Luan Fu saw that Cao Cao's face was flickering brightly and darkly, angry and happy, suddenly hammered his head, and suddenly burst into tears several times, as if he was crazy, and still refused to give a clear answer. took the initiative to ask: "Gong Cao, I wonder if you are willing to participate in tomorrow's banquet?" ”

"Go!" Cao Cao's answer was short but powerful.

"Lord, I can't go! Luan Yi is unpredictable, I am afraid that there is danger, you must not be in danger! Cao Ren persuaded him.

"Don't go!"

"My lord, think again." The generals also had different opinions, and Cao Cao was a big one.

"Shut up." Cao Cao raised his hand and waved everyone, "If I don't go, won't I be ridiculed by the world." I don't want to be called a coward! Besides, Luan Ziqi in the invitation was sincere and made it clear that he would not harm me. I trust Luan Yi as a person and am willing to meet him. ”

"It's indispensable to defend against people!" Li Dian reminded him.

"Don't say more, I've made up my mind. Luan Yi's sincere person said that he would not harm me, and he would not break his word and gain weight. Cao Cao's attitude was resolute, and the rest of the people did not dare to persuade more, so they returned to their positions and kept silent.

Luan Fu received Cao Cao's reply and took his leave. As soon as the front foot left the house, Cao Ren stood beside Cao Cao and asked, "Lord." When I go to the banquet tomorrow, why don't I make some arrangements, attack against it, and kill Luan Yi first. ”

"No, you can't. Luan Yi treats me with sincerity, how can I repay me with treachery, absolutely not. ”

"My lord, don't be kind to a woman!" Li Dian replied.

"A woman's kindness. This is called knowing the times. Cao Cao said: "We are now surrounded by tens of thousands of people in the church, if we kill Luan Yi, what will be the consequences?" He asked himself, "We will be destroyed, and we will all have to be buried with him." Do you all want to die with him? ”

Cao Ren and Li Dian were speechless, and they stopped talking in frustration.

"So, I'll have to go to this banquet anyway. Even if Luan Yi is treacherous and hides an ambush, there is no way for us to escape. For even if he did not go to the feast, his army would enter the city in an instant. Do you understand? ”

"This ......"

Cao Cao chattered endlessly, and continued: "In the same way, Luan Yi can easily bow Dongping and take my life, but he didn't do this, but invited me to the banquet. It also shows that he won't kill me at the banquet - the banquet is safe. ”

Everyone had an epiphany and said no more.

Although the banquet is theoretically safe, the theory is still the theory, and the necessary security still needs to be prepared.

Early in the morning of the second day, Cao Cao ordered 5,000 soldiers and horses to go straight to Canglang Pavilion in the east of the city. On the way, many scouts were sent to reconnoitre, and after learning that Luan Yishuai's 5,000 men and horses were out of the camp, all the soldiers and horses were parked five miles east of the Canglang Pavilion, and only Dian Wei, Hercules, Guo Jia, Mao Jue, Xu Shu, Luan Fu and three or five servants were brought into the pavilion.

Cao Cao followed suit, ordered the entourage of 5,000 troops to stop at a mile west of Canglang Pavilion, and led Cao Ren, Xiahoudun, Xun Yu, Xun Yu, Cheng Yu and some of his entourage to the banquet.

Cao manipulated the horse to come to the pavilion, threw the reins of the horse to his entourage, and looked into the pavilion, his eyes involuntarily straightened. In the line of sight, in addition to Luan Yi and his party sitting in the pavilion, there were two familiar figures, which were Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong. The two of them are still wearing bandages, and although they have some injuries, they are in good spirits. Obviously, Luan Yi should not have abused them.

Cao Cao cried with joy, rushed into the pavilion in three steps and two steps, and hugged Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong tightly. "Miaocai, Zilian, you are all alive!"

"We are all alive, alive!" For the rest of their lives after the catastrophe, Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong were indispensable for a lot of emotion.

It turned out that they were tricked that day and were trapped in the urn city of Licheng by Luan Yi. Rows of crossbowmen stood up above the high city on all sides, aiming their blazing fire at them. The fire bolts struck overwhelmingly, instantly turning the urn city into a sea of fire.

Cao Hong was the most fatal of all. As the saying goes, nine out of ten fires choke to death, which means that nine out of ten people in the event of a fire are choked to death by thick smoke, and only a very small number of people are burned to death. On the other hand, Cao Hong, at the moment when the flames were ignited, the horse that sat down was frightened, and he picked up his feet like crazy, and lifted Cao Hong off his back at once, causing Cao Hong to have gold stars in his eyes and faint on the spot.

This fainting saved his life and prevented him from choking to death in the smoke.

On the opposite side of Cao Hong, Xiahou Yuan survived the fire by relying entirely on his personal strength. He discarded the spear and drew the Longyuan sword that was as sharp as clay behind his back, slashing left and right, desperately protecting all the vital points in his body. At the same time, remove the water bladder on the side of the horse and pour it over the head to ward off the flames.

After fighting like this for a long time, although his life was saved, the 5,000 soldiers and horses he could bring were exhausted, and he himself was injured in many places.

Subsequently, Xu Shu led the church guards into the city to clean up the mess, and the heavy army besieged Xiahou Yuan, and after paying the lives of fourteen guards, it was not easy to capture him alive.

Luan Yi caught Xiahou Yuan, rescued Cao Hong, locked the two up, ate and drank well and entertained for several days, and escorted them together to meet Cao Cao.

