Chapter 9: There is no internal response
"Husband, when did you learn this?" Following behind Liu Bian, looking at his back, Tang Ji was also full of doubts, and couldn't understand why Liu Bian seemed to have suddenly changed as if he was a different person, so he blurted out a question to him.
Liu Wei couldn't think of how to answer Tang Ji's question for a while, he turned his head and smiled at Tang Ji, who was full of confusion, and dropped the sentence: "People are in a hurry, they can think of any way." β
Walking to the mountain pass, before going up the mountain, Liu Wei found a small tree. He pulled out the wood knife that was tucked into his waist and cut the small tree from the roots with all his might. Then he cut off the branches, leaving only a long stick that was slightly thinner than his wrist.
"Alright, it's time to go up the mountain!" Cutting out a stick, Liu Wei stood up, holding a long stick in his left hand and a firewood knife in his right hand, while probing the road ahead with the stick, he waved the firewood knife to cut off the thorns blocking the road, and led Tang Ji to climb along the hillside towards the top of the mountain.
"Husband, the concubine is a little tired." After walking along the hillside to the top of the hill, Tang Ji, who was walking behind, said to Liu Wei timidly: "Can you let the concubine rest for a while?" β
Just caring about entering the mountain, Liu Wei ignored that Tang Ji was a girl after all, and when he heard her say that he was tired, he turned his head, smiled apologetically, and said to her: "Then rest here for a while." β
Cutting off the nearby thorns and clearing out a clearing, Liu Wei pulled Tang Ji to sit on the hillside he had just cleared.
"Husband, we really left Luoyang." Sitting on the hillside, Tang Ji stared in the direction of Luoyang, and said to Liu Wei leisurely: "The concubine thought that she would be poisoned by Dong Zhuo's old thief in the future, but she didn't expect her husband to bring the concubine out of the heavily guarded Luoyang City.
Sitting side by side with Tang Ji, looking in the direction of Luoyang City, listening to the "rustling" sound of the surrounding tree canopy blowing in the wind, Liu Wei's mind came up with the scene of performing a mission in the jungle in his previous life.
The same difficult conditions, the same survival in the mountains and forests, but he was the only one at that time, and now there is a beautiful little girl by his side, and this little girl is still his princess.
Thinking of this, a faint smile appeared on the corner of Liu Wei's mouth.
"Why is my husband laughing?" Seeing Liu Wei laughing inexplicably, Tang Ji looked at him in confusion, blinked his big eyes twice, and asked him a question.
"Nothing!" Liu Wei turned his head to look at Tang Ji, and said to her with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "I just thought that if every man had a Lori by his side when he entered the mountain, how pleasant it would be." β
"Lori?" Liu Wei's sentence contained too many modern elements, Tang Ji didn't understand the meaning of his words for a while, tilted his head slightly, and looked at him with a confused expression.
"That's you!" Reaching out to wrap his arm around Tang Ji's fragrant shoulders and let her snuggle up beside her, Liu Wei sighed lightly and smiled, looked in the direction of Luoyang and said: "The two of us fled from Luoyang and killed Li Ru, and Dong Zhuo didn't know how to arrange it at this moment." β
Liu Wei took Tang Ji to the mountain, but in Luoyang City, he was nervous at this time.
In Luoyang City, Xiangguo Mansion.
A fat middle-aged man knelt in the main seat of the chamber, his chin resting on one hand, his brow furrowed, and his eyes glancing at the officials sitting on either side of him from time to time.
The officials who knelt in the council hall in two rows were all his cronies in Luoyang City, and none of the people who were close to him on weekdays were invited to the house.
The middle-aged man was wearing an apricot yellow embroidered dragon robe, a gilt crown on his head, his skin was slightly darkened, and his cheeks were dotted with some pitted pockmarks.
The young general who had previously interrogated Liu Wei and Tang Ji crossed his waist with one hand, pressed the sword at his waist with the other, and his body was straight and stood behind the middle-aged man like a statue.
Kneeling in front of the young general was Dong Zhuo, who led the Xiliang army to occupy Luoyang, deposed Liu Wei as the king of Hongnong, and supported Liu Xie's ascension to the throne.
"Don't you have anything to say?" Dong Zhuo looked around at the officials sitting in the hall, frowned slightly, and asked everyone.
The officials looked at each other, and a few of them were still muttering to each other, discussing something with each other, and after a while, a military attache stood up, clasped his fists and said to Dong Zhuo: "The last general thinks that if King Hongnong escapes this time, there must be an internal response in the palace, and when all the eunuchs and guards who serve King Hongnong are arrested, and under torture, they will definitely be able to ask where he is." β
"What General Lee said is very true!" As soon as the military attache finished speaking, a civil official also stood up and said to Dong Zhuo: "The lower officials also think that there must be an internal response to this matter. β
As soon as the two said this, the officials sitting in the hall echoed each other, and for a while they reached an agreement that Liu Wei had escaped from the palace, and there must have been an internal response.
The officials were talking and discussing, but there was only one middle-aged military attache in the hall who was about forty years old, slightly emaciated, and a little wise between his eyebrows and eyes, but he never spoke.
