My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 11 Fishing Bait
"Some sentiments will make the Third Young Master laugh."

Zhang Jue suddenly smiled, covering up his expression just now. Perhaps the sigh just made him remember a lot. His eyes swept over a spiritual statue, and he was lost in thought: "I remember the first time I wanted to spread the Tao of Taiping, it was in Jizhou. At that time, the plague was rampant that year, many people died, and there were not many people left in each family. I took Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang everywhere to save people, but they couldn't be saved. The court pretended to send some decoctions, and some people were covered with it. Layers of deductions resulted in more people dying, and then famine came again..."

The old man closed his eyes, and the memories of those years were rushing through his mind.

"... Seeing that the people had no way to survive, I gritted my teeth and led my two brothers and a group of people who believed in me to rebel. Even though I knew what would happen to the rebellion in the end, I still rebelled."

He opened his eyes, looked at Su Chen, and smiled: "At that time, the only way to feed people was to go the other way. There was a lot of grain in the official warehouse, so I could only use it as medicine to heal the world. disease!"

Su Chen raised his hands in silence as he listened to Zhang Jiao's account of what happened in the late Han Dynasty.

A figure also came over. Under the light of the ever-glazing lamp, he bowed to Zhang Jiao. It was Liu Xie.

"I will confess to the old gentleman on behalf of my father."

"Haha, Your Majesty, aren't you afraid that your father will come and beat you if he finds out about this?" Zhang Jiao pointed to the tablet above the confession table, where the tablet of Han Ling Emperor Liu Hong was engraved. At this time, the tablet suddenly turned in one direction, facing away from this side.

Uh.

The corner of Su Chen's mouth twitched as he looked at it. Could this mean that all the emperors in the spiritual throne could actually hear the conversation in the ancestral hall?

At this time, Zhang Jiao chuckled and continued: "The world is in such chaos. The royal family is at fault, but the fault cannot be all your fault. After the incident, I can see clearly that the powerful and aristocratic families are also partly responsible."

The two old men stood in the ancestral hall and continued chatting. Su Chen listened quietly. After another hour, Thirteen came back from the city gate and he walked out of the ancestral hall.

"Third Young Master, the body of that woman...that man has been hung on the tower, and the man named Li Peihu has infiltrated among the refugees."

"Did Zhu Gongdao bring him back?"

"It has been placed in the side compartment. The injury is quite serious, but it is not life-threatening."

Su Chen nodded. He was still relieved about Thirteen's ability to do things. "Go to Grandma Liu and get the bird back."

Not long after, Thirteen came back with a bamboo birdcage in his hand. In the cage, a bird with green feathers was chirping and jumping up and down.

When I brought it to him, I remembered that the bird was only one circle bigger than my thumb, but now it was three or four circles bigger.

"Third Young Master, can this bird really come in handy?"

"This bird can pursue the scent of flower dew, otherwise why would it be painted on the corpse." Su Chen whistled to tease the fat bird in the cage, "Now that the bait has been set, let's see if any fish take the bait and bite."

"Third Young Master, do you think someone will come and steal the body?"

"Hmph, for a master of level [-] or above, do you think anyone will come to collect the corpse? He dares to bribe the officials of Ding'an City. His power is not small. This fish may be a whale in the sea."

Su Chen asked Shisan to take the birdcage to tame the birds, and then returned to the ancestral hall. Liu Xie and Zhang Jiao were also talking about the same thing and were coming out of it.

Watching the two of them walking and chatting, I guess there is no longer any problem.

However, Su Chen felt a little strange. There was no conflict between Liu Xie and Zhang Jiao. It was easy to recruit them, but if Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu were also invited... wouldn't they be afraid of making trouble?

What kind of medicine is sold in this gourd by Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty?

Just as he was thinking about it, Zhang Jiao and the others had already arrived. Su Chen came back to his senses and said with a smile: "Great Master, I have asked my servants to prepare a room for the three of them, and they will live in..."

Su Chen was interrupted by Zhang Jiao before he finished speaking: "Third Young Master, don't bother. My three brothers are lazy by nature, so living in the Marquis Mansion is inconvenient. We'd better go out for a walk. We heard that there is a severe drought here. It's just the right time. With the Way of Peace, I can calm the hearts of the Third Young Master, and if there are patients, I can also treat them."

At this time, Su Chen suddenly understood that Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty asked these three brothers to come over, which turned out to be related to the drought.

Taipingdao communication can indeed play a certain role in calming people's hearts.

