Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 193 Change of Identity
Cao Song ate like a starved ghost reincarnated, which made Yuan Xi feel that even if he put a live pig in front of Cao Song, he could swallow it alive.

Finally, Cao Song ate almost all the food on the table, rolling his eyes so much that several concubines dared to walk over, silently picked up the bones thrown on Cao Song's table and started to lick them.

Seeing Yuan Xi, he felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.

For a woman who is completely dependent on a man, the man is prosperous, the woman is rich, the man is poor, and the woman begs for food.

Now that Cao Song has fallen into such a situation, all these concubines can do is nothing more than this.

Yuan Xi suddenly didn't want to stay any longer, and when he was about to leave, Cao Song was still belching and speechless.

Yuan Xi got into the carriage, feeling a little satisfied, but also a little regretful.

The issue of Huan's identity has been resolved, but the three Cao Xian sisters are in trouble.

Because although Cao Song endorsed, the Huan family was kicked out of the Cao family, but when the three sisters of Cao Xian were acquired by Cao Cao along with the Huan family, they changed their surnames to the Cao family and became stepdaughters.

Expulsion of children from the clan requires the consent of the patriarch. Cao Song is no longer the patriarch, so he can only put this matter aside for the time being.

Fortunately, with a few insignificant stepdaughters, Cao Cao probably wouldn't care about Yuan Xi either.

Yuan Xi returned to the mansion and told the Huan family the news. The sisters Cao Xian and Cao Jie were both surprised and happy.

But it was beyond Yuan Xi's expectations, but Huan's expression was somewhat hesitant.

He thought it was strange, could it be that the Huan family didn't want to leave the Cao family?

He said, "Madam, what concerns do you have? Are you unwilling to leave Cao's house?"

The Huan family dismissed Cao Xian and sisters, paused and said: "I am deeply grateful for the kindness of the young master, and I have been thinking about leaving the Cao family day and night."

"But the concubine's concern at the beginning was the safety of the three daughters, and she wanted to entrust them to the young master. As for the situation of the concubine herself, she didn't think much about it."

"Now the son is taking a risk to rescue the concubine, but the concubine is afraid of causing rumors and gossip, which will be detrimental to the son's reputation."

Yuan Xi understood what the Huan family meant. When he brought the Huan family's mother and daughter into his mansion, there were rumors in Ye City that his mother and daughter could take all.

Now that he has brought the Huan family out of the Cao family, it is estimated that such rumors will become even more rampant, greatly damaging his reputation for saving Bian Rang's family.

He said: "Madam, don't worry too much, you are Cao Xian's mother, and I can't abandon Madam."

"Madam's identity, I have already made arrangements, and these rumors will definitely stop when the time comes."

Huan's family was wrong, thinking that Yuan Xi wanted her to marry someone from a wealthy family, so she said in a low voice: "After this incident, I have decided to live alone and will never marry anyone else."

After hearing this, Yuan Xi smiled and said, "I'm afraid Ma'am is wrong, so please don't worry, just let nature take its course."

After hearing this, Huan Shi felt relieved and nodded slightly.

She sent Yuan Xi away, feeling quite uneasy, and finally escaped from the tiger and wolf den of the Cao family. It was impossible to say she was unhappy.

But when she thought that the fate of the mother and daughter would be firmly bound to Yuan Xi's branch, she felt a little complicated.

From what she saw these days, Yuan Xi really wasn't very interested in young girls.

Not to mention that Wu Zhao is over 20 years old, she also heard from Cao Xian that after the Yijing War, Yuan Xi brought Gongsun Zan's widow, Hou, into the mansion!
With such a big enmity between the Yuan family and the Gongsun family, Yuan Xi was able to protect the Hou family, and it must have cost a lot of money.

Huan heard that Wu Zhao was also a widow before, and thinking of Hou's situation, she felt that she had found something in common between the two.

