After Jiao Zhongqing and Qin Luofu separated, they traveled back and forth between Lujiang and Jiangdong, and passed the information on Sun Ce's whereabouts to the three people who had been in contact before.

All three of them were Xu Gong's protégés, and they had the same goal as Jiao Zhongqing - to assassinate Sun Ce and avenge his old master.

The difference is that the former owner of these three people is Xu Gong.

Xu Gong was the Taishou of Wu County in the fourth year of Chuping (193), and in the second year of Xingping (195), Sun Ce conquered Jiangdong and sent Zhu Zhi to defeat Xu Gong, and Xu Gong fled to the bandit Yan Baihu after defeat.

Sun Ce then defeated Yan Baihu again, and Xu Gong had no choice but to flee for his life again and defect to Yuhang Xu Zhao with Yan Baihu. Sun Ce should have taken advantage of the victory to pursue, thinking that Xu Zhao was a benevolent and righteous person, and he didn't want to embarrass Xu Zhao, so he let Xu Gong go.

Since then, Xu Gong ostensibly submitted to Sun Ce, secretly, Xu Gong did not intend to let Sun Ce go, he sensed that Sun Ce had the intention of separating Jiangdong, so at the end of the first year of Jian'an (196), he submitted a table to the imperial court, suggesting that the imperial court recall Sun Ce, and explained that letting Sun Ce go abroad would become a disaster. Uncontrolled and so on.

If this performance reaches the court of Xudu, Cao Cao can take the opportunity to summon Sun Ce back to the court, and Sun Ce will definitely die if he goes; If you don't go, it will be tantamount to openly breaking with the imperial court, and the imperial court only needs to give an order, and the various warlords in Jiangdong will inevitably rebel en masse, and the situation in Jiangdong, which has just been pacified, will be turbulent again.

This watch was eventually intercepted by Sun Ce's post officials and failed to send it out, and Sun Ce was furious when he saw the watch and killed Xu Gong.

Although Xu Gong died, he kept many disciples during his lifetime, and three of them thanked him for his kindness and vowed to avenge him, and they contacted allies and looked for opportunities day and night.

Soon, he got in touch with Jiao Zhongqing, who had the same ambition.

Jiao Zhongqing let them lie dormant for the time being, patiently waiting for the opportunity,

I didn't expect to wait for more than three years.

From the end of the first year of Jian'an to the beginning of the fifth year of Jian'an, the matter of revenge finally had some eyebrows.

According to the intelligence, Sun Ce planned to send troops across the river in April and May of the fifth year of Jian'an, when Yuan Cao launched a fierce battle in Guandu, attack Huaisi, and attack Xudu.

And the intelligence mentions a key piece of information: every time Sun Ce makes a major military decision, he will travel alone, or climb high and look into the distance, or gallop on a horse to hunt, and meditate on the pros and cons of the military operation alone.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

When one focuses on a distant mountain, one ignores the dangers around oneself.

At this time, it was January of the fifth year of Jian'an.

In Xudu, Cao Cao, based on the information provided by Guo Jia, accurately eliminated the assassination plan led by his uncle Dong Cheng, Changshui Lieutenant Chongji, Yilang Wu Shuo, Zhaoxin General Wu Zilan, Liangzhou Assassin Shi Taishou Ma Teng, Taiyi Ji Ping, and Yuzhou Assassin Shi Liu Bei and others.

Except for Liu Bei and Ma Teng, who were spared, the others and the family were all clicked by Cao Cao.

Subsequently, Cao Cao leveled Liu Bei in Xuzhou with a thunderous momentum, went to Guandu with confidence, and continued to confront Yuan Shao.

Although Dong Cheng and the others had failed, because the information that should have been passed on had been almost passed on before, Sun Ce's plan to attack Xu Du had not died at present.

Dong Cheng and others assassinated Cao Cao and Sun Ce to attack Xuchang, which were originally two plans, to be precise, the latter was a supplement to the former.

The two do not affect each other.

It's just that after the death of Dong Cheng and others, the line of Sun Ce, the son of heaven, was completely broken, and Qin Luofu disappeared into the sea of people.

No one knows where she went.

Everyone was waiting for Yuan Cao and the two sides to start a war.

Sun Ce was waiting for Yuan Cao to go to war, and then backstabbed Cao Cao.

Jiao Zhongqing was waiting for Yuan Cao to start a war, and then deduced Sun Ce's movements from this.

Xu Gong's three guests were also waiting, waiting for Jiao Zhongqing to pass on Sun Ce's latest movements, so that he could settle down in advance and snipe Sun Ce.

