Cheng Yu secretly scolded himself for drawing snakes, but his face still did not change, his mind was racing, and he sighed and said: "Yu still underestimates the characters in Xuzhou, Master Zhang's eyes are like torches, which makes Yu admire" said and bowed deeply to Zhang Xu.

Seeing Cheng Yu like this, the pottery merchant couldn't help but be slightly angry, and Zhang Yu couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw Cheng Yu admit that Cao Cao had a conspiracy, and looked at Cao Bao and Xu Tan proudly.

Cheng Yu turned to the pottery merchant and said slowly: "It's not a secret, when Yu came, Cao Gong once said that the eldest son of the Tao family is quite elegant, and Xuzhou is rich, and now my lord wants to use troops against Lu Bu, but the grain and grass in the army are insufficient, so Yu will help the eldest prince win Xuzhou at any cost, and then borrow 300,000 Hu" Cheng Yu knew in his heart that 300,000 Hu military food was almost enough for half a year for 100,000 troops, but it was not difficult for Xuzhou. In order to reassure the pottery merchant and others, Cheng Yu had to make up an excuse at random, and it was also a fact that Cao Cao and Lu Bu fought in the Shandong army for lack of food.

Everyone gasped when they heard this, 300,000 Hu military rations is not a small amount, and Zhang Yu nodded slightly at the pottery merchant, the pottery merchant looked at Cao Bao and the others, Cao Bao and the others also nodded, knowing that Cao Cao was just for food and grass, everyone's tense nerves immediately relaxed.

The pottery merchant said with a smile: "Some small things, why didn't Mr. Cheng say it earlier, the merchant has always admired Cao Gong, and the military rations must be offered", Cheng Yu knew that the pottery merchant was pretending to promise, but this sentence was only to eliminate the mustard of both sides, so he smiled and thanked him, and the pottery merchant ordered someone to prepare a wine banquet to meet with Cheng Yu.

Suddenly, Cheng Yu thought of something and asked: "Yu heard that a few days ago, there were rumors in Xuzhou, saying that Liu Bei wanted to kill the two sons, is this matter true" Cheng Yu thought that entering Xuzhou must be full of rumors, but he didn't want to go all the way, but few people knew about it, so he couldn't help asking.

So Zhang Yu smiled and told Cheng Yu the rumors of the past few days, Cheng Yu was shocked after hearing it, and secretly thought that there must be a master around Liu Bei, so easily resolved this crisis.

"Do you know who is giving advice to Liu Bei," Cheng Yu asked anxiously.

Everyone laughed when they heard this, and Cao Bao said: "Liu Bei has no mastermind, I only heard that a new army Sima has been appointed recently, and Liu Bei obeys his words."

"Who is this?"

Cao Bao said: "I'm afraid of Mr. jokes when I say it, this person seems to be called Gao - high-definition, Gao Ping, I don't remember clearly, but he is a broken Xiangshi, and he is old and crowned."

Zhang Zhen smiled shamefully and said, "Lord Cao, it's called Gao Ping, Ziqing"

"No matter what his name is, Liu Bei is a weaver and a peddler, how can he be undefeated with such people" Zhang Yu said arrogantly, and everyone laughed again when they heard this.

Cheng Yunai secretly wrote down the name Gao Ping, and at the same time despised Cao Bao and others fiercely in his heart, and he didn't even remember the name of the opponent clearly, how to fight with others.

In the winter and November of the fifth year of the early peace of the Han Dynasty, 194 A.D.

The winter sun is warm, and the sky in Xuzhou, which has been hazy for many days, finally sees the sun

The eldest prince of the pottery merchant invited Xuzhou Wenwu and representatives of various clans to talk about major matters, Xuzhou Assassin Envoy Mansion, including Liu Bei, Tao Ying, including dozens of people in Xuzhou Wenwu gathered together, everyone discussed not knowing what the pottery merchant wanted to say, and some of the quick responses must be related to the matter of the state pastor.

With the potter, Cao Bao and others striding in, everyone gradually stopped discussing, the potter went straight into the main seat and sat (that is, the usual Tao Qian is the position of the discussion), with a big hand, quite magnificent, Gao Ping behind Liu Bei saw the potter's action, already knew that the potter couldn't help it, and then peeked at Tao Ying, only to see that his face was pale, but there was an unknown sneer at the corner of his mouth.

