Chapter 22: Cao Anmin
Cao Ang has always been in charge of Youxian Pavilion, and as soon as the morning dawned, he came to Youxian Pavilion to visit Shi A, and when Cao Ang arrived, he saw that Cao Pi had already come to visit his master. After comforting Shi A for a few words, he went to visit Zhuge Liang.
Cao Ang told Zhuge Liang about Luo Tong being Liu Tong and escaping after assassinating Shi A. Zhuge Liang smiled: "Childe wants to arrest Liu Tong? ”
"No, I have a relationship with Liu Tong, and I also admire him very much, but I have never said goodbye to him, which is very regrettable."
Zhuge Liang knew that Cao Angqi was a frank gentleman, and when he saw that he was sincere, he said: "The son can chase south, maybe he can see each other and say goodbye." ”
After hearing this, Cao Ang's heart lit up, and he hurriedly said goodbye to Zhuge Liang, and rode out of the leisure hall to the south gate.
Just walked a short distance, and saw Cao Anmin coming towards Youxian Pavilion with a few cavalry guards.
"Brother Anmin, give me a horse."
Cao Ang shouted at Cao Anmin, and Cao Anmin asked one of the cavalrymen to dismount, rode his own horse, and led the other horse to follow Cao Ang. The two chased all the way south.
However, Liu Tong woke up early in the morning and saw that the red carp was still sleeping, so he ran to a nearby village to steal some food and came back, and the two continued to hurry after eating.
Cao Ang and Cao Anmin chased after each other for an hour, and they also made some detours in the middle, and finally caught up with Liu Tong on a mountain road to Xiangyang. Liu Tong saw that there were only Cao Ang and Cao Anmin, and seeing that Cao Ang was not hostile, he stopped to meet him.
"Brother Liu, it's so hard for you to hide it from me, Xiao Canglong in front of me, I'm really blind." Cao Ang took Liu Tong's hand and laughed.
Liu Tong and Cao Ang got along for many days, and knew that Cao Ang was also a frank and upright man, "Brother Cao, there is a reason for the incident, and I concealed my identity from my brother, please forgive the younger brother, Na Shi A killed my grandfather, I don't kill him and swear not to be a man!" ”
Cao Ang nodded and said: "I have also heard about this matter, Liu Gong is kind to the elderly, but he doesn't want to be harmed by others, it's a pity!" ”
As he spoke, he took a step forward with his horse and handed the reins to Liu Tong, "Brother Liu, the mountain is high and the road is long, let him send you away." ”
Liu Tong took the horse and was moved in his heart, "Brother Cao, General Zuo is about to go to Yizhou, and he will have some merits, and Brother Wanwang will cherish it." Liu Tong hesitated for a moment, and then said: "General Zuo is a hero in the world, my brother was born into a family, and his future is immeasurable. ”
Cao Ang took Liu Tong's hand, curiously waiting for what Liu Tong was going to say.
"Brother should prevent disasters from causing trouble......"
"Don't go Liu Tong thief!"
Before Liu finished speaking, he suddenly heard a group of people coming in the distance, someone shouted, and saw Cao Pi and Shi A riding in front, and behind them with more than a dozen black-clothed people dressed as warriors, shouting at themselves and rushing over.
said that Cao Ang's conversation with Zhuge Liang in Zhuge Liang's room was listened to by Cao Pi's entourage and told Cao Pi. Cao Pi and Shi A immediately went out, and when they returned home, they chased after Cao Pi with the dead soldiers raised by Cao Pi.
Cao Pi and the others approached, and Zhang Gong aimed at Liu Tong.
Cao Ang hurriedly opened his arms and stopped in front of Liu Tong, "Second brother, Liu Gongzi has a deep friendship with me, so you can let him go." ”
"Big brother, my family and his Liu family are mortal enemies, how can my eldest brother defend his enemies, he hurts my master today, he will get rid of it quickly!" As he spoke, he waved his hand and motioned for a group of samurai to step forward.
Seeing that Cao Pi was about to use force, Liu Tong pushed away the red carp, kicked down a warrior who stepped forward, and fought with everyone with a stick. Cao Ang saw that Liu Tong was besieged, and he was angry and started a fight with the black clothes.
Cao Ang and Liu Tong were surrounded by everyone in the center back to back, and the two sides fought fiercely. Seeing this, Cao Anmin didn't know what to do, so he had to stand aside, helpless and worried.
Cao Ang's martial arts are good, and he and Liu Tong were immediately put into five or six people.
Seeing this, Cao Pi opened his bow to Liu Tong and attacked with all his strength, shooting an arrow with all his strength, Liu Tong was fighting, he heard the sound of the wind, instinctively avoided it, and the sharp arrow broke through the wind, flying past Liu Tong's head, but it hit the back of Cao Ang's neck, Cao Ang was hit by an arrow, turned around to look at Cao Pi, covered the wound with his right hand, and slowly fell to the ground.
Liu Tong was immediately stunned, and the other warriors saw that Liu Tong was alone, and attacked one after another.
Cao Anmin saw that Cao Ang was hit by an arrow, pounced, picked up Cao Ang's upper body, and hurriedly helped him cover the bleeding place of the wound.
Cao Pi and Shi A saw that they had shot Cao Ang, and they all got off the horse to check, Cao Pi also came to hug Cao Ang, Cao Anmin pushed Cao Pi away, full of tears, "Cao Pi, how can you shoot your brother!" ”
Cao Pi was flustered, forced to look at by Cao Anmin, and spoke incoherently, "I, I ......"
