Start with Yan Liang, the Sims of Yuan Shao's youngest son

Chapter 166 The two prides fall, and the new star rises

It was three days later that Yuan Shang's body was transported back to Yecheng.

"Is this true?" When Yuan Shao saw Yuan Shang's shriveled body, he only said this sentence, his tall body swayed a few times, and then fell on his back.

In the midst of wives and concubines screaming for land, all the servants got busy, helping others, and calling medical craftsmen called medical craftsmen, which made this busy scene a little more comical.

When Yuan Shao woke up again, his hands and legs had lost all feeling.

A generation of heroes, at this young and vigorous age, was paralyzed like this.

And this kind of disease, with the level of medical treatment at that time, was basically considered terminally ill.

Obviously he had just triumphed over Cao Cao in high spirits and turned almost the entire north into his easy prey, but suddenly the white-haired man gave away the black-haired man. How can this not be embarrassing?

Soon, Yuan Shao's subordinates, who had sensed the changes in the situation, naturally divided into two factions, one supporting Yuan Tan and the other supporting Yuan Ke.

As for Yuan Xi, he has been staying in Youzhou to have a romantic relationship with Zhang Nan, and he didn't even participate in the war between the Yuan family and the Cao family.

Originally, when Yuan Shao still had the final say, they never took Yuan Ke seriously.

But now, Yuan Shao has lost control of the situation, so the combination of Yuan Ke, Yan Liang, and Wen Chou, who is famous in Yanzhou, naturally has a much higher probability of succeeding in the position than Yuan Tan, who is not very successful.

Of this point, Yuan Tan naturally knew it well.Therefore, he had a small banquet for three days and a big banquet for five days, and seized the opportunity to win over Yuan Shao's civil servants and generals.

"Third brother, did you see that? Your big brother has already started to fight secretly. If we don't hurry up, we may lose this opportunity." Yan Liangyu warned Yuan Ke earnestly.

"Let him go," Yuan Ke grinned, "He's good at doing these things, let him dance for a while longer!"

"Third brother, you can't be sloppy!" Yan Liang showed a heartbroken expression, "Let's not talk about it, think about it carefully, if Yuan Tan is really allowed to inherit the position of the head of the Yuan family, from now on, Can you still have a way to survive? Have you forgotten how he and Yuan Shang were helpless?"

When he said this, Yuan Ke's face immediately became serious. He bowed respectfully to Yan Liang and said, "Don't worry, brother, let's see how I can make Yuan Tan's bamboo basket fetch water in vain!"

In this matter, he is still confident.

Although his starting point was very low, fortunately, he had Tian Feng, a capable assistant, who could help him connect up and down in the Yuan family's camp and win a lot of support.As for the civil servants represented by the aristocratic families, after Xu Du was saved, they all bowed their heads obediently.

Thinking of this, Yuan Ke showed his trademark smile again.
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The noon sun shone into the courtyard profusely, making Yecheng look extraordinarily warm in spring.

A young maid is pushing a wooden four-wheeled cart, pacing cautiously up and down the corridor.The old man sitting in the car tilted his head, his expression was dull, and he didn't even notice that the saliva had fallen on his collar.

The young maid noticed the abnormality on his body and frowned. She glanced left and right, but seeing no one, she quickly pushed the cart to the wall just rounded the corner, and slapped the old man's head hard. He slapped the ground.

"Useless old thing!" she scolded, "why are you so pissed off, have you forgotten how you spoiled us before?"

The old man still sat with his head tilted, his expression unchanged.

"What are you doing?" The maid was immersed in the pleasure of revenge, when she heard a gloomy voice behind her.

The maid turned her head abruptly, almost frightened her soul away.

The person standing behind her was Yuan Tan.

When the old man heard this voice, there seemed to be a light in his eyes, but he could no longer express his emotions fluently, so no one could understand what kind of mood he was in now.

The maid's face was livid with fright, and under Yuan Tan's intimidation, she retreated again and again, and retreated to the corner of the wall after a while.

"Elder...Elder Prince...forgive...forgive..." Tears of fear rolled down her eyes.

Yuan Tan didn't say a word, and stretched out a pair of big hands like iron pliers, firmly clamping her neck.

The maid's eyes were protruding, and the nails of both hands dug into the back of his hand fiercely. After a while, the whole person collapsed on the ground.

"You're looking for death!" Yuan Tan dropped these words coldly and returned to the old man.

He stared at the old face in front of him for a long time, suddenly his nose became sour, and he also shed tears, crying bitterly and kneeling on the ground.

"Father... how did you become like this..." he yelled, "Your family business will all fall into the hands of that kid Yuan Ke!"

A look of distress flashed in Yuan Shao's eyes. He wanted to touch his eldest son's head, but his hand tremblingly raised less than an inch, and then fell down feebly.

"Those old subordinates of yours are all ungrateful beasts! You have treated them so well, yet they...they have all defected to Yuan Ke! What should I do, father, speak up!"

Trembling, he stretched out his hand to wipe the drool from his father's mouth, but saw Yuan Shao's lips seemed to move slightly.

"Father, what did you say?" Yuan Tan asked suspiciously.

But Yuan Shao just moved his lips mechanically, and Yuan Tan had to put his ear to his mouth, only then did he hear clearly that he was just repeating two words - "resign to fate".

"Admit my fate? Did my father ask me to admit defeat to Yuan Ke?" Yuan Tan's face was ashen-like.

After a long time, he came back to his senses and shouted unwillingly: "No, I am the eldest son, how can I be inferior to Yuan Ke? I must fight him to the end!"

He regained his fighting spirit and ran out of the yard with great strides.

Yuan Shao sat in the car for a long time, with deep worry in his eyes.

In order to prevent the tragedy of fratricide from being staged in front of him in advance, he had to lower his proud head and persuade Yuan Tan to accept this almost certain result.In fact, this also indicated that the development track he had set for the future of the Yuan family had completely lost its meaning.

From now on, if Yuan Tan can accept the arrangement of fate and guard his one-acre three-point land peacefully, Yuan Ke will not do anything to him.

But if he is still not reconciled...

It is said that there is no unreasonable love in the world, and there is no unreasonable hatred, but there is really no reason for parents to love one child more and love that child less.

Just like Yuan Ke, he went through life and death for this family, devoted himself to it, but his position in Yuan Shao's heart was always inferior to the others.

This was the tragedy of that era, and it is also the tragedy of the present.

(End of this chapter)