Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 697
When Cao Pi walked in with a confused look on his face, he saw Cao Cao's angry look and immediately felt that something was wrong. He quickly leaned over and said, "My dear, my father, please pay homage to me."

Cao Cao said coldly: "Did you go to the emperor's palace the day before yesterday?"

Cao Pi's heart skipped a beat. He lowered his head, rolled his eyes, and said honestly: "Back to my father, I was curious about what the emperor looked like, so I went to take a look."

The chill on Cao Cao's face deepened, "Just to take a look?"

Cao Pi raised his head and said blankly: "Yes, I just took a look."

"But then some palace maids stopped me from entering, and even took the opportunity to beat me a few times, and I came back."

"Nonsense!" Cao Cao shouted: "You traitor, how dare you lie to me!"

Cao Pi quickly knelt on the ground, kowtowed as hard as he could and said, "Father, I have indeed never seen the Emperor."

Cao Cao sneered: "What did you do to those palace ladies?"

Cao Pi was stunned for a moment, then touched his head, "It's nothing. I said I was my father's son, and they all knelt on the ground."

"Later I said I wanted to tell my father, and they were so scared that they collapsed on the ground. My father didn't know, it was quite funny."

"They also begged me not to tell anyone. Seeing how obedient they were, I asked them to come into the house with me and play for a while."

Cao Cao was so angry that he slapped the table, "You traitor!"

"You dare to get involved with the emperor's family at such a young age. If I die in the future, you will still want to plot my concubine!"

Cao Pi thought to himself that this seemed good. Some of his father's concubines seemed to be very beautiful.

Unexpectedly, the next words shocked him, "Someone, drag this little beast out and kill him with a cane!"

After hearing this, Cao Cao's guards looked at each other in shock. No one dared to come forward. Cao Pi quickly knelt on the ground and cried loudly: "Father, please spare my life, I don't dare to do it anymore!"

Seeing Cao Cao, Cao Cao did not dare to step forward. With a cry, he drew out the sword beside him and was about to stab Cao Pi. At this time, Dian Wei quickly stepped forward, blocked Cao Pi and said, "Second Young Master is young and ignorant. Please calm down, Duke Ming." ."

Cao Cao was unable to stop his attack in time, and the tip of the sword pierced Dian Wei's chest. Fortunately, it was protected by soft armor. He quickly retracted his hand and sighed: "Why bother to block the sword with your body for such a traitor?"

He threw the sword on the ground and shouted to Cao Pi: "That's all, go back today. I will settle the accounts with you in a few days!"

As if he had been pardoned, Cao Pi quickly got up and ran away. Cao Cao asked everyone to go out, but he was thinking about it in his heart.

Of course, he couldn't kill Cao Pi, but he had to give an explanation. Now that Liu Xie was held hostage by him, he was extremely dissatisfied. People in the world must have complained about it. This was the time for Cao Cao to lower his posture and appease Liu Xie. .

However, Cao Pi was a troublemaker. He dared to force a palace maid into prostitution at a young age. Not to mention how he grew up, if this matter spread, wouldn't the Cao family become a laughing stock, wouldn't it become a joke to please the emperor?
Although Cao Pi has some talent, he is so disrespectful to etiquette that he is useless. Fortunately, he is better than Yuan Shao in that he has an eldest son who is reliable in internal affairs and has a gentle temperament. , I really don’t know what to do.

Thinking of this, Cao Cao had a headache. He thought that although he had successfully captured the emperor after some pulling and pulling, the situation looked good, but in fact it was full of dangers.

The two allies Ma Teng, Han Sui and Yuan Shu are not reliable. If they are at a disadvantage, they are likely to come back to bite them.

So what he has to do now is to seize the opportunity to expand his territory and accumulate advantages while he still has advantages and hostile forces such as Fierce Tigers have too much to take care of themselves.

Therefore, if Liu Xie is still needed, he still has to use his name to expand, and the one closest to Yingchuan now is Liu Biao of Jingzhou!
As long as he lets Liu Xie issue an edict and says that Liu Biao has the will to be self-reliant, he can then send troops to attack Nanyang and go straight to Jingzhou.

If he gets Jingzhou, he will have won more than half of the battle. When the time comes, it will be easy to turn around and deal with Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang who are fighting among themselves!

Thinking of this, Cao Cao also felt a little regretful. He had not brought Yuan Xi to his side before, but he ended up becoming the most threatening enemy.

At that time, I thought that since he was a concubine and he was far away in Youzhou, it would be difficult to interfere with the affairs of the Central Plains, so he didn't take it seriously. He just sent two concubines there. I heard that the other party didn't take them into the house, but gave them to him. other people.

When Cao Cao heard about it later, he didn't take it seriously. Instead, he focused on Yuan Tan. The two parties got married privately and joined forces secretly.

Although Cao Cao knew that Yuan Tan was an unfed wolf, it was not a loss for him to let a descendant of the Cao clan marry Yuan Tan's daughter. There was no reason to refuse the fat meat that was brought to his door.

But it turned out later that Yuan Tan had not accomplished much for himself. Yuan Xi, who had been ignored at the beginning, reached out to Xuzhou and caused extremely heavy losses to himself.

The opponent even disrupted all of Cao Cao's plans at one point, forcing Cao Cao to give up Shouchun and take a desperate risk to attack Yecheng in order to capture the city and finally win back the victory.

But even so, Yuan Xi is still a serious problem for Cao Cao. Thinking of this, Cao Cao can't help but regret a little. If it was Yuan Xi who married him, he might have captured the Central Plains!
But now, it is useless to say anything. Xuzhou will let it go first, and when spring comes next year, they will immediately use troops against Nanyang to knock down this gateway to Jingzhou first!

