Because tomorrow will start the army to march, in order to ensure that everything is safe, Lu Bu was some of the barracks in the trifles to pester the hands and feet, so that even the evening meal is there in a hurry to use.
When he finally finished his work and rode back to the palace, he just passed the gate of the palace, rolled over and dismounted, threw the reins of his red rabbit into the hands of his personal attendant, and walked towards the inner hall with a lively stride.
Just happened to bump into a good-looking, dressed in Confucian robes, shy and coy to Yan Qing lightly called "Father Lord", but Yan Qing is also very popular, happy to correspond to the picture.
Lu Bu subconsciously braked his footsteps, and his sharp and critical gaze swept unflinchingly over.
This showy brat, pick up not a few pounds of meat, the wind will fall, and full of the world's great families that pretentious reserved style, only a face is still slightly able to see the ...... is Shiguang insisted on accepting the son of the righteous?
"The Lord is here?"
Long before he caught a glimpse of the tall, lanky figure out of the corner of his eye, Yan Qing had heard the familiar sound of powerful footsteps.
It is not easy to coax the serious, scrupulous etiquette of Lu Xun called a father adult, body comfort incredible, although very much want to touch this fresh to death of the baby son's head, but not yet had the time to reach out his hand, was combed meticulously, as if the self-bringing austere inviolable blasphemy of the aura of the hair and clothing, hooked up with a little bit of the other party's advantage of the hidden weakness.
Lu Xun was new to the city, so if he was too enthusiastic, it might backfire and scare him.
When Yan Qing thought of this, his hand naturally fell on Lu Xun's left shoulder, and smiled, "It's getting late, and my son has been through a long journey, why don't you go to rest early and talk again tomorrow?"
Being admired for a long time by the famous scholar so cordial treatment, and the implementation of the ethereal dream, to become the other side of the righteous son, spare the customary calm and self-possession, favor and humiliation such as Lu Xun, but also for a time did not break free from the foggy state.
"Thank you, father-sama, my son will leave first."
When Lu Xun finally noticed Lu Bu, who was mortared along the hall door, standing expressionlessly with his arms folded diagonally, he flew back to his reserved and elegant demeanor.
To Yan Qing's concern, he did not forget to respectfully bow his head, and gave a distant salute to Lu Bu as well, and then went out with a calm demeanor.
If it weren't for the fact that he was unconsciously wearing a big red face, Yan Qing might have been fooled.
Lu Bu silently watched Lu Xun leave and turned to Yan Qing, "This is the kid you've been eyeing, seems to be Lu Kang's grandson?"
Yan Qing laughed, "Lu Kang for the motion child from his grandfather, the Lord has a good memory."
Lu Bu said indifferently, "At a young age, you can put on an act."
Yan Qing knew that Lu Bu detested the unhurried, seemingly gentle and elegant scholarly demeanor of the children of the world's families, especially their words and phrases with knives and quenching poison, beating around the bush and cursing people to death.
For the sake of the stability of the situation, although it is difficult to refute, Lu Bu can not really disregard the culture and style of the direct rough suppression.
Although there is Yan Qing as the head of a cadre of strategists for his protection, Lu Bu and they had to deal with the time, still ate a lot of tongue clumsy dark loss, is the recent painstaking construction, thoroughly recognized by this class of people, only gradually extinct.
Although both are the descendants of the famous family, and both parents lost in early years, with Lu Bu a hit, can be said to be sharp, independent and special Zhuge Liang than, Lu Xun indeed stained with more famous family to hide the front of the introverted gas.
In addition to personal character differences, Yan Qing thought, small Kong Ming did this is actually deliberate, and Zhuge clan talent withered, the family way down, failed to provide shade to the children and grandchildren, the future generation need to rise up, but also can not be dissociated from the relationship.
"My Lord is joking." Seeing Lu Bu obviously expressing his dislike for Lu Xun, Yan Qing only smiled in amusement and changed the topic with a calm demeanor: "Qing knows that you have already had your evening meal in the barracks, it's just that it's freezing cold outside, so in order to prevent catching the wind and cold, it's still good to drink a bowl of ginger soup."
Spinning around, he took Lu Bu's hand, which was cold from the wind and snow, and gently patted and caressed it for a few times before slowly releasing it, walking shoulder to shoulder with him, and going back to his bedchamber.
After spending a long time with this not-so-good-tempered lover, Yan Qing had worked out his own set of methods to appease his grumpy mood. One pat, two touches and three hugs, despite its simplicity, was effective enough to deal with Lu Bu.
