Chapter 233: Gifts are exchanged
In this world, there are only a thousand days to catch a thief, and there is no reason to prevent a thief for a thousand days. Since there are assassins targeting Sun Ce, unless the main messenger behind the scenes is told to give up the assassination, even if this group of assassins is caught, the next group of assassins will appear. Liu Xie is the lord of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, so he naturally has to take on the responsibility of being the lord, and he came here today to reassure Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's hearts, so that the two of them don't have to worry about the assassin. It's just that what Liu Xie didn't expect was that he was "ambushed" as soon as he came.
Sun Ce was a little embarrassed, after all, the culprit was his own sister, the eldest brother was like a father, and his younger sister was in trouble, so this brother naturally had to come out to deal with the aftermath. Fortunately, Liu Xie is not a stingy person, he did not mention the matter again, but only appeased Sun Ce to recuperate in peace, and he would handle the assassin's affairs.
After finishing the matter, the time is still early, Liu Xie is not in a hurry to leave, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu are newly invested, Liu Xie naturally wants to cultivate a relationship with the two of them, after all, he is a person who will be of great use in the future, if he can't use it with confidence, it is better not to use it.
Lala is homely, talking about gossip, and the topic turned to Sun Shangxiang, Liu Xie is really a little speechless for Sun Ce's sister, and I haven't seen a girl like Sun Shangxiang.
"Holy Lord, the housesister is still good." Sun Ce retorted a little unconvinced.
"Bo Fu, don't you blush when you say this?" Liu Xie didn't argue with Sun Ce, but just pointed to the fishing net that was thrown in a corner and asked Sun Ce.
Sun Ce was suddenly speechless when asked, and Zhou Yu on the side hurriedly said when he saw this: "Saint, Shang Xiang is just a little pampered, and her nature is still kind. Although she is a little playful, I haven't seen her bully people casually. By the way, Shang Xiang still wanted to enter the Luan Wei camp some time ago, so it was better for the saint to promise her, so as to take the opportunity to accept her temperament. β
ββ¦β¦ Gong Jin, you're quite good at causing trouble. Liu Xie glanced at Zhou Yu when he heard this, "Okay, if you don't arrange where that girl goes, presumably Bo Fu can't rest in peace." When she came back, tell her to report to the Luanwei camp tomorrow. β
"In this way, Sun Ce thanked the Holy God for his grace."
"Bo Fu, don't be busy thanking you first, I'm going to talk ugly about the future, it's easy for her to go to the Luanwei camp, but she doesn't want to have any special treatment in the Luanwei camp because of this, if you violate the military rules, you should play ten boards and not play five boards less because of you, you have a mental preparation for this in advance."
ββ¦β¦ Holy Lord, will you be beaten when you enter the Luanwei camp? β
"The Luanwei battalion is responsible for the security of the harem on weekdays, which is no different from the regular army, and the military regulations naturally also exist. According to your sister's idle nature, I guess she will be beaten sooner or later. But you don't have to worry too much, you won't die. β
Sun Ce has always doted on this girl, and when he heard Liu Xie say that the sister might be beaten if she went to the Luanwei camp, she couldn't help but regret it in her heart, she shouldn't have agreed so happily. However, he is also a person who has led the soldiers, since the Luanwei camp is not a child's play, it is natural to pay attention to an order to prohibit it, and it is normal to be punished if he violates military regulations. The only thing I can do is to tell my sister to restrain her temperament and not to ask people to grab the handle.
Liu Xie left, went back to arrange to deal with the assassin's affairs, and after Liu Xie left, Sun Shangxiang, who had disappeared before, reappeared.
"Shang Xiang, girls don't be sneaky, come in." When Sun Ce saw Sun Shangxiang probing his brain at the window, he couldn't help but reprimand angrily.
"Hey...... Brother, has the saint returned? Sun Shangxiang walked in with a smile and asked knowingly.
"Hmm. I went back, thanks to the generosity of the saint, and I didn't care about your previous faux pas. By the way, to tell you good news, didn't you want to enter the Luanwei camp before? The saint agreed, and ordered you to report to the Luanwei camp tomorrow, but the Luanwei camp is responsible for the safety of the harem, and the military discipline is strict. β
ββ¦β¦ Brother, you said that the Holy One agreed to let me go to the Luanwei Camp, could it be that he wanted to take the opportunity to take revenge for today's incident? Sun Shangxiang thought for a while, and suddenly asked Sun Cedao.
"Bastard! What nonsense? If the Holy One really cares about you, he would have ordered someone to take you a long time ago, so why bother. Sun Ce glared at Sun Shangxiang and said.
