Lord Yuan

Chapter 9 Invitation to Moon Dancing Commentary (please follow up)
Yuan Shao looked at the handsome young man sitting opposite him and poured a cup of hot tea.

"I can't get used to drinking this. Brother Benchu ​​is so young, why have you become addicted to tea ceremony?" Cao Cao waved his hands repeatedly. For him, this tea was still too depressing.

Yuan Shao smiled and didn't try to persuade him. He just took a sip.

"What Meng De said before, the lottery?"

Hearing Yuan Shao's interest, Cao Cao said, "I wonder what your brother thinks of that Yue Dan Ping?"

Yuan Shao put down his tea cup and glanced at Cao Cao, who looked enthusiastic. The lingering sadness in his brows was palpable.

Today's Cao Cao is far less calm than the later Prime Minister Cao. He often doesn't think through things when things happen, and he is just a hot-blooded young man.

After listening to Cao Cao's comments on the moon, Yuan Shao also understood what he wanted.

After clarifying the ins and outs, Yuan Shao's outlook on Cao Cao has been raised to a higher level.

Cao Cao is not a simple person.

Yuan Shao recalled that a few days ago, when the funeral was in progress, Cao Mengde had come to pay a special visit and brought several large boxes of belongings.

At that time, Yuan Shao really thought that Cao Cao was really here to pay homage to Yuan, and he had no doubt at all.

Only today did I know that coming to Runan to meet the local snake Yuan was a lie, but the comment on the first day of the month was true.

It's all a lie that he came here specially to visit. Cao Mengde had planned all of this, and he just happened to catch up with his mother's death.

Thinking about it, those large boxes of belongings might have been originally planned to be given to the brothers Xu Xuan and Xu Jing.

Yuan Shao laughed out loud in anger. Cao Cao asked what was going on, but he could only wave his hand to show that it was okay.

Of course, Yuan Shao doesn't care about this. Property is something external to the body. If the old ones don't go away, the new ones won't come back. Anyway, the benefits will fall on him in the end.

"The so-called commentators introduced by Xu Zong and Xu Jing, a gloomy gathering in the court?" Yuan Shao knew much better than Cao Cao.

The Yuedan Review is known as the Official Appraisal Conference, but everyone who appears in it is either a hero of the time or a dirty and lowly person.

These scholars don't know what restraint is. Compared with Li Ying, the famous scholar who came into the game, they are a little more anxious.

After Cao Cao came from an official position, he was spurned and ridiculed by the scholars, and now the eunuchs are in power. He wanted to make progress in his official career, but he did not want to rely on the eunuchs to castrate him, so he had no choice but to rely on the scholars.

Among the scholars, the first to bear the brunt was the Yuan family of Runan, Yuan, who was known to have disciples and former officials all over the world.

Cao Cao also wanted to go to Yingchuan to find those aristocratic families, such as the Xun family or the Yang family, but he was ridiculed and rejected.

After experiencing many blows and the kind persuasion of his father Cao Song, Cao Cao refused his father's offer to hand over his eunuch and adopted son without hesitation.

Cao Song said it tactfully, but Cao Cao was not stupid.

Cao Cao's ancestor was made rich by the eunuch Cao Teng. Cao Song always mentioned Cao Teng's name more or less in his words, and Cao Cao naturally understood.

Cao Teng's adopted son Cao Song.

The adopted son of a eunuch.

Cao Cao was also the adopted son of a eunuch.

Cao Song originally thought that Curve could save Cao Cao, who only wanted to join the ranks of scholars. Unexpectedly, Cao Cao became furious and replied.

Shu Zi Yan and eunuch Shu have the same shape.

This made the old man Cao Song so angry that he immediately wanted to imprison Cao Cao for several months, hoping to suppress Cao Cao's arrogance.

Unexpectedly, Cao Cao climbed over the wall that night and entered a deserted area.

Cao Cao's determination also made Cao Song, who was obsessed with corruption, completely look away, and he simply gave his full support, asking for money to give money, and asking for people to give to others.

No, the large boxes of property that Cao Cao brought to Yuan Shao were not made by Cao Song. Cao Cao was young and dissolute, so how could he have such capital.

After Cao Song learned that his son was going to Runan, he asked his servants to pack many gifts overnight without saying a word. He also told his servants that when he went to Runan, he must let Cao Cao visit the Yuan family, so as not to lose etiquette.

It is against this background that Cao Cao is still alone. No family is willing to give an official a filial piety and open up a career path.Fortunately, Yuan Shao met him.

Similarly, Yuan Feng actually didn't like Cao Cao very much, but because Yuan Shao got to know him, he didn't chase him out on the spot.

After all, eunuchs had exclusive power, and no family in the territory of the Han Dynasty was willing to help an official at the risk of being verbally criticized by other scholars.

This is also the reason why Cao Cao wants to drag Yuan Shao to participate in the Yuedan Review.

He didn't think that his powerful status in Qiao County could intimidate those scholars who dared to punish even the eunuchs of the current dynasty.

Yuan Shao thought for a moment and understood the reason.

Deliberately teasing Cao Cao, he pretended to be hesitant and looked at his mother's tombstone from time to time.

"It's not that I don't want to, Meng De. It's my mother who is the one who comes first. As a son, I can't get away."

Cao Cao's smile froze for a moment, and he forgot about this.

Yuan Shao was well-known for his filial piety. Now that his mother had died, it was really a sin for him to ask his mother to accompany him to the party.

Cao Cao quickly confessed, but seeing that it didn't seem very serious, Cao Cao came to Yuan Shao's mother's tombstone again, gave a righteous gift and kowtowed heavily.

From time to time, he muttered, "I hope my aunt will not blame me for my sins. It all depends on me."

After Yuan Shao saw that he had teased Cao Cao, he gave up and dragged Cao Cao, who was immersed in his guilt, back to his chair.

"Do you really want me to accompany you?"

"Hmm."

"Then you promise me three conditions."

"Don't say three, so what if it's thirty."

Yuan Shao smiled and shook his head: "I won't take advantage of you. If you say it's three, it will be three. I hope Meng De won't break his promise."

Cao Cao was anxious. How could anyone not believe him? He hurriedly came to the tombstone again and banged his head several times.

"I, Cao Mengde, witnessed by my aunt today, owe Brother Benchu ​​three conditions, no matter when or where."

Cao Cao thought for a moment and quickly changed his words: "It's all within my power."

Cao Cao is not yet the hero who would rather let me betray the world than let the world betray me.

"Mengde must not forget what happened today."

Yuan Shao reminded him inappropriately.

"No, no, no." Cao Cao waved his hands repeatedly.

The two of them sat and chatted for a while, then looked at the sky, it was almost noon.

The Lunar New Year Review was held in the evening. At the beginning of each month, Yuan Shao signaled Cao Cao to be calm and calm, and then went to cook himself and made a few vegetarian dishes.

Cao Cao looked displeased and said, "Since my brother doesn't want me to eat, why should I use these to eat vegetarian food?"

Yuan Shao, who was so busy, didn't expect that his unintentional move would cause Cao Cao to misunderstand, and at the same time he had to be surprised by Cao Cao.

How much social beating did Cao Mengde with such a character experience, so that in later generations he became Prime Minister Cao, who was indifferent to emotions and anger.

Yuan Shao didn't think too much and explained: "It's my mother's seventh birthday now, so I should be a vegetarian. If I eat meat, I'm afraid my mother will blame me, but Meng De will misunderstand me."

Yuan Shao looked at the table and saw that there was still some space, so he simply went back to cooking.

"Then I'll make a meat dish for Meng De, just one dish."

(End of this chapter)