The Three Kingdoms of the Widow

Xu Shu looked at the gloomy sky and felt that his mood was the same color as the sky.

What Zhuge Liang had kindly reminded him had just been verified by a piece of news: someone sent his mother's handwriting, and his mother fell into the hands of Cao Cao after being separated from Changbanpo.

Along with his mother's letter, there is also a letter from Cao Cao, the words seem to be quite relaxed: Yuan Zhi, you don't have to believe this, but I can't guarantee the consequences of your disbelief myself.

Before Xu Kang passed away, Xu Shu remembered that his younger brother always told him, brother, you can go and do your business at ease, mother will be taken care of by me.Xu Shu in his early years was indeed a bit willful, he learned the style of a knight-errant, and never thought about studying, but Xu Kang never blamed him, nor did he feel that it was unfair to take care of his mother. Xu Kang smiled honestly, pointed to his own head and said that he was stupid, not as smart as his elder brother, and he blamed his elder brother for the matter of Guangzong Yaozu. I will take good care of my mother and don't let him be distracted.

Xu Shu didn't realize that he couldn't go on like this until he was fifteen or sixteen years old. Although he was lucky enough not to be accused of any criminal record after being arrested by the government once, this experience taught him one thing: no matter how brave and ruthless a person is, , p is not in front of the state machine.So Xu Shu was silent. After the silence, he decided to make a cut with his past self and started studying seriously.

Xu Kang still supports him unconditionally, just like when he was a swordsman before, Xu Kang took care of his mother, and also supported Xu Shu's full-time study and all the expenses of visiting famous teachers and making friends...

Until two or three years ago, Xu Kang passed away suddenly... Xu Shu had to take all the responsibilities of Xu Kang overnight. He instantly understood how difficult Xu Kang was. Looking back, he vowed to take care of his mother even more Well, it seems that this can comfort Xu Kang's spirit in heaven.

He went to find Liu Biao first, and then defected to Liu Bei, all of which were part of the plan to "make his mother live better". He needed to exchange his talents and learning for his mother to have a good life in his later years...but now, his mother is in the hands of Cao Cao up.

The mother has only him as a son, and he has only the mother as a relative.

The choice seems to be easy to make, but what he has learned in those years of traveling, Confucius, Mencius and Dong Zhongshu combined a thing called "benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith", and Xu Shu felt that the choice was difficult.

Huang Yueying escaped from the chaos with her wit and youth a few days earlier, and finally caught up with Liu Bei and took refuge in Xiakou together. The first thing she did after she settled down was to send someone to send a handwritten letter to Xu Shu, pleading guilty repeatedly: I did not Take good care of the old lady, and get separated from the old lady.

But can Huang Yueying be blamed?This is life.

Someone came to invite Xu Shu, saying that Liu Bei and Liu Qi invited him to discuss matters, Zhuge Liang had not sent back the news from Jiangdong, and the matter of forming an alliance was not reliable, and they always had to plan for the worst. What would these people do without Sun Quan's assistance.

Xu Shu waved his hand, he didn't want to go, his mind was in a mess, at this moment he couldn't analyze calmly, couldn't put forward the best advice, and couldn't be a qualified counselor.

So don't mess with it.

If Xu Shu doesn't come and Zhuge Liang isn't here, this small Liu Bei group is a little bit of a turmoil. Neither Sun Qian Jianyong nor the newly joined Yiji dare to speak nonsense. Liu Bei has no choice but to come to Xu Shu himself.

Seeing Xu Shu sitting in a daze beside the desks with his mother and Cao Cao's handwriting, Liu Bei couldn't say what he had prepared: "Yuanzhi..."

Xu Shu looked back and saw Liu Bei, stood up unsteadily to salute: "My lord..."

Liu Bei stopped him, sat down opposite him, looked at the letter in his hand, hesitated to speak.

"My lord is here for this matter?" Xu Shu spread the letters among several cases.

"What's Yuan Zhi's plan?" Liu Bei asked cautiously.

Xu Shu was silent for a long time, and finally heaved a long sigh: "As a son, you can't put your relatives in danger. As a minister, you can't put your master in danger. If you go today, you will betray the master, and if you stay, you will harm your relatives. The words of loyalty and filial piety will surely harm them." One. This all started for the commoner, and ended for the commoner. The two difficulties of the commoner, the only one is to die, to repay the kindness of the lord, and to fulfill the filial piety of a son." As he spoke, he drew his sword from his waist.

