Three Kingdoms: From Hulaoguan to Global Hegemony

Chapter 258 Framed
Before Shi Sun Rui left, ministers who had the same idea as him came to the Liu Mansion one after another to seek marriage. Dong Bai and the three of them took the trouble and simply moved the game to the front yard.

Then all the ministers who wanted to give their daughters and nieces to Liu Yu as wives and concubines were all "blocked" by Sanmei from the gate of the house.

So far, the name of the Liu family's shrew has been confirmed, and the unclear relationship between Dong Bai and Liu Yu has become a taboo of the royalists.

Because they were very worried that if Dong Bai really intended to marry into Liu's residence, all the royalists' efforts to win over Liu Yu would be in vain.

Situ Wangyun specially called Sikong Xun Shuang and Wei Wei Yang Biao to discuss countermeasures because of this matter.

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In the evening, Ting Wei Li Ru sent someone to secretly entertain Sima Fang, the commander of Luoyang.

But when Sima Fang arrived at Tingwei's Mansion, he couldn't see Li Ru's figure. He asked the guards and said that Li Ru would return immediately after he went to Yong'an Palace, so Sima Fang had no choice but to continue to wait.

In fact, Li Ru didn't go to Yong'an Palace at all. He was waiting for news from Chen Yuan in his study.

Taking advantage of his uncle Sima Fang's visit to Tingwei's Mansion, Chen Yuan hurried to the county mansion.

Although Chen Yuan was grounded, but this time he came here on the grounds of asking questions about the incomprehension in the book, so the housekeeper in the county mansion did not dare to stop him, so he could only invite him to the study to wait for Luoyang Ling to return.

After entering the study, Chen Yuan began to rummage through the boxes. Although he found many letters from his cousin Sima Lang from Jizhou, all of them contained short stories from his parents.

Except for the recent letter that Yuan Shao intended to recruit Sima Lang as an official, the rest did not mention Sima Fang's connection with Jizhou at all, let alone mention Liu Yu in the letter.

This result was not surprising to Chen Yuan, because that time he was humiliated by Liu Yu and then grounded by his uncle Sima Fang. In a fit of anger, he fabricated the lie that Sima Fang colluded with Liu Yu to vote for Jizhou in front of Li Ru.

He originally wanted to use Li Ru's hand to punish Liu Yu, but he didn't want Li Ru to attach great importance to this matter and insisted on finding evidence.

After going back and forth, Chen Yuan was even more afraid to say that what he provided was false information. After all, Li Ru is the minister in charge of laws and prisons, and Dong Zhuo's confidant. If he finds out that Chen Yuan is lying, the entire Chen family may be ruined. Moldy.

"Damn it, why didn't any of the letters mention the matter of going to Jizhou!"

The more anxious Chen Yuan became, the more frightened he became. He thought that if he could not find evidence tonight, he might never see the sun tomorrow again.

Thinking of this, he made up his mind and decided to imitate Sima Lang's handwriting to forge a letter from Yuan Shao to win over Sima Fang and Liu Yu.

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Around Xu time, Sima Fang still didn't wait for Li Ru, so he proposed to go back to the mansion and visit again tomorrow, but the guards didn't allow him to leave, so he drew his sword and blocked him outside the house.

At that time Sima Fang was furious.

"Master Tingwei invited me to the banquet, this is not a Hongmen banquet!"

As soon as the words fell, Li Ruyin came out with a smile.

"It was really not a grand banquet, but after I read this letter, I had to leave the county magistrate to spend the night in the cell!" Li Ru waved his hand and asked the guards to go up and kidnap him.

Sima Fang was shocked, and hurriedly asked why, "Master Tingwei, what is the reason?"

Li Ru snorted coldly: "Why? I think you are asking knowingly!"

Li Ru opened the letter with a flick of his wrist, and Sima Fang looked at the light and saw that the letter said that Yuan Shao had recruited him and Liu Yu to go to Jizhou as an official, and the name of his eldest son Sima Lang was also written on the signature.

