Chapter 35: An Undercurrent of Alliance
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His eyebrows, eyes, ears and nose, healthy and shiny complexion, soft and well-defined contours, perfectly coordinated facial features, and even a subtle mole on his forehead, are all flawless and impeccablely beautiful. And in those bright star-like eyes, there is a sharpness hidden in the softness, which brings people not a fearful murderous aura, but a unique and mysterious attraction, which makes people's hearts shake.
There is no shortage of people with outstanding looks around Liu Bei, such as the heroic and extremely manly Zhao Yun, the dashing and elegant Zhuge Kongming, and even Liu Feng himself thinks he is handsome and outstanding.
However, in the face of the man in front of him, the handsomeness in his impression became so insignificant, and even he himself faintly felt dwarfed by shame for a moment.
The man in front of him has jumped out of the concept of heroic and handsome, and in Liu Feng's thesaurus, he can only be described by the word "beauty" that is biased towards female surnames.
Although he has a stunning appearance, he is extremely masculine in his gestures, and a casual smile, like the sun that melts the ice and snow, makes people secretly close.
Is this the legendary Koto Mishuro?
Liu Feng took a deep breath and glanced at Xu Shu beside him, Xu Shu at this moment also had a look of surprise, it was obvious that even this well-informed person who had been in the world since he was a child was now the same as Liu Feng, deeply overwhelmed by Mei Zhoulang's appearance and bearing.
"Yuan Zhi, Feng'er, you're here." When the two of them sighed, Liu Bei and Zhou Yu had already stepped forward.
"My lord."
"Father."
Liu Feng and Xu Shu suddenly sobered up, quickly gathered their minds, and saluted Liu Bei, who they hadn't seen for a long time.
"Metropolitan Governor, this is Xu Yuanzhi that I often mention to you." Liu Bei introduced with a smile.
"Mr. Yuanzhi's name, Yu has heard of it for a long time," Zhou Yu walked away from Liu Bei's side, walked to Xu Shu, and looked at it with bright eyes without blinking, "It's a blessing to see you today." ”
"Zhou Du has been awarded, Shu is just a cloth cloth Confucian student, how can the name of the governor move the world, now I see it, it is the honor of Shu." Xu Shu is a person who has seen the world in the end, although his heart is infected by Zhou Yu's bearing, but his words and deeds are decent and natural, without showing a trace.
Without waiting for Zhou Yu to come up to say hello, Liu Feng took the initiative to bow his hand: "Feng has seen Zhou Dudu, I am fortunate to be happy." ”
Zhou Yu's soft gaze moved to Liu Feng, there was still a kind smile on his handsome face, his slender eyelashes blinked up and down slightly, looked at Liu Feng a few times, and sighed: "Sure enough, it is a tiger father without a dog, Xuande Gong, I have long heard that you have a handsome son under your knees. ”
Liu Feng had just debuted and was not famous, of course Liu Bei knew that Zhou Yu's praise was purely a compliment, so he smiled modestly: "The dog is foolish, not as good as Gong Jin, which makes Gong Jin laugh." ”
Liu Feng was unhappy when he heard this, you want to compliment Zhou Yu as you like, why do you have to belittle me, you belittle me as a son, don't you belittle my son as a person, don't you belittle yourself as a father's incompetence.
Liu Feng's unhappiness was just fleeting, but then he realized that Liu Bei's sentence just now was not so simple, with a heroic city like Liu Bei, facing an important person like Zhou Yu, even a casual polite word would not be believed.
Suddenly, Liu Feng vaguely guessed a few clues: Liu Bei can modestly say that his son is not good, and he still needs to exercise Yunyun, but why do he have to compare Zhou Yu with himself, doesn't this invisibly elevate his identity and demote Zhou Yu, the commander of Eastern Wu, to the position of his junior?
After these days of perception and study in Xiakou, Liu Feng has a little first glimpse of the so-called conspiracy, but he can only guess the intention of Liu Bei's words just now, but he can't guess the deeper purpose for the time being.
