"Report to the Prime Minister! Before Lu Bu left, he shot an arrow letter on the city tower!" The old county magistrate reported that, and at the same time, he took out the white arrow letter and presented it to Cao Cao with both hands.

Cao Cao immediately took the arrow book and opened it to read it. Lu Bu said in the arrow book: Father-in-law, my Xiaoying lives in her parents' home for the time being. You have to take care of me!

Cao Cao burst into laughter and cursed: "This Lu Bu is so hateful!"

In the days that followed, Ailang continued to lead his army to guerrilla destruction, seized the opportunity and attacked the city, which made the whole Yanzhou people panic and peaceful. Even Xuchang sounded alarms from time to time, making the officials, gentry and the people unbearable. Cao Cao learned from the lessons of the previous unfavorable surround and no longer wanted to encircle and annihilate Ailang and the others, but used elite troops to defend all the important roads and rivers where the rivers were most likely to cross the river, just like a handful of big iron locks gradually put Ailang and the others in their lives.

The movement space was locked up. The entire Yanzhou was ravaged by Ailang for more than a month, and it became increasingly difficult to operate. Soon after, as the 100,000 troops transferred from the north entered Yanzhou, Ailang completely lost the conditions for his activities and had to lead his troops back to Xuzhou. At the same time, Zhao Yun, who led his troops into Jizhou to harass him, also evacuated Jizhou for the same reason and returned to Xuzhou. The harassment war that lasted more than a month and almost two months came to an end.

Cao Cao sat in the hall of the Prime Minister's Mansion and listened to Xun You's report: "..., Jizhou and Yanzhou, there are not many people in various places, but the loss of food and grass is very huge, with a total loss of more than 700,000 dan of food and grass..."

Although Cao Cao had expected this, he couldn't help but be moved when he heard this number and shouted, "Okay! Seven hundred thousand harbors of food and grass! This is the food of a 700,000 army of food and grass for a month!" He looked at Xun You and asked angrily: "That's all? Is there any?"

Xun You continued: "In addition, due to the uneasy business situation in Jizhou and Yanzhou, trade exchanges have dropped significantly in the past two months, which has dropped by more than half compared to before the enemy came to invade! Many cities that have suffered severe attacks have almost zero commercial taxes! It is estimated that the losses of commercial taxes and tariffs in the past two months may exceed 200,000 food and wages!..."

Cao Cao laughed and cursed, "My good son-in-law! This is really my good son-in-law! Only he can make me lose such a huge loss!" Then he returned to his seat, took a deep breath, and laughed, "It's okay! Isn't it just money and food? It won't take long to earn it back!" He glanced at everyone and shouted, "But this matter reminds us that we are not invincible yet! If we are careless, we will definitely encounter failures that are more serious than this in the future!" Everyone had nothing to say, looking a little ashamed.

Cao Cao looked at Guo Jia, "Fengxiao, can we still go south as planned?"

Guo Jia clasped his fists and said, "This is impossible! I have lost so much money and food, and I guess I will not launch a southward offensive until the autumn harvest of the next year! However, there is no problem in carrying out a small-scale southward battle next year!"

Cao Cao smiled and nodded, "Well. As the saying goes, haste is not enough! It's a bad thing to see if you're slowing down. We can take this opportunity to train our current army and let them rest! Fortunately, Pier and Wenruo's conquest of Wuhuan was very smooth, and our big plan didn't delay anything! Lu Bu's troubles made him live a little longer!"

After the meeting, Cao Cao returned to the backyard. As soon as he arrived at the backyard, he saw a servant leading an imperial physician in a hurry through the back door. He couldn't help but feel strange and shouted, "Who is that over there?" The servant saw the lord summoning from afar, how dare he be negligent, so he quickly led the imperial physician to Cao Cao and bowed and said, "Prime Minister!"

Cao Cao looked at the imperial physician and asked, "I remember you are the imperial physician named Jiping?" Jiping bowed and said, "The Prime Minister has a good memory, and the subordinate official is Jiping."

Cao Cao nodded and asked the servant, "Why did you invite the Imperial Doctor Jiping?" The servant hurriedly said, "Report to the Prime Minister, because Miss Cao Ying suddenly vomited and had constant abdominal pain, the wife was desperate..." Before Cao Cao could finish his sentence, his face changed drastically, and hurriedly ran towards the yard where Cao Ying and her mother lived. The servant and Ji Ping quickly stood up and followed.

Cao Cao rushed into the gate of the embroidery building anxiously and shouted, "Ying'er, Ying'er..." Seeing that no one answered, he ran upstairs.

When he arrived upstairs, he suddenly saw his little daughter Cao Ying lying beside the bed and vomiting. The close maid Wan'er was holding a copper basin and following Cao Ying's vomit. However, Cao Ying retching for a long time but only vomited a little water. Cao Cao was shocked and rushed up and asked, "What's going on? Why did Ying'er suddenly get sick?" Cao Ying ignored Cao Cao and turned her head to the inside.

Cao Ying's mother, Mrs. Zhao, quickly comforted Cao Cao and said, "Lord, don't worry too much, Ying'er should be fine!"