Sure enough, enjoying the intimacy of Lu Bu, instantly lost count of Lu Xun's mind, all the way to talk and laugh, and so back to the bedroom, Lu Xun that little child has forgotten all about it.
Speaking of the bowl on the desk, the temperature is just right ginger soup after a drink, Lu Bu again embracing Yan Qing tangle a moment, before dilly-dallying to wash, and finally extinguished the painting candle, peacefully to bed.
When I woke up, everything was ready for this trip but it didn't work out.
It was just after four o'clock when Mi Zhu, who was dressed in onyx and with all his followers in mourning, knocked at the Xu County gate and went to the government office first to ask for an audience with Lu Bu.
Only because the Xuzhou assassin Tao Qian, ten days ago has already had a disease, died of illness.
Being disturbed in his sleep, Lu Bu was not annoyed and not angry, while sending a fast horse to gather the staff in the city, while hurriedly washing and dressing, and then with the strategist Yan Qing, riding the red rabbit with him, rushed to the House of Discussion.
Even though Tao Qian had lived a few more years than recorded in history, Yan Qing was still somewhat surprised.
A few days ago, he and Guo Jia from Liu Bei away from Tao Qian and turn to cast the Liu table, make Tao Qian is actually pretending to be sick of speculation, this moment but was hit in the face.
If it was just that he guessed wrong, it would not be surprising, after all, he knew his true level by heart, but that Guo Jia would be wrong, he found it unbelievable.
If Tao Qian had Cao Cao's intellect and ambition, Yan Qing might have suspected that he had feigned illness and weakness, then feigned death and fled, or that he was trying to relax their vigilance and had other plans.
But that is their own hard work Xuzhou for many years, once against Cao Cao's soldiers and horses only entrenched in Yanzhou for a year, was beaten, no power to fight back, then sixty-four years old Tao Gongzu ah.
Because of this, when Yan Qing saw that the mansion was not the closest to the government office, but Guo Jia, who was the first to arrive, faster than Yan Qing and Lu Bu, could not help but be a little more understanding, and tacitly exchanged a look with him.
The strategists were quickly summoned together and gathered in the hall with heavy faces, at which time, someone ran at a brisk pace to invite Mi Zhu, who was waiting outside, to come in.
It was the first time for Yan Qing to meet this historical Liu Bei's great-uncle, his family owned countless gold, silver and wealth, and he was known to be rich enough to rival the country, with tens of thousands of servants and diners, so he couldn't help but look at him a few more times.
As written in the book, he has a graceful and elegant appearance, and deserves to be a gentleman who can not even look at a beautiful woman when she is at his side.
Just a heavy haggard look added by extreme worry.
Not waiting for him to open his mouth, just look at his face and color, already enough to call Yan Qing completely ruled out the possibility of the remaining bit of Tao Qian's death to hide.
If acting can achieve this level, then I'm afraid that even Huang Gai, who fooled Cao Cao's 800,000-strong army, would have to bow down to him.
Lu Bu is sitting on the main seat without any expression, and his aura is so awe-inspiring that Mi Zhu doesn't dare to look directly at him for a while.
Yan Qing had spent time with Lu Bu, and had only a slight sense of the subtle changes, but hadn't really noticed that the other party had quietly completed his metamorphosis.
Lu Bu's appearance, originally born with a powerful, tall and robust body, can be said to be proud of the herd. He has been in the military for many years and has killed countless enemy generals, so he has his own strong martial arts man's toughness.
But the sharpness of this sword blade out of the sheath, and the courage of ten thousand men, as early as when Lu Bu was still serving under Dong Zhuo's command in a muddled manner, he already possessed it.
The long period of being in a high position and leading a powerful force alone has made Lu Bu precipitate and condense down, filled with the aura of not being angry but powerful. After Mi Zhu bowed and thanked him, he sat down and asked in a deep voice: "I don't know why Mi Buwei is here?"
"Zhu has come to deliver three things to the Great General at the bequest of his Lord, so please do not hesitate to look at them."
Mi Zhu once again bowed his head in greeting, and then took out the Tao Qian's letter that he was carrying, and then placed an object hidden in his sleeve on top of the desk, which was taken by the attendant and presented to Lu Bu.
Lu Bu only scribbled a glance, raised an eyebrow, and asked the silent Mi Zhu, "Didn't Mr. Mi say there were three items, but Bu only saw two."
Mi Zhu returned, "Great General will know later."
