Chapter Seventy-Three: Strange Old Man
Gong Jing, the Taishou of Qingzhou, used the few people sent to confuse him, and he entered Luoyang in disguise with Tang Zhou. Guan Hai and Guan Cheng brothers searched Qingzhou but did not find Tang Zhou, and in a fit of anger, they mobilized 500 elite men from Taishan County and Jinan County to slaughter the full door of Jinan Hou Liu Lei. The local county garrison had no choice but to disperse their men and horses to capture the Taiping Sect to make up the numbers, and Guan Hai and them all retreated to the Hukou Cliff to avoid the wind.
"Lord Gong, you have done a good job in this matter, the old man must let His Majesty reward you well - this Tang Zhou must also protect himself and not be harmed by the traitors in Luoyang City. You will stay with him in the old man's mansion and wait for His Majesty's summons. Butler, take Master Gong down to rest—"
"Thank you, Lord Yuan—this is what the lower officials should do! Then the subordinate will retire first-"
Although Gong Jing had sent an emergency report to Qingzhou before, it was all a trick, and most of the reports were bandits, riots among the people, and as soon as he entered Luoyang, he quietly went to Yuan Feng's mansion and told Yuan Feng about it in detail. Yuan Feng's political sense of smell is very sensitive, and this time it involves the people of the Ten Standing Servants, and he feels that he should cooperate with the great general He Jin, and it is best to pull out some of the thorns he wants to pull.
The dark tide in Luoyang City was surging, and as soon as Zhou Yu entered Xuzhou, he was followed by an old man who helped them, and the convoy that had been following them was neither far nor close.
"Gong Jin-I'm a little hungry, what will we eat later? How about eating that hot pot from yesterday? It's so delicious! Guo Jia felt that the carriage jumped out as soon as it stopped, and the bumps along the way made him already hungry.
"How about a barbecue today? Who's going to hunt a few wild games - I'm in a good mood today, and I'll give you a little show of hands. Feng Xiao came over to help set up the fire-" Zhou Yu looked behind him as he spoke, and found that there was no old man, so he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Looking at the old man dressed in clothes, he didn't look like a poor person who couldn't eat, and he didn't go far or near, and he walked away, and they stopped the old man. If he followed the routine of his previous life, Zhou Yu was a little suspicious that it was the nearby copycat bandits who looked at his vehicles and stepped on the plate.
"Okay - Gong Jin's craftsmanship is getting better and better, and the things made are really delicious! Xiao Anzi is going to catch some game, today the eldest young master personally cooks for everyone, and Brother Zhongde will go to help together. Guo Jia pulled Cheng Yu over with a hippie smile to help Zhou Yu light a fire and build a fight.
Zhou An took three guards to find a small forest and get in, while an old man behind the official road came slowly on a donkey.
"Huh? Why does this old man keep following us? Guo Jia sat under the tree and looked up to see the old man coming from the pipe.
"Did you find out too? I'm just about to tell you! Since we entered the boundary of Xuzhou, we could see this old man every time we rested, could it be that he went to the same place as us? Or for some other purpose. Brother Zhongde, what do you think? When Zhou Yu and the three of them were talking, the old man was not far from them, tied the donkey to a small tree, sat down to untie the water bladder to drink water and rest, and hung a thing like a stick wrapped in a cloth bag on the donkey on the side. The old man didn't greet Zhou Yu and their men, just drinking water and eating dry food by himself.
"Young master - there is nothing in this place, we caught a few pheasants and ducks, and seeing that there are not enough of us to eat, we happened to meet a sheep herder, so we bought two goats." Zhou Yu and his group of more than 20 people, a few pheasants, and water ducks were really not enough to eat, so Zhou An and they went out for a while, made two fires, boiled some boiling water first, and waited for them to come back to deal with the game.
"Okay Lat-everyone let's wash these things together, Zhou An went to the car and took down the young master's guy, wait for you to see what is really delicious!" Zhou Yu shook his head very stinkily, and asked Zhou An to take out the iron skewers, iron forks, star anise, salt and other things he had prepared. Of the seven big cars that went to Yangzhou this time, two of them had been diverted to Lujiang when they were in Yuzhou, and those were some things that Zhou Yu bought for his family. The remaining five carts were loaded with wine, food, pots and pans, clothing, weapons, tents and other necessary equipment for travel.
