During dinner, Liu Min approached Li Fu and apologized: "I was a little out of control in the afternoon, so I apologized to Uncle Li Er!"

"You do things very seriously."

Li Fu glanced at him and smiled, "I just don't know how to relax myself. If you do things nervously, you may not be able to do things well. Listen to me, you must have ambitions, but women must not lose good wine. Being straightforward is the true nature of a man."

Liu Min lowered her head for a while and said, "But I don't like prostitutes... I would rather marry a wife and concubine."

Li Fu patted his shoulder and said with a smile: "This is your true nature! I have been traveling around since I was a child and have experienced too much, so I don't care about any constraints. I do whatever I want except not betray my lord."

"Then how can we take Jia Xu's family away?"

"This is very simple. Just say that Jia Xu is almost dying of illness in Nanyang. If you want to see your family for the last time, I promise that even the dog he raised will follow us."

"This... isn't that good!" Liu Min said stutteringly.

"What's wrong!"

Li Fu touched his chin and smiled, "My face looks like a treacherous look. It would be better for you, a white-faced scholar, to say it, they will definitely believe it."

Liu Min felt embarrassed and lowered her head without saying a word. At this time, the shopkeeper Sesame Eyes walked in quickly and said a few words to Li Fu with his ears. Li Fu nodded and smiled, "Thank you!"

When Sesame Eye was about to go out, Li Fu shouted again: "Don't forget, there is another woman."

"Don't worry! I can't forget."

Li Fu then smiled at Liu Min and said, "He has found the Jia Xu family, but his wife took her grandson back to her parents' home and will not come back in the evening. She probably packed up her things and the city gate is closed, so she just took them out tomorrow morning."

Liu Min couldn't help but be surprised and happy. Was it solved so quickly? He was still worried about how to find Jia Xu's family! But Liu Min remembered something again and asked in a low voice: "Is this shopkeeper reliable? Will he betray us?"

Li Fu smiled, "Do you know Guo Tu, a counselor in Yuan Gong? This shopkeeper is Guo Song, the younger brother of Guo Tu, and he is also a talented person. He does not want to be an official of Cao Cao, so he opened a hostel to make a living and had a lifelong friendship with me."

Liu Min then suddenly realized that it was Guo Tu's brother, but he did not agree with this kind of life-long friendship and muttered in a low voice: "You have to pay for the money you need to find a woman yourself, so why are you talking about life-long friendship?"

Li Fu was stunned and then laughed, "Do you know why he called Sesame Eye? He is easy to talk about in other things, but when it comes to money, his heart will be as small as Sesame Eye, so we all call him Sesame Eye. Don't think that it's free for me to ask him to do things. He is more ill-hearted than anyone else. Just a little bit of nothing, he blackmailed me thirty taels of gold, and he turned against me if he loses one. And this meal is at least five taels of gold, ten times more expensive than outside."

Liu Min thought of seeing Sesame Eyes in the afternoon, hugging Li Fu and laughing and dancing. She was so excited that she burst into tears, making people feel warm and moved. It turned out that it was because the God of Wealth came to the door.

After a while, Liu Min smiled bitterly and said, "I'm just opening my eyes today."

At this moment, Sesame Eye hurried in and said nervously: "For some reason, the city gate suddenly closed. It should be closed only at the hour of Hai."

Liu Min also became a little nervous, "Does Cao Jun know we are here?"

Li Fu shook his head, "It's impossible, it should have nothing to do with us. If I'm not mistaken, it should have something to do with the enemy."

At this time, another guy came to the shopkeeper and said, "There is something coming from the county government, saying that the army will search the spies from Gongsun Kang of Liaodong tonight tonight, and arrest all suspicious outsiders."

After saying that, he looked at Li Fu and Liu Min worriedly, and nodded in sesame eyes, "I understand, go!"

He explained to Li Fu and Liu Min again: "I have a brother who works in the county government and has a very well-informed news. Since he came to report the news, this matter is more serious."

Li Fu made a quick decision and said, "We will live directly in Jia's Mansion tonight."

Li Fu handed the goods and mules to Sesame Eye, who was frowning and said that this batch of goods could not be sold at a good price, so he could only do his best. If he loses, don't blame him.

He also wanted to calculate the food for the mule, but Li Fu was too lazy to pay attention to him. He took more than a dozen subordinates and rode on a horse. According to the address written by Sesame Eye, he went straight to Jia Xu's house.

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Like Xuchang, Yecheng is also divided into inner city and outer city. The inner city is a concentrated place for the imperial palace, prime minister's mansion, and the imperial court's official offices. The residences of some important ministers are also located in the inner city. Whether morning or evening, soldiers are on duty in the inner city, with very strict defenses.

In the northwest corner of the inner city, there is a mansion covering an area of ​​about 100 acres. This is the mansion of Cao Cao's eldest son Cao Pi. At this time, Cao Pi was not the prince, but he was highly valued by Cao Cao and was appointed as the Yedu to stay in Yecheng for his father.

Cao Pi is twenty-one years old this year, with a medium figure, but very strong. He has been practicing martial arts since elementary school. He is not only very literary, but also very good at riding and shooting, and has excellent sword skills.

But Cao Pi did not look like his father Cao Cao, but more like his mother. His jaw was pointed and his nose was small, which looked a bit female. However, his brother Cao Zhi was very similar to his father, with a wide face and a high nose, eight feet tall figure, and a dignified appearance. This is why Cao Cao favored Cao Zhi even more.

