Cao Cao signed up for his number, but none of the four leaders on the island showed up. Wu Song frowned, becoming increasingly angry, and said loudly: "What's the matter? Is it because of my brother's reputation that even if he wants to see him, he can't get it?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the strange laughter of four people on the island. After laughing, someone sang loudly, and his voice was clearer and more generous. What he sang was——
"Master Tianxu is born in the green forest, and the big bowl of wine and meat is called gold.
The officials want to grant the general's seal, but there is nowhere to find it in the vast Taihu Lake. "
After this party sang, another person sang loudly, his voice was rough and loud——
"Master Tianxu doesn't study, and he kills people like pigs.
The golden palace and the jade hall cannot live, and the grass is like a hut in the depths of the waves. "
When one person finished singing, the other started singing again, his voice shrill--
"Master Tianxu would rather be a robber than a slave when he is in Jianghu.
The corrupt officials could not be killed, so they took their heads and made them into wine pots. "
After all three of them sang, another one with a voice like a broken gong sang directly——
"Master Tianxu is a rogue, and he cannot separate his elder brother from his younger brother.
Wealth and official robes are not what I love, but my loyalty is the only thing I cannot change. "
When Cao Cao heard the four of them singing, he couldn't help but look at him with admiration, and said to Wu Song: "This is truly a wise man in the green forest!"
Wu Song also admired himself: "He should be a man of my generation."
The two brothers were about to negotiate with him in detail, but they heard the sound of water rushing behind them. When they turned around, they saw Niu Gao walking back from the water wearing those ragged shoes. Cao Cao said curiously: "Didn't I tell you to go back to the camp first?" How can I come back again?"
Niu Gao looked excited and whispered: "We are four bandits. Unexpectedly, we can also write poems. It's a pity that brother Tieniu didn't come, but I left my little brother 'Qingzhou Poet Saint' here. I can't lose my dignity. It's just right." After a literary comparison with him, we found that we could not admire the literary talent of our younger brother, so we sent the three Ruan brothers back to us."
Cao Cao couldn't laugh or cry. Just as he was about to speak, he heard the first songwriter just now say loudly: "We know the reputations of your two brothers. Haha, 'Wu Mengde' and 'Huo Dianwei' are so famous in the world. Yes! According to the rules of the rivers and lakes, I should have invited you to drink and eat meat, and entertain you hospitably. But now that you have become an officer and a soldier, you and the gentlemen are two different people. You are an officer and a soldier, and I am a water thief. The gentlemen do not want to do this now. I'll blame you, can you take advantage of this old man?"
The second man with a rough voice laughed and said: "As for reputation, how about 'Holy Duke' Fang La? He came to me with the commander's seal and begged me to come out. Isn't he just thrown into the water by us?"
A third sharp voice shouted: "You guys are all ambitious people. You pretend to be benevolent and righteous to get a good reputation, and then you deceive the hot-blooded good men to work hard to achieve your own prosperity. Others may You were fooled, but the four of us have seen through it long ago."
The last person with a broken gong laughed strangely and said loudly: "The more famous you are, the darker your butthole will be!"
When Niu Gao heard what Lao Cao said about him, he was furious. He pointed at the island and cursed: "Fart, fart! What a hero my brother is. How can he be compared with that guy Fang La? My brother's ambition is to restore the old days of the Han and Tang Dynasties. How could his glory be for his personal wealth! You wait for four villains, it’s okay to have narrow eyes, but you shouldn’t look down on the heroes of the world! Today Grandpa Niu will write a poem, asking you to wait for eternal infamy—— "
After saying that, he chanted: "The four bears have low eyesight, but they treat the phoenix like a grass chicken. They have eyes and cannot recognize heroes. He is like a lake and you are like a stream."
Wu Song laughed when he heard this: "Brother Niu's ability to write poems seems to be even better than that of Tie Niu."
An angry shout came from the island: "You said that we don't know heroes, and we said that you were sold by someone and you counted the money for him! 'Wu Mengde', if you really have the courage to save your brothers, how dare you Come to my island alone?”
