In recent days, Sima Yi has been busy demarcating the combat strategy for Cao Cao to fight against the Three Auxiliary. Many times he is busy with Jiang Ji, Gao Rou and others until all night, so he rarely goes home to visit Zhang Chunhua and Sima Shi. These are all seen by Cao Cao. Sometimes he has almost dispelled his previous layers of vigilance against Sima Yi, believing that Sima Yi is truly serving him.

After a detailed discussion with Jiang Ji and Gao Rou, Sima Yi determined that once Ma Chao and Han Sui rose up, they would definitely take advantage of Ma Chao's reputation in Yongliang and call on various forces including Qiang and Hu to jointly attack.

Looking at the huge map hanging on the wall in front of him, Sima Yi held a slender wooden stick and said to them:

"If the Prime Minister wants to attack, we can prepare now. There are three ways to choose from our attack on Guanzhong. One is to order Xiahou Yuan, who had just suppressed Shang Yao's rebellion, and Xu Huang, two generals from Hedong to enter the pass from Pubanjin to the west and enter Fengyi County. This is the northern route; the second is to order General Cao Ren, who was stationed in Nanyang, and General Wang Ling, who was stationed in Wuguan, to detour through Lantian to attack Ma Chao's base camp Huaili; the third is to follow the middle road and go straight to Tongguan along the route planned by Jia Xu as Li Jue and Guo Si, to attack the opposite way."

After hearing this, Jiang Ji and Gao Rou nodded frequently, thinking that Sima Yi had basically thought of everything he should have thought, so they said to Cao Cao who had been sitting quietly and listening: "Prime Minister, please make a decision quickly."

After careful consideration, Cao Cao stood up and walked to the map and asked Sima Yi:

"In your opinion, how many troops will Ma Chao have after he rises up, and will he attack along that route?"

After Sima Yi stared at the map for a while, he reached out his hand very decisively and pressed the end of the wooden stick to Tongguan:

"It must be Tongguan! Because Ma Chao and others suddenly raised their troops, they must not have enough time to formulate a detailed strategic plan. They thought that after they joined forces, there should be no less than 100,000 people, and their purpose was very clear, that is, to advance east. According to the content reported by Lord Zhong Yao, Ma Chao had very prominent people in Hongnong and Fengyi. After they advanced east, they occupied Luoyang first along Hongnong, and then they could go south to Xudu or north to Yecheng."

At this time, Jiang Ji realized what Sima Yi said was about:

"That is, they want to achieve their goals as quickly as possible. There is only one way, that is, to break through Tongguan and enter Sili. At that time, it will be like a sharp knife inserted into our hinterland from the West, which is too dangerous."

Cao Cao also noticed the importance of Tongguan. He pondered for a while and inserted his hands into the sleeve tube, leaned against the sand table, squinted his eyes and stared at the map of Tongguan area:

"Tongguan cannot be lost. If Tongguan is lost, we will lose the entire Sili, including Luoyang. By then, Ma Chao will definitely join forces with Sun Quan and Liu Bei to divide our territory. We will really die without a place to bury..."

At the same time, Cao Cao was also quite concerned about the number of Xiliang coalition forces:

"A hundred thousand people... We just passed the defeat at Chibi. After that, the navy I carefully rectified in Qiao County was not able to get a bargain in Hefei. The strength was no longer as good as before. What Zhongda said just now was to let Cao Ren, who was stationed in Nanyang, rise up and go north to Lantian. However, Liu Bei had just obtained Nanjun from Sun Quan. If Cao Ren's troops rashly draw, if Liu Bei leads troops to attack, we will not be able to resist the enemy on both sides..."

Seeing Cao Cao's brows tight, Sima Yi bowed and said to Cao Cao:

"Prime Minister, although the Xiliang coalition forces are numerous, they are mixed and have their own ulterior motives. Especially since Ma Teng and Han Sui have always had disagreements, this time it will definitely be as difficult as the Kwantung army's attack on Dong Zhuo. As for the prime minister of Jingzhou, there is no need to worry. Although Liu Bei and Sun Quan alliance, they are actually guarding each other and waiting for the opportunity to attack, so Liu Bei will definitely not dare to go north rashly at this time. It can be asserted that in the future, which side of Sun and Liu will first attack on the northern part of Jingzhou will be destined to lose Jingzhou."

Sima Yi's explanation made Cao Cao feel the smog in front of him dissipated. Suddenly, he reached out and hooked Sima Yi's shoulder without warning, and joked to him like a friend of many years: "It's a blessing. Fortunately, there is no one like you who is full of bad water beside Ma Chao, otherwise I will be the one who suffers..."

