Chapter 17: Brotherly Love
The night was as deep as ink, Sun Ce was drinking and laughing with Zhou Yu in the tent, and Liu Xun's daughter Liu Zhu stood aside with her head down, carefully serving wine.
It is true that among Liu Xun's family, Liu Zhu's appearance is the most outstanding, and those generals will not choose this if they have a little eye.
The quartermaster in charge of the matter sent Liu Zhu to Sun Ce's tent even more in a daze.
"Report!" Youye and Youxuan asked to see each other outside the tent at the same time, Liu Zhu was frightened by this roar, and the wine in his hand was also spilled.
Sun Ce's face was slightly unhappy, and a glance swept over, and Liu Zhu trembled even more.
Sun Ce didn't bother to care, just let people in.
"Report to Wu Hou, my subordinates went out of the city to investigate according to General Zhong's orders, and sure enough, in the west of our army, I found that there was a boat approaching my Sun family army late at night, and after my subordinates explored nearby, they found that it was Jiangxia Taishou Huang Jiajun, about 5,000 people."
Sun Ce was shocked and took the case, "Can you see it clearly?" ”
"Yes." You Yan said in a low voice, "On the hull is the flag of the Huang Jiajun. ”
The Sun family and the Huang family have been entangled for many years, and they are very familiar with the banner of the Huang family, and Sun Ce does not doubt him.
Instead, Zhou Yu asked a few more words, "How did General Zhong think of asking you to investigate the movements of the Huang family's army?" ”
Youye replied, "It's because of that Huang Qing." ”
Huang Qing?
"Who is this person?" Sun Ce obviously couldn't remember that there was such a person in his army, but Liu Zhu, who was beside him, heard this, and his body was obviously stiff.
"It's the son-in-law of Liu Xun's family." Yu Ye thought for a while, "I heard General Zhong say that he recommended himself to offer the second daughter of the Qiao family to Wu Hou. ”
Saying this, Sun Ce has an impression, it is the man who cries and grabs the ground at every turn.
You Ye continued at Sun Ce's suggestion, "General Zhong met this person outside the barracks, and felt that he was suspicious, but because there was no evidence, he had to go to Wancheng City with Wu Hou's request.
After following all the way to Qiao's house, his subordinates found out that this person was actually Huang Zu's son and nephew, and after he arrived at Qiao's house, he actually coerced the second daughter of Qiao's family with a sword. ”
Two days ago, Sun Ce gave him about five or six soldiers, in order to safely escort the daughters of the Qiao family, but he didn't expect to be almost put on a show by Huang Qing, Sun Ce's face was slightly pale.
You Yan then continued, "General Zhong noticed that something was wrong, so he stayed behind to deal with Huang Qing, and asked his subordinates to quietly go to the Huang family to search, and sure enough, Huang Qing and Huang Zu's correspondence was found, and General Zhong asked his subordinates to go outside the city to investigate the military situation, but he didn't expect to really find out the movement of the Huang family's waterboat." ”
Sun Ce was so angry that he slapped the case, "The shaft is so cunning." Immediately he was a little lucky, "Fortunately, Zhong Mou was alert and detected the thief's intentions, otherwise Huang Zu's troops would have caught our army off guard when they came late at night." ”
Sun Ce immediately ordered the spies to go to investigate the military situation again and prepare to raise the account.
Sun Ce suddenly thought of something, "By the way, where is Zhongmou at this time, what about Huang Qingren?" ”
Such important military information has always been reported by Sun Quan himself, but today he asked his two clumsy henchmen to report it.
Youye looked worried, "This is the second thing that my subordinates reported down, General Zhong was poisoned." ”
Sun Ce's steps out suddenly stopped, he turned his head to stare at Youye, and said sharply, "Zhongmou is poisoned?" Who did this to you? ”
"It's Huang Qing." You Ye said slowly according to the words that Sun Quan had agreed with him before, "General Zhong entered Qiao's house under the pretext of visiting celebrities, and arranged a feast to hold Huang Qing back, worried that he would secretly contact Huang Zu again, and attack Lujiang together.
