Fall in love with the technology tree [Three Kingdoms]

Zhuge Xuan is the guardian of the orphan Zhuge Liang, or in the words of A Liang's classmates, uncle.But he wasn't even a real uncle, but a cousin.But in the Zhuge family with branches and leaves scattered, such cousins ​​can't be counted on the palms of their hands.

In 187 AD, Dong Zhuo was still alive and kicking and hijacking the little emperor; Yuan Shao failed to support Liu Yu forcibly;

In such a turbulent year, it was an unremarkable thing for a small Taishan county magistrate to die of an epidemic.But for the Zhuge Liang brothers who have lost their mother, it is no less than the sky falling and the earth falling.

Just when Zhuge Jin, who was fifteen years old, decided to take on the burden of the family and support the four younger siblings who were waiting to be fed, something miraculous happened.Uncle Xuan, who was originally an official at Liu Biao's place in Jingzhou, abandoned his promising future and his old boss, and traveled all the way back to Yangdu just to take care of their fatherless and motherless children.

This uncle, not only his name is Xuan, but also his deeds are very mysterious.

But now, this mysterious uncle is under house arrest in a dungeon in Kaiyang City.Langya used to be a feudal country, and in the palace built by King Langya of the Liu family, there was a huge underground prison cell, which has now been re-raised and put into use.

To be honest, when Zhuge Xuan was forced into the dungeon by the blade of the black-armored warrior, he was really taken aback.After all, as a native of Langya, he didn't even know that Kaiyang City actually had such a place that appeared in mysterious stories.

Cao's spies are so powerful.

We in Xuzhou may have leaked like a sieve long ago.

In this way, Zhuge Xuan lived here.In all fairness, the treatment was better than he had imagined, the food was not bad, the bedding was not smelly, he could go to the ground to empty the toilet twice a day, and he could even write letters to his family asking for clothes.The only thing is that the lighting is not good, there is only a pitiful little skylight cast from a high place; moreover, after the snow and rain, the cell is inevitably humid, and no amount of charcoal basins can be used to dry it.

Living next door to Zhugexuan was Mi Zhu, head of the Mi clan.That's right, it's Liu Bei's good friend, the one Tao Qian saved with his life.At the beginning, Cao Cao asked Tao Qian to exchange Mi Zhu's head for peace. Now that Tao Qian is dead, Mi Zhu is still alive, which is a bit ironic.

"I'm locked up with the repeat offender Mi Zhu." This realization made Zhuge Xuan a little panicked for a while, but then, he noticed that the next door to him was the famous scholar Zhang Zhao.This is the master who dismisses Tao Qian's official seal.Looking at the past again, it seems that people from all the big clans have come in.

As a result, the nature of this prison became blurred again.

"I was going to die." After crying "Master" for a few days, Mi Zhu said to the inmates, "The clean is clear, I have never seen Liu Bei. They tore up my house, servants, The buddies and shopkeepers interrogated them one by one, but there was nothing. In the end, the family paid half of the land deed to redeem me, and I was moved here."

What happened to Mi Zhu has no reference value, because Liu Bei was implicated, and he is the only one in Xuzhou.

Others were imprisoned for hiding their household registration and land, for tax evasion, or for family members who refused to obey the call, and so on.In the words of a baby-faced prison officer, they are either "economic prisoners" or "political prisoners", so they must be well-fed and well-fed, and they cannot be punished.

The bigwigs who are about to be forced out of rheumatism by the wet straw: ...Fuck you.

At the beginning, everyone gathered together to scold Cao Cao every day, but the baby-faced person in charge of the prison was completely unmoved, and even happily took a pen to record.Zhuge Xuan was curious and borrowed it to have a look.Good guy, I'm learning Xuzhou dialect.

Zhuge Xuan was speechless for a while: "My lord was insulted, didn't you express it?"

Babyface: "Verbal anger is useless. It is only useful if I lock you up."

There was a moment of silence in the prison, and then someone said, "A person like you shouldn't just be a jailer."

The baby face just smiled, showing a mouthful of white teeth: "My surname is Ji, and my name is Ji He. Maybe you will hear it in the future, forget it, you won't hear my name after you go out."

Unlike usual jailers, Ji He likes to joke.He never appeared to be very knowledgeable, but he could understand no matter how out-of-the-ordinary allusions the "political prisoners" used.

Every year and festival, Ji He would come in with a big food box to share food, or a strip of meat, or a sugar cake, or a pot of glutinous rice balls.

Indeed, as Ji He said, verbal violence is useless here, and even physical violence is useless. The reason why jail is jail is that the most essential punishment is the loss of freedom.

Gradually, some people compromised, or handed over part of the land, or let the children of the family go to school to study.Then they left one by one.

Whenever there was an order to release him, Ji He would open the prison door at a relaxed pace.The jailers brought hot water and towels for the released to wash their bodies, and then a new set of clean and dry clothes.After the prisoner got dressed, Ji He would solemnly bow to him and say, "I wish you a long and healthy life, and I hope you and I will never see each other again in this life."

