Chapter 42 Travel to Luoyang

"Hahaha, this Yuan Benchu is really mindless, and he is not ashamed of stealing dragons for phoenixes."

Suddenly, Cao Cao laughed to himself. The rest of the banquet was puzzled, and they didn't know why.

Seeing this, Cao Cao stopped laughing and said: "A few days ago, Yuan Benchu told Cao that he had found the person who invented the horse hanging. At that time, the extraordinary was not pretending to be crazy. Cao thought that Yuan Benchu must not want to be extraordinary, so he casually found someone familiar with horse hanging to replace him. However, there are days in the dark. How, you are willing to go to the capital Luoyang with Cao, General He is a butcher, and he can be said to be the most powerful family in the world. He will not be like the Yuan brothers in Runan, who looks down on you, who is also from a poor family. ”

Cao Cao stared at Wen Han with a smile, his eyes full of anticipation. Wen Han was happy in his heart at this time, after the incident of the joint ambush of the wealthy families in Xie County, after Wen Han escaped from death, he has been thinking about finding a person with a big force and attaching himself first, otherwise he is afraid that before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, he Wen Han will be killed by those wealthy families. That's why he pretended to be crazy and stupid to avoid the eyes of the wealthy family.

As Cao Cao said, He Jin was originally a butcher, from a humble background, because of the favor of God, his sister married into the palace, and was favored by Emperor Ling of Han, as a queen of a country. He Jin was able to climb again and again, relying on nepotism to sit on the position of general. Wen Han is attached to He Jin, although he does not dare to guarantee that he can be reused, but at least He Jin will never murder Wen Han because of the view of the portal, because he and Wen Han are both from poor families!

"Meng De's invitation, how dare Wen Bufan disobey. It's just that I still have things to do in Xie County, and I need to arrange it, and I want to go to Luoyang by myself in a few days. There are two more things, I dare to fight, and I need Lord Cao to accept before I dare to move. ”

"Oh, do you want someone Cao to keep this matter secret, and then secretly recommend Bufan to General He?"

"Mengde's heart is bright, and I admire it. This Runan Yuan clan hates me to the bone, the open knife is easy to block, the hidden arrow is difficult to prevent, and I dare not fight against it with my weak strength. ”

"Okay, Cao understands the profound meaning. These two things are not difficult, Cao agreed to you. In the future, in Luoyang, there will be extraordinary companionship, which will surely add a lot of fun. Hahaha. ”

Cao Cao seemed to be very pleased, and drank three cups in a row. After that, because Wenhan decided the matter of Luoyang, the banquet arrived, and everyone was drunk, talking nonsense, and refused to stop when they fainted on the ground.

This is difficult In order to clean up the banquet of the Lin family, the Lin family asked Cao Cao to send Cao Cao back to the mansion first, and then asked people to carry Wen Han, Zhou Long, Xu Huang, and Guan Yu back to their respective rooms. It took most of the hour to clean up the courtyard.

Waiting for the early morning of tomorrow, Wen Han got up to finish the training, Wen Han found Lin, and Lin told Wen Han of the results and income of the horse crane competition.

In the horse crane competition, excluding the prize money, the income from the entrance fee alone reached a huge amount of 20,000 taels. In addition, the Lin family bought several restaurants in advance, and during the horse crane competition, the business of this restaurant was booming, with a net income of 8,000 taels, and the sum of the two restaurants was about 30,000 taels.

And the final winner of the horse crane competition, according to Lin, is a scholar dressed as a chivalrous warrior. The name seems to be Xu Fu.

When Wen Han heard the word Xu Fu, his originally calm face suddenly changed, and he hurriedly stood up and asked where the Lin family was. Seeing Wen Han's panic, Lin told him that Xu Fu had already left a few days ago, and he should not be able to find him now.

Wen Han was disappointed when he heard this. Xu Fu, this is the real name of the super strategist 'Xu Shu', who was later killed and changed to a single fu, was chased and killed by the government again and again, and was finally captured, and was rescued by many parties to get out, and then changed his name to Xu Shu.

