Li Qiufeng smiled slightly, thinking in his heart that people in a foreign land should indeed be more careful. Some merchants were disgusted when they heard the words of the shopkeeper, but they were not surprised. If he didn't have martial arts, he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to come to this Weijia teahouse to drink tea so grandly.

When he was in the capital, he had also seen the shops where Jinyiwei arrested and harmed foreign merchants, so he was naturally no stranger to these deceptive tricks. It's just that it's just the first time I have met this old man surnamed Hou, but I don't want to talk to him more, so I have to deal with a few words. It just so happened that the guy brought a pot of tea, poured another cup for him, said "you use it slowly", and ran to greet the other guests.

Li Qiufeng smelled the fragrance of tea outside the store, which was really refreshing. However, a pot of Shuoyuechun is placed in front of him, and the tea in the cup is pale green, which looks extremely clear, but he can't smell the fragrance of tea. He secretly thought to himself, could it be that this Weijia teahouse deliberately made the fragrance of tea at the door to attract passers-by, and when the guests ordered the tea, what was served was old tea and inferior tea?

The old man surnamed Hou saw that Li Qiufeng looked down at the teacup on the table, and did not pick up the teacup to taste the tea, guessed his thoughts, and said with a smile: "This Shuoyue Spring Tea has a restrained aroma, and it is a gentleman in tea." If you just stare at it like this, you won't know the benefits of this tea. ”

Li Qiufeng was stunned, glanced at the old man surnamed Hou, and said, "Accept more advice." With that, he picked up the teacup and took a sip on his lips. After the tea was invented, I only felt that my mouth was fragrant, and I couldn't help but praise: "Good tea, really good tea!"

The old man surnamed Hou smiled: "It's a pity that you didn't eat braised pork, otherwise the gentleman in this tea will encounter the fragrance of braised meat, just like a beautiful woman drinking half a glass of wine, and the aroma will become more and more intense." ”

Li Qiufeng saw that this old man was talking well, and secretly said that he was surprised. I secretly thought that the old man said that he was strange, but he thought that the old man was even more strange. In this remote place, it is indeed rare to meet such a figure with a bit of scribe style. It's just that although this old man talks elegantly, he often has one or two sentences of folk slang in ten sentences, and even swearing, which makes people a little confused.

Li Qiufeng said a few words to the old man, and overheard the storyteller say the word "Ma Mengqi", and he was stunned, so he stopped talking and turned his head to look ahead. The storyteller was a middle-aged man in his forties, dressed in a gray robe that was already a little shabby, but it was cleanly washed and looked very neat. This man has a square face, slanted eyebrows, a high nose, thin lips, and a beard under the chin. I saw him holding a folding fan in his right hand, sometimes using the folding fan as a weapon, and sometimes replacing the folding fan as Yugui.

When Li Qiufeng was on an errand in the capital Jinyiwei, he had nothing to do on weekdays, and he liked to listen to people in the teahouse and wine shop in Gaoliang River outside the city. At this time, sitting in a small teahouse in Xiuwu County, thousands of miles away from the capital, he could even listen to people's stories, thinking about the five years in the capital, at this time there was a feeling of being separated from the world.

Mr. Storyteller is talking about Cao Cao's westward expedition in the story of the Three Kingdoms. It is said that Xiliang Ma Teng is loyal to the Han family and always wants to get rid of Cao Cao and Cao Mengde, who control the government. Later, the uncle Dong accepted the edict of Emperor Xian, and privately contacted Ma Teng, Liu Bei and others, preparing to kill Cao Cao and return to Emperor Xian. Unexpectedly, the news leaked that Cao Cao killed Dong Cheng and others, but only escaped Liu Bei and Ma Teng. Ma Teng's son Ma Chao and Ma Mengqi were brave and invincible, and they were all over the world, and everyone thought that he was a fierce general who could compete with Lu Bu. The Ma father and son cut off the Xiliang and looked at the Guanzhong, Cao Cao was like a stab in the throat, and he wanted to destroy the Ma father and son at all times. Later, Cao Cao Jiao announced that Ma Teng and his son entered Beijing to face the saint, wanting to earn Ma's father and son to Xudu, and then kill them to get rid of future troubles. Ma Chao persuaded Ma Teng not to enter Beijing, so as not to be murdered by Cao Cao. Ma Teng wanted to take the opportunity to lead troops into Beijing, follow Dong Zhuo's story, attack and kill Cao Cao, and reinvigorate the Han Dynasty. He left Ma Chao to guard Xiliang, and he brought his two sons and nephew Ma Dai, as well as three thousand Xiliang iron horsemen to Xudu. As a result, Cao Cao was ambushed outside the city of Xudu, Ma Teng and his two sons were captured and killed, and only Ma Dai fled back to Xiliang.

