Chapter 254: Losing My Sister and Breaking the Soldier
Chapter 254 Losing my sister and losing my troops
Lu Meng lifted her red hijab, her face changed slightly, and asked urgently: "Where is my husband? Do you know this?"
"Shang is entertaining guests in the lobby. I already know about this." Lu Ming replied truthfully.
Lu Meng breathed a sigh of relief, sat down slowly, waved his hand and said: "Brother, don't panic, I have my own ideas."
Lu Ming responded and resigned.
After a while, Ma Su, who was dressed in a bright red wedding dress, opened the door and walked in. He saw Lu Meng, covered with a red hijab, with her hands folded and placed on her lower abdomen, sitting upright at the end of the bed.
Ma Di slowly walked to the bed, opened his hijab, stared at Lu Meng, and said solemnly: "Madam, I have something to tell you, please don't be angry after hearing this."
"The city has fallen."
Lu Meng stared at Ma Su silently, her big almond eyes full of resentment.
In fact, she already knew about the sudden fall of Fucheng.
After a moment of silence, he said: "Since you and I are husband and wife, why don't you tell me the truth?"
Ma Su made a "plop" and knelt in front of Lu Meng's legs. He followed Liu Bei's routine and explained in detail how he defeated all the soldiers with his tricks.
Finally, he squeezed out two more tears and cried to her: "Madam, I just want to control Yulin and find a place to stay. I hope Madam will help me accomplish this."
"..."
Lu Meng was speechless after hearing this, thinking to herself: I have married Ma Wu, so she is his wife, how can I not be of the same mind as him? However, since the city is controlled by bandits, then Ma Wu... doesn't think so.
Husband’s real name.
Thinking of this, her bright almond-shaped eyes widened, staring straight at Ma Su, complaining: "Since we are husband and wife, why do you use false names to deceive each other?"
Ma Su looked at Lu Meng calmly and said calmly: "I dare not hide this from you, madam. My surname is Shi Xie, and I am Shi Xie's concubine."
Shi San? Shi Xie, a concubine?
Lu Meng locked eyes with Ma Su tightly and frowned slightly.
If Shi Xie was still alive now, he would be at least ninety-five years old, and the husband in front of him looked to be in his thirties, very energetic and powerful.
In other words, Shi Xie only had Shi San (Ma Su) when he was in his sixties?
Lu Meng felt that this seemed a bit unreasonable.
But I can't find anything wrong with it.
Maybe, some people are so talented that they can still do it in their sixties.
Lu Meng suddenly thought of another question, Miao Mu said with anger: "Did my second brother die in your hands?"
"No!" Ma Su quickly raised his hand to deny: "The fire was raging and the crisis was extremely serious. I advised your second brother to surrender, but your second brother didn't want to, so he killed himself on the spot. I couldn't save him..."
Lu Yin committed suicide. This information is correct, but it is not really "actively seeking death" as Ma Su said. Lu Meng feels that she needs to verify it again.
There is no other reason. Any child from a big family who comes to serve as an official will never die for a certain emperor.
In their hearts, family comes first.
Lu Meng reached out to help Ma Su and said seriously: "Although I believe what your husband said, I still want to ask the four hundred captured soldiers what the situation was like at that time."
"It should, it should." Ma Di secretly breathed a sigh of relief and shouted outside: "Come here, bring some prisoners up."
After a while, a dozen captured Wu soldiers were brought in, and they all knelt on the ground.
Lu Ming stepped forward and checked them one by one. They were indeed the county soldiers who had been captured before, so he nodded to Lu Meng.
Lu Meng looked around at everyone and asked in a cold voice: "Let me ask you, how did you escape when the fire broke out, and how did my second brother Lu Yin kill himself? But if you lie, I will never be lenient!"
More than a dozen soldiers kowtowed and told the "truth at that time".
To summarize it in one sentence: Seeing that he was about to be burned to death, Lu Yin wanted to die, and they could not stop him. Just when they thought they would be burned to death together, the thief Kou Shisan (Ma Su) rescued them.
