"Young lady, little..., the villain didn't dare to lie."

Hearing Deputy Director Tao's shameless quibulation, the girl immediately raised her eyebrows and wide-eyed eyes. The short sword in her hand was pierced without hesitation, holding down Deputy Director Tao's throat and shouted sternly: "You dare to argue? Since you are a good family and a good official, you can read and read, why do you still call Zhang San the name of a Guizhou people like Zhang San? Isn't this a lie?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the two Cao soldiers who had already held Deputy Director Tao, immediately tried their best to use their hands. The grassroots general of Cao's army who captured Deputy Director Tao alive also put the iron knife in his hand on Deputy Director Tao's neck. Deputy Director Tao secretly praised the girl in his heart and said in his heart that the girl was cruel and careful, and then quickly said: "The girl misunderstood. The villain is called Zhang Shan, but not the one, two, three, but the fir of the fir tree. It's just because there is a fir tree behind the villain's ancestral house. Looking at the boy's child is like a hood. Those with a good name say that this is a good omen. The villain must have a noble person in the family, so his parents asked the villain to take the name of fir.

Staring at Deputy Director Tao's eyes, seeing that Deputy Director Tao's eyes were full of timidity, but there was no nervousness when he was lying, the girl snorted again, then took back the sword and chose to believe that Deputy Director Tao was unsatisfied. Deputy Director Tao quietly breathed a sigh of relief and said in his heart: "What a cunning and suspicious girl, she is almost catching up with Cao thief under Xuzhou City back then. Who is this little girl?"

Seeing that the girl stopped asking, the young Cao would first salute the older middle-aged lady, and then asked: "Miss Mother, what should this person be dealt with?"

"Miss Mother? Is it Mrs. Ding, the eldest wife of Cao Zhe?" Deputy Director Tao was surprised. He did not dare to be neglected at all on his face. He quickly kowtowed to the middle-aged lady who was suspected of Cao Zhe's wife with a sad face, begging with a crying voice: "Madam, please spare me, please spare me, the villain is just a small pawn, the villain is just a small pawn, the villain is quite soldiers for Yuan Cheng, but the villain has never killed a chicken in Dalian. Please spare me, please spare me!"

Begging. Deputy Director Tao, who had no choice, could only kowtow desperately. He cried and begged for life, looking a hundred times more embarrassed than in the old Cao camp. The middle-aged lady looked hesitant and couldn't make up her mind to deal with Deputy Director Tao for a moment. A teenage child stood among the two boys present. He suggested: "Mom. Kill him for meat soup. So we can have a full meal."

"Kill it to make broth?" Deputy Director Tao's eyes suddenly became bigger than cows. He looked at the little boy who was only in his teens and screamed in his heart, "Who is this little bastard? He is even more cruel than Cao Aman!"

"Zhi'er can't talk nonsense!" Fortunately, the middle-aged lady immediately scolded: "He is a human, we are also humans. People cannot eat human flesh. How can we eat his flesh?"

"The boy didn't talk nonsense." The little boy said very seriously: "I heard that when Lu Bu's army invaded Yanzhou, his father's army was short of food. In order to make his father's army full, Cheng Shangshu made human jerky and sent it to the army to solve his father's food shortage. Now we have no food, and this Jizhou bandit soldier is white and fat, just for cooking soup."

"It's indeed the evil seed of Cao thief!" Deputy Director Tao was shocked, and then suddenly became shocked, "Zhier? Could it be Cao Zhi?! I didn't expect this kid to be so cruel!"

"No." Fortunately, the middle-aged lady flatly rejected Cao Zhi's suggestion and shook her head and said, "Your father regretted the matter of using human flesh as military rations back then. He said that no matter how difficult it is in the future, he must never do such a bad thing. We cannot violate your father's orders."

When Cao Zhi and his son were answering each other, the girl kept looking at Deputy Director Tao, looking up and down with malicious intentions, as if she was a little drooling at Deputy Director Tao's tender skin. Deputy Director Tao was trembling all over, trembling as if the dead leaves of Qiu Feng were not pretending this time. Deputy Director Tao did not mind letting the beauty eat some of his own cells, but he would never want people to eat his own meat! When the girl saw Deputy Director Tao's cowardly look, the suspicious thoughts she had inherited finally disappeared, but she still gave Deputy Director Tao a blank look and cursed in her heart, "I am afraid that it will be like this! Even if you give your dirty meat to me, I will still smell bad!"

