Jingzhou, Xinye County, the county order of the inner hall.

Under the guidance of the servants in the house, the son Liu Qi was anxious and went straight to the inner hall. When Liu Qi entered the hall, he found that Liu Bei had been waiting for a long time in the house.

The servant who led the way then closed the door and left with amusement, leaving only the two of them in the house to discuss important matters.

When Liu Qi saw Liu Bei, he first saluted, and then asked impatiently:

"Uncle is looking for his nephew this time, I believe that he has already planned a solution, and I ask my uncle to help my nephew get out of trouble!"

Liu Bei hurriedly returned the salute, and then responded:

"Virtuous nephew is polite, this is my uncle's business."

While speaking, I saw Liu Bei mysteriously take out several bamboo slips with fly-headed small letters written on them and a roll of yellow rune paper from his arms, solemnly handed them to Liu Qi, and then asked knowingly:

"Have you ever recognized these objects?"

"What is this?" Liu Qi took it in his hand and looked at it carefully for a moment, but he couldn't see the doorway.

Liu Bei pointed to the object in Liu Qi's hand and explained to him:

"The content written on these bamboo slips is the chapter and sentence of the Taiping Qingling Book, and this scroll of rune paper is the usual thing used in the Taiping Dao to pray for blessings."

Liu Qi gasped when he heard this, and exclaimed:

"Taiping Road...... Isn't it the remnants of the Yellow Turban? ”

Liu Bei nodded in affirmation.

This Taiping Dao was created by Zhang Jiao, a man from Julu, who gathered hundreds of thousands of believers in the form of preaching and preaching, and launched the mighty Yellow Turban Rebellion, which shook the foundation of Han rule. Therefore, in the eyes of the upper-class rulers, this Taiping Dao is the outer path of evil demons, and they want to get rid of it and prevent future troubles.

After knowing the true origin of these objects, Liu Qi couldn't help but wonder. He couldn't understand why Liu Bei handed over these forbidden things to him, and he didn't know how these items could get him out of trouble.

Seeing Liu Qi's unclear appearance, Liu Bei continued:

"There must be several secret meeting places in the Jianghan Society, and the virtuous nephew only needs to send someone to hide these items in one of the secret meeting places, and it must be a place where the two criminals frequent, and then send a confidant to deliberately leak this secret meeting place to attract the person who handled the case to come and search it. In this way, the virtuous nephew can get out of trouble. ”

"Is that easy?" Liu Qi slanted his head and looked at Liu Bei, seemingly a little incredulous.

Liu Bei smiled slightly, stroked the beard on his chin, and continued to explain:

"I sent someone to investigate the two offenders in detail, and found that they did not drink alcohol on a daily basis, and some people have seen their clothes mixed with yellow cloth. Not drinking alcohol and hiding yellow cloth are the characteristics of yellow turban thieves, but these two points alone cannot be judged that these two people are yellow turban thieves. Therefore, we have to add some physical evidence privately to confirm this conjecture. ”

"But wouldn't the people who handled the case suspect that we were cheating?" Liu Qi asked with uneasiness.

When Liu Bei heard this, he laughed, and he said confidently:

"There is truth in the false, and there is truth in the false, and it is the most difficult to discern it. The two offenders did not drink alcohol, and it was a real thing to hide yellow cloths. Moreover, these two people have been haunted by the secret meeting place, and it is believed that the person handling the case can learn about it as long as they examine it in detail. And what we added in private is just a speculation that proves that these two people are yellow turban thieves, as long as the person handling the case begins to suspect that these two people are yellow turban thieves, the case will take a turn for the better. ”

"What do you mean by that?" Liu Qi asked inexplicably.

"Today, the Yellow Turbans are gone, and few people dare to believe in this religion at the risk of the world's condemnation, unless there are other forces behind them. Once Liu Yuanjun knew that other forces were interfering in Jingzhou's internal affairs, he would definitely be more vigilant, and he would not be too harsh on his nephew. Liu Bei patiently explained.

