Chapter 2204 father and son are the same(1/3)
Cao Shu suddenly said something, which made Yuan Fang very puzzled.
She looked at Cao Shu in surprise and asked him: "How did your husband say such things? Could it be that Huan'er caused any trouble for your husband?"
"It didn't cause any trouble." Cao Shuo responded very casually. He then told Yuan Fang about Cao Heng's selling of Jie women in Yanmen Pass.
After hearing this, Yuan Fang just said "Oh" very casually.
"It's just that?" Cao Shu asked in surprise.
"What is your husband saying?" He was also surprised.
"He sold all the Jie women. Don't you think there is anything wrong?" Cao Shuo simply pointed out the topic.
Yuan Fang blinked twice: "I don't think there is anything wrong."
Cao Shu suddenly had black lines on his head.
He first said that what Cao Heng did to Ding Yao, and then to Yuan Fang.
But Ding Yao and Yuan Fang's responses were both dull, and the two even ignored whether those Jie women were alive or dead.
"Don't you think there is anything wrong with his approach?" Cao Shuo asked Yuan Fang again.
Yuan Fang still asked with a confused look on her face: "My husband thinks what he is doing is inappropriate? If your husband thinks something is wrong with Heng'er, you can tell me that I will teach you well..."
"In your opinion, maybe there is nothing wrong with his approach." Cao Shuo said: "He sold Jie women as goods, and those women's future lives are destined to be extremely miserable. I used to kill Jie people, but I just sent the captured women to the people of various places and married them to local villagers. The number of Jie people is not very large, and it won't take many years to complete them, and there is no need to use this method at all."
"Husband cares too much about these." Yuan Fang replied: "They are just captured women. Even if Heng'er uses these methods, no one can say anything about him. But if your husband doesn't like it, I will turn around and tell him that he will not do this again in the future."
"Forget it." Cao Shu stood up and said to Yuan Fang: "Even if you told him, he doesn't know where he was wrong, and you don't understand where he was wrong. What's the difference between asking you to say or not."
Yuan Fang really didn't think Cao Heng was wrong.
The Jie women are just some captured alien women.
Their tribesmen caused indelible harm to the Central Plains people. It is impossible for them to be captured Central Plains people to come to their tribe, and these women have treated them cruelly.
"Husband." Cao Shu walked to the window and Yuan Fang came behind him: "Actually, it's not that I don't know what Heng'er was wrong. I just don't want to care about him. I want him to do things according to his own judgment. Just like his husband back then, can we rely on other people for everything except for his own judgment?"
Looking back at Yuan Fang, Cao Shu asked, "How do you think he judged this matter?"
"I think he did this because he thought that no Jie people was innocent." Yuan Fang said: "My husband should also know very well what the Jie people did to the people of the Central Plains. Didn't the husband of the past also want to destroy them to the deceased clan?"
"It's not that I wanted to destroy them in the past." Cao Shuo said: "To this day, I still want to destroy them in the past. I just don't agree with Henger's approach."
"He may have done this more ruthless than his husband's methods." Yuan Fang said: "But I think this is not a bad thing, but a good thing."
Cao Shu looked back at Yuan Fang and asked her: "Do you really think so?"
Yuan Fang nodded: "I do think so. Henger is now at the same age as his husband's leadership. He may not have the courage and mind of his husband. But if his husband doesn't let him try to make his own choices, when will he truly grow up?"
Cao Shu was stunned for a moment when Yuan Fang asked this.
Yuan Fang is indeed right.
Cao Heng has grown up. Since he has already made a choice about some things, he should indeed give him the opportunity to make a decision on his own.
"I mentioned this matter to my mother just now, and my mother was not on my side." Cao Shuo smiled indifferently, hugged Yuan Fang's waist, and hugged him in front of her and stood side by side with her: "I originally came to you to see if you can think the same as me, at least I should have said about Heng'er, don't act willfully or recklessly in your work in the future. But what you said made me feel that I was doing something wrong."
After sighing, Cao Shu said, "Forget it, things have reached this point. I don't care about him anymore. Let's see how he will do it next."
