Chapter 64: The Capital's Talents Gather (Part 1)

  That night, the city of Pu was as calm as usual, as if it had not been affected by the war at all. Everywhere were colorful lanterns and prosperous streets.

  At this time, however, Puyang seemed as calm as before a storm.

  Cao Xin was alone in the room receiving treatment from Hua Tuo. After the previous series of killings, the wounds on his body had worsened again, but fortunately, Hua Tuo had been by his side all along, and Cao Xin's body was not seriously injured.

  This is the backyard of the county government office, where Cai Yong and Cai Yan lived in adjacent houses but had little contact with each other.

  Because there is a martial arts arena in the back, most of the brothers, such as Zhou Yu, Xu Chu, He Qi and others, are all practicing martial arts in the arena, and have not returned yet.

  After thanking Hua Tuo, Cao Xin suddenly walked into the backyard and a familiar figure appeared before his eyes.

  "Dian Wei, Zhou Cang, where are they?"

  Obviously in the courtyard, Dian Wei seemed to have just returned from the martial arts arena, sitting alone at the stone table in the center of the courtyard, still holding a basket of fruit and eating by himself.

  At this moment, Dian Wei was eating with relish, but when he saw Cao Xin come out, he immediately hid the fruit behind his back and hastily said: "Master, master! Hehehe... they are in the martial arts arena?"

  Helpless to glance at the former, Cao Xin knew that this guy was good at everything, fierce in battle and generous in character, but the only shortcoming was that he couldn't be away from food at any time. A hungry ghost through and through.

  "Alright, Dian Wei, don't hide anymore, what are Zhou Cang and the others doing at the martial arts arena?"

  Duan Wei scratched his head with a silly grin and said loudly, "I heard that Xu Chu is going to teach Xu San some martial arts! Zhou Yu and He Qi both went to join in the fun!"

  "Oh?" Cao Xin let out an unexpected cry of surprise and immediately found it somewhat amusing. "Why didn't you go?"

  "Hehe, I've been practicing martial arts with Xu Chu all afternoon, and now I'm a bit tired. Let's take a short rest!"

  Suddenly felt a bit bored, don't know why... Cao Xin always felt somewhat uneasy tonight, but for the time being couldn't think of why, just looked at Dian Wei in front and said: "Don't rest yet, come with me for a walk."

  "Ah... where is Master going?"

  "I don't know, but I think Xiao Shang just said he was going to some Jingcai conference. Let's go find him and join in the fun, we can have a drink together and of course eat some meat haha..." Cao Xin laughed.

  "Haha, great! Let's set off immediately!!" As soon as he heard that they were going to eat meat, Tian Wei's eyes sparkled with excitement.

  Helplessly shaking his head again, Cao Xin first walked towards the outside of the mansion.

  As for the tranquility of Puyang City, Cao Xin was indeed a bit strange, but fortunately, a scene in history did not happen after all. Cao Xin still remembered that in history, Lü Bu set an ambush at Puyang City, and Cao Cao fell into the trap and entered the city. As a result, he was suddenly attacked by Lü Bu. If it weren't for Lü Bu not recognizing Cao Cao's true identity due to the darkness at the time, and the latter's sentence "The one riding the yellow horse is..." Perhaps there would be no Wei State in history.

  Due to Cao Xin's sudden appearance, Yanzhou was shocked, and the historically long-lasting Battle of Cao-Lü-Bu Yang did not take place for a hundred days. On the contrary, Bo Yang is now unusually peaceful.

  About Cao Hong's strange appearance during the day, Cao Xin was also very curious at this moment, and didn't know what was hidden behind his opponent's somewhat hesitant expression. However, could Lv Bu's personal cavalry stir up any more waves?

  The city of Bóyáng is more prosperous than Cao Xin had imagined, although it doesn't have the grandeur of the movies. Compared to some people's claims that the Three Kingdoms were just a refugee camp, this place is at least a hundred times better. After all, despite the simplicity and monotony of life in this era - no computers, TVs, or mobile phones, and even paper was scarce, making it difficult to get one's hands on a book - Bóyáng city still has some remnants of the Han dynasty's heyday.

