Three Kingdoms: I rely on system loopholes to survive

Chapter 155 Eat or not?such as eating
After Zhong Ping called out the word "uncle", Cao Cao's face looked much better to the naked eye.

That night, Zhong Ping was thrown to make do with Cao Hong to sleep in the same tent.

Although the war in Xuzhou was not settled, and civil strife broke out in Yanzhou again, Zhong Ping followed Cao Cao on the march, but rarely enjoyed some pleasant time.

Apart from traveling every day, he just sits in the camp and waits for Cao Cao to dispatch him. He just writes some official documents for Cao Cao in the name of a counselor and distributes them around.

Now that it was far away from Xuzhou, it was difficult for Le Jin to transmit the battle report. In three or four days, there were only a few words, but it was still dealing with Cao Bao, and there was not much progress.

Cao Hong received the military order the next day and marched towards Mount Tai.In addition to the daily military report, there are often a few private letters attached, and the words are not giving up, and they want to be a matchmaker for Zhongping.

Zhong Ping felt speechless when he first read it, and even showed the letter to Cao Cao.

In addition to wanting Cao Cao to come forward and calm Cao Hong's thoughts, he was also worried in his heart, whether he had been in close contact with Cao Hong, would he attract Cao Cao's suspicion.

However, after Cao Cao saw it, he just laughed it off.

It is actually a common phenomenon among princes to include private letters in official documents.After all, grouping is popular among bureaucrats.

To put it nicely, he is an old student and official.To put it bluntly, to criticize is to form a party.

For example, Xun Yu, the talents recommended by him belong to Yingchuan's family. As the recommender, he naturally has a relationship of interest and a bond of sharing weal and woe with the people he recommends.

It is out of the etiquette of daily greetings, if it involves the person he recommends in the official document, most of them need to write two private letters to contact the relationship.

Cao Cao is used to this kind of thing indifferently.

Furthermore, he has a lot of trust in Cao Hong.No matter how close Cao Hong got to Zhongping, he couldn't get past him. Seeing that Zhongping was devastated by Cao Hong's letter, he still had some interest in watching a theater in private.

Zhong Ping said several times, Cao Hong still went his own way, and Cao Cao didn't see any intention of intervening, so he had to let it go, but it was out of sight and out of mind.

When Cao Cao went to Xuzhou, he brought a large number of soldiers.Zhong Ping writes official documents every day, except for a few familiar names, most of the rest are unfamiliar words.Sometimes Zhong Ping wanted to recall, but the appearance corresponding to those strange names was blank in his mind.

But it is undeniable that after writing dozens of official documents in a row, Zhong Ping's attainments in the application of ancient prose have advanced by leaps and bounds, and he even summed up a set of writing secrets that can be praised by Cao Cao.

That is to use short and concise language to extract the core of the military report. Regardless of the victory or defeat of the battle report, there must be two sentences to highlight the situation, with philosophical poems sandwiched in it, and some sentences from "Book of Changes" at the end.

Although Zhong Ping didn't know what kind of role "Book of Changes" played in it, since he followed Cao Cao to read the art of war, he found that no matter what the art of war was, it had to be combined with mathematics in a roundabout way.

On the one hand, Zhong Ping secretly slandered that these things had no other use except to increase the difficulty of understanding, but on the other hand he had to gnaw at the obscure "Book of Changes".

He thought that one day the world would be peaceful, and he might be able to use this ability to go out and set up a stall to tell fortunes for others.

Zhong Ping feels that "Book of Changes" may not necessarily be able to judge people's good or bad, but writing in official documents can indeed improve people's perception.

This is like writing Chinese reading comprehension, always adding a sentence at the end, "This expresses a certain feeling of the author". No points will be deducted if you don't write it, but you will definitely gain points if you write it.

Zhong Ping drank his saliva and rested for a while, then calmed down again, picked up the brush, and copied the official documents on the bamboo slips.

"Has Zhong Taishi finished his work?"