Xu Shu is a talented person, and Shi Tao, Meng Gongwei, and Zhuge Liang are known as the 'Four Friends of Zhuge '. At the beginning, he was Liu Bei's military advisor. He is resourceful and decisive, and he is like a god, and he has won Liu Bei's trust.

In the Battle of Fancheng, Xu Shu saw through Cao Ren's "Eight Gates Golden Lock Array" and defeated Cao Cao's officers and soldiers. Cao Cao's general Cao Ren refused to admit defeat and raised troops to go to Xinye to rob the village late at night. Xu Shu had already expected it, and when Cao Ren left Fancheng, he would take advantage of the situation. As a result, Fancheng was lost.

Cao Ren was defeated and retreated to Xuchang, ashamed of Cao Cao. Cao Cao said: "Liu Bei must have someone capable to plan for him!" ”

Cao Cao found out that it was Xu Shu, so he wanted to trick him into staying with Xuchang.

They imitated Xu Shu's mother's handwriting and wrote to Xu Shu. When Xu Shu saw the letter and learned that his mother was in Xuchang, he had to say goodbye to Liu Bei with tears. But after arriving in Cao Ying, he never said a word or a plan again. This shows his faithfulness.

It's a pity. Since he let this super cow man slip away in front of his eyes. However, this Xu Fu was still traveling around studying at this time, and he had not yet learned it, and pulling him here too early was not necessarily erasing his future. Thinking of this, Wen Han also loosened the knot in his heart.

In the evening, Zhou Long returned from the county office. They had eaten supper, and were in the hall to discuss things.

Wen Han went to Luoyang this time, and planned to take only Guan Yu and Xu Huang. Pei Yuanshao stayed in Xie County to train soldiers and horses, and at the same time, he could also take care of Zhou Long and his wife to prevent the revenge of the wealthy family in Xie County.

Wen Han told Zhou Long and his wife about Zhou Cang and Li Qiang's scattering of Shuanglong Mountain's troops in various counties to open gambling houses, and instructed them to give them financial support if Zhou Cang and Li Qiang's men came to find them and needed manpower or financial support. Zhou Long and his wife have become accustomed to obeying Wen Hanyan, and they should accept it now.

Later, Wen Han asked Zhou Long and his wife to secretly ask the blacksmith to make stirrups and saddles, as well as buy good horses, and Wen Han planned to expand the number of Black Wind Riders to 600 people. Since He Shuang made the county order, Wen Han talked to him for several hours in the past, and the two seemed to have made some agreements. He Shuang was a strong supporter of Wen Han, and incorporated Wen Han's private soldiers into the military camp of Xie County, Ying Wenhan pretended to be stupid, and brought Pei Yuanshao to the position of a general, and jointly managed the soldiers and horses of the Xie County military camp with Yang Dian.

After Yang Hong left, Yang Dian was not implicated because of this, He Shuang trusted him a lot and still let him sit in this long historical position.

After Wen Han arranged the matter, he bought a carriage, and set off with Guan Yu and Xu Huang to Luoyang on the second day.

Luoyang, named after the north bank of the Guluo River, is known for its peony flowers, which can be seen everywhere. The peony flowers are huge, there are many varieties, the flower color is wonderful, the flower season is in bloom, the flower sea in Luoyang City is crowded, and the peony is beautiful. There is also a saying that Luoyang peony is the best in the world. It is called Peony City.

Wen Han, Guan Yu and Xu Huang, all the way down, saw different scenery. Outside Luoyang City, there are homeless people everywhere, they are so hungry that their bodies are only a skeleton, seeing that Wen Han's carriage is luxurious, there are two horses leading, they will come to ask for food, Wen Han divided his rations, and then only a little was left, helpless, so he asked Xu Huang to give some broken silver.

Then it became a vicious circle, the homeless people dictated to each other, and a great good man sent food and silver, and the homeless people rushed to run one after another, and followed the Wenhan carriage, forming a long procession.

Guan Yu and Xu Huang saw that those homeless people had yellow faces and thin muscles, some of them had not eaten for half a month, and some old people and children fell down again and again because they were walking slowly, and their wounds were bleeding, and they were still chasing after them.

