Yang Xiu stared at the soles of his feet, watching his shadow curl up into a ball, like his curled heart.

I once had a tiger in my heart, sniffing the roses carefully, and felt that I was elegant.

Now, I am just for the cattle and horses, and I can only be driven by the cattle and horses, and I will be flattered and avoid suffering.

I once looked forward to the big scene, and I waved my hand to drive it.

Now I only want a small life, the whole family business, bow my head and recite my heart a hundred times...

The Yang family used to be Yang Xiu's ladder and booster, but now it has become thorns and shackles on Yang Xiu's body, trapping him to death in Luoyang and binding him to Cao Cao.

There are no shackles on the body, but there are more shackles in the heart!

"Ah haha... Dezu has not seen him for many years, are you okay?" Cao Cao still had a cheerful voice and his words were old-fashioned.

If it were Yang Xiu before, he would have to be more arrogant and wise. He felt that his family background was not inferior to Cao Cao. He played with some cleverness to show his unusualness. However, now Yang Xiu honestly stepped forward and kowtowed to the ground, kowtowed and replied: "The people who pay homage to the Prime Minister..."

Cao Cao was a little surprised and immediately stepped forward a few steps, pulled Yang Xiu up, and then patted the dust stained on Yang Xiu's robe for him, looking very kind, "Hey, you and I have been intimate for generations, why should we be polite? Hahahahaha..."

Yang Xiu smiled.

That's right, is it a family friendship that meets swords and guns, and the soldiers are at the city and breaks into the gate?

This family friendship is very "iron".

"The family is strict and the body is numb, and the bad is not good at doing things..." Yang Xiu was not proud of Cao Cao's courtesy attitude, but still said humbly, "I ordered the people to apologize to the Prime Minister, and I hope the Prime Minister would like to remember the friendship between the two courts in the past to avoid the crime of negligence..."

This is not to say that Yang Xiu is ruling, it is indeed the case.

Yang Biao is old and has some rheumatism, so he needs to walk with crutches all year round. Cao Cao also knows this, so he does not mean that Yang Xiu came on behalf of Yang Biao for some reason.

And from a certain perspective, when Yang Biao was calling the wind and rain in the Han court, Cao Cao was just a marginal figure, just a county magistrate, and a small official of hundreds of stones would be somewhat embarrassed if he met Yang Biao today.

Cao Cao was a little embarrassed, and Yang Biao was a big embarrassed.

Therefore, Yang Xiu came on behalf of Yang Biao, which was exactly the same as Cao Cao's wishes. Cao Cao came to greet him, which was also a bit of face for Yang. However, Cao Cao did not expect that Yang Xiu would not have any breath after meeting him...

How much is the human spirit of the world?

However, even if it is pretended, it is rare.

Yang Xiu's appearance is very different from Cao Cao's previous impression.

Cao Cao looked up and down at Yang Xiu again, "Now Dezu... Come on, sit down and talk!"

"Thank you Prime Minister." Yang Xiu sat aside as Cao Cao's instructions, straight and straight, with a solemn look.

『…』 Cao Cao looked at Yang Xiu, and after a moment he said with a smile, 『If it weren’t for what he saw with his own eyes today, Cao would definitely not believe that the ancestor of virtue was like this... But what happened recently?

The Yang Xiu and Yang Dezu, who was rebellious back then, felt that the whole world was going to revolve around him, seemed to have disappeared without a trace, which surprised Cao Cao somewhat.

"No one can do anything without experiencing a single wisdom." Yang Xiu pulled the corner of his mouth and showed a bitter smile. "In the past, he realized that the heroes in the world were nothing but the same, but now he knows that he is nothing. As the poem says, "The reeds are green and the white dew turns into frost. The so-called beauty is on the side of the water. Follow it upstream, the road is long and long. Follow it upstream, and it seems to be in the middle of the water..."

Cao Cao narrowed his eyes slightly, "Is this statement of Dezu... a sarcasm to me?"

"How dare the people in the grass? It's really because of their feelings, and it's definitely not meant to the Prime Minister." Yang Xiu fell to the ground with a sincere speech.

"Would you like? Haha, there is no need to be a vain, please get up," Cao Cao seemed to smile, "This feeling of virtue and ancestor... I listened carefully, so I might as well give you some advice."

"I dare not give me advice," Yang Xiu bowed and said, "The reeds are reeds, which are floating and swaying with the wind, but stop at their roots, as if they are floating and stopping, as if they are not present. Just as Yang, who first looked like a beautiful tree, thought it was actually a reed. He was also unable to find it when he was looking for it. He looked very close and went further away, as if he was looking for Luoyang's Luoyang water. In the end, it was on the same side of the water, and he couldn't find it..."

Cao Cao laughed.

Cao Cao felt that Yang Xiuzhen had changed.

I won’t talk about the others. If it were before, I would probably use others as an example, but now everything is taken by Yang as an example.

Although Yang Xiu still has the scent of mocking Cao Cao in his current words, it has become much obscured, and the change in habits in this example can already explain some problems.

Taking the previous Yang family glory, would Yang Xiu use it as an example or to mock himself?

"The Dezuo does not have to be too humble!" Cao Cao said with a smile, "Cao has known that Dezuo has the talent of Jingwei, and has never had the opportunity. Now he wants to recruit Dezuo as the prime minister... I don't know if Dezuo is willing to surrender?"

Yang Xiu was silent for a while, then stood up and left the seat and bowed, "The Prime Minister is grateful, Xiu is inexplicably willing to drive the Prime Minister..."

"Hahaha..." Cao Cao also left the table and helped Yang Xiu up. Cao Cao's smile was very kind, and he seemed to have no concern about whether Yang Xiu called him the Prime Minister or the lord.

