Late at night, Yuan Jun opened the camp gate.
From the camp gate to the main tent, both sides were lined up with soldiers holding torches.
Not long after, a group of soldiers wearing Jingzhou soldiers' armor came in, and the leader was Huang Zhong.
The one greeted by Yuan Jun was naturally Huang Yi.
The uncle and nephew looked at each other. Huang Yi was naturally very happy, but Huang Zhong's eyes were full of confusion.
Envoy Liu Panjun walked up to Huang Yi with a smile on his face.
"Captain Huang, I have brought you all the three hundred and fourteen soldiers. Do you want to check them out?"
"No, I'm too lazy to order such a small number of people. You can take as many as you want."
Huang Yi didn't care at all how many Jingzhou soldiers he got in exchange. Yuan Yao only gave him one target, and that was Huang Zhong.
A thousand troops are easy to get, but a general is hard to find!
The envoy didn't expect that Huang Yi was still bargaining with him during the day, but became so talkative at night.
Has the matter of exchanging food changed?
"Of those 10,000 shi of grain, Captain Huang, do you think..." the envoy asked hurriedly.
Huang Yi pointed his finger, and immediately a soldier held a lantern, illuminating the square pile built with two hundred bags of grain next to it.
"Well, they're all here. You brought the carriages and horses. You don't need us to help you deliver the food?"
"That's natural. We can just take the food back ourselves."
The messenger kept talking while his eyes were looking at the pile of grains. Huang Yi naturally knew what he was thinking.
"I guarantee that each of these ten thousand shi of grain will not be of inferior quality. If you are not worried, you can check it bag by bag slowly."
"This is General Lu. You and he will discuss the matter of supplying food. I also want to catch up with my uncle about old times."
After Huang Yi finished speaking, he turned around and walked away. The envoy was worried and wanted to ask Huang Yi to stay, but Lu Dai had already stepped in front of him.
Huang Yi bowed symbolically to Huang Zhong, raised a smile on his lips and said, "Uncle, we meet again."
Huang Zhong didn't answer, just looked at the pile of grain.
Did Liu Pan exchange himself to Yuan Yao just for these two hundred bags of grain?
Although in this era, it was very common to borrow soldiers, generals or even give soldiers and horses to others. But it was still difficult for Huang Zhong to accept that such a thing happened to him.
Huang Yi also knew that this uncle must feel uncomfortable now, so he held Huang Zhong's arm and persuaded: "Uncle, what happened today is not a bad thing for you."
"You'd better come with me to meet your direct disciple!"
Huang Zhong remained silent and allowed Huang Yi to push him and walk near the main tent.
In front of the main tent, there were countless torches and fire racks, and the lights were as bright as day.
The mighty general Yuan Yao, who was "suffering from cold" and "bedridden", happened to be standing in front of the main tent in a leisurely manner.
"General Huang, you're fine!"
Yuan Yao's face glowed brightly and he took the lead in welcoming Huang Zhong.
Huang Zhong was in a mess, and he didn't know how to react when facing Yuan Yao.
While feeling uneasy, he finally realized the status gap between the two of them and immediately knelt down on one knee.
Yuan Yaoyan had quick hands. When he saw Huang Zhong swinging his skirt and armor with his hands, he immediately took three steps and two steps at a time to support Huang Zhong's arms.
"General Huang doesn't have to be like this."
Huang Zhong had a pair of unicorn arms and he had already accepted his fate, so he half-knelt in front of Yuan Yao.
"Huang Zhong pays homage to General Yangwei!"
Yuan Yao's support not only failed to hold Huang Zhong, but also almost caused him to stumble.
"General Huang and I have a master-disciple relationship. General Huang kneels down and worships me. Does he want to trap me into an unfilial and unjust place?"
Yuan Yao pretended to be angry and secretly winked at Huang Yi.
Huang Zhong stood up surrounded by the two men, but Yuan Yao did not recognize him as a general, which made him even more at a loss.
Seeing Huang Zhong's embarrassment, Yuan Yao laughed and said, "General Huang didn't have dinner. There are some food and drinks in the tent. Please check in with the general."
At this time, the stomach of a Jingzhou soldier behind Huang Zhong seemed to have heard Yuan Yao's words, and he immediately made a growling sound of protest.
Yuan Yao waved his hand: "The hot rice in the Houzhai has been cooked for you all. Now you can follow Captain Huang to eat in the Houzhai."
"You can rest assured. I, Yuan Yao, don't have much else, but I have a lot of food. You can cook as much as you like, rice and porridge are enough."
"But don't eat too much. Tomorrow, the general will kill chickens and sheep for a banquet for the whole army. If anyone can't eat by then, don't call me, Yuan Yao, stingy!"
When a group of Jingzhou soldiers heard that there was something to eat, they immediately got excited and knelt on the ground one after another, shouting in unison, "Mighty general!"
For these illiterate ordinary soldiers, telling them about loyalty and obedience is far less simple and effective than having a full meal.
You can't even get enough basic food and clothing, and even if you are Sage Kong, no one will listen to your orders.
Seeing that Yuan Yao had made preparations to settle his soldiers in advance, Huang Zhong was half relieved.
He just let Yuan Yao pull his arm and entered the tent.
The tent was filled with food and wine, but he and Yuan Yao were the only two people in the tent.
When the curtain fell, Yuan Yao made a plop and half-knelt in front of Huang Zhong.
"Yuan Yao really has no other choice but to reunite with General Huang by exchanging troops for food!"
Huang Zhong didn't realize that everything that happened was planned by the young man in front of him.
