After Yuan Tan returned to Yecheng, he has been quietly recuperating.
When he returned to Yuan Shao from the pottery merchant's village, in order not to arouse Yuan Shao's suspicion, Yuan Tan shed his body and allowed the pottery merchant to send people to tie him up and kill him. After a long trial, Yuan Tan just returned breathlessly.
Arriving at Yuan Shao's side.
The fact is that Yuan Tan was right to risk his life to sell meat. Yuan Shao did not suspect him. Although there was an episode where he and Yuan Shang were fighting each other, which made Yuan Shao very unhappy, but he
In the end, we returned to Yecheng without incident.
But this does not mean that Yuan Tan's nightmare is over.
On the contrary, this was the beginning of Yuan Tan's inner suffering.
At first, Yuan Tan surrendered to the pottery merchant in a daze because of Yuan Shang's betrayal.
But Yuan Shao is his biological father after all, and he has had a father-son relationship for more than thirty years. Now that he has returned to Yecheng and thinks about it calmly, Yuan Tan feels that this matter is not worth it.
Whether he should rebel against his own father or not, Yuan Tan, who had always been selfish, started to hesitate again when he was facing Qin Muchu.
"Eldest Young Master, it's time to drink the medicine." One of Yuan Tan's maids brought Yuan Tan's healing medicine.
Yuan Tan picked up the bowl, took a sip, then curled his lips and said, "Why is today's medicine so bitter?"
"Back to the eldest son, this is a new prescription prescribed by the medical officer for you. It is said to help your injury. This prescription is more effective than the one you took a few days ago. Please take the medicine, sir."
Yuan Tan was not suspicious after hearing this, and then pinched his nose and drank all the medicine in a gulp.
There was nothing wrong with this drink, but that night, Yuan Tan's health started to go bad.
He had diarrhea and vomiting, felt uncomfortable all over, and was extremely nauseous. He almost suffered all night long.
Yuan Tan was injured to begin with, but now after all this trouble, he could hardly get out of bed.
On the second day, Yuan Tan took medicine as usual, but ended up struggling all night again.
On the third day, it was still the same.
On the first day, Yuan Tan thought there was something wrong with his body or that he had eaten something bad. But after three consecutive days, Yuan Tan felt that something was wrong.
It was the new medicine that made him so weak.
Yuan Tan summoned his men and asked them to find the medical officer who prescribed the medicine for him.
After the medical officer arrived, Yuan Tan asked him about the matter. The medical officer fell to his knees and shouted that he was wronged.
For Yuan Tan, it is easy to decide whether he is wronged or not!
At that time, he asked a group of his men to beat the medical officer hard. They only beat him until his teeth were all over the floor, and he almost lost his life.
But no matter how cruelly Yuan Tan's men beat him, the medical officer gritted his teeth and refused to let go, saying that Yuan Tan had wronged him.
Seeing that the medical officer refused to let go, Yuan Tan thought the beating was not strong enough, so he ordered the guards to let go of their hands and feet and beat him to death.
If you don't understand if you beat him with fists and kicks, beat him with a stick.
At this time, a senior official came over to visit him.
When they saw Yuan Tan killing the medical officer, the senior officials were confused and immediately asked: "Xiansi, why is this happening? Who is this and how can he be punished like this?"
Yuan Tan then told the senior officials exactly what happened.
The senior official pondered for a moment and said: "Maybe this matter really has nothing to do with him. You can give me the prescription he prescribed. I will find someone to prove it. If it is correct, I need to find the person who took the medicine. Maybe I can find out the details.
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Yuan Tan suddenly realized it!
He immediately sent someone to give the prescription to the senior officials. The senior officials did not delay and sent people out to find someone to demonstrate the prescription.
Not long after, the person who went out for consultation with the prescription came back and told him that there was nothing wrong with the prescription.
Yuan Tan immediately sent someone to find the person who took the medicine for the medical officer, but the result was that this person had disappeared without a trace three days ago.
Yuan Tan and Gao Gan realized the strangeness, and sent people to ask the medical officer where he usually sent people to get medicine. Then they sent people to the medicine place, and found that the medicine shop had been closed and the owner of the medicine shop was missing.
Now, things are getting serious!
