Riding and cutting the imperial pirates of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 442
In the dim night, the cold moon hangs quietly above the sky.

East of the city at this time.

After meeting Wang Zheng at the North Gate Wharf, Zhou Yu went to the barracks again, and discussed with several generals about defending the city. Being so busy, he didn't even go to the dinner party for Wang Zheng held by He Hongte until the dead of night. Stride out of the barracks.

Just when He Hong tried his best to guarantee Zhou Yu's character, by coincidence, Zhou Yu also looked up at the sky at this time.

The crescent moon is like a hook, sprinkling Qinghui on the road, and the snoring of soldiers can be heard from the barracks behind, adding to the tranquility.

But behind the tranquility, there seems to be an undercurrent surging.

On the pier today, when Wang Zheng focused most of his attention on Zhou Yu, in fact Zhou Yu was also secretly evaluating the troops Wang Zheng brought.

The number of people was not too many, only about two thousand, but the physique of these soldiers, and even the aggressiveness on their faces, made a smart person like Zhou Yu tremble inwardly.

They are all tigers!
One must know that the 3000 troops brought by Huang Zhong a few days ago had already taken Zhou Yu by surprise. At first, he thought that Wang Zheng had arranged many elites to be vanguards, but the Xuzhou army's main force seemed to be even better.
The key is that Zhou Yu also knew that the Xuzhou army was actually divided into two groups this time, and there was another group of nearly ten thousand people who came overland from Yuzhou!
Even if this army could not compare with Wang Zheng and Huang Zhong's men, it is estimated that the difference would not be too far, which made Zhou Yu feel at a loss for a while, and was even more touched!

With a soldier like Xuzhou's army, combined with Yangli's hand in hand, the Zhou family's chances of winning are slim?
Yang Li counted it out, but a vague premonition welled up in his heart.

Bo Fu, he should stand on his own right now!
It is even more necessary to risk the smallness of the sky to commit the above crimes!
After all, no matter what, Wang Zheng and he have no status as monarchs and ministers.

Thinking of that, Yuan Shu, who was riding his horse under the bluestone slab, let out a long sigh, feeling a rare emotional upturn, because until now I have never figured out why the Zhou family would suddenly use such a stupid trick, because it only provoked him. Zhou Shang's fierce tiger in Xuzhou put Yuan Shu into a predicament of loyalty and justice.

Although the Zhou family in my impression is overconfident, even arrogant, but when it comes to stupidity, intelligence, and a small-scale perspective of discerning the situation, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.

Why is it so quick and easy now?
In the midst of thousands of thoughts, Yuan Shu knew that Yuan Shu had already passed through a few streets and alleys, and passed through a row of whirling old trees. The back of his eyes suddenly lit up. Yuan Shu subconsciously looked up and saw behind him. Unlit lanterns are hung under the colonnades and on the ridges of the eaves.

Outside the shade of the lights, the roof is covered with double eaves, the small door is carved with exquisite paint, and the curtains of the windows hang down deeply, revealing a harsh and hazy light.

But Zhou Mansion has appeared behind the eyes.

Looking at the servants and housekeepers who came out upon hearing the sound of horseshoes, Yuan Shu's eyes flashed, and then he raised his head slightly, and the moment he jumped on the horse, all the slump and confusion he had just seen had been restrained.

When he raised his head again, his face was full of confidence and composure, and his spirit was high.

"Why did Master come back so late today?"

When stepping through the veranda, a servant boy saw Yang Li, hurriedly stepped down to greet him, and complained slightly in an intimate tone: "Have you eaten? The front chef doesn't have any food. If you want the servant girl to go Cold?"

"Okay."

Yuan Shu smiled irritablely, but also took offense.

Speaking of which, Lujiang Shouchun, where I was born, can be counted as the top family in Jiangdong. The lower ancestor Zhou Rong was a minister in the era of Emperor Guangwu's grandson Zhangdi. Ranked among the Eight Dukes, as for Yang Li's father Zhou Yi, he also served as the Luoyang Order.

