Because Zhang Liao does not charge royalties based on industry.
When Zhang Liao caught up with Lu Bu, what he saw was desolation. The city of Qiu Ci was like a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
Lu Bu lived in the city of Qiu Ci. There were corpses lying around inside and outside the city, as if he were sitting alone on a mountain of corpses, with his eyes like a prison.
Dried blood adhered to all the stones and sand, creating a huge horrific scene.
Broken corpses were laid out indiscriminately. The wounds on the corpses were like mouths cracked by ridicule.
The human head and the Buddha's head are stacked on top of each other. The muscles of the human head are twisted and the face is purple, but the Buddha's head still has a look of pity or a sarcastic smile.
Death lingers throughout Qiu Ci City, and it seems that from time to time, lonely ghosts can be heard roaring in the sky.
"I've seen the Great Protector..."
Zhang Liao came forward and bowed his hands in greeting.
Lu Bu didn't speak or even move. He was like a sculpture that had become rigid, or a sculpture in itself. For example, a statue of a god like the God of War.
Lu Bu was looking at Zhang Liao, looking at the dust on Zhang Liao's pocket, the sweat marks and stains on his face, the armor plates on his body covered with wind and frost, and his hands that were still as stable as rocks.
"The knight asked you to come?" Lu Bu's voice was steady, just like Fang Tian's painted halberd that was still stable, containing a sharp aura.
Zhang Liao replied: "I asked for it myself."
Lu Bu snorted coldly and pierced his eardrum like a fine needle, immediately suffocating the scene.
Lu Bu didn't believe it.
Zhang Liao looked up at Lu Bu and did not give in at all.
Zhang Liao knew Lu Bu very well.
In fact, Lu Bu is also easy to understand. He is like the water on the Gobi Desert. It never gets deep, and he doesn't know how to cover it up. He is just directly exposed to the world.
Lu Bu originally cared very much about his subordinates and soldiers, just like the rivers in the Gobi whose original sources were clear and translucent mountain snow melt. At the beginning, he could laugh with the soldiers, scold together, and eat together without being able to eat.
Eat the food you swallow and taste the windy sand on the Gobi desert together.
In addition, Lu Bu has extraordinary bravery, keen intuition on the battlefield, and almost ghost-like ability to command on the spot. He can lead his soldiers to victory again and again in battles with barbarians, so this naturally attracts him.
He won the soldiers and attracted Zhang Liao.
Likewise, these characteristics also made Lu Bu himself.
But the problem is, all of this is not all of Lu Bu.
Just like the originally clear river water, it inevitably becomes turbid when it passes through the Gobi and heads to the Central Plains.
Lu Bu squinted his eyes and stared at Zhang Liao. His tone was still calm, but it contained murderous intent, "Are you here to replace me?"
Zhang Liao still stood as tall as a pine tree, "I'm here to save you."
"Save me?" Lu Bu couldn't help laughing, "I've heard this many times!"
Zhang Liao frowned slightly, "Brother Feng, please listen to me. This time it is true..."
Lu Bu's smile suddenly dropped and he 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's face was serious and his whole body was tense.
Zhang Liao's gaze moved on Wei Xu's face inch by inch, and then settled on Wei Xu's eyes. Wei Xu tried his best to resist Zhang Liao's gaze, but it was obvious that Wei Xu had something in his heart. He couldn't hold on for long before he was captured by Zhang Liao's gaze.
He looked away, then turned his head to look elsewhere.
After Wei Xu looked away, he suddenly felt something was wrong. When he turned his eyes back, he saw that Zhang Liao had turned his head contemptuously, facing Lu Bu, and no longer looked at him...
"Pi..." Wei Xu sensed murderous intent from Zhang Liao's eyes.
It was so strong that it seemed to be overflowing with murderous intent.
This made Wei Xu feel cold in his heart.
Zhang Liao wanted to kill him?
Why?
No, why?!
Wei Xu gritted his teeth and stared at Zhang Liao, and then at Lu Bu. He hoped that Lu Bu would become furious at the next moment and kill Zhang Liao to eliminate this potential danger...
