Chapter 100: Young Zhuge Liang
Zhuge Jin persuaded his uncle Zhuge Xuan to take refuge in the second son Tao Ying under the city, and Zhuge Xuan showed embarrassment in the city. Upstairs, Cao Hong said to Tao Yingyi: "Second son, now Lord Zhuge is willing to serve in Tan County, all for the people of Xuzhou, how can the second son be a strong man?" If this reputation spreads, I'm afraid it will affect the reputation of the second son! ”
Tao Ying sighed and shouted to Cao Hong: "Lord Cao, you think too much. I went to great lengths to find Xiahou Xuan and didn't do anything for him, just because he was Zhuge Ziyu's uncle. Ziyu defected to me, and I wanted to let him have nothing to worry about. Now that I see that Lord Zhuge is fine, I am relieved, he still hopes that Lord Cao will recommend him more in Tan County! ”
After Tao Ying finished speaking, Zhuge Jin next to him was still persuading, and Tao Ying hurriedly said to Zhuge Jin: "Ziyu, everyone has their own ambitions, forget it!" Don't you have to embarrass Lord Zhuge anymore? Later, if Lord Zhuge asks you to defect to Tan County, this matter will not look good. It's better to pick up your brothers and sisters, let's go back to Pengcheng, Cao Cao's two sons are already impatient waiting in Shiting! ”
There is a method called "striking at the West", for example, when you buy something in the antique market, when you fancy a treasure of undiscovered value, smart people often do not pay attention to it, but pay attention to another one that is not valuable, and then take the treasure away with it.
Zhuge Jin is only twenty years old after all, although he is already very mature in mind, but he is inevitably still a little immature in doing things. As the saying goes, when the parents are not there, the eldest brother is like a father, and now the uncle is unwilling to follow him to Pengcheng, under the persuasion of Tao Ying, Zhuge Jin has no choice but to do what his eldest brother should do.
So Zhuge Jin had no choice but to shout towards the city with some disappointment: "Uncle, since we are each our own master, I will not force it." Uncle Shi's talent must be reused, and the nephew doesn't need to worry. Don't worry about your nephew, uncle, I'll take care of my younger siblings! ”
After Zhuge Jin finished speaking, he dismounted and kowtowed to Zhuge Xuan in the city, and after kowtowing a few times, he got on the horse and shouted Zhuge Liang and Zhuge Jun, asking them to take their sister out of the city.
Tao Ying also seemed to be a little impatient and shouted towards the city: "Lord Cao, I'm in a hurry, I can't afford to delay tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, hurry up and open the city gate and release Ziyu's younger brothers and sisters, we're leaving!" ”
Seeing that Tao Ying didn't bother Zhuge Xuan anymore, Cao Hong had some doubts in his heart. But he also has the ability to know people, he talked to Zhuge Xuan just now, Zhuge Xuan's words and deeds all reveal the nobility of his family, and he is knowledgeable, is it really just to let his subordinate Zhuge Jin rest assured that he returned to Tan County?
But no matter how much it is, in order to send this plague god away as soon as possible, Cao Hong hurriedly waved his hand and asked the soldiers to take Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Jin and a little girl down.
Tao Ying pretended to be indifferent or even more impatient, but his heart was in his throat. Watching the soldiers squeak open the city gate, and then the two soldiers took Zhuge Liang and Zhuge Jin out and sent them across the drawbridge, Tao Ying's heart relaxed.
The two children hurriedly ran towards Zhuge Jin, Zhuge Jin got off the horse and hugged one hand, and tears of excitement fell. Their three brothers and one sister are the most miserable, their father died, and their mother is gone, so the three of them can only go to their uncle Zhuge Xuan.
But I didn't want Xuzhou to be in war at this time, Cao Cao started the first expedition to Xuzhou, and Zhuge Jin and his uncle were separated. According to the past history, Zhuge Jin went to Jiangdong, and was later recommended by a relative of Sun Quan in Jiangdong to become an official in Jiangdong. In the end, the official became a general, and his son was even more bullish, although his son's ending was not too good.
Then Zhuge Xuan took Zhuge Liang's brothers to continue to wander, and finally his uncle also died, and Zhuge Liang was reduced to farming in Longzhong, if Liu Bei hadn't invited him, it is estimated that he would have been just a farmer in this life.
But fortunately, they met Tao Ying who crossed over in Xuzhou, and they don't know what their fate will be, but at least one thing, their brothers don't have to be separated from now on!
