Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 200
The reason why Liu Bei was in trouble was because Tancheng, the seat of Xiapi, was lost.

At that time, Liu Bei was stationing troops on the border of Xuzhou. After hearing the news, five thunders struck.

Originally, Guan Yu led the army to Guangling to fight against Sun Ce, and Liu Bei led troops to the west to guard against Cao Cao. Both of these two routes were very important. Compared with the task of defending Tancheng, it was much easier.

Liu Bei thought over and over again, and decided to hand over this easy task to Zhang Fei.

As long as Zhang Fei doesn't do anything excessive, and there are so many officials and generals in Tancheng to help, as long as Liu Bei and Guan Yu get rid of the crisis along the way, they can return to the army.

Unexpectedly, the easiest place has a big problem!

At that time Zhang Fei came to vote for Liu Bei in embarrassment with hundreds of disabled soldiers. After explaining the cause and effect, Liu Bei sighed and said, "Third brother, it's not that this matter can't be done, but that it's too urgent."

The cause of the incident was that Zhang Fei discovered that Cao Bao, the backbone general of the Danyang faction in Tancheng, had a different heart.

Someone informed Zhang Fei that Cao Bao had colluded with Sun Ce of Guangling by letter. Zhang Fei found out that the evidence was solid after checking. He was furious and ordered soldiers to arrest Cao Bao.

The bad thing is that Zhang Fei did this with great fanfare, which caused the news to leak out. After Cao Bao heard the news, he mobilized the generals of the Danyang army in the city to attack Zhang Fei.

The two sides fought for a day, regardless of the outcome, but Cao Bao took the opportunity to open the city gate and ushered in an enemy army that no one expected to appear in Tancheng.

Sun Ce!

He led thousands of soldiers into the city of Xiapi, took advantage of the chaos to attack Zhang Fei, defeated Zhang Fei, and was forced to abandon the city and flee.

Zhang Fei knelt on the ground and said with shame on his face, "Fei is sorry, brother, I lost my whole family in the city!"

At that time, Liu Bei had a wife and two daughters, who should have been acquired by Sun Ce.

Liu Bei sighed secretly in his heart, what else could he say now that the matter has come to this?
And Zhang Fei couldn't be entirely blamed for this matter, the other party was already preparing to make trouble, even if Zhang Fei didn't find out, the result would only be worse.

He could only say: "Brothers are like brothers and feet, wives are like clothes, if the clothes are torn, they can still be sewn; if the hands and feet are broken, can they be continued?"

"Third brother don't need to blame yourself, just go to the Pi, just find a way to fight back."

Only then did Zhang Fei raise his head, and said bitterly: "Then Sun Ce is treacherous, and officials and generals in the city are nothing!"

"Now it seems that there are many people who support Cao Bao, otherwise I wouldn't have to wait for Sun Ce to enter the city to find out!"

Liu Bei asked again, "Who in the city escaped with you?"

Zhang Fei thought for a while and said, "Kong Rong's family probably didn't escape."

"Chen Qun didn't see it, maybe he died in the chaos?"

"Chen Deng led an army to help me, but I didn't have time to take him with me when I ran away."

"Mi Zhu seems to have led someone to flee to Haixi, and I don't know if I can escape there."

Liu Bei's eyes darkened. Except for Sun Qianjian and Yong around him, the others were just sent away by Zhang Fei?

His heart was bleeding, and Zhang Fei could see that Liu Bei was unhappy, so he hurriedly said, "Brother, we don't have to worry about Cao Cao anymore, why don't we go back together and take Xiapi back!"

Liu Bei shook his head and sighed, "The other party must have been prepared for it. It is easy to defend the city and difficult to attack it. How could thousands of us be able to defeat it?"

"Besides, most of the soldiers' families are in Tancheng. People are panicking now. If we go back to fight the city, I'm afraid people will be even more confused!"

"I have an idea, take advantage of this opportunity, go southeast, bypass Tancheng, go to the border of Guangling, and meet Yunchang."

