After getting the news that Li Dian was coming to him openly, Yan Qing slightly stared at him, he had a lively mind, and immediately realized that this was clearly an attempt to separate him from Lu Bu's bare . Naked. Naked.
He was instantly exasperated.
Worthy of only one meter six or so of the great husband, Cao Cao although the height is not obvious, as long as in the heart of the heart, and Xun Yu and other capable people to give him advice, I do not know who came up with the plan, so while fighting in the front line of the war, while distracted to deal with the aftermath of the worry, but also by the way to stir up the internal unity of the Tiger Neighborhood.
The timing is also coincidental, it is well known, as the military division priest Yan Qing because of the area of small faults caught on the high platform, the public beat twenty army sticks, suffered this great shame, wounds are healed at the head of the first time.
Even if Yan Qing showed that he did not care about Lu Bu's clear distinction between public and private affairs, and orderly rewards and punishments, how many of those who were not clear about the truth of the 'military stick' would believe that he did not have a cold heart towards Lu Bu's heartlessness?
Normally speaking, for a highly suspicious lord like Lu Bu, this not at all brilliant method is certainly simple, but will indeed be damn effective. Rao now, Yan Qing did not dare to easily take this risk, challenging the weight of his own in Lu Bu's heart, and the trust was actually worth a few coins.
But the most tangled part is that, knowing that the other party is coming at you, you can't avoid it.
Closed door is certainly not, fall into the eyes of others, only more seem to have a ghost in the heart, and then originally nothing, can be good people to move out of the right and wrong.
Yan Qing thought about it and simply mounted the snowy jade buckskin horse, going out to meet the challenge.
--He's never been afraid to go head-to-head, come on!
Behind him was a small official with a special gift prepared by Xun Yu, the Secretary of Cao's army, Li Dian, while riding slowly, thoughtfully surveyed the scene of harmony on the street, his heart thinking of the smoke-filled Yanzhou.
After all this looking left and right, Li Dian inadvertently looked ahead, and coldly saw the object of his intended visit coming headlong with great vigor.
I have to say, Yan Qing appearance is rare in his life of the beautiful, temperament as flawless jade, the corner of the lips hold a smile, looking at the God fly, no one is not glittering, gorgeous, even if an ordinary white robe, he wore also seems to be like a painting in the exiled fairy transcendent.
Even Wen Ruo, who has a reputation as a 'great beauty' in Cao's formation, was eclipsed in front of him.
Yan Qing has entered the combat state wholeheartedly, see the target, the smile is deeper, like a crown of jade of the beauty of the face is more and more radiant, the fullness of its face, actually let Li Dian could not help but froze for a moment, although the heart knows that this person is more intelligent as a demon, must be more guarded, and this is also most likely to be the intention is not good, to see the beauty of this very clear and refined appearance, but he could not afford to give birth to half of a sense of malice.
Yan Qing smiled and raised the tip of his eyebrow, extremely heroic, as if he did not know his purpose, "Looking from afar, Qing felt familiar, it really is General Li!"
Li Dian returned the salute on his horse and acknowledged unhurriedly, "It has been many days since I have seen you, but Lord Yan Qing is still as elegant as ever. Coincidentally, Dian is precisely on his way to your residence to say goodbye."
Yan Qing's brow is curved and kind, but his words are extremely sharp and blunt: "General Li is too polite, but Qing is just a mere staff member, how can he afford the honor that even the Lord has not won?"
It's a direct confession that Li Dian's intentions are punishable.
Cao Cao and Lu Bu shoulder the same position of a state governor, he sent to the goodwill of the emissary before the trip deliberately over Lu Bu himself, specifically to go to his just received a military baton, it is difficult to ensure that full of grudges of the military priest to send gifts to show goodwill, it is difficult to let a person do not have suspicions.
Whether Cao Cao's ministers really have a personal relationship with Yan Qing, forgetting to avoid suspicion; or purely valuing Yan Qing's talent and intelligence, wanting to bring him closer; or even worse, inevitably calling for a misunderstanding of Cao Cao's envoys sent to Yan Qing compared to Lv Bu's lord, in the situation of the power of the more powerful, all easy to call Lv Bu centrifugal suspicions of Yan Qing, so that it is difficult to self-clearance and self-explanation, unable to defend the Yan Qing in deep in the prison.
The sinister intention was broken in the street, Li Dian remained calm and self-contained. He gave an apologetic salute and said in a gentle tone: "This matter is something that Deng lacked too much consideration. It is only because Lord Lu Yuzhou is both powerful and broad-minded, and will not mind that you have a close personal relationship with Lord Wenruo, that Li Dian, after much hesitation, still passed on the gift entrusted to him by Lord Wenruo."
Worthy of the old cunning Xun Yu, they clearly have not even seen the face, even personal friendship is out.
Yan Qing listened to the interesting, actually did not deny, but extremely natural along with the words of Li Dian admitted, the original look also with a bit of imposing strength, this time all withdrawn, apologized long sigh: "actually Wenruo entrusted! In the past, when we parted in Jizhou, we didn't have the chance to see each other again, and after the mountain is long, the world is chaotic, and I don't know where Wenruo went after leaving Yuan Benchu, and there is no place to send a letter to the geese and the geese, and I want to get a firm footing here, so I sent someone to look for him, and I don't want to be under the command of Cao Yanzhou!" Yan Qing sighed: "Wen Ruo has always been ambitious and far-sighted, but he was afraid that he would not be able to recognize the pearls before the eyes, and he would not be able to do anything. This time, he must have found his own master to join him, and I only regret that I have not been able to see Wenruo realize his long-cherished wish."
