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Fu Shou said, but there was some disappointment in her eyes. She had planned to go back to the palace after meeting her father and tell Liu Xie about herself and Liu Zhang. She would have to bear the consequences of what Liu Xie and Cao Cao would do to her.
Even if Liu Xie and Cao Cao don't kill him, he will never stay in the world again.
Thinking of this, Fu Shou felt sad and couldn't help but stretched out his arms and hugged Liu Zhang tightly: "You want me again, okay?"
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In the middle of the night, the beautiful sound of the piano sounded, and Liu Zhang slept peacefully while holding Fu Shou. The next morning, the Sichuan army was preparing to break camp. Liu Zhang took advantage of the break to practice his sword and saw Lingju coming out with the piano in his arms.
"Were you playing the piano last night?" Liu Zhang wiped his sweat and walked to Lingju's side with his sword in hand.
"Yes." Lingju sat on a stone outside the tent door.
Yesterday, Liu Zhang saw Lingju holding a black cloth bag, which turned out to be a harp. These Huns were really classy. They robbed all these elegant women who played chess, calligraphy and painting. Cai Wenji was in the front and Lingju was in the back.
But Liu Zhang suddenly thought of Qu Lingchen. According to the information about the Battle of Hangu Pass, the alliance against him actually led troops to participate in the war. It seems that Wu Jun's humble family in Jiangzhou has great ambitions. In this case, Qu Lingchen should be there.
Only among Cao's army.
This time Cao's army on the Weishui River was defeated. According to the news from the front, Wu Jun led his troops and ran away first. It is not known where Qu Lingchen went.
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In fact, before Liu Zhang's troops reached Hangu Pass, Qu Lingchen had already gone to Chang'an.
Before Hangu Pass was breached, Qu Lingchen knew that the Sichuan army had Zhou Tai's internal support and that the victory was 10%, but he still had to wait until the end. If something unexpected happened, he would help Zhou Tai even if he risked betraying the alliance.
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But until the night of the launch, there was no surprise. Qu Lingchen had already left Hangu Pass and went to Chang'an just before the battle.
For Qu Lingchen, the reason why he has been following Wu Jun is because Wu Jun is kind to him, and he used to regard the anti-Liu Zhang alliance as his home. Even if he fell in love with Liu Zhang, he would not be able to break it off.
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But now it is impossible to assassinate Liu Zhang by himself, and Wu Jun's ambitions are getting bigger and bigger. The chivalrous and kind brother Wu Jun who used to avenge his fiancée has disappeared, and has been replaced by a careerist.
Especially when I saw Wu Jun hugging Feng Zi and moaning, I was deeply touched by Qu Lingchen. Wu Jun himself came from a poor family, and he only formed an alliance because of his fiancée Ma Xiaolian.
But now, Wu Jun fell in love with another woman, which meant that he had forgotten his dead fiancée, and what followed him was the purpose of forming the alliance.
Even though Qu Lingchen has confirmed that she is Liu Zhang's woman, he is not disgusted with the people in the anti-Liu Zhang alliance. Their stance is different, not to mention that Liu Zhang really killed their family members.
But using the hatred of others to realize his own ambitions. Qu Lingchen began to look down on Wu Jun, which was the reason why Qu Lingchen finally made up his mind to leave the alliance.
But when they arrived in Chang'an, Qu Lingchen learned that Liu Zhang had left the border. Unknown to her, she passed by Liu Zhang's troops on the way to Chang'an.
Qu Lingchen wanted to go find Liu Zhang, but Liu Zhang had a small force with him. Not to mention that Qu Lingchen didn't have military intelligence. Even if he did, he didn't know where Liu Zhang's small force, which was not for combat purposes, was.
Qu Lingchen could only stay in Chang'an and help some refugees settle down.
"Husband, you must come back early and let Yan'er see you, otherwise Yan'er will regret it for the rest of her life."
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Liu Zhang sat down next to Lingju, looking at the soldiers coming and going, with his fingers clasped together, and his face full of melancholy. He had promised to come to him wearing a red caltrop, but it had been three years, and he had never seen him again, maybe never again.
arrive.
Liu Zhang was a little disappointed, and Lingju on the side looked at Liu Zhang slightly.
"It seems that Lingju reminded you of something." Lingju rarely spoke, but before Liu Zhang could answer, he asked: "Is my mother at your place?"
Liu Zhang knew that Lingju was asking about Diao Chan and nodded: "It's not bad, but a woman without a husband won't be much better off."
She has several children, but they are all fighting with the Sichuan army. Diao Chan can only live alone. After so much, she is still alone. No matter how good she is, how can she be better?
"Not only do I owe you my life, but I also thank you for helping me take care of my mother. She had a bad life in Cao Ying, and she can no longer be wronged by you."
Liu Zhang suddenly frowned and said to Lingju: "Miss Lingju, Cao Cao has a grudge against you for killing your father. Your mother is also in my army. Why do you want to go back? You finally escaped from Cao's army. You don't want to reunite with your mother.
Instead, you want to follow the enemy who killed your father?"
"I'm used to it." Lingju only said three words.
Liu Zhang sighed and Lingju said: "I saw that Lord Shu seemed to have the same illness as Cao Cao. I don't know if Lord Shu just thought of another woman playing the piano because of Lingju, but Lingju was willing to do it for Lord Shu.
Play it once.”
Ling Ju did not move the piano, she needed Liu Zhang to answer. Everyone in the world knew that Liu Zhang had a head disease, but they didn't know how long he could live, just like how long Cao Cao could live. The five-year period was given by Zhang Zhongjing and other upper-level Sichuan military doctors.
