After Yuan Jiang left, Lu Fan sat in the study in a daze, looking at the still steaming tea in front of him and was stunned. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

He had to admit that what Yuan Jiang said just now was indeed insightful, many of which he thought of, and some of which he had never cared about at all, and it was these things that he didn't care about that became the most important thing for him to consider at the moment.

In the big picture, what Lu Fan needs to consider is very simple: either take refuge in Sun Ce; Either allegiance to Yuan Jiang.

But if you think about it carefully, you have to consider many details, such as the contrast of power between the two sides; development prospects and so on.

If you just say this, loyalty to Yuan Jiang is undoubtedly the best choice for Lu Fan, after all, he is the son of the state pastor, if there is no accident, after a hundred years of Yuan Shu, it is Yuan Jiang who will inherit the position of the state pastor; As for Sun Ce, he is just the son of a small Marquis of Wucheng, and he can't inherit the title yet, and his future is bleak.

However, Lu Fan was worried that Yuan Jiang's subordinates were full of talents, and he would not get the opportunity to develop, after all, he still remembered those days of exclusion.

"Alas!"

With a long sigh, Lu Fan suddenly stood up, walked to the window, and looked at the moon in the sky in a daze.

Suddenly, a cold wind rushed in from the window, and went straight into Lu Fan's wide sleeved robe, and the cold chill made him shiver excitedly, and when he wanted to go back to get a piece of clothing to wear, someone happened to put a fluffy coat on him from behind him.

Lu Fan didn't look back, just glanced at the rough old hand protruding from his shoulder from the corner of his eye, that is, he knew the identity of his master, and he sighed: "Alas, there are two paths in front of me now, how do you choose me?" ”

Wu stretched out his hand to hug Lu Fan's waist and said with a smile: "This is the husband's business, how dare the concubine make peace?" ”

Lu Fan turned around slowly, hugged Wu with his backhand, stared directly into the other party's eyes, and said extremely seriously: "I need you to give me advice now, there is no one else here, you have something you want to say, but it doesn't hurt to say it." ”

"I don't have anything to say." Wu shook his head, and before Lu Fan showed a disappointed expression, he smiled playfully like a girl: "But I want to tell you that it won't be long before you have more daughters." ”

"Multiple daughters, how can it be, don't you ......"

Lu Fan, who was full of surprise, reached out to touch Wu's stomach, but was ruthlessly opened by the latter, "What do you think, I hate it." I mean, you're about to get a goddaughter. ”

Lu Fan asked suspiciously, "Goddaughter, who are you talking about?" ”

Wu said: "Of course it's Su'er, haven't you wanted to recognize her for a long time?" ”

Hearing this, the doubts in Lu Fan's heart turned into anger, and he was displeased, "I do want to recognize her, but that's just thinking about it, why do you make your own opinions, people are the daughters of Changshi, if we recognize her, we will be poked in the back." I, Lu Ziheng, am not a villain who takes the initiative to tie up with Shangguan for the sake of petty profits. ”

Regarding Lu Fan's seriousness, Wu just covered his mouth and chuckled, and laughed for a while before saying, "We have been husband and wife for more than ten years, don't I know your temperament?" Do you think I'll do something like this? ”

The doubts in Lu Fan's heart were even worse, "Then where did you start with this?" ”

Wu smiled and said, "This time it's no one else, it's Xu'er herself who proposed to recognize us as my father." And when the time comes, a ceremony will be held, so that everyone in Quanshou Spring City will know that it was the Yang family who took the initiative to make friends with our Lu family, think about it, how face-saving this is. ”

"This ...... How is this possible? Lu Fan opened his mouth wide in surprise, and in a moment, a thought flashed through his heart, and he asked with some uncertainty: "Could it be that this matter is led by Jiang Gongzi?" ”

"You're not too stupid." Wu Shi chuckled and said a meaningful sentence, "Now you should understand how to choose, right?" ”

Early the next morning, in the martial arts hall of the state governor's mansion, a meeting of the ministers was held.

At the court meeting, Sun Ce originally wanted to propose the matter of borrowing troops to attack Liu Xuan, but because the main purpose of this court meeting was to solve Liu Bei's affairs, he had no chance to speak at all.

Regarding Liu Bei's peace, because the two parties had already negotiated before, it went very smoothly, basically just a process, Xu Tan also had a few symbolic arguments with Yuan Shu's advisers, and finally only made modifications and concessions on a few innocuous trivial things.

This matter finally ended with Yuan Shu removing the siege of Yinling City, and using Huai'an to Liu Bei to let him return to Xuzhou, while Liu Bei recognized Huai'an, Guangling and other places as Yuan Shu's territories, and offered 10,000 pieces of grain.

One of the things that has to be mentioned is that when passing through Huai'an City, Liu Bei, instigated by Guan Yu and Chen Zhen, wanted to take the opportunity to take this important town in Huainan, but when they saw the arrows that suddenly came out of the city wall and shone with cold light, this evil thought was fleeting.

Liu Bei's current army plus the old, weak, sick and disabled is only more than 2,000 people, and the walls of this Huai'an City are densely covered with archers, there are more than 800 people, if you want to forcibly attack the city, I am afraid that all the belongings of Liu Bei's men will be buried here.

Just when Liu Bei and the others were stunned, a general wearing a bright silver helmet appeared on the city wall, and this person was Li Zicheng, who was ordered to garrison Huai'an.

He looked at the panicked Liu Bei and the others, and said with a smile: "Liu Xuande, my Jiang Gongzi wants me to bring you a message, this Huai'an City is indeed a good place, but you must also have the strength to take it, otherwise, it will just be a waste of troops." He also said that Xuande is a hero in troubled times, knows right from wrong, knows righteousness, and hopes to compete with you one day. ”

Hearing Li Zicheng say this, Guan Yu, who was about to enter Huai'an City single-handedly just now, was silent, and inadvertently glanced at Liu Bei's gaze and became much more grateful, he knew that if Liu Bei hadn't stopped him just now, I am afraid that he would have died in front of the gate of Huai'an City by now - judging by what Li Zicheng said, there must be a large number of ambushes buried in the city.

Liu Bei was stunned when he heard this, and then let out a long sigh, "It's a pity that my Liu Bei can't give birth to a son like Jiang Gongzi." After sighing, he raised his head with burning eyes, and smiled at Li Zicheng, who was always paying attention to the movements of the enemy army on the city wall: "Xu Tan has already told me that Xuande can return to Xuzhou safely this time, thanks to Jiang Gongzi's great help, please go back and tell Jiang Gongzi that Liu Bei is looking forward to the day when he will hunt the Central Plains with him." Leave! ”

After saying this, he pulled out his horse and turned around, and gave an order to all the soldiers, "The whole army listens to the order, bypasses Huai'an, and goes straight to Xuzhou." ”

At this time, Yuan Jiang was busy accepting Lu Fan, who had surrendered to Cheng.