Taifu Mansion.

Yuan Kui knelt in the lobby with his eyes slightly closed.

Without the overflow of guests and the bustle of the past, even the servants who were busy on weekdays were gone, and the Taifu Mansion at this time was exceptionally quiet and solemn.

The shouts of killing vaguely came into the lobby from outside the mansion, and Yuan Kui turned a deaf ear to it. Kneeling alone in the lobby, his eyes slightly closed as if an old monk had settled down.

The servants and disciples in the palace had long been dismissed by him, and the strong and brave ones among them joined the rebellion outside the palace to cause chaos, and the remaining old servants or slaves and maids went to other places to take refuge at his orders.

Yuan Kui said to them that if there is nothing wrong with the Yuan Mansion tomorrow, everyone can come back, and if something happens to the Yuan Mansion, everyone will go their separate ways and fight for their lives.

This time, Yuan Kui is really desperate to bet on all the worth of the Yuan family. Among them, it is extremely dangerous, if it fails, there is no need to implicate these servants who have served the Yuan clan for many years.

Some loyal old servants were reluctant to leave, and it was Yuan Kui who drove them away with the majesty of the head of the family.

Watching the servants disperse, Yuan Kui felt a little sad in his heart. The once-prominent Yuan clan would have been forced into such a situation.

Although if this move can be successful, the long-cherished wish that the Yuan family has hidden in their hearts for many years can be realized, but this kind of drastic and dangerous means is not what Yuan Kui wants.

In the final analysis, Yuan Kui also understood that since Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang, they had lost the opportunity, and then they made a wrong step, and finally forced him to make dangerous moves in this way.

Every time he thought of this, Yuan Kui would clench his fists excitedly.

In his opinion, the little emperor Liu Wei can only be regarded as a middle-aged person, but he always has constant whimsical ideas, which are always unguardable.

Not to mention anything else, just such a clever thing as Qu Yuan Plough also came from the brain of this young genius, which made people feel stunned.

This kind of thing was beneficial to the people in the prosperous times, and it should be widely spread in the world. Although it is now born in troubled times, it cannot be promoted to the whole country, and it is only used in the Sili area. But what is foreseeable is how great this kind of thing will be to increase productivity. I heard that the Ministry of Industry is going to launch an advanced textile machine, which is also from the idea of the little emperor.

If it had been an adult who had done these things, Yuan Kui's surprise might have been a little smaller. Even though Liu Wei had a reputation for being good at craftsmanship since he was a child, Yuan Kui still didn't believe that Liu Wei would create such things.

A person's knowledge is accumulated over time, and this also takes into account the influence of the environment, such as the family and the level of social education received. It is indeed incomprehensible that Liu Wei was able to reach such heights at such a young age.

At first, Yuan Kui thought that Liu Wei was instructed by others, but after investigating for a long time, he couldn't find the master behind Liu Wei. Although Yuan Kui once suspected that Wei Yi was the master behind Liu Wei's back, after a background check on Wei Yi, he found that Wei Yi could not reach this height. Even his improvement of papermaking and printing is debatable.

Liu Wei has had a penchant for making these skills since he was a child, and Wei Yi has never had the experience of learning and showing this talent in this area before improving the art of papermaking and printing. Yuan Kui has reason to suspect that these two things are also from Liu Bian's handwriting.

If Liu Biao has no one to instruct, then the only answer left is that Liu Biao belongs to the kind of genius who is born to know.

This kind of person Yuan Kui has only seen in books, but he has never found it in reality after living for decades. If Liu Biao is really this kind of person, it will be a reality that Yuan Kui is unwilling to face - that is, Liu Biao may really be the person who is destined by God.

In fact, Lu Zhi, Xun Yu and others also had doubts about the extraordinary abilities shown by Liu Bian, but as their own people, they naturally interpreted this ability beyond ordinary people as the aura of destiny on Liu Bian's head. Even Wei Yi's Propaganda Bureau, on this basis, even publicized Liu Wei as a great man who was destined for heaven and mastered the truth of the universe. In the propaganda, for example, Liu Wei can pull a three-stone big bow when he is three years old; At the age of nine, he was able to shoot at a moving target; He learned to tame a fierce horse at an early age, and when he was not yet eight years old, he rode a horse alone and galloped hundreds of miles on winding mountain roads and arrived safely. There was once a scholar from the Western Great Qin State (Rome) who saw Liu Wei and said: "So far, it is the first time I have seen such a person, with the demeanor of a human monarch, and he will definitely become a big man in command of a country and even the world in the future." ”

The Propaganda Bureau's exaggerated and explicit propaganda against Liu Wei has confused the truth to a certain extent, but Yuan Kui still found many loopholes in this dazzling appearance.

Through contact with Liu Wei in the court, Yuan Kui found that even though Liu Wei had many incredible ideas, he still could not hide his immaturity and inadequacy in handling political affairs, but this appearance was the performance that a person who had just entered the court should have.

