Three Kingdoms Guo Jia's growth diary

Chapter 78

Now, let's go back an hour ago.

A certain person volunteered to take part in putting out the fire. After a long time of humming and humming, he brought a bucket of water and sprained his foot halfway. When he moved to the front with the speed of a turtle, the flames had already been extinguished by Lu Bu and Dian Wei.

Guo Jia: "Feng Xian (Lv Bu), help me return the barrel to the first family in Xin'an." Although it is a waste of help, Guo Jia has no psychological burden. turn the corner.My feet hurt, and I can take a few steps less.

Lu Bu: "..." How did he get deceived into thinking that Guo Jia could pinch and count, that he was unfathomable, and that he got into a pirate ship?

Dian Wei leaned over and took a look for Guo Jia. No bones were injured, and the ankle was slightly swollen. It may not be convenient to walk these days.

On the way back, Dian Wei helped Guo Jia stop and go. Lu Bu, who was eager to meet his wife and concubines earlier, became anxious when he saw it. He squatted down and said, "Come up, I will carry you."

Lu Bu is a flirtatious and family-loving man. Outside, he is arrogant and cool with his unparalleled martial arts skills.When he returned to the back house, he immediately transformed into a crazy demon who loves his wife and protects his concubines. His ears are super soft. As long as his wife Yan Shi acts coquettishly and shows weakness, it will definitely arouse his desire to protect and make him the most obedient minister under her skirt. .

Thinking of the delicate Yan family and the well-behaved baby daughter being captured by Cao Cao, Lu Bu wished he could grow a pair of wings and fly over to protect them.

If it weren't for the fear of this Guo Banxian and not daring to be disrespectful, Lu Bu would have picked up his back lapel (back collar) and rushed to find Cao Cao.

Just when Lu Bu was worried about his wife, concubine and daughter, and his heart was turning.

Guo Jia's nice but ruthless voice suddenly sounded: "Don't worry, general, Cao Shijun loves talents, and will treat the general's family well. However, if the general really cares about his wife and daughter, he should restrain his subordinates and stop doing that kind of looting." People are doing it, and the sky is watching. If you do unrighteous actions, you will die." He had to continue to fool Lu Bu, and if he didn't get rid of this stinky problem of looting, he still couldn't get along with Cao Cao.

Lu Bu was shocked again, Guo Jia even knew what was going on in his mind?Is that human being?Terrible.Lu Bu restrained his arrogance and said, "Everyone listens to Guo Banxian."

Guo Jia didn't expect that Cao Cao would put aside the work at hand to find him in his busy schedule. He motioned to Lu Bu to put him on the carriage, and said loudly, "Congratulations, my lord, congratulations, my lord, and another general!"

At the same time, Lu Bu took off his helmet (helmet), saluted slowly, and asked Cao Cao to surrender.

Cao Cao was overjoyed, he helped Lv Bu up, held his hand to talk, and very understandingly asked Lv Bu to go back to reunite with his family first, and then lead troops to surrender. In order to show his trust, he didn't even send a supervising army.

Not long after, someone saw the three war horses grazing in the west of the city, and Guo Jia's horse and Dian Wei's horse were led back by soldiers.Lu Bu's red rabbit horse has a bad temper, runs like the wind, and refuses to let anyone approach. Several generals with good riding skills took off their armor and tried to find a chance to ride the red rabbit horse and tame it, but all ended in failure.

In the end, it was Zhao Yun who blew a whistle to lead the red rabbit horse to the vicinity, and resorted to the trick of trapping the horse, wrapping a thick hemp rope around its neck.A group of military generals surrounded this rare BMW horse, admiring and admiring it.

Guo Jia, who always loves to be lively, sat in the carriage all the time and didn't show up.Cao Cao felt something was wrong, pulled Dian Wei aside, asked in a low voice, and found out that Guo Jia had twisted his foot.

A war is not over when it is over. There are still many things to do after the war, such as disposing of prisoners of war, cleaning up the battlefield, and counting the war damage, etc.

When Lu Bu surrendered, Zhang Miao's army was still confronting Cao's army. If Zhang Miao found that the main force of Cao's army was in Puyang City, he might take advantage of the emptiness of the barracks outside the city to sneak attack the barracks, burn or steal the rations. will struggle.

