The flames in the brazier were blazing, and the flames were spurting, licking the yams placed on the iron chopsticks.

After roasting, the snow-white yam quickly turns yellow. The slimy yam slurry forms a crispy crust due to baking, which envelops the aroma of the roasted yam without it spilling too much.

There were four people kneeling in the room, and Liu Wei and the others looked at Pang Shanmin, who was concentrating on roasting yams, and they didn't say anything for a long time. It was Pang Shanmin, after all, he was too young, although he tried his best to be calm, but his expression inevitably showed a little nervousness.

Before Pang Degong left, he had informed Pang Shanmin that his cousin Pang Tong was now working under the command of the king of Luoyang.

The three people in front of him, from their words, are very familiar with Pang Tong. Although he didn't know their identities yet, Pang Shanmin understood that these three people must be doing things for the king of Luoyang.

"I don't know what the relationship between Mr. Xiao and Pang Shiyuan is?" Pang Shanmin was baking yams, and Liu Wei, who had been sitting for a long time and staring at him, suddenly asked him a question.

When Liu Wei asked this sentence, Pang Shanmin was stunned, and his hand holding the wooden chopsticks to roast the yam trembled, and half of the yam fell into the brazier.

In a panic, Pang Shanmin didn't have time to think about it, and hurriedly used wooden chopsticks to clamp half of the yam that fell from the brazier, wanting to get the yam out of the charcoal fire.

As soon as his chopsticks reached into the brazier, the surging flames burned on his hand, making him cry miserably, and the wooden chopsticks in his hand were also thrown into the brazier.

The flames scorched the wooden chopsticks, and in an instant, the wooden chopsticks burst into flames and soon burned into charcoal. Half of the yam that fell into the brazier was also scorched, and a puff of cyan smoke came up.

Pang Shanmin held his burned hand, his face full of pain. Before Guan Qing and Zhao Yun came back to their senses, Liu Wei had already jumped up, opened the door and rushed out.

As soon as he rushed out of the door, in the blink of an eye, Liu Wei turned back again, grabbed a handful of fluffy snow in his hand, ran to Pang Shanmin's side, pulled his burned hand, and pressed the snow to his burned part.

The cold snow pressed on the burned part, and Pang Shanmin only felt an indescribable burst of Shu Tai in his hand, and the pain on his face subsided a lot.

"If you get burned, it's best to soak it in cold water." While helping Pang Shanmin to apply snow to the burned area, Liu Wei said to him: "The skin was burned by the flames, and it didn't cool down immediately, I'm afraid that I will get blisters when I turn around." Don't break the blister, let it go down slowly, although it hurts, it won't leave a scar. ”

"The guest knows how to heal?" Listening to Liu Wei's words, Pang Shanmin looked at him in surprise and asked him.

"What kind of medicine is this!" Liu Wei smiled slightly, looked up at Pang Shanmin, and said to him, "It's just some common sense that needs to be understood." ”

"Xiao Ke is the brother of Pang Shiyuan." Liu Biao helped him press the burned book, and applied white snow to the burned parts, the cold refreshing feeling went straight into his heart and spleen, Pang Shanmin was inexplicably moved in his heart, lowered his head, and a trace of hesitation appeared on his very immature face, and he hesitated for a while before he said to Liu Bian: "Xiao Ke's surname is Pang Mingshanmin, and his father is Pang Degong's ......."

"Ugh!" Although he had already guessed, these words came out of Pang Shanmin's mouth, which still made Liu Wei stunned for a moment, and while using the snow that had melted most of the snow to help Pang Shanmin apply the burns, he looked up at Pang Shanmin and said to him: "Don't hide it from Brother Pang, I came here to find Mr. Degong." ”

"Xiao Ke is still young, and he must never be a 'brother' for Mr." Liu Biao is several years older than Pang Shanmin, and when he heard Liu Biao call him "Brother Pang", Pang Shanmin hurriedly said: "Dare to ask Mr. to leave his name and surname, and when his father returns, Xiao Ke will be the ...... on his behalf."