Liu Bei was taken aback: "Yuan Zhi can't do it!" He reached out and pressed the hilt of his sword.Seeing that the situation was not good, Jian Yong, the grandson outside the door, also rushed in and snatched Xu Shu's sword with all his might.

Xu Shu couldn't help weeping bitterly: "It's like this!"

Everyone's face is not good-looking.Even the chief counselor is "what to do", let alone others.

Liu Bei couldn't help thinking that it would be nice if Kong Ming was here...but just thinking about it, Zhuge Liang was not there.If you write a letter to Jiangdong to ask, even if Zhuge Liang has a solution, the news will take half a month to come back. At that time, Cao Cao might have sent Mother Xu's head...

The more Xu Shu cried, the more sad he became. Liu Bei's face turned blue and white, white and green again, repeated several times, as if he had made up his mind, he took Xu Shu's sword from everyone's hands, handed it to Xu Shu with both hands, and said in a low voice: "Yuanzhi, you... you might as well go!"

Everyone thought they heard it wrong at this moment.

Xu Shu also thought he heard it wrong, so he stopped crying and looked at Liu Bei in surprise.

"Dear, dear, benevolent... the foundation of people. Yan Han ruled the world with benevolence and filial piety. How can we build a family without filial piety, and how can we build a country without benevolence. I am a family member, and I have to inherit the kindness of your majesty, and I should be full of the principles of filial piety. Yuanzhi... You can go away and return to support your relatives in order to regain your fame!"

"My lord, don't do it!" Sun Gan exclaimed, and stepped forward to salute, "This is an extraordinary time. Yuan Zhi should go and stay. We should discuss with everyone, and Mr. Kong Ming should also report it!"

"No need! This is an extraordinary time, so what happened to Yuan Zhi is not an extraordinary matter! Yuan Zhi alone can make the decision, Yuan Zhi can get up as soon as possible, and welcome his mother as soon as possible!"

Seeing Liu Bei's resoluteness, Sun Qian was deeply embarrassed. He looked at Liu Bei, then turned to Xu Shu, hoping that he would be moved to make a statement and stay: "Yuanzhi..."

Xu Shu didn't speak.

Xu Shu couldn't speak.It would be unfilial if he stayed; but if he didn't stay...of course Liu Bei had good intentions, at least he showed a good attitude of benevolence. If you really follow the steps given by Boss Liu, you may be beaten by a furious general.

Liu Bei seemed to see Xu Shu's worry, he took Xu Shu's hand, and said sincerely: "Yuan Zhi don't have to worry, three days later, the lonely family will see Yuan Zhi farewell!"

Zhuge Liang looked at the three letters in front of him and felt powerless.

Liu Bei's letter is very simple: Kong Ming, Yuan Zhi is gone, how is the matter of the Liu-Sun Alliance going?When will you come back?

Huang Yueying's letter is a letter of self-criticism: Kong Ming, I'm sorry for you, for the party, for the country, for the people... I lost Mother Xu, which caused Mother Xu to fall into the hands of Cao Cao, Yuan Zhi also resigned, and now everyone is in panic , I'm sorry, you're sorry, the party is sorry, the country is sorry for the people...

Zhao Yun's letter is just a running account, some of them wrote a lot, the main thing is to describe in detail the scene of Liu Bei seeing off Xu Shu, it is thought-provoking and touching, and when he held his hands and looked at him, his eyes were silent and choked with tears, the love was deep and rainy The world is only in your eyes... But the narration, which accounts for more than 90% of the letter, is not as important as the argumentative essay at the end: Kong Ming, I don't think Xu Shu left because of his mother, he wanted to leave.You see, he didn't even leave you a letter explaining his business.

Zhao Yun's irrational intuition is completely consistent with Zhuge Liang's rational analysis.The root cause of Xu Shu's departure was that he wanted to leave urgently. However, the loss of Xu's mother gave him a good and logical excuse. As for whether Boss Liu saw this and pushed the boat along, Zhuge Liang didn't think it was that important. up.At the most difficult moment for Boss Liu, Xu Shu could not see hope. What's worse, Zhuge Liang was fighting him for his job.He is different from Sun Qian Jianyong and others. His dream became "to help the world" from the moment he was studying. He has the ability and ambition, but he seems to lack a little luck with Liu Bei, so he wants to change jobs.

