Chapter 8: Gambling Again
As soon as he returned to the mansion, Yuan Wei sent someone to invite Hua Tuo over.
As soon as he saw Hua Tuo's face, Yuan Tuo withdrew all the subordinates in the mansion, and the maid Xiao Ruoliu was no exception, leaving only the injured hometown general Yuan Fu by his side, and then asked Hua Tuo bluntly: "Doctor Hua, I only ask you, is there any way you can make people fake their deaths and then save them?" β
Hua Tuo was surprised: "Why did Childe suddenly ask about this?" β
Yuan Wei didn't hide it, and immediately told him about his upcoming envoy to Cao Ying.
and then his calculations and calculations, he is ready to use the plan of fake death to deceive Cao Cao.
Hearing that Yuan Wei was about to send an envoy to Cao Ying, Hua Tuo suddenly stood in awe and said: "Hui Gongzi, when the villain was preparing hemp boiling powder, he accidentally discovered a highly poisonous herb, whose name is Soul Breaking Grass, and if you take it, you can immediately enter suspended animation, and your heartbeat, breathing, and pulse are completely empty, which is no different from real death. β
Yuan Wei smiled: "Hehe, I know that Doctor Hua will not disappoint my son." β
Hua Tuo waved his hand and said: "But Childe, this thing has a defect, if you can't apply the golden needle and take the antidote within twelve hours, then fake death will become real death, and Childe really wants to use this thing?" β
"Childe?" Yuan Fu was immediately nervous when he heard this, and Yuan Fu was also a little hesitant for a while.
However, Yuan Wei only hesitated for a moment, and then said categorically: "Doctor Hua, prepare medicine." β
"Childe, this is too dangerous." Yuan Fu hurriedly said, "What if Cao Cao's traitor is not fooled, or if he doesn't return you to Shouchun within twelve hours?" β
Yuan Wei said categorically: "I have made up my mind, so don't persuade Fu Bo anymore." β
Indeed, Yuan Wei had already accepted the errand of envoy Cao Ying to Yuan Shu in public, and it was too late to regret it now.
What's more, Yuan Nuo also needs to change Yan Xiang, Jin Shang and other Wenchen's perception of him through this matter, the morning's efforts to turn the tide only changed the general's perception of him, and the matter of sending Cao Ying can help him get a high score from Wenchen, Yuan Nuo must not miss this opportunity if he wants to make a difference.
Moreover, with Cao Cao's person, most of them will not harm his "body", but it is very likely that his "body" will be returned to Shouchun in a thick burial.
Of course, there must be a premise for this, that is, Cao Cao is the person, which is consistent with the records in the history books.
If Cao Cao is not as talented as recorded in the history books, but a cruel and immoral person, then if he Yuan does not go here, he will definitely have no return, death and no life.
So, it's still a gamble, a gamble that costs your life.
But again, if he wins the bet, he will win everything, even if he loses the bet, the result will not be worse than now, right?
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The northern suburbs of Shouchun, the Cao army camp.
The siege in the morning ended hastily, which made Cao Cao very angry.
Xu Chu wrapped himself in gauze, walked into the Chinese army's tent proudly, and then knelt down on one knee under the tent, and said to Cao Cao with great self-reproach: "Lord, the last general is incompetent and has disappointed you." β
Xu Chu was indeed very self-blaming, just because he was a moment late, and as a result, Yuan Jun cut off the trench bridge, and then he could only watch as the Yuan army soldiers destroyed all the siege equipment and lost this batch of siege equipment.
"Zhong Kang, please get up." Cao Cao's face was as usual, but he was already worried in his heart.
What worries Cao Cao is not the loss of siege equipment, the equipment is a small matter, and another batch is to build a batch, but what worries Cao Cao is the supply of military food.
Cao Cao estimated that it would take at least ten days to capture Shouchun, but the military rations were only enough to last for three days.
Three days of military rations, how to support ten days? Cao Cao is also at a loss for this, which is really nerve-wracking.
Cao Cao helped Xu Chu up, stroked Xu Chu's back and asked, "Zhongkang, your arrow sores, don't you want to do anything?" β
"It's okay, it's just a little skin trauma." Xu Chu said angrily, "As long as the lord gives an order, the last general can still lead the tiger guards to charge into battle and take Shouchun City for the lord." β
"Hehe, Zhong Kang is really my fan." Cao Cao stroked his palms and laughed.
Cao Cao was laughing, and another general entered with dignity and said loudly: "Meng De, Yuan Shuxiao'er seems to be unable to hold on, so he sent an envoy to beg." β
There are thousands of generals under Cao Cao's command, but there is only one person who can call Cao Cao by words, and that is the number one general under Cao Cao's account, Xiahou Dun.
"Oh, Yuan Shu's envoy is here?" Cao Cao was stunned when he heard this.
The few strategists standing in the tent also looked at each other, could Yuan Shu really be so naΓ―ve? Do you really think that as long as the city is surrendered, Cao Gong will spare his life? Yuan Shu really didn't know that his usurpation of the title of emperor had set a very bad precedent for the princes of the world, if Cao Gong didn't sacrifice his head to the flag, how could he shock the world?
Cao Cao came back to his senses and laughed loudly: "Okay, it depends on what Yuan Shu takes to beg for a certain beggar." β
"Bring it on." Xiahoudun turned his head and made a move, and two Cao soldiers escorted a white-clothed Xiushi into the big tent, but he was a personable good boy with a brocade box in his arms.
This personable good boy is none other than Yuan Fu, who risked his life to envoy Cao Ying.