On the one hand, Liu Wei showed his own lack of talent, but on the other hand, he always had extraordinary ideas. In the absence of a ghostwriter, Liu Wei is shrouded in a self-contradictory and mysterious atmosphere.

Yuan Kui couldn't help but think of a strange thing that happened in Changsha County in the second year of Guangxi. Someone who died for a long time and then suddenly came back to life. At that time, the local officials reported the matter to the imperial court, and Liu Wei was leading the army to quell the rebellion of Li Dao Guo Yan at that time, like this kind of thing is a sign of troubled times, Lu Zhi naturally suppressed the matter, and Yuan Kui did not have the idea of making a fuss about this matter, after all, in the past two years, rumors such as the Luoyang woman gave birth to a two-headed and four-armed baby, and the giant snake appeared in the downtown area. There are too many lice and don't bite, the common people have long been used to it, and Yuan Kui really has nothing to say about it.

It's just that the local officials who later handled this matter were Yuan Kui's protégés and former officials, and often exchanged letters with Yuan Kui, one of which talked about this matter.

The man mentioned in the letter was a farmer in a remote mountain village in Changsha County, who died of illness three days after he died. When I woke up, I didn't know when and where it was, and I behaved strangely. There was once a saying of the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu, and he was amazed by the Son of Heaven Liu Bian's expedition against Li Dao and Guo Yan. Captain Sun Jian led his troops to pass by his village, and muttered to himself, "Emperor Sun Quan".

Before his resurrection, the farmer was originally stupid and stammered. After resurrection, he was articulate and unusually intelligent, and made some clever things to hide in his home. Some villagers were afraid that he was a ghost, so they hit him on the head several times and carried him home unconscious. Before he died, he suddenly said proverbs, such as "oppose restoration", "second revolution", "support President Sun Da", and so on.

On the night after his death, the villagers, fearing that he would be brought back to life, set fire to the wooden house where he lived, burning his body and everything in the house.

There are so many fragments of life after the resurrection of the dead in Changsha, and Yuan Kui only regarded this incident as a rural anecdote at first. It wasn't until Liu Biao continued to show those unbelievable deeds that Yuan Kui connected this matter with Liu Bian.

Yuan Kui keenly felt that there must be some kind of connection between the two, and perhaps Liu Bian's secret could be found from it, so that Liu Bian's abnormal behavior that did not fit his age could be explained.

It's just a pity that everything of the farmer who came back from the dead in Changsha County was wiped out with the fire. Relying only on the words in the old official's letter, it was difficult for Yuan Kui to understand the truth. Even if he exhausted decades of experience and wisdom, he could not explain the doubts in his mind. The whole incident was like a mess, and there was no clue to be found.

Yuan Kui's mind kept thinking about and scrutinizing the things mentioned in the old official's letter, trying to grasp the slightest clue in the hope of getting a glimpse of the whole situation. What does Wei Shuwu refer to? What is restoration? What is a revolution? What Yuan Kui cared about the most was the words of the Great Emperor Sun Quan. When he knew that Sun Jian really had a son named Sun Quan, the suspicion in his heart was like a monstrous wave.

Could it be that the son of Sun Jian should be the first emperor according to the Mandate of Heaven?

If so, how did the villagers find out? Could it be that after people come back from the dead, they can stay up all night and peep into the heavens?

If someone can really peek into the heavens, it can also explain all kinds of incredible things that happened to Liu Wei. It can even explain the entry of Dong Zhuo, who Yuan Kui has always been obsessed with, into Luoyang.

If Liu Wei can really predict the future, he can be fully prepared before Dong Zhuo enters Luoyang, so that he can easily take it down in one fell swoop and completely grasp the situation in Luoyang. It was at that time that the Yuan family lost the opportunity, and the situation changed.

Yuan Kui didn't know that his thoughts at this time were almost infinitely close to the truth of the matter. In the decades to come, none of Liu Wei's opponents thought about Liu Wei in this way like Yuan Kui, and those people took Liu Wei's talent for granted, and regarded him as an opponent who needed to look up or at eye level. As time passed, Liu Wei became more and more mature and integrated into this era, and his secrets were hidden forever.

Only Yuan Kui almost explored Liu Wei's secret at this time, but it was a pity that he only came to this point and stopped.

Because all this is really incredible. In the past historical records, there is no such example of resurrection from the dead and obtaining heavenly opportunities. Even in the history of the wilderness, there are few records.

Incidents like this are basically signs of troubled times, and there is usually no detailed record. The official records are all brushed aside, and the history books of later generations are naturally unknown. What's more, Yuan Kui, who has believed in Confucianism all his life and pays attention to his son's silence and strange power, is emotionally difficult to accept such a thing.

