Cao Cao ultimately did not take Lu Ren's advice. But this is not surprising, Lu Ren himself felt that the source of the idea of making that kind of suggestion seemed too mysterious at the time, let alone Cao Cao, the ancients. AND STRICTLY SPEAKING, LU REN'S SUGGESTION DID NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE BATTLE SITUATION AT THAT TIME, AND OF COURSE CAO CAO WOULD PASS IT DIRECTLY.

In this way, time passed day by day in the confrontation between the two sides, and the time came to the first year of Xingping (AD194). After the onset of summer, the plague of locusts recorded in the history books came as scheduled. Seeing that there was no food to enter the account this autumn, Cao Cao and Lu Bu had no confidence to stalemate with each other any longer, so they each quit their troops and sought their own ways to raise their troops. (Note 1)

And here in Xun Yu in Juancheng, it was naturally in a state of anxiety, Xun Yu frowned all day long, his eyes were locked on the map on the wall, thinking about Cao Cao's next response here.

The current situation between the two sides is like this, but it has little to do with Lu Ren for him. And if you really want to talk about it, the more than half a year that Lu Ren has lived since returning from the Puyang front to the outbreak of the locust plague should be regarded as half a year that Lu Ren has lived a very leisurely and comfortable life since he crossed over. Because since he returned from the Puyang Front and was officially appointed by Cao Cao as Bicao Pengshi, it can be said that everything has gone on the track he set out at the beginning, so there is nothing for him to worry about.

Promoted from a scribe to a better than Cao Peng, the salary has increased, but the work is still the same, and those things that are written and calculated are not difficult for Lu Ren, so in the past six months, Lu Ren has been going to work at Xun Yu on time every day, and if there is any work to do, he will be busy, and if he has nothing to do, he will sit there and activate the chip to play games, and then eat and sleep at night...... Can such a small day be leisurely and leisurely?

Not to mention that Lu Ren's attitude is a bit heartless, at least for a silk otaku in modern society, it is enough to have a stable job and a stable living environment. Of course, it would be better if there was a goddess to push it, but now Lu Ren didn't dare to think about this, let alone ask Cao Cao to ask for it.

However, Lu Ren will live his little life like this, and he still has something to rely on. Cao Cao PASSED LU REN'S SUGGESTION, BUT LU REN HIMSELF WOULD NOT PASS. After Lu Ren returned from Puyang that time, he exchanged all the money on hand for food, and even cheekily "borrowed" a lot of money from Guo Jia to buy food, and where would Guo Jia worry about money with Lu Ren?

In addition, it was not difficult for Lu Ren to collect grain at that time, because Cao Cao came back from being a locust in Xuzhou, and in addition to the share that his soldiers had to hand over, the rest was their own booty, and naturally there would be some things that sold the loot and then went to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble.

In short, Lu Ren's money may not be much, but Lu Ren slowly and little by little, filled the granary of his new home to which he moved to after being promoted to Cao Peng. Two urns that could hold about three tons of grain were stuffed, which was more than six tons of grain. With more than six tons of grain in storage, Lu Ren really responded to the sentence "There is food in your hands, and you don't panic in your heart", how can you live a small life without being leisurely?

Without further ado, it is only said that in the autumn season, Cao Cao's poor grain income here gave Cao Cao and Xun Yu a headache. Xun Yu out of various considerations, so he sent Lu Rendai to inspect the land of the three counties. In Xun Yu's words, it was in this situation of catastrophe that it was easy for money and grain accounts in various places to have problems, and no one could count Lu Ren at that time to calculate these accounts, so it was most appropriate for Lu Ren to go to the three counties to inspect and count the accounts.

Even if Lu Ren, who lived a leisurely life, was unwilling, he could only respond to a "promise", and then took some of Xun Yu's entourage seconded to him on the road. And when Lu Ren walked outside the city and saw the desolate field scenery, Lu Ren's previous leisurely mood immediately fell to the bottom.

It is said that "out of sight is quiet", Lu Ren had that kind of leisurely mentality before, although it was a bit heartless, but it was also related to the fact that he had never really seen that kind of desolate and tragic scene. A guy who has been living in a stable and prosperous social environment, where has he seen that kind of miserable situation? Even after Lu Ren crossed over, the first place he stayed in was Xuzhou, which was relatively stable and wealthy compared to the current situation at that time, and at most he only saw poverty, and he was far from miserable. Now that I really see it, it touches Lu Ren's heart very much.

On this day, Lu Ren was walking with his entourage on the way to Dong'e County. Lu Ren was in a bad mood, he kept his head down and didn't speak, but he was secretly scolding himself in his heart: "You guy...... Now it seems that you guy is very much like those landlords and old fortunes in movies and television, hiding at home and closing the door to eat and drink, and I haven't thought about how hungry the people outside the door have become, and it is really a typical rich and unkind. 'Zhumen wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road', I really didn't expect this poem to be reflected in me one day. ”

As he was walking, the attendant next to Lu Ren suddenly grabbed the horse and stopped Lu Ren, and then pointed in a certain direction and said, "Lu Bicao, it doesn't seem right over there." ”

"How?"