At first, Sima Yi felt overwhelmed by Cao Cao's sudden actions, but he immediately adapted:

"The Prime Minister praised it. This conclusion was also thought of by Mr. Zitong and Wen Hui, both of whom I and I have come up with. It's not my own."

As soon as he finished speaking, Sima Yi felt Cao Cao's figure shaking in front of him, and it was difficult for him to stand firm. Fortunately, Jiang Ji reached out to support his shoulder in time. Cao Cao was very concerned about this:

"Zhongda, have you been feeling unwell due to the fatigue over the past few days?"

Sima Yi, who was pale, reluctantly cheered up and replied: "The Prime Minister has trouble, and his body is not in trouble."

"It's okay? If you continue like this, you will fall down for me before you can attack Guanzhong. Don't ignore your wife and children in order to realize the "strategy of advancing west" as soon as possible. It's time to go home to see them, right?"

After saying that, Cao Cao said to Jiang Ji: "Now the big policy has been decided. Zitong, go and inform Sima Lang to take him home and cultivate himself. You have worked hard during this period, so you will all go home to rest."

In order to show his importance to Sima Yi, Cao Cao specially asked the carriage he personally to transport Sima Yi and Sima Lang home.

After returning home, Sima Yi finally met Zhang Chunhua who had been away for several days. Looking at her tired husband Zhang Chunhua, she was very worried. She gently put Sima Shi, who had already coaxed her dream into the wooden shaking bed, walked to Sima Yi, and stretched out her hand to lift the hair hanging on her cheek: "Thank you for your hard work, I'll give you a bath water."

After boiling water in person and pouring it into the bathtub one by one, Zhang Chunhua walked to Sima Yi and wanted to stretch out his hand to untie his clothes, but Sima Yi held her hand: "You have just recovered from a serious illness, so I'd better do it myself..."

"I am your wife, and it is appropriate to be a good wife to serve you..."

After saying that, Zhang Chunhua broke free from Sima Yi's hand and untied his belt, and took off his clothes. When Sima Yi stood in front of her naked, Zhang Chunhua could hardly believe what his eyes saw.

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Sima Yi had a long scar on his left and right chest. She covered her mouth and couldn't help but shed tears:

"Is this... this the serious injury you suffered when you were in Jingzhou?"

Sima Yi didn't know how to explain to her. He didn't want Zhang Chunhua to untie his clothes before because he didn't want to scare her. But when he saw his wife crying for his trauma of his body, Sima Yi felt very guilty. He spread his arms and hugged Zhang Chunhua in his arms:

"Don't worry, I'm fine already..."

But Zhang Chunhua still couldn't stop crying and said:

"Why did I not be by your side when you experienced a hellish experience, let you bear this pain alone? I don't want you to suffer any more harm, I want you to be well..."

Sima Yi smiled and said, "I really want me to be fine, so hurry up and give birth to another son for me..."

When Zhang Chunhua heard this, he immediately broke away from Sima Yi's arms. She lowered her head and muttered in a low voice, saying:

"I don't just give birth to babies for you..."

Seeing Zhang Chunhua's face as pink as her cheeks were so charming, Sima Yi suddenly felt that he had indeed not cared about his wife for a long time, so he hugged Zhang Chunhua in the waist and turned to the bed:

"Didn't you just say you want to be a good wife? It's my wife's duty to have a lot of branches and leaves for me, Sima Yi...."

After temporarily putting the preliminary plan to attack Guanzhong, Sima Yi remembered what he saw on the Tongque Platform before. He did not dare to talk to her directly because of the crowds and eyes. Now that he learned that Cai Yan and her husband Dong Si had been left in Yecheng by Cao Cao, Sima Yi thought that as a junior, he should find an opportunity to pay homage to Cai Yan.

After inquiring, Sima Yi learned that Cai Yan and his wife lived in a villa specially selected by Cao Cao in Yecheng, so he specially visited Cao Cao in the army. When he was not in Yecheng, he took Zhang Chunhua and Sima Shi to visit Cai Yan's home.

In order to avoid attracting others' attention, Sima Yi and Zhang Chunhua were sitting in ordinary carriages, and they rarely showed their faces along the way until the carriage stopped at Cai Yan's doorstep.

After getting off the carriage, Sima Yi walked to the gate with Zhang Chunhua, who was holding Sima Shi, and reached out to knock on the door.

After a while, the door opened. Dong Si saw that it was a strange person and asked in a warm voice:

"Who are you?"

Although Dong Si did not recognize him, Sima Yi recognized Dong Si. He respectfully saluted Dong Si and reported to him that:

"I am Sima Yi, a disciple of Mr. Hu Zhao, a famous scholar in Yingchuan. His family master returned to Yingchuan some time ago because of something, so he was unable to meet his old friend Miss Cai Yan. Today, I came to visit him for his family master."

