Liu Xiu first went to Cao Cao to see if he was interested in serving in the Northern Army. Although Cao Cao's experience in battle so far is still blank and he is not even as good as him, Liu Xiu is very clear about the potential of this future overlord of the Three Kingdoms. They studied military arts together under Duan Jia's school, but to be honest, he was actually not as fast as Cao Cao. He tended to be intuitive. Cao Cao was much better than him in the rational direction. On the basis of conforming to the theory of this era, he was even far behind. Cao Cao even praised Duan Jia's familiarity with Sun Tzu's art of war.

However, Duan Jia also said that using troops is a technical job, that is, you must be familiar with various basic principles, such as terrain, the character characteristics of the generals on both sides, the composition of the troops, the advantages and disadvantages of both sides, and try not to make mistakes, especially not to make low-level mistakes. In this way, you are basically a qualified general, and of course you are just a qualified general. If you want to go further, it is an artistic job. This is a new word summarized by Liu Xiu. It basically depends on spirituality and talent. At that level, it cannot be taught by anyone, but it depends on innate understanding.

On this point, Duan Jia highly praised Han Xin. Han Xin not only has a solid foundation, but also has a spiritual and highly conscious mind, so he can win every battle and never lose. Even when facing Xiang Yu, who is also born with talent and powerful and powerful, he is at ease.

Whether you have insight depends on whether your ancestors have accumulated virtues. You cannot force them. What everyone can do is be careful and not be careless. You should know that all you can master is yourself. What you need to do is to seize opportunities when your opponent makes mistakes, rather than pin your hope for victory on your opponent's mistakes, unless your opponent is really a stupid pig.

When Liu Xiu rushed to the Cao family, Cao Cao was not at home. Liu carried Cao Xiu, a few months old, out to receive Liu Xiu, saying that Cao Cao took Xiahou Ji and the others to the Guanglu Dafu Qiaoxuan's house. Liu Xiu dialed Cao Xiu's chubby little face, thinking that this child died so miserably because his father played with women, which was a bit unworthy.

"Mrs. I have a good son." Liu Xiu flatteredly said, "I know he is a talent at first glance." Liu didn't know what Liu Xiu said, so he laughed so much that he smiled and thanked him repeatedly.

Liu Xiu rushed to Qiao Mansion. He knew that so far, Xu Shao had not given Cao Cao that at the beginning. The two people who really encouraged Cao Cao were He Yong, who had already dealt with him, and the other was Qiao Xuan. In the play, Qiao Xuan was called Qiao Guo Lao, the famous Erqiao Lao, but now it is certain that Qiao Guo Lao is almost seventy years old. Although he is still strong, it is difficult to guarantee that he will leave one day. At least it is impossible to wait for Liu Bei Ganlu Temple to recruit a bride.

As for Erqiao, what to do is to cheat, although Qiao Xuan is not old, he does have a son who is only ten years old. However, no matter how powerful he is, he probably cannot have two nationalities in the last time of his life.

Liu Xiu was familiar with Qiao Xuan, but he had never seen him, and he had never visited him. Of course, he could not go empty-handed when he arrived at Qiao Mansion for the first time. He wrote a famous sect in Cao Cao, and asked Liu Bei to prepare some gifts. Then several people set off together in a mighty manner.

When he arrived at the residence of Qiao's family, Liu Xiu unexpectedly saw several acquaintances, Yuan Shao,

He yong's carriage was parked on the side of the road. He yong was sitting in the car. Yuan Shao stood beside the mud. The two of them were talking anxiously. The atmosphere at the door was tense. Several soldiers in official uniforms stepped forward to stop Liu Xiu and others.

"If there is official business inside, don't enter." A soldier stood in front of Liu Xiu with a cold face and said in a hard official voice.

Liu Xiu was wearing casual clothes today and did not wear seals on his waist. The soldier regarded him as an ordinary scholar and had a very bad attitude. He stepped forward and prepared to push him. Xu Zhu stood in front of him with an expressionless face. The soldier pushed him twice, but he did not move at all. The soldier was anxious and annoyed, turned his head and shouted: "Skin, skin, someone is making trouble."

