Mythic version of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 6617: Brain Boiling
"Dead?" Zhu Ran stared at the news sent by his guards in amazement. The horrifying news made Zhu Ran dizzy.

"Zhou Yu is dead?" An elder of the Zhu family who was sitting at the head of the group was stunned at first, then overjoyed, "What does it mean that God is watching what you do? Look, even God can't stand it..."

Before he could finish his words, several other elders of the Zhu family instantly realized what had happened. They rushed over and covered the big mouth of the Zhu family elder, then covered him tightly with cold sweat. Some words cannot be said, and saying them can kill people, especially at this time.

"Shut up! Shut up now!" Zhu Tang covered the other person's mouth and roared angrily. When Zhou Yu was alive, it was okay for them to curse him at home, but when Zhou Yu died, if they dared to say one more word, they might be dragged to be buried with him.

The elder whose mouth was covered had realized what he had said by this time. He instantly looked like he had crawled out of the water, his clothes soaked with cold sweat.

As for the branch that had recently separated, they had already run away at this time. Compared with this group of guys who wanted to die, dared to assassinate Zhou Yu, and actually carried out it, how could they dare to stay here?

When the first person who ran away appeared, most of the members of various branches in the Zhu family hall, which was originally packed with people, quickly ran away. Even if the remaining ones did not run away, they showed fear on their faces.

At the moment of Zhou Yu's death, if the Zhu family said such words, it would really implicate a large number of people. Sun Ce looked like a rational person because of Zhou Yu. But now the chains that bound Sun Ce to the position of a rational person have been cut off. The furious Sun Ce will really act like a mad dog.

"Tie up the great elder and don't let him die. Wait for him to apologize." Zhu Ran sighed and said. He understood Sun Ce. Because he understood Sun Ce, he knew very well what would happen. This was not a question of whether to persuade or not, but a question of how many people would die.

"No..." The great elder who was laughing wildly before didn't even have time to open his mouth before he was forcibly dragged away by other elders. Everyone was not a fool. Zhou Yu's previous behavior was at most to adjust the distribution of interests, but the great elder's previous words were directly fatal, because just based on this sentence, it was enough to charge Sun Ce with the crime of assassination.

If Sun Ce could listen to what others say at this time and understand what it means to be just talk, then he would be shocked!

As long as you say this, Sun Ce will take it as your idea and will do this and destroy you directly. Zhu Ran knows very well what a crazy Sun Ce is like.

After suppressing the Great Elder, Zhu Ran no longer had the heart to discuss further because it was meaningless. Compared to losing a little bit of benefit, the big problems they would face later would be bigger problems.

"I have to go to the government office, but before I go, I have a few words to say." After the head of the Zhu family who had suppressed the great elder came back, Zhu Ran stood up and said with some hidden anger.

"I don't want the death of Governor Zhou to have anything to do with our family. I'm going to the government office now, and I will definitely come back tonight, no matter how late it is. You must find out the truth and wait for me here. If you can't find out clearly..." Zhu Ran said to everyone present with a cold look when he left.

After saying that, Zhu Ran left immediately, leaving behind only a group of elders of the main family and the heads of each branch who were in panic. Zhou Yu was not dead, and they angrily accused Zhou Yu of issuing the Enfeoffment Order, and even wanted to overthrow Zhou Yu. But when Zhou Yu died, they were left with only panic, even more panic than when they faced the Enfeoffment Order, because the former was only a matter of interests, while the latter was a matter of life and death.

The Xu family, the Gu family, the Zhang family and others were all in panic at this time. Since Zhou Yu was not dead, they could argue with Zhou Yu, because Zhou Yu had no good way to deal with them. He could not really kill them. As long as they still had value, Zhou Yu, as a rational person, would sooner or later make partial compromises.

But Zhou Yu was dead, so there was no point in compromising. Even if Zhou Yu was dead, they would not get any benefits. It was already a benefit that they were not dragged to be buried with him.

What's even worse is that many of them had said they would teach Zhou Yu a lesson, but now they don't have to give him a lesson anymore. They should first think about how they will die next. Especially the elders who had said so before, they are more frightened than if their father had died.