When he heard that Sima Yi was Hu Zhao's disciple, Dong Si opened the door and let Sima Yi and Zhang Chunhua enter:

"It turns out that he is Mr. Kong Ming's disciple. Zhuo Jing has mentioned Mr. Kong Ming's talent many times before. If we had known that he had been stranded in Yecheng before, then we should have visited him earlier."

Through Dong Si's guidance, Sima Yi and Zhang Chunhua quickly arrived at the hall. Sima Yi also met Cai Yan, who was writing in the hall as he wished. At this time, he wanted to kneel forward and kowtow to him immediately. However, because Zhang Chunhua and Dong Si were both present, he forced to resist this impulse:

"My younger generation Sima Yi, on the order of his family teacher, came to pay tribute to Miss Cai Yan..."

Cai Yan, who was writing with his head down, held the pen and wrote, suddenly trembled when he heard Sima Yi's voice, so that the font that was originally perfect had a stroke and showed all the flaws. She raised her head slightly to look at Sima Yi who was standing at the door and saluted her. She put the pen on the pen holder and stood up and walked in front of Sima Yi:

"Mr. Zhongda doesn't have to be too polite, get up quickly..."

With eyes facing each other, there were many things between the two who wanted to say to each other. Sima Yi turned around and said to Zhang Chunhua:

"This Miss Cai Yan is my elder, and you should salute him."

Out of inconvenience of his identity, Sima Yi used very obscure words to make Zhang Chunhua salute to his aunt standing in front of him.

Zhang Chunhua, who was holding Sima Shi, was about to kneel down to salute Cai Yan after hearing her husband's words, but as soon as she bent her knees, Cai Yan bent down and reached for help: "Okay, okay, you don't need to be so polite if you have a child in your arms."

After saying that, Cai Yan looked at Sima Shi who was laughing with wide eyes, and showed a relieved smile:

"This is Sima Shi, he looks really similar..."

After a simple greeting, Sima Yi turned to Zhang Chunhua and said:

"Miss Cai Yan and I have something to talk about, so you can take the teacher out first."

After Zhang Chunhua and Dong Si left the hall one after another, Sima Yi saw that there was no one around, so he immediately took two steps back and bent his knees and knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Cai Yan: "My nephew, please see my aunt..."

Cai Yan breathed a sigh of relief, smiled and went forward to help Sima Yi up: "It seems that you already know everything. Seeing that you are still alive in the world, your brother and sister-in-law will definitely be very relieved if you know him in the spring."

Although Zhong Yu revealed his life experience in Lukou, Sima Yi did not know what Cai Yan had experienced after her biological parents were in trouble. She only knew that she was taken to Taishan County by Cai Yong, who was excluded from Beijing, and there was no news again.

Thinking of this, Cai Yan recalled how she escaped from danger:

"At that time, Lord Ji Ming noticed that sooner or later, he would be exposed, but found that they did not notice my existence. In order to take advantage of this gap to protect my integrity, he specially wrote a secret letter to Cai Yong's father and asked him to secretly enter Beijing, and then entrusted me to him. Until the Beiyuan fire, Luoyang began to search for your whereabouts everywhere, and his father took me away from Luoyang."

As he said that, Cai Yan reached out and gently stroked the black jade inkstone on the table, which Cai Yong liked the most during his lifetime:

"If it weren't for my father's support and Lord Lu Zhi's secret help, I would have died long ago at the hands of Emperor Ling of Han and He Jin. It's ironic to think about it. The 'Yongyuan bud' planted by Emperor He of Han has been around for five generations, but we juniors have not played the role he expected at all. Instead, they have been desperate to avoid the pursuit of the emperor of the current dynasty..."

Sima Yi understood what Cai Yan said very well. He reached out and touched the scar that still hurt in his chest:

"Maybe..."

Cai Yan looked at Sima Yi and said to him, "There is one more thing I want to tell you."

At this time, Sima Yi noticed that Cai Yan's expression became extremely serious, as if he was about to say something shocking secret:

"I think you should have heard that Liu Bei got the imperial seal after he conquered Yuan Shu? In fact, that jade seal was not the one in the Luoyang Palace. In order to give the "Yongyuan Relics" enough to control the government, Emperor He of Han specially left secret edicts and jade seals. The palace was just a decoration."

"No wonder Liu Bei tried every means to get it, with the purpose of obtaining the jade seal and then using me to control the government."

Just when Sima Yi thought the jade seal had fallen into Liu Bei's hands, Cai Yan said to him:
Chapter completed!