Chapter 7 Thanks to good eyesight

The man who came in a hurry, dressed in cyan Confucian clothes, dressed like a literati, but his figure was very tall and muscular. On a angular face, the facial features are just right, and the subtlety exudes a little rough and unrudulent charm of a man. It's just that at this moment, there is hesitation in his eyes, and the two sword eyebrows are entangled like ropes.

is Xu Shu.

"It's Mr. Xu!" Liu Feng's eyesight was amazing. With the last afterglow of Luo Yu, he saw the face clearly first.

Zhao Yunmeng's horse, the stars crossed the cold space, and a few seconds later, they also recognized Xu Shu's face. As soon as the old lady behind him heard her son's name, her weak body seemed to be charged for a moment. She trembled with excitement, but because she was too excited, her throat was blocked by wet tears, and she couldn't open her mouth for a moment.

"Mr. Xu, how can you be here alone? Where are your father and others?" Liu Feng asked loudly first.

Xu Shu also recognized the two, but the light was dim. Zhao Yun's body was strong and covered the old lady behind him.

Although Liu Feng's identity has undergone some subtle changes due to the birth of A Dou, in terms of identity, he is still the eldest son of the Liu family. In ordinary times, in addition to Guan Zhang and others, Liu Bei's subordinates still did not dare to neglect the courtesy of the king and minister to him.

But now, when Xu Shu saw him, he didn't even call him the eldest prince. He just arched his hand perfunctorily: "Master, they are safe and sound. Now they have passed the Dangyang Bridge. Let's go and meet them quickly. I'm afraid that Cao Jun will catch up again when it's too late."

Between Xu Shu's words, he was always worried. As soon as he finished speaking, he wanted to go north.

"Mr. Yuan Zhi, the north is full of Cao Jun. If you don't go with us to join your father, why do you go north alone?" Liu Feng had guessed a few points, but he didn't break it for the time being.

Xu Shu smiled bitterly and sighed helplessly, "To be honest, I heard that my mother had been taken away by Cao Qian. Filial piety is the head. For the sake of my mother's safety, I can only go to Cao's camp."

Zhao Yun's expression changed, and he didn't wear it for the time being. He asked, "Mr. Yuanzhi, do you want to betray the lord and surrender to Cao's thief?"

Xu Shu said feebly, "The Lord and I have the kindness of our encounter, but for the sake of my mother, I have to do so. The Lord is kind and has understood my difficulties. You two, I'm confused, so I won't say more. Please take care."

Xu Shu's eager look seemed to be unwilling to stay for a moment. When he wanted to pat the horse and leave, Liu Feng grabbed his reins first and said with a smile, "People say that Xu Yuanzhi is a filial son in the world. Now at first sight, he really lives up to his reputation. However, if Mr. Yuanzhi goes to Caoying today, I'm afraid that your filial son's reputation will stink from now on.

"Big prince, you..." Xu Shu didn't understand.

"Sir, look who this is."

Liu Feng pointed behind Zhao Yun, and Xu Shu's blank eyes followed Liu Feng's instructions. When he saw the excited and tearful old woman behind Zhao Yun, his whole body was like climbing from the bottom of the cold abyss to the top of the mountain like hot sun in an instant, and tears immediately came out.

"Mother!"

Xu Shu rolled down the saddle and pounced with his old mother who was helped off the horse by Liu Feng. The mother and son went through life and death, and thousands of emotions were in tears at this moment.

Seeing this scene of mother's love and son, he suddenly thought of his relatives in a different world, and Liu Feng sighed in his heart.

After the mother and son hugged each other and cried for a while, the excited feelings calmed down. Xu Shu restrained his tears and asked his mother why she was with the eldest son and Zhao Zilong. The old lady told her son how she was captured by Cao Jun and how she was saved by those two people.

After listening to this, Xu Shu immediately straightened his face and bowed deeply to Liu Zhao: "Xu Shu can't repay the kindness of the eldest prince and General Zilong. Please accept my worship."

Zhao Yun quickly helped Xu Shu up: "It's just a piece of work. Mr. Xu saw the outside. What's more, this matter was thanks to the eldest son's good eyesight and recognized the old lady in time. Otherwise, I would have almost made a big mistake.