"Dead?" A group of people gathered and were scolding Zhou Yu for being so unkind. Before, when he was drunk at the banquet, Xu Gong said that he would give Zhou Yu a good beating. After seeing the news brought by his own retainers, he was stunned. He was sobered up by the fright. He had not done anything yet, and he was just a talker. How could he do such a thing? He was not really crazy.

Xu Gong's Xu family had always had a close relationship with Xu Shao's Xu family. Those messy things didn't happen in this life, so Xu Gong naturally didn't die at the hands of Sun Ce. After the Xu family was closed, a lot of resources were transferred to it. Naturally, Xu Gong's Xu family developed rapidly as a Jiangdong family, and now it is considered a wealthy family among the Jiangdong families.

This time under Zhou Yu's Enfeoffment Order, the Xu family also suffered heavy losses, but to be honest, this loss was even a good thing for Xu Gong. After all, with this wave of Enfeoffment Order, Xu Gong successfully cut off his own family from the branch created by the Xu family of Runan.

Although his family also suffered losses, no matter how big the losses were, could they be worse than when he was living in Jiangdong?
Therefore, Xu Gong happily held a banquet to celebrate that his family had broken away from the control of the main family and had gotten the lion's share. However, he couldn't make it too obvious, so he held a banquet to denounce Zhou Yu. Many families who were dissatisfied with Zhou Yu's behavior sent people to participate, in order to create momentum and put pressure on Zhou Yu to facilitate subsequent negotiations. As a result, Zhou Yu died before the subsequent pressure was put on?

Fuck me!
At this moment, the others who were still cursing Zhou Yu at the banquet had not received the news or realized what had happened, but Xu Gong had already sobered up from the fright!

"Clang." Xu Gong's right hand softened, and the hand holding the wine jar shook, so the jar fell to the ground and the wine spilled all over the floor.

"Hahaha, you're drunk, you're drunk." Xu Zhao looked at his distant cousin whose wine bottle had fallen to the ground and his face turned pale as he smiled.

To be honest, the relationship between Xu Zhao and Xu Gong was not that good, especially when they were in China. They were more or less on the verge of never speaking to each other again. But later, because they had to go abroad, it was difficult for a small family to develop, so they needed to unite all the forces that could be united.

The branch represented by Xu Zhao and the branch represented by Xu Gong, together with the branch that was reborn from the Impure World Reincarnation and had its own way, formed the Wujun Xu family, which was second only to several large families in Jiangdong.

Of course, many members of the Wujun Xu family are actually from the Runan Xu family, that is, relatives of Xu Shao. Because Xu Jing did something unkind, the Xu family could only be closed for fifty years, but it was the Runan Xu family that was closed, so it had nothing to do with the Wujun Xu family. Relying on this trick to deceive the world, the Wujun Xu family successfully gained a foothold in Southeast Asia.

Xu Gong was somewhat dissatisfied with this, but because the Runan Xu family had locked up too many key things at the beginning, the Wujun Xu family was almost swallowed up. If there were no contract, the banner could only be the Wujun Xu family, and the head of the family must be Xu Gong. It is possible that the Runan Xu family would swallow up the Wujun Xu family completely with their own strength.

After all, the Wujun Xu family is essentially a smaller family than the previous Zhuge family, and there is no brilliant genius in this generation. Facing a big family like the Runan Xu family, even if they can only provide backbone talents, they cannot confront them head-on.

As a result, for a long time, the Xu family of Wujun could only survive in this half-dead state. It was only thanks to the Xu family of Runan that they needed to keep a low profile and dared not show up. After receiving a lot of benefits from the other party, the Xu family of Wujun, who was already intertwined with the other party, did not dare to explode themselves, so the stalemate remained.

It was not until the end of last year when Zhou Yu came back to issue the Enfeoffment Order that Xu Gong seized the opportunity and used Zhou Yu's knife to perform surgery on his own family. He cut off the members of the Runan Xu family who had mixed in with his own family to the branches in one go, and successfully transferred a large amount of resources to his own main branch.