So Cao Cao was very busy, he wanted Guo Jia to rest, and he was undecided about something, so he needed to discuss it with Guo Jia.

So, he came up with a way to get the best of both worlds, and asked someone to carry a couch and place it in the main hall.Guo Jia took off his shoes and socks, half-lyed and half-sat on the couch, and applied cool well water to his feet to reduce swelling. (For sprains with bruises, cold compresses must be applied on the first day to constrict blood vessels to stop bleeding.) Two screens cover Guo Jia's figure and cut off sight.

Cao Cao handles official duties on the other side of the screen, and he can ask for advice at any time if he has something to do.Guo Jia can lie down and rest without getting up.

Chen Gong was captured alive by Yu Jin, bound with hemp rope, and escorted to the front of the hall, waiting for Cao Cao's release.

Cao Cao was in a good mood, and asked him with a smile: "Qing usually thinks he is very clever, but now he has been captured by miscalculation, what else can he say?"

As soon as Guo Jia heard this, he knew that Cao Cao was reluctant to kill Chen Gong and wanted to persuade him to surrender first.

However, Chen Gong has always been upright and stubborn, and it is impossible to submit. He didn't even lift his eyelids, and said coldly: "Being unfaithful as a minister, being unfilial as a son, you will die today."

Chen Gong would rather die than surrender.If he resolutely refuses to surrender for what he has done, even Cao Cao has no reason to spare him, otherwise how will he convince the public in the future?

The joy of Cao Cao's victory dissipated in an instant. He got up and untied Chen Gong, trying to enlighten him: "You are like this, what should your mother do?"

Chen Gong: "I heard from the palace that those who rule the world with filial piety will not harm their relatives. The mother's life and death depend on Cao Shijun."

Cao Cao: "Then what about your wife?"

Chen Gong: "Those who govern the world with benevolence will never cease to be sacrificed to others. Whether my wife and children live or die depends on Cao Shijun's thoughts."

Cao Cao was silent for a while, not knowing what else to say.At the beginning of his betrayal, he wanted to chop up Chen Gong and feed it to the dogs, but then his anger gradually calmed down, and he remembered that when his power was still very weak, it was Chen Gong who welcomed him into Yanzhou and experienced a lot of ups and downs together.I am also grateful for Chen Gong's contributions and favors, and hope to clear up the past.

Chen Gong made up his mind and said: "Please cut off the palace immediately to clarify the military law." After he finished speaking, he turned around decisively and walked out quickly, Yu Jin and others couldn't stop him.

"Gongtai! (Chen Gong)"

Cao Cao chased him for a few steps, but Chen Gong refused to even turn his head.

At this moment, countless past events came to mind, and Cao Cao burst into tears.Seeing that Chen Gong was about to go his own way and walk onto the guillotine, there was a burst of wild laughter from behind him.

At some point, Guo Jia walked around the screen and said in a dawdly way: "Jia originally thought that Gongtai was just out of luck, resourceful, and not inferior to Jia. I didn't expect you to be such a coward!"

Chen Gong suddenly turned around: "Guo Fengxiao, I show my ambition by death, and anyone should say that I have integrity, but you are called a coward?"

Guo Jia approached step by step: "You betrayed Cao Shijun because you were disloyal. If your mother is still alive, it is unfilial to let her white-haired person give away a black-haired person. It is unkind to attract tigers and wolves. It is unrighteous to make a husband and wife, make a covenant to live together, but abandon each other in the middle way. It is unkind to not fulfill the responsibility of raising children when they are still young. If they die, they will only smell bad. How can there be any integrity? ?”

He walked very slowly, and every step seemed to be very imposing.He said, his voice paused slightly, and he showed a very contemptuous smile: "I just lost to Jia once, and I have to seek death and life. I don't even have the courage to fight again. What are you not a coward? Your son will go to school in the future. People will laugh at you, yo, isn’t this the son of a coward who begs to die after losing a battle?”

Chen Gong was trembling with anger, his face was red and green, and his beard was trembling: "Lü Bu didn't listen to my plan, that's why I lost today. How can I say that I lost to you? It's not fair at all!"

