Chapter 320 Cao Cao appears

Modification: The last sentence should be "Why is Meng Xuan drunk alone here?" rather than "Why is Eighth Brother..."

Cao Cao always called Wu Fan "Meng Xuan", just as Xiahou Dun always called Cao Cao "Meng De".

The sound was extremely familiar to my ears. Wu Fan hurriedly put down the wine jar and turned around and looked at it. His eyes widened in surprise.

The person who came was nothing but Cao Cao

"Brother, why are you... here?"

Wu Fan asked in surprise.

Cao Cao smiled indifferently, sat beside Wu Fan on the ground and said:

"What? Can Meng Xuan sit here but not for brother?"

As he said that, he had already picked up the wine jar that Wu Fan had put down, raised his head and took a sip, closed his eyes and savored for a while, and praised:

"Although this wine is not a rare wine, it has a unique taste when you taste it carefully. Just like life, even if you enjoy the glory during your lifetime and the scenery is infinite, everything will be nothing after death. Calm down and think about it carefully. Every touch that makes people miss and is buried in the deep memory is often without the chance of being warm and noisy, but hidden in the seemingly ordinary and melodious little things that are within reach."

Speaking of this, Cao Cao picked up the wine jar and took another sip.

Wu Fan looked at Cao Cao calmly, his eyes full of confusion. His question was obvious: Isn’t the eldest brother dead? Why did he appear here again? Could it be...I am dreaming?

However, even though he had a lot of questions in his heart, Wu Fan never asked. He was worried that once he asked, Cao Cao would disappear. He missed Cao Cao so much that the reason why he now had white hair in his eyebrows and temples in his early thirties was because he was extremely sad when he learned about Cao Cao's death half a year ago.

Out of this concern, Wu Fan suppressed the doubts in his heart. He didn't even dare to say a word, for fear that something he said was inappropriate, causing Cao Cao to suddenly disappear or wake him up from his dream.

It’s okay to just watch quietly like this, even if you can’t say anything or do anything.

Suddenly, Wu Fan looked at Cao Cao's eyes with tears flashing.

Unlike Wu Fan's carefulness, Cao Cao seemed to be nothing. After taking a few sips of wine, Cao Cao wiped his mouth with satisfaction, looked at the little half of the jar of wine left in the jar, and realized it a little unintentionally:

"Oh, I've been drinking it all by myself. Meng Xuan should not blame me for being greedy for my brother, because I'm so happy for my brother today."

As he said that, he returned the wine jar to Wu Fan.

But inadvertently, I saw something strange in Wu Fan's eyes and said strangely:

"Hey, why are there tears in Meng Xuan's eyes? Could it be that Meng Xuan felt sorry for his brother?"

This was obviously a joke. But Wu Fan could not laugh at this time because of his mood. He hurriedly wiped his face with his sleeves and barely raised the corner of his mouth. Wu Fan said:

"Brother, I misread it. There are no tears in my eyes. It's because of the flashing stars above my head."

Wu Fan dared not admit that there were tears in his eyes. If that were the case, Cao Cao would definitely ask why he was sad, and it would inevitably tell what Cao Cao had died.

Dreams are a manifestation of fantasy in the mind when people are sleeping. Since it is a fantasy, we cannot be serious. Often, we have this experience: when we think about certain things in the dream because we feel strange and confused, the things we are targeting will change and even disappear.

Wu Fan's concern is here. He is worried that once he tells that Cao Cao is dead, Cao Cao will disappear. Therefore, although he clearly has tears in his eyes, he lied that it was not tears.

Cao Cao didn't ask much about this, laughed, looked up at the stars in the night, and said:

"What a peaceful night. It's like the whole country is now unified, and there are no more wars and disputes. The people can finally sleep peacefully, and they no longer have to worry about the enemy attacking in their dreams at night."

Speaking of this, Cao Cao turned his head and looked at Wu Fan, saying:

"Meng Xuan's contribution to the country's unification in just ten years is indispensable. Nowadays, the legends of Meng Xuan Chi's recruitment on the battlefield can be heard everywhere in the market, the countryside and villages, which is enough to explain everything."

Wu Fan listened quietly, or looked quietly, his eyes always leaving Cao Cao. He was afraid that Cao Cao would still be sitting next to him at this moment and suddenly disappeared in the next second.

