Han Fei smiled after hearing Liu Bei's question, "My lord doesn't feel it's hard, so why should I have to do it? I said earlier that if I could get a state of land every year during the Chinese New Year, I would be willing to celebrate the Chinese New Year every year."

"Zi Cong, I'll lend you auspicious words!" Liu Bei said to Han Fei seriously. Then the two looked at each other and smiled. At this moment, they had a new common goal.

Perhaps he was exhausted. Han Fei slept very heavily that night and didn't even have a dream. When he opened his eyes again, it was the next morning. He went down and opened the door and saw that it was snowing outside last night. The guards and servants in the yard were busy sweeping the snow.

Han Fei tightened his clothes and walked quickly towards Liu Bei's residence. Liu Bei had already gotten up for a long time. Although he was no longer practicing martial arts, he still maintained the habit of getting up early. When Liu Bei saw Han Fei hurriedly greeting him for breakfast, Han Fei sat down without hesitation and picked up the bowl in front of him and started eating.

After the two of them had breakfast, the servant took off the bowls and chopsticks and replaced them with new tea. At this time, Han Fei said, "Lord, is there any news coming from Xuzhou City?"

Liu Bei shook his head and said, "There is no news for the time being."

Han Fei took a sip of tea and said, "It shouldn't be true. Calculate the day, then Tao Qian's deadline will be in these few days!"

Liu Bei raised his eyebrows and asked casually: "Zicong, do you still know how to tell fortunes about fortune tellers? I wanted to ask you last time!"

"Lord, I just understand a little bit, and I don't read very accurately! Haha!" Han Fei said with a dry smile. Fortunately, Liu Bei didn't go into it in depth, and the two of them changed the topic and talked about something else. At this time, someone came to report: Someone came to Xuzhou City!

Liu Bei glanced at Han Fei, and Han Fei nodded. So Liu Bei said, "Please hurry up!"

When the time came, people came into the house. When Liu Bei and Han Fei saw that they were indeed acquaintances, they were Chen Deng. It turned out that after Mi Zhu surrendered to Liu Bei, Chen Deng became the person who contacted Liu Bei.

"Why did Yuanlong come to this?" Liu Bei pretended to be stupid.

"Chen Deng has met Lord Liu and Military Advisor Han. This time, Lord Liu went to Xuzhou City to see him for the last time!" Chen Deng said with sad expression.

Liu Bei stood up and said, "What's wrong with Brother Gongzu? Didn't you do it before?"

"Hey, you will know when you go there. My Lord is afraid that this time it will really not work!"

"It's not too late for you, so let's set off earlier! It's a pity that the heavy snow last night was so it's probably going to waste time on the road again!" Han Fei said from the side. After hearing this, Liu Bei hurriedly asked someone to prepare a car. It's better to ride a horse to death. It's better to take a car.

The matter was urgently followed, and the three of them sat on a carriage. The coachman shook the whip and the carriage ran towards Xuzhou City. Dian Wei and Mi Fang each followed closely with a team of personal soldiers.

The carriage arrived at Xuzhou City and was already ten days old. Liu Bei didn't have time to rest and ordered the coachman to go directly to the provincial master's mansion. The provincial master's mansion was filled with sorrow. Tao Qian was indeed terminally ill, and even the miraculous doctor Hua Tuo was too busy to turn things around here.

At this moment, he was still insisting on waiting for one person to arrive, and that person was Liu Bei and Liu Xuande. Tao Qian knew very well that his two sons were both mortals. If he died suddenly, they would soon become puppets of the aristocratic family. Xuzhou would also become controlled by the aristocratic family, and his lifelong efforts would be wasted.

Due to the tight time, he could no longer train a successor, so he simply met Liu Bei. Liu Bei lived up to his name of benevolence and righteousness and rejected his kindness twice. It was precisely because of this that Tao Qian became more and more certain that only by handing over Xuzhou to Liu Bei could he ensure that his two children would not become puppets of the aristocratic family and could live a good life!

Just as he was thinking about it, a man rushed in from outside the door. Tao Qian heard the shouts of the servants, so he opened his eyes and saw that the person in front of him was Liu Bei.

Tao Qian struggled and wanted to get up. Liu Bei stepped forward and pressed him down and said, "Don't move Brother Gongzu. I'll leave for more than a month, how can I become like this?" Liu Bei said as his eyes turned red and tears came out.

When Tao Qian saw Liu Bei's sadness, he felt no emotion in his heart. So he spoke: "Brother Xuande, my brother's body has been damaged, and I am afraid that my life will be in the near future!"

"Brother, don't say that! There must be a way..."

"My brother! I know my own health for my brother! I have something to ask me for my brother! I hope my brother will not refuse, otherwise I will die with my eyes!"

Liu Bei couldn't help but cry, "Brother, just say that if you can do it, you will never refuse!"

"I will feel relieved if my brother says this! What I am most worried about now is the position of Xuzhou Mu. Brother Wei has handed it over to you! You must not refuse again!"

"This...brother!"

"Where is Yuanlong!" Tao Qian shouted suddenly without waiting for Liu Bei to speak. Chen Deng was not far away and hurriedly came closer. Tao Qian saw him walk in and said, "I have entrusted Xuzhou to Brother Xuande, you must devote yourself to assisting him. You can also take my seal of the governor and hand it over to Brother Xuande to accept!"

When Chen Deng heard this, he did not dare to be negligent. He quickly opened the cabinet beside him and brought out a tray from it. There was a large seal on the tray, which was the seal of Xuzhou Mu. Chen Deng held the seal and knelt in front of Liu Bei and asked him to his subordinates.

Liu Bei looked at Dayin without stretching out his hand, but turned to Tao Qian and said, "Brother, why do you have descendants to entrust Yu Bei? If Bei takes this seal, how can he feel at ease!"

"Brother, do you really want me to die with my eyes open?" After saying that, he coughed for a while! Seeing Tao Qian persisting, Liu Bei gritted his teeth and took the seal from Chen Deng's hand.

"Brother, this Xuzhou Mu is ready to take over!"

"Okay! OK! Brother, Brother Wei is really right to you! Yuan Long took my brother to rest and let my two rebellious sons come over to speak!" Chen Deng knew that Tao Qian was about to explain his funeral, so he immediately gave him a deep tribute and then led Liu Bei out of the house.

That night, Tao Qian, the governor of Xuzhou, died of illness at his home in Xuzhou City at the age of 63. At this time, there were still the last three days before the New Year. Liu Bei took over the seal and became the new Xuzhou Magistrate. Tao Qian's two sons respected his father's will and took his coffin back to his hometown Danyang for burial. Then he would stay in Danyang and would not return to Xuzhou City again!

Liu Bei knew that Tao Qian was clearing the obstacles for him. He was moved and sent two thousand soldiers to escort Tao Qian's coffin back to his hometown. After personally sending Tao Qian's coffin out of the city, Liu Bei began to exercise the power of the provincial governor.

At this time, there were two families in Xuzhou. The first one was the Cao family, which was mainly Cao Bao, and the other one was the Chen family where Chen Deng was. Fortunately, Chen Deng had already defected to Liu Bei's command, so the Chen family was naturally the same. However, the Cao family is a bit ambiguous now. Cao Bao said he was sick at home, so even if Tao Qian's coffin came out of the city, he did not come out to see him off.
Chapter completed!