The Three Kingdoms Voyage

Chapter 97

Zhang Cheng waited in the cabin until midnight, when Sun Shaocai walked in with a drunken face, sat down opposite Zhang Cheng, looked at Zhang Cheng with a smile and said, "Brother Zhong Si hasn't rested yet? We talked with my brother-in-law very congenially." ?”

Zhang Cheng glared at Sun Shao angrily: "Fengxian, you're hanging out with your wife before worshiping, it's a little rude."

Sun Shao tilted his mouth and smiled disapprovingly. He reached out to pick up the teapot on the desk, but found it was empty. He waved and signaled Shangguan Xuefei, who had just entered the cabin, to make tea.Shangguan Xuefei glanced at him, took the teapot and went out without saying anything.

"Brother Zhong Si, have you figured out how to explain the two hundred elites?" Sun Shao looked at Zhang Cheng with a half-smile.

Zhang Chengzheng was troubled by this matter, when Sun Shao asked, he curled his lips: "You still remember these 200 people, I thought you had forgotten."

"If I hadn't seen Brother Zhongsi, I would have forgotten it." Sun Shao smiled: "With Brother Zhongsi here, why should I worry?"

"This is your business, not mine." Zhang Cheng knocked on the table angrily and amusedly, reminding Sun Shao who was the person involved.

Sun Shao shook his head disapprovingly: "Wrong, it's your business, not mine."

"What kind of talk is that?" Zhang Cheng couldn't help laughing.

"What's the problem with me?" Sun Shao spread his hands and said indifferently: "I will go back to Wu County at worst, and I won't be this nominal captain. Anyway, Jianye's winery is now in normal operation, and I am not the same. I Back in Wu County, you earn hundreds of gold a year, build a big house, and live your life like this, what’s the problem? But you, the first time you went on an envoy, you couldn’t do things well, and you brought back a big trouble, don’t you? Willing to die like me? That’s fine, I’ll give you a house for free, right next to me, and I’ll tell you, I’ve chosen a place, it’s in Fuchun Mountain. Will you go?”

"You...why are you so tired?" Zhang Cheng smiled angrily, "Are you really planning to go back to Wu County?"

Sun Shao stopped laughing, his face was terribly serious, and he stared at the flickering lights with burning eyes. After a long while, he let out a long breath: "Brother Zhong Si, after you go back, sue me in front of the Supreme One. , just say that I behaved improperly and acted perversely in Chengdu."

"Why?" Zhang Cheng was taken aback, quickly put away his smile, moved forward, stared into Sun Shao's eyes and said, "What are you worried about?"

"Do you still need to ask?" Sun Shao sneered: "Liu Bei asked Guan Yu to marry two hundred elites. It is clear that he is reminding the Supreme Being to guard against me. It is false to guard against Guan Yu, so that he will not use this marriage. Colluded with Jiangdong, and at the same time let the Supreme get a harsh name."

"Supreme sage, you shouldn't be fooled."

"Supreme is a sage, but people's words are terrifying." Sun Shao smiled bitterly: "Don't you think that this time the Supreme valued this marriage too much? This is not the first time that the Sun family and Cao Liu have married, but when was it so high?" Standard? To congratulate both emperors and ministers of civil and military affairs, and to give outrageous dowry gifts. Is this an ordinary marriage? I’m afraid it’s really Sun Deng’s marriage, so there’s no need to be so grand, right?”

Zhang Cheng didn't speak, the doubts he had been hiding in his heart were picked out by Sun Shao, and he also felt that the situation was a bit serious.When Sun Quan sent someone to notify Zhang Cheng, he also sent someone to send a very expensive dowry gift.The dowry was not given in the name of the general's house, but in the name of the general's house, and the person in charge was Shi Sunshao, the commander of the general's house.If it was Sun Deng who got married, there is nothing wrong with doing so, but now it is Sun Shao who got married, so it would be out of courtesy to be so grand.Sun Quan is showing people that he regards Sun Shao as his son. Compared with his previous practice, doing so seems a bit too abrupt.Abnormality is a demon, Zhang Cheng has no choice but to suspect that there is another mystery in it.

"What do you think is the problem?" Zhang Cheng thought for a long time before asking tentatively.

Sun Shao shook his head: "I don't know, but I have an ominous feeling. I'm afraid something will happen after I return to Jianye this time. I don't care. It's a big deal to go back to Wu County, but it's a pity for Brother Zhongsi. So, I hope you Sue me, and get rid of me as clearly as possible."

Zhang Cheng stared at Sun Shao's face, trying to see a little hypocrisy from Sun Shao's face, but Sun Shao's face was only worried, only concerned, but there was no hint of hypocrisy at all.Zhang Cheng was a little grateful. In order not to implicate him, Sun Shao would rather smear himself, and because he was afraid that he would be embarrassed, he asked him to file a complaint, which was really not easy.

"I have nothing to be afraid of." Zhang Chengqiang smiled: "The 200 people are the dowry of Guan Yu's married daughter, and they are not what we want."

