Following Lu Yu to the front of the wooden house, Liu Wei stood outside the door, clasped his fists and said to the house: "I heard that Lu Shangshu is living in seclusion here, and this king specially came to visit ......"

Before Liu Wei finished speaking, the door opened from the inside, and a maidservant opened the door, stood on one side with her hands down, bowed slightly, and said to him: "Shangshu, please come in and see him." ”

Nodding to the maidservant, Liu Wei raised his feet and walked into the house. Outside, there were only a few low tables and two candlesticks, and since it was daytime, there were no white candles lit on the candlesticks, and it seemed a little lonely in the slightly empty room.

After entering the wooden house, another maidservant standing at the door of the inner room bowed down, made a gesture of invitation to Liu Bian, and said softly: "Shangshu is inconvenient and has not been able to go out to greet His Highness, I hope Your Highness will forgive me!" ”

From the tone of the maid's voice, Liu Wei had already heard that Lu Zhi must be seriously ill at the moment, and what she said should have been ordered by Lu Zhi. Knowing that Lu Zhi was in the inner room, Liu Wei didn't ask the maid anything, and walked straight in.

Lu Yu, who was standing outside the door, saw Liu Wei enter Lu Zhi's residence, stretched his neck, and was looking into the house, and the maid who opened the door for Liu Wei reached out and closed the door and shut him out.

Seeing the door closed, Lu Yu pursed his lips in some frustration, turned his head and ran away from the door, and went to the nearby forest to catch insects and play.

Liu Wei entered the inner room, and the two maidservants stood in the hall and did not follow up.

In Lu Zhi's bedroom, there are only a few cages placed in the corners of the wall, and nothing else. Anyone who sees such a room cannot compare its owner with a loyal minister who once dominated the court.

Entering the house, Liu Wei saw an old man lying on the bed, supporting the bedding with his elbows, and wanted to sit up, but his body was too weak, and he only held on twice, and he fell down weakly.

The old man had a gray face and thin cheeks, but he was of great stature. Lying on the bed, covered with a thin snow-white silk quilt, it was like a long dead wood covered under the mattress.

However, from his long figure, it can be seen that he should have been tall and heroic back then.

"Lu Shangshu!" Seeing the old man, Liu Wei walked quickly to the bed, knelt down in front of him, put his hands on his neck, let him lie down, and whispered to him: "Shang Shu is an old minister of the Han family, just like the elders of the same sect of this king, there is no need for such courtesy. ”

The old man lying on the bunk was Lu Zhi, who was deposed from his official position because of his opposition to Dong Zhuo and came to Jundu Mountain to live in seclusion.

"Your Royal Highness......" Lying on the bed, Lu Zhi turned his head to look at Liu Wei, who was kneeling beside him and helping him straighten his sleeping position, as soon as he spoke, two lines of old tears had already slid down his cheeks carved with wind and frost, his Adam's apple moved a few times, and the skin on his neck without a little luster was pulled a few times with the rolling of the Adam's apple, choked up, and the words behind him were not even able to say a word.

"This king is here!" Kneeling beside Lu Zhi, Liu Wei helped him cover the mattress, and said to him softly: "This king occupied Hedong a few days ago, and this time I came to Shanggu County to invite Lao Shangshu to be the ...... of this king's town."

"No, I won't ......" Lu Zhi sighed lightly, let the old tears slide down his cheeks and fall on the cover, shook his head slowly, and said to Liu Wei weakly: "The old minister is terminally ill and will die soon...... Seeing His Highness today, my wish for the rest of my life has been fulfilled......"

"Lao Shangshu is afraid that he has lived in the forest for a long time, after all, he is old and easy to catch the cold. Will be raised for some time, when you can recover! After helping Lu Zhi fold the mattress, Liu Wei knelt beside him, looked down at him, and said softly: "This king is only waiting for Lao Shangshu in Hedong." ”

"Your Highness bothered!" Lu Zhi shook his head, looked at the roof, and said to Liu Wei weakly: "The old minister is waiting for His Highness, just to tell His Highness some general trends in the world...... Your Highness, don't ask for ...... Your Highness, don't ......"

As soon as he said the words "Your Highness, don't want it", Lu Zhi opened his mouth wide, as if he was out of breath, his eyes were wide open, staring at the roof, and his two hands kept scratching his throat.

"Lao Shangshu ......" Lu Zhi was in such a situation, Liu Wei knew that it was impossible to continue, and hurriedly shouted outside the house: "Come on!" ”

The two maidservants in the hall heard the shouts and hurried into the house, and one of the maidservants held Lu Zhi's back, helped him up, and gently held his back for him. Another maidservant poured a small bowl of water, brought it to Lu Zhi, and fed him to drink.

"Old Shang Shu rests." Seeing the two maidservants hurriedly taking care of Lu Zhi, Liu Wei stood up, clasped his hands into fists, bowed deeply to Lu Zhi, and turned around and exited the room.

As soon as Liu Wei walked to the door, a maid in the house ran out quickly and shouted to Liu Wei, who was walking towards Guan Qing and the others: "Your Highness, Shangshu asks Your Highness to stay here for a few days!" ”

Glancing back at the maidservant, Liu Wei nodded, did not speak, and continued to walk towards Guan Qing and the others.