Cao Cao saw that the two clan brothers were safe and sound, and the only resentment towards Luan Yi in his heart was gone. On the contrary, a strong sense of guilt arose, after all, the death of Second Uncle Luan Yi had a lot to do with him.

Luan Yi saw that the two sides in the hall behaved awkwardly and were completely cold, so he took the lead in saluting and said, "Brothers, I haven't seen you for a long time, but it's good lately." ”

Speaking of which, since the maturity of Chinese civilization, the way of greeting and greeting is very interesting.

To give a simple example, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty met an acquaintance on the street, he would ask the other person, "Have you eaten?" ”

The visitor replied, "Eat!" "But did you really eat it? At that time, people were poor, and most families had a meal without a meal, and in many cases they said they were eating, but in fact they were hungry. And the one who asked him didn't eat most of them. The reason why I answered and ate it was purely out of courtesy. This practice is called Chinese-style hypocrisy by many foreigners.

In the middle of the 20th century, during the three years of natural disasters, new ways of greeting appeared in many places. For example, the generation of southwest Lu and Henan in that era no longer asked if they had eaten, but said, "Do you have money in your pocket?" "Does that mean, the family is rich? If you're not rich, I'll lend you some money. In this case, if the person being asked does borrow money, it will be considered rude. Of course, even if he really wanted to borrow money, he couldn't borrow it, because in that special era, every family had no money, so was there money? It's just a polite remark. The respondent should say, "Yes!" "Actually, there is, not to mention that I don't have it in my pocket, and the whole family can't copy a ticket.

Another example is the sentence in front of me, "How are you doing?" According to the current situation, Cao Cao lost one after another, lost all the games, and was trapped in Dongping City and couldn't get out. In this case, can it be all right? It's too late to hide in the house and cry, it's just unlucky, and it's so bad.

Of course, Cao Cao couldn't say bluntly, "It's bad." I can only answer awkwardly according to the routine, "It's okay, it's okay!" ”

"In that case, please take a seat." Luan Yi waved his hand, took a step ahead and sat in the host's seat. Guo Jia, Xu Shu and others lined up on his left and right, Cao Cao sat down directly opposite him, Xun Yu, Xun You, Cheng Yu and Cao Cao sat on the same side of the round table, and Cao Ren and Xiahoudun wore armor to protect Cao Cao's safety.

Everyone sat down and began to greet each other, whether true or false. To outsiders, it seems that it is not a meeting of hostile forces, but a dinner party of old friends who have not seen each other for many years.

It's just that people who are a little more careful don't find that among the two groups of people sitting at the same table, only Luan Yi and his party are chatting while eating, while Cao Cao and the others ignore the wine and food on the table, and just chat.

After talking for a while, Cao Cao saw Luan Yi talking about him left and right, but he never got into the topic, and he couldn't help but have a lot of dreams at night, so he asked straight to the point: "Ziqi, is there something important to invite me to come this time?" If there is nothing important to discuss, we will leave first. ”

"Brother Mengde, slow down." Luan Yi raised his hand, stopped Cao Cao, who was about to say goodbye and leave, wiped the oil stains on the corners of his mouth, and said: "I invited you to the banquet this time, Yi didn't have any other thoughts, and he didn't want to talk about business, he just wanted to ...... It's just ......" He choked up at this. After being suppressed for a while, he took a sip of strong wine before continuing: "I just want to reminisce about the good old days." Today, I am no longer the Yanzhou Thorn History and Sect Master, you are not Xuchang Taishou, Brother Wen Ruo is not Changshi, and Fengxiao is not a military priest. We are who we are, ordinary us, we who were dressed in white ten or twenty years ago, simple us. We don't think about any mission or responsibility, we just sit here, like when the first emperor was alive, drink and talk happily, talk about the sorrows in our hearts, and think about the feelings of our youth. That's all, okay? ”

Cao Cao's half-straight posture froze suddenly. Xun Yu, Xun You, and Cheng Yu were moved by it, and sat on the chair.

"Okay!" Cao Cao stroked his beard, "No matter who you and I will kill tomorrow, let's get drunk today." ”

"Good!" Luan Yi wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, praised loudly, picked up the wine cup and said, "In order to meet yesterday, we drank this cup." ”

"Great goodness!"

Luan Yi, Guo Jia, Mao Jue, and Xu Shu drank it all.

Xun Yu, Xun Yu, and Cheng Yu followed without saying a word.

Cao Cao saw that Xun Yu and the three of them drank no signs of poisoning, and finally toasted.

After a glass of wine, the eight laughed in unison, "Good wine!" ”

After a glass of wine, Luan Yi asked Cao Cao, "Brother Meng De, do you remember the ambition we set ten years ago?" ”

"Of course. Seal the wolf Juxu, Le Shi Yanran, expand the territory, make the four seas surrender, and achieve the grand wish of 'leading the shore of the land is not the king'. ”

"yes!" Luan Yi laughed at himself, "'Feng Wolf Juxu, Le Shi Yanran.'" At that time, our vision was so short-sighted, thinking that when the horse stepped on Juxu, Le Shi Yanran would reach the extreme of fame. ”

For hundreds of years, the great martial arts achieved by Dou Xian and Huo Quzhi have been sought after by generations of people and set up as a lifelong goal. Luan Yi was the first to show disdain for this. Cao Cao was puzzled and asked, "How do you say this?" ”