The Three Kingdoms of the Widow

Zhuge Liang's handwriting was tied to the arrow Zhao Yun shot. Jiang Wei went back and took it apart. He thought it was a letter of persuasion, but he didn't expect it to be a guide.

Zhuge Liang sincerely pointed out Jiang Wei's gains and losses in the Battle of Tianshui, and at the end he said that it would be better if he could discuss with Jiang Wei face to face.

Then Zhuge Liang's letter was shot into the city every day.

When Zhao Yun entered the tent, Zhuge Liang had just finished writing a new letter.

"One letter a day..." Zhao Yun frowned, "You know that you are trying to persuade you to surrender, but you don't know that you think you are writing a love letter."

"Don't talk nonsense." Zhuge Liang looked at Zhao Yun who sat down on his desk, "Go down and sit anywhere. What will Xiaochang say when you see it like this?"

"Youchang is not in the mood to care about this matter." Zhao Yun remained motionless, "Didn't you notice that since the beginning of the plan to attack Tianshui, Xiaochang has been in a bad mood?"

"He tried his best to plan the whole plan, but he doesn't like to stand out very much."

"Is it really okay for you to do this? For Tianshui... Jieting..."

"The street pavilion hasn't arrived yet, so naturally there are other ways."

"You won't send him to guard the kiosk, will you?"

"will not."

Zhao Yun felt relieved: "When will I go back to Xiegu?"

"Cao Wei has nothing to do, why are you going back to Xiegu?"

"What if Cao Zhen goes? I have something to ask him."

"Ah Jin is gone, what else do you want to ask?"

"It's not about Ah Jin." Zhao Yun recalled his last experience in Luoyang.

"Is that the girl you said looks a lot like you?"

"En." Sima said that her name was Xue Lingyun, and Chang Shan was a real person.

"Will Yi County be guarded for a long time?" Zhao Yun thought it would be better to talk about the matter in front of him.

"It won't last long."

"Oh, what if Jiang Boyue dies loyally for the country? Your plan will be over."

"Probably not. Bo Yue is not pedantic. If he was really so foolish and loyal, he would have committed suicide as soon as Tianshui City was destroyed. There is no need to return to Yi County."

"Then he persisted for so long and didn't surrender?"

"These two words are so easy to say," Zhuge Liang recalled the experience of fleeing with Liu Bei, "Xinye, Xiangyang, Fancheng, Dangyang, Xiakou... Do you still need me to say it?"

"Forget it." Zhao Yun firmly believed that the past was unbearable.

"I can't get over the hurdle in my heart, and no one can persuade me. The soldiers who escaped last time said that the city already wanted to surrender, but Boyue himself didn't want to, and his mother didn't agree either..."

Zhuge Liang and Zhao Yun were talking about Yi County, when someone came to report that there was a reply letter from Yi County.

Just as Zhuge Liang was about to take the letter and read it, Zhao Yun slapped her hand off: "Put it on the table and read it, and you won't be afraid that the letter will be poisonous."

"I have good personal hygiene habits. Remember to wash your hands before eating." Zhuge Liang replied solemnly, "Okay, the letter must have been checked before it was delivered, so don't be so nervous."

The letter was written by Jiang Wei, expressing his willingness to surrender for the sake of the people of Yi County. When he wrote the word "surrender", his strokes were abrupt, and Zhuge Liang lamented in his heart what kind of struggle this child had gone through.

But Jiang Wei has conditions: Zhuge Liang cannot massacre the city; the people in the city must be provided for, and his soldiers must decide whether to stay or stay, and those who stay can keep their weapons; surrender.

"It is more than 90.00% possible that Jiang Boyue is feigning surrender." Zhao Yun said with certainty after reading it.

"Keep your arms," ​​he dared to say.

"It seems that this is different from the history you know - Jiang Boyue is an unfamiliar wolf, you should just push Yicheng."

Zhuge Liang read the last item: "He wants a token that can show sincerity. If the sincerity is not enough, he will definitely not surrender, but if the sincerity is enough, the false surrender may be faked."

Zhuge Liang looked at Zhao Yun: "Where is the sword I gave you?"

"Why? This is my baby! I forbid you to give him this as a token!"

"Bring it."

Zhao Yun reluctantly took off the sword and handed it to Zhuge Liang. She also knew that if Zhuge Liang really forcibly took this thing as a token, she could only obey.

