Zhou Lang Zhou Lang

Xu Shu followed Li Mu out of the hall one after the other, and when he turned around, he seemed to catch a glimpse of Zhou Yu looking up at him from among the people who were discussing the matter of dispatching troops.He didn't see it clearly at first, but there seemed to be heavy pressure in Zhou Yu's eyes, which made his heart tremble suddenly, and he suddenly felt palpitations.However, when he took a closer look, the man in the light crown and robe had lowered his head to talk to Lu Meng again, as if he hadn't raised his head at all.

Xu Shu's footsteps paused slightly, although he was a little surprised in his heart, but he was bold and bold by nature, and he just thought that he had stolen the limelight when he first came, so he didn't take it too seriously.Seeing that Li Mu had already stepped out the door, he collected his mind, took two quick steps, and followed.

If he knew that Zhou Yu was only dissatisfied with Li Mu's assassination and surprised that he didn't have time to rest, he would be too sad, and he would no longer be able to maintain this chic appearance.

"Liu Biao is a clan member of the Han Dynasty, so it would be a waste of opportunity to seize his land. However, if there is a chaos, he can send troops in the name of quelling the chaos. However, after sending troops, he still needs to assist the Liu family as the lord of Jingzhou in name." Xu Shu As soon as he walked out the door, he bowed his hands to Li Mu. If he said the next words in front of the generals inside, he might be unable to escape drawing his sword.

"If you don't send troops, Cao Cao will go south, whether Jingzhou is fighting or surrendering, if you send troops at that time, it will be righteous and follow the trend."

"You want me to give up the land of Jingxiang to Cao Cao?" Li Mu looked at him, secretly surprised.In history, it is true that after Liu Biao died, his youngest son Liu Cong surrendered in Kaicheng, Liu Bei and his grandson resisted Cao, and Zhou Yu defeated Nanjun from Cao Jun, so there is a saying that Liu Bei borrowed Jingzhou from Sun Quan.In the land of Jingxiang, after such a change of hands, no one doubted the legitimacy of Sun Quan's right to rule over it in the next few decades.

However, if the people inside know that Xu Shu proposed to give Jingzhou to Cao Cao first, it is really possible to fight on the spot.Li Mu touched the bridge of his nose, and asked Xu Shu with a smile, "Yuan Zhi persuaded me to let Cao, isn't he afraid that I'll catch you as Cao Ying's spy and chop you up?"

Xu Shu smiled calmly, and instead of answering, asked, "Will Duke Ming give in or not?"

"Land can be given up, but people can't be given up." Li Mu leisurely paced slowly with his hands behind his hands, and when he turned his head, he saw Zhou Yu following him, stepping on the silver flowers all over the courtyard, and raised his eyebrows unconsciously and smiled.

Xu Shu didn't understand what she meant for a while, but he also heard footsteps behind him, and turned his head, seeing Zhou Yu frowning, and explained her words: "Jingzhou surrendered Cao, Cao Cao threatened the power of the emperor, Jingxiang's famous scholars Whether it is from the master or from the situation, they will follow along with Cao Cao."

Xu Shu raised his eyebrows: "Marquis Wu Cheng thought Jingzhou would surrender without a fight?"

Li Mu was taken aback for a moment, and gave Zhou Yu a slightly surprised look.She knew that Jingzhou would surrender, but now that Liu Biao was still alive and Jingzhou was not in chaos, Zhou Yu actually believed that Jingzhou would surrender?

She didn't think deeply about the thought, after all, she had seen the accuracy of Zhou Yu's deduction of the situation as early as when she was in Xuzhou.

Fortunately, he had always maintained a neutral attitude towards Liu Biao, so Xu Shu didn't ask any further. He bowed to Zhou Yu, and then replied: "A truly talented and knowledgeable person, how can he not know that Cao Cao is coercing the emperor, and he is really not a minister. What? I have a friend in Xiangyang, who has the ability to know the world, if he meets the master of the Ming Dynasty, he can become Jiang Shang who was in the 800th year of Xingzhou, and Zhang Zifang who was in the 400th year of Xinghan..."

Zhuge Liang!

Li Mu's heart moved, and he subconsciously glanced at Zhou Yu again.The eyes of the two met, and Zhou Yu smiled slightly at her. The breeze was bright and the moon was bright, she was dressed in silver, and she was magnificent.

"This person's surname is Zhuge, his name is Liang, and his style name is Kongming. He and Yueying are old acquaintances..." At this point, Xu Shu suddenly showed some hesitation.

"Mr. Yuanzhi seems to be troubled?" Li Mu raised his brows lightly, with a half-smile, seeing this young man with a chic demeanor and no fuss slowly blushed.

