[Three Kingdoms] Burning incense and sacrificial wine

Liu Yao quickly asked: "Whose guard is it? Is there a name?"

The concierge said: "It's Dong Taishi's close guard, and he was ordered to arrest the scholar Jiang Zun."

Liu Yao shot Jiang Zun with strange eyes.

Jiang Zun took his time, straightened his clothes and got up: "In that case, I'll go out for a meeting."

Infected by Jiang Zun's calmness, Liu Yao calmed down a little: "Alright. Maybe there is some misunderstanding, I will go with you."

Anyway, the original words of the guards were "capture Jiang Zun", not to capture him, Liu Yao, what is so scary about him.

Jiang Zun said again: "Xiao Tu may be related to this matter, please invite him to go with you."

Hearing this, Liu Yao asked his servants to invite He Wei out of the guest room, then packed up his clothes, and went to the gate of the mansion with Jiang Zun to meet Dong Zhuo's envoy.

When the leading guard saw the two of them, he saluted Liu Yao first, and then proudly said to Jiang Zun, "You are Jiang Zun?"

Jiang Zun bowed: "Exactly."

The team leader looked him up and down, and ordered to the people behind: "Take it."

Liu Yao took a step back.

Jiang Zun was caught, his expression unchanged: "Dare to ask some army commanders, is there a reason to catch me?"

"You deceived the public with your demonic words, and you offered that bullshit strategy, which angered the public. Now that the court is up and down, if you don't apologize, who will you apologize for?"

Jiang Zundao: "But I never offered a word or a policy."

The leader sneered: "Your sophistry is useless."

Jiang Zun was still calm: "A few military commanders want to arrest people, but do they have portraits? If there are no portraits, aren't you afraid of arresting the wrong person?

"How can there be any portrait, which card do you think you are, and you are worthy of the portrait issued by the grand master?"

"Then has anyone seen Jiang Shizi who advises the Grand Master?"

"Why do you ask so many questions..."

The leader was upset, suddenly a soldier approached his ear and whispered a few words.

The leader was startled and asked in a low voice, "Really?"

The little soldier said: "That's true. On the day I took 'Jiang Zun' to thank the grand master, I happened to be on duty at the mansion, and I met 'Jiang Zun' face to face. The person in front of me is the one I met at that time... …definitely not the same."

The leader pondered for a moment, before asking Jiang Zun a lot of caution: "Aren't you Jiang Zun?"

Jiang Zundao: "I am."

"Hey, that's really strange, can you, Jiang Zun, still change your face?"

Jiang Zundao: "This just shows that I am not the one who offered advice to the grand master... this commander, can you let me have a look at the strategy?"

"That's a secret to the imperial court. Do you think it's a pig's head meat that people watch at the market?"

A soldier next to him interjected: "I heard that every literati's handwriting is different. To know whether this person is 'Jiang Zun' who offered advice, we can compare the handwriting and we will know at a glance."

The leader reprimanded: "What nonsense are you talking about? Can't handwriting be imitated? Besides, we are not investigators. Do you care if this Jiang Zun is the 'Jiang Zun' we are looking for? Take it away and talk about it."

Just at this moment, He Wei hurriedly arrived with the servants of the Liu residence.

"What happened?"

As soon as He Wei asked, the soldier who came out to identify him earlier said to the leader: "Lieutenant, this is the man surnamed Jiang who thanked the Grand Master a few days ago."

The guards all stared at Hevey.

He Wei felt his hair stand on end, and turned to the subdued Jiang Zun: "Shouzhi, what's going on?"

Jiang Zun looked at him with deep pain in his eyes: "What's going on? I still want to ask you what's going on! You, He Xiaotu—why did you pretend to be my name and make false contributions to the Grand Master? Of the policy?"

He Wei stared wide-eyed: "It's not you who made me—"

Jiang Zun's tone became harsher: "Do you want me to be the ghost of death for you?"

He Wei cursed: "You shameless bastard! You said that you were worried about the world and had no choice but to offer advice to save the people of Liming from the fire and water; you were also afraid of seeing Dong Zhuo, resentment in your heart, and being seen by others, and you missed a big deal. That's why you asked me to go there for you. Why did things come to an end and everything was pushed to my head? Okay, okay, let's not talk about other things for the time being, just talk about Xi Zhicai, how do you distinguish between Xi Zhicai and Xi Zhicai? ? It's clearly you..."

Jiang Zun showed disbelief: "I regard you as a close friend, why did you frame me like this?"

He Wei was angry and anxious, and broke out in a cold sweat.He opened his mouth to argue, but he heard the leader give a ruthless order: "Take them away together."

"Wronged! I was wronged!"

In contrast to He Wei's panic and fear, Jiang Zun looked extraordinarily calm: "I'll let you go. I believe the Grand Master will be able to distinguish right from wrong."

Liu Yao, who witnessed all this, was dumbfounded.

If he hadn't known the inside story, he would have been almost fooled by Jiang Zun's superb acting skills.

However, Liu Yao did not say a word.

In his view, all this has nothing to do with him.

Regardless of whether Dong Zhuo wanted to arrest Jiang Zun or He Wei, or both, as long as he wasn't implicated, it didn't matter.

Liu Yao thought very well, but he didn't know that there was a person who took him as experience points and actively sued Dong Zhuo for his bad behavior.

When the guards escorted Jiang and He back to the Grand Master's Mansion, and one of the guards went to report the situation to Dong Zhuo, Lu Bu was showing his loyalty in front of Dong Zhuo:

"...This matter is absolutely true! I saw Liu Yao acting in a sneaky way, so I investigated secretly, and found that he was entangled with the rebels, planning to seek a great cause of rebellion. This time, the false strategy was Liu Yao in name. How can we know that this is not Liu Yao's intention? It's called offering advice, but it's really a conspiracy, and it's really a poisonous plan!"

