Jizhou, Yecheng, the magnificent and huge mansion of the Zhen family.

Guo Jia, who was pinned on by Xu Ji, was sitting leisurely in the palatial hall where he had a secret conversation with Mrs. Zhang of the Zhen family that day, and looked at Xun You, who had traveled thousands of miles from thousands of miles away, brought by the leader of the shadow in Jizhou, and of course, there was also a letter sent to him by Xu Ji from Xiangyi.

Xun You was looking at Guo Jia, who was known as the first military division under Xu Ji, with curiosity at this time, and had only been seen for more than a year, this old friend had gradually gotten rid of the flying jump when he was young, and his fair face that was still beautiful and could make any woman jealous revealed an unprecedented strong self-confidence and a convincing stability, after so many things, Guo Jia's overall view is becoming more and more mature, and it is even more difficult to see the problem, which makes it completely impossible to guess his heart. Maybe it's because of the comfortable life in the Zhen family this year, Guo Jia's face and body are much better, and he has more of an unprecedented aristocratic temperament, regardless of whether it is known, this is the result of living in the Zhen family for more than a year, after all, the influence of the environment is very huge.

But Chen Zhi around him doesn't seem to have changed much, but Xun You noticed that the divine light in Chen Zhi's eyes was better than before, and there was more of a smart intellectual brilliance in his clear eyes, which shows that Chen Zhi has not only made new progress in martial arts cultivation in this year, but also because of accompanying Guo Jia, his ability has been cultivated. Chen Zhi has now become a veritable wise general.

After a long time, Guo Jia handed the letter to Chen Dao, who hurriedly took it and watched it. Guo Jia gossiped with Xun You, without mentioning the matter in the letter. Of course, Xun You is not curious at all, what Xu Ji wrote in his letter is unbearable, and he can guess that he is not far from ten, so why should he ask more. What's more, he also knows that there are some things that he shouldn't ask too much, so don't ask, Xu Ji didn't have any special arrangements for sending him here, and seeing that Guo Jia was so indifferent, he just chatted with Guo Jia.

It wasn't until Chen Zhi read the letter that Guo Jia said to Xiao Xiaoxiao Xunyou: "Gongda, you don't have to delay in Jizhou, well, it's best to take a short rest and return to Yu County, and I won't write any reply to the lord." If you go back and just say that Guo Jia received the letter, the lord will understand what I mean. Xun You naturally nodded, but he was obviously a little worried.

It just so happened that Guo Jia was the most observant of words and feelings, and said with a smile when he saw this scene: "Gongda, if you have anything to say, you and I are ancient friends, and there are no outsiders here." Why did you go back to Yingchuan and become so mother-in-law? Could it be that someone has disciplined him? ”

Chen Zhi also smiled when he heard this: "What the military advisor said is that Mr. Gongda is not as free and easy as Xun Youruo!" Could it be that he really married a wife and asked his wife to clean up as the military advisor guessed? ”

Xun Yu blushed a little instantly, when he returned to Yingchuan to assist Xun Yu in handling affairs, he really handled his family affairs by the way, because he was originally his parents were gone. This matter was simplified, and even Xu Ji didn't notify him, so Xu Ji blamed him all the time. What he didn't expect was that Guo Jia said it when he saw that he didn't get a stick of incense, which of course made him a little embarrassed. And seeing Xun You was a little shy. Guo Jia couldn't help laughing, let Xun You go and stopped teasing him: "Let's talk about what is so worried, having Xun Chen in Yecheng must be beneficial to the lord's affairs." The safety of me and my uncle is nothing to worry about now. ”

Xun You then explained: "I only left from Gao Zihe a few days ago, and I heard that Yuan Shao was stationed in Chenliu under the welcome of Zhang Miao. The current situation of the lord is probably quite tense, Feng Xiao. I'm afraid there will be no more assistance in the matter of Yecheng, everything depends on you, maybe the lord still needs you to support him. ”