After everyone was quiet, Cao Bao said loudly: "You are all Xuzhou humerus, Tao Gong has been gone for many days, but Xuzhou can not be without an owner for a day, today Leopard has a word, I hope you will discuss it" Cao Bao looked at everyone, and was about to speak, only to hear an unusually old voice coming from outside the hall.

"Can you let the old man say a word" With the voice of the old man, a graceful and noble old woman slowly entered the hall with the support of two maids, Tao Ying ran over as if he saw a savior, hugged the old woman and shouted: "Mother"

The potter also got down from his seat and frowned, "Why is my mother here?"

The old lady snorted heavily, turned her head to Chen Jue and said: "Chen Weng, the old man has a will from his late husband, and he is bothered to read it out on his behalf."

Chen Qi trembled and took it and handed it to Chen Dengdao: "The old man is dazzled, let's come to Yuanlong."

Tao Ying glared at Chen Qi fiercely beside him.

Chen Deng took it and read it out loud: "Qian knows that Shouyuan is approaching, my second son, should have passed the position of the state pastor to the eldest son Shang, but he is brave and ruthless, and his virtue is not good, but the second son should be of good character, smart and studious, and specially willed, after his death, the position of the state pastor will be passed on to the second son Ying, and I hope that all the civil and military forces will do their best to assist him, and the first year of the Han Dynasty will be March 15."

After Chen Deng read it, the hall was silent, and then a heated discussion broke out,

At this time, Zhao Yu hurriedly snatched the will and looked at it and said: "Everyone, this is indeed written by Tao Gong himself, and there is a state pastor seal, we should obey Tao Gong's will and support the second son as the lord of Xuzhou."

Tao Shang never expected Tao Ying to come to this hand, although he knew that his mother preferred the second child, but he didn't dare to make a fake will, Tao Qian had many documents from his mother's hand during his lifetime, and it was too easy to imitate Tao Qian's handwriting, so no one could see that the will was fake, but I am afraid that everyone would believe this kind of thing, Cao Bao saw that Tao Shang was angry, and shouted: "Tao Gong did not make any will before his death, this must be Tao Ying for the position of the state pastor to make people forged" Xu Tan, Zhang Zhen and others also echoed.

Mi Zhu also frowned and said: "Abolish the taboo of the long and the ancient, Tao Gong Yingming I, how could he make such a ridiculous will?" ”

Zhao Yu sneered: "The old lady took it out herself, how can it be fake, everyone might as well take a closer look at this is indeed the handwriting of the prince" Saying that, holding the will and passing it on to everyone, many people have seen it to mean that it is indeed Tao Qian's handwriting. Gao Ping calmly looked at the situation in the hall, as if watching a play, Liu Bei looked at the two brothers in the hall and sighed softly.

For a while, all the civil and military quarreled endlessly, and suddenly the pottery merchant shouted: "Tao Er, you deceive me too much, my mother dotes on you, but you don't want to compete for the position of state pastor, my father has already expected that you will fake a will, and has secretly ordered me to be expelled from the house on the day of your trouble, and today I will enforce the family law as the eldest son."

"Cao and Xu, the two generals, are in a hurry, and they don't do it yet"

Cao Bao pulled out his sword and said sharply: "Where is the warrior?" As he spoke, two hundred swordsmen and axemen surrounded the people in the hall. The door also "clanged" shut.

Tao Ying laughed and said: "Tao Shang, it seems that you have been prepared, you disobeyed your father's orders and killed your brother, today I will eradicate your unscrupulous descendants for the Tao family."

"Where is the dead?" As Tao Ying shouted, I saw that more than 30 of the warriors who originally surrounded Tao Ying and the others took off their coats, revealing the black power suits inside, threw away the weapons in their hands, pulled out their long swords from their waists, and guarded Tao Ying.

"Second child, you are yin enough, you are actually prepared"

"Haha, each other, each other, big brother, this was all inserted by me a few years ago, I don't want you to be so careless" Tao Ying said proudly. Chen Deng escorted his father to retreat to the corner, and Zhao Yu said loudly: "These dead soldiers have all undergone devilish training, just because you and other small soldiers are not opponents at all, those who know each other put down their weapons as soon as possible, and Rao Er will not die" laughed.