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How big is Zhongyang Town?

According to the official statement, there are 217 households, a total of 936 people. In the era of Cao Youxue, this is nothing. However, in the era when Cao Peng lived, the small town of 217 households was already considered a big town.

Its back is on Zhongyang Mountain and belongs to the jurisdiction of Wuyin County.

But because it is far away from the county town, it is not taken seriously.

The water flows out of Zhongyang Mountain, passes through Wufang County (that is, today Suiping County, Zhumadian City), and is injected into Ru water.

"Dad, is Liu Jingzhou Liu Biao?"

Cao Youxue, who has been renamed Cao Peng, looks curious and asks Cao Ji for advice.

After lying on the bed for more than ten days, his bones were lying soft. He really didn't want to continue lying down, so he began to walk down the ground despite Zhang's opposition.

Cao Peng's body was very weak. It is said that when Zhang was pregnant with him, there were wars and bandits.

Once, the bandits even attacked outside Zhongyang Town and almost attacked into the town. Zhang was frightened, which also made Cao Peng become a premature baby.

Zhang even lost his milk because of frightened.

This also made Cao Peng never eat breast milk since he was a child and grew up with porridge, so his physique is much worse than his peers...

Cao Youxue got the sporadic memories of Cao Peng, but it was useless.

A thirteen-year-old child has never taken a step out of Zhongyang Town, so naturally he cannot leave too much useful information for Cao Youxue. He only knew that Cao Ji was a blacksmith and his skills were not too exquisite. It was okay to help people repair farm tools and create small objects, but if you talk about large objects, you would be unable to do anything... What is the most valuable thing in troubled times? The answer is very simple, that is weapons.

Most of the craftsmen with good craftsmanship were enlisted by local princes.

And craftsmen like Cao Ji, who have two swords, are of course not so valued.

But this is good. If Cao Ji's family is still safe without getting involved in the bloody storms, the small Zhongyang Town is very peaceful and closed. Although Cao Youxue vaguely guessed the era he was in, he was not sure. He heard Cao Ji mention Liu Jingzhou last night, so early the next morning, he couldn't wait to go to the ground, sit on the threshold, and ask casually, seemingly unintentionally.

"Shh!"

Cao Ji was startled and quickly put down his hammer, ran to Cao Peng, signaling him not to talk nonsense.

"How could people like us just talk about the name of Liu Jingzhou?"

"Isn't it just a name, why bother to be so nervous?"

Cao Peng couldn't help but feel dissatisfied, and immediately realized: As I guessed, it was indeed the Three Kingdoms!

Later generations, a Romance of the Three Kingdoms is popular and well-known to all women and children. It is often said that people do not read Water Margin in young age, and do not read Three Kingdoms in old age... Of course, Cao Peng could not not know this masterpiece, and it was read through various versions of the Three Kingdoms more than once. Men always yearn for the passionate era of iron horses and gold swords. According to Cao Peng's understanding, it seems that only Liu Biao, the person who is called Liu Jingzhou in history, seems to be Liu Biao.

However, which General Xiao Zhang is?

Cao Ji said in a furious manner: "Why are you so ignorant, your child?

Liu Jingzhou is a famous scholar in the world and a relative of the Han Dynasty. How could we, the common people, call him the name? If others hear him, you will be punished for being disrespectful... My friend, you should be careful in your future speech. People's hearts are unpredictable these days and cannot be understood!"

Cao Peng was still a little unhappy, but seeing his father's panic look, he thought about it and nodded, indicating that he would pay attention in the future.

Is this the so-called difference between common people and a family?

Cao Peng thought, and subconsciously glanced at Cao Ji who was repairing the hoe.

Although there is a genius of kings, princes, generals and ministers, how can this family gap truly disappear? Isn’t the death of one privileged class the birth of another privileged class? People can never be truly equal, whether it is now or in the future.

Thinking of this, Cao Peng couldn't help feeling indifferent.

He sat blankly on the threshold, watching Cao Ji sweating profusely, but his thoughts had already flown out of the sky.

"Old Cao!"

A loud voice awakened Cao Peng from his meditation.

I saw a burly and strong man walking in from outside the yard, looking about in his early thirties, with a dark face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, looking very majestic. Beside this man was a young man, very strong, so strong that he looked like a little tiger.

Cao Peng's memory has the impression of these two people.

The strong man is named Wang Meng, a hunter in Zhongyang Town; the younger man is named Wang Mai, who is very familiar with Cao Peng.

As a hunter, Wang Meng naturally had to deal with the blacksmith Cao Ji. Cao Ji's skills are not very good, but repairing and repairing is also good. The most important thing is that repairing and repairing does not require too much technology, and it does not cost much, which is quite cost-effective.

Seeing Wang Meng, Cao Ji immediately put down his hammer and went forward.

"Old Wang, where have you been recently? But I haven't been here for some days."

