Chapter 523: Lu Wenhou's private meeting with Gongsun Lan
The army was stationed in Yuyang, and Lu Bu, who had eaten Tai Shici's deflated Lu Bu outside the city, led the team to the barracks with unhappiness.
Entering the main general's barracks, Lu Bu sat in the house, thinking of things outside the city, and his heart was depressed for a while.
Following Liu Bian's northern expedition, Lu Bu also made a lot of contributions along the way, and Liu Biao never stingy with him. Every time Lu Bu made a contribution, Liu Wei would always be rewarded with various things.
But for some reason, deep in Lu Bu's heart, he always felt that there was an unbreakable gap between him and Liu Bi.
He is not Liu Wei's henchman, and maybe he can't become Liu Wei's henchman in this life!
Kneeling in the barracks, Lu Bu did not remove his armor. He picked up the teacup on the low table in front of him, took a deep sip of the tea, and then stood up suddenly, as if he had made a great determination, and strode towards the door.
"General!" As soon as Lu Bu arrived at the door, the two guards guarding the door hurriedly clasped their fists and bowed to him.
He didn't pay attention to the two guards, but shouted to another guard not far away, "Call Wei Xu!" ”
The guard got Lu Bu's order, answered, and ran quickly towards Wei Xu's barracks.
After summoning Wei Xu's guards to leave, Lu Bu stood straight outside the barracks with one hand on the hilt of his sword, but his eyes looked at the Luoyang army who were busy distributing barracks in the distance.
Yuyang is the seat of Youzhou, and the military camp in the city can accommodate more than 300,000 people.
After the Luoyang army entered the city, the Jizhou army and the Liaodong army also entered the city successively after receiving Liu Wei's order. Including the 10,000 plain army led by Guan Yu, they were all stationed in the military camp in the city, and Liu Wei specially ordered people to divide the military camp in the city into pieces, and several large armies were isolated from each other.
Although it is isolated and stationed, the distance between the barracks and the barracks is not very far. If any military camp is not guarded by soldiers, anyone can easily enter their army station.
Standing outside the barracks, Lu Bu was looking at the busy Luoyang army, and went to invite Wei Xu's guards, so he came to Lu Bu's barracks with Wei Xu.
"Warm wait!" When Lu Bu approached, Wei Xu arched at Lu Bu with his fists, and asked Lu Bu in a low voice, "But do you want to find that Zhang Liao and Gao Shun's bad luck?" ”
"With the protection of the King of Luoyang, who can find their bad luck?" Referring to Zhang Liao and Gao Shun, Lu Bu pursed his lips helplessly, his eyes narrowed slightly, and said to Wei Xu: "General Ben just accidentally thought of an old man and intended to go to the meeting, so you will accompany General Ben on a journey!" ”
"No!" Clenching his fists and bowing, Wei Xu answered, and when Lu Bu raised his feet and left, he also followed behind, walking a little farther away from the Luoyang Army garrison without leaving.
After walking not far, Wei Xu was stunned to find that Lu Bu was actually going to the military camp of the Liaodong Army.
"General, ...... are you?" Seeing that he was getting closer and closer to the Liaodong Army camp, Wei Xu took two quick steps, caught up with Lu Bu, and while following him forward, he lowered his voice and asked him, "Why did the general go to the Liaodong Army camp?" ”
"Go find Gongsun Lan!" While walking forward, Lu Bu whispered back to Wei Xu: "Youzhou has been pacified, if we want to get more benefits from here, we must have help!" ”
"Ugh!" Hearing Lu Bu's words, Wei Xu was stunned for a moment, but he did not dissuade Lu Bu, but followed behind him, his pace sped up a little, and walked straight towards the Liaodong Army barracks.