The secret is known only to Huangfu Xuan and Huang Yueying’s masters.
Not many people in the world believed the rumors about the five-year period.
Lingju had heard about Liu Zhang's illness, and saw that Liu Zhang was ill yesterday. Now Liu Zhang's illness is not obvious, but there is a faint pain in his head, which can be cured by pinching it a few times.
This state is very familiar to Lingju, who has followed Cao Cao all year round, so he played the piano last night.
"Okay, let's just consider it as repaying your life-saving grace." Liu Zhang said. Except for the fact that the girl next to him made Liu Zhang think she was autistic, everything else was fine.
"Unless I can cure Shu Hou's disease, I will not be able to repay the life-saving grace. However, Lingju has nothing, so he can only repay Shu Hou in this way, and also thank Shu Hou for taking care of his mother."
Lingju set up the harp and moved his jade fingers lightly. The beautiful music came out, as if medicinal liquid was moistening his mind little by little, and Liu Zhang felt very comfortable.
Different from Qu Lingchen's piano music at the beginning, Qu Lingchen's piano music can't help but bring out many beautiful and quiet pictures, making people intoxicated by it.
The sound of Lingju's piano is full of ethereal, making people's minds go blank and not thinking about anything. This state of relaxation makes Liu Zhang feel very good.
All the soldiers looked here, many of them were soldiers Liu Zhang had brought with him. They had heard Qu Lingchen play the piano before, and now they thought it was the girl in white coming.
But when they saw Lingju and Qu Lingchen, who were all dressed in white, they were both full of fairy dust. They looked like a fairy from the Nine Heavens descending to the earth, while the fairy in front of them seemed to have been practicing in Fukasawa and Dachuan and had never been to the world.
Fu Shou originally wanted to return to Xuchang alone. After arriving at the Weishui River, Lingju said to Liu Zhang: "If the Lord of Shu trusts Lingju, let me take the queen into the city."
Lingju didn't know Liu Zhang and Fu Shou's plan, but the queen's sudden return to Xuchang from the Sichuan Army would definitely cause some trouble. Lingju knew that Liu Zhang and Fu Shou were unwilling to do so, and they even didn't want anyone to know that Fu Shou had returned to Xuchang.
Regarding this, Lingju is confident that he can still do it.
Fu Shou went to the city to contact Fu Wan and cooperate inside and outside. Of course, no one could know that Ling Ju was a woman who followed Cao Cao. If Ling Ju was betrayed, the consequences would be disastrous. At least in Liu Zhang's view, Fu Shou would fall into Cao Cao's army again.
Unimaginable.
But Liu Zhang believed in Lingju from the bottom of his heart. When Lingju mentioned Cao Cao, he always called him by his first name. However, calling him by his first name made Liu Zhang feel that Lingju did not disrespect Cao Cao.
Such a girl is completely out of touch with politics.
However, Liu Zhang trusted Lingju, but the person involved was Fushou. Fushou had a bad impression of Lingju, not to mention that there was no reason for his own trust. According to common sense analysis, it was very dangerous for Lingju to be brought into the city.
Liu Zhang looked at Fu Shou, who unexpectedly nodded.
In fact, Fu Shou didn't like Ling Ju, just because Ling Ju always followed Cao Cao and treated his illnesses, but Fu Shou knew what Ling Ju was like, and since Ling Ju agreed, he wouldn't do anything else to inform people like Cao Jun.
, a woman like Lingju would never even think about it.
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In Xuchang City, Huang Yueying, the demon female military counselor of the Sichuan Army, led an army of 300,000 to Xuchang. The entire Xuchang was in chaos, and the families were even more terrified.
But Xuchang is not another city. It is the Han imperial capital chosen by Cao Cao. It has a much larger population than Chengdu in Xiangyang, and the family power is much greater. The property is countless, and it is not possible to escape if you want to.
If you run away, you won't want to part with your property. If you don't run, the consequences if the Sichuan army attacks Xuchang will be disastrous.
Don't think that life must be more important than property. If all the property accumulated by these noble families in Xuchang was lost, it would be more important than their lives.
Many noble families could not run away, but did not dare to stay. They only prayed devoutly for the Cao army to defeat the Sichuan army and save Xuchang. However, some of them were still running away. Before Huang Yueying arrived, they abandoned their family property and fled.
At the Xuchang Palace, Cao Cao convened a civil and military meeting, and everyone was in chaos, especially the civil servants, who were all thinking about their own homes. The Sichuan army's destruction of the city would be a disaster for the whole family. At this time, they prayed that Cao's army would win, but they had to worry if Cao's army was defeated.
, what should they do.
But now there are only 40,000 people in Xuchang City, and their morale is completely lost. Huang Yueying has an army of 300,000 people. After repeated victories, morale is strong, and the combat power of the two sides is not at the same level.
"The demon Huang Yueying has led an army of 300,000 to Xuchang. What do you think we should do?" Cao Cao looked at the civil and military forces.
A military general stepped out of the queue, it was Zhang Liao, one of the five good generals: "The last general and others will fight to the death to resist the Sichuan army in order to forgive the sin of the defeat in the Weihe River."
"Fight with the Sichuan army." Xia Houyuan and others stepped out of the queue.
At this time, a civil official stood up, it was Chen Qun, and he bowed his hand to Cao Cao: "My lord, we must not take advantage of the bravery of an ordinary man at this time. We are afraid that we will lose Xuchang before General Xu Huang and the troops recruited by Yanzhou can be reached."
"What's Changwen's (Chen Qun's character) idea?" Cao Cao asked.
"Chen Qun has no idea, but Chen Qun recommends a talent who is not inferior to Huang Yueying to the lord. He must have the best idea."