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With a bow and arrow on his back, Cao Zhang jumped up and down excitedly: "How about it, second brother, am I good?"

Cao Pi nodded with a smile: "Well, Zhang'er is really good, he can draw the bow of Liangjun in one fell swoop."

"And the shot is quite accurate." With his brother's affirmation, Cao Zhang was even happier.

Cao Pi nodded again. In terms of martial arts talent, this younger brother is indeed much higher than himself.Jealousy flashed in his eyes, and he suppressed it quickly, telling himself in his heart: "You are an elder brother, you can't be jealous of your younger brother." But he changed the subject and said: "It's still early, let's go see Zhi'er .”

"Pfft", Xiao Cao Zhi fell on the carpet, flattened his mouth, tears swirled in his eyes for a few times, but he held back and didn't let them flow down.Standing up unsteadily, his small body wobbled and walked forward again.After walking a dozen steps, he fell down again with a "poof".His eyes were watery, Xiao Cao Zhi gritted his teeth, I can bear it, I can bear it... But, it hurts so much... Woo, I can't take it anymore, the little mouth pouted, the sound of "Wow--" has reached the mouth of the throat, but I saw The two children walked in, forgot to cry for a moment, and blinked their eyes at the visitor for a while.After he recognized who it was, Cao Zhi laughed all of a sudden, regardless of the tears still hanging from the corners of his eyes, he sat on the ground and stretched out his arms: "Guo, Guo."

Cao Zhang poked Cao Zhi's forehead: "It's my brother, idiot Zhi'er."

I don't know if he understood that Cao Zhang was laughing at him, Cao Zhi pouted, turned his face away in anger, and stretched out his small arms at Cao Pi: "Guo, Guo."

Cao Pi smiled, leaned down and hugged Cao Zhi: "Second brother hugs Zhi'er, is Zhi'er happy?"

Cao Zhi giggled, put his little arms around Cao Pi's neck, and kissed Cao Pi resoundingly on the face with a "pop", which made Cao Pi salivate, and then moved his face forward.

Cao Pi was slightly stunned, seeing Cao Zhi's big eyes flickering at him, he didn't react for a while.Seeing that the smile on Cao Zhi's face gradually faded, and there was a trace of grievance in his eyes, he suddenly realized, and felt a little funny, lowered his head, and kissed Cao Zhi's red face.Now Cao Zhi was satisfied, his big eyes were bent, his small hands were on Cao Pi's face, and he kept shouting: "Guo, Guo, Guo, Guo..."

Cao Zhang came over and pointed to his cheek: "Come on, Zhi'er kisses Third Brother too."

Unexpectedly, Cao Zhi didn't buy his account at all. He turned his head and buried himself in Cao Pi's shoulder, ignoring Cao Zhang.

Cao Zhang got bored, and immediately jumped up: "Wow, Zhi'er, you are biased!"

Seeing this, Cao Pi couldn't help laughing, adjusted his arms, hugged Cao Zhi more comfortably, and gloated, "Who told you to bully Zhi'er?" After saying that, he carried Cao Zhi into the back room and carefully put him on the bed.

In the fourth year of Chuping, in June, Cicada was singing leisurely on a tree.However, in the main hall of the Cao Mansion, Cao Cao's face was terribly gloomy, "Crack!", the information he had just delivered was thrown to the ground, and the pawn who reported it knelt on the ground trembling.I only heard Cao Cao's voice full of pain and anger: "Tao Qian, you harmed my family. If you don't avenge this, I will not be a human being!" Immediately passed the order: "After the autumn harvest, march into Xuzhou!"