Cao Pi returned to the courtyard all the way, his dark face flushed red because of fear and fear.

My father actually wanted to kill me!

He couldn't help but take out a piece of candied fruit from his sleeve, put it in his mouth and chewed it hard. His habit was to eat sweets when he was nervous, so even though he was only 11 years old, he was already quite obese.In fact, when he broke into the emperor's palace the day before yesterday, he initially thought that there must be a lot of honey in it. Although he didn't find it in the end, what he tasted was the taste of women.

After eating the candied fruit, he was still not satisfied. He touched inside his sleeve again and found that it was the last piece. But at this time, he was so eager to eat more sweets that he became panicked.

He looked around, feeling his heart beating faster and faster, his eyesight turning black, and he couldn't help stumbling around the yard.

At this time, he saw his third brother Cao Zhi squatting under the big tree, licking a piece of candy in one hand, and writing on the ground with a branch in the other hand.

Cao Pi was so flustered that he didn't care about anything. He took three steps at a time and grabbed the candy from Cao Zhi's hand. He suddenly threw it into his mouth and started chewing it.

Cao Zhi was only seven or eight years old at this time. When he came to his senses, he found that his candy had been snatched by Cao Pi, and he burst into tears, "Brother, you took my candy!"

Cao Pi kicked Cao Zhi down, stepped on him a few times, and shouted, "Don't cry!"

"Otherwise I will kill you!"

Cao Zhi climbed up with a sob. Cao Pi was feeling proud when he heard someone behind him say coldly: "Who are you going to beat to death?"

Cao Pi turned his head to look, and almost choked on the candy in his throat. He coughed a few times, quickly lowered his head and said honestly, "I've met my mother."

It was Cao Cao's original wife, Mrs. Ding, who came, and beside her stood a beautiful girl of fifteen or sixteen years old.

Cao Zhi saw her and said hurriedly: "I've met my mother, I've met my sister."

The girl was Cao Cao's eldest daughter Cao Qing, who was born to the same mother as Cao Ang. They were both born to Mrs. Liu, but Mrs. Liu died early, so Cao Ang's brother and sister were raised by their original wife, Mrs. Ding.

Mrs. Ding was an upright person and had long seen what Cao Pi was doing. She said with a frosty face: "I have been neglecting my discipline recently and let you beat and scold my brother. Now I have to punish him even though I have no choice but to do so. "

"Although Mrs. Bian is your biological mother, as the principal wife, I have the right to discipline you."

"Twenty punishments with the rod. Afterwards, go back to the house and kneel down to reflect."

Not long after, the sound of crying and howling sounded in the courtyard. Cao Qing raised her wooden stick and hit Cao Pi's buttocks up and down on the ground.

Mrs. Ding’s original intention was to give a slight punishment, so she asked Cao Qing, a woman, to take action. However, she did not expect that Cao Qing did not like her younger brother. Seeing that Mrs. Ding had returned to the house first, she raised the wooden stick high and smashed it with all her strength. The beating made Cao Pi cry like a ghost and howl like a wolf.

Cao Pi grabbed the turf on the ground and gritted his teeth. If he had the chance in the future, he would definitely take revenge on those who had harmed him and get back the humiliation he had suffered along with the profits!
The sound of the stick's scolding did not reach the emperor's palace, which was not far away.

Although it is more than enough to house dozens of people, it is a bit small for Liu Xie's accompanying palace attendants.

Dozens of palace concubines could only squeeze into one room in twos and threes, and the remaining servants were even worse. There were even a dozen servants crowded together in one room.

Liu Xie, the Queen, and several concubines did have separate rooms, but the intrusion of Cao Pi a few days ago made all kinds of people panic.

Liu Xie didn't know whether this was an accident or whether Cao Cao was testing him, but now he was completely unable to resist and could only watch with anger as Cao Pi pulled the maid into the room.

Hearing the sound coming from the room, Liu Xiefeng was about to explode with anger. Unfortunately, he had no choice but to turn his head and pretend not to notice Fu Shou's gaze.

After this incident, Liu Xie's spirit seemed to have been drained a bit. Now because of his belt edict, all the people involved had been killed and injured, so that he was like a walking corpse.

Fu Shou felt quite distressed. Seeing no one around, he whispered: "Your Majesty, do you want me to ask my father to find a solution?"

After hearing this, Liu Xie shook his head and said indifferently: "Now that it's over, what's the use?"

"Dong Cheng is dead, Zhong Ji is dead, Yang Biao has returned to Hongnong, but the Yang family wants to marry Ma Teng. Isn't it ridiculous?"

"Everyone around me will eventually leave me. In that case, what else can I do?"

Seeing Liu Xie's dejected look, Fu Shou bit his lips. If he had known this, why would your Majesty rather use Dong Cheng than his father?

She didn't want to see Liu Xie, who was originally ambitious, become so decadent after experiencing the massacre in Huaicheng. The emperor in her heart should not be like this!

She lowered her head and thought. Seeing Liu Xie in this state, she was afraid that he would not be able to cheer up in a short time. But in Fu Shou's view, the current situation was not irreversible.

Liu Bei, who was very loyal to the Han Dynasty, is said to have fled to Nanyang after being defeated by Cao Cao. In fact, he was not far from Yingchuan.

If he is defeated again and Nanyang falls, no one in the world can control Cao Cao. By then, Liu Xie and himself will have no chance of turning around and can only spend their lives as puppets.

Looking at Cao's arrogant and domineering appearance, what he can do to force the palace maid today, and what he can do in the future, Fu Shou shudders when he thinks about it.

I can't just go on like this. Should I ask my father to find a solution?
(End of this chapter)