Ooohh! So This is the cause, Lu Bu and company understood immediately. If Chen Lan and Lei Bo only left him, Yuan Shu, then Yuan Shu will not be in this angry state and will possible considered as resigning from job in good terms. But, both of them took things too far. They attacked their former employer and become rebellious traitors out of their own interest.
“Good! Give me these two’s whereabouts, in three days, I will send you their heads! Lu Bu complied without even consulting with Liu Mang or Chen Gong. Actually, even if Yuan Shu did not request for killing them, eventually Lu Bu will solve these problems himself due to his provisions debt to Yuan Shu. Why? It was simply because Boss Lu is really hated traitors.
After hearing Lu Bu comply, Yuan Shu's expression become happier and said “For my second request, Fengxian. I request you to dispatch troops to escort me to the north, to Hebei To my cousin Yuan Shao’s territory! I will certainly reward you heavily!” Yuan Shu knew that currently Huainan had been abandoned and cannot be defended anymore, His people are also scattered. Thus Yuan Shu's only option is to go to Hebei and joined hand-in-hand with Yuan Shao. If before, Yuan Shu looked down on Yuan Shao, because Yuan Shao is the son of a maid, but now, for him to survive, what choice does he have?
However the road to Hebei was not peaceful. Xu Province was now being seized by Old Cao. Yuan Shu who had been defeated severely by Old Cao, did not dare to face Old Cao directly now.
”That request is impossible!” Lu Bu immediately rejects it. Telling him to go north again? Is this a joke? Previously, only with great difficulty, Lu Bu managed to withdraw from Xu Province, and now you, Yuan Shu, tried to make him go north again, do you think this Lu Bu wants to seek death? Even if they arrive at Hebei. Lu Bu and Yuan Shao are incompatible. And if Yuan Shao found out that Lu Bu is in Hebei, Lu Bu will be decimated at Puyang. “But!” Yuan Shu still wanted to persuade through Lu Bu's rejection.
“If I can't obtain provisions from here, then I will only bring trouble to you!” Said Lu Bu. Bringing trouble to himself, meaning if Yuan Shu does not allow borrowing provisions from Shouchun, then he can get it from attacking Chen Lan and Lei Bo. At that time, Lu Bu may persuade them to surrender rather than kill them, therefore breaking Yuan Shu's first request.
Seeing that Yuan Shu was unwilling, but when looking at the miserable state of his acquaintance, Lu Bu's heart began to soften up “Please think slowly about the conditions that you present, as long as it is not too hard, I, Lu Fengxian will help you fulfill that!” “Let's go, Liu Mang, Chen Gong!” Lu Bu said, commanding his people to leave.
Leaving the imperial court hall, Chen Gong began to ask the reason from Lu Bu “Milord, why did you suddenly accept Yuan Shu's conditions for borrowing provisions?! Obviously we can just take it from them” What Chen Gong meant was, obviously they can just besiege Shouchun and capture the city along with their provisions. After all, those two who revolted can snatch Yuan Shu's provisions so easily, what does this say? This obviously shows that Yuan Shu's forces were very weak and wasted to the extreme. The reason why Shouchun had not yet been annexed and destroyed, was because of this Hebei‘s older cousin.
But these things were not worth mentioning to Lu Bu.