Chapter 25 Blue Out of Blue

On a quiet morning, Sun Feng carried a small backpack, stepped on dewdrops, and embarked on an unknown journey. Only Yanghu and Du Yu came to see him off. Yanghu stuffed a small purse into his hand: "It's useless to leave this money with us. It's better to lend it to you. Maybe it can add value."

Sun Feng grinned and pursed his purse: "This is the first money we have made in our lives. Don't you keep it as a souvenir?"

Du Yu said, "Funan College already has the names of the three of us, and everyone will help us remember them in the future."

"Hehehe..." Sun Feng pulled open the silk rope of the purse, took out two pieces of gold coins from it, put one in the hands of Yanghu and Du Yu, and touched their heads an old man: "Let's keep one capital for each person, and I'll take the rest away. Study hard and practice martial arts. It's time for you to go out for a few more years. Maybe we can meet in a foreign country.

"Prince, be careful." Yanghu and Du Wei arched at the same time.

Sun Feng answered and looked at the empty dock reluctantly. There was no one on the dock. He sighed silently, said goodbye to Yanghu and Du Yu again, and strode away.

Yanghu and Du Yu turned around and walked back side by side. No one said anything. After a while, Yanghu suddenly said, "Yuan Kai, do you think the king would be angry if he knew that we were coming to see the prince?"

Du Yu turned his head and looked at him and said in surprise, "Have we sent him? We just got up early to exercise. It was a very accidental encounter. We didn't know that he was leaving today. He paused and smiled, "No one knows that the prince is leaving today."

Yanghu nodded: "It's true. No one knows that the prince is leaving today, where he is going, and which boat he is going to take. From now on, the prince will no longer exist, just like this fog."

"Exactly." Du Yu's young man nodded and said, "It's everywhere, and there's nowhere to be."

"Poo!" Yanghu couldn't help laughing. The two teenagers walked side by side and gradually disappeared into the morning fog.

On the tall building in the distance, Guan Feng held up her telescope and locked Sun Feng's fading figure tightly until Sun Feng disappeared in the mist. Sun Shao stood aside with his hands behind his back. After a while, Tu Hu came over and whispered in Sun Shao's ear. Sun Shao nodded and pulled Guan Feng's sleeve: "Let's go."

"Let me watch it for a while. Maybe my son hasn't gone far yet." Guan Feng begged.

Sun Shao frowned and didn't say anything, but looked a little unhappy. Guan Feng lowered her head, secretly wiped her tears, and obediently followed Sun Shao. She knew Sun Shao's intention. The more suddenly Sun Feng left, and the fewer people he knew, the safer he would be. Tai Zifeng has disappeared, and there is only one more ordinary scholar in the world.

"At my mother's place, please persuade me well. I won't go these two days, otherwise she will be annoyed and can't control her emotions." Sun Shao said softly, "In front of others, you have to keep your mouth shut and don't show a trace of wind."

"What about Yanghu and Du Yu?"

"They are the people that A Yan's eyes like. You have to believe in A Yan's eyes." Sun Shao's mouth suddenly showed a smile: "At this point, A Li is better than you. He knows who can trust and who can't."

"Hmm." Guan Feng's nasal voice answered very loudly and couldn't help looking back again. The fog seemed to be heavier and she couldn't see anything. Sun Shao stopped in front of him and waited for her to follow before saying, "I just received a message from Luoyang yesterday that my father-in-law is not in good health. Do you think I should let An Guo go to Luoyang?"

"I want to go in person." Guan Feng raised her head and looked at Sun Shao with tears in her eyes.

"You are pregnant, can you travel a long way?" Sun Shao said with some worry.

"It's okay. At the beginning, I was pregnant with you, didn't I still go on an expedition to the South China Sea with you?" Guan Feng wiped the corners of her eyes and cried, "My mother went early. My father loves me the most. If he can't see me for the last time, he will be very sorry. Unfortunately, A Li is going to travel, otherwise, he must go.

"Look at you, I just said that I was not in good health, and I didn't say that something would happen." Sun Shao said reproachfully, "Since the death of King Zhaolie, my father-in-law has not been in good health, and it hasn't been a day or two."

"I haven't been feeling well recently, and I always feel panicked." Guan Feng shook her head, and tears couldn't help flowing out again. She took Sun Shao's arm and shook it: "Husband, let me go. I will be careful."

