Riding and cutting the imperial pirates of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 442
In the dim night, the cold moon hangs quietly above the sky.

East of the city at this time.

After meeting Wang Zheng at the North Gate Wharf, Zhou Yu went to the barracks again, and discussed with several generals about defending the city. Being so busy, he didn't even go to the dinner party for Wang Zheng held by He Hongte until the dead of night. Stride out of the barracks.

Just when He Hong tried his best to guarantee Zhou Yu's character, by coincidence, Zhou Yu also looked up at the sky at this time.

The crescent moon is like a hook, sprinkling Qinghui on the road, and the snoring of soldiers can be heard from the barracks behind, adding to the tranquility.

But behind the tranquility, there seems to be an undercurrent surging.

On the pier today, when Wang Zheng focused most of his attention on Zhou Yu, in fact Zhou Yu was also secretly evaluating the troops Wang Zheng brought.

The number of people was not too many, only about two thousand, but the physique of these soldiers, and even the aggressiveness on their faces, made a smart person like Zhou Yu tremble inwardly.

They are all tigers!
One must know that the 3000 troops brought by Huang Zhong a few days ago had already taken Zhou Yu by surprise. At first, he thought that Wang Zheng had arranged many elites to be vanguards, but the Xuzhou army's main force seemed to be even better.
The key is that Zhou Yu also knew that the Xuzhou army was actually divided into two groups this time, and there was another group of nearly ten thousand people who came overland from Yuzhou!
Even if this army could not compare with Wang Zheng and Huang Zhong's men, it is estimated that the difference would not be too far, which made Zhou Yu feel at a loss for a while, and was even more touched!

With a force like Xuzhou's army, together with Yuan Shu, what are Sun Ce's chances of winning?
Zhou Yu couldn't figure it out, but an ominous premonition came to his mind.

Bo Fu, you shouldn't stand on your own at this moment!
Not to mention risking the displeasure of the world to commit the following crimes!
After all, no matter what, Yuan Shu and you still have the status of monarchs and ministers.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yu, who was riding his horse on the bluestone slab, let out a long sigh, and his rare mood became depressed, because he has never figured out why Sun Ce suddenly made such a stupid move, which not only provoked Wang Zheng, the head of Xuzhou The fierce tiger made Zhou Yu fall into the dilemma of loyalty and righteousness.

Although the Sun Ce in his impression was overconfident and even considered arrogant, when it came to his ingenuity, his ability to discern the overall situation, he had absolutely no problem.

Why are you so eager for quick success now?
In the midst of thousands of thoughts, Zhou Yu unconsciously passed through a few streets and alleys, and passed through a row of whirling old trees. Suddenly, Zhou Yu raised his head subconsciously, and saw the pillars in front of him. Under the eaves and ridges, there are lanterns for lighting.

In the shadow of the lights, the roof is covered with double eaves, the door is carved with exquisite paint, and the curtains of the windows are deeply drawn, revealing a soft and hazy light.

But the Zhou Mansion has appeared in front of his eyes.

Looking at the servants and stewards who came out to welcome the sound of horseshoes, Zhou Yu's eyes flashed, and then he lowered his head slightly, and the moment he jumped off the horse, all the slump and confusion he had just lost disappeared.

When he raised his head again, there was only confidence and calmness on his face, with high spirits.

"Why did the young master come back so late today?"

When walking through the corridor, a maidservant saw Zhou Yu, hurriedly walked up to meet him, and complained slightly in an intimate tone: "Have you eaten? The back kitchen still has some food, do you want the maidservant to heat it up? "

"Okay."

Zhou Yu smiled gently, not surprised.

Speaking of which, the Lujiang Zhou family from which he was born can be counted as the top family in Jiangdong. Gaozu Zhou Rong was a minister in the era of Emperor Guangwu's grandson Zhangdi. Sangong, as for Zhou Yu's father Zhou Yi, he also served as the Luoyang order.