Zhuge Liang sighed and put away the letter, he couldn't blame Xu Yuanzhi for being dishonest, everyone is doing it for fame and gain, betrayal and abandonment are commonplace, if he hadn't had a feud with Cao Cao, he might have gone to defect to him long ago, and by the way he changed it History or something.

"Little pig, it's not too late, you are so brave, do you want me to drag you out to enforce the law?"

As soon as Zhou Yu walked in, he saw Zhuge Liang sighing at the three pieces of white silk on the table.

Zhuge Liang hurriedly got up to greet Zhou Yu: "Senior sister, don't be ridiculous, didn't you agree on the first day that I shouldn't fight?"

Zhuge Liang arrived in Jiangdong on the first day. After stabbing all the famous people in Jiangdong with a poisonous tongue, he finally saw Sun Quan. At this time, Sun Quan was frowning with a letter from Cao Cao that "Fang and the general will hunt in Wu".Zhuge Liang used a very old-fashioned aggressive method to force Sun Quan to make up his mind, saying that you want people and money anyway, if you are determined to fight Cao Cao, you should fight Cao Cao early, and if you are not determined, surrender early.Sun Quan asked Liu Bei why he didn't surrender in accordance with the rules of history?Seeing the opportunity, Zhuge Liang got up from his seat and said loudly: "My lord is the man of the emperor's family. It is God's will not to destroy Cao Fuhan. How can he stoop to become a thief!"

Sun Quan was furious, but this anger also "angered" Zhuge Liang's opportunity-the biggest trouble for Zhuge Liang when he came to Jiangdong was not to persuade Sun Quan to form an alliance, but how to make Sun Quan treat Liu Bei equally.She had to seize every opportunity to elevate Liu Bei's image and status, and let everyone know that both Liu Bei and Sun Quan were vassals with the same high status on the separatist side, and no one was attached to the other.

Non-participation in Jiangdong Yingmao, the detached diplomatic immunity is a result of Zhuge Liang's efforts.

Of course, it was also fortunate to have met Zhou Yu, an acquaintance.

Zhuge Liang was so impressed with this encounter that decades later, she still remembers it vividly. She was led by Lu Su into Jianwei Zhonglang's mansion, and walked through the winding pavilions and waterside pavilions. At that time, she still had a little expectation and a little bit Afraid of meeting Zhou Yu.

Maybe it's Senior Sister Zhou, or maybe it's not Senior Sister Zhou. If it's Senior Sister Zhou, what kind of surprise encounter will it be?If not, does this contradictory and entangled state of mind seem extremely ridiculous?

Stepping up to the first step of the water pavilion, Zhuge Liang felt that the beautiful figure in the white brocade and beaded crown sitting and playing the piano became more and more familiar.

At the end of the song, the beauty stood up and turned to Lu Su and Zhuge Liang, and smiled before saying anything: "Little pig, I have been waiting for you for a long time."

This voice is simply heavenly—if Zhuge Liang were to describe his mood at this time, he would want to immediately throw his feather fan and rush over to hug him: "Senior Sister Zhou~ I miss you so much~"

But Zhuge Liang didn't do that.

The reason why she didn't do this was not that Lu Su was beside her, but that she was afraid of being beaten by Zhou Yu.

Only the slightly trembling hand holding the feather fan revealed Zhuge Liang's excited mood.

Facts proved that Zhuge Liang's worries were not superfluous, because Zhou Yu then smiled and said: "You made a good machine-do you know how much trouble you caused?"

Zhuge Liang turned his head at a 45-degree angle and looked innocently at the sky.

The three of them sat down as guests and hosts, and a beautiful and refined beauty led the servants to serve the wine and food.When Zhuge Liang heard Zhou Yu say to the beauty naturally, "Thank you, Xiaoqiao", he kept staring at Xiaoqiao in surprise.

After Xiaoqiao led the people back, Zhou Yu raised his wine glass and said to Zhuge Liang casually, "Come on, drink, don't stare at him, it's rude."

"Sister, are you married?"

"No, Xiaoqiao is my concubine."

Zhou Yu took it for granted, but Zhuge Liang had an unbelievable expression.

"What's that expression on your face? Is it strange that I have a concubine? Aren't you married too?" Zhou Yu pointed out Zhuge Liang's double standards.

