Although he has been fighting in the north and south, since he settled in Jingnan, Liu Bei will seize the time to cultivate a relationship with Adou whenever he has the opportunity.
Liu Qi died in battle... This did not have a great emotional impact on Liu Bei, although he also shed tears at the time.
But in the final analysis, Liu Qi is still a cheap son whom he recognized from Liu Biao.
Both sides even knew it well. Liu Qi knew that without the support of his father, he could not control his original tribe, so he relied on Liu Bei to maintain his reputation and his words.
As for Liu Bei, he also needs the golden signboard of Liu Qi to recruit wise men in Jingzhou...
However, after Liu Qi's death, Jingnan's development seemed to have stalled——
It's not that they don't make money anymore.
But since Liu Qi's death, it has been difficult for Liu Bei to recruit the wise men from Jingnan.
for example…
When he was still living under Liu Biao, he admired Liu Ba and Liu Zichu very much.
As a famous wise man in Jingzhou, Liu Ba's arrogance is well known to everyone.
Even when Liu Biao personally took action, Liu Ba refused to recruit him.
After acquiring the four counties in Jingnan, the first thing Liu Bei did was actually ask someone to look for Liu Ba.
Jingnan is just a small area. If you can't even capture Liu Ba, how can you talk about further development?
However... even after Liu Qi's death, Liu Ba seemed to have expected that Liu Bei would ask him to come out.
So I simply played the role of evaporating from the world——
Yes, before and after Chibi, Liu Ba, a famous scholar who was coveted by both Cao Cao, Liu Bei and even Sun Quan, disappeared out of thin air.
This disappeared for three or four years.
The most reliable news recently is that Liu Ba went to Jiaozhou and temporarily lived in Jiaozhi City. He seemed to have a close relationship with Na Shixie's tribe.
It is impossible for Liu Bei to travel across mountains and rivers and ask people to come out of the mountains and rivers. If there is no fate, there is no fate.
In short, Liu Qi's death probably only affected the ownership of one talent.
Liu Bei can let it go.
But Liu Qi's death made Liu Bei realize another thing.
That is... a son who is obtained cheaply is not reliable enough after all.
No matter how capable he is, without this connection of blood, he always feels unstable.
Just like Liu Feng's miraculous return from survival.
After returning, Liu Feng seemed to be praised by many people. Some said he was General Fuxing...some said he was the queen of the Han family...which was a sign of the prosperity of their old Liu family.
But Liu Bei's reaction to this was just like that.
Liu Feng is a guy with little ability and a big heart.
Moreover, this guy is not Liu Bei's biological son, but the son he recognized from a scholar in Changsha.
After all, Liu Qi and Liu Feng were both accessories brought out by Liu Bei in order to gain a foothold in Jingzhou.
If he were really asked to hand over his position to these two people, Liu Bei would definitely be unwilling to do so.
At this time, doesn’t the importance of Adou come?
In fact, Liu Bei had already thought about it, even if Adou was stupid... With Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong - and his second and third brothers, as well as Wei Yan, Huang Zhong, Chen, Huo Jun and many other talents to assist him, even if he was a pig, as long as he could
Sitting in the Lord's position, he can safely pass on the position.
But now...
Adou is very smart, which is good.
But...Liu Bei found more and more that Adou seemed nothing like himself.
This doesn't mean that the personality must be the same as his... it's just that they are different in a literal sense.
"This kid...why is he so dark!"
Liu Bei's voice sounded like he was crying.
"Isn't he sick?"
Zhuge Liang didn't know how to answer.
I quietly glanced at Liu Bei, who was hiding his face and had no idea of his expression. In fact, I didn’t even need to look at Liu Bei’s face—just look at Liu Bei’s big white collar and his fat ears and face...
He is completely different from the current Adou who has an angular face and although he is not handsome, he has a heroic temperament.
Of course, the most important thing is that Adou is really dark.
It's not like coke, and it has nothing to do with Zhang Fei's blackness.
It's a dark reddish black.
No wonder Liu Bei thought Adou might be sick...
But there is also a possibility... Zhuge Liang did not dare to say.
"Then... Lord, why don't you find some time and I'll take Adou to see the doctor... Well... I might need to collect some blood... This child's face is dark, maybe there's poison in his body. I'll take some blood and put some blood... Maybe he'll be fine
Some?"
Zhuge Liang's tone was testing...Liu Bei stopped complaining.
"Let's wait a little longer...wait a little longer..."
"Let's wait until we capture Yizhou before we deal with these matters."
For some reason, Liu Bei seems to have looked away, and seems to be really out of mood... He generally understands what Zhuge Liang said, but... at least now he doesn't want to know the result.
"Kong Ming, how long will it take for us to set off?"
"In ten days at most, the armaments have been basically mobilized. We still have to wait for news from Yizhou."
Zhuge Liang replied respectfully.
Liu Bei nodded and said to Zhuge Liang:
"Go out with me to relax... Suddenly I remembered that I wanted to help Zilong... Then where is Zhao Fan's sister-in-law now?"
"Eh?"
"Do you need me to repeat it again?"
"Ah... no... Lord, are you talking about the Fan family?"
"It's her, Zilong's matter. I plan to go and tell her in person... If you know the way, please accompany me."
"Oh...that...that's natural."
Zhuge Liang didn't think about it for a moment...but he accidentally caught a glimpse of Liu Bei's eyes. Although...Although Zhuge Liang didn't think this kind of thing was unforgivable,...in the end, Liu Bei's way of relaxing was really a bit.
With that said, the two of them walked out of the yard.
Little did he know... at this moment, someone was hiding near the wall behind the courtyard... and wrote down what they just said verbatim.
"Hiss... could it be... that it's about to be exposed?"
The person who spoke was a woman... There was some worry in her voice.
But since Liu Bei also said that he would not deal with this matter for the time being, she just needed to be more cautious.
——
In the west of Jiangling City, outside an ordinary mansion on the north bank of the river in the city, there were two grown men walking seemingly aimlessly.
In fact, it was just that Zhuge Liang had been away from the generals for too long, and he had forgotten where the Fan family lived.
After all, he is a busy man and doesn't have much time to take care of this widow who has even been rejected by Zhao Yun in name -
Of course, Zhuge Liang would not deny Fan's beauty.
It's just that after Zhuge Liang has experienced so much, he doesn't have the time to focus on male love and female love.
all in all…
"Lord, this is the place."
Zhuge Liang inquired around and finally determined the target.
However, before he knocked on the door, he felt something was wrong.
"Hiss... Lord... It seems that this family hasn't cleaned the front door for a long time... Could it be..."
"What?"
Liu Bei didn't think much and went straight to knock on the door.
What a coincidence...
The moment Liu Bei put his hand on the door, the door was already opened...