However, growing up in such a wealthy high court, Zhou Yu did not have the arrogance and domineering of ordinary officials' children, and he was very easy-going and approachable to the servants and maidservants around him.

It was also because of this that other servants were better. Some young maids and the like, when facing Zhou Yu because of their love, sometimes they appeared to be unruly.

That's why the sage said that only women and villains are difficult to raise. If they are close, they will not be inferior, and if they are far away, they will complain. This is a famous saying.

"Just heat up two dishes as you like." While speaking, Zhou Yu handed over a food box in his hand: "This is a shad sent by a colleague in Tongxiang, just pick it up and it will be fine."

After a pause, he asked again, "Is Uncle going to bed?"

"No." The servant girl replied: "The servant girl saw the light on in the study just now, so the master must still be reading?"

"That's just right." Zhou Yu nodded and said, "Uncle loves fish the most, and I'll send the food to the study later, and then bring the ice jug of wine."

"Yes."

Zhou Yu walked through the veranda and came to a wide patio. The main hall in front was the study room.

Arriving at the study room, pushing the door open, one can see that the hall is elegantly furnished, with matching colors and soft lighting, giving people a sense of tranquility and comfort. A middle-aged man is standing by the window with his hands folded, silently watching the moonlight outside the window.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, the middle-aged man turned his head and saw that it was Zhou Yu, with a smile on his originally solemn face.

"My unicorn son has returned to the nest."

"Uncle, today is a blessing." Zhou Yu walked up with the bowl in his hand. Instead of sitting down, he carefully picked the small thorns in the fish with chopsticks, and then moved the plate to the middle-aged man, looking up and smiling brightly. He said: "The shad in Lujiang River is very delicious. This is what a uncle from the same village just fished out from the pond today. It's big and fat. Uncle, try it."

"If you like to eat, my nephew will send you one every day."

"It coincides with a war, how can it be used for private use?"

Although he knew that Zhou Yu was joking, the middle-aged man shook his head immediately. This man was Zhou Yu's uncle Zhou Shang, who was one of the most famous Confucian scholars in the world.

In the original history, Zhou Shang brought Zhou Yu back to Shouchun in the first year of Jian'an, and Yuan Shu proclaimed himself emperor the following year. Because he was not optimistic about Yuan Shu, he invited him to be the prefect of Danyang. Zhou Yu went with him and became the magistrate of Chao County in the county.Later, when Sun Ce raised his army, Zhou Yu led his troops to join him.

As the status of the traveler's kingship is getting higher and higher, the influence on the track of history will naturally become more profound.

Not only was Yuan Shu more impatient to become emperor than in the original history, the time for Zhou Shang to go to Shouchun was half a year earlier.

And this time, although he was still dissatisfied with Yuan Shu, his views on Sun Ce changed drastically, so he did not choose to serve Yuan Shu again, nor did he take Zhou Yu to Danyang, which now belongs to Sun Ce's sphere of influence.

Even Zhou Yu, the magistrate of Hefei County, if he was not afraid of rejecting too thoroughly, causing Yuan Shu's dissatisfaction and implicating the clan, Zhou Shang would not have wanted him to do so.

Of course, this is actually a statement, at least the Lujiang Zhou Clan, represented by Zhou Shang, is temporarily inclined to Yuan Shu.

After all, even if he also has the heart of rebellion, Yuan Shu is only putting on a little gesture at present, but Sun Ce is already doing it with a guy.

Although he said it in a scolding tone, when he saw the dish of shad, Zhou Shang's eyes lit up, and his heart was obviously moved, but the next moment, when he turned his gaze to Zhou Yu, his expression suddenly changed. Changed, and then narrowed his eyes, looked at Zhou Yu carefully for a while, and suddenly ordered:

"Yu'er, go and close the door."

Zhou Yu immediately showed doubts, but he still followed his words. After he turned around and sat down, Zhou Shang asked, "Is there something wrong nearby?"

