[Three Kingdoms] Seven steps into wetness

When Cao Zhi returned to Xuchang, it was already the beginning of May.

Following Cao Pi to comfort the soldiers who died protecting them, Cao Zhi inadvertently discovered that several of them were still doing small businesses.

In this era of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce, the life of small traders can hardly satisfy their hunger.Now that Xuchang is full of waste and waiting for new ones, Cao Zhi seems to have no intention of mentioning that due to the flooding of the Yellow River, the price of ordinary medicinal herbs in Xuchang will double in Yecheng, and maybe selling medicinal herbs can make money.It's up to them to believe it or not.

These days, the focus of Cao Zhi's martial arts practice has shifted to drawing the bow and archery.

At that time, there was a famous general under Liu Biao, Huang Zhong, who was famous for piercing Yang with a hundred steps.After that oolong, Cao Zhi deeply felt that the advantage of the sword on the battlefield was too little, and he had to learn how to ride and shoot.

Wang Qi was noncommittal.He has been on the battlefield, so he naturally knows the key points, and he will teach them all without the slightest reservation.

When he was in Yecheng earlier, Cao Zhi participated in the ritual of exorcism with Cao Cao. He did not play the game of flowing water, so he escaped the disaster of reciting poems.

It's a pity that when he returned to Xuchang, the first thing Yang Xiu said when he saw him was - "Do you still remember the homework assigned to the teacher in March every year?"

Cao Zhi could only raise his head at a 45-degree angle, but unfortunately he couldn't see so much beauty of the sky under the barrier of the wall, and his eyes became more and more beautiful and sad.

When Yang Xiu saw it, he only raised the corners of his lips slightly.He said indifferently: "In the past, you were asked to write poems, but you said that writing poems needed inspiration. This is true. Now that you have left Xuchang for Yecheng in the past few months, passing by the very surroundings of the battlefield, you must have seen a bleak journey. Then see Ye again How do you feel about the customs of the city?"

The moment Cao Zhi heard this sentence, he wanted to grab the ground with his head, and then he lost his memory: "...Can the students say that they don't have any feelings?"

"Hehe." Yang Xiu narrowed his eyes and smiled, mocking as always, "Of course."

Cao Zhi was not happy when he heard the words, but burst into tears.

Then he heard Yang Xiu say, "Whether you feel it or not, you have to compose a poem in class tomorrow."

After finishing speaking, Yang Xiu paused and then said slowly: "Now, do you want to write poetry...or write poetry?"

In August of the tenth year of Jian'an, after Cao Cao rescued Xian Yufu, he saw that Yizhou father and son slandered each other, the common people bullied orphans, and the world even criticized the upright people and praised heretics.

At the time, Cao Zhi was writing a letter to Guo Jia.

The day before, he received a letter from Guo Jia, most of which were about major events in Yecheng and the march.Xun Yu is now in Yecheng, and they learned that the situation of the battle is naturally not as detailed as before.Therefore, most of what Guo Jia wrote was unknown to them.

Cao Zhi thought about how to choose his words, scratching and writing on the paper, but he was never very satisfied.

By the time he finally wrote a few interesting stories, and at the end he just cared about Guo Jia's health, there were already several balls of paper on the ground.

After the letter was mailed, Cao Zhi thought in a daze that time was passing by, and he was getting closer to the so-called jealousy of heaven.

Cao Zhi felt depressed, so he had to take a deep breath to force himself down.

——I don’t know if the farewell in the past is really a farewell.

In September, the weather in Xuchang turned cold rapidly.

Cao Zhi has started playing Go with Yang Xiu.

The usual way of playing chess is that the taller player is on the belly, the lower player is on the side, and the middle player occupies the corner.It is more expensive than rigorous, and it is better to lose the number than to lose the opportunity. There is a saying in "Sun Tzu's Art of War": Those who are good at winning do not fight, those who are good at fighting do not fight, those who are good at fighting are not defeated, and those who are good at losing will eventually win.The same principle applies to playing chess, starting with righteousness and winning with odd tricks.Keep the overall situation in mind without arrogance or impetuosity, and do not make big mistakes because of small losses, and finally win at a small price.

But during these days of playing chess with Cao Zhi, Yang Xiu always felt that he was overthrown too much.

There is a saying that "those who have nothing to do with the enemy but make up for themselves have the intention of attacking, and those who abandon the small but not have the heart to make big plans." Cao Zhi often took advantage of Yang Xiu's nothing to make up for himself, even if a small place was besieged, he didn't care too much.