Yuan Xi has never done anything to young girls, from this point of view, Yuan Xi probably doesn't like married women, but older widows!
Huan Shi felt more and more that her thoughts were close to the truth. She was a little flustered, and raised her hand involuntarily, pressing down on her chest that was constantly heaving due to shock.

If Yuan Xi knew Huan's thoughts, he might vomit three liters of blood, but now he has no time to worry about these details.

Because since he entered Yecheng, every step he took next has been carefully considered, and the achievement of each goal requires the cooperation of many conditions to finally lead to the result he wants.

But the more delicate the strategy, the more links there are, and the more likely unexpected variables will appear.

Yuan Xi often used a sentence from his previous life when he played Tetris to remind himself, and used it to get rid of the inflated mentality of trying to control all variables.

Mistakes made accumulate and successes gained disappear.

Every step is a new beginning, and every trivial mistake may waste all previous efforts.

It would be much easier if other people were like wooden stakes, waiting blankly for him to lay out the layout, but unfortunately it was impossible, everyone was not a fool, and would not be willing to be a chess piece, everyone wanted to sit in front of the chessboard.

In this oppressive atmosphere, the day of Yuan Xi's adoption finally arrived.

The whole process was unremarkable, Yuan Shao presided over the ceremony as the head of the clan, although Yuan Shu, who was far away in Yuzhou, would not recognize Yuan Shao's status as the head of the clan.

Almost all the male members of the Yuan family were present, and the patriarchs of several aristocratic families in Jizhou were present as witnesses.

When he saw that his name had been changed from the family tree to Yuan Ji's branch, Yuan Xi felt rather complicated.

Forget it, just change it if you change your father, it's not like you didn't change it when you were reborn.

He walked up to Yuan Ji's tablet, bowed down according to etiquette, offered incense, and congratulated him.

When he got up, everything seemed the same, but everything was completely different.

From then on, he severed the father-son relationship with Yuan Shao.

He turned to Yuan Shao, bowed and said, "Meet the Patriarch."

Yuan Shao opened his mouth, finally nodded slightly, and said, "Nephew, don't be too polite."

Yuan Xi felt his body was a little stiff, but at the same time a little relaxed.

From then on, he was no longer protected by Yuan Shao, but at the same time he lost a shackle.

But now that he is an orphan, he can decide on his own marriage.

He turned his head and looked at the people with different thoughts. He could clearly see a smile of unknown meaning on the corner of Yuan Shang's mouth.

Yuan Xi stepped forward to hold Yuan Ji's tablet, and placed it squarely on his chest.

Before Yuan Ji's branch was extinct, the tablet was placed in Yuan's ancestral hall. Now that Yuan Xi has continued this branch, he has to take the tablet back to enshrine.

He stepped out of the ancestral hall and walked into the courtyard, which was already full of people.

In addition to Yuan Shao's advisers and generals, Yuan Xi's people also arrived.

Zhao Yun, Tai Shici, Guo Jia, Tian Yu, and Sun Li, although they may not seem like many people, but from the perspective of future generations, no one dares to underestimate this power.

When everyone saw Yuan Xi coming out, they all came up to congratulate him. Now Yuan Xi's identity is no longer the concubine son of Yuan Shao, but the son of the imperial servant Yuan Ji, the heir of the Marquis of An Guoting!
Counting Yuan Ji as the elder brother of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, no matter in terms of seniority or status, he should not be underestimated.

At the same time, everyone also praised Yuan Shao's righteous deeds one after another. After this incident, Yuan Shao at least washed away the stain of Yuan Kui and Yuan Ji's death on the surface. As for what everyone thinks in private, it doesn't matter.

Unlike Yuan Shao's subordinates, Yuan Xi's subordinates, Zhao Yun and others, obviously had a more relieved look, because from then on, they could justly be regarded as Yuan Xi's lords, and the control of Yuan's family was greatly reduced!

In Guo Jia's eyes, there was a different meaning flashing, and there was a faint light of ambition.

Yuan Xi smiled and nodded to everyone, full of pride in his heart.