Seeing the certainty of what everyone said, Lu Meng turned to Ma Di and asked: "Husband, why are there only these dozen people? Where are the other soldiers?"
Ma Su shook his head and sighed: "Madam, you don't know something. Although we saved 400 people at that time, most of them were burned. They have died one after another in the past few days, and only these dozen people are left."
As he said this, Ma Di motioned to these people to take off their shirts and show the burn scars on their bodies.
Its appearance is ferocious and terrifying, making people's hearts tremble at the sight of it.
Lu Meng turned her head away, unable to bear to look any further.
Ma Su waved his hand to take the dozen soldiers down and looked at Lu Ming.
Lu Ming resigned and closed the door behind him.
"Madam, my condolences, I don't want my second brother to die either..." Ma Di stretched out his arms to hug Lu Meng from behind and comforted him with kind words.
Lu Meng closed her eyes, tears streaming down her face, feeling inexplicably sad.
When Sun Ce dominated Jiangdong, he forced her great-grandfather Lu Kang to death. Now that her husband wanted to dominate Jiaozhou, he forced her second brother to death.
This made her unable to let go for a while.
Fortunately, according to the current evidence, the second brother committed suicide on his own initiative and was not killed by her husband, which made Lu Meng feel a little better.
On the battlefield, people will die after all.
However, Lu Meng couldn't accept that her beloved husband had become a "Third Scholar".
She always thought that her husband was from the Central Plains, but he turned out to be a native of Jiaozhou.
The identity change was so sudden that she was at a loss as to what to do.
Lu Meng sat on the bed in a daze, lost in thought.
Ma Su quietly wiped the sweat from his forehead and exited the inner room.
Zhang Xiu, who was waiting outside, immediately came up to him, cut it downwards with a knife, and said in a low voice: "General, I have given those dozen soldiers to... well! There is no chance of leaking this matter."
"very good."
Ma Su nodded and came to the backyard.
The Wu soldiers who woke up were ordered to stand by where they were.
They are said to be Wu soldiers, but in fact they are the private armed forces of the Lu family and have nothing to do with Sun Quan.
When they heard that they were just waiting for orders, the soldiers were relieved, put down their weapons one after another, and sat down on the spot, feeling calm.
Ma Di slowly walked through the crowd of Wu soldiers and came to a private room in the backyard. He was careful throughout the process and did not dare to be careless. He knew that he was still far from being able to control the overall situation. This state was very dangerous at the moment, especially when he was
Being in the center of two thousand soldiers, they could be attacked by a group at any time.
Therefore, Ma Di sent a group of soldiers to guard the two exits of the backyard as a precaution.
…
When a ray of sunset light shone in from the window of the wing, Lu Kai woke up with a start. He turned around and saw Ma Su sitting leisurely beside the desk, picking up a pot of tea and filling the cup.
Savor it carefully.
There was also a dark-skinned man standing next to him. Although this man looked unattractive, his eyes were full of killing and decisiveness, and a broad-bladed saber hung from his waist.
Lu Kai stood up in a hurry and said in shock: "Brother-in-law, it's not good! The wine... that wine is poisonous!"
"Brother, don't panic, everything is fine." Ma Di looked at Lu Kai with a smile.
He has already taken down Lu Meng. Now, as long as he takes out Lu Kai, he can completely control Yulin County and Jiaoxi County without any bloodshed.
Frankly speaking, the current situation deviates greatly from Ma Su's original plan.
At the beginning, his plan was to kill all the Wu soldiers, that is, the Lu family's troops in Guiping City, first seize Yulin by force, and then seize Jiaoxiao, Jiuzhen, and Rinan by force, so that these four
The county and Shu land are connected together.
But when he discovered that Lu Meng was beautiful, charming, and deeply in love with him, Ma Su immediately adjusted his plan and decided to win over this Lu family, make them bigger and stronger together, and assassinate Sun Quan in the back.
For a family like the Lu family, family interests must come first and they will definitely not be loyal to Sun Quan.
However, once the plan changed, the previous attempt to force Lu Meng's second brother Lu Yin to death became a huge failure.
