Jizhou, Yecheng.

Unlike because Lu Bu announced in public the good news that he wanted to marry a daughter, and most of the people in Linzi City who had been blessed for a long time were as happy and lively as if they were celebrating the New Year, in recent days, the sky in Yecheng has always seemed to be covered with a thick layer of haze, which makes people depressed and breathless.

During the trip to Chang'an, Yuan Shao, who was the lord of Hebei, said that after returning to Yecheng with self-improvement, he coughed up blood dozens of times in a few days, and countless doctors diagnosed and treated him for several days without law, and he was already bedridden and unconscious!

The source of the news is unknown, but judging from the fact that Yuan Shao has not looked at the matter for several days, this rumor should probably be true. Yecheng is the seat of Jizhou, there are countless spies from all forces, and it is the strongest Yuan clan territory among the princes in the world.

And for the ministers of the Yuan family, everyone who knows the news of this trip has the same feeling in their hearts, Lao Yuan is definitely a big loss this time, almost all the troops of Jizhou, but in the end, except for a false name, there is no benefit, and he ends up laughing at the world. It's actually really unlucky.

The healer has a word. All diseases are born from anger, anger hurts the liver, joy hurts the heart, sorrow hurts the lungs, thoughts hurt the spleen, and fear hurts the kidneys. And Yuan Shao went to Chang'an, but he cleaned up the five poisons.

First of all, because Chang'an was easily broken by the four coalition forces, and he Yuan Shao came here to lead the most troops, and he was the first to be rewarded for meritorious deeds, seeing that the Yuan family was destroyed by Dong Zhuo, and it will continue to be prosperous in his own hands, and it is very likely that he will change from the fourth and third princes to the fifth and third princes and be overjoyed;

But when he was the happiest, he learned from Cao Ying that his cheap cousin Yuan Shu was actually carrying a national artifact such as the heirloom jade seal, and he was very likely to override him, the head of the Yuan family, and his heart turned anxious;

Just when he was about to make a plan, Yan Liang, a general under his command who had full trust, actually lost the easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack Tongguan under the condition of controlling an army of 10,000, and then the first skill of saving the driver was about to arrive, but he was furious by the news that Qin Xu, the thief, "cut off Hu" halfway;

The anger was not dissipated, and because the Son of Heaven was obviously indifferent to the Yuan family, although he gave a very high reward, he made Cao Ying and Lu Bu check and balance, and even Qin Xu, the vertical son, was named the general of Zhengdong, and he could catch up at any time and think about the Son of Heaven's intentions;

Even Yuan Shao's frustration and his desire to calculate Cao Ying's thoughts on the matter of the Son of Heaven's temporary residence were also recognized, not only did he lose the opportunity to usher the Son of Heaven into Yecheng, but it strengthened the Son of Heaven's determination to approve Cao Ying and Qin Xu's proposal.

If all of these failed works are passed on, Yuan Benchu with a straw bag image can basically replace the previous handsome son in the eyes of the world, a hereditary nobleman, and the male lord of Hebei, how can Yuan Shao not be frightened in his heart? Yuan Shao, who was very worried, fainted and fell to the ground with mixed feelings on top of the Golden Palace, and it was strange that his body could get better.

What's more, although Yuan Shao is strong in Hebei, whether it is in the battle with Liu Bei and Gongsun Zhan, or in the negotiation with the black mountain thieves in the territory, he is a crushing posture, but in fact, Yuan Shao's most worrying and heartache is that his own forces are not monolithic.

When the old Yuan Kangjian was in the past, his favorite was the third son Yuan Shang, and he privately said to his beloved wife Liu several times that after a hundred years, he would entrust all the foundation to his three sons. But after all, in addition to the fourth Yuan Mai, who died young, Lao Yuan still has the eldest son Yuan Tan and the second son Yuan Xi, both of whom are sincere, both of whom are close relatives and have their own supporters, and Yuan Shao sometimes has a headache. In order to "escort" the future of his youngest son, after winning the annexation of the state, Yuan Shao did not send his nephew Gao Gan to be the assassin of the state, as in history, but handed over this position to Yuan Tan, the eldest son who had a good relationship with the Yuan family of military generals and was good at knowing soldiers, and sent the Jizhou general Yan Liang to help; As for Yuan Xi, the second son who focuses on communicating with officials in the government affairs department, Yuan Shao chose to hand over half of Youzhou captured by Liu Hexian Yufu, a cheap "Youzhou Mu", to Yuan Xi, and sent another favorite general, Wen Chou, who has an excellent personal relationship with Yan Liang, to take care of it, and Yuan Shao's Jizhou headquarters belonged, and sent to unite the Hanhu coalition army to deal with Gongsun Zhan, and the Zhang Jaw who commanded the elite soldiers and halberds secretly took care of it! Under this layout, Yuan Shao regarded it as the fundamental Yecheng of Hebei, and left it to his youngest son Yuan Shang, who was still by his side, although he did not explicitly say that he would inherit the family business by Yuan Shang a hundred years later and be the next head of the Yuan family, but this gesture had already been put out.