A long distance away, Zhang Fei's loud and clear voice could be heard from outside the tent, Zhong Ping shook his hand, and a drop of ink the size of a grain of rice almost fell from the tip of his pen, but fortunately he reacted in time, blocked it with his sleeve, Not a single document was destroyed.

"General Yide, is there something wrong with finding peace?"

Zhong Ping originally wanted to put the pen on the table, but after thinking about it, he felt uneasy, so he drained the ink from the end of the pen and carefully placed it on his ear.

"It's not a big deal. I went to fetch water at noon, and saw a deer's hoof prints on the edge of the water. It doesn't look like a big deal, but in this season, venison is fat..."

Zhang Fei said and rubbed his hands.

Zhong Ping Fu forehead: "So?"

He thought that Zhang Fei might not be able to sit still, and wanted to try his hand.

Zhong Ping thought that this was the time to set up camp and rest, and the left and right were not too far away, so it would be okay to open one eye, close one eye, and cover for Zhang Fei.

Just as he was about to say yes, Zhang Fei leaned in front of Zhong Ping, giggled, and looked around like a thief: "I left a deer leg for Taishi."

...Cooperating with you, all the deer have been killed.

Zhongping didn't know what to say for a while, so he asked Uncle Huang if he had eaten?It feels a little strange.

"Tai Shi wants to eat fried rice or raw?"

"...Baked it."

Zhong Ping did a little psychological training for a short time, and he accepted this kind of thing well. After all, with the emperor's uncle watching, it shouldn't be a big problem.

"The matter of deer hunting...can General Yide tell others?"

Zhong Ping thought for a while, and asked a tactful question.

"Taishi please don't worry, my elder brother has already sent the preserved deer and half a deer to him, Mr. Cao... Mr. Cao."

As Zhang Fei said, he glanced in the direction of Cao Cao's tent, and seemed a little dissatisfied.

Zhong Ping's eyes were very strange, he always felt that he seemed to see what Zhang Fei meant...

The half deer is nothing, the main reason is that you don't want to send the preserved deer out, right?After all, that is the fattest part of a deer's body. Based on the thinking of the third master, he probably wants to keep it as a gift to the emperor.

"What did Mr. Cao say?"

Zhongping was a little curious.

Since Liu Bei accepted Cao Cao's invitation, the Pingyuan Order naturally couldn't go on, but it was unrealistic to ask the emperor to add an official to Liu Bei during the march.

Cao Cao considered several times and wanted to send a letter to Zang Hong, the governor of Qingzhou, to resign for Liu Bei, but he suffered from the fact that he had never had an intersection with him.

It would be feasible to ask Liu Bei to write a handwritten letter, but now Liu Bei is considered a guest, and asking the other party to abandon his official position to vote will be disadvantageous in terms of friendship and the subsequent recruitment of Cao Cao.

When Zhong Ping served as Cao Cao's secretary and drafted documents for him, he overheard Cao Cao's distress over this matter.

Zhong Ping heard Zang Hong's name, although he didn't say anything at the time, he secretly thought about it after returning.

He knew that Wang Lang had a friendship with Zang Hong, and it was indeed not a big deal for Liu Bei to follow Cao Cao's army like this.

Liu Bei also mentioned that he hoped to arrange people to return to Pingyuan to handle the handover of affairs, and to explain to Shangguan the reasons for his resignation.

When he first entered Xuzhou, he also knew that what one person can do is limited.

Therefore, he focused on rescuing the refugees, and planned to take these people to find a shelter first. He had the idea of ​​arranging the refugees to go to the plains, but unfortunately, he was stopped by Cao Cao before he could come up with a charter.

But regarding the refugee matter, he had already written to Jian Yong who stayed in the plain, explaining his plan to him.

Although Liu Bei was not around, Jian Yong was very considerate in managing Pingyuan affairs. A few days ago, he sent a letter asking Liu Bei if he decided to abandon his official position, would he wait for the new Pingyuan Commander to take office before entering Yanzhou and joining Liu Bei.