It was night, and there was a mourning hall in the mansion.The tablet of Cao Song—Cao Cao's father—is enshrined in the center, and all the people in Cao's mansion who moved to Juancheng with Cao Cao knelt in the hall in plain clothes, and all the rooms were white.Cao Cao knelt in the hall silently, behind him were the members of the Cao family headed by Cao Ang.Cao Zhi was too young to kneel, so he was held by Mrs. Bian.Although he was also dressed in sackcloth and mourning, he didn't know what happened, he just looked around in confusion with his big eyes open, maybe he was intimidated by the solemn atmosphere of the mourning hall, but it was always quiet.

After the third watch of the watch drum, Cao Zhi had already fallen asleep lying on Bian's shoulder, and Cao Zhang couldn't hold on anymore, his head started to shake.Cao Pi also felt sleepy, and quickly pinched his thigh hard. The pain was so painful that he became sober in an instant.Just as he was hesitating whether to pinch Cao Zhang, Cao Cao, who was kneeling in front of him, said, "Pi'er."

Cao Pi quickly withdrew his hand and knelt down: "Yes."

"It's late at night, take your brothers back to sleep. The children can't stay up late, so your eldest brother can just stay."

Cao Pi hurriedly answered "Yes", got up and patted Cao Zhang.Cao Zhang was not sober, and followed Cao Pi out in a daze.When passing by Mrs. Bian, Cao Pi knelt down and hugged Cao Zhi gently. Seeing that Cao Zhi was still sleeping soundly, he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and took Cao Zhang to the backyard.

In the wing room, the three brothers huddled together on a bed and spent the night cuddling each other.

"Guanguan Jujiu, in the river continent. A fair lady, a gentleman is so good..." Holding Cao Zhi on his lap, Cao Pi recited the Book of Songs to him line by line.After reading a song, I couldn't help laughing, teasing my younger brother and asking: "Does Zhi'er know what a fair lady is?"

How could a three-year-old child understand what was said in the poem? He just felt happy listening to it, but he seemed to be listening carefully. Seeing Cao Pi asking himself, he seemed to be thinking very hard for a while with his head tilted, and suddenly Grinning, pointing at Cao Pi with his little finger, he learned to read word by word: "Yao, tiao, Shu, female." Then he "giggled" and laughed.The child's voice is soft and waxy, which is very nice.

Cao Pi felt a twitch of veins on his forehead, and he straightened his face and prepared to educate his younger brother. Seeing his younger brother smiling happily, he couldn't help feeling a little bit: Forget it, he doesn't understand.As soon as I thought about it, I became playful, held Cao Zhi's little hand, turned the direction slightly, and turned it to point at Cao Zhi himself, and imitated Cao Zhi's tone and said: "Young, graceful, fair, female." Hold the little finger again Himself: "Jun, son."

Xiao Cao Zhi blinked his big eyes, as if trying to digest what happened just now.Cao Pi saw that he seemed a little confused, so he put away his playfulness, turned to the book and said, "Come on, continue. Strange Nymphium..." As soon as he read a sentence, he felt Cao Zhi pulling his hand.Let him grab his own hand, Cao Pi turned his head, and saw Cao Zhi holding a few fingers of his own with his small hand, "giggling" with a smile, imitating what he did just now, and pointing to himself first: "yo, tiao, Sister, female." Pointing to Cao Pi again: "Mr., son." Then he pouted and repeated again: "Mr. Looking at Cao Pi anxiously: "Jun, zi, jun, zi..."

Cao Pi was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that his younger brother was trying to recall the complete poem, but it was really difficult for such a small child, he rubbed his soft hair with the other hand, and said seriously: "Mr. , ok, uh."

Little Cao Zhi was happy again, and stopped grabbing Cao Pi, and slapped two little hands: "Jun, Zi, Hao, Qi, Jun, Zi, Hao, Qi." He paused, turned his head to think for a while, and put The two sentences came together: "Yao, tiao, shou, nv, jun, zi, hao, qi." There was light in his eyes, and he looked at Cao Pi with a smile.

