The Three Kingdoms of the Widow

Just when Liu Bei was actively preparing for the battle, he was suddenly told that the war time had been postponed.

The problem lies with Cao Cao.

In April of the 13th year of Jian'an, Cao Chong became seriously ill.

When Cao Zhi also grew up, and when cuteness and intelligence could not coexist, Cao Chong made up for this gap very well.

Cao Chong is Cao Cao's most beloved son, because Cao Chong's existence allowed Cao Cao to find the superiority of his own genes as a father and the happiness of his family.

It is said that there are still ministers who are optimistic that they will stand by Cao Chong's side when they bet on Cao Cao's heir in the future.

When Cao Pi talked about this with Sima Yi, it was impossible not to worry at all.Although he doesn't feel that the position of "quasi-heir" is his own, but since Cao Ang's death, he has been treated according to the standard of "quasi-heir". This feeling is really good, and it will be addictive. Don't want to let go.

"Then you expect your brother to die?"

"How is this possible! Of course I hope he is well."

"Then what are you struggling with? When you have time, go and comfort Mr. Cao not to worry too much about this matter. Just do your best to be a son and a brother. By the way, I heard that Cai Yong's daughter has been found, and she came back from the Huns in a few days ?”

Cao Chong didn't make it through May, he died on a day that was not too hot. Except for Cao Cao, everyone's mentality was similar to this weather, I don't know whether it was joy or sorrow.

Cao Cao hugged the dead Cao Chong and cried bitterly. His mother, Mrs. Huan, had passed out from crying and was carried away. The other sons also fell to the ground and cried bitterly, listening to Cao Cao regretting that he had killed Hua Tuo arbitrarily.As the eldest son, Cao Pi came up to persuade Cao Cao to take care of his health. Cao Cao looked at him with tears in his eyes, and said resentfully, "This is my misfortune, but your Cao's luck is also."

Cao Pi suddenly felt like falling into an ice cave, cold from head to toe.

Guo Jia also said similar things to him before the Wancheng battle, but the feeling was completely different when the same words were said from his close relatives.

When he was finally allowed to leave the bed of the dead Cao Chong, Cao Pi quietly went to the stables to take out his stallion, and then carefully walked out of the Sikong mansion, until he walked two alleys away from the Sikong mansion, before he dared to get on his horse and gallop all the way.He kept this state until he entered Sima Mansion and went straight to Sima Yi's room.Sima Yi was unfolding "Zuo Zhuan" and watching, when Cao Pi rushed in out of breath, and she was also startled: "What's wrong?"

Cao Pi walked to the couch, knelt down suddenly, buried his head in Sima Yi's chest and burst into tears.

Sima Yi quickly returned to normal, even though Cao Pi cried, she was still lying on the couch watching her "Zuo Zhuan".

Cao Pi cried for a while, his voice lowered and gradually turned into sobs. Sima Yi pushed him up, then rang a simple bell she made by the bedside and called Zhang Chunhua: "Chunhua, get ready to wash your face and change clothes for Mr. Pi." Then she He asked Cao Pi coldly, "Have you cried enough?"

Cao Pi sobbed and couldn't speak, and nodded.

Sima Yi also nodded: "Let's talk about it—did you say something wrong in front of Cao Sikong, or what did Cao Sikong tell you?"

"Cang, Cang Shu... Shu, dead, dead..."

"Ah."

"I, I went to persuade me, my father, and he said... he said, 'It's my misfortune, but, it's your luck.'"

"That's all? Then why are you crying?"

Cao Pi didn't speak, but was still sobbing badly.

"Sikong is right. Since he is right, you just have to behave well and prove that he is right. Just let this fact become you, especially your luck. What's the use of thinking so much ?”

Sima Yi suddenly held Cao Pi's head and looked into his eyes: "Sikong has never liked your son, so you don't owe him anything, do you understand?"

When Cao Pi calmed down a bit, Zhang Chunhua came in with a basin of water and a clean cloth towel, and went to fetch a set of clothes and a full set of face powder to help Cao Pi change his clothes and clean his face.

"Chunhua, Mr. Pi has been guarding Mr. Chong all day today, and you haven't eaten yet. If you ask the kitchen to heat hot mutton biscuits, just say I will eat them."

Zhang Chunhua responded and left.