『Come on! Sit!』 Cao Cao laughed, 『Now, with the help of the ancestor of virtue, it will be like a tiger with its wings!』

Yang Xiu said a few humble words, and then heard nothing unexpected, Cao Cao asked how to break Hangu.

Yang Xiu was silent for a while, "It is easy to break Hangu, but it is difficult to attack Tongguan. If the Prime Minister thinks that Hangu is easy to defeat and he is light on him, he will be the plan of the cavalry in the middle."

Cao Cao's eyes flashed, "I dare to ask for details."

"The danger of Hangu began in Qin. However, Hangu today's Hangu in Hangu no longer had the power of the past." Yang Xiu's voice was very stable, as if he was narrating an ordinary thing, "Since the Han Dynasty, Shandong was afraid of Hangu's danger, so it was often damaged. Qin Hangu was abolished, and Hangu was the same. Even if the cavalry repaired the wood, it was difficult to stop it... What's more, Hangu was alone and hung outside, and its shape was like bait. If the prime minister wanted to take it, it would be easy..."

Yang Xiu paused for a moment, licked his lips slightly, and swallowed the last half of the words "How can the Prime Minister not know?" back into his stomach.

Yes, Yang Xiu has changed.

People will change, especially under repeated blows.

The youthful and frivolous ones were not comparable to wealth, rice, oil and salt. Vows would turn into ashes in the trivialities day after day. What's more, Yang Xiu in history did not have much anti-Cao Cao, but more of the arrogance and desire to express himself by young people, as well as his undisguised bias towards Cao Cao's next generation.

This is a big taboo.

Now Yang Xiu has lost three points of impetuousness and added three points of calmness. He buried his hatred for the cavalry and his resentment towards Cao Cao in his heart.

Yang Xiu is still the same Yang Xiu, but not the same Yang Xiu anymore.

Cao Cao pondered for a moment, but did not say what Yang Xiu said about Hangu, but continued to ask: "If you want to seize Tongguan, will Virtue have good plans?"

Yang Xiu smiled, "The Prime Minister wants to get Tongguan, Xiu has a plan..."

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Cao Cao occupied Luoyang, of course, not to deliberately attack the Yang family, or to have any hatred with the Yang family, that Huabei is not clean, but because Cao Cao needs a good base for advancement, and where is the place next to Tongguan, Hangu, which place would be more suitable than Luoyang?

Could it be that Cao Cao would fight in front and let Yang shout cheers from the city behind him?

Therefore, at the necessary stage, Cao Cao attacked Luoyang like thunder, which became inevitable.

The danger Luoyang faces has always existed, but Yang Biao, Yang Xiu and others have always tried to pierce their heads in the sand, comfort themselves and hypnotize themselves.

Now I wake up from my dream.

Then I found that dreaming is better...

After all, there is everything in dreams, but in reality there is only cold iron and hot blood.

Cao Cao seized Luoyang. Although Cao's army concealed the news as much as possible, it could not hide it for long. It was detected almost at the same time, and then hurriedly reported it to Chang'an.

In Chang'an, inside the cavalry office.

The uneasy and kind-hearted black fat bird smiled, "Cao Mengde is too careful! He has been getting back and forth over the years! He has no spirit of chasing Zhongying under the moon..."

Of course, Cao Cao also knew that his military behavior invaded Luoyang could not be concealed in the end, but it was obvious that Cao Cao wanted to cover it as long as he could, and to maintain a certain degree of concealment as much as possible...

Fei Zhen also laughed, "That's chasing Han Xin under the moon! It's Prime Minister Xiao, not Prime Minister Cao!"

"What a pity..." Pang Tong shook his head and said with a little emotion, "Prime Minister Cao is old! He no longer has the aura he used to be!"

What Pang Tong said is indeed correct. Cao Cao is already old and is not as sharp as when he was against Dong or before.

But where does the young man’s aura come from?

Of course, they are not afraid of failure, and they are determined to be strong, but why are young people not afraid of failure?

It's very simple, because young people have never failed, or they have never really fallen, have never broken their arms and legs, and have not fallen into a paralysis, so they don't recognize their relatives when they race, laugh and have no fear.

Fei Zhen was a little fearless in the face of war. He was very excited and even had some expectations.

『Here it is finally here!』 Fei Zhen waved her hand and tried to imitate her words and deeds similar to Fei Qian.『This time, Cao Thief will definitely not return!』

"Okay, OK!" The fat black bird looked at Fei Zhen, laughed, and then squinted.

Fei Zhen held her chest straight and showed her heroism as much as possible, but in Pang Tong's eyes, she was just a forced act and could not be considered a true heroic appearance. Because Pang Tong knew that Fei Zhen didn't understand what he was going to fight against at all.

Is it Cao Cao?

Are you from Shandong?

Yes, not.

Under Pang Tong's gaze, Fei Zhen was a little confused and instinctively noticed something was wrong. "What's wrong? Uncle Shi Yuan?"

"Haha... nothing is wrong..." Pang Tong sighed in his heart while perfunctory.

It’s really just as Fei Qian said, some people should “make up a lesson”.

Among these "some people", Fei Zhen is included.

It will be smooth sailing and no good heirs can be cultivated.

When Fei Zhen was born, Fei Qian had basically passed the most difficult time in the early stage.

Fei Zhen neither spent the time when Song He wine went bankrupt like Liu Bei, nor did she see the sword light that caused Qin Chi Lao Qu to fall like Cao Cao. Overall, the biggest pain in Fei Zhen's entire growth period was studying.

Even though Fei Qian took Fei Zhen to Yinshan, what was left in Fei Zhen’s memory was more about traveling around and enjoying the water, and the two bloody tweaks of practicing riding horses by himself...

As for the other bloody things, there was actually not much left in Fei Zhen's mind.
To be continued...