In his own opinion, Lao Yuan's arrangement was painstaking, the purpose was to not only balance the relationship between the sons under the condition that a bowl of water was flat and each son did not complain, but also that after a hundred years, Yuan Shang could be smoothly under the "support" of the two elder brothers, even if he could not win the world, he could also Yongzhen Hebei for generations.

Yuan Shao's actions, not to mention in the eyes of wise people such as Tian Feng and Fu Zhi, even Guo Tu knew that Yuan Shao's distribution method was almost no different from playing with children, but when Yuan Shao was in good health at that time, and he was only over forty years old, discussing these would inevitably make Yuan Shao jealous; Second, no matter who eventually becomes the heir, this is the family affair of the old Yuan family, even if the foreign minister is trusted again, for the major affairs of such heirs, it is better to speak less and open more, and it is better not to open than to speak less, silence is golden. So it has been dragged on.

Now that Yuan Shao is ill, the drawbacks of Yuan Shao's equal distribution method have become apparent. First of all, Yuan Tan, the assassin of Qingzhou, who got the news, used the excuse of visiting his father's illness, and by the way, he took the cavalry led by Yan Liang, the general of Benzhou, to return to Bingzhou to fight the Huns together, and led 7,000 cavalry from his headquarters to return to Jizhou at a gallop; At this time, Yuan Xi, who was fighting with Liu He in Youzhou, was not far behind, after learning of his eldest brother's actions, he was naturally not far behind, and he was desperate, leaving the suppressed breathless, seeing that he could only defend Yi Jing passively resist, maybe he would work harder, and Liu Bei and Gongsun Zhan, who would only succeed in a few months, ignored the resistance forces, and forced the nearly 30,000 troops of Zhang Jaw, who were advancing by leaps and bounds on the front line, at a critical moment, to give up the great opportunity to get "full merit" almost at their fingertips, and also hurriedly took the previous capture, pretended not to know Yuan Shao's situation, and returned to Jizhou under the banner of dedication.

And in the face of the news that the two brothers were seriously ill and did not wake up, this move of Xiang Zhuang to dance the sword and aim at Pei Gong, Yuan Shang had no other way for a while except to cry and beg the Liu family for protection. Yecheng plus the soldiers of the headquarters who came back from Chang'an with Yuan Shao and were resting, there were less than 70,000 soldiers and horses in total, and it was unknown whether these people would be used for themselves.

After listening to Yuan Shang's news, the Liu family, who had always been domineering by Yuan Shao's side, also panicked, Yuan Tan and Yuan Xi were kept out by Yuan Shao all the year round because she was whispering in Yuan Shao's ear, how good can the relationship be? After all, the two are also Yuan Shao's sons, and one is the eldest son, who is often in the army; A well-known government department that grasps the fundamentals of state affairs, if this time really involves the issue of "inheritance", she, an orphan and widow, really has no certainty of victory. The Liu family knew very well that although Yuan Shao had left Yuan Shang in Jizhou and intended to cultivate him as an heir, after all, this matter was just to talk to the Liu family in private, and he did not talk about it publicly. Those old ministers who have followed Yuan Shao all the way in Jizhou to this day must not be too willing to meddle in Yuan's family affairs. In the final analysis, she is a woman, even if she is Yuan Shao's wife, if there is no Yuan Shao's handwritten transfer of troops, even if the Yecheng garrison is more than ten times, it is impossible to inexplicably order the defenders to fight with the second son of his eldest son in order to support him. And the generals in charge of the troops in the city right now, Chun Yuqiong needs to stick to Jizhou to prevent chaos in Montenegro, and they can't be moved lightly unless Yuan Shao's personal order, Gao Gan and Yuan Tan are cousins of Zheng'er Bajing, Gao Ran and Zhang Jaw are incompatible, these people can't be used by her at all, let alone Yan Liang who was sent by Yuan Tan to follow Yuan Shao to Chang'an. At the moment, apart from being dumbfounded and praying that Yuan Tan and Yuan Xinian would not be too embarrassed by Yuan Shang in their relationship with brothers, the chaotic Liu family could only cry in front of Yuan Shao's sickbed all day long, in order to pray that Yuan Shao would wake up quickly, there was no other way.

