"I haven't gone to see my parents when I come back this time, I'll go see them first, I'm afraid that they won't see me for a long time, I'm worried, I just heard my sister-in-law say that my father and mother are not in good health, I have to go back first!"

Liu Bei was confused because he was too excited when he saw Liu Deran, and hurriedly said: "Oh, I almost forgot, the third aunt saw that you had not returned for a long time during this time, and I thought that you were sick, so you should go back and see the third uncle and third aunt quickly, so that the second elder can rest assured." Liu Deran nodded in agreement, said goodbye to Liu Bei and Wang, and hurried home.

Looking at the back of Liu Deran's departure, Liu Bei finally breathed a sigh of relief and said to himself: "It's good to come back!" ”

At this time, seeing that it was also dark, I thought that Gongsun Zhan would go there tomorrow, and after entering the house, Liu Bei found a utensil and stewed the medicine he bought.

"Didn't you go there, senior brother?" Wang sat at the table and watched Liu Bei get angry and said.

"I won't go today, I'll go tomorrow!" Liu Bei lit the fire for a long time, and finally lit the fire, and the black smoke coming out of the furnace made Liu Bei's face black: "This fire is finally lit, by the way, these medicines are some relatively slight medicines, during your pregnancy, the doctor does not dare to give you too much medicine, usually nothing to let you pour boiling water into the teacup, align your mouth and nose with the mouth of the cup, take a deep breath, steam inhalation, moisten the throat, cough, phlegm, this is safer, try not to take medicine!" ”

"Yes, got it!" Liu Bei brought the boiled medicine to Wang, gently put it on the table and said, "Be careful of scalding, I'll wash my face, you drink slowly!" ”

"Okay, there you go!"

After washing his face, Liu Bei sat alone in the courtyard and took advantage of the cool alone.

To be honest, I didn't go to Gongsun Chan simply to thank him, but just to borrow the oil head of gratitude to go to him to see what I could do, and ask him what news I had recently that I could use for myself. If you don't take the initiative to ask for an opportunity, the opportunity will never be yours, and the opportunity is reserved for those who are prepared. If you don't do things actively and don't prepare, you're sorry for the name your father gave you...... Liu Bei, be prepared, think more about everything, know how to take precautions, and don't worry about any sudden troubles if you are prepared.

Summer nights, although hot, but occasionally a breeze blowing, but also extraordinarily comfortable, in fact, think about people's lives, are constantly swaying between man-made and destiny. Grandfather Liu Xiong and Li Dingyun became friends, this is the destiny for him, and then he and Jian Yong saved Li Dingyun in the wild, which is also man-made, with this destiny and man-made, he was able to apprentice to Lu Zhi through Li Dingyun's introduction; In Songshan, I was able to make friends with Gongsun Chan and Xue'er, and later with the help of Gongsun Zhan, I had the opportunity to lead the troops to fight...... Think about the past few years, whenever you do things yourself, there will always be noble people to help you at critical moments, maybe this seems to be a noble face, but this is not caused by human efforts and struggles.

"What is a man thinking here?" At this time, Wang saw that Liu Bei did not enter the house, so he also walked out.

Liu Bei hurriedly vacated a seat beside him for Wang to sit down, looked up at the starry sky and said, "I want to think about what has happened in the past few years, and then think about how to go in the future." ”

"I also know that you are not the kind of person who is content with the status quo, I have not seen you really happy in the past few days at home, I am a woman's family, and I dare not ask you to be by my side all day, I just hope to be able to give birth to the child in the womb peacefully, and raise him well, which is enough." After speaking, Wang gently touched the child in his belly and said.

Liu Bei listened to Wang's words, his heart was full of emotion, to be honest, since Wang got married, he has never cared about her well, and he has never really cared about her feelings, although he doesn't like her very much, but anyway, Wang is also his wife, thinking about what he did to her before, he felt that he really couldn't stand her, at this time Liu Bei held Wang's hand and said: "Madam, I Liu Bei owes you too much, we still have a long time in the future, give birth to the child, We live well as a family. ”

"Yes!" Listening to Liu Bei's words, Wang smiled heartily and nodded at Liu Bei.

"Then let's go back to the house and sleep, come, slow down!" Liu Bei got up and helped Wang up, and the two cautiously returned to the house.

The next day, Liu Bei rode a horse early in the morning to visit Gongsun Zhan, and now Gongsun Zhan led the army to be stationed in Youbeiping County, which is not far from Zhuo County, and it takes several days to ride back and forth.

As soon as he entered Gongsun Zhan's military camp, Liu Bei saw several bloodstained people walking out of Gongsun Zhan's tent.

When Gongsun Zhan saw Liu Bei coming, he enthusiastically asked, "Xuande, is your leg injury better?" ”

Liu Bei hurriedly said: "Brother Bogui, my leg is already good, if it weren't for you this time, I wouldn't know where to go, you have worked hard to make achievements, but I have been enjoying it, you look at this ......"

"Xuande, we haven't known each other for a day or two, when we were in Songshan, we were called brothers, that day you wore a sinful body, and you were seriously injured, if I don't come to the rescue, then it's still your brother." Gongsun Zhan motioned for Liu Bei to sit down and speak.

"It is really a privilege to be able to know such a loving and righteous person as Brother Bogui in this life...... Oh, by the way, Brother Bogui, I just saw a few bloodstained people coming out of Brother Bogui's tent, and I don't know if there is another war. Liu Bei asked suspiciously.

