Counting carefully, Xiahou Bafang found out that he had been in the customs with his father for nearly two years.

It's just that two years have passed, and he is becoming more and more unfamiliar with the current Cao Cheng's command.

Just like this old friend Wei Huang, he came to the door not for the first time, but to take out a pen to record his words and deeds after falling into Liu Bei's hands.

After patiently speaking, seeing Wei Huang take out another thinly shaved bamboo slip, he said seriously:

"Please also ask Zhongquan to tell the origin of the people who returned together this time, so as to confirm each other."

Xiahou Ba finally couldn't stand it a little, and slapped the bamboo slip in Wei Huang's hand and said angrily:

"Don't you suspect that I, Xiahou, will vote for Liu Cheng?"

Wei Huang was not angry, bent down and picked up the bamboo slip, and said with the same expression:

"Now Anping is taking the lead, Yuyang Tianyu is jealous because of his old private relationship with Liu Bei."

"Please also follow the law."

In the end, driven by sleepiness and hunger, Xiahouba honestly reported the names and origins of the people who returned to the east according to what Wei Huang said.

It's just that I don't know if it's an illusion, the look at Wei Huang when he looked back at him when he left seemed to have a deep meaning.

But Xiahou Ba didn't have the strength to care so much, so he called the servant slave and ordered him to prepare hot food, intending to sleep until dark after he was full.

But before the food could be served, the door of the temporary residence was knocked again:

"Zhong Quan is available? Where is the power? The sun has risen and the third pole is high, why not go out of the city to travel together! ”

So the pain quickly crept up on Xiahou Ba's face.

Fortunately, this visitor was quite reasonable, and after knowing Xiahouba's situation, he patted his shoulder and laughed:

"Don't be in a hurry, then wait until noon and then travel together."

"It just so happens that I'm hungry too, so I'll get another pair of chopsticks!"

"Zhang Quan!"

Xiahou Ba feigned anger and said:

"If you don't leave, won't you sleep with me later?"

But before he could finish speaking, he laughed first.

After Zhang Xiu, a general who broke Qiang in the twelfth year of Jian'an, died of illness with Prime Minister Cao Cheng's expedition to Liucheng, his daughter married Cao Jun, the son of Prime Minister Cao.

The only son, Zhang Quan, became the lord and quickly became an upstart among the younger generation of Yecheng, and his relationship with Xiahou Ba was also quite good.

At this time, Zhang Quan's visit also made Xiahou Ba's heart quickly dissipate the slight unhappiness in his heart because of Wei Huang.

When they had dinner together, Xiahou Ba couldn't take care of it much, and while feasting, he briefly listened to Zhang Quan tell him about the changes in Yecheng and the Central Plains over the past year.

At the same time, it can be heard that Zhang Quan is also curious about the collision between Guanzhong and Liu Beijun:

"Then Liu Bei defeated General Xiahou, and really only lost more than a thousand people?"

Looking back for the third time in one day, this incident had made Xiahou Ba unfazed, nodded and said:

"If it is not more than 1,000 people, Liu Bei's loss is probably less than 1,000 people."

So Xiahouba was very satisfied to hear Zhang Quan's gasp for air:

"Really?"

"Seriously!"

"Then Zhongquan has seen Liu Bei with his own eyes?" Zhang Quan asked.

Xiahou Ba felt a sense of familiarity again, and it seemed that both Father Shi and Wei Huang had asked.

Shaking his head and focusing his attention on the present, Xiahou Ba simply took the initiative to pick and choose the words he had said to his father before and took the initiative to say them to Zhang Quan, so a satisfied expression soon appeared on the face of this old friend.

The meal was quickly finished, but Zhang Quan was still full of interest, until he saw Xiahou Ba yawning three times in a row, and then said apologetically:

"Then Zhongquan will travel with me tomorrow."

"Oh yes."

Before leaving, Zhang Quan suddenly remembered something:

"When the war is over here, when I return to Ye City, I will definitely introduce a strange person to Zhongquan!"