Lu Bu then did not pursue the question and picked up the letter, only before he could open it, his attention was caught by another object, his heart shook and he instinctively looked at Yan Qing.
He was facing Yan Qing's slightly smiling, reassuring face.
Although Yan Qing had never seen what the Assassin's Rune of the Assassin of Xuzhou looked like, he was familiar with the Seal Ribbon of the Assassin of Yuzhou held by Lu Bu, and the Assassin's Rune of Yangzhou that he himself possessed.
If it were like Yuan Shao and Cao Cao's vassals who claimed credit for themselves and held land as their herdsmen, it would have been just a matter of course, but Tao Qian, since he was also an assassin appointed by the imperial court in his rightful place, held a certificate that was similar to theirs, which made him look like a natural fit for the job.
By Mi Zhu not far from thousands of miles to come, even the letters once offered in person this thing, it is Tao Qian has been holding the Xuzhou assassin brand seal.
Even with Lu Bu's power and strong army, if he really wants to take Xuzhou, he can be said to have it at his fingertips. But spend effort to fight for annexation, and the other side died of illness will not leave a large family property in the heir to inheritance, but handed over to the non-relative tiger neighbor, to give people the feeling, it is completely different.
Yan Qing understood this reaction very well: it was the same as a rich man who was used to shelling out money for pies, versus sitting at home in a good mood only to have pies rain down on his head.
Even Lu Bu, the biggest winner among the vassals nowadays, was bluffed when he suddenly and passively got something for nothing without working for it, and picked up such a rich bequest for nothing.
Among the people present, Yan Qing, who knew how Tao Qian would act through the history books beforehand, was undoubtedly the most calm and composed one.
Otherwise, who would have thought that Tao Qian, whose ability is only ordinary and who is not outstanding in all aspects, after suffering the torture of being forced into desperation by Cao Cao, and seeing with his own eyes how Yangzhou was in turmoil after Chen Wen's death and how it became a prey to be enthusiastically snatched up, he would have come to such a decisive move when his life span had already come to an end, and directly cut off the hearts of the other lords who were eager to make a move?
In Yan Qing's conjecture, Tao Qian's move not only gained him a selfless, give way to the virtuous behind the name, in fact, also guaranteed his family in this sea of chaos in the overthrow of the world safe and sound.
With his son's mediocre qualifications, it would be impossible for him to hold on to Xuzhou with Lu Bu and Cao Cao's Yuan Shao around him. If that is the case, it would be better to offer it up as a bargaining chip to attach himself directly to a powerful warlord, and it just so happens that Lv Bu has done him a favor by saving him from Cao Cao's iron cavalry, so he can use this as a reward.
Especially between Cao Cao and him, there is also a call for him to do nothing to kill his father, even if Cao Cao has lost his base, but it is a head of the evil wolf sooner or later to come to the door to avenge this immortal great hatred.
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Tao Qian ceded Xuzhou to Liu Bei, who sent troops to rescue him and whose credentials looked unusual.
Unfortunately, the overnight wealth of Uncle Liu, in the end, did not in Mi Zhu and Chen Deng and other people's devotion to assist, resist Tao Qian that great enemy of Cao Cao's offensive, or hasty loss of this sent family business.
If it were Lu Bu today, once he swallows it, no one would be able to tell him to spit it out.
Lu Bu and Yan Qing's eyes met for a moment before taking the lead to move away, his heart was already greatly determined, he silently opened the letter, not eager to unfold it, but slightly raised his jaw and looked at Mi Zhu, "Dare I ask Mi Bu, what is Tao Xuzhou's intention?"
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*About Mi Zhu, what a sitting duck willow.
From the 11th chapter of Romance of the Three Kingdoms
* This person's family is rich and powerful, tasted to Luoyang trading, by car and back, the road met a beautiful woman, came to ask for the same car, Zhu Nai get off the walk, let the car and the woman to sit. The woman asked Zhu to ride with her. The woman asked Zhu to ride with her. Zhu got into the car and sat down, without looking at her. Walking and a few miles, the woman resigned; farewell to the Zhu said: "I am the South Fire Dexingjun also, by God's teachings, to burn your home. I feel that you have treated you with courtesy, so I told you clearly. You can quickly return, move out of the property. I will come that night." Words and disappeared. Zhu was shocked, flew to his home, all the home, quickly moved out. That night, a fire started in the kitchen and burned the house. Zhu therefore gave up his family's wealth to help the poor and the needy. Later, Tao Qian recruited him to be an official of the Bei Dao.