Chapter 19: Liu Bei's Solicitation (I)
Wang Ping and Zhao Yun had heard the deeds of Liu Guan, Zhang Taoyuan, and Sanying Zhan Lu Bu a few years ago, and the heroic images of the three had long been ingrained in their hearts, how could they not be excited to see their young idols this time, but when the two brothers stepped forward to salute with fists, Liu Bei looked polite on the surface, but it made people feel very false, Guan Yu was even more squinted, and only snorted from his nostrils, which was regarded as a response to the two, and only Zhang Fei replied sincerely.
Liu Bei saw that his two brothers were young, and they were not well-known in the rivers and lakes, so he despised them, but he didn't expect that the rumored hero of the righteous Bo Yuntian was also a snob, Wang Ping felt bored and didn't want to delay any longer, so he directly explained his intention to Mi Zhu, Mi Zhu also saw the embarrassment on the field and wanted to explain it to Liu Bei, but it was not easy to say it on the spot because of his face.
Mi Zhu could only change the topic and said: "I know the intention of the two in the letter, but the sister went back to her hometown in Donghai the day before yesterday and is not in my house, I see that the two of you should be tired all the way, so rest in the house first, and I will send someone to take the two to Mi's house in Donghai County early tomorrow morning, what do you think." Wang Ping and the Mi family naturally didn't dare to refuse his kindness, so they followed the steward of the house to rest.
When Wang Ping and Zhao Yun came to Beijiafu, there was an unknown secret incident in Wu County, which was far away in the south of the Yangtze River. It is said that the Taiping Taoist Yu Ji actually appeared in the area of Wu County and Huiji in the south of the Yangtze River, and he often cast spells to help the people, and the locals were favored by him and called him a fairy, and even built a Taoist temple for him to live in.
Yu Ji will go to the temple every few days to preach, if the local people encounter any difficulties, they will go to the temple to pray for blessings and worship, and at this time Sun Ce has just occupied the land of the south of the Yangtze River, he sent people to set up a big pot in the city to boil porridge for the people to eat, in order to buy people's hearts, but unfortunately this day happened to be the day when the gods opened the altar to talk about the Tao, the people went to the temple to listen to the gods preach and no one went to drink porridge, Sun Ce knew that he was angry and sent his anger to Yu Ji.
Sun Ce was angry and rushed into the Taoist temple with dozens of personal soldiers, he asked his men to disperse the local people and then surrounded Yu Ji in the courtyard, Sun Ce did not believe that Yu Ji would cast spells in his opinion, what was taken from the air, the fire on his fingertips was some deceptive tricks, and he did not allow Wu County to have people who were more popular with the people than him, so when the soldiers escorted Yu Ji to him, Sun Ce directly called him a demon Dao, and asked him why he dared to bewitch everyone here.
Yu Ji laughed wildly and scolded him for not understanding the rules and asked Sun Ce to kowtow immediately to admit his mistakes, otherwise he would take away his twenty years of yang life, Sun Ce swept Jiangdong at this time and called the little overlord is in high spirits, and when he heard Yu Ji talking nonsense, he was very disrespectful to him and had the intention of killing.
When Yu Jidao was put on his neck with a knife, he still did not change his face, and warned Sun Ce earnestly that if he dared to cut off his head, not only could he not kill him, but he would also come to repay the hatred of the severed head at a certain time and place, telling Sun Ce to think twice. Sun Ce was already impatient when he saw that he was pretending to be a ghost, so he ordered Yu Ji's head to be cut off.
But it is strange to say that when Yu Ji was beheaded, his entire body suddenly disappeared, turned into a wisp of green smoke, drifting far to the north, and there seemed to be someone in the green smoke saying that two years later, someone would come to take Sun Ce's life.
Sun Ce was frightened by this strange scene, and hurriedly led people out of the Taoist temple, and returned to the barracks, he gave a gag order to these dozens of personal soldiers, and also sent a large army to close the city gate, completely blocking the news here.
And the wisp of green smoke that Yu Ji Huacheng seemed to be not afraid of any resistance and drifted north, until it floated to the seaside of Donghai County before stopping, at this time, there was an old man who was fishing on the seaside and said to himself: "Friends of the Taoist room have worked hard all the way, please go back to the Taoist temple to practice first, and wait for me to walk in this world in the dry season." ”
Qingyan seemed to understand the words of the old man, turned his head and drifted towards the sea to the east, and the old man in the dry season put away the fishing rod and took the hat and left slowly after seeing the green smoke drifting away. At this time, if Sun Ce saw this fishing veteran, he would be terrified, because this Lao Suo called Ganji was exactly the same as Yu Jichang, who was beheaded by Sun Ce, and he was simply a person!
In the evening, Beijia Mansion specially prepared a dinner party to entertain Liu Bei, and Wang Ping and Zhao Yun, who stayed in the mansion to rest, were also invited, and the two brothers didn't want to go, but it was Mi Lun's second brother Mi Fang who came to invite them, and they couldn't refuse so they could only go to the banquet together.
After three rounds of drinking, everyone will find someone to invite a cup, Guan Zhang is a good wine person, especially Zhang Fei's temperament is bold, and he keeps pushing glasses and changing glasses with everyone, so it's not lively. Wang Ping's amount of alcohol was not good, and he was a little drunk after drinking half a jar, and just when his mind was a little confused, Liu Bei actually came to Wang Ping and Zhao Yun's table with a wine glass to toast.
