"If you talk to him like that, he can poison you or ambush someone to kill you, and there will be no ambiguity."

"Why, you don't know about it yourself?"

"Hehe, understand a fart." Liu Bao scolded, "This stinky lady has cheated Lao Tzu countless times, but he has never even seen him, if he can beat him, Lao Tzu will have to serve his bird's nest." ”

Yuan Xi was surprised: "So you have been working together for so long, and you haven't even met in person." ”

"No, this person is a god stick, and he chatters, but people really have some ability, if I hadn't relied on my strength, I would have been swallowed by him a long time ago." Liu Bao's face was unlucky, and he must have suffered a lot of losses before he came.

This gold seems to be quite mysterious. Yuan Xi frowned, in this case, even if Liu Bao was surrendered, there would still be four or five thousand water bandits in gold, and it seemed that it was even more difficult to deal with than Liu Bao, and it would be very unfavorable to the development of the water army in Liaoxi County.

"So I can't take him in?"

"Naturally, it's not easy to accept, I came here secretly this time, otherwise he will know about it, and our cooperation will be over."

Yuan Xi sneered in his heart, you are finished, but his face remains unchanged, and he said with a smile: "This is okay, with your joining, our comparative strength will have a crushing advantage, and we will not be afraid of his four or five thousand people at that time." ”

Now there are more than 10,000 water bandits in the two streams, Yuan Xi has more than 5,000 water troops, if Liu Bao's surrender comes, it will be more than 10,000 people on his side, and the gold is only four or five thousand, even if he encounters them, he is not afraid of them, the numerical advantage is there, and it is so simple to break ten with one force. ”

"I'll go back and give him a message, and when the time comes, you will meet me nearby, if he wants to break the net with me, general, you can't sit back and watch success or failure."

"If you surrender, I will be my subordinate, and I can't do it for my subordinates to watch from the right hand."

"Oh, I hope so." Liu Bao gave Yuan Xi another glass of wine.

The three of them drank and talked, but the light snow outside was getting more and more urgent.

Dian Wei and Xu Chu stayed outside, walking around the shore, stomping their feet coldly.

"Lord, why haven't you come up yet?" Xu Chu stopped and looked at him.

"It's going to be fine." Dian Wei said: "If there is anything, this ship will have left a long time ago." ”

"This is not necessarily" Before Xu Chu could refute, he saw a low bow of the boat, and then a sound and shadow walked out, who could it be if it wasn't Yuan Xihe?

"My lord." The two of them were overjoyed, and the hearts they had been carrying were finally relaxed.

Yuan Xi jumped off the boat, hugged hands, said goodbye to the two people on the boat, and turned to leave with Dian Wei and Xu Chu.

"Lord, that guy agreed?" Dian Wei hurriedly asked.

"There's no reason for him to be a bandit forever."

Xu Chu shouted: "Grass his aunt, Lao Tzu still wants to beat him immortal banban." It was so fierce just now, how can you beat people if you surrender? ”

Yuan Xi glanced at him, "Use your brain more in everything, and don't use your hands to solve things that can be solved with your brain." ”

Seeing that Yuan Xi began to open his mouth to teach people again, Xu Chu and Dian Wei hurriedly kept silent.

Yuan Xi and his entourage went back and told Chen Gong about it, Chen Gong frowned and said: "This Liu Bao admires gold so much, if we have gold, wouldn't it be like a tiger with wings?" ”

Yuan Xi smiled: "Naturally, but the matter of gold, don't worry, let's sort out Liu Bao's matter first." I was able to convince him to surrender to me, but I couldn't make him regret it temporarily. ”

"When?" Chen Gong asked.

"Without further ado, it's naturally tomorrow, otherwise give the gold time to react, and I'm afraid of a change." Yuan Xi looked far away, "You also have to increase investment in the construction of the navy, but you can't slack off." ”

"Oh, my lord."

"Give them all back, it's not much use to keep them." Yuan Xi came to the army, looked at it, and said the water bandits who were kidnapped.

Chen Gong immediately sent someone to let these people go, and as soon as those water bandits saw that they had been let go, they quickly turned around and ran, ran a few steps, seemed to feel safe, turned their heads and scolded, showing their banditry.

Xu Chu opened his mouth and was glared back by Yuan Xi.

The hundred and ten bandits quickly boarded the boat, and the awning boat and the two large ships behind it quickly set sail and left.

"Let's go back too." Yuan Xi waved his hand and led everyone back.