Sun Shao was a little uncomfortable. He could understand Guan Feng's mood. Guan Yu gave birth to two men and a woman. The most painful thing was this daughter. Last time he took Sun Feng to Yecheng and specially arranged for Sun Feng to rush to Luoyang to meet Guan Yu. Seeing Sun Feng, Guan Yu was very excited. It was rare for him to get up to teach Sun Feng the knife method, just like teaching Guan Feng at the beginning, and his love was full of words. Originally, Sun Feng should have sent Guan Yu to the end, but Sun Feng unexpectedly refused and insisted on starting his travel career immediately. He didn't want to delay for a day. Guan Feng was a little unhappy and got angry with Sun Feng, but in the end he failed to reverse Sun Feng's decision.

"It's okay, you go." Sun Shao agreed, "If you go to Luoyang, Cao Zhang will definitely come to you about the Western Expedition. You tell him that we are ready and will negotiate with the Romans and Sassanids next year to see when he will be ready."

"Well, I know." Guan Feng didn't take this seriously. Cao's health was getting worse day by day. It was said that Cao Zhang would not go on an expedition at this time, and it was impossible to support such a war with Guan Zhong's strength. No matter how belligerent Cao Zhang was, he would not be so ignorant.

Guan Feng packed up and soon embarked on a journey with Guan Xing. At the end of the twelfth of the twelfth lunar month, they rushed to Luoyang. As soon as they entered the general's mansion, Guan Feng jumped out of the car, separated Guan Ping to greet her, and went straight into the house. Guan Ping looked at Guan Feng, who was bloated, but couldn't help laughing: "Yinping is still as anxious as before."

Guan Xing also smiled and looked at Guan Ping up and down: "Brother, you are fat. It seems that Luoyang's errands are really idle."

"Of course, I'm idle. In addition to patrolling the eight customs, I spend most of my time in Luoyang with my father. Like you, I follow Fengxian to the east and west. How about it? It seems that you have a good time, right?"

"It's a small point." Guan Xing deliberately angered Guan Ping and said, "It's just Tianzhu. After the Spring, I may have to go to Rome after the Spring."

"Vertical, look at your pride." Guan Ping patted Guan Xing on the shoulder enviously and funny: "I've stayed far away from Fengxian. I'm not as upright as him, and I'm not afraid that people will talk about your village?" He looked back and suddenly said in surprise, "Why didn't you see A Li?"

"He didn't come. He went on a trip." Guan Xing lowered his face and said with some unhappiness. He is very unhappy that Sun Feng didn't come to see Guan Yu for travel. Is there any problem with traveling a few months later? Rome is there, and there will be no problem after a year and a half. Why do you have to rush there now?

Guan Ping was stunned for a moment, and his face was not very good-looking, but he didn't say anything. He just sighed: "My father has been waiting for him."

Guan Feng rushed into the house and rushed to Guan Yu's bed. Guan Yu lay in **, his burly body was thin into a skeleton, and his cheeks were deeply sunk. He dared not have the chilling murderous spirit in a pair of phoenix eyes. On the contrary, he looked very calm.

"It's a silver screen." Guan Yu turned his head, looked at Guan Feng, who had a big belly, and scolded him, "There are pregnant people. I don't know how to be careful. It's as popular as before. My girl, you are a queen now. Pay attention to your identity."

Guan Feng burst into tears. She pulled Guan Feng's thin hand and cried. Guan Yu smiled, raised his other hand to wipe the tears on her face, and advised softly, "Don't cry, don't cry, how can my tiger girl of the Guan family shed tears?"

"Father...Dear, Ayu...Ayu..." Guan Feng hesitated and didn't know how to explain to Guan Yu. Guan Yu must have hoped that Sun Feng could come to see him together for the last time, but Sun Feng failed Guan Yu's love and dared not come to see Guan Yu in order to travel.

"A Yu is a good boy." Guan Yu smiled and patted Guan Feng's hand. Guan Feng raised her head in surprise and looked at Guan Yu with tears in her eyes. Guan Yu moved away one hand, groped for a while on her chest, took out something, and quietly stuffed it into Guan Feng's hand. Guan Feng touched it puzzledly and suddenly showed a look of surprise. She blurted out, "This is not..."

"It's good to know, it's good to know." Guan Yu quickly interrupted her words, and her eyes were full of smiles, and there was a kind of childlike mischievousness. He patted Guan Feng's hand and said, "This boy is better than you, just like his father. No, he is smarter than his father."