I didn't want to be seen through by Huang Qing, so I poisoned General Zhong's wine, but fortunately, Qiao's family and daughter saw that it was inappropriate and deliberately spilled the wine jar, General Zhong didn't drink much, and now the military doctor has gone to see it, and he has already induced vomiting for General Zhong, but I'm afraid he still needs to recuperate for a few days. ”
Sun Ce hurriedly changed his direction and walked towards Sun Quan's account, and his tone was also full of anger, "Why don't you report such an important matter first." ”
"General Zhong said that his affairs are not very important, or the military affairs are more important."
"Nonsense!" Sun Ce glared at You Ye fiercely, "What military situation can be more important than his life." He's messing around, and the people you follow him are so indiscriminate? ”
Sun Ce lost his father at the age of eighteen, and because of years of fighting, the Sun family lost many uncles and brothers one after another, and Sun Ce cherished the small number of blood family members more and more.
Especially Sun Quan, who grew up with Sun Ce since he was a child, treats this younger brother as a father and brother. In the second year of Jian'an, he took Sun Quan to conquer the six counties against the thief Zulang, and Sun Quan and Zhou Tai temporarily lived in Xuancheng City.
Unexpectedly, just a few days after arriving in Xuancheng, the thief didn't know where to get the news, and he attacked Xuancheng by surprise, if it wasn't for Zhou Tai's sacrifice of his life, he might have lost a close relative because of his wrong decision.
Therefore, over the years, Sun Ce has also treated Sun Quan like a caretaker of the eyeballs, and all the generals in the army know it, even the third brother Sun Yi of his compatriot does not attach so much importance to it.
Therefore, Sun Quan was poisoned this time, and Sun Ce was extremely angry.
Sun Quan propped up and wanted to get up to salute Sun Ce, but Sun Ce pressed him back to the bed, "Lie down and recuperate, what are you doing when you get up." ”
"Brother reprimanded Youye, I heard it from afar, my poisoning has nothing to do with Youye, Brother don't be angry."
Sun Ce looked at Sun Quan's pale face, and felt more and more distressed in his heart, "Can you not be angry!" I stayed with you because he was steady and proper. You too, as soon as you found something wrong, you told me directly, and you followed you to Wancheng, and almost got yourself in. ”
"There is no evidence, and I don't dare to speak to my eldest brother. At that time, I just thought that if I had too much heart, it would be fine. ”
Sun Ce became even more angry, "You and my brother, if there is anything that can't be said, that is, if you say it wrong, can I blame you." ”
Sun Quan lowered his head and whispered, "I know in my heart that my brother treats me, but because of this, I can't act recklessly and add trouble to my brother."
Su Ri saw that his brother was tired from fighting, and he also wanted to share his brother's worries, and he didn't want to criticize his brother's partiality. ”
As soon as Sun Ce heard this, he understood where Sun Quan's heart was, "Zibu trained you again?" ”
Sun Quan didn't refute it, but his face was lonely, "In the matter of Yangxian County back then, Brother Brother shielded me once, which made him very displeased, and I am afraid that Brother will lose his sense of proportion again because of me." ”
When Sun Quan was the magistrate of Yangxian County, he was only fifteen years old, and he acted arbitrarily and recklessly, allowing his subordinate Zhou Gu to take advantage of the loopholes and embezzle the county's taxes.
Afterwards, Zhou Gu's subordinates also made fake accounts to deal with Sun Ce. Therefore, after Sun Ce found out, he killed the person who made the false account and covered it up for Sun Quan, not wanting him to be criticized and lose his prestige.
But Zhang Zhao was dissatisfied with Sun Quan because of this, thinking that he was young and willful, bold and reckless, and often yin and yang Sun Quan in his words.
Sun Quan was often reprimanded by Zhang Zhao, and it was nothing new in the army, and Sun Ce and Zhou Yu often mediated from it, which made Zhang Zhao think that Sun Quan was stubborn.