After tidying up, Cao Pi sat down beside Sima Yi's couch, "Zhongda, you said just now that you should behave... how do you behave?"

Sima Yi smiled faintly: "Young Master Chong is thirteen years old, and he has not yet married. He is so lonely and cannot be buried... According to the usual practice, Sikong will definitely choose a yin wife for him, and will adopt a son for him. You can take care of the adoption son." Don't worry about it, even if you agree with Ji Rui'er, Sikong will not agree; but choosing a wife is still a matter of discussion, you just recommend someone."

"Who do you recommend?"

"Didn't the Zhen family have a younger sister? I heard that she died at an early age, so she is about the same age, which is just right."

Just as he was talking, Zhang Chunhua came in from the outside, carrying a plate of sandwiches and a jar of unknown wine, and put them on the table in front of the bed: "Please, Mr. Pi."

Cao Pi picked up a mustard pancake, took a bite and spat it out: "Is this pancake spoiled? Why is it so sour?"

Zhang Chunhua opened the jar, and a strong fishy smell wafted out. As soon as Sima Yi smelled it, he couldn't help lying down on the couch and began to retch.

"Zhang Chunhua! What are you doing!" Sima Yi was furious.

Zhang Chunhua looked innocent: "It's nothing, you said you want to eat it, so I poured more vinegar into the cake and meat according to your taste these days. This jar is goat's milk wine! Good stuff! Big I made it up, isn't it just right for Mr. Pi?"

Sima Yi resisted the sour water in his stomach: "Get out!"

Cao Pi grabbed Zhang Chunhua: "Has Zhongda lost his appetite recently? Why is he eating so sour?"

"No, it's fine, it's normal."

"How can this be normal! Have you seen the medical officer?"

"I've seen it. The medical officer said that everything is normal. It has been like this for two months."

"Oh... eh? Two months!"

"Yes, congratulations, Mr. Pi, Zhong Da is going to be a father again." Zhang Chunhua smiled like a flower and saluted Cao Pi.

This weird celebration made the room suddenly quiet.

"Ah, by the way, at this time, should I put something in my stomach, or should I let Mrs. Zhen stuff something in my stomach?" When Zhang Chunhua asked this question, his expression was pure and messed up.

"Get out, or you'll swallow all these cakes in front of me. I will do what I say." Sima Yi felt better, and finally had the energy to teach Zhang Chunhua a lesson.

Whenever Sima Yi made a threatening expression with this expression, it meant that she was going to be serious. Zhang Chunhua already had experience.So she ran away very cleverly, not forgetting to close the door when she left.

For Cao Pi, this news saved him, because Cao Chong's death and all the emotions of sadness, pain, fear and despair were relieved a lot. He held Sima Yi's hand with joy: "Zhongda, This child..."

"It's mine." Sima Yi cut off the conversation.

"I know I know."

"You don't know." Sima Yi lay down again and picked up "Zuo Zhuan", "I mean, this child is only mine and has nothing to do with you. It will be named Sima. Don't even think about taking him away. !"

"Okay, okay, Zhongda, don't be angry, your surname is Sima, but can I still visit him often?"

Sima Yi ignored him.

Cao Pi continued by himself: "I can still give him a name...what should I call it...Father is about to use troops against Jingzhou, I hope he will win this time, let's call him 'Shi'!" Ruier, what is your name Zhong!"

"'Zhong' means second. This child belongs to my Sima family, he is the boss! In their lifetime, there must be a 'zi' in the character."

"Then it's called 'Zi Yuan', Rui'er is called 'Yuan Zhong', and this child is called 'Zi Yuan', do you like it?"

Sima Yi couldn't be bothered to speak any more, so he dropped the sentence "If it's a girl, how can I name it?" and began to concentrate on reading.

Cao Pi was already used to Sima Yi's indifferent state of answering, and knew that at this time, he had to keep his face and talk on his own, and Sima Yi would listen.

"I heard that Liu Bei has a military advisor under his command. Father plans to invite this person over. Uh, Zhong Da, you seem to say that this is called 'poaching' in your opinion, right?

"Zhongde said that this person is called Xu Shu, and he takes care of his mother very filially, so it is not difficult to let him come. When Jingzhou is attacked, just arrest his mother by the way.

