This sleep is dreamless.
When Yan came to his senses, he felt that all his limbs and bones were too soft to be strong, and his mouth was not only very dry, but also suffused with a bitter taste peculiar to medicinal broths, so he knew that the bit of foreboding he had before he lost his consciousness did not fall through.
Why is it always such a bad time?
Last time, he was tired of missing the main event of taking down Yanzhou, and this time, he delayed the war in Qingzhou and Jizhou.
Hopefully, Guo Jia Jia Dang and the others weren't so stupid that they had to wait for him to wake up, but instead saw the data laid out on the table and compiled by him in time to reach a consensus and have a reasonable decision to make.
Yan Qing really hated it and couldn't help but curse darkly as he sat up, he was startled by Zhao Yun who stood silently beside the bed, wearing his majestic silver armor meticulously, without half an extra expression on his heroic face, and surrounded by quite a dignified appearance.
Zhao Yun looked at him evenly and gave him just the right amount of assistance, "Shiguang has finally woken up."
If not for that tone of relief that more or less exposed him, Yan Qing would not have been able to see this increasingly introspective change in Zhao Yun's mood coming.
Yan Qing nodded and took the warm tea handed over by Zhao Yun, taking a few sips and not swallowing it, but spitting it into the small basin that had been prepared before speaking, "How long have I been lying there?"
Zhao Yun flew back, "It has been ten days."
Yan Qing thought bitterly, this time it was a bit quicker than last time, "Has our army made an alliance with Gongsun Zan?"
Zhao Yun said, "Not yet, only sent Wen Yuan to send some grain and grass."
Yan Qing nodded, "Has the situation in Qingzhou changed?" After a pause, he simply went straight to the point: "Has Cao Cao pocketed Qingzhou?"
Zhao Yun honestly admitted, "Regarding this, Yun doesn't know anymore."
Yan Qing looked around the circle, and only then realized that his family Lu Bu was not there, which was a bit of an anomaly: "Does Zi Long know, where the Lord is?"
Zhao Yun replied with a straight face, "My Lord has been guarding Shiguang's couch for the past ten days, and has never left it except to take care of political affairs. It is only because His Majesty has repeatedly summoned him, and he really could not refuse, that he went there just now, and asked Yun to keep watch on his behalf for a while."
Yan Qing can not help but feel strange, according to the theory that the little emperor should have been cleaned up not dare to mess up, how not long ago, and then make a mess?
So he asked, "What is Your Majesty calling for?"
Zhao Yun: "It should be for the erection of the Huanqiu."
Yan Qing came to a sudden realization.
The so-called Huanqiu is the round altar where the emperor sacrificed to the heavens from the middle of the Western Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, symbolizing the roundness of the heavens and the square of the earth, and is divided into two tiers, with heaven and earth at the top and the five emperors' positions at the bottom.
The day of the festival was different in each dynasty. In the Zhou Dynasty, the winter solstice was still chosen, but in the Han Dynasty, it was changed to the upper Xin day of the first month of spring.
Even if the emperor lives in the palace can be used to repair the people's interest for up to suspend the construction, everything from simple, but when the emperor moved out to suburb sacrifices in order to feel the benevolence of heaven this reason to, even if it is the hands of the real power of the them, but also can not be categorically rejected, or show the intention of neglect.
The risk of overthrowing the imperial power alone is much smaller than the risk of violating it together with the belief of "honoring the Heavenly Father and the Ancestors".
Right now, although there is still a month before the winter solstice, it is already considered very late to start making preparations for the festival.
Yan Qing nodded, and had to admit that the young emperor, whether he really suddenly remembered, or someone was helping him behind the scenes, launching the sacrifice of the heavens as an excuse was very effective, whether it was to ruthlessly brush up his presence or to establish a bit of heavenly authority.
Having said that, Yan Qing didn't really find it tricky, and was more concerned about another matter, "Is there anyone going with His Lordship?"
Zhao Yun said, "It coincided with Guo Bugei s door to visit ...... the sick, and he was arrested.