"Hehe, how can Xuande Gong laugh. The two of you have worked hard, why don't you please inside, let's talk while drinking tea. Zhou Yu was still full of spring breeze, and he couldn't even see even a trace of abnormal look in his eyes, and he enthusiastically and generously invited Xu Shu and them into the central cabin of the ship.
"Gong Jin, I have ordered Yuan Zhi and them to prepare some small gifts, as a labor army, in order to fulfill the friendship of some landlords, and I hope that Gong Jin will not be surprised by the courtesy." Liu Bei's sentence of "the friendship of landlords" seems to have replaced Liu Qi and regarded himself as the lord of Jiangxia.
"Why should Xuande Gong be so polite, since your two families have been allied, they will be their own family from now on, and if their family still sees each other like this, it makes me a little embarrassed."
From the time he got on the boat to the present, Zhou Yu's polite and respectful attitude made Liu Feng feel the kindness and friendliness from the heart. Although Liu Feng knew that Sun Liu's alliance was purely a temporary combination of interests, as Sun Qian said before, Zhou Yu's personal temperament that made people feel like a spring breeze seemed to dilute the taste of some interests and cast a veil of warmth on the alliance between the two families.
"Governor Zhou, your army has come from afar, and the grain and grass must be behind it. Therefore, according to the orders of my lord, we also did our best to raise 30,000 stone of grain and grass as a small gift for the labor army. Now the grain ship is waiting in Xiakou Water Village, I don't know where the governor plans to go down on the south bank, and I also ordered the grain ship to be sent over as soon as possible. ”
Xu Shu's words Liu Feng heard the two intentions, although Jiangxia is only a county, but when Liu Qi took office last year, Liu Biao allocated him a lot of grain and grass and military supplies, and the grain and grass alone is enough for the 20,000 soldiers and horses in their hands to eat for a few years, and Xu Shu's sentence "do your best" is obviously crying poor, the purpose is to show that we have no food on the surface of Eastern Wu, although our two families are in alliance, but we have to take care of ourselves to eat and drink, don't count on us.
This second intention is to remind Zhou Yu that according to the agreement before the alliance, the sphere of influence of you and your army is only limited to the south of the Yangtze River, so you should obediently go down to the south bank of the village, and don't want to get involved in Xiakou City in the north of the Yangtze River.
In order to verify his guess, when Xu Shu spoke, he raised his hand to drink tea as a cover, and his gaze in the shadows quietly swept towards Liu Bei. Sure enough, as he expected, Liu Bei at this moment also quietly looked at Xu Shu, and a look of satisfaction flashed in his narrowed eyes at a certain moment.
Zhou Yu smiled heartily: "Since it is my own family, then I am not welcome, I will accept the 30,000 stones of grain and grass." But you don't have to send it to the south coast, you can just send it directly to our warship. ”
Liu Bei hurriedly said: "Wouldn't it take a lot of trouble for Gong Jin to do this, just let them sail the grain ship directly to the south bank, anyway, it's just a river away." ”
"The Xuande Guild is wrong, in fact, our army does not plan to go down to the village on the south bank."
Zhou Yu's sudden words shocked Liu Bei and the others, and the atmosphere of talking and laughing in the cabin immediately became solemn, and Liu Bei hurriedly glanced at Xu Shu.
"Governor Zhou, according to the prior agreement, the Cao army on the North Hanshui Road will be resisted by our army, and the Cao army on the West Road will be resisted by your army. If the governor's soldiers and horses were not in the south bank, how could they resist Cao's army? Xu Shu, who understood, questioned Zhou Yu's words just now on behalf of Liu Bei.
Zhou Yu's fair-skinned hands picked up the tea, took a sip of it slowly, squinted his eyes and savored the fragrance of tea for a moment, and then slowly responded to a sentence that made Liu Bei and the others change color: "Who said that I would defend Xiakou to the death, I plan to go back to the west of the Jiangxi and destroy the old thief Cao on the way to Xiakou." ”