He's earnestly showing kindness, as a funny soul buried in the dark.

As time went by, Ji He became more and more respected, and more and more people were released.In the end, even Mi Zhu left.In the entire dungeon, there were only two inmates Zhuge Xuan and Zhang Zhao left.

"Ji Prison Chief, you must be the famous spy department." One day when delivering breakfast, Zhang Zhao asked suddenly.

Ji He's hand taking the steamed buns didn't stop for a moment. "Guess." He said with a smile.

"What virtue can we two have?" Zhuge Xuan exclaimed, "How dare a hero like the head of the labor season come to do the work of distributing food and clothing."

"Ah, I thought you guys knew about it." Ji He pushed the dinner plate containing thick noodle steamed buns and soy milk into Zhuge Xuan's cell from the delivery port. "Both of them were stopped on the way to flee south with their families."

Zhang Zhao didn't move the food in front of him. "Zhao never colluded with the enemy. He just felt that Xuzhou was in turmoil and wanted to survive in the south. It's the same for brother Zhuge."

This is a very pitiful thing to say, but if you say that the children of the two aristocratic families have no relatives or friends in the south, the children on the street will not believe it.

Ji He hugged his chest and leaned on a thick pillar: "I follow orders and do things. It is my mission to let the two of you eat and sleep well, and fall in love with our spacious Langya Underground Palace."

He put on an expression of "I'm just talking nonsense with my eyes open", and he deserved a beating.

Zhang Zhao and Zhuge Xuan: ...

A few days later, it rained again. This time, the spring rain was particularly long. Coupled with the rise in temperature, the whole dungeon smelled of actinomycetes.Zhang Zhao finally couldn't help but dropped the bowl: "Is General Ji planning to spend the rest of our lives with the two of us?"

Ji He pinched his nose and said, "I have no other choice. You said that I am a good young man. If it weren't for my bad brother, why would I come to this dark dungeon to be a servant cleaning debris?" ? God~ you have no eyes~ sent Zhang Zhao~ throw me a bowl~"

"Brother shit! You said you were an orphan the day before yesterday!" Civilized man Zhang Zhao cursed.

Ji·Xi Jing·he ignored Mr. Zhang, who was running away, and still sang a sad song with a pillar in his arms. The Xuzhou dialect sang one after another, like a demon.

At this moment, a girl in a blue spy uniform came in and gave Ji He a wax pill.Master Ji stopped the performance within a second, he sat down in front of the table, and then the oil lamp melted the wax pill, and took out the note inside.

As he read, Ji He's expression became more serious.This made both Zhang Zhao and Zhuge Xuan nervous.

On weekdays, they laughed and cursed, because they knew that Ji He couldn't hurt them; but now?After all, he is the legendary all-knowing and all-killing spy department, not a really silly and optimistic young man.

Ji He stood up, and his hard-soled boots stepped on the metal spikes on the ground, making a heart-shattering thud.Once, twice, the footsteps finally stopped at the door of Zhuge Xuan's cell.

"Just received the news. Your nephew, Zhuge Liang, has asked to worship Cao Zi as his teacher."

Lightning streaked across the sky, and even the dark dungeon was illuminated by it for a moment.Zhuge Xuan's face was extremely pale at the moment when the lightning flashed.

"Boom." Thunder sounded outside, separated by thick wall bricks and soil, it seemed far away and untouchable.It was raining heavily again, and there was a rattling sound on the ceiling.

"Brother Zhuge." Zhang Zhao eagerly grabbed the railing, trying to poke his head out to see the scene of Zhuge Xuan's cell.

"Cao Zi said that she must ask the elders about their attitude before she can accept the child."

"I..." Zhuge Xuan spoke with difficulty, his voice too dry to say the second word.

"Except for the late Emperor who unfortunately passed away, Cao Zi has not yet accepted disciples. I think you know what this means."

It means stepping into the center of the Cao Wei political group, which means that the rise of the Zhuge family, which he has painstakingly planned but failed to achieve, will be at your fingertips, and it also means that all half-hearted attempts will be strictly prohibited. Must be terminated early.

The contacts he has painstakingly built with Liu Biao will not be available.Everything he invested in Brother Zhuge will come to naught.

The direction of the family and the future of the individual are all in one thought.

reject?Can you refuse?

"My nephew, Zhuge Jin, went to Jiangdong to join Liu Xun two years ago." He said slowly, "I will write to ask him to come back."

When he said that, Ji He knew he understood.

"Brother Zhuge." Zhang Zhao sighed, not knowing what he was lamenting.

Ji He stood upright, and bowed to Zhuge Xuan, whose hair was disheveled and smelled heavily of sweat. "You are the kind of big family worthy of admiration." Willing to sacrifice himself for the future of the family.It is precisely because of people like Zhuge Xuan that the rise of aristocratic families, big and small, and the so-called "dragons", "tigers" and "dogs" [1] bloom their brilliance in history.

The author has something to say: Note [1]: The dragon of the Zhuge family is Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu; the tiger is Zhuge Jin, a minister of Wu; the dog is Zhuge Dan, who serves Wei.