I, Dong Zhuo, love the people like a son

Five hundred elite soldiers in full armor quickly rushed into the city and surrounded Sima Fang's family and the soldiers at the city gate.Changge's cool silhouette flickered in the lights, the sound of the bow and crossbow being wound up could be heard in the ears, and the sharp arrows were like the sharp teeth of a poisonous snake.

With just one order, Sima Fang's family of more than [-] people, as well as the city gate soldiers, would instantly turn into hedgehogs.

"Curfew in the middle of the night, where does Lord Neishi want to go?"

The crisp sound of horseshoes sounded, and Wu Qiong, the school captain of the city gate, slowly appeared.It's just that he didn't have a trace of complacency on his face, instead, surprise and fear flashed in his eyes.

"Wu, Captain Wu..." Sima Fang's pupils shrank suddenly, his face full of disbelief: "Why are you here?"

"Someone is the school captain of the city gate. It is his duty to guard the city gate of Luoyang. Isn't it normal to appear here?" Quickly retracting the strangeness in his eyes, Wu Qiong asked Sima Fang with a contemptuous look: "On the contrary, Mr. Neishi Violating the curfew and buying city soldiers to open the city gate without authorization, what crime should be!"

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Sima Fang's words, he waved his big hand and shouted: "Take it away, and put it in Tingwei's prison, and wait for the Taiwei to deal with it!"

"Father!"

Frightened, Sima Lang stepped forward to stop him, but was pushed aside by the soldiers.Sima Fang, who hadn't reacted yet, was dragged away by the wolf-like soldiers before he could even struggle...

Immediately, the surrounding soldiers raised their spears and collected their crossbows. Under the leadership of Wu Qiong, they neatly gathered up and marched towards the city.

A group of people suddenly appeared, except Wu Qiong who said a few words, then acted swiftly and with precise aim, and left quickly after capturing Sima Fang, revealing strangeness everywhere.

It doesn't look like a big man who strictly enforces the law, but like... a bandit who went down the mountain to snatch a bride.

So much so that Sima Fang seemed to have seen this too, and apart from the deep horror on his face, there was also a touch of incomprehensible astonishment.Sima Lang, Sima Yi and others froze in place, like weathered stone figurines.

"Husband!..." Guo Shi, who was holding Sima Kui, who was only three years old, watched her husband being dragged away, and she pulled Sima Lang's sleeve in a state of desperation: "Lang'er, think of a way to save your father... Your father has some old friends in court, you go and beg them, hurry up!"

"Mother, don't panic, don't mess up your position." Sima Lang got up from the ground, frowning: "It is a felony for me to escape late at night, not to mention that no one dares to intercede for my father. If the matter has not been exposed, we will Hastily telling others, is it not a trivial matter that makes a big deal, forcing the court to impose a strict punishment?"

"Also, what happened tonight..." Looking at the lights of the departing troops, he pondered for a long time before slowly commenting: "It's very strange."

"It's not just weird, it's just weird."

Sima Yi, who had calmed down, also sat on the bullock cart and mused: "First, I will leave Beijing secretly tonight, no one will know, but Wu Qiong has long been prepared and waits for the rabbit."

"Secondly, it is a felony to open the city gate without permission. In the past, when Emperor Guangwu returned late from hunting, he did not make the city gate open. According to the "Han Law", Wu Qiong has the right to behead us first, but this time only his father was arrested. , leave me where I am.”

"The third, and the most important point." He looked at Sima Lang and said with a strange expression, "Brother, did you see it too?"

"When he gave the order to arrest father, he didn't know whether it was intentional or not, he said that the matter should be handled by the Taiwei..."

Sima Lang nodded, his expression becoming more serious: "That is to say, the reason why he appeared here tonight is likely to be the order of the Taiwei."

"Taiwei?" Guo Shi was still worried, but seeing her eldest son and second son in danger, she felt a little more at ease: "Is that the frontier warrior, Dong Zhuo?"

"He, how did he know that we are going back to Hanoi tonight?"

"My son doesn't know..." Sima Lang shook his head in doubt, and said, "But my son knows that the matter has come to this point, only the Taiwei can save father's life."

"Then hurry up and ask Dong... Taiwei!"

