Three Kingdoms: I rely on system loopholes to survive

Chapter 174 The transformation of the same lineage
The morning light is dim, and the black palace eaves are covered with white snow. Although the weather is cold, you can still see a few birds jumping on the tiles.

Cao Cao was not in Xudu, Liu Xie "ruled from the top", and the court seemed calm every day.

After the court meeting ended, Zhong Ji greeted Xun You outside the palace and walked slowly back home alone as usual.

He was famous for his bad temper. He had quarrels and disagreements with countless courtiers in the court, and rarely interacted with even members of his own clan.

Zhongji's relationship network is simple and clean. He used to be in Chang'an, but he only had good friends with Xun You. Now that he has entered Xudu, the only person he has close contact with is Cai Yong, who is studying at home.

This may be the reason why Liu Xie trusts Zhong Ji as much as Dong Cheng and Fu Wan.

"Where is the servant going?"

Zhong Ji turned around in response and saw that the person coming was Sikong Zhang Xi. He couldn't help but be surprised. After all, he had had friction with Zhang Xi before, and the relationship between the two was definitely not good.

He took a step back slightly, concealing the vigilance and disgust in his eyes without much care.

"I wonder what's wrong with Sikong?"

Zhang Xi seemed to be unaware that he was getting older, his body was thinner, and his face was no longer full of flesh. He was smiling at Zhongji, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes were stacked, giving people a sinister feeling.

"I just wanted to visit my uncle. I happened to meet the attendant and thought we were traveling together."

Zhongji curled his lips in disgrace. He didn't believe that this old fox really went to Cai Yong to talk about literature.

"It's a pity that Sikong and I are not the same people."

Zhong Ji didn't want to give up, so he nodded and said goodbye.

Zhang Xi stopped where he was and stared at Zhong Ji's back for a while. He seemed to have remembered something interesting and his smile deepened.

"Ah!"

As soon as Zhong Ji returned home, he sneezed. He subconsciously remembered that Zhong Ping often thought at home that sneezing for no reason must be caused by someone behind his back, and he immediately thought of Zhang Xi.

After a moment, he smiled, thinking in his heart that such an unfounded joke, how could it be true?It's better to just catch some wind and cold.

Although he was so relieved, he could not eliminate his doubts about Zhang Xi.

Zhong Ji sat behind the case, stroking the brocade bag with the talisman on his waist with his fingers, and carefully reviewed the content of the court discussions in the past few days. The only thing worth noting seemed to be that when Lu Bu made a sneak attack on Yanzhou, Zhi Jinwu finished his memorial, hoping to Expand the size of the Northern Army and strengthen the defense of the palace.

It is said that it was the Northern Army, but in fact it suffered a lot during the Chang'an Rebellion. Later, Zhong Ping broke into Chang'an to welcome Liu Xie to Yanzhou. In the rush, there was no time to assemble the army, and he was pursued by Li Jue. He escaped in an embarrassing way.

The Northern Army that has now laid down its subordinates consists of the remaining 1000 men from Chang'an, plus a few hundred men from Wang San and Li Meng's group who are friendly and sponsored by Zhong Ping. They don't know which side they should go to. The rest are mostly from Zhang Ji and Guo Si. Surrender the troops.

The total number of them was only 3000. Although they were part of Fuwan's army, they spent most of their time training under the Xiahou brothers.

Zhong Ji remembered this and Xun Yu did not agree to expand the Northern Army in the end, but he did strengthen his protection of Liu Xie.

Zhang Xi and Fu Wan...

There is no connection between these two people. Am I being overly concerned?

Zhong Ji subconsciously followed Fu Wan's thoughts, but he rubbed his brows and forcibly suppressed the surging thoughts.

"Ai--"

He sighed and looked sideways out the window. There were tall trees in the courtyard, with dead branches covered with snow, and there were occasional rustling sounds.

Zhongji recalled in a trance the young Zhongping, who was restrained by him and could not go out. Zhongping was always a small person, sitting on the stone steps and waiting for him to take the initiative to come to the small courtyard to see him.

This child was different from others when he was very young. In Zhongpei's memory, it seems that Zhongpei never felt bored due to the restraint day after day.

Zhongping seemed to be more uneasy and fearful than curious about the outside world. After Zhongping was born, Zhongji no longer had any servants in the house. Sometimes he would not visit Zhongping immediately after returning home.

While I was doing official business in the study, I looked through a window and saw Zhongping sitting alone on the stone steps looking at the trees in the courtyard, lost in thought. His expression was not as ignorant as that of a child, but he was even more confused than a child.

In the blink of an eye, Bo Heng has grown up so much. In a few years, he will reach the age of starting a family. The little girl from Bo Zhe's family seems to get along well with Bo Heng...

Zhong Ji retracted his thoughts and realized belatedly that he had raised the corners of his mouth unconsciously.

I wonder when Bo Heng will return home?
Just as the thought flashed through his mind, he heard a familiar muttering sound in the courtyard.

"There is so much snow on the steps, why is no one sweeping it away? It would be weird if dad stepped on it and didn't fall..."