"In fact, many people say that Heng'er looks very much like his husband." Yuan Fang said to Cao Shuo: "There are seven or eight points between his eyebrows and eyes, and his temperament is even more like his husband's youth."
"It's like I'm back to my youth?" Cao Shuo smiled slightly and asked Yuan Fang: "Do you really think this kid imagined me when I was young?"
"It's not that I think it's that, but that everyone who has seen Heng'er feels it." Yuan Fang said: "In fact, his temperament is like his husband and has something to do with his sisters."
"What's going on?" Cao Shuo asked, "What's the relationship with his wife?"
"Heng'er is the eldest son of his husband, and his sisters also think that he will definitely inherit his husband's great cause in the future." Yuan Fang said: "Maybe if I say this, my husband will feel unhappy..."
"There is nothing unhappy." Cao Shu said: "If you can say this, I feel happy. After all, you dare to tell the truth in front of me. Unlike some people, they obviously want something, but they refuse to admit it. I feel very annoying to those people. Because those people cannot know how to be grateful, they always put on a face that I don't care about no matter how good your things are, but in fact, they are not thinking in their hearts. I hope to pass on the family business to my son who dares to publicly tell me that he just wants to inherit my great career and will do better than me in the future."
Turning his head to look at Yuan Fang, Cao Shuo smiled slightly: "Of course, his mother."
"My husband's ideas have always been strange and always different from others." Yuan Fang smiled and said to Cao Shuo: "I will definitely convey what my husband and I said just now to Heng'er, so that he knows that some things cannot be allowed to be random, and he has to listen to other people's suggestions and opinions."
"Do you think there is no dog-headed military advisor around him?" Cao Shuo smiled and said, "Cao Ziwen and Cao Zijian, I don't know how much role they played in this matter."
"My husband means that Ziwen and Zijian are also involved?" Yuan Fang asked in surprise.
"That's of course." Cao Shu said: "With their temperament, how could they miss something like this when they encounter something like this? If you don't believe it, look at it. When they sell those Jie women, they won't have fewer shares."
Yuan Fang looked at Cao Shu in surprise. She didn't expect that Cao Zhang and Cao Zhi would also participate in this matter.
"My husband just told me what he said, don't he have any opinions about Ziwen and Zijian?" Yuan Fang asked Cao Shu in surprise.
"What do I think of them?" Cao Shuo smiled and shook his head: "As uncle, they are just trying their best to help their nephews. No matter how dissatisfied I will not be dissatisfied with them."
Cao Shu said that he would not be dissatisfied with Cao Zhang and Cao Zhi, and Yuan Fang then breathed a sigh of relief: "It's good that your husband is not dissatisfied with his two uncles."
Standing at the window with Yuan Fang in his arms, Cao Shu pointed to the bright moon outside the window and said to Yuan Fang: "We have not watched the moon together for many years."
Yuan Fang smiled slightly: "Yes, my husband has really no time to accompany me to watch the moon in recent years."
"When we go to Chang'an in the future, I don't plan to go around anymore." Cao Shuo said: "Although there are many alien races in the world, I think it's better to leave some things to Heng'er and others."
Yuan Fang replied: "If your husband can trust him, then let him do it."
"He is my son. If he can't even believe him, who else can I trust in this world?" Cao Shuo smiled and said to Yuan Fang, "Don't mention the thing I told you before. We don't need to pay attention to what Henger did at Yanmen Pass. Anyway, he is going to deal with foreign races rather than us Central Plains people. If he does something wrong, I can find a reason to cover it up for him."
"Husband will have to worry about Heng'er in the future." Yuan Fang replied softly.
"I'll tell you all this." Looking up at the moon outside the window, Cao Shu said, "I am Heng'er's father and your husband. If I don't take responsibility for him, who else in this world will be willing to take responsibility for him?"
Cao Heng decided to hand over the Jie women to Yang Fu and sell them. He found Cao Zhang and the sacred one day.
When the two of them heard that he had cooperated with Yang Fu and dealt with the Jie women, they were stunned for a moment. Then Cao Zhi smiled and shook his head, and said to Cao Heng: "You don't have to worry, I think your father will definitely not blame him."