A feeling of love suddenly surged in his heart, Cao Pi leaned over, kissed Cao Zhi on the face, and boasted: "Zhi'er is so smart, I remembered it so quickly." He pretended to ask seriously: "What if The second elder brother is Zhi'er, will Zhi'er agree?"

Knowing that he was praised, Cao Zhi was even happier, and no matter what Cao Pi asked, he nodded heavily: "Yes." Then he grabbed Cao Pi's hand and pressed it on the book, shouting: "Continue, continue, and read. "

Cao Pi smiled, held Cao Zhi's little hand, pointed at the words on the book, and read slowly one by one: "Guan, Guan, Ju, Jiu,..." After reading a sentence, Cao Zhi followed, and the two brothers followed each other. Killed an afternoon.

A pony slightly shorter than ordinary war horses galloped into the arena, with two "whoosh" and "whoosh", two arrows flew to the archery target from different angles one after another.With a neighing sound, the horse stood up on the sidelines, and then stood still without taking a step.The soldiers on the sidelines applauded loudly, and when they looked closely, they realized that the person on the horse was only six years old.Surprised in their hearts, a soldier had already offered an archery target: "Second son is a good arrow, and both shots hit the bull's-eye." Everyone knew that this child was the master's second son. A little appreciation.

On the sidelines, Cao Cao looked at the target, clapped his hands and said with a smile, "Well, well, you are worthy of being my son of Cao Mengde."

Cao Pi leaned back on the horse and said, "Father has won the prize, but my son is still far behind."

Cao Cao stroked his beard and said with a smile, "It's good to be brave but not arrogant!" Then he put away his smile and said seriously, "But you do still have a lot to learn. As a father, he will set out to conquer Tao Qian again soon, and Pi'er will follow the army Let's go together."

Cao Pi was taken aback: "Father's words are serious?"

Cao Cao's face darkened: "Why, you are not happy?"

Cao Pi hurriedly calmed down, saluted and said, "Where is the father talking? The child is very honored."

Cao Cao nodded: "Then you should prepare in the next few days." He waved Cao Pi to go back first.

"Cai, Wei, Cai, Wei, Wei, Yi, Zuo, Zhi, Yue, Gui, Yue, Gui, Sui, Yi, Mo, Zhi..." Holding Cao Zhi's little hand, he read the Book of Songs word by word. His mind is not on the book at all.Seeing that Cao Zhi, who was unaware, was still trying to read poems seriously, Cao Pi suddenly didn't know how to tell his younger brother that he was going to go out with the army, and he might not be able to read poems to him for a long time.When he was in a daze, he suddenly felt his sleeves being pulled. When he came back to his senses, he saw Cao Zhi looking at him with expectant eyes, and he was still saying: "Caiwei, Caiwei, Wei Yi, Zuo Zhi, Sun Gui, The day returns, the year is also, Mo Zhi." Seeing that Cao Pi didn't respond, he tugged his sleeves again, and said cautiously: "Aren't we going to read it?"

There was a strange feeling in my heart.As far back as I can remember, my father and elder brother have been fighting here and there, not at home all year round, and there is no special feeling every time we part.Although Cao Zhang is only one year younger than himself, he is busy with swordsmanship all day long, and he doesn't like reading. Naturally, he has never been very close to Cao Pi. It is rare to have such a younger brother who can be hugged and played with him to teach him to read and write .Moreover, Cao Zhi is extremely smart, and he can recite poems several times, which makes Cao Pi very proud.Thinking of when he would hear the Book of Songs recited by Nuonuo Tongyin again, Cao Pi felt a little bit reluctant.

Thinking about this, he couldn't help reaching out and touching Cao Zhi's little head, and said: "Zhi'er, if..." Just after saying a few words, the door was knocked open with a bang, and Cao Zhang rushed in furiously, pointing Cao Pi yelled: "Second brother, you are too much, you didn't take me with you when you went out to fight."

There was silence for a while, four eyes shot at Cao Zhang at the same time, two were slightly angry, and two were at a loss.