Cao Song's temples are already graying, and the corners of his eyes are wrinkled, but the more he grows his beard, the better.Seeing the eldest son come home, the old father was naturally happy, and took him to eat supper together, and then took him to have breakfast together the next day.

"Auspicious come back this time, don't go out, I'll find you an official position in Luoyang." Cao Song smiled kindly, "My son's reputation is better than mine, so it won't be a problem to buy Jiuqing in two years."

Cao Cao is almost helpless, why do you always want to buy an official?That's all for the county magistrates and sheriffs to buy and buy. How many pairs of eyes are stared at by the Sangong and Jiuqing.But Cao Cao couldn't say clearly that Dad, you are a big pig's hoof, so he said haha: "If possible, I want to be released as a prefect, and I can't let Ah Sheng wander outside alone."

Hearing the eldest daughter's name, Cao Song faintly trembled: "Is Ruyi okay? She always says in her letters that everything is fine..."

Cao Cao stuffed a mutton bun into his mouth and said after chewing, "It's not very good. I adopted a child a few years ago, but the child's family made trouble, so I had to let it out again."

After hearing this, the stepmother Hu's eyes turned red. "I said she was going to suffer..." She lowered her head as she spoke, and her nose was flushed when she raised her head again, "A Pei also became a widow last year, why are our girls so miserable? ah……"

Ape is a widow?

Cao Cao looked up in surprise, and sure enough, he found A Pei in the corner of the last seat.The clothes are plain, the expression is numb, the table is not a vegetarian dish, mutton buns are still mutton buns.She is only 20 years old!

Cao Cao took a sip of soy milk: "What's the big deal, Apei is young, and his family background is not bad. Are you afraid that you won't find someone to marry?"

"Speaking of this, I get angry!" Cao Song patted his chopsticks, "I want to be a widow for life and death. When I got married, I didn't see how affectionate she was with the boys of the Qiao family. There are a bunch of concubines and concubines, even a concubine. No!"

A Pei lowered his head and pulled the food on the plate, without even giving his father a look.

Seeing this, Cao Cao felt a little distressed. She didn't know what happened to that delicate little girl back then, and she became like this. "If I can spare some time, I can personally send you to Weihai to relax. But the current situation, alas... until Taipingdao subsides, there is really no safer place than Luoyang."

"Taiping Dao is really going to cause chaos?"

Cao Cao's face was serious: "Anyone with a discerning eye can see it. Last year, Ah Sheng sent someone to pick up his grandmother to Weihai. She hasn't left the plum garden for more than 20 years. Now she is [-] years old, and she agrees to travel long distances without hesitation! Father still doesn't understand? ?”

"Mother's eyes, I naturally believe."

A meal is tasteless.After breakfast, Xiaohuangmen came to the palace to announce Cao Cao to face the saint.Cao Song was not worried at all when he saw the little yellow man fawning on him with a smile all over his face, so he let him go after a few instructions.

When Cao Cao was a magistrate in Luoyang, he often went to the palace to tell the emperor the story of solving the case. In theory, he should be familiar with it.But after being away for many years, he suddenly found out that the Nangong Palace had been completely renovated, the Suzaku Gate was taller, more majestic and resplendent, and the guards stood at every ten steps, and they were all gorgeously dressed.

This is only the South Palace that handles government affairs, and the North Palace, which is the emperor's back garden, doesn't know what to do!

As usual, the emperor received foreign ministers in the Jiade Hall.Floor heating and wall heating, which have become popular recently, have been installed in the hall. His Majesty the Emperor sat cross-legged on a pile of soft cushions, playing with the four-year-old Second Prince. "Dong Hou [1], what is this?" His Majesty the Emperor was full of paternal love, holding Xiao Douding with one arm and shaking the rattle with the other.

Little Douding Liu Xie pushed his father's hand: "Ah Weng, a minister is here."

Only then did the emperor see Cao Cao and smiled, "Meng De is back."

Cao Cao bowed down and saluted: "Thanks to your Majesty's concern, I am very grateful. I just don't know what the general said about the peace thief yesterday..."

"Hahahaha, Meng De still has such a temper." The emperor pointed at Cao Cao and smiled, "Don't worry, Ma Yuanyi, the leader of the bandit, is already in prison, and the general will personally lead people to interrogate. , can't escape."

"That's good. I haven't greeted His Majesty yet."

"Hahahaha, everything is fine." The emperor carried Xiao Douding to the table, "This is my new emperor's son, Meng De hasn't seen it before."

Liu Xie almost didn't cover his face: "Dong Hou is four years old, not new."

The emperor wanted to show off his son, Cao Cao could only boast: "The second prince is lively and intelligent."

"Does Meng De also think that A Xie is smart? I also think that A Xie is smarter than his brother."

Cao Cao almost didn't come up in one breath, the emperor, if you want to abolish the elders and establish the younger, don't get involved with me!What's more, this youngest son is only four years old, what do you think? "I have never met the First Prince, but the ones from the Changqiu Palace must be wise and decent."

Before he finished speaking, he heard a cold snort from outside.Cao Cao turned his head to look, only to see the back of a half-grown boy in black and red-patterned brocade gown rushing away angrily.Followed by a large group of court ladies and eunuchs hastily followed.

"He thought I didn't see it!" The emperor slapped the table hard, and Liu Xie quickly hugged his father's arm to prevent him from taking another shot.The emperor was comforted by his youngest son. He patted Douding's head and said to Cao Cao, "A Bian was spoiled by his mother. It's my fault. I knew that the queen was born in a humble background and shouldn't be allowed to raise the child. How can he be like this now?" What about being the owner?"

"Ah... my brother is still very good."