Cao Cao said angrily: "It's nothing wrong to be like this?" Mrs. Zhao looked like she wanted to speak but stopped. Cao Cao suddenly thought of Ji Ping and shouted loudly: "Jiping! Ji Ping!" Ji Ping, who had already arrived downstairs, heard the call and rushed upstairs and bowed: "Prime Minister!" Cao Cao hurried forward, grabbed Ji Ping's palm and dragged him to Cao Ying's bedside, shouting: "Let me Ying'er see what disease she has?"

Ji Ping held his fists and agreed, immediately stepped forward, clasped his fists at Cao Ying and said, "Please stretch out your wrist." Cao Ying was angry with her father and wanted to be angry and not show it to the doctor, but she was afraid that her mother would worry, so she finally stretched out her wrist.

Ji Ping immediately put two fingers on Cao Ying's pulse. After a while, he stood up and clasped his fists at Cao Cao and said, "Congratulations to Prime Minister, Miss, she is not sick, but is happy, and she has been pregnant for several months!"

Cao Ying was stunned for a moment, then she showed a look of shame and joy on her face. She looked down at her belly and became stunned.

When Cao Cao heard that his daughter was pregnant, he was extremely happy and laughed. Ji Ping said, "Miss's pulse is very normal. I will prescribe a few more pairs of health medicines to ensure the safety of the mother and son!" Cao Cao reacted and hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, then there will be a medical doctor!" Ji Ping bowed and went down to prescribe the prescription.

Cao Cao sat down beside Cao Ying's bed, looked at Cao Ying's belly, and couldn't help but ask, "Daughter, is this Lu Bu's child?"

Cao Ying was both ashamed and angry, and said angrily: "What are you asking about Dad? Of course, this is the eldest brother's child!"

Cao Cao also felt that he was stupid enough to ask, so he couldn't help laughing. Then he nodded and said, "Okay! I didn't expect that I would be my grandfather! Haha! I wonder if this little guy is more like my Ying'er or more like Lu Bu after he was born?" Cao Ying couldn't help but look forward to it when he heard this.

...

Cao Cao stayed in Cao Ying's place for a long time before coming out of the embroidery building. As soon as he came out, he saw Guo Jia and Xun You waiting at the door. He immediately realized something big had happened and asked, "Why are you here? What happened?"

Xun You clasped his fists with joy and said, "Prime Minister, what a happy event! Niu Fu was killed by Guo Si and Li Que not long ago. Dong Yuan, the daughter of his wife Dong Zhuo, led the remnants to escape to Hangu Pass and sent someone to express his willingness to surrender to the Prime Minister and the court, and ask the Prime Minister to take him in."

Cao Cao was overjoyed, "That's great, this is our opportunity to enter Guanzhong!"

Guo Jia smiled and said, "Guo Si and Li Que are cruel and unruly, and have made Guanzhong angry and resentful. This is a great time to conquer Guanzhong." Cao Cao nodded and then said to the two: "Let's go, let's discuss and discuss!"

...

His eyes turned to Xuzhou. It has been a while since Ailang returned to Xuzhou. He accompanied his wife and children to have fun every day. He left all the military and civil affairs to Chen Gong and others. He didn't have to worry about him at all, but just listened to reports from time to time. Life was a pleasant and happy life. If he hadn't been thinking about Cao Ying often, his life would be sweeter than honey. When Ailang wanted to come, Cao Cao had at least two years left before he went south. In the past two years, he didn't have to worry about anything at all. However, whenever Ailang missed Cao Ying, he hoped that Cao Cao would go south quickly so that he could break up with that bastard father-in-law. If he had good luck, he could take Cao Ying back to his side.

It was midday that morning, and Ailang climbed up from the wrapping of Da Qiao's pink legs and jade arms. Looking outside the window, the sunlight was just shining in from the window. Ailang immediately felt dizzy. He quickly closed his eyes and rubbed his temples. Thinking of the scene of having fun with Da Qiao last night, he couldn't help but look back at Da Qiao who was sleeping heavily next to him. He saw black hair like clouds, which reflected his snow-white skin, which was thrillingly beautiful. Ailang couldn't help but sigh and muttered: "I've been too licentious these days! It won't work if I continue like this!"

Get off the bed, cover Da Qiao with a quilt, put on his shirt and go out.

When he came to the yard, he picked up the Fangtian painting halberd that he had not bought for several days and started dancing. After only a few days of debauchery, Ailang was surprised to find that his martial arts skills seemed to be much awkward. He couldn't help but feel a stern and danced all the way. Fortunately, after more than a dozen moves, Ailang regained his previous feeling. A Fangtian painting halberd was like an arm and used his fingers, flying up and down!

After dancing around, I was sweating all over and felt unspeakable comfort. Ai Lang couldn't help but sigh: "Fortunately, I've been wasting a few days. If it were longer, I would probably not be the Lu Bu in the human world, but the shit in the human world! Haha!"

At this time, Dian Wei ran over. Seeing that Ailang had just finished practicing martial arts, he couldn't help but look happy. Then he clasped his fists and said, "Lord, Mr. Jia Xu is back!" Ailang was happy and immediately threw Fang Tian Hua Ji to his personal soldiers and quickly walked to the hall.
Chapter completed!