Pi Erding rushed over, stared at him, and was about to curse, but when he saw Liu Xiu who was smiling, he was startled and slapped the soldier: "Your dog eyes are blind, this is Liu Jun." He turned his head and smiled at Liu Xiu: "New, my distant cousin, I don't know the reputation of the Lord, please forgive me." He glanced at the gift in Liu Bei's hand: "What, the visitor today? Oh, it's really a coincidence that a major case happened inside, Lord Yang gave orders,

Don't let him in." Liu Xiu was also surprised. The Sili lieutenant is equivalent to the state governor. He would not alarm him. Usually, the Luoyang ruling would handle it. At most, the Henan Yin was dispatched. The Sili lieutenant was dealt with by the Sili lieutenant. He looked inside and knew that the people living in this place were not big shots. This man, Yiqiao Xuan, was a little stubborn. He had always been a good deal with his colleagues and had no savings. He could only live in an ordinary residential area outside the city. Could it be that something happened to the Qiao family?

"It's not the Qiao family." Pi Erding slapped his thigh, his face covered with greasy sweat. "Three madmen who came from somewhere hijacked Qiao Gong's youngest son and are now extorting money on the bridge's house. Lord Yang is afraid of hurting Qiao Gong's son and dare not attack, but Qiao Gong not only not only affection, but also accused Lord Yang of disregarding national laws and indulging evil spirits. What do you think is this?"

"What does it mean?" Liu Xiu didn't understand it for a moment.

"Mr. Qiao Gong wants Lord Yang to attack, don't care about the safety of the hostages." Yuan Shao walked over and took over the conversation, "What did Deran do?"

"I'm here to make soy sauce." Liu Xiu didn't want Yuan Shao to know that he came to Qiaofu to find Cao Cao to join the Northern Army and confronted the Yuan family's forces, so he talked nonsense. Yuan Shao inexplicably "making soy sauce?" "Ah?" Liu Xiu rolled his eyes and suddenly felt a little strange. This word seemed to have been unfamiliar for a long time. At this time, he suddenly felt a sense of intimacy as meeting an old friend in a foreign land. He said perfunctorily: "I'm on the way, not a special trip."

Yuan Shao curled his lips and despised him in his heart. Do you come with a gift or go along the way? If you really want to make sauce or buy oil, you should carry a pottery jar. Can the sauce and oil be told together? Could it be that he made some fresh things?

"What are you here?" Liu Xiu asked back.

Yuan Shao mumbled, and he also came to find Qiao Xuan. Liu Xiu worshipped Duan Jia as his army to learn military tactics. Although he looked down on Duan Jia, he knew that Duan Jia had been around for many years and was very familiar with the affairs of the border and had very good military skills. He refused to bow to Duan Jia, and Zhang Huan was neutral, neither offending him nor wanting to help him. After thinking about it, he had to come to Qiao Xuan Qiao Xuan to be a general of Liao and a prefect of Shanggu, and was very familiar with military affairs in the northern border. Unexpectedly, such a thing happened to the Qiao family. The people from the Sili School Guard's Mansion watched the surroundings, and the robbers inside could not get out, and the people outside could not get in.

Seeing that he was hesitant, Liu Xiu was not easy to ask, so he turned around and asked Pi Erding, "How is it now?"

"How are you scolding Lord Yang with Qiao Gong.

Pi Erding felt very wronged for Yang Biao!’, Lord He and Lord Zhou hurried aside without saying a word, it was really unrighteous.”

"Three people on the other side?" Liu Xiu's eyes rolled and he was trying to be a special police officer.

Pi Erding nodded.

"Take me in to see Lord Yang, maybe I can help me." Liu Xiu said. Pi Erding hesitated for a moment, remembering the amazing martial arts that Liu Xiu had shown in prison, he nodded quickly, turned around and reported. It was not long, and hurriedly rushed out again, "Sir, please come in." Liu Xiu smiled at Yuan Shao: "Benchu, are you interested in going in and taking a look?"

Yuan Shao and He Yong exchanged glances and nodded. Several people entered the inner door together, passed through the nervous-looking soldiers of the Sili School Guard's Mansion, entered the seemingly shabby gate of the Qiao family, and met the legendary old Qiao Guo.

