When he returned home, it was already dusk. Pan Jinlian did not light any lights and sat alone in the twilight. When he saw Cao Cao coming back, he felt as if he had just woken up from a dream and said, "Dalang is back. You are hungry. I will do it now." meal."
Cao Cao put down the book, took her hand and said, "I'm not busy."
He took out the gold hairpin from his arms, put it in her bun, looked at it, and said with a smile: "Beauty also needs to dress up. It's a pity that I am in trouble now. Otherwise, with your appearance, you must be dressed in beautiful clothes and wear eight treasures to be suitable."
Pan Jinlian touched the golden hairpin and couldn't help but have mixed feelings. She shed tears and said, "My family wanted to buy a silver hairpin in the past, but you said I didn't know how to live. Now, how can you be willing to buy me a gold hairpin like this."
Cao Cao said sternly: "In the past, you were the wife of a commoner, but now you are a lonely woman. The reasons are naturally different."
Pan Jinlian burst into tears and said with a smile: "If you want to divorce me, it's you, and if you want to pamper me, it's you too, but you're not making trouble."
After saying that, she went to wash rice and cook. It seemed that a golden hairpin really put her in a good mood. She was humming a ditty softly while she was busy.
Cao Cao lit the oil lamp, hurriedly flipped through the history books, and thought to himself: "Pi'er has indeed become emperor, and he has given me the posthumous title of Emperor Wu, Emperor Wu of Wei. Haha, I hate that Pi'er has a limited mind and cannot accommodate his brothers. If he is willing to reuse Huang Xu'er, how can you make the Sima family bigger? Sima Yi looks at the wolf like a hawk, and I have never mistrusted him. His son has usurped the foundation of the Wei Dynasty. Is this the retribution of my family for usurping the Han Dynasty? "
When he saw Wu Hu messing with China and crossing south in his clothes, he couldn't help but be furious: "How dare the Hu people do this! Humph, the descendants of the Sima family are so unworthy that they let the Hu'er roar in the Central Plains and hate me. If the heroes are in hand, I will Their clan must be wiped out."
Angrily until he saw the unification of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Fang nodded and said: "This Li Shimin is a talented and strategic emperor, but killing his brother and imprisoning his father is not what a man should do."
Seeing Wu Zhou usurping the Tang Dynasty again, he couldn't help but be shocked and stunned: "It is very ominous for the harem to be in power, but this woman actually became the emperor. It is really a strange story through the ages, but she did a good job."
Secretly imagining the charm of Wu Zhao, he couldn't help but feel itchy.
When he saw the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Liao and Song standing side by side, he kept shaking his head: "Qin, Han, Tang, the unified country of Jiuzhou, it's just a big name. The Song Dynasty cannot swallow the Liao and destroy the Xia, but also has to give away coins as a gift. Even if you buy peace, do you deserve to be called great?”
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He threw the book away and cursed: "The descendants are incompetent! Have they forgotten our heroic deeds of 'one man is like five barbarians' and 'no matter how far he is, he will be killed'? I was thinking of the Song Dynasty." If the emperor is a hero, what if I am a loyal minister in this life? But how can such a despicable person be worthy of serving Cao?"
In the midst of his rage, the door of his house was suddenly kicked with a loud bang. Cao Cao raised his sword and opened the door. There were twenty or thirty men outside the door, each holding a wooden stick or an iron fork. He shouted: "Wuda, Wu Da! If you offend a noble person, today is the day you die."
Cao Cao shouted: "Did Ximen Qing ask you to come?"
The faces of those people changed and they shouted: "We don't know any high-ranking officials from Ximen. We are heroes from Liangshan Mountain. We heard you were unjust and came here to get rid of you!"
Cao Cao laughed and said: "The heroes of Liangshan came to attack me, a cooking cake seller? What a generous act." He shouted: "My neighbors will bear witness to me, these people are gangs of thieves and strongmen who came into the county to rob homes and houses."
Those people shouted: "You screamed until your throat was broken, and no one dared to save you, so just accept death."
Pan Jinlian heard the noise inside the door and ran to the door to take a look. She was so scared that she stretched out her hand to pull Cao Cao hard: "Da Lang, close the door quickly." Then she screamed: "Come here, report to the official, robbers kill people." La."
Cao Cao touched her face and praised: "It's like a good woman to protect me like this. But don't worry, I had expected that Ximen Qing would not pay the money obediently, so I bought this sword in my hand."