Zhuge Liang drew his sword out of its sheath with a clang, held it in his right hand and looked at it repeatedly: "Is it still as sharp as before?"

"No problem, I take good care of it."

Zhuge Liang looked at his left hand: "That's good."

It was too late when Zhao Yun realized that something was going to happen.

"Little pig, you're crazy—"

It's too late to stop it.

The little finger of Zhuge Liang's left hand was bright red.

"Sir!" Ma Di, who hadn't seen him for a long time, rushed into the big tent, followed by many people, and the scene in front of him shocked everyone.

"Call the military doctor, call the military doctor!" Ma Di shouted anxiously.

Zhuge Liang endured the severe pain: "Send someone... to give this token... together with the letter you just wrote... to Jiang Wei immediately..."

None of the people moved.

"Hurry up! Who's going! What are you doing in a daze! It's already like this, are you still waiting for the second token to appear!" Zhao Yun was so angry that he wanted to yell.

The military doctor had already arrived, and was startled when he saw this scene, and quickly began to debride and bandage the wound.

Zhuge Liang's face turned pale from the pain, and cold sweat rolled down his face.

"I'll go!" Ma Di said suddenly, gritting his teeth.

"Youchang...don't be impulsive..." Zhuge Liang said intermittently, wanting to reach out and grab Ma Di.

"Let Youchang go!" Zhao Yun stopped Zhuge Liang's hand, and then turned to Ma Di, "Youchang, don't spoil the prime minister's important event! Tell Jiang Wei that we have agreed to all the conditions before, but if he dares to make further progress, I will Directly lead people to level Yi County!"

When Jiang Wei saw Ma Di, he was still wondering why he agreed to surrender and the other party had already agreed to the conditions, but Ma Di in front of him still had a face full of hatred.

The truth of this mystery was revealed when he opened the brocade box containing the "token". Although Jiang Wei was used to the world, he was still taken aback. His original intention was indeed a false surrender. The so-called "token" was just that. Something like a seal, but never thought it was this.

But this shows Zhuge Liang's "sincerity" from the side - if this is really... Jiang Wei feels very uncomfortable, he would rather Zhuge Liang be more hypocritical, and he will feel more at ease when he finds a chance to return to Wei in the future.

"General Zhao said that if you make progress, she will directly lead people to Pingyi County!" Ma Di's voice was low, but his tone was very certain.

Jiang Wei didn't speak.

It seems that the beam is getting bigger now.

The surrender was accepted the next day. According to the agreement, Jiang Wei entered the Shu army camp alone to see Zhuge Liang to plead guilty. Guan Xing, Zhang Bao, etc. were busy accepting the army and controlling the county. No one cared about Jiang Wei, even Zhao Yun disappeared.

Jiang Wei was quite at a loss, he wandered around the Shu army camp by himself, not knowing where to go, and no one looked at him or showed him the way.

Finally, Jiang Wei couldn't bear it anymore, and asked the soldier standing guard, where is Prime Minister Zhuge?

The little soldier sized him up: "Which general are you?"

"...Jiang Wei, Jiang Boyue." Jiang Wei said very unconfidently, a surrendered general, he had to be prepared to be ridiculed.

"Ah! It's General Jiang!" Xiao Bing suddenly realized, "The prime minister said, you can go by yourself. The prime minister is usually in that big tent, here, that's it."

Jiang Wei followed the instructions and came to the big tent. No one paid attention to him along the way, and no one even gave him a second look.

The guard at the entrance heard that he was Jiang Wei, and made a "please" gesture to let him in by himself.

Jiang Wei walked into the tent suspiciously, there was no one there, but there were piles of bamboo slips and silk on the desk, and the brushes and ink were neatly put aside.In the middle of the cases is a rectangular wooden box that is half-open and half-closed, a piece of white silk fabric is faintly exposed inside, not ordinary silk or the like, with black ink stains on it.This thing is relatively stiff, rolled into a tube, and tied with a ribbon.

Jiang Wei looked around, picked up the tube, wanted to open it, but hesitated again.A surrendered general randomly flips through the desk documents of the highest military command when he first arrives. What if this is a trap?Will a bunch of people rush in and push themselves out to chop?

But on second thought, is it necessary to make such trouble?In his current state, if Zhuge Liang wanted to kill him, it would be a matter of a word.Now he was allowed to come in alone, and the wooden box was deliberately opened like this, obviously for him to see for himself.