"Hey Zhongda, do you know where Xu Shu's ancestral home is? You must not be able to guess it! But father agreed as soon as Wen Ruo mentioned this place..."

"Yingchuan Yangdi, right?" Sima Yi said suddenly.

"Uh... ahahaha, yes, Zhongda, you are really smart."

"It's not that I'm smart, and only this place can convince Sikong."

"When Xu Shu leaves Liu Bei, there will be no one around Liu Bei. At that time, Dad will break through Jingzhou and go straight to Jiangdong! Maybe the army will win the class before the teacher is born..."

"That's not necessarily the case." Sima Yi poured cold water on him, "Don't think that Xu Shu is the only one beside Liu Bei, there are more powerful ones, such as..."

Sima Yi suddenly thought of something, she suddenly turned over and did it, scaring Cao Pi: "Zhongda, what's wrong with you?"

"Why did I almost forget..."

In June of the 13th year of Jian'an.

Cao Cao came out of the grief of losing his son and began to prepare for the Southern Expedition wholeheartedly. The first thing he had to solve was the problem of injustice.So he went to the table and asked the Emperor of Han to issue an edict to abolish the three princes of Taiwei, Situ, and Sikong to assist the government, and restore the system of prime ministers and royal officials in the Western Han Dynasty that had been abolished for hundreds of years.With the position of prime minister, Cao Cao is the only one who can be prime minister at this time, so Cao Cao was naturally named prime minister by the Han emperor, and Cao Cao successfully completed the concentration of power from name to fact.At the same time, he did not give up the reputation of Jizhou Mu, and firmly controlled the entire capital in his own hands.

Another thing to be solved is Ma Teng who has been making trouble in the northwest. Cao Cao decided that it is better to keep such a dangerous person by his side and watch, so he ordered Yilang Zhang to persuade Ma Teng to give up his military power and enter Xu with his promotion as bait. All.Ma Teng hesitated and weighed repeatedly, and finally came up with a compromise plan, handing over the army to his eldest son Ma Chao, and taking some of his family members to Xudu.Cao Cao still didn't know how much trouble that Ma Chao would cause him in the future. He was just a little upset because his plan could not be fully realized. He appointed Ma Teng as a guard, and then moved Ma Teng's family to Yecheng, which he tightly controlled, was taken as a hostage.Finally, the threat from the Northwest was temporarily eliminated.

At this time, Nu Xin, who lives in the White Horse Temple in Luoyang, received a letter sent by Xun Yu. There were only two words on the letter: Prime Minister.

Nu Xin smiled at the two words, and then burned the letter cleanly without leaving any ashes.

All plans have started to go on track, and this is a road that cannot be turned back once gone.

Huang Yueying was looking at some drawings left by Zhuge Liang in the inner room, when she suddenly heard someone knocking on the door, and after a while, the maid came to report that Uncle Liu Huangshu had sent someone to pick her up, her daughter and Zhuge Jun to Xinye to reunite with Zhuge Liang's family.

"Is there a letter?" Huang Yueying asked.

"There is an official document from the emperor's uncle."

Huang Yueying took it over and looked at it, and it was indeed Xinye's official exit and entry certificate, stamped with Liu Bei's left general seal.

"Go and see."

Zhuge Jun went out, Huang Yueying could only deal with it by herself.

When Huang Yueying came out, she saw that outside the fence were all ordinary Xinye soldiers, about a dozen of them, with two large carts.The one in front of the car seemed to be dressed very long. Seeing Huang Yueying, he hurriedly gave a deep salute: "Madam, I am ordered by the emperor's uncle to invite my wife, my son, and Mr. Jun to live in Xinye temporarily to avoid swords."

"Since it was sent by the emperor's uncle, I wonder if my husband knows about it?"

"Unknown. Uncle Huang said: Madam will be reunited with the military division when she arrives in Xinye, and the family will be happy."

Huang Yueying smiled slightly: "Since that's the case, let me collect something immediately, and please come to the hut to wait."

"Madam Lao, but my lord's military order is very strict, so I dare not enter privately."

"I'm taking money, but it's inconvenient to move it. Please move it on your behalf. Sergeants, please wait a little longer."

"In this case, dare not obey orders." The chief minister said repeatedly, and entered the yard.

