Chapter 43 Let's put the words aside for now

  It was precisely because Guo Jia thought that Cao Cao was just pretending and wouldn't really run away, so he chased after him, not expecting to chase him for such a long distance.

  Even if Cao Cao rushes back now, the place may not have dispersed yet, but at least he has already missed the most critical part.

  "It turns out that what you're worried about is this." Cao Cao walked over and said, "Because I know Yuan Shao's temperament too well. Since he has already made a suggestion to the general, even if it's wrong, he will never change his mind! So now no matter what we say, it's all useless."

  "So what's the point of Brother Meng coming here again?" Guo Jia asked strangely, knowing that he was doing something useless.

  "Haha, I'm just making them feel uneasy!" Cao Cao laughed and said, "Unfortunately, I didn't expect that you, Fengxiao, were also there, and even wanted to make me feel uneasy, so I had no choice but to abandon my original plan and run out."

  "Uh......" Guo Jia was speechless for a moment.

  Cao Cao sat down beside Guo Jia and said:

  "As for yesterday's matter, brother also knows that it was indeed a bit excessive. But Feng Xiao, you should also be clear that Cai Yan is like my own sister to me. When I first joined the teacher's sect, she was just this small."

  Cao Cao gestured with his hand, "She's even smaller than your little maid. I can say that I've watched Cai Yan grow up completely. But who would have thought that the day before yesterday, I happened to pass by and went over to take a look, only to find her crying alone in her room? On the spot, I decided that I must severely punish that scoundrel who bullied my sister Cai Yan!"

  Cao Cao looked at Guo Jia and said.

  Guo Jia's eyelid twitched.

  "It shouldn't be me who says this..."

  Cao Cao patted Guo Jia's shoulder.

  "Filial piety, I don't care about the feelings between you two. I admit that this matter is indeed not good for my brother to do. But what's wrong with my sister Cai Yan? That thing called 'husband-stealing', it's simply nonsense! I think Filial Piety, you've never thought that way either."

  "I quite agree with this point, and I also told her so at that time." Guo Jia nodded.

  "This is just right! A woman who can put aside her dignity and face for you, to this extent, filial piety, honestly, what more could you be dissatisfied with?! At worst, in the future if you encounter someone you like, I'll help you snatch them over, that's all!" Cao Cao said with a pat on his chest.

  "Really?!" Guo Jia excitedly turned around and grabbed Cao Cao, exclaiming.

  Cao Cao's eyes twitched, "Really?"

  "Hey, Mengde, you're not going to tell me that what you said earlier was a lie, are you?" Guo Jia asked with narrowed eyes.

  "Of course not," said Cao Cao, "let's see, whose daughter is it?"

  "Sima Wang Yun's household." Guo Jia replied immediately.

  "Cough, what? Wang Yun's family?! " Cao Cao exclaimed in surprise. How dare he try to snatch it away! Wang Yun was a senior figure after all. "Uh, Filial Piety, don't get agitated, my point is, I've never heard of Wang Yun having any daughter before?"

  "Not his own, but an adopted daughter, named Diao Chan!" Guo Jia said directly, having to admit that there was a hidden meaning in Guo Jia's words. Of course, he understood that Cao Cao would not really go to Wang Yun to help him abduct someone.

  So at this time, Guo Jia just wanted to tell Cao Cao that Diao Chan was already the woman he had set his heart on as a brother, and in the future, even if they saw each other again, don't have any more evil thoughts.

  Guo Jia understood that Cao Cao was a lecher, but Guo Jia also knew that Cao Cao valued relationships and righteousness. If the two men didn't become enemies in the future, they would turn against each other.

  So, according to the current relationship between the two, at this time, Cao Cao is absolutely impossible to go back on his word and move Diaochan. Even if Cao Cao really valued Guo Jia very much, even if Diaochan was not Guo Jia's person, Cao Cao would still think of ways to actively send Diaochan over to him!

  "This, Fengxiao, you should also consider, it's not that I won't help my brother, but how can I possibly go to the Situ Mansion to kidnap someone? So this matter seems like it still has to rely on you, Fengxiao. If all else fails, I'll just marry my daughter off to you!" Cao Cao said with a slap on his thigh.

  "Cough! Cough!" This time it was Guo Jia who was choked, "Brother Meng De, how old is your daughter?"

  "Although she is still young, she will have to get married in a few years anyway. Moreover, although we have always called each other brothers, I am indeed much older than you. Generation gap is not a problem, we can mind our own business." Cao Cao said eloquently, at this time he could not have imagined how things would turn out in the future, so marrying his daughter to Guo Jia, even as a minor wife, would not make Cao Cao feel like losing face.

  "Hey, Mengde, isn't it a bit too early to be talking about this?" Guo Jia couldn't help but say.

  "It won't do, marrying a daughter off is a common thing. Cao Cao said matter-of-factly, "Wait, Fengxiao, you don't think that I, Cao Mengde's, daughter wouldn't be presentable and would end up being married off to someone like you, do you?!"

  "Of course not, I just feel..."

  "Or I'll take you home right now and have a look!" Cao Cao said, and surprisingly he really wanted to pull Guo Jia away.

  "Stop it! Stop it!" Guo Jia hastily called out, jokingly saying that he should now go on a blind date with a little girl? Even with his thick skin as Guo Fengxiao, he would feel ashamed.

  "Meng De brother, actually there has been a question that has been bothering me for a long time." Guo Jia had to shift the topic.

  "What? What's wrong?" Cao Cao also didn't insist on marrying off his daughter anymore. After all, such things weren't urgent anyway.

  "I saw some things on the road earlier that are only used when someone has died, and I didn't think much of it at first. But then I ran into even more of them along the way. Could it be that some important person has passed away in the past two days?" Guo Jia asked.

  "How can you not know?" Cao Cao exclaimed in surprise, then reacted immediately, "Oh, right, you were completely drunk yesterday, no wonder you don't know."

  "Who really died?" Guo Jia hastily asked, judging from the situation, the deceased was at least a prince or noble, but Emperor Ling had just died recently, and those Yellow Turban remnants were causing trouble because of that, so who else has died now?

  "Haha! Indeed, someone has died, but not recently, it's a guy who has been dead for hundreds of years and is 'reborn' again!" Cao Cao laughed loudly, "Feng Xiao, this is absolutely the biggest joke since the establishment of the Great Han Dynasty!"

  Guo Jia's eyelid twitched, and a sudden, unbelievable idea flashed through his mind.

  "Could it be Qu Yuan?"

  "Huh? Fengxiao, you've also heard about it? But judging from your expression, you still don't know how big of a deal this is." Cao Cao continued to say.

  "Yesterday, I don't know which idiot spread the rumor that it was Qu Yuan's birthday! Haha, even more ridiculous is that there were a bunch of idiots who actually believed it! Then one person told ten, ten people told a hundred, and finally the whole city of Luoyang started blindly following suit and began to offer sacrifices."

  By the time he heard this, Guo Jia's face had become quite unsightly. However, Cao Cao did not notice it, or rather, he misinterpreted Guo Jia's expression as incomprehension and puzzlement, just as he imagined. Then Cao Cao continued to say:

  "Filial piety, you must be very surprised, such a lie, isn't there anyone to expose it? In the entire Luoyang City, isn't there a single scholar?"

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  PS: I saw someone say that Diao Chan was not originally called Diao Chan, but actually she is a fictional character, and the name is just for convenience. Everyone is familiar with it, so it's okay. Just like what I said earlier about Cai Wenji, no need to use Cai Zhaoji. In the future, Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao will probably be similar, so let's not mention it again.