"Where can I go?"

Wang Meng said, taking out two animal traps from his pocket, "I went to Wuyin a few days ago... By the way, I came here today to find you to help me repair these two clips."

"Okay, I'll clean up for you now!"

Cao Ji took the two clips and squatted in the yard with Wang Meng and muttered.

The young Wang Mai ran to Cao Peng in a flash, "Afu, I heard you are sick?"

Wang Mai is one of the few friends Cao Peng has in Zhongyang Town. First, the two are not very different in age, and second, Cao Peng is weak, while Wang Mai is very strong. Every time the children in the town bully Cao Peng, Wang Mai will definitely stand up for him and take care of Cao Peng like a brother.

Cao Peng has an instinctive favor for this dead ghost, Cao Peng, the only friend of this dead ghost, during his lifetime.

Perhaps this kind of favor is more from Cao Peng's memory... but what's the difference? At least in the eyes of outsiders, Cao Peng or Cao Peng.

"Well, I didn't know what happened a few days ago, so I fainted all of a sudden.

I didn’t lie on the couch all the time, I just got off the floor today... It’s nothing serious, I’m just a little dizzy, and my legs are not very effective."

Wang Mai grinned and said, "You are so bad in your body, you have to eat more good things.

In two days, my dad and I will go into the mountain to hunt for you some delicious food... You will definitely be strong by then, haha, just like me."

This is very simple, and Cao Peng felt warm in his heart when he heard it.

"Wang Mai, have you and your father gone to the county town?"

"Yes, I went to the county town... but there was nothing fun, it was more lively than Zhongyang, and there was no other feeling."

"So have you heard anything interesting?"

"Interesting thing?"

Wang Mai thought about it and shook his head and said, "I haven't heard of anything interesting."

The most similar thing about him is the pair of thick eyebrows. Wang Mengsheng's faces of one-length eyebrows were almost connected together. Wang Mai was the same, especially when he frowned and thought about things, the two eyebrows were twisted together, which looked very interesting.

Cao Peng asked, "I heard that General Xiao Zhang and Liu Jingzhou have formed an alliance?"

"Oh, this matter...

We have formed an alliance long ago! It has been almost twenty days... I heard that General Xiao Zhang and Liu Jingzhou's envoy formed an alliance in Rangcheng.

Afu, do you know where Rangcheng is?

Haha, if you start from Zhongyang, you will have to walk on a horse for several days. I heard that General Xiao Zhang is very powerful, he will fight the general immediately, without a three-way enemy... I heard that his shooting skills have reached the point of being superb. It’s a pity that I have never seen before, and I don’t know how he looks like.”

"General Xiao Zhang, but Zhang Xiu?"

Wang Mai looked at Cao Peng in surprise, nodded and said, "Yes, General Xiao Zhang is called Zhang Xiu!

Ah Fu, what's wrong with you today? When I told you about these things before, you were never interested. Why did you ask questions on your own initiative today?"

Cao Peng was shocked and quickly smiled, "I heard my father and mother talk about them last night, so I asked the previous question."

"I just said that, why did you suddenly ask about these?"

Wang Mai is a real person, so naturally he would not doubt Cao Peng.

"However, I heard people say that we might be fighting here."

"oh?"

"This time I went to Wuyin, and I heard from the people over there that Cao's troops had occupied Yuzhou.

He was the emperor who decided to establish the capital of Xuchang, and was the pillar of our Han Dynasty. It would probably not take long before Cao Gong might be sent to Nanyang."

"Duke Cao?"

"It's Cao Gong, who welcomed the emperor to establish his capital in Xuchang at the beginning of the year... I seem to have mentioned this to you."

"Uh, I forgot!"

In the past, Cao Peng did not know much about external affairs because of his health. In other words, he was a person who just lived a mediocre life and had no big ambitions. At least in the memories Cao Peng got, most of them were trivial matters and were not worth mentioning.

A hint of yearning appeared in Wang Mai's eyes.

He sighed and said softly: "If Cao Gong's army is on the verge of the dark, I will definitely join the army."

"Join the army?"

"Yes, with my ability, I will definitely be a marquis and a general at that time! Ah Fu, when that time comes, I will ask you to be my military advisor."

Cao Peng couldn't help but smile, "Okay, I'll wait for you to invite me out of the mountain."

Wang Mai has a bit of a heroic spirit of "If you are rich and noble, don't forget each other" and has lofty ideals.

As for Cao Peng, it seems that he had read some books and could recognize some words. According to his memory, when Cao Peng was a child, a sorcerer lived in Zhongyang Town. Cao Peng studied with the sorcerer for a few days, but later because of physical reasons, he had to give up. Not long after, the sorcerer left and there was no news again... In this chaotic year, he might have become the dead soul of others.

However, even so, Cao Peng is considered a literate person.

In Wang Mai's heart, those who know literacy are all people with great ability...
To be continued...