Seeing this, Shi A suddenly pulled out his long sword, and stabbed Cao Anmin in the back, the long sword passed through his body, and the tip of the sword came out from his chest. Shi A drew his long sword, Cao Anmin fell to the ground, Cao Ang rolled to the ground from Cao Anmin's arms, and looked at Cao Pi with a pair of eyes in horror and anger.
Cao Pi's hands trembled, hot blood filled his brain, half kneeling on the ground, covering Cao Ang's eyes with his left hand, pressing the arrow body on the back of Cao Ang's neck with his right hand, and using a bucket of force, the arrow passed through his neck and emerged from the Adam's apple. Blood gushed from Cao Ang's throat, and he pointed at Cao Pi, and he suddenly lost his breath.
Liu Tong looked at this scene in horror, and became murderous, killing several warriors in a row.
Cao Pi got up and screamed: "Liu Tong killed my brother and broke his body into ten thousand pieces for me!" ”
Liu informed that Cao Pi and Shi Abi would not let go of themselves today. Seeing that the two had not yet mounted their horses, Liu Tong repelled the warriors besieging him with a stick, and Long Tengbu jumped out of the encirclement, came to the side of the red carp and picked up the red carp, jumped on the horse given to him by Cao Ang, beat the horse and ran south.
Cao Pi and Shi A reacted and got on the horse one after another, everyone chased all the way behind Liu Tong, and released arrows all the way, Liu Tong danced with an iron rod and kept pushing away the arrows that came from him, Cao Pi's archery skills were superb, and he still shot an arrow in the left shoulder blade of Liu Tong's back.
Liu Tong knew that he was injured, and the two of them were riding a horse together, and they were bound to catch up, and when he saw a river not far from the left, Liu informed him that the red carp had been fishing since childhood, and the water was very good, so he beat the horse and ran towards the big river.
Liu Tong didn't have time to think about it, and as soon as he came to the river, he threw the iron rod and pulled the red carp to jump. Both of them had good water qualities, and after entering the water, a fierce man came to the middle of the river and swam to the opposite bank.
Cao Pi, Shi A and others didn't understand water, so they had to keep shooting arrows on the shore. Liu Tong and the red carp had to keep diving to dodge, follow the current, and swim hard to the opposite shore. The river is more than 30 meters wide, because it follows the water, and after a while, it will reach the opposite bank of the downstream dozens of meters away from the lower river. After Liu Tong went ashore, he pulled the red carp up, hurried away from the shore, and ran away all the way.
When the two came to a forest, Liu Tong saw that he was far away from the river and could no longer see Cao Pi and others, so he pulled the red carp to stop and rest.
It was only at this time that the red carp found that Liu Tong had an arrow stuck in his back, and his clothes were covered with blood stains.
The red carp had been sitting in front of Liu Tong when he had fled on horseback before, and then he jumped into the river, and after he came ashore, he ran all the way, and he didn't know that Liu Tong was injured. The red carp stroked Liu Tong's back, burst into tears, and cried loudly.
Liu informed her that she had been injured in the past, so she was dressed with herbs picked by the red carp, so she asked her to look for herbs, and she found some dry firewood and hay, built a fire, and waited for the red carp while roasting the fire.
After the red carp came, Liu Tong tore off his clothes and asked the red carp to pull out the arrow, the red carp sobbed and closed his eyes, gritted his teeth and pulled out the arrow, Liu Tong stuffed the clothes he took off into his mouth, picked up a half-burned branch, handed it to the red carp, and let her burn the wound, the red carp hesitated for a long time and did not dare to move, Liu Tong was about to open his mouth to scold her, the red carp had the courage to burn it with a red end, Liu Tong screamed, the red carp was so frightened that he threw the branch down, and hugged Liu Tong, who was sweating profusely.
Liu Tong's body gradually relaxed, pushed away the red carp, tore his clothes into strips, and the red carp chewed the herbs he had picked and applied them to the wound. Liu Tong handed the strip of cloth to the red carp and instructed her to bandage herself. After cleaning up, Liu Tong asked the red carp to hurry up the roasting fire, and the red carp took off the burden on his body and dried the clothes he made for Liu Tong in the baggage.
The red carp put on clothes for Liu Tong, Liu Tong thought that the red carp had escaped for his life and brought the clothes he had sewn for himself, his heart warmed, he pulled the red carp and kissed her on the face, the shy red carp hid aside, bowed his head and did not dare to look at Liu Tong again.
Liu Tong took the red carp's package and saw that there was a lot of money and goods in it, some of which were taken by Chen Hu, and most of which Cao Ang asked his subordinates to give to the red carp as a degree.
Liu Tong looked at these and thought of Cao Ang, and couldn't help but grieve. Although he is a little wary of Cao Ang, after many days of getting along, he feels that Cao Ang is heroic and sincere, and it can be said that he has similar interests and has something in common in many aspects.
If Cao Ang does not die and inherits Cao Cao's career, he may not be inferior to Sun Ce and Sun Quan's brothers.
Liu Tong had a lot of thoughts, hey, in the end, Cao Ang and Cao Anmin still died, but not for Cao Cao, but for himself and for me Liu Tong.
Liu informed that in history, in order to obtain the position of Cao Cao's son, Cao Pi used all his intrigues and tricks, and used endless means for his brothers, and after succeeding to the throne, he had no feelings for other brothers at all, and even forced his brother Cao Zhi to make a "seven-step poem" in order to save his life:
Boiled beans are used as soup,
Wet the juice.
Burning under the kettle,
Beans weep in the kettle.
This is born from the same root,
Why is it too anxious?
Unexpectedly, this time Cao Pi swept away the first major obstacle to his future succession in advance - Cao Ang.