Although he was born in such a rich and low court, Yuan Shu did not show the arrogance and domineering that he showed to the children of officials and eunuchs, and he was very easy-going and approachable towards the servants and maidservants around him.

It is also because of this that my servants are better. Some young servants and the like, when facing Yuan Shu, because of their admiration, they sometimes seem to behave well.

That's why the sage said that only men and adults are difficult to raise, that if they are close, they will be inferior, and if they are far away, they will complain.

"Just chill two dishes as you like." As he spoke, Yang Li handed over a food box from his subordinates: "That's a shad sent by a colleague in Tongxiang, just pick it up and it'll be fine."

After a pause, he asked again, "Is Uncle going to bed?"

"Is there?" The servant boy replied: "The servant girl saw the light on in the study just now, so the master must still be reading?"

"That's just right." Yang Liyao nodded and said, "Uncle loves fish the most, and will send the food to the study later, and then bring the ice jug of wine."

"Yes."

Yuan Shu paced through the veranda and came to a narrow patio. The main hall at the back was the study room.

Arriving at the study room, pushing the door open, one can see that the hall is elegantly furnished, with matching colors and harsh lighting, giving one a sense of tranquility and comfort. A middle-aged man is standing by the window with his hands folded, silently watching the moonlight in the window.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, the middle-aged man turned his head and saw that it was Yuan Shu, with a smile on his originally serious face.

"My unicorn son has returned to the nest."

"Uncle, I don't have any good food today." Yang Li walked down with the bowl in his hand, sat down first, but picked the big thorns in the fish carefully with chopsticks, then moved the plate behind the middle-aged man, looked up brilliantly He laughed and said: "The shad in Lujiang River is very delicious. It was fished out of the pond by a Dubo from the same village today. It is small and fat. Uncle, try it."

"If you like to eat, my nephew will send you one every day."

"It coincides with a war, how can it be used for private use?"

Although he knew that Yuan Shu was joking, the middle-aged man shook his head immediately. This man was Yang Li's uncle, Sun Ce, who was one of the little-known little Confucians in the world.

Under the original history, Sun Ce returned to Yangli with Yuan Shu in the first year of Jian'an, and the following year Wangzheng proclaimed himself emperor. Because he was optimistic about Wangzheng, he invited him to be the prefect of Danyang. Yuan Shu went with him and became the magistrate of Chao County in the county.When the Zhou clan raised troops earlier, Yang Li brought troops to join him.

As the status of the traverser Yang Li became lower and lower, and his influence became smaller and smaller, the impact on the track of history would naturally become more profound.

It's just that Wang Zheng wanted to become emperor more impatiently than in the original history, and Sun Ce's time to go to Yangli was left to half a year.

And that time, even though I was still satisfied with Wang Zheng, my opinion of the Zhou family changed slightly, so whether I chose Shi Yangli again, or whether I took Yuan Hou to Danyang, which now belongs to Yangli's sphere of influence.

Even Yuan Shu, the Hefei county magistrate, hadn't been afraid of being too thorough, causing the royal government to be overwhelmed and implicating the clan, Sun Ce would have wanted him to do it.

Of course, that is actually a statement, at least Lujiang Shouchun, represented by Sun Ce, is temporarily inclined to Wangzheng.

After all, even if he also had no rebellious intentions, after all, Wang Zheng was only putting on a gesture, but Yang Li was already doing it with a guy.

Although I said it in a scolding tone, when I saw this plate of shad, Sun Ce's eyes lit up, obviously his heart was moved, but just last moment, when I turned my gaze to Yuan Shu, my expression suddenly changed. Changed, he narrowed his eyes immediately, looked at Yuan Shu carefully for a while, and suddenly ordered:

"Yu'er, go and close the door."

Yuan Shu suddenly showed doubts, but he still followed his words. Before he turned around and sat down, Sun Ce asked, "Is there nothing wrong with being far away?"