Huang Yueying entered the inner room, called Zhuge Jin, gave some instructions, and then started to pack the things. When she moved to a small box, she couldn't lift it, so she went to call Shizhang for help.Shi Zhang hurried into the room and saw Huang Yueying bending over to move a box with great effort.

"Ma'am, I'm here..." Shi Chang said as he walked up, and just as he bent down, he suddenly felt something attacking his back. He instinctively avoided it, but Huang Yueying stabbed him on the thigh.

Unable to subdue the enemy with one blow, Huang Yueying hurriedly shouted: "Run, today!" She picked up the clay pot on the table and slammed it hard at the long head.

The long screams had alarmed the outsiders, they quickly jumped over the fence, cut down a few servants who hadn't understood, and rushed into the thatched hut.

At this time, Shichang had already caught Huang Yueying. After all, she was trained in the army. Although she was injured, she knew how to deal with it. How could Huang Yueying, a girl, be her opponent?

"Bitch! She looks ugly and has a cruel heart!" Shi Zhang yelled and slapped Huang Yueying twice, until Huang Yueying's hair was messed up and her mouth was bleeding.

Huang Yueying scolded back without showing weakness: "Zizi, how dare you lie to me! I don't know that I am Zhuge Kongming's wife! My husband has a special order before leaving, don't trust outsiders! Today's matter, my husband will not let you go!" wait!"

Zhuge was ordered by Huang Yueying to escape from the back door this morning, but when he escaped to the back, he found that there were also three people surrounding him, so he had no choice but to retreat to the courtyard, and heard his mother being caught again. Zhuge Jin was not afraid, but full of anger , she picked up a stone in the yard and threw it at the nearest soldier.

Someone had already seen Zhuge Jin, saying that she was Zhuge Liang's daughter, and they took her back together. Zhuge Jin was desperate, looked around, plunged into the large toy gossip maze that Zhuge Liang had built for her, and activated the center mechanism.

This thing starts spinning.

The people who came had never seen this kind of thing, they looked at each other in blank dismay, and after waiting for a few seconds, some people got impatient and said that anyway, what a little girl can do, go in and catch her!

Only when you enter, you will know how powerful it is. The gossip maze simplified from the gossip array is a thing that makes you come in and can't go out to toss you.

Four or five soldiers went in, and within a few steps, they were hit by heavy wooden planks one after another, and some fell out of the gossip array.

Fortunately, when Zhuge Liang made this thing, he designed a lot of protection devices similar to chamfering and wrapping in consideration of Zhuge Jin's personal safety, otherwise it would be a murderous weapon.

But, Zhuge Liang's consideration is mainly aimed at "children" as big as Zhuge Jin, so usually this protective device is only set on the size of "children", and "adults" are not included in the protection at this time, so , or someone was crushed by a thick plank.

Accompanied by screams, blood splashed out...

The soldiers hated the blood of their comrades the most. Seeing someone died, the eyes of the other soldiers turned red immediately, and they all pulled out the ring-shoulders, shouting to avenge their brothers, and slashed at the toy.

Soon the mechanical structure on the south side was destroyed first, and several soldiers jumped in and rushed towards Zhuge Jin aggressively with knives.

Several other soldiers came out of the hut with the disheveled Huang Yueying. Huang Yueying watched the knife slash at Zhuge Jin, but Zhuge Jin had nowhere to hide. She was desperate: "Ah Jin—"

Zhuge Jin closed his pretty little phoenix eyelashes, biting his silver teeth like rice grains, waiting to die.

Suddenly, the sound of a feathered arrow pierced through the air, and this thick arrow pierced through the head of the soldier closest to Zhuge Jin with an unmistakable "poof", and the strong momentum took the corpse several steps away.

This sudden encounter stunned all the soldiers present.

At this moment, a white horse had rushed forward, and a long spear passed between Zhuge Jin and the soldiers who jumped into the gossip formation. In the next second, those people were shot far away by the handle of the long spear.

"Dare to touch me as a daughter! You are so tired of working so hard!" A general on a white horse with a brocade robe and chain armor without a pocket and only a cloth scarf yelled indistinctly.

"General Zhao! General Zilong!" Huang Yueying was pleasantly surprised when she recognized the person coming.

Zhao Yun reined in his horse. At this time, several cavalry and a group of infantry behind him also rushed to protect Zhuge Jin.

