The banquet venue was not very ornate, but more focused on warmth, making people feel that this was not a gathering at the main level of power, but more like an ordinary banquet between ordinary people.

Everyone sat around, with Cao Cao's officials in the majority, Zhao Yue just sat in the guest seat with Jia Xu and Zhao Yun, and Xu Huang led the army to defend in the city, so he did not appear.

The waiter in beautiful clothes filled the wine glass for the people at the table, Zhao Yue looked down at the gradually rising liquid level in the wine glass, and was still haunted by the question he had just been asked outside the door, and it was difficult to let go.

The lights are bright, the music is playing, and the sound is low at first, which is perfect for people to drink and discuss things at the same time.

Zhao Yue is a guest, so it is not good to be the first to speak, so she can only sit in her seat and wait for the instructions of her master Cao Cao.

Before Cao Cao could speak, Guo Jia stood up from the seat and asked, "Dare to ask Lord Zhao Yue, do you feel at home when you come to my Xuchang this time?" ”

Zhao Yue replied with a smile: "Where is the Bin?" Although my ancestor Yingzheng is from Xichuan, I grew up in Kunyang, and Kunyang and Xu County both belong to Yingchuan County. ”

Guo Jia really couldn't pick out any words to refute what Zhao Yue said, but before that, he had already discussed with the lord Cao Cao that he must let Zhao Yue willingly send troops to Shouchun with them, and without returning to Luoyang to transfer troops.

Guo Jia continued: "In that case, if Lord Zhao Yue's hometown is coveted by foreign enemies, can Lord Zhao Yue sit idly by? ”

When this sentence came out, Zhao Yue didn't know how to answer, he didn't know the news that Sun Ce had defeated Yuan Shu and occupied Shouchun, or rather, he knew the news, but he didn't take this news very seriously.

After all, Shouchun is far away from his subordinates, and Sun Ce has been conquering cities and territories for a long time, and he has achieved a lot of results, which is not unexpected news.

Zhao Yue didn't answer for a long time, he didn't know what Guo Jia's intention was to ask, and finally, out of courtesy, Zhao Yue still replied: "Zhao Yue was born in Sangzi since he was a child, and he has been greatly favored by his fellow villagers. ”

"Haha, good, that's good!" Cao Cao suddenly burst into hearty laughter in his seat, which caught Zhao Yue off guard.

In Zhao Yue's heart, Cao Cao is a scheming fox, and his smile is usually obscene and extremely cunning, but this time, this smile is surprisingly tough, and there must be something strange in it.

When he didn't know why, Cao Cao finally explained: "Changjiao doesn't know, Sun Ce, the son of the Tiger of Jiangdong, has already occupied many territories south of the Yangtze River, and Shouchun, who has just conquered Yuan Shu today, is probably the Central Plains next......."

Hearing this, Zhao Yue finally understood Cao Cao's intentions, he shook his head with a smile, and before Cao Cao could put forward the request thoroughly, he politely refused: "Meng De is worried about the sky, Sun Ceyong is brave, but in terms of age and the quality of his generals, which one can match you?" He must have been self-aware and did not dare to come to the border. ”

When Cao Cao heard this, his face couldn't help but sink, he said in his heart Zhao Yue is young, he doesn't know what to do, just a few days after being the king of Qin, he began to have no one in his eyes.

What's more, it's still in front of so many of his subordinates.

Coupled with the fact that he was on his own territory at the moment, the anger in Cao Cao's heart came suddenly, but it was also reasonable.

However, after all, the previous alliance between the two armies was well maintained, and he was not suddenly angry at the moment, so he could only continue to smile and say strongly: "Changjiao, but Sun Bofu has ordered his younger brother to guard Shouchun, and he has mobilized tens of thousands of horses to defend the city, and his momentum is approaching Xuzhou, if I don't take this matter to heart, I am afraid that when Xuzhou falls, it will be too late to regret it." ”

As the two spoke, everyone present looked intently at the expressions on the faces of Cao Cao and Zhao Yue. Jia Xu's brows were sometimes furrowed, sometimes stretched, as if he was affected by the increasingly strange atmosphere in the banquet.

As for Zhao Yun, he didn't dare to be careless, and one hand was already pressed on the saber on his waist. Because he noticed the affectionate changes of Cao Cao's generals during the banquet, they all began to put down the wine glasses they were holding, and their hands involuntarily put on their weapons.

These people, such as Yu Ban, Cao Ren, Cao Hong and others, already have a deep understanding of the lord Cao Cao, and they can comprehend the implicit orders from Cao Cao's eyes and movements.

Cao Cao was extremely unhappy just now, and they noticed it, so at this moment, they were all tense and made all the necessary preparations.

This banquet has just begun, Cao Cao already understands in his heart that Zhao Yue is no longer the person who was easy to control before, and indeed in the battle of Kuangting, Zhao Yue has jumped from a small soldier to a monarch, which makes Cao Cao sigh that his growth rate is amazing. But even so, after Kuang Ting, Zhao Yue still had to look at Cao Cao's face in everything, such as ceding the territory around Wancheng. This made Cao Cao feel that although Zhao Yue was full of threats, he could control it.

But this time when they got together again, when Cao Cao had not yet made a request, he was rejected by Zhao Yue, who knew the intention, Cao Cao felt a kind of dissatisfaction.

To be precise, it is a kind of worry, and Cao Cao is worried that if this situation is allowed to continue, it may cause a situation that he does not want to see even more.

Then the best way to solve this problem is what I mentioned to Guo Jia before: leave Zhao Yue behind and don't let him go back to Luoyang.

Cao Cao thought so in his heart, he had already put this plan on the agenda, but it was necessary to persuade Zhao Yue to send troops, he had made all the preparations, how could he think that Zhao Yue's denial would disrupt the whole plan?

"Mengde?" Zhao Yue, who didn't know Cao Cao's thoughts, saw that Cao Cao hadn't spoken for a long time, so she couldn't help but ask.

Cao Cao came to his senses and hurriedly replied, "Oh? Chang Jiao, I just thought about solving the problem of Sun Ce's big trouble, and I was out of the world for a while, so don't blame Chang Jiao. ”

Zhao Yue only said that what Cao Cao said was true, and he didn't think deeply, and continued to say according to his own thoughts: "Why should Meng De worry too much, Chang Jiao has a lot of friendship with that Sun Bofu, as long as I write a letter, I can persuade him to retire from the army Shouchun, otherwise, I will go back to Luoyang to raise troops and fight Meng De to the death with him." ”

For Zhao Yue, this is just a plan to delay the army, slow Sun Ce's army, and slow Cao Cao's request, killing two birds with one stone, but it is also neat, but some people refuse to buy it, such as Cao Cao.

He said flatly: "Changjiao, I'm afraid everything is not so simple." (To be continued.) )