However, this time with ease, it does not mean that Cao Zhi can play a wonderful game of chess.In fact, he was often too cautious and allowed good opportunities to slip away from his eyes many times, and in the end he lost to Yang Xiu.

Every time this happens, the young boy can be seen with a helpless smile: "Mr. is really good at chess, and the student lost again."

Yang Xiu couldn't believe it!

Looking at Cao Zhi's chess games, it is definitely not the game of Go played by a person who has learned chess for half a year.Even Yang Xiu suspected that what Cao Zhi ignored was just giving way to him.

He sneered: "Come again."

However, no matter how many times he does it again, Cao Zhi is like this.

It's just that when he was still in doubt, Cao Zhi had already gone to Yecheng with the Bian family.After returning home, Yang Xiu also forgot about it for a while, until he played chess with him again these days, only then did he realize that something was wrong.

Now that he knew it was wrong, he naturally had to think again.While keeping calm and occasionally playing chess with him, Cao Zhi even deliberately revealed a few flaws without any trace, but Cao Zhi ignored it.

Yang Xiu narrowed his eyes slightly.

He couldn't guess whether Cao Zhi did it on purpose, or retreated unconsciously.But in any case, it is not a good thing.

After Cao Zhi lost three games in a row one day, he asked, "Did you notice something?"

Cao Zhi blinked, and said in doubt, "Mr. please advise."

Yang Xiu was silent.

He first put the chess pieces into the chess box.Against the contrast of the round sunspots, his body became whiter and slender.After clearing the whole chessboard, he set his sights on Cao Zhi who was sitting upright.

Then, he asked something that seemed irrelevant: "What do you like?"

Cao Zhi was still thinking about the mysterious matter that Yang Xiu said, when he heard this, he just opened his mouth in a daze: "Ah?"

Yang Xiu raised his eyebrows.

Cao Zhi quickly came back to his senses, and said without hesitation: "Students like to study, like to practice martial arts, and like to practice calligraphy to improve their self-cultivation."

Such hobbies are ordinary and nothing special.But when Yang Xiu heard it, he actually hooked his lips into a smile.

How to describe this smile?

Most of his smiles are joking and mocking.But this smile is calm and gentle, even giving people the illusion of gentleness.But when he looked intently again, there seemed to be nothing in his smile.

He was still looking at Cao Zhi.This gaze was deep and penetrating, as if he had seen through everything Cao Zhi was pretending to be.

Cao Zhi looked at him quietly and said with a smile: "Students can make tea and discuss things with relatives and friends in their spare time, and enjoy themselves while sweating profusely when they are busy."

Yang Xiu flicked his fingertips: "Haven't you found out yet?"

Cao Zhi narrowed his eyes and smiled like this: "Please advise, sir."

Yang Xiu sneered: "It seems that you have already found out, but you just don't want to say it clearly."

He paused, clasped his hands under his chin, and narrowed his long and narrow eyes slightly: "I said it before, and I'll say it again now. Your appearance always troubles my teacher very much."

Cao Zhi opened his mouth.Before he could speak, Yang Xiu stopped his words: "I let you read the book of war before, and then taught you how to play Go, because the game is quite similar to the battle between the two armies. As the son of Duke Cao, you will definitely be able to play Go in the future. Lead the army to fight."

Cao Zhi saluted respectfully: "Mr. has a good intention, Cao Zhi understands."

Yang Xiu glanced at him, narrowed his eyes and said calmly: "You don't understand."

The corner of Cao Zhi's mouth twitched.

Yang Xiu just said indifferently: "When you figure out what your hobbies are, I will come and explain to you as a teacher."

Yang Xiu has always been a very awkward person.Even if this person cared about one person, he would never have a pleasant face, instead it was more like a mockery.What's going on with such a bosom brother's posture today?

Just, like...

Thinking of this, Cao Zhi suddenly remembered that he wanted to pretend to like crickets a few years ago, and framed Sima Yi who was really passing by to make soy sauce at that time, and he felt amused.

In October of this year, more than one hundred people died of typhoid fever in Xuchang.

On a snowy day, Cao Chong proposed to invite some doctors to come to the city for consultation and treat the common people for free.

Because Cao Pi is now in power in Xuchang, he also consulted with Cao Pi.

Cao Chong put forward this suggestion, the starting point is the life and death of the people.But this matter is unusual, and naturally money and medicinal materials are also taken into consideration.As far as the Cao family is concerned, it is obvious that they cannot afford such a huge amount of money.But if we can persuade the wealthy businessmen in Xuchang to help, wouldn't we be able to continue the business?