Fortunately, although Cao Zhi repeatedly asked to slaughter himself and cook soup, the middle-aged lady refused to agree. At the same time, the young general Cao who took Deputy Director Tao also objected, saying: "If the fourth young master really wants to eat human flesh, I will just go to the Fengshui River to catch fish. Just now, when I went to the river to catch fish, I saw two dead bodies floating down from the upper reaches. Since the Jizhou army suffered a great defeat in the upper reaches, I think there will be corpses floating in the river one after another. The young master really wants to, I can go and catch them at any time. This Jizhou soldier is our prisoner. After eating him, who else dares to surrender to us in the future?"

Cao Zhi finally shut up and ignored the young general Cao. He just turned his face aside, and his expression was very unkind on his side, as if he was dissatisfied with the young general Cao. The young general Cao ignored Cao Zhi and turned to Deputy Director Tao and asked: "I guess you can see that we are the soldiers under Prime Minister Cao. Since you are a soldier in Jizhou, then I ask you, do you know the news that our army was defeated the night before yesterday?"

"I know." Deputy Director Tao nodded quickly and replied: "In order to boost morale yesterday, Pushe had spread the news of Meng Degong's defeat throughout the entire army, so the villain knew."

"Do you know the news about our lord, Prime Minister Cao?" the young general asked quickly.

"Yes, do you know where my father is?" the beautiful girl also asked quickly, "Do you know where his team is now?"

"Cao Thief's eldest daughter, Cao Qing." Deputy Director Tao, who had already figured out the situation of the eldest daughter Cao, suddenly realized it, and nodded and replied: "I know, Master Pushe once announced that Duke Meng De had forced himself to cross the water and headed towards the northwest of the city of Shishi. If nothing unexpected happens, Duke Meng De's team should be in Luyang now."

"Did my father go to Yecheng?!" Cao Qing suddenly lost his expression and exclaimed: "Oh no, we thought my father had returned to Runan, but now we were all in the opposite direction."

"Sister. Why do you believe the words of a Jizhou thief?" Cao Zhi said dissatisfiedly: "How could my father leave us alone and retreat to Wucheng and Luyang by himself? This thief must be lying and killing him!"

"Young Master, we seem to have no grievances and no grievances, right?" Deputy Director Tao, who once shamelessly plagiarized Cao Zhi's famous quotes, smiled bitterly and said, "Since there is no grievances and no grievances, why do villains lie to you? Besides, what's the use of villains lying you?"

"What's the use? Of course, it's to deceive us back and die, giving you a chance to escape." Cao Zhi sneered, his treacherous appearance was as strong as the eldest son Cao under the city back then, and also made Deputy Director Tao, who was very familiar with Cao Zhi's elder brother Cao Ang, wonder. How could a brother as filial and loyal as Cao Ang? How could there be such a vicious and vicious brother like Cao Ang? Is there such a huge contrast in the world? Of course, it seems that there are.

It was the luck of Deputy Director Tao. Although Cao Zhi was vicious, he could not make the decision. The boss Cao Yuan and Mrs. Ding, who could make the decision, were not easy to kill. After discussing a few words with Cao Qing and another middle-aged lady, he quickly ordered someone to take Deputy Director Tao to a distance for temporary care. They gathered together and whispered to discuss how to take the next step. Several helmets were still cooking on the fire. Deputy Director Tao, who was hungry and tired, smelled the aroma of the cooked food, and his stomach was twitching very violently. However, he did not dare to ask for food. The remaining soldiers of the Cao army were so hungry that they were about to eat human flesh. He also asked for food. What wasn't they asking for death?

What surprised Deputy Director Tao was that after a while, Cao Qing actually came to Deputy Director Tao with a helmet and handed the helmet to Deputy Director Tao. There was also a small helmet of wild vegetables and mushroom soup in the helmet. Deputy Director Tao, whose chest was pressed against the back, was surprised and happy, and asked quickly: "Can you give me food?"

Cao Qing nodded expressionlessly. Deputy Director Tao was overjoyed and quickly took over his helmet, ate all the wild vegetables and mushrooms inside in a few seconds, and even drank the soup clean. After finally feeling a little more comfortable in his stomach, Deputy Director Tao returned the helmet to Cao Qing with both hands and thanked him repeatedly, "Thank you, thank you, young lady."

Thanking, Deputy Director Tao added in his heart, "I didn't expect that a traitor like Cao Aman could give birth to such a beautiful, gentle and kind daughter. I decided that if I could return to the team alive, I would definitely send someone to take the little beauty back and take her to Xuzhou for good care."