Wu Song said angrily: "My eldest brother and I are just two people. With so many people like you, are you afraid that there will be one more of me, Wu Er?"
The four monsters said with a smile: "Come if you want. If you don't dare to come, just wait and collect the bodies of those three! The three of them injured dozens of my brothers. How can I repay this hatred without ripping out the skin and gouging out the hearts?"
Wu Song was about to say more, but Cao Cao stopped him.
Wu Song hurriedly said: "Brother, these four have evil intentions, we can't go!"
Cao Cao whispered: "I have fish-scale armor, which is difficult for swords and guns to penetrate, and I also have a dragon-shaped sword, which can cut iron like mud. Not to mention this island, even an army with thousands of horses and thousands of horses can still support it for a while. Don't be impatient, wait for me After you go, call Niu Gao on the boat and ask him to lend you the wave shoes. If he really has evil intentions and whistles for his brother as a signal, you will step on the water to kill him. My brothers will cooperate with each other and directly massacre this island!"
Wu Song thought about it carefully and realized that this plan was feasible. Knowing that Lao Cao was not acting recklessly, he immediately felt relieved and nodded: "Okay! I will act according to my brother's plan."
Cao Cao said loudly: "Forget it, Erlang will wait for me here while I, my brother, go to the island to pay a visit alone."
The four seemed stunned, and then sneered: "No wonder he is so famous, and his courage is extraordinary. On Tuesday, you went to pick up Wu Mengde and bring him to the island."
A small boat came over immediately. Cao Cao remained calm and boarded his boat. Here Wu Song waved to Niu Gao to get on the boat and told Cao Cao's plan in his ear. Niu Gao nodded repeatedly and immediately took off his straw sandals.
The man named Tuesday pulled the oar, and the boat flew out like an arrow. It reached the shore in a moment. Cao Cao walked slowly to the island. Dozens of strong men surrounded him. They stretched out their hands to untie his knife and eat Cao Cao's hand. Pushing away, he shouted fiercely: "Wu Mou's knife will never leave his body unless he sleeps with a woman. With so many people on your island, are they still afraid of Wu Mou's knife?"
The four leaders slowly walked out of the woods and said with a smile: "Don't you dare to remove the sword? It seems that your courage is unparalleled."
Cao Cao's expression remained unchanged and he said with a smile: "The four of you are very broad-minded and far-sighted. Now, if you use these words to provoke me, it will hurt your wisdom. If a man acts according to his heart, why should he prove it to others?" "
The leader, the red-bearded leader, nodded and said, "That's true, but why didn't you come to my island alone? Do you know that I can chop you into pieces immediately with a single order?"
Cao Cao laughed and said: "We were just irritating each other, and now we are threatening. What's the point of these little tricks? Wu came from afar, can't we all talk properly?"
The red-bearded man's face suddenly turned cold: "You think I don't dare to kill you?"
Cao Cao muttered: "Wu never took advantage of gold or silver in his life, but he only took advantage of a group of brave brothers. Your island is surrounded by deep water, which may be useful for dealing with others, but among Wu brothers, there are a few dragons in the water. 'Hunjiang Dragon' Li Jun, 'Chuan Huo'er' Zhang Heng, 'Langli Baitiao' Zhang Shun, 'Han Shui Dragon King' are well-known names in the world, have you ever heard of these names?"
The four looked at each other in confusion - they were proud of their great abilities on the water, so how could they not know about the top water heroes in the world?
Cao Cao added: "Actually, these are the three brothers you captured today. If they hadn't been unaware of the situation and mistakenly landed on your island, how could they have lost to you in a real confrontation?"
A leader couldn't help but ask: "Could it be that the three of them are also famous heroes on the water?"
Cao Cao chuckled: "Have you never heard of the names Ruan Xiaoer, 'Li Di Tai Sui', Ruan Xiao Wu, 'Shuang Ming Er Lang', and Ruan Xiao Qi, 'Huo Yan Luo'?"
The four of them were shocked: "It's actually three of them? Aren't the three of them following the 'Tota King' and working in the Liangshan River? How did they end up in a place like us?"
