The three of them quietly followed behind without being noticed by the old man at all.
There was indeed something fishy about the old man, and he did not go to Jiangling City.
The three of them followed the old man all the way, and they finally arrived at a bush five miles west of Jiangling City.
"Guanshi Wang, aren't you taking me to see my mother? Where is this?" The young man whom the old man called his grandson asked in surprise.
"I'm sorry, little master." Steward Wang's face instantly turned ferocious, making the young man tremble with fright. The old man, whom the young man called 'Steward Wang', took out a bone flute from his arms, He brought it to his lips and blew out a few shrill sounds. Then, he turned around and said fiercely to the boy: "If you dare to scream, I will cut your throat!"
When Xia Houxuan, who was lying on the tree, heard this, he was about to jump down to save others, but was caught by Yu Gui. Yu Gui shook his head and signaled Xia Houxuan not to act rashly. Cao Xi looked at the old man angrily.
Sure enough, as Yu Gui expected, the old man kidnapped the young man and came here because he was waiting for someone.
Not far away, a cloud of dust seemed to rise, accompanied by a faint sound of horse hooves. After a while, dozens of cavalrymen rushed to the old man and the young man. When Yu Gui and the other two looked carefully, they found that the leader with tendrils of brown hair and pale yellow eyes turned out to be a barbarian. The rest of them, although dressed as wanderers, But their weapons and vests were all standard military equipment. Yu Gui had never seen this style of sabers and armor. Facing dozens of well-trained cavalry, no matter how confident Yu Gui was, he did not dare to be too confident, so he could only continue to wait and see.
"Sir, I brought the person you asked for." The manager Wang grabbed the young man and threw him in front of the barbarian horse. He bowed to the barbarian general and smiled.
"Is he Lu Yan?" The barbarian general began to look at the young man carefully.
'Lu Yan? 'Yu Gui thought to himself, there is a big family in Jiangnan, Gu Lu, Zhu Zhang, this young man's surname is Lu, is there any connection with the Lu family in Jiangnan?
"It's absolutely true. This is my young master. It's true!" The old man, Steward Wang, smiled flatteringly at the barbarian general and said, "Sir, the reward you promised me..."
'Young Master... It seems that this old man is not only trying to harm the young man, but he is also a man who sells goods for glory. Yu Gui, Xia Houxuan, and Cao Xi couldn't help but feel a little more disgusted with the old man in front of them.
The child glared at the old man, but did not dare to say a word.
"Remuneration?" The barbarian general seemed to have heard something extremely ridiculous, and couldn't help laughing: "Sellers seeking glory should be rewarded well, hahaha... Come on!"
"exist!"
A red-robed soldier shouted loudly.
"Give him the reward he deserves!"
A ferocious smile flashed across the barbarian general's bearded and sinister face, which made Manager Wang feel a chill down his spine.
"promise!"
The red-robed armored man understood, and like a puppet that could only execute the general's orders, he cleanly pulled out the saber from his waist with a 'clop' sound, and approached Manager Wang step by step.
"Sir...sir, general, sir, spare your life, general! Spare...uh!"
Seeing that the situation was not good, Manager Wang begged for mercy and started to run away with trembling legs, but it was too late. The red-robed soldier killed people no slower than the speed of drawing his sword, and he was more clean and neat.
In an instant, Steward Wang was cut down by a red-robed soldier with a knife!
Cao Xi, who had never seen killing before, almost screamed when he saw this scene before him. Xia Houxuan covered Cao Xi's mouth to prevent the barbarians under the tree from noticing. When the barbarian general saw that his men had finished killing everyone, he sneered again, took the young man named Lu Yan onto his horse, whipped his horse and galloped away to the west.
As the dust gradually cleared, Yu Gui immediately jumped off the branch, walked to the dead Manager Wang, and began to rummage for something from the old man's body.
"Master, stop looking for it. He has no money, otherwise he wouldn't have captured his little master and sold him."
Cao Xi couldn't help shouting when he saw Yu Gui searching randomly.
Xia Houxuan flicked Cao Xi's little head and said with a smile: "Idiot, what Master is looking for is probably not money."
Yu Gui, who was attentive, did not reply to the child's words. At this time, a token inside the clothes of Steward Wang's body caught his attention. There were several words engraved on it - the Governor's Mansion. Looking at the regulations, it looks like Jiangdong Soochow... It turns out that it is the token of the Governor of Wu...
Although the purpose of his trip was to find his father Yu Jin, since he met Yu Gui, he couldn't just let it go. Yu Gui had made up his mind, so he knelt down and began to explain to the two children:
"Xuan'er, not far ahead is Jiangling City."
Yu Gui handed over all his secrets to Xia Houxuan. Yu Gui, who was usually taciturn, became verbose at this time.
"When you and Xi'er arrive in Jiangling, find an inn and stay there first. I will naturally find you then. Remember, don't run around waiting for the master to come back."
"If..." Yu Gui hesitated for a while: "If I haven't come back before dark tomorrow, remember, you and Xi'er will go to Xiangyang to find your father."
"Be sure, don't let your father get involved in this war, remember?" Yu Gui understood that traveling westward alone would be very dangerous. Moreover, considering the marching speed of the Shu army, he might encounter Liu Bei's forward. .
