Since the first four years of peace, Lu Bu, according to Yan Qing's plan, "kindly" sent Yuan Shu, who had been robbed of all his belongings, to the Yuan family in Hebei, Yuan Shao, who was forced to take over the hot potato, has not been so leisurely and good days.
Yuan Shu is the son of the first, but to him this early was succeeded by the concubine brother, can not talk about close, since there is not the slightest brotherhood of love can be recounted. Not to mention the fact that in recent years, Yuan Shu boasts of his noble lineage and does not feel the slightest bit grateful for his care and attention, and not only has he greatly belittled him behind his back, but has also joined forces with Gongsun Zan and Sun Jian to find a lot of trouble, adding a lot of blockage to him.
Yuan Shao hated his ability is not big, headstrong, not distinguish between close and distant; but also happy that he is shallow, mouse-eyed, all betrayed.
Now, although he was Lu Bu's pot, was tied up and sent to Yecheng, but in the end is the flesh and blood of relatives, Yuan Shu is already downcast, at the mercy of others, but also in the world have a few points of thin reputation, if the blood relatives of the danger, to do the extermination of the act, will inevitably call the people near and far born of fear, criticized the unkindness.
Then there is an awkward situation in which it is not appropriate to kill, it is not appropriate to put, it is not safe to use, and it is not willing to offer.
Guo Tu, seeing his difficulty, suggested that it would be better to keep Yuan Shu well fed, as a provision for an idle man, in order to show the world Yuan Shao's broad-mindedness.
If outsiders know that Yuan Shao can even tolerate Yuan Shu, who has always been his rival, to come to seek refuge in a great difficulty, won't it be more able to eliminate the worries in the hearts of the surrendered generals?
Yuan Shao, however, shook his head no.
He has a large family, even if there have been constant wars in recent years and a slight shortage of food and grass, it is not so large that he cannot even afford to feed and clothe Yuan Shu alone. But in that case, his heart is always hard to calm down.
This is too cheap for Yuan Shu.
Yuan Shu's vision is extremely poor, and he can't read people well, but when it comes to the knowledge of his own brother's indecisiveness, it's quite profound. After waiting for a while with great anxiety and fidgeting, but still not waiting for a cup of horrible poisonous wine, he knew in his heart: his life will be saved.
He initially cursed in prison because he was afraid of being locked up in a cold dungeon, never seeing the light of day, so he simply cursed and begged for a quick death with honor.
Unexpectedly, Lu Bu, for some reason, didn't kill him, but also had the bad intention of forcing him to show his worst side to Yuan Shao, his common brother, whom he had always despised.
Now people for the knife and chopping board, he for the fish meat, he no longer high-minded and proud, but also honestly at this critical moment to curb the commanding, high and mighty style. However, if he wants to survive, then Yuan Shao wagging his tail and begging for mercy, then it would be better to die.
Yuan Shao deliberated seriously with his staff for a while before summoning him forward.
He wore a simple cloth robe, a rare show of humility and mute side, but really let the habit of arrogant and domineering appearance of Yuan Shao moved a little compassion.
Yuan Shao first appeased a few words, and then said that he would like to appoint him a high official to do. Yuan Shu knows that this is just a polite few words, really go to do it, it will be a suspicion of the will to rise again, life is also sooner or later have to be gone, so while the heart secretly hate, while the wise to their own is for the defeat of the army, no virtue and no ability, do not deserve to receive this important position.
Yuan Shao pushed the boat, through the hypocritical expression of some of the appreciation of Yuan Shu music talent, without saying that he was given a drummer's idle position, and then secretly instructed people to keep a close eye on, even if he was given a complete dismissal.
From the reception of Yuan Shu, to the decision to let him serve as a drum history, all the dust has settled, although looking at the tossing and turning for a long time, but the only thing that can be described as entangled is the Yuan family, the honored two brothers.
In fact, in the eyes of the common people, as a drum historian, it is naturally a good position that is both free and decent, and the salary is also said to be generous - especially in the recent frequent wars, how can there be any time for big banquets?
But for the pampered Yuan Shu, this rough clothes, ugly robes, frugal food days, only slightly better than the prison, precarious times, a little better.
Whether it's this humiliating and lowly position, or the fact that there are people in charge of watching him as he enters and exits, or the pitying and mocking glances of outsiders who know his identity ......
For the sake of his family's life, he had to tolerate it, that is, the place where he worked, he went there a few times, he was so insulted that he refused to take a step out of the door of the room again.
Lying on the bed all day long pouting and sighing, with a belly full of sadness, hate the injustice of this world, said Lu Bu despicable and shameless, Chen Li incompetent waste, misuse his big event.
Yuan Shao heard the message, at first very nervous, suspected that Yuan Shu is going to make some kind of trouble, ordered people to strengthen the firm vision, closely watching his every move.
