Xu Chu clearly felt that Cao Zhi was calling him late at night and mentioned the treasure. The matter was important. He couldn't help but feel sleepy. He opened his eyes like bells and thought something big had happened. He looked worried and anxious, and his face was filled with worry.
The scars began to beat unconsciously. Now if Cao Zhi told him that so-and-so knew the secret between them, he would definitely have the intention to kill that person immediately. This is the code of bandits that he has always believed in. The dead will never talk again.
What's the secret?
After Cao Zhi lamented, he became more sure of his guess. Then he asked Xu Chu to put away his expression of being ready to kill at any moment and told him that his elder brother knew that they had another treasure hidden outside.
Xu Chu said "Oh" and said as if he suddenly understood: "What's that? Anyway, the lord will know it sooner or later. It doesn't matter to the family!"
Cao Zhi did not intend to explain his worries to the weak Xu Chu. Regardless of whether Xu Chu cared about it, he directly asked: "Are these eighteen people here?"
"Yes!" Xu Chu replied without thinking: "Nine have been in your guard camp, nine have been with me, hehe! Brother, I am thoughtful, right? That guy Mi Heng keeps saying that I am short-minded,
You see, there are times when I, Mr. Xu, are both rough and thin! But I also learned this trick from you. Separating these eighteen people and placing them beside you and me is both safe and secure. Brother, what do you think of me?
How are things going?"
"Okay, okay, okay, okay! Go and call everyone here." Cao Zhi waved his hand impatiently and asked Xu Chu to call people. He was going to resolve this matter immediately to avoid a long night and a lot of dreams.
Xu Chu also went to find someone in person. No matter how stupid he was, he knew that he couldn't leave this matter to others. But Cao Zhi waited in the study until the middle of the night and didn't see Xu Chu turn around. Just when he was about to send someone to look for him, he heard a commotion
The footsteps came straight to the study.
As the door curtain was opened, a group of people walked in. All of them were of the same virtue as Xu Chu. Their clothes were baggy and their eyes were sleepy. It seemed that Xu Chu had grabbed them from the beds in the military camp in the suburbs.
Xu Chu was the last one to walk in and quietly closed the door. As soon as he saw Cao Zhi's playful face, he knew something was wrong.
Cao Zhi couldn't sit still anymore and was about to yell and ask: "Xu Chu, you idiot, what happened?" When he raised his eyes and scanned the number of people coming in, he knew what the problem was.
"Shouldn't there be eighteen people? Why are there only one, two, three, four... ten, ten?" Cao Zhi couldn't care less and asked Xu Chu anxiously.
Xu Chu still kept his ugly playful smile, and after dawdling for a long time, he finally said: "I went to look for it today and found out that eight people died in the war some time ago!"
"You, you, you..." Cao Zhi felt like he was vomiting blood, "Why, how, how..."
Cao Zhi really couldn't take it anymore. Not only the nine people Xu Chu had gathered with him died in the battle, but three of his personal guards also died in the battle. Why did you make him angry? He regrets it! How could he?
Why leave such an important matter to this incompetent Xu Chu? Moreover, he has not asked about it for several years. The person most responsible for this matter should be Cao Zhi.
Cao Zhi was panting there, as if he was about to have an asthma attack. Xu Chu knew how to comfort people. He patted his chest and assured Cao Zhi that even if all the soldiers marking the landmarks died, he, Xu Chu, could still find them.
Those burial places.
It would have been better not to say this, but as soon as he said it, Cao Zhi almost choked to death. "Only your Xu Chu's memory..."
Cao Zhi still had the last glimmer of hope and asked Xu Chu: "Did you sleep with that kiln sister yesterday?"
Xu Chu frowned, scratched the back of his head for a long time, and then managed to say: "I didn't seem to have sex last night?"
Cao Zhi fainted immediately after hearing this.
#######The next day, Cao Zhi, who was feeling dizzy from sleep, was woken up by the sound of the door knocking. Cao Zhi staggered open the door and saw that it was his meritorious officer Li Ru.
As soon as Li Ru saw Cao Zhi, he hurriedly asked his attendants to come into the house to change Cao Zhi's clothes and freshen up. He also told Cao Zhi that Cao Cao was going to hold a special meeting in the council hall and asked him to go quickly.
Cao Zhi's heart tightened. He knew that Cao Cao was going to attack Zhang Miao, and his head hurt even more. Cao Zhi always knew that Cao Cao was not a broad-minded person. If Zhang Miao allowed Yuan Shu to enter Chenliu, Cao Cao would definitely settle the scores later. But Zhang Miao
After all, they had been playing with him since childhood, and Cao Zhi had a good personal relationship with Zhang Miao. He had always regarded Zhang Miao as more pleasing to him than Yuan Shao. If Cao Cao really wanted to kill Zhang Miao, how could he dissuade him?
"Oh! Another headache!"
Cao Zhi, who was changing his clothes, rubbed his temples and muttered. Li Ru heard the sound and consoled him: "My lord, don't be anxious, everything will eventually come to an end, and many things are better to let nature take its course. My lord, please don't touch your dear ones just for the sake of temporary whims."
The feelings of brothers, then..."
"Well!" Cao Zhi waved his hand to signal Li Ru to stop talking. He understood many things. Cao Zhi exhaled twice, calmed down the fluctuations in his heart, and asked Li Ru: "How did you arrange the ten people last night?"
Cao Zhi, who finally fainted last night, ordered someone to call Li Ru after the heartless Xu Chu woke up with a mouthful of cold water.