Just as Su Chen breathed a sigh of relief, he suddenly thought of what the three of them had done. If... the Yellow Turbans broke out again... not to mention Ding'an City, the entire country of Yan would probably be turned upside down.Ha ha!

The old man opposite suddenly laughed, as if he knew that Su Chen was worried. He walked away slowly, his voice still coming, "Third Young Master, if the people can have enough to eat, and have houses to support the rain and snow, the cold weather will be better." Warm clothes, who would be willing to do anything rebellious?"

Looking at the backs of the three people walking away from the Crescent Gate, Su Chen fell silent. The truth was easy to understand, but it was difficult to actually do it.

Turning around, he saw Liu Xie still standing in the courtyard. Thinking of Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu, he raised his hands and said, "Your Majesty, let's talk?"

"I don't have time, I still have to hoe."

Liu Xie waved his hand, went back and took the small hoe in his hand, and squatted in the flower bed to clear the weeds. "This is a habit he developed after becoming an emperor. I planted many herbs in the past and had to hoe the fields every day." Grass, you’ve worked hard all day, it’s time to take a rest.”

Su Chen bowed his hands, he was indeed quite tired today. After bidding farewell to Han Xian Emperor Liu Xie, he returned to the bedroom, asked the maid to help him remove his armor, washed himself casually, and then lay down on the bed and fell asleep.

As time went by, the night became darker. In the howling night wind, a black shadow shuttled through the forest. He watched the donkey carts pulling the piled corpses out of the city. The eyes covered by the masks contained murderous intent.

He blended in among the victims outside the east gate of the city and saw a corpse hanging above the city gate. The corpse was charred and twisted, and its head was hanging with hair hanging beside it. From the charred blackness, he could vaguely make out a familiar outline.

Soon, he hugged an ownerless truck among the victims and threw it to a certain part of the city tower with one hand. It made a loud bang and alarmed the patrolling soldiers to rush over. At the same time, he jumped up and grabbed the body and head. , flew down to the ground, and disappeared into the night.

However, the victims who were alarmed by all of this saw it clearly with their eyes, and then followed them quietly. After walking an unknown distance, the morning sun rose.

At this time, Zhu Gongdao in the city was naked and covered with bandages. He was sitting under the eaves and quietly listening to Shisan, who was holding a birdcage, dancing and talking about what happened last night.

Someone came in from outside and whispered a few words in his ear. He turned around and ran towards the atrium, crossing the 24-section stone bridge. The servants came and went to clean up the mess from last night.

The sleepy old man woke up. Under the service of his old wife, he drank porridge water one mouthful at a time. Listening to the woman talking about what happened last night, Su Congfang spurted out a mouthful of porridge water. He looked at the water-stained face in disbelief. wife.

In the dining room, Su Chen was sitting at the dining table, looking at the merit bar in his mind that had increased by seven thousand, and he was so happy that a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth from time to time.

"Third brother?"

Su Yong stayed up all night. After explaining the affairs in the government yesterday, he went to the government office with the voting list and arrested 17 officials on the list overnight.

Then there was the interrogation all night, and the confessions were compiled, and they didn't come back until dawn.He held the bowl to eat, but the food in the bowl did not decrease, and it was obvious that he had no appetite.

"Your second brother can't save his right arm anymore. You have to do more at home from now on."

At this time, there were only two brothers at the table. The eldest sister-in-law Su Huan went to accompany the second sister-in-law Hua Hongzhen. After all, Su Lie was still in a coma and she was in a bad mood. She could say some comforting words by her side.

"I'll think of something to do about the drought."

"Brother Wei is talking about those assassins. Now that I have arrived, I don't even know why they wanted to kill everyone in my Su family." Yesterday, Su Yong interrogated the officials who had defected to the other party, but he still found no useful information from their confessions.

At this moment, Shisan stood at the door. He walked in and whispered in Su Chen's ear.

Su Chen nodded, "Wait for me outside first." After saying that, he turned to look at his brother, "Brother, we should be able to find some clues this time."

"I believe in you, brother." Su Yong knew his shortcomings, "Then I'll leave it to my third brother."

"Second brother has broken an arm, then I will give him a hundred arms to give to him!" Su Chen put down the bowls and chopsticks expressionlessly and stepped out of the hall. Thirteen followed him out of the house carrying the birdcage. At the door, there was already a carriage and several cavalry waiting.

"Send a summons to the Ding'an military camp and call all the more than 100 cavalrymen. Also call the people from the government office and gather at the east gate of the city to wait for me."

After giving all these instructions, Su Chen sat in the carriage and lowered the curtain.

The driver cracked his whip and the carriage started moving slowly.

(End of this chapter)