However, it was said that Cao Ren was ashamed of the defeat of the snow, and did not listen to Li Dian's persuasion, and led the army to rob the village that night.

Who knew that Xu Shu had expected it in advance and had already taken precautions.

Cao Ren led the army into the village, but it was an empty village.

Just when he was confused, he suddenly heard a cannon sound, saw the fire on all sides, knew the plan, and hurriedly retreated, but met Zhao Yun to cover up and kill.

Cao Ren did not have time to collect his troops and return to the village, so he hurriedly retreated to the river.

Fortunately, Li Dian's rear army responded, and he had already arranged boats to protect Cao Ren's crossing of the river.

As soon as he landed on the shore, he was killed by Zhang Fei's army.

Cao Ren did not dare to fight, and fled along the shore with Li Dian, and most of Cao's army drowned in the water.

Cao Ren fled to Fancheng in the desert, which made people call the door, only to see a drum in the city, flashing out a general: "Cao Ren'er and others listen, I have been taking Fancheng for a long time under the order of the military master Xu Shu!" ”

Cao Ren looked up, but it was Guan Yu, and he couldn't help but be shocked, so he turned his horse and left.

Guan Yu chased and killed, and Cao Ren broke many soldiers and horses, so he had to lead the remnants of the defeated army to flee to Xuchang.

Let's say that Liu Bei won a complete victory and led the army to Fancheng.

Seeing that Liu Bei had defeated Cao Ren and recovered Fancheng, the county commander Liu Mi personally went out of the city to greet him and set up a family banquet to entertain him.

During the banquet, Liu Bei started a family affair with him, and he knew that Liu Mi was a native of Changsha and a relative of the Han family, and was placed in Fancheng as a county commander after taking refuge in Liu Biao.

When it comes to Liu's world, Liu Bei sighs again.

Liu Mi said: "The emperor is the current emperor's uncle, and he is regarded as a brother by Jingsheng. Now based in Jingzhou, brothers are of the same heart, why worry about the Liu family's world? ”

Liu Bei sighed and said: "When the name is Liu today, but it is manipulated, except for the Han clan, who really supports it?" Although Liu Jingzhou governed Jingzhou in a good way and was faithful and trustworthy, he was seriously ill and had the idea of abolishing the elder. Cai's weight will be chaotic for a long time. ”

Liu Mi said: "The reason why Liu Jingzhou treats the envoy as a brother is that he wants to rely on him. So that you should live up to Jingsheng's hard work, and do not give up my Liu family's expectations. ”

Liu Bei remembered Cai Mao's desire to be harmful, and he burst into tears: "I'm afraid Cai's will be intolerable." ”

Liu Mi was about to be comforted, but the cook came in with the dishes, and when he saw the guests crying, he looked nervous, and accidentally the meat on the plate fell.

When he was panicking, he saw that the handsome young man who had been standing beside Liu Mi hurriedly stepped forward, bent down to pick up the meat, immediately put it in his mouth, swallowed it, and then returned to Liu Mi's side.

Liu Bei saw that this person was magnificent, his expression was calm, and he was very strange: "Why do you see the meat on the ground, don't go to the gray sand, don't blame the subordinates, and swallow it casually?" ”

The young man said, "As a general, you should always have mercy on the people; Grain rice and meat are not easy to come by, and it is a pity to abandon them; The soldiers and cooks are tired of daily work, more than love, occasionally negligent, and forbearant and reprimanded? ”

When Liu Bei heard this, he asked Liu Yu: "Who is this?" ”

Liu Mi said: "This is my nephew, who is also the son of Houmen, named Kou Feng. Because of the early death of my parents, I became an orphan and grew up on me. ”

Liu Bei secretly thought about it and said: "My nephew is so lovely, I want to accept him as a righteous son, I don't know what to do?" ”

Liu Yu readily agreed, and immediately called Kou Feng to worship Liu Bei as his father and changed his name to Liu Feng.

After the banquet, Liu Bei took Liu Feng back and taught Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to be uncles.

Guan Yu said: "My brother already has a biological son, why bother to collect moths? Then there will be chaos. ”

Liu Bei said: "I treat each other as my own son, and he will treat me as his father, why is there any chaos?" ”

Liu Feng looked at Guan Yu and didn't say anything.

Zhang Fei said: "The second brother accepted Guan Ping as his son, and the eldest brother accepted Liu Feng as his son. Liu Feng and Guan Ping are my nephews. Saying that, he pulled Liu Feng to his side, "Whether it is a son or a son, the third uncle loves him the same." ”

Liu Feng leaned close to Zhang Fei's side: "My nephew must be filial to my uncle." ”

Guan Yu was speechless, unhappy in his heart.