Lu Renshun looked over, and vaguely saw that there were about a dozen villagers in a group, and then looked at the smoke and dust that was rising, it should be roasting something. Some of them saw Lu Ren's team, and they cowered, their eyes full of horror. At this time, as soon as the breeze was gone, Lu Ren actually smelled the faint smell of meat.

Seeing this, Lu Ren shook his head and said, "Maybe these villagers have hunted some wild things and are cooking them to satisfy their hunger, right?" Judging by their frightened looks, they may have feared that we would go and steal their food. Nothing strange, don't scare them, let's go. ”

The attendants didn't say anything more when they saw Lu Ren speak, and continued to follow Lu Ren, and no one looked at those villagers again. And after Lu Ren rode his horse and walked a few steps, he subconsciously turned around and glanced at the villagers again. But it was this glance that made Lu Ren stunned on the spot, and then rubbed his eyes with both hands, for fear that he was wrong.

But it's a pity that Lu Ren was not mistaken, Lu Ren's consternation only turned into anger in an instant, and he suddenly turned over and dismounted and drew his sword, and shouted angrily at those villagers: "What are you doing? ”

Seeing Lu Ren like this, a few attendants naturally followed Lu Ren, who turned over and dismounted and took out weapons to protect him, and at this time, they finally understood why Lu Ren changed suddenly, because the circle surrounded by more than a dozen villagers was full of bloodstains, and in the center of the bloodstains were two corpses that had not known how many pieces of flesh had been cut off...... Human corpses.

"I'm X ——!!"

Lu Ren let out another loud shout, and directly activated the physical strength enhancer and rushed towards those villagers. If it was Lu Ren in the past, when he saw such a scene, he would most likely be nauseous and vomit, and then flee in fear; But today's Lu Ren is already a person who has rolled in the pile of dead people, and it will not be so useless to see such a scene.

Seeing Lu Ren rushing like this, some of those villagers picked up the farm tools around them in a panic and wanted to resist Lu Ren, but some people ran away as soon as they turned around. And when Lu Ren was about to rush to the front, and the sword in his hand was raised and ready to be cut, Lu Ren stopped again, looking at the villagers with both anger and a little compassion.

The faces are yellow and hungry, and the hands are shaking with farm tools in hand. And the eyes they looked back at Lu Ren were not fierce and cruel at all, some were only deeply afraid, and even some people's eyes had long lost their brilliance, and in the gray and gloomy, they even revealed the intention of looking forward to liberation.

The sword in Lu Ren's hand slowly drooped, and he also raised his hand to stop the attendants who rushed over. Looking at the villagers in front of him again, and then at the bloody corpses on the ground, Lu Ren sighed heavily, reached out and untied the bag of dry food wrapped around his belt, and slowly put it on the ground in front of him.

Seeing Lu Ren like this, the few attendants who followed him hesitated for a moment and put the bags of dry food on their waists on the ground as Lu Ren did. Lu Ren looked around at the villagers again, shook his head and sighed: "Take these dry foods and go east to Xuzhou, where you can have something to eat." Don't ...... anymore"

Lu Ren really couldn't say the last few words, but he turned around with a slam and left. After turning over on the horse, the whip in Lu Ren's hand swung down fiercely, and the mount galloped wildly in pain, only a moment away from this place, a place that Lu Ren didn't want to see again.

After I don't know how long later, Lu Ren stopped his horse, and then stopped his head, looking at his hands in a daze. After a while, the attendants caught up, and someone asked Lu Ren, "Lu Bicao, why did you ...... just now?"

Lu Ren said: "Kill them?" But what's the use of killing them? The people are so hungry that they have no way to live, so what can't they do? How many can I kill today, but what about tomorrow? What about the day after tomorrow? Do you want to kill all these people who have to do this in order to survive? What are their sins? Are they really just eating people for the sake of eating people!? ”

Everyone was speechless.

Lu Ren looked down at his hands again, and said to himself: "Looking back now, I was really heartless before, and I always felt that as long as I lived comfortably, I could leave nothing behind, and I was really not a thing......"

Someone comforted: "Lu is heavier than Cao Yan." This drought and locust plague is the power of heaven, but is it Lu Bicao's sin? ”

Lu Ren looked up at the sky: "You don't understand, God's business really has nothing to do with me, but I didn't do it when I could have done something, it's my fault." ”

As soon as these words came out, all the attendants looked at each other, and they didn't know what Lu Ren wanted to do.

Looking at Lu Ren again, he stared at the sky and thought for a while, and suddenly turned the horse's head and rang the attendants and ordered: "Go, go back to Juancheng!" ”

(Note 1: Again, remind you that the bottle has been noted in the eighth chapter that Cao Cao beat Tao Qian according to the record of the official history, it was actually hit twice.) The first time was to raise troops in the autumn of 193 and to collect them in the spring of 194. After recuperating for a few months, he raised troops again in the summer of 194, and then triggered Liu Bei's rescue of Xuzhou, and Chen Gong helped Lu Bu steal Cao Cao's nest. In the romance, it is written twice and once. Considering the need for time for the subsequent development of the plot, the bottle here is to write twice and once, and at the same time advance the rescue of Liu Bei and the sneak attack of Lu Bu by one year. But the locust plague was still scheduled for 194 years. ）