The Three Kingdoms of the Widow

"It's not good news, is it?"

Zhuge Liang acquiesced to Zhao Yun's statement, and Soochow's easy defeat meant that half of the Northern Expedition plan had been aborted.

"Then are you still going?"

"Looking for someone." Zhuge Liang's answer became more and more concise.

A very important person.

Knowing that Zhuge Liang would not discuss this issue again, Zhao Yun looked down at the handwriting left by her own black charcoal pen on the smooth stone slab.After each name, there is a number.

"Don't stand still, keep writing."

"Guo Jia."

"38."

"Cao Cao."

"66."

"Zhou Yu."

"36."

"Zhao Yun."

Zhuge Liang, who was holding the booklet, was stunned, and she put down the bamboo slips: "This is not written on the slate."

"I know you didn't write it, but you have already written so many people's, I also want to know... Zhao Yun's."

"Then why didn't you ask Zhuge Liang?"

"You must know your own, but it's useless for me to know."

"How do you know that I know? I don't necessarily know everything. If I know everything, I don't need to make a summary here. The purpose of the summary is to find the internal connection, and the purpose is to find out the laws that deduce the results of unknown events."

Zhao Yun felt that this was like a tongue twister. Anyway, Zhuge Liang had the ability to say things that everyone could understand, and then write a lot of papers, the kind of high-end atmosphere.

Zhao Yun surrendered: "Actually, I just want to know one thing——"

"How long do I have?"

Zhuge Liang was silent at first, and then replied: "Not long."

"Death of illness? Accident? Or—death in battle?"

"If it matches the known conclusions, it should be a sudden illness, very sudden, without any preparation... the duration is very short."

Zhao Yun obviously breathed a sigh of relief: "Great, I'm afraid it will be the kind that procrastinates and lingers on the sick bed."

"You believe in so-called history so much?"

"What we know so far is generally consistent." Especially when it comes to life and death, history has never broken its word.

"That is to say, we are acting according to the script of history, and everything is stipulated?"

"I don't know," Zhao Yun replied, "but if there is no script, the plot will change as the actors play as they please on stage. You have tried it all. You say, you also have selfish intentions."

Zhao Yun was referring to the fact that Zhuge Liang adopted Zhuge Jin.After Zhuge Jin died, Zhuge Liang told Zhao Yun that she initially agreed to adopt Zhuge Jin, not entirely because of Huang Yueying, she wanted to prove that everything could be changed, when Zhuge Jin became the prospective princess, she almost thought she would success.

But "Princess Dongxiang" was not absent.

"So there's another possibility, there's no script at all."

What they are doing now has been written into various scripts in the future. Of course, the artistic processing also includes a lot of exaggeration, rewriting, deletion... But the structure of the script has not changed.

"Is our effort not the result, but the cause?"

"Maybe. Zhao Xiaoyun, you have to make preparations." Zhuge Liang returned to the case, picked up a pen and continued to write something, his tone was obvious to see off the guests.

"What are you busy with?" Zhao Yun was still curious.

"Give a paper to 'a very important person'."

General Hussars, Sima Yi.

His sons Sima Shi and Sima Zhao.

In the pavilion of Yunlin Garden, Master Sima was wrapped in a black fox fur, looking at the people coming and going to toast in front of him, wondering how many of those smiling faces were sincere.

In fact, they didn't come to curry favor with him, they came to curry favor with the power behind him, more precisely, they came for his father's status, who made Sima Yi named Hushi General by Cao Rui as soon as he came back? .

Thinking of this, Sima Shi felt a little impressed by Cao Rui: this man kept his word, although his face was dark, but as agreed before, he immediately awarded the reward without any delay.

But Sima Shi and Sima Zhao only received a lot of rewards, but no promotion.Considering that Sima Shi's daughter had just been born and her birth mother was Xiahou Hui, Cao Rui gave him some extra rewards to show his closeness.

When most people in the court learned about this, they complained in their hearts for the brothers Sima: No matter how much money is given, it is not as beneficial as giving power. Why is His Majesty the emperor so stingy to give Sima Zhao an official position?

