Chapter 5 Towards Unification Verse 45
Liu Bei stopped his movements and listened to Li Jin's explanation.
"After the grass people killed Lu Wenhou, I heard that Lord Xuande was looking for Zhang Yan'er, the daughter of the late Taiwei Zhang Wen, with a lot of money, and the grass people wanted to work hard for the adults, so they didn't dare to relax, and chased and killed Lu Bu's family along the way, and they have been delayed until now. Fortunately, with the blessing of the Lord, the grass people have found the woman, and they have come to pay tribute to the adults, so that the adults will have no worries in the future. β
The ground shook and the mountains shook, Liu Bei drew his sword and rushed out of the carriage, and when he got out of the car, he accidentally hit the car door, and there was a loud bang, and the car door shattered. A cold light flashed, Liu Bei's saber was on Li Jin's neck, and the angry Liu Bei trembled, and asked viciously: "I, Liu Xuande, have been fighting for many years, killing people, and no one dares to joke with me." Do you know the Dragon's Scale? What you are saying is exactly the pain in my heart, dare to make a joke about this - I let you know today that death in this world is not terrible, what is terrible is: you can't survive and you can't die. β
Li Jin's thin body did not flinch at all, with a sword on his throat, Li Jin replied calmly: "My lord, is it Miss Yan'er, my lord knows at a glance, the adult tiger is powerful, how dare the grass people use such an easy thing to debunk to tease the adult?" β
Liu Bei glanced at Li Jincongren, and was angry: "What about people? Where is it? β
Li Jin replied motionlessly: "My lord, the grass people obtained the road guide in the name of the caravan, and only then entered Qingzhou, but the people were helpless, and most of them stayed in Pingyin City. Miss Yan'er has a noble status, and Xiaomin does not dare to ask her to accompany her, she is now placed in Pingyin City, waiting for the adults to identify her. β
Liu Bei stared at Li Jin fiercely, and after a long time, seeing that Li Jin was unmoved, he slowly withdrew his sword: "Prepare the horse, you, lead the way in front, and we will go to Pingyin." β
Frustrated, he got off the carriage slowly, and was dizzy at the moment, hearing that Liu Bei wanted to go to Pingyin City alone, he hurriedly persuaded him despite his dizziness: "Lord, the fleet is waiting at Longkou, the army is about to leave, at this moment the lord is going to Pingyin in person, I'm afraid the soldiers are dissatisfied......"
Without waiting for Liu Bei to answer, he persuaded again: "My lord, even if you want to go, you should bring the Guards Legion with you." Lord, wait, wait, ......wait,
Liu Bei cut off the frustrated words: "Zizheng, it takes a long time to dispatch the Guards Legion, I can't wait, take the guards to go first." Besides, this is in Qingzhou, will I not be able to find soldiers? You go back, preside over the deployment of the army, let the other soldiers go first, and leave one of the guards. β
Frustrated with a sigh, he turned to his guards and ordered, "The coachman stays, and the others go with the lord." β
Liu Bei impatiently urged Li Jin: "Hurry up, lead the way ahead, throw away the broken head, Lu Fengxian's broken head is not worth a single hair of Miss Yan'er, if it is really Miss Yan'er, my reward will definitely satisfy you, otherwise, tease my end, even if Lu Fengxian's dog head is there, it will not relieve you of the slightest pain." β
Liu Bei left in despair, and rushed back to the governor's mansion in the city in frustration, telling Xu Shu and Tian Chou on duty about the situation. Xu Shu closed his eyes and pondered, Tian Chou shook his head and said: "It shouldn't be a trap, Lejin Le Wenqian has been stationed in Pingyin City, and the official document of Lu Su has just been issued." Lewen is humble and loyal, and will definitely not betray. Now that Le Wenqian is here, it is difficult for anyone who wants to attack Pingyin and besiege the lord. β
Xu Shu opened his eyes and said, "Intercept and kill along the way?" It can't be either. Dian Wei was still there around the lord, plus the guards of the frustrated prince, and there were more than 30 people accompanying him. Qingzhou is a severe public security, and it is difficult for outsiders to blend in, as long as the lord arrives at the first town on the road, he can gather enough guards through the retired military club. β
Frustrated, he expressed his affirmation: "It is rumored that Li Jin always uses the right troops at the right time. However, the gap between the strength and weakness between him and the lord is too great, as long as the lord does not go out of the Qingzhou territory, no matter how tricky Li Jin is, he will not be able to shake the lord.
What I think is: there are people in the Li family who are now in Cao Mengde's place. According to Cao Mengde's personality, before he fully grasps the power of the imperial court, he will never easily provoke the lord. If the Li clan dares to make a move, Cao Mengde will definitely not shield the Li clan in order to clear up the suspicion. Since this Li Jin is smart enough, he should also think of this.
