"The peach is on the dew well, the plum tree is next to the peach, the insects come to gnaw the peach roots, and the plum tree serves as a peach stagnant." [Yuefu Poetry Collection·Chicken Crown]

Liu Xi held an arrow rod that had cut off the edge of the blade and slowly lifted it up, threw it into the thin and wide-bellied pot in the distance. The straight arrow rod turned into an arc, and threw it into the pot with a clang. The body of the pot shook twice, and stood firmly.

"Good." Xiao Jian was wearing soapy clothes and casually looked at his palms, "I'm hitting the pot many times, and your highness is a master."

Liu Xi smiled lightly, and looked at the beautifully patterned pot standing on the ground, the sunlight shining through the hall illuminated a slender shadow, and the white feathers on the tail of the arrow showed a subtle fine tint.

"I just did this thing well."

Xiao Jian's lips moved, and he didn't make a sound.

"When the previous kings were there, I often said that I was tired of being lowly and envious and energetic. Before Langya was well managed, I wanted to manage the world well." Liu Xi smiled self-deprecatingly: "But he didn't know that I had already traveled to every county and town in Langya, and all the scenery in my heart were silently aware of the scenery. The previous kings often said that the people suffered, but what was the people suffering? Why did they suffer? He didn't know, I knew, because I had pretended to be a scholar in the countryside and asked one by one, and I even suffered those sufferings. So I thought, what would happen if I came to govern Langya and govern the world? Would it be better than him? He was ten years younger than me, and he was really a hero who was given to God."

Xiao Jian glanced at him and said nothing after all.

"By the way, you did this with me. At that time, I asked the servant Yannian to wear my clothes and get sick. He didn't see the guests, which made the former king and the others very anxious." Liu Xi showed a look of nostalgia in his memory, and couldn't help looking at the door of the palace with his eyes open: "Yannian is no longer here. That day, Yuan Tan attacked the palace and he took me to run away, but was shot to death by a tramp arrow."

"Everything is dead." He lowered his head, played with the dark feather arrows, and took a deep breath: "It will be my turn soon."

Liu Xi was looking forward to Xiao Jian talking with him. In the past, when he was very interested in talking about the current situation, scriptures or anecdotes, Xiao Jian would sit aside and discuss with him with relish. Every time he finished the talk, the time that was difficult to pass passed, and the uneasiness in his heart also subsided, so Liu Xi was very happy to say this to Xiao Jian, but this time the other party did not answer his words, Xiao Jian sat quietly and smiled softly.

"Don't you want to talk to me?"

Xiao Jian smiled faintly at the corner of his mouth and replied: "Your Highness will be a wise king in the future."

"What else can I say in the future?" Liu Xi sighed, picked up the arrow shaft and gestured at the thin-mouthed pottery.

Xiao Jian still smiled softly, not commenting.

Liu Xi was immediately disappointed. He put down the arrow and turned his head to look at Xiao Jian, feeling something was wrong, but he didn't understand very well. Xiao Jian's eyes, which were always very clear, now seemed to be covered with a layer of dust. He sat upright, his posture was no different from usual, but it made Liu Xi feel strange from the bottom of his heart.

Xiao Jian was silent for a while and said in a very affirmative tone: "The vassal king is a relative of the Liu clan, and only the emperor can convict him. If Cao Cao had the heart of one or two loyalty to the Han Dynasty, he would not do anything to his Highness, but would try his best to protect his Highness's safety."

"But this is just a temporary solution. When the war is over, the documents are presented to the country. Who can protect me? Uncle?" Liu Xi felt a glimmer of hope. His uncle Liu Miao is now the prefect of Taiyuan. He is deeply appreciated by the emperor, Liu Yu and others. He also said good things to the court when Cao Cao was in a low mood and was kind to Cao Cao. Liu Miao took care of Liu Xi's nephew most and would never ignore it.

"Your Highness cannot find Yangdu Hou." Xiao Jian calmly poured cold water on Liu Xi: "I am not as good as Chen State. Apart from those few times when I communicated with Zang Ba and Cao Cao, I have not done anything else. At this time, as long as your Highness is quiet and doesn't say anything, Yangdu Hou will naturally try to save him."

"But." Liu Xi stood up and walked to Xiao Jian's side. His hand was placed on Xiao Jian's shoulder: "I'm afraid that Cao Cao would..."

Liu Xi's hands were trembling, but Xiao Jian's voice was extremely firm: "I know what Cao Cao is worried about, and I will try to reassure him."

The emotions that had been suppressed for too long almost poured out. Liu Xi put his hand back into his sleeve, clenched it into a fist, and said nothing, turning his body over.

The cough suddenly woke up the two of them.

Liu Xi and Xiao Jian turned around and saw Guo Jia wearing a well-fitting deep dress, and his thin body was tightly wrapped in precious weaving. Liu Xi saw Guo Jia's leisurely and calm appearance, and suddenly felt a sense of panic in his heart. Guo Jia also stood by the door, stretched out his shoes and kicked the pot with feather arrows in curiously.

