Outside the city of Handan, three healthy horses galloped in the snow.

The horse's hooves step into deep snow nests and, when lifted, raise the flakes of snow high. The snowflakes that were thrown up, as soon as they rose, were blown aside by the wind.

The cold wind swept through the three horseback riders with large flakes of snow, and the cold flakes of snow poured straight into their necks.

The servants all shrunk their necks, their noses were red from the cold, and they looked a little embarrassed.

It was none other than Liu Wei, Zhao Yun, and Guan Qing who were running in the snow.

During a casual conversation with Pang Tong, Liu Wei learned that Pang Tong's comfort Pang Degong should be in the Handan area at the moment. Pang Degong was a famous man, and when he learned that he was nearby, Liu Wei, who was temporarily bored and panicked due to the winter, decided to visit Pang Degong. If you can ask him to go out of the mountain to help, that is the best, even if you can't ask him to go out of the mountain, it will be of great benefit to get him a sentence or two.

After galloping for a while, Liu Wei grabbed the war horse, raised his hand and pointed forward, and said to Guan Qing and Zhao Yun who followed behind: "Qing'er, Zilong, in front of you is the retreat of the military uncle!" I'll speed up, and after noon, I'll be there! ”

"Why didn't the military advisor come?" Guan Qing and Zhao Yun, who followed Liu Bian, came to Liu Bian's side, and reined in their horses, Guan Qing said to Liu Bian: "Pang Degong is the uncle of the military master, if the military master comes, please go out of the mountain, wouldn't it be ......?"

"Pang Degong has always lived in Xiangyang, if it weren't for Liu Biao's persecution, how would he come to Handan?" Turning his head to look at Guan Qing, Liu Wei had a smile on the corner of his mouth, and said to her: "Although he is a great talent, after all, he is an uncle of the military master, and he really doesn't want to be a leader." If the military advisor ignores his heart and recommends the elders, if he comes in person again, with the temperament of a worldly master like Pang Degong, he will definitely think that the military advisor does not know how to be polite and is suspected of trespassing. If he walks away, how will I find him in the future? ”

"What Your Highness said is very true!" After listening to Liu Wei's words, Zhao Yun on the side continued: "It's just that the last general thinks that the surroundings of Handan are not very peaceful, and this place is far away from Handan City, and His Royal Highness only brings the general and the last general to come, after all, there is something inappropriate......

"Huh!" After Zhao Yun spoke, Liu Wei smiled, clamped his legs towards the horse's belly, and rushed forward on the horse, while riding the horse forward, he shouted to Zhao Yun and Guan Qing who were behind him: "Today, this king is going to find Dayin, not to fight, and lead those many soldiers to come, in case he scares Dayin away, what should I do?" ”

In the wind and snow, Liu Wei's shouting became very ethereal, Zhao Yun and Guan Qing glanced at each other, and they also clamped their legs towards the horse's belly, and rode the horse to follow quickly.

Three fast horses, galloping in the wind and snow, but the scene of a small half-pillar incense, the three people on horseback, the front half of the body is covered with snowflakes, a piece of white flowers, but because the servants are wearing very thick, the place full of snow flakes does not feel how cold, but at the collar, a cold wind goes straight to the inside.

After running forward for another five or six miles, Liu Wei saw the phantom of several houses faintly emerging in the wind and snow. Seeing those few houses, Liu Wei raised his hand and pointed forward, and shouted to Zhao Yun and Guan Qing: "Ahead may be where Pang Degong lives." ”

Zhao Yun and Guan Qing, who were following Liu Bian, had already seen a few houses faintly visible in the distance, and they all clamped their legs on the horse's belly, and the horse sped up, followed Liu Bian, and rushed towards those houses.

The houses that appear in the eyes of the servants are not villages. They stand alone in the wilderness in the wind and snow, looking from afar, giving people a bleak and lonely feeling.

Rushing to the front of the house, Liu Wei and the others reined in their horses. Through the wooden fence wall, Liu Wei stretched out his head to look into the small courtyard, only to see that the door was closed, and there was no breath of life here at all.

"Anyone?" Standing outside the fence wall, Liu Wei straightened his neck and shouted loudly into the small courtyard: "We are guests on the road, the wind and snow are urgent, and we missed the accommodation, I wonder if the host's family can take them in and avoid the wind and snow?" ”

As soon as Liu Wei's shout fell, the room in the middle of the small courtyard was opened. A boy about thirteen or fourteen years old poked his head out and glanced out.

In the cold wind, the young man saw three horses standing outside the courtyard, like people in a hurry, so he opened the door, trotted to the courtyard gate in the snow, opened the courtyard door, and said to Liu Wei and the others: "There is a brazier in the house, guests hurry up and go inside to bake the fire!" ”

The young man opened the courtyard door, Liu Wei and the others turned over and jumped off the horse, Liu Wei arched to the young man with his fists, and said to the young man: "Thank you, little brother, when I leave, I will definitely offer Sichuan capital!" ”

"What's worth it?" Liu Wei proposed that he would offer Sichuan capital when he left, but the young man waved his hand indifferently and said to him: "Mountain and wild people, it is common for guests to miss the stay, if you want Sichuan capital, why don't you open a house here!" ”

"That's what the little brother said!" The young man's words made Liu Wei a little embarrassed, he smiled slightly, arched his fists at the young man again, and said to him: "It's a nuisance to be inferior like this!" ”

"Guests, please come in!" Liu Wei no longer mentioned Sichuan Zi, and the young man withdrew and took a step back, making a gesture of please, making way for Liu Wei and the others.

led the horse into the small courtyard, and Liu Wei and others, under the guidance of the young man, tied the war horse to a low shed behind the house. On the outer edge of the shed, there is a long trough, and judging from the shape of the trough, it should be used for raising cattle and horses.

