Chapter 39 Seeking Cao Cao's psychological shadow area
"People are like water, and kings are like boats. Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it!"
This sentence comes from a certain king hundreds of years later who aspired to become the emperor of the ages,
This moment is like thunder,
It exploded in Cao Cao's mind, thunder and lightning raged, repeatedly stimulating Cao Cao's nerves!
Cao Cao's eyes were dull,
He kept repeating this sentence in his mouth,
This sentence is much better than teaching me to let the world down, rather than letting the world let me down...
Lu Yan felt that this sentence should allow Cao Cao to digest it for a while.
He's not in a hurry anyway,
So I simply started wandering around the courtyard to pass the time.
After a long time,
Only then did Cao Cao finally wake up from the shock.
He looked at Lu Yan, who was walking around, and suddenly bowed his head to Lu Yan and said, "Sir, please remember your teachings at all times!"
Seeing this, Lu Yan quickly moved out of the way,
Then he came to Cao Cao and helped him up, saying:
"It's not about teaching, we are just discussing with each other..."
Cao Cao saw that Lu Yan had finally returned to his normal demeanor, so he smiled and agreed: "Yes, let's just discuss, discuss, hahaha!"
As soon as Cao Ren came back, he heard Cao Cao's laughter.
So he walked in and asked curiously: "Brother, Lu Sima, have you encountered anything funny?"
Cao Cao glanced at Cao Ren and thought that you wouldn't understand such a profound topic, so he simply changed the subject and asked: "Is there anything gained?"
As expected, Cao Ren forgot what he had just asked, and immediately followed Cao Cao's question and answered:
"There is no one alive, and all the property in the palace has been taken away, leaving not a penny for us!"
"Ahem!" Cao Cao coughed suddenly, and then kept winking at Cao Ren.
"Brother, are you sick?" Cao Ren asked with concern as he looked at Cao Cao who looked like he was having a stroke.
Lu Yan endured it a little hard,
But after all, he is a veteran who knows how to deal with people.
At this time, he would never laugh, "Pfft!"
Cao Cao pretended not to hear Lu Yan's snickering.
He saw that Cao Ren still didn't understand.
So he changed the topic again: "Zixiao, Sun Jian and Liu Bei, did they gain anything?"
"Liu Bei cried like crazy for a long time in the hall.
It seems that Sun Jian is preparing to withdraw his troops and return to Hulao Pass after gaining no harvest." Cao Ren answered truthfully.
"Well...it looks like we have no choice but to go home."
After Lu Yan heard that Sun Jian was preparing to return to Hulao Pass,
He couldn't help but shake his head and sighed in his heart: "Time is also fate! Sun Jian will eventually risk his own life for a stone."
Lu Yan has no obligation or interest to remind anything,
Sun Jian's ambition had completely exploded the moment he obtained the jade seal.
At this time, if anyone stops him from dreaming of becoming an emperor, Sun Jian will really kill someone!
...
night time,
Cao Cao decided to rest for one night in the ruins of the palace in Luoyang City, and then return to Hulao Pass the next day.
Liu Bei chose to stay with Cao Cao and others.
But Sun Jian couldn't wait to leave here and returned to Hulao Pass alone.
In the dead of night, when everyone is quiet,
Cao Cao habitually took out the diary he kept close to his body. He hasn't finished his daily update yet...
Open the diary,
Today's diary was full and filled with five pages, and Cao Cao couldn't help but shout in a low voice: "Good guy!"
Most of the previous chapters are about his mental journey. Usually, Lu Yan writes wherever his mind comes to his mind.
It contains many words, names and allusions that Cao Cao cannot understand.
So Cao Cao assumed that Lu Yan was in the water.
Be patient and see half of it,
Cao Cao finally found useful information,
[Sun Jian should have found the Jade Seal...]
Cao Cao thought to himself: "Sun Wentai left so impatiently because he discovered the imperial seal!"
But Cao Cao didn't have the slightest feeling of envy.
After being brainwashed by Lu Yan’s words during the day today,
He felt that his spiritual thoughts had been sublimated again.
This feeling is like,
He himself was already standing on the fifth floor, while Sun Jian and the other princes were just a group of losers standing on the second floor... It was not worth arguing with them...
Looking further back,
These are some of Lu Yan’s personal views on Dong Zhuo’s burning of Luoyang and moving the capital to Chang’an.
[Li Ru’s move is really powerful. A strategic retreat and a useless jade seal disintegrated the alliance of the eighteen princes...]
Cao Cao looked at it and said to himself: "He is indeed an immortal, his eyes are really vicious!"
Then Cao Cao sighed in his heart and said,
"I, Cao Mengde, thought hard for many days before I finally figured out Dong Zhuo's intention of moving the capital.
But what about Mr. Lu?
Not only did he completely see through Dong Zhuo and Li Ru's sinister intentions of moving the capital,
They even saw through the trap they set with Yuxi!
It’s ridiculous that I, Cao Cao, had imagined getting the jade seal before...On this point, I am too far behind Mr. Lu!"
Cao Cao was glad that he didn't go get the jade seal himself just because he got the news about it.
After seeing Lu Yan saying that this jade seal was a trick made by Li Ru,
He couldn't help but feel sincerely pleased with his restraint!
After seeing the next paragraph, Cao Cao felt better immediately.
“Am I finally going to have my own place?
Moreover, a large number of literati came to serve,
I really deserve the reputation I gained by taking risks these few times!
Mr. Lu actually wants to go slack off in the rear?
Unless you can find someone who can replace you, but I think this is probably impossible, hahaha!"
Cao Cao was in a good mood and even teased Lu Yan in his heart.
However,
When Cao Cao saw the next paragraph in the diary,
His laughter suddenly stopped,
My eyes suddenly opened as wide as possible,
Even the diary in his hand slipped to the ground unconsciously!
[No matter what, I will do my best to prevent Cao Cao from committing the heinous crime of massacre in Xuzhou. If I fail, then I can only...]
"Massacre!!!" When Cao Cao saw these two words, his mind exploded with a bang!
"I will actually massacre Xuzhou City in the future???"
Cao Cao's first reaction was, "This is impossible, this is absolutely impossible!"
But then I thought about it, Lu Yan was an immortal who could be reincarnated in "historical" time.
"Could I really do such an evil thing?"
Cao Cao stooped down and picked up the diary.
Various emotions such as shock, anger, doubt, etc., washed over his mind strongly.
What made him even more uneasy was Lu Yan's last sentence: "If it fails, then I can only..."
Cao Cao looked at this sentence again and murmured: "If you fail, then you can only do justice for heaven, right?"
If Lu Yan knew what Cao Cao was thinking at this moment, he would definitely have this expression [black question mark.gif]
After reading Lu Yan’s diary,
Cao Cao frightened himself so much,
But he finally understood why Lu Yan sat there for so long during the day and why he looked at him like that.
After a long time,
Cao Cao finally calmed down and began to analyze Lu Yan's words again.
"Sir, he said that he would do his best to stop me from massacring the city, so it means that he has not given up on saving me, Cao Mengde..."
Cao Cao twirled his beard and said to himself:
"That sentence during the day was probably Mr. Lu's advice or warning to me.
But from a side perspective, this shows how much my husband values me!"
After Cao Cao's ideological battle, his confidence came back.
"Why did the massacre in Xuzhou begin? Mr. Xi did not explain.
But I, Cao Mengde, will definitely remember this matter and my husband’s advice from today on.