Many soldiers gathered together and discussed.

"Have you heard that the soldier who carried the grain today was carrying a big snake?"

"You're a descendant, haven't you been in the army for a long time? Where is this snake? It's clearly a giant python in the mountains, and in the eyes of some people, maybe it can become a dragon, hehe......"

"This big brother, how can this python turn into a dragon?"

"If someone says he's a dragon, it's a dragon......"

In the Qishan camp, Zhuge Liang and the generals were discussing matters, and Ma Yan, who joined the army, suddenly rushed in from outside.

He saluted Zhuge Liang, his face full of uncontrollable joy.

Zhuge Liang knew that Ma Jian was a person, and knew that he was not the one who was shocked, and this time he was so impulsive, there must have been a change, and he was the first to ask: "But the grain transport team has arrived?" ”

The army went on the expedition, because the Shu road was difficult, Zhuge Liang ordered each soldier to carry about 15 days of dry food, at this time the dry food was almost exhausted, if the team to transport the grain arrived, just to solve the urgent need.

Ma Jian replied with a smile: "The prime minister is like a god, and it is the team that transports grain that has arrived." ”

"But this time there was a strange thing, the grain transport team encountered the Wei cavalry halfway to intercept the grain, serious losses, a small team in order to avoid the Wei army, hiding in a cave, actually encountered a rare python attack, never thought ......"

"The python was grayish-brown, as thick as a bucket, about six or seven meters long, and could swallow a calf in one bite, but it never thought about it...... Hey! ”

All the generals in the camp have been fighting in the north and south for many years, and they have also seen the world, but they have never seen a giant python that can swallow a calf in one bite.

Seeing the novelty of Ma Tan's words this time, every time he arrived at the critical point, he hesitated to procrastinate, and couldn't help but be aroused.

Wei Yan couldn't help but ask first: "Why are the words of joining the army so unclean, is there a soldier of our army who was devoured by that giant python?" ”

After Wei Yan finished asking, there was a bleak atmosphere in the camp.

Immediately, the other generals were so anxious that they forgot that they were still in the process at this time.

Wang Shuang, another general standing next to Wei Yan, also asked, "Joining the army won't be exaggerating, right?" Is there such a giant python? But I didn't believe it. ”

Seeing that it aroused everyone's curiosity, Ma Tan immediately deliberately said: "If you don't believe it, you can see it for yourself, the giant python was captured and killed by a wrestler of our army with two spears, and the body is resting in the camp at the moment." ”

Is there such a thing?

The generals were not calm, looking left and right, shaking their heads and ears.

Zhuge Liang led the army to conquer the four southern counties.

This python mostly grows in mountains and valleys, and the closer to the southern boundary, the more common it is.

To the north of Hanzhong, although it is close to the Qinling Mountains and Daba Mountain.

It's the first time I've heard such a big python.

Zhuge Liang saw that everyone was coaxing, and he also accepted the idea of continuing the discussion, so Wei Yan didn't wait for his instructions, so he led the generals out of the hall first, and actually wanted to personally go to see the giant python that could devour a calf in one bite.

He followed behind and did not stop.

However, Ma Tan noticed Zhuge Liang's abnormality, and asked cautiously on the side: "Prime Minister, now that the giant python is in the world, the wrestler who captured and killed the giant python also came out of the camp of my Shu army, this is a vision of heaven and earth, why is the prime minister worried?" ”

Although Zhuge Liang governed the army strictly, he was always amiable to the people around him.

Ma Tan has always been close to him, and has known each other for many years, although one of the two is the prime minister, the commander of the three armies, and the other is to join the army, in fact, they are like teachers and students.

When Zhuge Liang saw him ask, he didn't shy away from it, and said bluntly: "Now is the critical period of the Northern Expedition, a giant python came out of thin air, and it was even more halfway to devour our Shu army's grain transportation team. ”

Ma Jian naturally knew Zhuge Liang's worries.