Zhongping subconsciously wanted to call him Uncle Niu, but after a while he felt that the name was so unfamiliar that it was difficult to say it.

"Father, I'm back!"

He paused for a moment, put on his smile again, happily opened the door and walked in. Charcoal was also burning in the study, and Tanehira coughed due to the warmth in front of him.

"You're back as soon as you come back. Why are you getting more and more reckless? I don't know who you look like." Zhong Ji tried to expose the fact that he was thinking about him just now in front of Zhong Ping. He scolded a few words and then taught him a lesson with a straight face: "I didn't write to ask you to pay more attention to him." Clothes? Why have you lost so much weight?"

Zhong Ping drooped his head and stared at his toes, as if he could see flowers in his shoes.

"The eight winds cause evil. I think that the meriding wind touches the five Tibetans, and the evil energy is not caused by my mind."

He defended himself quietly.

Zhong Ji rolled up his sleeves, pointed the bamboo slip in his hand directly at Zhong Ping's chest, and laughed angrily: "Is the kidney here? I only heard that 'the north wind is born in winter, the disease is in the kidney, and the kidney is in the waist' But I didn’t know that my son’s lungs and kidneys actually grew upside down.”

Zhongping was speechless.

"Father...I finally got home, you don't want to train me like this for a day, do you?"

Zhong Ping felt a little aggrieved. The mess in Tuxian County was too energy-consuming, so he slept through the whole day and followed the army back non-stop. Didn't he miss his father?

"Father, you have been in the court these days..."

Zhongji was speechless and choked.

It's clear.

The father and son looked at me, and I looked at you. For a moment, neither of them had the confidence to speak.

The atmosphere became silent until Wu Zhi swept away the snow in the courtyard to break the suffocating embarrassment.

"Ahem, Uncle Che was still thinking about you with me yesterday, saying that before you left, you kept talking to the little girl Dou Cai Wan about how delicious the fish in Qingzhou was, which made Bo Che very anxious... Now that you are back, why not go to you? Will you pay me a visit at the teacher’s house?”

Zhong Ji smiled narrowly, and as expected, saw Zhong Ping showing a troubled expression.

"Fish... The governor of Beihai did give me a pickled carp, but later..."

Zhong Ping hurriedly silenced. He thought it would be better not to let Zhong Ji know that he and Tai Shi Ci abandoned Cao Hong and went to Xuzhou.

"...I accidentally lost it when I was on my way. If I had known this, I shouldn't have been joking at that time."

Zhongping was a little annoyed.

Before he went to Beihai, Cai Yong was preparing to compile the poems and essays he had written in the past into a book. At that time, Cai Yan was a widow at home, so he was responsible for helping Cai Yong. Occasionally, Cai Wan would also help.

When Zhong Ping said goodbye to Cai Yong, he happened to see the words "A guest came from afar and left me a pair of carps. I cooked the carps with a ruler" on the bamboo slips on the case. When he went out, he saw the little girl becoming contorted. I asked him awkwardly when he would be back, and then I started to tease him...

"Isn't it easy to get fish from Qingzhou? Go find your Uncle Xun."

Zhong Ji steadily flipped through the slips and was very sure that Xun You had a kind of Pingyao fish there.

Not to brag, Zhong Ji felt that he might know more about Xun You's family than Xun You.

Zhongping was a little suspicious.

He had never heard that Xun You liked to eat fish, but then he thought about it, Cao Cao liked it!
Then maybe there are fish in Xun You's house, and there will definitely be fish in Ji Zhicai's house.

Zhong Ping couldn't help but smile when he thought of Xi Zhicai. When he rushed back, he was still worried whether this would be the last time he saw Xi Zhicai - after all, Xi Zhicai did die of illness in history.

As a result, this guy was very energetic.

When he bumped into Xi Zhicai at the city gate, he looked more likely to be dead than Xi Zhicai.

The key is that when Xi Zhicai saw him for the first time, he took out a familiar yet unfamiliar cloth from his arms. The cloth couldn't wait to share it with him...

Zhongpei doubted his own image in the eyes of the other party.

Although Xi Zhi finally explained that he was overly excited because he received a letter from a good friend, saying that he wanted to come to Yanzhou to have a drink with him, Zhongping could no longer look at him with normal eyes...

Zhong Pingxin said that his father was finally reliable for once. He squatted by the charcoal fire and roasted his clothes, shook off the dust, and then said: "Then I'm leaving."

He always felt a little uncomfortable saying goodbye in person, so he just said a short word. Before the words could be spoken, the person had already walked out.

The older Tanehira grows, the more casually he gets along with Tanehira. Now that he wants to become official, he first feels at a loss.

Zhong Ji put down the book in his hand and looked at his back through the window. He felt a momentary melancholy in his heart, and then he felt a little uncomfortable because of such an overly delicate emotion.

The last time he confessed his true feelings to Zhong Ping was when he planned to assassinate Dong Zhuo, thinking that he had a narrow escape from death.

"Bojie should be able to understand my thoughts..."

Zhongji muttered, "I want to see what Zhang Xi's plan is."

(End of this chapter)