Especially when talking about the words "other forces", Liu Bei also deliberately raised his voice.

Liu Qi suddenly realized after hearing this, slapped his thigh, and said happily:

"Uncle really has a brilliant plan! Thank you, nephew! ”

After that, Liu Qi bowed to Liu Bei and bowed to the ground, with a very respectful attitude.

"Virtuous nephews don't have to be polite!" Seeing this, Liu Bei hurriedly helped him up.

At this time, Liu Qi's tense nerves were completely relaxed, and he was worried and worried for many days, but at this moment, he was completely stretched, and his heart was so unhappy. I saw Liu Qi stretch his face and asked:

"But I don't know if there is good wine here, and my nephew wants to drink a few glasses with his uncle to relieve his heart!"

"That's easy to say! Someone's coming! Liu Bei pushed the door and walked over the porch and shouted into the inner courtyard.

Immediately, a servant came forward, and then under Liu Bei's instructions, he prepared rice wine.

Before he could do so, the rice wine was prepared and brought to him in a wine urn.

The two sat opposite each other, and the servants on the side scooped wine with copper spoons for them.

Liu Qi was a booze, so he picked up the lacquer ear cup and sniffed it first, and then drank it all. The mellow strength of the wine spreads all over the body, and the body is also warm. He put down the lacquered ear cup and shouted:

"Good wine! I didn't expect that there were a lot of good wines in my uncle's house. ”

"If it weren't for the virtuous nephew here, I wouldn't be willing to take it out." Liu Bei echoed casually.

Liu Qi carefully recalled the taste of rice wine, and said with great certainty:

"This wine must be made from a pearl bar made from a good mountain spring in the Linfu and Zhonglu areas, and it has a period of at least twenty years."

Liu Bei laughed when he heard this, and bowed his head to show affirmation. This eldest son of Liu Biao, although he has a weak personality and is not good at strategy, he has a lot of research on wine tasting. If you are only a rich son, it is not a beautiful thing to drink every day, but you are forced to be involved in this political whirlpool, and you are helpless to think about it.

Liu Bei was born in the Northland, and he originally drank a lot of alcohol, but now that he met Liu Qi, who was a heavy drinker, he inevitably had to drink a few more glasses.

The two drank more than a dozen glasses of each other like this, and Liu Qi was already a little red and slightly drunk. With drunkenness, Liu Qi leaned slightly and asked Liu Bei:

"Uncle, my nephew still has something I want to ask my uncle about."

"It's okay to talk about it." Liu Bei put down the lacquer ear cup and responded.

"But I don't know who is the saint who can direct the remnants of the Yellow Turban?" Liu Qi asked.

Liu Bei stroked his beard, pointed to the northeast, and smiled mysteriously:

"Presumably the virtuous nephew must have heard of the Qingzhou Army."

"Qingzhou Army, is it the army composed of Yellow Turban soldiers?" Liu Qi asked.

"Exactly!" Liu Bei said.

In the third year of the first peace, millions of Qingzhou Yellow Turbans surrendered to Cao Cao, and Cao Cao selected 300,000 of his elite and compiled them as the "Qingzhou Army", which is known to the world. As soon as Liu Bei's words came out, his meaning was self-evident. Liu Qi's eyes lit up when he heard this, and his drunkenness also subsided by half, he knocked a few cases with his fingers, and said in a deep voice:

"In other words, the mastermind behind the secret interference in Jingzhou's affairs is that Cao Cao!"

"Virtuous nephew and wise man." Liu Bei replied.

Of course, whether this matter is from Cao Cao or not is not a big problem for Liu Bei, all he has to do is to help Liu Qi get out of trouble. Seeing Liu Qi's performance today, Liu Bei was overjoyed, it seems that this eldest son of Liu Biao is completely inseparable from him.