When they arrived outside the Liaodong Army barracks, Lu Bu and Wei Xu were about to enter the Yamen, when two Liaodong soldiers guarding the Yamen immediately greeted them, and one of them raised his hand to make a stop gesture towards them, and asked them: "This is the Liaodong Military Barracks, why did the two generals come here?" ”
"A certain is Lu Bu, and your father-in-law, General Sun Lan, is an old friend!" With his hand on the hilt of his sword and straightening up, Lu Bu said to the two Liaodong Army soldiers who blocked the way: "I hope that the two of you will make a statement on your behalf!" ”
"Wait a minute, two generals!" Lu Bu was guarding the Tiger Prison Pass, no one was invincible, his name had already spread far and wide, and when he learned that it was him, the soldiers of the Liaodong Army did not dare to be too lazy, and the soldiers who raised their hands to block the way of the two of them clasped their fists and arched towards Lu Bu and Wei Xu and said to the two: "I will go here to pass for the two!" ”
Nodding at the soldier, seeing the soldier turn around and run towards the barracks, Lu Bu and Wei Xu respectively pressed the hilt of their swords, straightened their bodies, stood outside the tooth gate of the Liaodong Army, quietly waiting for the soldier's reply.
Besides, in the barracks of the commander of the Liaodong Army, Gongsun Du sat in the house with Gongsun Kang, Gongsun Gong and Gongsun Lan.
Looking around at Gongsun Lan and the others, Gongsun Du's eyes narrowed slightly, and he asked his three children: "The king of Luoyang has entered the city, what kind of benefits do you think the king of Luoyang will give me?" ”
"Father!" Before Gongsun Du's words fell, Gongsun Kang stood up, clenched his fists and bowed to him and said, "Since the king of Luoyang came to Yuyang, my father has been thinking about what benefits to get. As everyone knows, in this way, the benefits will be much less than what King Luoyang originally wanted to give. ”
"What do you think?" Listening to Gongsun Kang's words, Gongsun Du's brows tightened, staring at Gongsun Kang without blinking, and asked him with a little unhappiness in his words: "Could it be that I am waiting to send troops, and I don't want even the slightest benefit?" ”
"It's not that you don't want to, but wait for the king of Luoyang to send it away!" Maintaining the posture of clenching his fists and bowing, Gongsun Kang said to Gongsun Du: "If my father asks for it, I'm afraid that the king of Luoyang will be disgusted, but it is not beautiful!" ”
Just when Gongsun Du was about to ask Gongsun Kang what to do, the soldiers who had stopped Lu Bu and Wei Xu at the Yamen ran outside the house, hugged their fists and bowed to Gongsun Du in the house and said, "Qi Yu Taishou, Lu Bu Lu Wen is waiting to see General Lan!" ”
Hearing that Lu Bu asked to see Gongsun Lan, Gongsun Du was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at Gongsun Lan, and asked her, "Lu Bu wants to see you, what do you want?" ”
"When I entered the city, Lu Bu went to provoke Zhang Liao and Gao Shun, but he was embarrassed by Tai Shici!" A strange smile appeared at the corner of Gongsun Lan's mouth, and a pair of beautiful eyes looked at Gongsun Du without blinking, and said to him: "This time he came to ask to see his daughter, thinking that he was not ......very happy in the Luoyang army."
Having said this, Gongsun Lan lowered her head and muttered for a moment, sighed lightly, and then stood up and said to Gongsun Du: "Although this Lu Bu is brave, his strength is very small. If my daughter doesn't go, I'm afraid she will be disgusted by him......"
"Since he is not very satisfactory in the Luoyang army, Lan'er can recruit him to his father......" Looking up at Gongsun Lan, Gongsun Du's eyes flashed with a hint of expectation, and said to Gongsun Lan: "If you get Lu Bu ...... for your father"
"Father!" Before Gongsun Du's words fell, Gongsun Lan clasped his fists and bowed to him, interrupted his words, and said to him: "Father has forgotten Ding Jianyang and Dong Zhuo? ”
"Ugh!" Gongsun Lan mentioned Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo, Gongsun Du was stunned for a moment, sighed helplessly, waved his hand at Gongsun Lan, and said to her: "That's it, that's it, if it weren't for Lan'er's reminder, I really forgot Ding Jianyang and Dong Zhuo for my father!" ”
"My daughter will retire first!" Seeing that Gongsun Du no longer mentioned that he wanted to take Lu Bu under his command, Gongsun Lan saluted him and Gongsun Kang and Gongsun Gong on the side, and then withdrew from the barracks.