Despite this, Cao Pi, as the chief, still had an irreplaceable position. This time, Cao Cao fought north to Wuhuan and handed over the power of leaving behind.

In the study, Cao Pi was walking back and forth with his hands behind his back, his eyes were full of anger. Just an hour ago, he received an urgent report from the minister Xin Pi. A spy from Gongsun Kang of Liaodong was infiltrated into Ye City. Cao Pi immediately ordered the general Xiahou Shang to lead his army to search the entire city.

But Cao Pi was not angry because of a spy from Liaodong, but because he received a secret letter from Cao Hong, Nanyang in the afternoon, saying that Jia Xu had suspected of secretly engaging in Jiangxia, which caused Cao's army to be defeated and suffered heavy casualties. Now Jia Xu has left Nanyang and returned to Yecheng, and asked Cao Pi to secretly investigate Jia Xu's words and deeds.

Although Cao Hong said it in a rather obscure way and did not explicitly say that Jia Xu had rebelled against Cao, he had already pointed out that he was suspected of colluding with the enemy, which was enough to arouse Cao Pi's overwhelming anger.

Cao Pi was loved by his stepmother Mrs. Ding and his elder brother Cao Ang since childhood. In the second year of Jian'an, Cao Ang was killed in the battle of Wancheng. His stepmother Mrs. Ding was heartbroken because of this and left his father.

This incident was an indelible pain in Cao Pi's life. Although his father forgave Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu with a great heart, the hatred of losing his brother and mother was engraved in Cao Pi's heart and he did not forget it.

Today, a letter from Cao Hong once again made his hatred burn.

At this time, the study door opened, and Cao Pi's wife Zhen brought a bowl of ginseng tea and walked in. Zhen was originally the wife of Yuan Xi. After Yecheng was destroyed, she was taken over by Cao Pi and then married Cao Pi as her wife. She gave birth to a son for Cao Pi and named him Cao Rui.

Zhen is beautiful and pretty. Although she has been married to Cao Pi for three years, she is still favored by Cao Pi. She heard that her husband is very angry today and even drew his sword to chop a corner of the table. She couldn't help but feel a little worried, so she gave him ginseng soup to visit him.

Zhen put the ginseng soup on the table, pursed her lips and said, "Husband seems not very happy today?"

If it were the same, Cao Pi would have hugged Zhen and had a few jokes with her, but today it was extraordinary. His hatred since childhood was aroused. Not to mention his wife, even if his mother came, it would be difficult to persuade him.

He didn't say anything, and then said muffled for a while: "If you have nothing else, go back to your room first!"

Zhen was even more surprised. She was about to persuade her again, but at this time, the guard reported at the door: "General Yangwu and Zhang have arrived and are waiting in the outer hall!"

Cao Pi snorted coldly, "He actually has the face to come!"

Cao Pi ignored his wife and walked outside. Zhen was even more surprised. She followed her and Cao Pi had already walked away.

At this time, Zhen saw her husband's little book Tong Feng'er, and waved her hand and called him up and asked, "What happened? The general is so angry?"

Feng'er dared not hide it and whispered: "It seems that General Zilian of Nanyang wrote a letter saying that Jia Wen and his secretly communicated with the enemy, so the young master was particularly angry."

When Zhen heard her husband talk about Zhang Xiu, Jia Xu and the Cao family's grievances, she also knew that Cao Hong was not aware of public and private affairs, which made her very worried. Zhen hesitated for a moment and walked quickly to the guest hall.

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The outer hall is not a living room for guests, nor is it the main hall for holding major ceremonies, but just a companion hall, where servants in the mansion are usually disposed of here, or where some good and cheap people are received.

Therefore, Cao Pi ordered people to bring Zhang Xiu here to wait, which was a great insult. Zhang Xiu was about fifty years old, eight feet three in height, burly, tall and tall, like a straight tree. He learned from the famous gunman Tong Yuan, and learned the true teachings of the birds paying phoenixes. He was known as the King of Guns of the North. In terms of seniority, he was also Zhao Yun's junior nephew.

It has been eight years since he surrendered to Cao Cao in the fourth year of Jian'an. He was also highly valued at first. He made contributions in the Battle of Guandu and was named General Yangwu and was rewarded with great rewards.

But since Yecheng was conquered the year before yesterday and the overall situation in Hebei was decided, Zhang Xiu was gradually neglected. General Yangwu was just an official name and had no real power, so Zhang Xiu was almost idle at home. This time, Cao Cao went on an expedition to Wuhuan. Zhang Xiu was obviously quite famous in the north, but Cao Cao did not take him.

Zhang Xiu knew that his value was gone and he would do nothing to live for the rest of his life. He was ambitious and planned to accept reality. Unexpectedly, the Cao family did not forget the hatred that year. Both the Cao brothers, Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Dun and others all hated him very much.

However, although these generals hated him, they did not dare to bully him too much for Cao Cao's face. However, the younger generation of the Cao family did not care, especially Cao Pi. At a city gate meeting at the beginning of the year, Cao Pi publicly insulted him, which made Zhang Xiu even more disappointed that Cao Cao ignored this matter, which invisibly helped the arrogance of Cao Pi and others.

For example, now, when Cao Pi wants to see him, he dare not not come, but he actually took him to the outside hall where he met his servants to wait. How insulting it would be to him!

You should know that Zhang Xiu is actually a relative of Cao Cao. His daughter married Cao Cao's son Cao Jun. Cao Jun later adopted Cao Cao's younger brother Cao Bin, the father of Cao Anmin. To some extent, it was also to resolve this grudge.
Chapter completed!