Chapter 24: The Silence Before the Storm

The dark sky, sprinkled with petals, like catkins, with a touch of tranquility, renders this vast land.

In the corridor of Xuzhou's Thorn Mansion, Liu Bei was dressed in a light cyan straight coat, his hands crossed into his long sleeves, his back leaned against the courtyard pillar, his eyes were wooden, and he looked at this snow blankly.

Liu Hui and the others have already rushed to Yecheng Xiangyang and Moling respectively, according to the calculation of time, it should be time to come back, is it delayed on the way? Or things are not going well.

Mi Zhu had a heavy burden on his body, and it was really difficult for him to prepare such a number of cellars in so many places in such a short period of time.

In recent years, I don't know how Sun Qianjian Yong's grain and grass were raised, and whether he would encounter any obstacles?

Liu Bei's thoughts are very chaotic, this battle of life and death has made his whole person haggard, and the situation of raising his arms and shouting through the crowd, and the situation where the protagonist's aura is immediately revealed now seems to be simply nonsense, since crossing here, what moment is really idle!

Suddenly, a cool breeze hit his face, so that Liu Bei couldn't help but shiver, stunned, spit out, immediately refreshed, stretched out a hand, snowflakes fell in the palm, gradually melted, disappeared, that cool, very refreshing.

I don't know when, a pair of slender hands carrying a white fed cloak passed through Liu Bei's neck, the jade fingers were white and slender, smooth as clotted fat, smart and delicate, and after a while, the cloak was fastened.

Liu Bei stretched out his hand to take the pair of jade hands, turned around, stared at it, and said indifferently: "Thank you, madam!" ”

The person who came was Mi Zhu's sister Mi Zhen, but seeing that she was wearing a plain dress and a real silk jade belt tied around her waist, she showed her graceful figure to the fullest, and her black and bright hair bun poured like a waterfall to her waist, which was even more lovely. A standard goose egg face, with a pair of delicate and small peach blossom eyes, is really cute, and the willow leaves bend their eyebrows like outlines, reflecting the pair of peach blossom eyes, which looks even more charming and attractive. The cherry mouth is as red and moving as Zhu Dan, and the two thin lips are covered and closed, and the smile is extremely tempting.

"Husband! It's cold outside, and Hugh has to be dyed with wind chill. Mi Zhen stared at Liu Bei on her back, and said with indifferent concern: "The charcoal fire has been burned in the room, and the wine and food have been prepared, so let's eat first." ”

Liu Bei nodded and went to the room with Mi Zhen.

"The medical workers in the army have just come, Sister Gan is in good health, and the child is all right. The medical worker has prescribed some prescriptions for the maintenance of the fetus and the body, and the maid has ordered someone to go to grab the medicine, and will give it to Sister Gan on time every day, and I believe that the child will be born safely in the spring of the following year. Husband and relieved! ”

Liu Bei nodded again and continued to follow Mi Zhen to the room.

"General Chen, General Xiao Gao has been training hard, never stopping every day, the third uncle sent people to build ordnance arrows day and night, the second uncle was busy dealing with various affairs in the army, Jinghui took a cadre of military officials to patrol the city day and night, the generals performed their duties, there was no slackness, and the husband could be more at ease."

Liu Bei was a little surprised, this little girl seemed to be like a mirror, and all kinds of things in her heart seemed to be unable to escape her eyes, and every sentence poked Liu Bei's heart.

Squeak~yah~

The door was pushed open by Mi Zhen, and after the two entered the room, they immediately closed it tightly.

On the dining table, the wine has already been scalded, four dishes of side dishes, meat and vegetarian matching, and the color and taste are good. Before the table, a pot of charcoal was burning, and bursts of flames were surging upward, Liu Bei took off his cloak, handed it to Mi Zhen and began to eat.

"Ah Zhen! How is Zizhong doing? Liu Bei asked inadvertently.

Mi Zhen said indifferently: "He! I'm always busy, I just don't know what I'm busy with, but I've heard that I'm digging cellars in various places, as if I want to stock up on something. Oh! By the way, it is said that the cellar was all dug yesterday at noon. ”

Liu Bei nodded, revealing a touch of pleasure, and secretly praised himself: "This Mi Zhu is still very capable." ”

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A few days later, on the main hall of Xuzhou Thorn History.

At this time, Liu Hui and others had already rushed back to Xuzhou from Yecheng, Xiangyang, Moling and other places to resume their lives.

Liu Bei sat down and spoke first: "Zihui! What is Yuan Shao's place? ”

Liu Hui in the hall said excitedly: "Lord! Hui Xing did not disgrace his life, he had successfully formed an alliance with Yuan Gong, and in the spring of the next year, Yuan Gong Xu led the army to approach Baima, approached Yanjin, and deterred Cao thieves! ”

"Has the war horse ever been done?" Liu Bei asked eagerly.

Liu Hui replied: "After forming an alliance with Yuan Gong, he tried to ask for some funding, Yuan Gong was generous, and immediately promised the lord a thousand good horses, and in Xia even went deep into the hinterland of Youzhou, and purchased two thousand war horses with local horse dealers, a total of three thousand war horses.

On the road, they began to breed, and it is believed that there will be another one more war horse in the spring of the following year. However, young horses need to grow up before they can participate in the battle, so the lord needs to prepare sufficient horse feed. ”

"Good!"

When Liu Bei heard this, he was immediately ecstatic. Before leaving, Liu Bei only secretly instructed Liu Hui to secretly buy some war horses and come back, but he never thought that this person would do this so smoothly, and he did it so unexpectedly.

Liu Hui hurriedly bowed his hand: "The lord praises falsely, Hui can't afford it." If there is no capital of the daughter of the child, coupled with the wonderful strategy of breeding, how can the main bus generation be successfully completed in the future. ”

Mi Zhu on the side hurriedly explained: "This is a common trick used by horse traders, which is insignificant!" Insignificant. ”

Liu Bei smiled knowingly and nodded again and again.

"Yide! Now that the horses are ready, have you ever done anything with your weapons and arrows? ”

In the hall, Zhang Fei flashed out, patted his chest and said: "In the past few days, I have been working day and night, and I have already built hundreds of thousands of arrows, thousands of sets of battle armor, and hundreds of bronze long swords. If this progress is followed, as long as the supplies are provided in time, they will be completed by the beginning of spring of the following year. ”

Mi Zhu flashed out again: "The three generals can rest assured, all the utensils used in the ordnance are being prepared below, and they will definitely not delay the general's major affairs." ”

Liu Bei was so moved that he wanted to cry, his life-and-death battle actually bankrupted his courtiers! Selling assets to return to himself, now he is providing money, utensils, and what is more valuable is that there is no complaint.

Sun Qian stood up in the hall and bowed his hand: "Lord! This year, Jingzhou, Qingzhou, and Huainan have all had bumper harvests, so the grain and grass have been prepared, enough for our army to eat for more than half a year. ”

"My lord! The last general trains military horses every day, and now he has trained a hundred elite soldiers, each like a wolf and a tiger, and the courage is abnormal, if the Cao thief dares to come, he will be called to have no return! ”

Everything is going on in an intense and orderly manner!

Those who do not prepare are those who are prepared to fail. In this battle of life and death, Liu Bei is bound to win!

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The battle of Xuzhou is about to begin, ladies and gentlemen, don't be stingy with the recommended tickets in your hands! Smash me~