Murging in his heart, Deputy Director Tao suddenly realized something was wrong, because Cao Qing did not leave immediately after taking the helmet, and continued to look at Deputy Director Tao in a daze, as if he had been fascinated by Deputy Director Tao's Junxiu's appearance. When Deputy Director Tao was a little embarrassed by Cao Qing's beautiful eyes, he suddenly woke up and quickly turned his head to look at the Cao army in the distance. Seeing that they were not in a hurry to have a meal, they were all looking at him from afar, Deputy Director Tao immediately understood the reason and asked with a wry smile: "Girl, are you trying to use a villain to test the poison? You are not sure whether the wild mushrooms (mushrooms) are poisonous, so you try the poison first."

When Deputy Director Tao talked about the matter, Cao Qing blushed until his pretty face turned white, and then he said stubbornly: "You want to eat it yourself, I didn't force you to eat it."

"After all, it's Cao Zhe's daughter, it's not a good thing." Deputy Director Tao lamented in his heart and said helplessly: "Girl, don't worry, eat these mushrooms, you can eat them with confidence."

"How do you know?" Cao Qing asked quickly.

"Because I know all these wild bacteria." Deputy Director Tao replied weakly: "There are five types of wild bacteria I just ate, namely fragrans, grass mushrooms, flat mushrooms, pine mushrooms and boletus mushrooms. They are not poisonous, otherwise I would not dare to eat them."

"Why are you so familiar with wild bacteria?" Cao Qing asked in surprise.

Of course, Deputy Director Tao could not tell Cao Qing that he had worked hard to study wild bacteria when training the Gentleman Army's ability to survive in the wild, but he just said casually: "The girl forgot that the villain had worked as a minor official in Chi County. Chi County is close to Qingzhou and is often troubled by refugees and food shortages. In order to get some food during the food shortage, he had carefully learned from the local Qianshou how to identify wild bacteria, so most of the wild bacterial villains knew them."

"That's great." Cao Qing was overjoyed and quickly pulled Deputy Director Tao and left. He said with a smile: "It just so happened that we found a lot of wild bacteria, but we didn't know if it was poisonous. We could only choose some wild bacteria that looked 'possible' and didn't even think it was not poisonous and cooked. Come and help us distinguish it." Cao Qing's little hands were soft and tender, and it was not inferior to Deputy Director Tao's favorite concubine Guo Huan. Deputy Director Tao rarely had much itchy reaction this time. After all, Deputy Director Tao was just so hurt by Cao Qing to walk up from the gates of hell.

Cao Qing pulled him to the bonfire. There were indeed a pile of colorful wild mushrooms on the ground. When Cao Qing was explaining to everyone that Deputy Director Tao was still trying to identify wild mushrooms, Deputy Director Tao, who was still hungry, had already squatted in front of the mushroom pile and selected them, pointing out that those were edible mushrooms and those were poisonous mushrooms. At the same time, they also picked out some mushrooms that he didn't know. The Cao army and the others admired him very much when they saw that Deputy Director Tao was famous for most of the mushrooms. Only Cao Zhi had disdainful faces and was disgusted with Deputy Director Tao. He also didn't believe that Deputy Director Tao's ability to distinguish wild mushrooms was good. Cao Zhi ate grilled fish caught in the river, so there was no need to take the risk of eating wild mushrooms.

Cao Zhi quickly found the opportunity to deal with Deputy Director Tao. When Deputy Director Tao threw a few pieces of ear-shaped black wild bacteria into the pile of poisonous wild bacteria, Cao Zhi immediately screamed. "Thieves! Is the fox's tail exposed? Kill him. Kill this thief immediately!"

"What's wrong?" Cao Jun and others asked in surprise.

"This man deliberately threw away the edible wild bacteria!" Cao Zhi picked up the ear-shaped wild bacteria as if he had discovered a new continent. He shouted: "This kind of wild bacteria is called mulberry (myoji). I have not only seen it but also eaten it. It tastes very delicious. This man deliberately threw away mulberry ears that could be eaten, and he will definitely leave the poisonous wild bacteria. He wants to poison you! Kill him quickly!"

Before he finished speaking, Cao's army, who had been beaten into a frightened bird in the past two days, immediately subconsciously took weapons. Cao Qing also asked Deputy Director Tao suspiciously: "Zhang Shan, what's going on?"

"Girl, Ling said it right. This wild bacteria is indeed called Sanger and it is indeed not poisonous." Deputy Director Tao said weakly: "But if this third son wants to kill all the soldiers present, let them eat it."