Back at the Taishou Mansion, as soon as Yuan Xi sat down, he saw Chen Gong visiting again.

"Lord," Chen Gong said straight to the point, "Don't you think this Liu Bao's surrender is too refreshing?" Suspicion of deception. ”

"What fraud?" Yuan Xi stared at him and asked.

Chen Gong said: "Don't say anything else, let's just say that we can't subdue them, so we don't build a water army for a day, they are the overlords in this water for a day, and now they are not suitable for a good overlord to surrender to us, which is not in line with his previous style of doing things, and even if it is the future, now is not the best time to take refuge." Not to mention surrendering to us, he may fall into a situation of treachery, which is not good for his reputation. ”

Yuan Xihu said suspiciously: "Then what does it mean that he agreed to come down?" And he didn't drug me, so he shouldn't have said any lies. ”

Chen Gong smiled slightly: "There is no benefit to persecuting the lord, so naturally they will not start." My concern is that they might "

Chen Gong whispered a few words, Yuan Xi was shocked, but finally followed some of Chen Gong's suggestions.

After Chen Gong left, Yuan Xi sorted out the things in between, he felt that Chen Gong was thinking a little too much, but he was thinking very right, he couldn't help but take precautions, maybe Liu Bao didn't mean to harm himself at that time, but it doesn't mean that he won't have it in the future, as a top decision-maker, he must prepare for the worst. ”

It was night, Yuan Xi was lying on the bed and reading the book of soldiers, but he couldn't calm down, he always felt that something was wrong, but when he stopped and thought about it, he couldn't remember it.

It's like there's something in your head that will pop out at any moment. But it won't let him perceive it.

"Liu Bao, gold." Yuan Xi muttered, the two of them are only more than 10,000 sailors, and he is now a general with an army of 300,000, but he is really embarrassed by the two.

It's okay if Liu Bao really surrenders, but if he doesn't surrender or surrenders by fraud, it will be interesting. The construction of the navy is not a day's work, and if the navy cannot be built here, it will be much more difficult to plan to go south in the future.

Putting aside the military book, Yuan Xi was about to fall asleep, when he heard a sound outside, not footsteps.

"Who's out there?"

This is the Taishou Mansion, naturally there will be no danger, there are many guards who are keeping vigil outside, he just shouted, and immediately heard someone outside: "General, what do you order?" ”

"Oh, it's fine." Yuan Xi rubbed his head, slept back on the bed, thought he had thought too much, and began to close his eyes and rest.

Time passed slowly, and Yuan Xi, who was half-asleep and half-awake, only felt a chill in his neck, and subconsciously hid inside.

There was no sound, but there was a gust of cold wind blowing, which followed Yuan Xi's ears, making his nerves tense instantly, and the whole person became sober.

However, he did not open his eyes and continued to pretend to be asleep.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for another gust of cold wind to hit his neck, and his opponent seemed to want to kill him with one blow.

"There are assassins!" This was Yuan Xi's mental reaction.

He didn't have time to think about why there were assassins here, he hurriedly hooked his legs, and the whole person shrank down, dodging this sharp knife, and at the same time, a dagger in his hand had already shot out along the wind just now.

"Poof!" The sound of flying knives into the flesh, and then Yuan Xi heard a muffled hum.

"Someone!" Yuan Xi jumped off the bed and shouted loudly.

Looking around, there was no one in the room except him.

The door was quickly opened, "General." The guards looked at him suspiciously.

"There are assassins!" Yuan Xi spit out a sentence lightly, his spirit was still tense, he didn't know where the assassin was, which showed that the assassin would still give him a call at any time. He was in danger of falling at any moment.

The guards were shocked, quickly protected Yuan Xi in the middle, and then began to investigate in the room.

"There's blood here." One of the guards shouted.

Yuan Xi saw a pool of blood, which seemed to be stabbed by his own flying knife just now.

It's just that there is only a puddle of blood, and in the corner of the wall, it can no longer be seen.

The guards originally thought that Yuan Xi was talking nonsense, but now they suddenly became nervous when they saw it, if Yuan Xi was under their protection and something happened, they didn't need to live.

"My lord." No one was found in the house.

A careful search of the house found no one. The guards looked ashamed and ashamed.

There was a sound of footsteps outside, and then Zhang Liao rushed over.

"Lord, I heard that you were assassinated?" Zhang Liao asked in a panic with a pale face.

