Chapter 24: It Was You
However, it was said that Xu Chu and others on the mountain, the first day left and right, did not see the return of the Jingzhou army, nor did they see anyone from Luzhou, as the night fell, the uneasy mood began to grow.
After dark, as the general of the unified army, Xu Chu anxiously waited for reinforcements, but also had to beware of Liu Tong's night attack. Xu Chu patrolled the night until late at night, leaned on the trunk of a tree and squinted for a while, and was woken up by the noise of soldiers in his sleepiness.
The sky was already slightly bright, and after Xu Chu got up, he checked the defense measures everywhere and asked people to continue cutting down trees to increase the obstacles to the mountain.
In the quacking noise at the bottom of the mountain, Xu Chu was called to discuss the matter.
"General, something is wrong, the wolf smoke has not been broken, the Jingzhou army did not come to the rescue yesterday, it will definitely not come again, maybe it is almost to Xiangyang at this time. Luzhou is not far from here, and there should be Jiangdong troops around, and from the perspective of time, there are more than two trips back and forth. There will be no one to save Luzhou! The scribe looked up at the wolf smoke rising in the air, twisted by the wind, and said in disappointment.
Xu Chu was reminded, and he thought about it. "Sir, Liu Tong has no fear, he will not attack after the reinforcements arrive, obviously knowing that no one will come to rescue us, they want to wait for us to be hungry and thirsty and weak, and win without a fight."
Xu Chu said, stood up when he saw the person coming, and saluted with his fists at the visitor, "Miss, bear with me for the time being, the last general is bound to break through with Miss, even if you give up your life, you must also protect Miss's safety!" ”
The woman, dressed in a big red dress, was helped by another young and beautiful woman to stop, her face was a little tired, and when she saw that Xu Chu and they were in trouble, she said: "General, please arrange for someone to go down the mountain to spread the word, just say that there is a sister who wants to see Luo Hongli, Miss Luo!" ”
The woman turned and walked away. Xu Chu watched her walk away and looked at the scribe in puzzlement. The scribe groaned and nodded. He did see that behind Liu Tong yesterday, a woman in red was riding a horse and standing in front of the military formation. Judging from his age, he is similar to his own lady.
When the red carp was called to the foot of the mountain, it was also confused. Soon two women, accompanied by Xu Chu, came to the first row of wooden fences and the back of the horses.
"Miss Cao!" The red carp exclaimed. Liu Tong looked carefully, the woman in the big red costume was indeed Cao Xian! I haven't seen each other for two years, Cao Xian has become more mellow, and he has grown taller, and his beauty shows everyone's beautiful temperament. Standing side by side with Cao Xian was a woman in a green dress, taller, with a melon seed face, big eyes, and a delicate appearance, compared to Cao Xian, she looked more heroic and cool.
was about to say hello, but seeing Cao Xian's resentful eyes staring at him, Liu Tong embarrassedly put down his right hand that was outstretching. It's also understandable that he trapped her in the mountains, who can be happy.
Seeing that it was Cao Xian, the red carp was full of joy, so he walked up the mountain, and Liu Tong grabbed her.
"Let them come down and talk."
The red carp pushed Liu Tong's hand away and said warmly: "Son, I'll go back as soon as I go, don't worry about my safety." ”
Liu Tong thought about it, the red carp went up, with her martial arts, there should be no danger, not to mention anything else, the red carp's light skills can't even catch up with herself.
Cao Xian saw that the red carp was alone on the mountain, so he asked Xu Chu and the others to leave. The red carp crossed the wooden stake of the horse and came to Cao Xian, and saw Cao Xian's tears in his eyes.
The red carp's heart softened, and he opened his arms and took Cao Xian into his arms.
"Sister." Cao Xian suddenly burst into tears, and the woman next to him kept stroking his back.
"Sister, he killed my eldest brother, and now he still wants to kill me?" Cao Xian cried and cried and sobbed!
The red carp kept soothing her back and quietly made her cry for a while.
"Miss Cao, Mr. Cao Ang didn't kill my son-in-law!" Hongli knew that Cao Xian thought that Cao Ang was killed by Liu Tong, and she was at the scene at the time, and she saw everything in her eyes, but she didn't explain too much.
The red carp obviously felt Cao Xian's body tremble, and also suppressed his crying.
"Then he still wants to kill me today, is it because I said bad things about him back then? Is it because my father didn't marry me? ”
Hongli didn't know what Cao Xian said, but he also knew that Liu Tong didn't say that he wanted to kill her. "My son-in-law didn't know you were in the army!"
"Really?"
"Really, if Childe knew that it was you, he would definitely not embarrass you! Miss Cao, I'm going to beg Gongzi to let you go. ”
Hearing the red carp say this, Cao Xian burst into tears and laughed, and his expression was twisted.
The two talked for a while, and the red carp came down the mountain. Liu Tong was also surprised, how could Cao Xian appear here!
