Chapter 262: Extraordinary Courage
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Zhang Quan's eldest sister married Cao Cao's younger brother Cao Bin and Cao Jun. In fact, Cao Jun was Cao Cao's first and his mother was Cao Cao's concubine Zhou Ji.
Because his nephew Cao Anmin died in Wancheng and Cao Bin died long ago, the incense in this room was cut off. Cao Cao apologized for his brothers, so he adopted Cao Jun to his brother to inherit the incense and ordered him to marry Zhang Xiu's daughter.
Although it was his father's order to marry, Cao Jun and Zhang got along well. After six years of marriage, the couple was very loving and gave birth to another one, named Cao Kang.
Cao Jun naturally lived in the inner city. His house was far larger than Cao Pi's mansion, covering only ten acres of land. Although he was just Cao Caoshu, because he was now Cao Binzhi, he was also appointed as the Marquis of Ting and was appointed as the General of the Central Army, and he was quite a status.
Late at night, Cao Jun and his wife were about to fall asleep, when suddenly Zhang Quan came to report the death. Zhang's father Zhang Xiu died of illness. Zhang suddenly cried. Cao Jun was anxious and hurriedly ordered to prepare a carriage to go to Zhang's mansion.
Cao Jun had just gotten on the carriage and was about to set off. Suddenly, a sharp dagger in the darkness pressed against his throat. A man in black said coldly: "Let all your followers go back."
Zhang was so scared that he wanted to shout, and another man in black quickly shot her out with a punch.
Seeing that his wife was beaten, Cao Jun immediately said angrily: "Who are you?"
At this time, Zhang Quan boarded the carriage and bowed, "Brother-in-law, I'm sorry, these are my father's old subordinates. In order to survive, I have to feel aggrieved my brother-in-law first."
Cao Jun was slapped with a knife and did not dare to move, so he snorted coldly, "What are you doing? Are you going to kidnap me?"
Zhang Quan said in silence: "My father was forced to death by Cao Pi. Cao Pi wants to kill our whole family and Mr. Jia's whole family. We must escape from Yecheng tonight. Please help me."
Cao Jun said a word after a while, and finally hesitated and asked: "What you said is true."
Zhang Quan shed tears, "My father died of humiliation and died, can I make up the problem?"
Cao Jun was silent for a long time, and he nodded, "I can help you out of the city, but you must ensure that my eldest sister and I are safe."
“No problem.”
Li Fu, next to him, pulled his dagger away. Although he no longer pressed his throat, he pressed his waist and eyes. Cao Jun knew that he did not believe in him. He secretly hated him, but he had no choice but to say to the guard outside: "You don't have to go, come and pick me up the day after tomorrow."
The guards returned home one after another, and the carriages started. Under the escort of several Zhang family generals, they drove towards the outer city.
The Jia family had packed up and prepared two carriages for women, children and children to ride. Jia Ji, Liu Min, and more than a dozen subordinates rode horses and waited at the back door of Zhang Xiu's mansion. All of them had changed into Cao's armour.
The two teams merged together and drove towards the south city gate. Li Fu had already transferred to the horse and pretended to be Cao Jun's guard commander. At this time, several Gongsun Kang's invasions had been caught, and the city calmed down again. However, it was late at night, and the city gate was naturally closed.
The Chinese era is not a later generation. There is still nightlife. After nightfall, almost everyone has to go home, especially at the hour of Hai, that is, at 9 o'clock in the evening, most people have already slept on the lights and fall asleep with the sound of the eight mu drums.
At this time, the two updates had passed, and it was almost time to get the update. The lights were almost impossible to see. The streets were even more empty and extremely quiet. The screams of wild cats came by by chance and disappeared into the distance.
A carriage was walking in a row, with more than twenty people riding horses to guard the left and right, and Li Fu took the lead. Although his face seemed to be nothing, he could see the tension in his eyes.
Although he received a command arrow from Cao Pi and Cao Jun followed him voluntarily, it seemed that Li Fu knew in his heart that they were only 20% sure whether they could leave the city. This was not like they could enter the city by bribery during the day, and if they were not careful, they would fail.