Looking at the reunion of several people, the scene was a little touching, Tao Ying's family was at least not so close. It was not early, Tao Ying didn't wait for Zhuge Jin to finish speaking, and even before Tao Ying really looked at Zhuge Liang, he ordered his own soldiers to come over and grab a child and put it on his horse, and then Li Dian went over and carried the thin and yellow little girl to his horse, like a chicken.
The soldiers returned to the team, and Tao Ying's tense heart was relieved. After the surprise, Tao Ying began to show off again, regardless of whether what he said was appropriate or not, he rode a horse under the city and pointed at Cao Hong and shouted: "Lord Cao, why do you say that I have been looking for Lord Zhuge at all costs in the past two days?" ”
"Because he's very knowledgeable, but I'm one step ahead of you, haha!"
Cao Hong showed off all in the city, and Tao Ying also laughed and said: "Fei Ye, how can I have the same vision as you, what I really want to look for is Zhuge Jin's younger brother Zhuge Kongming, not Zhuge Xuan!" You stupid ......."
When it comes to stupidity*, it seems that he is too unqualified to say this, perhaps because he waited for Zhuge Liang, Tao Ying was so happy that he almost forgot to pay attention to his image.
After Tao Ying finished speaking, the strange laughter made Zhuge Jin a little scared, Cao Hong didn't believe it, Tao Ying pointed to Zhuge Jin and said: "The Zhuge family is full of talents. Although Lord Zhuge is also talented, he is worse than Zi Yu and Kong Ming, Zi Yu has the talent of a general, Kong Ming has the talent of Wang Zuo, and the world will definitely be the world of Pengcheng in the future! ”
After Tao Ying finished speaking, he hummed a little song and walked out of the city, and Cao Hong couldn't help but curse in his heart: "Stupid! What I never thought was that Tao Ying also used this title in his heart to return it to Cao Hong countless times!
As soon as I heard Tao Ying say that he had the talent of a general, and that his younger brother had the talent of Wang Zuo, Zhuge Jin was shocked! He and Tao Ying have only known each other for two or three days, and his younger brother Zhuge Liang has never met Tao Ying, how could he know that his younger brother has Wang Zuozhicai? Could he have foreseen the future?
But now, where can I take care of so many things, my lord has already led the troops towards Shiting Town again, and Zhuge Jin also hurriedly rode over.
In early August, the continuous heavy rain in Shiting Town kept falling, and Tao Ying looked at the continuous heavy rain outside the window, and his heart was full of concerns. The houses in Shiting Town have been built, and the streets have been built, and the only bad thing is that there are few trees, because it was originally farmland.
Tao Ying was pondering how to transplant some trees from elsewhere next spring, but it was obviously not this question that he needed to think about at the moment.
Tao Yingben was full of hope for Kong Ming, he thought that he would be like the down-and-out Liu Bei who suddenly met Kong Ming, and he would soon be able to start his own Wang Tu hegemony!
But what made Tao Ying collapse was that Zhuge Liang was fourteen years old at this time, and he was still a child! Ten years younger than himself, a fourteen-year-old child is a child after all, no matter how smart he is, he does not have the ability and prestige that can command thousands of troops and horses in later generations.
Tao Ying wanted to hire a teacher for him, but there was no one in Xuzhou who could teach him. Originally, Tao Ying was going to invite Zhang Zhao to teach him, but he felt that Zhang Zhao was too pedantic, and Zhang Zhao was the main descendant, when Cao Cao was strong and came to fight Pengcheng, what if he fooled Zhuge Liang and made Zhuge Liang surrender?
The sound of rain outside continued, and Tao Ying looked out the window at the ripples caused by the raindrops falling on the lotus pond. At this time, Zhuge Liang was curiously holding a brush and writing something on the paper, Zhuge Jin reprimanded him not to touch the paper, the paper was too precious, Zhuge Liang had to put down the brush and stand a little cramped in the room.
After a while, Xiaobing came to report that Cao Pi wanted to eat sweets, and he didn't want to eat the food cooked in the house, and Cao Pi was also clamoring to go back to Yanzhou. Tao Ying said with some annoyance: "If you don't eat, let him be hungry, and if you are hungry, you will naturally eat!" ”
Cao Pi is only 8 years old this year, and he is too pampered compared to Zhuge Liang. Cao Zhi is only three years old and is just a little bear child who can walk. All this disappointed Tao Ying, he had the impression that Cao Pi and Cao Zhi should be adults, but he never thought that they were so small, now he was simply self-inflicted, even if he was idle, it hurt to be idle, but it was better to raise children for others, and he was so great! When Tao Ying saw the young Cao Pi and Cao Zhi for the first time, his heart was broken.