"Mother..." Sima Lang said with a slumped face, "The Taiwei is one of the three princes, with a high position and authority. Now the child is only the son of a criminal minister, how can he see it?"

"Then, what should I do..."

At this time, Sima Lang looked at Sima Yi coldly, and said, "Second brother, since you know about the Taiwei's robbery and digging of the tomb, you must also know something else, right?"

Without waiting for Sima Yi to hesitate, he added: "Don't deny it, I know that whenever you encounter something you are interested in, you will try to find out."

The helpless Sima Yi could only spread his hands, and said, "Okay, I'll tell you who to go to tomorrow. But..." At this point, he looked tough again: "This matter is about my father's life, and my eldest brother must agree to go with me. !"

Seeing his younger brother's determined eyes like wolves stalking him, Sima Lang did not hesitate, nodded heavily and said: "Okay!"

Chapter 37 What does abnormality mean?

Early the next morning.

"Father..." In the Cai Mansion, Cai Yan was eating breakfast with a heavy heart, and suddenly raised his head and asked, "What does the word 'abnormal' mean?"

"Cough cough..." Cai Yong coughed out the millet and frowned slightly: "Change, pervert?... This, is this another new word from Taiwei's mouth?"

"Yeah." Cai Yan nodded, recalling the conversation yesterday afternoon, his expression became even weirder: "At that time, uncle was discussing with Lang Zhongling and Changshi Jia Xu... er, discussing some harmful schemes."

"My daughter has never learned that, and she can't talk at all."

"Then, the uncle noticed his daughter and said, 'Zhaoji, do you often feel that you are not perverted enough to fit in with us?'"

"After finishing speaking, he couldn't help laughing, it seemed very interesting."

Reminiscing so far, Cai Yan looked at Cai Yong again, and said depressedly: "But my daughter doesn't even know what the word 'abnormal' means, let alone why uncle laughs."

"Pervert..." Cai Yong also had a headache, and couldn't figure out why there were so many weird words in Lao Dong's mouth.

Twirling his beard a few times, he pondered: "There is a saying in "Xunzi·The Way of the King", 'If you are poor, you should not make appointments, if you are rich, you should not be arrogant, and if you meet a pervert, you should not be poor.

"The 'abnormal' in Taiwei's mouth should come from here, right?"

"Poverty but not humble, rich and noble but not arrogant, and at the same time able to cope with all kinds of changes, is it because of understanding etiquette?"

Cai Yan shook his head when he heard the words, and said: "It shouldn't be like this, my daughter thought of this at the time. But the word 'abnormal' here means a change of fate, which is obviously a thousand miles away from the meaning of uncle."

"Hmm..." Cai Yong felt even more headache.

I lost the old father's label of "just and upright" in front of my daughter yesterday, and now probably only the label of "erudition" is left, I don't want to lose it again.

But my mind was spinning, I was exhausted, and I couldn't figure out what the word "abnormal" meant, and I couldn't help but hate my teeth: a frontier fighter, an uneducated guy, what's the point of inventing new words for nothing!

I guess it was because I didn't know how to praise Zhaoji at that time, so...wait.

Cai Yong was taken aback for a moment, raised his head in astonishment and asked, "Zhaoji, what did you say just now that the Taiwei was discussing with Lang Zhongling Li Ru and Chang Shi Jia Xu?... A scheme to harm people?"

"Hmm..." Cai Yan nodded as usual, and seeing the panic in Cai Yong's eyes, he smiled and said, "Father, don't worry, they got the news from somewhere that Luoyang Commander Sima Fang would run away with his family last night. For this matter, I want to subdue this family."

"What's interesting is that the Taiwei also said that the cost of trust is a matter of trust. It is natural to be familiar with it for a long time, but it is not impossible to use some tricks occasionally."

"If you have the conditions, you have to do it, if you don't have the conditions, you have to do it if you create the conditions."

"Then, I looked at Chang Shi Jia Xu and smiled, and asked for my opinion. For some reason, Jia Wenhe's face darkened, as if depressed and resentful..."

After finishing speaking, he couldn't help laughing again, and said: "What's more interesting is that Chang Shi Jiaxu then changed the topic, saying that the Sima family will come to our house with a high probability today, and ask father to plead with the Taiwei..."

