Chapter 259 Exchange of Captives

This is my husband's feather arrow, how could it be in her quiver pot?

Lu Lingqi suddenly widened her eyes and held the feather arrow with the word "Wu" in her hand in disbelief and looked carefully. After looking at it for a long time, she finally confirmed that it was indeed Wu Fan's feather arrow.

Although Wu Fan's feather arrows are not as exquisite as those of his daughter's feather arrows like Sun Shangxiang, they are also designed by good craftsmen in the army. The workmanship is unmatched and very different from ordinary arrows. In particular, the arrowheads are made of rare black iron. With Wu Fan's power, they can easily break through more than ten layers of armor and can be seen at a glance in their hands.

In addition to the word "Wu" engraved on the tail feather part, Lu Lingqi is convinced that the owner of this feather arrow is no other person in the world except his husband Wu Fan.

My husband's feather arrow ran into another woman's quiver, and this woman was quite beautiful. Just these two points alone were enough to arouse suspicion. Moreover, after Wu Fan ordered people to transfer Sun Shangxiang from prison to the mansion, Lu Lingqi had some thoughts in her mind, and the feather arrow in front of her played a role in fueling this idea.

Although Lu Lingqi's xìng style is very different from her father Lu Bu, there are always some similarities between her father and daughter. After confirming that this feather arrow was the one of her husband Wu Fan, Lu Lingqi stared at the feather arrow for a moment, then suddenly turned around, threw away her cloak and left the study room, and headed straight for the wing where Sun Shangxiang was.

You bitch woman, you actually hide my husband's feather arrow. What is your intention? If my husband is interested in you, I will naturally not be able to say anything. If this is not the case, I must be ashamed of you!

Lu Lingqi was angry and jealous, and quickly walked to the door of the wing where Sun Shangxiang was imprisoned. The female soldiers guarding the door were all under Lu Lingqi's subordinates, so naturally they would not stop her. Lu Lingqi ordered one of the female soldiers to open the door lock, then pushed the door directly and entered the room.

At this time, Sun Shangxiang was lying on the bed, applying a warm water sac to the abdomen to promote blood circulation and reduce pain. Suddenly, Lu Lingqi broke into the room and had an angry look on her face. Sun Shangxiang looked at Lu Lingqi in confusion for some reason.

The two looked at each other for a long time. Lu Lingqi came to Sun Shangxiang's bed and glanced at the water capsule on Sun Shangxiang's belly and the charcoal stove beside the bed. These were all prepared by Wu Fan. Seeing this, Lu Lingqi couldn't help but feel jealous again. She directly took the feather arrow in her hand to Sun Shangxiang and asked:

"Why is this feathered arrow hidden in your quiver pot? What are you thinking about? Tell me quickly!"

Before this, since Sun Shangxiang already knew Wu Fan's identity, recalling the rumors that Wu Fan's power was amazing. Wu Fan said that day on Heifengling that he had shot through the giant eagle with one arrow, and then he obtained this blood-stained feather arrow with the word "Wu". Through these clues one by one, Sun Shangxiang was sure that this feather arrow was Wu Fan's, and what Wu Fan said was shooting through the giant eagle with one arrow is also true.

Originally, seeing this feather arrow being seen by Wu Fan's wife Lu Lingqi and being asked in front of him, Sun Shangxiang's face was embarrassed and his face turned red in an instant. However, when he saw Lu Lingqi's resentment and dissatisfaction with him, Lu Lingqi's tone was very rude, which made Sun Shangxiang, who had been spoiled, suddenly rise.

Moreover, because she is resentful to Wu Fan, she wants to take this opportunity to provoke Wu Fan's family internal strife. Even if it is just to make Wu Fan tired of explaining, she can still exhale herself.

As a result, Sun Shangxiang suppressed the embarrassment in his heart, but he deliberately looked indifferent to Sun Shangxiang's eyes and said:

"This feather arrow was handed to me by your husband Wu Fan. As for what he is, how could I know? You go and ask him. However, I have to remind you that your husband will definitely not admit it!"

Sun Shangxiang's intelligence is 78 points and Lu Lingqi is 73 points. The two are five points apart. In terms of brain power alone, Lu Lingqi lost to Sun Shangxiang. At this time, Lu Lingqi was resentful and thoughtful. After Sun Shangxiang said this, she immediately believed it to be true.

When Lu Lingqi believed it, she looked at Sun Shangxiang with a blushing face. She couldn't tell that Sun Shangxiang was deliberately pretending to be indifferent. After looking at Sun Shangxiang for a while, Lu Lingqi turned around in anger and walked out of the wing room.

In this society, men, especially powerful men, are very normal to marry three wives and four concubines. Although Lu Lingqi believed Sun Shangxiang's words and thought it was Wu Fan who secretly gave Sun Shangxiang this feather arrow to Sun Shangxiang, she could not do anything to Sun Shangxiang. She could only feel sulking in her heart and could not accept this for the time being.

