Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 2853 A Word

"You came? 』

"I am coming. 』

  『You shouldn’t have come. 』

  『But here I am. 』

  『What are you doing here? 』

  『Killing. 』

  『Who to kill? 』

"kill you. 』

  『…』

   Well, none of Gu Shi’s dialogues above appeared.

  Because Zhang Liao didn’t collect manuscript fees according to the line.

  When Zhang Liao caught up with Lu Bu, what he saw was desolation, and the city of Qiuci was like a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

  Lü Bu lived on Qiuci City, and there were many dead bodies inside and outside the city, as if sitting alone on a mountain of corpses, his gaze was like a prison.

  Dried blood, sticking to all the stones and sand, builds a huge horror scene.

  The shattered corpses were laid out unscrupulously. The wounds on the corpse were like gaping mouths in mockery.

  The human head and the Buddha's head are stacked together, the muscles of the human head are distorted, and the face is blue and purple, while the Buddha's head still has a look of pity, or a mocking smile.

  Death lingers in the entire Qiuci City, and it seems that from time to time, lonely ghosts can be heard whistling in the sky.

  『I have seen the Great Protector...』

  Zhang Liao stepped forward and bowed his hands to see him.

   Lu Bu didn't speak, or even move, like a dead sculpture, or a sculpture itself. For example, statues similar to Valkyrie.

  Lu Bu was looking at Zhang Liao, the dust on Zhang Liao's pocket, the sweat stains on his face, the weathered armor on his body, and his hands that were still as stable as a rock.

  『Hussar asked you to come? 』Lu Bu's voice was steady, like Fang Tian's painting of a halberd that was still stable, with a sharp breath.

  Zhang Liao replied: "I asked to come. 』

   Lu Bu snorted coldly, piercing the eardrum like a thin needle, immediately choking the scene.

   Lu Bu didn't believe it.

   Zhang Liao looked up at Lu Bu, but he didn't back down in the slightest because of this.

  Zhang Liao knew Lu Bu very well.

   In fact, Lu Bu is also very easy to understand. He is like the water on the Gobi Desert. It will never be deep, and he doesn't know how to cover it up.

Lu Bu was very concerned about his subordinates and soldiers, just like the source of the rivers on the Gobi is the clear and translucent mountain snowmelt. At the beginning, he could laugh and scold with the soldiers, and it was difficult to eat together. Swallow the food, taste the wind and sand on the Gobi together.

In addition, Lu Bu has extraordinary martial arts, keen intuition on the battlefield, almost ghost-like on-the-spot command ability, and can lead the soldiers to victory time and time again in the fight with the barbarians, so this is naturally attractive. The pawns also attracted Zhang Liao.

  Similarly, these characteristics also made Lu Bu himself.

   But the problem is that all of this is not all about Lu Bu.

   It's like a river that was originally clear, but when it passed through the Gobi and walked towards the Central Plains, it inevitably became muddy.

   Lu Bu narrowed his eyes and stared at Zhang Liao, his tone was still steady, but with a hint of murderous intent, "Are you here to replace me?" 』

  Zhang Liao still stood upright like a pine tree, "I'm here to save you. 』

"help me? ’ Lu Bu couldn’t help laughing out loud, ‘I’ve heard this many times! 』

  Zhang Liao frowned slightly, "Brother Fengxian, just listen to me." This time it's real...」

   Lu Bu withdrew his smile and interrupted Zhang Liao, "That's right! Every time I say that, I mean it's true! 』

   Zhang Liao took a breath, but fell silent. Zhang Liao knew that Lu Bu was suspicious again.

  Zhang Liao glanced past Lu Bu, and stared at Wei Xu who was not far behind Lu Bu.

  Wei Xu had a serious face and nervousness all over his body.

   Zhang Liao's eyes moved on Wei Xu's face inch by inch, and then settled on Wei Xu's eyes. Wei Xu tried his best to compete with Zhang Liao's gaze, but it was obvious that Wei Xu had a ghost in his heart. He couldn't last long before being forced back by Zhang Liao's gaze, and then turned his head to look elsewhere.

  After Wei Xu moved his eyes away, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, and when he turned his eyes back again, he saw that Zhang Liao had turned his head contemptuously, facing Lu Bu, and stopped looking at him...

  『芔…』Wei Xu sensed killing intent from Zhang Liao's eyes.

