For a while, the hall was lively, the woman of Yingying Yanyan chuckled and whispered, dragged her long skirt into the hall, and the musicians also followed to the back of the seat to take out their respective musical instruments, when the sound of silk and bamboo gradually played, under the eaves of the rain curtain, Gongsun Zhi's figure was in a blink of an eye, and he strode across the threshold, behind him Sima Yi, Gongsun Xu, and Dian Wei followed in, hundreds of wolves rode with knives and stood motionless in the rain like sculptures, and more than ten others guarded the door of the hall,

In the hall, everyone's eyes looked over.

"Gongsun Dudu, Kuang Jiuwen is famous!" Wang Kuangfei's face trembled slightly, and then he squeezed out a smile, "...... Fast...... Hurry up and take your seat, your meal is ready. ”

The tall figure who approached, with a grim face, walked straight through the middle of a group of women who were swallowing, stretched out his hand to untie his soaked cloak, threw it to the maids in the hall who greeted him, walked into the banquet, grabbed a piece of warm wine and poured it into his mouth, and then waved his hand to let the three people who came with him sit down. Gongsun Zhi's gaze only then looked at the figure of the first person sitting like a ball.

"I'm afraid Wang Taishou doesn't want to see me, right?"

"How dare you ......" Wang Kuang smiled on his face, arched his hand, then hung down and pulled on both sides of the thigh, after taking a breath, he straightened his chest, "The governor is famous in the north, and I am famous, Kuang is also admired in the Central Plains...... Very...... It's scary, Kuang doesn't want to see each other for the second time in his life. ”

The generals who followed in the hall frowned, Gongsun stopped waving his hand, Dian Wei nodded in understanding, got up and drove the courtesans and musicians who accompanied the dance and music out of here, Wang Kuang's eyelids jumped a few times, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

The hall had fallen silent.

On the seat below, Gongsun Zhi's voice said flatly: "I have always been direct, and I came to see Taishou today, there are two things. He stretched out a finger, "The first thing, Jizhou Yuan Shao attacked Shangdang County, I want Hanoi to resupply and rest, and from here it will go straight to Lugu Mountain, can I?" ”

“.…… Well? Wang Kuang's fat lips trembled slightly, a smile suddenly appeared on his face, and he waved his hand generously: "It's not a matter, the governor can come if he wants, and he can leave if he wants, just treat it as his own home, don't be too polite." ”

"Too guarded!"

A drop of cold sweat had rolled down the forehead of the fat figure, he raised his hand to wipe it, lowered his head and muttered: "...... I dare say no......"

"Nothing to do." After pouring the wine, Gongsun Zhi took another sip, and looked at him with indifferent eyes slanting from the corner of his eye, "Second, the young man next to me, named Sima Yi, is the only living person in the Sima family in Wen County, and I came to ask Taishou, was that gang of bandits who committed murder in Hanoi County back then?" ”

"This ...... This ......" stammered a little.

In the seat next to Gongsun Zhi, the young man got up with red eyes, strode to the middle and arched his hand: "Please also ask Taishou to tell Yi who came into my house and killed my relatives back then." ”

"Alas...... Which brings me to the story. Wang Kuang spread his hands, and the moment his eyes inadvertently made contact with Gongsun Zhi's line of sight, his heart was naturally bright, "What kind of situation was on that day, I don't know very well, since I asked Dong Dong, I was messing around in Hanoi, after that happened, I sent troops and horses overnight to intercept that group, but unfortunately after the death of my general Fang Yue, no one was good at fighting, and I couldn't find the north when I went out and was beaten by the other party...... However, in my previous experience, it should be the bandits on the Taihang side, how can the bandits harboring in the mountains be known to your young man, in the past, he also went down the mountain to loot, and in winter, he lost all his humanity. ”

Sima Yi didn't speak with red eyes, Wang Kuang saw that he was sad, got up and patted him on the shoulder, dragged his round figure back and forth for a few steps, and shook his head: "Don't be depressed, although Taihang is vast, it is not looking for a needle in a haystack, and the gang of bandits should still be in the mountains." ”

"The sea of blood is full of hatred, and one day I will find out them."

"Well, it's best to think like that."

After these conversations, Sima Yi couldn't continue to talk for the time being, Wang Kuang returned with a smile, sat down with relief, and raised his glass: "The business is finished, the governor should be able to drink this glass of wine with Kuang, right?" ”

"Please!" Gongsun Zhi also raised the wine buds.

And just when several people in the mansion were drinking and eating, a messenger from afar in the rain hurriedly rushed into the mansion, handed over an urgent letter to the guards, and then turned to the hall, Wang Kuang hurriedly made a look and waved his hand: "Let the governor see it first." ”

originally wanted to resign, but inadvertently, Gongsun Zhi glanced at the words Yuzhou exposed on the silk, and he was not polite at the moment, he stretched out his hand to take it and unfold it, swept it at a glance, and his face sank. He raised his eyes and looked at Li Ke: "Immediately inform Yan Rou and recruit them to change their established plan, no longer attack Jizhou, let them take the soldiers and horses and the Bingzhou cavalry to go directly to Shangdang to station." ”

Immediately, he got up and grabbed the cloak that was folded in the servant's hand, put it on his shoulders, and strode out, "The rest of the people will return to Xudu in Yuzhou with me." ”

"Don't attack Yuan Shao?"

Gongsun Xu and Dian Wei looked at each other, hurriedly chased after them, and turned around with a figure that strode into the rain curtain, and their voices were cold: "Don't attack, it won't be long before Yuan Shao himself will retreat, and there is a plague in Yuzhou, which is spreading towards Yanzhou...... Now it is the height of summer, and once it spreads across the Yellow River, Jizhou itself will be difficult to protect. ”

When he said this, the wind and rain hit his face, Dian Wei and the others were also horrified, and the word plague was like a terrifying nightmare, making it difficult not to change color. In an era of severe lack of health care, let alone vaccines and the like, once the infection is infected, it is an incalculable number of deaths.

“.…… Our cavalry can't take this risk, so let them all go to Shangdang County to station, I only take one or two hundred horsemen back to Xudu, who wants to go with me? ”

Outside the city, in the camp where he was temporarily stationed, Gongsun stopped looking at the generals who came quickly, and opened his mouth like this.

At this time, in Ye County, southern Yuzhou, the scorching sun scorched the earth, pedestrians on the streets hurried by, most of the doors and windows were closed, and many hungry skinny figures fell on the road, their faces were pale and breathless, and the soldiers who collected the corpses used wooden forks to fork people on the cart and drag them away.

Cao Ang, Wu Anguo, and Yun Niang walked on the foothills of the wilderness, looking at the flat fields in the distance, all of which were densely packed with refugees who were constantly migrating in all directions, and from time to time someone fell down while walking, and rotting corpses could be seen everywhere in the grass, woods, and riverbanks.

The smell of foul smell and disease permeated the entire space of the living.