Old Qiao was tall, although he was nearly seventy years old, and he was still very tough, not even white hair. His voice was full of breath, making people's ears buzzing. At the moment, he was blowing his beard and cursing at Yang Biao's nose. He Jin and Zhou Yi lowered their eyebrows and hid aside, not even daring to say anything. Cao Cao was persuading Qiao Xuan to rescue Yang Biao, but unfortunately the effect was limited. When he saw Liu Xiu coming in, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and said repeatedly: "Deran, what do you do?" Liu Xiu winked at him and gave Qiao Xuan a first salute: "Liu Xiu, come back to Zhuo County, pay homage to Qiao Gong."

"Forget it." Qiao Xuan remained angry. "Do you have a way to catch the robber?"

"I dare not say there is, let's try it." Liu Xiu saw that Qiao Xuan was not in the mood to be polite to him, and he didn't care. He glanced around and saw several women crying in the inner room, but did not dare to speak loudly. He thought that he was shocked by Qiao Xuan's anger. He withdrew his gaze and thought for a moment: "Hong Kong, since you have to take care of the robbers at any cost, you must also correct the law of the robbers. I believe that if the son suffers any damage, you won't blame me, right?" "That's natural." Qiao Xuan said loudly, without hesitation: "The Han family has its own three-foot law. If there is a robbery, they will kill them. They must not care about hostages, nor can they redeem treasures, and open up a path of traitors.

How dare Xuan use his son to disrupt the law of the country? "Is there such a law? This is not very humane. Liu Xiu asked Yang Biao with his eyes. Yang Biao nodded, indicating that Qiao Xuan was right. Although Liu Xiu complained about it in his heart, it is not the time to complain about it in his heart. Since Qiao Xuan is willing to sacrifice his son, his burden will be much smaller.

"Let me try." Liu Xiu said to Yang Biao: "I will save the child as much as possible, but if I can't save it, don't blame me." Yang Biao nodded helplessly, and he could not imagine it. It was easy to kill the three robbers. He sent dozens of people up and chopped them up. Unless the three of the other party were warriors like Liu Xiu, none of them could escape. But he really couldn't bear to have such a young child die like this, even if his biological father asked to do so.

Liu Xiu winked at Xu Zhu and Zhang Fei, untied the knife around his waist, walked out of the main hall, entered the backyard, and stood in the yard. He looked around and saw that the window on the second floor was closed, with only one crack open, and a figure could be seen vaguely inside. More than a dozen fully armed soldiers were guarding the stairs, and several crossbows stood in various corners, surrounding the small building with iron barrels, and the people inside were unable to fly.

Liu Xiu asked for a shield from a soldier, protected him, and walked upstairs slowly. He shouted loudly as he walked: "Listen to the people upstairs, I'm here to negotiate, I don't bring any weapons, don't be nervous, you have anything to say." "What to negotiate, use money to redeem people, or I will kill this kid with one knife." A thick voice rang upstairs, accompanied by the sound of furniture being knocked over.

"I said, brother, are you asking for money or taking revenge? If you want to take revenge, don't talk nonsense. Slash Master Qiao with one knife, and then wait for someone to cut it into meat sauce, so that I can't waste my talk.

If you ask for money, then you open the door and we discuss what is wrong with sitting down and talking about it, and you have to take the knife?”

While he was ruling, he approached the door.

After a moment of silence inside, the door was opened with a crack, revealing a pair of blood-thin eyes. When he saw Liu Xiu and the others, he was surprised: "Three people?" "I am a negotiator, they are my guards." Liu Xiu lowered his shield, bared his teeth, and showed a harmless smile of humans and animals: "Don't worry, although they have good martial arts skills, they are not here to save people." "What are they here?" Those eyes swept on Xu Zhu and Zhang Fei's face vigilantly, and finally stayed on Xu Cuo's face for a moment. Suddenly, it opened wide and closed the door suddenly. A terrifying voice rang inside the door: "Xu Zhongkang! Xu Zhongkang is outside." The room was then silent, with only heavy breathing and the whimpering sounds made by the child's mouth.

