In the sixth year of Zhongping (189 AD), late at night on August 22, Lu Bu's mansion.

Lu Bu was very irritable now, because sitting opposite him was the person who had always made him very uncomfortable - Jia Xu.

This person always comes across as cunning and insidious. And at this moment, this person is looking at himself intently.

"Mr. Jia visited late at night, I don't know what to see?" Lu Bu looked at him with a serious expression.

"Hehe, General Lu doesn't seem to like being in the middle. It's okay, Jia's principle of acting is that the purpose is the same, and it doesn't matter whether you like it or not. ”

"I don't know what the same purpose I have with my husband."

"The general and the subordinate are loyal to the lord, and this is the same purpose."

"This is natural," Lu Bu laughed in his heart, but he was afraid of being discovered by Jia Xu, "It is our duty to serve the Lord." ”

On that day, Wu Fu assassinated, and the general beheaded him, which shows his loyalty. It's a pity that the person died, and the same party could not be found. ”

It's here again! Alas, how can this man be like a poisonous snake, and he will not let go.

"This matter is indeed not thoughtful, in the future, if there are rebellious ministers and thieves making trouble, they will definitely leave a living mouth, and get rid of the party members, thank you Mr. for your advice."

"Heh, the general is too careful, Jia just said, as long as the purpose is the same. At least I know that the general doesn't want anyone to be bad for the lord at the moment. ”

What the hell is he trying to say? Lu Bu had a little doubt in his heart, and he was caught by Jia Xu's slender eyes.

"General, in fact, I came here today to have a confidential matter, and I want to inform the general."

"Oh?"

"This matter is very important, and it is inconvenient to discuss it in detail here, so it is better for the general to come with me."

Lu Bu looked at Jia Xu vigilantly.

"Hehehe, don't worry, Jia Mou dares to visit alone, how can it be unfavorable to the general, besides, Jia Mou is a powerless civilian official, even ten are not the general's opponents."

Lu Bu couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, "What did Mr. say, please, but I don't know where we are going?" ”

"The general will come with me." With that, Jia Xu got up and led Lu Bu out of the door.

……

At this time, the night was already a little cold, and after the two walked for a while, Lu Bu was surprised to find that they had arrived at the back wall of the Prime Minister's Mansion. When Dong Zhuo first entered Beijing, he was still living in the military camp outside the city at first, but it didn't take long for him to move here.

Lu Bu looked at Jia Xu puzzled, "At this time, I'm afraid the lord has already fallen asleep, this ......"

"I'm not here to see the lord," Jia Xu lowered his voice, looked around, and saw that there was no one around, so he said, "Come out." ”

"Mr. Jia, General Lu." In the shadow of the corner flashed a young man in his twenties.

"Zhang Liao?" Lu Bu looked at him in surprise, "Didn't I order you all to go back to your hometown?" How did you end up here? ”

This person is engaged in Ding Yuan's army, surnamed Zhang, Liao, and Wenyuan, although he is young, he is very powerful. After Ding Yuan was killed, Lu Bu repatriated Ding Yuan's old department, but Zhang Liao's blood was strong, and he couldn't help but come back halfway, wanting to help Lu Bu.

When entering the city, Zhang Liao inquired about Lu Bu's residence and happened to meet Jia Xu. He heard that Jia Xu was Dong Zhuo's subordinate, so he lied that he was here to defect to Lu Bu to seek fame. After that, he followed Jia Xu into the city, but because Jia Xu asked him to help with other things, he was delayed for a few days. Tonight, Jia Xu only said that he would wait outside the Prime Minister's Mansion, but he didn't expect to see Lu Bu.

Lu Bu knew that he was careful, but he was afraid that Jia Xu would find out, so he just said a few words of greeting.

"General Lu should believe that Jia is not here to harm you, Zhang Liao, you can take General Lu there."

"General Lu comes with me." Saying that, Zhang Liao climbed in from the back wall, Lu Bu glanced at Jia Xu, Jia Xu motioned with his hand to let Lu Bu follow up, although Lu Bu was puzzled, but Zhang Liao's personality was clear to him, so he didn't hesitate anymore and went in.

Jia Xu watched the figures of the two disappear into the wall, put away his smile, leaned his back against the wall, looked at the night sky, and sighed deeply.

