Three Kingdoms: Starting from zero, a wealthy party

Chapter 213 Liu Bei's Worries

"Since Liu Zhang does this, then I, Liu Bei, have no choice but to accept Brother Xu's suggestion and join Jiangdong Sun Ce."

"Okay, if that's the case, Xu Ziyuan will see him off today as Uncle Liu."

"Uncle, please get on your horse."

Liu Bei looked at Xu You, with a lot of emotion in his heart. He didn't know whether he really felt that his future was bleak, or that Xu You could not meet the Ming Lord, and his heart was full of mixed feelings.

Before getting on the horse, he looked back at Xu You again, and an idea came to his mind.

Xu You was puzzled, wondering why Liu Bei turned his head again and looked at him suspiciously.

Liu Bei said: "Brother Xu, you clearly know in your heart that Yuan Shao is not the Lord of England, why did you choose to stay here?"

"Why don't you follow me to join Sun Ce?"

Xu You looked at Liu Bei in front of him, and was very grateful in his heart, then he laughed at himself and said, "Brother Xuande, this statement is wrong!"

"There is a saying, the kindness of a drop of water should be repaid by the spring! Although my lord is obsessed, he has the kindness to know me."

"What's more, I have served him for ten years, and now is the critical moment of his decisive battle with Cao Cao, how can I have the heart to abandon him and leave!"

Xu You's eyes were already moist, and he shook his head and said, "I really can't do it!" There was a bit of desolation and helplessness in his voice.

Liu Bei had never seen Xu You like this before, and felt that he had a thousand words to say to him at this moment, but when it came to his lips, there were only two short words left: Take care.

Xu You looked at him and thought of himself many years ago. If he hadn't chosen Yuan Shao back then, or if he didn't work under Yuan Shao now, would he have chosen to leave with Liu Bei?

He waved his hand helplessly, "Everyone has his own ambition, brother Xuande, take care all the way."

Liu Bei got on his horse, bid farewell to Xu You, led his soldiers, left Yuan Shao's barracks, and started heading south.

Along the way, Liu Bei was a little unhappy. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei called him behind his back, but he didn't seem to hear him, and he was thinking about the things in his heart.

Zhao Yun stepped forward, handed the water bag in his hand to Guan Yu, pouted his mouth forward, and asked him to bring it to Liu Bei.

Guan Yu came to his senses, rode to Liu Bei's side, and yelled a few times, "Brother", Liu Bei finally came to his senses and asked him what happened.

Guan Yu handed him the water bag in his hand, and said, "Brother, drink some water. It has been almost a day since you set out on the road, and you haven't eaten a grain of rice or drank a drop of water, brother. "

"After you chatted with Xu You in front of the barracks for a while, you looked so sullen all the way. The third brother and I called you several times but there was no response."

"Zilong was worried that you were thirsty, so he specially asked me to bring you some water to drink. Brother, tell me what happened, and we brothers will share it together!"

Liu Bei rubbed the center of his brows, looked at the fields in the distance that were full of fresh shoots, felt the breath of spring, and said, "Actually, it's nothing, I'm just thinking about what we brothers should do from now on."

"Didn't Sun Ce help us take Xuzhou City? With Xuzhou as our base, our power will surely grow gradually."

"It's not as simple as you think." Liu Bei continued to frowned, bowed his head, recalling the thoughts in his mind just now.

"The terrain of Xuzhou City is very flat, and there is no dangerous place around it. Why did Sun Ce choose to give us such a place for nothing?"

"Just imagine, if we choose Xuzhou as our base, and you lead the army to fight outside, leaving only a few thousand or even fewer defenders in the city, can you feel completely at ease?"

"But if we don't go out to fight, the other princes around us will become more and more powerful, and then they will be able to defeat us and win the city without any effort. How can such a territory be used as a base for development!"

After listening to Liu Bei's words, Guan Yu nodded in approval.

"Also, second brother, second brother, if you think about it carefully, would Sun Ce really be so kind and give us Xuzhou City for nothing?"

Guan Yu thought for a while, and said, "According to what Big Brother means, could it be that Sun Ce..."

"You're right. Sun Ce wants me to be his knife, a knife for Cao Cao."

"The words of the envoy named Lu Su are very nice, but what's the use of nice words? They can't be food or territory, they can only be used as entertainment."

"Sun Ce hopes to use my army to give Cao Cao a slap in the face and attract his attention. When Cao Cao pays attention to us, his Jiangdong Army will go north directly. At that time, Cao Cao is facing the enemy, with Yuan Shao as a wolf in front and Sun Ce as a tiger as his back, it can be said that he has nowhere to go."

"Then what do you think he will do by that time?"

Guan Yu shook his head, his eyes full of questions.

Liu Bei raised his fist and said to himself: "He will choose to use us as a breakthrough, either choose to cooperate, or find a way to kill our brothers and incorporate them into the army."

"No matter what kind of choice it is, Yuan Shao, Sun Ce, and even Cao Cao don't care at all, because to them, we are not worth mentioning in their eyes, and it is also possible that we are not in their eyes at all."

"But brother, have you forgotten that in the vegetable garden, you and Cao Cao were cooking wine and discussing heroes! Cao Cao attaches great importance to big brother, and by then, we must have a dead end."

Liu Bei looked up at the sky, and said slowly: "Yes, maybe by then, we will surely die."

Then he lowered his head again, smiled self-deprecatingly, and said nervously, "Don't worry, second brother, no one can kill me, and no one dares to kill me."

Guan Yu didn't understand the meaning of Liu Bei's words at all, he was just a little worried, because he had never seen Liu Bei like this since the three of them became sworn brothers.

He sat on the horse, looked into the distance, and lamented the injustice of fate.

In the past, no matter how tired or hard the brothers were, they all had hope for the future, but now, although Liu Bei has great ambitions, he gradually feels a little powerless.

Guan Yu knew in his heart that it was the tribulations that happened wherever he went that made the eldest brother unable to see the light of hope. The experience of the past few years made the three of them grow a lot, but Liu Bei, as the eldest brother, had a heavier burden on his shoulders.

Nowadays, many forces want him to die. Although they are very weak now, Liu Bei's ambition and benevolence make them feel very scary. The idea that such a person will definitely become their enemy in the future has been deeply ingrained in their hearts.

(End of this chapter)