Guan Feng smiled and secretly glanced at the little white conch in his hand. This was Sun Feng's favorite toy from childhood. He was inseparable. He took it on his body when he traveled, but he didn't expect to appear here. That is to say, Sun Feng did not go west to Rome as he said. He actually came to Luoyang, met Guan Yu, and gave his favorite toy to Guan Yu.

This trick deceived everyone, including Sun Shao and her. They all thought that Sun Shao followed the merchant ship to Rome. Who knew that he would go north. Guan Feng was happy and angry, but there was a look of pride in her eyes.

"You know, I know, he knows." Guan Yu squeezed his eyes and smiled a little proudly. Guan Feng was about to speak, but she heard the voice of Pingguan Xing talking outside. She quickly stopped talking. When she looked at Guan Yu again, she was surprised to find that Guan Yu had changed her look of depression and sighed for a long time.

"Father--" As soon as Guan Xing saw Guan Yu's weak appearance, he couldn't help grabbing him and burst into tears.

"How to what?" Guan Yu scolded angrily. There was no harmony when he talked to Guan Feng just now. On the contrary, he was a little murderous, showing the nature of the previous killing scene: "I'm not dead yet. Let's listen to your howl first. Can you show me the preview?"

Guan Xing was suddenly scared, cried and swallowed back, looking at Guan Yu at a loss.

"Wipe your tears and think about whether there is any good war to tell me. I'm so idle that my knife is rusty."

"Oh." Guan Xing couldn't help laughing, but he didn't dare to laugh. He brushed his face hastily and began to tell him about the war in Tianzhu in the past two years. After he worked as a Lang officer beside Sun Shao for two years, when Lu Xun led Wu Jun to fight for Ferroz in Tianzhu, he was sent to Lu Xun as a liaison officer. He almost saw the whole process of Lu Xun's use of troops and learned a lot of skills from it. Now it is appropriate to tell Guan Yu to relieve his boredom.

Guan Yu listened very carefully and listened quietly. From time to time, he asked for some details, and finally sighed: "I didn't expect Lu Xun's child to have such ability. I really underestimated him before."

"Yes, right now, there are still many people who look down on him." Guan Xing echoed: "General Lu is thoughtless. Whenever he has time, he reads books or maps. He doesn't go to bed until he has time every day. Usually, he doesn't show the mountain or the water, but no one of them wants to hide it from him. Once Feroz wanted to tempt Wu Jun to help him attack Huashi City, saying that he had found a very secret passage that could copy the back road of the noble frost people. Many generals were moved, and General Lu didn't say anything. He just said the way Ferroz said from beginning to end, which scared those Tianzhu people to death. From then on, I don't dare to lie.

"Talent." Guan Yu was silent for a long time and muttered, "It's even more talented to find such a talent."

Guan Ping and the other three nodded and echoed. Although Lu Xun was a descendants of the Lu family, his reputation had never been good. He did not participate in the previous wars. Compared with Lv Meng, who was a few years older than him, he was almost anonymous, which was very in line with the reputation of the Lu family in Wu County. Who would have thought that he was such a talented person. People. Including Guan Feng and Guan Xing, when Sun Shao decided that Lu Xun would preside over Tianzhu's war, they also felt that this was Sun Shao's excuse for Tianzhu people. They didn't expect that Sun Shao actually took a good look at Lu Xun's ability. Lu Xun, the general of the State of Wu, was no different from the generals of the Han Dynasty in the hearts of many people, but It's just a nepotism, it's not that there is any real material.

Two days later, at the sound of firecrackers to welcome the New Year, Guan Yu passed away at the age of 76.

The emperor, who was guarding the year with the empress Cao Jie, the prince Liu Xing and the princes, got the news and cried silently. On the morning of the first day of the Chinese New Year, he rushed to the Guanfu with the ministers who came to congratulate him. He ordered the prime minister Gu Yong to preside over the funeral, gave him 200,000 yuan for the funeral, and buried it with the king's salute to thank Guan Yu for the Han Dynasty. The work of creation. Then he ordered the three publics to discuss it. After discussion, the three publics finally decided to say martial arts. Report to the emperor, and the emperor's system said: Yes!