This behavior can be described as pure speculation, but the opportunity that Xu Gong seized was too good. The Runan Xu family had no time to prepare a response strategy. Zhou Yu had already rushed to the home of the Wujun Xu family with his men and carried out drastic reforms on the Xu family, directly splitting the Wujun Xu family into five families, two large and three small. Among them, Xu Gong, as the nominal head of the family and the direct descendant, naturally took the most.

As the main force that confronted Xu Gong head-on, Xu Zhao naturally got the second most.

The remaining few large branches could only accept the small gifts with tears under Zhou Yu's iron fist.

There was no other way. Facing Xu Gong, the Xu family of Runan could fight back with an iron fist, but facing Zhou Yu, it was still a question as to who would have the stronger hand. Once exposed, they would have nothing. If not exposed, at least they would still have a future. The Xu family of Runan knew that it was Xu Gong who had teamed up with his cousin, with whom he had a bad relationship, to frame them, but they were bound by legal principles and rules and had no choice but to accept it.

Zhou Yu did notice some problems within the Xu family, but every family has some shameful things. So when faced with the fact that the branch family still glared at the main family after dividing some of the interests, Zhou Yu just glanced at it and didn't pay any more attention to it. After all, it was not a big deal.

In fact, Xu Gong almost completely swallowed up the foundation accumulated by the Runan Xu family over hundreds of years in a snake-swallowing-elephant manner, and kicked the Runan Xu family to an unknown island in some remote corner of Southeast Asia. From then on, the Wujun Xu family became a family with a real base.

As for the Runan Xu family, whose blood was drained so badly that even their foundation was refined, how can we say it? They don't even have the energy to cause trouble.

In fact, Xu Gong had not shown up in the first half of this year. He was busy sorting out the foundation of the Xu family in Runan in order to turn it into his own strength. It took him more than half a year to finally accomplish it. Then he showed up and held a banquet. In a sociable manner, he held a banquet to denounce Zhou Yu and invited a large number of Jiangdong families. As a result, Zhou Yu is dead now!

Xu Zhao smiled and picked up the wine jar for his distant cousin who looked pale and seemed to be in a bad state after drinking too much. The relationship between the two sides had been bad in the past, but last year Xu Gong used a knife to kill someone else and directly pushed up the Xu family of Wujun, and Xu Zhao also became extremely rich.

Although he ascended to the throne by stepping on the corpses of the Xu family of Runan, the view from a high place is really good, so much so that Xu Zhao, who originally had a very bad relationship with Xu Gong, now has more faith in his cousin. If the relationship is not good, it can be cultivated. The cousin takes the younger brother to eat the heritage of a century-old wealthy family. What a reliable brotherhood this is, in one word, iron!
"Cousin, you've drunk too much. Why don't I help you go to the inner room and drink some sobering soup?" Xu Zhao walked over and supported Xu Gong and said. At this time, the well-informed guys at the banquet had also received the intelligence. After all, such a big event as Zhou Yu being assassinated in the street could not be concealed.

Immediately, the originally noisy banquet gradually became quiet, until a certain moment even the noise stopped. No matter how much they drank, as long as the members of the noble families could come to drink, they all had the most basic ability to judge right from wrong. In other words, no matter how dissolute they were, they at least knew how big a deal Zhou Yu's death was.

The sky is falling; this was the first reaction of these family members. When the drunkenness wore off and they realized what kind of banquet they were attending, they were even more frightened. Some of them didn't even say goodbye, but directly ran out crawling. Everyone who attended this banquet today was doomed to die, as Zhou Yu was assassinated in the street!
In just a short time of an incense stick, the courtyard that was once filled with distinguished guests was reduced to a mess. Even the most respectable and wealthy family among them just bowed and said that the situation today was serious and they would take their leave first and thank Master Xu the next day. As for most of the ordinary people who came to make up the numbers, they just ran away!

At the same time, Zhuge Jin of Yediao City Government Office immediately notified all Sun Ce's ministers who were still in Yediao, and also notified Sun Quan, who then used talismans to impose martial law in Yediao City.

