Chapter 614 The acting is good, make persistent efforts
Chapter 614: Good acting, keep up the good work
The fire in the house was crackling, and a kind of civil servants and military officers outside the house were still singing heartily, as if Hefei was in their hands.
Pan Zhang did not dare to speak. He only prayed that Zhang Zhao would not embarrass Sun Quan. Otherwise, today's matter might not end well...
"My lord, are you unhappy?"
"Oh? Why did Mr. Zhang Ge say this?"
Sun Quan smiled drunkenly, as if he had no fear at all. He raised his head and wanted to drink all the wine in the cup, but found that the wine in the cup had already been poured to the ground.
After smacking his lips, Sun Quan threw the bronze wine cup aside, propped himself up, and looked at Zhang Zhao in front of him.
"If my lord wants to drink, I will definitely accompany you till the end. Guard! Bring me the wine!"
Seeing Sun Quan's appearance, Zhang Zhao sneered and called to the guards in the distance. The guards quickly went downstairs and followed Zhang Zhao's instructions and brought a large altar of fine wine.
Taking the wine jar, Zhang Zhao smiled and helped Sun Quan pick up the wine glass in the distance, then filled it for him and himself.
The two of them remained silent, picked up the wine cups, and drank down the wine in one gulp.
Sun Quan even let out a wine belch.
"If nothing goes wrong... I will resign from my humble position..."
Pan Zhang seemed to want to slip away, because seeing this situation, Zhang Zhao did not seem to have the intention to hold them accountable, so it was really a bit painful for him to stay where he was, feeling uneasy.
But the two people in front of them seemed to have telepathy. When they heard Pan Zhang speak, they both shouted at the top of their lungs:
"Don't leave!"
Pan Zhang trembled all over, his steps that were about to retreat were suspended in mid-air, and the cold sweat on his forehead started to flow down.
"tomorrow…"
Zhang Zhao raised his wine glass and said leisurely to Pan Zhang:
"Tomorrow I will arrange for General Pan to guard the rear... You have decided to drink the wine today!"
"Wen Gui, come drink with me. Looking at this attitude today, Mr. Zhang Ge is planning to never get drunk again!"
Now that the conversation has come to this point, Pan Zhang has no need to refuse.
But when he was sitting in front of the case, his body still leaned towards Sun Quan involuntarily.
These small actions all fell into Zhang Zhao's eyes, but Zhang Zhao's expression did not change at all.
"My lord...do you know how many years I, Zhang Zhao, have followed the general?"
Zhang Zhao asked suddenly, which made Pan Zhang stunned. The "general" in the words definitely did not refer to him, so...
Sun Quan twirled the wine in the glass, as if he was looking at the quality of the wine, and blurted out absently:
"I don't know... I probably wasn't born yet at that time."
Hearing what Sun Quan said, Zhang Zhao burst into laughter.
Zhang Zhao smiled quite happily, as if he had heard some joke.
Sun Quan just looked at Zhang Zhao calmly, while Pan Zhang on the side felt uncomfortable hearing the laughter.
He really couldn't understand these big turbans. He didn't know why they were always secretive when talking, which made others sound quite tired.
Zhang Zhao's intention was obviously not to make the two people opposite him laugh. He wiped the tears from his eyes, stopped smiling, and said slowly:
"When I followed the old general, you were already ten years old...but under the protection of your brother and father, my lord, you seem to have no idea of everything outside."
"It's okay not to know. Only with a complete childhood can the master still maintain his innocence... But I can't do it anymore..."
After saying this, Sun Quan frowned visibly - Zhang Zhao was saying that he was young and didn't understand anything.
It's just that Zhang Zhao hasn't finished speaking, and Sun Quan is not interested in interrupting him. He just wants to hear what Zhang Zhao wants to do.
Zhang Zhao glanced at Sun Quan and filled his glass of wine again.
"In the second year of Xingping, I was appointed as the chief historian by the major general, and I really started to worry about the inside and outside of Soochow."
"In this way, it has been more than fifteen years... I am not like my lord, or even a young general, who is promising... I was already in my forties when I became an official... If I don't work harder, I will work hard.
, I’m afraid I won’t live long enough to witness the unification of the world.”
"My lord, you must not know that when I, a young general, came out of Shouchun together, I was alone with an army, surrounded by strong enemies. At that time, I turned around and looked at Yuan Shu, who was standing on the city wall - the high one.
At that time, I was thinking... Only those who truly have power in their hands can stand on the high wall and watch the chaos in the world... while remaining unmoved——"
"This is the feeling of having a family and having confidence, and being homeless and wandering around..."
Zhang Zhao smiled sadly, talking about the past, and his face turned red without realizing it:
"Since then, I have sworn that one day, I will stand on the high city wall with the young general... sit and watch the ups and downs of the world... I will one day have millions of soldiers and just wave my hand to return the world.
A peace—"
Zhang Zhao suddenly threw the wine cup down and looked quite excited.
His gray beard and hair were constantly swaying in the night breeze passing through the hall, and he took advantage of the situation and actually moved his body in front of Sun Quan.
Zhang Zhao tightly grasped the hem of Sun Quan's shirt with both hands, his eyes full of sincerity——
This scene frightened Pan Zhang. He thought Zhang Zhao was going to do something harmful to Sun Quan, so he already put his hand on the knife at his waist.
But Sun Quan always frowned and looked at Zhang Zhao quietly.
"Lord...the opportunity...is right in front of you...climb over the mountain and capture Hefei for longevity..."
"The world...is also in front of us!"
"My lord always thought that I had different opinions with Zijing...but I didn't know that in my heart, I was willing to turn into a withered bone for the sake of the young general and the old general's last wish!"
"Lord...can you...understand?"
"hehe--"
Sun Quan smiled, looking at Zhang Zhao's sincere and serious eyes, he seemed to really believe what the other party said.
He patted Zhang Zhao's trembling shoulder and said softly:
"I can understand...so Mr. Zhang Ge..."
"It's good if you understand..."
Zhang Zhao pulled back with a smile, as if this gaffe was his best expression. As long as Sun Quan behaves... he... can easily win Hefei and finally realize his dream.
As for other people's evaluation of Zhang Zhao, that... is a matter for future generations.
Zhang Zhao patted the dust on his clothes and seemed to be about to get up, but he didn't expect Sun Quan to support half of his body, hold up the wine glass and said jokingly:
"So Mr. Zhang Ge, when Cao Cao's troops came to the border and my head was in danger... what was Mr. Zhang Ge doing?"
"Well - I remember... Mr. Zhang Ge seemed to be blocked by Zhuge Kongming from Xiangyang and couldn't say a word... So that's it, that's it, it's not that Mr. Zhang Ge didn't want to save me, it was just that Mr. Zhang Ge was unable to say a word at that time...
I didn’t have time to express my position…”
"Then all this is easy to say... I don't blame Mr. Ge. After all, we agreed to the battle of Chibi with 30,000 troops by some strange combination of circumstances... The army left by Mr. Zhang Ge is now even more powerful.
It has a use."
Pan Zhang was ready to leave... because he felt that Sun Quan had compromised and did not have another conflict with Zhang Zhao.
He is just a duckweed here. Even if he really wants to fight someone like Zhang Zhao to the end, Zhou Yu and Lu Su must come back.
Who would have known that every word of Sun Quan's last public words hit Zhang Zhao's weakness... Every word not only fell into the ears of Zhang Zhao, but also fell into the ears of Zhang Zhao's disheveled civil servants and generals outside the house.
in the ears.
"Lord...is this...your answer?"
Zhang Zhao smiled, but when he turned around, his smile instantly disappeared.