When Cao Pi heard about it, he had a lot of calculations in his heart.

Now Xun Yu is far away in Yecheng.This matter is not big or small, if you want to ask Xun Yu as a reference, it will take some time to go back and forth, and it will give your father the impression that he is indecisive and unable to make a decision.

So should this be done?

If this matter is effective, the people will be grateful, and his father will look at him highly; if it is not effective, there will be no loss for him.

Cao Pi immediately decided to support Cao Chong.

He explained everything about the plan to Cao Zhi in detail with great interest, his eyes clear.Then he ordered people to invite Xuchang and more than [-] doctors around him, and at the same time personally summoned merchants with Cao Chong, half persuading and half threatening to ask them for help.

When Cao Zhi saw it, he sighed softly after thinking for a while.

Forget who said it, the only characteristic of a businessman is profit-seeking.This matter is of no benefit to merchants other than losing money, and those who agree must be rare.Even if Cao Pi bullies him with his status, it will not help.

At this time, the people in Xuchang did not suffer from typhoid fever too much, and there must be results in the short term.Of course, fame will also spread to Lin County, whether they believe it or not, they will all flock to it.At that time, Cao Pi and Cao Chong will find that there is not enough manpower, financial resources, or materials.

This plan, which is no less than a fantasy, will eventually be shattered.

In fact, perhaps Cao Pi also knew this ending.It's just that he wants fame, so why should he care about the result.

Sure enough, as Cao Zhi expected, there were only three merchants who agreed to sponsor.The two took out the money, and the other said that they could get some medicinal materials directly from his pharmacy.

And these typhoid fever patients from the five neighboring counties flooded into Xuchang, and they were quickly exhausted.

After that, no matter how threatened or persuaded Cao Pi and Cao Chong were, the merchants remained unmoved.

A few days later, nearly a thousand people died in Xuchang from neighboring counties.

When Cao Chong stood on the city wall and looked at the mourners, his face was pale.After all, he just closed his eyes and clenched his fists tightly.

In December, the matter was finally dropped.

Of course, Cao Cao heard that he wrote a letter to comfort Cao Chong not long after, so let's not mention it for the time being.

Perhaps it was the reason why this matter did not go well. Cao Pi has been in a bad mood recently.

As a result of his bad mood, he stayed in Cao Zhi's small courtyard all day, practicing calligraphy with great enjoyment.

After he married Zhen Ji, he never dined with Bian's Cao Zhi again.At the beginning of June, the doctor's pulse diagnosis found that Zhen Ji was pregnant, and he was even more concerned about Zhen Ji.Before that, he was busy with Cao Chong and didn't touch the ground. When he was free, he realized that he hadn't been close to Cao Zhi for a long time.

At this time Cao Zhi went to give Wang Qi a gift.After Cao Pi practiced a calligraphy, he saw the brocade left by Cao Zhi on the table.

As soon as his heart moved, he took it and unfolded it.The letter "How can it be as good as you want, but I want to be ashamed of my heart", the twelve characters are clear and beautiful, with both hardness and softness.

Cao Pi recited it silently twice, with a slight smile on the corner of his lips.

After this incident, he had some worries in his heart, and Cao Cao's letter to comfort Cao Chong and ignore him made him even more jealous.But he couldn't talk to anyone, he could only be alone.

Mrs. Bian comforted him a few words earlier, but he seemed indifferent on the surface, and there was no relief at all in his heart.But Zhen Ji comforted her with tenderness, but she got tired of it after a long time.

Only Cao Zhi's unsalty words made him feel enlightened.

He put away the scroll of brocade, held it in his hand, and naturally put it in his heart.

I remember that when Cao Zhifang was studying a few years ago, I asked myself to teach him how to practice calligraphy.The children who had to be taught by hand in the past, but the handwriting they write today is much better than him.

Cao Pi rubbed his fingertips, his smile became more and more gentle.

In the first month of the 11th year of Jian'an, Cao Cao personally conquered senior officials.Gan fled to the Xiongnu and asked for help from Shanyu, but Shanyu refused.Qiannai fled to Jingzhou, where he was captured and killed by Shangluo Duwei Wang Yan.

Afterwards, the pirate Guan Cheng went to Chunyu in the eastward expedition, and all the three lands of Xiangben, Tan, and Qi in the East China Sea were cut off, and they were returned to Langye County to increase their land and subtract Changlu County.