As a result, after listening to the report for a long time, they all only heard Yuan Shu holding an altar full of bad wine every day, drunkenness, self-pity, Yuan Shao also came back to his senses: other people don't know, he is still not clear about what kind of person this self-appointed younger brother is?
If Yuan Shu really has that lying down, pretending to be crazy, enduring humiliation for several months unchanged ability, would not have ended up in such a situation.
If we can make Yuan Shu kill himself because he can't bear the gap, without him having to force him personally, it would be a good thing.
Yuan Shao listened to Cao Cao's advice and finally decided to send troops south to crush the overbearing Lu traitors, so he pulled out his family's money and naturally withdrew half of the elite troops that had been guarding Yuan Shu, leaving only one man behind.
Yuan Shao's guess was not really wrong.
Yuan Shu indeed does not have that strong will, in the complete loss of power, the future is bleak, only relying on the common brother false charity to survive, but also managed to paralyze the other side of the vigilance of the heart, while waiting for an opportunity to recover.
Yuan Shao, full of ambition, took away 100,000 troops with a bang, leaving Qi Qi alone to guard Yecheng and sit in the rear.
After the departure of the army, the heavy responsibility of the interrogation of the match is also not idle. While taking care of the internal affairs and supervising the transportation of grain and grass, he also didn't forget to take advantage of this great opportunity to sweep away dissidents.
And his painstaking efforts, and indeed not in vain: this is not caught with him always disagree with Xu You's family embezzlement and bribery, bold to even the military food are not spared the big handle?
Repeatedly check, know that this is true, straight after the interrogation with the eyebrows, will be one of them do not miss the arrest, all told to jail, and then quickly go to the letter to the front line to inform the Yuan Shao this matter, but also table his impartiality, have no intention of harboring the meaning of the great crime committed by the family members of his fellow officers.
The front insisted on not moving, the rear infighting is in full swing, Yuan Shu this end of the movement, but always like a pool of stagnant water like half immobile.
If it were not for the fact that he still eats, drinks, and sleeps, just by looking at the doorway that is closed every day and is now covered in layers of dust, one would have to suspect that he has already become a dead man.
Seeing that he was always this disheveled and waiting for death, the soldiers who were left behind to monitor him also began to be passive and slack, only locking the courtyard door once, and then bugging off to find their own fun.
This insignificant detail, overlooked by all, did not escape the eyes of the meticulous Zhou Yu.
Because he was serving under Tian Kai as a special officer and was highly valued, he used his authority to find out what was going on in the allied forces, including Yuan Shao's treatment of Yuan Shu.
How sharp he is, easily speculated the subsequent development, soon had an idea, immediately repair a letter, through the carrier pigeon secretly sent to the best friend Sun Ce in Xu City standby.
Sun Ce and Zhou Yu have always had a heart to heart, and this time is no different. Just based on just words, they guessed his meaning to be eight. Nine is not too far from the truth.
Sun Ce half questioned the meaning of Zhou Yu's plan, scratching his head and pondering for a moment, decided to let Yuan Shu's most familiar father's old department, the veteran general Huang Gai, who is extremely trusted by him, went.
Upon receiving the order, Huang Gai immediately traveled to Yecheng. Around the mansion where Yuan Shu was imprisoned, he easily worked as a morning food vendor with the help of the tavern owner who had assisted Ma Zhong in kidnapping Frustrated Professor in the first place.
Once he had mapped out the surrounding situation, Huang Gai took advantage of the moment when the guards had completely slacked off to silently climb over the back wall and sneak into Yuan Shu's house.
Huang Gai has the face of an honest man that Yuan Shu is quite familiar with, and he is the most stable and reliable age, and he also appeared at the moment when Yuan Shu was desperate, but did not lose his fighting spirit completely, so he made Yuan Shu believe in what he said at once.
Only after this long and earnest talk, after his initial ecstasy, he was still somewhat hesitant about the proposal made by Huang Gai.
Huang Gai said that the reason why Sun Ce still submits to the thug Lu Bu is to try to rescue him. But Yuan Shao is guarding him closely, and apparently wants to force him to die, so even though their hearts are burning with anxiety, there is nothing they can do.
Now, Yuan Shao is pouring out his troops only to attack Lu Bu, and has no time to care about the movements in the rear, and the city is empty, so it is a great opportunity for Yuan Shu to rise again in the east.
You should know that the reason why Yuan Shao is able to call out to all the learned men and women under his command is that he is the head of the Ru Nan Yuan family, which is a powerful official family in the whole world. But when it comes to the rightfulness of the name, who else can compare to Yuan Shu, who is the true lineage of the Yuan family?
