Chapter 177 It's Too Good to My Heart [Subscribe]
Bai Ke has been living in the Yanzhou Mu Mansion recently, next to Bian Mei's courtyard.
As it was getting dark, she went to the back hall to take a bath. When she came out, she put a thin shirt on her shoulders, revealing her fair and well-proportioned calves. She went to the low mat by the window and sat down.
Looking out the window, I saw birds flying over the inner lake of the Mu Mansion at dusk, their flying postures graceful.
Bai Ke's eyes lit up slightly, and he casually imitated the scene of birds flying across the water. He stretched out one arm and made a few rhythmic movements. He did it improvisationally, but with full of spirituality that came from chance. He made the birds fly through the air, showing them vividly.
She turned her eyes slightly, and suddenly saw Cao Cao's figure appear by the lake, walking along the corridor.
Then he walked all the way to the outside of the house where she was.
After taking a bath, Bai Ke was wearing only a shirt and a skirt, and her figure was curvy, which made it inconvenient for her to meet guests.
But when Cao Cao came, she naturally went to open the door.
When the lights were just turned on, a slight blush appeared on her face, and her skin was delicate and fair as a baby's.
At this moment, Bai Ke's eyes were full of autumn water, her long hair fell to her shoulders. She was simple and plain, yet beyond the world, she had a kind of natural charm.
She is twenty-six years old this year. She has the charm of a mature woman, yet still retains the cuteness and charm of a young girl.
She turned around to pour tea for Cao Cao, and her waist-to-hip ratio was even more amazing.
Hips and shoulders are almost the same width.
Her waist is as slender as a willow and her back is straight.
"I have been staying in your house for a long time, and I have not yet thanked the governor properly."
Cao Cao sat down at a low mat in the room. Bai Ke poured the tea and handed it to him with her snow-white hands, then sat down opposite him.
"The governor is very busy. When she has some free time, Jinghe will dance a song for him as a token of her gratitude." Bai Ke said softly.
"Are you thanking me by just dancing for me?" Cao Cao teased.
Bai Ke's eyelids drooped slightly: "It's not an ordinary dance. It's the last part of the Heavenly Demon Dance that I've never danced in front of anyone. After I mastered it, I only danced it once when I worked with Qingyu."
"My dancing posture cannot be seen by outsiders. I have nothing, but this little skill of mine can help me thank the governor for a little."
"We can watch the dance later, there's no rush." Cao Cao said.
Bai Ke's body suddenly trembled slightly, and her pretty face was instantly flushed.
There was only a low mat between the two of them.
The low mats in the inner house are used for taking a short rest and are built on a wooden platform.
Anyone sitting on either side of the low seats must take off their shoes and socks.
Only people who are close to you can sit at the table.
Bai Ke had just taken a shower and was sitting sideways with her legs together and bare feet.
Cao Cao was always bold and outspoken, so he reached out from the side of the low mat at a moderate pace.
Bai Ke saw it clearly, his body froze there, allowing the hand to fall on his fair ankle.
She was shaking violently and called out, "Provincial Governor... I am Qingyu's master's wife."
"Master's wife is not my blood relative. Even if we are, she is not next to me. Later, I will put you two together and call you master's wife and disciple. It will be fun." Cao Cao spoke nonsense.
Bai Ke was shaking like a sieve, and her whole body was flushed
"me…"
"If you can't make up your mind, I'll help you. Come with me. I want to sleep with you."
Cao Cao said calmly: "But I am not just greedy for your body, if you are willing to marry into my house, you can be my concubine.
If you don't want to speak out, just keep it a secret for a while until you figure it out."
Given the customs of the Han Dynasty and Cao Cao's status, he did not keep a mistress, but was willing to bring her into his house and marry her in a formal way, which was a very responsible attitude.
Bai Ke almost buried her pretty face in her chest: "Can the governor allow me to think about it?"
Being reserved is understandable.
Cao Cao graciously withdrew:
"Of course, I, Cao Mengde, am not the kind of person who abuses my power to bully others. I'll give you some time." After saying that, he stood up and left.
As it got dark, Cao Cao returned to his inner house.
Yu Qing was wearing a red and white embroidered Hanfu with auspicious patterns embroidered on the hem of her skirt. She had an apricot-yellow collar the width of a palm around her waist and was practicing embroidery with needle and thread in her hands.
Next to her was a small wooden bed, which was a baby carriage of that era.