"Was Gongjin really assassinated?" Sun Quan, bringing Lu Meng and Pan Zhang, went straight to Zhuge Jin. Other issues were not important to Sun Quan. Even arresting the assassin and finding the mastermind behind the scenes could be postponed. The most important thing now was to determine Zhou Yu's situation. Was it Zhou Yu who set up the trap or was he really assassinated?

Zhuge Jin's face looked very ugly. He took Sun Quan directly to the cold storage under the government office, where Zhou Yu's body had been moved.

Sun Quan was stunned when he saw this scene. The older he got, the more he understood the significance of Zhou Yu to Jiangdong, and now the pillar of Jiangdong was lying in an ice cellar.

"What's going on? What exactly happened? I only heard that it was an assassination. How could Gongjin be assassinated? And where are his guards? Are his guards shit-eaters?" Sun Quan roared angrily. How could he just die like that?

"The five soldiers who directly participated in the assassination have all been captured. However, as all five of them were death warriors and the weakest was at the fifth level of smelting, they only brought back residual corpses. Fortunately, they saved the heads of three of them. Now they are using various secret techniques to search for any traces left by the assassin." Zhuge Jin had a gloomy expression, but he tried his best to explain clearly what they had done before Sun Quan came.

"What's the result of the investigation?" Sun Quan asked Zhuge Jin, suppressing his rage. "Five death warriors above the fifth level of smelting, isn't it clear that the Jiangdong family has such strength?"

"It may not be done by one family, and these still need to be verified. The first thing we need to do now is not to lose our composure." Zhuge Jin activated his spiritual talent to stimulate Sun Quan's wisdom, so that Sun Quan would not fall into rage first, but find ways to solve the problem first.

Inspired by Zhuge Jin's talent, Sun Quan's furious thoughts were aroused by his brain, which had plucked the strings of wisdom. He vaguely grasped something, but was unable to confirm it.

"Does Gongjin have a plan to fake his death?" Although Sun Quan did not catch the spark of wisdom, the few thoughts that were stimulated made Sun Quan think of some possibilities.

"Yes." Zhuge Jin nodded. However, before Sun Quan could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard Zhuge Jin continue with a gloomy face, "But it's not a plan like this, and it's not really death."

"Zi Yu..." Just when Sun Quan was about to ask in detail, Zheng Du appeared behind the ice cellar. After looking at Sun Quan, he greeted Zhuge Jin.

"Marquis Wucheng, the martial law in the city is now in your hands. We need to verify some things here, so please forgive us." Zhuge Jin saluted Sun Quan cautiously, then quickly retreated, leaving Sun Quan alone in the ice cellar. Looking at Zhou Yu's body, Sun Quan's face looked extremely ferocious.

"What are the results of the secret technique test?" Zhuge Jin asked with a gloomy expression after following Zheng Du out.

Although theoretically, Zhang Hong and Zhang Zhao should have taken over after Zhou Yu's fall, the current situation is too complicated. Only Zhuge Jin, who is obviously able to stay out of it and has sufficient ability, can take over and maintain superficial stability. Otherwise, the mutual accusations caused by Zhou Yu's accidental assassination alone would cause Sun Ce's subordinates to collapse into several factions.

Moreover, no matter who takes over now, they must find out the cause and effect of Zhou Yu's assassination in the street as soon as possible, and give an explanation to the Han Dynasty and Sun Ce before Sun Ce returns, otherwise...

"Not so good. The other party also has his own secret technique covered. This was within our expectations, but after we forcibly cracked it, the identity we extracted was not very good." Zheng Du said cautiously.

"Which family are you from?" Zhuge Jin closed his eyes and said as if he had recognized the reality, "Information about several big families."

"Call Pang Shiyuan and tell him in front of him." Zhuge Jin said coldly to Zheng Du. Zheng Du was silent for a while, "There is the Pang family."

"Fuck!" A series of conspiracies and tricks appeared in Zhuge Jin's mind at this moment.

　My mentality is broken, ε=(ο｀*)))

　　(End of this chapter)