Knowing that his uncle had something to say, Zhou Yu quickly replied, "At present, there is no one around within twenty paces."

Only then did Zhou Shang feel relieved, his eyes showed a stern light, he looked at Zhou Yu and said in a deep voice, "Did you meet any stranger today?"

stranger?
Zhou Yu was startled when he heard the words. Although he didn't know what Zhou Shang meant by asking, he still replied: "If you want to talk about strangers, Wang Zheng of Xuzhou led the army to Hefei today. I don't know if that counts?"

To talk about unfamiliar faces, the two thousand heavenly army and many people in Hefei City naturally counted, but Zhou Yu naturally knew that it was impossible for Zhou Shang to ask about these people.

"Wang Zheng?" Zhou Shang frowned, muttering to himself, "How is it possible?" "

"How could it be a yellow scarf bandit? Could it be."

"Yu'er, have you really never met any other special people?"

Zhou Yu's eyes showed memories, and after a while, he shook his head again: "If you talk about special people, I'm afraid there is only Wang Zheng." After a pause, he added: "Speaking of which, although this son is younger than Yu Shang He is two years old, but he is indeed extraordinary, with the air of a general."

"The wind of the general." Hearing this, Zhou Shang chewed silently for a while, and suddenly a smile full of inexplicable meaning escaped from the corner of his mouth: "Hey, it's more than that."

As he said that, he looked at Zhou Yu, and suddenly asked, "Yu'er, do you know why your father and uncle have been officials, but your uncle and I have been white for half of our lives?"

Zhou Yu thought about it for a while, and then said carefully, "Fame and profit are worthless and hard work. My uncle has a good temperament and a lofty temperament. I don't want to suffer from this."

"Haha, being good-natured, Mr. Huang doesn't mean he's indifferent to fame and fortune."

Zhou Shang smiled when he heard the words: "I am not an official, I must not want to, and I really can't."

Facing Zhou Yu's stunned gaze, Zhou Shang slowly explained: "Do you still remember the sixth year of Zhongping?"

Zhou Yu was startled when he heard the words, and immediately said: "How can I not remember that it was Sun Jian, the general who broke the barbarians, who challenged Dong Zhuo and moved his family to Shu County, and that's how Yu met Bofu."

Zhou Shang nodded and said with emotion: "Sun Ce is a young man with great ambitions just like you. The two of you share the same interests, and your relationship is like brothers after only a few days of acquaintance. Now many outsiders even think of you because of this. The acquaintance of the general angle."

"Not only did you let Sun Ce's family live in the outer house of our hometown, but you often helped him financially behind my back. Hey, poor man, rich man, if it weren't for you, a little mouse, who moved the rice grain out of the house all day long How did he, Sun Ce, gain the reputation of being a bully at such a young age?"

Zhou Yu blushed when he heard the words, and when he didn't know how to answer, he heard Zhou Shang wave his hands and said, "I didn't mean to blame you. It's the behavior of a man to neglect wealth and love righteousness. What is this?"

"It's just that, although you made friends with Sun Ce that year, you didn't know that your uncle and I also met an expert at the same time."

Zhou Yu was shocked when he heard this, knowing that this person must be the key to Zhou Shang's abnormal behavior today, so he immediately suppressed the churning emotions and concentrated his attention.

But he heard Zhou Shang let out a sigh of relief, his eyes shot out an unprecedented splendor: "Although this man is not from a noble family, he is a very famous figure in Lujiang, and I have been in love with him for a long time. It was also fate, I met Dao Zuo, and we became friends at first sight, and then he gave me three volumes of Dao books, and then drifted away."

At this time Zhou Yu had already heard that the person his uncle mentioned seemed to be an alchemist, and his heart couldn't help but move, an alchemist from Lujiang?Very famous?
"Uncle." Zhou Yu said with some uncertainty, "Is this man Mr. Wujiao?"

Zhou Shang nodded, and said word by word: "This person is Zuo Ci!"

