Three Kingdoms Simulator: This Ma Su is too stable

Chapter 354 The Seed of Hate
Cao Cao was led back to the cell by two prison guards. When he heard the iron gate being closed with a bang by the departing guards, he raised his head on his back foot and saw Ma Su standing outside the door with his hands behind his back, looking at him with a smile.

"Why are you here?" Cao Cao said in surprise. He never expected that the first person to visit would be an eight-year-old child.

Ma Di looked at his downcast appearance, and couldn't help asking old-fashionedly: "Uncle Meng De, how did you get to this point..."

"Cough, cough, cough..."

This sentence almost choked Cao Cao to death.

He coughed violently, pointed at the tip of Ma Di's nose, and said angrily, "Zhuzi is here to make fun of Cao today? As you wish, Cao is imprisoned today, making people look like people, and ghosts like ghosts!"

While talking, Cao Cao turned around angrily, looked at the cell wall, and gasped heavily.

Ma Di ordered the jailer to open the door, stepped into the prison, took out the wine jug and two wine glasses hidden behind his back, poured a glass of wine for him himself, and said with a smile: "Uncle Mengde, come and drink to calm yourself, say How did you get defeated by Ma Teng and Han Sui?"

Cao Cao sniffed his nose, smelled the smell of wine, turned around, and saw the wine glass handed over by Ma Di, most of his anger dissipated immediately.

He took the glass and swallowed it down.I don't know whether it was because of the strong alcohol, or because he found an outlet to vent his aggrieved stomach. The 35-year-old cried like a child.

Ma Di sat quietly by the side, shaking his head and sighing gently.

After Cao Cao calmed down a bit, he continued to ask: "This time I am here as a private person, and I am here to help you escape from death. Therefore, you must tell me about the Battle of Guanzhong in detail, so that I can help you. Find a reason for your acquittal."

"and many more!"

Cao Cao raised his hand to interrupt Ma Su, and asked with red eyes: "You said just now that you came here in a private capacity, so Cao dared to ask, what is your official capacity?"

"..."

Ma Di waved his hand, "That's not important, the important thing is that I can save you!"

Cao Cao curled his lips and put down his wine glass, "Hehe, why should I trust you? You are just an eight-year-old boy."

"Eight years old? What's wrong with eight years old?" Ma Di stood up suddenly, pointed to the sky with one hand, and said arrogantly: "I killed Dong Zhuo single-handedly!"

Looking at the majestic Ma Di, for a moment, Cao Cao felt that his aura was taken away by him, and he opened his mouth, speechless, but at the same time, there was a trace of envy.

This is someone else's child, who is already famous all over the world at the age of eight.

"Where is Mr. Cai? Why didn't he come?" Cao Cao wisely chose to change the topic, and began to believe that Ma Di could save his life.

Just from the whole process of the latter keenly aware of Dong Zhuo's fatal weakness, and then launching a thunderous blow with three thousand recruits, and killing Dong Zhuo, this eight-year-old child has a brain, determination, and force that are different from ordinary people!
Such a person, it is hard not to believe his big words.

Ma Di lost his posture, waved his hands and smiled, "How could my father come to visit you? You are a war criminal of the imperial court, and he is your presiding judge. If he comes, the rumors will not drown you."

After all, seeing that Cao Cao was silent, Ma Di continued the previous topic: "I think you have already seen that to the general, you are just a chess piece that can be discarded at any time. But to the princes, you are just a pawn. A loser who is not even as good as Zhao Kuo, if the big man dies because of the defeat of Chang'an, you will be nailed to the pillar of shame in history. Presumably, you don't want to accept such an ending, do you?"

Ma Di deliberately bit the words "chess piece", "Zhao Kuo", and "sinner" very hard, and at the same time watched Cao Cao's facial expressions closely, expecting to see anger and despair from the latter's face.

Sure enough, Cao Cao's face quickly turned red, his chest began to heave violently, and his whole body was like a volcano about to erupt, full of danger.

"You, you are right... This is not the ending that I, Cao Cao, want, no!"

Cao Cao bowed to Ma Di and looked over for help, his tone full of unwillingness, "Nephew, please help me out of trouble!"

Ma Su nodded, "The most important thing now is to find out the ins and outs of the whole matter, so as to have an explanation to the court. You are General Zhengxi personally promoted by Yuan Shao. It doesn't sound good, who will do everything for him in the future? So, it's not like there is no way out."

After hearing this, Cao Cao calmed down quickly, took a deep breath, sat down on his knees, and began to tell the whole experience from the time he led the army to Chang'an to the defeat and retreat to Tongguan.

While listening, Ma Di closed his eyes, silently restored the scene in his mind, and asked questions about the doubts from time to time.

The so-called expert will know if there is one as soon as he makes a move. Ma Di's inquiry directly shocked Cao Cao.

Even the most professional and capable commander-in-chief in the world cannot pay attention to every detail of the confrontation between the two armies like Ma Di.Even under Ma Di's questioning, Cao Cao was covered in cold sweat, and later realized that there were so many flaws in his marching schedule.

Because he is a soldier, he can most deeply understand what the technical details that Ma Su asked about mean.