Li Shu is also waiting, waiting for Jiao Zhongqing to kill Sun Ce quickly, so that he can stand on his own feet in Lujiang.

In order to achieve this goal, he kept urging Jiao Zhongqing to start as soon as possible.

However, although Li Shu was anxious, he also knew that this matter was not in a hurry. On the surface, he is still Sun Ce's "confidant" general, and he only obeys his orders; is still Jiao Zhongqing's "good boss", and does not show the slightest tendency to "threaten his family" to force Jiao Zhongqing to do it quickly.

Even, when he saw that the "assassination" still had to wait for some time, Li Shu also intimately gave Jiao Zhongqing a three-day long vacation, so that he could go home to reunite with his wife and mother.

This made Jiao Zhongqing suspect for a while that he was thinking too much, maybe Li Shu was not as bad as he thought?

Could it be that in the dream, he really voluntarily "hung himself on the southeast branch"?

But even if Jiao Zhongqing wanted to break his head, he couldn't figure out the joints.

I simply cherish this hard-won three-day vacation, get together with my family with peace of mind, and no longer think about this brain-wrenching problem.

In this life, his family background is slightly better than in his dream, but it is still only a small rich family, his father died early, leaving his mother to carry all the burdens alone, and he worked hard to pull the brothers and sisters to grow up.

The burden of life has been pressed down for many years, making the old mother's temper very unstable, like a dictatorial and self-dictating emperor, and all the big and small affairs of the family are decided by the old mother.

Jiao Zhongqing can accept these, and he doesn't feel that there is anything wrong.

Han ruled the world with loyalty and filial piety, and disobedience to parents was not tolerated by everyone.

But what made Jiao Zhongqing wonder was that although the situation in reality was very different from that in the dream, her mother still didn't like Liu Lanzhi.

I don't know if it's because he was too considerate and affectionate to Liu Lanzhi and provoked his mother's sensitive nerves, or for some other reason, his mother always felt that Liu Lanzhi was not good, and that was not good, even if Liu Lanzhi was pregnant, she still inevitably received reprimands several times a day.

Moreover, the more he was at home, the more his mother's temper became and the more hurtful the words she spoke.

On the contrary, when he was not at home, his mother rarely went to find Liu Lanzhi's stubble.

This made Jiao Zhongqing very helpless.

Previously, in order to avoid the situation in the dream, before marrying Liu Lanzhi as his wife, he successfully persuaded his mother to give the "trump card" loom that his mother had used for more than ten years to a neighbor.

Originally, he thought that without the loom, his mother would not have a conflict with Liu Lanzhi because of the speed of weaving.

Now, he realizes that he was wrong, very wrong.

Some people may just be born with incompatibility, and no matter how hard they try, it is useless.

Jiao Zhongqing knew that it was precisely because of his weakness and his mother's domineering that the tragedy in the dream happened, but when he really stood in front of his mother and met his mother's weather-beaten eyes, the hardness he mustered up would disappear in an instant.

The early death of his father also made Jiao Zhongqing extremely dependent on and respected his mother in his bones. Even though the tragedy in his dream had been demonstrated countless times, he could never disobey his mother.

He could only keep a distance from his wife Liu Lanzhi in front of his mother as much as possible, maintain a lukewarm attitude, and put his mother first in everything.

He found that as long as he did this, the frequency of his mother's madness would be significantly lower than when he and Liu Lanzhi showed affection in front of their mother before.

Alas, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read.

After his mother reprimanded Liu Lanzhi in front of him again, Jiao Zhongqing sighed.

Sandwiched between his mother and wife, he was too hard.

Nothing is right.

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The days went by like this, and after another month, Liu Lanzhi became pregnant in October and gave birth to a baby girl smoothly, and the Jiao family has had a new life since then.

Jiao Zhongqing held her daughter in her arms and couldn't put it down when she looked at her wrinkled appearance, but her mother just glanced at it and walked away on crutches.

Before leaving, he muttered a sentence of "losing money".

The mother's impatience did not affect the emotions of the others, Jiao Zhongqing, Liu Lanzhi, and the sixteen-year-old sister were all excited because of the new life in the family.

Soon, it was the end of March of the fifth year of Jian'an.

After Yuan Cao and Guandu held each other for a long time, they finally began to have a tentative attack, and then a fierce battle began.

Sun Ce, who received the information, immediately decided to send troops on April 14 to attack Xuchang.

Jiao Zhongqing immediately passed the news to Xu Gong Sanmenke.

A precise assassination is slowly kicking off.