With the mentality of "the man is the knife, I am the fish", Jiang Wei unwrapped the ribbon and read it again. This is actually Zhuge Liang's report to Liu Chan, about the marching route: After An Ding and Nan'an, "Tian Shui" impressively in column.Jiang Wei looked at the date of Liu Chan's reply, which was a few months ago before Zhuge Liang sent troops.

"Hey, hey, hey, what about you? That's what you saw? Let it go!"

Jiang Wei was still immersed in shock, when someone behind him suddenly uttered such a loud voice, Jiang Wei's hands trembled, and finally he didn't throw away the things in his hand.He looked back, Zhao Yun was standing aside with his shoulders folded, and the rest of the generals surrounded Zhuge Liang and entered the big tent one after another.

"Don't scare the child." Zhuge Liang said, bypassing Jiang Wei, Ma Di supported her, and sat behind the table.

"It's not pleasing to your eyes, can't you?" Zhao Yun squinted at Jiang Wei.

"I remember it was the same when you first met Meng Qi. Ah, by the way, it was the same when you first met me in the dormitory building."

"so what?"

"So I don't worry, people you don't like will eventually become your friends."

"That's troublesome, I don't think Cao Zhen and Cao Pi are pleasing to the eye."

Jiang Wei didn't quite know what the two were talking about, but he could clearly see the white cloth wrapped around Zhuge Liang's left hand, and he also saw the deep-seated hostility of the generals on both sides.

"General Jiang Wei, the prime minister is here, so hurry up!" Ma Di shouted, his attitude was very unfriendly.

Jiang Wei could only swallow his anger and pay homage. Most of the generals who surrendered had no self-esteem at all. He knew that Wei Taizu Cao Cao valued Yu Jin so much back then, and he was looked down upon by the people of Shu just because he surrendered to Guan Yu. He finally waited for Guan Yu to die. When he returned to his homeland, Emperor Wen Cao Pi deliberately sent him to see the murals that he surrendered back then, which made him feel humiliated all the time, and finally died in depression.Of course, the treatment of surrendered generals cannot be generalized. For example, Meng Da, because of Cao Pi's temper, lived a very good life, and different people have different fates.Jiang Wei knew that he couldn't compete with Meng Da. At least Meng Da didn't ask Cao Pi to chop off his finger as a token. If Meng Da really dared to ask for it, it would be useless to surrender. Sima Yi would probably be the first to chop him off.

"A surrendered general dares to ask for any tokens! The prime minister's daughter, if there is a mistake for the 'token', your life is not enough to redeem." Zhang Bao's words were also the voices of everyone, and the atmosphere became tense for a while. The young man has already put his hands on the hilt of the sword at his waist...

Zhuge Liang looked at Jiang Wei, then at Ma Di, then at Zhao Yun, and finally turned his gaze back to Jiang Wei: "Youchang, bring you ginger tea."

This was an episode to ease the atmosphere. When ginger tea was delivered, Zhuge Liang motioned to give it directly to Jiang Wei. Jiang Wei instinctively felt that it was not for himself, but he didn't know what Zhuge Liang was going to do, so the scene froze.

Only Zhao Yun knew it in her heart, she walked up to Jiang Wei and supported Jiang Wei's shoulder: "Jiang Boyue, don't be ignorant of good and bad."

This sentence is for others to hear, and then I have to lower my voice: "Hurry up and offer the tea! The prime minister doesn't even want Shu Xiu, and he accepts a disciple as soon as he drinks ginger tea. How can you find such a good one in the world?" Fuck you! You picked Mr. Yi for nothing when you first came here. Some people have worked so hard for more than ten years, and they can't even get close to him. Didn't you see that Ma Youchang's eyes were red with envy and hatred?"

Jiang Wei looked at Ma Di subconsciously—well, indeed.

But Jiang Wei was still wondering about one thing: "The 'token' is really..."

Zhao Yun had already punched him on his right shoulder: "This is your chance! If you seek death yourself, no one can save you!"

No one heard what Zhao Yun whispered to Jiang Wei. They only saw that after Zhao Yun walked away from Jiang Wei, Jiang Wei came to the case with ginger tea and knelt down again: "Mr., please have tea."

There was a sudden subtle change in the title, and others may not have reacted to it, but Ma Di's face immediately darkened, and his sense of crisis suddenly increased.Why did Jiang Wei suddenly call "Sir"?He deserves it too? Isn't "Sir" a special address for the prime minister in private?

not good...not good...