Zhuge Liang and Huang Yueying are still old acquaintances, Xu Shu's troubles, she can guess without asking, but Huang Yueying has never mentioned Zhuge Liang since arriving in Jiangxia, on the contrary, she is very grateful for Xu Shu's escort all the way, In addition, Huang Chengyan was able to entrust his daughter to Xu Shu with peace of mind. The intention behind it was that Xu Shu's authorities were deluded.

Li Mu and Huang Yueying have a sincere relationship and know that she is not a naive woman who is rash and innocent, who doesn't know the heights of the world, and the dangers of the world.In the name of her family, she would ask Huang She to escort her on the river, but she was able to travel with Xu Shu at ease, obviously she had great trust in him.But in any case, since Huang Yueying didn't make a statement, she couldn't break through the key points.

"I'm currently in Jiangxia, and it's inconvenient to set foot in Jingxiang. Since my husband and Zhuge Kongming are old acquaintances, I'll take a trip for me when I'm too tired, and ask this talented man to come out to help. The position of a military adviser in our army is empty. treat."

To be honest, although he wanted Zhuge Liang as a military adviser, Li Mu didn't have much interest in visiting the thatched cottage.First of all, she is Sun Quan now, but Sun Shao is the master of Jiangdong. Even if she wants to "Gu", Sun Shao should go to "Gu". You might not like this "doll protagonist".

On the other hand...it was precisely because of Xu Shu's hesitation.

It is precisely because of this that she deliberately asked Xu Shu to "go for her when she has free time".If Xu Shu minded, whether it was because of Huang Yueying or because of the title of "Military Adviser", he could go on "without leisure" forever.

As soon as this remark came out, Zhou Yu touched the bridge of his nose and echoed with a suppressed smile.Seeing that Xu Shu looked up at Li Mu in disbelief, his eyes flickered slightly, and he was very moved.

When he was in Jingzhou, he often got together with a few close friends to discuss the situation in the world, imitating Danyue to judge the heroes of the princes.Speaking of Jiangdong Sun Quan, Shi Guangyuan and Cui Zhouping both believed that Sun Quan was the main one, far better than the young Sun Shao. Although the act of giving up power was full of brotherly loyalty, Sun Quan was always one point less than the superiors. The spirit of decisiveness.But he had a time when he was a young man who was a hero. Although he usually looked unrestrained, he actually valued loyalty the most.Sun Quan is righteous and despises profit, in fact, he admires it very much, if not for this, he would not have delivered the letter for Huang Yueying, and escorted her all the way to the Jiangdong army.

Xu Shu bowed deeply to Li Mu.With a strong heart and full of enthusiasm, it seems that he has returned to the days when he was a knight-errant with a sword and rewarded his confidant with his life.

Li Muxu gave her a hand, and smiled lightly: "Yueying and I are close friends, if you betray her, even if you have Zhang Liang's talent, you won't regret it, and I hope you will remember it."

Xu Shu was taken aback for a moment, but saw that although she was joking, she looked serious, and then laughed loudly: "I dare not think about it, but I can't get what I ask for, so how dare I speak against my ears!"

Xu Shu bid farewell and left, leaving only Li Mu and Zhou Yu in the huge front yard.The voices of debate from everyone behind were still heard, especially Lu Meng and Cheng Pu, one spoke passionately, the other was full of anger, and from time to time there were clattering voices.

Li Mu glanced at Zhou Yu and smiled unconsciously: "Old General Cheng is used to being prudent, and he doesn't want to have such a fiery temper in front of Lu Ziming, who is younger than his son."

On the night of early winter, when he spoke, he could already exhale a faint white breath, reflecting the moonlight like water, Li Mu was wearing a thick cloak, and just swept away the virtuous corporal, modest and solemn, his eyebrows were curved like the moon, and his eyes were as bright as stars , with a sly smile like a child who goes out in the early spring and plays around.

Zhou Yu shook her hand, and led her to walk slowly towards the backyard side by side.

"When I sent troops, you promised me something, but you were not allowed to deny it."

Under the moonlight, Zhou Yu's voice was clear and bright, like the morning dew falling from the vigorous green bamboo, clear and penetrating, straight into people's hearts.

Sensing Zhou Yu's hand tightening, Li Mu turned her head to the side and raised her eyebrows and smiled at him: "If you say a word from a gentleman, give him a whip." Before Zhou Yu could frown, she immediately shook his arm and added, "Although I am Girl, what you say counts.”

When he returned safely, he wrote three letters and six rituals, made up for what was lacking, and she married him as his wife.

The hands of the two were covered by the wide sleeves, and their fingers were tightly clasped together. They swayed slowly as they rose and fell at the same time. He raised his chin, blinked his eyes, and began to talk about the conditions: "I will marry you as my wife first, and then I will continue to be Sun Quan. I will go out with you, okay?"