"This is a false accusation, the letter is not written in Gouzi's handwriting at all!" Sima Fang argued vigorously, he knew very well that as long as he entered the prison of the Tingwei Mansion, he would have to peel off his skin if he was guilty or not.

"Whether it's true or not, let's discuss it in the prison!" After Li Ru finished speaking, he ordered the guards to secretly send him to the prison for strict supervision.

Sima Fang wanted to argue, but the guards sealed his mouth with a cloth strip. He vaguely felt that the handwriting on the letter was familiar, but he never imagined that the person who framed him was actually his nephew Chen Yuan.

Seeing Sima Fang being escorted away, Chen Yuan dared to come out from the secret place.

Seeing him coming, Li Ru asked with some displeasure, "Did you only find this letter?"

"Chen Yuan replied flatteringly: "Reporting to Mr. Ting Wei, I searched all over the house, only... this one! "

"Okay, you can go back first. If there is something to do, I will send someone to notify you. Remember to keep tonight's matter a secret. If the news gets out, come and see me!"

Li Ru was obviously not satisfied with the evidence this time, because it only stated Yuan Shao's solicitation, and it did not clearly show that Sima Fang and Liu Yu had colluded with Jizhou.

But Li Ru didn't intend to wait any longer, he decided to pry Sima Fang's mouth open, let him say Liu Yu's collusion with Yuan Shao himself, and then hand it over to Dong Zhuo for decision.

After Chen Yuan came out of Tingwei's Mansion, he trotted home in fright.

He also didn't want to put his uncle to death, so he forged a rather vague letter. Who would have thought that Li Ru would arrest Sima Fang on the spot, and Li Ru's attitude of strictly handling this matter really scared him.

"Luoyang City can't stay for long, we must make plans in advance."

The Chen family has always been supported by Sima Fang. If something happened to Sima Fang, the Chen family would be over immediately.

Thinking of this, Chen Yuan disguised himself overnight and prepared to escape out of the city at dawn. As for the rest of the family, he didn't care about it either.

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On the underground palace outside the city that night, Ma Chao came to Yan Xing again for an appointment to fight.

As soon as they arrived at the barracks, all the soldiers gathered automatically.

"Son-in-law Yan, it's getting late, come out and relax, let me tell you a secret, exercising at night is good for sleep! But if you win, you will sleep soundly, and if you lose, you may lose your body because of being beaten. Injured and dare not turn over."

Yan Xing rushed out angrily when he heard Ma Chao's clamor in the tent.

"Little thief Ma Chao, who do you think was beaten with injuries all over his body!"

Ma Chao laughed loudly when he heard the words, "I didn't name names, why did Mr. Yan's son-in-law predict that he would lose?"

Yan Xingzui was too stupid to fight against him, so he stopped talking nonsense, and started to fight with a double-ended spear.

This time the competition was a foot battle, and Ma Chao jumped off the horse when he saw the opponent rushing towards him.

Ma Chao didn't bring a weapon when he came, so he grabbed a long spear from the pawn casually, danced a few spears in front of him, tried his hand, and went up to meet him.

It's just that Ma Chao is holding the gun with one hand in his left arm, not his dominant right hand.

This enraged Yan Xing even more. He thought that Ma Chao looked down on people too much. He wanted to beat me with his left hand.

Ma Chao didn't want to use his right hand, it wasn't because he underestimated the enemy, he was afraid that the battle would end too soon and Huangfuyan's men would not be able to enter the underground palace smoothly.

So he taunted while fighting, and kept fighting in circles without going forward, and whenever he saw that Yan Xing could not reach, he would take the initiative to leave some openings for the opponent, making Yan Xing feel that there was still a chance Come back.

Therefore, once the two of them began to compete, it was destined not to be less than one or two hours.

(End of this chapter)