But from Liaodong refuge Taishi Ci, wait until the wind passed, immediately returned to his hometown of Donglei Huang County, his home is empty, no old mother figure, suddenly he was shocked, almost thought he fled out of these years, tired of her unfortunate implicated in retaliation.
The result to the neighbors to ask, only to learn that the original is the outskirts of the city of banditry, that Yangzhou assassin Yan Chongguang heard of his deeds, but he was quite appreciated, see him far away, the return date is not certain, fear that his mother can not be properly cared for, so he sent a special person to pick up her to Shouchun, well supported.
Tai Shi Ci's mind could not help but move.
Before leaving his hometown and going to Liaodong County, which is far away from the Central Plains, he was undoubtedly offended by the state officials and had no choice but to do so. As a good son with three feet of green blade, would not want to follow the hero to build a career in this chaotic world, and have some bright eyes that will be remembered for generations to come?
Yan Chongguang's fame was so great that few people in this world could match it, and even when he drifted away, he had heard of his beautiful name and high reputation.
This kind of famous personage, but also by the court appointment of the assassin of a state, to him so differently, even if it is proud of the outstanding skills of Taishi Ci, also a little flattered.
Though he had this thought, before he ascertained with his own eyes that his mother was safe and sound, he would not make any decision easily. Without informing anyone, he sneaked all the way into Shouchun, and soon after reuniting with her, he just happened to catch the outbreak of martial law, and was forced to stay for some more days.
Tai Shi Ci's mother has always been a grateful one, because of the courtesy and attentive care of the people sent by Yan Yangzhou, she was grateful, but had no way to return the favor.
At this moment, the son who has not seen for a long time a hard to say, straight to force him to nod on the spot, remember this kindness, looking for opportunities to return is.
Tai Shi Ci practiced a strong martial arts, since there is a natural arrogance. He is certainly filial, but also not blindly obeyed, let mother's ear command of the Lord.
The former is a one-time payment of money and goods, and the grudge is cleared; the latter is to entrust his life with his family and his life's ambition, and he could not have been more careful and careful.
He had obliged himself to his mother's request, and was also in the city to wait for the opportunity to move.
This reward, which in his eyes was tantamount to a letter of surrender, he had prepared with extra patience, feeling that the weight needed to be heavy enough so that Yan Yangzhou would know that he was capable of being worthy of this generous treatment.
However, Yan Yangzhou has a lot of talents under his command, regardless of the strategists, the several generals riding high horses in the city, all of them are not ordinary people.
Although Taishi Ci is confident, with his skills, one day really listed in them, will not necessarily be inferior to them in the slightest.
But while he was doing his filial piety in front of his mother, he waited and waited and waited and waited for a time to come that he could call good in his eyes.
The city is peaceful and orderly, once he saw a ruffian stole a little lady's money bag, the next moment was the mighty inspection team to carry out, mercilessly escorted away; outside the city of the roving bandits have long been General Sun and General Xu led troops to sweep a clean, the newly rebuilt avenue is spacious and flat, carriages come and go; repair the walls of the city only need to have just completed the autumn harvest, willing to accept three bowls of porridge per day as a reward and voluntarily come to the folk; free open library reading and listening, hired teachers need to pass some rather complicated exams before they can serve; the conditions are very favorable. The repairing of the city wall only needs people who have just finished the fall harvest and are willing to accept three bowls of meat porridge per day as payment, and come voluntarily; the sound of reading in the bookstore, which is free and open to the public, is very beautiful, and the teachers hired need to pass some complicated exams in order to be appointed, which is very favorable ......
A longing to be able to show off his skills in front of the Lord of the phase, a hit, can be uncompromising to do a hundred paces through Yang's sharpshooter, but in addition to something to go outside the city to hunt some game, seems to have no use for it.
Taishi Ci some bewildered to mix a period of time, is it really want to go to join the army, and then step by step waiting for the opportunity to be promoted not?
It's a bit too self-depreciating.
Just as his mind was wavering between reluctance and unwillingness to waste any more time, and he had not yet made up his mind, things took a turn for the worse: the peaceful days were soon disturbed by the flames of war that had been kindled in Hebei.
