Chapter three hundred and ninety-six melancholy Kongming has nowhere to go
Chapter 396: Melancholy Kong Ming has nowhere to go
He was happy when he left, but depressed when he came back. Liu Bei returned to Wuling carrying gifts, but his face was black and blue. Liao Li had been waiting at the city guard's mansion for a long time. Seeing that Liu Bei was three people when he left, but still three when he came back, he couldn't help but ask: "
My lord, why don’t you invite Zhuge Liang to come with you?”
Before Liu Bei could speak, Xu Chu shouted: "Gongyuan, your information is inaccurate. Zhuge Liang went out for a leisurely trip with Cui Zhouping. He was not at home at all. We only met his younger brother. You don't regard Zhuge Liang's younger brother as your elder brother."
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"How is that possible?" Liao Li frowned and said, "Zhuge Liang is twenty-five or six years old this year, and his younger brother is only twelve or thirteen years old. Even if our army's scouts are idiots, they will not admit their mistakes."
"This..." Xu Chuqiang argued: "But Zhuge Liang is not at home, so it's not because there is a problem with your intelligence."
"This is even more impossible," Liao Lidao said, "I sent hundreds of scouts to surround Zhuge Liang's thatched cottage. As long as someone comes in or out, it won't take long for me to know. Let alone people, Zhuge Liang went home yesterday and there wasn't even a mosquito.
Fly out of the thatched cottage. Don’t even think about it. Zhuge Liang’s wife has just given birth. How could he go out for a leisurely stroll? Could it be that you have offended him, so he refuses to see you?”
"Impossible, we haven't even seen Zhuge Liang's face, how could we offend him?" Liu Bei frowned and said, "Does it mean that Zhuge Liang only has reputation but no talent, so he is avoiding me?"
"Of course not." Liao Li said with a smile: "Zhuge Liang's talent is considered top among the talents in Jingchu, and his three teachers are the top literati in Jingxiang. They have been famous for thirty or forty years. If he had no talent, his teachers would
, how can senior brother praise him so highly without fear of ruining his own brand?"
"What's going on? Am I not worthy of his assistance?" Liu Bei has been looked down upon by others all his life, and he also feels quite inferior. Hearing that Zhuge Liang refused to meet him at home, he couldn't help but feel a little annoyed.
"Lord, please calm down. Can you tell me about your trip first?" Liao Lineng could roughly guess Zhuge Liang's thoughts. If Zhuge Liang didn't like Liu Bei, he would not move to Wuling. But Liu Bei refused when he visited twice.
Seeing each other, this is puzzling.
Liu Bei suppressed the anger in his heart and told Liao Li in detail about his visit to Zhuge Liang from beginning to end. After listening, Liao Li thought for a long time and suddenly clapped his hands and said: "I understand."
"What did Gong Yuan know?" Liu Bei and the others looked at Liao Li, who was confident, with puzzled faces.
"I know the reason why Zhuge Liang is optimistic about my lord but refuses to meet him." Liao Li smiled and said, "Sincerity."
"My two visits, isn't my sincerity enough?" Liu Bei was even more unhappy when he heard this. Most of his subordinates defected on their own, and no one asked him to invite him three times.
Liao Lidao: "It's not that it's not enough, it's that the three generals ruined the Lord's important affairs."
"What?" Xu Chu was furious when he heard this. He grabbed Liao Li's clothes and said, "Why did I ruin big brother's business? If you don't tell me clearly, I'll beat you up."
"Third General, this..." Xu Chu grabbed him by the collar, and the thin Liao Li immediately lifted his feet off the ground. In desperation, Liao Li quickly asked Liu Bei for help.
"Zhong Kang, why don't you put Gong Yuan down yet?" Liu Bei's face darkened. Xu Chu quickly put down Liao Li, but the pair of tiger eyes glared fiercely, making Liao Li smile bitterly.
"Lord, Zhuge Liang should be in the back hall today. If you wait a little longer and give him a step, he might pretend to be playing and come back to meet you. But the third general roared and demolished the step.
If Zhuge Liang comes out again at this time, he will definitely be despised, so my lord's trip will be in vain." After Liao Li finished speaking, he looked at Xu Chu, but his face was filled with shame.
"I was so reckless, please forgive me Gongyuan." Xu Chu is good at this. He admits his mistakes and never corrects them.
"Forget it," Liu Bei sighed: "The third brother is not to blame for this, it is only Zhuge Liang who is too arrogant. There is really no room for him here, so let's let this matter go."
"What?" Liao Li was surprised and said, "My lord, you can't. Zhuge Liang's talents are so vast and vast. Wouldn't it be a pity if he couldn't be used by my lord? In the past, when Duke Huan of Qi wanted to meet the barbarians of Dongguo, he could only get along with five enemies. How could my lord do it just because of this setback?"
Give up great talent"
"That's...ok" Liu Bei sighed and said, "I'll go there again. If he still refuses to meet me, he has no chance with me."
"This..." Liao Li secretly thought in his heart: "As the saying goes: Things can only come in threes. My lord has been there three times, Zhuge Liang should meet him."
While Liu Bei and Liao Li were talking about Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang was sitting at home with a sad face. Huang Yueying stood behind him, gently stroking his sun and said: "Husband, I know you are optimistic about Liu Bei. Today he is visiting, you
Why don't you just meet him directly? If you were to test his sincerity, you shouldn't be so gloomy."
"I'm afraid Liu Bei won't come again." Zhuge Liang held his beloved wife's bare hand and sighed: "It seems that although I have great talent, I can only live in the mountains and forests. The master is right, I am not in the right time."