He looked so sincere and genuine, and his tone was extremely familiar and intimate, which made Li Dian freeze.
He does not know, on the subject of nonsense, make-believe, messy relationship skills, Yan Qing if a few points of modesty, only recognized the second, the world for the time being, I am afraid that no one dares to be the first.
Xun Yu said blindly in the first, said he and Yan Qing have three familiar, so as to cause suspicion of Lu Bu, so that he was in the army in an embarrassing situation, Yan Qing made up his mind to trick, hard to make this three familiar to do ten familiar enough, directly to him scorched.
In the eyes of Li Dian, only to see Yan Qing in the clear that he is an old acquaintance of Xun Yu entrusted to the person, an instant change in attitude, from the initial rejection of people outside of the coldness of a few words, to see through the ill intentions of him, the aggressiveness of the public poked, and finally can be said to be enthusiastic, show a bright smile, beautiful as the ice melted, a generous invitation to say: "Qing wrongly blamed General Li, and very ashamed to carry on! I also hope that General Li will not be with the stupid and unbearable a person to calculate. If you don't mind, would you like to come to the Qing residence to sit down, also called me for you to practice?"
Li Dian's mind was in a state of shock and uncertainty, and he was still in the clouds, when he was swayed to his mansion by Yan Qing in a few words.
Yan Qing is also not ambiguous, really prepared a table of sumptuous practice feast, the gift of the guests to treat him, just do not send out the people, he took the lead to take out the Zhuge Jin to avoid suspicion of Zhuge Liang's words: "I hope that General Li do not blame the Qing's prudence. The truth is that now each serves its own master, Qing and Wenruo certainly love like a brother, but even if the brothers will meet, but also when the retreat without personal contact, Fang avoid suspicion of collaborating with the enemy, so that show the candor."
And he personally poured him wine to make amends.
He spoke reasonably, and also reasonably asked for his pardon, Li Dian how dare to accept this cup of wine from this famous wise man, hurriedly excused himself, and hopelessly expressed his understanding, "Rumors are indeed fearful, Lord Yan Qing has a point, Dian deeply thought so, there is no reason not to listen to it."
Yan Qing praised, "The man whom Wen Ruo entrusted is also a man of honor!"
Yan Qing smiled as he poured wine for Li Dian, while scrutinizing the elaborate gift prepared by the famous Xun Yu - though not as famous as him - which was a complete set of the Poetry Scriptures. The writing on the bamboo slips is like a flying dragon, full of spirit, and Yan Qing, having copied many brushstrokes for pleasure, pretends to watch some of them, and assesses them with a good sense of humor.
He even praised the good words, and deeply touched, said: "look at this handwriting, not only to see Wen Ruo's orthography improved a lot, but also know that he met a bright master after the heart open, happy and happy. Such a heart, labor him in the day-to-day management of the leisure thoughts, clear shame carry on."
He is not very sure is Xun Yu hand transcribed, only guessed that it is very likely to be, I do not expect that really blindsided, so that have the intention to test whether he is really with Xun Yu is a long time old acquaintance of the Li Dian more wavering.
Yan Qing knew that Li Dian was testing both inside and outside of his words, but he didn't care, and his knowledge of and familiarity with Xun Yu was evident in every line of his sentence.
He is Xun Yu coveted for a long time, but unfortunately the time to wear too late, Xun Yu has resigned from Yuan Shao, himself into the weak Cao Cao's account, from then on, everything must be personal, bow and scrape.
Even if he has a thousand ways to abduct people digging foot, but also not good at the risk of provoking the Cao boss, to challenge the extremely high difficulty of the tiger's mouth, only to give up resentfully. But Xun Yu's understanding, is half a point quite a lot.
On to Xun Yu father's grandfather generation, down to his brothers and nephews in the family, far more said Xun Yu's aspirations and intentions, close to talk about Xun Yu to avoid the disaster in Hebei State before some of the even Cao bosses are not necessarily clear anecdotal evidence, he can be as a family treasure, one by one, said vividly, obviously know it like the back of his hand.
While Li Dian was fooled by a flabbergasted, Yan Qing rushed to prepare a return gift to Xun Yu, also entrusted to him to transfer, the look showed deep reluctance to, and at the end also not yet finished to make up a knife cruel, a serious JunJun urged: "recently much, although thirsty to see Wenruo long time, but no way to see the near future is difficult to become a line. To be set here, Qing Ding personally to visit, hope that Wenruo remember to take care of your body, although incense is good, do not greed, especially some of the very rich, really in the body is not beneficial, more should be treated with caution."
Xun Yu love for clothing incense, in the Cao camp is not a widely known thing, Li Dian at least in Chenliu on the Cao Cao's senior, but also with Xun Yu called like-minded, quite a few personal friendship, had invited him to his home as a guest, only to learn that he is happy in his spare time to send maids will be clothes smoked wood incense.
And Xun Yu that day stayed in the inner room after he left also still smell lingering, three days do not dissipate.
Li Dian is now completely believe what Yan Qing said, he and Xun Yu is not only a long time no see old acquaintances, but also personal relationship is not shallow, otherwise a move the world, the reputation of the far-reaching style of the celebrity, and how would Cao's camp of a small Secretary of State's proclivities are known to know exactly?
I don't know why Wenruo is trying to hide this, pretending in front of the Lord that he has never met him.
Even if Li Dian knows Xun Yu to the Lord loyal, exhaustive, in front of the mountain of iron evidence, also can not help but have doubts up.
By the time the feast was over, Li Dian, who was really about to embark on his return journey, was in a trance even in his steps, but not entirely because he was intoxicated.