Although he was exhausted, hearing Zhang Quan say this, Xiahouba also had two interests:

"Where is the strange man? What's the name? What's the wonder? ”

Zhang Quan waved his hand and said with a smile:

"Jiyin people, Wei sarcastic Wei Zijing."

"As for the wonders, wait for you to see them and know them."

After saying that, Zhang Quan nodded and left with his head held high.

Although Xiahou Ba was curious, he had not slept all night and was full of wine and food, and after his sleepiness quickly swelled up, he had no energy to think about these things for the time being.

Just when Xiahou Ba was asleep, Wei Huang, who had been running around, also returned to his residence.

In front of him are seven similar records, except for Xiahouba, the rest of the people who Liu Bei released to return to the east were selected at random, so their views on Liu Bei were also different.

But in fact, Wei Huang didn't care about these views, he valued the same parts depicted in these records:

Guanzhong Yongliang was reconnected, Han Sui was expelled, Ma Chao surrendered, repaired canals, repaired houses, cultivated fields, and the people who saw it had a state of peace and happiness.

What made Wei Huang even more heartbroken was Uncle Liu's victory in this battle, the headquarters was in a state of slowing down, and the fine cavalry was a method of running around the street pavilion for thousands of miles to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle.

In the end, the enemy's heart was broken and he won without a fight, which can be described as a soldier.

After walking around the room twice, Wei Huang almost couldn't wait to sit down, carefully and carefully took out a page of Jiangdong paper, and wrote down the beginning without thinking about it:

"Yoshihei is ...... unharmed"

But soon Wei Huang stopped the pen, and then took out an inch of blade, and carefully cut off the written beginning, and the ink-stained note was stuffed into his mouth by Wei Huang, and he swallowed it as usual as if he was eating.

As the head of the Prime Minister's Mansion, he was already responsible for supervising hundreds of officials on behalf of Prime Minister Cao, so Wei Huang knew very well how dangerous his subconscious actions were when he was excited just now.

After trying to calm down, Wei Huang put on a normal expression again, sorted out and filed the records in front of him, and put them on the shelf behind him, as if he had dealt with the most ordinary government affairs.

In the afternoon, this record was taken away by the Prime Minister's Mansion and re-presented to Cao Cao.

"It's public and see."

After resting for a long time, Cao Cao's complexion also improved a lot, and he even smiled when he said it at this time:

"The defeat in the battle of Chibi actually made this thief a hero."

Now that Xun Yu is in charge of the government affairs of the Prime Minister's Mansion, he has already known about the defeat of Guanzhong through other directions, and what he knows now is just a verification of what he knows.

And not to mention anything else, it is like an iron nail wedged in the main road to Jingzhou, which is enough to make people understand Liu Bei's strength.

At this time, when he heard that the lord was smiling and sighing, he also echoed:

"The world can know heroes, only the lord is also the lord."

But after laughing, there are still more practical problems to face:

"What does Gongda think, what is it now?"

This question is quite broad, but it has been nearly 20 years since I met the Lord, and there is no shortage of tacit understanding.

After only a little silence, Xun You said to himself:

"Now that the new grain is in storage, our army can attack Jingbei on three sides to break it."

"As long as Guan Yunchang retreats to Xiangyang, the crisis in Jiangdong can be solved, and the collusion between Hanzhong and Jingzhou can be broken, so that Jiangdong can be safe."

"In this way, Jingzhou Guanzhong can describe the strange road, and Liu Bei's prestige also stops here."

So Cao Cao nodded with satisfaction and said, "It should be like this!" ”

Now that the old grain aided by Jiangdong has not been eaten, and the new grain in Yecheng has been cut, it is only necessary to block the yang and dance yin and the yang and the righteous yang at the same time, then Guan Yunchang will definitely fall into the situation of being an enemy on all sides.

Just a little bit of imagination, Cao Cao inevitably resented Lu Meng's defeat and death in Jiangling:

At the beginning, Zhou Gongjin was famous in the world of Chibi.

How can 100,000 mercenaries still be killed in the lonely city now?

After all, Xun Gongda also said just now that one of the purposes of attacking Jingzhou now is to aid Jiangdong and avoid it being taken advantage of by Liu Bei.

Can this ally?

(End of chapter)