He lifted one hand, pressed his chin lightly with the tip of his thumb, and stared down at the low table in front of him, as if in deep thought.
"Father!" The officials were speculating about how Liu Wei escaped from the palace with the help of Nei Ying, and the young general took a few steps forward, stood under Dong Zhuo, clasped his hands into fists and bowed slightly to Dong Zhuo and said: "The child thinks that King Hongnong escaped from the palace, and there is no internal response. β
"Oh?" When the young general said this, Dong Zhuo frowned, sat up straight, and said to him in surprise: "Feng Xian, my son, why do you say that, come quickly." β
The young general who had interrogated Liu Bi and Tang Ji was none other than Dong Zhuo's righteous son Lu Bu, if Liu Bi knew Lu Bu's identity at that time, I am afraid he would also be shocked into a cold sweat.
"The child has carefully examined the corpses in the palace." Lu Bu stood up straight and said to Dong Zhuo: "In the fire site of King Hongnong's residence, a total of twenty-seven corpses were found, all of which were burned to charred corpses. Three of them had died before the fire, and the objects were found next to a corpse. β
Lu Bu stretched out his hand and took out a wine glass carved from white jade from his arms, held it in both hands, and presented it to Dong Zhuo.
Dong Zhuo stretched out his hand to take the wine glass, only glanced at it, and was stunned, and only after a long time did he say, "Mo Fei Wenyou......"
"Fierce and auspicious!" Lu Bu bowed slightly, then turned around and said to the officials sitting in the hall: "In addition to these twenty-seven charred corpses, five corpses were also found in the palace. The bodies of two of the eunuchs were in the bushes near the fire, and both of them were killed with one blow, and the murderer's method of killing was extremely clean and neat. The child investigated, but the deceased's neck bone was twisted but not forcibly broken, but was very skillfully twisted into a fracture and then suffocated to death, which shows that the manpower of the hand is not strong, but he has extremely rich experience in killing. If it weren't for the veteran who was used to killing, he would never have done it so cleanly! β
"Since there are still corpses outside the fire, it can only be said that there is indeed an internal response, and after killing the night patrol eunuch, he took out King Hongnong, why did General Lu say that King Hongnong escaped from the palace and did not respond?" After listening to Lu Bu's words, an official stood up, clasped his hands into fists and arched slightly towards Lu Bu, raising his doubts.
"Cai Zhonglang!" Lu Bu nodded slightly at the civil officials who stood up, and then said to the officials: "There are also three corpses, two of which are guards under the command of the last general, and the other is a miscellaneous servant who poured night incense for the palace. β
Having said this, Lu Bu turned around again, clasped his fists and said to Dong Zhuo: "Father, the child heard that there was a fire in the palace, and he took someone to fight the fire. At that time, the child felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. Looking back now, the little eunuch standing behind him at that time was covered with cold sweat, and he walked with small steps, and his shape was extremely strange. The eunuch who was talking to the child, although he looked nervous, did not even have half a bead of sweat, and now that he thinks about it, his nervousness is just pretending to be for the child. The child was really suspicious at that time, but the fire in the palace was fierce, and he didn't have time to ask carefully, so he sent two guards to monitor, but he didn't expect that the two guards were also poisoned. And both of them were pierced by sharp weapons in their throats, and they didn't even have time to shout before they died. β
"There is such a thing!" After listening to Lu Bu's narration, Dong Zhuo's eyes widened, he straightened up and asked Lu Bu in astonishment, "......What does Feng Xian mean?" β
"It's Liu Wei who is talking to the child!" Lu Bu bowed slightly, the corners of his eyes raised slightly, and said to Dong Zhuo: "The one standing behind him at that time, if the child guessed correctly, it should be Tang Ji." It's just that the child never understands when Liu Wei was born in the deep palace and learned this kind of murder method. Not only did it not drag the slightest mud and water, but it also made the killed unable to even shout out the slightest sound. β
Dong Zhuo sat short, one hand was loosely clenched into a fist and pressed it to his mouth, the muscles of his face twitched violently a few times, and after a while, he sighed leisurely and said: "I met Lu earlier when I saw Liu Wei, and saw that he was as timid as a mouse and not an emperor's talent, and a certain talent was determined to abolish him, but I didn't expect him to have such courage, even Feng Xian could deceive, and killing people was as easy as pulling out seedlings, but I was blind!" β
"Everyone, where do you think King Hongnong will go when he leaves Luoyang?" Sighing, Dong Zhuo furrowed his brows and looked around at the officials sitting in the hall with astonishment and incredulity on their faces, asking them to guess where Liu Wei might go.
The officials looked at each other, and after the wrong guess just now, no one dared to speak easily.
"Xiangguo!" After a while, the middle-aged military attachΓ©, who had never spoken before, stood up, walked to the middle of the hall, and said to Dong Zhuo with his fists in his fists: "The subordinates believe that after King Hongnong leaves Luoyang, he will definitely go to the Tiger Prison Pass to find Yuan Shao and others, in order to use the power of Yuan Shao and others to capture Luoyang. β
"Wenhe, please tell me in detail." Dong Zhuo knelt down again, asking the middle-aged military attache to continue talking.