Cao Cao smiled and said: "The brother of King Chao Tian is Wu's brother. This time we come to the south to fight, and there are many waterways. Naturally, we have to bring a few brothers who are good at water to help us. It's strange. Now that you know the names of the three of them, what do you think?" Are you still shouting about beating and killing?”
The red-bearded leader smiled bitterly and shook his head: "We started a dispute before we knew each other's names. After catching three of them, we just yelled and cursed. How could we have imagined that a hero from Liangshan Mountain would become an official?"
The tall and thin leader answered: "Fang La and Chao Gai are equally famous. Since you are Chao Gai's brother, why do you want to help the court to fight against Fang La?"
Cao Cao waved his hand and said: "I have not stopped attacking Fang La. I also defeated Wang Qing in Huaixi and Tian Hu in Hebei the year before last."
The red-bearded leader frowned and couldn't help but sneered: "You are willing to risk your life for fame."
Cao Cao didn't take it seriously and smiled slightly: "I have fame at my fingertips, so I fight in the north and south every year. I don't want these grass-headed kings to waste the country's power for their own ambitions."
Pointing to the north, he said: "I defeated the king and Tian, and was granted the title of envoy to Qingzhou. Last year, I went to the Kingdom of Jin, which is also the Jurchen Kingdom..." Then he told the Jurchen's combat power one by one, and then sighed: "The Song Dynasty won the country. It is not right, and the northern land is occupied by the Khitan, and the natural endowment is insufficient. In the future, foreign races will come from the south and they will gather the power of the whole country to fear that they will be defeated. If Wang Qing, Tian Hu, Fang La and others are allowed to become powerful, the disaster of Wuhu and China will be destroyed at present. also."
The four people were stunned and said, "That's all, what he said is exactly the same as what Mr. Lu said."
Cao Cao wondered: "Who is Mr. Lu?"
The red-bearded leader seemed reluctant to speak, and thought for a moment before speaking: "Mr. Lu is Mr. Lu. He told the four of us that Fang La's good times will not last long, and we should not rebel against him to avoid being implicated by him in the future. You are not allowed to join the officers and soldiers. In the eyes of those scholar-bureaucrats, they never regard warriors as human beings. Even the generals look down on heroes like us who came from the green forest. We can only live happily here to save our lives and our family."
Another leader said: "We are all fools. Without the guidance of a wise man, how would we know these principles of escaping from the world and protecting ourselves? Mr. Lu once said: 'Everything in the world must have its successes and failures, and every person's prosperity must have their decline." He said Fang La and the imperial court are both about to decline, one is in front of us and the other is a few years later, so it is good to avoid them."
"Everything in the world must succeed and fail, and every person must rise and fall." Cao Cao read it twice and nodded in approval: "This is what a wise man says! Haha, when it comes to Mr. Lu, you all seem to be prevaricating. It can be seen that this person is a person who has gone behind the scenes. Wait for Wu to take a guess..."
"A few days ago, when I conquered Runzhou, the guard Lu Shinang once said that when Fang La started his army, an imperial student once advised him to seize Jinling as a foundation and rely on the Yangtze River to plan for the future. Fang La did not accept this plan and thought that the imperial court Decay could have taken its time, but unexpectedly a large army came to conquer so quickly... The imperial student had an extraordinary strategy, so he could certainly see that Fang La would be defeated... Haha, General Lu, Mr. Lu, did you avoid this island? ?”
With a "Cang Chi" sound, the four leaders drew their swords in unison: "Mr. Lu has a favor with us, but now neither the court nor Fang La can tolerate him, and his whereabouts must not be spread! 'Wu Mengde,' you and I have nothing to do. Enmity, because your guess is so accurate, my brother has no choice but to be offended!"
Cao Cao took a step back, pressed the handle of the knife, his eyes were alert, but his smile remained unchanged: "Wait a minute, wait a minute, why don't you tell Mr. Lu everything I just said to see if he wants to destroy me too?" mouth."
There are different teachings: Wu Mengde went to the meeting alone, and Mr. Lu was attacked on both sides. Fang Ladu in the imperial court had a grudge, and he held Qingzhou three feet high.
(End of chapter)