Although Yangzhou is quite far away, in addition to the local army was transferred a lot, the road more hasty military men, in the ordinary people's lives and not much impact to speak of, Taishi Ci or the whole person is completely excited.
Upon hearing that Zhou Taishou suddenly turned his back on Lu Bu and defected to Gongsun Zan, despite outsiders reviling him for being ungrateful and not knowing what is good and bad, and for doing things in such a desperate manner, Taishi Ci gradually had a vague premonition rise up.
Waiting for another month, he heard the news that Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan shook hands and made peace, temporarily allied to join forces to fight against Lu Bu, which is really a good opportunity for him to make a good achievement that he has been waiting for a long time!
It would just be inappropriate to follow the army directly to the front line, Guandu.
Not to mention, if he was discovered by the Meteor scouts, he would be lucky not to be treated as a spy for his secretive movements, so how would he have the chance to make a big splash?
Instead, it is the not-so-visible and chaotic Qingzhou that will determine how long the war lasts and how strong the alliance between the two powers will be.
Taishi Ci calculations for a moment, immediately made up his mind, home on the silver armor, purchased a good horse, carrying a treasure carved bow, tethered iron gun hand halberd, ate a full meal, and brought a few days with dry food and coils.
Finally, after saying goodbye to his mother, who was used to this and only urged him to remember to repay Yan Yangzhou's kindness, he enthusiastically shot his horse and rode off in the direction of Qingzhou.
He first along the lower Cai to the fine Yang, over the nine miles of mountains to Pei, rolling to Dongping, see almost to Lixing, accidentally learned of the North Sea governor Kong Rong has been half a month ago, died in the yellow scarf siege of the city news.
Taishi Ci pondered for a long time, on the inadvertent delay for a short while, did not rush into the city before dark, then into the dense forest, looking for a hidden place, will be bolted to a thick tree trunks, take the empty water bag, thinking before it gets dark will be full of water bags, but also by the way to wash your face spirit, and follow the sound of the gurgling water to go.
The way there was a little farther than expected, and by the time Taishi had found a water source, filled it up as he had hoped, and then absentmindedly nibbled on dry naan while walking in the direction from which he had come, he caught the slightest movement.
Although it was mostly covered up by the rustling of leaves brought up by the wind, he had excellent hearing and could still clearly distinguish that it was the distinctive crunching sound of a horse's hooves stepping on dry branches.
It was already dark, but they didn't even light their torches.
How could there be such a troop that deliberately hides its tracks in Qingzhou?
Is it too bad luck to run into bandits?
Taishi Ci stared slightly, tucking the grain naan that he had only nibbled a few bites of back into his arms and replacing the bow and arrows on his back into his hands.
Immediately after hearing those rustling and ringing closer and closer, he relied on the art of high courage, and did not hurry to retreat, but the opposite way, silently ambushed into the evergreen shrubs.
Shortly afterward, a blurry figure was seen shifting, followed by a purposely lowered voice reporting, "The water is right here!"
Tai Shi Ci is not only excellent in archery, but also in patience, which is hard to find. He was motionless and crouching, letting those icy cold water droplets on the branches and leaves seep into his clothes, also as if he was oblivious to it.
While they were drawing water, Taishi Ci got a good look at the entirety of this troop of at least a few hundred to a thousand men by a few carefully lit torches and the silver shimmering light shed by the waning moon in the sky.
Not to mention the scale, but the strict military discipline and solemn appearance, it is impossible to be a grass bandit occupying the mountain.
I don't know what kind of vassals are sneaking around here and what they're up to.
Taishi Ci wanted to see the appearance of the lord, and then quietly leave, and soon told him to get what he wanted: the person who was guarded by his followers came with thin eyes and long beard, about seven feet in length, with a few martial arts stoutness.
Simply by looking at his appearance, he should be close to the age of puzzlement.
In the end, he has been in exile for a long time, the ever-changing situation in the Middle Kingdom is not well understood, and the light is extremely dim, even if his eyes are sharp, he can only distinguish the rough outline of the face, and then to the fine, can not be seen, naturally, it is impossible to guess the other party's identity.
