Since Cao Cao took the initiative to offer to do something for Yuan Shu, wouldn't it be a waste not to take the opportunity to ask for a favor?
Yuan Shu thought for a moment and jokingly said:
"My family is wealthy and powerful, lacking nothing—you know that.
How about this? If one day we meet on the battlefield, we let each other go, how about that?"
Yuan Shu's words left Cao Cao a bit confused.
He thought to himself, "My ambition is to become the Grand General of the Western Expedition for the Han Dynasty—everyone knows that."
"So, of course, I will eventually go to the battlefield."
"But you, Yuan Gonglu, are just a frail wastrel. How could I ever encounter you on the battlefield?"
"And letting each other go—does that mean we'll be enemies on the battlefield? Are you planning to defect to the Xiongnu or something?"
Unable to figure it out, Cao Cao assumed Yuan Shu was just joking—this guy often talked nonsense anyway.
He smiled at Yuan Shu and said:
"Heh heh, seems like Brother Gonglu is afraid of me. Very well, if we truly meet on the battlefield in the future, I will let you go."
Hearing this, Yuan Shu was displeased.
"Afraid of you?"
"I already have a complete army, with great generals under my command… well, at least several of them."
"You, Cao Mengde, are still penniless and dreaming of serving the Han as the Grand General of the Western Expedition, right?"
"With such a gap between us, do you think you can catch up? And yet you dare to say that I am afraid of you?"
Yuan Shu snorted and said:
"Cao Ah-Man, I am afraid—afraid that you'll be unable to defeat me and will desperately seek death."
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