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

With Zheng Ping's temperament, this is indeed something he might do.

It's just that Cao Cao has been poisoned by his poisonous tongue for many years. No matter whether it is spoken or not, he subconsciously believes that all of Zheng Ping's bad words and deeds can be linked to ridicule.Coupled with the fanaticism of the authorities, Cao Cao didn't think about fooling you at all, so he came to the point and struggled all day and night with an unwarranted meaning.

This annoyed Cao Cao more than the extreme ridicule.

Cao Chong said: "Tong Tihou has a clear distinction between grievances and resentments, repaying kindness with kindness, and repaying kindness with a tooth for a tooth. It is really not intimidating."

Cao Cao snorted coldly: "It's not that Gu is threatening him, it's clear that he is against Gu."

Cao Chong replied: "In the past, Tong Tihou was young and frivolous, and offended countless people. At the time when he was besieged on all sides, only Ling Jun and Guo Hou reported straight. The friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, and like water, it is difficult to break. Tong Tihou is indifferent to Lingjun's difficulties, sits idly by, and is in vain a madman."

"Have you made up your mind to be a lobbyist today?"

There was no sense of joy or anger in this sentence, but Cao Chong could smell hesitation and resistance from it.

He couldn't say anything more, got up and saluted, and left silently.

Before he left the hall, Cao Cao's exhausted whisper came from behind him:

"You have been extremely intelligent since you were a child. If you weren't too kind and soft-hearted, you would have favored you..."

Cao Chong's footsteps couldn't help but pause, he didn't look back, he stood by the door and looked at the nearly withered wood fragrance in the courtyard, and after a while he soberly said: "My father once said, 'Everyone has aspirations, and their origins are different; Yashang, righteousness does not subdue[1]'. My ambition is different from that of my father and Mr. Xun. If you do not gain from ambition, you will lose if you gain it. It is better not to do it."

After finishing speaking, he didn't stop any longer, and left in a hasty pace.

Cao Cao was left alone in the room silently, sitting alone facing the cold room.

He expanded the land and fought, occupied the northern land, took the emperor to command the princes, and gained supreme power. However, he also lost many relatives and friends on this road paved with flesh and blood.

He didn't feel that he had done anything wrong, but he had lost too much, and after all, he felt a little unhappy.

After sitting alone for an unknown amount of time, he sighed silently and ordered the guards:

"Go invite Marquis Guo."

Now there is only one person around who can talk with peace of mind.

……

Zheng Ping randomly asked people to pile up chicken feathers plucked from the kitchen into a box, and after giving it to Cao Cao, he forgot about it.

Although Mrs. Guo is weak and ignorant, but the butler Zhongjiu has not escaped her control.

She knew that Zheng Ping ordered someone to take away a box of chicken feathers. After careful questioning, she learned that Cao Cao had secretly sent someone to give it away.

Public rewards are rewards, and secret rewards are reprimands and punishments.Mrs. Guo had something secretly in her heart, and she kept the highest level of worry and vigilance for Cao Cao's behavior of secretly sending things, and there was also a bit of worry on her face.

Zheng Ping didn't want Mrs. Guo to hurt his mind and body, so he invited Mrs. Guo to sit in the hall for a while, and asked someone to fetch the stone slabs, wash them clean, and set up a small stove in the room, and put the stone slabs on the fire to bake.

He asked the maid to bring slices of meat and seasonal vegetables from the chef, and spread them out slice by slice on the hot stone slab.

"The weather is getting colder, and the prime minister is quite interesting, so he sent this thing specially for us to eat hot in the house."

Guo Shi, who was so worried that he could hardly eat: "..."

She carefully observed Zheng Ping's expression, since he was cured from madness, his years of official career have made him calm and self-sufficient, making it difficult to see through his true thoughts.For a moment, Guo couldn't tell whether Zheng Ping's words were mocking Cao Cao or sincerely thanking Cao Cao for sending him a hot meal tool.

She had no choice but to say: "Heng'er, don't play tricks with me, tell me truthfully: how is Cao Cao's attitude towards you these days, and why he gave such a thing so well."