"It's okay, the assassin was injured, but I don't know where he ran now." Yuan Xi still looked at the room, "In this room, except for the closed window, the assassin has no possibility of escaping from other places, and now the window is closed, there is no trace of opening, but the assassin is no one, do you think it's strange?"

This thing is also amazing enough, and everyone's faces are a little unsightly.

Zhang Liao led the guards to check again, but there was still no one, and his face became even more ugly.

"Forget it, you all go out." Yuan Xi waved his hand, the assassin should have left, but how he left, it is not clear, but one thing is certain, the assassin was injured.

"Lord, go to the last general's room to rest, it's too dangerous here."

Yuan Xi thought for a while, but did not refuse, this room is dangerous enough at the moment, and the ghost knows if the assassin will appear so strangely again.

That night, Yuan Xi rested in Zhang Liao's room, while Zhang Liao waited outside all night.

I didn't go to rest until dawn.

"My lord." Early in the morning, Chen Gong hurried over, "I heard that you were assassinated last night?" ”

"It was assassinated, but it was the assassin who was injured, but unfortunately he was not caught."

Chen Gong's face was very ugly, "The place where the lord rests is heavily guarded, how did the assassin get in?" And how did it come out? ”

"I don't know. It's not that I know that there are no ghosts, but I almost thought I had encountered a ghost, and the two winds slashed at my neck again and again, but I couldn't see anyone. ”

"I heard from the guards that the assassin was wounded?" Chen Gong said: "I will go and order the city gate to be closed and thoroughly investigate the injured people in the city." ”

Yuan Xi waved his hand, "Forget it, there's no need for that, it's not necessary to work hard and disturb the people." Besides, it has been so long since people were able to escape from the room last night, and if they were to leave, they would probably have left a long time ago. ”

Chen Gong was also anxious and dizzy, and nodded when he heard the words, but his face was still not good-looking, after all, Yuan Xi's assassination was a rare thing. I didn't expect to meet here today. If there is a three-card and two short, he and Zhang Liao don't have to mix.

"Strategist, who are you talking about the assassin being the one you said might be?"

"It can't be Liu Bao," Chen Gong paused slightly, and guessed: "Nine out of ten are gold, and there is a chance that one or two percent of them may be assassins sent by Cao Cao." ”

"Cao Cao's assassin?" Yuan Xi shook his head, "It's unlikely, if he could calculate so accurately, I would have been assassinated countless times, as for Jin Zixi, it's possible." ”

Chen Gong nodded, "If Jin Zi is really as powerful as a rumor, he must have known about the matter between the lord and Liu Bao yesterday, and sending someone to assassinate the lord at this time can well illustrate that he has the greatest possibility." ”

"Kill me, blame Liu Bao, although the means are a little stupid, after all, Liu Bao didn't kill me when he had the best chance before, but fiction and reality are the king's way, which will undoubtedly anger me and Liu Bao's vigilance, but it is not conducive to the cooperation between me and him."

Chen Gong said in a low voice: "Lord, Liu Bao can't be trusted, maybe he doesn't want to kill the lord, he just wants to find an assassination that has nothing to do with him and can be wiped out, after all, if the general is killed by him, the consequences will definitely not be something he can bear." ”

"That's right." Yuan Xi got dressed and walked outside, "True or false, you can know at noon today." Let's see what Liu Bao is going to do. ”

Before noon, Yuan Xi did not wait in the Taishou Mansion, nor did he stay in the Taishou Mansion because of the assassination. After he had eaten in the morning, he took Dian Wei and Xu Chu to a restaurant.

The restaurant he had been to before.

Dian Wei and Xu Chu knew that after Yuan Xi was assassinated last night, they both woke up early in the morning with a straight face, and there was no more yesterday's hippie smile.

The two of them slept soundly last night, and as a result, the person they wanted to protect was almost killed, which was enough to make them scared for a while.

"Lord, when are we going back?" saw Yuan Xi slowly wandering on the road. Dian Wei asked cautiously.

There is a way that open guns are easy to dodge and dark arrows are difficult to defend, although he and Xu Chu have peerless martial arts, but if they encounter the master of assassination, it is equivalent to the best target at this time, and it is too difficult to defend.

"Don't worry," Yuan Xi pointed to the restaurant in front of him and said, "Let's go, let's go in." ”

Xu Chu was stunned, but didn't ask more.

"I'll take a look." He was the first to go inside and check on the situation.

(End of chapter)