"This is the current King of Luoyang!" Without waiting for Liu Wei to speak, Guan Qing, who had already gotten up and came to Liu Wei with Zhao Yun, said to Pang Shanmin: "His Royal Highness learned that Mr. Degong lived in seclusion here, and he came here in the snow, but he didn't want to see ......."

"Qing'er!" Before Guan Qing finished speaking, Liu Wei tilted his head slightly, stopped her words, and then smiled slightly, and said to Pang Shanmin: "Brother Pang don't be surprised, Qing'er is quick to talk, this king didn't want to tell Brother Pang his identity." Brother Pang should just not know who this king is, and he should be more comfortable talking......"

"The grass people are clumsy, I hope His Highness will forgive his sins!" Knowing that it was the current King of Luoyang who was helping him burn with snow balls, Pang Shanmin was stunned for a moment, hurriedly withdrew the hand that was pressed by Liu Bian, turned over and knelt on the ground, and said to Liu Bian: "It's just that my father has returned to Xiangyang, and His Royal Highness may have gone in vain." ”

"Might as well!" Liu Wei threw the remaining small piece of snow in his hand towards the still open door, with a smile on his face, and said to Pang Shanmin: "It is snowing heavily today, and this king is probably unable to leave......

"Your Highness tonight, please stay in the grass people's house, and the grass people will go to the side room!" As soon as Liu Wei said that he was afraid that he would not be able to leave, Pang Shanmin, who was kneeling on the ground, hurriedly took over the conversation.

Looking down at Pang Shanmin kneeling in front of him, Liu Wei felt a little difficult to adapt to his very cautious character.

Pang Shanmin looked to be no more than twelve or thirteen years old, and at most no more than fourteen years old. If Liu Wei had just come to this era, such a half-grown child would have felt very uncomfortable if he saluted him so respectfully. In the era where he once lived, children at this age should still be pestering adults to buy and buy, and gather around adults to have fun.

But since coming to this era, Liu Wei has been accustomed to seeing young girls marrying and becoming wives, young wanderers traveling around in search of fame, and Pang Shanmin kneeling on the ground seriously, although he is a little uncomfortable, but he is not so disgusted.

"Hurry up, please!" Pang Shanmin was still kneeling on the ground, Liu Wei owed, raised his hand at him, and said to him: "Mr. Degong is not here, this king came today to disturb Brother Pang, Brother Pang is like this, he is really tormenting this king!" ”

"Your Highness!" Pang Shanmin knelt down and sat up, hesitated slightly, and then said to Liu Wei: "Before my father left, he handed over a sheepskin map to the grass people, and said some strange words. ”

Pang Shanmin said that Pang Degong had left a sheepskin map, and Liu Wei turned his head to look at Guan Qing and Zhao Yun who were standing behind him.

Guan Qing and Zhao Yun nodded at him almost at the same time, meaning to ask him to look at the map, and then he said to Pang Shanmin: "Since it is left by Mr. Degong, it is extremely important to think about it. If Brother Pang doesn't give up, this king wants to borrow it to take a look. ”

"Your Highness, stay away! The grass people will take it! Pang Shanmin owed slightly, pleaded with Liu, got up and left the room.

When Pang Shanmin left, Liu Wei glanced at Zhao Yun and Guan Qing who were standing behind him again.

Unlike Fang Cai, the two of them were also at a loss at this time, and they couldn't guess what kind of map Pang Shanmin would get back.

Liu Wei and the others didn't wait long, Pang Shanmin held a rolled parchment roll in both hands and folded it back.

When he entered the house, he gently closed the door, and very respectfully held the sheepskin in front of Liu Wei.

Since Pang Shanmin's dwelling was extremely simple, and there was no low table in the house, when Liu Wei approached, he bent down and pulled forward the broken straw mat on which he had been kneeling, while he himself knelt on the dirt floor.