Li Ru knew little about the affairs of Cao Zhi and others in Yiwu. He only knew that the Cao family brothers had endless wealth, which was continuously poured into various expenses of county affairs, state capital, and the army. Li Ru was very
He knew what to ask and what not to ask. Although he knew that so much property could not be family property, he never explored its source.
Last night, unexpectedly, Cao Zhi revealed his heart to him. It turned out that his lord had done such bold things, which were far beyond what he had seen in the robber den of the Black Mountain Army.
Cao Zhi could no longer believe that Xu Chu could do the next thing of recovering the scattered treasures. He wanted to find a bold and careful civil servant. Originally Mi Heng was Cao Zhi's first choice, but Mi Heng was far away in Wanling.
It was too late to catch up, and secondly, Cao Zhi was about to go on an expedition, and Danyang still needed Ni Heng to guard it. At this time, the only civil servant beside Cao Zhi was Li Ru.
At this time, Cao Zhi could not control so much. After being woken up by Xu Chufen, when he saw Li Ru, he grabbed him by the collar and shouted to him to take over the remaining ten confidants. But he did not explain clearly what was going on.
Fainted again.
At this time, Xu Chu stood up in time and said that Cao Zhi needed to rest, so he ordered people to carry Cao Zhi back to his room in Nanyuan. Afterwards, Xu Chu also explained the matter to Li Ru, but he would never allow Li Ru to talk about it.
The remaining ten close men were taken away. He claimed that he wanted to atone for his sins. From now on, he would never lose the remaining ten personal guards who knew the location of the treasure. He would eat and sleep with them from tonight on.
Never be separated from them again until the treasure is retrieved.
Li Ru argued, "Well, I was also ordered by my lord to take care of these ten people. If you occupy these people, how can I complete the task?"
When the unreasonable Xu Chu heard that Li Ru was going to argue with him, he shook his face with scars and pulled out a Persian scimitar and threatened Li Ru, "Do you want to argue with me?"
Faced with such unreasonable people, Li Ru had nothing to say. He could only hand these people over to Xu Chu to take away. He also arranged for them to live near Xu Chu's military tent. Xu Chu was unhappy again. Didn't he say that?
Do you want to eat and live together? Then you have to stay together, eleven people living in a tent.
Xu Chu is now a Sima of the Danyang Army, and the camp he lives in is not small (he originally lived in Chenliu County, and Cao Cao returned to Chenliu City with the deployment. Because there were too many people, Xu Chu had to move back to the military camp), but how could he live in the military camp for ten people?
What about a person?
Alas! This is such a pain for the ten personal guards of Cao Zhi. They originally felt it was a great honor to accept the job of remembering the location of the treasure. They even thought that if they could be so appreciated by Cao Zhi, they would have a bright future in the future. No.
I thought that before I could see a bright future, I had to listen to Xu Chu's snoring, smell Xu Chu's stinky feet, eat and sleep with him in the same tent. It's true that "heaven is going to give a great responsibility to a person, but he must first work hard for his determination."
"To work their muscles and bones." Before Cao Zhi went on the expedition, not to mention the crimes these ten people suffered. In a few days, they had lost a lot of weight, and they all had dark circles under their eyes.
Of course, this is something to talk about later. At this time, Cao Zhi listened to Li Ru's report with his head spinning, and said with a grimace: "Let that kid go make trouble. Get ready quickly and follow me to Youzhou. Send three messages respectively.
I wrote a letter back to Wanling, Moling, and Jingxian, asking Mi Heng, Lu Su, and Deng Ai to jointly take charge of Danyang affairs during my absence. Also, do you know what you have to prepare in the past few days?
"
Li Ru immediately bowed and said: "I understand that I need to carry more carriages and horses. I'm afraid there will be a lot of things to transport on this trip!"
"Yes!" Cao Zhi saw that Li Ru reacted very quickly when he saw the opportunity, and said with great satisfaction: "Okay, you go and prepare first, I will go to the main hall by myself."
########The main hall of Chenliu County Mansion is at the east end of the main building. Zhang Miao's family has been operating here for many years. The entire county government building is quite reasonable and impressive. A group of courtyards surrounded by high walls are distributed.
There are four courtyards at the four corners, and stars surround the main building in the middle. The main building is two stories high, and the upper floor is used as the main hall, which is also the place where Zhang Miao, the prefect, usually discusses affairs.
When Cao Zhi was supported by two attendants to the entrance of the main hall on the second floor, he raised his head and looked inside and saw that there were many senior Yanzhou officials present. Cao Zhi couldn't help but feel chilled. It seemed that Cao Cao had recovered so many
A senior official in Yanzhou had a very clear purpose of trying Zhang Miao.
Man Chong, the magistrate of Xu County, was pacing in the hall with his head down. When he saw Cao Zhi rubbing his temples, he immediately stepped forward to help him and asked with concern: "Is Grandmaster Cao okay?"
"It's okay, it's okay!" How could Cao Zhi have the nerve to say that he was half angry to death by his subordinates last night.
After hearing Cao Zhi's voice, Li Dian, the lieutenant general, and Yue Jin, the official in front of the tent, immediately stood up from their seats and came to the door to greet Cao Zhi.
Li Diangang wanted to make a joke about Cao Zhi, but Dongping Prime Minister Cheng Yu, who was eight feet three inches tall and had a beautiful beard, also went out to greet him.
Cao Zhi was embarrassed and quickly greeted everyone with his hands raised and invited them inside to continue talking.