  Emperors of the late Han, such as Emperor Ling of Han, were also considered one of the most normal emperors of the late Han period. Unfortunately, the Han emperor scattered his power among the scholar-officials, allowing the buying and selling of official positions, eunuchs in power, and tolerating the gradual strengthening of local military forces, leading to the weakening of central authority. As a result, the three pillars of the imperial court - the outer relatives, eunuchs, and scholar-officials - vied for power and profit, until the Han emperor became a puppet and eventually collapsed. The foundation built over hundreds of years fell into this state...

  Where there are people, there is conflict of interest, this is an eternal and unchanging law. Cao Xin knew it, but he could only sigh, what he sighed about was that as a Han Chinese, he could only watch the decline of the Han Dynasty, but what he couldn't help but do was to survive in a chaotic world as a ordinary person from a later generation who had traveled through time, and not be manipulated by history.

  The night had just fallen, and the streets were already filled with a riot of colorful lights and bustling activity.

  Cao Xin and Dian Wei arrived at a wine shop, looked at the sign outside, and saw two large characters "Jing Cai" written on it.

  "Zi Xiang should have arrived a long time ago......" Bored, he poked his head into the wine house and didn't see Liu Yue's figure.

  "Master, are you upstairs?"

  Cao Xin nodded slightly, but saw a scholar and several people who looked like they were from a good family standing at the door. It seemed that this wine house was not a place where ordinary people could enter at this time...

  "May I ask... sir, can one enter this wine shop?" Cao Xin immediately stepped forward and bowed to the scholar.

  At this, he suddenly saw that Cao Xing's demeanor was extraordinary, and behind him followed a demonic-looking attendant. His expression involuntarily tightened, and he didn't dare to be arrogant. He hesitated for a moment before saying: "Today, this wine tower is temporarily not open for business. Today, Cai Yong and Mr. Cai Boji are hosting a banquet here with their daughter, Miss Cai Dajia, to entertain the scholars of the Bu Yang clan. May I ask... are you also from the Bu Yang city's scholarly family?"

  It suddenly became clear that during the day he had a pleasant conversation with Cai Yong, and now he was going to be refused at the door?

  Seeing this, Cao Xin smiled first and did not reveal his identity. He only took out a token from his pocket, which was the token arrow given to him by Cao Hong in the county government during the day.

  When Wen Shi saw the token, his face changed immediately, but he was not surprised. He just smiled lightly and said, "So you are an honored guest of the county governor's mansion, please come in."

  He nodded, and Cao Xin did not show any dissatisfaction with the former's calmness. After all, he was Cai Bojie, even if you were a royal noble, you still had to give in a bit, let alone Cao Xin who was not from a prestigious family.

  Along with Dian Wei, they went up to the second floor in two strides. Cao Xin walked quietly upstairs and suddenly saw a magnificent sight that made him dizzy. When he came to his senses, he found that the wine house had been arranged like a large hall, with two rows of seats side by side, where a group of scholars were seated, while Cai Yan and Cai Zhen sat in the main seat.

  Watching this lively scene, Cao Xin couldn't help but sigh at the high status Cai Yong held among these bookworms.

  Sat down with Dian Wei at the last seat in the row, carefully observing what was being said at the banquet...

  At this moment, no one noticed Cao Xin and Dian Wei, only Cai Yan was smiling while playing the zither above. It seemed as if she was playing a tune, but all the young scholars at the banquet were gazing longingly at Cai Yan in the main seat, as if they wanted to scan every inch of her skin at this moment, extremely lewd.

  At the end of the banquet, Cao Xin looked at all this and couldn't help but sneer: "A bunch of beasts!"

  "My lord... Please restrain yourself as well."

  Unconsciously, Cao Xin's expression also became consistent with these bookworms...

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