Yan Qing was completely relieved now.
With the company of Guo Jia, who had a lot of heart and mind, it was hard for Lu Bu to even think about suffering a loss.
Seeing that Yan Qing had already asked almost all of the important matters that were most on his mind, Zhao Yun called his maidservant in, and calmly avoided the side hall himself, waiting for the Military Counselor Priest to change his bedclothes and tie up his hair and wash up under their wait.
Yan Qing half-opened and half-closed his eyes, at the mercy of the gentle and attentive maid, and it was only at this moment that he was finally able to spare some of his mind to check the changes in the cards.
As expected, two of the four original cards had been transformed into the never-before-seen "Grain Harvest" and "Lightning".
Yan Qing was thinking about the Sacrifice of the Heavens and Qingzhou, and there were many outsiders present, so even if they couldn't see the presence of the cards, the act of picking up a ball of air and taking a closer look at it was still very noticeable.
Not to mention that the development of Lu Bu's power is already on track and functioning well without the need to rely on side channels, let's just say that since he had the experience of using his cards carelessly a few times and almost screwing over Lu Bu and himself, he doesn't care as much as he used to about this icing on the cake of cheats.
There was no rush to check out the trial, only to confirm the guess in my mind before I stopped caring ......
Nope!
I'm afraid the changes don't stop there.
The servant girl, who was made to blush by the amazing beauty that did not belong to the mortal world and did not dare to look directly at Yan Qing, naturally did not notice that his eyes, which had been lazily half-closed, had abruptly widened.
After serving them, Yan Qing dismissed them, and without calling Zhao Yun into the room, he alone took the two cards out of his sleeve and placed them flat on his palm.
It wasn't that his eyes were blurry just now, but in the middle and lower part of the card, there was indeed an extra line of clear black letters that accurately described the utility of the card.
"Shunned: can be used on a target other than you (needs to be within three feet) to obtain one of these items at random."
"Peach: can be used on you or a dying target to restore health."
At a glance, it was the same as the card effects in the games Yan Qing had played before, only that the conditions of use had been altered to make it more in line with reality (after all, there would be no such thing as healthy or unhealthy in the game, but rather the restoration of 'a little bit of stamina').
This was good, at a glance, it could greatly prevent him from getting into trouble due to unknown circumstances in the process of using it.
Thinking so, Yan Qing looked towards the other two new cards, and instantly realized that although the general meaning of this was the same, there was still a not-so-small difference in the details.
Especially on the role descriptions of the swarm class decks.
"Five Grains: the effect works on everyone present (needs to be within a five-mile radius), and you'll receive a random card with a surviving target that is not a player, and get one bucket of five grains."
This is awesome.
Yan Qing smiled in surprise, and the bit of resentment in his heart that had been brought on by this ill-timed swoon dissipated.
This card comes at the right time, won't it solve their urgent need for food?
Finally he looked at Lightning, who was supposed to be the most useless.
......
Zhao Yun waited patiently, and when he saw that the maids of honor were already coming out one after another, and still didn't see Yan Qing for a long time, nor did he hear any ringing inside, he couldn't help but look aghast, and walked up to the door, and gently knocked: "Chong Guang? Are you alright?"
Yan Qing was broken out of his composure by this slight ringing, gathering them back into his sleeves and pacing out the door, smiling, "Zi Long."
Seeing him unharmed, Zhao Yun let out a faintly audible sigh of relief.
But see Yan Qing has the intention to go out, this breath instantly raised up again, advised: "Now outside the cold, Chong Guang body is weak, not suitable for travel, not if you stay in the room to recuperate, to be the Lord returned to make plans."
Yan Qing was in such a good mood at the moment that even the depression of being mistakenly thought to have a weak physique seemed trivial, failing to affect it by half.
After all, he had just discovered that those two new cards, which he had thought were destined to become chicken ribs, could become an existence not inferior to the strange move "Separation" used to kill Dong Zhuo, which was really an unexpected surprise.