Qin Xu would never have thought that because of his little butterfly's instigated wings, Yuan Shao's trip out of history to Chang'an would become an opportunity for the behemoth-like Yuan family to fall apart. However, at this moment, even if Qin Xu learned about this, it is estimated that he will no longer be able to make a correct judgment with normal thinking.

The ten-day period is coming in a blink of an eye. Although the drizzle fell in the sky for a long time, Lu Bu still kept his promise and set up nearly a hundred tables of flowing water banquet in front of the Qingzhou Mu Mansion, and everyone could come regardless of their status. This is done for the joy of marrying a daughter, and on the other hand, it is also to celebrate the coming of the great drought and rejoice with the people.

Compared with Lu Bu, who is staging a show of benevolence, righteousness and pro-people to brush up his prestige, Qin Xu, as the groom's official, has ended his idle life, and he is busy on the outside and tender on the inside.

In his previous life, he was always entangled in not being able to take off the hat of a department-level cadre for a long time, but now he wants to marry four at once. And you have to marry one by one according to the rules, and you can't delay the auspicious time, it's really not a job that people can do. Fortunately, a few families live not far away, at most it is a few streets away, Qin Xu just thinks that if he speeds up, it shouldn't be too troublesome!

But it turns out that Qin Xu really thought too simply!

Lu Bu is okay, although he is married to a daughter, he is "reluctantly" taking into account Qin Xu's "actual situation", and some red tape can also be saved. After all, whether it is Cai Yan, Mi Zhen, or even Yu Ganqian, there is a force behind them that supports each other, and it is more than worth the loss for Qingzhou and Xuzhou to offend any of them. Lu Bu could only pinch his nose and pretend to be enlightened, no matter how much Qin Xu married at one time, Lu Lingqi could only be the identity of the eldest lady of the Qin Mansion, and the others could pretend not to be seen. Anyway, Qin Xu didn't have any relatives, and everything for the wedding was arranged by the Yan family and Diao Chan, and he had to say goodbye as a high hall when he visited the hall for a while, so he only explained a few words, and then went to take care of the guests, and let Qin Xu sneer and drove into the back hall with a smile, and took Lu Lingqi and Gan Qian, who were covered with their heads, back to the mansion, which was enough to give the baby son-in-law face.

But another old man, Cai Yongke, is not so easy to speak. The stubborn old man, who had been holding back his anger as early as when Qin Xu returned to Linzi, finally seized the opportunity, and actually prepared a group of young students from the Jixia School Palace a long time ago, and used the name of the vulgar etiquette to ask his son-in-law to make things difficult. These **-year-old children timidly looked at Qin Xu, who was dressed in auspicious clothes, and under Cai Yong's signal, they shook their heads, quoted scriptures, and quirky and strange topics emerged in endlessly, which was called a difficult one! Qin is a novice in ancient history, where does he understand these awkward knowledge? If it weren't for Guo Jia, who was pulled by Qin Xu to be the best man, after watching enough of the good show, rubbing his stomach and reminding Old Man Cai that he was here to pick up Cai Yan to get married today, it is estimated that Qin Xu would have the heart to buy a piece of tofu and die under the contemptuous eyes of these young children.

In comparison, it's better to be an uncle, after all, there is still a layer of superior-subordinate relationship, and there is no much trouble. Thanks to Qin Xu's use of sea salt to "tempt" the Mi family to join Qingzhou, now the Mi family is also considered to be the No. 1 well-known figure in Qingxu Erzhou under the influence of Lu Bujun, this time in order to send his little sister to marry, Mi Zhu prepared a rich dowry, and personally came to Zizi to send his little sister Mi Zhen to marry, followed by Qin Xu as the groom's escort Xu and others, peeked at Mi Zhen's dowry, and his mouth was not closed until he returned to the Qin Mansion. This time, the Mi family really made a lot of money, and they didn't care about any trespassing, what couldn't be more than what Lu Bu gave to his daughter, just the high-quality brocade silk that he could see, there were dozens of cars, which was staggering. This is hard currency, and sometimes it even holds its value more than a coin, which shows the generosity of the Mi family.

Finally, all four brides were brought to the mansion. This back and forth, four people, eight trips! Qin Xu was almost so tired that he couldn't straighten his waist. Zang Hong, who was the master of ceremonies, could hear that the auspicious time had arrived, and he was about to take a big breath, and after worshipping heaven and earth, he hurriedly found a place to rest, but unexpectedly, this was just the beginning......