To make matters worse, Zhuge Liang smiled and stood up to take the cup of tea...

What a heartbreaking pace.

However, when these messy contents flashed through Ma Di's mind, things suddenly changed unexpectedly: when Zhuge Liang just stretched out his hand to touch "卮", Jiang Wei suddenly shook his hand, and the whole ginger tea was poured on Zhuge Liang. His hands, especially his left hand, fell to the ground.

The hot ginger tea soaked the white cloth, and Zhuge Liang only felt a sharp pain in the little finger of her left hand. She clenched her left hand tightly and fell back down.

Ma Su turned pale with shock, and couldn't care less about thinking wildly: "Sir! Sir!"

The crowd couldn't care about Jiang Wei anymore, and rushed forward: "What's wrong with the prime minister?"

Jiang Wei, who was squeezed out by the crowd, still saw it. Ma Su hurriedly opened the wound that Zhuge Liang had bandaged while calling for the military doctor—there was indeed a little finger missing, and the wound was still fresh. There should have been five slender and beautiful fingers. Complete left hand, now only has four fingers.

Jiang Wei was stunned, and then suddenly regretted his probing move just now.

It was too late, and after the military doctor rushed to say that there was nothing serious, everyone turned to Jiang Wei with a murderous look.Jiang Wei only hated himself, and it was only natural to bear the anger of others.

This time it was Zhao Yun who rushed over again, the veteran's anger was beyond words, she grabbed Jiang Wei's shoulders and dragged him out: "I have wanted to beat you up for a long time! I have been holding you back, but you are a fucking wretch Goods! Don’t come here! Don’t stop me! I’m going to teach him a lesson today!”

No one dared to speak. Zhao Yun dragged Jiang Wei to an open space. Jiang Wei still knelt down knowingly, allowing Zhao Yun to move his wrist and prepare to beat him.

Suddenly someone came out from the big tent, Zhuge Liang endured the pain, and just wanted to persuade Zhao Yun not to go too far, Zhao Yun roared: "Don't stop me!"

Zhuge Liang was stunned for a few seconds: "Okay, I won't stop."

Then Zhuge Liang was persuaded by Ma Di to go back.

What kind of weird scene is this, Jiang Wei thought.At that time, before he could come up with a result, Zhao Yun's fist arrived.

Left uppercut, right uppercut, left straight, right straight, uppercut, lower hook, long punch, short punch...

Jiang Wei felt that the sum of the beatings he had received in the 27 years before his life was not as much as this time.

Zhao Yun's beating was also very artistic. Although it didn't hurt the muscles or bones, the soft tissue contusion was also very painful... Jiang Wei knew that he would not be able to see people with this face for about half a month.

After playing for about half an hour, Zhao Yun looked at Jiang Wei who was already lying on the ground, heaved a sigh of relief, and clapped his hands: "Okay, I feel good playing!"

……

In fact, I have to say that Jiang Wei is quite sad.He himself admits that his handsome face is completely invisible now, no one dares to see it and can't see it, he can only sit on the antlers alone and blow the night breeze, the cool feeling can somewhat relieve the burning on his face pain.

"What are you, no matter how painful you are, you can still hurt like a pig? Besides, I was merciful and didn't beat him to death." Zhao Yun walked over from the side and gave him a bottle of medicine: "Wipe, it's better soon. "

"No, thank you General Zhao for your kindness." Jiang Wei returned the medicine, but his speech was a bit slurred because his face was swollen.

"What's the matter? Don't you think it works? I know that good medicines come out of Tianshui, sand and rocks, but don't look down on the medicines in Sichuan. The climate in Sichuan is special, and there are many precious medicinal materials-this is specially for bruises. , I won’t give it to you if it doesn’t work.”

"No, I didn't mean that. I just think I deserve it, so I'll be in pain for a few more days."

"Tsk tsk, you are Xiaozhu's disciple now, if she sees you, she will kill me."

When Jiang Wei looked at Zhao Yun, he had wondered about the relationship between Zhao Yun and Zhuge Liang: "General Zhao and the prime minister have a good relationship? Otherwise...how could General Zhao...call the prime minister like that?"

Zhao Yun also came over with a jug of wine, and she copied an ear cup: "Yes, we have known each other for a long time. Shall we drink?"

Jiang Wei declined Zhao Yun's kindness.

"You have suffered a lot today, but it's all for your own good. Don't believe me, Xiaozhu accepts you as a disciple sincerely."