  The strong killing intent seems to be overflowing.

   This made Wei Xu feel cold.

   Zhang Liao wanted to kill him?

Why?

   No, why? !

   Wei Xu gritted his teeth, staring at Zhang Liao, and then at Lu Bu. He hoped that Lu Bu would be furious in the next moment, kill Zhang Liao, and eliminate this potential danger...

  Zhang Liao looked at Lu Bu without flinching.

  Zhang Liao knew that this was Lu Bu's fault.

   Lu Bu did not have this problem in his early days. In the early days of Lu Bu, others said what they said, because Lu Bu himself said what he said, so he felt that others were the same.

  It was indeed the case when I was in the Northland.

   When the enemy comes, the enemy comes. Standing opposite with a knife and gun is the enemy.

  Until Lu Bu arrived in the Central Plains, Heluo, and Luoyang...

   Then Lu Bu suddenly discovered that the enemy was not only standing opposite him, but also standing behind him. Because of Lu Bu's physical strength and weak intelligence, he especially hated others bullying him for being brainless. Every time after being crushed intellectually, Lu Bu licked his wounds like a lone wolf, filled with a strong sense of frustration in his heart. In the future, Lu Bu will find some excuses to comfort himself, and vent his anger on others.

Zhang Liao is very clear. He even knows that even if he tried his best to make a statement and describe it at this time, when Lv Bu became suspicious, it would turn into sophistry, which would eventually make Lv Bu even more suspicious, and he might lose his savings for many days at any time. The anger and responsibility for the premonition of failure were passed on to Zhang Liao, and even the hussar Feiqian. So the more you talk at this time, not only will it have no effect, but it will make things worse.

   The only way is to let Lu Bu express his hidden anger first...

   Sure enough, when Lu Bu saw that Zhang Liao had stopped talking, he raised his eyebrows, his eyes seemed to burst into flames, and his scorching gaze was fixed on Zhang Liao's face.

  Lu Bu suddenly laughed loudly, like a rock rolling down a cliff, and said loudly, "Hahaha, it's come to this point!" Zhang Wenyuan! In your eyes, what is a certain? ! How much truth and falsehood do you have between me and you, and how much friendship is there? ! 』

   Lu Bu said, Fang Tian's painting halberd in his hand poked heavily on the floor tiles, and the dull sound of gold and iron buzzed, shaking all around. A fierce light shines on the crescent moon on Fang Tian's painted halberd, flickering past, like a hungry wolf showing its fangs.

   Zhang Liao looked at Lu Bu without any timidity or fear. He stepped on the thick black and red blood on the ground, looked at the broken limbs around him, looked at the destroyed and damaged utensils, and also looked at Wei Xu who was not far behind Lu Bu, raised his head to signal , "Is all this what Marquis Wen wants?" ! 』

"Um? ! 』Lu Bu's face became more and more ferocious. He heard contempt in Zhang Liao's words. Maybe it's contempt for his force, or maybe it's contempt for him as a person. His hand tightly grasped Fang Tian's painting halberd, the veins on the back of his hand squirmed, as if he was about to fly into the air the next moment...

  Wei Xu was behind Lu Bu, who seemed to have been stimulated by Zhang Liao's gaze just now, or was affected by Lu Bu's killing intent at this moment, he couldn't help interjecting to tease Lu Bu, shouting: "Master! Zhang Wenyuan has bad intentions! He must have come to seize the power of the lord, to harm the lord! kill him! Lord, kill him! 』

   Lu Bu's rising killing intent suddenly stopped.

  Zhang Liao didn't move, but smiled disdainfully in his heart.

   Sure enough, Wei Xu is still so superficial, ignorant, arrogant, and stupid.

  Only people call dogs, so how can dogs call people?

  Before Zhang Liao deliberately provoke Wei Xu, just to stimulate Wei Xu, but he did not expect the effect to be so good. Zhang Liao originally thought that he would have to work harder...

  In fact, Zhang Liao only decided his strategy based on his previous impression of Wei Xu. Naturally, he did not consider Wei Xu's changes in the Western Regions very accurately during this period. When Wei Xu was under Lu Bu back then, although he was dependent on Lu Bu to survive as he is now, Wei Xu has been the second in command in Xihai City for such a long time after all, and there is still a long period of time when Lu Bu left his hands. Don't ask about foreign affairs.

