Chapter Seventy-Six: Wang Yun and Lu Bu (Two in One)
Hearing that it was Lu Bu coming, Wang Yun was suddenly shocked, he knew that Lu Bu was now the person in charge of Dong Zhuo's guards, could it be that Xiu'er had recruited him?
However, Wang Yun is old and refined after all, and he still looks unfazed on the surface.
"Let him come to the study to see me."
"Yes."
After the servant left, Wang Yun tidied up his clothes and was sitting on a chair in the study.
It didn't take long for Lu Bu to walk in in a military uniform.
"I've seen Wang Situ."
"It turned out to be General Lu, I don't know what happened to visit our mansion?"
"I wonder if there is a woman in Situ Mansion who is missing?"
Hearing Lu Bu's words, Wang Yun immediately knew that he was talking about Xiu'er, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.
"This woman is pregnant, and I don't know who she is marrying."
Lu Bu didn't seem to notice Wang Yun's strangeness, but continued.
"Pregnant?"
Listening to what Lu Bu said, it didn't seem like he found out that he asked Xiu'er to assassinate Dong Zhuo, but he suddenly talked about Xiu'er being pregnant.
Soon Wang Yun reacted, could this Lu Bu be in love with Xiu'er?
At this time, Wang Yun was a little annoyed, if Lu Bu really fell in love with Xiu'er, then the serial plan he thought of should be successfully implemented, but now Lu Bu told him that Xiu'er was pregnant, so this plan could no longer be done by Xiu'er.
But after thinking about it, seeing that Lu Bu didn't seem to dislike Xiu'er because of this, then Xiu'er could just serve as a bridge between himself and Lu Bu.
"Didn't Xiu'er tell you who his husband was?"
Wang Yun decided to test Lu Bu, but he didn't expect Lu Bu's face to turn hideous immediately after hearing this.
"I don't care who his husband is, now I want to take Xiu'er into the room."
Looking at Lu Bu's appearance, Wang Yun knew that Xiu'er should not have told her husband that she was Liangzhou Mu Qinhua, so he took the opportunity to say: "Xiu'er is my righteous daughter, although she has married a woman, but her husband unfortunately died early, if Lu Bu can take a fancy to Xiu'er, it will be the blessing of that girl." β
Seeing that Wang Yun didn't seem to have any objections, Lu Bu couldn't say what he had thought of before.
He originally thought that if Wang Yun objected, or Xiu'er's husband objected, he would use Xiu'er's assassination of Dong Zhuo last night as a threat to force him to promise Xiu'er to himself.
It's just that it doesn't seem to be needed anymore, Wang Yun actually agreed in one bite, and Lu Bu's face softened a lot.
"Thank you so much, Lu will leave."
As he spoke, Lu Bu prepared to walk out.
"Wait."
Suddenly, Wang Yun called Lu Bu down.
"Xiu'er's wish since she was a child is to marry a general who is loyal to the Han."
Before Wang Yun's words were finished, Lu Bu said: "Lu is not talented, and now he is in the position of a former general of the Han Dynasty, so is he not worthy of Xiu'er?" β
"The position of General Lu was sealed by Dong Zhuo, how can you talk about the former general of the Han Dynasty?"
"Bold, do you dare to criticize the father-in-law of Bu?"
After hearing this, Lu Bu immediately interrupted Wang Yun's words.
"If you haven't said this, Lu hasn't heard it, say goodbye."
Lu Bu originally wanted to capture Wang Yun, but he heard Wang Yun say that he was Xiu'er's father-in-law, but in the end he didn't do anything.
"Lu Bu, are you willing to be one of Dong Zhuo's guards all the time?"
Just as Lu Bu was about to turn his head, Wang Yun suddenly mentioned the volume and said.
He found that Lu Bu really didn't have much loyalty to Dong Zhuo, and since he listened to what Qin Hua said, he dared to conclude that Lu Bu definitely had a chance to pull to his side.
Sure enough, after hearing Wang Yun's words, Lu Bu's expression was immediately stunned.
He volunteered to become a general who could make great achievements, rather than a guard who would protect Dong Zhuo.
"Mrs. Dong and I have a kindness, and it is my duty to protect Mrs. Dong's safety."
Lu Bu's answer was obviously a little quieter, and he no longer called Dong Zhuo his father-in-law, but Dong Taishi.
"Dong Zhuo is interested in your force, do you think he has given you real power? The generals stationed outside are his henchmen, and you are just one of his guards. β
Wang Yun continued to attack Lu Bu's psychological defense, and he wanted to persuade Lu Bu to join his camp at one time.
"But Dong Zhuo is the father of cloth, how can it be the opposite, this is unfilial piety."
This time, Lu Bu didn't even call Dong Taishi, but directly called him by his name.
"Dong Zhuo's surname is Dong, your surname is Lu, how are you father and son? How to be unfilial, not to mention loyalty and filial piety, you should be loyal to the greatest, even if Dong Zhuo is your father, you should also kill your relatives in righteousness. β
After listening to Wang Yun's words, Lu Bu was silent, and seemed to continue to fight again.