However, the lord is obsessed, and I am afraid, if the woman looks very much like Miss Yan'er, and the lord would rather believe that Miss Yan'er is still alive, then-"
Frustrated Shou swallowed the second half of the sentence with difficulty, Xu and Tian understood, Frustrated Shou was worried: If the woman is a trained disaster, Qingzhou will be in danger.
"Immediately report to the main mother, well, and Mrs. Gao (Cai Zhaoji), they and Miss Yan'er have grown up since childhood, and they must know how to distinguish the authenticity. The fast horse delivered the news to Pingyin, and asked the lord to wait for the lord and mother to go. Also, let Lu Su immediately turn back to Pingyin and tell him what happened, so that he must prevent the lord from going to see people first, in case the lord has a preconceived idea. Tian Chou suggested.
"Quick, the lord must be in a hurry all the way, let the messenger run with all his might, and he must be in front of the lord." Frustrated urging.
On the west side of Guangrao City, under Linzi City, Liu Bei, who was in a hurry, did not enter the city, rested in the roadside shop, and then rushed to the retired soldiers club on the edge of Linzi City and recruited several retired soldiers. As Liu Bei hurried all the way, the accompanying team became larger and larger, and after crossing Jinan County and entering Taishan County, the guards around him had reached more than 3,000 people.
"No wonder people often say: Qingzhou is a big arsenal. Even if Lord Xuande walks alone in Qingzhou, as long as the military flag is displayed, tens of thousands of warriors will gather under it. Just looking at Lord Xuande's casual call, so many well-trained tiger benders came, and this statement is true. Li Jin said to Liu Bei flatteringly.
Liu Bei suddenly reined in the reins of the horse, pondered for a moment, and suddenly asked: "Qingzhou is a big arsenal, alone?" Flag-on-flag? - Who told you? β
Li Jin was about to answer, when he suddenly understood, and then a cold sweat broke out.
In what he said just now, he accidentally revealed that he had understood the meaning of Liu Bei's action habits. He is a native of Yanzhou, why should he understand Liu Bei's habits?
Liu Bei said slowly, word by word: "I waved my army westward, I didn't care about Cao Mengde's face at all, and searched the four borders of Puyang, and got the news that the women looted by Lu Bu dog thieves from Luoyang were mostly eaten as food after many searches, and the soldiers searched several times, but they didn't find a Luoyang woman.
Even so, I still have a glimmer of hope - because Lu Bu is from Chang'an, I hope that he may have left some women in Chang'an, although Chang'an is also a battlefield, but I always hope that Miss Yan'er is still alive, and I still have the opportunity to see her in this life. Now, you suddenly came to tell me that you had found Miss Yan'er......"
Liu Bei shook his head and continued: "According to your identity and status, I don't believe that I can't find something, you will find it." But I hope for what happens, and I'm willing to see the truth. At this moment, not far from Pingyin City? You tell me the truth, who is hiding behind you, and from whom do you learn about my habits, Qingzhou's habits. β
Li Jin sweated like rain, Liu Bei looked at him with a smile, and said mockingly: "Cao Mengde knows all this, but I don't think he will say it, because this is only known after he has suffered a loss." The people of Qingzhou will not say it, because they are afraid of my majesty and will never dare to discuss my affairs in private. The Li family, the little Li family, they are not qualified to obtain such military information, who told you about Qingzhou? β
Li Jin swallowed and foamed, and explained with difficulty: "The grass people know the whereabouts of the adults, and they want to present Lu Bu's head to the adults, and they have no other intentions......
Liu Bei unceremoniously interrupted Li Jin's words: "Blocking the road and offering your head, the funny component is greater than the official component, the officials at all levels in Qingzhou are open, no matter where you go, others don't dare to slack off, say, what do you want to do?" β
Li Jin lowered his head and thought about it, sweat dripping down drop by drop, for a long time, Li Jin gritted his teeth and said: "My lord, I had a friend when I was a child, after the grass people killed Lu Bu, this person found me, saying that he had received the grace of adults and had always wanted to repay him, so he hid Miss Yan'er and wanted to find an opportunity to give it to adults." The man said that he didn't want adults to be grateful, so he didn't plan to come forward himself, but just wanted to have a clear conscience in the face of adults in the future.
The grass man's friend was reputable, so the grass man believed him after a little investigation. However, this matter was too unbelievable, and the grass people did not dare to tell Lord Xuande in detail, so they concealed this matter......"
Liu Bei recalled the past like lightning, looking for a candidate who matched the mysterious person Li Jin said, and after a while, he had a plan in his heart.
"It's poison, right?" Liu Bei asked tentatively, seeing Li Jin's shocked look, Liu Bei understood the answer.