Zhao Yun jumped off the horse, and looked coldly at the opposite man with the knife on Huang Yueying's neck: "Who are you?"

"Who are you?!"

"You are not the emperor's team, how can there be people like you under the emperor's uncle!" Zhao Yun didn't even bother to answer. "Let go of Mrs. Huang."

"Don't think about it!"

Suddenly another arrow shot, everyone tensed up and paid attention to that arrow for a while, but fortunately, the arrow seemed to have no purpose but shot towards the woods behind the thatched hut.

But at the moment when everyone was distracted, Zhao Yun made a decisive move, picked three people in a row, and rescued Huang Yueying.

After clearing the siege, Zhao Yun looked back at Chen Dao with a smile. He shot the arrow.

No one was caught in this inexplicable battle. Seeing that there was no way out, this group of unknown people all took poison and committed suicide. Zhao Yun searched and searched but found nothing of value. Even the clothes these people were wearing were indeed Jingzhou soldiers' clothes.

Zhao Yun ordered his subordinates to quickly clean up the battlefield, bury the corpses, clean up the traces, and then came to Huang Yueying: "Mrs. Huang, I'm frightened."

Huang Yueying shook her head: "Fortunately, General Zilong arrived in time..."

"Godfather!" Zhuge Jin ran over, and Huang Yueying hugged her into her arms, weeping uncontrollably.

"Ms. Huang, little pig... Ah, no, I am escorting you to Xinye for temporary shelter under the orders of the emperor and Zhuge's army division. Let's go. If there is anything, we will talk about it when we arrive in Xinye."

Huang Yueying nodded. At this time, Zhuge Jun had also returned, and he was also dumbfounded when he saw the scene at the door of his house.

Zhao Yun felt that this was a good idea, so as to save the need to go to Zhuge Jun again, let's leave when everyone is ready.

When they arrived in Xinye, Zhuge Liang was waiting for them, but when Huang Yueying got out of the car, Zhuge Liang was startled: "Yueying, what's wrong?"

Huang Yueying threw herself into Zhuge Liang's arms and cried loudly, and Zhuge Jin also rushed forward and hugged Zhuge Liang's thigh to join in the fun.

Zhuge Liang turned his head to look at Zhao Yun. Zhao Yun briefly explained what had happened, but finally said helplessly that no evidence of his identity was found.

Zhuge Liang became gloomy when he heard that, she had just left the mountain, and before she did anything, someone planned to attack her family members!This person must know himself very well, so it is unlikely that he is someone from Cao Wei's side. These people are indeed dressed like Xinye soldiers, so it is not Liu Bei's desperado who was bought by someone, or Liu Biao Jingzhou is here!

After persuading Huang Yueying and Zhuge Jin, Zhuge Liang arranged for them to bathe and change clothes, and to have a meal to calm the shock. Before Huang Yueying left, he secretly put a sign in Zhuge Liang's hand and said to her quietly: "Husband, this is me on that long waist." It’s a little strange, I didn’t dare to tell others.”

Huang Yueying, Zhuge Jin, and Zhuge Jun all left. Zhuge Liang took out the sign and looked at it carefully.

It was an ordinary pine board, rectangular and rough, with no words written on it, only a horsetail whisk engraved on one side.

Seeing what Zhuge Liang was holding in his hand, Zhao Yun hadn't changed his posture for a long time, so he leaned over to look out of curiosity: "Little pig, what are you looking at... ah!"

In Zhao Yun's exclamation, Zhuge Liang threw the pine board far away in a rage.

"Sima Yi! What enmity do I have against you? You want to treat me like this! If you want to kill me, that's all. What enmity do my family have against you!"

Zhao Yun had never seen Zhuge Liang gritted his teeth and hated him like this.

"Cao Wei is like this! Beasts, not humans! I will never forgive them. From today onwards, I will fight with them! Zhao Xiaoyun, I will not leave, I will stay here, and teach Cao Cao and others a lesson!"

"Little pig, you are not leaving!" Zhao Yun was surprised and delighted.

"Well, let's not go!"

After dinner with Liu Bei and others, the host and guest had a good time, and then Zhuge Liang and Huang Yueying went to the house allocated for them to live temporarily.