"As long as General Lu can help His Majesty get rid of the Dong thief, he will definitely be able to increase his rank and become a knight, and Xiu'er will naturally be yours."
Thinking of Xiu'er's appearance, Lu Bu finally made up his mind.
"It's just that this Chang'an is under the control of Dong Thief, how to take it. Even if I can kill Dong Thief, I will inevitably be counterattacked by his subordinates, and Buzhi's life will be fine, and it will not be good if it endangers His Majesty. β
Lu Bu finally decided to join Wang Yun's side, and his name for Dong Zhuo was changed again, this time directly calling him Dong Thief.
"I have already calculated this matter, Dong Thief has recently abolished the power of Yang Feng, the general of the Che Cavalry, you can take advantage of the situation to take over Yang Feng's army, and let Dong Zhuo order you to take charge of the defense of Chang'an. At that time, as long as Dong Thief is dead, we will definitely be able to quickly control Chang'an. Chang'an is in control, and those soldiers and horses outside are not worried. β
"That's very good."
The two carefully planned the other details, and Lu Bu did not leave until nightfall.
When he returned to his mansion, it was already midnight, and Lu Bu, who was a little drunk, suddenly found that four or five masked men in black had broken into his mansion over the wall.
His drunkenness vanished immediately, and he followed them over the wall and into it.
But after coming in, Lu Bu lost the whereabouts of those people, and Lu Bu didn't think much about it and walked directly to Xiu'er's room.
Not knowing what the purpose of the assassins was, Lu Bu decided to protect Xiu'er first.
But he never expected that the target of this group of assassins was actually Xiu'er, and by the time he arrived, Xiu'er had already fought with these people.
Xiu'er, who was injured in her right arm, was no match for these people at all, but fortunately, her body was flexible and she could dodge.
Seeing this, Lu Bu rushed forward without saying a word, and with a single sword, he slashed an assassin with his back to him to the ground.
"Withdraw."
One of the men in black recognized Lu Bu and immediately ordered a retreat.
But before they left, Xiu'er was still slashed with a sword, but fortunately it was not fatal.
Seeing that the assassins were leaving, LΓΌ Bu hurriedly stepped forward to stop them, but they still escaped.
Walking out of the door, Lu Bu saw these assassins fleeing into the rockery in the garden, and Lu Bu was worried that it was a plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain, so he did not dare to continue the pursuit, so he could only shout that there were assassins.
Soon the guards of the Lu Mansion heard the news and searched for the Assassins under the leadership of Lu Bu.
Xiu'er's door was surrounded by guards.
Before Lu Bu left, he had already sent someone to call a doctor, while Xiu'er was lying on the bed with her left arm covering the wound.
Suddenly, she noticed a token falling from the Assassin's side, in a familiar pattern, so she went to the corpse and picked it up.
I saw the word "Qin" written on the token, which he had seen on Qin Hua's personal guard.
"Could it be that he is the husband's person? Husband wants to kill me? β
Xiu'er's heart was suddenly like a knife, but in order to avoid being discovered that the assassin was Qin Hua's person, she still decided to put the token away.
Lu Bu chased for a long time and didn't catch anyone, so he could only go back to check Xiu'er's injuries, but he was told by the maid that Xiu'er was fine, and now that he was resting, Lu Bu could only leave.
Early the next morning, Lu Bu went to visit Xiu'er, but she turned him away, and after asking the doctor, Lu Bu learned that Xiu'er was okay and left.
He still has an important mission on his body now, as long as he can kill Dong Zhuo, he can accept Xiu'er justifiably.
"Fengxian, I heard that you also encountered an assassin in your mansion yesterday?"
"Yes, the child only killed one, and the rest ran away."
"It must have been done by the ministers of the DPRK and China, and they have been going too far and too lately, and I have to teach them a lesson."
Dong Zhuo directly put the assassin's hat on the head of the minister of the court, and Lu Bu took the opportunity to say to Dong Zhuo: "I heard that my father-in-law is going to take down Jin Wuwei, if I don't give up, I don't know if I can let the child control this army." Once this army is received, the child will sweep Chang'an and let those with bad intentions all show their original form. β
"It's okay to let Bong take over first."
As soon as Dong Zhuo's words were finished, Li Ru on the side suddenly coughed, Dong Zhuo also understood what he meant, but in recent years, Lu Bu has blocked assassin attacks for him many times, and he felt that he should give Lu Bu a certain amount of trust.
At this time, Li Su below suddenly stood up and said, "Su Bucai, I am willing to assist General Lu in receiving Jin Wuwei's signal." β
Li Su has been with Dong Zhuo for a long time, so he also trusts Li Su very much, and seeing that Li Su is willing to assist Lu Bu, Dong Zhuo also took the opportunity to appoint Lu Bu as the new ruling Jinwu, in charge of Jinwuwei, and Li Su as his deputy.
