Chapter Ninety-Nine: Xu Yu's Refusal

When Ma Tan returned home, he found Xu You and a stranger here, and he was uneasy, and said directly: "Why is Brother Ziyi here?" ”

Xu You turned his head to look at Ma Yan hurriedly entering the door and asked himself, Xu You replied, "Let's talk in the house!" ”

Ma Tan greeted Xu You into the house, Xu You said to the stranger he brought back from Jingzhou: "Please wait for me outside, I have something to talk about with Youchang" and then followed Ma Tan into the house!

After the two sat down, Ma Yan said, "Who is this person?" ”

Xu You smiled: "Youchang has more than one question to ask, right? ”

"I went to Jingzhou to vote for Pang Tong, Pang Tong was very happy, and then took the initiative to write a letter to Li Zhe, the king of Chu, and when I was waiting for the reply, I went to the house to burn paper and incense for my parents, and I happened to see my cousin, who was also offering incense to my parents."

The two of us haven't seen each other for many years, so we sat down and chatted, my cousin's name is Xu Huai, he has been farming at home since he was a child, after the death of his parents, he has covered the world in Jingzhou, but in recent years, the natural disasters have not been harvested in the farmland of my cousin, and he happened to go home to the grave this year to worship incense, so let him follow me!

"The next day, I saw a letter from the King of Chu, he asked me to assist you, if you really succeed in undercover in Xuzhou, you need someone to help you deliver the letter, otherwise your news will not be sent out at all, so I want to assist you and send the news to Jingzhou, and this errand runner, I want my cousin to send it, so that nothing will be exposed, and Liu Bei will not be able to detect it when he is tired."

"Oh, by the way, the lord let you attract attention, let you raise birds, raise any bird, just don't let you raise pigeons, let Xuzhou Liu Bei suspect you first, and then reuse you. If you go undercover, you will know that we should know Liu Bei's secret! ”

Ma Tan was thinking about whether Xu You's words were true or false at first, but in the back, this is not something that people can make up, and then analyzed the method that the lord said, so that my Ma Tan's work is easy to carry out, if Xu You stays in Xuzhou, my work is indeed very good, this plan is really amazing.

After speaking, Xu You said: "I'm going to take my cousin to the Tou Inn, and after I stabilize in Xuzhou, we will be in contact."

Ma Jian sent Xu You out of the door, and then thought to himself, why hasn't Liu Bei personally talked to me until now, and let me be an official?

If they are watching and testing me all around, they should change the time! If I switch roles now, what should I do if I were Liu Bei?

Suddenly, Ma Jian understood, Liu Bei must have known that Xu You was back, and he definitely wanted me and Xu You to work for Liu Bei together, and get the help of the two of us!

Ma Tan thought, even if Liu Bei invites me, I can only refuse to be an official, but I can be a guest of Liu Bei in Xuzhou, so it is better, and when the time is ripe, I can find out the secret!

Early the next morning

There was a knock on the door of Ma Tan's house, Ma Jian walked out of the house, opened the courtyard, and saw several people dressed in guard clothes and said to Ma Jian respectfully: "But Mr. Ma Tan? ”

Ma Jian was very dazed, thinking about something in his heart, so he replied: "I am Ma Tan, what's the matter?" ”

The guard said: "I am the guard of Liu Bei's Uncle Liu Huang's house, and the lord asked me to wait to pick you up in the morning, and my lord is invited."

Ma Jian saw that this was mandatory, although these officers and soldiers spoke politely, they must have been specially advised by Liu Bei before going out. If I don't go, they'll tie me up!

Ma Tan said knowingly: "Wait a minute, let me change my clothes, and come"

Ma Tan entered the house and changed into clean clothes, went out, got into the carriage, along the way, he thought, this Xu You just returned to Xuzhou, he Liu Bei came to me, he must know that Xu You went directly to my house after coming back, so if you ask about yesterday afternoon, I can only say that we can talk about playing chess together!

When he arrived at the gate of the mansion, Liu Bei greeted him at the gate of the mansion, this point of Corporal Lixian's kung fu, in the Three Kingdoms, no one can beat Liu Bei!

Ma Jian got out of the carriage, and Liu Bei said to Ma Jian with a formal courtesy: "In Liu Bei, I have been waiting for a long time, and I finally met today, I am lucky."

Ma Tan replied: "You are the lord of Xuzhou, my junior, why the emperor uncle came here to greet me, I am ashamed, I am ashamed."

After saying a few words at the door, he entered the door, and Liu Bei took Ma Jian directly into the study!

Ma Tan was surprised to see Xu Yu after entering the study, Xu Yu straightened up and said to Ma Tan: "Unexpectedly, I returned to Xuzhou yesterday and played a plate in Ma Tan's house, and then met in the emperor's uncle's mansion today, it is really fate" When Xu You spoke, he unnaturally saw Xu You's hand straight into five fingers! Ma Tan didn't understand what it meant!

Liu Bei said to Ma Yan: "Both of them are chess masters, I don't know who won and who lost in yesterday's chess skills?" ”

Liu Bei has already asked Xu You about these things, and now I ask Ma Yan, this is the first step of the test, Ma Jian suddenly realized, why did Xu You stretch out five fingers!

It must refer to the fifth game of their game, Ma Jian smiled and said: "We played even, and in the end we couldn't fall, we couldn't play, what?" Is Uncle Huang also a chess lover? ”

Liu Bei smiled: "I only love people who are good at chess, they can perceive the opportunities in the chess game and quickly make strategies to deal with them, this is a game that requires advanced talent to play."

Ma Yan directly bypassed the topic and said, "I don't know what happened to call me and Xu You this morning?" ”

After Liu Bei heard this, he didn't say anything for a long time, and then stood up and said: "I, Liu Bei, am a descendant of the imperial family, but Cao Cao of the Han Dynasty has already owned half of the country, and my Han people should be the power to eliminate thieves and serve the country, and both of them are talented and ambitious people, can you help me to establish all meritorious deeds for my Han Dynasty."

Xu You said: "This matter, I think my answer will disappoint Uncle Huang, I was under Yuan Shao's account, because of the twists and turns, I have no intention of being an official, my wife and children in my family were all killed because I was an official, so now I have no intention of being an official in my heart, I just want to be able to have a woman with me in the second half of my life, play the piano, play chess, and live my life."

Liu Bei listened to Xu You's words, and deeply felt that Xu You's own life was miserable, and he had great ambitions, but he let himself be an official and killed his wife and children, of course he was emotional.

Liu Bei said: "Heaven gave Ziyi such a talent, does Ziyi really want to squander his talent so much?" ”

Xu You closed his eyes and said: "Wait until you have a lot of energy, you will understand your thoughts, maybe I have a plan, it will kill tens of thousands of families, this is how I don't want it anymore, it's all blood debts, and sooner or later I have to pay it back."

Liu Bei felt that Xu You had a kind of high realm of seeing through the red dust and being flawless from the world, Liu Bei thought, it is certain that he Xu You has no intention of being an official, or he will leave Xuzhou and arrive in Jingzhou, Pang Tong will definitely keep Xu You. So Liu Bei also died of heart for Xu You!