With the news that the Dahan communique spread to Yecheng, Cao Shen, wrapped in a brocade quilt, lay on the lounge chair, holding the Dahan communique just sent by Cao Zhi in his hand, but he did not read a word, but muttered "Yun Chang is gone", and then he was silent like an iceberg until the Han communique slipped gently from his hand.

On the third day of the first month of the fourteenth year of the Republic, Cao Yan, the king of Wei, died in Jinjingtai, Yecheng, at the age of 80. The news soon came back to Luoyang. The emperor was happy and sad. On the tenth day of the first lunar month, the emperor issued an edict to reward 200,000 yuan, and at the same time made Cao Rui, the grandson of Wei, the king of Wei. After receiving the imperial edict, Cao Rui said that he succeeded to the throne as the king of Wei, with his eldest mother, Bian as the empress dowager, his mother, Mrs. Zhen, as the empress dowager, and his wife, Mao, as the empress. After the third day, Xia Houyuan was the general, Cao Zhen was the great Sima, and Cao Zhi was the general of the Western Expedition.

At the end of the first month of the year, Xia Houyuan, who had just received the seal of General Wei, climbed to the west and sighed three times. He passed away at the age of 73. His son Xiahou Ba Xingye rushed back to Yecheng to report his funeral. Cao Rui, the king of Wei, cried bitterly for it and invited Cao Zhi, who was mourning in Yecheng, into the palace. After two talked secretly for two hours, Cao Rui gave an edict to worship Cao Zhi as a general. That is, he went to Guanzhong to preside over a major event. Xiahou Ba was appointed as a general of the west.

The condolence messengers of Sun Shao, King of Yue, Sun Quan, King of Wu, and Liu Chan, King of Shu, soon arrived in Ye City.

In the spring of the 14th year of the Republic, the Han Dynasty was busy, and the busiest of them was the Wei Dynasty. With the Empress Dowager Bian's family inside, Cao Zhang and Cao Zhi outside, Cao Rui made a series of personnel adjustments, which quickly calmed down the political situation of the State of Wei, and the undercurrent of the Wei regime turned into invisible in silence.

In May, the envoy of the king of Wei arrived in the special pastoral city.

Yin Fan is a native of Qingzhou. He is elegant, articulate and eloquent. He expressed Cao Rui's gratitude to Sun Shao for sending messengers to Sun Shao, and reiterated Wei Yue's statement of friendship. Finally, he expressed Cao Rui's willingness to further strengthen cooperation between the two sides and realize the Western Expedition as soon as possible.

Sun Shao looked at Yinbo carefully and secretly praised that the State of Wei was really too talented. Like the young man in front of him, he didn't have any impression at all, but looking at his eloquence, if he added **, I'm afraid it's another Jiang Gan, a diplomatic talent.

"So General Xiahou and General Cao have been operating in Guanzhong for many years. How much strength can they have now support the Western Expedition?" Sun Shao asked faintly, "In addition, what is the official position of Xiahou Youquan now and where is the shepherd?"

Yin Fu said politely: "The two generals before and after the State of Wei have worked hard to manage Guanzhong. They have made a small success, but it is really not a small matter to transport thousands of miles of grain and a stone. Therefore, after discussing with the ministers, I hope that the king can transport it from the sea and transfer it to Kangju area west of Congling, or directly We are willing to buy grain from the Tianzhu area at twice the price of grain in Guanzhong.

Sun Shao couldn't help laughing. This idea is not bad, but the price is a little stingy. It seems to be double the price of grain in Guanzhong, but if the freight is included, he can't make any money, and the State of Wei has saved a lot of manpower and material resources. As he commented, Cao Rui may not have a big pattern, but there is absolutely no shortage of cleverness.

"Where is Xiahou's young power?" Sun Shao said bluntly, "This matter is too serious. It can't be done without the right person to preside over it. If Xiahou Youquan can preside over this matter, I can agree to you on this condition." He showed his white teeth to Yinbo: "I can't make money, but I can't lose money to you. Do you think that's the truth?"

Yinbo is a little embarrassed: "What the king said naturally makes sense, but Xiahou Youquan, as a general of Zhenbei University, is now deploying the last blow to the Xianbei people in the northern border. I'm afraid it's really difficult for him to come to Yue."

"Is that so?" Sun Shao was very disappointed. He thought for a moment and said, "In that case, I won't force it. You can send another person, as long as he can shoulder such a great responsibility."

(to be continued)