Yuan Shao was lying on the couch, with gold needles stuck all over his body. Hua Tuo was concentrating on acupuncture on him.
More than an hour later, Hua Tuo pulled out the gold needles one by one and put them into the water to wash. Some black liquid floated from the needles.
Hua Tuo frowned slightly when he saw it. After cleaning the golden needles, he put them all into his bag, and then said to Yuan Shao: "Master Benchu can rest for another half day, and his diet can be the same as before."
Yuan Shao opened his eyes slightly and said, "Thank you, sir."
"If you are physically inconvenient, we will not send you far."
Hua Tuo said a few words of humility, then stood up and left.
Yuan Shao slowly closed his eyes. He also understood that Hua Tuo could only relieve the pain in his body. Now he was extremely ill and could not be saved by medicine. He just had to leave it to fate as to how long he could survive.
He was closing the door to recuperate when he heard the sound of footsteps. It was Mrs. Liu who walked in, followed closely and said, "Is your husband okay?"
Yuan Shao opened his mouth, but lost interest in speaking and just nodded.
Mrs. Liu sat aside, hesitating for a long time, and finally whispered: "My husband said, is this doctor reliable?"
"What if he is being alarmist and my husband has no serious illness but he is cured of it?"
A look of disgust flashed across Yuan Xi's eyes. He has not yet told Mrs. Liu that there was something wrong with the Five Stones Scatter, but judging from Mrs. Liu's guilty look, he may not have guessed the clues.
He said: "When can Xianfu come back?"
After hearing this, Mrs. Liu couldn't hide her joy, "It's coming soon, I heard it could take as long as three to five days, or as little as one or two days."
Yuan Shao heard this and said, "In that case, when he comes, let him come with Xian Yi. I have something to say to him."
Just as Mrs. Liu was about to nod, she was startled and raised her head to look at Yuan Shao in surprise.
Yuan Shao ignored her and said, "I'm tired, you can get off first."
Mrs. Liu walked out of the room with a gloomy expression. What did Yuan Shao's last words mean?
If it was really entrusted with the last words, Yuan Shang, the heir, should be present. Why would Yuan Xi's puppy get involved?
Mrs. Liu was terrified. She just told Yuan Shao that Yuan Shang would arrive in a few days, but she was actually lying because she didn't know where Yuan Shang was now!
Yuan Shao summoned the two of them at the same time. Could it be that he changed his mind?
Thinking of this, she became more and more anxious. She went back to the inner compartment to find Mr. Hong. She saw him sitting in front of the window and sobbing. He was very angry and said, "You have been crying like a mourner all day. Are you cursing Shang'er that something will happen to her?"
Ms. Hong lowered her head and said, "Jun Gu asked me to do such an ungrateful and shameless thing. I really can't put on a smile in front of others."
Mrs. Liu was furious, "Okay, okay, you dare to talk back to me, I'll give you one last chance!"
She pointed to the carriage in the courtyard and said coldly: "Either go to that man's house, or collect the body of your family!"
Hong's body trembled and she whispered: "I understand."
The day before yesterday, the Hong family heard that the Liu family was threatening her, so she reluctantly agreed. That night, she found a servant she had brought from the Hong family when she got married, and tried every means to pass the news to the Hong family members, hoping to hide them in advance.
As a result, when the servant arrived, it was already a step too late. There was no one in the Hong family's house, and they had obviously been taken away in advance. When Hong knew about it, she was like a thunderbolt. She guessed that it was probably Liu who sent someone to do it!
Now that she heard Mrs. Liu threatening her with her family, she had no choice but to stand up and get on the carriage in despair. The carriage went to Yuan Xi's house except for the gate.
Mrs. Liu sneered in the room. She was just a girl from a small family, and she was not worthy of her son. When Shang'er became the lord of Jizhou, what girl wouldn't be able to get it?
Inside Yuan Xi's mansion, a group of counselors were arguing over how to deal with Cao Cao's troops outside Ye City. Yuan Xi was so upset that he realized for the first time how difficult it was for Yuan Shao.
