[Three Kingdoms] After offending Wei Guoquan, I went to the peak of my life

Tolerance's complexion changed drastically.Even though he had heard of Zheng Ping's evil reputation, Tolerance still took it easy at first, thinking that with Cao Cao's tiger skin around, Zheng Ping would be more or less scrupulous, and chose to be alone and not get involved with Xun Yu's affairs.

Unexpectedly, the madman who dared to "beat the drums and scold Cao" when he was young, even though he has restrained himself a lot over the years, he still does not change his mad and rebellious nature.

If it was someone else who was here at the moment, Tolerance might have pretended to be a tiger and gave a stern warning, but now the one who made the threat was the one who beat the drums and scolded Cao, offending Cao Cao to death. You Zhengping, who has risen step by step, does not dare to pretend to be a monster in the slightest.

I'm afraid that if he is more serious, the other party will go mad immediately, turn the threat into reality, and really drink his head.

Tolerance, who didn't want to die for no reason, immediately gave in, and made a look of embarrassment: "The servant is only here on order, why is the order so embarrassing?"

Zheng Ping, however, didn't take this approach: "Who ordered you, and what is the specific content of the order? You came in without giving your name, and left a bunch of vague words without greetings. In my opinion, you don't seem to come here by order. It's more like seeing Ling Jun lying on the sick bed for a long time, and coming here to shake his prestige."

The tolerance had no choice but to say: "The servant is indeed here to deliver a reward for the prime minister. If there is something inappropriate in what I said just now, it is all because the servant is not doing things well. I hope you two Haihan."

Tolerance said words of apology on his lips, but his mouth was bitter.He had said long ago that he was here to reward Xun Yu in the name of replacing Cao Cao, Zheng Ping would never miss it, and what he just said was obviously intentional.

As for the superficial reward, I believe the two people in front of me would not understand what the additional words meant.He had considered various responses in advance, but he didn't know that Zheng Ping did not follow common sense. He first threatened him with half-truths and half-truths, and then broke through all the hypocritical whitewashing, directly presenting sharp questions to the surface.

Zheng Ping said that he was vague, yes, what he said before was indeed very ambiguous, but he said that on purpose.After all, this is a disgraceful thing, how can it be shown on the bright side?If he dared to admit it, he would be skinned and torn apart tomorrow by the master behind him.

He had no choice but to knock down his teeth and swallow his blood, determined to deny Zheng Ping's statement, and firmly insisted that what he said just now was just a personal statement, and had nothing to do with the order conveyed by Cao Cao.

When the tolerance came, he was calm and relaxed, but when he left, he was in a panic and was extremely embarrassed.

Waiting to see off the uninvited guests, Zheng Ping suddenly sighed as he thought about the record in "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" about "Cao Cao sent an empty food box, Xun Yu committed suicide by drinking medicine".

"Three Kingdoms" only said that Xun Yu "died in sorrow", and did not record the two incidents of empty box and suicide.But considering the Spring and Autumn writing style of history books and the special nature of this matter, even if there are some fantasy elements in "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", and it is hundreds of years behind the end of Han Dynasty, the credibility is doubtful, and the empty food box is very likely to exist .

Even though this world is a parallel time and space, and there are many discrepancies with historical records, he is still careful about the "empty food box", and he doesn't feel that everything is safe just because he solved Xun Yu's mind.

Sure enough, during the special period of Cao Cao's assassination, empty food boxes also followed.

Even though the messenger who sent the empty box had been scared away by Zheng Ping and didn't say any more presumptuous words, the atmosphere in the room was still stagnant and heavy.

Before Zheng Ping could open his mouth to break the situation, Xun Yu lowered his black eyelashes and said calmly:

"The eater is paid. The scholar dies but not paid, the Book of Rites."

"Book of Rites" records that the death of the emperor is called "Beng", the death of princes is called "Xu", and the death of scholars is called "Bulu".

Food salary means eating salary, if there is no food, there will be no salary, and if there is no salary, the scholar will die.

The Han Dynasty has always had a tradition of "hidden punishment", forcing scholars to commit suicide by means of hints, which not only saved their own reputation, but also gave the scholars the last dignity.

This is indeed like what Cao Cao, who likes to play charades and wants to take action against the royal family and royalists through the assassination, might do.

It is impossible for Zheng Ping to speak nonsense with his eyes open, defending Cao Cao, who has successfully evolved into a qualified hero, who is plotting a great cause.

He saw that although Xun Yu's expression was calm and unchanged, it actually represented another abnormal state, so he raised his hand and patted his thin shoulder.

"Look at that tolerance, he ran away with a guilty conscience. He must have stolen the cakes in the box. He was afraid of being held accountable by us, so he ran so fast."

Xun Yu, who looked calm but felt compassionate in his heart: "..."

Why did you run away with a guilty conscience? Wasn't Tolerance scared away by your threat of "cutting off his head for wine"?

Even though he knew that this was Zheng Ping's intentional nonsense, Xun Yu still couldn't help the dissent in his heart.

Fortunately, after such an interruption, the haze lingering in the depths of my thoughts was completely dispersed.

If Tolerance hadn't left in fear halfway, and continued to urge him like before after delivering the "reward", Xun Yu would most likely commit suicide on the spot out of hopelessness and grief.

But Tolerance was frightened away, and worry was interrupted by Zheng Ping's nonsensical guesses, and after hearing Zheng Ping's story about the arrest of Empress Fu and Dong Guiren, under the worry, the impulse to self-destruct had not even sprouted, so he was arrested first. Break up, at this time he just wants to be quiet.