Knowing that his uncle had nothing to say, Yuan Shu quickly replied: "Within seventy paces behind him, there are people by his side."

Only then did Yang Li feel relieved, his eyes showed a gentle light, he looked at Yuan Shu and said in a deep voice, "What did he see today?"

Familiar with people?
Zhou Yu was taken aback when he heard the words, although he knew what Sun Ce meant by asking, he still replied: "If you are familiar with people, Zhou Shang from Xuzhou led the army to Hefei today, do you know or not?"

In terms of familiar faces, the two thousand celestial troops and a few people in Hefei City are naturally counted. It is Guo Yangli who is naturally vague about those people Sun Ce asked.

"Yangli?" Sun Ce frowned, muttering to himself, "How is that possible?" "

"How could it be a yellow scarf bandit? Could it be."

"Yu'er, have you really met someone like me?"

Yang Li's eyes showed memories, and after a while, he shook his head again: "If you talk about ordinary people, I'm afraid there is only Zhou Shang." He is two years older, but he is indeed ordinary, without the style of a young general."

"The wind of the young general." Hearing those words, Sun Ce chewed silently for a while, and suddenly a smile full of inexplicable meaning escaped from the corner of his mouth: "Hey, it's more than that."

As I said that, I looked at Yuan Shu, and suddenly asked, "Yu'er, does he know why his father and uncle were both officials, but you are half your life without his uncle?"

Yuan Shu thought about it for a while, and said carefully, "Fame is not for profit, but it's a waste of hard work. Uncle has a good temperament and a low-minded temperament. I am willing to suffer from this."

"Haha, a good-natured Huang always means that he is indifferent to fame and fortune."

Sun Ce smiled when he heard the words: "You are an official, not because you want to, but because you can."

Facing Yang Li's astonished gaze, Sun Ce hastily explained: "Does he still remember the eighth year of Zhongping?"

Zhou Yu was startled when he heard the words, and immediately said: "How can I remember that this year it was Sun Jian, the general who broke the barbarian army, who challenged Dong Zhuo and moved his family to Shu County. That's why Yu and Bofu got acquainted."

Sun Ce nodded, and said with emotion: "Yang Li, like him, has had small ambitions for many years. The seven of them have the same interests, and after a few days of acquaintance, the relationship is like brothers. Now many people in Shaoli even think of them as their own. Great acquaintance at the turn of the corner."

"He only gave up the inner house of our hometown to the Zhou family to live in, and he often used financial resources to help me behind your back. Hey, poor man, rich man, if it was his big mouse who kept the rice outside the house all day How can my Zhou family get the reputation of a big overlord at such a young age?"

Zhou Yu blushed when he heard the words, and just when he knew how to answer, he heard Yang Li wave his hands and said, "Do I blame him? It's the behavior of a young husband to spend a lot of money and love righteousness. What's the point?"

"It's just that, although he made friends with the Zhou family this year, he knew you, his uncle, and at the same time met a low person."

Zhou Yu was shocked when he heard this, knowing that this person must be the key to Sun Ce's abnormal behavior today, so he immediately suppressed Shixiu's emotions and concentrated his attention.

But Yang Li breathed a sigh of relief, his eyes shot out with a strange look: "Although this person is not from a noble family, he is a very unknown figure in Lujiang. I have been in love with him for a long time. I happened to pass by this year. Shu County is also fate, I met Daoyou and I became friends at first sight, and then he gave you eight volumes of Taoism, and then drifted away."

Yuan Shu knew at that time that the person his uncle mentioned seemed to be an alchemist, and his heart was moved, an alchemist from Lujiang?Extremely unknown?
"Uncle." Yang Li said with some certainty, "This person is Mr. Wujiao."

Sun Ce nodded, and said word by word: "This person is Yang Li!"

