Cao Cao crosses Wu Dalang

Chapter 33 Wu Dalang Keeps His Word

After praise, he immediately took the wine pot, filled the cups for Li Ying and himself, raised them to touch, and finished their work.

Li Ying wiped the drink from the corner of his mouth, turned around and shouted: "Nephew of the Hu family, let's have a drink together."

In the Hu family's camp, a young man reluctantly walked out, came to the table and cupped his fists and said, "I'm going to Hu Cheng, I've seen the capital of Wu Dadu!"

Li Ying opened the chair for him to sit down, and said: "This is the young owner of the Hu family village. He is nicknamed 'Flying Tiger', and he is Hu Sanniang's brother."

"I've been admiring you for a long time." Cao Cao greeted them insincerely, poured wine for the three of them, and said in his mouth: "I have heard for a long time that the three villages of yours have been friends for generations and echo each other. Wu is here for no other reason, just to ask: Zhujiazhuang intends to kill officials and rebel, have you ever participated in this matter?"

Hu Cheng was taken aback, and quickly said: "Our Hu family are good citizens, how would we be willing to participate in such evil things, my lord will see clearly."

Li Ying looked at Cao Cao, and said slowly: "Nephew Hu Xian is right, the Li family and the Hu family are good citizens from generation to generation, everyone thought that we would participate in such evil things?"

Cao Cao nodded slightly, this Li Ying is a character, he said clearly: You said we will participate and we will participate, but if you said you will not participate, then you will not participate, the official word is two words, you have killed the owner of Zhujiazhuang on the left and right, did you participate? Is it up to you to participate?
Cao Cao knew that if he really framed him, Li Ying would immediately fight violently. He laughed and said, "I've heard that the flying eagle is quick and decisive, but seeing it today is indeed well-known. With Li's knowledge, how could he Will you associate with those low-level thieves? From my opinion, I must be a good citizen."

Li Ying also heaved a sigh of relief secretly, picked up the wine and said with a smile: "It all depends on your lord's enlightenment."

The two drank it all in one go.

Cao Cao said: "I wish my family is guilty and the people of Zhuang are innocent. In Wu's opinion, I wish my family's floating wealth must be confiscated. The rest of the property was taken from your family by relying on the strong. Now it should be returned by Li and Hu's family." In other words, the people of Zhujiazhuang also belong to the two families, educate and educate them carefully, and don't make them do evil again, what do you think?"

Money is mine, Tian is yours.

Li Ying immediately laughed and said: "We are a big family in the local area, and we should share the worries of the imperial court."

"Okay, since Mr. Li and Mr. Hu are reasonable, then this matter is settled. We don't need a lot of people here. You two will each bring more than a hundred people to follow me into Zhujiazhuang."

Li Ying hesitated slightly, then nodded: "Okay, Quanyidutou."

When they entered Dezhuang, Cao Cao sent Pei Xuan, Yang Lin, and Shi Qian as the leaders to confiscate all the property of the Zhu family. Big experts like Shi Qian were here, buried in the ground or built in the walls, and let him hide it. If it is kept secret, it is of no use at all, and all of them are taken out.

Roughly speaking, there are 36 taels of silver, more than 500,000 taels of gold, some antique calligraphy and paintings, shi of grain, and several house deeds from various prefectures and counties.

Cao Cao was overjoyed. He never expected that a rich man from the countryside would be much richer than Ximen Qing, a wealthy man from Yanggu County.

He counted on what he said, and he didn't take a single inch of Zhu's countless acres of land, and distributed all of them to Li and Hu's families.

The three Dulonggang villages were originally Zhujiazhuang with the largest land, especially in Zhulong's generation, the three brothers were all proud and arrogant, saying that they were alliances, but in fact they vaguely regarded the other two villages as vassals and subordinates, and now they are divided His family's land property, the Li family and the Hu family suddenly became big.

Li Ying was overjoyed, and immediately ordered people to go back to the village to take 100,000 taels of silver and send it to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao personally wrote the pleadings, saying that Zhujiazhuang colluded with the Liao people and conspired to rebel. Li Ying and Hu Cheng, the local good people, took the lead. Full house, 80,000 taels of furniture, some antique calligraphy and paintings were confiscated.

What else did Li Ying and Hu Cheng have to say?Satisfied, they marked each other on the pleading paper.

Putting away the pleadings, Cao Cao randomly selected a few antiques, filled them with silver, and covered them with some red cloth. He invited Li Ying to accompany him, and brought a group of brothers and Hu Sanniang to Hu's Village in a grand manner.

