In Cao Cao's opinion, Yuan Shao has some shortcomings, such as liking to be suspicious of others, and not liking his mind to be too transparent by others.

Therefore, although Cao Cao saw through Yuan Shao's thoughts early, he could only pretend that he couldn't see through it against his will.

In the early years, he approached Yuan Shao according to the requirements of the family, trying to take the route that could understand Yuan Shao's meaning and do things for him, but the effect was not good.

Yuan Shao's identity is not as good as Yuan Ji and Yuan Shu, and he can't win the support of too many high-quality resources, so although Cao Cao was born in a eunuch family, Yuan Shao somewhat looked down on Cao Cao's background, but he couldn't ignore the Cao family's political energy in the court.

Therefore, Yuan Shao, the concubine of the Yuan family with a flexible moral bottom line, chose to accept Cao Cao.

Although Cao Cao's identity is mostly criticized by the people around Yuan Shao in daily interactions, Yuan Shao himself is also sarcastic, only a few people such as Zhang Miao are friendly with him, but there is one thing that Cao Cao admires Yuan Shao very much.

It is the spirit of being in adversity but still high-spirited.

Everyone has their own adversity, and every level of society has its own chain of contempt.

Cao Cao is at the bottom of the chain of contempt of the upper class, and Yuan Shao is at the bottom of the chain of contempt of the top society.

There are not many people who can despise Yuan Shao, but there are still them.

How Yuan Shao was a man with his tail between his eyes and his tail in the Yuan family when he was a child, Cao Cao had never seen it, but he had heard people talk about it.

Cao Cao is despised by others, but Yuan Shao is also despised, Cao Cao, who understood his unpleasant identity when he was a teenager, was surprised to find that Yuan Shao, whom he envied, was also despised, and he was not happy, and his heart was really balanced.

Therefore, Cao Cao decided to follow the wishes of the family, join Yuan Shao's disciples, follow Yuan Shao, be his little brother, endure criticism, and wait for the situation to change.

Although Yuan Shao's status in the Yuan family is not high, he has the qualifications and possibility to become the third prince after all, follow Yuan Shao, and when he suddenly erupts one day and the rocket pushes up, he Cao Mengde will naturally be able to ascend to heaven and obtain the coveted status and power.

A little later, Cao Cao left Yuan's mansion, and on his way home, a light rain fell from the sky.

Lifting the curtain and looking at the rain falling outside, for some reason, Cao Cao suddenly remembered Liu Bei's poem.

[The light rain in the sky street is as moist as a crisp, the grass color is close but there is none, it is the most beneficial spring of the year, and it is better than the smoke and willows all over the imperial capital. 】

What a beautiful artistic conception, such a beautiful poem.

Why can that person write such romantic and magnificent poems, why can he arrange and combine words so beautifully and amazingly?

I heard that that person was born recklessly, weaving mats and selling shoes for a living when he was a child, how did such an insignificant background make him turn the tables against the wind?

Cao Cao couldn't figure out this question, but he wanted to know.

A few days later, taking advantage of the most beautiful spring, Cao Cao invited Liu Bei's family to visit and go to the Sunset Pavilion outside Luoyang City in his personal capacity.

This is a very formal invitation, Cao Cao brought his wife Mrs. Ding and his eldest son Cao Ang, and also asked Liu Bei to take his wife Han Ning, and the two families chose a beautiful place in the Sunset Pavilion, sat on the ground, set up a shelf and began to barbecue.

This form of barbecue is similar to the modern BBQ form that Liu Bei is familiar with.

An iron plate with charcoal burning underneath, raw meat cut into small pieces or small slices, roasted one by one on an iron plate, and then dipped in the dipping sauce to eat.

Or throw the meat into an iron plate and stir-fry it in a way similar to stir-frying, then sprinkle it with salt and other spices, and eat it when it is fully cooked.

This form of barbecue made Liu Bei feel very affectionate, although he did not come into contact with it for the first time until he was fourteen years old.

Because he was very poor before, struggling with his mother to make ends meet, he couldn't afford such a high-end dish as barbecue, let alone expensive spices.

Even if he later became a well-known local landlord, he did not get the freedom to barbecue, because it was really difficult to make the barbecue smell less fishy and increase the aroma of spices.

However, this barbecue is Cao Cao's east, Cao Cao provides everything, including spices, barbecue freedom and the like is not a matter at all in Cao Cao's eyes.

He was born with the vast majority of freedoms in this world.

It would be strange if he had the few freedoms he had left.

Looking at Cao Cao's skillful operation methods and the atmospheric methods of using spices without distress, Liu Bei knew where the gap was between a local tyrant like him and a world tyrant like Cao Cao who had been an official for several generations.

Thinking about Cao Cao being treated like a bedbug by the old Valle family, it is even more difficult to imagine how exquisite the aristocratic life of Yuan Shao and others is.

The gap, it's really the gap.

A generation rose up to study politics and the military.

The second generation is connected to mechanics, industry and science.

It took three generations to relax and study music and art.

At the very least, it takes three generations of accumulation for a family to break through the realm of nouveau riche and evolve from a reckless family to an aristocracy.

Yuan Shao is already the fifth generation after the official development of the Yuan family, not counting the accumulation of the previous ordinary scholars.

And Cao Cao happens to be the third generation after the Cao family's development, and he is obviously a failure.

What about him, Liu, who came to Luoyang to beg for food?

Undoubtedly, the first generation.