And if it is said that people can predict the future after death and resurrection, then Yuan Kui has never heard of Liu Wei coming back from the dead, strictly speaking, it is not in line with his speculation.

In the end, Yuan Kui still did not solve the mystery of Liu Wei. On the night of this final confrontation, Yuan Kui combed through his usual speculation again, and couldn't help but laugh self-deprecatingly.

After tonight, success or failure, these insoluble mysteries about Liu Wei will probably always be difficult to solve.

A violent cough came from the back hall, which was particularly clear in the silence of the house. Yuan Kui's thoughts were interrupted, and his heart couldn't help but tighten.

Got up and walked around the screen into the back hall, where his wife Mullen was lying on the bed sickly, struggling and seemed to want to sit up.

Yuan Kui hurriedly stepped forward to support her, and said with concern: "Madame's illness is not good, and it is not suitable for activities yet." ”

Ma Lun smiled bitterly and replied, "The concubine has been sick for a long time, and she is very depressed when she lies on the couch all day. ”

Yuan Kui helped her to sit on the couch and poured another bowl of water. After Ma Lun drank the water, his gray face was a little ruddy, and Yuan Kui said: "Madam is recuperating with peace of mind, and she will be cured soon." ”

Yuan Kui said this, but his heart was bitter. His wife Ma Lun has been ill since the beginning of the year, and in order to treat Ma Lun, he even lowered his face and invited Hua Tuo, a miracle doctor close to Liu Wei, to diagnose and treat him.

It's just that even Hua Tuo was helpless about his wife's illness, and he made a diagnosis without a doctor, and only prescribed a little prescription to alleviate the pain.

Although Yuan Kui, who loved his wife, angrily accused Hua Tuo of not saving him because of his death, he also knew in his heart that his wife's limit was indeed approaching.

The husband and wife have been together for many years, and Yuan Kui's heart is sad, but it is more about the guilt of his wife. Although the things he had secretly planned had been hidden from his wife, Yuan Kui knew how this speechless wife, who had argued herself with wisdom and eloquence on her wedding night, had not been aware of her plan.

Just like Hua Tuo's diagnosis of his wife is "depressed in the heart and losing heart", his wife may have been aware of her plan a long time ago, and she was worried and frightened, so she couldn't afford to be sick.

The wife always knew, but she never opened her mouth to ask herself. Just like tonight, his wife didn't open her mouth to ask where the servants were, and how Yuan Kui could serve her alone. He also turned a deaf ear to the faint shouts outside, and just looked at him with a worried gaze.

The wife is so intelligent that she sees everything clearly. However, she didn't say anything to dissuade Yuan Kui, probably because she understood that the Yuan family had no way out now. Even if Yuan Kui didn't do anything, the Son of Heaven would not let them go.

His wife didn't say anything, and Yuan Kui didn't want to say anything more. silently took his wife's hand, and the hand that was as white as jade back then has now become thin and wrinkled. However, in Yuan Kui's eyes, it has never changed.

"In a few days, Madame's health will be better, so I will take Madame out for a while." Yuan Kui comforted his wife.

Maren smiled and nodded. Seeing that Yuan Kui's eyes were bloodshot, he also said distressedly: "My husband works hard for state affairs and family affairs, and he must also take care of his body." ”

Yuan Kui held his wife's hand and bowed his head silently.

Ma Len sighed, and then said: "Husband, don't force everything, it is up to people to succeed in heaven, manpower will eventually be exhausted, just do your best." The rest can only be left to fate. ”

Yuan Kui looked at his wife, a little surprised, and a little ashamed. I never wanted my wife to get involved in those things of my own, but in the end I still involved him.

"The Son of Heaven is suspicious, my Yuan family's century-old foundation is in jeopardy, and I have worked hard for my husband, hoping to protect my Yuan family's ancestral inheritance. It's just that time doesn't treat me, and I feel helpless as a husband! Yuan Kui said sadly.

Mullen sighed heavily.

Although his wife didn't say anything, Yuan Kui sensed her worry. His wife's insight is far above her own, and she has won more than she lost several times with Liu Wei. He prepared for tonight's incident in many ways, lit fires everywhere, and was also afraid of Liu Wei's unreasonable character in his heart.

He didn't believe that Liu Wei was defenseless against him, and in the past two years, there were many secret agents of the unified investigation agency at his doorstep. For this reason, Yuan Kui had only arranged another dark chess move before the plan began, and the hope of this plan was placed on this dark chess hand.

Seeing that his wife's originally ruddy face turned pale again after saying a few words, Yuan Kui hurriedly helped his wife to lie back on the bed.

After settling his wife, Yuan Kui walked back to the lobby. The shouting outside seemed to be much quieter.

Yuan Kui walked out of the lobby and came to the courtyard outside, looking at the skyrocketing fire outside the mansion, and calculated that the dark chess he arranged should have started to start.

(To be continued, stay tuned for the next chapter.) ）