Chapter 10: Illogical
There is a word called "logic", which is derived from the ancient Greek, which originally meant words or words, and by extension, thinking or reasoning, which was purely transliteration, and naturally did not exist in the language of the era and region in which Shixun lived. If it is to be replaced, or it can be called "reason", it is illogical, it is often called "incompatible with reason".
It is Xun Qian's life that he likes to watch reasoning dramas very much, although his logical thinking and reasoning ability are mediocre, but in this life, he can still be proud of most scholars. Specific to reasoning dramas, in fact, there are very few real high-quality products, and many of the bridges look like that at first glance, but the details are not worth scrutinizing, and it is easy to reason when scrutinized.
Regarding Dong Meng's design, it is also true that Dong Xun hijacked Shi Xun, if you think about it deeply, it is very unreasonable to speculate on the psychological condition of everyone involved. The main thing is: Does Dong Xun know that Dong Meng will kill him? If you know the Tao, are you really willing to die calmly? If you don't know, how did Dong Meng say that he was moved to kidnap Shixun? What will happen to him after the hijacking? Do you still expect Xun to spare him? Well, even if Xun is magnanimous and doesn't pursue this matter, he is a key criminal ordered by the imperial court after all, and why is Xun related to him, so he has to hide it for him, instead of immediately arresting him and bringing it to justice?
So it is very likely that this Dong Xun is not the real Dong Xun!
He may just be a person who looks like Dong Xun, Dong Mengyu came to kidnap Shi Xun, and lied that he would kill Dong Xun afterwards, so that he could escape; Or, that is simply the dead soldier of the Dong family.
Of course, there are many illogical things in this world, and truth is often more absurd than fiction. So it's just a conjecture. He did not dare to make a decision. Therefore, he deliberately appeased Dong Meng. Let the other person relax first, and then hit the head with a stick, in order to find the truth.
Sure enough, he clearly guessed correctly, and Dong Meng was so frightened that he even knocked over the food table. Shi Xun couldn't help but shake his head lightly: "Gongsheng, Qing's mind still needs to be tempered." "This is clearly cheap, but also to sell well.
It is impossible to say that Xun does not hate Dong Meng. After all, Dong Meng's design scared him half to death, and he felt that one foot had stepped into the ghost gate, and he pulled it back. However, it is very simple to kill Dong Meng, it is not so easy to get out of the Dong family through Dong Meng, besides, through the previous conversation, Shi Xun feels that Dong Meng is a useful person, if he can pinch his handle. Wouldn't it be more valuable to take him under his command than to kill him with a single sword?
200 A.D. What is the most expensive? Talent!
On the one hand, he wanted to vent his resentment, and on the other hand, he had to rub it carefully, so that this clever guy would follow him with all his heart, so he refused to show his hole cards all at once, but repeatedly beat Dong Meng, lifting him up to the sky for a while, throwing him in the deep valley for a while, and then stepping on two feet. To paraphrase a sentence from later generations, in this short period of ten minutes, Dong Meng's mood was like riding a roller coaster, high and low, tossing him so much that his mind was on the verge of collapse......
So Shi Xun comforted him with gentle words, and after a little inquiry, Dong Meng finally poured beans into a bamboo tube, and took the initiative to explain all the causes and consequences.
Dong Xun fled to Hedong with three loyal house slaves shortly after the coup d'état and joined the Dong family. After the elders of the Dong family discussed, they felt that the strange goods were habitable, so they hid them, hoping that in the future Yuan and Cao war, after the Yuan family gained the upper hand, they could dedicate their lives - the big surnames in Hedong County, the Wei family has Wei Qi, and the Pei family has Pei Mao, all of which are under the command of the Cao family, and in order to confront them, the Dong family is relatively inclined to the Yuan family. Because Dong Meng is not good at studying, his status in the family is very low, and he is responsible for some chores, so he was also involved in this matter.
Dong Meng himself was against the elders' ideas, he thought that Dong Xun was not a treasure, but a disaster, it was better to kill him with a knife and dedicate it to the Cao family, but unfortunately the elders did not listen to him. Later, it was Xun who went out of the town to Hedong, toured the counties, and suddenly crashed into the door, at that time, the elders did not calculate, so they didn't want Dong Xun to meet with Shi Xun, let alone let Dong Xun hijack and murder Shi Xun.
After that, it was Xun Zheng Pei Hui and the children of the Liu family as subordinate officials, and the Dong family was not as good as the Dong family, and the Dong family had a murderous intention - in fact, it is not to blame that it is Xun, the Dong family ran out to see the guests are all rotten Confucians, and he is not interested in it at all - if he wants Dong Xun to assassinate Shi Xun, if it succeeds, he can take advantage of the chaos to control the county government and give Hedong to Gao Gan, if it fails, throw Dong Xun out of the gang in time, and it may not be in trouble. They also planned to activate Wei Xiao hidden in the Wei family, intending to cause trouble.