This is the most important thing he has done since his rebirth. For this reason, he has worked hard and made a lot of efforts and concessions before his wish came true.

From Lv Bu to Cao Cao, from Liu Bei to Gongsun Zan, from Qingzhou to Jizhou, from Xuzhou to Yanzhou, he did it himself, went into danger, went to battle, fought bloody battles, gave up his credit, only to change his family today.

But there is no such thing as a free lunch in the world, and in the next period of time, he may have to take away a lot of the benefits he deserves.

Sure enough, on the next day, someone from Yuan Shaochu came to let him go to discuss the matter of conferring an official position in Youzhou after the Yijing battle.

When Yuan Xi arrived, he found that the people were so neat and unreasonable, not only Liu Shi and Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang were there, but also a group of counselors including Liu He.

After Yuan Shao revealed Yuan's arrangement for Youzhou, although Yuan Xi had expected it, some officials still surprised him.

As a result, Yuan Xi didn't know for a while whether Yuan Shao wanted to help him or suppress him.

As a hero before and after the battle of Yijing, Yuan Shao did not treat Yuan Xi badly on the surface, and presented himself to the Han court who was still fleeing, and declared Yuan Xi to be the governor of Youzhou.

This means that Yuan Xi has the reputation to be in charge of Youzhou affairs, although so far, Yuan Xi has not even occupied half of the territory of Zhuo County.

Then there was the position of Deputy Governor, the most important first few were only for the people of Yuan Xi's direct lineage, all of them were assigned to Yuan Shao's people.

Zhizhong is engaged in Xu You, don't drive in concurrent soldiers, Cao is engaged in Jushou, and Book Cao is engaged in Liu He!
Xu You is actually Yuan Shang's person, and the position of the first deputy is equivalent to Yuan Shang's confidant in Youzhou.

Hearing this, Yuan Xi felt slightly displeased. It would be fine if he was replaced by a clean and honest person, but if he were replaced by a person like Xu You, he would not only reap huge benefits, but also install corrupt cronies. Wouldn't Youzhou be a mess?
As for Jushou, it's even more interesting. This is a rise in the open and a fall in the dark, making Jushou completely fade out of the power circle in Jizhou, which is tantamount to being assigned by Yuan Shao!
No wonder Jushou complained so much in the later period. It seems that Yuan Shao had already made up his mind to weaken the power of the Jizhou gentry and make way for Yuan Shang.

Of course, the high-sounding reason is that Youzhou will be fighting again and again, and it needs such experienced counselors to sit in the command.

Yuan Xi, however, was overjoyed, because he was afraid that I wouldn't be able to dig this brick, so he specifically pried it loose for me to dig?

This is not a real father, what is a real father?
Then there is Liu He.

After all, Liu He's identity is really embarrassing. Since Liu Yu's death, Liu He's use value has disappeared.

But keeping it in Yecheng, Yuan Shao was afraid that others would criticize him for imprisoning members of the Han court clan, so it was the most ideal to get this hot potato out of Jizhou.

In this way, Youzhou has become a place of exile for marginalized people.

This reflected Yuan Shao's extremely contradictory thoughts. After Yuan Xi adopted, Yuan Shao not only wanted Yuan Xi to play a role, but at the same time he wanted to beware of him, so he inserted people from different factions into it.

Just like the officialdom in later generations, putting people with different thoughts together may not be a bad thing, but it is difficult to accomplish great things.

The slander belongs to the slander, Yuan Xi still bowed his head respectfully and said: "Everything is subject to the envoy's arrangement."

Yuan Shao also felt that this arrangement was a bit excessive, but a powerful Youzhou was not in line with his pace of training Yuan Shang.

After all, Yuan Xi's performance in the past year was really beyond his expectations, so he took this expedient measure for the time being and wronged Yuan Xi.

He said, "Since that's the case, what else does my nephew ask for?"

Yuan Xi raised his head: "Report to the envoy, I am going to get married."

(End of this chapter)