"That's not necessarily, knowing people and faces, but not hearts, what if the saint is preparing to harm me?"
"You deserve it! Who called you a girl's house so restless. β
ββ¦β¦ Brother, are we brothers and sisters? How do you help outsiders talk? Sun Shangxiang complained to Sun Ce a little depressed.
"For brothers, this is to help and not to help relatives. Shang Xiang, now you and I are no longer in Jiangdong in the past, from now on, the affairs of Jiangdong have nothing to do with you and my brothers and sisters, what we have to care about is how to gain a foothold in the DPRK, you are not young anymore, it is time to understand something. Sun Ce said with a heavy voice. Seeing this, Zhou Yu on the side persuaded: "Bo Fu, why do you say this, you see that Shang Xiang is worried." Shang Xiang, don't listen to your brother, the saint has already intended to wait for your brother's body to recover and go to Qingzhou with me to form a navy. And what worries me and your brother the most is your arrangement. β
"What do I have to worry about?"
"It's not worrying. Think about what you've done today, and it's enough to kill your head. β
ββ¦β¦ I didn't know that the Holy One would come. Sun Shangxiang lowered his head and muttered.
Sun Ce and Zhou Yu glanced at each other, and Sun Ce sighed: "Alas~ It seems that I really want to find you a mother-in-law, lest no one can take care of you after Gongjin and I leave, and let you cause trouble." β
"Brother, why do you want to marry your little sister as soon as possible?" Sun Shangxiang asked a little unhappily when he heard this.
"Alas~ Now it's not a question of wanting to marry you off for my brother, but a question of who wants to marry you." Sun Ce sighed again.
"No one wants to be better, I don't want to marry yet."
"You ......" Sun Ce was angry, pointed at Sun Shangxiang for a long time, and didn't speak.
And Sun Shangxiang didn't dare to really make Sun Ce angry, so he accepted it when he saw it, excused himself to go to see Shao'er, turned around and ran away. Sun Ce said helplessly to Zhou Yu: "Gong Jin, what can you do to cure this girl, I really spoil her usually, so much so that now she doesn't even dare to listen to me." β
"Bo Fu doesn't need to be in a hurry, Shang Xiang is still young after all, just teach it slowly. And she is about to enter the Luanwei camp, since the saint told us the ugly words in advance, if Shang Xiang makes a mistake, someone will be responsible for teaching her. Zhou Yu is not worried about Sun Shangxiang's education. Sun Ce is used to Sun Shangxiang, but it doesn't mean that others are also used to Sun Shangxiang, if he really violates military rules in the army, the big board spanking is also merciless.
Don't look at Sun Shangxiang now, she looks like she is not afraid of heaven and earth, that is because she has never suffered a loss, and when she has been taught a lesson and suffered, she will naturally understand what to do.
"Bo Fu, what do you think the Holy Lord will do with the affairs of the assassins?" Zhou Yu asked about another thing that concerned him. Sun Ce immediately became interested. The Assassin could not be persuaded by just one mouth, and Sun Ce was also curious about what method Liu Xie was going to use to get the Assassin to give up the trouble that came to him.
The people in this world who don't want to let themselves live in the world are the most suspicious of Sun Quan of Jiangdong, because as long as Sun Ce lives in the world for a day, the lord of Jiangdong of Sun Quan will not be able to sit steadily. The six counties and eighty-one prefectures in Jiangdong were fought down by Sun Ce and Zhou Yu little by little, as long as Sun Ce spoke, Yu Wei was still there, and he would definitely be able to make Jiangdong's internal instability.
Sun Ce was very glad that Liu Xie did not force him to do something that disturbed Jiangdong. Although Jiangdong has nothing to do with him Sun Ce now, it is also the foundation of the Sun family, and Sun Ce is still a little unbearable to destroy it with his own hands.
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Moling
Since following the advice of Xiangshi to build a city in Moling, Sun Quan has been looking forward to the completion of his residence in Moling. At the beginning, Sun Ce took Jiangdong and "fixed the capital" of Wu County, but now the owner of Jiangdong is Sun Quan, no matter what the purpose, Sun Quan needs to erase the traces left by Sun Ce in Jiangdong.
