Tao Qian did not repay the debt this time.

After Cao Cao retreated, Tao Qian held a banquet to celebrate Cao Cao's retreat, and at the same time, he also honored Tian Kai's reward on the spot.

Looking at the two large boxes of gold, silver and jewelry, Tian Kai's eyes lit up, and his saliva flowed, and even Liu Bei on the side kept blinking his eyes, hoping that Tao Qian could reward him with a box.

Tao Qian laughed, and said in his heart: Anyway, these things belong to Cao ** Laozi Cao Song, and I lost one or two boxes, which is not painful at all.

"Ahem" Liu Bei coughed lightly twice, hoping to attract Tao Qian's attention.

Tao Qian came back to his senses, looked at Liu Bei's earnest gaze, understood, and hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Oh, oops, Xuande, Xuande, I almost forgot about you, come on, punish you for drinking"

Liu Bei blushed and pushed: "Gong Tao is polite, it should be." ”

After the two touched a cup, Tao Qian asked Liu Bei: "It is reported that Xuande is in Pingyuan County, Guangde is benevolent, and Tao is very admired." ”

Liu Bei smiled and said humbly: "Tao Gong, the plain is a small county, it is very convenient to govern, but it's a pity."

Tao Qian asked, "What is a pity?" ”

Liu Bei said: "The eldest husband is based on the world, and he should conquer the world." ”

Tao Qian's eyes rolled twice, and he said tentatively: "I see the two behind Xuande, the tiger general, there is such a talent, Xuande has not done anything?" ”

Liu Bei shook his head and did not answer.

Tao Qian said in his heart: Well, this Liu Bei is good, he is a talent, if Cao Cao comes again, I hope he can continue to help me defend against the enemy

Tao Qian thought for a while and said, "Xuande, otherwise, I will go to the court and then give you a place to live, what do you think?" ”

Liu Bei was so surprised when he heard this, how dare he agree, and hurriedly knelt in front of Tao Qian to push back.

At this moment, a voice suddenly came from not far away.

The voice said: "Liu Xuande, since Tao Qian is so polite, you will accept it, right?" ”

As soon as the voice fell, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who were beside Liu Bei, drew their swords and looked around, and shouted loudly: "Who, come out!" ”

After a long laugh, everyone saw that not far from them, there was a purple-haired man, the man was not tall, but his handsome appearance and gorgeous clothes gave people a natural affinity.

"Huh?" Liu Bei looked at the man and seemed to remember something, but he was not sure.

The purple-haired man smiled and slowly approached Liu Bei.

On the banquet hall, such a person suddenly appeared, which made Tao Qian very nervous, and Tao Qian hurriedly called the guards, who knew that after calling for a long time, no one answered him.

A chill rushed from the soles of Tao Qian's feet to the top of his head, and Tao Qian said in his heart: It's too careless, I thought Cao Cao was gone, it turns out that he still has a killer

Needless to say, the purple-haired man is Ma Xiaoquan.

Ma Xiaoquan thought that Tao Qian would definitely hold a banquet after Cao Cao retreated, so Ma Xiaoquan decided to stay for a few days and wait for Tao Qian to show up when the banquet was held.

Sure enough, Tao Qian, as Ma Xiaoquan expected, held a banquet, and did not do any escort work when the banquet was set.

After easily letting go of a few soldiers outside the door, Ma Xiaoquan instructed Zhang Gong to let the wind go outside, and whistle to inform him as soon as there was big news

After entering the banquet hall, Ma Xiaoquan saw Liu Guanzhang and the others for the first time.

There are countless descriptions of the faces of Liu Guanzhang and the three people in history, Ma Xiaoquan carefully checked it and found that the description of the three people in history is really vivid, but what Liu Bei said with big ears and shoulders and hands over his knees is a bit exaggerated.

At that time, Tao Qian happened to be discussing with Liu Bei about giving him a small county town as a gift.

According to historical records, Liu Bei's cheekiness is very high, who knows that Ma Xiaoquan heard and saw that this is not the case, first of all, Liu Bei's non-stop blush is not normal, secondly, it seems that Liu Bei does not dare to think of Tao Qian to ask for more things, Tao Qian proposed to give Liu Bei a county seat, Liu Bei not only did not accept, but knelt in front of Tao Qian to push, this is unreasonable?

Ma Xiaoquan couldn't stand it anymore. He decided to appear, and then encouraged Liu Bei to take Tao Qian's "kindness".

Tao Qian sat on the ground, looking at the nervous expressions of the guests, Tao Qian knew that the purple-haired man in front of him must have come prepared. But Tao Qian is old and spicy after all, he looked at the age of this purple-haired man who didn't seem to be very old, so he leaned on the old man and said politely: "I don't know who Your Excellency is, I didn't greet you, I hope Your Excellency understands."