……

Turning into the backyard, Zhang Liao moved his steps carefully, most of the guards who were keeping vigil inside and outside the Prime Minister's Mansion were sleepy and slept against the wall, and the two cautiously came to the study.

Seeing Zhang Liao enter the study, he came to the bookshelf and motioned for Lu Bu and him to move the bookshelf. The bookshelf was removed, and Lu Bu realized that there was a secret door behind it. Zhang Liao opened the secret door very lightly, and led Lu Bu down the narrow stairs in the secret door.

Lu Bu didn't know why he came late at night, Zhang Liao's expression was solemn, he didn't speak, he just walked.

The staircase is not long, but it takes two turns, and after the second turn, it is a small space like a solitary cell. The inside is half cut off by iron railings. Zhang Liao lit the fire, and Lu Bu found that there was a person sitting inside the railing, his arms chained to the wall.

Lu Bu looked at it by the light of the fire, it was a middle-aged man, with no clothes on his upper body, and a pair of dusty coarse cloth pants underneath, his hair was scattered, his head drooped, and although his body was slightly fat, he could see that he was very strong, and his strong muscles were all over his body.

Clearly, his captors did not intend to abuse him. Looking closely, the man's expression was very indifferent, his gaze stopped in one place and his mouth was closed. If it weren't for the slight shaking of the hair from the breath, it would make people mistakenly think that they were dead.

"Zhang Liao, who is this person?"

"Dong Zhuo."

"What?" Lu Bu was shocked by this sudden news and didn't know what to say, so he spoke after a while: "Is he Dong Zhuo?" Who's that guy up there? ”

"General, in fact, when Jia Xu told me, I didn't believe it, but I asked this person when he was sober, he was indeed Dong Zhuo." Zhang Liao said solemnly.

"What the hell is going on?"

"General, in fact, Li Su told Jia Xu about this. Although Jia Xu is a subordinate of Niu Fu, he is loyal to Dong Zhuo, and when he entered Beijing this time, he felt that Dong Zhuo above was wrong as soon as he met. But the result of who he inquired with was the same, everyone only said that Dong Zhuo had entered Beijing and changed. Helplessly, Jia Xu had no choice but to force Li Su to tell the truth with both soft and hard methods. ”

Li Su took Lu Bu into the city, except for seeing Dong Zhuo and going to Situ Mansion at night that day, he basically didn't meet Lu Bu much, I don't know what he was busy with, and I don't know how this Jia Xu made him obey.

"Who did this, so that no one among his cronies doubted it?" It's really a different person, Dong Zhuo's cronies should have found out a long time ago.

"Dong Zhuo's cronies all know ......"

"How could it be ......?"

Zhang Liao told Lu Bu what Li Su said to Jia Xu.

In fact, the cause of this incident was the Xiliang soldiers, Dong Zhuo followed the young emperor and Chen Liuwang in Beimanghan, and after sending them back to Beijing, he did not bring troops into the city, but camped ten miles outside the city.

Although Dong Zhuo is a hero, he did not think about entering Beijing this time. But Li Dao, Guo Yan, Hu Zhen, and Xu Rong all felt that when there was chaos today and the court was weak, it was a good time to take charge of the world's bull's ears, and he shouldn't just go, and Li Ru also persuaded him to do the king's thing.

When Dong Zhuo hesitated, he didn't want the Xiliang soldiers to be brave, but they lacked discipline on weekdays, so they wantonly looted civilians outside the city, which made the important ministers of the local court dissatisfied, and the emperor even recruited Dong Zhuo to reprimand him in person.

Dong Zhuo was furious and reprimanded his generals, told them to discipline their subordinates well, and even ordered Luoyang to be evacuated the next day. But he didn't expect that this incident made his subordinates feel that he was too afraid of the court and chilled the hearts of the soldiers, and he didn't expect that Li Dao and others would dare to rebel.

Yongliang bitter cold, who doesn't want to enjoy happiness in the capital. Although the emperor is far away and happy over there, this little emperor is only a teenager now, and he is afraid that he will do something.

With the unanimous consent of everyone, Li Dao asked his subordinate demon girl to poison Dong Zhuo, which was later used by the Young Emperor and King Chen Liu. But Dong Zhuo was physically strong, and the poisonous effect could only last for half a day, and everyone didn't want Dong Zhuo to die, so they had to lock him up here and do it again every day.

Li Dao and the others didn't want the news to leak out, so they didn't deliberately arrange people to guard it here, because they didn't believe that anyone would be bold enough to sneak into the Prime Minister's Mansion.

