Chapter 305

At the mere thought that he, too, might have the opportunity to seal Mount Langju and carve a monument on Mount Yanran,

Zhang Liao felt his heart surge with excitement.

Not to mention that the Lord even harbored the desire to completely eradicate the Hu Ren.

At the thought of this possibility, Liao could not help but tremble slightly with agitation.

"Haha! It's a deal! Absolutely no going back! If I forget, you can remind me!"

Su Xuan laughed and gave his assurance.

"Good!"

Zhang Liao nodded firmly.

Following this, both Su Xuan and Zhang Liao wrote a letter each and handed them to the Dark Guards, instructing them to deliver them to Zhang Jiu in Ma Yi as quickly as possible.

Six days later,

although he had received the letter sent back by the Lord six days prior, Jia Twenty-Five did not rush to hand it over to Lu Bu.

Instead, he waited until today, calculating the time it would take for a fast horse to deliver a message at top speed, and only then did he arrive at Lu Bu's residence to deliver Su Xuan's letter.

His purpose was to avoid exposing their method of rapid communication using golden eagles and carrier pigeons to Lu Bu.

After all, Lu Bu was not a man who could keep secrets; his mouth was a bit loose, and he was prone to letting things slip.

Moreover, according to the Lord's plans and arrangements,

it was basically impossible for this Lu Bu to accept the Lord's recruitment and join his ranks in the short term.

That made it even more important not to let him know easily.

Although, eventually, with increased usage, exposure would be a matter of time.

But the later, the better.

It could often lead the enemy to misjudge the situation.

"Has Boyuan's reply finally arrived? Great! Give it to me! Quickly, give it to me!"

"You have no idea, I've been worried to death about my funds!"

"That Ding Yuan has already come knocking for the second time. Things shouldn't happen a third time; if I don't give him an answer by the third time, I'm afraid he'll turn hostile."

Lu Bu excitedly took the letter and complained.

Su Xuan had said a few years ago that he would meet a noble person in the future.

He highly suspected that this noble person was Ding Yuan.

That made it even more important not to miss out.

"Haha!"

Jia Twenty-Five heard this and smiled knowingly: "If General Lu can trust my Lord so much, my Lord will be very happy to know."

"Hey! It's nothing! Boyuan and I are good brothers!"

Lu Bu laughed and waved his hand, then opened the letter to read it carefully.

His brows furrowed and then smoothed out; finally, he revealed a relieved smile and said: "Phew! Fortunately, I didn't rush to agree this time, but chose to delay and ask Boyuan for advice!"

"Otherwise, I might have really fallen into Ding Yuan's trap and would have had to obediently be his dog in the future! Hehe!"

"This Ding Yuan certainly has a good scheme!"

"However, since you want to use me to rapidly expand your power, why can't I, in turn, use you to improve my position while also strengthening my own power?"

In the letter, Su Xuan had analyzed in detail the background and purpose of this man, Ding Yuan.

Lu Bu now understood that Ding Yuan was merely a dog of the Yuan clan, sent to Bingzhou to integrate and absorb troops for the purpose of leading an army into Luoyang later to deal with the eunuchs.

And he, Lu Bu, held extremely high prestige among the Bingzhou border troops.

If Ding Yuan could recruit Lu Bu, or even make Lu Bu recognize him as a foster father, he could gather the hearts of the Bingzhou border troops in a very short time and rapidly expand his power.

And because of the restraint of the foster father status, Lu Bu would have to listen to Ding Yuan in everything, effectively becoming Ding Yuan's dog, obeying his every command.

Otherwise, in this era where ritual and law were above all else, if Lu Bu dared to defy his foster father, it would be unfilial and a great transgression.

With this status weighing him down, even if Ding Yuan did not give Lu Bu real power or the promised position, Lu Bu would have to endure it with grievance, completely unable to resist.

Unless Lu Bu no longer cared about his reputation!

It could only be said that Ding Yuan's calculation was excellent.

If it were anyone else, he would have truly succeeded, and there would be no future incident of the killing.

But because this person was Lu Bu, who grew up in the border commanderies and accepted the wolf-like cultural ideology and thinking patterns of the Hu Ren, things were completely different.

At first, Lu Bu might endure it.

But once he could no longer endure it, or found an opportunity, he would absolutely not mind killing Ding Yuan.

It could only be said that Ding Yuan did not understand Lu Bu!

Even if Su Xuan had not intervened this time, he would still have died at Lu Bu's hands in the future.

This was almost inevitable.

As for the past life, when netizens discussed that Ding Yuan was actually trying to cultivate Lu Bu, hoping he would be both civil and martial, and truly treated him like a biological son, and so on.

Su Xuan only wanted to say, that's nonsense.

At least, in this world, it was nonsense.

According to the Dark Guards' intelligence, this old guy Ding Yuan was not without a son.

Under such circumstances, he sincerely treated Lu Bu as a biological son to cultivate?

Do you think it's possible?

In fact, one could see from the fact that Ding Yuan was willing to be a dog for the Yuan clan, and later dared to lead an army into Luoyang to serve the King and clear the monarch's side, that this man had a great ambition and desire for power.

How could a person driven by the desire for power be a good person?

How could he kindly adopt an adult he had just met as a foster son?

And pour his heart out to him, cultivating him like a biological son?

Isn't that nonsense?

Su Xuan understood Lu Bu very well.

He was a very simple and straightforward person.

Everything was direct, without so many twists and turns, and he was even less capable of playing conspiracy games.

He didn't have the brains for it either.

Whoever was good to him, he would be good to them.

Whoever dared to be bad to him or plot against him, he would absolutely retaliate fiercely.

He might not be smart enough, but he had a wolf-like keen intuition.

Who was sincerely good to him, and who was just putting on a show, he could actually feel it by intuition.

Just like the two previous times he met Ding Yuan, he could feel that Ding Yuan had ill intentions toward him.

Otherwise, he would not have chosen to delay time and go to Su Xuan for help and advice.

"Then I wish the General success!"

Jia Twenty-Five heard Lu Bu's words and replied with a light smile.

"Hmm!"

Lu Bu nodded, looking at Jia Twenty-Five with a face full of gratitude: "This time, many thanks to you, Brother Twenty-Five! Count me as owing you a favor. In the future, if you have anything, just come to me. As long as I can do it, I will absolutely not refuse."

"Haha! That's great!"

Jia Twenty-Five heard this and immediately smiled knowingly: "To be able to gain a favor from a Heaven-Man Divine General like you, General Lu, I've made a huge profit!"

"Hahaha!"

Lu Bu heard this and felt extremely comfortable in his heart.

It was still more comfortable and at ease to get along with Su Xuan and his subordinates!

At least, he didn't feel that they were plotting against him.

This was very rare.

Therefore, Lu Bu trusted Su Xuan so much and was so close to him.

Afterward, Jia Twenty-Five stayed at Lu Bu's home for over an hour,

accompanied Lu Bu in drinking quite a bit of wine, and then left.

"Father! Did you contact Brother Boyuan?"

At this moment, Lu spiritual energy walked in with her mother, Yan Shi, and then blinked her big eyes, asking curiously.

"Hmm?"

Lu Bu heard this, his brows immediately furrowed slightly, and he said speechlessly: "Don't call him that randomly. That is your Uncle Boyuan. He and your father are good brothers, yet you call him brother. Doesn't that mess up the seniority?"