Her Royal Highness Princess Cao was sleeping soundly in the wooden bed.
According to history, Cao Cao's earliest concubine, Liu, who was also Cao Ang's biological mother, should have had a daughter who was later named Princess Qinghe.
But there are some differences in this world after all.
Cao Cao currently only has his eldest son Cao Ang and the chubby little girl in front of him.
Yu Qing was embroidering while looking at her daughter, with a motherly smile in her eyes.
When Cao Cao came in, a maid moved the wooden bed and the fat girl to the next room.
The couple chatted, had a pleasant conversation, and then did what they needed to do.
Cao Cao: "I was busy recently and neglected you, Qing'er. Now that you have some free time these days, leave the things to Wen Ruo and I will take you out for a walk?"
Yu Qing's peach blossom eyes were filled with joy, but after thinking for a moment, she said:
"I want to go with my husband, but it's cold in February and my daughter is still young and needs to be alone. It's cold if I take her out, so you should go by yourself.
My children and I will be waiting for you at home."
After having a daughter, Yu Qing became obviously more stable and would think about the child first.
In the past, he would have tried every possible means to win favor and would have even stuck to Cao Cao to go.
Now they still compete for favor, but the way has changed, with children as the main focus.
Cao Cao smiled, put his arm around Yu Qing, and touched her as if she was touching the clouds.
Yu Qing fell asleep soon.
The night deepens, it is the hour of Hai.
Cao Cao covered Yu Qing with a quilt, got up from the couch, swayed his arms, put on only an outer robe, walked out of the bedroom and went to the other side.
He quickly came to the outside of another bedroom, walked to the window as usual, stretched out his hand to hold the bottom edge of the window, and with a force, the window latch on the inside of the window frame flipped to the side.
His movements were very skillful, and it was obvious that he was a veteran. He immediately climbed into the room.
As agile as a cat stealing fish.
There was a fish lying on the couch in the room.
Under the moonlight shining through the window lattice, the person on the couch was like bathing in moonlight, with a thin quilt draped around his waist.
Cao Cao lifted the gauze hanging outside the couch and could see the person on the couch. Her black hair was scattered on the side of the pillow, and her delicate face was fair and rosy, bright and charming.
There was a faint fragrance wafting from the couch.
When Cao Cao opened the window, the person on the couch became alert.
In the heavily guarded Cao Mansion, whoever dared to walk around the streets in the middle of the night and climb through the windows would have been beaten to death. The woman knew it was Cao Cao, and she was so nervous that she dared not move. Her white toes were quietly tensed under the quilt.
Cao Cao took off his outer shirt and climbed onto the couch.
Bai Ke, who was lying on the couch, closed her eyes tightly, pretending to be still asleep, but could not help but whispered: "Didn't the governor tell me to give me some time to think about it?"
"You've been thinking about it from dusk till night, and you still haven't figured it out? I can help you think about it."
As he spoke, he suddenly exerted force...
Capture the white rabbit in the clouds and fight the blue dragon in the water.
……
I don’t know how long it took, but Cao Cao went from being too hasty to overworking himself.
The moon moves to the middle of the sky.
Bai Ke narrowed her eyes charmingly and lay aside, too lazy to talk.
Cao Cao was somewhat emotional. The entry said that she practiced dancing diligently, and that she was a contemporary master who had meticulous control over every part of her body. This was true.
Cao Cao personally tested and confirmed the accuracy of the entry prompts.
"Have you thought it through this time?"
"Qingyu said that you don't follow the rules, and it's true."
"Let's keep this a secret from Qingyu for a while, otherwise I'll lose all my dignity. Qingyu still calls me Master's Wife."
Bai Ke thought about it and her face turned redder: "You just called me Master's Wife..."
Cao Cao was surprised and said, "Isn't 'Master's Wife' a proper title? Why can't I call her that? Didn't you call me that, too?"
Bai Ke turned over, not wanting to pay attention to him, and muttered: "When I first came to see you, I knew I was a sheep walking into a tiger's mouth."
"Then why are you coming?" Cao Cao laughed.
"You will be able to avoid me sooner or later. How can I avoid you forever? We Qingbi Li are all working for you."
Bai Ke said timidly: "But I like the governor, from the bottom of my heart..."
Before daybreak, Cao Cao performed another dance, then ran to Bian Mei's place in the next courtyard and took a nap.
Bian Mei twitched her nose and asked him where he came from.