  So Wei Xu naturally developed a more domineering appearance. The second-in-command has been in charge of the family for a long time, and he thinks that he is the head of the family. Now Wei Xu couldn't hold back for a while, but something went wrong.

  Lu Bu's eyes moved, but he calmed down. He ignored Wei Xu's yelling from behind, but said to Zhang Liao, "Tell me, why did you come here?" 』

  『Brother Fengxian, why I came here is not up to me, but to you. I believe Brother Fengxian is also aware of what General Wei did in Xihai City. I was originally in Hanzhong Nanzheng, where I was in charge of military and political affairs. I have no interest in the Western Regions, and I shouldn't have come here, but I have heard a lot about General Wei..." Zhang Liao glanced at Wei Continued, then looked at Lu Bu and said, "I don't know why such a big change happened in the Western Regions, but I believe Brother Fengxian will know... In short, General Wei is no longer the Captain Wei of the past, he can't control it." Himself, he is not helping Brother Fengxian, but bringing trouble to Brother Fengxian...』

"fart! Wei Xu didn't wait for Lu Bu to make a statement, he jumped up first, with madness in his eyes, and cursed, "Zhang Wenyuan! Stop spitting blood! Everything I do is for the Lord! It's all for the Lord! You don't want to provoke the relationship between me and the lord! You have ulterior motives, treacherous…”

   Before Wei Xu could finish speaking, Zhang Liao nodded, "Yes, you, General Wei, did everything right...but if everything is really good and everything is right, how could you be in this situation today?" Whose fault is this? Could it be that I am in Hanzhong, and can still instruct you, General Wei, to do anything wrong in Xihai City? ! Could it be that I am in Nanzheng, can General Wei have a shortage of granaries and less food and grass? ! 』

  『Uh…』Wei Xu suddenly got stuck for a moment, and then he didn’t know what to say for a while, and then said after a while, 『I didn’t! I'm not messing around! I do not…"

"alright! ’ Lu Bu raised his hand, ‘Shut up! 』

  『...obey the order. 』Wei Xu closed his mouth, his eyes were full of hatred, he stared at Zhang Liao, and of course passed a little bit of Lu Bu's figure.

  Zhang Liao pretended not to see it.

Zhang Liao had followed Lu Bu for a long time back then, so he knew that if he confronted Lu Bu head-on when he was angry with Lu Bu, Lu Bu would not listen no matter whether it was reasoning or presenting the facts. It is extremely difficult, so it is better to just follow Lu Bu or someone else's tone, and then attribute their fallacies, which will be more effective than a frontal argument.

   What's more, Zhang Liao didn't believe that Lu Bu didn't know about the problems in Xihai City. Because Zhang Liao had sent out the last batch of food and grass, and although those food and grass did not add any words, it was enough to explain something. If Wei Xu did a good job in Xihai City and everything was good, then why did he fall into the plight of food and grass after going out? You know, when Li Ru formulated the storage plan for the Western Regions back then, he calculated the ratio according to the amount needed to support the army for three years of combat, but now let alone three years, three months is enough.

  So where did the previous food and grass go?

   Naturally, Zhang Liao couldn't steal it, and it couldn't be related to Zhang Liao.

  At the same time, if Wei Xu repeatedly emphasized that he did not do it, then who would do it? The more Wei Xu proves his innocence, the more problematic Lu Bu will be...

"Brother Feng Xian," Zhang Liao looked at Lu Bu, then slowly took out a bag from his arms, and signaled to the guards on Lu Bu's side, "This is what the Hussars asked me to bring with me when I left Chang'an." come...'

Lu Bu was stunned for a moment, took the kit handed over by the guard with one hand, glanced at it, then looked up at Zhang Liao, and after a long silence, he released the other hand from Fang Tian's painted halberd, and then untied it. From the seal of the kit, I took out a piece of creased and worn paper from inside, "This is..."

  In a trance, Lu Bu seemed to have returned to the original Luoyang.

At that time, it was the first time that Lu Bu knew the sweetness of the powerful, the first time he betrayed his boss, the first time he had inexhaustible wine, the first time he heard someone say that he was famous in the North, and the first time he gave that person Signed this piece of paper...