Liu Bei discussed with Xu Shu and ordered Zhao Yun to lead a thousand troops to help Liu Yu defend Fancheng and lead the people back to Xinye.

Liu Feng's news of picking up meat and eating it spread to the military kitchen.

The military chef specially made a kind of fried meat with granulated sugar and gave it to Liu Feng to remember the incident.

When the descendants cooked this dish, in addition to adding sugar, they also added bean paste, which became a famous dish of Xiangfan and passed on to future generations.

Besides, Cao Ren and Li Dian led the defeated army to Xuchang, Cao Ren suddenly dismounted and bowed to Xuchang: "I miss my Cao Ren, I have galloped on the battlefield with my brother for many years, and I have never been defeated." My brother ordered me to lead an army of 30,000 to defend Fancheng, and now I lost the city and suffered a fiasco, and the remaining army is less than 5,000. "Then draw your sword and kill yourself.

Li Dian hurriedly stepped forward and snatched the sword: "Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and generals must not commit suicide." ”

Cao Ren lamented: "I am ashamed to listen to your words, so that I will fail miserably." ”

Li Dian said: "The general's words are inappropriate. Why should Liu Bei worry about it, even if he is related to Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun, it is difficult to defeat the general's divine martial arts. No one expected that Liu Bei would become a new military advisor to Xu Shu. It was because Xu Shu was good at using soldiers and giving advice to Liu Bei that he was defeated. Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles. Even according to my words, because I don't know that there are capable people in the other army, it is difficult to win, so why should the general blame himself. When I see the prime minister, I will not blame the general. ”

said that he helped Cao Ren to get on the horse and returned to the army to Xu Du.

Cao Ren returned to Xudu and wept and pleaded with Cao Cao.

Li Dian said: "General Cao ordered me to defend Fancheng, led the army to Xinye, and laid down the Bamen phalanx, intending to capture Xinye in one fell swoop. Unexpectedly, Liu Bei's army division Xu Shu broke the general's phalanx. I led the army to the rescue, but I fell into Xu Shu's plan to transfer the tiger away from the mountain, resulting in the loss of Fancheng. ”

Cao Cao looked at the two: "Victory and defeat are the norm of the military, but I don't know who this Xu Shu is?" ”

Cheng Yu said on the side: "I only know that Xu Shu, formerly known as Xu Fu, the character Yuan Zhi, Yingchuan people, when he was young, he was eager to learn fencing, to filial piety and righteousness, because he came out to avenge his friends, killed his friend's enemy, and was chased and arrested, so he and Shi Tao escaped from Jingzhou, and learned from the knots, and talked with Pang Degong, Sima Hui and other hermits, quite talented, but did not hear of it. ”

Cao Cao asked: "Xu Shu's talent, how does it compare with Jun?" ”

Cheng Yu looked at Cao Ren and said, "I'm afraid it's ten times higher than me." ”

Cao Cao said: "No wonder his disciple Xiao was defeated. I don't know how to call it to me? ”

Cheng Yu said: "Xu Shu is a filial piety, lost his father when he was young, and when he took refuge, his younger brother Xu Kang served his mother. Now his brother is dead, and only his mother is in the hall, and there is no one to take care of him. The prime minister can invite his mother to Xuchang, and order him to summon his son, and Xu Shu will come. ”

Cao Cao followed his words, so that people invited Xu's mother to Xuchang, put him under house arrest and offered him in another room, delivered meals every day, often fed objects, earned Xu's mother's handwriting, imitated the font, and repaired a letter to Xu's mother in the tone of his mother, and sent a henchman to Xinye to send Xu Shu.

Xu Shu read his mother's letter, and learned that his brother was dead, and his mother had no one to support, Cao Cao deceived his mother to Xuchang, saying that his son helped Liu Bei rebel against the court and imprisoned his mother.

Xu Shu came to see Liu Bei with a letter from home, and he didn't feel tears welling up, so he was ready to talk about it and bid farewell to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei Rong horse half a life, fighting east and west, north and south, to the place where there is no place to stand, fortunately Liu Biao took in, so he had to stop in Xinye, fortunately met Xu Shu to make a plan, repelled the Cao army, how to give up Xu Shu to leave. hated Cao Cao for being treacherous, deceiving his mother, not beheading, and using him to lure his son. If Cao Cao kills his mother, I think that Xu Shu will definitely be used by me. Thinking about this, it is inconvenient to say it clearly, but I can't bear Xu Shu's northward direction.