When Cao Cao said that it came from Yu Qing, Bian Mei looked a little surprised.
The next day.
Cao Cao had dealt with all his affairs and had some free time in the afternoon. When he saw Dian Wei and Xu Chu at the door, he suddenly remembered something:
"Dian Wei, are you still unmarried?"
Dian Wei said indifferently: "We are powerful in Yanzhou, and some people have asked me about it, but I don't want to find a wife and become a burden."
After a pause, he added: "The skills I practice are strong and vigorous, and I don't look down on weak women like that."
Xu Chu's family background was not bad, and he was married in the local area since he was a child.
Dian Wei was an orphan and had been living off other people since he was a child.
"Do you like strong women?"
Everyone has their own aspirations. Cao Cao sighed, "There are many nobles who want to marry my Yanzhou soldiers. Some of them have good family backgrounds and good looks. Don't you like them?"
Dian Wei sneered: "I don't care. It's not even worth a meal of donkey meat."
Cao Cao picked up a scroll and said, "I have a girl here. She is the youngest daughter of the eldest son of the Chen family, a noble family in Yanzhou. Her name is Chen Liu'er, and her courtesy name is Qingheng. She is only sixteen years old. She has a good family background and good character, but she is a little tall and lacks the tenderness of a woman. According to your request, she is quite suitable."
"How high?" Dian Wei asked.
"Not even half a head shorter than you."
Xu Chu was surprised.
Dian Wei was eight feet tall and looked like an iron tower.
She was less than half a head shorter than him, which was surprisingly tall for a woman.
No wonder it’s not easy for her to get married. She’s still single at the age of sixteen.
Dian Wei hesitated, but still shook his head: "Forget it, starting a family is a lot of work. I use the essence in my body to promote my blood and qi, so I don't need a wife."
Cao Cao: "I heard that the Chen family is a wealthy family in the area. They have more than 200 cattle and horses in their animal sheds for farming, including black donkeys, yellow donkeys, curly donkeys, and spotted donkeys. The donkeys alone can bring over a hundred as a dowry.
I can also build donkey sheds to raise all kinds of donkeys and horses. If you don’t want them, I’ll give them to someone else?”
Dian Wei came in from the door like a whirlwind: "Where is he, where is he?"
Cao Cao handed over the scroll containing the woman's message.
Dian Wei took the scroll, read it carefully, and then read it again:
"The first two characters are Chenliu. I am from Chenliu and I know the place name Chenliu. What do these many characters below mean?"
Cao Cao couldn't help laughing, and Xu Chu was also laughing at the door.
I read it twice and it turned out that I was looking for words I knew.
For the sake of the donkey, Dian Wei was happy with this marriage, which was very much to his liking.
The next day, Cao Cao asked someone to prepare a car and planned to go out.
There is Xun Yu in Changyi, he can leave whenever he wants.
After the carriage left the mansion, the sound of horse hooves was heard from behind.
The Fu brothers and sisters, accompanied by several followers, approached on horseback.
Fu Ping came to the carriage, leaned over to Cao Cao inside and said, "The governor is in a good mood, would you like to go out?"
He continued, "What do you think of the horse I ride? I came to Yanzhou this time and brought a lot of good horses to give to the governor. Among them is a snowy green horse, which is a thousand-mile horse.
If the governor of the state can accept our Fu family's request, our Fu family will also give us a gift."
To show off his nice horse to me, Cao Cao lifted the curtain a little wider, and Diao Chan showed half of her pretty face from inside the carriage.
Fu Ping was stunned.
He was amazed at Diao Chan's beauty and subconsciously turned around to look at his sister Fu Yu, only to see that Fu Yu was also staring at Diao Chan with an expression of disbelief.
Cao Cao closed the curtains and said, "The scenery in Yanzhou is beautiful. If you two like, you can go for a stroll."
The emperor left the city and galloped westwards under the protection of Dian Wei, Xu Chu and others.
Cao Cao was preparing to inspect the territory under his rule and his next strategic goal.
In addition to Diao Chan, Wen Ji was also in the car this time.
But soon after the carriage left the city, it was caught up by scouts from the rear on fast horses:
"Provincial Governor, Sima Xun said that a secret letter has been sent and he cannot handle it. Please go back or read the secret letter and tell me how to deal with it."
What is it that Xun Yu can't decide?
Cao Cao took the secret letter handed over by the scout, looked at the signature, and laughed.
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