It seems that this life has nothing to do with aristocratic temperament, this life has nothing to do with nobility and elegance, and I can't touch that realm in this life.

What a pity, hahahahaha...... he～tui！

Cao Cao is very angry, since he is the guest of the east, he is naturally in charge of the cooking, he shows his barbecue skills, Liu Bei, who eats a fragrant barbecue, is full of oil, and Han Ning has eaten a lot, which is quite pleasant.

After the meal, Han Ning, who was full of motherhood, looked at Cao Ang, who was only more than three years old and very cute, and was unwilling to let go, so he and Mrs. Ding got together and fiddled with Cao Ang, who was like a small toy.

Liu Bei and Cao Cao watched this scene with a smile and sat on the side chatting.

"This child has a hard life, just born, Cao's concubine died because of dystocia, Cao is busy with official business, and has no time to raise him, so he can only be handed over to the main room to raise, she has not been in a good situation for many years, with this child, it is also suitable."

Cao Cao was full of wine and food, and his upper body leaned on the table and looked at the mother and son secretly, and his eyes unconsciously revealed a hint of softness.

"It's good, we men are running around and working hard, and we can't treat our families badly, in the end, everyone wants their children and grandchildren to be full."

Liu Bei smiled and put a piece of meat in his mouth, chewed slowly, and enjoyed the delicious taste of barbecue.

Cao Cao turned his head and stared at Liu Bei.

"Xuande, there's a question, I really want to ask you."

"Excuse me."

"Xuande knows Caozhi's origin, right?"

"Well, of course I do."

"Then Xuande doesn't seem to care at all?"

"Huh?"

Liu Bei blinked his eyes and asked with a smile, "Why should I care?" ”

"Doesn't Xuande care?"

Cao Cao was a little surprised: "Xuande is a scholar, or is it a disciple of Duke Lu, who is famous in Luoyang, and he doesn't care about Cao's background?" ”

What did Mende mean by this? What is Mengde's background and what does it have to do with Bei? ”

Liu Bei smiled and pointed to the barbecue on this table: "Could this affect you and me eating meat at the same table?" ”

"Naturally, it will, but Xuande seems to be completely different from ordinary people."

Cao Cao leaned forward and looked at Liu Bei carefully: "Since the first time I saw Xuande, I had a strange feeling, that kind of feeling that I had never had before, and the reactions of all the scholars after seeing Cao and knowing Cao's origin were completely different from Xuande, completely different. ”

Liu Bei immediately understood what Cao Cao meant.

This guy can't be suffering from Stockholm syndrome, right?

To give people contempt and despise the pleasure of it?

So it's rare to meet a scholar who doesn't mind his family background, and he feels uncomfortable?

"Mengde's words are a little difficult to understand."

"Then let's be clear."

Cao Cao said to Liu Bei as if he wanted to know this matter very much: "Cao was born in the eunuch's family, and all the scholars were cold to Cao Heng after knowing about it, and even insulted him, but Xuande did not have such an attitude, it was like this from the beginning, Cao is very strange." ”

Liu Bei suddenly couldn't cry or laugh.

"Meng De, Bei is just a broken family in a border land, he was poor at an early age, and he even had to weave mats and sell shoes to satisfy his stomach, what qualifications do you have to despise others?"

"Xuande, do you know how much you envy Xuande's innocent background?"

Cao Cao sighed: "The background of the eunuch's family, Ling Cao suffered a lot when he was young, and suffered a lot of white eyes, although the family is a high-ranking official, but a small country official can not pretend, just because he is a scholar, and Cao is a eunuch." ”

Liu Bei was quite emotional.

"Has Mengde been misunderstood a lot?"

Cao Cao nodded.

"Naturally, from childhood to adulthood, I am almost used to it......"

"That Yuan Benchu ......"

Cao Cao knew what Liu Bei meant and smiled.

"Although he was originally a scholar, he was a concubine in the family, so he ...... The more the house of the valve, the stricter the rules, as a concubine at the beginning, it is not easy to come all the way. ”

Liu Bei also understood what Cao Cao meant.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that Yuan Shao can withstand blows better than Yuan Shu, and he is more tolerant of people, and the height of his life will be slightly higher.

Skewered up.

Liu Bei felt that many things that were difficult to understand in the past could be understood.

However, Cao Cao's question clearly went unanswered.

"Xuande hasn't told Cao yet, why doesn't Xuande have any prejudice against Cao as a scholar?"

Liu Bei can't say that he came from an era that had experienced liberation and revolution, and the turmoil of that era swept away the stale atmosphere of thousands of years.

With infinite nostalgia for that era, he thought about it and gave his own answer.

"Don't you think that as a scholar, you are superior to others, you can look down on all living beings from above, and treat people as ants, bed bugs, cows and horses at will, and do not look at them as people, and even feel uncomfortable in the same room with them, this is not the ethics that scholars should have."

Cao Cao was surprised.

"Xuande's remarks are unheard of."

Liu Bei sighed.

"That's what it is, it's all the same body, one nose and two eyes, one mouth and two ears, who is not a human being? Why do you want to forcibly treat people as inappropriate? Who doesn't clean after taking a shower? Who doesn't feel good when they put on new clothes?

They think that the peasants and craftsmen who do the rough work and heavy work are very dirty, and they think that the musicians are lowly and that they are superior, but they think that in fact, it is not the peasants and craftsmen who are dirty, and the lowly ones are not musicians and dancers, but the dirty and lowly are the hearts of those scholars. ”