Chapter 139: One Life Worth One Life
Hearing that he was going to kill himself, Cao Pi suddenly fell to the ground as soon as his legs became weak. He had heard in Pengcheng that because his father had not fulfilled his original promise, Tao Ying had already led his troops to attack Yanzhou. And as the two brothers are hostages, he has long understood their fate.
But after hearing it from Tao Ying, Cao Pi's young heart still collapsed. Hate is hated to be born in Houmen, he wants to live in Pengcheng like this for the rest of his life, with his own playmate Zhuge Liang, and Cao Chun, who is related to him. But all this is going to end today, because the father's messenger is here, and he is not the eldest son, Cao Cao still has so many sons.
Looking at the collapsed Cao Pi, Cao Chun hurriedly ran over to help him up, and the young Cao Zhi cried in the hall like this, and he didn't even know what was going on.
"Second son, this is not a gentleman's doing!"
As soon as Xi Zhi spoke, Tao Ying knew what he wanted to say, so Tao Ying said a little jokingly: "I'm not a gentleman? The moment the Cao thieves broke the contract, I should have killed them, and then sent the heads of the three of them to Yanzhou. But I didn't, I don't hate Cao Cao, but everyone has a life, the tiger poison does not eat children, I just let them live, let them grow up, and let them know what kind of person Cao Cao is! ”
After Tao Ying roared, he found that it seemed that he had become much more angry in the past few years. From the last time he trained the envoy of Qingzhou, to now he is debating with the hall of Xi Zhicai, he is becoming more and more angry.
Tao Ying was angry, but Xi Zhicai didn't know how to answer for a while, but Sun Gan next to him answered and persuaded: "Don't be angry first, second son, and listen to me!" ”
Seeing that it was Sun Qian, the old minister of Xuzhou, Tao Ying still respected him. So he held back, in fact, in Tao Ying's heart, he also wanted to end the Yanzhou war quickly, because the construction of Pengcheng needed too much money, and when he sent troops to the north, Huainan Yuan Shu always made a ghost for himself in the back, so that now Tao Ying wants to strangle him immediately!
Looking at Sun Gan, Tao Ying nodded, and Sun Gan hurriedly said: "The envoy from Yanzhou is here, not to argue about the covenant, but to fulfill the promise!" ”
After Sun Qian finished speaking, he looked at Xi Zhicai, but Tao Ying shook his head and said, "No, I can't see Yanzhou's sincerity!" ”
Xi Zhicai was busy next to him and said: "My lord is willing to fulfill the agreement with the second son, and today is to let Xuzhou Mu come to testify." As long as the son withdraws from the army, my lord will give Shanyang County and other places to the second son, and the second son will not hurt the two little sons. ”
After Xi Zhicai finished speaking, he looked at Cao Zhi and Cao Pi who were crying, and the two looked at Xi Zhicai again, not knowing if he could really save himself. Tao Ying knew that Xi Zhicai was another way to buy people's hearts, so he hurriedly said: "That land should have been mine, but their lives have nothing to do with the covenant." Before your lord broke the covenant, I must teach him a lesson, or else when your lord has more food and grass, will he be a scoundrel again? ”
After Tao Ying finished speaking, he asked Cao Pi to push him out and behead him, and then asked him to put the head on and let Xi Zhicai take it back to Cao Cao to see, so that he would know the fate of breaking the contract. Although Cao Cao may not care about his son at all, or maybe Cao Cao only cares about himself, he doesn't care about everyone.
Otherwise, he would not have let his eldest son Cao Ang die tragically, and he ran away. Everyone loves their son, but Cao Cao loves his wife and himself!
Several guards came from the door, and then stepped forward to pull Cao Pi out and behead him. Seeing that the guards were going to behead Cao Pi, Cao Chun's task was to protect them, if Cao Pi died, wouldn't his mission fail?
Although he was also captured, life and death have long been out of his hands.
"Don't touch the young lord of my family, I am willing to exchange my life for his life, please be gracious to the second son!"
Cao Chun hurriedly went up to protect Cao Pi behind him, Cao Chun was very arrogant, but in the year of Pengcheng, he saw Pengcheng's gradual strength and knew his own shortcomings, so now he has long lost the self-confidence he had at the beginning.
People should sometimes see something stronger, so that they can recognize their own shortcomings, and only then will they remember to learn, so as to make themselves better. When he had nothing to do this year, Cao Chun would ask someone to buy books on the street, and then saw a lot of books such as "Reverie about the Future Society" written by Tao Ying, as well as "The New Firearms Era", and he had unknowingly become a fan of Tao Ying.
Seeing that Cao Chun was willing to exchange his life for Cao Pi's life, everyone stared at him. It seems that the head of the person in front of him is in the water, where is his life as expensive as Cao Pi's life?
But what was unexpected was that Tao Ying seemed to be very happy and slapped the table and shouted, "Okay, that's right." Yanzhou envoy, look at it, your lord is not as good as a reckless man! The reckless man still knows loyalty, but your lord doesn't even want his son's subordinates for the sake of profit, he is really a scumbag! ”
After Tao Ying finished speaking, the two soldiers turned around and grabbed Cao Chun and wanted to pull Cao Chun out and cut him down. Cao Chun didn't resist, just stood up, sorted out his clothes like an innocent child, and then lowered his head to wipe away Cao Pi's tears, and the tears of a big man couldn't stop falling.
"Little lord, you must live well! I'll go first, I can't take care of you first......"
After Cao Chun finished speaking, even Sun Shao couldn't help but wipe away his tears.
Sun Shao lowered his head behind him and whispered in Tao Ying's ear, Tao Ying pointed to the guards and said, "You go down, I said let him take his life for his life, and kill him!" Is there any other use in killing him than wasting my land and burying him? ”
Everyone looked at Tao Ying, and Sun Gan couldn't help but ask: "How is the second son going to ......?"
"Since you have entrusted your life to me, then you should naturally be at my disposal in the future. Not only will I not kill you, but I will reuse you. How can I slay such a loyal man? Get up, remember, from today onwards, you will be my Pengcheng general, and you will have nothing to do with Yanzhou! ”
After Tao Ying finished speaking, he asked Cao Pi to be taken down. Cao Zhi kept crying beside him, and Tao Ying also asked people to take him down.
Tao Ying originally wanted to kill him and then let Cao Cao know his principles. But I didn't want this thing to really move me just now, Sun Shao said in his ear again, such a loyal person is hard to find in the world, it is better to stay by his side, but he is worthy of a heavy responsibility! Tao Ying thought about it, it seemed that what Sun Shao said was reasonable, even if he gave him face, so he left Cao Chun's head.
Cao Chun stood in the hall and was stunned, he thought that a life for a life was a change of head, but he didn't want this Tao to play cards according to common sense! Just when Cao Chun didn't know what to do, Sun Shao behind Tao Ying hurriedly shouted: "General Cao, don't hurry up and thank the lord!" ”
After Sun Shao finished shouting, Cao Chun reacted, it turned out that Tao Ying was exchanging his dominance for Cao Pi's life, not killing himself!
You don't have to die, it's a good thing, Cao Chun knelt on the ground and said: "Thank you for the grace of the lord not to kill, if the lord can send Pi'er to Yanzhou safely, I will go to the soup for the lord, and I will not give up!" ”