Xu Shu said to Liu Bei: "I originally wanted to create the cause of the king with the general, but I relied on this heart. But now that my mother has been captured by Cao Cao, she is in chaos, she is absent-minded, and she will not help the general, so I ask to say goodbye to you from now on. ”

When Liu Bei heard this, Xu Shu thought of his mother, even if he kept his body, it was difficult to keep his heart, and he had no intention of plotting to break the enemy, but he was afraid that Xu Shu would go north to serve Cao Cao and oppose his own disadvantage.

Xu Shu knew Liu Bei's thoughts from his words, so he said: "Go to Cao Ying today, and never hurt the envoy for a plan or a plan." ”

Liu Bei had no choice but to agree, keep Xu Shu for one more night, and set up a wine to see him off.

Liu Bei couldn't bear to let him go, Xu Shu was in chaos, the two of them were hard to drink and hard to swallow, so they cried and waited for the day.

The next day, we cried goodbye, Xu Shu went and returned in order to repay the kindness of the encounter, and there was a section of "Xu Shu went to recommend Zhuge on the horse".

Xu Shu recommended Kong Ming to Liu Bei, and he was in a better mood and returned to Xuchang to meet his mother.

When Xu's mother saw Xu Shu, she knew that Cao Cao had forged a family letter, hated her son and couldn't distinguish between the true and the fake, and in a fit of anger, she actually committed suicide by hanging herself.

Xu Shu cried to the ground, Fang Su for a long time, buried his mother's coffin in Xuchang Nanyuan, mourned and guarded the tomb, all Cao Cao gave him, he did not accept anything, and swore not to say a word in Cao Ying.

Besides, Liu Bei was melancholy since Xu Shu left, thinking to himself: I think that Liu Bei was originally the king of Zhongshan, although he was a royal clansman, but his family was scattered, he lost the glory of his ancestors and princes, and made a living by weaving mats and selling shoes, and became an ordinary person, until the Yellow Turban Rebellion rose, thinking that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, he was recruited into the army, relying on Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, two righteous brothers, and won the first battle in the Daxing Campaign.

Who knew that the court was incompetent, the civil strife was endless, the heroes rose together, the princes were divided, and the war was not stopped.

And he is powerless to return to the sky, incompetent to restore the Han Dynasty, and intends to cut off the hegemony, but there is no place, only to end up like a lost dog repeatedly, running from place to place, relying on the north and south, and sending people under the fence.

It wasn't until he met Yuan Zhi that he defeated Erlu according to the plan, broke the phalanx, and took Fancheng.

I only said that I was fortunate to have the assistance of capable people, but I could get the cause of the king, who knew that God would not bless me, and it was a pity to gain and lose.

Suddenly remembered Xu Shu's words of recommending Zhuge Liang: "This person has the surname Zhuge again, the name is bright, the word Kong Ming, the number Wolong, self-comparison Guan Zhong, Le Yi, and the talent of the heavens and the earth." Could it be that this Zhuge Liang is one of the Wolong and Phoenix Chicks that Mr. Shui Jing said? ”

Just thinking about it, he suddenly reported that "there is a gentleman with a crown and a very good appearance outside the door to visit." ”

Liu Bei thought to himself, it could be that Kong Ming came, and he was overjoyed, so he dressed up to greet him.

When I saw it, it was Sima Hui, I was very happy, and I was very happy, so please enter the high seat in the back hall: "Farewell to the fairy face, because of the military affairs, I didn't have time to visit, please forgive me." Today, the light has fallen, and I am very gratified by the guidance of Domeng. ”

Sima Hui said: "I heard that Xu Yuanzhi is here, and I came to meet. ”

Liu Bei said: "Recently, because Cao Cao imprisoned Yuanzhi's mother, Xu's mother sent someone to Chishu and recalled Xuchang. ”

Sima Hui said: "Yuan Zhi fell for Cao Cao's plan. I have heard that Xu's mother is virtuous, although she was imprisoned by Cao Cao, she will not repair the book to recall her son, this book must be a forgery. Yuan Zhi did not go, and his mother still existed; And now his mother will surely die. ”

Liu Bei was shocked and asked why, Sima Hui said: "Mother Xu is righteous and strong, lest her descendants defile her ancestors, and now she sees her son being deceived and returns, she is ashamed to see each other, and she is not willing to live in the world, so why not die?" ”

Liu Beixin said: Why don't you come and know earlier. If Xu Shu had known that his mother would die when he went back, he would not go back. Even if Cao Cao killed his mother, wouldn't it strengthen his determination to resist Cao. Desperate to serve me? Hearing what Sima Hui said today, he sighed.