There was a battle at Guandu and a battle at Cangting.
After these two battles, Yuan Shao, who was originally powerful, was already in decline. At the same time, a new overlord emerged in the north.
Cao Cao.
After the Battle of Cangting, Cao Cao led his troops back to the court to recuperate. After a few days passed, Cao Cao suddenly remembered the promise he made to Lord Shangxian.
At night, Cao Cao and his wife Bian talked about marrying the housekeeper of Lord Shangxian...
Bian asked Cao Cao: "Husband, do you mean to say that Lord Shangxian's steward Zhao Er is not yet married?"
Cao Cao nodded and asked, "Madam, don't you have a distant cousin in your family?"
Mrs. Bian hummed, wondering: "Isn't it one..."
"Huh?" Cao Cao was surprised, "Not one? Are there two?"
Mr. Bian shook his head.
"Three?"
Mr. Bian nodded.
"This..." Cao Cao was about to speak again, but suddenly an evil thought came into his mind.
"Hehe" Cao Cao chuckled and asked Bian, "Madam, are your cousins as good-looking as you?"
Since Cao Cao divorced his ex-wife Ding, Bian became the official wife.
Bian knew very well how lustful Cao Cao was.
Mrs. Bian asked: "Does your husband want to take advantage of my cousin?"
Cao Cao blushed and said: "Hey? What do you mean by making up your mind? As the saying goes, the wealth should not go to outsiders... Madam, I think it's better to go and talk to your three cousins, if they don't mind.
Yes, you can consider me first."
...
Bian listened to Cao Cao's instructions and wrote to her three distant cousins, boasting that her husband was as good-looking as Pan An and more than eight feet tall...
Sure enough, Bian's cousins were all very happy after receiving their cousin's letter. Although women often say that when you marry a chicken, you follow the chicken, and when you marry a dog, you follow the dog, but from the bottom of their hearts, women still hope that their men will be more handsome in appearance.
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The cousins came to Xuchang after a long journey and couldn't wait to ask to see Cao Cao himself.
How could Cao Cao dare to show up so soon? He found a handsome guy with good appearance and eloquence to pretend to be himself to meet Bian's cousins.
When the cousins saw "Cao Cao", they all blushed.
Two of them have even secretly decided not to marry anyone other than Cao Cao.
After the fake Cao Cao came back, he reported the process to the real Cao Cao.
After hearing this, Cao Cao hummed several times and asked the fake Cao Cao: "What do those women look like?"
The fake Cao Cao thought for a moment and said truthfully: "Compared to Mrs. Bian when she was young, she is a little inferior, but she is still a beautiful-looking woman."
Cao Cao asked again: "Have those three women ever been married?"
Fake Cao Cao nodded: "Two of them have, but their husbands died due to the war. The remaining one seems to have never been married."
Cao Cao hummed: "So, it seems that these three women are pretty good?"
The fake Cao Cao said respectfully: "Exactly!"
"Okay, I understand... In the past few days, you should stay with them more and find out everything about them. Come back and report to me!"
...
In the next few days, the fake Cao Cao stayed with these three women very attentively.
When it comes to eloquence, this fake Cao Cao is pretty good. As long as it's not related to war, this guy can talk a lot.
On this day, the real Cao Cao went to meet the emperor, while the fake Cao Cao stayed at home and chatted with the three cousins.
The eldest cousin asked the fake Cao Cao: "Mr. Cao, people say that you are nearly fifty years old. Why do you still look so young to me?"
The fake Cao Cao laughed and said: "Because I am old and my heart is not old!"
The second cousin asked: "Mr. Cao, if you have so many wives, if we marry you, will you be kind to us?"
Fake Cao Cao said: "Of course, I will definitely treat you better than others!"
The third cousin curled her lips and said nothing.
...
The four of them chatted all morning. During this period, the eldest cousin and the second cousin talked a lot, while the third cousin rarely spoke or talked to each other.
The fake Cao Cao couldn't help but feel sympathy in his heart when he looked at these two women who were passionate about him.
The fake Cao Cao asked his eldest cousin tentatively: "If, if, I were not like this, what would you think?"
The eldest cousin said: "How can that be done? The man I like must be good-looking and handsome!"
The second cousin echoed: "Yes, yes, me too!"
The fake Cao Cao turned his attention to his third cousin, who shook his head and said nothing.
The fake Cao Cao was secretly having fun and thought to himself: Damn it, I won't stop doing it until now. I'll just take the first two girls away.
After making up his mind, the fake Cao Cao really started a plan to steal women.
This guy is very brave if he dares to take advantage of Cao Cao.
Cao Cao knew nothing about this. He came back every day and listened to the fake Cao Cao's reports, and his mind became more and more determined. Finally, Cao Cao decided to go into battle himself.
However, what the fake Cao Cao reported to Cao Cao was all fake. Only the fake Cao Cao knew all of this best.
In the evening, Cao Cao deliberately tidied himself up carefully. Although he was not tall and his appearance was not very good, Cao Cao thought that he was a very mature and charming man after being tested on the battlefield and in officialdom.
Cao Cao was confident that he could conquer those three women. Of course, this also relied on the "padding" given to him by the fake Cao Cao.