"I know. If the generals didn't accept me as a disciple for the sake of the prime minister, they would have cut me to pieces with one sword."

"Well, it went well at first, but who knew that you had an unexpected problem. I have no choice but to beat you up. Fortunately, I struck you quickly. If someone else beat you up, you would be dead by now."

When it comes to this topic, both of them are a little depressed.

Jiang Wei hesitated for a while, and decided to ask the question he had been wondering: "The one I saw on the prime minister's case today...the route of march was determined early in the morning. That is to say...the prime minister didn't Planning to go straight to Chang'an?"

"Yes," Zhao Yun replied happily, "Little Pig planned to take Tianshui from the very beginning, and the purpose was to find you."

"Actually, I was not in Tianshui when the prime minister's army pretended to move. If I had given up here early and followed Ma Zun to Shangyu, the prime minister's plan would have been useless, and there would not be as many things as today."

"No, no, no," Zhao Yun shook his head, "We know that you followed Guo Huai at that time, and were not in Tianshui, Xiaozhu's plan. This is also a part of testing you, and it is the first part. It is to see if you have a big picture. If you hold back and sit back and watch Ji Han's army rush to Shangbei, then all plans will be cancelled, and we will not look for you again."

"Test?" Jiang Wei felt pain even frowning now.

"Well, didn't I say that Xiaozhu's purpose is to find you? In fact, it's not accurate to say that. She is looking for someone who is qualified, capable and confident to inherit her career."

"But why me? Wait, the prime minister is now in the prime of life, so I started looking... I think the prime minister is only in his 30s, and the news reports that he is almost [-] are a lie. The generals are also young..."

"P, she is indeed almost fifty. There are young generals and old generals, for example, I am over 70..."

Jiang Wei almost fell off the antlers.

"Why are you so surprised, I'm serious." Zhao Yun disagreed.

Jiang Wei worked hard to adapt himself to the news.

"You see, I'm so old, said the little pig, I don't have much time, so I agreed to her whole plan, I thought it would be good to have someone beside her who can support her after I die. I know what you want to say, you can't do it, you can't do it, you can't do it, you can't do it, you can't do it, you... maybe you can do it."

"...Thanks for your love." Jiang Wei didn't know what to say.

"Many people can't accept that the people they know go away first. Do you know why? Because the dead people take away the familiar life. Living alone in a new and unfamiliar environment, you will feel that life is worse than death. At this time, it is good to find a familiar enemy. An enemy who is familiar with oneself is simply cuter than a relative who is not familiar with oneself. Piglet is not as heartless as I am. I am afraid that she will not be able to survive alone. , when you didn't show up, I wanted to write a letter to Sima..."

Zhao Yun finally looked up to the sky and sighed, regardless of whether Jiang Wei understood or not.

"It's over, let's go back." Zhao Yun ended the conversation as abruptly as if he had started a conversation, and was about to leave with the wine jar in his hand.

"General Zhao would say that... Has someone he knew passed away?" Jiang Wei felt that those who had experienced this kind of words could understand.

"Well, you know this person very well."

"?"

"Ma Chao, Ma Mengqi."

The author has something to say:

The author thinks it's better to copy Romance of the Three Kingdoms... It's easy to go wrong when you make up your own.

There is no mention of Jiang Wei's mother in the official history, and judging from his mother's later experience (here is not cursing)... the author does not believe in the novel that he used his mother to threaten Jiang Wei to surrender, and his mother praised Ji Hanzhi Germany and so on.

In the official history, Jiang Wei was actually not forced to surrender. Ma Zun suspected him (I don’t know the reason for this, but I need to make up his mind), left him and ran away with others, and Jiang Wei had no way to return. In Yi County, the defense of the city could not last any longer and surrendered.It seems that there is no glorious history of "righteousness to the sky" and "iron bones", and even...why do I feel a little useless.

Therefore, it is necessary to find a lot of rationality for Zhuge Liang's preference for Jiang Wei, as well as rationality for Jiang Wei's behavior, and rationality for other people's reactions...

The author insists that: Jiang Wei’s loyalty to Ji Han was not established from the beginning, maybe a little half-hearted, but the longer he stayed with Zhuge Liang, the more moved and determined he became, until he was assimilated (or brainwashed?), and finally "long-term" When I grow up, I will become you"...

In the next section, I will write about Sima and give Meng Da tx some wax in advance—the author just wants to remind Meng Da of one thing: Do you remember how Cai Mao died?