523 Liu Bei's Fate (11)

Sima Yi came to the place where Liu Biao lived in the inner house, which was a peaceful paradise after Liu Biao's abdication, he lived here, no longer asked about anything, but raised his youngest son Liu Cong with peace of mind.

Therefore, Liu Qi also divided the government into two mansions, Liu Qi lived in the outer mansion, and Liu Biao lived in the inner mansion, and no one was allowed to disturb him, so that he could spend his old age quietly in the inner mansion.

However, who would have thought that Liu Biao would suddenly suffer a catastrophe and be assassinated.

Before Sima Yi entered Liu Biao's room, he heard Liu Qi's wailing from afar, and when he got closer, Liu Qi had already cried into a tearful person, heartbroken, and even cried several times.

Liu Qi lost his mother since he was a child, and his father raised him, and in the ten years when he grew up, his father never renewed the strings, just for fear of causing inconvenience to Liu Qi. It wasn't until Liu Qi grew up and Liu Biao came to Jingzhou that under the current situation, he chose a political marriage, married the daughter of the local wealthy Cai family, and relied on Cai's prestige in Jingzhou to do things for him.

At first, Cai's virtuousness made Liu Biao full of praise for him, although he was only a few years older than Liu Qi, he loved Liu Qi as his own son. However, with Cai's pregnancy and the birth of her own son, and Cai Mao's obstruction, Cai's love was completely transferred to her son, so she was disgusted with Liu Qi in every way, and even had the intention of killing Liu Qi. In order to be able to make his son the successor of Liu Biao in the future.

Since ancient times, the young and the young have been orderly, and it is also for this reason that the Cai family feels that they will not get rid of Liu Qi. There is no hope for his own son. and kept saying bad things about Liu Qi in Liu Biao's ear.

But. Liu Biao believed in Liu Qi as always and took great care of Liu Qi, but after the end, he was forced by various pressures, so he chose a mansion for Liu Qi in Xiangyang City as Liu Qi's home.

However, Liu Biao's concession did not bring the Cai family peace of mind, but became more rampant, and they took this incident as a signal. thinks that as long as he is in Jingzhou, even if it is Liu Biao, he has to look at Cai's face. So Cai's intensified efforts to get rid of Liu Qi, and it was through Liu Biao's hands.

But in Liu Biao's heart, Liu Qi is very important to him, he has worked hard to cultivate Liu Qi, and he is his eldest son, he does not allow anyone to harm him. And Liu Biao also began to realize that Cai's real purpose was not to drive Liu Qi away. Instead, he wanted to put Liu Qi to death. Since then, Liu Biao has begun his subtle struggle. and used various means to weaken the expansion of Cai's power.

And all this, Liu Qi understands that the father-son relationship is deep, and now that his father was accidentally stabbed to death, how can Liu Qi not be sad.

Sima Yi saw Liu Qi crying so painfully, and then looked at Liu Biao, who was not looking at him, and then walked behind Liu Qi and said to Liu Qi: "Lord, people can't be resurrected after death, please mourn and change!" ”

"It's not your father who died, if it were you, would you be able to treat it with such a normal heart?" Liu Qi let out a hysterical cry at Sima Yi, looking extremely angry.

Sima Yi didn't care, although he hadn't been in contact with Liu Qi for a long time, he knew Liu Qi well enough. Liu Qi can be said to be an extremely simple person, and he is also a little simple, the moment Sima Yi met Liu Qi, he was secretly thinking, how could there be such a simple person in this world. How can such a person adapt to the cruelty of this era.

However, for Sima Yi, people like Liu Qi can easily gain Liu Qi's trust because of his simplicity. Facts have proved that since Liu Qi got Sima Yi, he has trusted Sima Yi a lot, and can even call him a brother, and he is also obedient to Sima Yi.

Sima Yi felt that Liu Qi was angry now, and he probably couldn't listen to anything, so he didn't pay attention to Liu Qi anymore, but turned to the captain of the guard and said: "Immediately send someone to call the four generals Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Wen Ping, and Li Tong, and in addition, go to Kuai Mansion again and call Kuai Yue and Kuai Liang together." ”

The captain of the guard "snorted", and immediately sent someone to call someone, and then Sima Yi gave orders to everyone present, asking them to start cleaning up the scene and lifting Liu Biao's body, after all, Liu Biao died on the couch, and the image was a little unsightly, because by Liu Biao's side, there was also a woman who died.

Sima Yi picked up Liu Qi and began to have people clean up the scene, and sent people to track down the assassin with all his might, block the city gates, and take down any suspicious characters immediately.

Liu Biao's assassination is not trivial, and Sima Yi also asked people to block the news, not allowing anyone to leak it, if anyone dares to disobey the order, just wait for the head to hit the ground.

In addition, Sima Yi also made people block the entire mansion, and the housekeepers and maidservants in the mansion were not allowed to leave, and no one who was not summoned could enter the mansion.

In Sima Yi's opinion, the Assassins definitely did not leave Xiangyang now, as long as all the city gates were blocked, the patrols were strengthened, and then a needle-in-a-haystack search was launched overnight, the Assassins would definitely have nothing to hide.