As we get closer and closer to the city gate, we can already see two torches inserted beside the city gate, which are red in the darkness, and their eyes are like night ghosts, and they look particularly strange on both sides of the city gate, which is like a bloody mouth.
The sound of carriage wheels was particularly far away in the quiet night, which had already alarmed the soldiers guarding the city gate. Dozens of soldiers who were sleeping curled up in the corner of the wall stood up and looked at the closer and closer carriage convoy.
"Who is it?"
A tun chief rushed forward and shouted loudly: "The city gate is closed, and you are not allowed to leave the city at night."
For Li Fu, he rushed forward and whipped it away with a whip, "Open your dog's eyes and take a look."
The tun leader hid quickly, and the whip didn't hit his face, and it hit his shoulder hard, which hurt to his bones, but it also sucked his arrogance. This is Yedu, and there are countless princes and relatives. If he is really a big shot, he can't afford it.
The head of the town nodded quickly and said, "The villain is just a routine."
Li Fu took out the arrow and held it horizontally in his hand, "After the order of the young lord, I will send the seventh lord to Xudu urgently, and you can open the city gate quickly."
The seventh master quickly stepped forward and looked at the carriage. At this time, the curtain of the carriage opened, revealing Cao Jun's face. He felt a pain in his waist, and had to pretend to elongate his voice, and said unhappily: "I can't even recognize me?"
The greatest enlightenment of the gatekeeper is to know people, especially the powerful and powerful. Never miss them. Cao is Cao Cao, and he is the first person to remember.
The governor immediately recognized it and bowed to salute, "The villain is so blind, let's open the city gate now."
He waved his hand and "opened the city gate"
The soldiers in the city opened the inner city gate, and then went to the urn city. They had to leave the outer city gate before they could calculate Yecheng. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but they didn't expect that the door would be opened so easily.
But Li Fu felt something was wrong, because the gate chief was unreasonable. Even Cao Jun should have come to test the arrows. He was not afraid of panic. As a city gate official, no one had ever seen anyone, so he would not be scared by Cao Jun.
When Li Fu entered the city gate, he glanced quickly and saw the garrison commander whispering a few words to a soldier, and the soldier ran away.
Li Fu suddenly realized that these gatekeepers were all cunning and as cunning as ghosts. They were respectful on the surface and did not offend people, but in fact he only opened the inner city gate, and everyone still had to wait in the urn city, with the same effect.
As expected, the outer city gate was not opened and everyone was blocked in the urn. Li Fu went to find the gate chief again, but the man disappeared.
A soldier explained: "The treasury commander is going to find the officer in charge of the outer city gate, please wait."
At this moment, a sound of horse hooves came from afar, and a general led a team of soldiers to rush toward him, which made Li Fuxin feel in his throat. He recognized that the person was Xiahou Shang, the general on duty today.
But now they have entered the urn, that is, they have entered the urn. They either failed and were arrested or successfully left the city. There is no other choice. Whether they can successfully get out of the urn is here. Although the possibility of failure has accounted for eight points at this time, they still have two points of luck after all.
Li Fu gritted his teeth and went up to meet him.
Xiahou Shang successfully captured five Liaodong surveillances and had just been sent to the inner city military camp to be imprisoned. He wanted to rest for a while, but he heard a news that something happened to Zhang Xiu.
He didn't know what happened to Zhang Xiu, so he hurried to check it out. Before he could reach Zhang Xiu's mansion, he received a report from a soldier that Cao Jun was going to leave the city, and seemed to be bringing his family with him.
Xiahou Shang was surprised. What was Cao Jun going out of the city so late? He didn't even think about it, and then turned around and ran towards the south city, just stopping Cao Jun and his party.
Li Fu stepped forward and bowed and bowed immediately, "Report to General Xiahou, the Seventh Duke has to rush to Xuchang overnight for urgent matters. The Young Master has already obtained the consent of the Young Master. This is the Young Master's order to mobilize troops."
Xiahou Shang took the order arrow and looked at it. It was not a forgery, it was indeed Cao Pi's golden feather arrow. However, it was necessary for Cao Pi to open the city gate at night. Don't they know that it was because Cao Pi forgot it.