"It's you?!" Seeing Yuan No, Xu Chuhu's eyes instantly revealed a chilling murderous intent, and he immediately pulled out the ring head knife and slashed at Yuan No's neck.
This is really an enemy meeting, and they are very red-eyed.
Yuan Fu's face did not change, but his heart was extremely nervous, from Xu Chu's gaze, he had no doubt that the other party would kill him, if Cao Cao did not stop it, Xu Chu would really kill himself.
"Zhongkang, wait!" Cao Cao shouted in time.
Xu Chu's elongated version of the ring head knife was stiffly paused, Leng Sensen's blade was only a millimeter away from Yuan No's neck, if Cao Cao was half a beat slower, Yuan No's good head would have rolled to the ground at this moment, Rao was so, Yuan No was also shocked into a cold sweat, and his entire back was almost soaked in cold sweat.
Sending out such a thing as an enemy camp is really not done by a man.
Xu Chu still refused to give up, put the knife on Yuan Fu's neck, turned back to Cao Cao and said: "Lord, this is the guy, cut the trench bridge at a critical juncture, so that our army's siege operation fell short, please allow the last general to cut off the head of this guy, in order to pay tribute to the hundreds of fallen soldiers of our army in the sky." β
"Stand down!" Cao operates the color channel.
"No!" Seeing that Cao Cao was angry, Xu Chu retreated hatefully, but a pair of fierce tiger eyes never left Yuan No, Yuan No had no doubt that as long as Cao Cao gave an order, this guy would definitely pounce on him at the first time and tear him apart, Yuan No had never felt as clearly as now that his life was no longer under his control.
Cao Cao sat down on his knees after pacing back to the case, looked at Yuan Quan with a cold gaze, and asked, "Are you Yuan Nuo?" β
"Yes, it's Yuan No." Yuan Wei smiled slightly, then flicked his sleeves and waved at Cao Cao.
The few strategists standing in the tent looked at each other unconsciously, they thought that this guy would at least sophistry a few words, but they didn't expect to admit it very simply.
"Young people are so bold." Cao Cao narrowed his small eyes slightly, stared at Yuan Nuo fiercely, and said, "Yuan No, you dare to come forward and throw yourself into the net, do you think Cao Mou will not dare to kill you?" β
"Where." Yuan Wei stretched out his hand and gently dusted off a grain of dust that fell from his sleeve, and said lightly, "Cao Gong's life creed is that I would rather bear the people of the world than teach the people of the world to bear me, so let alone say that it is just a mere matter, it is the Son of Heaven who angers Cao Gong, and Cao Gong is afraid that he will kill him." β
As soon as Yuan No's words came out, Cao Cao and several strategists suddenly changed their faces.
Yuan No's words can be described as heart-wrenching, almost pointing at Cao Cao's nose and scolding, Cao Cao, you chaotic minister and thief, how can you ever have a son of heaven in your eyes?
Yuan Wei thought that Cao Cao would be furious.
But he never thought that Cao Cao's little eyes flashed fiercely, and he actually laughed out loud.
After laughing, Cao Cao straightened his face again and said: "I thought that although Yuan Highway was the fourth and third dukes, he was born in a famous family, and he ran around for decades, and he achieved nothing after all, but today, Cao Cao must be impressed with him, because he gave birth to a good son, he did give birth to a good son." β
At this moment, Cao Cao really admired Yuan a little.
Since Chen Liu's army, there are not many people who have scolded him Cao Cao, but he has never dared to be a traitor like Yuan Wei, a weak scholar, but he dared to scold him in front of him without dirty words.
This alone is enough to prove that Yuan Wei is a man with extraordinary courage.
For a really good man, Cao Cao has never been stingy with his respect.
Cao Cao didn't know that Yuan Nuo was not really a person with great courage, but his courage was based on having enough understanding of Cao Cao's character.
Because in history, Bo Chen Lin, the lord of Jizhou, once wrote an article begging for thieves, which could almost scold Cao Cao's ancestors and ancestors from their graves and then die, but in the end, after Yuan Shao was defeated, Chen Lin was not killed by Cao Cao, but became a high-ranking official of Wei.
However, after this verbal exchange, Yuan Wei also had a more intuitive understanding of Cao Cao.
As the saying goes, the paper is shallow, and the Cao Cao he knew before was only the Cao Cao depicted by the historian's pen, with a dull character and a single personality, but after today's face-to-face confrontation with Cao Cao, Yuan Wei found that the real Cao Cao was far more open-minded than the Cao Cao depicted in the historian's pen.
Cao Cao said again: "Why did Yuan Gongzi come? β
Yuan Wei took a long look and said loudly: "Begging with the seal." β
Cao Cao's pupils shrank slightly, and Huo Ran said, "What are you carrying?" β
Yuan Wei also stared at Cao Cao's eyes, and said word by word: "Inherit the jade seal of the country!" β
As soon as Yuan Wei's voice fell, a whisper immediately sounded in the big tent, obviously, the advisors and generals in the tent were all very surprised by the news.
"It's actually a jade seal?"
"Yuan Shu is willing to sacrifice the jade seal of the country?"
"There must be fraud in it, and Yuan Shu has no such decision."
"That's not necessarily, Yuan Shu is at the end of his rope, and it is reasonable to want to sacrifice the seal and beg for work."
"Silence!" Cao Cao raised his hand to interrupt the whispers of several advisers, and then squinted his eyes and asked Yuan if he wanted, "Dare to ask, where is the jade seal?" Can you take a look? β
The eyes of the Chinese Wu fell on the brocade box held in Yuan No's arms.