Although Ma Xiaoquan didn't like Tao Qian very much, but he didn't hit the smiling person, Ma Xiaoquan politely replied to Tao Qian and said, "Tao Gong, uh-huh, hello, hello!" ”

Tao Qian likes others to call him Tao Gong very much, as soon as he heard Ma Xiaoquan say this, Tao Qian's shelf came up, and after two consecutive sounds, Tao Qian flutteringly ordered his subordinates to take a seat for Ma Xiaoquan.

Ma Xiaoquan was not polite, sat on the seat, and said to Tao Qian: "Tao Gong, don't be afraid, I am just a person who is idle and wild, and there is no danger to you." ”

Although Tao Qian had doubts, he thought again: If this person wants to kill me and others, he will definitely cut through the chaos quickly.

Tao Qian arched his hand to Ma Xiaoquan, and said with a smile: "Your Excellency is too polite. ”

Ma Xiaoquan nodded and said, "I don't know which county Tao Gong wants Liu Bei to go to?" ”

Tao Qian thought for a while and said, "How is Lixian?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan shook his head: "Lixian? It's not good, how about Xiao Pei, I think Xiao Pei is good? ”

Tao Qian was stunned for a moment, and said with a secret smile in his heart: That Xiaopei is the leading place in Xuzhou, if Cao Cao calls again, won't Liu Bei help me as soon as possible? Mmmm, this purple-haired man is interesting, and he really thinks about me.

Tao Qian looked at Liu Bei with a smile: "Xuande, this purple-haired brother Tai's Jianyi, can you agree?" ”

Liu Bei blushed, but still refused to express his position.

The more Ma Xiaoquan looked at it, the more he felt that something was wrong with Liu Bei, and hurriedly agreed.

Guan Yu beside Liu Bei didn't talk from the beginning, he stared at Ma Xiaoquan's every move, and seemed to have a little impression of this purple-haired man, but it was not very clear. Finally, after combing through his memories several times, Guan Yu suddenly woke up, but Guan Yu didn't say it on the spot.

Zhang Fei is completely coarse, as long as Liu Bei is fine, he doesn't care about others.

After the banquet was dispersed, Tian Kai retreated with the two large boxes of gold and silver, while Liu Bei, according to Tao Qian's order, led a team of men and horses to Xiaopei.

Ma Xiaoquan thought about it for a long time, but decided to stay first and ask Tao Qian about something.

After Liu Bei left, Ma Xiaoquan asked Tao Qian: "Tao Gong, it is said that you killed Cao Cao's father Cao Song a few days ago, but is there such a thing?" ”

Tao Qian was stunned for a moment, then his eyes were cold, and he said coldly: "Whose family is this fallacy?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan waved his hand and said: "It's not a question who came out, the key is that the two boxes of jewelry, gold and silver you gave to Tian Kai just now seem to be Cao Song's, right?" ”

When Tao Qian heard this, he knew that he couldn't hide it, so he hurriedly called another team of guards and surrounded Ma Xiaoquan.

Ma Xiaoquan was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart: What is this bow for, why is it so unhelpful, saying that there is a big matter and whistling, hey, you want me to solve it personally, it's really troublesome.

Ma Xiaoquan smiled and stretched his waist: "Tao Gong, are you just such a person?" ”

Tao Qian shouted: "Take it!" ”

Ma Xiaoquan remained motionless and let Tao Qian's men tie him up.

"Say, who are you?"

Ma Xiaoquan laughed, and after a little concentration, the rope tied to his body suddenly caught fire, and in a few breaths, all the ropes turned into charcoal ash.

"Bang" Ma Xiaoquan patted the charcoal ash on his body, raised his head, looked at Tao Qian, who was already very surprised, and said, "Can you say it now?" ”

Tao Qian and Ma Xiaoquan were only three steps away, and Tao Qian thought: If this person rushed over and set me on fire, then wouldn't I

Thinking of this, Tao Qian couldn't help but take a few steps back and retreated behind the guard.

"I didn't kill Cao Song!" Tao Qian was still stiff-mouthed.

Ma Xiaoquan said: "Okay, I don't care if you kill Cao Song or not, but I heard that Tao Gong recently got a baby, I don't know if you can let me take a look?" ”

As soon as Ma Xiao's words came out, Cao Song became even more nervous.

If you want to talk about that treasure, Tao Qian has been carefully storing it since he got it, except for himself and Hua Sanqing, who is good at gambling, no third person knows. After killing Cao Song last time, Tao Qian originally planned to return the jade pendant he won from Hua Sanqing to him in order to stop Hua Sanqing's mouth, but before Cao Cao attacked him, he sent a group of thieves to steal the jade pendant.

Tao Qian said in his heart: It must be that old guy in Hua Sanqing who hated me for not returning the jade pendant to him, and told Cao Cao about the fact that I got the baby, hey!