After saying that, he pushed Pan Jinlian in, pulled out the sword with his right hand, jumped out of the door and shouted: "Come up if you are not afraid of death!"
When those people saw his short stature and the shining sword in his hand, they all laughed: "Three inches of T-bone bark, are you going to make a big show?"
A man held a stick and hit him on the head. Cao Cao turned to the side to avoid it, thrust his long sword in his hand, and pierced the man's heart.
The rest were shocked and shouted: "Wu Dalang killed someone!" One by one, they held up their sticks and beat them in all directions. Cao Cao didn't care, he jumped up and rushed into the crowd, only to see a sharp blue light and screams accompanied by blood. , broken arms and legs fell one after another.
Cao Cao also worked as a ranger when he was young. His swordsmanship was passed down from an expert and was honed in actual combat. How could he be matched by these gangsters?
In just a few breaths, six people were killed and seven were maimed. The rest were so shocked that they dispersed in shock when they saw how brave he was.
Poor Cao Cao had short legs and no mount, but he was unable to pursue him. He wiped his sword on the corpse and returned it to its sheath.
At this time, the neighbors dared to open the door cautiously, but they were frightened to death when they saw corpses strewn on the ground.
Cao Cao shouted: "My neighbors, don't be alarmed. These thieves invaded the county and killed them without any fault. They all followed me to carry the bodies and went to the county government to ask for merit."
Seeing him standing majestically in the middle of the street, the neighbors just lost their fear and called their friends one by one. In an instant, dozens of people gathered, lifted up the dead and wounded, and headed straight to the county government office.
The news spread along the way, alarming the whole county, and everyone said, "The gang invaded the county, and the gods protected them. They got into Wu Da's body and killed dozens of people with flying swords."
By the time we arrived at the county government office, there was already a sea of people holding lanterns and torches, making it look like daylight.
Yao Wenqing, Zhao Zhongming, Hu Zhengqing and others, with their chests and belly high, would talk vividly to everyone about how they and others were not afraid of danger and how they fought fiercely against bandits.
Cao Cao also learned what kind of place Liangshan was during the discussion. He rolled his eyes slightly and immediately asked for paper and pen to write a piece of paper.
It was written: "Ximen Qing, a wealthy family in this county, has been disobedient for a long time and secretly planned to kill soldiers. On a certain day of a certain month, Ximen Qing had an affair with the Liangshan bandits, and they cooperated with others to attack the county. The county leader heard the report in advance and ordered the righteous soldiers to fight. Zhi led all the warriors to lie in ambush in advance, waiting for the enemy bandits to arrive. They made noise and fought out. The county magistrate rushed into the formation in person, shouting, "Why die to repay the officials?" The morale of the army became stronger, but the bandits' spirit weakened, and they fled in a huge rout, leaving several corpses... …”
Not long after, the county magistrate opened the office, and everyone rushed in, handing in papers, prisoners, corpses, weapons and other belongings. When the county magistrate heard that the Liangshan bandits who broke into the county were defeated, he couldn't help being surprised and happy. When he looked at the paper again, he was even more happy and excited.
After a quick interrogation, the captives confessed that they and others were gangsters from the villages and townspeople, and Ximen Qing gave them money to kill Wu Zhi, falsely claiming to be Liangshan bandits.
Upon hearing this, the county magistrate lost most of his joy. Cao Cao looked on coldly and suddenly shouted loudly: "Nonsense! You are clearly the Liangshan bandits. You are the 'Magic Sword' Li Si, you are the 'King of Hell' Zhang San, he is "One stick knocks down the mountain" Wang Wu, the one with no head is "one punch breaks the monument" Saturday, they are all famous murderers in the world, you and others are clearly colluding with Ximen Qing's fellow inside and outside, you want to attack Yanggu first County, then attack Dongping Prefecture, and then establish a country to rebel against the Song Dynasty, you Liangshan chiefs and chiefs..."
Just as he was about to make it up, the magistrate reminded him: "'Chao Gai, the King of Towers'!"
Cao Cao took advantage of the situation and continued: "Yes, the big leader Chao Gai, the King of Tota, established himself as the king of Daliang, and granted Ximen Qingna the title of King of Side by Side. The county magistrate has already found out this information clearly and made arrangements. We, the volunteers, will set up an ambush to defeat Ruliang Mountain first, then destroy Ximen Qing, and confiscate his property, property, and property! Do you still want to hide it?"
