Choose Liu Bei at the start, I am the only one who knows the plot of the Three Kingdoms.

Gu Rubing took Cao Hua for a walk on the street.

Guan Yu and Zhao Yun could only follow silently behind.

After a long time, Gu Rubing looked at Cao Hua.

"Miss Cao, do you have anything to tell me?"

Cao Hua hesitated for a moment and nodded.

"Is Shangxiang okay at your place?"

"Do you know Sun Shangxiang?"

"Of course, he was once a member of our Cao family. We..."

Cao Hua immediately realized that what he said was wrong. He used to be a member of the Cao family, but now he belongs to Liu Bei. So what is Liu Bei?

However, Gu Rubing didn't care about it. This was the fact. Things turned out like that because he had too many concerns. Judging from the current results, if he hadn't had so many concerns at the beginning, it might have been successful long ago.

Seeing that he was not angry, Cao Hua continued: "I want to ask you for help. I don't want to marry Liu Zhang!"

Gu Rubing didn't expect that such a thing would happen again. The last time it happened was to Sun Shangxiang.

What's wrong with Cao Cao? He can't keep his daughter-in-law, and now his daughter also wants to betray the Cao family.

Gu Rubing wanted to laugh just thinking about it. All of this could only be blamed on Cao Cao. The methods he used were quite extreme, which of course others could not accept.

It was obvious that Cao Hua knew Sun Shangxiang. If it weren't for Sun Shangxiang's incident, Cao Hua might have endured marrying Liu Zhang. But now with Sun Shangxiang's incident, she had a precedent, so Cao Hua naturally followed suit.

"It's not impossible to help you, but..."

This matter concerns Cao Hua's 350,000 tons of food and grass. If he really helps him, what will happen to his own food and grass?
You can't just go and rob it.

Even for Cao Cao, 800,000 grains and fodder were probably his limit.

Yizhou is indeed a place with fertile soil and water, and a large population and abundant land, but it could not withstand Cao Cao's harm. He either helped Sun Jian or Liu Zhang. If the harm continued like this, they would not have enough food to eat, let alone save any surplus food.

Several major princes have no surplus food, so who should I rob?

After traveling around Yulin County for so many days, Gu Rubing also discovered that the food shortage in Yulin County was very serious. There were refugees who had no food to eat everywhere. They were all skinny and it was obvious that they had not been starving for a while, not just recently.

I'm afraid that Liu Zhang can only supply food to the army now, which is already his limit.

If I take the person away, Liu Zhang will bite me like a mad dog.

"Miss Cao, I'm so sorry, I can't help you with what you said."

Hearing this, Cao Hua was shocked and lowered his head without saying anything else.

Cao Hua had not had any hope as to whether Gu Rubing would help him. He just asked tentatively. After all, Sun Shangxiang liked Gu Rubing, and the price of letting Gu Rubing take action would be Sun Shangxiang himself. But he had no reason to let Gu Rubing take action.

Could it be that I also wanted Gu Rubing to marry me?
Thinking of this, Cao Hua looked at Gu Rubing.

"King Lie, I can marry you as long as you help me!"

"What?"

"I believe in Shangxiang's choice."

Gu Rubing smiled awkwardly and did not go back directly. Instead, he took the four people to a pub.

"Second Brother Guan, what does the Lord mean by this? Do you agree or not?"

"How should I know? It would be great if the Prime Minister were here."

"Second brother, how come you only know this?"

"How about you say something, Zilong?"

Zhao Yun hesitated for a moment and sighed: "If only the Prime Minister were here!"

……

Gu Rubing ordered some food and wine. When the waiter brought everything up, he saw the amount of food and wine and almost turned the table over.

The wine was diluted with water and one of the plates was not even half full of food.

Is the thing I ordered so small?
"Waiter, what's wrong with you? Why are the portions so small?"

"Excuse me, sir. Food is in short supply in the city right now. This is the most I can give you."

Even the restaurants are unable to supply food normally, which means that the food in Yulin County has reached the limit of shortage. According to normal procedures, it will not be long before Liu Zhang's territory will be in chaos.

"Lord, what's wrong?"

Zhao Yun looked at Gu Rubing curiously.