Dong Zhuo's face turned black.Thinking about it carefully, what Lu Bu said makes sense!

He promulgated policies according to Jiang Zunxian's policy theory. As a result, before any results were achieved, he turned the court upside down.

The gentry showed their talents and tried their best to protest against him—some posted their resignations, and some refused to cooperate non-violently. In just a few days, the government was completely paralyzed.

Thinking of this, Dong Zhuo was so angry that he lifted the table.

"Liu Yao is an old dog of the clan! I am so polite to him, but he treats me in a positive way, and does this kind of thing behind my back-see if I don't tear him into pieces!"

Lu Bu hurriedly said, "Father, don't be angry, I'll go get Liu Yao's dog's head right away, and cut it off as a table foot for you."

Dong Zhuo patted him on the shoulder and smiled freely: "Feng Xian is the most loyal, and no one else is better than you."

No one else can compare to...?

Lu Bu snorted coldly in his heart.

I'm afraid it's not likely.

Then Hu Zhen, because he was from Xiliang like Dong Zhuo, followed Dong Zhuo early, and shouted at them, the "foreign army" who joined later, that noses are not noses, and eyes are not eyes?What did Dong Zhuo do at that time?Blindly favoring Hu Zhen, let them "later" keep getting angry.

The more Lu Bu thought about it, the more angry he became, and the more he thought about it, the more aggrieved he became, and the haze in his heart gradually deepened.

Hearing the guard's report on Jiang Zun's capture, Lu Bu took advantage of the situation and vented his anger on Jiang Zun's head:

"What kind of trick is this? Abandon the car to protect the handsome?"

Although Jiang Zun and He Wei are two little people who can't be called "car" and "handsome" in his eyes, there is still some meaning in the current farce.

Dong Zhuo originally wanted to press Jiang Zun and He Wei to ask what happened, but now that Lu Bu said this, he lost interest immediately, and waved his hands: "It's really disappointing. Let's drag it down and kill together."

Dong Zhuo didn't want to know the truth of the matter, nor did he want to know who was guilty and who was implicated innocently.There is always one of these two people who is the one who advises, and he would rather be killed by mistake than let it go.

What's more, he has always done whatever he wants, killing as he wants.In order to show his prestige, he once chopped off the heads of ordinary peasants and pretended to be traitors.

Jiang Zun didn't expect that even though he tried his best to leave himself several escape routes, he still missed the game in the end and was almost killed by Lu Bu's words.

He had always been scheming, believing that as long as he could confront Dong Zhuo face to face, he would be able to come back from the dead.

But he made a mistake—Dong Zhuo's unreasonableness was really unreasonable.

Dong Zhuo didn't even want to see him, and didn't give him any room to play.Even if he is eloquent and can fool the most intelligent people in the world, there is nothing he can do.

However, he should not die after all, but when he was about to be executed, he met a "noble man".

West of the city.

Xi Zhi just woke up, and immediately saw Cui Song kneeling by the couch.His eyes lingered for a moment on Cui Song's faintly red eye sockets, and he couldn't help frowning:

"Why is Zi Cong here?"

His voice was weak and hoarse.What he said, only Cui Song who was close at hand heard clearly.

Cui Song hastily poured a cup of hot water from the urn on the table next to him, and helped Zhicai up again:

"Drink some water to moisten your throat first."

Xi Zhicai sat up, took Cui Song's hand, and slowly drank the hot water in the pottery cup.

After drinking the water, he saw Diao Chan standing by the door, and immediately understood what was going on.

Xi Zhicai's gaze circled around the room, pausing for a moment on Guo Jia and the unknown counselor who fell to the ground.

"Can you please go out for a while, I have something to talk to Zi Cong."

Guo Jia smiled, made a promise, and thoughtfully carried the humanoid object on the ground out.

Diao Chan hesitated to speak, and finally hung his head without saying a word, and left with Guo Jia.

The book boy looked at Xi Zhicai's face with concern, and after receiving Xi Zhicai's gaze, he belatedly pointed to himself: "Sir, do I want to go out too?"

After being affirmed, the book boy muttered: "Sir, you can't hold on, rest when you are tired, you can't be so scary anymore."

He left the room, closed the door, and left Cui Song and Xi Zhicai sitting opposite each other on the couch.

Because there were too many words accumulated in his heart, Cui Song didn't know where to start.

He hesitated again and again, and turned to the mahogany table beside him: "The medicine is still warm, drink it first."

There is nothing impossible to play.After drinking the medicine in a muffled voice, he looked at the silent Cui Song, tried his best to reach out his hand, stayed by his temple for a moment, and finally landed gently on his shoulder.

"It was I who broke my oath and lied to you first... Don't cry, it's just a minor illness, it's not worth it for you."

Cui Song raised his head suddenly, his expression stunned: "Crying? You read it wrong, I didn't cry."

Xi Zhicai looked at his red eyes.

Cui Song gritted his teeth: "Song really never cried."

What is "crying"?Weeping in both eyes, that can be called crying. At most, he was choked up and panicked, emotionally agitated for a while, and it was a little uncomfortable to hold back.

Xi Zhi knew that he was stubborn, so he stopped dwelling on this issue, and was about to comfort him again, when he heard Cui Song say again.

"You don't have to hide it from me, just presume some minor illness... I already know about your condition."

Xi Zhicai suddenly lost his voice.

"Also, there is one thing I need to tell you,"

Cui Song stared straight into Xi Zhicai's eyes, and said word by word,

"I'm not 'Cui Song'."