So, Ma Di ordered Zhang Xiu to secretly execute most of the 400 captured soldiers, and brainwashed the remaining dozen or so terrified soldiers, which led to the previous scene of Lu Meng's questioning.
Now, those dozen soldiers have also been silenced.
This matter has been concluded, and there is no evidence to prove it.
He came to persuade Lu Kai with confidence.
Seeing Ma Su being so calm, Lu Kai felt a little embarrassed and came to sit down beside the table, pointed at Zhang Xiu and asked, "Who is this?"
"Shixiu." Ma Su spoke briefly, then pointed out the window and said to Lu Kai.
"Brother, look."
Lu Kai quickly looked outside.
As the current talker of the Lu family, Lu Kai's IQ is definitely sufficient. When he saw the backyard lined up with his own soldiers, he immediately realized something was wrong and said angrily:
"Ma Wu, what do you want?"
"Brother, please correct me. My name is not Ma Wu, my name is Shi San." Ma Di said casually.
Lu Kai was suddenly confused.
It took a while to react.
Only then did he realize that his brother-in-law was actually Kou Shisan, the thief who caused trouble in Yulin County. He had quietly lurked into Guiping City, captured his sister Lu Meng, and took control of the situation.
At this time, three imposing generals pushed open the door of the backyard wing and walked in.
One of them, whom Lu Kai knew, was Ma Liu (Yang Wanwan), and there were two others whom he had never met before.
"Then he won't be called Ma Liu anymore?" Lu Kai asked, pointing to Yang Wanwan.
"His name is Yang Baiwan, and he is my general." Ma Su replied truthfully.
"These two, one is called Shi Xi and the other is Shi Sheng, they are also my generals."
When Lu Kai heard this, his eyes widened with anger. Although Shi San (Ma Su) was already in a relationship with his sister, he was Wu Chen after all. How could he collude with the thieves?
He took a step back, held the sword on the bedside in his hand, and shouted: "You are a good scholar, you have tricked me, Lu Kai, into playing tricks. Today, either you die or I die."
"Come on, come on!"
Ma Di folded his arms and watched coldly for a while, then said: "Brother, stop shouting, no one will come."
"Impossible, absolutely impossible! There is no way that our Lu family soldiers can listen to your orders!" Lu Kai was furious in disbelief.
"You must have used magic!"
"Tell me, how on earth did you control my Lu family's soldiers?!"
Ma Su chuckled and said, "What else could it be? Of course it was my beautiful and lovely wife who gave me the order."
After Lu Kai heard this, he drew out his sword and wanted to fight Ma Di.
Ma Su casually drew his sword, knocked his long sword down, and shouted: "Brother, calm down!"
Lu Kai shouted with shame and anger: "Brother? I'm not your eldest brother, and I don't have a brother-in-law like you!"
But Ma Su said calmly: "Brother, you'd better calm down. Now we are grasshoppers on the same rope. We live together and die together."
Lu Kai glared at Ma Su and the other two fiercely: "Who is on the same rope with you? I am Wu Chen!"
Ma Di chuckled and said with a smile: "Brother, you don't know yet. During the time when you were unconscious, I had already sent a letter of distress to Lu Dai, the governor of Jiaozhou, in your name, asking him to send three thousand troops to Guishui.
Let’s fight against the bandits together downstream—that’s me.”
Downstream of Guishui River?
Lu Kai was startled: "So what?"
Ma Su patiently explained: "You may not know that I have cut off the river upstream. Just waiting for Lu Dai's troops to arrive, the water will fall violently, and the three thousand men and horses will not survive for a moment."
Hearing this, Lu Kai sighed: "You, you are so insidious!"
Ma Su laughed: "Those who achieve great things don't stick to trivial matters."
"Brother, I have to ask you to stay here for the past two days. I will let you out after I eliminate Lu Dai."
"By the way, you'd better not try to leave this house. These men of mine are very grumpy."
"Also, my temper is not very good. When I am angry, I am not very friendly to my wife. Once I hear that brother, you are not staying here peacefully, it is difficult to guarantee what the consequences will be..."
After saying that, Ma Su turned around and walked out.