The entire presentation process lasted for more than an hour.When Cao Cao said, "So I led more than 2000 soldiers to retreat to Tongguan", he finally let out a breath and stopped talking.

"Is there anything else you want to add?" Ma Di asked.

Cao Cao shook his head.

So Ma Di began to analyze to him how to avoid being sentenced to death and how to make a comeback.

The entire analysis process lasted for a stick of incense, and it can be summed up in one sentence: use all connections, even if the family property is wiped out, even if the whole family's life is bet on the military order, just seek a chance to make a contribution.

Cao Cao listened to Ma Su's analysis with full expectation, and felt that things had indeed turned around. He was overjoyed and walked up and down the cell, rubbing his hands, and said to him, "If it's as you Chang said, it doesn't matter if you disperse all your property. To be able to get out of prison, I would like to promise it with my eldest daughter Cao Yan."

Cao Yan...the future Princess Qinghe...

Ma Di didn't refuse, and he couldn't refuse, this kind of family-style marriage is like this, so it's like taking in a maid.

He straightened his clothes, and said softly, "If there are no accidents, you will be released from prison in three days, return to the court, and continue to lead the army to fight the Xiliang army."

After saying this, Ma Di ordered the jailers outside to open the cell door, then turned his head and gave Cao Cao a look of "I'll do things you don't worry about", before walking away with square steps.

After Ma Di left, Cao Cao swept away the decline of the past few days, and his whole body was full of joy. He even sang the poems he had made loudly in the cell.

Seeing the changes in Cao Cao, the jailers with a keen sense of smell immediately realized that the prison career of the "big man conquering the west" might be turning for the better, so they changed Cao Cao's dinner from corn bread and thin soup to Dukang wine and Meat dishes.

Cao Cao enjoyed these things with peace of mind, and then fell asleep on the straw mat in the cell contentedly.

The next three days were extremely long for Cao Cao, but extremely brisk for Ma Di.

He first came to the mansion of the former Taiwei Cao Song, and after passing through the pass, he met the 60-year-old man, who was Cao Cao's father.Then he told the latter straight to the point that if he wanted Cao Cao to live, he would donate all his family property and send it to the residence of Cai Yong, the prime minister of the imperial censor.
In the small courtyard next door.

Cai Yong was Cao Cao's chief interrogator, and Cao Song knew this.Not only that, after all, he was a Taiwei, and he has some relationship with Yuan Shao's uncle Yuan Wei.Before Ma Di came, he had already asked Yuan Wei, but Yuan Wei was vague and did not give a letter of approval.

So at this moment Cao Song is very worried.

Hearing this, he was overjoyed immediately, and asked all his cronies to take action, preparing to send money to the small courtyard next door to Cai's mansion.

Ma Di nodded in satisfaction and left, returned to the small courtyard next to Cai's mansion, and ordered Zhu Heng and fifty trusted servants to take care of the reception.

This small courtyard was specially bought by Ma Su for the purpose of training fifty of his confidantes and servants.

Anti-justice father Cai Yong is a great writer, not short of money.

Of course, a beating afterwards is definitely inevitable.

When it was dark, the small courtyard next door was already filled with gold, silver and jewelry, silk and satin, and piles of house deeds and land deeds.

It was night, and Ma Di was under the guard of Zhu Heng.With money, in the name of Cai Yong, family by family visited the civil and military officials of the court.

Cai Yong is worthy of being a great writer with high morals and prestige, and his name is indeed much better than that of Cao Song, the eunuch.

With the help of money and Cai Yong's virtuous name, within three days, most civil and military officials changed their words, and a small number of those who did not change their words also expressed their stance that they did not object to Cao Cao being exempted from the death penalty.

Therefore, at the meeting of the Third Heavenly Dynasty, when Cai Yonggang presented "after deliberation, Cao Cao's crimes are serious, and he should be executed", a few days ago, all the civil and military officials who were clamoring for Cao Cao's execution to rectify the law of the country suddenly went to court. The wind changed direction.

This one said "the enemy is numerous and we are few, it is not a crime of war", the other said "Ding Yuan's eight generals turned against the water, and the gods are hard to save", and some even said "It is common for victory and defeat to buy soldiers. Later, there was a great achievement of killing eunuchs", so it was proposed to "exempt from death and be demoted to common people".

This proposal was instantly approved by most people.

General Yuan Shao upheld the attitude of indifference, pushed the boat along the way, exempted Cao Cao from the death penalty, and ordered him to go home and reflect.

So, after more than half a month in Tingwei's prison, Cao Cao finally didn't have to die.

On the third day, Cao Cao got up early in the morning, pinned on the bars eagerly, and waited for the jailer to let him out.

Waiting and waiting, from morning to noon, from noon to evening, but no jailer came to let him out.

Seeing the sky gradually darken, Cao Cao finally despaired, went back to the straw bed and lay down in a daze, looking at the roof with distracted eyes, feeling that life was gloomy.

At this time, there was no resentment in his heart, only hatred, and he hated Yuan Shao for turning his face ruthlessly, crossing the river and tearing down the bridge.

