Chapter 20: Enlightened Master?

  Langya County, although located in Xuzhou, has never truly surrendered to Xuzhou. During Tao Qian's time, Langya was left unmanaged! When Liu Bei became the governor of Xuzhou, he also nominally demanded Langya's submission but actually had no way to deal with it!

  When it came to Lü Bu, the result was a bit different. Lü Boss was a self-willed person who was extremely confident in his own strength. The leader of Langya Taishan bandits, Zang Ba was also an arrogant character! Two extremely proud people naturally had conflicts when they met, and Lü Boss directly defeated Zang Ba!

  For most people! The time when you can talk with your mouth is absolutely not the time to use your fists, but Lao Lü is different! He would rather take action than reason with you!

  So Lü Bu was in charge, Zhang Fei surrendered. Not only did he surrender to Lü Bu, but he also sat in Langya to help Lü Bu guard the gate, completely treating him as a family general! That's why there is Zhang Fei's name among the Eight Elite Generals!

  Lü Bu's army marched on the official road, and as they went further forward, it was already Lanyang County. Along the way, many people from Lanyang were seen fleeing with their families to the depths of Mount Tai.

  The atmosphere of war is very strong here, and Cao's massacre in Xuzhou really frightened these civilians!

  "Mother! Mother!" A little child of a few years old seemed to have been separated from his mother by the fleeing crowd, and was looking around for her everywhere.

  Tears as big as beans were about to fall from his eyes!

  "Alright, alright, Uncle will take you to find your mother, okay?" Liu Mang also obtained a war horse from Lü Bu's army. Although he didn't know how to fight on horseback, riding it to hurry along the road was still possible. Liu Mang got off the horse and handed it over to Cheng Yu by his side, then scooped up the small body in one motion.

  "War! The ones who suffer the most are always the common people!" Liu Mang sighed.

  "Sir! We still need to hurry up and get to Langya, there's no way we can help this little girl find her mother!" The whole of Xuzhou is in chaos, refugees are coming and going, trying to find a little girl's mother is even harder than finding a needle in the ocean!

  The vanguard has already discovered the shadow of Cao's army, all of whom are heavy cavalry, Tiger and Leopard Cavalry! Now Lü Bu's army needs to enter the city and avoid the enemy's edge, otherwise, fighting in the open plains will be a rhythm of total annihilation!

  The vanguard has been defeated! The Pingzhou Wolf Cavalry is gone, and the cavalry can't play its role at all! What's left are the surrendering Chen Family Army. With these newly surrendered mobs, it's impossible for them to have any effect, and they'll probably be the first to panic under the cavalry attack!

  "But this child! In the chaos of war, everywhere is filled with refugees, a little kid who can't find his mother will either starve to death or be eaten by others! This is truly an era where humans eat each other!"

  "There's nothing we can do! If we don't speed up our march, we won't be able to escape!" Cheng Yu was a seasoned veteran and naturally knew the ferocity of cavalry on the plains!

  "No, it can't be like this! This is a life, if I abandon him, I will be uneasy for the rest of my life!" Liu Mang shook his head. He came from the present world, an era of peace, and was not someone who had been through turbulent times for long, so he no longer felt any sense of reverence for human life! Just as Liu Mang negated Cheng Yu's words, a disdainful voice came over from the side.

  "Women's benevolence! Hmph!" A female version of Lü Bu, who looked exactly like him, rode over on horseback. Wasn't this precisely Liu Mang's so-called fiancée, Lü Boss's eldest daughter, Lü Qiling? After Lü Boss obtained the Sea Emperor Sacred Clothes, he gave his original Brocade Battle Robes to his beloved daughter. Lü Bu was around 1.8 meters tall, and Eldest Miss Lü wasn't short either, being nearly 1.8 meters as well!

  "What benevolence?!’ At Lu Dajie's words, Liu Mang instantly flew into a rage, pointing at Lu Dajie and bellowing: ‘What do you know! This is life, life! They are all sons of the Han family. It’s just because of a small number of people, for their own benefit, letting the world be in great chaos. He's comfortable, but what about ordinary civilians? Separated from wives and children, struggling to keep warm and fed! How many who truly fought died?! And how many of those whose homes were destroyed died?!"

  "You, Miss Lü, have been born with a golden key since childhood, eating well and dressing warmly. But what about them? If there were no wars, no conspirators, no feudal lords! I'm telling you, now they, these refugees, should all be at home! Living happy days in their warm homes! But now how many families are broken, how many people don't know where the future is?" Liu Mang was almost shouting.

  Either fleeing for their lives or soldiers from poor families!

  Everyone lowered their heads, looking gloomy and dejected, Liu Mang's words had made them think of themselves. The atmosphere became heavy! Even the gaze towards Lü Daxiaojie turned unfriendly!

  Cheng Yu also didn't say a word! He thought of his old mother, if there was no great chaos in the world, if Cao Cao hadn't attacked Xuzhou, then he should be by his mother's side now, farming and accumulating some wealth to find a wife and live a happy life with his family!

  But now! All gone, everything is gone! Mother died, home destroyed! In order not to starve to death! To avenge my mother, I joined Lü Bu's army, and it has been many years!

  "You, you!" Lü's words were meant to tease Liu Mang slightly, but she didn't expect him to react so strongly. The way the people around her looked at her also made her uncomfortable. In fact, her intention wasn't bad! But now, in Liu Mang's mouth, she had become a spoiled and unreasonable rich young lady who knew nothing of the hardships of the world!

  "Hmph!" Lü Dàjiě pulled up her horse and left with a cold hum, the expression on her face was absolutely not good-looking!

  "Big brother, where's Xiaojie?" Cheng Yu said softly.

  "Never mind her! Love is like that, what can you do!" Liu Meng hugged the little doll and wanted to find his mother, but where could he go in such a vast crowd?

  "Alas!" Liu Mang looked at the fleeing civilians and felt extremely bitter. "Cheng Yu, why is peace so difficult to achieve?"

  "Ignorant fool!" Cheng Yu didn't understand either, he only knew that as long as he followed Lü Bu, following the adults would allow him to avenge!

  Liu Mang shook his head and couldn't help but sigh, "When the dynasty prospers, the people suffer; when it falls, the people also suffer!" After saying that, he took the little girl and left. He really didn't have time to waste here, so he could only take this little thing with him for now and talk about it later after things settled down.

  Liu Mang's figure gradually disappeared into the distance with the army, and suddenly a young man appeared in the place where he had just stood. Although his body was very dirty due to fleeing, it couldn't change the sharp light in the young man's eyes!

  He muttered to himself, "Prosperity for the people? Suffering for the people?!" His eyes gazed deeply as he watched Lü Bu's army depart. "Who is this person after all? Besides Chen Gong, there is another such person in Lü Bu's army?!"

  "Sir! Sir!" The young man's thoughts were interrupted by a book boy-like person. "Sir, sir, where are we going this time?!"

  "Go back!" The young man shook his head and said.

  "Go back?!" Book Boy asked in puzzlement. This time his master came out not only to visit his old residence but also to find a certain Mr. Mingzhu!

  "Master is really going back to Xiangyang?! Not looking for the bright master anymore?!" Little Book Boy knew that his family's master was a talented person!

  "It can't be found!" The young man said with a smile.

  "Ah!" The book boy nodded as if he understood and didn't understand, this chaotic situation, really didn't have anything to come out with. Now going back, the book boy was still very happy!

  Is he the bright lord?! The young man's thoughts soared once again.

  He immediately burst out laughing "Forget it! Let's go back and discuss with Shi Yuan and the others!"

  One book boy and one small master went towards Jingzhou!