In the south of Zhuo County, the Wei army camp.

In the imperial tent, the fragrance of wine is everywhere and the aroma of meat is still rising. A small banquet has been put on hold.

The pottery sat high above, savored the wine, and sat waiting for Zhao Yun.

"Your Majesty, do you think Uncle Yun can... persuade my father to surrender?" Guan Yinping couldn't bear it and finally asked.

After drinking a glass of wine, the Tao Shang sighed lightly, but asked back: "Guan Yu is your father. You should know his virtues the best. What do you think?"

Guan Yinping's body was shocked, his teeth bit his red lips, and a bitterness appeared in his eyes. He sighed quietly: "I used to think I knew him, but when I knew that he had done so many shameful things, I found that I didn't understand him at all, just like I always thought that Liu Bei was a benevolent and righteous king, but I didn't expect that his true face was such a cruel, ruthless, false and righteous hypocrite."

"Since that's the case, why do you still care about his surrender or not?" Tao Shang asked again.

Guan Yinping sighed lightly and said silently: "Although he has all kinds of misfortunes, he is still my father after all. If he can save his life and let him live this life, it is of course the best. It can be regarded as the daughter who repays his kindness for raising him."

Filial piety, but not foolish.

Guan Yinping made Tao merchant understand and appreciate her more.

At this moment, Yue Fei stepped into the tent and bowed, "Your Majesty, Zhao Zilong has come back and is waiting for him to see him outside the tent."

Tao Shang's eyes were not filled with a trace of turbulence, and he just brushed his hands and said, "Come in by Xuan Zilong."

He was calm and was not surprised by Zhao Yun's return. However, Guan Yinping's mood immediately became nervous, guessing how Zhao Yun's persuasion would be the result of Zhao Yun's persuasion.

The curtain was raised, Zhao Yun walked into the tent and bowed, "I have fulfilled my oath, I will come to report to Your Majesty."

"Zilong is indeed a trustworthy gentleman." Tao Shang nodded and praised, raised his hand and signaled: "I have prepared a welcoming wine for you, and the wine is still warm, so take your seat quickly."

Zhao Yun hesitated for a moment and said curiously: "Your Majesty doesn't want to ask if I have successfully persuaded Guan Yu to surrender?"

Tao Shang said lightly: "Guan Yu is arrogant and claims to be extremely noble. As long as it is something he thinks is right, even if it is clearly distinguished from black and white, even a three-year-old child knows something wrong, he will never admit it. This is human nature, so I have expected that he will never look back."

Zhao Yun's expression was shocked, and a deep surprise flowed in his eyes, obviously because he was deeply shocked by Tao Shang's ability to see people's hearts.

After a while, Zhao Yun sighed: "Your Majesty is really aware of things. Yes, Guan Yu is indeed indisputable. He would rather let 20,000 soldiers die with him than die and surrender to Your Majesty."

It's true.

The pottery was not surprised at all, and Zhao Yun's answer was completely within his expectations.

Guan Yinping sighed inwardly, looking disappointed. Obviously, this result was something she didn't want to see.

"You have tried your best, don't have to have too many burdens. Sit down and have a few drinks with me." Tao Shang comforted with a smile.

Zhao Yun took his seat and drank several glasses. After drinking the previous melancholy and feeling, he drank the wine and returned to his indifference and freedom.

He glanced at Guan Yinping, suddenly remembered something, and asked, "By the way, Yinping, where is your sister Xiaotong?"

"Sister, she is too stubborn and refuses to surrender to Your Majesty, so now, alas..." Guan Yinping shook his head helplessly and sighed.

What she said was that Guan Huang refused to surrender and was now under house arrest by the pottery merchant.

"Your sister's personality is more like your father, and it is reasonable that she refuses to surrender." Zhao Yun was not too surprised this time, as if he also knew the personalities of the two sisters of the Guan family very well.

Guan Yinping's eyes suddenly lit up and he hurriedly said, "Uncle Yun, otherwise you can advise my sister to not let her be stubborn."

"This..." Zhao Yun was a little hesitant, and couldn't help but remember that Guan Xiaotong had been rude to her before, so he naturally had no confidence to persuade her to surrender.

Guan Yinping sighed again: "Sister, she used to repeatedly urge Uncle Yun to speak against Uncle Yun because she had that kind of temper. She actually respects Uncle Yun in private. She has mentioned it to me more than once. Uncle Yun, you are right to advise your father several times. She shouldn't be rude to you. If Uncle Yun, if Uncle Yun, you may really wake up."

Zhao Yun looked at the pottery merchant, obviously intending to give it a try, but he still had to get the pottery merchant's approval.

Guan Yinping also looked at Tao Shang with a begging look, and naturally wanted to beg Tao Shang to be kind and give Guan Xiaotong another chance.

"I heard that Zilong has great prestige in the Han army. If he asked him to go out and persuade the little hoof to surrender, it might be effective..."

Tao Shang thought about it and said happily: "Since that's the case, then Zilong, you might as well give it a try, just treat it as a dead horse as a living horse."

After saying that, Tao Merchant ordered Guan Xiaotong to be escorted in.

The decree was passed down, and a moment later, Guan Xiaotong was escorted into the imperial tent by a few powerful female soldiers.

Guan Xiaotong still had the arrogant temper. As soon as she entered the account, she shouted at the Tao merchant: "Tao merchant, I told you a long time ago that you don't have to waste your time. I, Guan Xiaotong, are so strong that I will never vote--"

Before the word "大" could be expressed, Guan Xiaotong's little mouth stopped abruptly, and her expression was frozen in a moment of shock.

Because he saw Zhao Yun.

The Changshan Zhao Zilong, who should have been surrounded in Zhuo County, fought side by side with her father, and defended the city to the death, is now sitting next to the pottery merchant as a "guest of honor".