Just when he greeted the eighteen generations of Yuan Shao's ancestors a hundred times.Two guards opened the cell door and signaled for him to leave.

"The order to release is here!" Cao Cao jumped up from the straw bed, and his heart was instantly ignited with ecstasy.

The time to be free has finally arrived!
He was about to walk outside impatiently, when he suddenly stopped, looked at the two guards, and asked seriously, "Why are you two late?"

These words were not aimless, court meetings were usually held in the morning, and if a consensus was reached at the meeting to release him, the order after the meeting would be sent to Tingwei prison, no later than noon at the latest.

But now it's dark!

"...Uh, I'm sorry, Mr. Cao, I lost the key to the cell door, and it took me a long time to find it." One of the jailers lowered his head and said in a low voice.

Because Cao Cao was not reinstated by the official, he deliberately chose a more appropriate title to remind the former that I did neglect my duty and lost the key, but you are just a commoner now, and you have nothing to do with me.

How could Cao Cao fail to hear the jailer's hint, his two thick eyebrows twitched, he opened his mouth, and finally let out a cold snort, and walked away.

Even Cao Cao himself didn't realize that when he left the prison, the seeds of hatred had quietly taken root in his heart.

.........

"Brother Su, brother Su, you are really..."

Next door to Cai's mansion, in a small courtyard wing, Cai Yan looked at Ma Di who was concentrating on counting money, and for a moment didn't know how to describe this younger brother.

Call him bad, he did save Cao Cao, now as long as Zhonglang sends back the news of Zhu Jun's loss to the Xiliang Army back to the capital, Cao Cao will have a chance to recover—this can be regarded as fulfilling his promise to Cao Cao .

Let’s say he’s not bad. The savings of three generations of Cao Cao’s ancestors, including billions of dollars, all became his—the lobbying officials only spent less than a cent of it.

Ma Di closed his eyes, rubbing the yellow gold and silver jewels with his hands, his sigh echoed in the room full of money.

Make big!
Even after the third life, money and beautiful women can still easily shake his mind and make him addicted to it, unable to extricate himself.

Alas, a common man.

He picked out a string of the most beautiful necklaces, a pair of bracelets, and a bunch of headgear from the jewellery, and put them on Cai Yan's jade neck, wrists, and head one by one with open arms, and then said with a smile: "Sister , to you."

Cai Yan walked down lightly, listening to the sound of gold and jade jingling on her body, said happily: "Brother Su, you are so kind..."

The siblings played next door until noon the next day, but they still hadn't had enough time. Under Ma Di's urging, Cai Yan changed into various Hanfu made of good Shu brocade, and walked around the room, admiringly It's called "Catalog".

It wasn't until the trusted servant reported that Cai Yong was coming that Ma Su came back to his senses, stood up abruptly, and said in shock, "Sister, what should I do? Hide quickly!"

After saying that, he couldn't help but stuff Cai Yan under the bed.

Cai Yong, who was wearing the censor's official uniform, stepped into the room, looking for a place to stay from the gold and silver treasures in the room very slowly. There was too much money on the ground, and it was very difficult for him to take every step.In his hand, he held a wooden root as thick as a rolling pin.

His face was gloomy, and there was no emotion in his voice.

"Zhuzi! Where did this money come from?"

"Yes, it was sent by Cao Song..." Ma Di said quickly, his eyes wandered from side to side, and when he realized that there was nowhere to escape, his heart froze, and he raised his butt.

"The money can't be returned anyway, you can fight it if you want, foster father."

Hearing that the money was given by Cao Song, Cai Yong's face changed for a moment, and then he returned to a gloomy look, but he didn't beat Ma Su with his stick.

Although he had a good relationship with Cao Cao, he hated Cao Song, who recognized him as his father, so since he took the money, there was no reason to return it.

Ma Su paused, seeing that Cai Yong hadn't come to beat him, and asked suspiciously, "Father, I'll knock... you won't beat me after taking so much money from the Cao family?"

Cai Yong shook his head, indicating that this amount of money is nothing, then looked around and searched the house.

Ma Di bit the bullet and asked, "Father, what are you looking for, may I find it for you?"

"Youchang... have you seen your sister?"

Cai Yong searched around, but he didn't search except under the bed, and found nothing wrong, so he turned his head to look at Ma Di, and repeated the question: "Did you see your elder sister?"

Ma Di immediately straightened his chest, and said with a blank face: "I didn't see it, I have been here since yesterday, foster father, sister is gone..."

"No...no, you stay here, I have something to do for my father, so let's go first." Cai Yong waved his hand, walked out, and closed the door smoothly.

Hearing the footsteps outside gradually go away until they disappeared, Cai Yan crawled out from under the bed with a gray face and complained: "Brother Su, why did you push sister under the bed? You What are you afraid of?"

Because the bed is on the left side of the door, Ma Di was standing facing the door, while Cai Yan was facing the door.

He waved his hand, signaling Cai Yan to stop talking.

—It was too late.

At the door, Cai Yong went back and forth, holding a wooden stick, standing there silently, looking over with burning eyes.

(End of this chapter)