"Father, don't you say it's ridiculous? The Luoyang magistrate ranks thousands of stones. He is the parent official of the most benevolent place of the emperor. His status is much higher than that of other county magistrates. How could the Sima family escape for no reason? They are still doing the math... "

As soon as the words were finished, the servant boy outside the door came to report: "Miss Zhonglang, the eldest son Sima Lang and the second son Sima Yi of Luoyang Commander Sima Fang came to pay a visit."

Cai Yan's smiling face froze like Chunyang's.

Looking at the servant boy in disbelief, he said in a daze, "Are you sure it's Sima Jiangong's son who came here, not me?"

"Miss, it's Master Sima's son, not me."

When Cai Yan heard this, her tender body couldn't help but tremble: She has seen Sima Fang before, he is upright and upright, and he does things rigorously and thoughtfully.If such a person wants to flee with his family, he must be cautious and try his best to be safe.

But yesterday afternoon, Dong Zhuo already knew about it!

Just when she was shocked, one person seemed to be more shocked than she, and asked in a low voice: "Zhao, Zhaoji... When the Taiwei discussed yesterday, did he ever say how to be a father?"

"Uh..." Before Cai Yan could reply, the servant boy said again, "Master Zhonglang, the two young masters are here to see you, Miss."

"Isn't it father?" Cai Yan was taken aback for another moment, things were completely beyond her expectations.

After thinking carefully for a while, his bright eyes turned, and he said in admiration: "No wonder uncle wants to subdue and recruit this family. It seems that there are also senior people in Sima's family who know that my relationship with uncle is closer..."

Thinking of this, he didn't care about eating, and waved his hands: "Bring the two young masters into the front hall... Forget it, let the groom prepare the car, and go to the Taiwei's Mansion."

"Zhao, Zhaoji..." Seeing his daughter's resolute demeanor, Cai Yong couldn't help but panicked: "Do I need to go with you as my father?"

"You're an unmarried woman, and you run to the Taiwei's mansion all day long, and this time you're traveling with two unmarried sons of the Sima family...you have to take care of your reputation."

Cai Yan stopped this time, but still didn't look back, angrily said: "Father is worrying too much, I'd better wait for the emperor's order at home, thinking about how to teach the world's scholars after becoming Taichang!"

"Taichang, teach the world's scholars?"

Cai Yong was stunned again, and murmured joyfully: "Old man is going to be promoted again, is he still the head of the Nine Ministers?... This is better than the vacant position of General Zuo Zhonglang, and he can finally apply what he has learned, and he will no longer be a vegetarian."

Then he thought that he didn't know about it, but his daughter knew about it, and that her daughter always went to Dong Zhuo's place recently... Does this count as selling a girl for glory?

In the future, how will the court sergeants see themselves?

But my daughter is so outstanding, and I can't control it, and I can't afford to offend her... With all my intestines entangled, I turned my eyes to the second daughter Cai Wan who was eating voraciously, and said bitterly: "Wan'er, you must never ask her to marry her." Your sister is the same. After eating, father will teach you how to read, okay?"

"Okay!" Cai Wan, who didn't listen to what Cai Yong said, still ate deliciously, nodded vaguely.

Cai Yong hurried to the study and took out a stack of letters.

On the cloth cover that wrapped the bamboo slips, two words were clearly written in official script: Women's training!

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Taiwei Mansion, front hall.

"Nephew, this matter of yours makes it very difficult for this old man..." Dong Zhuo looked at Sima Lang and Sima Yi who were worshiping on the ground with a look of astonishment and embarrassment, and said, "It's true, why did the court treat Duke Jiang badly? , Why is he obsessed with ghosts, and he didn't resign from his post and fled with his family."

"Not to mention breaking the curfew, but bribing the head of the city gate to open the city gate without authorization, this is a felony!"

Watching Lao Dong's pretentious and flamboyant performance, Cai Yan's hands clenched in his sleeves became tighter and tighter, sometimes into fists, sometimes into claws, and wanted to slap this shameless old fat man to death: Why is the Sima family so late at night? Absconding with your family, don't you have any idea?

Now you are in control of the government, and you wantonly expropriate public vehicles from various places... No, you are coercing and luring famous people to enter the court, and you will put gold on your face.