What's going on!?

"Uncle Yun, you, you--" Guan Xiaotong pointed at Zhao Yun, her voice trembling, shocked to the point of being stunned, unable to even say a word.

Zhao Yun nodded to her and said lightly: "Xiaotong, don't be fine."

Guan Xiaotong rubbed her eyes and then she was sure that her eyes were not blurred. The man she saw was indeed Zhao Yun.

After a while of a moment, Guan Xiaotong suddenly shook her figure. She suddenly reacted and asked excitedly: "Zhao Zilong, can you... have you surrendered to the Taoist thief?"

"That's right, I have indeed surrendered to the Great Wei and the Emperor." Zhao Yun did not hide his mind and admitted it openly.

Guan Xiaotong's expression suddenly changed, endless anger surged on her dazed pretty face, and her voice hoarsely cursed: "Good you Zhao Zilong, you are so righteous in your usual fashion, and you are loyal and courageous. I didn't expect you to be a hypocrite who is greedy for life and fears death, and is unkind and unrighteous. You dare to betray the emperor. Are you worthy of the emperor's benevolence and righteousness to you!"

Zhao Yun didn't speak, nor was he angry. He just looked calm and patiently listened to Guan Xiaoshitong's angry scolding.

Until Guan Xiaotong scolded her vocal cords and couldn't curse her, Zhao Yun said lightly: "Xiaotong, you are wrong. The reason why I, Zhao Yun, surrendered to the Great Wei is because I saw through Liu Bei and understood the true face of his hypocrite who was false benevolent and righteous, that I resolutely decided not to be foolish and loyal."

"You dare to slander Your Majesty, you actually--" Guan Xiaotong was even more shocked. She didn't expect that Zhao Yun would "slander" Liu Bei like that, so angry that she didn't know what to scold.

"Now, I will tell you why I, Liu Bei, is a hypocrite. After knowing the truth, you will know why I betray him."

Zhao Yun interrupted Guan Xiaotong's anger. In the following time, he risked his life to break through and ask for help from Liu Bei, and how cruel Liu Bei was. In order to preserve his strength, he sacrificed the passage of Guan Yu and the 20,000 soldiers in Zhuo County without adding any fuel to the fire, and told her truthfully.

Guan Xiaotong's arrogant and angry expression quickly solidified into shock and horror in Zhao Yun's sentences, and the remaining beliefs in his mind were also collapsing bit by bit.

After a while, when Zhao Yun finished speaking, she was so shocked that she was breathing heavily, as if she was suffocating.

That cruel fact was indeed about to suppress her and suffocate her.

She refused to surrender to Tao Shang, but on the one hand, it was because of her self-esteem and refused to believe what Guan Yu did. On the other hand, she was also educated by Guan Yu since childhood to be loyal to Liu Bei, a benevolent monarch, and devote herself to the revival of the Han Dynasty, and to die until she died.

Now, the monarch she was loyal to, in Zhao Yun's mouth, turned from a "benevolent and righteous" king to a hypocrite who was false benevolent, false and righteous, hypocritical and cold.

Moreover, Liu Bei was even cruel and ruthless, wanting to abandon Guan Yu and the brother who had followed him for many years!

Liu Bei's great image had collapsed in Zhao Yun's mouth and in Guan Huang's heart at this moment.

Guan Xiaotong's remaining belief also collapsed rapidly.

"Impossible. The emperor is not that kind of person. He cannot abandon his father and commander. He is not that kind of person. He is the most benevolent monarch ever since. He cannot do that..."

Guan Xiaotong was already in a daze and fell into a state of madness. She kept screaming and shook her head desperately. She knew that this was the truth, but she was still unwilling to accept it.

Zhao Yun said coldly: "Xiaotong, face it, we have all taken a look at it. Liu Bei is such a person and has never changed. Don't deny the truth or the facts for that meaningless self-esteem!"

"You are talking nonsense, you are talking nonsense, I don't want to listen to you, don't say it anymore, don't say it anymore-"

Guan Xiaotong's pretty face was angry and frightened, like a little girl who was frightened by injuries, covering her ears with both hands, shook her head desperately, and screaming hoarsely.

Seeing her look of incompetence, Zhao Yun didn't know what to do, so he had to look at Tao Shang helplessly, shook his head and sighed.

Tao Shang's sword eyebrows were slightly the same. It seemed that Zhao Yun was not useful to do anything. Guan Huang was really too stubborn.

Just as the Taoist merchant was about to order Guan Huang to take him away, Guan Yinping, who had been silent, suddenly stood up, rushed to her sister a few steps, and slapped Guan Xiaotong in the face and threw it hard.

Bang!

A crisp slap sounded in the big tent, and directly pulled Guan Xiaotong to the ground, and the screams that were about to stop were stopped.

Tao Shang's expression moved, slightly surprised. He didn't expect that Guan Yinping, who had always been gentle, would come like this.

Guan Xiaotong lay on the ground, covering the scorching slap marks on her face with her hands, and looked at her sister in amazement, as if she was awakened in an instant by the slap.

Guan Yinping bent down, held his sister's shoulders, and sternly said: "Guan Huang, wake up, our father, the emperor we once swear to be loyal to, you already know what their unbearable faces are. Don't deceive yourself anymore, face the reality!"

Deceiving yourself!

These four words were like four sharp blades, ruthlessly pierced in Guan Xiaotong's heart, ruthlessly tearing her remaining self-esteem cloak to pieces, revealing her fragile heart.

Suddenly, she plunged into Guan Yinping's arms and burst into tears.

(Brothers, Happy New Year. I wish you all will move forward like our Emperor Tao in 2017!)
Chapter completed!