At that time, Lu Bu was not very good at holding a brush, or maybe he was not very used to things like signing, so the words "Lu Bu Fengxian" on the paper were not neat and crooked, as if he did not want to fall on the paper. , It seems that it is out of place with the surroundings.

  Lu Bu suddenly recalled why he met Fei Qian at the beginning and felt very close to Fei Qian. In fact, it was because of this "incompatibility".

   Lu Bu killed Ding Yuan at that time, and most of the Bingzhou Army immediately dispersed. Those who left him were not entirely because of Ding Yuan, but because they couldn't get along with Lu Buta. Similarly, Lu Bu joined Dong Zhuojun and obtained official positions, money, BMW, armor, etc., but he also couldn't integrate with Dong Zhuojun's people. The command of the Bingzhou Army has become a watchdog.

  At that time, Lu Bu was not allowed to be inside or outside. He seemed to be in it, but he couldn't tolerate it at all, and the same was true for Fei Qian at that time. Strange speech, weird behavior, unknown signature, inexplicable eagerness, completely different from the people around.

At that time Lu Bu just thought that Fei Qian was a disciple of Cai Yong, a successor of great Confucianism, so his behavior was weird and different, but thinking about it now, in fact, at that time, it was more of this kind of "out of place", which could not be integrated into other things The above differences made Lu Bu see Fei Qian and feel closeness similar to that of the same kind.

  And now, the boy who was as reckless as himself back then is no longer reckless.

  The flimsy boy who was as out of place with him back then, and who he could lift with one hand, has now become a towering giant tree with intricate roots that he can hardly contend with...

   It turned out that after so many years, it was me who was still out of place.

It turned out that after so many years, I was still like the words written on this piece of paper, twisting and turning, obviously falling on the paper, but seemed to want to escape from this piece of paper, struggling, but struggling If you don't come out, you can't escape.

  Lu Bu suddenly laughed out loud, his whole body trembling, laughing like crazy.

  『Brother Fengxian, please listen to me,』 Zhang Liao faintly felt that something had deviated from his plan, "The friendship between Hushi and Brother Fengxian..."

  『Hussars! Ha ha ha ha! Hussars! Lu Bu interrupted Zhang Liao, madness, anger, and unwillingness surged in his blood-red eyes, he shook his hands, shaking the piece of paper in his hand, "What a great friendship!" Ha ha ha ha! Friendship is such a piece of paper! A thin sheet of paper! 』

  『Brother Fengxian! Zhang Liao frowned, "Hussars left this piece of paper, that is to say, they kept the old friendship!" 』

  『Hahaha, hahahaha...』 Lu Bu laughed wildly, 『The friendship of the past...hahahaha! I gave him a knife, I gave him armor, I gave him others, I gave him horses, and even in the end, I gave him even you and me... Hahahaha, now he sent you to tell me that the friendship back then That's all there is left! There is only one piece of paper left! 』

   Lu Bu laughed wildly, then tore the paper into several pieces and threw them on the ground, "I'd rather not!" 』

"I do not want! 』

  『Do you understand? 』

   Lu Bu glared and shouted, "I! No! want! 』

   Zhang Liao watched the paper fall on the ground, and suddenly realized that he had made a mistake...

   Wei Xu, who was standing not far behind Lu Bu, was so excited that he almost danced on the spot. His mouth was grinning and moving silently, as if he was talking about something.

   Lu Bu stared at Zhang Liao viciously, and reached out to hold Fang Tian's painted halberd.

  A murderous aura spread silently, then rose up, as if filling the entire space.

  Zhang Liao frowned deeply, and couldn't help but be stimulated by Lu Bu's murderous aura, and grasped the saber at his waist...

   At this critical moment, Zhang Liao suddenly felt Lu Bu's murderous aura suddenly stagnate, and immediately he also heard a rush of horseshoes coming from a distance.

  A wisp of smoke rose in the distance, and soon the sound of horseshoes rushed to the foot of the city. A scout rushed over and knelt down on the ground, "Sign up to the Imperial Guard!" An urgent report just came from the west, Guishuang general Takesa declared that the act of protecting and destroying the Buddha in the capital was done by demons, and gathered an army from ten countries in the Western Regions, claiming to be 300,000, and they are coming here! 』

  In an instant, the temperature on the city wall seemed to drop to freezing point in an instant, and everyone's movements were frozen because of this.

  (end of this chapter)