He groaned for a while, and suddenly clapped his hands and said: "As the prime minister often says, blessings and misfortunes depend on them, and misfortunes and blessings lurk." Although this incident was a warning from heaven at first hearing, it can become auspicious from heaven after operation. ”

"The students once listened to the old hunter in the mountains say that the fish jumps over the dragon gate, the python gives birth to a single horn, and turns the dragon into a dragon."

"Now, the wrestler who captured and killed Jiaolong is a member of my Shu army, and he is not weak......"

Zhuge Liang is also an extremely intelligent person, and Ma Yan's prompt directly turned harm into treasure and evil into good, which is deeply in line with his wishes.

The two of them did not speak, and soon came to the middle of the camp with the soldiers in front.

The body of the giant python rested under a ring in the middle.

From a distance, it looks like a large lump of mounds entrenched together, with gray-brown skin, light black patterns, smooth scales, and a hideous head, which makes people daunting.

When I got closer, the image was reversed.

At this time, it was the turn of spring and summer, and the climate was not hot, but the body of this giant python had been dead for seven or eight days, and it had already stinked, but fortunately, the only few wounds on the body were in the mouth.

The previous two spears were also cut off, leaving only the tip of the spear in the mouth of the python corpse.

The huge mouth, but the soldiers of the grain transport team who were carried disliked and in the way, had long been tied with ropes, but there were no scavenging flies and mosquitoes entrenched around.

It's just that the stench is really bad.

After all the soldiers approached, they all watched around the corpse of the giant python, and they couldn't help but be amazed.

However, Ma Tan took the initiative to share Zhuge Liang's worries, and asked the soldiers on duty next to him: "The grain transportation team that captured and killed the giant python can be in the camp?" Summoned. ”

After a while, Cao Jun and the more than 50 people who were carrying grain together were summoned and knelt in front of all the soldiers.

The unlucky soldier who was strangled by the python and almost died was even more wrapped in bandages and knelt in the front row.

The eyes of the generals fell on this person first, and subconsciously, they regarded him as the wrestler who captured and killed the giant python.

All the soldiers present boasted that their strength was amazing, but if they faced this sky-swallowing python alone, it was impossible to capture and kill it unscathed.

It was a fluke to capture and kill the giant python, and it was normal to suffer some external injuries.

"This python, but your team captured it?"

Wei Yan asked, staring at the injured soldier.

"General Yu, it was indeed killed by us, strictly speaking, it was killed by our army commander alone."

"Hiss......"

All the generals followed the wounded soldiers' points and looked at Cao Jun in unison.

Ma Jian also glanced at Cao Jun, and always felt a little familiar.

It has been a few months since Cao Jun's advice in the Prime Minister's Mansion.

What's more, he was dressed in a woodcutter's uniform that time, but at this time he was wearing a military uniform, and he lowered his head, and at first glance, he really couldn't tell the difference.

But Zhuge Liang's gaze had already fallen on him.

"What is your surname, what position you occupy in the army, how did you encounter the Wei army, and how did you capture and kill the giant python, tell me the truth."

"No!"

Cao Jun arched his hand to the soldiers, organized some words in his mind, and said slowly without being in a hurry or impatience.

When Cao Jun said 'surnamed Cao Mingjun's character is civil and military', Zhuge Liang had already recognized him, and saw his posture of talking without being impatient, humble or arrogant.

Vaguely, time seems to have returned to the scene when he was loudly giving advice in the Prime Minister's Mansion that day.

Zhuge Liang remembered the information that he asked people to investigate and brought back afterwards.

"My subordinates have traveled all over Qingcheng Mountain and visited most of the hunters in the mountains, but they have never heard of a hunter surnamed Cao."

Seeing Cao Jun this time, Zhuge Liang's expression was extremely complicated.

The face was half suspicious, half appreciative.

Suspicion and appreciation are intertwined, but there is a hint of inexplicability.

"This person has a strategy, but he prefers martial arts, if he really starts from a small Wu commander, he can not only capture and kill the giant python, but the bravery hidden in his body is not inferior to the late Zhang Yide!"

"If Wen Taowu is strategic, together, wouldn't there be another handsome talent in Shu?"

Zhuge Liang hesitated for a while, but in the end, it was the love in his chest that prevailed.