"Who promised you to come in?" Liu Xi was furious and took out the airs of King Langya: "If you enter the hall, you will not be able to read it or take off your shoes. Guo Jijiu is too rude."

"Oh?" After being criticized by Liu Xi, Guo Jia was panicked like a child who made a mistake. He looked left and right, then stepped back, jumped over the high threshold, and his body was as light as a swallow who was just entering and leaving other people's houses.

Guo Jia stepped out of each other's shoes with his heels, and then bowed to Liu Xi in the hall for routine, saying, "Former General Military Advisor Guo Jia asked to see His Highness Langya."

Liu Xi was so angry that his body was trembling by the other party's frivolous and casual attitude, but he couldn't say anything. The other party had given him enough face and walked in again with a pair of white socks, looking calm.

"I want to borrow someone from Your Highness." Guo Jia said before Liu Xi could speak.

"Who?" Liu Xi couldn't help but look at Xiao Jian from the corner of his eyes, feeling that he was asking who else could be around him?

"Of course it's Xiao Jun Lanling." As he said that, Guo Jia turned around and looked at Xiao Jian, bowed and smiled, "I am worthy of being the descendant of the Grand Tutor Xiao Gong, and he has an extraordinary appearance."

This is a gift on Xiao Jian's face. Xiao Jianqian bowed his hand in a resolute manner to express his gratitude.

The two of them walked out of the hall without saying much, and the sunlight before sunset shone from their side. Guo Jia's shadow covered half of Xiao Jian's body. Guo Jia walked in front with brisk steps. He moved freely and left Xiao Jian behind. He did not notice that Xiao Jian was walking slower and slower and escaped from his shadow.

Liu Xi stood at the entrance of the hall, watching Xiao Jian stay on the steps outside the hall, and turned around to look at him. The strong bitterness suddenly surged out of Liu Xi's heart like a spring, without giving him any chance to suppress or escape. He felt cold and numb all over. He regretted it very much, wanted to go out and pull Xiao Jian back, and wanted to resist Cao Cao as the King of Langya, and strive to protect Xiao Jian, but he dared not.

Xiao Jian said nothing, he stopped and bowed to Liu Xi for the last time.

Liu Xi refused to see the other party. He turned around angrily, walked to the exquisite clay pot, raised his foot and kicked the clay pot away. The feather arrows in the clay pot flew out and fell to the ground. The body of the pot hit the beam and pillar heavily and fell into several petals.

‘Bang’

As if he heard the sound from the hall, Guo Jia stopped at the right time and stood opposite Xiao Jian on the platform: "I don't need to say anything more. Xiao Jun is a smart person and knows how to do it well for everyone."

Xiao Jian turned his head and looked at the sun, his eyes narrowed into slits by the sun: "I personally contacted each other with each other, and I also packed up each other's letters and put them in my room. Now, for Cao Gong, there is only one threat left, that is, me."

Guo Jia touched the knot on his chin, as if he thought it was tied too tightly: "Mr. Cao and King Langya were not at ease with each other, and the crux of the problem lies in Mr. Xiao."

Xiao Jian knew that as long as he was gone, there would be no evidence that Cao Cao had collusion with the King of Langya. He thought wishfully that as long as Cao Cao no longer had threats, he would naturally let Liu Xi go: "I understand."

Guo Jia looked straight at him for a while, couldn't help but look at the hall gate in the shadows, and asked, "King Langya is not pure and kind, is it worth it?"

"A gentleman dies for his confidant." Xiao Jian said quietly, with a bit of brilliance in his gray eyes.

Guo Jia said nothing, nodded gently, leaving Xiao Jian in place, turned around and left.

He walked in the desolate palace and slowly looked at the scenery of the palace, like visiting a garden of someone else's house. It is said that the first generation of Langya King Liu Jing was particularly beloved by his brother Emperor Xiaoming, and he rewarded countless gold and treasures when he was in the country. Liu Jing liked to repair palaces, and was very skillful, and the walls of the palace were decorated with gold and silver.

Thinking of the luxurious and wealthy Langya Palace that was so decadent that it was so decadent, Guo Jia felt infinitely sighed. At this time, the sunset painted the afterglow on the wall, reflecting the brilliant golden light, as if the Langya Palace had returned to the magnificent moment of that year.

How did this palace wall last for two hundred years?

Guo Jia looked at his shadow slanted on the wall, paused, and a guard ran over behind him and said breathlessly: "No, Guo Jijiu, then Xiao Jian committed suicide!"

"Did I kill it?" Guo Jia blinked and asked innocently.

"No, no, of course this is not." The guard was stunned for a moment.

"Then why do you want to tell me?" Guo Jia said inexplicably, raised his hand and pointed at the main hall where Liu Xi was: "You should tell him."

Langya Kingdom, outside Yangdu City.