If Sima Fang went up to resign at this time, wouldn't it be a slap in the face for you, why don't you send Xiliang cavalry to raid their house?

Besides absconding late at night, what else can people do?

"Taiwei..." Sima Lang hastily bowed again, and was about to speak, but found that the corner of the robe was grabbed by Sima Yi, and whispered: "Uncle!"

Sima Lang was stunned and looked at his younger brother in astonishment.

"The Taiwei has no friendship with my father, but he came up and called us two 'nephews', so brother still doesn't understand?" Sima Yi quickly explained in a low voice.

Sima Lang was taken aback for a moment, and then boldly said: "Uncle, uncle..."

"Hey, good nephew." Unexpectedly, Old Dong responded happily, his embarrassment was obviously less, and he looked at the two of them kindly.

Sima Lang was even more frightened, trembling all over.

When he looked up just now, he saw that Old Dong's eyes were blazing and greedy, he saw two little fat sheep like a hungry wolf, and he saw two young girls like an old hooligan who had been single for many years...

Seeing this, Cai Yan's face turned black with anger, and a nameless anger ignited in her heart: for some reason, she hates Dong Zhuo's eyes very much.

A young girl in full bloom and in full bloom was right in front of him, and he had never looked at himself with such eyes!

Chapter 38 Showdown, I will not pretend

"Uncle, uncle... My father left Luoyang late at night, which is indeed against the law. However, my father has always been devoted to his duties, working hard on government affairs, and dare not slack off for a moment."

After Sima Fang was taken away last night, the two brothers of Sima's family decided on a rescue strategy: After seeing Old Dong, they must never tell lies.

Wu Qiong was able to sit on the sidelines and wait for him, which shows that Lao Dong already knew everything there.If you still quibble with strong words, it will definitely make Lao Dong unhappy.

At the same time, judging from Wu Qiong's actions of only arresting his father but not taking them away, there is a high probability that they are asked to ask for an interview, and then...wait for what the Taiwei has to say.

And hearing what Sima Lang said, Old Dong couldn't help but nodded: Sure enough, Sima Fang will raise his son, the two boys should have guessed everything.

The current situation is that I know the situation of your Sima family, and you have guessed what I mean... Then, let's fight for acting skills.

"Jianggong is upright and diligent, I know that."

Old Dong nodded slightly, paused, and then continued: "It is also because of this that the imperial court appointed him as the Luoyang order, and he did not treat him badly at all, but in the end he caused such a incident... The law is ruthless, you say, What can the old man do?"

After speaking, he sighed again, and his expression became embarrassed again.

"Uncle now fights for the emperor's prestige, and he wants to be in charge of the army. He is as good as a dragon and a tiger. But there is an order, and the Cao family in each government will not dare to refuse. I implore my uncle to remember my father's hard work and save my father..."

"Presumptuous!" Old Dong was furious immediately, and said a few times at once: "You mean to say that the old man is a powerful minister of the court, and he controls the government, and he can't act recklessly!"

"I don't dare to dare, I don't mean that!" Sima Lang bowed down again and again, apologizing hastily.

"The law is ruthless, you have to admit your mistakes, this old man knows this truth. You have read the scriptures and understand the etiquette and principles. You should serve the court, cultivate your morality, govern your family, govern the country and the world."

"However, you still don't know how to repent after committing such a serious crime, and you want me to disturb the government and interfere with the judiciary. You are simply a gentle scum!" After saying this, Old Dong got up and wanted to leave.

But at the same time, he used his sleeve robe to slap Cai Yan indiscriminately, and blinked his eyes.

Cai Yan was stunned for a moment: What do you mean, make yourself a bad-faced courtier?

I am from a scholarly family, generous and noble...

I really don't want to deal with him.

But this is a serious matter after all, if I am arrogant and willful and don't smooth things over, I'm afraid the show will really be ruined.And no matter what, it was Dong Zhuo who gave him a chance.

An opportunity for the Sima family to be grateful to the Cai family.

Reluctantly, Cai Yan groaned bitterly in her heart, and then said, "Uncle, don't get angry. Brother, who cares about his father's life, is in a moment of impatience, so there are omissions in his words. Uncle is open to all people, and has always valued the virtuous and the talented, so don't scare the two of them."