Seeing Sima Zhao happily sitting in the crowd drinking, Sima Shi suddenly felt that it might be a happy thing to be as neurotic as this younger brother.

"Congratulations! Your Majesty, you have returned from a great victory, and your father has also been promoted—you must drink the wine! Today is to congratulate your father on his promotion! You can't refuse!"

Master Sima hasn't seen clearly who is so short-sighted, talking nonsense with a gun and a stick in front of the cheerful Sima Zhao, the one next to him is wearing a thick lotus-blue woven red suzaku-patterned train, and a cotton jacket over it. The short man, who was so bloated that he could hardly see his head and face, pushed the person in front of Sima Zhao unceremoniously, squeezed carelessly beside Sima Zhao, and sat down on his buttocks: "Mr. Zhuge, get out of the way!"

Sima Zhao rubbed his eyes: "Yuan Ji? Why are you here!"

It was indeed Wang Yuanji who came. In the cold weather, she was dressed very thickly. She wished she could tuck her whole body into the clothes. Her exposed nose was so red from the cold. I can't see it anymore, and the "swallowtail" left by the bun is tucked into the clothes.

"Come to drink with you!" Wang Yuanji said casually.

It was not the first time that Zhuge Dan encountered this kind of situation, he could only sigh: "Yuan Ji, although they are all young people's gatherings, they are also men's gatherings, so don't break into your daughter's house."

"You all gathered here to drink with your father's status, and you didn't announce that women in the world can't come. My father is also a minister of the court. Why, I am not qualified?" Wang Yuanji threw Zhuge Dan a supercilious look, and then snatched him away. The ear cup in front of Sima Zhao came to drink, Sima Zhao was caught off guard and didn't even have time to react.

Wang Yuanji is the only daughter of Wang Su, the leader of the Central Committee, and the most beloved granddaughter of Situ Wang Lang. There was no place she dared not go.Ordinary women tried their best to avoid men's gatherings, but Wang Yuanji broke in several times and chatted with everyone, with a calm expression and no fear.

"I think only your brother can cure you." Zhuge Dan had no choice but to look for Wang Yun with an ear cup.

"You go, you go, who is afraid of you!" Wang Yuanji took a sip of the wine in her ear cup indifferently——

"Wow—cough, cough, cough!"

The wine was spat out before he could swallow it down. Sima Zhao panicked and quickly supported Wang Yuanji, asking her how she was doing.

Wang Yuanji was so coughing that she couldn't speak, Sima Shi saw that his younger brother was still only a consultant, and couldn't help worrying for him from the bottom of his heart.Sima Shi beckoned a waiter to come over, and asked him to fetch some water for Wang Yuanji to rinse his mouth.

"It's awful! You men drink this all day long! You still think it's delicious!" Wang Yuanji managed to calm down, and the first thing she did was to complain to Sima Zhao with the remaining half glass of wine.

Sima Zhao didn't know how to answer, and He Yan smiled beside him: "Yuan Ji, this wine is for men, you can't drink it."

"What's the difference between a man and a woman? Why can't I drink it?" Wang Yuanji was not convinced.

"You are the only woman? Girl!" Deng Yang's words caused everyone to burst into laughter, and Xun Can, the initiator of the party in the distance, also laughed, and raised his earcup to greet Yuan Ji--this action was very strange to Wang Yuanji. Quite provocative.

So she jumped up, her face flushed, she couldn't tell whether she was cold or angry: "Brother Fengqian! You are also a talent educated by Xun Lingjun, why are you teasing me with them!"

Xun Can inherited his father's knife-cut heroic eyebrows and a pair of beautiful peach blossom eyes. When he smiled, he curved his eyes beautifully: "Yuan Ji, everyone is doing it for your own good. You really can't drink this wine, it's filled with ingredients. of."

"Added ingredients? What kind of ingredients?" Wang Yuanji picked up the wine glass and sniffed it curiously, but there was no other smell except the normal choking smell, so she could only guess wildly, "Lilac? Dogwood? Hu coriander?"

Everyone laughed again.Li Sheng beside him even laughed loudly and said, "Yuan Ji, when you get married, just ask your husband!"