In this way, not only can he show his trust in Lu Bu, but Li Su can also monitor Lu Bu, in case Lu Bu has anything wrong, he can also know in time.
"Thank you, father-in-law."
"Thank you, Lord."
Lu Bu and Li Su thanked Dong Zhuo at the same time.
"Why do you speak?"
When Lu Bu and Li Su left the Taishi Mansion, Lu Bu asked.
"Dong Zhuo is perverse, despises the prestige of the Han Dynasty, Lord Situ has already found me, we are our own people."
Li Su chuckled lightly and said in a low voice.
"You..."
Lu Bu didn't expect Li Su to be moved by Wang Yun's words, although this was conducive to his own actions, but he didn't feel good in his heart.
This person persuaded himself to join Dong Zhuo's side before, and now he has joined the anti-Dong Zhuo camp, he is really a repeated villain, although he is a fellow villager with this person, he can't have deep friendships.
More than ten days later, LΓΌ Bu officially took over Jin Wuwei's army, and began to do his part as Dong Zhuo wished, and did his best to clear Chang'an City of possible threats.
The hundreds of officials in the court also cooperated with Lu Bu's actions under the instruction of Wang Yun, and the assassination incident never happened again.
Xiu'er was secretly sent back to Wang Yun's mansion by Lu Bu because of the previous attack.
He has been too busy with business lately to take care of Xiu'er, so he can only hide her in Wang Yun's mansion so that she will not be detected by those assassins.
In this way, two months have passed, and Lu Bu has fully gained Dong Zhuo's trust, and he began to place his subordinates in the city defense army.
Chang'an is now mainly guarded by two armies, one is the Jin Wuwei under the command of LΓΌ Bu, who are mainly responsible for the security of the imperial palace and its surroundings.
The other is the city defense army, they are naturally responsible for the defense of the Chang'an city wall, and now Lu Bu has basically completely controlled the army of Chang'an.
The only threat now is a 3,000 "Flying Bear Army" surrounding Dong Zhuo.
The Flying Bear Army is Dong Zhuo's personal guard, and it was selected by Dong Zhuo from the army of nearly 300,000, although the training is not as strict as Qin Hua's trapped camp, but regardless of the equipment, the single combat power of the Flying Bear sergeant is not under the trapped camp.
If there is really a fight, the Jin Wuwei in Lu Bu's hands plus more than 10,000 people in the city defense army may not be able to kill Dong Zhuo under the protection of the Flying Bear Army.
"I heard that Dong Thief dreamed a few days ago that there was a golden dragon entrenched beside him?"
Lu Bu was telling Wang Yun about the Flying Bear Army, but Wang Yun suddenly mentioned what Dong Zhuo had dreamed about a few days ago.
"But there is such a thing, Dong Thief also deliberately found someone to interpret the dream, which is said to be a good omen."
Although he didn't know what Wang Yun wanted to say, Lu Bu still answered the question.
"That's good, don't worry, tomorrow will be the time when Dong thief dies."
At this time, in the Liangzhou Pastoral Mansion of Wuwei City, Qin Hua received a secret letter from the Nighthawk.
Nighthawk was Qin Hua's intelligence agency, and his role was mainly to collect intelligence from various places, and he was occasionally used as an assassin.
Most of the information sent back by Nighthawk is not encrypted, this kind of information can be watched by Jia Xu and Xun You in addition to Qin Hua, but Xun You is in charge of internal affairs, he generally does not take the initiative to watch it, but Jia Xu will read almost every piece of information, which will help him understand the major events in the world.
As Qin Hua's chief strategist, this is also his job.
But some of the information is encrypted, which can only be viewed by Qin Hua, such as the one he has in his hand now.
What this information is about Xiu'er's assassination, Qin Hua only then knew that Qin Huang didn't want to help him get Xiu'er back, but was going to kill Xiu'er directly.
"It seems that it is right to use Qin Yue as the leader of the Nighthawks."
Although Qin Yue is also a retainer of the Qin family, he is different from his fathers, his fathers are all based on Qin Huang, and Qin Hua is just a young master, but Qin Yue regards Qin Hua as his master.
That's why Qin Hua would hand over such an important job as the leader of the Nighthawk to Qin Yue.
"Order Chang'an's Nighthawk Eyeliner to keep an eye on Lu Bu's mansion, and once the Shadow Guard's people go again, they will go to stop it, it's really not possible to do it."
Sending the reply back to Chang'an, Qin Hua didn't know what to do.
There is nothing to blame for what Qin Huang did, but Qin Hua can't accept it, but it's not easy for him to come forward to stop it, so he can only let the Nighthawk and the Shadow Guard fight, and see which side is more powerful.
At this time, Qin Hua seemed to Dong Zhuo to die soon, so that he could take Chang'an.
"Wang Yun, Lao'er, when I take Chang'an, you will look good."