After coaxing Zhuge Jin to sleep, Zhuge Jun came to greet his brother and sister-in-law, and then went to bed.Zhuge Liang was about to arrange to wipe the pillow mat when Huang Yueying began to push her out.

"Yueying, don't push me."

"You go, the emperor is waiting for you."

"What did you say?"

"I didn't lie to you this time, and you don't lie to me, I can see everything."

Zhuge Liang looked at Huang Yueying helplessly: "It is the emperor's uncle's habit to 'sit together at the same table when eating, and share the same bed when sleeping' for a few months. Yuan Zhi and Zhao Xiaoyun are treated like this. I only found out the emperor's uncle the next day. He is clear in his heart, and what he told Zhao Xiaoyun and me are all 'made for others to read, so you sleep on the couch and I read books'. No matter how long I have been here, he has been sitting next to the desk and sleeping for as long as it is. Even for Let him sleep on the couch once, and I can't go to him today, okay?"

"I believe what you say," Huang Yueying grabbed Zhuge Liang's hand, "but I can see everything. I won't stop you. Let the emperor sleep on the bed tonight, and I will take care of Ah Jin tonight. "

No matter what Zhuge Liang said, Huang Yueying shut her out.Zhuge Liang actually wanted to ask Yueying, are you a pimp?I look like I need sex so much?

Liu Bei read by the oil lamp and fell asleep halfway through.

In fact, he doesn't like reading very much, and the things taught in the books are actually not as much as what he learned in the years when he was in the market.But he respected his teacher Lu Zhi very much. Lu Zhi strictly asked him to study, even if he couldn't finish it. Lu Zhi said that after reading for a long time, it will naturally be different.

Liu Bei thought that Zhuge Liang would be reunited with his wife and daughter today, but when he was going to find Madam Mi, who knew that Zhuge Liang would come back.

So it is still "you sleep on the couch and I read a book".

But today was a bit different, Liu Bei just felt a little drowsy when someone pushed him awake.

When he woke up, he saw Zhuge Liang in a coat sitting opposite him, poking him with his finger.

"Kong Ming, you haven't slept yet?"

"I can't sleep, I want you to sleep on the couch."

"No, what an inconvenience."

"I. Sincere. Heart. Sincere. Meaning. Please. You. Go to the couch and sleep on it." Zhuge Liang bit each word clearly.

"I have already invited you so sincerely, how can you refuse?" A big smile was attached.

It's a blessing to have a couch to sleep on, Uncle Liu Huang thought with emotion.

When the group of five was still studying at Sanhe University of Technology, due to Guo Jia’s intermittent whim, also known as intermittent convulsions, she suddenly suggested that everyone exchange and design a logo for others one day.So Guo Jia designed Zhou Yu's, Zhou Yu designed Zhao Yun's, Zhao Yun designed Zhuge Liang's, Zhuge Liang designed Sima's... Of course, in the process, it is inevitable that someone is dissatisfied with whom, who redesigns who, who finds inspiration for whom... the final result The result is: Guo Jia's logo is a stick figure elephant made up of two letters GJ; Zhou Yu's logo is a flute; Zhao Yun's is an auspicious cloud; Zhuge Liang's is naturally a feather fan; Sima Yi's is A whisk.

Sima Yi was very dissatisfied at the time: "Does this mean that I want to see through the world?"

Zhuge Liang didn't raise his head: "The day you become a monk will definitely be a good day for the whole world to celebrate and set off firecrackers."

The author has something to say:

The "whisk" in the Han Dynasty is different from the ponytail whisk we now see, so Zhuge Liang concluded that it was the symbol of Sima Yi.

The author is not a theory of the immutability of history (and the author has repeatedly emphasized that this is not history, although he always talks about "history" for the sake of thickness), on the contrary, the author's point of view is that "history is created and not is obeyed".History does not need to be changed, but it is because of wanting to change that history has become like that. "The farther you are, the closer you are." Guo Jia left her last words before she died, "Sima is unusable, and Jiangdong cannot be attacked." Her purpose is to change something, but because she wrote these, the female Xin who was bent on revenge Taking advantage of the loophole, history has developed in a known direction—even so, none of the traversers gave up their efforts to change history, and they have been trying to do something because of their own unbearable heart. The author is quite moved by these traversers.