"Nothing nonsense!" Cao Zhi was furious.

"What does it mean?" Cao Qing and Cao Jun asked in surprise.

"Mulberry ears are indeed not toxic, but they have the effect of promoting blood circulation in terms of medicinal effects. If injured people eat this mulberry ear, the wound will bleed continuously and it is difficult to heal." Deputy Director Tao explained helplessly: "I noticed that almost everyone present had bleeding trauma, so they did not dare to let them eat mulberry ears." (Not fabricated, black fungus has the effect of hindering the normal coagulation of platelets, making it difficult for the wound to stop bleeding and is not suitable for bleeding patients. This is recorded in the "Shennong Bencao Jing" written in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.)

After hearing Deputy Director Tao's explanation, the dozen Cao army soldiers who were injured were indeed relieved. Someone glared at Cao Zhi fiercely, but Cao Zhi refused to give up and said, "Goddess! Why haven't I heard of it before? You have injuries on your body. Take a few pieces of mulberry ears and I'll see. If the bleeding is really not stopped, I will believe you!"

This time, even Cao Qing could not tolerate it. He first kicked his brother with annoying, and then pushed Cao Zhi into the arms of Mrs. Ding, the former wife of Cao, and then apologized to Deputy Director Tao: "Don't blame Zhang Junzhu, my brother has been spoiled by his father since he was a child. He always thought that he was the smartest in the world, looking down on others, don't mind." Deputy Director Tao smiled bitterly, shook his head, and continued to select wild bacteria.

The edible wild mushrooms were quickly picked out and cooked in the helmet. Then, without waiting for Cao Qing's order, Deputy Director Tao took some cooked wild mushrooms and ate them, and drank a few sips of the soup to show that they were not poisonous. Seeing these actions of Deputy Director Tao, Cao's soldiers, who were also so hungry that they screamed, were relieved and quickly shared the wild mushroom soup with all their hands and feet, and put the remaining edible wild mushrooms into the helmet to cook. The young general of Cao's army also quickly ordered: "Hurry, go to the mountain to find all the bacteria you can find, please let Brother Zhang distinguish for us."

The Cao army soldier who had not eaten enough at all stumbled and ran up the Tushan Mountain to continue looking for wild mushrooms. Deputy Director Tao watched them go up the mountain and smiled bitterly. When he turned around, a little roasted golden fish and a white and tender little hand appeared in front of him. Then Cao Qing, the owner of the little hand, said gently: "Eat some fish, and you will have a lot of strength."

Deputy Director Tao glanced at Cao Qing and saw that her pretty face was apologetic, as if she was ashamed of what she had done before. Then Deputy Director Tao smiled and took the fish but did not enter the mouth. He just threw the fish into the helmet with the remaining wild mushrooms. When Cao Qing was stunned, Cao Zhi, who looked at the other side, jumped up again, and roared: "Thief! My sister admired your fish, you dared to throw it away! Kill him! Kill him immediately!"

"This general." Deputy Director Tao ignored Cao Zhi and turned to the young general Cao. He said lightly: "General, you are not a qualified general. At such a critical moment, you gave all the grilled fish to the mistress family. Zhong is Zhong, but what should your soldiers do? Your mistress family doesn't need you and your soldiers to protect you? They don't have enough physical strength, so how can they protect your mistress family from the disaster? Escort them to your lord?"

Speaking of this, Deputy Director Tao paused and said majesticly: "Although I have not been under the command of Meng De Gong for a long time, I have heard that Meng De Gong's military law is like a mountain. He treats everyone equally in the army. Except for special circumstances such as receiving envoys and envoys, all generals, including Meng De Gong, eat with the soldiers. Therefore, Meng De Gong's team can win every battle and defeat the strong repeatedly with the weak. You do this now. Although you have done your best, you have destroyed Meng De Gong's military law and disintegrated your morale. Do you know?"

The young general blushed and quickly bowed to Deputy Director Tao and said, "Thank you, Brother Zhang, for your advice. I have been taught by Ding Feng. Brother Zhang has taught me a lesson. Feng must have made mistakes in the future."

"Ding..., Ding Feng?" Deputy Director Tao was a little stunned and quickly found an excuse to ask indirectly: "General Ding, you seem to be from Jiangdong in your accent? How could you come to the Central Plains to serve as an army?"