"It's okay, eat."

Just as they were eating, a group of people walked in.

These people were wearing armor and were obviously regular army members.

"Boss, where's this month's salary?"

"Hey, officials, you are here. Recently, food is in short supply and business in our store is not good. Can you come a few days later to collect the monthly salary?"

"How many days late? Sure, if you're late, you can use a few fingers to pay off the debt. Just tell me how many days late you want. The maximum cannot be more than ten days, because you only have ten fingers."

"Sir, this won't work, but our store really doesn't have that much money."

"Stop talking nonsense. If everyone is like you, are we going to collect this debt? I'll chop off three of your fingers first and give you three days."

After the soldier finished speaking, he waved his hand, and the other soldiers rushed up, grabbed the shopkeeper's hand, and placed it directly on the table beside him.

The soldier drew his sword and was about to chop at the shopkeeper's hand.

"stop."

Cao Hua couldn't help but stand up.

Gu Rubing originally didn't want to get involved. The more chaotic Liu Zhang's territory was, the more beneficial it would be for his plan to take over Yulin County later.

But now that Cao Hua has stood up, if I don't care, Cao Hua will be in danger.

"Hey, this is the young lady we got. She's so pretty and beautiful. Just perfect for us brothers to use."

The leader said this and walked towards Cao Hua.

"Who are you?"

Gu Rubing had no choice but to walk in front of Cao Hua and look at the soldiers.

"I'm the centurion of the Western Legion. How dare you interfere in our affairs? Believe it or not, I'll take you to the barracks and let you experience how we teach prisoners a lesson."

"Snapped."

As soon as the centurion finished speaking, Zhao Yun rushed up and slapped the centurion in the face.

This time, Zhao Yun did not use any strength, but due to the physique of the legendary general, his strength was much greater than that of an ordinary person even without using any strength.

The centurion spat out a few teeth and looked at Zhao Yun with horror.

"You dare to hit me? I told you, we are from the Western Legion, and you still dare to hit me. Come on, brothers, come on together."

However, just when they were about to take action, they found that Zhao Yun in front of them had disappeared. When they saw Zhao Yun again, they all fell to the ground, howling in pain.

There were quite a few people watching the fun around, all talking in low voices.

"You bandits have finally met someone who will make you suffer."

"Yes, but I don't know who these people are? The Western Legion is famous for its revenge. I don't know if these people can withstand their revenge." "Boy, do you dare to leave your name?"

"My name is Liu Bei."

"Liu...Liu Bei?"

The centurion's eyes suddenly widened.

These soldiers knew very well what kind of person Liu Bei was.

"King Lie, I'm sorry, we didn't know you were here."

"Is this how Liu Zhang usually manages you? He oppresses the people? He does whatever he wants. Do you still want to kill him?"

When everyone heard this, they immediately shook their heads and stepped back.

However, just as they were talking, another group of soldiers rushed over and surrounded the restaurant.

Then a dozen soldiers walked in from outside.

"Lao Zhang, what are you doing? Didn't you say someone was causing trouble? I brought all the brothers here to see who is causing trouble."

Upon hearing this, the centurion wanted to stop it, but found it was too late.

I can only mourn for him in my heart.

"It's me, why do you want to kill me?"

"Humph, what if I kill you? Who do you think you are?"

"He is King Lie, the uncle of the Han emperor Liu Bei, and I am Cao Hua, the daughter of King Wei. Who are you to dare to speak to us like this?"

"Old Sun, please stop talking. We can't afford to offend these two people."

Lao Zhang immediately pulled Lao Sun behind him and apologized to the two of them with a smile.

"King Lie, we really didn't know you were here. If we knew, we would never come here. Let's leave now."

However, just as they turned around and were about to leave, Zhao Yun appeared at the door behind them like a ghost.

"My lord didn't say you could leave."

Upon hearing this, the two of them immediately looked at Gu Rubing.

After such a long period of fighting, Gu Rubing has become an insurmountable mountain in the hearts of all the Western Legions. No matter who it is in the Western Legion, no one has ever won against Gu Rubing.

Therefore, when these people from the Western Legion saw Gu Rubing appear before them, they would instinctively feel scared.

