Chapter 54: The Reclusive Great Si Nong
Liu Wei, who entered the town a little later than Zhou Cang and the others, saw from a distance that Zhou Cang and the two men he was carrying were forced out of a house by a group of generals armed with round shields and short spears, his brows furrowed slightly, and he waved to the men behind him, and a large group of men immediately carried the big shield and short spears and ran towards the house quickly.
The generals who forced Zhou Cang and the two men out of the house are not much different from the total number of men brought by Liu Bian, but these people brought by Liu Bian are all crawling on the battlefield and crawling out of the pile of dead people, and the fierce murderous aura on their bodies is definitely not comparable to that group of pure gatekeepers. As soon as the two sides confronted each other, the momentum of the group of generals was suppressed before they could rise.
Under the persecution of the men armed with big shields and short spears, dozens of generals retreated step by step towards the gate of the house, and a few of the more courageous generals also thought about stopping and confronting this group of men halfway, but the companions beside them were retreating, and they had to retreat back into the courtyard step by step.
Standing in the rain silently looking at the men who were forcing dozens of generals back into the house, Liu Wei heard the "squeak" sound of the door shaft turning on the side of the road, so he turned his head and glanced at the side where the sound was made.
A thin slit opened in the door of a private house, revealing an eye behind the gap, which was looking at Liu Wei and the others.
Glancing at the eyes that were peeping at them, Liu Wei frowned slightly, and glared fiercely at the door that had opened a gap.
The person peeking through the crack in the door found that Liu Wei was staring at him, and quickly shrank back, closed the door tightly, and never dared to open it again.
"Who's messing around here?" The peeking people on the side of the road shrank back, and Liu Wei led the man who stayed behind to carry the seriously injured, and pulled Tang Ji towards the mansion, and only after a few steps, a low and majestic voice came from the door of the house.
Following the sound and looking towards the door of the house, I saw a very burly man in a crimson dark coat walking out surrounded by several domestic servants.
The man who came out, about sixty years old, had a silver beard floating on his chin, and his crimson face gave people a sense of not being angry and arrogant.
The sky was still raining, and behind the old man who came out, a domestic servant held a paper umbrella brushed with tung oil to shield him from the wind and rain.
Standing at the door of the house, he looked around at the men holding big shields and short spears, and the old man had a straight face, looking like he wanted to use his majesty to calm the men who were wearing the clothes and armor of officers and soldiers, and were slightly tired in the rain for two days.
The group of men brought by Liu Wei obviously disappointed him, and when he didn't speak, the men had already stopped approaching the house, waiting for Liu Wei to come close before dealing with it. When the old man's thick and dignified voice fell, the men with shields and short spears did not retreat, but took two steps forward.
Their actions surprised the old man, and after being stunned for a moment, the old man sighed softly, raised his head slightly to look at the rainy sky, and a touch of sadness appeared on his crimson face.
Walking only four or five steps away from the old man, Liu Wei stopped, and the memories of the real Han Shaodi in his mind poured out like a tide. The old man who looked up at the sky was none other than Zhu Jun, who led the officers and soldiers to exterminate the Yellow Turban Army in the first year of Zhongping.
"How is Dasi Nong?" Recognizing Zhu Jun, Liu Wei had an indifferent smile on his face, clasped his hands into fists and arched towards Zhu Jun, who was looking up at the sky with a sad face, and said hello lightly.
Hearing someone call him "Da Si Nong", Zhu Jun hurriedly lowered his head and looked at Liu Bian, when he saw Liu Bian's face clearly, his eyes suddenly opened, his lips moved, he wanted to speak, but he didn't say anything.
Standing at the gate for a while, Zhu Jun looked at the streets on the left and right, and saw that there was no one on the street except for his generals and the group of officers and soldiers brought by Liu Bian, so he bowed his hand to Liu Wei and said, "Your Excellency, please follow a certain into the inner hall to speak." ”
"Let them in!" After greeting Liu Wei, Zhu Jun turned around and explained to the servants on the side, raised his feet into the courtyard, and went to the inner hall first.
Zhu Jun spoke, and the generals no longer blocked Zhou Cang and the others, and all the generals immediately dispersed, standing in two columns on the inside of the gate, watching Liu Wei and the others enter the courtyard under the guidance of several domestic servants.
As soon as everyone entered the courtyard, the two generals standing closest to the gate walked to the door and closed the two gates that were open on the left and right.
"There are soldiers who come with me." Entering the house, the two servants bowed slightly and greeted the dozens of men who followed Liu Wei.
Dozens of men did not leave immediately, but set their eyes on Liu Wei in unison.
Nodding slightly at these men, Liu Wei said to them: "Brothers, go and rest, change into dry clothes, don't catch the cold." Yuanfu took the two brothers to stay, and the others went first. ”
As soon as he said this, all the men responded with their fists in unison, and followed the two servants of the Zhu Jun family to a row of relatively low rooms in the outer courtyard, leaving only Zhou Cang and the two men who had come with Zhou Cang to call the door before.