"Brother Zhang is good at seeing, Feng is indeed from Anfeng, Huainan." Ding Feng replied: "Seven years ago, the pottery thieves invaded Huainan, and the war affected Anfeng. Feng's parents were worried about being affected by war, so they took Feng to Shenyang, Runan County for refuge. Later, the war in Huainan stopped, and Feng's family planned to move back to their hometown, but they heard that Huainan had not dared to go back for years of drought. Later, Feng's father passed away. In order to give his mother and brother a meal, Feng joined the army of the prefect. This time, the lord went north to break through and brought Feng to the army, so Feng came to this Central Plains."

"So that's it." Deputy Director Tao nodded, cursing in his heart: "No wonder Lu Su and Zhang Zhao couldn't find Ding Feng in Jiangdong. It turned out that this kid came to be an accomplice of Cao Zhe."

At this time, Cao Zhi started yelling again. When Deputy Director Tao and Ding Feng turned their heads and looked at each other, they saw that Cao Qing had put all the remaining grilled fish in the helmets that were cooking wild mushrooms, and also snatched the fish from Cao Zhi and his younger brothers and sisters, and put them in the helmets to share with the soldiers. So Mr. Cao Zhi, who likes to cook sheep and slaughter fat cows, shouted.

"Zhang Junzhu is right. Military law was ordered by his father. I am my father's daughter. I cannot take the lead in breaking his military law." Cao Qing explained to Deputy Director Tao. When he said this, Cao Qing's expression was a little shy, and he secretly glanced at Deputy Director Tao's reaction.

"Not bad, I'm qualified to be my wife." The first time I saw Cao Qing showing a shy and charming expression, Deputy Director Tao was coveting and secretly praised him, he couldn't help but have such an idea, "How could Cao Zhe's black and short look give birth to such a beautiful daughter? Could it be that on a stormy night, Cao Aman's wife went out for half an hour? Also, looking at Cao Aman's other daughters, such things happened more than once?!"

While he was thinking about these dirty thoughts, the Cao army sentry arranged on the mountain suddenly rushed down and shouted from afar: "Miss Mother, Uncle Ding, something is not good! An enemy is coming!"

"What enemy?" Deputy Director Tao shouted loudly without thinking: "The number of troops? Cavalry or infantry?"

"Huh?" The sentry who had been on the top of the mountain looked at Deputy Director Tao wearing Yuan Tan's military uniform who was arrested not long ago. It was not until Cao Qing and Ding Feng that the sentry replied: "There are five people, all of them are infantry, wearing Xinghuang military uniforms, and they should be bandits in Xuzhou!"

"My people have finally been found!"

Deputy Director Tao was overjoyed, but Ding Feng immediately drew his sword in his hand and said grimly: "It's great, there are only five people, and I can kill them and grab all their dry food! Gather, gather!"

"It's broken." Deputy Director Tao then suddenly reacted and secretly cried out: "Oh, why did a team come? There are more than a dozen Cao bandit soldiers here, and Ding Feng, who is not bad at martial arts. It's unlikely that he can beat him?"

When he screamed in his heart, Deputy Director Tao's back waist was hit by a sharp object again. When Deputy Director Tao turned around tremblingly, he saw that it was Cao Qing's little girl who used a short sword to hold his back waist. He said apologetically: "Zhang Junzhu, it's not that I don't believe you, but my mother and younger brothers and sisters are here, I must be careful. But you can rest assured that as long as you don't do anything randomly, I won't harm you."

Deputy Director Tao nodded reluctantly, and even smiled a little. He said it was okay. After glanced at Cao Qing's short sword against his lower back, he cried in his heart: "Little girl, why are you holding the sword against my kidney? Do you know that if you keep this sword, even if I can survive, you will have to be a widow in your life."

What happened next surprised Deputy Director Tao again. When the Xuzhou army turned over the Tushan Mountains and suddenly saw more than a dozen Cao soldiers waiting for the battle, the commander of the Xuzhou army quickly raised the short crossbow in his hand and shouted fiercely: "Don't do it randomly! Let me tell you the truth, the crossbow arrow in my hand is highly poisonous, and whoever hits it will die!"

"Huh?" Deputy Director Tao was stunned and thought to himself, thinking what's going on? When did I get poison arrows in my sentry? Who ordered them to equip them?

"Be careful." Ding Feng, who originally planned to lead the army to assault, waved his hand, stopped the arbitrary movements of the 15 Cao army soldiers beside him, and whispered: "Five are responsible for protecting the mistress, the rest are dispersed, and be careful to avoid arrows."
Chapter completed!