Qiao County.

This is the hometown of the Cao family and the Xiahou family. Cao Song has built more than 40 houses here, including a large courtyard with a hundred acres of land...

Although it is large, the overall decoration style is very simple and simple... from the outside, it is not ostentatious! Who would have thought that this land was the place where the Grand Marshal Cao Song and the Grand Eunuch Cao Jie "hidden dirt".

Under the simple and simple courtyard is a unique cave in the cellar... boxes of golden jewelry... are dazzling.

The money Cao Jie and Cao Song collected from the imperial treasury were secretly hidden here. It was enough for a county to have a year's tax.

These days, Cao Song had no time to spend... After reminding his grandson Cao Shuo, he realized that the national treasury deficit must be filled as soon as possible... This even concerns Cao Jie's official position and the honor and disgrace of the Cao family.

"Hurry up, move it out of the cellar and pull it all up!" Cao Song frowned, checking the carriages... was extremely cautious. "Be careful... This box is tied several times more, and it is tied tightly."

Looking at the coolies and servants in front of him, Cao Song kept urging him... as if moving the box... was becoming extremely imminent.

Wait... He suddenly realized that there was no one?

Where is that boy Cao Cao?

Looking around... Where is the figure of Cao Cao? Isn't it gone again?

These days, in order to speed up the transportation progress, Cao Song forced Cao Cao over and asked him to work hard for the Cao family.

The six-year-old grandson Cao Shu spared no effort to make suggestions. He was a father who was not touched and could not help him? As the saying goes, adding a monkey, adding three points of strength? But this monkey slipped away so quickly!

"Miaocai? Where is Meng De?" Cao Song found Xiahou Yuan who was helping to move the box...

Xiahou Yuan was the adopted son recognized by Cao Song. When Cao Cao killed someone and committed a crime, Xiahou Yuan replaced him... For this reason, Cao Song had a special relationship with Xiahou Yuan, of course... Xiahou Yuan was also Cao Cao's loyal follower.

"Meng De?" Xiahou Yuan recalled. "It seems like he went to the Wo River?"

Wohe? It’s the broken thatched cottage again.

Speaking of this thatched cottage... Cao Song is really angry. The Cao family in Qiao County has such a big family business and so many yards... Cao Cao couldn't live with him, and formed a thatched cottage by the Wohe River... He was the only one who built a thatched cottage by himself... He was the only one who could not only visit relatives and friends, and only read the books of sages! Six years after Liu Chun passed away, Cao Shu was six years old. This cruel Cao Cao... He only went back to Luoyang to see it once!

But he couldn't scold him yet... Although Cao Cao looked like a "saint" who was studying hard...

The more Cao Song thought about it, the more angry he became... Why didn’t he study so hard?

"Miaocai, please help me watch here." Cao Song ordered and then turned around. "I'll go find Meng De...", and left angrily while talking.

Over the years, for the sake of a concubine Liu Chun and a dismissed Dunqiu Ling... this unfilial son is willing to live in depression.

Think about it...

Cao Song was so angry that Cao Song even regretted it. He shouldn't have agreed to Cao Cao at the beginning and let Liu Chun rest in the clan cemetery as the Cao family.

...

By the Wo River and by the thatched cottage, there is a trickle of flowing slowly.

...There is a specially made spiritual plaque, placed on a table by the river, and it is written on it - the tablet of Cao Cao's deceased concubine Liu.

Logically speaking... the concubine is not qualified to establish a spirit card, but who can control Cao Cao by the vortex river?

At this time, Cao Cao was carefully taking care of the spirit card and murmured.

"Chun...you have given birth to a good son!"

Cao Cao gently wiped the dust on the spirit card with his sleeve and continued, "If my father hadn't come back this time, I wouldn't know... Our Shuoer is already six years old and has been admitted to the Imperial College Department. This is more than his father's face to Cao's parents, and he also gives you a face."

Six years...a full six years.

Even if Cao Cao went to Dunqiu to work in the middle of the journey, he would always find a free time to come here to talk to Liu Chun... He was always nostalgic about this woman and this concubine.

"Hahaha..." Cao Cao raised a pot of wine and took a sip. "Also, Chun...Shuoer is very smart, it looks like me... I heard from Ah Father that he had several ideas to make the Cao family clear of the "Empress Song case" and help Ah Father restore his position... Let the Cao family rise again... This is much better than his father's doing... It's all your credit."

Cao Cao took another sip of wine, and he took out a book from the side, which was Han Feizi's "Saying Difficult".

This book is his favorite book over the years.

"Mr. Xu Shao from Yuedan commented, this book "Talking Difficult" given to me is to let me understand how to deal with people?

...I was too sharp in the past. When I encountered unknown things, I always used reckless methods to seek justice and fairness... On the contrary, I heard the story of Cao Shu... I realized that it is not necessary to pay attention to "recklessness" when doing things. Sometimes, roundaboutness is also a way to break the situation."

It seems like... Cao Cao has learned a lot from his son Cao Shu helping the Cao family to overcome difficulties and going to the Imperial Academy... and it seems that he has experienced some of his son Cao Shu... which is completely different from his Cao Cao's way of dealing with people.

"Hahaha..." Cao Cao smiled again. He was such a person and loved to laugh... "Spring, in short... I, Cao Cao, the whole Cao family wants to thank you. Thank you for giving birth to a good son!" After saying this, Cao Cao drank the sake in the wine pot in one go... He was very sad.

He was nostalgic for Liu Chun... But Cao Shuo was the continuation of Liu Chun's life. His excellence made Cao Cao unstoppable ecstasy.

Just then.