But it didn't take much thinking to realize that it was a foe, not a friend.
Unfortunately, the visual conditions were so poor that he wasn't confident that he could just take the life of the opponent with a single arrow without alerting their personnel.
The bow and arrow, preemptive strike, the opportunity may only be once, if a strike is not hit, he single-handedly, I am afraid that it will be folded here.
If take advantage of people's unguarded, on the hands of captive, the other side from too many people, even if he can kill a surprise, by chance to capture the people, in the situation of single force, no reception, after that will not be the enemy of the many, not run a few miles, will have to be heavy pursuers to catch back.
Although Tai Shi Ci is brave and fearless, he is not a fool who is too proud of himself and is happy to die for nothing. After weighing the pros and cons, he forced to hold down the heat of the eyes, slowly put down the hands of the bow and arrow, back slowly retreat.
Cao Cao does not know that in the bushes only half a shot away from him, there is a powerful character who can kill at a hundred paces and treats his life as a good token of appreciation, and he does not know that he has narrowly escaped a murderous death.
And when committed to hiding their form they were shocked beyond belief when they heard a few unfamiliar horse neighs nearby, and were busy sending out multiple people to search at that end.
They soon realized that it was a good horse, tethered alone by a tree, available at the marketplace, with no sign of its owner, and felt that something was wrong.
After refusing to return empty-handed and setting a more certain target, Taishi Ci played a clever hand of sounding out the east and striking the west, shifting their attention away, and then quickly leaned on the snatch and rested an arrow on the weak defense at the stanchion to do one of his best stunts - shooting from all eight sides, killing all those soldiers responsible for taking care of the horses.
The life-threatening arrows came silently, the distant soldiers did not realize the movement of this end. Taishi Ci moment does not delay, immediately turned over and jumped on the just after observing half a day, aiming at the body black and bright, extraordinary steed, after a short period of time to force it to subdue, to the direction of Guandu galloped away.
When Yan Qing heard that a strong general with the plural name of Taishi, named Ci, had an important matter to ask for an audience outside the camp, he was so happy that he immediately put aside the affairs in his hand and walked out with great strides, with an inquisitive Guo Jia behind him.
"Ziyi, ah Ziyi, Qing has been looking forward to you for a long time!"
The fact that Taishi Ci had contact with his mother was something that Yan Qing had already heard from someone. But he knows that all famous generals have pride, and do not hastily alarm him, so as not to have the suspicion of hostage favor, which is not beautiful, and then patiently wait.
As a result, this wait was for half a year, and he had almost forgotten about it, when the belated Tai Shi Ci finally appeared in front of him.
He greeted intimately, smilingly pulled the kneeling Taishi Ci up, and just as he was about to say something else, he glimpsed that behind the two-eyed glowing Taishi Ci, followed a dark, wilting, high horse.
It was actually a million times more familiar.
Yan Qing was filled with incredulity and couldn't help but look at the drooping black horse again and again, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that it was Cao Cao's beloved ride, Jade Shadow.
He at least in the Cao camp mixed food and drink for almost a month, the Cao camp generals mounts look still some impression, not to mention that this level of divine horse are equipped with a unique temperament, he has seen the Mali, and only the red rabbit, the absolute shadow and claw yellow flying electricity has.
The dusty Taishi Ci is full of more than a thousand hidden ministries to Linzi, Qingzhou, anxious to report this important discovery to Yan Qing.
Seeing that Yan Qing has been staring at his newly acquired BMW that has traveled thousands of miles in a day, he couldn't help but snappishly say, "Ci Ma is not fast, but this is the one that happened to be taken captive."
Yan Qing: "Is the original owner of this horse a man with a short stature and a handsome face?"
Tai Shi Ci honestly explained: "Ci observed that it has the most robust posture, overriding the mediocre horses, but I don't know who its owner is. But the 'lord' in the group's mouth is indeed as Yan Yangzhou said, his stature is not great."
Yan Qing: ...... feelings you really robbed Cao Cao!