Zhang Liao looked at Lu Bu without flinching.
Zhang Liao knew that this was Lu Bu's fault.
In the early days of Lu Bu, Lu Bu did not have this problem. In the early days of Lu Bu, what others said was what he said. Because Lu Bu himself was what he said, he felt that others were the same.
This was indeed the case when I was in the Northland.
When the enemy is coming, the enemy is coming. The one standing opposite with a sword and gun is the enemy.
Until Lu Bu arrived in the Central Plains, arrived in Heluo, arrived in Luoyang...
Then Lu Bu suddenly discovered that the enemy was not only standing on the opposite side, but also standing behind him. Because Lu Bu himself was strong in body and weak in intelligence, he especially hated others who bullied him for being stupid. Every time he was bullied by someone,
After being crushed intellectually, Lu Bu was licking his wounds like a lone wolf. His heart was filled with a strong sense of frustration, arrogance mixed with arrogance, arrogance mixed with low self-esteem. Under such strong pain of failure, Lu Bu
Will find some excuses to comfort themselves and vent their anger on others.
Zhang Liao knew very well. He even knew that even if he tried his best to speak and describe at this time, when Lu Bu became suspicious, it would turn into sophistry, which would eventually make Lu Bu even more suspicious, and he might lose his savings for many days at any time.
The anger and responsibility for the failure of the premonition were transferred to Zhang Liao, and even Qiao Qi Fei Qian. Therefore, the more you talk at this time, not only will it have no effect, but it will make things worse.
We can only let Lu Bu express his hidden anger first...
Sure enough, when Lu Bu saw that Zhang Liao stopped talking, he raised his eyebrows, his eyes seemed to be spitting out fire, and his scorching eyes were fixed on Zhang Liao's face.
Lu Bu suddenly laughed loudly, like rocks rolling down the cliff, with a loud voice, "Hahaha, it has come to such a point! Zhang Wenyuan! In your eyes, what is so-and-so?! How much truth and falsehood is there between so-and-so and you?"
,How much friendship is left?!』
Lu Bu said, and the Fang Tian Painted Halberd in his hand struck hard on the floor tiles. The dull sound of gold and iron buzzed, shaking the surroundings. A fierce light lit up and flickered on the crescent moon on Fang Tian's Painted Halberd.
When it passes by, it's 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 residual blood on the ground, looked at the broken limbs around him, looked at the various destroyed and damaged utensils, and looked at
Wei Xu, who was not far behind Lu Bu, raised his head and said, "Is all this what Marquis Wen wants?!"
"Huh?!" Lu Bu's face became more and more ferocious. He heard contempt in Zhang Liao's words. Perhaps it was contempt for his force, or perhaps it was contempt for him as a person. He grabbed his hand tightly.
Fang Tian drew the halberd, and the veins on the back of his hand squirmed, as if he was about to rise into the sky at the next moment...
Wei Xu, who was behind Lu Bu, seemed to be stimulated by Zhang Liao's gaze just now, or was affected by Lu Bu's murderous intention at this moment. He couldn't help but interject and tease Lu Bu, shouting: "Lord! Zhang Wenyuan has no good intentions! He has no good intentions."
He must be here to seize the lord's power and harm the lord! Kill him! My lord, kill him!"
Lu Bu's rising murderous intention suddenly stopped.
Zhang Liao's expression remained unchanged, but he smiled disdainfully in his heart.
Sure enough, Wei Xu is still so shallow, unintelligent, arrogant, and stupid.
Only people can use dogs, so how can dogs use people?
Zhang Liao deliberately provoked Wei Xu before, just to stimulate Wei Xu, but he didn't expect the effect to be so good. Zhang Liao originally thought that he would have to spend more effort...
In fact, Zhang Liao only made his strategy based on his previous impression of Wei Xu, and naturally did not consider Wei Xu's changes in the Western Regions very accurately during this period. When Wei Xu was under Lu Bu, although it was the same as now,
He relied on Lu Bu to survive, but now Wei Xu has been the second-in-command in Xihai City for such a long time, and there was still a long period of time when Lu Bu turned his back on foreign affairs.