After Cao Cao's troops entered Kaiyang, he immediately sent 3,000 troops from the commander of the Huaiyi school, Zang Ba, and the commander of the Dianjun school, Xiahou Yuan, and his troops attacked Changxi. Since Changxi raised his army with Yuan Tan, he has been covered in dirt and has lost his troops. He had hoped that Yuan would give him power and status to be shattered in the early days, especially after Lu Bu's death, Changxi instantly thought of turning against and surrendering. As soon as he arrived in Yangdu, he was anxious to send someone to send letters to Zangba, begging him to persuade Cao Cao to accept his surrender because of his past friendship.

Zang Ba used to regard Chang Xi as brothers and sisters when he was in Langya, but he was betrayed by the other party once and almost died. Now that he saw Chang Xi's letter begging for mercy, how could he think of the old feelings again? So after passing the letter to Cao Cao in the rear, he immediately used troops and sent people to attack Yangdu.

Chang Xi did not expect the other party to be so decisive. The years of severance of brotherhood made him angry and embarrassed. He forgot the responsibility he should bear in it, and instead scolded Zang Ba for not talking about friendship.

On this day, the city gates opened wide. Chang Xi exaggeratedly raised a flag, led thousands of people behind him to break through the siege, and rushed straight to the enemy formation with a mighty attitude.

This majesty made Zang Ba and Xiahou Yuan on the opposite side unsurprising that Chang Xi planned a major military operation. Zang Ba and Chang Xi have worked together for many years and knew that the other party likes to charge with their troops, and they can often win first in terms of power. Zang Ba understood that as long as he blocked Chang Xi's first drum first, the other party would decline again and become the last of his strength.

So Xiahou Yuan led the infantry out from left and right, and Zang Badu led a brigade to guard the middle, siege to Changxi in the style of spreading its wings and surrounding it.

Most of the troops led by Xiahou Yuan were archers. When Changxi's troops arrived in the surround, Xiahou Yuan put an arrow on the bowstring, loosened his fingers and shot out.

For a moment, the arrows were flying like rain. Chang Xi, who was charging forward, led his subordinates to turn without hesitation and attacked the right wing of Cao's army. In addition, Sun Guan led a group of troops to penetrate the center, trying to disrupt Zang Ba's team's formation. Chang Xi found the gap in the busy Cao army and rushed past the formation. His green captain was extremely strong and defeated the thin right wing in a blink of an eye.

"Send the order to join forces!" Xiahou Yuan calmly shouted: "Chang Feng is going to run away, let the cavalry go and chase him, and leave him one!"

The left-wing soldiers quickly put down Sun Guan and other soldiers who were attacking Zang Ba under the leadership of Xiahou Yuan and ignored them and surrounded the right wing. After a moment of panic, the right-wing soldiers began to gather their strength to move forward. Chang Feng led most of the troops to fight out of the enemy formation alone, while Wu Dun and other troops landed behind were attacked by Cao's left and right wings. Sun Guan, who was landing in the middle, was in a difficult situation.

Chang Xi deeply hated that he was not a cavalry, otherwise how could he not be able to rush to this Qingzhou soldier?

But when Sun Guan just led his troops to Zang Ba's army, he immediately realized that he was surrounded, and suddenly there were Cao's troops in the front, back, left and right. Zang Ba opposite looked cold and waved his hand and led the troops to suppress him.

Zang Ba held a knife in his hand and slashed a small school student. Many of Sun Guan's subordinates were familiar faces, but now he was going to kill them with his own hands. The more people were killed, the smoother Zang Ba's movement of raising the knife and slashing was. Sun Guan was already ashamed and was even more shocked when he saw this. He had no intention of fighting again and couldn't help but take a few steps back. Seeing that the situation was critical, he and Chang Xi did not achieve the intention to defeat the right wing of Cao's army. Knowing that they were going to be in danger, he hurriedly begged for mercy to Zang Ba, "Xuan Gao, Xuan Gao, Zang Nukou!"

It was not until he called Zang Ba's alias that Zang Ba paused and was separated from Sun Guan for a distance.

At this time, more than a thousand people from Sun Guan's troops had been killed or injured. He looked at dozens of confidants around him and begged: "I was forced to do so. It was not my intention to rebel against Langya and rob the palace! It's not too late to wake up now, and I hope Xuan Gaonian will spare my life in the past love!"

"Do I hate you rebel against King Langya?" Zang Ba felt ridiculous. He pointed his knife at Sun Guan, and said in a cold tone: "I hate you for treating your years of friendship like a mustard!"

"These are all Chang Xi's proposals!" Sun Guan hurriedly led the people to give up their weapons and kneel down, trying to exonerate himself and said, "It was Chang Xi who believed Dong Zhao and the others. Seeing Yuan Shao's powerful power, he wanted to use this to be the Lord of Qing Xu! We were also confused by him. We knew that you were still worried about the kindness of the Langya royal family and Tao Envoy, and would not plan for us, so we wanted to finish the matter first and take all the charges on ourselves, and then we would like to persuade you to join the gang."
Chapter completed!