The next moment, Lu Lingqi, who was rushing in the yard with resentment, almost ran into Wu Fan who was walking towards her. Lu Lingqi glanced at the bags of medicinal materials in Wu Fan's hand, and felt that what Sun Shangxiang said was true. She pouted and snorted, and walked over to Wu Fan.

Wu Fan looked at Lu Lingqi's leaving figure with some strangeness, then looked at the several medicinal herbs in his hand, and couldn't figure out what happened to his third wife. He called Lu Lingqi: Madam, are you okay?

Lu Lingqi didn't look back and said with a humming voice: You don't have to worry about it!

As the words came, Lu Lingqi had already turned around and left the yard.

Wu Fan looked at the direction where Lu Lingqi left for a while in confusion and said to herself:

"Can't it be that these three wives have advanced menopause? Why are they so weird today? She is less than twenty years old, so it is too early for menopause?"

Shaking his head, Wu Fan carried a few bags of medicinal herbs and continued to walk towards the wing where Sun Shangxiang was.

When Wu Fan entered Sun Shangxiang's room, Sun Shangxiang was pretending to sleep, with a smile on his lips that was a trick. He turned his head and looked at the door. Seeing that it was Wu Fan, Sun Shangxiang immediately turned his head into the bed.

Wu Fan was not embarrassed, so he walked into the room and checked the charcoal stove first. Seeing that the charcoal inside was burning vigorously, the kettle sitting on the stove had rolled away, and a string of white mist was rushing into the mouth of the pot.

Wu Fan walked aside, scooped some water from the wooden barrel and poured it into the kettle. The water rolled out immediately calmed down.

After doing all this, Wu Fan came to Sun Shangxiang's bed, moved a stool and sat down to take Sun Shangxiang's pulse.

Wu Fan has medical skills and is very good at treating dysmenorrhea like Sun Shangxiang. At present, the fact that Sun Shangxiang was captured by Wu Fan is still a secret. When Sun Shangxiang was imprisoned in prison, Wu Fan deliberately prevented other prison guards from approaching Sun Shangxiang. In addition to being inconvenient to daily life, his main purpose is to keep it confidential.

It is precisely for this reason that Wu Fan did not invite the doctor outside to come over to treat Sun Shangxiang, but instead went to the battle himself.

After all, Sun Shangxiang is Sun Jian's precious daughter. Compared to letting Sun Jian know that his daughter was caught by him, it is better to let Sun Jian be unclear about his daughter's life and death. This will make him feel heartbroken and anxious.

Once Sun Jian has his position, he may have an opportunity to take advantage of the Xiahou Dun Legion, which is in a fierce confrontation with him. Sima Yi, the military commander who was assigned to Xiahou Dun Legion by Cao Cao, should be able to play some role at this time.

Sun Shangxiang naturally didn't know about Wu Fan. Although he still had resentment towards Wu Fan, his condition was gradually getting better under Wu Fan's care, which made Sun Shangxiang's mood inevitably feel a little conflicted.

However, when Sun Shangxiang thought of Wu Fan pretending to sleep and eat his own tofu, he suddenly became resentful.

Therefore, when he saw Wu Fan coming in, Sun Shangxiang immediately turned his head to the bed and refused to look at him.

Wu Fan was already sitting in front of the bed, and took one of Sun Shangxiang's arm out of the quilt as usual to take Sun Shangxiang's pulse.

After quietly taking it for a while, Wu Fan said:

"Please don't be so nervous, okay? I'm just taking your pulse and treating you, and I have no other thoughts."

Sun Shangxiang's pulse was normal, but every time Wu Fan took her pulse, the pulse rate jumped very quickly. Wu Fan didn't understand why Sun Shangxiang's pulse jumped so fast. He just thought that Sun Shangxiang was too old and became nervous when he came into contact with the stranger. Or he thought that he would take the opportunity to take the pulse and harm her.

So I said that.

However, Sun Shangxiang felt that the contradictions in her heart seemed to have been seen through by Wu Fan. She was immediately angry and embarrassed. She hurriedly pulled her arm back and said, "Don't worry!". Then she turned sideways and ignored Wu Fan again.

Wu Fan was so surprised: What happened today? Why didn’t anyone care about it? Did he arouse his mother’s anger?

Putting the medicinal herbs on the table, Wu Fan retreated in confusion. Looking at the few female soldiers guarding outside the door, Wu Fan said to them:

"Don't you guys have to worry about me?"

Several female soldiers heard it inexplicably, looked at each other, and didn't know how to answer Wu Fan.

Wu Fan asked again at this time:

"Did you see anything abnormal about me today?"

Several female soldiers looked at each other again, and then one of the female soldiers guards said timidly:

"Mr. Governor, my subordinates dare to say that these two words you asked us make us feel that you are indeed a little abnormal."

...

Half a month later.

Sun Shangxiang's plot was successful, and Lu Lingqi has been sulking with Wu Fan for a while.