This is exactly the reason why Yuan Shao clearly can not tolerate him, but not good to kill him openly.
As long as Yuan Shu doesn't want to be held back to death, he should seize this opportunity to turn around: first borrow a few thousand troops from Gongsun Zan, and then when he gets outside the city, he will kill the fox-fake tiger, and then the soldiers who are left in the city will have no leader, and will have to listen to his orders.
Yuan Shu will then be able to go to Qingzhou and take the place of his nephew, Yuan Tan, and share the land of Qingzhou with Gongsun Zan.
After suffering from this more than a year of torture, Yuan Shu has been no longer the day of the windy style, describing the haggard very much, he knows this well, but also can not stand their own appearance is gradually ugly, has not been a long time to take the mirror to look at themselves.
Listening to Huang Gai, he couldn't help but evoke the long pent up depression in his heart again.
However, Yuan Shu didn't agree immediately: he was stupid, but not hopelessly so. After the defeat of the army and fleeing to the enemy, he knew very well that he and Yuan Shao were interdependent (although Yuan Shao did not care about him anymore), and the real enemy was the unstoppable Lu Bu, who was in the three states.
According to Huang Gai, Tian Kai, who was appointed by Gongsun Zan as the Assassin of Qingzhou, has long been dissatisfied with Yuan Tan's arrogant and rude behavior, and is willing to send troops to support his younger brother, who is more noble than Yuan Shao's lineage, to sit in that position, which is completely believable.
But then, Yuan Shao, who was busy fighting on the front line, would be like being stabbed in the back, and what's more, if Gongsun Zan's men, who came into Ji under the banner of rescuing him, burned the granary halfway through the journey, they would do something wrong. ......
That was kettled Yuan Shao, in the belly under the enemy, really must be completely finished.
If Yuan Shao is finished, Gongsun Zan will surely turn his back on him and withdraw his promise to share Qingzhou with him.
After hearing Yuan Shu's concerns, Huang Gai pondered a little and then continued to advise a few words.
He said, "Once Jianbu is dead, all you have to do is call out from the top and show your identity, and the soldiers guarding the city, without a backbone, won't be able to disobey you and listen to those foreign ministers, whose status is not even as good as Jianbu's. Why should they be afraid of those thousands of men who are just protecting Yecheng? With the 10,000 soldiers originally from Yecheng, why would you need to be afraid of the thousands of Gongsun Zan's men, who are only here to protect you?
With Lu Bu's heavy troops in front of him, even if Gongsun Zan wanted to go back on his word and not honor the covenant, he would be cautious due to the threat of Lu Bu ......
Yuan Shu still stumbled, Huang Gai was not in a hurry, from the calm, he went out over the wall and returned the same way.
On the point of whether Yuan Shu would agree, even Huang Gai, a big old man who was only roughly versed in writing and ink, was quite sure: as long as he didn't want to stay in this shithole for a single day, he would have to bite the bait that had both risks and benefits.
Yuan Shu tossed and turned in bed, not making up his mind until it was dark through.
It was not until then, too, that he finally realized that he was famished, and that his throat was burning, so dry that it would burn, and that was because he had forgotten to eat and use water in his thoughts.
Simple dinner has been sent in through the window by the butcher, because the action is too rough, but also called this is not enough bowl of porridge to spill a small half out, next to a small cup of cold well water.
Yuan Shu frowned and tasted a mouthful, another cold brown rice porridge. Normally, when he had an early death wish, he didn't care at all about what he was eating into his stomach.
To swallow the dry, coarse rice grain now called for a pain in the delicate throat.
But with hope in his heart, his spirits were greatly restored, and the eating of cold porridge and water was not so unbearable.
After pacing in place for a while, Yuan Shu could not hold back the anxiety and excitement in his heart, and habitually shouted at the top of his voice, "Come on people, send honey water!"
Since his childhood, he has a sweet tooth and does not like to drink water, especially when his thoughts are agitated, he needs to enter some honey water, while enjoying the nourishing sweetness, while sorting out the pros and cons of the matter.
He forgot for a moment that his status was in tatters, and when he suddenly yelled this, how could the servant who didn't give a damn about him pay any attention to him?
I laughed at him for being locked up for a long time and really went crazy, it's good enough to have well water to drink, but I still want to think about honey water!
More than the depression of not being able to drink honey water, or even the subordinates dare to look down on him, the tragic status quo of sneering at him is more called the lofty Yuan Shu can not tolerate.
Had it not been for Yuan Shao's authorization, they would not have dared to act in such a manner!
He was so angry that he yelled a few times, and as a result, he no longer hesitated and made up his mind to finish offๅฎก้ , go to Qingzhou with Gongsun Zan's support, and then find out the path to start another stove.
Author's Note: Finally finished explaining the changes in Yuan Shao's rear ......