"My mother fell into the hands of Cao Cao. If I don't go back, I'm afraid... the worst will happen."
"Thief Cao did this to ensure that my filial piety is accurate and that I will not see my mother in danger."
"I want to go back, but I have let down the importance my lord has placed on me. If I don't go back, I will become a son of a man, be unfaithful and unfilial, what should I choose?"
Xu Shu was caught in a dilemma.
The dilemma between loyalty and filial piety prevented him from making a real choice.
Liu Bei definitely didn't want Xu Shu to go back in his heart, but he still had to do enough on the surface. He patted Xu Shu's shoulder and comforted: "Yuanzhi, you have helped me a lot. You gave me my life. Go back! Auntie." Your safety is the most important thing, filial piety is far greater than loyalty, I can understand."
"Lord!"
Xu Shu cried and met a good lord.
He also wanted to stay, but his mother couldn't ignore it, and he was struggling inside.
Liu Bei said again: "Yuan Zhi, feel free to go back."
In fact, he showed such magnanimity because he still wanted to use his personality charm to keep Xu Shu, hoping that Xu Shu could give up his filial piety. After all, Xu Shu had helped him so much and knew a lot of inside stories and information. If Cao Cao digs out this information when he goes back, It will be very troublesome.
Xu Shu cried again, feeling uncertain about how to choose, so he asked, "Kong Ming, what should I do?"
"Yuan Zhi calm down first."
Zhuge Liang thought for a while and said, "I think this matter is not simple."
Without realizing it, he was filling in many things in his mind.
"Why isn't it simple?"
Xu Shu asked.
Zhuge Liang first said: "Cao Cao's people knew that I was in Wollongong and sent people to capture me. They also knew that you would recommend me to the lord, so they monitored the lord and found me in Linju. Secondly, he also knew Yuan Zhi very well. , I know that there is an old mother in Yangzhai, and I also know that you are a filial person, and you want to take Yuan Zhi away from the lord through your aunt."
As soon as these words came out, they all fell silent.
"To be honest with you, my lord, the reason why I came to assist your lord is because of the arrangement of my teacher, Mr. Shui Jing. The teacher thinks that my lord is the only one who can help the Han Dynasty."
"Yuan Zhi and I are both students of Mr. Shui Jing, and our movements are well known to Cao Cao's people."
"I'm very worried that there is someone lurking around the teacher who knows about our affairs and the teacher's strategy to help the lord to help the Han Dynasty, so he can deal with us."
"The seriousness of the matter is far beyond our imagination."
Zhuge Liang thought about it and analyzed it.
As early as Linju, he had raised this conjecture to Xiang Lang.
"When I left Linju, I arranged for someone to go back and ask the teacher, and checked again, but... found nothing."
"Teacher has not accepted any new students in the past few years. The students and bookboys who follow the teacher are all fine and have nothing to do with Cao Cao. I just don't understand how the people on Cao Cao's side know so many of our secrets. "
Zhuge Liang also told what he had done recently and what he was worried about.
Liu Bei and Xu Shu were silent.
It seems like the situation is indeed serious.
"Is it possible that there are some talented people in Cao Camp who can predict the future, deduce the future, and deduce all your affairs?"
After listening to Zhuge Liang's words, Liu Bei first thought of Chen Zhou.
During the initial siege of Xiapi, Chen Zhou made many predictions, and all the predictions came true. They were extremely accurate. If there was such a person in Cao Ying, that person was definitely Chen Zhou.
Ever since, Liu Bei simply told what happened at that time.
Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu both felt incredible, and their expressions suddenly became solemn.
If this is really the case, this Chen Zhou is a very scary person.
"impossible!"
Zhuge Liang quickly shook his head and said: "It is impossible for someone to be such a monster. No matter how powerful his deduction skills are, they are only deductions of the overall situation. He cannot do everything in detail and calculate all the small things clearly. Even the teacher cannot do it. .”
He didn't believe that Chen Zhou had such evil abilities.
I think it is more likely that someone around Mr. Shui Jing will leak the secret.
"In fact, predicting the situation of the battle in Xiapi, someone saving Chen Deng's brother, etc. are not necessarily deductions. With the ability to predict the future, you can do it as long as you have enough information, or there is Cao Jun's detailed operations in the city. .”
Xu Shu also didn't believe in such a mysterious thing, and continued: "Cao Cao and the others deliberately behaved like this in order to appear mysterious in front of the lord. In fact, it is not so mysterious. I think Kong Ming is right, there is a problem around the teacher."
After listening to what they said, Liu Bei thought about what happened at that time. He felt that it made sense, but he also felt that there was something wrong with it.
For a moment, he couldn't tell what was wrong. In his opinion, Chen Zhou was really mysterious.
"Yuan Zhi, how do you choose?"
Zhuge Liang asked.
Regarding Xu's mother, Zhuge Liang couldn't give much advice.
The dilemma of loyalty and filial piety does exist under certain specific conditions.
The choice was Xu Shu's business. Zhuge Liang couldn't help Xu Shu make the choice, and he didn't dare to help him choose. There was no other way for the time being.
Unless they can rush into Xudu and rescue Xu's mother, this approach is almost useless. They will definitely not be able to save the people. They may also arouse Cao Cao's anger and send troops to attack Jingzhou.
Now is not the time to confront Cao Cao.
"I'll go back and think about it again."
"Lord."
"Even if I leave and go to Xudu, I will never make a plan for Cao Cao."
"I will definitely not leak anything about you, my lord."
"I can die at any time as long as my mother is safe."
Xu Shu said with certainty.
Liu Bei grabbed Xu Shu's hand and sighed: "Yuanzhi, after you go back, don't do stupid things. You must live well. I'll see if I can arrange for someone to go to Xudu to rescue you."
Xu Shu burst into tears with gratitude, and was soon moved to the point of tears, crying: "If I don't die, and the lord leads troops to Yingchuan in the future, I will definitely open the city gate, welcome the lord into the city, support the emperor, and support the Han Dynasty. "
"good!"
Liu Bei said this, but he was worried in his heart.
If Xu Shu goes back, with Chen Zhou's ability, he can easily take control of Xu Shu. What will happen then is unknown.
Should Xu Shu be allowed to go back?
This has become something Liu Bei is currently struggling with.
Whether Xu Shu goes back or not is Xu Shu's business, but whether he should go back or not is something Liu Bei can control. As long as he uses tougher methods, Xu Shu will definitely not be able to go back.
The meaning of not being able to go back also includes doing whatever it takes and being ruthless.
In order to ensure that his strategy was not known to Cao Cao, he thought that there was nothing wrong with being cruel.
Xu Shu left Zhuge Liang's house and went back to his own home. While looking at Xu's mother's hairpin and the letter written by Cao Ang, he couldn't sleep well all night. He was struggling and entangled in his heart and felt very uncomfortable.