"Since Sun Ce has already appeared in Tancheng, presumably he must have divided his troops to entangle Yun Chang, so that he could take the opportunity to escape and attack Tancheng."

"In this way, the Guangling City he occupies will definitely be empty. If the three of us join forces and attack his lair, we may be able to reverse the situation!"

Zhang Fei was overjoyed when he heard this, and said, "Brother is talented, if we exchange houses, we will not lose money!"

Liu Bei's heart is bleeding, you are not married, but I lost my wife and two daughters, no matter how you look at it, it is a loss, right?

But he couldn't show it on the surface, and said: "Soldiers are precious, and now we will set off to Guangling immediately, and they will be caught off guard!"

Seeing Zhang Fei's happy face, Liu Bei was worried. Will things really go so smoothly?

Who in Guangling entangled Guan Yu so that he could not stop Sun Ce from dividing his troops?

Liu Bei didn't know that Guan Yu, who was under Guangling City, was also thinking about this question.

After he came back from collecting food, he and Sun Ce stalemate for more than a month. The two sides set up camps and fought against each other every day.

Later, the soldiers on both sides were exhausted, and the interval between attacks became longer and longer.

It wasn't until after three days of no movement that Guan Yu woke up suddenly and came out to check, only to find out that something was wrong!
In the opposing camp, Yuan Shu's general Zhang Xunqiaorui had already been replaced, but Sun Ce was gone!

He suddenly felt that something was wrong, he led a fierce attack and broke through Yuan Shu's camp, Zhang Xunqiaorui was forced to retreat.

Guan Yu knew that it was too late to return to aid at this time, so he might as well take Guangling in one go, so he took advantage of the victory to pursue and hit the city of Guangling.

However, he could only stop here. After Zhang Xunqiaorui returned to Guangling City, he seemed to have become smarter. The two went out of the city day and night to harass, making Guan Yu, a lone army, unable to advance or retreat.

Guan Yu was worried that if this situation continued, his food and grass would be exhausted, so he could only retreat to Xiapi.

I don't know what's going on with the eldest brother and the third brother. Sun Ce has probably gone to sneak attack Xiapi. If the third brother can block Sun Ce, there is still a possibility of saving the situation on his side.

it should be no problem?
At the moment when the fight in Xuzhou was in a stalemate, the eyes of the gentry all over the world, but many people did not pay attention to this.

After all, Xuzhou is a place of the Four Wars, easy to attack and difficult to defend. It is a sweet potato in peacetime, but a hot potato in chaos. It is not uncommon for anyone to occupy Xuzhou.

At this time, a wedding in Ye City attracted their attention even more.

After all, rising like a comet in just one year, the son of the Yuan family, known as the fierce tiger of the Yuan family, is about to get married.

In the eyes of some outsiders, this is just an ordinary marriage of a newly adopted concubine of the Yuan family marrying the daughter of a merchant, but in the eyes of those who know the inside story, they understand how many twists and turns have occurred.

Some Jizhou gentry were very worried. After all, according to the rumors, this fierce tiger was famous for killing people without blinking an eye on the battlefield.

But at least nothing happened from welcoming the bride in the morning to hosting a banquet now.

But to everyone's surprise, according to the wealth of the bride and groom, this wedding should be quite extravagant, but in fact it was quite simple.

Different from the Zhou ceremony, the wedding of the Han people began to be joyful, and the custom of making a new house appeared, and the style of marriage was extremely extravagant.

On the day of the wedding, the husband's family must accept congratulations from the guests, and entertain the guests with a feast of wine. The guests drink and laugh, and behave freely.

The custom of making a new house is the most prominent manifestation of the joy at the beginning of the wedding. This custom began in the Han Dynasty.

Another manifestation of joy is spreading the tent.

According to the "Wuchen Miscellaneous Copy" records, the spreading of tents began with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. When Mrs. Li first arrived, the emperor welcomed them into the tent and sat together, drank Henji wine, and forewarned the officials to scatter five-color concentric flowers and fruits far away. In short, there are many clouds and many sons.

