The carriage trudged forward on the muddy road. The three people in the carriage were all worried and silent.
What Yuan Xi thinks is that if this troubled world could end a few years earlier, there would be fewer deaths, right?
Qu Yi was thinking, how many unknown things does Yuan Xi, who brought him back from hell, still hide?
Wu Zhao was sitting in a small space, and her body kept colliding with Yuan Xi beside her as the carriage jolted and swayed, causing her face to turn crimson, but fortunately there were scars to cover it up.
However, these days, Yuan Xi has been able to surprise her many times. Wu Zhao's heart has been touched more and more by his talents that he has never shown before and his different understanding of some things.
She seems to have gradually become accustomed to this kind of journey, and even hopes that this kind of life can be extended for a few more days.
But after arriving in Yecheng, days like this will never happen again, right?
She didn't know that Yuan Xi was actually trying his best to endure it to avoid the bulge in the robe being discovered.
Wu Zhao let out a long breath and said: "It seems that there is no big problem here in Yanzhou."
Yuan Xi smiled and said: "I hope so."
"But even if the matter in Yanzhou is settled, it will only be a small part of it."
"There are two more difficult steps below."
The first is to go back to Yecheng to persuade Yuan Shao to let him take people to Qingzhou and wait for an opportunity to rescue Cao Song's family and put Cao Cao in a dilemma.
The second is to let Cao Cao, Lu Bu and Liu Bei restrain each other and maintain a balance of power. Then Yuan Xi takes the opportunity to help Yuan Tan capture Qingzhou, so that Yuan Tan can free up his hands to help him attack Youzhou.
If these two things are accomplished, Yuan Xi's reputation and power will greatly increase. If it goes well, Yuan Shang will feel threatened and try to find ways to adopt Yuan Xi.
As for the excuse, Yuan Xi had already thought of it for Yuan Shang.
Unfilial.
It is estimated that Yuan Shang has already collected a lot of his dark history in Beixin City.
As for Yuan Tan, he is definitely happy to see the success and will help push the flames.
If the three sons of Yuan Shao were working together to promote one thing, it would be difficult to succeed.
In the Han Dynasty, filial piety was used to govern the country. Yuan Xi wanted to take over, but he couldn't do it himself, so he had to rely on the help of others.
This matter is too circuitous, but only in this way can we deceive everyone.
Yuan Xi felt his tense body, and then he gradually relaxed. Chen Gong and Lu Bu were both very human beings, both civilized and military, and they put a lot of pressure on him. Even if he had the knowledge of later generations, it would be extremely difficult for him to cope with it.
Especially facing Lu Bu, he always felt like he couldn't breathe.
He opened the curtain and looked into the fields on both sides of the road. People were tending to the last wave of crops in late autumn, which was about to be harvested.
I hope Lu Bu and Chen Gong can take his prophecy of the locust plague seriously and let the people harvest the crops earlier, so as to avoid the locust plague breaking out and causing no harvest.
"Three Kingdoms": "The locusts rise, the people are hungry, and the food supplies are exhausted, so everyone is lured away."
This is what happened in 194 in later generations. When Lu Bu and Cao Cao were fighting, a locust plague occurred, and both sides ran out of food.
Although this Yanzhou Rebellion is inevitable, it is better to promote it to happen as soon as possible than to happen later.
Yuan Xi lowered the car curtain, moved his neck, and said to Wu Zhao: "It's great to have you here. Chen Gong's questions are very tricky. If it were me who answered them, they would have been exposed a long time ago."
Wu Zhao's face turned red and he said, "It is my great fortune to be able to take care of the young master's worries."
Yuan Xi smiled and said: "Although I am a son of the Yuan family, I really don't understand the Qingyan clan. I didn't even understand what you told Chen Gong about the Taiyang clan."
Wu Zhao said softly: "That's it..."
She explained softly, unaware of the bumps in the carriage. How many years had she not been so happy?
Her father was a great Confucian of the time, and the scriptures and meanings he said were all sought after by the nobles. Let alone any objections, even if there were too few people who agreed, they would be criticized.