Yuan Tan and Gao Gan both understood that this matter had nothing to do with the medical officer, but that there was someone behind the scenes who wanted to kill Yuan Tan.
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"It must be Yuan Shang or Shen Pei who did it!" Yuan Tan looked weak, threw the medicine bowl on the ground, gritted his teeth and said: "Yuan Shang, the little thief, just tricked me once, and now he has just returned to Yecheng, and this ass hasn't even sat down yet.
The heat has come again? You are slow to poison me. Thanks to Yuan's timely reaction, if he succeeds, wouldn't Yuan's death be unjust?"
After listening to Yuan Tan's narration of the past events, and seeing what he saw with his own eyes, Gao Gan felt a chill in his heart.
He shook his head and sighed: "I didn't expect that Xianfu's temperament could be so vicious. My brother from the same father, he actually plotted against you to this extent. I am afraid that this medicine plan was planned by the judge after returning to Yecheng... At present, the great general Shang
Now, they dare to be so bold and bold. If the general is gone and Yuan Xianfu takes over, how can you survive?"
After Yuan Tan pondered for a long time, he clenched his fists and finally made up his mind.
"Yuancai, are you and I good brothers?"
"That's natural."
"Then I am begging you to save my life now. Will you save my life?"
Gao Gan laughed and said: "You saved my life in the Battle of Guandu. Without you Yuan Xiansi, I would have died a long time ago. Where would I be today? If you want me to save you, of course I will."
Having said this, Gao Gan paused and said: "The question is how should I save you?"
Yuan Tan gritted his teeth, looked at the senior officials intently, and said: "Kill Yuan Shang!"
After Gao Gan heard this, his body went limp and he almost collapsed on the ground.
"Yuancai, why are you doing this?"
The senior officer looked at him intently for a long time, then looked around, but it was Yuan Tan who had just asked his servants to get out, and he felt a little relieved.
"You're crazy! You can say this? Why are you asking me? I'm pretty good at this. If I hadn't been bold, I wouldn't have been scared to death by you!"
Yuan Tan said calmly: "What's the point? Yuan Shang still wants to kill me? What can I do if I go back to kill him?"
"If my uncle knows about this..."
"What if my father knows about it? Could he still kill me? Yuan Shang has harmed me many times, and my father didn't do anything to him either?"
"That's because you are not dead!" Gao Gan said anxiously: "But if Xianfu is really dead, how can the general spare you and me? After all, Xianfu is his most beloved son..."
"If Yuan Shang is not dead, if he succeeds to his father's position in the future, I will die. If I die, you who live with me in Bingzhou, do you think Yuan Shang will let you go with his ruthless nature?"
When Gao Gan heard this, he was immediately stunned.
Yuan Tan looked at him intently: "My father was injured on the front line. It seems that his time is running out. Yecheng is the world that Yuan Shanghe has chosen. Once it is decided that he will become his father's successor, those in Jizhou
The nobles or officials will all turn to Yuan Shang, and then you and I will be completely finished! It would be okay if we were in Bingzhou, but now you and I are in Yecheng. If you don't take advantage of this opportunity and use the Bingzhou soldiers and horses in your hands to capture
City, in the future we will all not have a happy ending, we will all die here!"
A senior official has always been cautious in doing things, but now that his life and future are at stake, he will naturally no longer adopt a conservative attitude.
Of course, he would not risk everything to help Yuan Tan without leaving any way out for himself.
Finally, the senior cadre thought of a good solution.
"Xiansi, I am the governor of Bingzhou appointed by my uncle. It is impossible for me to help you do such a thing... Besides, Xianfu is also my brother. It is absolutely impossible for you to ask me to help you kill him!"
When Yuan Tan heard this, he narrowed his eyes, and there was a murderous intention in his heart towards the senior officials.
But I heard the senior official continue: "You have also stayed in the Bingzhou military camp and are familiar with the Bingzhou military system... If you imprison me, take the tiger charm from me, and mobilize Bingzhou troops privately, there is nothing I can do...
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When Yuan Tan heard this, he suddenly understood and admired the senior officials in his heart.
Speaking of treachery, deceit and danger, and being good at protecting oneself...it seems that the Yuan family is not as powerful as Gao Gan.