When Yu Poison fell into the hands of Yuan Shao in the plain, based on various circumstances, Liu Bei determined that Yu Poison was likely to be the hidden species of the Demon Gate (Momen). In other words, he is an invisible person who passes on the flame of Momen, protects the classics inside the door, and maintains the operation of the secret organization. This is Liu Bei's judgment based on the understanding of Momen in later generations.
Whenever the peasant uprising was impossible, Momen came to this set. The Han Dynasty was at the stage when its secret organization was formed, and it was at this time that the theory of selecting a party to retire in order to preserve the fire and brew the next uprising.
After Yu Poison retired, according to the clues left by later generations, he is likely to be by Cao Cao's side now. The tombs of the Cao clan excavated in later generations are engraved on the tomb bricks: The sky is dead. And the Cao family also established an era name called: Huang Chu.
During the Yellow Turban Uprising, the slogan was: The sky is dead, and the yellow sky should stand. Thinking of all this, the relationship between Cao Cao and the Yellow Turban Army has become the biggest mystery in later generations - Cao Cao, who started with the massacre of the Yellow Turbans, has so much overlap with the slogan of the Yellow Turbans, which is really unimaginable.
If Yu Poison came forward to rescue Yan'er, then all this would be reasonable. After LΓΌ Bu captured Puyang, only the personnel of the secret organization could lurk, and Yu Poison found Wu E among thousands of troops at that time, and it should not be difficult to find the daughter of Zhang Wen, who was much more famous than Wu E.
After Yu Poison mysteriously retreated, he still belonged to Qingzhou Fugitive, and the Qingzhou government has not given up the action of tracking him down, as Yanzhou and Qingzhou get closer and closer, if Yu Poison does not hurry up to find a way, sooner or later there will be clues, and Zhang Yan'er is a big gift - a big gift that makes Liu Bei willing to give up the pursuit.
Yu Poison is a person with firm beliefs, and if there is faith, there is morality. Liu Bei once allocated grain and grass to him in the famine year, so that tens of thousands of remnants of the Yellow Turban Army could continue their lives. Yu Yao is hidden in Yanzhou, sooner or later due to different interests and ideological concepts, and Liu Bei will have a conflict, if he can find Zhang Yan'er, he can just repay Liu Bei's kindness, as he said, after breaking the concern, you can do your own thing with a "clear conscience".
All this seems incredible, if it is really Yu Poison, it is exactly in line with everything Li Jin said.
Liu Bei suddenly felt a burst of weakness, touched his forehead with his hand, and burst into tears: "Is this true?" Is Miss Yan'er really alive? Liu Bei timidly asked: "She, is she okay?" β
Without waiting for Li Jin to answer, Liu Bei waved his hand again and again: "Don't say it, don't say anything, I don't want to know now." β
Looking at the west, Liu Bei said with difficulty: "You see, after knowing all this, I suddenly lost my courage, I am afraid that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment." β
Liu Bei's war horse under his crotch snorted, and he shook the horse's hooves anxiously, Liu Bei hesitated for a long time, and finally couldn't muster up the courage, went to Pingyin, and laughed at himself: "The army is about to set off, but I am here for a long time, it's not suitable, it's not suitable." I'd rather stay and wait until this battle is over to find out the truth. The battle is imminent, and as the commander-in-chief, I can't be distracted. β
Li Jin didn't dare to make a mess of ideas, hung his head silently, Liu Bei muttered to himself, seeing that no one responded, he flicked the horsewhip casually, and ordered: "Dian Wei, you go and welcome the woman back to Guangrao, let the master mother see, I will rush to Longkou and board the ship to go on the expedition." β
Dian Wei shook his head and refused: "Wei is the guard of the lord, and I will go wherever the lord goes." When a woman returns to Guangrao, the lord writes a warrant and passes it on, so why let me run? I'm not going. β
When Liu Bei heard the contempt for the woman, he was furious, and he raised his whip to beat Dian Wei, but when he saw Dian Wei's innocent eyes, he put down his wrist in despair.
"Bastard, if I have the courage to write a letter, I will also have the courage to run to Pingyin. That's it, Li Jin, take my token, go to Pingyin City to find Le Wenqian, tell him the whole story, and then Frustrated Shou will send instructions. Come on, come a few guards, divide half of the soldiers and horses, and follow Li Jin. β
Since Liu Bei had made up his mind, he resolutely turned around and went straight to Longkou, boarded the ship and headed towards Wanghai City. After Fu Shou and others received the letter, Liu Bei's warship had already reached the sea.
The waves were monstrous, the west wind was blowing strongly, the sails of the warship were full of wind, and they were sailing all the way, Liu Bei stood on the deck, and asked himself repeatedly and nervously: "Really?" False yes? β
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