Ma Xiaoquan looked at Tao Qian, his face kept changing, he was not in a hurry, he grabbed a chicken leg and gnawed it.

Tao Qian thought for a while before he spoke: "I didn't!" ”

Ma Xiaoquan spit out the chicken bones with a puff: "No? Don't be so stingy, okay, I'll just take a look, if you want to do this, I'll rob it? ”

Tao Qian couldn't cry or laugh, how could anyone sue himself and say, let me take a look at your baby, and I don't want anything if I look at it?

"If you say no, you don't!" Tao Qian said hardly.

Ma Xiaoquan clapped his hands and said: "In this case, I really robbed it, but I have a word first, if I beat you with a blue nose and swollen face, I am not responsible?" ”

Tao Qian was furious when he heard this, and shouted: "What a rampant Diao Min, come here, hack him to death with a knife!" ”

Tao Qian gave an order, and the guards drew their swords and spears one after another, and attacked Ma Xiaoquan.

Ma Xiaoquan had already prepared, only listened to his "bang", pulled out a pitch-black dagger from his waist, blocked horizontally and vertically, kicked left and right, and within a few rounds, the guards around him in the inner circle had all covered their faces, covered their stomachs, and a few, covering their little brothers and moaning in pain.

"Hiss~~" Tao Qian looked at it, suddenly felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly shrank back to slip away, who knew that he had just walked a few steps, and there was a sound of "Zheng" under his feet, and he had been inserting an arrow, the arrow was about three inches deep into the ground, and the tail of the arrow was still swinging slightly, it seemed that the strength of this arrow was quite large.

As soon as Tao Qian looked up, he found that on the beam, there was a swarthy man, the man was holding a longbow, and another arrow was already aimed at his face.

Tao Qian shouted in his heart, and hurriedly changed his direction to escape.

"Zheng~~" was another arrow and shot in front of Tao Qian.

Tao Qian raised his head again, still the swarthy man.

A chill hit his heart, Tao Qian had no choice but to stop and yell at the purple-haired man, "What do you want?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan looked up at Zhang Gong standing on the beam, then nodded, and then looked at Tao Qian: "Didn't I say it, let me take a look at the treasure you got, I won't rob it when I see it, and you won't listen!" ”

Tao Qian rolled his eyes and asked, "You weren't sent by Cao Cao to kill me?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan smashed it twice: "Kill you?" I'm sick, me? Of course not, I'm just here to see your baby. ”

When Tao Qian heard this, the stone in his heart was finally put down, and he ordered the guards to lay down their weapons, and then sent away some unnecessary idlers.

Ma Xiaoquan saw that Tao Qian was quite hearted, so he glanced at Zhang Gong on the beam.

On the beam, Zhang Gong smiled, jumped down, and after walking to Ma Xiaoquan's side, Zhang Gong knelt on the ground and asked for sin: "The master atons for his sins!" ”

Ma Xiaoquan pulled up his bow: "Good job, no guilt, no guilt!" ”

Zhang Gong smiled and scratched his scalp.

Ma Xiaoquan walked up to Tao Qian: "Lead the way, right?" ”

Tao Qian saw that the archer on the beam had come down, and immediately changed his mind, and said, "How can I have that thing?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan was unhappy: "Tao Qian, call you Tao Gong, that is to respect you, you are not young, be kind, don't go back on your word, originally, I didn't want to beat you, but now, I have changed my mind again." ”

Ma Xiaoquan said, grabbed Tao Qian's collar, forcibly dragged him to a corner, and gave an old fist in front of the guards.

"Knock~~Knock~~~"

"Ah~~Ah~~~"

After a burst of fists and screams, Ma Xiaoquan came out rubbing his hands.

Zhang Gong stepped forward, looked at his master's hand and said, "Master, you are too light!" ”

Ma Xiaoquan said with a smile: "That Tao Qian is also old, if I am ruthless, it is estimated that he will die, a few of you, go over and carry your family master out!" ”

Tao Qian's guards were already stupid, how could anyone beat his own lord in front of him?

But that's what the purple-haired man did. Not only did it do, but now they also let us carry the lord out, this

Several bold guards carried Tao Qian out, and everyone snorted when they saw Tao Qian's nose and swollen face, and they felt an indescribable sadness in their hearts.

When the lord is fair, he treats people politely, and he is not thin, just watching the lord being beaten up, these guards will be angry for a while, and they will come forward to settle accounts with Ma Xiaoquan.

Ma Xiaoquan didn't pay attention to the shouting of these guards at all, he glanced at Zhang Gong, Zhang Gong stepped forward, and let go of the troublesome guards with three strikes and five divisions.

This time, the audience was silent.

Ma Xiaoquan squatted in front of Tao Qian and gently patted Tao Qian's old face: "Tao Qian, how about it, to say it or not to say it?" ”