Dong Meng is even more resolute against this: You think the Cao family is all fools, Dong Xun came to Hedong, he must have come to join his family, even if you point to the sky and say that Dong Xun didn't come, who believes it? What does Dong Xun have to do with the Wei family, and why did he go to the Wei family? And as long as Dong Xun once hid in the Dong family, the stain on the family's body will be difficult to erase, and it is one crime to hide and not report the original, and to hide and assassinate the county guard, the second crime is also - such a big Qin criminal, hiding at home, won't someone be sent to monitor it? To say that the assassination was done by Dong Xun alone, and no one in the clan knew about it, to paraphrase the words in Shi Xun's "Asking for Yuan Shaoyu": "Do you think that the world is all over the world?!" ”
It's a pity that the waste elder who was so stupid still refused to listen to his good words and persuasion.
However, when the Dong family made a plan to assassinate Shi Xun, they didn't get the right opportunity for a while - Shi Xun immediately went north to Yong'an and went to fight with Gao Gan, and when he came back, the children around him were complete, and he couldn't get close at all by relying on Dong Xun and his three house slaves alone.
It's just that at this time, the Dong family didn't want to assassinate Shi Xun, without him, because Yuan Shao had been defeated in Guandu, and the situation was a little unpleasant. Especially because of the relationship between neighboring counties, the major surnames in Taiyuan and the major surnames in Hedong are often married, and they communicate with each other. This Yuan family is just a small setback, and the state is high, and the bottom is about to be hollowed out!
So the elders of the Dong family held a meeting for several days, and finally decided, forget it, let's still be like the Wei family and the Pei family, next to the Cao family. It was only at this time that they remembered Dong Meng's golden and jade words that day, so they summoned him to come to consult, saying that we will dedicate Dong Xun to Taishou now, how about it? Dong Meng is so angry, what did you do earlier, now Dong Xun has been hiding at home for more than a year, like white soap, he can't wash it clean-now give it away? That's not making amends, that's digging your own grave!
The elders said, then let's not sacrifice, just slaughter Dong Xun, dig a pit and bury it, what do you think?
Dong Meng felt that it was also inappropriate, there was no impermeable wall in the world, in case the news was leaked, Dong Xun had been hiding in the Dong family, it was Xun or the court to investigate it, and when the time came, people could not be resurrected, and there was no room for maneuver. He thought about it, and finally came up with this plan.
He had heard of Shixun's name for a long time, and he thought that Shixun could guess that Dong Xun had been hiding in the Dong clan for a long time, but he rescued him in danger and betrayed him a favor, so it must be difficult for him to investigate deeply. After all, the Dong family is the surname of the prominent family in the county, and in the absence of conclusive evidence, Dong Xun has already hung up, ordinary officials, who would want to dig deep into the root cause and go hostile to the huge Dong family.
Of course he can't think of it, and he may not be able to understand it, it is Xun's hatred for the family, and he still wants to stir up something if he has nothing to do. Shi Xun drank it in one gulp: "This time Dong Xun robbed me, was it for Gongsheng's plan?" Dong Meng couldn't bear it, so he had to kneel down and admit defeat.
How dare he admit defeat? It is true that Shixun will not deal with the Dong family, but he will definitely take his Dong Meng's life! Seeing that because of this incident, the elders of the clan are also willing to listen to their own opinions, it is Taishou who still wants to accept himself as a guest, and the tribal boy who was originally unpopular has a bright future.
The real Dong Xun has been slaughtered, where is the body buried, and the fake "Dong Xun" who hijacked Shi Xun was originally a slave in the clan, because his body size was similar to Dong Xun, so he was ordered to be his substitute - of course, Dong Meng did not tell him in advance that he would take his life.
Dong Meng fell to the ground, kowtowing so much that his forehead was swollen. It was Hoon who looked at him condescendingly—he couldn't laugh a little. This person's design, although there are loopholes, is still appropriate on the surface, if he doesn't dig deep into his roots and change to a different person, unless Jia Wenhe and Guo Fengxiao, he may not be able to see through it; The most terrifying thing is that this person is decisive and ruthless, even the real Dong Xun, fake Dong Xun, Wei Xiao, and the people who helped with the acting, etc., have all been eliminated, and they are not soft at all. Talent! If it weren't for such a scrubbing, I really wouldn't dare to use him.
The cause and effect are clear, and many doubts are suddenly clear. Why is the fake Dong Xun nagging, and he doesn't start for a long time? Why were all four of his subordinates just tied up, but none of them hurt their lives? Dong Meng didn't want to offend himself too much, so he could use the grace of saving his life to offset the crime of harboring. Hmph, I should have thought of it a long time ago, in various film and television dramas, if you don't say a word before killing people in the opposite corner, the person who is killed will die, if you talk for a long time, there must be a slowdown, and the plot should take a big turn.
When he was watching those film and television dramas in his last life, he made up his mind that if he became an antagonist one day and wanted to murder others, he would definitely not say a word of nonsense, and he would make the other party a fool when he died! Although he didn't have much chance to kill others in his previous life, but in this life, hehe~~
Of course, what should be said must be said, for example, if it is really Dong Xun, if he really wants to take his own life, he always needs to say "A certain is Dong Xun, his father confessed, and he killed you today for revenge", as for his later problems, he can completely ignore them.
So Shi Xun stretched out his hand, pressed it on Dong Meng's shoulder, took a long breath, and said word by word: "Qing, do you want to be the master of the Dong family?" (To be continued......)