After cooking a large table of food himself, Ao Lie stood in front of the table with a smile and beckoned others to take a seat. Previously, when Ao Lie was cooking, Cai Yan sent someone to invite Wang Ao Laozu and Tong Yuan, two old men, with Ao Lie's permission. Therefore, today's meal is said to be a family banquet, and everyone here is from the same family.

Wang Ao and Tong Yuan sat in the top two positions in turn with a smile, followed by Ao Lie and his wife, Zhang Xiu and Zhao Yun sat on both sides, and Sun Ce sat at the bottom.

"Come, come, try the craft of so-and-so. Master, uncle, you two old people should move the chopsticks first. Ao Lie enthusiastically recommended the dishes he had made.

Wang Ao and Tong Yuan each picked up chopsticks, picked up a mouthful of dishes and put them in their mouths. Wang Ao likes to eat light things, so he took a bite of green bamboo shoots; Tong Yuan's taste is relatively heavy, and the first chopsticks picked up a piece of spicy chicken with bright color. After chewing slightly for a while, Wang Ao took the lead in praising it: "Not bad, not bad, the taste is very refreshing." Tong Yuan took a bite of spicy chicken nuggets, his face was slightly sweaty with spicy, and after picking up the wine glass and pouring a sip of Xifeng spirits, he said: "Crispy and refreshing, charred on the outside and tender on the inside, the most rare thing is that the spicy conditioning is just right, neither more nor less, which makes people's lips and teeth fragrant." ”

Seeing the two old men praising each other, the rest of the people also picked up their chopsticks and put a chopstick into their mouths towards their favorite dishes. After tasting the dishes made by Ao Lie, several people cheered one after another, even Sun Ce, who had never paid much attention to food, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but say: "Master, your craftsmanship is really not covered, for the first time, I feel that the taste of food can be comparable to fine wine." In the days that he has been with Ao Lie, Sun Ce has also learned some fresh words, such as Gai.

Ao Lie smiled and stretched out his chopsticks, gave Cai Yan a chopstick dish, and said to Sun Ce: "I see that in addition to practicing martial arts, you only have to drink, and there is no harm in having time to order more books in the future." Because it was a family banquet, Cai Yan was also able to be present and eat with everyone.

Sun Ce kept picking up the dishes in front of him and putting them into his mouth, and he was still holding a wine glass in his left hand and pouring a sip of spirits into his mouth from time to time, and said vaguely in his mouth: "Well, it's delicious." Ah, I've written it down, just read more books in the future. ”

Seeing Sun Ce gobbling up, the others smiled heartily. While talking softly, he happily enjoyed the delicious food made by Ao Lie. Except for Cai Yan, everyone else is a martial artist, and because it is a family banquet, rules such as not saying anything about food and sleeping have long been thrown away.

The lunch ended in a pleasant atmosphere, and the table of dishes made by Ao Lie was eaten by everyone, which made the maids who cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks a lot easier.

After a full meal, everyone sat in the main hall drinking tea and chatting. Zhang Xiu said: "Senior Brother Mohan, I came here this time to serve under you, and I won't return to the north in the future." ”

Ao Lie asked strangely: "Youwei can come back, of course a certain is welcome." But why don't you stay under your uncle's tent and obey orders, but return to Youzhou? ”

Zhang Xiu sighed, shook his head and said, "Senior brother doesn't know, a certain uncle is a general under Dong Zhuo's account. Dong Zhuo is a brutal and unkind person, and recently learned that the ten permanent servants of the DPRK and the general He Jin are fighting endlessly, and intends to lead troops into Beijing to help one of them fight for power. If Dong Zhuo enters the Beijing Division, there will be trouble. A certain was really unbearable, so he came to join his senior brother, and more than 1,000 soldiers of a certain subordinate also came with him, and were camping outside the city and waiting. ”

After listening to Zhang Xiu's narration, Ao Lie's heart suddenly turned up a monstrous wave! Dong Zhuo, I'm really going to enter Luoyang! If it weren't for Zhang Xiu coming to tell him, he wouldn't know that Dong Zhuo was already preparing to enter Beijing, it seems that his intelligence system is still not perfect, just relying on the elite of the blood killing battalion to ride horses to probe the sentinels, at most he can only find out the news within a radius of a few hundred miles, if he wants to clearly grasp the trend of the general trend of the world, he must establish a special team dedicated to spying on news in various places as soon as possible.

