"This Lu Bu is not simple! He is really not simple!"

Tian Feng looked at Yuan Shao, who was crying and laughing while holding his son, and sighed sincerely.

Ju Su said, "It's not that Lü Bu is not simple, but the Mr. Zhang behind him! Now that I think about it, this man has probably already surrendered to Lü Bu. Back then at Sishui Pass, he performed a brilliant trick of borrowing a knife to kill someone, using the lord's hand to eliminate Niu Fu for Lü Bu. The lord was used as a knife by someone else, and he even respected him highly and treated him as a guest of honor."

"Although it was a borrowed knife, that battle also earned the lord prestige. Today's return of the hostage was a brilliant use of the power. Now the lord will lose his moral integrity if he advances, and lose his opportunity if he retreats."

Ju Su sighed, "Indeed, Lü Bu's generous and uninhibited words today have left us without a qualm. If I'm right, this matter will soon be spread throughout the land by those with ulterior motives. Lü Bu repays evil with kindness, demonstrating his benevolence and generosity, while our lord repays kindness with hatred, completely betraying his morality."

Tian Feng sighed, "This battle is going to be difficult!"

Yan Liang said disapprovingly, "What's so difficult about fighting? Can reputation be eaten? Just fight anyway!"

Tian Feng said, "Reputation can't be used to make a living, but on the same road, a person with a good reputation will definitely have a much smoother journey than one with a bad reputation."

Ju Su looked at Lü Bu's troops, who had already left, and asked in confusion, "What do you think Lü Fengxian is trying to achieve by doing this? Is he trying to impress the lord with his kindness and then spare Bingzhou? Or is he simply trying to gain fame for himself? I don't think he cares much about reputation."

Tian Feng thought about it carefully and said, "I don't think this matter is that simple!"

Yan Liang said, "Didn't he say that he's also a father and couldn't bear to kill a child! Apart from anything else, Lu Fengxian is a real man in this respect! I wonder how my little devil is doing in that den of thieves, and whether she's being bullied?"

He said as he walked back, "No, I have to ask the Third Young Master."

Tian Feng waved his wide sleeves and called Ju Su, who was in a daze, to follow him. He also had a lot to ask the third young master.

Inside the military tent, Yuan Shang sat on the desk that Yuan Shao usually used for his work, swinging his short legs and answering everyone's questions one by one.

"Sister Yan Bing is doing well. The Second In Command even allowed her to train the female students in the village. She's so powerful now. Wherever she goes, she's accompanied by a group of female bandits, like a big bandit leader!"

Yan Liang's face was filled with black lines. This was indeed something his daughter could do. He didn't expect that by going to the den of thieves, she would realize her dream!

"Xu Ziyuan said that Brother Ju Hu has made a lot of progress in his studies. He's actually very smart, but he didn't like studying before. But the lessons in the village are much more interesting than what Mr. Ju taught, and he loves studying now."

Ju Su had an expression that said, "Who are you kidding?" His son was smart, but too naughty. He didn't believe that his son would become wise after going to the bandit's lair?

"Sister Tian Yi is still as well behaved as before, staying in the yard all day and never going out. Brother Tian Zhan is much more lively than before. He likes to go to the fields and mountains with us to play. He is now very good at taking bird eggs, and he is the one who climbs trees most like a monkey."

Tian Feng had a gloomy face. As expected, without his father around to teach him, the kid has learned bad things!

Listening to his son chattering about things in the mountain stronghold, Yuan Shao had an illusion that not only his own son liked that den of thieves, but other children liked it too.

"Where is your mother?" Yuan Shao finally remembered to ask his wife.

Yuan Shang said, "Mother and Madam Tian are staying in the yard, usually weaving cloth or something, with basically nothing to do. In her free time, Mother keeps complaining about Father, asking if he's forgotten about us and why he hasn't come to save us in such a long time. Has he been seduced away by some vixen again? Has he given birth to another son? Is he worried about her being taken to a den of thieves and wants to divorce her?"

Yuan Shao was sweating. That woman usually looked virtuous, but she turned out to be a jealous woman?!

Seeing his son looking at him with dissatisfaction, Yuan Shao hurriedly said, "Dad has not forgotten you two. I have not been seduced away by a vixen, nor have I given birth to other sons, and I will not divorce your mother."

Yuan Shang nodded with a mature air. "A man should keep his word. I'll remember this for my mother. If you break your promise, I won't let my mother come back. I'll find her a better father. I think Governor Lu is quite good. He's tall and handsome, and he has a very handsome big red horse. He and my mother are a perfect match, made in heaven..."

Ju Su and others couldn't help laughing when they saw Yuan Shao with a constipated expression on his face.

Yuan Shao took a deep breath and told himself that this was his biological child, his biological child!

He felt he shouldn't have asked his mother, so he changed the subject and asked, "Were you really secretly taken out of the village? When were you taken out? How did you end up in Lu Bu's hands?"

"I was in the woods collecting bird eggs when someone put me in a sack. The man was going to take me to my father to collect the reward, but on the way, we were met by soldiers. I ended up at the home of a beautiful woman, who gave me lots of delicious snacks. I really liked her."

"Oh, now I remember, it was snowing heavily the day I was taken out of the village."

"Is the snow very thick?" Yuan Shao asked again.

Yuan Shang nodded seriously, "It was just very thick snow, and I even slipped. I can't remember it wrong."

The timing of Yuan Shang's appearance this time was too coincidental. Qu Yi also said that Madam Liu was in a mountain stronghold on Jingxing Road. For this reason, they once suspected that the mountain stronghold actually belonged to Lu Bu. But Yuan Shang said that it was snowing heavily on the day he was rescued, so that should have been last winter. This means that Yuan Shang had been in Bingzhou for almost a year.

If Yuan Shang had answered a certain day or a few months ago, then someone must have taught him to say so, because a child of this age has no concept of time and he might not be able to tell the time more than five or six days ago. However, what Yuan Shang was talking about was the weather on the day he was stolen. It seems that it was just a coincidence that he fell into Lu Bu's hands.

"Have you ever seen Lu Bu or the people around him in the village?" Tian Feng asked worriedly.

Yuan Shang shook his head.

"The second in command has held you captive for such a long time, why doesn't he come to ask the lord for money?" Tian Feng asked again.

"I don't know about that. I only know that there's a female leader in the village, but she's away on a long trip and hasn't been back for a long time. Maybe the second-in-command can't make the decision! But thankfully, the second-in-command can't make the decision, otherwise I wouldn't be able to go to such a fun school like kindergarten."

"Female? The boss?"

Yuan Shang nodded, "She's just a woman. She's the boss of the village."

Tian Feng was slightly surprised, but he could accept a woman being the leader of the bandits. You know, during the Wang Mang period, there was a woman who, in order to avenge her son, spent all her family wealth to recruit people to rebel against the court. She gathered more than 10,000 people, broke into the city, killed the county magistrate, and even called herself a general.

In these troubled times, it is not surprising that a female bandit leader emerges from Taihang.

Of course, Tian Feng and others would never have imagined that this female bandit leader would be the daughter of the late Wang Situ, Lu Bu's wife, and Mr. Zhang, who was respected by Yuan Shao.

However, for safety reasons, Tian Feng still sent someone to deliver a message to Qu Yi, asking him to eliminate Juyi Village first, just in case.

While Yuan Shao was immersed in the joy of finding his son again, Lu Bu had already rushed back to Jinyang with two thousand light cavalry.

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