When Ma Chao learned that his father had been killed, he was furious, and immediately contacted Han Sui, the general of Xiliang, and others to raise troops to take the Central Plains. The Cao army in Guanzhong couldn't resist Ma Chao's Xiliang iron cavalry, so he had to ask Cao Cao for help. Cao Cao personally led the army to the west, to capture and kill Ma Chao, and completely remove the threat of the Xiliang army to the Central Plains. The two sides fought in Tongguan, Cao's army was defeated, Cao Cao was forced by Ma Chao, cut his robe and beard in the chaos of the army, and then escaped with his life. Later, Cao Cao set up an ambush in the camp, wanting to capture Ma Chao alive who came to rob the camp. Who knew that Ma Chao was brave and invincible, although he was encircled, he led the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to defeat the ambush soldiers and sent Cao ** to the Weishui River. At the critical juncture, Cao Cao's general Xu Chu protected Cao Cao and grabbed a small boat to rescue Cao Cao on board, so that he was not captured by Ma Chao. After that, Cao Cao stuck to the camp and did not come out, and Ma Chao showed off his might outside Cao Cao's camp every day, shouting and challenging. Cao Cao let him be insulted, but he kept hanging up the exemption card. The generals under the tent refused to accept and asked Cao Cao for orders to fight, but Cao Cao could not insist. The generals thought that Cao Cao had cut his beard and broken his robe and Weihe was in danger, but he had been frightened by Ma Chao, and they all laughed at Cao Cao's cowardice.

When the storyteller said this, he tapped the folding fan on the table lightly, and said: "Rank and file, you say that Cao Apu is such a traitorous male, even Liu Xuande and Sun Zhongmou are not afraid, how can you be afraid that Ma Mengqi will not succeed such a brave and unscrupulous son? The reason why he is so pretentious is to wait for a good opportunity to eliminate the Xiliang Iron Cavalry in one fell swoop. After that, Xiliang reinforcements continued to arrive, and the generals and strategists of the Cao army became more and more worried and frightened. It's just that every time someone reports that Ma Chao has received the news that Xiliang soldiers and horses have helped him, Cao Mengde is not shocked and laughs. The generals and strategists did not understand what they meant, and asked why, but Cao Mengde smiled and did not answer. It wasn't until the Xiliang army gathered more than 200,000 soldiers and horses that Cao Mengde gathered the generals to discuss the strategy of sending troops. The generals and strategists were puzzled, and someone asked, at the beginning of Ma Mengqi's army, there were only 30,000 soldiers, and the prime minister's soldiers and horses were ten times that of thieves, but he closed the camp and let the Xiliang soldiers and horses show off their might in front of the camp. Now the Xiliang army and horses have gathered in a large way, reaching 200,000 people, and the horse thieves are like tigers, and it is the time for the troops to be in full swing. At this juncture, it is really incomprehensible that the prime minister wants to fight a decisive battle with the Xiliang army.

After Cao Mengde heard this, he laughed and said, Ma Chao is a child, brave and strategic, although he has defeated our army several times, he is not worried. What I am concerned about is that the rebels have seized all parts of Xiliang, and it will take at least ten years to destroy them one by one. Now Liu Bei occupies Jing and Yierzhou, and Sun Quan occupies Jiangdong and looks at the Central Plains. The two thieves want to attack Xudu all the time, and if we use troops in Xiliang, it will give Liu Bei and Sun Quan a good opportunity to capture Xudu. Because our army can't hold out, Liu and Sun can't figure out our intentions, so they don't dare to use troops and horses to plot against Xudu. And the traitors everywhere in Xiliang saw that our army was closed and did not fight, so they naturally thought that Ma Chao was in power, and they would definitely think of taking advantage of the fire to rob, and they rushed to help Ma Chao's children. If these Xiliang grass robbers are fighting separately, they are all fierce and abnormal, if they can fight, they will fight, and if they can't, they will leave, and it is extremely difficult to cut them down and eradicate them. But when they get together, they will inevitably be wary of each other, and it is very easy to have infighting. Although the number of its horses has increased greatly, its combat strength has decreased greatly. Moreover, the western cool land is barren and lacks grain and grass, so it can only rely on looting everywhere to maintain military supplies. Now that the rebels have come to Tongguan, they have lost the foundation of Xiliang, and if they do not continue to have food and grass, they will be defeated by our army. Our army is waiting for work and luring the rebels from all over Xiliang to one place, so that we can take advantage of the opportunity of these traitors and hedgehogs gathering in one place, growing filth with each other, and running out of grain and grass, to wipe them out in one go, cut down the grass and eradicate the roots, so as to get rid of future troubles!"

Li Qiufeng, the story of the Three Kingdoms, was familiar with it when he was in the capital, and the characters and plots were well understood. He saw that this storyteller was talking with a fluttering eyebrow, and he was quite funny at first, and he thought to himself that although this person said it in a good way, he was reading from the book, which was a little blunt. Compared with the story of the Three Kingdoms told by Huang Tiezui of the Gaoliang River, it is too far behind. It was only later that he heard that Cao Cao closed his door and did not fight, and lured all the rebels from all over Xiliang to Guanzhong, and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of the other party's mutual filth and lack of grain and grass to annihilate the Xiliang Iron Cavalry in one fell swoop. He had heard this story in Gaoliang River before, and at that time he only thought that Cao Cao was treacherous and Ma Chao was unscrupulous, so he couldn't help but sigh. Listening to this story again at this time, my heart suddenly moved, and a thought suddenly jumped out. In an instant, he was struck by lightning, his hands and feet were cold, and he secretly said in his heart: "I'm really stupid, why didn't I expect the enemy to come up with such a poisonous plan?!"