Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 34 Brothers meet
In the city guard's mansion, Sun Li was holding a wooden stick and was discussing marksmanship with Zhao Yun.

He tightly grasped the back end of the wooden stick, and with a sound of "huh", the end of the stick pierced Zhao Yun's chest, but when Zhao Yun flicked it lightly with the wooden stick, Sun Li's wooden stick was deflected, and even his body was taken around. Semi-circle.

Sun Li was still trying to get back upright, but Zhao Yun's wooden club had already hit him on the shoulder.

Zhao Yun withdrew the wooden stick, and said calmly: "You hold your hands too tightly, causing the wooden stick to move, and your body to move, so the posture is broken."

Sun Li scratched his head and said, "But if you don't hold it tightly, wouldn't you be knocked down by brother Zhao just like before?"

Zhao Yun nodded and said, "Indeed, that's why the reaction is to have all the guns in your hands."

"As long as you feel the opponent's strength and react faster than the opponent, you can respond in time, and there will be no disadvantages."

After hearing this, Sun Li half-understood, and said depressedly: "It's so troublesome, it's really not as refreshing as archery."

Zhao Yun smiled and said, "Indeed, more than half of the casualties on the battlefield were caused by bows and arrows, and the actual wounded in close combat were actually a minority."

"You are still young and inexperienced. It is not a bad thing to specialize in bow and arrow first."

After hearing this, Sun Li said happily, "Brother Zhao can still talk, but Brother Qu just keeps laughing at me all day long!"

When Zhao Yun heard the word "Big Brother", he recalled how Liu, Guan and Zhang called each other when they were under Gongsun Zan's command. He asked curiously, "Your name is General Yuan and General Qu. Have you ever been sworn brothers?"

After hearing this, Sun Li quickly waved his hands and said, "Who am I? How can I be sworn brothers with a noble son of the Yuan family like Young Master!"

"The reason why I call it that is because my mother asked me to do it. Brother Yuan disagreed at first, but he didn't bother my mother in the end."

Just when Wu Zhao came over, his heart moved, and he said, "General Yuan and your mother know each other?"

Seeing this, Sun Li quickly stood up and said, "I met Sister Wu Zhao."

He knew that Wu Zhao had recently been doing things for Yuan Xi and was getting more and more attention, so he immediately said: "More than a year ago, my family lived in the village of Rongcheng. My mother was a widow and took me to weave for a living."

"At that time, Gongsun Zan, a thief, indulged his subordinates and led his troops to plunder the village."

Wu Zhao was taken aback: "Isn't Rongcheng Gongsun Zan's territory?"

Sun Li said angrily, "That's right, but they often come to our village to grab food!"

Zhao Yun couldn't hold back when he heard this, and sighed: "Since Gongsun Zan hid in Yi Jing, he has almost stopped restraining his subordinates, and military discipline is getting worse day by day. This kind of thing often happens."

Sun Li said angrily: "At that time, more than a dozen cavalrymen came to the village, and they were robbed all over. Some bastards wanted to take my mother away forcibly because they saw how beautiful my mother was."

As soon as these words came out, Wu Zhao and Zhao Yun's faces were filled with anger.

As a local parent official, he doesn't want to protect the people, but behaves like a foreigner. If Gongsun Zan continues like this, he will perish sooner or later!

Sun Li said: "I went up to stop it, but was almost hacked to death. It was my mother who held him back and let me take the opportunity to escape."

"Although I escaped, I had nowhere to go. Just when I was hopeless, an army of horses arrived, and the leaders were Brother Yuan and Brother Qu."

"At the time, I thought they were also subordinates of Gongsun Zan's dog thieves. Seeing that they couldn't escape, I went up and cursed."

"I didn't expect Brother Yuan to hear this, so he and Brother Qu led people into the village, killed the dozen or so people, and saved the village and my mother."

"After this incident, the village can no longer stay here. People in our entire village came to Beixincheng for fear of being retaliated against."

"My mother told me to always remember Brother Yuan's life-saving grace. To call Brother Yuan like this is to regard him as an elder brother. Once Brother Yuan is in trouble, he should repay him with death."