And Hua Xiong stayed in the barracks outside the city after coming from Xiliang, and he didn't know what was going on here. Although Li Su was loyal to Dong Zhuo, he could not clash head-on with Li Dao and others.

"I don't want to, one side of the heroes actually fell like this."

The next moment, Lu Bu seemed to think of something and looked at Zhang Liao in surprise.

Zhang Liao seemed to know what Lu Bu was thinking, so he just nodded at Lu Bu, "The general thinks well, if Dong Zhuo has already been imprisoned here, then the one who killed General Ding Yuan would be the fake Dong Zhuo above?" ”

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The capital of Jizhou, on the outskirts of Yecheng......

Duan Xuan ran out without waiting for his injuries to heal, because he couldn't drink, he was already going crazy, so he insisted on saying that it was okay to run out.

He should have been happy to come out, but the four sages said that the injury had not healed, and it was easy to suffer in case something happened, so he asked Guo Lan to also go on the road together, saying that it was to distract himself by the way.

Of course, Duan Xuan understood that it was nothing more than that the old man was afraid that he would do things in an unorganized manner, so he would install a "fine work" by his side.

But at this time, he was not in the mood to think about this, because his mind was attracted by a painting.

When the sun is shining, the painter leans against the tree, leisurely picking up the pen and sketching at will.

The man's hair was tied haphazardly on his head, and he had a very ordinary appearance, his eyes were slightly squinted, and he looked up from time to time to look ahead.

He was dressed in a short coat and black cloth boots on his feet. He was sitting next to the stone with some pens and paper for painting, and possibly a basket for these.

The painting depicts a tranquil landscape in front of you, with distant mountains and grass, and a stream flowing in the stream. Duan Xuan was standing by and watching with great interest, and the person who painted didn't seem to hate being watched by others.

Guo Lan dragged Duan Xuan, but he was thrown away without looking back, so he had to sigh and just stand aside and watch.

"Sir, although I don't know much about painting, I can see the beauty in this painting. It's just that Mr. paints landscapes, but he feels that there is a killing atmosphere in the painting. Duan Xuan said suddenly.

"Hehe, I'm just painting casually to hone my mind. It's just a landscape, how can there be any murderous atmosphere, the little brother laughed. The painter smiled at Duan Xuan, then lowered his head and drew again.

However, from the look in his eyes just now, Duan Xuan clearly felt that it was definitely the gaze of a martial artist, and it was a martial artist who had experienced the battlefield. It is the temperament of a general who is accustomed to life and death and has commanded soldiers and horses, calm, sophisticated and resolute.

Duan Xuan couldn't help but take a fresh look at this man, although this person looked like a wandering painter, but those hands were vigorous and powerful, holding a pen like a knife, and the blade of the pen was very steady, it was the hand of a person who had held a blade for a long time.

Duan Xuan got up slowly, afraid of disturbing the man's painting, and signaled that Guo Lan should go.

"The meeting in Pingshui is fate, and I wish Mr. Xia can draw a masterpiece, so I will say goodbye first." Duan Xuan was rarely polite.

"Sir farewell." Guo Lan also said goodbye.

"Walk slowly, we'll have a date later." The painter put down the pen and paper and gave it away.

Guo Lan followed Duan Xuan and walked forward, and couldn't help but be curious: "I don't know, you are still interested in painting." ”

"Guo Dashao misunderstood, I was just interested in the person who painted...... What to see, not that kind of interest! ”

"Did I say anything?" Guo Lan shook his head innocently.

Duan Xuan seemed to suddenly think of something, and ran back again, Guo Lan looked at him puzzled. Duan Xuan returned to the painter, arched his hand, and asked:

"In Xia Duan Xuan, I forgot to ask Mr. Da Ming just now."

"Mountain painters, nameless people, don't mention it." The painter smiled slightly and looked at Duan Xuan.

"It can be seen from Mr.'s painting that Mr.'s name will resound all over the world in the future, and it is fate to be able to meet Mr. today, and I hope Mr. will tell me." As he spoke, Duan Xuan bowed slightly and bowed again.

The painter put the pen and paper on the ground, got up and saluted: "The little brother said that he was laughing, but he was just good on weekdays." Since you and I are destined, I will make you a friend, and I will fly ...... next Zhang Fei."