"Brother Zhong Si, don't be arrogant." Sun Shao shook his hand: "For the sake of the world, if you want to destroy Cao and restore the Central Plains, Sun and Liu must form an alliance. The Jingzhou battle like the year before last cannot happen again, otherwise the only one who will benefit in the end will be Cao Cao, Sun and Liu are weak, if they cooperate sincerely, there is still a chance, if there is more internal strife, the world will not be known. It doesn’t matter if I sacrifice one, as long as the Supreme can win the world, I will eventually have a million households.”

Zhang Cheng nodded, and asked again: "I will make it clear to the Supreme One of your thoughts, and I will never wrong you."

Sun Shao smiled and did not refute. He had already said what he should say, and what Zhang Cheng did was his business.Looking at the sparkling river outside and the rolling mountains in the distance, he suddenly said, "Should we arrive at Lukou?"

Zhang Cheng glanced outside, attracted by the quiet night, forgot to answer for a while.Sun Shao got up and got out of the cabin, standing with his hands behind his back. The river is vast, far better than what later generations have seen. The waves blown by the night wind smashed the full moon in the water into pieces of silver, just like ten thousand silver fish jumping in the waves. The night breeze blows, refreshing and refreshing, and the depression in the chest is swept away.

Sun Shao pursed his lips and howled, and the howling sound was heard far away in the silent night sky. After a long time, until there was no other sound except the wind, Sun Shao said with emotion: "The stars are flat and the fields are wide, and the moon is surging and the river is flowing. Magnificent, I don’t know if the Fuchun River can be compared to this situation and this scene?”

Zhang Cheng didn't say a word. He heard Sun Shao's determination from Sun Shao's whistling sound and Sun Shao's emotion, and he heard Sun Shao's unwillingness and helplessness when he decided to give up for the sake of the overall situation. Sun Shao's broad mind.He felt that it was a pity that Sun Shao's knowledge and talent were rare among the children of the Sun family. If he could become an official, he would definitely become an important general, but because he was Sun Ce's son, not only could he not make great achievements , and must pollute himself in order to survive.What a pity.If he had slandered Sun Shao's frivolous behavior before, now he only has sympathy and gratitude.He secretly decided to write a letter to Sun Quan immediately, expressing Sun Shao's intentions to him, and not to let Liu Bei's plan succeed.

"Zhong Si, if you have a chance, come to Lukou." Sun Shao pointed to the riverside in the distance like a black line: "Lukou is adjacent to Guan Yu, and you cannot guard it unless you have the world in your chest. Lu Hengjiang He is not in good health, and with you here, he can relax a bit, and maybe he can serve the Supreme for a few more years." After a while, he said again: "He has served the Supreme for more than ten years, and he can't even have a single heir. Let such achievements go with the waves."

Zhang Cheng nodded.

It was late at night, and Zhang Cheng was still considering his words. When he wrote the letter to Sun Quan, Sun Shao was lying on the bed, proud of his acting skills.He knew what Zhang Cheng was doing, but he didn't know if this behavior could dispel Sun Quan's doubts.He had been guessing what Sun Quan's purpose was for arranging such a high-standard marriage for him, but he couldn't figure it out.

It really doesn't matter to him whether he is an official or not.In Jianye these days, he saw how Sun Quan and those civil servants and generals did things.Cao Cao's army came and was busy with military affairs. Sun Quan himself got up before dawn and didn't sleep until midnight. It goes without saying that he was hard.The two brothers-in-law are also too busy to go home. It is common for husband and wife not to see each other for ten and a half months.Not to mention Zhou Xun, in order to make contributions, he was directly stationed in the camp. He has been in Jianye for so long, and he has never seen him. Even Zhou Yin, who has no official military position, can't find anyone from time to time.This is much harder than the little white-collar workers in the previous life. The standard ones get up earlier than chickens and go to bed later than dogs. Anyway, I don’t have to worry about food or clothing, so why bother to suffer that?If it aroused Sun Quan's suspicion, he might lose his life.

It's better to go to sea.Sun Shao turned over, looked at the sky and the earth in the distance that seemed to be ups and downs with the waves, and thought to himself.If there are a few big ships, Guan Feng and these two hundred elites may be able to conquer the world. When Columbus and Magellan started their great voyages, there were only a few broken ships. A poor man with nothing?Compared with them, I have a clearer understanding of this world than them, so I don't need to try my luck in the vast sea.

Guan Feng and Guan Ping stood side by side, and Sun Shao's scream just now seemed to be still in his ears. Although Guan Feng's face was calm, there was a trace of disappointment at the corner of his mouth.Guan Ping stood with his knife in his hand, looked at his sister's serious expression, and lowered his head.

"Brother, you shouldn't have come." Guan Feng suddenly sighed, and said softly: "Father is in a bad mood, you should stay by his side."

Guan Ping shook his head, and said lightly: "I'm stupid, I can't speak, and it's useless to stay with my father. With Mr. Yin and the others around, my father will be fine. If I don't come to see you off, how can my father do it?" Don't worry." He was silent for a moment, then said bitterly: "I don't know who came up with this idea to make a good marriage so embarrassing."

Guan Feng's eyes flashed, but he hesitated to speak.After a long time, he sighed.

(End of this chapter)