She pretended to be Sun Quan, although it was a mistake at the beginning, but it can also be said to be to preserve Zhou Yu's reputation and her own safety.But after doing Sun Quan for so long, she never regretted it for a moment.I'm just thankful for the impromptu decision at that time, otherwise she would have stayed in the back house, waiting day and night for the military report without knowing the situation of the battle, and she would always be the last one to know that Zhou Yu was at the front of the battle... I am afraid that in this lifetime, she would never know the situation. to regret.

It seemed to be back to the night of Shouchun again, this drenched woman stubbornly slapped the imprint of Chuan Guo Yuxi in front of him, and called him Zhou Gongjin, asking him to keep her brothers and sisters safe.

A smile climbed from the corners of his lips to his eyebrows, and then overflowed from his black jade-like pupils. Zhou Yu held Li Mu's hand tightly, and nodded slowly: "Okay."

what?

Li Mu thought of a lot of rhetoric, and thought that to persuade Zhou Yu to take her to the battlefield, he would have to exhaust his tongue, try his best, and maybe use some extreme tactics, but he didn't expect him to agree so easily!

Seeing the stunned woman in front of him, Zhou Yu couldn't help laughing loudly, and then imitated her just now and said: "One word from a gentleman, one whip to the horse."

While talking, when Li Mu came back to his senses, he suddenly found that they had passed through most of the courtyard and arrived at the side gate of the county mansion.

"It's midnight, where are you taking me?"

Zhou Yu paused slightly, and raised his eyebrows: "Why, dare not go?"

Why wouldn't Li Mu dare?

Facts have proved that the famous general of the ages is the famous general of the ages. Even though this aggressive method was used so poorly and carelessly, he still managed to abduct Li Mu to the gate of the south city of Xiling in the middle of the night.

Along the way, apart from a group of soldiers patrolling the streets, there was no one in the inner city where the curfew had been imposed.

Seeing Li Mu and Zhou Yu walking side by side, the patrolling soldiers bowed and saluted one after another, letting the two of them go first. They didn't realize that Li Mu wanted to pull out his hand, but Zhou Yu held on tightly and pulled him.

The guards at the gate of the city didn't notice anything wrong. Instead, they saw Zhou Yu and walked up two steps: "I report to the governor, the boat is ready."

Li Mu looked at Zhou Yu puzzled—it was midnight, and he wanted to take her to inspect the water village?

Zhou Yu smiled without saying a word, and led Li Mu into a small boat with a black awning at the ferry. Then he let go of his hand, picked up the penny, and the boat swung slowly and then drifted away.

At this time, there was no ice on the water, and there was no wind that night, but there was always a bit of chill in the night near the water.Li Mu tightened his cloak, looked around the water, and frowned: "This is not the direction to the water village, what on earth are you..."

Before finishing speaking, the boat rowed out of the ferry and passed through a patch of sparse reeds, and saw the vast water surface that was still dark a moment ago sparkling under the moonlight, as if the Milky Way was hanging upside down, and it was like a river. The brocade streamer embellished with stars all over the sky is magnificent, quiet and captivating.On the other side of the river, the city gate of Xiling is actually covered with sparks of light, outlining the shape of the entire city gate, above the shining star river, as if riding the wind and water, descending from the sky.For a while, people can't tell the feeling of being born in heaven and earth.

"This is……"

"This is the water and land gate," Zhou Yu put down the penny, let the boat float on the water, then took Li Mu's hand, and pointed out to her bit by bit, "The water gate is at the bottom, pulled by iron cables, and it is connected with the bolt of the land gate." The winch on the city gate tightens the iron chain, and the water gate is slowly lifted, and the bolt of the land gate is fixed, and the water army in the city can come out from the water gate, go around the moat to the back of the enemy army at the land gate, and attack from inside and outside."

From the winches to the iron cables, as long as it is not a wooden structure, there is a little bit of fire in every structure, and the dots are not big, but they clearly outline the shape of the entire water and land city gate.

Li Mu was speechless for a moment.When she first arrived in Xunyang, she was indeed very curious about the principle of the water and land gate, so Zhou Yu only talked about showing her to take a closer look at that time.Later, due to the busy war, I could only give her a wooden model first.But over the past year or so, Li Mu has seen many real water and land gates, not to mention others, there are several such gates in Wu County alone.

But I don't want Zhou Yu to remember it until now...

The crescent moon fell like a falling moon, without clouds or fog, and the moonlight was as soft as a lover's hand, brushing across the bright and clear water.A leaf of the light boat floats slowly, and floats into the sparse reeds, bringing a slight whimper, like a lover whispering.

The night is silent, the world is silent.Only the two people in the boat can't go up to the sky, and can't go down to the ground. In the boat, they use some extraordinary means to do things that lovers love to do.