and said.
"Xiaohou obeys." Hua Tuo fed the bowl of green soup in his hand to Liu Mao's mouth, and said with a smile: "Third prince, please, this is Xiaohou spent a lot of effort to gather this perfect tonic soup that includes broken intestine grass, crane top red, pit viper salivation, Sichuan aconitum and strychnine, and a total of seven seven and forty-nine rare medicinal materials, especially the flavor of rotten bone erosion skin flower is the most rare and very nourishing effect. ”
"I don't drink!" Liu Mao, whose whole body was tied strongly, could only move his neck, desperately twisted his head to the side, and cried: "Taishi, give me a good time, don't torture me!" ”
"Toast, don't eat, eat and drink." Kang Peng sneered and nodded at Hua Tuo, Hua Tuo immediately took out two silver needles and quickly pierced them into the xiache points on both sides of Liu Mao's face, Liu Mao's mouth immediately opened, and he could no longer move, in the yin laughter of Kang Peng and Jia Xu, he watched Hua Tuo pour the bowl of pungent green juice into his mouth with his tears and snot, until Liu Mao drank it completely, Hua Tuo pulled out the silver needle with a smile, nodded and withdrew from the tent.
"Third son, now if you do everything as the picture says, you will be fine." Kang Peng smiled and clapped his hands and ordered: "Bring the example of the third prince in, and invite the third son to watch." ”
In a moment, Kang Peng's personal soldiers carried two people in, one of them was soft, as if he had no half a bone, and his tongue spit out of his mouth, like a dog, he couldn't stop wailing**; The other was in tattered clothes, his bare skin was full of blood, and his fingernails were bloody. "It can be said how miserable it is.
"Third son, look at it, you will be more comfortable than them in the future." Kang Peng patted Liu Mao with a smile, "Because, not only will your whole body be bruised, but every inch of your skin will be itchy and unbearable, but unfortunately, you don't even have the strength to scratch the itch." ”
"Hey, hey, hey, hey......." "Hehehehe......." In Kang Peng's treacherous laughter and Jia Xu's sinister laughter, Liu Mao completely collapsed, crying: "Taishi, you spare me, I will listen to you in everything, do everything you ask, just ask you not to torture me like this!" ”
"Good!" Kang Peng said with satisfaction: "The original phase wants you to do one thing, as long as you do it, the original phase will give you the antidote." ”
"Please give me orders." Liu Mao cried and said: "Don't say one, ten or a hundred villains will do the same!" ”
"The third son is very smart." Kang Peng said with a smile: "The prime minister wants to make you the pastor of Yizhou, Yongzhen Xichuan, hereditary replacement, can you do it?" ”
"What?" Liu Mao was taken aback, she even forgot about the poison in her body, and said in a trembling voice: "Taishi, are you joking?" ”
"There is no truth in this appearance." Kang Peng sneered: "Benxiang has the world in mind, and his subordinates are lacking talents, as long as you do what Benxiang tells you to do, you can't run away from the position of Yizhou pastor." Kang Peng added, "I heard that you like Wu Yi's little sister Wu Xin very much, and after the matter is completed, I asked Wu Yi to marry her to you." ”
Liu Mao almost couldn't believe his ears, but looking at Kang Peng's serious appearance, his life was in the hands of the other party, and after thinking about it, he still decided to gamble, "Taishi, please command, I will listen to your ...... everything"
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After explaining everything to Liu Mao, Kang Peng waved his hand to Liu Mao and said: "You go to rest first, tomorrow the prime minister will exchange you and Zhang Ren for Wu Yi, the poison on your body will not attack within a month, and after a month, someone will naturally send you the antidote, as for whether you can get the antidote, it depends on whether you are obedient or not." ”
After Liu Mao was escorted away, Kang Peng and Jia Xu looked at each other and smiled for a while, and suddenly flew to the two poisoned people lying on the ground at the same time, Kang Peng scolded with a smile: "Two little rabbit cubs, you performed well, go down and receive the reward." ”
The next day, the wind and snow were even worse, Kang Peng sent an envoy into the Sword Pavilion to discuss the exchange of prisoners, this time because Liu Yan's son was also in the hands of Kang Peng, Jia Long, who was still the commander of the Yizhou Army for the time being, had no choice, and despite Liu Xun's strong opposition, he exchanged Wu Yi for Liu Mao and Zhang Ren with Dong Zhuojun in the evening of the same day. But Jia Long didn't expect that after Liu Mao thanked him in person, he turned his head and didn't go to Zhang Song to settle accounts with him, but played a copy to Liu Yan, accusing Jia Long of colluding with Dong Zhuojun to save his apprentice Zhang Ren, and deliberately providing false information to himself, resulting in his defeat and capture, and Jia Long took the opportunity to change back to his apprentice......
Here Wu Yi returned to Dong Zhuojun's camp, and hurriedly thanked Kang Peng and told him about the crime of being defeated and captured, Kang Peng did not blame him, and comforted him: "Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and a small defeat is nothing." ”
Wu Yi was grateful and said: "Thank you Taishi for saving your life, please let Wu Yi be the captain of the death team, and charge forward to get the Sword Pavilion to thank Taishi." ”
"There's no hurry." Kang Peng said with a smile: "Mr. Wenhe watches the sky at night, within a month, Yizhou will have heavy snowfall, and it is not suitable to march." Besides, the matter of the Sword Pavilion has its own arrangements, you and recuperate in the camp, and wait for the internal friction between the Yizhou army of the Sword Pavilion, and our army will reap the profits. ”
As Jia Xu expected, the heavy snow in Yizhou really kept falling, blocking the mountain and blocking the road, and it was impossible to march, but fortunately, Dong Zhuojun had already stocked up on grain and grass for several months and wood for heating, but he was not worried about the shortage of military supplies. Two days later, Kang Peng received a letter from Li Ru in Chang'an, informing him of the situation in Chang'an, mentioning that the Xiongnu north of the Great Wall had recently behaved abnormally, and asked if he could act as planned.
"Let Dong Chong go and clean up that Hun Zuoxian King." Kang Peng said lightly: "Save him from spending all day long in Chang'an." ”
If you want to know what will happen next, please see the next chapter, "Dong Erye Goes Out Again"