After the men left, the other two servants bowed, and one of them made a gesture of invitation to Liu Wei and the others, saying, "Da Si Nong is waiting for guests in the backyard, please come with me!" ”
Glancing at the two servants, Liu Wei held his head high, took Tang Ji, Zhou Cang and others, and walked straight towards the backyard of Zhu Jun's house. The two servants didn't dare to walk in front of Liu Wei, but they followed on the left and the right to show them the way.
Entering the backyard, under the guidance of two domestic servants, Liu Wei and the others got on a wooden corridor painted with vermilion paint and walked towards the end of the corridor.
At the bottom of the cloister is an erected compartment, on which the footboard is stepped on, and there is a "empty" echo. Liu Wei and the others, drenched through, passed through the corridor, leaving rows of wet footprints.
At the door of a room at the end of the corridor, there were four generals holding round shields and short spears standing on both sides.
"Dasi Nong, the guest has arrived." Liu Wei and the others stopped and stood at the door, and the general who stopped them turned to face the closed door, clasped his hands into fists, and said something to the house.
"Please come in and talk." As soon as the general's voice fell, Zhu Jun's voice came from inside the house.
The general who reported the news responded, stepped forward, gently pushed open the door, and then stood aside, arched his fist at Liu Wei and the others, and said, "Da Si Nong invites guests to come in and talk." ”
Liu Wei looked at the general, didn't look at the general, just nodded slightly, and walked into the house with Tang Ji.
Zhou Cang and the two men who came over were about to raise their heels, but they were stopped by the other three generals standing at the door. The general who invited Liu Wei into the house pulled the door panel at this time and closed the door again.
The two servants who came here with Liu Wei and the others bowed slightly at this time, retreated a few steps back, and then turned around and walked in the direction they came.
was blocked at the door, Zhou Cang was very unhappy in his heart, and glared at the four generals viciously. The four generals guarding the door were obviously the most elite guards in Zhu Jun's mansion, and they were glared at by Zhou Cang, but they still looked straight ahead without any expression on their faces.
Zhou Cang, who knew that it was impossible to enter the house except for a fight, waved his hand to the two men behind him, and asked the two men to stand facing each other with the general at the door, while he himself held the sword on his waist with one hand and crossed his waist with the other, pacing back and forth at the door of the room.
As soon as he entered the room with Tang Ji, the door was closed by the general outside. The light was already dim on a rainy day, and as soon as the door was closed again, the room looked a little gloomy.
Stretching out his hand to pull Tang Ji, Liu Wei raised his feet and walked towards the room inside. Zhu Jun didn't come out, obviously considering that there was still a general in charge of guarding at the door, and it was indeed more appropriate to meet Zhu Jun in the inner room as Liu Wei.
As soon as the two of them entered the room inside, they had already put on their court clothes, and Zhu Jun, who was waiting in the room, hurriedly took two steps forward, bent his knees, knelt down in front of Liu Bian, folded his hands on his forehead, and gave Liu Bian a five-body bow, and said: "Guilty minister Zhu Jun, knock to see His Royal Highness King Hongnong and Princess Hongnong!" ”
"Dasi Nong, please get up!" As soon as Zhu Jun knelt down, Liu Wei stepped forward, supported his arms with both hands, helped him stand up, and said to him: "Xiao Wang has now left Luoyang, and he wanted to borrow a place to stay here, but he didn't want to meet Dasi Nong!" ”
Standing up with Liu Bian's support, when he looked at Liu Bian, Zhu Jun's face was already full of tears, and he choked up and said: "A few days ago, the criminal heard that Dong Zhuo was mourning His Royal Highness, and I thought His Highness was already ...... I don't want to see His Highness here, I really have eyes in the sky, protect my Dahan Temple! ”
"Dong Zhuo's old thief ordered Li Ru to poison the king, and the king killed Li Ru's traitor, and brought Zitong here to mourn for the king, thinking that the old thief tried to tell the world that the king is dead, and to chill the loyalty of the world's heroes to serve the Han!" Liu Wei had a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, and said to Zhu Jun in a tone that was so flat that he seemed to be talking about other people's things: "I just don't know how Dasi Nong is here?" ”
"Alas!" Zhu Jun sighed, tilted his head to the side, and said with a look of indignation: "Your Highness may not know that Dong Zhuo tried to move the capital to Chang'an, and the criminal ministers have been obstructing it. How can a criminal do such a thing that violates human morality? So he resigned from his official position and found a house in this town, intending to avoid the right and wrong. The sinner deserves to die, the Han Sheji has fallen into the hands of thieves, but the sinner only wants to protect himself, it is really difficult to redeem death! ”