At this time, in the barracks of the commander of the Luoyang Army, Liu Wei was kneeling behind a low table, sipping tea with a calm face.
Pang Tong knelt behind a low table to his left, and like Liu Wei, he tasted the tea in the cup with an expressionless face.
A dragoon guard, clasping his hands into fists, bowed slightly, and stood four or five steps away from Liu Wei.
After tasting the tea in the cup, Liu Wei waved his hand at the dragoon. When the dragoon guard turned to leave, he turned his head, looked at Pang Tong on the side, and asked Pang Tong: "Lu Bu went to the Liaodong Army, what does the military advisor think about this?" ”
"His Royal Highness has a generous reward for Lu Bu!" The dragoon guard just reported to Liu Bian, it was Lu Bu who went to the Liaodong Army, Liu Bian asked about this, Pang Tong put the teacup in his hand back on the low table, and said to Liu Bian: "But that Lu Bu is capricious, first recognized Ding Jianyang as his father, as a red rabbit fast horse, but actually killed Ding Jianyang and switched to Dong Zhuo. Later, for Princess Anyang, Dong Zhuo was killed. Such a repeated villain, His Royal Highness must be careful! ”
"How to be careful?" After listening to Pang Tong's words, Liu Wei turned his face to the main gate of the barracks, and said as if talking to himself: "Princess Anyang and this king have the status of brother and sister, and this king doesn't know that Lu Bu is capricious, and he only reuses it on his sister's face." Now that he has gone to the Liaodong military camp, this king can't capture him and kill him, so wouldn't he let his sister be widowed? If Gongsun Du uses him, this king will not stop him! ”
"Gongsun Du categorically won't use him!" As soon as Liu Bian's words were finished, Pang Tong shook his head and said to Liu Bian: "Although Gongsun Du is quite ambitious, he is a man who kills too much. In the past, in Liaodong, the number of people killed was innumerable, but wisdom was ordinary. However, Gongsun Kang, the son of the Gongsun family, is not an ordinary person, and even that Gongsun Lan is also very strategic. How will Lu Bu be recruited? If the subordinates were not mistaken, Lu Bu would go this time, although he would be courteous, but he would not solicit the Gongsun family! ”
At the same time that Liu Wei and Pang Tong were talking about Lu Bu, at the Yamen of the Liaodong Army barracks, Gongsun Lan, who was dressed in military uniform, had already left the Yamen and walked straight to Lu Bu who was waiting outside the Yamen.
"Warm wait!" When he arrived at the tooth gate, Gongsun Lan arched towards Lu Bu with her fists, her pretty face was full of sweet smiles, and said to Lu Bu: "I haven't seen you for many days, and I miss the last general very much!" Now that I see Wen Houying, I feel a little relieved in my heart! ”
"General Gongsun!" Seeing Gongsun Lan, thinking of the **** with her in the Xiang Pavilion that day, Lu Bu subconsciously licked his lips, staring at Gongsun Lan's beautiful face that was not as beautiful as Diao Chan, but full of heroic spirit, hugged his fists and bowed, and gave Gongsun Lan a very grand salute, and said to her: "The last general also misses the general, so he did not avoid suspicion and made a special trip to visit the general!" ”
"Those stationed in Yuyang City are all coalition forces that crusade against the traitor Gongsun Zhan. They are all brothers' teachers, and they are waiting to visit the last general, but they are just old friends reunited, so why be suspicious? With a sweet smile on her pretty face, Gongsun Lan first replied to Lu Bu, then retreated to the side, made a gesture of invitation to Lu Bu, and said to him: "It's rare that Wen Hou has such a friendship with the last general!" Please wait for the end of the camp to talk! ”
"But the last general is at a loss of words!" He hugged his fists again and saluted Gongsun Lan back, and after Lu Bu straightened up, he also made a gesture of invitation to Gongsun Lan and said to her: "General Gongsun please!" ”
He nodded at Lu Bu with a smile, and when Lu Bu walked to his side, Gongsun Lan led him and walked side by side towards the depths of the Liaodong Army camp.
Wei Xu, who came with Lu Bu, pressed the hilt of his sword with his hand and followed closely behind the two.