"My father has never done this." Cao Heng would of course be worried. He said to Cao Zhi: "My actions this time are a bit merchant-like. I don't know if my father will spare me and make profits through this matter."
"There will be such a worry. It's because you don't know your father too much." Cao Zhi smiled and lowered his voice and said to Cao Heng: "Do you know that your father had even made money from Liu Xuande back then."
When Cao Heng grew up, Liu Bei had already gone to Yizhou.
Due to the suppression of Cao Shu, he was still difficult to grow and develop, so Cao Heng, who grew up in Shouchun, did not know that there was such a person in the world for a long time.
The first time I heard Liu Xuande, he heard his grandmother mention it.
I always felt that this person’s life was very legendary, and Cao Heng became quite curious about him at that time.
But after learning about Liu Bei's deeds, he realized that his father was actually more legendary than Liu Bei.
A person who is good at everything like Liu Bei was actually forced to Yizhou by his father.
Not only was he forced into Yizhou, he was also unable to expand outward and could only entrench on that small territory until Cao Shu sent troops to attack.
It is through his understanding of Liu Bei's deeds that Cao Heng's respect for Cao Shu has become much deeper than before.
He just felt a pity that although there was such a father who had all the heroes in the world who surrendered, he had no chance to enjoy himself under his father's knees.
For Cao Heng, perhaps this is his biggest regret in his life.
Looking at Cao Zhi in confusion, Cao Heng said, "I still know something about Liu Xuande, but I have never heard of my father making money from him. Where did the fourth uncle hear this?"
"If you go to Xudu, even if you ask a market vendor, you probably know about this." Cao Zhi said: "Your father borrowed money from Liu Xuande, but he refused to return it anyway. In the end, not only did he not pay it back, he also sold a fake sword to Liu Xuande. All the debts were offset, and Liu Xuande owed him a lot..."
Cao Zhi told Cao Heng about the incident that Cao Shu cheated Liu Bei back then.
In fact, he didn't know that this was the case. He was sent to Xudu as the prefect of the people who heard this story from Xudu.
If the protagonist of the story was replaced by someone else, Cao Zhi would probably not believe the truth of the matter.
But when people in Xu Du said that it was Cao Shu who did it, he couldn't help but refuse to believe it.
As Cao Shu's brother, Cao Zhi knew him a little.
In the early years, Cao Shu was sick and seemed to have not lived for many years. Until the Battle of Wancheng, Cao Shu suddenly seemed to have become a different person. Not only did he reverse the situation in the decline, but his condition even improved day by day.
At that time, Cao Zhang and Cao Zhi were both still young.
The two of them have the impression of Cao Shu, who looks hipster and smiley. No matter who they talk to, they can always make jokes and get some benefits from others.
It was also the understanding of this brother when he was young that influenced Cao Zhi's judgment after hearing the story, which made him believe in the part where Cao Shu cheated Liu Bei's money, and even told Cao Heng to listen to it.
After hearing this, Cao Heng blinked his eyes twice, then laughed: "What kind of hero I thought Liu Xuande was in the past, but I didn't expect that he was so stupid..." "Liu Xuande is not stupid." Cao Zhi said: "He just met your father. If anyone meets him, do you think he can still get benefits from him?"
Cao Zhi's words made Cao Heng not know what to say.
Sometimes when he heard Cao Shu’s story back then, his impression of his father would always change from a great hero who stood up to a rogue in the market.
But if you look back and think about it carefully, aren’t all heroes made little by little from small characters?
How many real heroes are there who are at the peak of their lives?
"Think about it yourself." After telling the story about Cao Shu that he had heard in Xu Du back then, Cao Zhi said to Cao Heng: "Your father is a person who can do such things for money. You are just doing something you think is right. Do he still blame you for this?"
Cao Heng nodded and said nothing.
Although the story Cao Zhi told him made him less worried about being scolded by Cao Shuo, what he did this time was indeed a bit inappropriate.
Cao Heng was still recalling what Cao Zhi said just now. Cao Zhi gently pulled his sleeve and asked in a low voice: "This time we should get a lot of benefits. How much do you plan to give us two?"
He pointed to himself and Cao Zhang respectively.
To be continued...