Guo Jia

Hearing this, he frowned slightly, Xu Ji's situation over there, he expected it to be very troublesome, but he didn't expect it to be so tricky, Zhang Miao, a stupid person, actually did such a thing, which couldn't help but make Guo Jia regret it greatly, if he had a knife, this mediocre person would not have so much trouble today. But now it's too late, the pressure on Xu Ji's side is almost huge, Guo Jia also instantly understood Xu Ji's thoughts, it is extremely unrealistic to want to trap Chen Liu, the resources of Xiangyi and Yu County have been hollowed out by themselves in the past few years, and it is absolutely impossible to support more than 50,000 people under Xu Ji's command to fight on multiple fronts, so Xu Ji's intentions are also obvious, what he needs is the expansion of the ship, otherwise staying in Chen Liu will only be a slow death.

"I know, Gongda rest assured, Fengxiao Province, tired Gongda immediately rushed back to Yuxian County to help the lord, and said that Yecheng should handle the affairs of Guo Jia properly."

Xun You also nodded to show that he understood, and then said: "The lord specially instructed me to meet Zhang Gu, the shopkeeper of the Yecheng Hero Building, saying that there is a letter to bring to him, I don't know if it is convenient to be filial piety?" Guo Jia thought about it when he heard this, raised his head and smiled at Xun You: "It's just right, I also have something to find Zhang Gu, you and I happen to be in the same way, and you can also hide people's eyes." Xun You naturally had no reason to refuse, as for what Xu Ji had to tell Zhang Gu, he really didn't know.

Not long after, Guo Jia, Chen Zhi and Xun You had already taken a carriage out of the corner gate of Zhen's mansion and slowly walked towards Gaoyang Restaurant.

As soon as the three of them arrived at the Hero Building, someone immediately went to inform Zhang Gu, and Zhang Gu also hurriedly came out to greet him, after seeing Xun You, Zhang Gu's face flashed a trace of surprise, the reason is that Xun You has always been extremely low-key, only some of Xu Ji's old subordinates know that this wise man who sat in Yu County back then was also a very difficult character to deal with, and this Xun Gongda is also Xu Ji's cronies, and now he is here Obviously, it means that things are not small, which makes Zhang Gu a little shocked, But on the surface, he still greeted Xun You through Guo Jia's fake introduction as if he had seen Xun You for the first time, after all, Zhang Gu knew very well that it was not yet time for him to reveal his identity. After all, Zhang Gu, who appeared as a businessman, could obviously get a lot of useful information more easily.

When several people were acting at each station to show the upstairs guests who were paying attention to several people at this time, there was a commotion on the second floor, and Zhang Guyi frowned. At this time, a guy came in a hurry. Crying and mourning, he said to Zhang Gu: "Boss, General Zhang He is drunk and crazy there again." The shopkeeper Mei was also injured by him. ”

Zhang Gu's face sank, but Guo Jia and Chen Zhi glanced at each other.

Zhang He? Drunkard?

After Guo Jia and Chen Zhi heard the guy talk, they looked at Zhang Gu's expression again, and immediately knew that it was probably not the first time that Zhang He was drunk and crazy in the Hero Building, in fact, Zhang He's time change Guo Jia had already heard of it, this young general who was originally high-spirited and quite famous in Jizhou can now be said to be very down, and he has long since lost the sky-high arrogance when the princes met in the past.

Guo Jia knew that Zhang He's becoming like this had nothing to do with him, and when he asked Chen Zhi to pretend to be a robber more than once to hijack Yuan Shao's grain, Guo Jia ordered Chen Zhi to pretend to be Zhang He's martial arts every time he met the officials of Yecheng. And deliberately left a living mouth, Xin Ming, who escaped death, of course told his family about the robbers he had encountered, plus Chen Zhi robbed the military rations and not only Xin Ming, so soon the family in Jizhou invariably suspected Zhang He, coupled with the original kinship between Zhang He and Mrs. Zhang of the Zhen family, which made the family even more alienated Zhang He, even if the family in Jizhou no longer supports Yuan Shao, but in their eyes, after all, it was Zhang He who made them suffer huge lossesTherefore. In the officialdom of Jizhou, Zhang He became more and more unsatisfactory.