Hearing Liu Bei say this at this time, Gongsun Zhan's face suddenly stiffened, since Liu Yu came, with his own prestige among foreigners and the implementation of the Huairou policy, Qiu Liju and others stopped invading the Han Dynasty, and now where is the war. These people were sent by themselves to assassinate the messengers of communication between foreign clans and Liu Yu, they had just completed the task, came back to report to themselves, but they didn't expect to be bumped into by Liu Bei, but this kind of thing can't be said, so he said: "They just came back from hunting, the leader is my brother Gongsun Yue, he also came to my military camp not long ago, presumably you don't know each other, next time I have the opportunity to let you two get to know each other." Gongsun Zhan got up and took out a box of crisps from the cabinet and placed it in front of Liu Bei.

"What is this?"

"The crisp I got from the state pastor is very delicious, you can taste it!" After speaking, Gongsun Chan took a piece and put it in his mouth.

Liu Bei also took a piece, but thought in his heart that it was indeed Gongsun Chan who said just now, hunting will not make his face and armor bloodstained, and according to his own military experience, this blood seems to be human blood, thinking of this, Liu Bei couldn't help but feel numb on the scalp, but seeing that Gongsun Chan deliberately concealed it, it was not good for him to continue to ask, so he said gratefully: "Well, don't say it, this crisp is really delicious." ”

"Eat more if it's delicious, haha......"

At this time, Liu Bei wanted to speak and stopped: "Brother, the foolish brother asked you something, I don't know what happened outside recently, can you explain a thing or two to the foolish brother." ”

Gongsun Chan also knew Liu Bei's thoughts at this time, and he also knew that Liu Bei was not a person who was satisfied with the status quo, and this time he came to ask himself about the outside affairs, just to see if there was a platform for him to display his abilities. ”

Liu Bei saw that Gongsun Zhan was so mysterious, and knew that the thing he wanted to say must be important, so he hurriedly said: "Yes, brother, don't worry." ”

At this time, Gongsun Chan lowered his voice and said: "I got the news a few days ago that the emperor is now seriously ill and paralyzed in bed, and it is estimated that he will die in a short time. ”

"Ah, the Holy One is only thirty-four years old, only five years older than me, not now?"

Gongsun Zhan saw Liu Bei's face surprised, so he sneered: "Spending all day drinking, arrogant and lascivious, in the final analysis, it's not overindulgence, it's good to be able to live until now." ”

"Once the emperor dies, the court doesn't know how many incidents will happen." Once a son of heaven and a courtier, the peaceful transfer of power will face a political reshuffle, not to mention that the kings of the Eastern Han Dynasty are still young in succession, so the peaceful handover is also impossible, no one to lead the political reshuffle, so it can only be shuffled by the deception of the courtiers below.

"Who says no, now the emperor has two sons, one is the crown prince Liu Wei born to Empress He, who is only fourteen years old; There is also Wang Meiren's son, who is now eight years old and named Liu Xie. It is said that the emperor disliked Liu Wei for being too weak, and was more fond of Liu Xie, and intended to abolish Chang Liyu. ”

Liu Bei shook his head and said: "I'm afraid this won't work, now that the He family is in power, even if the emperor wants to abolish Chang Liyu, I'm afraid the people below will not agree." ”

"Well, yes, the power of the He family is so huge, if you want to change the crown prince, then you have to reduce the power of the He family first. The emperor had actually taken measures to reduce the power of the He family before. ”

"Oh?"

"That was after the pacification of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, in order to consolidate his rule and weaken the military power of the great general He Jin, the emperor deliberately changed the West Garden, which was originally a military camp, and set up eight captains in the West Garden, namely Yuan Shao, the lieutenant of the middle army, Bao Hong, the captain of the military academy, Cao Cao, the left lieutenant of the auxiliary army, Feng Fang, the right lieutenant of the auxiliary army, Xia Mou, the left lieutenant of the army, and the right lieutenant Chun Yuqiong.

"Cao Cao, I didn't expect Cao Cao to develop so fast, and he became a colonel and captain." At this time, Liu Bei said enviously.

"Do you know Cao Mengde?"

"I haven't seen it, when I was in Luoyang with my teacher before, I heard about his deeds, and I only know that he killed Jian Shuo's uncle Jian Tu back then...... Wait, now Cao Cao's top boss is Jian Shuo, so isn't he struggling. ”

Gongsun Chan listened to Liu Bei's words at this time, and thought to himself that Liu Bei was funny, why are you so concerned about this Cao Cao's difficulty, and you don't know how to go in the future, at this time Gongsun Chan said: "I don't know about this, but I know that the emperor must be struggling to let a eunuch lead this army." ”

"In order to consolidate his power, the emperor can only use his trusted eunuchs to serve as the commander of the army, but the problem is that although the eunuchs are loyal, he can't fight, and he has to rely on the scholar class to fight, so the power structure of Xiyuan is set like this."

"The emperor set up the eight captains of the West Garden, but did not achieve his expected purpose, the seven captains still obeyed He Jin's orders, and even openly obeyed, the emperor is no longer in good health, and the weakening of the power of the He family is already more than enough and not enough, in the final analysis, the eight captains of the West Garden are still the product of the political struggle between the scholar class and the official eunuch class, everyone can see that the emperor is dying, at this time everyone wants to seize the military power, as long as they have the army in their hands, they are not afraid of suffering losses in the political struggle in the future."

Speaking of this, suddenly a soldier walked into the camp tent and said to Gongsun Zhan: "General, this is a letter from Liu Zhoumu to you. ”

Gongsun Chan took it apart and looked at it, hammered the table and said, "Damn! ”