Unconsciously, these two dignified nine-foot men were infected by this picture, and their eyes were moist. Around Xie County, although there are also displaced people, there are not many, the body is not bad, and there is one food every two or three days. At least not as miserable as the group of displaced people in front of them.

"Luoyang is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and there are so many homeless people who can't wear or eat, good! Good! What a good job the officials of this court have done! Wen Han laughed angrily and stopped the carriage. asked Xu Huang to take out all the grain and silver, and then asked Guan Yu to bring the old man and the child first, and give priority to the distribution of food and silver.

Some young homeless people, fearing that they would be late in the queue, secretly went to rob the elderly and children of food and silver. was seen by the sharp-eyed Xu Huang, and immediately ran over, grabbed a few young people, and beat them severely.

Wen Han sighed again and again, the world is so big, there are so many displaced people, he has relieved some, but not all. Relief for one day cannot be relief for life. Later, when the grain and silver were finished, Wen Han got into the carriage with a gloomy face, and Xu Huang and Guan Yu picked up the horsewhip and left quickly.

There are still nearly two days away from Luoyang City, Wen Han, Guan Yu, and Xu Huang have not eaten much in the past few days in order to leave more food for those displaced people, and their stomachs have already collapsed with hunger.

Wen Han's face was pale, his lips were dry, and he was weak. Sitting behind the carriage, silent.

Another day passed, and after resting for a while on the way, Wen Han was sleeping and was woken up by Guan Yu. Guan Yu gave Wen Han a look and motioned to go out.

Wen Han walked out of the carriage and saw a group of homeless people coming up, their eyes were glazed, they stood not far away, they didn't dare to get too close, they knew that Wen Han and the three of them had no food or silver. However, I was so hungry that I couldn't do anything about it, so I just followed it with my consciousness.

Wen Han smiled, and then asked Guan Yu to slaughter the two horses on the carriage, and the homeless people were immediately happy, found firewood from everywhere, and roasted the two horses to eat. Horse meat is hard to eat, but it's the best food in the world at this time, as long as you can fill your stomach.

Many homeless people rushed to the front, constantly squeezing forward, Guan Yu and Xu Huang stepped forward to stop, like two great gods to maintain the order of the homeless team.

Wen Han kept watching the homeless people eating, observing the moment they got the horse meat, gently biting on the horse meat. Every one of their faces, every expression, Wen Han was engraved in his heart.

Later, Guan Yu tore a piece of roasted horse meat and gave it to Wen Han, Wen Han shook his head and asked him to give this piece of horse meat to a little girl, who had just divided the horse meat and gave the horse meat to the lame woman, who should be her mother. She was hungry, and when she saw that many people hadn't eaten, she didn't dare to ask for it anymore, so she stood there and looked at Wen Han.

Guan Yu gave the horse meat to the little girl, and the little girl was very happy and bit slowly, afraid of eating too quickly. The little girl ate half of it, and suddenly walked towards Wen Han and handed over the horse meat with a slight trembling.

"Big brother, give me your concessions, and you won't have anything to eat. It's hard to be hungry, I ate some, and many, many more, for you. ”

Wen Han unconsciously left tears, opened his mouth and couldn't speak, just shook his head and motioned for the little girl to eat the horse meat.

When the little girl saw Wen Han crying, she thought that Wen Han was hungry, and her little black hand tore a small piece of horse meat.

"Big brother, I'll feed you."

Little girl, with an innocent smile.

Wen Han didn't want the little girl to lose this smile, so he stretched out his head and opened his mouth to eat.

At this time, the lame mother of the little girl in the distance seemed to have made up some determination when she saw this scene.

Suddenly, the little girl's mother, with her hands on the ground, slammed into a nearby rock.

There was a loud bang. The homeless people around the little girl's mother shouted, "Someone is dead." ”

The little girl dropped the horse's flesh and ran to her mother, weeping bitterly. Wen Han followed, and the little girl's mother looked at Wen Han, unable to speak, with her mouth open, and said a few words.

Wen Han suddenly understood and nodded. The little girl's mother finally smiled at the little girl and died.