Guo Jia had one bare foot, and there was a small patch of redness and swelling on the white nude, probably in pain, he frowned slightly, and did not move forward: "Then I will give you a fair chance to fight, this winter solstice, you and I Play against each other, and decide the outcome between black and white pieces, when the time comes, your skills will be inferior to others, so don't make excuses."

Chen Gong suddenly realized: Guo Jia actually wanted to motivate him to live, and he did not refuse this kindness.

Cao Cao still had tears in his eyes, and his vision was still blurry. Guo Jia saved the person he wanted to save.Guo Fengxiao has always understood his thoughts.He is not willing to kill Chen Gong, but he can no longer trust Chen Gong without reservation, the current situation is the best arrangement.

The well water is only slightly cool, and the effect of reducing swelling is not good.Guo Jia asked the waiter to bring half a bucket of water, filled a small, clean copper basin with clean water, put it into the wooden barrel, and let the copper basin float on the water in the wooden barrel.

Then, Guo Jia avoided the copper basin and threw the saltpeter into the wooden barrel. When the saltpeter dissolved in the water, it absorbed a lot of heat, and the water in the wooden barrel and the copper basin gradually condensed into ice.

The method of using saltpeter to make ice came from later generations. The waiter had never seen it before, and once thought he was witnessing some mysterious spell, so he knelt down to Guo Jia.

Guo Jia: "..."

He asked the waiter to get up, and only took the ice from the copper basin to help him coldly compress his ankle. This time, the swelling was obviously reduced a lot.

There is still some clean ice left in the copper basin, plus milk, nuts, pulp and sugar, divided into two parts.Ask the waiter to deliver a copy to Cao Cao.

On Midsummer Night, the protagonist is immersed in military affairs, while Guo Jia hides behind the screen, eats homemade fresh milk and fruit shaved ice, relaxes and cools off, and falls asleep soundly.

Guo Jia was dreaming again, and knew clearly that it was a dream.

It's still the life of a mountain dweller, a small wooden house with half-rolled bamboo curtains.He became another Guo Fengxiao again, looking at things and thinking about others in front of a game of broken chess.

It was an unfinished game of chess, halfway through the game, Xi Zhi was called back to Puyang by Cao Cao's messengers.

He and Xi Zhicai have an appointment, and they will continue the hand-to-hand conversation another day.In the past, they often agreed in this way, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, next time, next year... They are still young, as if they have endless time, and there are countless tomorrows that can end this game of chess.You can "pause the tea bowl to talk calmly, and take the flower branches to sing when you are drunk."

But this time, the interrupted chess game will always be fixed at that moment, that day, that year.The friends who played together will never come again.If you are caught off guard, there will be an indefinite period. It is expected that tomorrow and the day after tomorrow will not have that person's participation again.

The remnant chess has been placed there, as if it is some kind of sacrifice.

Xun Yu sent a letter saying that Zhang Miao and Chen Gong rebelled and welcomed Lu Bu to Yanzhou.Before that, Xi Zhicai might have discovered something. Zhang Miao led his troops to kidnap him and put him under house arrest in Yongqiu. Then it's gone.

When Cao Cao broke through Yongqiu, Xi Zhi had just been buried, and the earth on the grave was especially fresh.Cao Cao forgave many people who betrayed Cao Ying, but he hated Zhang Miao so much that he ordered his three clans to be punished. No man over 16 years old from Zhang Miao's father's, mother's, and wife's clans would be left behind.

Lost cities can be regained, but without Xi Zhicai, no one can replace them, even if Cao Ying is full of talents.Scholars who are proficient in military formation and military affairs are very rare, and they can be called rare.Xun Yu, Xun You, Zhong Yao, Dong Zhao, Liu Ye and others were unable to assist Cao Cao in all his victories like Xi Zhicai.

In the place where friends sleep forever, there are luxuriant grasses, and they come back to life after scratching.

Guo Jia sacrificed a jar of wine and a roast chicken, but he pulled off Xi Zhicai's favorite chicken wing tip and ate one. He stroked the tombstone and said, "Those who break the contract will be punished with wine, and only the tip of the chicken wing will be given to you." Keep one."