"I think it's normal for this kind of thing to happen to me, but it's always weird when it happens to others." Zhuge Liang expressed his righteousness of double standards.

Lu Su couldn't stand it anymore: "Although I don't understand what you two are talking about, I'm sure it has nothing to do with the business we are going to talk about today, right?"

"Yeah, what are you going to talk about today?"

Before Lu Su couldn't bear Zhuge Liang's malice and was about to explode naturally, Zhou Yu turned the matter on the right track with one sentence: "Tell me what to do now. Zijing, you also take care of the children... Kong Ming has met the lord, you two Firstly."

"My lord is inclined to unite against Cao Cao, but he hasn't made up his mind yet. If he is really going to make up his mind, he needs a statement on a formal occasion as a catalyst." Zhuge Liang resolutely faced Qing Zheng in front of him as he spoke. The perch is off the chopsticks.

"It's easy."

"The difficulty is the attitude of the rest of the people. Civil servants and military generals have different calculations in their hearts. This time Cao Cao offered sacrifices to the name of the emperor and led an elite army to conquer the power of Jingzhou. Jiangdong's people are not in harmony. It is really difficult to compete. By the way, Gongjin has been in Lujiang for ten days, why hasn't he met the lord?" Lu Su sighed.

"Hmph," Zhou Yu chuckled mockingly, "Why did Zijing think I didn't go? To tell you the truth, I've been back for ten days, and I haven't had time to see you two until now. If you want to surrender, you want to fight, if you don't surrender, you don't want to fight, I don't know whether to surrender or fight, those who listen to the rumors, those who try to persuade, those who want to gain benefits, I have seen all kinds of people."

"Then... what is Gong Jin's intention?"

"Of course it's war. Jiangdong is not Jingzhou, and the lord is not Liu Cong! Cao Cao is arrogant. This time he went south very smoothly, and he hasn't suffered a lot. If he is not allowed to suffer here, I am afraid that God will not agree."

"Senior Sister is mighty." Zhuge Liang looked at the fish in front of him that moved his chopsticks, "Can I change it to a fish that doesn't smell fishy?"

Zhou Yu sympathized with Zhuge Liang very much. It must be very painful for this master who could eat the buffet owner to raise a white flag and put him on the blacklist.

"Zhang Zibu and others want to surrender because of Liu Cong and Cai's family; Ziyu and others want to make peace; most generals want to fight... However, old general Cheng Pu may be interested in the post of commander in chief of the army; the rest may have Those who want to seek rewards for their military exploits are very few who are dedicated to fighting for Jiangdong, General Huang is one of them, and Lu Ziming only follows the orders of Gongjin, and he has no selfish intentions."

After hearing Lu Su's worried analysis, Zhou Yu didn't answer immediately, but instead asked Zhuge Liang: "Speaking of it...you've been here for a few days, and you haven't visited Brother Ling yet?"

When Zhuge Liang heard Zhou Yu mentioning Zhuge Jin, he put on a serious face, put down his chopsticks, picked up the feather fan and shook it: "I thought about it, it's better not to take the initiative to see him. Now my brother serves Lord Wu, and I assist Uncle Huang. Each is his master, it is suitable for public affairs and not private, and it is inconvenient to meet each other. If the elder brother sends a letter, I will naturally take the gift of a brother to meet in person. General Zhou need not be suspicious."

Zhou Yu smiled: "It's really unaccustomed to you to be serious. It's okay, I don't doubt anything, Ziyu will definitely not leave Jiangdong with you now, it doesn't matter if you go to see him."

Zhuge Liang did not take advantage of the situation to relieve his serious face, but became more serious: "Speaking of Mrs. Cai... Liang has something to do, please General Zhou and Captain Lu for help."

Zhou Yu squinted his eyes and looked: "Little pig, give me a reason why I should help you."

"The matter is done, at least it's not bad for Soochow, it's good for the emperor, it's bad for Cao Cao. And it's a covenant between us. Is that enough reason?"

The author has something to say:

Historically, Soochow was not very impressive during the Three Kingdoms period. It cannot be blamed on Luo Guanzhong’s novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Give people the impression of "strong".The author took the trouble to repeatedly describe the disunity of opinions within Soochow and the severe divisions it caused, which is actually close to the real state before the Battle of Chibi.Because of this, it was not easy to win the Battle of Chibi, and Sun Quan had to admit this, and put all the credit for the victory in Zhou Yu's account.