Sighing, Ao Lie asked again, "Youwei led his troops here, but what about my uncle?" Ao Lie guessed that Zhang Ji must not have come with him, otherwise as Zhang Ji, he would definitely go into the city with Zhang Xiu.

Zhang Xiu said with some distress: "Although Dong Zhuo is brutal, he has the grace of knowing his uncle, so his uncle insisted on refusing to come. ”

Tong Yuan persuaded: "Forget it, this matter is reluctant." There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and in the future, let's figure out a way, I can't let your uncle stay with Dong Zhuo alone. ”

Ao Lie and Zhang Xiu both nodded, and they could only do this for now, and they were trying to find a way to take Zhang Ji over in the future. After being silent for a while, Ao Lie turned his head to look at Zhao Yun and said, "Zilong, you and Youwei go out of the city to bring the brothers into the city. ”

Zhao Yun and Zhang Xiu agreed at the same time and turned to leave.

After the two left, Ao Lie also stood up and said to Wang Ao and Tong Yuan: "Master, uncle, the disciple has some things to deal with, I'm afraid I don't have much time to do in the past few days, and I have to bother you two elders to guide Bo Fu in cultivating martial arts." ”

Wang Ao nodded with a smile and said, "Don't worry, you go and get busy with you." "For Ao Lie's disciple, Wang Ao loves it from the bottom of his heart, and treats Ao Lie as if he were his own descendants, except for being extremely strict with Ao Lie when cultivating, other things can be said to be responsive, so Wang Ao agreed to it.

Seeing Wang Ao's response, Ao Lie had a few words of encouragement to Sun Ce, and asked Sun Ce to humbly follow the two ancestors to cultivate. Sun Ce was naturally full of promises.

After explaining Sun Ce's affairs, Ao Lie cast an apologetic look at Cai Yan, meaning that he was going to be busy again and couldn't be by Cai Yan's side. Cai Yan replied with a gentle smile, expressing understanding. After that, Ao Lie walked out of the mansion quickly, came to the meeting hall of the official office, and found Xun Yu and Jia Xu who were working.

Seeing Ao Lie walking in in a hurry, the two threw away the brush in their hands, stood up and saluted Ao Lie. Ao Lie didn't care about any etiquette at the moment, walked to the table in a few steps, and said in a condensed voice: "I want to form a scout team, not a sentry, but a full-time scout, the kind that can spy on all the secrets in the world." ”

Xun Yu and Jia Xu were stunned by what Ao Lie said, and wanted to spy on all the secrets in the world, how easy is this? The lord who has always been calm and generous, how can he be so abnormal today? A look of doubt rose on the faces of both of them at the same time.

Ao Lie didn't have time to pay attention to their doubts, and said directly: "Dong Zhuo is going to Beijing." But we don't know anything about it! If we fall behind, we will be beaten, and from now on, I hope that the intelligence of our army will be delivered to the hands of XX as soon as possible. Therefore, a full-time scout should be formed. ”

For Dong Zhuo, Xun Yu may not know so much, but Jia Xu is very clear. Jia Xu is also a native of Xiliang, and naturally has a deep understanding of Dong Zhuo, who is also from the same background. Hearing the news that Dong Zhuo was about to enter Beijing, Jia Xu's face immediately became ugly: "This... Is it true? If Dong Zhuo is really allowed to enter Beijing, chaos is coming! "Jia Xu is not Ao Lie, nor is he a traverser, so he naturally doesn't know what will happen in the history of Lu Dao, but Jia Xu has wise thinking and keen insight, and he feels that when Dong Zhuo enters Beijing, it will be a day of chaos!