After a while, the pheasant, duck and goat were all cleaned, and the internal organs and other things that were taken out were just like the bull terrier brought by Zhou Yu. Zhou Yu wrapped the seasoning and other things in a cloth and put them in the belly of the goat, then sprinkled salt and hung it aside, and tasted it first. He grabbed two pheasants and skewered them with an iron fork, smeared a fine layer of grease on the skin of the pheasants, and then set them on the fire and began to roast—
As soon as the fire arrived, the smell of meat wafted out, and Guo Jia, who was originally hungry, completely disregarded the image and grabbed a chicken to hold it and gnaw it, and the people who had no way to be present were Zhou Yu, Guo Jia, and Cheng Yu were the masters, and the others were all servants, so they could only swallow their saliva and watch Guo Jia eat there alone. Zhou Yu handed another chicken to Cheng Yu, who ate more than Guo Jiaswen, and took out a knife and cut it carefully.
Immediately after Zhou Yu put a goat and a duck on two fires to roast together, and when the golden whole sheep were all baked, the guards in front of him couldn't bear it anymore, and they came forward to eat the sheep separately, Zhou Yu They simply took out the wine and drank and ate at the same time, at this time the old man sitting under the tree began to move, and when he slowly approached Zhou Yu, he was stopped by Zhou Yu's guards.
"This son-old man wants to sell a little bit of your meat for money, I don't know if the son is tender and sells it to the old man." The old man said suddenly.
"Oh? - Keep eating yours, let the old man come over! Let's sit down and eat together-" Zhou Yu turned around and smiled and invited the old man to sit down and eat together, no matter what the old man's purpose was, he simply met such a lonely old man, and he had the ability to help as much as possible.
"Thank you Gongzi - Gongzi Zhou, you are a good person!" The old man sat down and ate meat and drank a lot of wine, and he said such a sentence abruptly while eating.
"Who are you, old man? How do you know that my surname is Zhou-" Zhou Yu's hairs all stood up, and he suddenly said his origin to a stranger, either he came to repay his kindness or he came to take revenge. Guo Jia and Cheng Yu felt that the situation was a little bad, obviously the old man didn't seem to be here to repay the favor, so he couldn't help but stop the movements in his hand and touch the dagger in his hand.
"You little dolls, don't move, don't look at the old and old, these people in front of you are really not old enough. As the saying goes, the soft hands of people eat people with short mouths, the old man ate the meat you roasted with his own hands, drank such a fine wine, plus the attitude of the people you met along the way, and saw the old man so courteous. This is also the point that the old man is entangled, when I first heard that you Zhou Yu and Zhou Gongjin were the best in the world and called the first genius in the world, the old man was still a ridiculous nerd doll who read better. Later, when I heard other rumors about you, I saw that although you were indeed a little clever in terms of resourcefulness, you were really not enough in the face of absolute strength. Having said that, the old man will tell the truth, when he was young, he owed a favor, and this time he was entrusted to take the life of his son. However, the old man has never done anything to be ashamed of his conscience in his life, if you are really heinous, the old man will definitely kill, these days the old man can see that you do not have the sense of superiority of the wealthy son, and you can treat the people well against the people - the road ahead is not smooth, and the old man decides to escort you to where you are going. When the old man said the words, Zhou Yu, Guo Jia, and Cheng Yu were all cold behind their backs, it was indeed that they were a little too big, except for Luoyang, who went to Yangzhou with such a few guards, and there was not even a master around him, if someone set up an ambush, it was really unimaginable, and Zhou Yu had so many enemies.
"I don't know what the old man is called?" Zhou Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, fortunately, he was really lucky to meet such a person who could distinguish between right and wrong this time, otherwise it would be really difficult to mix with his second-class martial arts in this era of martial arts, and he would definitely need to strengthen his own protection in the future.
"The old man has been walking without his name for many years, and it is estimated that the doll of your age will not know the name of the old man, so I will tell you! The old decay is called Tong Yuan's character Xiongfu. The old man said without raising his head.
Tong Yuan, the legendary figure of the Three Kingdoms, Zhou Yu was really thundered-