Zheng Ping was instructing his servants how to make slate burnt. When he heard Guo Shi's words, he looked at Guo Shi pretending to be incomprehensible: "Of course I brought hot rice. I have worked in the government office set up by the prime minister for many years, and I have no intention of confrontation." , the prime minister was very grateful, and he didn't want to reward him, so he gave me the stone slabs in his family's collection."

Finally got the acquiescence, rushing to your mansion, Cao Pi who had just been welcomed into the hall by the servants: "..."

But Zheng Ping didn't let him go, seeing Cao Pi coming to the door, he immediately threw the hot potato to Cao Pi: "Second Young Master, do you think so?"

Cao Pi, who was forced to take the hot potato, could only open his eyes and talk nonsense: "...Yes."

How can Mrs. Guo be so easy to be fooled? She knew that Zheng Ping must have concealed something from her, but because of the presence of outsiders, she couldn't ask any more questions, she just believed it herself, and sat in the hall looking at the stone slabs wearily, He had no intention of saying hello to Cao Pi.

Because of what happened a while ago, Cao Pi knew he was wrong, and he didn't care about Guo Shi's indifference, so he moved to Zheng Ping's side with all his strength, and asked in a low voice, "Is this slate... really sent by the prime minister?"

Zheng Ping said: "If you don't believe it, you can feel the texture and see if it belongs to your family."

How could Cao Pi figure it out?What's more, the stone slab has been heated, if you touch it, will your hands burn off a layer of skin?

Obviously these words were not really for him to touch, but affirmation with a little irony, proving that the stone slab was indeed sent by someone sent by Cao Cao.

Cao Pi only felt that he was in a dilemma. He couldn't explain something to his father, and he didn't know how to face his future uncle who was also a teacher and friend. He couldn't say a word for a long time.

Zheng Ping didn't embarrass him anymore, but he didn't show relief either.

When the hot food on the slate was ready, Zheng Ping had someone make a special dipping sauce, tasted it with a chopstick, and it tasted pretty good.

He ordered someone to pack a stack the size of a baby's fist, and sent someone to pack it in a heat-warmed food container, and asked Cao Pi to take it back and ask Cao Cao to taste it together.

Cao Pi still wanted to stay, but Zheng Ping asked him to go back on the grounds that "the weather is getting colder, and the food will not taste good when it is cold".

This is the meaning of chasing guests, and Cao Pi had to return with the light food box.Before leaving, Zheng Ping asked Cao Cao to bring a word.

"Thank you, Prime Minister, for giving me the cooking utensils. They are very useful. Try it out, and invite the Prime Minister to taste it."

Cao Cao received the food box and this sentence, and learned that Zheng Ping had the audacity to cook rice with the stone slab he gave him, which can be described as mixed.

When he opened the food box and took a look, his complicated emotions instantly became speechless.

"Taste one or two" is really a taste of "one or two". There are only one or two chopsticks in it, which is not enough to fit between the teeth.

Cao Cao sent someone to test for poison, took the small box of fragrant stone pot meat, dipped it in a special sauce, and for some reason, he really swallowed it.

Sweet and delicious, suitable taste, is a rare delicacy.

"This You Zhengping is really very stingy, for such delicious hot food, you only gave one chopstick..."

At the end of the conversation, Cao Cao held the bamboo chopsticks in vain and fell into a long silence.

After a long time, Cao Cao remembered what Guo Jia had said to him today, called his aides, and went to the Xun Mansion to retrieve the empty food box given to him.

At the same time, Dong Zhao and others persuaded Cao Cao to proclaim himself public, and asked the emperor to enter the memorial to be filled with the emperor's books.

Liu Xie looked at those memorials, with no anger or sadness on his face, and ordered people to draft an imperial edict and send it to all ministries.

At the beginning of the edict, it praised Cao Cao's achievements with self-deprecation, which was sincere and touching.According to common sense, the emperor had already softened his attitude and agreed to Cao Cao's pronounciation—all the courtiers who read the first half of the edict thought so, but no one thought that at the end, the emperor changed the subject.

"Deputy Prime Minister Cao Pi has both civil and military skills, and his youth is blue; now in ten counties, Deputy Prime Minister Cao Pi is named Wei Gong, and he is also named Jiuxi..."

As soon as this edict came out, the whole court was in an uproar.