Wen Ping was about to release the arrow, but he heard a voice coming from afar: "General Wen must not release the arrow!"

Wen Ping saw Liu Bei, asked the archer to put away his bow and arrows, and asked in a loud voice, "Where did Liu Yuanjun come from?" Liu Bei looked at the people sitting in the forest, approached the horse, and said, "General Wen, please ask Brother Jingsheng to come out and see you." As soon as Liu Bei came, he asked to see Liu Biao by name, and Wen Ping knew that Liu Biao and Liu Bei were brothers, so he didn't dare to disobey, so he went to report.

After a while, Cai Mao stood at the head of the city and said, "Liu Yuanjun, what do you want to see my lord?" Liu Bei snorted heavily and said: "Cai Mao! Although you ordered the displaced people not to enter the city in order to prevent Zhang Wu and Chen Sun, I want to ask you, the small village sixty miles south of Xinye City, the water source is cut off, and people are hungry and cannibalistic.

Cai Mao already knew that the water source in the small village was cut off, but he deliberately cut off the news and did not tell Liu Bei. First, he was afraid that the hungry people would join Zhang Wu and Chen Sun's rebels in order to survive; second, Cai Mao saw that Liu Bei would not live under others, and he wanted to get rid of Liu Bei for a long time, and there was no excuse for suffering. The small village is under the jurisdiction of Liu Bei, and it is just this opportunity to push the affairs of the small village on Liu Bei, so that Liu Bei will fall into the management of the criminals and alienate him from Liu Biao.

When Liu Bei asked, Cai Mao was suddenly speechless, and said, "This ...... I was about to inform Liu Yuanjun. Liu Bei said angrily: "Nonsense! Time is so long, you want to inform me, why wait until now? You quickly open the city gate and let these people in, otherwise if these people have any three long and two short, I will see how you can explain to Brother Jingsheng!"

Liu Biao is not in good health, and all the affairs in the city are managed by Cai Mao, although he knew that there was a fire in the city, but because Cai Mao was there, he did not get up in person, so naturally he didn't know that Liu Bei was coming.

Cai Mao's sweat dripped, and he said, "What if there are Zhang Wu and Chen Sun's comrades among these people?" Liu Bei said: "If there are traitors among them, you will take my head first!"

When Cai Mao heard this, he secretly applauded, he had long wanted to get rid of Liu Bei, if there were Zhang Wu Chen Sun's henchmen among these people, he could get rid of Liu Bei justifiably, so he said: "Okay! Then I will open the city and let them in, Liu Yuanjun, all the consequences are borne by you!" Liu Bei snorted heavily, turned his head to look at the people, and arched his hand: "I, Liu Bei, am incompetent, let the villagers suffer, please go into the city." ”

All the people kowtowed to Liu Bei, the city gate opened, and under the leadership of Liu Bei, the people entered the city in an orderly manner. Liu Bei looked at Cheng Sifang, and his face was displeased: "Boss Cheng, I don't care if you are not in Mr. Mi's caravan, why do you want to set fire to Xiangyang City?"

Cheng Sifang said with a smile: "Xiangyang City is intact, if Xuande Gong doesn't believe it, you can see it when you enter the city." Liu Bei was stunned and went into the city with Cheng Sifang. Xiao Zhihan rushed to Cheng Sifang's side, and Cheng Sifang said: "Xiao Han, if you are one step late, I will suffer from ten thousand arrows piercing my heart." Xiao Zhihan smiled: "How could I put you in danger?"

When I arrived in the city, I saw that the fire was just a few empty grain trucks, which were ignited in an open place, and not burned to a single brick or tile, Liu Bei was surprised: "Boss Cheng, how did you do it?"

Cheng Sifang said: "Although I asked Xiaohan to invite Liu Yuanjun, but the food has been eaten, and the people can no longer suffer, I will let the people into the city no matter what, as for this arson, it is my brother's masterpiece." ”

Liu Bei was stunned: "Your brother?"

Cheng Sifang laughed: "Brothers, come out and see each other!"

In an instant, people popped up from all over Xiangyang, Liu Bei counted, there were eight people, and they were the top ten masters headed by Zhou Chonghan!

Zhou Chonghan smiled and said, "Boss, long time no see!" Cheng Quartet laughed loudly, and hugged everyone happily: "Haha! Brothers, long time no see!"

It turned out that after the top ten masters were dismissed, they left Cao Cao's sphere of influence one after another, and there were a lot of code words on the rivers and lakes. After the top ten masters left Cao Cao's sphere of influence, they regrouped together according to the code words they left, the north was full of Cao Cao's sphere of influence, and Xiliang was far away, Zhuge Xu Feng judged that the Quartet and Xiao Zhihan were coming in the direction of Jingzhou, so they set off for Jingzhou, and sure enough, they saw Xiao Zhihan's code words on the road. In the end, everyone and Xiao Zhihan met in Xiangyang City, Xiao Zhihan came out to look for the Quartet, but the top ten masters stayed in Xiangyang City and waited.

Cheng Sifang led the hungry people to Xiangyang, and the top ten masters had been informed of the news. Zhuge Xu Feng was resourceful, and when he saw that Cai Mao refused to let the people into the city, he set fire to the city and responded to the Quartet. Cheng Sifang has learned from Xiao Zhihan that everyone is in Xiangyang City, and when he saw the fire in the city, he knew that Zhuge Xu Feng did it, so he cooperated with Zhuge Xu Feng and put on a good show.

Liu Bei laughed: "I didn't expect Boss Cheng to have such heroes and heroes to follow, you set fire in the dark, Cai Mao doesn't know how many helpers you have in the city, it will inevitably burn the jade, and the city will definitely open the city to let you in." ”

Zhuge Xu Feng saluted Liu Bei and said, "Why do you have to worry about a small plan? As soon as Liu Yuanjun came, he made Cai Mao obediently open the city gate, how can we compare with Liu Yuanjun?"

Everyone laughed, and Liu Bei said: "But your troubles are not a trivial matter, and you have to follow me to see Brother Jingsheng." Everyone nodded.

The sky was already bright, Liu Bei led everyone to the government hall, Liu Biao was already sitting on the government hall, and Cai Mao stood beside Liu Biao with a displeased expression.

Liu Bei stepped forward and saluted, "Brother Jingsheng, are you in good health?" Liu Biao coughed twice and said, "Xuande, you know that now is a critical moment, why do you still want to lead the displaced people here?" Liu Bei said: "These people are not displaced people, but the people of a small village sixty miles south of Xinye City, all of whom are the people of Jingzhou, how can you say that the displaced people are here?"

Cai Mao shouted: "Since you are the people of Xinye, why did you come to Xiangyang to make trouble?" Liu Yuanjun, you are not well managed!" Liu Bei glared at Cai Mao: "If someone hadn't stopped this news and made it an isolated village, how could I not know?" Cai Mao said angrily: "You mean I deliberately stopped this news?" Liu Bei said: "People are doing it, the sky is watching, is it the governor, the governor himself knows it!"

Liu Biao knew that the two were not in harmony, but one was his own cronies, and the other was a relative of the Han family with him, Liu Biao persuaded: "Okay, it's all your own people, what is the quarrel? Since you are a citizen of Jingzhou, let it in." ”