"Xuan'er, Xi'er, these days, you have called me master in vain, but I haven't taught you anything yet..." Yu Gui thought for a moment, and with a 'crack' sound, he pulled out the belt from his waist. With the long sword, he was like a dragon playing in the water, dancing a simple, fast, and dignified sword move. After one move, Yu Gui sheathed the sword succinctly, looked into the eyes of the two children, and spoke word by word. He said in one sentence: "This is the killing move of my family's swordsmanship: Sheyu. I hope it can be of benefit to you."
Give up fish.
The two children had read poetry and books since childhood, and soon they understood their meaning.
"Mencius Gaozi 1" says: You can't have both fish and bear's paws, and you would give up the fish and take the bear's paws.
Fish is profit, bear's paw is righteousness. This move of giving up the fish means that a gentleman sacrifices his life to be benevolent and sacrifice his life for righteousness!
"Xuan'er, take good care of Xi'er...Master is gone."
"Master..." The two children looked at Yu Gui's back, their faces full of worry.
"Don't worry," Yu Gui turned around and smiled: "Wait until I come back!"
The two children looked at the dust in the distance, feeling a little lost.
Gangneung City.
Although it belongs to the same Jingzhou as Xiangyang, it naturally has a Jiangnan flavor.
In the three-legged world, this place is the center of the tripod. It is located at the intersection of the three forces of Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Soochow, but due to the subtle checks and balances between these three forces, this city has a rare sense of stability.
At this time, this peace may be broken.
The two children were walking down the street as if they had lost something. Without the master Yu Gui by their side, they lost the lively energy they had before, and instead became unusually quiet.
"Hey, Ah Xuan." Cao Xi looked at the soup cake shop opposite [Note 1]: "Do you think Master will be back tomorrow?" 】
"Definitely. We have all seen what Master is capable of. Ordinary people will never be able to hurt him at all." In fact, Xia Houxuan's tone was not sure. He knew that to the west was a battlefield with merciless swords, and Master would face It's not an ordinary person or thing. I can't tell whether something will happen...
"Then, let's go have a bowl of soup cake first, and then wait for Master." Cao Xi swallowed.
"Okay!" Xia Houxuan also looked at the soup cake shop. In fact, he was also very hungry. Moreover, they had not had a real meal since they came out with the master.
A passer-by would never know that the two children wolfing down the soup cake shop were two well-dressed young princes...
Gradually, it was dusk.
Yu Gui got a horse from nowhere and galloped westward, gradually getting further and further away from Jiangling City.
Suddenly he pulled the reins. He was ready to drive wildly all night, but he didn't expect to reach his destination so quickly.
In the distance, there seemed to be flags, swirling red in the wind in the dusk.
That is the flag of the Shu army.
Throughout the dynasties, every country has its own destiny.
The Xia Dynasty was a wood virtue, and in accordance with the principle of overthrowing and overthrowing each other, and yielding and yielding being mutually reinforcing, the Shang Dynasty overthrew the Xia, and was a gold virtue, and its flags and clothes advocated white; the Zhou Dynasty overthrew the Shang, and it was a fire virtue, and it advocated red; Qin destroyed the Zhou Dynasty, and it was a water virtue, and it advocated black; The Han Dynasty destroyed the Qin Dynasty, but did not recognize the existence of the Qin Dynasty. It believed that it was born from the Zhou Dynasty. Fire gave birth to earth, which was the virtue of earth, and advocated yellow. Wang Mang succeeded the Han and established a new dynasty, which was the virtue of gold. Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu destroyed the new dynasty, and fire defeated it. Gold is the virtue of fire, advocating red.
And Liu Bei claimed that he was the successor of the Han Dynasty, and he was also a fire virtue, advocating the red color; while the Wei State was abdicated by Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, fire was born from earth, and Wei was a soil virtue; Dongwu itself respected the Han orthodoxy, and was also a fire virtue, and later it was To overcome Cao Wei, it was changed to wood to overcome earth, advocating cyan.
The flag in front of him is the Great Han Huode Flag of the Shu Han Dynasty.
Unexpectedly, Liu Bei marched so quickly and conquered Yiling!
Yu Gui abandoned his horse and walked up the hill. He quietly took off a piece of Shu army armor and shuttled among the camps. But he was afraid of talking to others. A considerable number of people in the Shu army spoke Shuzhong dialect and did not understand the Central Plains Mandarin. If they did not understand, they would get into trouble.
Yu Gui observed the military flags of each camp and finally found the location of the barbarian camp in the southwest. The child who was captured by the barbarians was most likely in this barbarian camp.
Compared with the Shu Han regular army, the discipline of the barbarian army was obviously inferior. Not only were the camps dense and messy, but there were also the sounds of cursing and drinking everywhere. Yu Gui couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Hey!" a barbarian soldier shouted drunkenly: "Brother, which battalion are you from? Let's drink together!"
"No, no," Yu Gui lowered his head and said, "I still have to check the prisoners. If there is any delay, the general will scold me again."
"Prisoners? Aren't all the prisoners...all...over there?" The barbarian soldier drunkenly pointed to the east.
"Yes, yes, yes" Yu Gui secretly rejoiced and hurriedly walked towards the east military tent.