The maid's shouting has confirmed Liu Bian's identity, and the two men who had stopped them earlier, when Liu Bian came closer, they all clasped their fists and saluted him, and one of them made a gesture of invitation to Liu Bian and said, "Your Highness, please come with me!" ”

After exchanging glances with Deng Zhan and the others on the side, Liu Wei nodded at the man, and under the guidance of the man, he walked towards a few wooden houses not too far from Lu Zhi's residence.

When he arrived at the wooden house, the man pushed open the door of one of the rooms, made a gesture of invitation to Liu Wei again, and said: "In the mountains and wilderness, it is not as good as the city, Your Highness is not vulgar!" ”

The door opened, and Liu Wei stood at the door and looked inside.

It was a small wooden house with a clean mattress in the room. The mattress is folded neatly, no one should have slept with it, and someone is responsible for taking care of it every day.

In addition to the mattress, there was only a candlestick for two white candles and a low table, and only a few rolls of bamboo slips were placed on a wooden cage in the corner.

"Thank you!" Looking at the furnishings in the room, Liu Wei turned his head and nodded to the man who led him here, and thanked him in a very flat tone.

The man clenched his fists, bowed deeply, exited the room arranged for Liu Wei, and led Deng Zhan and the others into their room.

When the man closed the door from the outside, Liu Wei walked to the book slip placed in the corner of the room, picked up a bamboo slip, and unfolded it to look at it.

As soon as he saw the first line of words on the bamboo slips, Liu Wei furrowed his brows, walked quickly to the low table, spread out the bamboo slips, and looked at them carefully.

This volume of bamboo slips called "The Book of Tricks" tells about the eight formations on the battlefield, and its number of words is not much, but it introduces the eight formations commonly used on the battlefield to the head of the road.

Looking at the words on the bamboo slips, Liu Wei's mind seemed to have a scene of millions of armies facing each other on the battlefield, the two armies lined up in formation, and a big battle was about to break out.

In the past, Liu Wei marched, and the array of the army was nothing more than an ordinary array of horns. The Chinese army commanded the overall situation in the center, and the two wings were divided into two armies, the left and right.

This formation is the simplest and most effective, but on the battlefield, it cannot achieve the effect of surprise victory.

Liu Wei, who has experienced more than a dozen battles, has already learned that the confrontation between the two armies is different from the special operations that he is familiar with being dominated by individual soldiers, and whoever has a perfect formation in the two armies will have the first opportunity on the battlefield.

This "Book of Tricks" happens to introduce eight ancient battle arrays, plus strange tactics, a total of nine tactics that Liu Wei has heard of in the past, but has never really seen.

Kneeling at the low table, Liu Wei studied this military book with less than 400 words word by word, but it contained a lot of war content, and his whole mind was attracted by the few hundred words of this military book, and for a while, he forgot the hour.

Two hours passed in a blink of an eye, and Liu Wei's gaze was still on the book of soldiers, and when he was reading the book, everything around him seemed to have nothing to do with him at all. He didn't even know that after Guan Qing had led their man to arrange the room, he had been standing at his door with the hilt of his sword in his hand, guarding the door for him.

The light outside the window was getting darker and darker, and Liu Wei, who was full of changes in battle formations, did not notice the change of light at all.

The sun gradually set down the hill, and the forest, which was not very bright, had fallen into a misty darkness, and the handwriting on the bamboo slips was blurred a lot, but Liu Wei's eyes did not move away from the bamboo slips for half a moment, he always locked his brows tightly, thinking about the way of change in the battle array.

A little maidservant girl who was about fourteen or fifteen years old held a tray with several white candles in her hand, walked quickly towards the wooden house, and when she arrived at the door of Liu Wei's residence, she bowed slightly to Guan Qing, and said to Guan Qing softly: "The maid came to light the candle for His Highness." ”

Guan Qing, who was half a head taller than the maid, looked at her from head to toe, stretched out her hand to open Liu Wei's door, and walked into the house after the maid entered the door.

Seeing that the maid put two white candles on the candlestick, lit the yellow paper with a fire sickle, and lit the white candles, Guan Qingcai followed the maid out of Liu Wei's room.

may be too focused on military books, Liu Wei, who is very vigilant on weekdays, did not raise his head during the whole process when the maidservant girl and Guan Qing entered the house and lit the white candle.

"Your Highness has never come out since he entered the room!" As soon as Guan Qing retreated to the door, Deng Zhan, who had just walked out of the room, walked to her side, first looked around, saw that there was no one else nearby, and whispered to her: "I have been watching by the window for a long time, there are really many good hands hidden in this forest, and His Royal Highness lives alone......

"I'll be here at night!" Knowing that there were many good players hidden in the forest, Guan Qing groaned for a while, lowered his voice and said to Deng Zhan: "Stay until Mr. sleeps, and hope to be awake!" ”

"Don't worry, girl!" Deng Zhan clenched his fists and arched towards Guan Qing, and answered softly.

Just as the two were talking, a small figure ran towards them quickly, and the two looked at the figure, only to see Lu Yu, who had been catching insects all afternoon and had some mud on his face, running towards them quickly.

"Father, please ask Your Highness to speak!" As soon as he ran in front of the two, Lu Yu shouted to Guan Qing and Deng Zhan with unconcealed joy on his face.