Moving the political center of Jiangdong from Wu County to Moling was only Sun Quan's first step, and at present, Sun Quan had already moved into the newly built general's mansion in Moling.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the princes were divided, and the princes like Sun Ce, Cao Cao, and Yuan Shao were on one side, and the common way to obtain official positions was to take them by themselves. Anyway, the court can't control it, they can be whatever officials they like. Although the imperial court did not recognize the Zhennan general led by Sun Ce, but now that Sun Quan is the master of the house, he honestly and unceremoniously put the official title of Zhennan general on his head, not only that, Sun Quan also added a title of Marquis Wu to himself, of course, this was not recognized by the imperial court.
moved into a new home and established Moling's position as the political center of Jiangdong, and Sun Quan was in a good mood these two days. And most importantly, he has a queen. In his concubine room, Zhao was diagnosed as pregnant. Although Zhao's status is low, he is only a concubine, and the child he gave birth to is only a concubine, and he is not qualified to inherit the family business in the future, but after all, he is his eldest son, and the joy of becoming a father for the first time makes Sun Quan very happy in the past two days.
As usual, Sun Quan slept with his main room, Xie Shi. Since the Zhao family was happy, Sun Quan's other women were also nervous, Sun Quan was a little tired these nights, but he was willing, tired and willing to die.
The habit of work and rest developed over the years allowed Sun Quan to wake up on time. However, Sun Quan didn't want to get up at this time, last night's excitement made Sun Quan a little unsatisfied, there was a beautiful woman beside him, Sun Quan couldn't help but want to do a "morning exercise". didn't even open his eyes, stretched out his hands to hug the beauty, and the big mouth also kissed it.
"Huh?" As soon as Sun Quan kissed the beauty's face, he immediately noticed the abnormality. The taste is wrong! When he opened his eyes, Sun Quan, who was suddenly shocked, lost any interest and sat up suddenly. took a closer look and found that between himself and the beauty, he didn't know when someone put a pig's head.
"Ah~" Xie Shi, who was woken up by Sun Quan's action of getting up, saw a pig's head as soon as he opened his eyes, and the pig's head was still looking at her sideways, and immediately frightened this woman to death, and screamed.
"Shut up!" Sun Quan was annoyed that he didn't know who was so hateful, put the pig's head on his pillow, heard Xie's scream, his mood was even more irritable, he reached out and grabbed a pig ear on the pig's head, picked it up and smashed it on Xie's head, "Xie's" fainted happily, leaving only Sun Quan's face was pale, gritting his teeth.
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"Rice bucket! What are you eating? Sun Quan flew into a rage and angrily scolded Ma Zhong, who was in charge of the security of the General's Mansion. Ma Zhong was very aggrieved, how could he have thought that someone would be bold enough to put a pig's head next to Sun Quan's pillow at night.
Sun Quan is afraid, since the other party can unknowingly put the pig's head on his pillow, it means that it is easy to take his own life.
Who did it? Sun Quan was desperate to know the answer to this question. But judging from the current situation, this wish is difficult to achieve, except for a pig's head, there are no more clues left for Sun Quan to pursue.
"The lord forgives the sin, and the general will send someone to investigate." Ma Zhonggong pleaded guilty.
"What to check? You don't think it's enough to lose someone, isn't it? Sun Quan glared at him and asked angrily.
"Uh...... Please also make the Lord public. β
"Strengthen the guards in the house, Ma Zhong, this time I will not hold you accountable for your dereliction of duty, but I don't want there to be a next time. In addition, the matter must not be leaked, otherwise you will only ask. β
Sun Quan is unwilling to make a big deal about this matter, firstly, there is no clue, there is no way to investigate, and secondly, this matter is not honorable, except for causing people to discuss, it will not benefit Sun Quan at all.
Ma Zhong retreated in embarrassment and went to arrange the escort work of the General's Mansion, and Sun Quan was adjusting his mood to start his work, when Xue Zong came to report, saying that someone had a letter to transfer to Sun Quan.
"Who told you to deliver the letter?"
"I don't know. The minister came to the general's mansion on a business trip as usual today, but on the way, someone shot an arrow into the minister's carriage. Xue Zong replied with a bitter face.
ββ¦β¦ Where are the letters? Sun Quan frowned when he heard this, and subconsciously linked the letter with the pig's head he saw this morning.
Seeing the four words Sun Quan personally written on the envelope, Sun Quan remained silent, opened the letter and took out the letter inside, only to look at it twice, Sun Quan's face was as black as the bottom of the pot, and then turned from black to purple, and Xue Zong, who was waiting on the side, was silent and did not dare to make the slightest sound.
"Humph!" Sun Quan slapped the letter heavily on the table, and Xue Zong was so frightened that he couldn't help but shake. Fortunately, Sun Quan didn't spill his anger on Xue Zong's body, and after being silent for a while, he listened to Sun Quan tell Xue Zong: "You go and find Ziming quickly." β
What Xue Zong wanted most at this time was to find an excuse to get as far away from Sun Quan as possible, Sun Quan's instructions were exactly what Xue Zong wanted, and he immediately took the order and withdrew from the main hall. After a short time, Lu Meng followed Xue Zong to the main hall.