Precisely because these counselors are not ordinary people, the ideas they come up with are not stupid strategies that can be refuted at a glance. On the contrary, these ideas are supported by detailed arguments and careful inference logic.
However, everyone has different focuses, different personalities, and different things to consider, so when they argue, they often focus on more than one key point at the same time. It is difficult for Yuan Shaoshang to make a decision. Yuan Xi, who is not very good at balancing, has a hard time thinking. It has turned into a mass of paste at this moment.
For example, what everyone is currently debating is whether Gao Lan should give up Dongwuyang and withdraw to Yecheng.
One side believes that Dongwuyang is very important. If it is given to Cao Jun, it will be able to rebuild the Cangtingjin ferry, which will make it much easier to transport grain and grass baggage from Yanzhou.
The other side believed that Gao Lan had been injured and could only barely defend. If Cao's army besieged the city and attacked, Gao Lan would not be able to sustain it. Yecheng would have to send troops to rescue him, which would become a drag.
Moreover, this faction believed that there was no food and grass shipped from Yanzhou, otherwise Cao's army would not have tightened the encirclement surrounding Yecheng, but chose to plunder the villages and towns of Jizhou to replenish the army's food supplies.
This opposition in views actually reflects the opposition between the two factions.
One group insisted on waiting for reinforcements and defended Yecheng. They waited for Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang to return to the army, and then joined forces to defeat Cao's army.
One group believed that they should take the initiative and wait for opportunities to reverse the unfavorable situation in Yecheng and put pressure on Cao's army so that they could not do whatever they wanted. Otherwise, Cao's army might surround the point for reinforcements and defeat Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang respectively.
This faction even used the example of Yuan Xi's defeat of Kong Rong's army and Tian Kai's army when Yuan's army attacked Qingzhou, which made Yuan Xi feel that things are impermanent.
It turns out that without realizing it, the battle he fought has become a model for the counselors, right?
However, the quarrel must have an outcome in the end. As Yuan Xi's adviser, Jushou came up with a completely different idea.
Yecheng cannot sit still and wait for death, but it also cannot advance rashly and fall into the enemy's plan. Therefore, in order to open up the defense line, it is necessary to station several mobile troops in the towns around Yecheng that have not yet fallen to deal with Cao Ying's intentions.
If camps can be established in these towns, it will effectively block Cao's army's marching route, making it impossible for them to hide their movements, and they can only find ways to pull out these nails.
If he besieged these towns, Hou Yecheng could send troops to attack Cao's army from both sides.
After this idea was proposed, all the counselors were not very optimistic about it.
Actively divide the troops?
How many soldiers and horses are there in Yecheng to divide the troops?
Doesn’t this mean that everyone will be defeated one by one?
Faced with this idea that seemed to be a synthesis of the ideas of the two groups, but was actually completely flawed, some counselors from the two groups expressed their opposition in unison.
But there are also counselors who are keenly aware that with Yuan Xi's military skills, he will never come up with such an idea that cannot be adjusted. Does he have other ideas or is he testing everyone?
To everyone's surprise, Yuan Xi actually said: "Mr. Gong and Mr.'s idea is worth a try."
"Of course, considering that the people sent out will take great risks, I decided to use my troops as the main force. Two generals, Gao Shun and Xu Huang, each led a thousand troops to the south and west of Yecheng for more than ten miles. Stationed in other towns.”
None of the counselors had any loyalty to Yuan Xi, so naturally they would not try their best to remonstrate with him. After all, these soldiers and generals were Yuan Xi's own, and if they died, Yuan Xi would feel bad for him.
After everyone dispersed, Yuan Xi stood up and prepared to leave. Lu Xun sighed: "I hope it's not the worst case."
Yuan Xi nodded. He understood what Lu Xun meant. Now he was not afraid of Cao Jun attacking the city, but he was afraid that Cao Jun would not come.
If Cao Cao didn't come to besiege the few people he sent, then the problem would be really big. This means that until now, he has not figured out the true intention of Cao Jun.