It is absolutely impossible to forget. Xiahou Shang thought for a while and probably understood that Cao Pi didn't want to make an exception, but he was in a hindrance and was not willing to agree, so he only gave him a golden arrow and let him do it.
He glanced at Li Fu again, and in the dim light of fire, he felt that this person seemed familiar. He had seen Xiahou Shang and did meet Li Fu somewhere, but that was a few years ago and had long forgotten it. He thought that Li Fu was Cao Jun's chief guard, and he must have seen this person in Cao Jun's mansion.
Xiahou did not take Li Fu seriously. He turned over and got off the horse, walked forward quickly, bowed to Cao Jun and smiled, "How come Qi Gong went out at night? It's not safe to go there?"
He looked at the carriage behind him again, and added with a smile: "I still bring my family."
Cao Jun never dreamed that Jia Xu's old mother, wife and children were sitting in the two carriages behind him. He thought it was Zhang Xiu's wife and daughter, but Jia Ji put on makeup and mingled with the guards, and could not recognize him in the dark.
He just apologized for his brother Yu to force Zhang Xiu to death, and wanted to help Zhang Quan and send Zhang Xiu's family out for refuge, so as not to be framed by his elder brother and be imprisoned.
Cao Jun knew his brother very well. Since he forced Zhang Xiu to death, he would definitely find a way to get a crime for Zhang Xiu to explain to his father. Then planning to rebel is the best reason.
More importantly, he is Cao Pi's brother. How can he face his wife and the Zhang family and not let himself be implicated? Then he will do everything possible to help the Zhang family, which is what he can do. In fact, he doesn't need to push his waist, and he will do his best.
Cao Jun said coldly: "I have an urgent matter that my father told me. I must go to Xuchang immediately. If you delay it until tomorrow, you can't afford it."
If the Prime Minister is used to suppress others, Xiahou Shang naturally would not be fooled. However, when he saw Zhang Quan at first sight, he changed his mind and suddenly understood. Could it be for Zhang Xiu's business?
He had just heard that something happened to Zhang Xiu. This incident was just a subtle statement. To be honest, it was that Zhang Xiu died. He didn't know why Zhang Xiu died, but Cao Jun was Zhang Xiu's son-in-law, but he knew this.
Then Cao Jun left the city at this time, it must be related to Zhang Xiu. He couldn't help but look at the two carriages behind. Although he didn't dare to check, he was sure that Zhang Xiu's wife, daughter and grandson must be in the carriage.
Should I report this to the young master Xiahou Shang hesitated a little. It is already late at night and it is inconvenient to disturb the young master's rest.
Li Fu saw through Xiahou Shang's hesitation, and then stepped forward and bowed: "Didn't you give the command arrow to General Xiahou just now? Is there a problem?"
A sentence reminded Xiahou Shang that with the command arrow, he naturally had already communicated with Cao Pi. Since Cao Pi had given them the command arrow, it was a kind of tacit approval in the process. It should be a hint that he could let them go, but Cao Pi didn't care about the consequences.
After thinking about this, Xiahou Shang became scheming. No matter what, Cao Jun is the lord, so he must not refuse to give this face.
Xiahou Shang immediately bowed to Cao Jun and smiled, "Since the public has an urgent matter and has an arrow, how can I not let anyone go? He pretended not to see Zhang Quan, turned around and ordered, "Open the city gate."
The outer city gate finally opened slowly, and the suspension bridge was creaking and lowered. Liu Min disguised himself as a guard. He was nervous. It was the most critical moment. He was afraid of another accident. At this time, he secretly glanced at Li Fu, but saw him chatting and laughing with the commander of Cao's army, as if discussing Cao Cao's battle against Wuhuan.
This made him sweat a coldly, and he also secretly admired Li Fu for being extremely courageous and careful. In this situation tonight, no one except Li Fu could take Jia Xu's family out of the city.
Li Fu brought Zhang Quan with him, which actually gave Cao Jun an illusion that the carriage behind him was Zhang Xiu's wife and daughter, and that he actually met at the back door of Zhang Xiu's mansion. Even Li Fu considered this, which made Liu Min admire him so much that he was overwhelmed.
Chapter completed!