Yuan Shao sent an envoy to contact Liu Bei, and Liu Bei was naturally happy, he knew that this was all the credit of Li Ru.

As for Liu Yu's death, Liu Bei didn't bother to pay attention to it, what he was concerned about now was to keep Yanzhou, which was more important than anything else.

When leaving Yanzhou, Liu Bei gave Li Ru a lot of gold, silver and jewelry to show his gratitude, Li Ru smiled meaningfully, "Xuande Gong can rest assured, now Yuan Shao has promised to send troops, I must return to Xuzhou immediately, one to persuade Lu Zhuo to send troops, and the other is that Diao Chan is about to give birth, this matter is not trivial, I can't be lazy!" ”

Liu Bei nodded, he didn't dare to keep it, although as long as he gave an order, he could immediately let people chop Li Ru into mud, but he couldn't do that.

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"Knock knock!" When the old stonemason Zhang Dashi heard the knock on the door, he was stunned for a moment, it was snowing outside, and it was freezing, who would come to him? I was puzzled in my heart, and hurriedly put on a thick robe and came to the gate, and after a while, Zhang Dashi's clothes were covered with thick snow.

"Who?"

"The old man is me, Zhuge Jin!"

Zhang Dashi hurriedly opened the door, creaked, the door was divided into left and right, looked out of the door, there were three people standing outside, one of them Zhang Dashi knew, it was Zhuge Jin, the scribe next to the state pastor, because Zhuge Jin had been here a few times before, Zhang Dashi was no stranger, the other two, a man and a woman, the man was in his twenties, although the appearance was not outstanding, but there was a Ling Ran atmosphere, although the dress was very ordinary, but Zhang Dashi did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly arched his hand, and there was a woman, in her teens, white clothes like snow, her expression was cold and cold, Like a fairy descending from the earth.

Zhang Dashi let the three of them into the house first, and before Zhuge Jin could speak, the young man smiled heartily, "Old man, come abruptly, take the liberty of disturbing, don't blame you, your surname is Lu Mingzhuo." ”

Zhang Dashi didn't think much about it at first, but after a while, he was suddenly startled, "Lu Zhuo, you...... You are..."

Seeing Lu Zhuo nodding, Zhang Dashi hurriedly knelt down, but was stopped by Lu Zhuo taking the first step, "Old man, don't see outside, I came here today, first, to annoy the old man to help me carve a stone tablet, and second, to come..." ”

Lu Zhuo had a loud voice, a hearty laugh, and his words were obviously different from usual, but more like the usual chatter of the people.

Straight to the point, what he said was too straightforward, Zhang Dashi was startled, Zhuge Jin hurriedly explained, sure that Lu Zhuo really intended to come here to have a bowl of light meal, but Zhang Dashi was very excited.

His two sons died on the battlefield, the old man is now alone, in his old age, everyone around him is dependent, the family is deserted, today Lu Zhuo took Zhen Mi Zhuge Jin here to eat, but the old man was very excited.

Zhang Dashi just wanted to make tea, but suddenly frowned, and hurriedly smiled embarrassedly, "General Lu, you are really a distinguished guest, you wait, the little old man will go back when he goes!" ”

Zhang Dashi felt that his family was too poor and sour, and he couldn't take anything, coarse tea and light rice, and even tea were stalls for a penny and a catty, and he didn't dare to treat Lu Zhuo with these things.

Lu Zhuo shook his head, "Old man, then you will be too outward, if you are like this, I will leave immediately." ”

Zhang Dashi nodded with tears, Zhuge Jing skillfully helped wash the tea bowl and pour the tea, Luzhu took Zhang Dashi's hand, asked the cold and warm, politely pulled up the homely routine, and as he spoke, Zhang Dashi asked, "General Lu, I don't know what stone tablet you want to engrave?" ”

Lu Zhuo took out a sketch from his arms, and replied word by word, "I want to set up a heroic monument to those soldiers who died on the battlefield, they are loyal, not afraid of swords and axes, and shed blood for my Xuzhou, Xuzhou's stability today is not easy to come by, the deceased has passed away, but those of us who survived, but we can't forget them, your two sons died on the battlefield, I know this, this stele is carved by you, it is more suitable!" ”

Standing upright, Lu Zhuo stood up, bowed to Zhang Dashi and said, "Old man, please, you bother!" ”

Zhen Mi watched quietly from the side, although Lu Zhuo had no literary talent, nor did he understand vassal elegance, and it was difficult to find time to accompany Zhen Mi in ordinary times, but from his body, Zhen Mi still felt the unique charm.

When he was ruthless, his killer never blinked, and he could not hesitate to burn seventy or eighty thousand Yuan soldiers to death, Xuzhou encountered a crisis, the situation was in danger, but he was never cowardly and panicked, the sky fell, and he couldn't overwhelm him, it is said that such a person should be ruthless and ruthless, but this just made Zhen Mi obsessed, he has never been high.

With the soldiers, he shared weal and woe, could eat, drink, live and travel together without any scruples, and fight side by side together;

With his relatives at home, there is still no shelf, especially the attitude of treating the women around him as equals and not despising each other, which is touching and incredible, but these things Lu Zhuo is at his fingertips, without pretentiousness, he respects women from the bottom of his heart.

For ordinary people, Lu Zhuo is still approachable, looking for people to chat, going to people's homes to eat, for him, it has long been accustomed to it.

As soon as Zhang Dashi heard that he was going to set up a heroic monument, his two sons could also engrave their names on it, and let him do it himself, the old man cried excitedly, and immediately burst into tears, and was busy kneeling and kowtowing to Lu Zhuo, "General Lu, I thank you for the two children, you can rest assured that this stone monument will be handed over to me." ”

Three days later, the hero monument was successfully erected in front of the gate of Pengcheng, the stele was majestic and straight, up to more than ten meters, like a mighty god, was guarding the land of Xuzhou, on this day, not only the people in the city went out of the city to watch, Lu Zhuo gathered the soldiers who guarded the city.

The wind and snow were cold and the wind was biting, but the cold weather and the ruthless wind and snow still couldn't stop the heat in everyone's hearts, especially the relatives of the fallen soldiers, and they came to help the old and the young.

Lu Zhuo and the three thousand armor soldiers all looked solemn and stood upright, and the onlookers also consciously quieted down, although there were many onlookers, they were orderly, chaotic but not chaotic.

After a while, Lu Zhuo walked to the stele and said loudly, "Xuzhou has gone through hardships, first Cao thieves raised troops, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people, and then, Cao Cao's thief heart is not dead, Guo Jia forbidden, I took Pengcheng for no reason, Lu Bu's wolf ambition invaded my city and villages everywhere, Xuzhou is stormy, like a dangerous egg, but my Xuzhou soldiers are united, bloody fighting, hard work, not only to keep our homeland, but also to drive the thieves out of Xuzhou one by one, today, Xuzhou's stability is not easy to come by, dead soldiers, We must not forget them, dare not they were in the military during their lifetime, they are all heroes of my Xuzhou, no matter when, we must not forget them, their parents and relatives, are also good, I am grateful to them for cultivating such an outstanding loyal martyr! ”