Chapter 132 Stealing chickens is not a recipe for rice

Just as the overseer shouted the word "chop" with an arrow in his hand, before the arrow was thrown out, a man who was riding a horse with an arrow in his hand shouted: "Keep people under the knife"

The warden and all the people looked behind them, and the warden stood up and said, "What's the matter?" ”

The horse stopped behind the crowd, and the people wisely made way for this man, who took the hand and said, "Uncle Huang has an order to put Ma Tan and the others in prison temporarily."

The warden was dazed, then put his arrow on the table and said, "Take it back to the prison."

Ma Yun and Ma Feng knelt down, tilted their heads and asked Ma Yan: "Third brother, what do you say is going on?" ”

Ma Tan didn't answer, but thought in his head alone, and couldn't think of any reason to make Liu Bei change his mind and be temporarily imprisoned, or kill him later, or did Liu Bei pervert want to torture us?

Back in prison, Ma Jian was still very quiet, and he couldn't figure it out.

Chen Gong came to Liu Bei's mansion and said, "Lord, this street is full of talking about Ma Yan, what's going on?"

Liu Bei said: "Liu Bei admitted that he was a spy"

"This lord has already told me yesterday"

"But today the city is full of storms, and the people are boiling"

Liu Bei said: "At noon today, I ordered to kill the horse at the entrance of the vegetable market, but I didn't expect the spies to send the news of Jing Chu Li Zhe."

"What's the news?"

"Li Zhe has pacified Jiangdong and subdued the Nanban Meng Shu and Shanyue Huang Bo, if I kill Ma Jian at this time, will Li Zhe join Cao Cao to send troops to Xuzhou because of this revenge?"

Chen Gong said: "It is very likely"

"So today Ma Jian is at the execution ground, after I got the news, I immediately asked the guards to go to the execution ground with a handwritten message, and if I have time, I will first detain Ma Jian and the others, and think about it in the long run."

Chen Gong thought for a while and said, "Lord, there is a plan below"

Liu Bei's eyes lit up and asked, "Please say it from the public platform."

Chen Gong said solemnly: "In Jingchu and even various states know that Ma Jian is a key criminal in Jing Chu, if we kill Ma Jian and send Ma Tan's head to Jingchu, please write a letter to explain that it is for the king of Chu to arrest Ma Tan, a key criminal, and when he is arrested, he wants to escape, so the lord is on the spot to correct the law, so it is said that the lord has helped the king of Chu, and he is a spy We pretend not to know."

Liu Bei pondered, and then said to Chen Gong: "I have also thought about this, but with a person like Li Zhe, would he not think of what we killed Ma Tan for?" ”

Chen Gong said: "If he is reasonable, we will have nothing to do, you think, we don't know that he was sent, we just removed a harm for Li Zhe"

"In this way, Li Zhe is, the dumb can't count the hardships of eating Coptis chinensis"

If that's the case, why don't we kill the horse like this?

Drugged them in prison, stun them, and decapitate them!

Xu You was also pondering why Liu Bei changed his mind and stopped killing Ma Yan, Xu You was happy in his heart, but he wanted to know the reason for this!

Xu You carried the food box and went to the Xuzhou prison, wanting to talk to Ma Yan, and when he arrived at the door of the prison, Xu You looked at the jailer and said, "All the officials have worked hard."

Xu You took out five taels of gold from his cuffs and put it on the guard's hand and said: "The officials are hard, these are for the officials to drink, and it is considered to take care of my friend's mind for such a long time."

The jailer smiled after picking up the gold: "Light, these prisoners are too, they made a mistake and came in, causing their relatives and friends to be tired to death."

Xu You nodded, and the jailer took out the key to open the door for Xu You!

Xu You carried the food box to the door of Ma Yan's prison, Xu You looked at Ma Jian with his eyes closed, and Ma Feng and Ma Yun saw Xu You walking over and said: "Brother Xu is here, but I really understand our brothers, we are all starving to death."

Ma Feng and Ma Yun took the food and ate it by themselves, Ma Jian came to the door of the prison and asked, "What's the matter, why didn't Liu Bei kill us?"

"I don't know, I thought you knew, so I wanted to ask"

Xu You and Ma Jian thought about it, and then Xu You said to Ma Tan: "Could it be that the lord has already pacified Jiangdong and returned triumphantly, Liu Bei is afraid that the lord is strong and strong, so he won't kill you?"

Ma Jian said: "If this is the case, then we will be miserable"

Xu You was puzzled: "Why?" ”

"If Liu Bei is really jealous of the lord, he should invite us to the post house as VIPs, instead of squatting in the prison like we are now!"

"What do you mean?"

Ma Jian said: "That is to say, Liu Bei has his own ideas, if he kills us, he has a good reason, and the lord can't find an excuse to send troops."

After Ma Jian finished speaking, he grabbed Xu You's hand and said: "Don't come to see me in the future, go back to Jingzhou directly, if Liu Bei's mind is sober, he will know that you are the same as me."

"Tell the lord that Liu Bei is also training the special army, but the last section of the training: the wooden stake of the Thousand Army Formation is something I haven't leaked, so let the lord beware"

"By the way, you help me prepare some men at the north gate, if you're lucky, we may kill you, but you must go first, so it's safe"

Ma Tan sat back and said, "Brother Gongtai, let's go."

After Xu You left, waiting for Ma Yun, Ma Feng and Ma Feng were both eating, Ma Yan said: "The two brothers eat more, it may be our last meal"

Ma Jian also took a chicken leg and ate it!

Ma Jian was biting the chicken leg while thinking about when Liu Bei would make a move, when suddenly Ma Tan's eyes lit up, and he muttered whispers in Ma Feng and Ma Yun's ears! Then the two of them nodded and began to eat meat again!

In the evening, Liu Bei and Chen Gong came to the gate of the prison with more than a dozen guards and said to the jailers: "Change some water for Ma Tan, this person loves to be clean"

A guard walked in and took away the bowl where Ma Jian drank water, and this person Ma Jian glanced at it, thinking that this person was from Liu Bei's mansion, he had seen it many times, and he wouldn't be wrong! Then Ma Jian thought again, why did he take away our bowls, why didn't the bowls in the cell next to him be taken, this is not the mechanical work style of the jailer to change food and water, but sudden!

At this time, Ma Jian gave Ma Yun and Ma Feng a look respectively!

When they were waiting to bring the water, Ma Feng and Ma Yun both picked up a bowl to drink water, and Ma Yan also picked up a bowl and took a sip. The guards watched as all three of them drank down. And gone!

When he arrived at the door of the prison, Liu Bei asked, "How is it?"

"Everything was done, I saw with my own eyes that the three of them drank the water separately"

Liu Bei thought that after a stick of incense, they would not wake up, and the nail of Ma Jian could finally be pulled out.

Chen Gong said: "This time Li Zhe is stealing chickens and rice."

Liu Bei also curled the corners of his mouth slightly when he heard Chen Gong's words, and there was a smug smile on his face!