Liu Bei first made a big gesture at the two, then drank the wine in one gulp, put down the wine glass, and then clasped his hands into fists and said: "Liu Bei thanks the emperor and the two junior brothers for their great kindness." Wang Ping rubbed his eyes a little disbelievingly, thinking that he still had a perfunctory and false face at noon, how could this become such a corporal Lixian, and when did he give him a great favor? It's just that this won't allow him to think too much, and he saw that his senior brother Zhao Yun had already gotten up and returned the salute, so he had to return the salute.
Zhao Yun was also puzzled in his heart, so he asked Liu Bei: "Our two brothers and General Liu are meeting for the first time, where do you start with this thanksgiving?" At this time, Mi Zhu stepped forward and explained: "Xuande Gong is the king of Zhongshan Jing and then the Han family, you and the emperor defeated the thieves outside the city of Anyi, and finally escorted Your Majesty to Luoyang safely, this is not only for Xuande Gong but also for the people of the world!" After speaking, he also gave a salute to the two brothers, and after listening to Mi Zhu's words, Wang Ping realized that Liu Bei and the emperor were a family, but Zhao Yun was willing to say goodbye to Mi Zhu and quickly sent them back to the main seat.
When Mi Lun was in Luoyang, he was afraid that his sworn brother would not be valued by his family, so he wrote in detail in the letter about their relationship with the emperor and the feat outside the city of Anyi that night, at noon Mi Zhu saw Liu Bei and Guan Yu despise the two and made them a little embarrassed, and afterwards Mi Zhu told Liu Bei that after their inheritance, Liu Bei showed great remorse, and hoped that Mi Zhu would also call the two brothers at the dinner, so that he could have the opportunity to make friends with them.
Although Liu Bei was reluctant to take over Xuzhou, Mi Zhu knew that sooner or later he would be the governor of Xuzhou, and Mi Lun's letter said that Zhao Yun was a strong man in the late congenital period, and a master of this level was a popular person for all the princes to compete for, so he proposed to Liu Bei to recruit these two young talents at the dinner, and Liu Bei planned to do the same in his heart.
It was difficult for talented white bodies in the social system at that time to be reused, so there were few people in power who could be polite and virtuous, because they only had to make a show to make their subordinates grateful, and Liu Bei personally bowed to their brothers It was not insincere, he thought that these two young people would definitely be moved by him, and he was afraid that they would take the initiative to serve him without his own invitation.
However, in terms of implementation, Zhao Yun just politely poured him and Mi Zhu full of wine, and then returned to his seat and continued to drink with Wang Ping. Liu Bei was a little reluctant to find some topics to talk to his two brothers, he first talked about this troubled era, saying that as a member of the Han family, he was bent on sharing worries for the emperor and revitalizing the country, and he only hated that he was weak and could not show his ambitions, and at this time, Mi Zhu would add to the two brothers in a timely manner that Liu Bei was virtuous, and this Xuzhou would be handed over to him to govern immediately, and his future achievements would be limitless. Liu Bei naturally had to be humble when he heard this, but Wang Ping and Zhao Yun looked like they had nothing to do with themselves, and they just politely said hello to Liu Bei.
Liu Bei saw that the two of them were indifferent to the strength they showed and decided to play the emotional card instead, but he and the emperor Wang Yue did not directly intersect for a while, and did not know how to cut into the topic, so he had to casually ask the two if the purpose of the eastward trip needed his help, Wang Ping didn't want others to know that they were going to Xiandao for medicine, so he lied that he was looking for the master's old man, Liu Bei heard him talk about the old man and suddenly remembered a person, he thought that if he could make good use of this person's affairs, he should make the two brothers surrender to him.
Liu Bei pondered for a moment and said: "I have heard that the Emperor Master also has a fellow senior brother who is Tong Yuan, who is known as the God of Spears, and I think everyone here should have heard of the legendary deeds of this Tong Sanren." Zhao Yun heard him mention his master, and his heart gushed out with a strong sense of longing, Zhao Yun was photographed by Tong Yuan when he was three years old, and then he has been learning marksmanship with his master and will take him wherever Tong Yuan goes, but when he was ten years old, the master told him that he was going to the north to kill someone and build a city, and he could no longer take him with him, and he had to send him to Wang Yue's house to wait.
Although the ten-year-old Zhao Yun was extremely reluctant in his heart, he still obeyed the master's arrangement, but this was far away. When Tong Yuan killed the Xiongnu Shan Yu in the Hetao area after building Helan City, but when the city was built that night Tong Yuan suddenly disappeared, now ten years have passed and there is still no news, some people say that he flew into Helan City to become an immortal, some people say that he went to Heming Mountain in Shu and Zhang Ling to practice Taoism together, and some people say that he went to the north of Mobei where he became the king of the locals. But no one dares to say that Tong Yuan is dead, or that no one in the entire Han Dynasty is willing to accept that Tong Yuan is dead, because it is Tong Yuan who injected the last trace of chicken blood into the crumbling Han Dynasty, making the world feel that the Han Dynasty is still the most powerful existence in the world.
When Zhao Yun was still reminiscing about the good times with his master, he was shocked by Liu Bei's words, and listened to Liu Bei say: "Liu Bei Bucai killed the Yellow Turban Thief with Tong Sanren in Zhuo County ten years ago, and then the court asked me to lead the troops to fight Wancheng, but I was afraid that I would not succeed and asked for help, but at this time Tong Sanren said that he wanted to go to Mobei and could not help, he told me before leaving that he had two apprentices Zhang Xiu and Zhang Ren, They are traveling somewhere at this time, and if I meet someone who can recruit to serve under me, hehe, I don't dare to say the word recruitment, but if I can be commensurate with their brothers, it is also a beautiful thing to assist the Han family. ”