Cao Cao sighed once, looked at Wu Fan again, and said with a smile:

"Why is Meng Xuan so dull today? Brother Wei remembers that when we were together in the past, Meng Xuan always talked and laughed, and he had a lot of high-profile opinions. Sometimes, even make me sigh. Looking at the performance today, is Meng Xuan's thoughts not going well?"

Wu Fan quickly defended:

"Brother is too worried. I am very happy when I see my elder brother. It is like a spring breeze. How can he accommodate his heart?"

Cao Cao smiled and shook his head:

"Meng Xuan is lying. You must have a problem that you are having trouble solving when you come to find Brother Wei today. How can you not know about Brother Wei? Let's talk about it, what exactly can make Meng Xuan, who has always been decisive, and Brother Wei is also very strange."

When Wu Fan saw Cao Cao say this, he knew that he could not escape. Moreover, his trip was indeed because he had a knot in his heart and wanted to tell Cao Cao. At this time, Cao Cao was sitting next to him, his words and deeds were exactly the same as before when he was alive. While Wu Fan felt very kind, he naturally wanted to express this knot.

After that, after hesitating for a while, Wu Fan finally spoke:

"Brother is right, I have something to tell my brother..."

Afterwards, Wu Fan told Cao Cao about his drastic reform of a series of national foundations such as criminal law and system.

After hearing this, Cao Cao did not answer immediately, but frowned and pondered for a moment. However, he seemed to be distracting from the topic:

"Meng Xuan, do you know? At the moment when I was about to leave this world, although I could not hold the pen in my hand and could not speak, I thought a lot in my heart at that moment."

When Wu Fan heard that Cao Cao finally said something related to death, he couldn't help but feel a little shocked. However, Cao Cao did not disappear as he was worried, but continued:

"Among all my thoughts, the most regretful thing about the successor's failure to confirm. But through this incident, I thought of you Meng Xuan. I even thought that you might have troops to become independent after I left this world, abolish Emperor Xian, and become the emperor of a new dynasty."

As soon as these words came out, Wu Fan was shocked and on the spot.

However, Cao Cao smiled and continued:

"Of course, these are just my temporary hypothesis. In fact, based on my understanding of you, you will not be independent at all. On the contrary, you will try your best to promote one of my sons to inherit the throne, preside over the situation, and stabilize the overall situation. The facts prove that my expectations are correct. You support Chong'er to take office, which is exactly what I hope to see most. Not only that, you also abolished Emperor Xian and made Chong'er the Emperor of Wei; this is something that I was unexpected."

"No matter whether the world believes it or not, what I, Cao Cao, has always been "to be in charge of the emperor as orders to be denied." I have never made up my mind about how the emperor will deal with it after the national unity. Therefore, I hate it deeply for those who slander me, Cao Cao, and it is hard to get out of my anger without killing it. However, if I really abolish the emperor, or my son abolished the emperor and took the position of emperor, wouldn't I, Cao Cao, really become a traitor? Wouldn't it prove that those despicable villains who verbally talked to me are right? No matter how the later generations evaluate my achievements in the unified war, this usurpation of the country and seized power alone will turn all my contributions into a long-planned power-making act."

Speaking of this, Cao Cao laughed:

"However, if you do the deposed emperor, Meng Xuan, the result will be very different. This is what I said, and it can be said that it is an unexpected joy."

Then, Cao Cao looked at Wu Fan, patted Wu Fan on the shoulder and said:

"Since the throne my children and grandchildren received was an unexpected joy, how could I object to your next reform? Besides, I can foresee that once this reform is successful, the entire country will be completely different from the previous dynasties. To be honest, I only regret that I left too early and could not see the earth-shaking changes that have taken place in this country after the reform, nor could I personally feel the support of the people who have been liberated from the high-pressure rule, and from the bottom of my heart, the support for the rulers."

Wu Fan had the urge to cry at this time.

Cao Cao despised the imperial power at heart and did not like to follow the rules when doing things. In this era, Cao Cao was a freak in the eyes of most powerful people. People like Liu Bei and Ma Teng who regarded the imperial power as orthodox as the way of heaven were particularly disgusted with Cao Cao. However, it was precisely his personality trait that made him not very resistant to Wu Fan's reform. Moreover, because Wu Fan unexpectedly supported Cao Chong as the emperor, this made Cao Cao not only not resist the reform, but also supported it very much.