"Red carp, you let them go down the mountain, I promise not to kill a single soldier of them. Let Xu Chu take the troops to assemble two miles below the mountain and stand by. ”
Soon, Tai Shici lined up to monitor Cao's army as they descended the mountain and asked Cao's army to move to the river.
After Xu Chu was settled, Cao Xian took Xu Chu and others to the big tent, Liu Tong sat on the main seat, Wu Jilou on the left behind him, Tai Shici, Chen Dao, Han Zong, and Hongli on the right sat on the left hand.
Seeing Cao Xian coming in, the red carp greeted him and pulled Cao Xian to sit on the left. Cao Xian didn't look at Liu Tong, and arranged for a woman in a dark green curly robe to sit behind him, Xu Chu stood behind Cao Xian, and the ugly scribe sat down at the bottom of the woman in green in turn.
When he entered the door, Liu Tong thought that the other woman was Cao Xian's maid, so it seems that this is not the case, why haven't I seen her before?
Liu Tong looked carefully and saw that she was exquisitely dressed, tight and narrow, long and swaying, with a flared hem, not showing her feet, wide sleeves, trimmed cuffs, a collar with a cross-collar, a very low neckline, and her clothes were turned several times, wrapped around the buttocks, tied with a blue ribbon, and painted with exquisite and gorgeous patterns.
Cao Xian saw that Liu Tong couldn't take his eyes off it, and he didn't like it in his heart, and said: "This is my sister, Uncle Miaocai's daughter, Xiahou Juan!" ”
Liu Tong was shocked when he heard this, this woman is not simple!
Xiahou Juan is Xiahou Yuan's niece, Xiahou Yuan once gave up his young son in the famine year, and saved him, on the one hand, because Xiahou Juan's father, Xiahou Yuan's younger brother was deceased and had no one to take care of him, and Xiahou Yuan took care of the orphans. The other party can also see that this woman is extraordinary, otherwise Xiahou Yuan would not let his young son starve to death, but chose to let her survive!
Historically, in 200 A.D., in his hometown of Qian County, Xiahou Juan was obtained by Zhang Fei when he went out of the city to collect firewood, Zhang Fei saw that she was beautiful and intelligent, and she was a woman from a good family, so he married her, and then Xiahou Juan's two daughters became Liu Chan's queen.
It can be seen that Xiahou Juan is not only beautiful, but also good at raising children!
"Oh, it turned out to be Miss Xiahou!" Liu Tong said with a smile.
Cao Xian was an acquaintance, Liu Tong originally wanted to talk casually, but when he saw that Cao Xian looked at him with resentment, he straightened his attitude and played an official tone.
"I don't know why the two young ladies are not in Chengdu?"
Cao Xian bowed his head and was silent, his body twisting. The scribe clenched his fists and said: "Champion Hou, General Zuo and Jiangdong want to marry Qin and Jin, I am waiting for this trip to send the two young ladies to Luzhou to marry General Sun Quan, and I hope that Champion Hou will let him go!" ”
"No way!" Liu Tong suddenly jumped up!
The scribe was taken aback by Liu Tong's abrupt behavior and looked at Liu Tong in surprise.
Cao Xian felt a hint of joy in his heart. In the past, in Xinye, he didn't know that Luo Tong was the champion Hou Liu Tong, but he also had a good impression of him, and he also felt that Liu Tong liked him.
At that time, Liu Tong knew that his father was going to call Lu Qian as a matchmaker and let him marry him. Now that he heard that he was going to marry Sun Quan, he objected without thinking about it, and it seemed that Liu Tong still liked him.
And Liu Tong also felt that he was a little out of shape, so he sat down again, what is Sun Quan, these two beautiful women like flowers and jade marry him? Liu Tong is very hostile to Sun Quan, not to mention, no matter what, Sun Cao can't be allowed to marry, their marriage will undoubtedly do more harm than good to my north!
"You can't get married! Sun Quan has been driven away by us, he has fled in the wilderness, his life and death are unknown! This time, it's either braided, or it's crossed the Yangtze River and hid in a corner to grind your teeth. ”
Liu Tong made up his mind, and he was in a good mood.
After hearing this, the scribe felt cool in his heart, and some things were clear. It turned out that Sun Quan had already been defeated and had fled to the north of the Yangtze River!
He knew that it was understandable that the Jingzhou army would not return to rescue them, after all, they were no longer in their own territory, considering the relationship with Cao Cao, it was already very rare to send them here, and the relationship between Liu Biao and the Sun family, even if they saw the wolf smoke, it was not easy to participate in irrelevant wars. And there is no Sun Quan's army nearby, they are all Liu Kuan's army, and if his wolf smoke is put for three days and three nights, no one will come to the rescue.
Now the plan is how to get out of the hands of this little devil, and when I think of this section, my heart suddenly languishes.