And those big families who originally threw themselves on Yuan Shao's side excluded him because they suspected him, Geng Wu and Guan Chun knew that Zhang He was not his own person, and Zhang He took the initiative to alienate the Zhen family, which had a general relationship with him, because of the gossip that others suspected that he had secret dealings with the Zhen family. Zhang He has no place in Jizhou now, and the most important thing is that Yuan Shao, who Zhang He wants to defect, will not take him in at this moment, because Yuan Shao also suspects that the person who pretended to be a robber and robbed his army's military rations that day is Zhang He. It is normal for the frustrated Zhang He to use wine to drown his sorrows.

In fact, this is exactly what Guo Jia wants. Human nature is like this, you must know that "the icing on the cake is easy." It is difficult to send charcoal in the snow", everyone knows that the way to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Falling into the well is just to protect himself, so now in the officialdom of Jizhou, everyone's contradictions point to Zhang He, which is a very normal thing. If you can lend a helping hand when someone is in trouble, then this person will be grateful to you for a lifetime, of course, this kind of assistance is not the kind of sympathy of the strong for the weak, because this kind of mercy will only lead to the humiliation of the helped, in this case, the person being helped will not only not appreciate, but will be disgusted with the person who helped him, and the people who will take revenge in human history belong to this category. So although Guo Jia is ready to subdue Zhang He instead of surrendering Zhang He when he is down, Guo Jia wants to give Zhang He a feeling: Zhang He, you are excellent, but no one appreciates you in Jizhou, you are just a hero in distress, the so-called "death for the confidant", why don't you find a superior who appreciates you to serve him? The world is big, not only Yuan Shao is suitable for you Zhang He, my concubine Xu Ji is a very good choice.

Thinking of this, Guo Jia and Chen Zhi first glanced at Zhang Gu, Zhang Gu immediately came to his senses as soon as he saw Guo Jia's eyes, and hurriedly arranged for Guo Jia and Chen Zhi and Xun You to go to a room next to Zhang He to see that no one was paying attention, Guo Jia and Chen Zhi flashed out of the room, leaving only Xun You and Zhang Gu to explain what Xu Ji ordered, while Guo Jia himself and Chen Zhi pushed open the door of the house where Zhang He was.

As soon as he pushed the door open, he smelled a smell of wine, and Guo Jia, who has always been slightly clean, couldn't help frowning slightly, obviously unable to stand the smell of wine, and couldn't help but reach out to cover his nose.

The room was already in a mess at this time, and I saw that the two guys were sweating profusely and hurriedly trying to lift up the Mei shopkeeper who was even more fat and weak because of his blue nose and swollen face from the ground, probably the Mei shopkeeper, otherwise if he changed someone else, he would definitely die because of Zhang He's old fist, not that a person can grow such a fat body.

The Kabuki who accompanied the wine was hiding in the corner and shivering at this time, obviously too frightened by Zhang He's behavior just now, otherwise they should have quietly run out of the corner to avoid it at this moment.

And Zhang He, the culprit of this incident, was burying his head in the middle of a pile of broken plates and broken bowls at this time, and was still burping over there and muttering, "I'm not drunk, you serve me wine!" ”

Although Guo Jia hoped that Zhang He would be downcast at this time, his eyes still flashed with unbearability, and Chen Zhi, who was on the side, was on fire. Of course, he knew Guo Jia's determination to recover Zhang He, but Zhang He was like this. Obviously, I can't understand what is being said, and even if I accept it, I'm afraid it won't be of much use. So he immediately didn't ask Guo Jia, so he strode over, grabbed the belt of the Mei shopkeeper who had not yet gotten up from the ground, and mentioned it gently, but the Mei shopkeeper, who seemed to weigh a thousand catties, was dragged up by Chen Dongan like three taels of cotton. He didn't even catch his breath, and saw that the two guys who were still quite powerful were dumbfounded, and looked at this young man who was tall but not necessarily strong himself. Chen Zhi didn't have the leisure to look at their expressions, let alone explain to him. Just holding the Mei shopkeeper in his right hand, he turned his head to look at the few singers and dancers, stretched out his left hand and waved in the direction of the door, signaling them all to go out, those kabuki looked at it for a long time, obviously frightened by Chen Zhi's shocking strength, and it took a long time to react, and then he barely supported his still sore legs, and supported each other to bypass Zhang He. and the two guys who took over the support of Mei's shopkeeper from Chen Zhi walked out of the door.