After being silent for a while, Xun Yu turned around and walked to a bookcase, took out a thin silk book from it, handed it to Ao Lie, and said: "My lord, in the past half a year that our army has trained recruits and rectified armaments, Yu has sent people to collect some news, all of which are in this silk book, please take a look at them." ”

Ao Lie glanced at Xun Yu, stretched out his hand to take the silk book, but asked in his mouth: "Since Wen Ruo has collected these news, why didn't he tell him?" ”

Xun Yu smiled bitterly: "The lord works hard for the military every day, and Yu really can't bear to let the lord bear other things." Jia Xu interjected: "Lord, now our army is in charge of this huge Youzhou, but the strategists and scribes under the lord's command are really few and pitiful, and many things are handled by Wen Ruo alone day and night, and even with Xu every day, he is so tired that he can't sleep well." ”

Hearing Jia Xu say this, Ao Lie realized how much work Lu Dao Xun Yu had. Whether it is the Han Dynasty or later generations, every general and marshal with heavy troops has a think tank team behind him to give advice, on the other hand, because the speed of rise is too fast, resulting in an extreme shortage of manpower under his command, the generals are better, although the number is not too much, but each military general can be independent, and there is no problem for the time being; But the civil official side is not good, there are only a few people around who can be reused, Deng Zhi, Dong He, Li Yan and others are still serving as Taishou outside, in addition to Xun Yu and Jia Xu in front of them, there are only six or seven people such as Lu Su and Gu Yong who can be reused, no wonder Jia Xu, who has always been good at protecting himself, will confide in his hard work.

With a somewhat embarrassed smile on his face, Ao Lie said: "This, it's a little difficult for the two, and there is no way to do it now, when the manpower is abundant in the future, naturally you won't be so hard." It's just that the formation of scouts is urgent, and I hope you will work harder. As he spoke, Ao Lie opened the silk album handed over by Xun Yu and looked at it.

I don't know if I don't know the road, and I was shocked when I saw it. Many things greatly surprised Ao Lie. In the silk album recorded by Xun Yu, there are several things that have attracted Ao Lie's great attention. First of all, Liu Bei's three brothers left Gongsun Zhan and their whereabouts are unknown. Ao Lie had known about this for a long time, but to this day there is still no news about the three of them, which surprised Ao Lie. According to the trajectory of history, the next stop of these three brothers should be Xuzhou, but that happened after Mu Taoqian's subordinates in Xuzhou killed Cao Cao's father Cao Song without permission.

The second thing is that the new Nanyang Taishou has already taken office, and it is no coincidence that it is Yuan Shu, who is quite incompatible with Ao Lie. remembered that when he left Nanyang, he sealed all the money and grain in the treasury, and now it is all cheap Yuan Shu, a loser, which makes Ao Lie regret it.

The third thing that caught Ao Lie's attention was that Lu Bu served under the subordinate of Bingzhou Assassin Shi Ding Yuan, and the official was in the high position of Zhonglang General, and he was in charge of all the cavalry in Bingzhou. Seeing this news, Ao Lie remembered in a trance that when he said goodbye to Lu Bu, Lu Bu did say that he was going to defect to Ding Yuan, because Ding Yuan guarded the border and fought against the Huns for a long time. In history, not long after, Dong Zhuo bribed Lu Bu with a red rabbit horse, and asked Lu Bu to assassinate Ding Yuan, who was like a son, and switched to Dong Zhuo's account, and recognized Dong Zhuo as his father-in-law. But Ao Lie knew in his heart that his eldest brother Lu Bu was ambitious, how could he really be bought by a red rabbit horse? At the beginning, Ao Lie sent the king horse of the Western Regions to the night snow dragon horse, but Lu Bu refused to accept it, how could he turn against him for the sake of the red rabbit horse and Ding Yuan? There must be a secret in this that has not been recorded in the history books.

There is another thing, the Yuan family where Yuan Shao is located, under the proposition of the contemporary head of the family, Taifu Yuan Kui, colluded with the general He Jin, intending to jointly kill the ten permanent servants, and then control the government. Unexpectedly, the matter was leaked, and the ten permanent servants took the lead to frame Yuan Kui for a capital crime, and put Yuan Kui in prison, and soon after, Yuan Kui was poisoned in the prison. Yuan Shao fled Luoyang alone, and his whereabouts are unknown. For this point, there is not much difference from the historical record, but the time when Yuan Shao left Luoyang was just a little earlier. As for Yuan Shao's whereabouts, Ao Lie could probably guess that he must have returned to the old land of Jizhou and recruited people to make a comeback.

Other than a few things above, there is nothing else important. It's really difficult for Xun Yu, and in his busy schedule, he can still find time to record this useful information. Although this information is not obvious to ordinary people, Ao Lie understands very well that these things are really not worth mentioning when taken out alone, but when taken together, they show an omen of imminent chaos. If it weren't for the knowledge of later generations, Ao Lie would not have been able to see any clues in these things.