The wind knows the grass, and the board knows the Chengchen. ----- Tang Taizong. Li Shimin "Gift to Xiao Yu"

It is said that Chen Long and the two military advisors made a plan in the Tongwen Inn, monitored Li Dao's mansion late at night, and sure enough, they captured Dong Zhuo's messenger. Using the token carried by the messenger, he asked the calligrapher Zhong Xuan in the prison to forge Dong Zhuo's letter, and finally exonerated Zhong Xuan from the prison.

On the same day, Zhong Yu went to the prison to deliver a forged letter, and he had already told Zhong Xuan about Chen Long's background. Zhong Xuan sat in the carriage at the gate of the prison and asked impatiently: "Uncle, where is the great benefactor, take me to see him!" ”

Long Chen was squatting in the stable of Boss Zhong's house, looking face to face at the terrified messenger. The messenger had been locked up here for a day and two nights, exhausted, and finally saw a person who seemed to be begging for mercy, babbling in his mouth with a smelly sock.

Chen Long held an iron rod in his left hand and a green dragon dagger in his right hand, and the clouds were light and breezy as if he was cutting a radish, and iron filings were drizzling down. The messenger stared at the green dragon dagger in disbelief, almost rolling his eyes.

Chen Long smiled and said, "I'm going to take out the stinky socks in your mouth now, as long as you make a little cry for help, your tongue will say goodbye to you, understand?" ”

The messenger nodded like pounding garlic, Chen Long pulled out the stinky socks, and the messenger gasped heavily, but he didn't dare to speak. Chen Long said: "You seem to be quite cooperative, but you want me to let you go?" ”

The messenger calmed down and said softly: "The villain's wife and children are all in Luoyang and Kyoto, waiting for me to return. Although I work in Dong Zhuo's General's Mansion, I am only a messenger and will never hinder you. ”

Chen Long asked coldly, "Tell me your address in Luoyang." ”

Without hesitation, the messenger gave an address. Chen Long nodded slightly and said, "If you hesitate just now, I'm afraid I won't be able to believe you." ”

As he spoke, he took out two letters and said, "How many days will it take for you to go back and forth to Luoyang normally?" ”

The messenger said, "If you hurry up, you will be able to reach it in three days." At normal speeds, it can be achieved in four days. ”

Chen Long said: "Now there are still two days away from your normal speed. Whether you can survive or not depends on how fast you can speed up your horse. As he spoke, he stuffed the letter into his arms and said, "After you return to Luoyang, throw this letter into the courtyard wall of He Jin." The other letter is Li Dao's letter to you back to Dong Zhuo. ”

With a wave of his dagger, he severed the cord that bound the messenger. said: "I will leave here immediately, so even if you tell the truth, you will not be able to catch me." If any of the people in this inn have an accident, I want your family's lives to pay for it. Do you know, don't say it's you, it's Dong Zhuo, I can easily destroy him, don't make a mistake! The horses are already waiting for you at the gate, go! The messenger turned over and wept, "Thank you for not killing!" After I return to Luoyang, I will keep my mouth shut to repay my kindness. With that, he shed tears.

It turned out that Zhong Yu brought two letters to the prison. One was written to Li Dao in imitation of Dong Zhuo's handwriting, saving Zhong Xuan's life, and the other was a whistleblower letter to He Jin imitating Fan Zhuo's handwriting, accusing Li Dao and Dong Zhuo of colluding and intending to support the army and stand on their own. Fortunately, Zhong Xuan has always been obsessed with calligraphy, and he is based in Xiliang, and has seen the calligraphy of Dong Zhuo and Fan Chou, so he can imitate it.

Chen Long's plan was to make He Jin suspicious of Dong Zhuo and leave the root of Dong Zhuo's demise in the future. Even if He Jin does not believe what is written in the letter, this seed of doubt will naturally take root and sprout, as long as it encounters the right soil.