"This sheepskin is a detailed map of Jizhou, Bohai, Jizhou and Liaodong." Kneeling on the ground, Pang Shanmin spread out the sheepskin, pointed to the small curves on the map by the light of the brazier, and said to Liu Wei: "My father traveled to the north and south of the mountains to draw this map, and it really took a lot of effort to draw this map, and if there is only one piece at home, if it is damaged, there will be no more ......."

Looking down at the map that Pang Shanmin held out, Liu Wei found that on this map, not only mountains and rivers were marked, but also the location of many villages and towns.

Where the mountains and rivers are steep and the rivers are turbulent, all of them are clearly marked, and this map is not an ordinary map, but a combat map down to the village. With such a map, the army can march and command the battle in advance, and there is no need to spend too much manpower to explore the terrain.

"Before my father left, he told the grass people!" Pointing to an area on the map, drawing a circle on the small area that was pointed, Pang Shanmin raised his head and looked at Liu Wei and said: "The area around Jizhou will enter the bitter cold in late autumn, and its cold and bitterness are second only to Liaodong. The water and grass are not beautiful, the crops are difficult to harvest, although this place is wide, it is not the place to achieve hegemony! ”

Listening to Pang Shanmin's words, Liu Wei seemed to realize something, he took his eyes off the map, looked at Pang Shanmin, and asked him: "Then with what Brother Pang sees, how should the king of Jizhou choose?" ”

"The grass people don't know how to fight! Everything he said is my father's teachings! Smiling at Liu Wei, Pang Shanmin continued: "My father also said that Jizhou has a vast area, but it is adjacent to Liaodong and Dongyi, no matter who occupies here, it can be used as a buffer during the war, and it is not very effective!" And this place, at any time may withstand the invasion of the Dongyi army, internal and external troubles are too busy to take care of, if you want to dominate, this place is a place of death! ”

Originally, Liu Wei promised to give Jizhou to Yuan Shao after breaking Gongsun Zhan, and after listening to Pang Shanmin's words, he was not too surprised, just nodded and returned his gaze to the map.

"Your Highness!" As soon as Liu Wei's gaze fell on the map, Pang Shanmin continued to say to him: "My father said it clearly to Caomin. There are many heroes today, but there are not many who can achieve great things. Sun Jian was killed by Huang Zu, and his descendants decided to return to Jiangdong to recruit troops and horses to avenge their father, and now they are still in front of Yuan Shu's tent. If Sun Ce can borrow soldiers and horses from Yuan Shu in the coming day and return to Jiangdong, with his martial courage and wisdom, Yu Tuo, Yan Baihu, Wang Lang and others, I am afraid that they are not opponents, and Hedong will be determined to be obtained by the Sun family for a long time! In the area of Guanzhong, there is His Royal Highness in charge, although Li Dao and Guo Yan occupy Chang'an, they cannot extend their tentacles, and it is difficult to achieve great causes. ”

"Cao Mengde is loyal to the court, but he is a hard-working minister, why should this king guard against him?" As soon as Pang Shanmin's words were finished, Liu Wei raised questions with a suspicious face.

"Ah Bao has been wise since he was a child, and he must not be a person who has lived under people for a long time!" Looking up at Liu Wei, Pang Shanmin continued: "Although he does not have many soldiers and horses, there are countless good generals and ministers. And this person cherishes talents, knows how to make good use of people, if His Royal Highness does not take precautions, I am afraid that the time will be long, and the surroundings of Luoyang will be all obtained by Cao Agui! ”

Having said this, Pang Shanmin clasped his fists with both hands, bowed down to Liu Bian, and said to Liu Bian: "Such words are all said by my father, and the grass people don't know the deep meaning, and I hope that His Royal Highness will take care of it himself." As for this map, the grass people can get an idea for their father and give it to His Highness! ”