As for whether the empty food box is really hidden... Anyway, Cao Cao didn't clearly explain the time, and the tolerance has run away again, so let's pretend he doesn't know.

Xun Yu asked Zheng Ping to keep an eye on the news in the palace for him, got up from the couch, put on a light-colored robe, and wrote on the desk.

A quarter of an hour later, Zheng Ping went to the Prime Minister's Mansion with Xun Yu's handwritten letter in his arms.

The informed people enter and come out quickly:

"Sikong is seriously injured and has already rested. Please come back with written orders."

Although Cao Cao's injury was not serious, it was not so serious that it was unknown to personnel.If the guard simply said that Cao Cao had rested, then it might be that he did not come by coincidence and caught up with Cao Cao to rest.But the sentence "serious condition" was emphasized earlier, which is intriguing.

He pretended to be sick, but actually avoided seeing him—that's what Cao Cao did when he had a dispute with Xi Ji and his son.

Now that he knew that Cao Cao might not want to see him in the name of injury, Zheng Ping changed his rhetoric:

"Is there a good match?"

Deputy prime minister, deputy prime minister, two years ago, among Cao Cao's surviving sons, Cao Pi, the oldest son, was appointed as the general of five senses and deputy prime minister.

When the guard heard him looking for Cao Pi, he didn't show any surprise, and kept a stone face that was neither happy nor angry:

"Later."

Went in to report again.

Not long after, the guard came out again.

"The deputy prime minister left the mansion and has not returned. If there is something to convey in the written order, we can convey it for you."

Coincidentally or as expected, it was another invisible person.

Of course it was impossible for Zheng Ping to hand over Xun Yu's handwriting to these people. He only passed on a few work-related words, then got into the carriage and drove back home.

He wasn't very surprised by Cao Cao's side. After all, Cao Cao had just encountered an assassin, so he always had some thoughts in his heart.Regardless of Cao Cao's attitude towards him in the past and now, after knowing that he is capable of slitting his throat with a swift sword strike, he will take strict precautions against him when he is injured.

On the other side of Cao Pi, regardless of coincidence or premeditation, with the relationship between Cao Pi and him, it is impossible for Cao Pi to avoid him without saying a word, and Cao Cao will not Just because of his swordsmanship prevents him from meeting Cao Pi.

Unless Cao Pi really went out of the mansion just now to run errands, otherwise...the fact that he stayed in the mansion and avoided it must be because something unexpected happened somewhere he couldn't see.

Zheng Ping didn't have time to think about it, and turned to go to Kong Rong's mansion, but was told that Kong Rong had been called into the palace and hadn't returned yet.

He immediately prepared his horse and drove to the palace.

When he was introduced into the front hall, he saw that Kong Rong was saying something respectfully to the emperor, listening to him, it was nothing more than a collection of "classics of classics".Hearing the sound of someone entering the palace, Kong Rong stopped talking, turned around, and looked past the palace man who was leading the way, and landed on him.

Kong Rong is 61 this year, and his body is not as big as before, but there is no dimness in his eyes, and he is still as bright as before.

Zheng Ping let go of his many emotions and bowed to the Son of Heaven.

Even after being ambush, Dong Guiren failed to conspire to kill Cao Cao, but instead was arrested and imprisoned, Liu Xie didn't have the slightest gloomy look on his face.

As usual, he asked Zheng Ping not to be too polite, asked him a few literary questions, and kept silent about other things, as if the last bad breakup never happened.

Kong Rong only occasionally interjected that even though he and Zheng Ping had been close friends for many years and everyone knew about it, he never dared to trust the emperor or show any intention of getting close to him.

After talking for a while, Liu Xie asked Kong Rong to go outside first, leaving Zheng Ping to speak in the hall.

As soon as Kong Rong left, the temperature in the hall immediately cooled down.

If Zheng Pingruo didn't realize it, he didn't show any disrespect, but he couldn't see any respect either.

"After being arrested and imprisoned with the nobleman, the emperor can still hold his breath. It is completely opposite to the appearance of the day before, which makes Heng surprised and forgets."

Liu Xie also no longer made any cover-ups, his eyes were sharp, and he said with a smile:

"Shu Ling's eyes are better? After all, the eyes are bleeding, but it hurts the root of the eyes, so don't ignore it."

Once back and forth, they have ridiculed each other.

Now that Zheng Ping had confirmed his guess from Liu Xie's attitude, he put aside his temptation and said coldly: "The Son of Heaven has planned so deeply that he wanted to capture the Deputy Prime Minister and send him to Yuan Ying when he was attacking Lu Bu. "

When Cao Cao attacked Lu Bu, Zheng Ping stayed in Cao's camp by giving him information.One night when a fire broke out in the camp, someone took the opportunity to kidnap Cao Pi, who was only 12 years old at the time, but was stopped by Zheng Ping by accident, and he forged the first life-saving grace, which initially eased the tension between him and Cao Cao.

At that time, no one doubted that the mastermind behind this matter would be related to the palace. Including Cao Cao and Zheng Ping, they all thought that the separatists from other territories had taken action. Among them, Yuan Shao, the most powerful, became Cao Cao's final target. It has been a black pot for several years.

Who would have thought that it was the emperor who had just been welcomed into Xudu and was enjoying himself with Cao Cao at that time?