"Son, your kindness is remembered in my heart." On his bold face, there was a surge of gratitude from the bottom of his heart. Xu Shu looked at Liu Feng, bent his knees and knelt down again.

Liu Feng quickly stretched out his hand to hold him and said with a faint smile, "Sir, I have made advice and painstaking efforts for my father. I have done such a trivial thing. Sir, don't worship again and again. If you really want to thank me, just invite me to have a good drink.

Although Xu Shu is now serving as a counselor under Liu Bei's curtain, he traveled around the world in his early years and was famous for chivalry and righteousness. Later, he saw that in troubled times, he could not solve the problem by using martial arts alone, so he practiced martial arts. However, in the final analysis, there was still a kind of chivalrous man's blood flowing in Xu Shu's blood.

Liu Feng was so heroic that he happened to be right to Xu Shu's taste. He no longer stuck to those etiquette and smiled cheerfully, "Okay, the eldest prince said it well. In other words, I will drink a thousand cups with the eldest prince. Zilong, you must come then. We will never stop drinking.

Zhao Yun smiled faintly and said, "That's not necessary. You know, I never drink alcohol."

"Uncle Yun, don't spoil your fun. You must drink this wine."

Zhao Yun smiled and said nothing.

Changbanpo said the baptism of blood and fire. After experiencing the little warmth of the mother and son reunion in front of him, he seemed to have temporarily forgotten the previous thrill. In the wilderness of the autumn wind, a bright smile drifted away with the wind.

Before dark, Liu Feng and others successfully passed the Dangyang Bridge guarded by Zhang Fei, changed their way to the east for five or six miles, and finally caught up with the army. The so-called "large army" is actually only 20 or 30 people.

This time, Liu Bei withdrew from Xiangyang from the south of Fancheng. After consultation with Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei decided to divide all about 10,000 people into water and land routes. Guan Yu led about 5,000 sail troops and more than 300 warships from the Han River to the south. On the land route, Liu Bei led 5,000 soldiers and horses to Jiangling on Dangyang Avenue.

At that time, when Cao's tigers and leopards chased after him, Xu Chu led a thousand soldiers and horses to attack Liu Feng's 2,000 back troops. At the same time, Cao Chun led 2,000 soldiers and horses to bypass the 100,000 civilian troops from the side and directly kill Liu Bei's middle army at the forefront of the team, preparing to behead Liu Bei.

However, due to the time difference, Xu Chu's troops launched an attack in advance, causing the huge southern escape team to disperse first, and the chaotic wave of refugees delayed Cao Chun's attack. Despite this, the most elite 3,000 Liu family army still failed to stop the reduced offensive of the tiger and leopard horse. Three thousand soldiers and horses died and collapsed. Only under Zhang Fei's hard battle, Liu Bei was lucky to escape the Dangyang Bridge with Zhuge Liang and other core teams.

The bright and dark bonfire peeled from time to time. Next to the fire, Liu Bei, who was in shabby clothes, sat silently, and the blackened wooden sticks in his hand played with the fire at will.

His forehead is full of traces of time, a long thin face, eyes slightly separated, and two mustaches on his lips are still stained with gray stains. A mediocre face does not seem to have any majesty, but it is this kind of mediocrity, but somehow, it can make the silent bureaucrats around feel the unexposed momentum.

Under the expression of silence like water, there is a bloody heart. Five thousand soldiers and horses who have worked hard for seven years have been lost in one day. It's no wonder that it doesn't hurt. However, what really made him feel like a knife was Xu Shu's departure.

Thousands of troops are easy to get, but one general is hard to find!

In the loneliness, I suddenly heard a light sound of horses' hoofs in the distance, and everyone's hearts suddenly tightened, followed by the sheathing sound of weapons.

After a while, the sentinel who could hear it shouted excitedly, "It's the eldest prince and General Zilong who are back, and Mr. Xu!"

"Yuan Zhi is back?" The silent Liu Beiteng jumped up, and his dim expression was instantly filled with surprises.

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Note: In the official history, Xu Shu left Liu Bei because of the defeat of Changbanpo and his mother was captured by Cao's army.