Giving up on such a key strategic goal as capturing Yecheng, what exactly did Cao Cao want to do?
Yuan Xi walked out of the hall and returned to the backyard. He found that there was an extra carriage in the yard. After asking the maid, he found out that it was Yuan Shang's wife Hong who came to visit Yuan Xing.
Yuan Xi was a little puzzled. The Hong family had been here several times in the past few days. Yuan Shang's whereabouts were unknown, and Yecheng was under his control. Although Yuan Xing said that he had a good relationship with the Hong family, at this time, he didn't know how to avoid suspicion. Bar?
Or is it that the other party deliberately let people know their whereabouts so that the whole Yecheng would know that it was Yuan Shang who was joining forces with him?
Yuan Xi suddenly realized that this was a good idea, but this idea was not thought up by a woman like Hong, but rather the work of counselor Yuan Shang.
Xun Chen or Shen Pei?
Yuan Xi thought for a while and couldn't guess who it was. In his opinion, it was unlikely that the two of them would do such a thing at this time. He shook his head, threw all these trivial matters behind his mind, and returned to his small home. building.
When Yuan Xi walked to the wing on the top floor, Lu Lingqi was holding her cheek, staring blankly at the scenery of Yecheng in the distance. When Yuan Xi walked behind, she lazily turned sideways, handed over the teacup on the table, and said: " My husband is back, it must have been a hard day today, right?"
Yuan Xi took the tea cup and drank the tea in one gulp, but he felt it was quite bitter and wondered: "Why do you drink such bad tea?"
Lu Lingqi chuckled, "This is the unique taste of Wuyuan County."
"Business travelers passing by outside the Great Wall often unload some damaged tea leaves for sale, but even so, the price is so high that it is not something that Liangjiazi from Wuyuan County can drink often. In addition, these tea leaves have some flavor, so we often mix them with green grass. Leaves to drink.”
"I thought the taste was good when I was a kid. Later, my life improved, but I wasn't used to drinking it. Now I pick some green grass in the yard, and it just reminds me of the taste of my hometown."
"I thought that my husband was well-dressed and well-fed, and he had high requirements for tea. He would spit it out after one sip, but I didn't expect that he could swallow it."
After hearing this, Yuan Xi smiled and said, "Don't look down on me, I've also endured hardships."
"But I didn't expect that our little Lingqi, who was a hero among women before she got married, has become more and more like a purdah lady recently."
Lu Lingqi opened her eyes and wanted to retort a few words, but she didn't know how. When the words came to her lips, they were replaced by a sigh.
Yuan Xi said, "You can clean up in the next two days and send Yuan Xing and the Zhen family back to Jicheng the day after tomorrow."
Lu Lingqi was startled and her eyes widened, "In such a hurry?"
"Isn't the situation in the city gradually improving? Has something happened?"
Yuan Xi said in a deep voice: "It is precisely because the situation is good that we take the opportunity to leave."
"If it's too late, it'll be too late."
"When things get settled here, I'll go back to Jicheng and take you to see Jun Gu."
After hearing this, Lu Lingqi said happily: "Really?"
Yuan Xi nodded, "Yuan Tan Yuan Shang, the conflict cannot be reconciled at all. Cao Cao will definitely intervene. I don't want to be too involved."
"It just so happens that Sili can make some preparations. When the time comes, when the three parties are unable to escape, they can make some arrangements."
In Jicheng, Guo Jia was in front of the stove, throwing rolls of bamboo tubes into the fire.
His face was full of guilt.
Book recommendations:
"People in the Song Dynasty were lawless": Zhao Jun said that the real Song Dynasty was a "worry-free cave", and the Song Dynasty screamed everywhere.
Establishing education cannot save them.
So he walked into the darkness to eliminate insects with an anthology in hand. Zhao Jun's sudden blindness represented countless confused young people, and only holding an anthology in hand could help him walk out of the darkness and return to the light.
(End of chapter)