Therefore, Wei Xu naturally developed a more domineering attitude. After being the second in command for a long time, he thought that he was the family leader. Now Wei Xu couldn't hold it back for a while, but he made trouble.
Lu Bu's eyes moved, but he calmed down. He ignored Wei Xu's shouting from behind and said to Zhang Liao, "Tell me, why are you here?"
"Brother Fengxian, why I came here does not depend on me, but on you. I believe that Brother Fengxian also knew what General Wei did in Xihai City. I was originally in Nanzheng, Hanzhong, commanding the military and administration of a place.
Affairs, I have no interest in the Western Regions, and I wasn’t supposed to be here in the first place, but I heard a lot of things, a lot of things about General Wei..." Zhang Liao glanced at Wei Xu, then looked at Lu Bu and said, "I
I don’t know why such a big change happened in the Western Regions, but I believe Brother Fengxian will definitely know... In short, General Wei is no longer the Wei Captain he used to be. He can’t control himself. He is not helping Mr. Feng.
Brother, you are bringing trouble to Brother Fengxian..."
"Fart!" Wei Xu didn't wait for Lu Bu to express his stance, 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 sake of my lord!"
My lord! Don’t try to sow discord between me and my lord! You have ulterior motives and are treacherous..."
Before Wei Xu could finish speaking, Zhang Liao nodded, "Yes, you, General Wei, did everything right... But if you were really good at everything and right at everything, how could you end up like this? This is another question."
Whose fault is it? Is it possible that if I am in Hanzhong, I can still instruct General Wei to act recklessly in Xihai City?! Is it possible that if I am in Nanzheng, can I still cause General Wei to lack warehouses and reduce food and grass?! 』
"Uh..." Wei Xu was suddenly stuck for a moment, and then he didn't know what to say for a long time. After being stunned for a while, he said, "I didn't! I didn't do anything wrong! I didn't..."
"Okay!" Lu Bu raised his hand, "Shut up!"
"...Follow the order." Wei Xu closed his mouth, his eyes filled with hatred, staring at Zhang Liao, and of course he also glanced at Lu Bu's figure.
Zhang Liao pretended not to see it.
Zhang Liao had been following Lu Bu for a long time at that time, so he knew that if Lu Bu was angry and confronted Lu Bu head-on, whether it was reasoning or presenting facts, Lu Bu would not listen. And if he wanted to defeat Lu Bu with fists, he would not listen.
It is an extremely difficult matter, so it is better to just follow Lu Bu or someone else's words and then summarize their fallacies, which will be more effective than a head-on 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 already sent the last batch of grain and grass, and although the grain and grass didn't have any words attached, it was enough to explain something. If Wei Xu
You have done well in Xihai City and everything is good, so why did you fall into the dilemma of food and grass after the expedition? You know, when Li Ru was formulating the storage plan for the Western Regions, he could support the army for three years of operations.
It depends on the quantity, and now let alone three years, three months is enough.
So where did the previous food and grass go?
Of course Zhang Liao couldn't have stolen it, and it couldn't be linked to Zhang Liao.
At the same time, if Wei Xu repeatedly emphasizes that he did not do it, then who did it? The more Wei Xu proves his innocence, the bigger the problem will naturally be for Lu Bu...
"Brother Fengxian," Zhang Liao looked at Lu Bu, then slowly took out a brocade bag from his arms, and motioned to the guard on Lu Bu's side, "This thing was given to me by Qiao Qi when I left Chang'an."
Coming...』
Lu Bu was stunned for a moment, and took the bag handed over by the guard with one hand. He glanced at it, then looked up at Zhang Liao. After being silent for a long time, he released his other hand from Fang Tian's painted halberd, and then untied it.
After sealing the brochure, he pulled out a piece of paper that had some creases and looked a little worn out, "This is..."
In a daze, Lu Bu seemed to have returned to the original Luoyang.
At that time, Lu Bu knew the sweetness of the powerful for the first time, betrayed his boss for the first time, drank endless wine for the first time, heard someone talk about his reputation in the North for the first time, and gave it to that person for the first time.
Signed this piece of paper...