"Meng De...Meng De..." You can hear the voice of my father Cao Song from afar... but he saw him sitting in a carriage. Seeing Cao Cao... get off the car quickly and run towards him...

"Father!" Cao Cao turned his head... his tone became calm.

"Why are you here? Don't you know? These boxes in the Cao Mansion's cellar are related to the survival of the Cao family... Don't you help? Why are you here to do it again?" Cao Song said in a hurry, and he was breathing heavily between the words, with a strong smell of regret.

"Those boxes?" Cao Cao shook his hand and seemed quite angry. "You and Cao Jie steal the national treasury? The boxes that are tainted with dirty ones?"

"You... you are so disobedient?" Cao Song raised his tone, and the anger in his chest was about to burst out...

This father-son relationship has never been harmonious... Cao Cao couldn't stand the engagement between his father Cao Song and the eunuch Cao Jie... Cao Song also couldn't stand Cao Cao's stubbornness and did things all depend on recklessness.

"Obe obedient? The child's ears are used to listen to the teachings of the saints, not to help Ah Father cover up his crimes!"

The young Cao Cao is so "rude" and so "horizontal"...

He hated the eunuch Zhang Rang, so he dared to break into Zhang Rang's mansion and assassinate;

He hated the bullies who bullyed the market, so he dared to kill Jian Shuo, one of the ten regular attendants who committed the wrong things when he was the Northern Quarter of Luoyang at that time;

He hated exploiting the people, so he dared to remove countless officials from Dunqiu Ling's official position...

Since childhood, Cao Cao has always been based on his beliefs in his heart, regardless of the consequences... It is because of this that he was called "a young man in the officialdom and can't tell clearly!"

"Cao! Cao!"

Cao Song was angry and he grabbed Cao Cao's arm. "The Cao family is about to have a disaster? Don't you know? Shuer realized that if Zhang Rang had to bite the national treasury to death... Then over the years, the matter of transporting the national treasury silver for his father would be announced to the world... The Cao family's disaster is about to be in trouble, what good fruit can you have?"

Well... Cao Cao was slightly stunned. Before that, he only knew... His father Cao Song came to Qiao County to transport money and make up for the national treasury deficit, but he didn't know... All this? It was actually the insight of his son Cao Shu?

Shuo'er is only six years old? Can he... understand the intrigues in the officialdom? This... Cao Cao was also very surprised!

Suddenly... he thought of a sentence in Han Feizi's "Talking about Difficulties" - I can say that the difficulty of saying anything is in the heart of what I say.

The general meaning is that... the difficulty of making a statement lies in understanding the psychology of the person who comes to speak so that I can adapt to him in my words.

Extended to this...

Can you use this to persuade your father Cao Song to go on the right path with this make-up move?

"Ah Father...you know that it is wrong to make money!" Suddenly, Cao Cao raised his head and taught Cao Song a serious lesson. "Shuoer proposed to transport these ill-gotten wealth back to make up for the national treasury deficit... This is the right move, and it is also a chance to atone for Ah Father!"

Uh... Since childhood, Cao Song has always been preaching to Cao Cao... Now, the preacher and the preacher have committed fouls. This is the first time Cao Cao has...

Cao Song was stunned at first... and then he raised his eyebrows. "What do you know?"

"Father, I promised my child that I would not deal with the eunuch Cao Jie in the future... The money you have accumulated is ill-gotten money... Sooner or later, it will bring shame to the Cao family, and even destroy the Cao family!"

Cao Cao continued... as if he didn't give his father a little face!

Huh... Huh...

Cao Song breathed heavily.

Haha? Who doesn’t want to be a clean official? But in this world, the emperor is selling official positions and titles? Are the clean officials?

If he hadn't colluded with Cao Jie, how could his Cao family have a turnaround? It's not safe... He is still farming in Qiao County and farming... What about him? At most... he is a position in the School of Economics of the Imperial Academy, teaching and educating people... he has no right and can be bullied by others? This is like this? Who can settle the disaster caused by Cao Cao? I'm afraid the Cao family has been exiled to the border long ago?

Alas... Cao Song sighed. He didn't want to explain so much to Cao Cao. For so many years... he didn't explain clearly. This time, it was just a repetition of the father-son dialogue in the past!

"Forget it... I won't hide it from you." Cao Song shook his head. "In fact, even if you fill all the money in Qiao County into the treasury, the Cao family still can't survive this disaster... This deficit is too great! This money is far from enough."

Well... Cao Cao was stunned.

It was obvious that when Cao Song said this, his brows were trembling, and his whole body seemed to have become much older.

"I don't care about my life..." Cao Song continued to speak.

Uh... Cao Cao was still a little moved for a moment. Did his father... care about him, Cao Cao?

This thought just arose... Cao Song's voice came one after another. "Don't think too much, I don't care about your life... I'm thinking, Suo'er is so young and so outstanding? I'm going to suffer this trouble with the Cao family! I...I'm not willing to give up!"

boom…

Although Cao Song's words proved a little, Cao Cao thought too much. But this sentence was still enough to make Cao Cao's forehead feel like thunder.

Cao Shu... This is his son and Liu Chun, a son who is smarter than him and more familiar with the world... He can go to Taixue at the age of six? Just think about it and know that the future must be limitless!

But...but...will all be killed because of these gold and silver that are full of gold and silver?

For the first time... Cao Cao felt that deep in his heart, something more important than the "principles" and "beliefs" he had always adhered to. In summary, it was four words - deep love for a child!

At this moment... the love for his son made the young Cao Cao suddenly realize something...

He seemed to be able to understand his father Cao Song's mood over the years.

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Chapter completed!