In this way, Wu Fan's surrender to Cao Cao's account was the most correct move in his life. If it weren't for this, no matter who Wu Fan surrendered to, Sun Jian, Liu Bei, Ma Teng, Zhang Lu, Liu Yan... Wu Fan could not have been so smooth. In terms of the most basic reform, no one except Cao Cao could agree to this.

Wu Fan, who was moved, also felt an unexpected joy at this time? He lowered his head, Wu Fan suppressed his sore nose and did not let the tears flow down. He raised his head again to say a word of gratitude to his elder brother Cao Cao, but...

Cao Cao disappeared.

Wu Fan hurriedly jumped up from the ground, turned around and looked around, searching around. There was no sign of him in the vast field...

Next, for more than ten seconds, Wu Fan stood firmly in front of Cao Cao's tomb like a wooden sculpture.

Then, tears in his eyes finally rolled down from his face uncontrollably.

"Brother——"

Wu Fan raised his head and said a long hissing, and knelt on the ground dejectedly.

...

Wu Fan's long hiss naturally alarmed Cao Pi. When he walked out of the wooden house, he saw his eighth uncle Wu Fan kneeling in front of his father Cao Cao's tomb, tears falling like rain. Cao Pi somehow hurriedly walked up to support Wu Fan and said:

"Uncle Eight, why is Uncle Eight so sad? He was staying in front of his father's tomb for a night?"

Wu Fan was reminded by Cao Pi's words and turned his head to look east. He saw a ray of morning glow swaying in the sky, and the orange-red sun was rising slowly.

I actually stayed in front of my elder brother's grave all night. Could it be that I was really just a dream just now? But why is everything so clear and true, it is exactly the same as reality.

Wu Fan asked himself in his heart.

If that is the case, is the elder brother's words coming from the elder brother's voice or his own imagination? Since dreams are originally a fantasy, things in the dream often change according to the dreamer's wishes. For example, if the dreamer subconsciously hopes that someone in the dream praises him, then someone in the dream often does that

Wu Fan, who had just felt an unexpected joy, fell into a new confusion at this moment.

Inadvertently, Wu Fan's eyes swept to an object at his feet. When he looked closely, it was an object in the shape of a wine jar.

It happened that a breeze blew by, and the wine jar began to drift with the wind from the mouth of the jar, and it fluttered, until it finally left only a bottom of the jar on the spot.

This wine jar is actually made of paper ash

Cao Pi also noticed the wine jar at this time and said with a smile:

"Uncle Eight also brought a jar of fine wine to his father. Haha, I burned so much paper money on the memorial service, but no one thought about cooking a jar of fine wine to his father. Uncle Eight was still thoughtful."

Wu Fan did not speak, but looked carefully at the front, back, left and right—

The jar of wine I asked for from Cao Pi last night disappeared.

There is an "paper wine jar" that I have never brought before me.

This shows a problem: I did not dream when I saw my elder brother Cao Cao, but...

The eldest brother's soul has appeared

...

The reason why people are afraid of the dead souls is often because people feel guilty. Because deep down in people's hearts, they always think that although the bad things they do can be seen by the living, they cannot escape the eyes of the dead.

This is the origin of the so-called "not doing bad things, not being afraid of ghosts knocking on the door."

In traditional Chinese culture, ghosts are evil, but they often punish bad people. Especially when ghosts are "alive", if someone has framed them, they will be even more afraid of death when they see their ghosts.

Although this traditional culture has some superstitious meaning, it is undoubtedly very beneficial to guide people to avoid evil and promote good. Looking at what the Chinese people have done after being atheistic, everything goes without saying.

The topic is a bit far-reaching, let’s talk about Wu Fan.

He had never done anything guilty about Cao Cao in his life, and although the two were not brothers, they were better than brothers. Therefore, Wu Fan did not have any fear of the appearance of Cao Cao's soul, but was extremely relieved.

If you carefully understand what the elder brother said to you, it is not difficult to see that the reason why the elder brother appeared specifically is nothing more than untiing the knot for you and expressing your thoughts to you.

That alone is enough.

Even the eldest brother's spirit in heaven supports his own reform. With this, I have to overcome all difficulties and obstacles and carry out the reform with all my strength.
Chapter completed!