"Do you know him?" Liu Xiu was surprised. Xu Zhu was silent for a moment and said expressionlessly: "I heard the sound of it, and I should be an acquaintance of Huiren's family."

Liu Xiu raised his eyebrows, and it turned out that these people were killers of Huiren's family, so they were not ordinary robbers. Maybe there was any inside story behind this. He coughed and raised his voice and said, "I said, "Mr. Since you know Zhongkang, you must know that you will definitely not be able to escape today. To be honest, Qiao Gong did not let me negotiate. He asked Lord Yang to kill you directly. I am here to make a fuss. I don't want to see a child less than ten years old die like this, nor do I want to see you three."

A brave man was killed by a knife and shot to death by arrows. In the end, he was chopped and hung his head at the gate of the city for public display. I said, did you see the eunuch Wang Fu's head at the end of last year? After less than three days of hanging, he was pecked by a crow's eyes." Liu Xiu talked endlessly about the miserable situation of Wang Fu and the others being hung at the head of the city, and was nagging like a broken-mouthed woman. Xu Cuo and Zhang Fei, who were following him, looked at each other depressedly, thinking that they didn't expect the boss to be so good. Judging from his pose, he probably stood here and said that he would not have a different character for a day.

"You said stop talking." The door opened again, and this time someone changed. He had a pale face and gloomy eyes looked at Liu Xiu with lifeless eyes: "Are you the owner of Tai Chi Taoist Hall Liu Xiu?" "Ye, do you know me?" Liu Xiu said fussfully.

"There is no other person in Luoyang City who can let Xu Zhongkang be his close friend." The man opened the door, but his body was hidden outside: "Come in, they are waiting outside."

"It's you?" Xu Cuo's eyes flashed.

"It's me." The man smiled coldly and waved his head at Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu put down his shield and signaled Xu Zhu and Zhang Fei to guard outside. As soon as he walked into the door, a cold sword edge hit his back. He stopped, turned his face, looked at the man hiding outside the door with his eyes slanted, and chuckled: "You have another hostage. Did you let the child go first? You should know that I am the emperor's favorite minister now. No one dares to ignore my life, it is much more valuable than that child."

"You are not a hostage." The man sneered: "But your reputation is too great, I cannot be small.

Heart." He pushed Liu Xiu into it and closed the door with his backhand.

Liu Xiu narrowed his eyes and adapted to the light in the house. Then he saw that the owner of the blood-red eyes just now was a big man with a beard with a beard. He couldn't tell his age, but he looked quite fierce. The other person looked a little bookish, but his eyes were a little evil, his legs were spread out, and he was sitting casually on the edge of the bed, holding his hands on the edge of the bed, lowering his head, and his eyelids were rolling up, full of hostility.

"What do you want to talk about?" Shu Sheng asked desperately: "Can you make the decision to let us go?"

"Impossible." Liu Xiu shook his head. "You know that there are not only Sili's lieutenant, Henan Yin and Luoyang Order, hundreds of soldiers, thirty or forty crossbows, and two of my followers. One of them is Xu Zhongkang, the number one warrior in Huiren's family. The other, although he doesn't think so, is also a warrior from a hundred. Just you three." He raised a finger and shook it: "I can't kill it."

"Don't forget, you are in our hands too." The young man holding a long sword sneered, and the tip of the sword moved forward an inch, and the cold sword edge pressed against Liu Xiu's skin.

Liu Xiu lowered his face and looked at him with a side face: "You said just now that I am not a hostage, then are you not very kind to do this now? I am here to negotiate and unarmed."

"Honest?" The young man couldn't help laughing and teased sarcastically: "I said to Liu Dong's family, are there some time when I'm talking about kindness now?"

Liu Xiu raised his head and sighed: "It seems that Mr. Qiao is right. You are not worthy of respect at all. You are just scumbags.

You only know how to intimidate unarmed people and kidnap children under ten years old. You are cowards." "Rareless!" The young man blushed and shouted loudly: "You curse me again, don't you think I'm......" "Yifeng" scholar urgently reminded him, but it was still a little late. It was when the young man was angry, the sword in his hand trembled slightly, and the time was very short, but this negligence caused fatal consequences. Liu Xiu's hand drooping beside him floated up without warning, and hit his chest like lightning.