"Why did your husband say this?" Huang Yueying said: "I heard from my father that he has dispelled Liu Bei's dissatisfaction, and he should come again."
"Liu Bei is an intangible person. How can his thoughts be easily seen by my father-in-law? Forget it, if he doesn't come, I will live in seclusion in the mountains and forests with my wife and follow my father-in-law's carefree life. I wonder if my wife will be happy.
?" Zhuge Liang hugged Huang Yueying fiercely, smelling her body fragrance, and his face was intoxicated.
"As long as I am by my husband's side, I will be happy." Huang Yueying blushed and leaned in Zhuge Liang's arms. After a while, she said softly: "I'm just afraid that my husband will be unhappy."
"How could I be unhappy?" Zhuge Liang said with a smile: "I work hard and study, and my poetry and etiquette are passed down to my family. I have a lovely wife by my side, and I have children and heirs to inherit the family. I am very satisfied."
"You don't mean what you say." Huang Yueying sighed softly: "Husband, I heard that Liu Jiyu knows people well and uses them well. The Sun family and his son were heroes for a while, and Cao Mengde was also a hero. Why don't you go to them and work hard on Liu Bei?"
"These three people are already full-fledged. If I go, it will just add to the cake." Zhuge Liang said proudly: "If I choose a leader, he must be an important minister, otherwise I would rather grow old in the mountains and forests."
"Alas..." Huang Yueying sighed: "Husband, you are just too proud. If it weren't for this, Shi Yuan would not always be your enemy."
"Shi Yuan is my enemy, not because I am proud." Zhuge Liang gently twisted Huang Yueying's delicate little nose and said; "That boy found someone to propose marriage to you, but was rejected, but you married me, he
To prove that you are better than me”
"It turns out it's all my fault..." Huang Yueying was about to say something to apologize, but Zhuge Liang sealed her mouth with a finger.
"Don't say such things again. You are my wife and you have given birth to a son. Why should you think about anything else?" Not sure if he was cooperating with his father, Zhuge Zhan suddenly started crying. Huang Yueying went in and took a look, but the little guy was hungry. She took out the
A piece of crystal and soft cream, putting that little bit of tender red into her son's mouth, Huang Yueying found her husband looking at her with gleaming eyes, and couldn't help but blush.
"Husband, if Liu Bei doesn't come again, you can choose one from Liu Zhang, Cao Cao, and Sun. It would be a pity if your talent is really buried." Huang Yueying couldn't resist Zhuge Liang's eyes and turned her body away.
*Without the light, Zhuge Liang raised his head and said sadly: "If any one of Cao Cao, Sun Shi, and Liu Zhang comes to invite me in person, I won't need three visits, but only one, and I will swear allegiance to the death."
Huang Yueying asked with a smile: "What if Liu Bei comes again?"
"Madam, why do you ask even though you already know?" Zhuge Liang asked with a smile, "May I ask, madam, who do you want me to defect to?"
"Madam, you deceive me. You obviously don't think highly of Liu Bei." How could Zhuge Liang not understand his wife? He smiled and shook his head and said, "Who in the world thinks highly of this man who weaves mats and sells shoes?"
Huang Yueying asked with some confusion: "Then why does your husband think so highly of him?"
Zhuge Liang smiled and said: "He is a mat weaver and shoe seller, and I am just a villager..."
"Uh..." Huang Yueying was stunned. She really didn't expect such an answer. She couldn't help but smile and said: "A village man like you is a man of great significance. If I speak my mind, I hope Liu Bei will not come again, so as to save my husband from having to work hard."
"If this is really the case, I have to ask Madam to comfort me." Zhuge Liang asked with a smile, "I wonder if Madam is willing?"
"Of course" Huang Yueying asked: "How do you want me to comfort you, husband?"
"Let's give my husband another son," Huang Yueying said with her pink face in her mouth, and the pink color extended to her crystal neck. Zhuge Liang stepped forward and hugged Huang Yueying's slender waist and said: "Madam, it's late at night..."
One night* dream, Zhuge Liang and Huang Yueying slept until three o'clock in the morning. Poor Liu Bei stayed up all night, thinking about it over and over all night. The dissatisfaction in his heart gradually disappeared, and he remembered Sima Hui's praise of Zhuge Liang, and then recalled Liao Li's coquettishness when he recommended Zhuge Liang.
, he couldn't help but regret what he said yesterday.
Thinking of his death, he immediately brought gifts to see Zhuge Liang, but after hesitating for a long time, Liu Bei asked Sun Qian to divine a good day before going. Sun Qian understood what he was thinking and told him that a good day would come in three days. Liu Bei just wanted to
Find a step and wait for three days to say whether it is long or short. It is suitable. So Liu Bei pretended to fast for three days and prepared to go to Zhuge Liang.
On the third day, when Wei Yang and Xu Chu were out of the city, Liu Bei suddenly heard the sound of a trumpet. He saw Samoko with disheveled hair, holding a handful of caltrops, and hundreds of barbarians. He suddenly jumped out of the woods and said: "Liu Xuande
Where to go?”
Seeing the large number of people in Samoko, Liu Bei was shocked and hurriedly took Wei Yan and Xu Chu back to the city, but he felt a little depressed and said: "Do the barbarians also rely on the auspicious day of the zodiac to send troops?"
Returning to the city to unite their troops, Wei Yan and Xu Chu left the city to fight again, but Shamoko was just here to cause trouble, so how could he fight with them? After a few shouts, Shamoko retreated, but Liu Bei prepared a gift for Zhuge Liang.
But he snatched it away. In desperation, Liu Bei could only prepare gifts and choose another auspicious day to meet Zhuge Liang.