Zuo Ci, styled Yuan Fang, was born in Lujiang. He was a famous alchemist in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. He rarely lived in Tianzhu Mountain and studied alchemy.The Five Classics of the Ming Dynasty, and the star latitude, and the Ming Liujia, are said to be able to serve ghosts and gods, and cook from sitting. "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" said that he had little divine way.

Zhou Shangdao: "Although there are many spells recorded in the three volumes of Taoism, Zuo Ci said before leaving that he cultivated the Tao and broke the family, even if my Zhou family is a famous family for many generations. Even so, one generation can only practice one, and one should not be insatiable, otherwise there will be no blessings and disasters, but disasters instead!"

Speaking of this, Zhou Shang smiled self-deprecatingly: "Actually, Zuo Ci is too worried. Uncle's talent is blunt. Even if he wants to be greedy, he has no power. For the past seven or eight years, he has only been waiting for him. It’s just a little success in the book.”

Zhou Yu suddenly understood: "So uncle, you have never treated me."

"That's right." Zhou Shang stared at Zhou Yu's radiant phoenix eyes, and said with emotion: "It's not that I'm hiding something, Yu'er, you are more than a hundred times smarter than me, especially now that you are young and energetic. Let me show you, Uncle is worried that you will sink into it and find it difficult to extricate yourself."

"Uncle is worrying too much."

But Zhou Yu laughed loudly and said: "Yu has no interest in Huang Lao's art. I don't know if she can cultivate the Tao to destroy her family. It seems inevitable to be pure-hearted and ascetic. Hey, you should enjoy yourself when you are alive. If you are like my uncle, you will spend all day If you don’t touch meat a few times, and you’re not close to women, even if you have acquired some supernatural powers, you won’t be able to live well.”

"Uncle said just now that you practiced the "Looking Qi Technique"?"

Thinking of this, Zhou Yu's eyes flickered, and he asked with great interest: "Then when I saw Yu today, my expression changed a lot. Could it be that I saw something?"

Zhou Shang nodded: "I finally made a small success in the technique last year, so I took a closer look for you. There is a wealth of wealth in my body, and the sky is going straight up. The only thing is that it is beneficial to Shibei."

Hearing this, Zhou Yu was taken aback for a moment, and then smiled casually: "Benefit in Shibei? Uncle, your qi-watching technique seems unreliable?"

"The heroes of the north are nothing more than Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zan, Cao Cao and others. Gongsun Zan is quick-tempered and resourceful, and it is difficult to become a great weapon. Yuan Shao has a lot of talents, and Cao Cao's martial arts relatives are very literary. Yingchuan, especially there are people like Xun Wenruo. Let me go Where they are, it is difficult to get ahead, so where is the monstrous wealth?"

"exactly!"

Zhou Shang said solemnly: "I also know that you are soft on the outside and strong on the inside, and you are actually very proud of your temperament. Even as a minister, I am afraid that you are only willing to be inferior to one person, so in the end he hesitated and chose to take you to Shouchun. Ignorant Lord, let’s take a look in the south.”

"You are a talented scholar of the country, and Sun Ce actually made a deep impression on me back then. If the brothers join forces, Shi Nan must have a lot to do, who knows."

Having said that, Zhou Shang looked solemn, and said to Zhou Yu:
"That day in Shouchun, you and Brother Sun Ce reunited after a long absence. You had a great chat, but you didn't know that your uncle was watching. Hey,"

"But it's frightening and creepy!"

　Just a note, the extraordinary power in this book will not be too much.

　　The main reason is that it is basically impossible for Zhou Yu to take refuge in the protagonist who is an enemy of Sun Ce according to common sense.

　　But the cowboy really couldn't bear to kill my idol, the governor!

　　It can only rely on extraordinary strength.

　　In this regard, the system can no longer be used as the key driver, and can only rely on Zuo Ci and the mysterious power in the novel.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)