At the same time that Zhong Yu went to prison and asked Zhong Xuan to copy two letters, Guo Jia proposed how to solve the problem of the messenger. Guo Jia said: "If the messenger does not return to Luoyang to resume his life, he will arouse Dong Zhuo's suspicion." Even if the messenger is killed, it will not help, but there is no proof of death. ”

When Chen Long heard this, he said: "Feng Xiao's words are reasonable. But what is the best way not to make Dong Zhuo suspicious. ”

Guo Jia said: "I think that the position of the messenger is not important, although it carries secrets, it is still a small person after all." If this person can be persuaded to rush back with Li Dao's letter, it will really be unaware. ”

Chen Long pondered for a while and said, "This risk is worth taking. However, we immediately left the city and disappeared without a trace, but it was Zhong Xuan's family who took the risk. ”

Zhou Budo said: "If you want to take this dangerous Zhong family, you can release the messenger first, and then let Zhong Xuan decide whether to take refuge in Lingling." ”

Chen Long nodded, so there was the scene of the messenger in the past.

Zhong Xuan's carriage finally drove into the gate of the inn, and Chen Long took Zhou Budo and Guo Jia to greet him in the courtyard. Zhong Yu hurriedly led Zhong Xuan over, and Zhong Xuan prostrated himself on the ground and said, "It's hard to thank you for your great kindness." My life was in the middle of nowhere, but I met a nobleman. ”

Chen Long hurriedly helped him up and said: "Yuan is often in trouble, how can I not save it?" What's more, he was framed by traitors. ”

Zhong Xuan got up and said: "I don't say thank you, just because I heard my uncle in the carriage that Wenlong is the lord of Lingling, and he is the opponent of the traitorous ministers." After that, he turned over again and bowed down and said: "Lord, if you don't think I'm useless, Yuan Chang is willing to serve the work of dogs and horses!" ”

Chen Long was overjoyed, and hurriedly helped Zhong Xuan up and said: "Yuan Chang, since you don't think I am Lingling remote, I am willing to create a hegemony with you!" ”

Zhong Xuan recognized the master, Chen Long pulled Zhong Yu over, and said to the uncle and nephew: "I have a word, I want the Yuan Chang family to choose." ”

"I want Zhong Miao to continue to be an official in Chang'an, and in the future, I will command the troops in Xiliang, so I will naturally help me. The intelligence network of Chang'an City needs to be established by Zhong Xuan. ”

"However, what needs to be decided by Yuan Chang and Uncle Zhong today is a matter of life and death. In order to dispel Dong Zhuo's suspicions, I have put Dong Zhuo's messenger back, and although I have used some means, I cannot guarantee 100% that the messenger will not tell the truth. I'll leave the city soon, so it's up to you to choose whether you want to go with us or stay here and risk going undercover. ”

When Boss Zhong heard this, he wanted to speak, but Zhong Xuan pulled the sleeve of his uncle's robe and said, "Since the lord releases people, he has his own reason for the lord." After that, he gritted his teeth and said: "Zhong Xuan's life was originally saved by the lord, even if it is returned to the lord?" The subordinates are willing to go undercover here, and only ask the lord to take my uncle's family and my wife away, and I will lead my subordinates to guard the inn. ”

Zhong Yu heard the old tears, but he didn't speak anymore, it was all up to Zhong Yu to decide. Chen Long said: "In this case, Yuan Chang's relatives will be my relatives in the future, and they will not be allowed to suffer in Lingling." ”

Turning back to Lu Chang, he said: "Lu Chang, Guo Jia, Zhou Budo, you and others immediately help the Zhong family clean up and arrange to leave for Lingling early tomorrow morning." ”

turned around and said to Zhang Ning: "Mei Niang, it's still early, would you like to accompany me to Dongshi?" ”

Dongshi is located in the northwest of Luoyang and is a famous market in Chang'an. There is a cloud in "Mulan Poems": "The east market buys horses, and the west market buys saddles." It is to say that Chang'an is prosperous. Later, when people shopped, they said they were buying things. Of course, Zhang Ning was willing to hang out with Chen Long, so he covered his face with a heavy veil, and the two pulled two ponies and walked through the streets and the market. The strange thing is that although he passed through the east and west cities, Chen Longdu only stopped and watched slightly, and pulled Zhang Ning all the way through the east and west cities, and walked out of the horizontal gate between the two cities.

Zhang Ning looked at the autumn colors of the suburbs in front of him and asked, "Long Lang, why don't you buy in the east and west cities, why do you go out of this door to the north?" ”

Chen Long stared blankly at the high slope on the other side of the moat and said, "Do you know that Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the ages?" ”