After Cao Cao dealt with the urgent military affairs, he noticed the iced food on the sidelines. The big families store ice in the ice cellar, take it out in summer to relieve the heat, and make it into iced food to enjoy. Cao Cao naturally ate it.

However, the waiter swears that the ice was conjured by Guo Jia with magic.

"Spell..."

Cao Cao felt extremely irritable, and had the urge to kick the waiter away, a good young scholar, but his reputation is similar to that of the evil Taoist Zuo Ci, and it was all spread by these foolish people!However, his military division is indeed amazing.

The ice food had been left for a long time, and it basically melted. Cao Cao ate a few mouthfuls, and dragged his tired body around the screen.

In midsummer, the weather was sweltering, Guo Jia was wearing only a single shirt, barefoot, lying on his back, revealing a smooth and delicate calf.A man with such white legs is really... Cao Cao's eyes were fixed for a moment, but in the end he resisted doing anything, he didn't want to offend Guo Jia, and at this moment, he was so exhausted that he wished he could fall asleep.

Xi Fan pacified Yingchuan County and returned to Yanzhou. Guo Jia pulled his sleeve and looked at him again and again.

The dream a few days ago left Guo Jia at a loss. Seeing Xi Zhicai again, he was very happy. He laid out the broken chess in the dream, smiled and invited his friends to solve it.

Xi Zhicai stared at the endgame, feeling weird.This chess game looked like he was playing against Guo Jia, and he didn't know why it was not finished, but he didn't remember playing such a broken game.He was stunned for a while, then suddenly smiled and dropped his breath.

The green bamboos are bleak, under the window, in front of the wine bottle, friends and bosom friends, talking calmly, what a pleasant thing.

There are tens of thousands of Bingzhou cavalry under Lu Bu's command, and the maintenance cost is astronomical. The forage needed for high-quality war horses cannot be supplied by one or two counties.

Cao Cao strictly enforced the law and severely restricted the privileges of the Yanzhou gentry, so they didn't like Cao Cao, but after kicking Cao Cao away and taking refuge in Lv Bu, their intestines were almost remorseful. Hit if you don't agree.

It was only two or three months since Lu Bu took over Yanzhou. The local gentry and gentry were harmed by him over and over again. The money, food reserves, and trilogy of these people's families were forcibly expropriated. Their strength plummeted and they could no longer compete with Cao Cao. .

This is why Guo Jiaming knew that Chen Gong would betray him and greeted Lu Bu, but did not stop him.

By the way, Chen Gonghu pretended to be a tiger, and used the young and middle-aged men who were forcibly recruited by Lv Bu to form an army of 2 people. Now they are all cheaper than Cao Cao.

Puyang City was destroyed by the war, the government offices had to be repaired, the city walls, gates, and houses all needed to be overhauled, and the east gate probably needed to be rebuilt, and many people who had lost their homes needed to be resettled.

Cao Cao immediately summoned Xun Yu and asked him to preside over various restoration and reconstruction work after the war.

Xun Yu was so busy these two days that he came back after Guo Jia fell asleep at night, and when Guo Jia woke up in the morning, he had already left for work.

Even so, Xun Yu still carefully discovered that there was a light white scar on Guo Jia's right hand and bruises on his bare feet.

For two consecutive days, Guo Jia woke up, and Xun Yu was not there, but the new medicine on his bare feet made him sure that Xun Yu had been there.

On the third day, everything was on the right track, and Xun Yu was on duty (off work) on time.Guo Jia was making tea, looking at the bamboo slips while cooking, indulging in it. There was a smell of burnt food in the room, but he didn't smell it.

Xun Yu wrapped his hands in a handkerchief, lifted the teapot down, opened the window, and let the summer night wind blow into the house.This man was really good-natured, Guo Jia tossed the fragrant bedroom full of smoke and fire, and he didn't say a word about Guo Jia. He even cut the wick for him and brightened the lamp to make him read more comfortably.

On a whim, he wanted to try to make milk tea, but Guo Jia, who boiled the water dry, was inexplicably guilty. He gently covered the bamboo slips, lowered his eyes slightly, and said, "Wen Ruo, go to bed early today."

Xun Yu was scratched by a cat's paw in his heart, picked up Guo Jia, threw him on the couch, and put him under him.