Once upon a time, Wu Zhao felt that the things he had learned from his father's lectures since childhood must be correct, right?
Even though she experienced the tragic loss of her husband and the murder of her father, she still retained the reserve and pride of a noble family.
It wasn't until she was kidnapped by the Huns that she discovered that what she knew was not all of this world.
Different from the lofty attitude of the nobles towards the common people in the world, she experienced hardships, suffered hunger, cold, and traveled in thin clothes and tattered shoes, and then she gradually understood the cruelty of life.
The woman who was kidnapped together was ravaged and trampled at will. Wu Zhao could only tremble helplessly, and the cognition in his heart began to gradually collapse.
It turns out that before, I was just talking on paper.
She had to admit that suicide was a very difficult thing.
Sacrificing one's life for righteousness is easy to say, but how difficult is it to do?
On the one hand, Wu Zhao was ashamed to face the thought of living in an ignoble way, but on the other hand, he used his remaining self-esteem to support himself, hoping for a miracle to happen.
Then a miracle really happened.
Although she helped a little by chance, if Yuan Xi had not personally led his troops to kill the Xiongnu, she might have been taken away long ago, and her life would be worse than death.
Her hope, which was about to be shattered, was finally rescued from sinking.
Then she fell into confusion again.
Yuan Xi's family background is considered to be a top choice among the nobles. Logically speaking, the other party's ideas should be very similar to his own. However, after getting along with each other, Wu Zhao was surprised to find that the other party was completely different from himself. It was almost like
Opposite sides.
On the surface, Yuan Xi looks like a family member, but her thoughts are incompatible with the nobility. This is completely opposite to Wu Zhao. Although she pretends to be a servant girl, she still thinks of the nobility in her heart.
But Wu Zhao had to admit that Yuan Xi did a very good job in Beixin City and was very popular among the people, better than anyone she had ever seen.
This is completely different from the so-called reputation spread by the nobles among the common people. The common people really support Yuan Xi from the bottom of their hearts.
Wu Zhao saw many nobles who were seeking fame and reputation. They were sanctimonious on the surface but did dirty things in private.
Is it true that as Yuan Xisu said, the nobles who were supposed to educate the people and lead them to make a living have almost all turned into thieves who raped the people's bones and sucked out their marrow?
But my most respected father never said this!
Was his father, whom he regarded as a role model, wrong, or was Yuan Xi wrong?
If you admit the former, then have you taken the wrong path in these years?
So Wu Zhao couldn't accept it at first, and she didn't dare to accept it, but Wu Zhao was unwilling to give in. Although she was in pain, she wanted to know the answer.
My father said that success means serving the people with integrity and morality.
Wu Zhao wanted to see what Yuan Xi's way was.
If Yuan Xi is right, in order to end this troubled world, she will uphold her father's righteousness and do her best to help.
She came back from her chaotic thoughts and found Yuan Xi looking at her quietly. Her heart skipped a beat and she quickly lowered her head and said softly: "I was distracted, sir, please forgive me."
Yuan Xi smiled and said: "You have been thinking a lot lately. Are you homesick?"
Wu Zhao mustered up his courage, raised his head and said, "If I want to leave, will Young Master be sad?"
Yuan Xi thought for a while: "I won't be sad."
After hearing this, Wu Zhao felt empty in his heart and a little out of breath.
Yuan Xi smiled and said: "Because I changed my mind and don't want to let you go."
Wu Zhao was filled with surprise, but his face remained calm. He glanced at Yuan Xi and said, "Didn't the young master break his promise?"
Yuan Xi laughed: "If you break your promise, you can break your promise. I'm not a good person anyway."
Wu Zhao murmured: "No, the young master is a good man."
The carriage fell into silence again, but there was an unknown aura circulating inside.
Qu Yi drove the carriage slowly and hurriedly back and forth, preparing to join the previous convoy and enter Yecheng.
At this time in Beixin City, Yuan Tan was slandering Yuan Xi.
Gao Lan disappeared, Yuan Xi left a stall and ran away. He led his troops to practice his skills. He thought there would be no danger, but he was almost killed by Baima Yicong!