Hu Cheng was panicked, and the flying horse returned, and his old father Hu Taigong went out to meet him in person. He had learned that his family had swallowed up half of the land in Zhujiazhuang. He was ecstatic, but he also learned that his daughter accompanied Zhu's family to "rebel", so he was very concerned about Cao Cao's visit. , quite wary.

When Cao Cao met Taigong Hu, he paid homage to him and said, "Hi Gongan, the old lady. Wuzhi, the capital of Xiayanggu County, rescued the daughter of your family from the rebellion in order to suppress the Zhujiazhuang rebellion. The daughter fell in love with her at first sight, as the saying goes. The marriage is made by nature, and I can't bear to let you down, so I offer ten thousand taels of silver as an offer to ask Hu Sanniang to be my wife, if the father-in-law succeeds, the son-in-law will be very grateful."

He also called the old grandpa, and before he finished speaking, he called "father-in-law" and "son-in-law". Taigong Hu had never seen such a brazen person in his life, and he couldn't help being shocked.

Li Ying nodded secretly: "My Daohu family, He Dehe Neng, actually shared half of the land with me, Li Ying. It turned out that Wu Dalang had taken a fancy to his Sanniang."

Immediately he opened his mouth to chime in and said: "There is an old saying that the eyes of the eye recognize a hero, and today it is as it should be. Brother Hu, Sanniang's niece has good eyesight. Wu Dutou is indeed a hero today. It is a good match that he is willing to propose marriage."

Hu Taigong came here suddenly and saw that Cao Cao was short, so he couldn't help but wonder: "This, this..."

Li Ying laughed loudly and said: "My old brother is so happy that he is stupid, Dutou, how about I take a chance with him to talk?"

Cao Cao said: "But please do not mind."

Li Ying pulled Taigong Hu out of the living room, and said anxiously: "Brother, you are so stupid! The Zhu family is so arrogant that you dare to touch the officials and cause a catastrophe, and your third wife is also confused. Among them, fortunately, Wu Dalang took a fancy to your Sanniang and deliberately excused her, so why don't you go downhill? Besides, Sanniang and Zhu Biao were engaged first, and now that Zhu Biao's life is short-lived, she is hopeless. Widowed family, where can I find a good relative like Wudutou? Even if you don’t think about your old Hu’s family, you should also think about your daughter, and if you don’t think about your daughter, you should also think about your old Hu’s family.”

Taigong Hu thought for a while, stomped his feet and said, "I still want to listen to Sanniang herself, and I can't wrong her."

After Shi Xiu eavesdropped at the door and told Cao Cao, Cao Cao asked someone to invite Hu Sanniang.

At this time, Taigong Hu also returned to the hall. When he saw Sanniang, the father and daughter hugged each other and cried.

Cao Cao laughed and said, "My father-in-law, my son-in-law lives in Yanggu County. Sanniang married me, but not far away. She can go home to take care of her at any time, so there is no need to worry about being separated for a long time."

Then he said to Sanniang: "Lady, Wu said that he must take responsibility for offending your innocence, so he hastily came to see his father-in-law and asked to marry his wife. Is this true of his word?"

Hu Taigong only felt his eyes go dark, and thought to himself, no wonder he dared to call my father-in-law in a big way, it turned out that his daughter's innocence was gone.

Hu Sanniang thought it was true that my ass was spanked, but is my innocence gone?Although she knew something was wrong, but as a young girl who hadn't left the court, how could she have the nerve to discuss with others how to offend her innocence, she was angry and ashamed, and her face turned red immediately.

Yang Lin clapped his hands and said with a smile: "My daughter's face is red, and she misses her husband in her heart! Old man, the so-called female is not allowed to stay, and if she stays, she will become enemies. The villain is waiting here to congratulate you. You have a son-in-law like my brother, you Hujiazhuang! On the ground in Shandong, who dares to underestimate it?"

Mrs. Hu originally wanted to hear her daughter's opinion, but seeing that her face was as red as a peach, there was nothing else to say, so she sighed, reached out and grabbed Cao Cao's hand and said, "My son-in-law, have pity on my daughter. My mother passed away early. People taught me, I don't know etiquette, if there is something wrong with serving a gentleman, my virtuous son-in-law must be considerate, don't beat and scold her."

Cao Cao held Hu Taigong's old hands, and said sincerely: "Where did the father-in-law come from, the son-in-law is definitely not that kind of Lu man who doesn't know how to pity and cherish jade. If a daughter marries into the Wu family, she will never suffer any grievances."

Seeing that he said he was proud and sincere, Hu Taigong was slightly relieved. Knowing that Cao Cao had no parents in the hall, he ordered a grand banquet to marry his daughter to Cao Cao, and even took out 120,000 silver as her daughter's dowry.

(End of this chapter)