At that time, Lu Bu was not very good at holding a writing brush, or perhaps not very used to signing, so the words "Lü Bu Fengxian" on the paper were not neat and crooked, as if they were unwilling to fall on the paper.
, and seems to be out of place with its surroundings.
Lu Bu suddenly recalled why he immediately felt very close to Fei Qian when he met him in the first place. In fact, it was because of this "incompatibility".
Lu Bu killed Ding Yuan at that time, and most of the Bingzhou army dispersed. Those who left him were not entirely because of Ding Yuan, but because they could not get along with Lu Bu. Similarly, Lu Bu joined Dong Zhuo's army and obtained official positions.
, money, BMWs, armor, etc., but they also couldn't be integrated with Dong Zhuojun's people. He gained some wealth positions, but he also lost the command of the Bingzhou Army and became a guard.
dog
At that time, Lu Bu was not allowed inside or outside. He was a person who looked like he was falling into it, but could not be tolerated at all. The same was true for Fei Qian at that time. Weird words, weird words
His behavior, unexplained signature, and inexplicable enthusiasm are completely different from those around him.
At that time, Lu Bu just thought that Fei Qian was a disciple of Cai Yong and a descendant of the great Confucianism, so he behaved strangely and out of the ordinary. But now that he thinks about it, in fact, at that time, it was more of this kind of "incompatibility" that could not be integrated into other things.
The above differences made Lu Bu see Fei Qian and feel a closeness similar to that of the same kind.
But now, the boy who was as reckless as himself back then is no longer reckless.
The frail boy who was as out of place as himself back then, and who could pick it up with one hand, has now become a towering tree with intricate roots that he can hardly contend with...
It turns out that after all these years, I am still the one who is still out of place.
It turns out that after so many years, I am still twisting and turning like the words written on this piece of paper, obviously falling on the paper, but seeming to escape from the paper, struggling, but struggling.
If you don't get out, you can't escape.
Lu Bu suddenly burst out laughing, his whole body shaking with laughter, and he was so crazy that he laughed.
"Brother Fengxian, please listen to me," Zhang Liao vaguely felt that something had deviated from his plan, "This hussar and brother Fengxian's friendship..."
"Hussars! Hahahaha! Hussars!" Lu Bu interrupted Zhang Liao's words. In his blood-red eyes, madness, anger, and unwillingness surged. He shook his hands and the paper in his hands.
, "What a great friendship! Hahahaha! Friendship is just such a piece of paper! A piece of thin paper!"
"Brother Fengxian!" Zhang Liao frowned, "The Hussar keeps this piece of paper, which means he keeps the friendship from back then!"
"Hahaha, hahahaha..." Lu Bu laughed more and more wildly, "The friendship back then...hahahaha! Back then, I gave him a knife, gave him armor, gave him other people, gave him a horse, and even in the end, I even
You and I both gave up to him... Hahahaha, now he has sent you to tell me that this is the only amount of friendship left back then! Only this piece of paper is left!"
Lu Bu laughed wildly, then tore the paper into several pieces and threw it on the ground, "I would rather not!"
"I do not want!"
"Do you understand?"
Lu Bu shouted angrily, "I! No! Want it!"
Zhang Liao watched the paper fall to 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 started dancing on the spot. His mouth opened wide and moved silently, as if he was saying something.
Lu Bu stared at Zhang Liao fiercely and reached out to hold Fang Tian's painted halberd.
A murderous aura spread silently, then rose up and seemed to fill the entire space.
Zhang Liao frowned deeply, and couldn't help but also grasped the sword at his waist under the stimulation of Lu Bu's murderous intent...
At this critical moment, Zhang Liao suddenly felt Lu Bu's murderous aura suddenly stagnant, and soon he also heard the sound of rapid horse hoofbeats coming from afar.
A wisp of smoke rose in the distance, and soon the sound of horse hooves rushed to the city. A scout hurriedly arrived and fell to the ground, "Report to the Protector! An urgent report has just been sent from the west. Guishan General Tower
Kesa claimed that the Dadu Protector’s act of destroying the Buddha was the work of demons, and gathered an army of 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, and everyone's movements froze.