Seeing this, Chen Zhi closed the door with his backhand, looked around to the left and right, but saw a vase of expensive glass filled with flowers next to the windowsill, which was filled with water. Chen Zhi walked over, held the vase in both hands, and walked to Zhang He's side. Without saying a word, he poured all the vase of water on the head of Zhang He, who was already delirious and was about to fall asleep at the moment.

The cold and agitated clear water woke Zhang He up at once. After all, Zhang He has a unique skill, so he naturally binds his fingers into a knife. Jumping over the top of his head and slashing at the top of his head, Chen Zhi didn't think about it, rubbed the edge of the vase with his left hand, the vase seemed to be injected with life, and actually jumped onto Chen Zhi's left shoulder, and stood as steady as Mount Tai on Chen Zhi's round and strong shoulder.

At the same time, the right hand pushed down to the ground, and easily pushed Zhang He's right hand away, at this time, the vase on his left shoulder fell down without warning, but saw that Chen Zhi did not rush to pick it up, but clasped Zhang He's wrist with both hands, so that Zhang He couldn't move, and his left foot was about to hit the ground when the vase was about to land. The vase seemed to be firmly placed on the ground by a cautious man.

And after this toss, Zhang He finally came to his senses, at this time Chen Zhi had already let go of him, Guo Jia also sat opposite Zhang He with an indifferent face, for Guo Jia, Chen Zhi's various shocking skills are no longer strange, and now he is most concerned about how to subdue the opposite general, but now he is quite hostile to look at his Zhang He, thinking about how he spoke.

After a long time, Guo Jia shook his head lightly before sighing to Zhang He: "General Zhang, is it worth it for you to do this?" As soon as these words came out, Zhang He was stunned, and Guo Jia said again: "Will anyone in Jizhou understand your hard work?" ”

If Guo Jia said something that was not salty or light, Zhang He might have a better time in his heart, but Guo Jia's words contained too much content, and it suddenly provoked all the misery that had been accumulated in Zhang He's heart for a year, and he couldn't help but lie on the table and cry loudly like a child, which was full of a kind of depressed sadness, Guo Jia and Chen Zhi looked at Zhang He, without saying a word, knowing that Zhang He was just excited at the moment, as long as he cried for a while, but Chen Zhi glanced at Guo Jia with admiration, After such a long time together, Chen Zhi also knows that Guo Jia is the best at figuring out people's psychology, every time before formulating a strategy, Guo Jia always makes a judgment on the opponent's character, and looks for the opponent's way of thinking to find the opponent's weaknesses that can be exploited, and now Guo Jia is using this method to deal with Zhang He.

People are really strange animals, as long as they open their hearts in front of someone, it will be difficult for him to lie to this person, and he will have a sense of blind obedience to this person, and now Zhang He is crying bitterly in front of the two, which proves that there is no hostility towards the two, and he can have a good talk with Guo Jia, which is really beneficial for Guo Jia to subdue Zhang He.

Looking at Zhang He, who gradually stopped crying, Guo Jiacai smiled and said: "General Zhang is really temperamental, Guo Jia appreciates it very much, but unfortunately there is no wine at this time, otherwise he will have to drink three glasses with the general!" ”

Zhang He was stunned when he heard this, raised his head to look at Guo Jia and Chen Dao, and found that the faces of the two were solemn and there was no joke at all, and there was no hint of no ridicule of himself, when even because of what Guo Jia said, he hurriedly looked for wine on the wine table, obviously wanted to have a drink with Guo Jia, but found that there was no wine on the wine table that was in the wine glass, and all of them were knocked over by himself, he couldn't help but be embarrassed, and hurriedly called someone to serve wine, and then said to Guo Jia with a red face: "Zhang He is out of shape, Mr. Guo smiled. Not long after, the wine was put on the table again, and Zhang He personally poured it for the two of them. (To be continued......)