Seeing Zhao Yun's slightly nervous demeanor, Yan Qing couldn't help but smile, "I will not ask Zi Long to make things difficult. It's just that if you don't go out of the door, you can always go to the study."
Even if he was bedridden and unconscious for many days, official documents from all over the world would surely be like snowflakes, enough to flood that wide wooden table.
Since Lu Bu wouldn't be able to return for a while, he would go ahead and analyze the intelligence himself.
As Yan Qing was so reasonable, Zhao Yun was amenable to good advice and escorted him with a solemn face, heading for the study.
Lu Bu temporarily finished with Liu Xie and left the palace gates with a gloomy face, he got a briefing from Zhao Yun's personal follower who was sent to inform him of the news of Shiguang's awakening.
The moment of great joy, instantly will still be slow to get on the car driving Guo Jia left behind, a flip on the ground can not wait to plow more than the red rabbit, all the way to the horse whip, the wind and lightning back to the house to go.
Just traveling to the entrance of the mansion, Lu Bu got off his horse, not as good as inside, he saw a head wearing a white vine crown of the green-clothed old man stood in front of the door, the demeanor leisurely, seemingly smiling, not smiling, looking at him.
Lu Bu instinctively felt slightly displeased with this frank and straightforward disrespect, but did not show the slightest bit on his face.
Since knowing that his own military priest specializes in immortal magic, but also personally appreciate a handful of magical powers, the original simply do not believe in ghosts and gods Lu Bu, on these raise their hands and feet, with some of the characters of the air of the Immortals have some clear concepts.
Moreover, the one who dared to come straight to the door to ask for an audience without delivering an invitation or being invited to recommend it, could not be a curmudgeon with the ability to pretend to be a god.
Without waiting for the uninvited guest to speak, Lu Bu took a step forward with no expression on his face, bent his head down and asked steadily, "May I ask who the gentleman is, where he came from, and what is his business?"
This person showed a slight surprise, then made a shallow bow and smiled, "I am a former member of the Wei King's township, surnamed Zuo, name Ci, character Yuan Fang, Taoist name Mr. Wu Jiao. I came here because I heard that General Lu is suffering from a shortage of grain and grass, so I came here to ask for an audience."
Being told about this matter by this person who had never heard of his name, Lu Bu only nodded slightly, in the end, full of thoughts only about Yan Qing, while walking quickly inside, he said without turning his head back, "In that case, then come in."
"This way, sir."
Just got the authorization of the housekeeper, up to invite this green-clothed Taoist to go to the hall to wait for the attendant, only had time to say this sentence, I feel a flower in front of my eyes, this person will suddenly disappear from the eyes, posture as if strolling idly, but magically find their own place, smiling in the guest seat to sit down, nonchalantly open mouth to ask for it: "Your house hospitality, but there is no meat and wine? "
Author's comment: Zuo Ci this person, is both bullish, and pretend. Will be a thousand changes, astronomy and geography, but also legend can legend can make ghosts and gods, sitting to line kitchen.
In the playbook, he took the initiative to go after the lords and made a fool out of some of them, including Cao Cao, Liu Biao, and Sun Ce. For details, please refer to Zuo Ci Throwing Cups to Tease Cao Cao in the 86th episode of Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
At this moment, Lu Bu was famous and his momentum was sound, so Zuo Ci wanted to come to tease Lu Bu and find trouble with him.
One brief thing about Lefty:
A group of pickers carrying heavy fruits met Zuo Ci, who said he would help them out, and they found that the burdens that Zuo Ci had helped them with had all become lighter. When Cao Cao gets the fruit, he cuts it open and it's full of meatless fruit, so he gets angry. When Zuo Ci came to see him, Cao Cao asked him why he stole his fruit, so Zuo Ci cut one open, and it turned out to have meat, and was sweet and delicious.
Cao Cao then cuts another one, only to find that, while the fruit in his hand is all out of pulp, the ones in Zuo Ci's hand are all there. He was not drunk with a thousand cups, and he did not feel full even after eating a whole head of sheep (presumably it was moved to another place).