However, Guo Jia apologized to the guests before, saying that today's bridal chamber trouble would be avoided, which made many young noblemen express regret.

They had heard long ago that the girl from the Zhen family was beautiful and beautiful, and today they finally came to congratulate on behalf of the family, but they couldn't see her face, it was a great pity.

Someone took the opportunity to boo a few times, but found that no one agreed with him, suddenly came to his senses, and quickly silenced.

If you offend the Yuan family, how can there be any good fruit to eat?
At this time in the back hall, the formal wedding festival is going on.

There are seven ceremonies in total: worshiping the hall, washing the toilet, facing the table, being in the same prison, joining the wedding ceremony, tying hair, and holding hands.

"Book of Rites · Hunyi" records that a man and a woman must "eat together in prison and drink together, so they have the same dignity and inferiority, and they must be close to each other when they get married."

The worship hall is also called worshiping heaven and earth. When a wedding is held, the bride and groom first pay homage to heaven and earth, and then to their ancestors, parents and elders.

But at this time, on the senior seats in front of Yuan Xizhen Mi, one is Yuan Ji's tablet, and the other is Huan's.

Under the auspices of Liu He, the two worshiped the memorial tablet and knelt down to the Huan family.

Huan was excited, she got up and helped the two of them up, looking at the radiant and charming Zhen Mi, she couldn't help but think of the scene when she got married, and her eyes turned red.

She took Zhen Mi's hand and handed it to Yuan Xi.

Zhen Mi raised her head slightly, a little shy, not daring to look directly at Yuan Xi.

She is wearing a dark black wedding dress today. The upper and lower garments are made of silk, silk, gauze, etc. The sleeves are decorated with more than a dozen colors of silk, which can be said to be extremely gorgeous.

Yuan Xi thought in his heart that the Zhen family had really spent a lot of money, and few people could wear this set of clothes, and it shouldn't be more beautiful than wearing it on Zhen Mi.

And the intricate and exquisite decoration on Zhen Mi's head reminded Yuan Xi of the poems from his previous life.

"The rooster crows and the dawn dawns, and the new clothes put on strict makeup. Wearing my embroidered skirt, I can do everything. Silk shoes on my feet, tortoiseshell light on my head. My waist looks like a swan, and my ears listen to the moon. My fingers are like peeling onions. The root is like vermilion in the mouth. The delicate steps are unparalleled in the world."

At this time, Liu He said: "Madam, the hand ceremony is still behind."

When Huan heard this, she looked embarrassed. She was nervous, but something went wrong.

Zhen Mi's face flushed, and she quickly wanted to pull her hand back, but Yuan Xi held her hand tightly and said with a smile: "The fate of parents is the greatest."

Liu He smiled wryly, thinking that this person is really casual, and said: "The bride and groom wash their hands first, then enter the bridal chamber, and they will be in the same cell on the mat, and they will tie the knot together."

Wu Zhao and Cao Xian brought copper basins, and Yuan Xi and Zhen Mi dipped their hands into the water and washed them clean.

Yuan Xi raised his head slightly, and seeing Cao Xian's envious face, and Wu Zhao's smile was slightly sentimental, and his heart was slightly touched.

Cao Xian probably thought that he would be a concubine in this life, and there would never be such a wedding again, but Wu Zhao had experienced the same scene, but there was no good result in the end.

The difference in fate between people sometimes depends on the illusory fortune, which is really embarrassing.

Seeing that the two had finished washing, Liu He said, "The newcomer enters the bridal chamber."

So far, his business is over, and the rest of the etiquette is a matter between the bride and groom.

Yuan Xi and Zhen Mi turned around, saluted Liu He to express their gratitude, and then bowed to Huan Shi before entering the bridal chamber hand in hand.

After the two were behind, Wu Zhao and Cao Xian gently closed the door.

(End of this chapter)