"Lie... King Lie, we know we were wrong, and we won't dare to do it again next time."

"Go find Surena. He's the one in charge of you. I want to see what Surena decides to do about this situation."

Soon soldiers went to look for Surena.

Not long after, Surena came into the restaurant and looked at his two men kneeling on the ground and Gu Rubing sitting at the table eating and drinking.

"King Lie, what's going on? You need to give me an explanation."

"Surena, I always thought you were a very powerful person, but I never expected that your military discipline was so lax. As a soldier, you actually collected protection money from the people. How come your soldiers have expanded their business so much now?"

"Protection money? What protection money?"

Surena was obviously completely unaware of what Gu Rubing said, and looked at the two centurions kneeling on the ground in confusion.

In the end, the two of them told everything and kept admitting their mistakes.

"Take him down and chop him up, you scum."

Surena was very angry, but he was not angry about the soldiers charging the restaurant. Instead, he was angry that he was caught by Gu Rubing while doing such a thing, and he was embarrassed and exposed.

"Prince Lie, don't worry, this kind of thing will never happen again. But if I remember correctly, the one next to you is the daughter of the King of Wei, Miss Cao Hua, right? Why are you two here?"

Just when Gu Rubing was thinking about how to explain, Cao Hua stood up.

"There is a serious bandit problem around Yulin County. I was robbed by bandits when I came here. It was King Lie who saved me. Now I am safe. Naturally, I want to thank King Lie."

"Oh?"

Surena looked at Gu Rubing in front of him. Although he was a little hesitant, he didn't say anything.

"You two must have finished your meal, right? Why don't we go back together?"

Surena always felt that there was something wrong with these two people coming out to eat together. In order to prevent any further complications, he took the two of them back to Prince Yi's palace and sent them back to their respective rooms.

After returning to the room, Gu Rubing gave Zhao Yun all his recent discoveries and his hand-drawn map of Yulin County, and asked Zhao Yun to deliver the things to Zhuge Liang as quickly as possible.

Zhao Yun was alone and his speed was increased to the extreme.

In just one hour, they arrived at the Lie army camp.

When Zhuge Liang learned that Zhao Yun had returned, he put down the military report in his hand and rushed directly to Zhao Yun.

"Zhao Yun, who asked you to come back? Don't you know that if one person is missing from our lord Liu Zhang's place, he will be in more danger?"

However, Zhao Yun was also very eager, so he handed Gu Rubing's letter and the map to Zhuge Liang, then turned around and left.

Zhuge Liang opened the letter curiously, took a quick look at it, and his eyes suddenly lit up. Perhaps this was an opportunity for them.

Zhuge Liang just took a look at the map and put it away.

"Come here, ask the person in charge of the Ranger Crossbow Captain to come to me, and do it quickly."

"Yes!"

Just when they were busy, in the Anluo Empire.

Sun Jian is practicing calligraphy.

He found that practicing calligraphy was a good way to relieve stress when he had nothing to do.

"My Lord, there is a man outside who claims to be your friend."

"my friend?"

Sun Jian asked the guard to bring the person in with doubt.

When he saw the person coming, Sun Jian was stunned for a moment.

"Wang Yue? Why is it you?"

"King Wu, I heard that you are now occupying the Anluo Empire and are living a good life."

"It's okay, it's still acceptable. I wonder if there is anything you want to talk to me about?"

"There is indeed something."

After Wang Yue finished speaking, he looked around Sun Jian and saw that the entire palace was filled with soldiers standing guard.

"Okay, you guys go down, and ask Ce'er to wait for me outside the door. I have something to talk to him about later."

The soldier nodded and turned to leave.

How could Wang Yue not understand what Sun Jian meant? It was obvious that he was wary of him, otherwise why would he let a legendary general stand at the door to protect his safety.

Although he knew it, Wang Yue didn't want to point it out. After all, he didn't come here for Sun Jian this time.

"King Wu, do you know that my plan to rescue His Majesty together with the Gu Clan has failed?"

"I heard that you are really brave. You even dare to join forces with the Gu tribe. The Gu tribe is very strange. Forming an alliance with them is like seeking the skin of a tiger." (End of this chapter)