He just regretted that he was so talkative that he raised the issue of borrowing grain from Yuan Yao in front of everyone, and by some strange combination of circumstances, he and his subordinates became bargaining chips in exchange for grain.
"Why is General like this?"
"Everything that happened today has its own destiny. I must be destined to be Huang Zhong. I will do my best to serve the general from now on!"
So he quickly leaned down to help Yuan Yao, but Yuan Yao broke away from Huang Zhong's hands and just lowered his head and said:
"There is no destiny, all of this... is my design..."
Yuan Yao had long made up his mind that if he met Huang Zhong, he would be honest with him and exchange his sincerity for Huang Zhong's loyalty.
You can't hide it.
Only by killing Zheng Bao and his soldiers who participated in the grain robbery can we ensure that what happened today will not be discovered by Huang Zhong in the future.
Don't be afraid of ten thousand in everything, just be afraid of the eventuality.
By then it would be hard to say what Huang Zhong thought of himself, so he would simply confess everything early.
There is a saying that goes well, sincerity is the ultimate skill!
Huang Zhong still didn't understand what Yuan Yao was saying until Yuan Yao took out a blood-stained seal from his arms.
Huang Zhong's tiger eyes suddenly widened because he recognized the bronze seal as that of the military marquis named Wu who was responsible for transporting grain.
"This...how did you get this copper seal..." Huang Zhong realized something before he finished speaking.
"Did you send troops to rob the five thousand grains and grass shipped from Changsha County?"
Yuan Yao didn't dare to raise his head: "I did it. All this is to get the general to join me."
"Liu Pan was arrogant and brave, but he was blind and ignorant of the general's bravery."
"The general's bravery ranks first among the three armies, but he has no chance to kill the enemy on the battlefield. Whenever there is a battle, Liu Pan often goes to the front first, leaving the general to cook in the rear and act as a veteran guarding the barracks."
"Perhaps the general is content with his destiny and can calm down and wait for the time to come; but the wasted years can never be recovered. Does it mean that one has to wait until his head is gray to be able to display his bravery?"
Although Yuan Yao's words touched the depths of Huang Zhong's heart, it was still difficult for Huang Zhong to understand. Liu Pan had so many arrogant and powerful generals, why did Yuan Yao choose him? How does he know how to bravely win the three armies?
Is it because his nephew couldn't see that he was not being reused under Liu Pan, so he recommended him to Yuan Yaoding?
Huang Zhong smiled bitterly and said: "The general's remarks really flatter me."
"Although I was famous for my bravery in the county when I was young, but now that I am young, especially my arms, they are no longer as strong as they were when I was young."
"Since I joined the army, from a county soldier to a county primary and secondary school, and then to being appointed as a Zhonglang General by Liu Jingzhou, the biggest victory I have fought in these more than ten years was just the annihilation of a group of hundreds of bandits."
As Huang Zhong spoke, his voice became sad.
"It has been difficult to achieve even an inch of success after so many years. No one in the world knows my name as Huang Zhong, and Liu Pan also regards me as an old pawn. Even I sometimes wonder whether I can still look like I was when I was young as I have begun to look older. He would ride and shoot like that, galloping across the battlefield."
"General Huang is not yet in his forties, but he is still in his prime!"
"What General Huang lacks now is just an opportunity!"
Yuan Yao raised his head and said with great sincerity:
"Besides, even if General Huang reaches the age of forty, or even the age of knowing his destiny and hearing his ears, I believe that the general will still be strong and strong, with the incorruptible courage of ancient times!"
Huang Zhong looked into Yuan Yao's eyes, and there was no sign of comfort in them, but instead they were full of incomparable trust.
For some reason, the fire in Huang Zhong's heart that had never been extinguished became much bigger.
Huang Zhong took out half of a broken bamboo slip from his arms and asked Yuan Yao an unexpected question.
"Let me ask General Yuan, is this "Yu Zhang Fu" really written by you?"
Since reading "Yu Zhang Fu", Huang Zhong has been asking around to find out who wrote it.
He soon learned that the article was written by none other than Yuan Yao, who had met him once.
At that moment, Huang Zhong felt a different emotion towards Yuan Yao.
Yuan Yao was stunned for a moment and then reacted instantly.
"Yes, this article did come from me."
Yuan Yao was not ashamed at all when he said this, after all, he was telling the truth.
This article is indeed from my mouth, but I did not say that I wrote it. It is all what you think.
"And one of the passages was inspired by seeing General Huang shooting arrows at dawn and dusk that day. I fell in love with General Huang at first sight."
Yuan Yao found an opening to break through Huang Zhong, so naturally he would not let it go easily, and frantically tried to make money for himself.
Huang Zhong was shocked. He didn't expect that the hope in his heart turned out to be the truth.
"Sigh! Bad luck, bad luck."
I, Huang Zhongkong, have a lot of skills, but I can only be responsible for keeping watch at night like an old pawn. Isn’t this bad luck and a fateful fate?
"Feng Tang Yi Lao, Li Guang is difficult to seal. Qu Jiayi in Changsha, it is not without a holy master; Liang Hong in Haiqu, is there no lack of bright time?"
People age easily, but who knows when I will become a general and a marquis? Changsha, Changsha, was Jia Yi the only one who was wronged and buried in Changsha County?
"I rely on a gentleman to see an opportunity and an expert to know his destiny. When you are old and strong, you would rather move away from your heart with a white head?"
This sentence most deeply touched Huang Zhong's heart. No matter when, Huang Zhong never forgot his youthful ambition!
"Huang Zhong, meet the young master!"
Huang Zhong knelt on his knees and knelt on the ground with his head.