After Zhao Yun heard this, he understood the cause and effect of the incident. He also remembered that Liu, Guan and Zhang were true sworn brothers.

Sun Li rubbed his head and said with a chuckle: "Although I call you Brother Yuan so much, I don't dare to recognize him as his younger brother. I'm just a poor boy, so I don't dare to have a relationship with Brother Yuan."

"On the contrary, I think Brother Zhao is quite favored by Brother Yuan, and he is much better than me. He may become Brother Yuan's brother in the future."

Wu Zhao was thinking about something else, and she said casually, "You usually live in the city lord's mansion, and your mother is in the city, so it's not easy to see each other every day, right?"

Sun Liqi said: "My mother also lives in the City Lord's Mansion."

"The last time you were rescued, it was my mother who helped bandage the wound. You should have seen it."

Wu Zhao's heart skipped a beat. So that woman is Sun Li's mother?
She thought the woman was only in her twenties at most, but she didn't expect it to be Sun Li's mother!
Thinking about it, Sun Li was only fourteen or fifteen years old. At that time, there were many women who gave birth to children in the twelfth or thirteenth year. Sun Li's mother was under thirty, and she was young and beautiful. No wonder I misunderstood him.

No wonder that Mr. Yuan Xi looked serious, but he didn't have a concubine or maidservant by his side. As a son of an aristocratic family, it was too abnormal.

So he is a good wife?

It's no wonder that young servant girl's conversation is extraordinary, I'm afraid that she doesn't have less contact with Mr. Yuan on weekdays.
In fact, Wu Zhao's guess is not wrong, the married woman in this life is too young, obviously not in line with Yuan Xi's aesthetics of later generations.

Wu Zhao was thinking wildly, when footsteps sounded behind him, Yuan Xi and Qu Yi walked over, saw Wu Zhao and the three gathered together, and said with a smile: "This is really rare, Brother Zhao, please come out of the city with me."

Upon hearing this, Sun Li muttered, "Aren't you taking me?"

Yuan Xi smiled and patted Sun Li on the head: "Go and help your mother, there are many people coming to the mansion today."

Upon hearing this, Wu Zhao stood up quickly and said, "I'm going to the kitchen too, how many people do you want?"

Yuan Xi sighed, "A lot."

"My elder brother has brought troops here."

"According to the scouts who came back, there are thousands of soldiers and horses."

As soon as these words came out, everyone's expressions changed slightly.

Outside Beixin City, Yuan Tan looked at the layers of antlers on the outside of the city wall, and smiled at Xun Chen: "My brother is quite lawful in defending the city."

Xun Chen nodded, and said, "However, it's difficult to open up the situation in Youzhou if you only defend and don't attack."

Gao Lan also nodded in agreement: "What Mr. said is very true. Long-term defense of the city will only lower morale."

Yuan Tan thought to himself, can I not know?
But his father only gave Yuan Xi a few hundred soldiers. In the past three years, except for the barely supply of food and grass, there was nothing to increase the number of troops.

It's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice. If I were myself, it would be great if I could hold Beixin City with a few hundred soldiers. What else could I do?
Even if he brought thousands of soldiers and horses by himself, it was actually a drop in the bucket. Yuan Tan himself didn't fully understand what his father asked him to do.

If you really want to let Beixincheng, who has taken away your second brother, one general is enough, why do you need to lead the troops here yourself?

The city gate opened, and Yuan Xi rode out of the city with several people to welcome them.

Although Yuan Tan hadn't seen Yuan Xi for three years, he still recognized him at a glance. He hurried to his horse and called, "Second brother!"

When Yuan Xi saw it, he also called out, "Brother!"

Although he and Yuan Tan were not born to the same mother, their relationship is actually good, at least better than Yuan Shang, because Yuan Shao dotes on Yuan Shang, so Yuan Tan and Yuan Xi are actually degenerates.

Qu Yi, who was at the side, heard that Yuan Xi called him big brother, but he couldn't help laughing, thinking that Yuan Xi didn't know how many big brothers he had called in recent years.

Yuan Tan turned his head and saw Qu Yi's terrifying face, he was startled, and said, "Who is this?"

After hearing this, Qu Yi blurted out, "The music is like wood."

(End of this chapter)