Wu Fan took a lot of effort to find out that Lu Lingqi was angry with her because of the feather arrow. Then, no matter how Wu Fan explained that the feather arrow was not given to Sun Shangxiang by himself, Lu Lingqi just didn't believe it.

Because Sun Shangxiang had told her in advance: Wu Fan would not admit that he gave her the feather arrow to Sun Shangxiang.

Finally, Wu Fan was too lazy to explain. Anyway, Lu Lingqi would not divorce her, so it would be too dark to describe it. One day the truth would surface.

During the same period, good news came from the Central Plains. Xiahou Dun's army indeed seized the opportunity of the fighter. Under Sima Yi's plan, they not only regained Pei, but also occupied Shou. The Third Corps of Cao's army officially entered Huainan!

The reason for this result was not only that Sun Shangxiang was unknown to his life and death, but also that Sun Jian was worried day and night, but more importantly, Cao Cao, who was stationed in Xinye, once again sent troops to Sun Jian's backyard. This time, Cao Cao attacked Chaisang. In addition to the 150,000 troops he personally led, there were also Cao Ang of Runan and Han Sui of Jiangxia and Han Sui who sent 100,000 troops to cooperate.

Cao Cao knew that Jiangling was producing warships against all troops, so he did not write to Wu Fan for reinforcements in this battle to attack Chaisang.

Chaisang was besieged by an army of 350,000 for five days and fell. However, when the Chaisang defenders took advantage of the night to break through, Sun Quan's general Huang Gai and Cheng Pu were captured by Cao Ang, the eldest son of Cao Cao, in the army, and retreated to Lujiang with Cao Ang.

In this way, this battle was mixed for Cao Cao. What was happy was that the battle against Chaisang made it difficult for Sun Jian to take care of each other again and lost three cities in a row. What was worried was that his eldest son Cao Ang was actually captured by Sun Jian's army, and his life and death were all in Sun Jian's thoughts.

For this reason, Cao Cao sighed every day and sent Cheng Yu, Jia Xu and others to negotiate with Sun Jian, hoping to exchange a lot of money and even treasures for Cao Ang’s return. However, Sun Jian refused to agree with the joint advice of Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang. He only asked Cheng Yu and Jia Xu to tell Cao that the three cities of Chaisang will be exchanged. In addition, all other conditions are exempted from negotiation!

After Wu Fan learned the news, he thought about it and felt that it was time to play Sun Shangxiang's card. It was worth it to be able to trade Sun Shangxiang alone for Cao Ang and three cities.

Therefore, he wrote a letter and told Cao Cao about Sun Shangxiang being arrested by himself, and suggested to Cao Cao that Sun Shangxiang exchange for Cao Ang.

When Cao Cao received this letter, he was very happy and immediately ordered someone to repay Wu Fan, and did what Wu Fan said.

The next thing was natural. Sun Shangxiang's health had completely recovered. Wu Fan led Zhao Yun, Hua Xiong, Yan Liang, Wen Chou and ten thousand Qingzhou Dou Gangsun Sun Shangxiang to Chaisang. Cao Cao sent tens of thousands of soldiers to accompany him and stopped at the junction of Chaisang and Lujiang.

Sun Jian had already received letters from Cao Cao to exchange prisoners. When he learned that his daughter was still alive, Sun Jian cried with joy. No matter what the three cities were, he happily took Cao Ang to the army and exchanged prisoners between the two sides.

In theory, Wu Fan would not preside over the matter of exchanging prisoners, nor would he lead his main generals as if he was facing a great enemy. However, Wu Fan did this. The reason was that in the history of the Three Kingdoms, the incident of Huang Zhong shooting hidden arrows behind his back when exchanging prisoners had a great influence on Wu Fan.

People in China often say that people do not stand without trust. However, once a war starts, they can ignore all moral credit. Just defeating the other party is the ultimate goal, and any means will do everything. Not to mention whether this behavior is worthy of people's praise, Wu Fan does not have the time to be a moral critic. Now he just hopes that he will not be calculated by this behavior.

Therefore, Wu Fancai personally led his main generals to exchange hostages. Naturally, he had no idea of ​​making a bad move behind his back. However, if Sun Jian dared to do this, Wu Fan would never give up easily. He would immediately lead Zhao Yun and others into the enemy formation and would not give up until he killed several generals on the other side.

Fortunately, Sun Jian was quite trustworthy, and the whole process of exchanging prisoners was very smooth. Sun Shangxiang and Cao Ang returned to their respective armies, and then returned to their respective territories with the army.

But Sun Shangxiang met with her father and two brothers again, and she cried and couldn't cry, and finally stopped crying. Then, together with her father and two brothers, he returned to Lujiang surrounded by soldiers.

Sitting in the car, Sun Shangxiang looked back at Cao's army who was returning to Chaisang, and a "Wu" army flag fluttered high in front of the army.

Wu Fan, sooner or later, the accounts between us will be settled clearly! Wait and see!
Chapter completed!