Zhou Yu, styled Yuan Fang, was born in Lujiang, a famous alchemist in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. He mostly lived in Tianzhu Mountain and studied the art of alchemy.The seven classics of the Ming Dynasty, and the star latitude, and the Bajia of the Ming Dynasty, are said to be able to serve ghosts and gods, and cook while sitting. "Book of the Former Han Dynasty" said that I have no divine way.

Sun Ce said: "Although there are few magic spells recorded in these eight volumes of Taoism, Yang Li said before leaving that if you practice Taoism and destroy your family, you, Yang Li, are a famous family for many generations. Even so, one generation can only practice one, and one can be greedy and distasteful, otherwise there will be blessings and no disasters, but disasters instead!"

Speaking of that, Sun Ce smiled self-deprecatingly: "Actually, Zhou Yu didn't worry too much. Uncle's talent is blunt. Even if he wants to be greedy, he has no intention and power. In the past one or four years, he has lived in a book of hopelessness." It’s just a little bit of a big success.”

Yuan Shu suddenly understood: "So Uncle has always treated you."

"It's wrong." Sun Ce stared at Yuan Shu's radiant phoenix eyes, and said with emotion: "It's because you are hiding your secrets, Yu'er is more than a hundred times smarter than you in stupidity, especially now that he is young and vigorous, the book If you pass it on to him, Uncle is worried that he will sink and retreat, unable to extricate himself."

"Uncle, don't worry about it."

But Yuan Shu laughed loudly and said: "Yu is not interested in Huang Lao's art at all. You know whether you can destroy your family if you practice Taoism, but it seems inevitable to be pure-hearted and ascetic. Hey, you should enjoy yourself when you are alive. If you are like my uncle, you can spend the whole day The meaty smell has been touched a few times, and it is almost masculine, even if you have obtained some supernatural powers and spells, you can still live."

"Uncle said just now that he practiced the "Looking Qi Technique"?"

Thinking of that, Yang Li's eyes flickered, and he asked with little interest: "However, when I saw Yu today, my expression changed a little. Could it be that I saw something?"

Sun Ce nodded: "Last year, you didn't achieve great success in your skills, so you looked at him sloppily. There is no such thing as wealth and honor, and the sky is skyrocketing. There is only one point, but it is beneficial to Shibei."

Hearing those words, Yuan Shu was startled for a moment, and then smiled casually: "Benefit in Shibei? Uncle, his qi-watching technique seems to be reliable?"

"Northern heroes, there are only Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zan, Cao Cao and others. Gongsun Zan is slow and resourceful, and it is difficult to become a small weapon. Yuan Shao has a lot of talents, and Cao Cao's martial arts relatives are very literary. Yingchuan, especially there is no such person as Xun Wenruo in the world. , if you go outside our place, it will be difficult for you to get ahead, so how can you get so much wealth?"

"exactly!"

Sun Ce said solemnly: "I also know that he is soft on the inside and strong on the inside, and his temper is actually very proud. Even as a minister, I'm afraid he would only be willing to be superior to one person, so he was firm at the beginning and chose to take him to Yangli. If there is an enlightened master, let’s take a look in the south.”

"He is a talented scholar of the country, and this Zhou family actually impressed me deeply back then. If the brothers join forces, it is Shi Nan. It must be a little bit of nothing, who knows."

Having said that, Sun Ce looked solemn, and said to Yuan Shu:
"Today in Zuo Ci, he reunited with the Zhou brothers after a long absence. He was watching from the conversation, but he knew his uncle was watching."

"But it's frightening and creepy!"

　Just a note, the extraordinary power in this book will not be too much.

　　The main reason is that it is basically impossible for Zhou Yu to take refuge in the protagonist who is an enemy of Sun Ce according to common sense.

　　But the cowboy really couldn't bear to kill my idol, the governor!

　　It can only rely on extraordinary strength.

　　In this regard, the system can no longer be used as the key driver, and can only rely on Zuo Ci and the mysterious power in the novel.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)