Cao Cao was thinking in his mind: he would choose two of these three women, and the other one would be the worst, and he would recommend it to Lord Shangxian's housekeeper. Anyway, the demon doesn't know...
"Hehe..." Cao Cao wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth, he had not been so excited for a long time.
"Dong dong dong" Cao Cao knocked on the side room where his three cousins lived.
"Who is it? It's so late..."
The eldest cousin opened the door a crack, looked through the crack in the door, and took a look in the moonlight. She saw a short man standing outside the door. Although this man seemed to have tidied up carefully, but no matter what,
His appearance is ugly.
"Are you my sister's servant?" the eldest cousin said, opening the door.
Cao Cao was stunned for a moment, but he didn't mind. Just as he was about to enter the house, his eldest cousin stopped him.
"Wait outside, I have something for you to do!"
After the eldest cousin finished speaking, the third cousin handed over a piece of female red.
"This is for Mrs. Liu, one of Cao Cao's concubines. Take it and send it over. Don't break it!"
Cao Cao was stuffed with a female red dress by his eldest cousin without knowing what was going on.
"What are you looking at me doing? Why don't you go quickly!"
After the eldest cousin finished speaking, she closed the door with a bang.
Cao Cao stood motionless at the door, and it took him a while to come to his senses.
"This...hehe..." Cao Cao was quite generous, thinking that his three cousins were deliberately joking with him, so he smiled and put away the red girl and went to Mrs. Liu's place.
The next day, Cao Cao asked about the fake Cao Cao. The fake Cao Cao lied and deceived Cao Cao.
...
Ma's courtyard.
Ma Xiaoquan had been waiting for Cao Cao for almost a month, but Cao Cao never came to discuss sending him away.
On the first day after returning home, Ma Xiaoquan told Zhao Er, Master, I have told you about a first wife, and you have to agree even if you don't agree.
Now so many days have passed and Cao Cao still doesn't come.
The more Ma Xiaoquan thought about it, the more he felt something was fishy, so he secretly made up his mind to sneak into Cao Cao's mansion at night to take a look.
Late at night, Ma Xiaoquan put on his night clothes and was about to go out when Qing Yi came in.
"Where are you going, sir?"
Ma Xiaoquan hesitated for a moment and decided to tell Qing Yi.
After listening to the husband's words, Qing Yi shook Ma Xiaoquan's arm: "Qing Yi wants to go too!"
Ma Xiaoquan refused: "No, why are women running around so late at night?"
Qing Yi was not happy: "Qing Yi belongs to the Baiyi Clan. We women from the Baiyi Clan are worried about our husband's comfort. We can follow him no matter when and where!"
Ma Xiaoquan "...No, although you are from the Baiyi clan, don't forget that you are married to me now. Be obedient and I will go out for a while!" After saying that, Ma Xiaoquan jumped out of the bedroom without looking back.
, disappeared into the night.
Qing Yi pouted and said to himself: "If my husband doesn't let Qing Yi go, Qing Yi will go alone, hum!"
After saying that, Qing Yi's figure blurred and disappeared.
...
Ma Xiaoquan had been to Cao Cao's mansion, so he had a rough impression of the number and location of the rooms in the mansion.
After successfully eliminating some unused vacant houses and exploring some familiar rooms, Ma Xiaoquan finally focused on a wing room with red windows and doors.
Ma Xiaoquan stepped forward and secretly inquired about what was going on in the wing.
From inside the room, Ma Xiaoquan heard three different voices. Based on the voices, Ma Xiaoquan judged that there were at least three women around 30 years old in the room.
"Well" Ma Xiaoquan breathed out softly, and was about to continue listening when suddenly, there was a burst of rapid footsteps not far away.
Ma Xiaoquan quickly held his breath, concentrated, and minimized his weight. Then, with a slight jump, he jumped onto the roof.
Lying on the roof, under the moonlight, Ma Xiaoquan saw a tall man knocking on the door of this wing.
"Mr. Cao? It's so late, why are you here?"
"Well, there's something urgent. I'm going out to do some errands, so I want to take you out for a look this time!"
"Really?"
"Don't shout, let's talk after we enter the house..."
The door closed with a bang.
On the roof, Ma Xiaoquan whispered to himself: "Cao Gong? Isn't this a fucking nickname for Xiao Cao? Why is this man... wrong? There is something wrong..." Ma Xiaoquan said,
He quietly climbed to the roof of the wing, opened a crack in the roof tiles, and looked down secretly.
Inside the house, the fake Cao Cao held the hands of his eldest cousin and his second cousin, talking quietly to them, while the third cousin was pushed aside by the fake Cao Cao.
After saying that, the eldest cousin and the second cousin nodded, seeming to have agreed to something to fake Cao Cao.
Sure enough, the eldest cousin said to the third cousin: "Third sister, your second sister and I have something to do and we have to go on a trip with Mr. Cao. You can stay in Xuchang!"
The third cousin said oh and stopped talking to the three of them.
The fake Cao Cao gave a few more instructions to the two girls and hurried out.
As soon as the fake Cao Cao left, his eldest cousin and second cousin hurriedly started to pack things up.