"My lord, I don't know if there is any urgency to summon the last general." Lu Meng was handling military affairs in the official office, and suddenly Xue Zong came to find him, saying that Sun Quan seemed to be stimulated by something and was in a bad mood, so he hurriedly put down what he was doing and rushed over with Xue Zong.
ββ¦β¦ Ziming, you take a look at this first. Sun Quan didn't answer, but handed the letter on the table to Lu Meng. Lu Meng took it in wonder, and after sweeping his eyes, he couldn't help but be angry, "Who did this?" What a big boldness, didn't you deceive me Jiangdong no one? The General's Mansion also comes when you want to, and you can leave if you want? β
Sun Quan glanced at the angry Lu Meng, and said leisurely: "Ziming, what you said in the letter is not just a threat, but it is true. When I woke up this morning, I found a pig's head on the pillow. β
"Huh?" Lu Meng couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this, and then hurriedly said: "The lord is frightened, and the last general is incompetent......
"Ziming, don't talk about these scenes, let's talk about the current matter first. This time it's just a warning, but next time, I'm afraid I'm really going to take someone's life. Sun Quan waved his hand and said to Lu Meng.
ββ¦β¦ Who does the lord think this matter has to do with it? Lu Meng was silent for a moment and asked Sun Quandao.
It has been explained in the letter that apart from today's imperial court, there is no one else who can have such great ability. It's just that I don't understand that the court has the ability to take a certain life, why doesn't he take it? Sun Quan said with some confusion.
Lu Meng was silent for a while, and only spoke when Sun Quan was about to lose his patience: "Maybe it's really as the lord just said, this time it's just a warning. β
"Then what do you say the court is doing this for?"
ββ¦β¦ Assassination is not the right way. If the imperial court doesn't do this, I'm afraid it doesn't want assassins to run rampant in the world and everyone is in danger. My lord, according to the opinion of the general, it is better to order the assassins sent to Chang'an to be retracted. β
ββ¦β¦ And so it can be. Sun Quan weighed it for a long time when he heard this, and nodded helplessly. Sun Quan originally wanted to use assassins to solve his own troubles, but now the court used the same means to warn himself, in order to let himself have a peaceful sleep in the future, Sun Quan could only accept LΓΌ Meng's advice. After all, everyone has a time to relax, and if you spend all day guarding against assassins, you don't have to do anything.
"Ziming, how did you do the things you were ordered to do a few days ago?" Sun Quan asked Lu Mengdao. Lu Meng couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart when he heard this, but he couldn't help but answer, and hurriedly said: "Don't worry, the lord is in preparation, this matter has been handed over to Zhou Yi, if the lord has anything to ask, it is better to ask him to come and ask in person." β
"Well, come on, Zhou Yi go and find it." Sun Quan nodded when he heard this, and instructed Xue Zongdao, who was outside the door.
Sun Quan's explanation of what Lu Meng did was not something that could be said in public. Sun Quan was born suspicious and sick, and although Jiangdong is now occupied by him, the means cannot be regarded as glorious after all. As a thief, he is always suspicious, worried that someone in Jiangdong will secretly plan to kill him.
Asking LΓΌ Meng to select shrewd and capable people from the army, set up his own intelligence department, and monitor Jiangdong for him, is what Sun Quan told LΓΌ Meng to do in a hurry. And Lu Meng didn't want to get involved in this matter, so he handed over the matter to Zhou Yi after receiving the order, and today Sun Quan asked, Lu Meng recommended Zhou Yi to Sun Quan, hoping to withdraw from this matter.
Sun Quan also didn't want his henchmen to be involved in this matter, and seeing that Lu Meng was so knowledgeable, he pushed the boat down the river and ordered someone to pass Zhou Yi to come, which was regarded as fulfilling Lu Meng's intention to protect his life.
Zhou Yi is not very old now, in his early twenties, and he looks ...... How so? It just makes people feel that this person is upright at first sight, not the kind of person who talks about it. If Liu Xie saw Zhou Yi here, he would definitely understand why Cao Xiu was involved in Zhou Yi's evil deeds in the romance, this person doesn't look like a villain.
Sun Quan's first impression of Zhou Yi was good, and after Lu Meng left under the pretext, Sun Quan put forward his own request to Zhou Yi, and the first task Zhou Yi received was to secretly monitor Lu Ji of the Lu family in Jiangdong.