Liu Bei was concerned about Cao Cao, so he couldn't reply to Jian Yong's letter for a while. He thought that he was a guest, and he should follow his master's will. If he contacted and arranged rashly, it would make Cao Cao, the master, displeased.

Zhong Ping is caught in the middle, so he is naturally aware of the contradictions between the two people's thinking, but they are both emotional and reasonable, but they are not easy to intervene, and they are also in a tangle.

This is the breakthrough of Wang Lang finally appeared. Zhong Ping inevitably wants to treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor, and thinks about the possibility of getting involved with Wang Lang and explaining this matter to Zang Hong.

In fact, during times of war, it is not uncommon for a small Pingyuan Ling to suddenly lose his voice.

However, the identities of Liu Bei and Cao Cao made this ordinary transfer of officials a little meaningful.

Cao Cao's ambiguous handling of this matter was in his mind, Zhong Ping could probably guess a little bit, he knew Cao Cao's suspicious nature, if it were someone else, he would probably not take Liu Bei in this period to heart.

Even if they win over, they will probably only go towards Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

Cao Cao is the only one who wants to be close to Liu Bei's heart and hold the opponent's handle in advance.

The more he knew Cao Cao's intentions, the more Zhong Ping knew that he had to keep a distance from Liu Bei in the army.

All other court disputes and intrigues are put aside, just having close contacts with the people in charge of the army is a big thunder for Zhongping himself.

He suffered enough in this matter.

Even though Cao Cao doesn't mention it now, it doesn't mean he doesn't care, not to mention there is Liu Xie in Xudu...

Zhong Ping put aside the chaotic thoughts in his mind, he felt that writing to Wang Lang should be put aside first.

"Mr. Cao, he is very happy to say that the venison is delicious."

Zhang Fei truthfully told what he had heard, and excitedly asked Chong Ping, "How does Tai Shiling plan to roast?"

Chong thought to himself that this was the first time he had eaten venison. He really had no experience with it, and he didn't know if it could be cooked directly on skewers.

"Put a piece of meat by the side of the cauldron, serve it with some pickles and grill it in oil, then wrap it and eat it."

As Zhong Ping spoke, he dug into his sleeve, he remembered that Tai Shici gave him a pack of pickles, which should go well with venison.

Zhang Fei's eyes glowed green when he heard this, and he hurried out, "Tai Shi Ling is waiting, I, Lao Zhang, will find you a cauldron right away!"

Zhong Ping responded, took off the Zihao pen, wiped the tip of the pen with a silk cloth, re-dipped the ink, and prepared to continue writing official documents.

"Planting Taishi."

As soon as Zhong Ping sat down, he saw the tent curtain move from the corner of his eye. He was curious about how Zhang Fei came back so quickly. He raised his head and saw that it was Cao Cao who was accompanying him.

"But Mr. Cao has something to do?"

Zhongping had to put aside the half-written official document again.

"My lord got some venison and thought it was delicious, so I specially divided the preserved meat and gave it to Tai Shi."

As the attendant said, he took out a small and lovely pottery dish from the lacquer food box.

Zhong Ping saw at a glance that this was Cao Cao's favorite set of tableware.

"This……"

This kind of mood is a bit complicated.

If you want to say moved, it is indeed there.

But the problem is, he doesn't eat raw meat...

The black pottery dish is painted with vermilion bird patterns, and the venison meat as thin as a cicada's wings is neatly stacked on the dish, which is crystal clear and complements the decorations, making it very attractive to look at.

Zhong Ping looked at the venison, then at the attendant who seemed to want to serve him, and was silent for a moment.

"Grandpa Cao's kindness, Ping is very grateful..."

"Chong Taishi, come to barbecue!"

Zhang Fei carried a deer leg and stepped into the tent.

Zhongping's words stuck in his throat.

This……

It was a little embarrassing.

(End of this chapter)