With a "boom", the young man took two steps back, covered his chest with his left hand, opened his mouth wide, and bent down in pain. His legs trembled uncontrollably, gradually unable to support his body. He knelt on the ground with one leg, and then fell to the ground, twitching and releasing the sword in his hand.

"You" the scholar shouted and retreated from time to time. His body moved two steps in an instant, and he turned his hand and grabbed the child's neck. The child was so scared that his eyes widened and he didn't even dare to cry. "If you move again, I will kill him."

"Whatever." Liu Xiu waved his hand indifferently: "He doesn't care, why should I care about his life and death?" Liu Xiu looked at his hands, admired himself for a moment, then looked at the scholar and strong man with a change of face: "Don't worry, he can't die, but the shock after his heart was hit hard. However, if you don't rescue him in time, he will be really dead." "Surely, great." The scholar held his breath, took the weapon from his companion's hand and put it on the child's neck, and signaled him to drag the unconscious young man over. His eyes were staring at Liu Xiu tightly, not daring to move away for a moment. "What do you want to talk about? Don't want us to surrender. Since we dare to come, we have already made plans to die."

"Then you can die now, why not?" Liu Xiu raised his eyelids and asked back.

The scholar choked and his anger surged, and then he realized: "Do you think I dare not? No one dies in a hundred years of life?"

"Have you read the Book of Tai Shigong?" Liu Xiu suddenly laughed, "Yes, people must die, but some deaths are more serious than Mount Tai, and some deaths are lighter than feathers. Which one do you think you are dead now?"... Humph, what kind of thing is Taishan, and Maw, aren't they all the same?" The scholar's eyes twitched, and he tried to calm himself, but his eyes were a little shaken: "Shigong himself is not like a Maw." "Otherwise." Liu Xiu found a place to sit down and said slowly: "Although Tai Shigong was born cowardly, he was remembered forever after death. What about you? He was born cowardly and died even more cowardly. When he was alive, he did not dare to see anyone. When he saw it, he saw it.

The officers and soldiers were weak in their legs. After they died, their bodies and heads were not allowed to be buried in the ancestral tomb, their souls could not return to the underworld, and their souls could not reach the blue sky. They could only be lonely ghosts, wandering forever in the cold world." The scholar shivered and showed a look of horror in his eyes. Although he was tough and died, people these days believed that death was the same as life, but life in another world. This is what the so-called "treating death as life" means. The scene depicted by Liu Xiu was something that everyone was unwilling to try. They believed in ghosts and were as firm as they believed in people who had parents. How could they be willing to be a lonely dog ​​and be in peace for the rest of their lives?

"Shut up!" he roared.

Liu Xiu didn't dare to say anything more. He was not afraid of this scholar. He was afraid that he would collapse. With his hand trembling and cutting the child's throat, he would be in vain. He frowned and thought for a while, and let the two robbers calm down. Then he continued, "I can give you a chance." "What chance?" The man was so scared by what he said just now that he asked subconsciously. Although the scholar was unhappy, his mind was already in chaos. He also asked, but there was still a bit of sarcasm in his tone: "Can you let Qiao Xuan let us go? You said just now, no matter whether this child is dead or alive, we can't live." "I said, I'll give you a chance." Liu Xiu's finger gently knocked on the desk: "Let you have a chance to die as heavy as Mount Tai." The man was furious: "Don't you still have to die?"

The scholar stopped him, his eyes tightened, stared at Liu Xiu for a long time, and suddenly smiled: "Do you want us to join the army and follow you to fight the Xianbei people?" "Yes." Liu Xiu nodded and said sincerely: "You have a 90% chance of dying on the battlefield, and a 10% chance of returning alive, but I can guarantee you that no matter whether you die in battle or come back alive, you are glorious."

"And, if you say glory is glory?" The man sneered, looked at him disdainfully, and reached out to steal the knife from the scholar's hand. "I killed this kid and then fight you again. Maybe I can rush out." "Wait." The scholar interrupted him and looked at Liu Xiu intently: "What are you guaranteeing?" Liu Xiu stood up, straightened his clothes, with a serious expression, and said word by word: "My words are guarantees...!!!
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