The young man did not have any horses at home, but as soon as Liu Wei and the others tied up their war horses, the young man held a bundle of hay and threw it in the trough where the horses were raised.

Watching the young man shake off the hay and throw the grass into the trough to feed the horses, Liu Wei asked him very curiously: "Little brother has no horses at home, how can there be a horse shed, and there is so much forage?" ”

"Don't hide it from the guests!" Throwing the fodder into the trough, the young man clapped his hands, turned back to Liu Wei and said, "The family also has horses, but two months ago, my father traveled far away and rode the horses away. These forages are all stockpiles, and it would be bad to leave them for a long time. If a guest has a mount, it is better to give it to the guest. ”

came here to find Pang Degong. Hearing that the young man said that his father had gone out on a long trip two months ago, Liu Bian's heart suddenly tightened, frowning slightly, and a faint sense of loss appeared on his face.

However, he still had some expectations in his heart, hoping that the boy's father was not Pang Degong, but that they had found the wrong place.

"The wind and snow are too big, and the guests are afraid that they will be frozen when they are in a hurry!" Patting off the grass foam on the palm of his hand, the young man rubbed his hand on the placket of his clothes a few more times, and said to Liu Wei and the others: "Quickly follow Xiao Ke back to the room, bake the fire, and warm your body." ”

"Thank you, little brother!" Liu Wei and the others hugged their fists and thanked the young man, followed the young man out of the low shed, and walked straight to the room where the young man walked out.

There are a total of five rooms in the courtyard, each of which is made of mud. This kind of mud house, if it is a long time, there will be a big crack in the wall, but the five rooms in the small courtyard, the wall is very flat, and the grass roots exposed at the lower edge of the roof are also very new, so it should not have been built for too long.

followed the young man to the door in the middle, and as soon as the young man pushed the door open, Liu Wei and the others felt a warm feeling gushing out of the room.

In the middle of the room, there is a brazier. On the brazier is a pair of slender iron chopsticks. On the iron chopsticks, a few peeled yams have been roasted and browned, and the smell of incense fills the room.

"Fang Xiaoke baked a few potatoes, and the guests came just in time!" Letting Liu Bian and others into the house, the young man knelt beside the brazier, turned the yam on the brazier with a pair of wooden chopsticks, and said to Liu Bian and others: "In the countryside, there is little meat, and the guests are not shabby, and they eat and chat to satisfy their stomachs. ”

"No!" After entering the room, Liu Wei found a corner and knelt down, and said to the young man: "I can borrow expensive land to avoid the wind and snow, how can I eat the rations of the master's family?" ”

"It's not worth anything!" The young man stood up, took out three broken clay bowls from the corner of the room, took the cooked yam from the brazier, divided the yam among the three bowls, held a clay bowl in one hand, and tucked one in his arms, handed one of the bowls to Liu Wei, and said to him: "The potatoes in the house are all planted by my father, and there are quite a lot of them in the house. ”

"If Pang Tong is also here, it should be joyful!" When Liu Wei and Zhao Yun took the pottery bowl respectively, Guan Qing said to Liu Wei intentionally or unintentionally when he took the bowl: "In the past, when I went to his house, I saw him eating baked potatoes a lot......

When Guan Qing spoke, Liu Wei's eyes kept staring at the young man. Guan Qing mentioned Pang Tong's name and surname, the young man's body shook slightly, but he didn't say anything, and when Guan Qing took the bowl, the young man just lowered his head and walked to the door, planning to get some yam back and roast it to Liu Wei and others.

"Little brother recognizes Pang Shiyuan?" As soon as the young man walked to the door, before his hand reached the door, Liu Wei looked at his back and asked him.

Asked by Liu Wei, the young man turned his back to the house, hesitated for a moment before saying: "To recognize is to recognize, but my father is not allowed to mention it to others, and I hope that the guests will not be strange!" ”

"Ling Zun is Pang Degong?" The young man said that he recognized Pang Tong, Liu Bian's heart suddenly tightened, and he hurriedly put the pottery bowl on the ground, stood up and hugged his fists and asked the young man.

Standing at the door, the young man did not look back, hesitated for a long time, and then dropped a sentence: "Treat less guests, Xiao Ke will take more potatoes ......"

As he spoke, the young man opened the door and walked out. Looking at the door that was closed by the young man from the outside, Liu Wei already knew in his heart that the young man in front of him was Pang Shanmin, the son of Pang Degong, whom Pang Tong had mentioned to him.

Before Liu Wei left Handan, Pang Tong once told him that although Pang Shanmin was young, he was quite talented. However, his talent is somewhat different from Pang Tong.

Pang Tong is good at strategizing and commanding troops, but this Pang Shanmin does not understand tactics, but he is very transparent about the way of governing the world. In the past, when I talked about world affairs with Pang Tong, I also had many amazing words.

This time, Liu Wei wanted to look for Pang Degong, but he didn't want Pang Degong to leave two months earlier, and Pang Shanmin was left alone in the huge family.

"Your Royal Highness......" Liu Wei was looking at the closed door, and Zhao Yun on the side clenched his fists and said to him: "This son is the son of Pang Degong......

"Hmm!" Liu Wei nodded slowly, frowned slightly, and said to Zhao Yun and Guan Qing: "I waited to find Pang Degong, I didn't want the main lord to be there, but I was looking for his son." The military advisor once told the king that although this Pang Shanmin is not good at marching and fighting, he has a unique view of governing the place, but he is too young and deeply influenced by his father, so he doesn't know if he is willing to leave here with us......"