After about a stick of incense, the scene of the crime was completely cleaned up, Liu Biao was also reorganized, his staring eyes were closed, and then he changed into new clothes and was placed in the coffin, and a mourning hall was set up in the house, and Liu Biao's coffin was placed in the mourning hall, which allowed Liu Qi to go over to guard filial piety.

Not long after, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Wen Ping, Li Tong, Kuai Yue, Kuai Liang and others all came from outside, as soon as they entered the palace, they could immediately feel that something was wrong in the government, and the defense force was strengthened a lot, three steps and one sentry, five steps and one post, and the guard was extremely strict.

When they came to the mourning hall, they were taken aback, Liu Qi knelt on the ground and cried, Sima Yi and several captains of the guards in the palace stood aside, also with solemn faces, there was a coffin in the center of the mourning hall, everyone looked at each other, and they were secretly speculating, is Liu Biao dead?

When they walked into the mourning hall, they saw the person lying in the coffin, which also confirmed their suspicion in the letter, Liu Biao was indeed dead.

Liu Biao has always been disaster-free and disease-free, how could he suddenly die violently?

Everyone's hearts were suspicious, and at this time, Sima Yi came over and whispered to everyone: "The old lord was assassinated and killed, and now the assassin has absconded and is pursuing him with all his might." ”

Everyone was surprised, Liu Biao had already retreated into the background, who had such a deep hatred for him, and wanted to assassinate him?

"Could it be the remnants of the Cai family's party?" Kuai Yue asked suddenly.

Sima Yi shook his head and said, "Now that the assassin has not been caught, all the motives are not understood, there are many possibilities, but it cannot be ruled out that the remnants of the Cai family did it......"

"General Huang, General Wei, General Wen, General Li, the reason why I am in such a hurry to call you here is that you want to immediately set up your troops and horses to strengthen the defense of the various gates of Xiangyang City, and in addition, send a patrol team to conduct a large-scale search and arrest in the city, even if you dig three feet into the ground, you must find out this assassin." Sima Yi said.

Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Wen Ping, and Li Tong all nodded and responded in unison.

Sima Yi said: "Each of you took soldiers and horses and searched door to door in the city overnight, so you said that you found the remnants of the Cai family's party, and those who harbored it privately were guilty of the same crime as the Cai family!" ”

"Whoa!"

The four of them received the order, turned around and left, while Kuai Yue and Kuai Liang stayed in the mourning hall, first worshiped Liu Biao, and then began to appease Liu Qi.

At the same time, Chen Dao, who escaped from the government, is trying to escape from Xiangyang City, he killed the wrong person, the mission failed, and the grass startled the snake, next, Xiangyang City will definitely strengthen its vigilance, Liu Qi will also strengthen its defense, and it will be difficult to attack Liu Qi again.

Now the only thing Chen Zhi wants to do is to hurry back to Liu Bei's side, tell Liu Bei about this matter, and let Liu Bei punish himself.

However, after Chen arrived at the palace, he found that the patrol team in the city had been strengthened a lot, and there were guards with torches everywhere, and they were in teams of ten, constantly shuttling through the streets and alleys of the city, leaving no dead ends.

Chen Zhi finally escaped more than a dozen patrols, came to the city gate, and saw from afar that the city gate had also strengthened its defense, the city wall was brightly lit, three steps and a sentry, five steps and a post, and there were crowds of people, it seemed that it was impossible to escape from the city.

There was no way, Chen Zhi had no choice but to retreat to the city again, but in the face of the carpet search of the army in the city, he had nowhere to hide. At this moment, Chen Zhi suddenly had an idea and remembered a place, that is, Cai Mao's former mansion, which has now become Sima Yi's mansion, Sima Yi is favored by Liu Qi, and in such a search everywhere, it is undoubtedly a good hiding place.

Moreover, it covers an extremely large area and has a large number of houses, which makes it easier for him to hide.

So Chen Zhi quickly went to Sima Yi's mansion, and after narrowly avoiding more than a dozen patrol teams on the way, Chen Zhi came to this mansion. Sima Yi's mansion had no guards and no householders, only one room was lit, and that was where his housekeeper, Zhou Yuncong, the Jinyi guard, lived.

Sima Yi did not set up guards, also for the convenience of Zhou Yuncong's activities, and he had a lot less scruples. It is also convenient for him to discuss things with Zhou Yuncong, and he doesn't have to worry about anything anymore.

Now, it's going to be cheaper. Chen Zhi showed a smile on the corner of his mouth, easily climbed over the courtyard wall, walked into the mansion, and then casually found a room where no one was, hid inside, and let the wind and rain blow outside, and the storm raged, but he was safe and sound inside. And where Sima Yi lives, everyone knows that this is a ghost domain, and many of the people of the Cai family have died here. In addition, Sima Yi is a celebrity next to Liu Qi, and although the patrol team passes by here, they don't dare to go in and search directly.

In this way, Chen Zhi hid here until dawn, until his stomach rumbled and he felt hungry, and he woke up. (To be continued......)