Han Xiang

Chapter 369

Wu Jing shuddered and was moved, thinking that Sun Quan also had a side of empathy and righteousness.

He was going to go in to comfort him, but sober words came from the cabin again.

"A person lives for a lifetime, and a grass lives for an autumn. As long as death is worthwhile, this life will not be in vain. Zilie died in a heroic battle, and his head was used by the Cao thief. This is the value."

When Wu Jing came to see Sun Quan at night, he mainly wanted to remind Cao Cao that he was planning to blame him. Now that he knew that his nephew's heart was like a mirror, he let go of his original worries.

Sun Quan ordered that no one be disturbed on the third floor. Wu Jing thought that he might want to stay alone. Since Zhongmou knew in his heart that it would be meaningless to disturb him, he turned around and supported the bulkhead to leave.

The moment he turned around, Wu Jing opened his ears.

Even though it was midsummer, it was like being in an ice cave. The chill came from the cabin, from Sun Quan's mouth.

"The more than [-] soldiers are all gone. He has lost all my capital, but he ran back to plead guilty. With the help of my mother to speak, what crime can I punish? Why don't I just die, or really become a Cao thief? Captured, and indirectly helped me. Damn it."

Wu Jing was ashamed and indignant, but also disappointed in Sun Quan.

Family affection is not worth mentioning in front of power, and siblings are thorns on your way forward.

I thought this child was just thoughtful, but now it sounds like, how can he have a heart?
Just die?Worth mentioning.

There was nothing more sad than death, and Wu Jing lost his soul and disappeared into the night. Soon after, there was a thud on the side of the main ship, which temporarily interrupted the chirping of summer insects, but then chirped again.

The night watchman on the ship heard the noise, and after a brief inspection around, he found nothing abnormal, and no one paid attention to it in the dark.

In the early morning of the next day, Sun Quan's cabin door was smashed and rattled.

"Cao Jun is calling? Alas."

Sun Quan was so startled that he jumped up from the couch, but he didn't consider the height of the cabin, and directly put a bag on his head, and after a closer look, he realized that it was Lu Meng.

"Ziming? Why are you so flustered?" Sun Quan covered his head with one hand, his face full of sullenness.

The midsummer morning should be extremely refreshing, but the sweat on Lu Meng's forehead kept rolling down, and he clenched his fists with a bitter face: "My lord, something serious happened, come with me to the deck to have a look."

Sun Quan frowned: "What's the big deal?"

"General Wu, he...he drowned"

"what?"

Sun Quan was stunned for a moment, he quickly put on his coat, and ran to the deck with Lu Meng.

On the way to the first deck with the help of the stairs, Sun Quan caught a glimpse of many people gathered below, and kept wondering how could Wu Jing drown?Could it be that an assassin invaded last night.

Lu Meng introduced the situation as he walked. In the morning, someone found a floating corpse in the lake. When they were salvaged, they found that it was Wu Jing, but there was no wound on his body.

Sun Quan came to the deck to check, and saw that Wu Jing's whole body was completely soaked in water. He squatted on the ground and slammed the deck to vent his anger. Then he stood up, looked around and shouted sharply:
"Who can tell me why the dignified commander-in-chief of Jiangdong drowned inexplicably?"

Seeing that everyone was silent, Sun Quan got up and called Lu Meng, and asked in a deep voice, "Ziming, I will let you investigate the cause of my uncle's death. The main ship is such a big place, can you find out in half a day?"

"I will do my best." Lu Meng clasped his fists in response.

Sun Quan shouted hysterically: "I don't want to try my best, I just want an answer."

"Wei." Lu Meng shouted sonorously.

Only then did Sun Quan nod his head in satisfaction, and asked the others to cooperate with Lu Meng in the investigation, and then went back to the cabin by himself.

If Cao Cao dies in battle and there is no news of him, and Cao Cao exchanges a fake Wu Jing, he can send Sun Yi to exchange, that would be the most ideal result.