The emperor flicked on Liu Xie's forehead: "What do you know?"

Liu Xie hugged his forehead.

When it comes to the battle for the reserve position, Cao Cao pretends to be a wallflower all the time. He is afraid that the emperor will say something that makes him a minister of Tuogu, and the object of care is the four-year-old Douding in front of him.Although Liu Xie is indeed a smart and kind child, and there is the arrogant Liu Bian next to him as the control group, it is no wonder that the emperor, the father, is partial.However, Mr. Guo Lai, let alone Cao Cao, who is on He Jin's side, does not support the first prince born by Empress He to support the second prince of Wang Mei's life. Are you brain twitching?

"Meng De, I met both of you, what do you think?"

Cao Cao's back is full of sweat, you are a second-queer emperor, so don't ask. "The general is still working hard for the country. It is inappropriate for His Majesty to express his dissatisfaction with the eldest prince to his foreign ministers. I heard that parents love their children, so I must think deeply about them. There are only two princes under your majesty's knees. Don't let them now Experience brotherhood, what will we do in the future?"

Take a stand, it's finally over.The emperor was completely absorbed by his sons, and he let Cao Cao go back without even mentioning his promotion.However, his sense of Cao Cao got better and better. After returning home at night, he said to his left and right: "Cao Cao is an upright minister."

It's a pity that Cao Cao couldn't hear these words.

Choushi in the early morning, the coldest and darkest time of the day, is so dark that even a single star cannot be seen.Cao Cao was sleeping in Mrs. Bian Wenrou, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, when he was woken up by the noise outside.He is not greedy for beauties and quilts either, so he gets up and puts on his clothes and calls the servant next door: "But what happened?"

The Cao Mansion in Luoyang is no different from Weihai in Liaodong. There are no orphans from the school's internal affairs department to guard it, and there are no spy department and servants to act as eyes and ears.At this time Cao Cao went to shout, and the servants and maidservants also looked dazed from just waking up, and shouted one after another: "Da Lang calm down, I don't know."

Cao Cao sighed, went back to his study and took out a whistle made of black jade from the accompanying package, and blew it.After blowing for a while, I saw Qin Liu appearing outside the window like a ghost.

"Six met Dalang."

"There's a lot of noise outside, what happened?"

"I just got the news from the imperial army that His Majesty was assassinated."

"What?!" Cao Cao pushed open the wooden window with a bang, staring at Qin Liu's blurred face in the darkness almost viciously, "Is the news true? Is Your Majesty injured?"

The figure outside the window remained motionless: "It's not something we can easily inquire about in the palace. The boys are still collecting information. If no one deliberately blocked it, the detailed situation should be known to the whole city tomorrow morning."

His calmness infected Cao Cao. Cao Cao was silent for a moment, then lowered his voice: "You really don't know about this?"

"Dalang, the master has established a rule since the establishment of the spy department. Nails will not enter the Liu clan. Even the Liu family in Qiaoxian County and the Liu family in Donglai have not been released, let alone the palace ban."

"...Avoid the important and take the light, you are dishonest."

Qin Liu smiled slightly: "If Da Lang finishes asking, please rest for a while. If such a big event happened tonight, I'm afraid the imperial guards will knock on the door before dawn."

"Where can I still sleep?" Cao Cao glared at him, and jumped out of the window, "Let's go find Mom and Dad."

The three masters of the Cao family stayed up for half the night, and the sky was dawning, and the street was surrounded by the Northern Army.Cao Song put on the official uniform of Jiuqing, and opened the door first to negotiate with the soldiers: "Today is a great court, and I should have gone to the court meeting in the palace an hour ago, but I couldn't go because you blocked the streets. If your majesty blames it, you should how?"

The soldiers treated Jiuqing politely, but the hands holding the weapons did not move: "Cao Gong, please go back, there will be no grand court today."

"Why is there no great dynasty?" Cao Song was anxious, "My family has served the Holy Majesty for three generations and has never slacked off. How come the disaster of being surrounded by armored soldiers? I am one of the nine ministers, and you will kill me if there is no imperial decree to convict me." Is it?" The old man became so anxious that he almost fought desperately with the soldiers.

An unreasonable high-ranking official who can't fight can make the soldiers sweat.Holding the knife while sweating: "Don't force me to wait, Mr. Cao."

Cao Song was afraid of death, so he didn't dare to go out, so the two sides stood in a stalemate at the door.Finally, a general was attracted and explained to Cao Song: "Yesterday the eunuch Feng Qiao and Xu Fengxing assassinated His Majesty, and there were Taiping thieves in the city, and even the imperial army had internal thieves. Now the thieves in the palace have just Purging, we were ordered to stabilize the inner city and seize the Feng and Xu families. This matter has nothing to do with Mr. Cao, so please stay calm and not be impatient."

Cao Song wiped the cold sweat off his brow, cupped his hands and asked, "Is Your Majesty safe?"

"This is not something I can ask."

On the [-]th day of the first lunar month of the Jiazi year, Emperor Ling was assassinated and injured. General He Jin raided the Taiping Road in Luoyang City, beheading more than a thousand believers, and blood flowed like a river.

In mid-February, with the order to clear Taipingdao sent to the states, Taipingdao was forced to start an early uprising.Because the rioters wore yellow scarves on their heads as a mark, the khaki patches looked like big moths, so they were called "moth thieves" in official documents.Of course, another title spread more widely in later generations-Yellow Turban.

The author has something to say: Note [1]: As soon as Liu Xie was born, his biological mother was poisoned to death by Empress He, so she was raised by Empress Dowager Dong.Therefore, Emperor Han Ling jokingly called him "Dong Hou".

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