Wang Yuanji looked at Li Sheng suspiciously, and suddenly turned around and grabbed Sima Zhao: "They are not good people! They don't tell me anything about this! You know that, right? Tell me what it is!"

Sima Zhao also blushed: "Uh... I don't know very well... It seems that the 'Five Stone Powder' created by the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing..."

"What is it for?"

"Uh...don't know..."

Wang Yuanji looked at the ear cup in her hand, and passed it in front of Sima Zhao: "I won't drink it, you drink it for me! When I look at you, I know what this five-stone powder is for!"

Li Sheng deliberately objected from the side: "This is wrong, Yuan Ji, how can you make the wine you have drunk so that you can drink it again?"

Wang Yuanji glared at him, and confidently put the ear cup directly to Sima Zhao's mouth: "Would you like to drink it?"

In the eyes of everyone watching the show, Sima Zhao looked at his elder brother as if asking for help, and then he was extremely sad to find that Master Sima was looking out of the pavilion with an unfathomable face, but he didn't look at him.

Sima Zhao could only bite the bullet and drink the wine.

A smile appeared on Wang Yuanji's face. She sat quietly next to Sima Zhao, and began to observe Sima Zhao. She looked at Sima Zhao with goosebumps all over her body: "Yuanji, what are you doing?"

"See what's the use of Wushi San!" Wang Yuanji replied quite naturally.

It became more and more outrageous, Zhuge Dan finally led Wang Yun back.

"Yuan Ji, go back! How many times has Dad told you not to let you come, why don't you listen!"

"No!" Wang Yuanji resolutely expressed her attitude to her eldest brother, and rushed forward to hug Sima Zhao's arm, "I want to drink!"

"Ridiculous! You are a housewife, how can you act like this! Go back quickly!" Wang Yun's face darkened.

"No!"

The two siblings were deadlocked.

Just when Wang Yun lost face and was about to take his sister away by force, Master Sima said suddenly: "Yuan Ji, Wang Situ is a learned man, you can ask Wang Situ when you go back, and you will know what Wushi San is. What are you doing? If you are waiting here to see the performance of your younger brother, you will have to wait for a long time, Wushi powder works very slowly, and you will not be able to see the results in an hour or two."

"Really?"

"it is true."

Wang Yuanji looked at her eldest brother—if he didn’t leave, there would be no good fruit to eat, at Master Sima—he had already paved the steps for himself, and then at Sima Zhao—well, although he didn’t want to leave...but anyway, there are still opportunities in the future Woolen cloth.

To sum up, it is more cost-effective not to make the eldest brother angry, although he is not afraid if he is really angry.

The petite, horizontal but bloated figure obediently followed Wang Yun and left the garden. Sima Shi looked at Sima Zhao's reluctantly following eyes and smiled.

The author has something to say:

Zhuge Liang is sensitive to numbers, and she will mention a lot of numbers in the future... Sima Yi almost cut her off in anger when she did this.

Yunlin Garden is the royal garden of Cao Wei... Considering that the people who drink here are all relatives of the emperor... As long as Cao Rui has no objection, drinking here is fine...

Fur clothes in the Han Dynasty were worn with fur exposed, which is exactly the same as modern people wear fur.Yuan Ji's cotton jacket is definitely not a representative of plain clothes!On the contrary, because cotton was not grown on a large scale in the Han Dynasty, and cotton cloth was not yet popularized, most of them came from the Western Regions, which belonged to foreign products, and imported things were very expensive!People have taxes!

Wang Yuanji drank with the men, this is really nothing, she will do even more shocking things...

Xun Can is the youngest son of Xun Yu. The most famous gossip about this man is that he freezes himself in the winter and then cools his wife... This is extremely unscientific, please don't learn from him!

Everyone drinking here is the second generation, and they are also the protagonists of the "Fantastic Case" during the Taihe period, and they are also the founders and advocates of metaphysics in the Wei and Jin Dynasties...

But why did the author suddenly feel sympathetic to Zhuge Dan? He didn't make a good joke about "sheng" and "sheng", and he really thought Sima Zhao was not dangerous?Then you are wrong to boil an egg...