Getting up before he woke up, Sun Quan went back to the cabin to lie down.

On the way of thinking, he closed his eyes in a daze, and slowly snored in his nasal cavity.

Lu Meng was very efficient at a young age, and there was no trauma on the body, indicating that it was not an assassination; then he started with Wu Jing's guards, and learned that Wu Jing did not drink alcohol last night, so it was ruled out that he fell into the water when he was drunk;

In the process of investigating witnesses, it was discovered that Wu Jing went to the third floor to meet Sun Quan, and finally went down to the first floor and disappeared without returning to his cabin.

This discovery shocked Lu Meng, and he hurried to find Sun Quan and woke up the sleeping lord again.

Sun Quan propped up the bed and sat up, half-closed his eyes and asked, "Ziming? Have you finished the investigation?"

Lv Meng clasped his fists and reported: "My lord, General Wu can rule out homicide and drunken slipping into the water. In the end, when investigating witnesses, the last person to see General Wu is your guard outside the cabin."

"Ok?"

Sun Quan looked puzzled, sat upright and asked, "And then?"

"They said that General Wu went to the third floor last night, and then disappeared when he went downstairs." Lu Meng stopped abruptly in the middle of his words.

Sun Quan was startled for a moment, and then asked in disbelief, "Could it be that Zi Ming thinks it has something to do with me?"

"How dare you not be the last general?"

Lu Meng waved his hands hastily: "The final general would like to ask my lord to recall, was there anything unusual about General Wu last night?"

"I kept vigil until midnight last night, and I didn't see anyone go to the third floor. What abnormalities can I find?"

Seeing that Sun Quan's tone was blunt, and there was no need to lie to himself, Lu Meng clasped his fists hastily and explained: "The last general has no other intentions. General Wu didn't kill himself, nor did he accidentally fall into the water, he just threw himself into the lake."

"Take the initiative to throw yourself into the lake?"

Sun Quan thought about Lu Meng's narration just now, and suddenly thought that he drank some wine last night, and seemed to say something to Chen Wu, could it be that his uncle listened to him?

It was dangerous, but luckily he committed suicide by throwing himself into the lake, otherwise it would be unthinkable.

Sun Quan was nervous, but there was no emotion on his face. He looked at Lu Meng and nodded: "Zi Ming's analysis is well-founded. Uncle may feel sad when he sees Zi Lie's head. Thinking of the big defeat before, he blamed himself, so he couldn't think of doing something stupid. .”

Lu Meng echoed softly: "My lord's words are true. The general guessed that he went upstairs last night just to say goodbye to the lord, but he left silently in the end."

"Alas," Sun Quan sighed, and told Lu Meng, "Uncle committed suicide by throwing himself into the lake, and made me lose my pillars in the east of the Yangtze River. The governor cannot afford to lose anything. You should hurry to the front line to meet him. Anyway, Huainan has already belonged to the Cao bandits. It is really impossible to retreat to the Yangtze River." Forget it, head-to-head confrontation is meaningless at this time, sooner or later Cao Cao will go north to fight Yuan Shao, and it won't be too late for us to make a comeback."

"Wei, I will definitely bring the words with me."

Lu Meng clasped his fists and turned to leave, but Sun Quan stopped him temporarily: "For the time being, you have to keep the matter of General Wu a secret from the front line, for fear of affecting the morale of the army."

"The end will be saved."

Lu Meng then rushed to the front to convey Sun Quan's thoughts to Zhou Yu.

After hearing this, Zhou Yu said that he knew what he knew, and signaled Lu Meng to return to Chaohu Lake to reassure Sun Quan.
Before Lu Meng came, Zhou Yu had reached an agreement with Zhang Liao, agreeing to "change prisoners" on the south bank of Xiang'an five days later, and said that he would let Sun Yi enter the court.

Zhou Yu gave Cao Cao the person he wanted most, in order to use Sun Yi as bait to plot against him.

(End of this chapter)