Chapter 298
"Sure, certain." Cao Miao bowed and bowed to his salute with a smile. "Dare you ask your wife Gui Geng?"
Mrs. Sun frowned. "What are you asking?"
Cao Miao was still smiling, but a faint mist appeared in his eyes. "My mother and her wife seemed to be old. If she was alive, she would be not far from her wife."
Mrs. Sun's heart was shocked. She put away her smile, sat upright, and looked at Cao Miao with a little strange look.
"I am thirty-eight, and I am born in the year of Xin Wei."
"Mrs. My wife is one year older, and her mother is thirty-seven years old. She unfortunately passed away in the 22nd year of Jian'an, and it is 12 years old."
"A man cannot be resurrected after death, Cao Jun mourns."
"Thank you, Madam." Cao Miao took out his handkerchief, wiped his tears, and said sadly: "Talking to Madam makes me vaguely remember Chenghuan's knees back then, and I lost my composure for a moment. Please forgive me."
Mrs. Sun felt sad. Seeing Cao Miao in front of her, she remembered the child who was crying loudly. He should be the same age as Cao Miao. More than ten years have passed, and he has become the lord of Western Shu. Unfortunately, with Zhuge Liang, a very smart and powerful minister, he can only be a puppet.
He and Cao Miao are not the same type of people, but their misfortunes are the same.
Cao Miao quickly returned to his calmness and chatted and laughed. However, in Mrs. Sun's eyes, he was no longer the Wei spy who was good at speaking and clever, but was a poor man who lost his mother at a young age, had been sick for ten years, had just recovered, and had to escape from misfortune. The brighter he smiled, it meant that he was in pain in his heart, and everything was just a forced smile.
Even if he is a spy, he will take risks for the reputation of his deceased mother. He will not be able to gain his own love. He is hateful and respectable.
Mrs. Sun quickly adjusted her mood and ordered someone to hold a banquet to invite Cao Miao to have lunch.
Cao Miao agreed happily.
Mrs. Sun ordered someone to inform Sun Luban and asked her to come and have dinner together. However, it was still early and she had enough time to talk to Cao Miao. After a little question about Cao Miao's journey in Luoyang, she turned the topic to the current situation.
She was very concerned about Zhuge Liang's psychology and wanted to hear Cao Miao's opinions.
Cao Miao was prepared and talked happily at this moment. He told Mrs. Sun that the monarch and ministers of Shu Han used deceitful tricks to win Yizhou, and they lived alone and were unpopular. The only capital was that the surname Liu. The northern expedition to the Central Plains and the restoration of the Han Dynasty was something they had to do. However, the Qinling Mountains blocked the north and south, and Zhuge Liang led his troops with civil officials. If he wanted to conquer Guanzhong, he followed the story of Liu Bang, the Emperor Gaozu of Han, which was like a fool.
Even though he knew that he could not do it, he had to do it, so Zhuge Liang naturally needed an ally.
This ally is the State of Wu.
Wu and Shu had blood feuds. In the Battle of Yiling, Shu Han was defeated and countless casualties. How could the descendants of the fallen soldiers agree to form an alliance with the Wu Kingdom? Although Zhuge Liang monopolized the power, he needed the support of the generals in the army during the Northern Expedition. If he did not give them an explanation, let alone the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, those resentful generals may mutiny at any time and take his life.
What is this explanation? There may be many, but the most likely one is the general trend.
Wu and Shu formed an alliance, and divided the world. After the event was completed, Shu Han would be in the upper reaches and gained the advantage. In the future, it would be just around the corner to destroy Wu. With such a prospect, what would it be to be an alliance with Wu? It was just a trick to kill people with a knife and drive away the wolf and swallow tigers.
Chapter completed!