The revival of the Han Dynasty must start with Dong Zhuo

Chapter 42 Lie Down with You

When Dong Zhuo heard Liu Xie read the words from the Book of Documents, and remembered that these were words spoken by Zhou Gong, his cruel and murderous intent seemed to show signs of subsiding.

"In any case, the most urgent thing is to visit Jia Lingjun first, ask him clearly, and then decide how to deal with the villagers."

Seeing that Dong Zhuo's breathing was stable, Liu Xie hurriedly took Dong Zhuo out of the palace and came to Jia Xu's mansion.

Jia Xu's home was simple. Even though he was now the Minister of the Chancellery, he still only had two doormen and two maids to take care of Jia's mother. The rest of the furnishings were just lamps and ancient scrolls.

When Jia Xu learned that Liu Xie and Dong Zhuo had come in, he had not expected their arrival at all. He was moved but also a little fearful.

"Wenhe lies down peacefully, there's no need to greet him."

Not only did Liu Xie speak in a gentle voice, but Dong Zhuo also became unusually soft-spoken.

Although Dong Zhuo often threatened to massacre the entire village, he was always kind to his own soldiers.

In Dong Zhuo's eyes, Jia Xu is now equivalent to a wounded soldier on the battlefield, so Dong Zhuo naturally treats him kindly.

Liu Xie did not even avoid suspicion. He sat down next to Jia Xu personally, lifted the quilt, and carefully examined Jia Xu's old and skinny body.

It was just as Lu Bu said, just some scratches.

The only shocking thing was a piece of skin that was worn off at the knee, but it has now formed a scar.

"Apart from being a little dry, it seems to be fine!"

Liu Xie patted Jia Xu's ribs, which were a little painful, and said, "Eat more oily food on weekdays, so that people won't say that I don't feed my subjects and starve you to the point of skin and bones."

Seeing that Liu Xie still had the air of laughing at him, Jia Xu glanced at Dong Zhuo who was sitting next to him out of the corner of his eye.

"It seems that the emperor has stabilized the Grand Master again this time."

In fact, Jia Xu did not expect Liu Xie and Dong Zhuo to come to his house, but the scene he expected should be that the two of them came to visit him with dozens of human heads as gifts, instead of having nothing in their hands, which would seem a bit impolite.

"Wenhe, tell me why you were pushed around by the unruly people."

Liu Xie removed his hand from Jia Xu's dry body in disdain and continued to tease him, "If a gentleman does not stand under a three-foot-high dangerous wall, then you should not even approach any wall."

"What? Could it be that I was careless today and didn't dodge, so I got bullied by the mountain country folk?"

Jia Xu coughed twice: "That's not the case."

"In fact, the village I visited today had already planted millet and beans... But today, I heard that the headman had replaced the grain seeds with corn and wheat."

Not to mention Liu Xie, even Dong Zhuo couldn't help but frown after hearing these words.

Planting corn and wheat in this season?
What's the difference between that and throwing grain seeds into the ground in vain?
Since they can serve as village heads, some are arrogant, some are overbearing, and some are talentless. But it is impossible for them to lack basic agricultural literacy.

Even Liu Xie and Dong Zhuo knew that they could not feed the people by growing corn and wheat now, let alone a village head?
"Wenhe, are you saying that there might be someone behind this?"

The person asking the questions was no longer Liu Xie, but Dong Zhuo.

Still a Dong Zhuo full of murderous intent!

Liu Xie had told him before that when the people made mistakes, it was the court's responsibility to educate them, and Dong Zhuo agreed with this point.

But if these people had someone give instructions, that would be a completely different matter!
"Master, don't be impulsive!"

Seeing that Dong Zhuo was probably thinking of "massacre the whole village" again, Liu Xie hurriedly tried to persuade Dong Zhuo to stop.

"The people are easily deceived by villains. The Grand Master must not vent his anger on the people!"

Although he was persuading Dong Zhuo, Liu Xie was also cursing the bastard in his heart!
Hiding behind the scenes and using rumors to coerce the people is basically a traditional skill of scholars.

So, scholars really are... Doing good things may not necessarily succeed, but doing bad things can definitely make people sick to death.

"Master, calm down!"

Dong Zhuo's notoriety was accumulated little by little. Instead of finding the culprit, he killed innocent people indiscriminately.

This isn't brutality, it's just a little stupid...

At this time, Jia Xu also wanted to offer some advice, but Liu Xie directly pushed Jia Xu down on the bed.

"But he is just a bewitched village head. There is no need for Wen He to fight with you!"

Liu Xie was sweating profusely.

Dong Zhuo was too rude and Jia Xu was too vicious.

If these two people are allowed to play, they will either die or be injured.

The two of them had a plan to wipe out the whole family when they had no other options, but they just kept making random moves without any restraint...

Just when Liu Xie was racking his brains over how to get the two to stop for a while, a voice suddenly came from outside the door: "Wenhe, is there a guest visiting?"

The voice was old but powerful. It was actually Jia Xu's mother.

Jia Xu didn't expect that Lady Jia would come in at this time. Fearing that she would anger Liu Xie and Dong Zhuo, he quickly pretended to ask her to leave.

"It doesn't matter."

Jia Xu:?
Liu Xie:?
The person who spoke was actually Dong Zhuo?

Even for Liu Xie, it was the first time he saw Dong Zhuo being so kind to someone other than himself.

Dong Zhuo even stood up and gave his more comfortable seat to the blind Lady Jia.

Grandmother Jia didn't know who the two people standing beside her son's bed were. She just heard Dong Zhuo's friendly accent and asked again, "Young man, are you also from Liangzhou?"

Liu Xie covered his face and couldn't bear to look at it.

Jia Xu even wanted to go up and throw his mother directly into some crack in the ground and hide her there.

I'm afraid that no one in the world would dare to call Dong Zhuo "young man" except Dong Zhuo's biological mother, Chi Yangjun.

"Exactly."

The conversation between the two has not yet ended.

"Where in Liangzhou are you from?"

"I am from Lintao, Longxi County."

When Jia's mother heard this, she was even happier: "When I was still young, I went to Lintao several times. I remember there was often a lame old man at the city gate who loved to sing. He leaned against a dead willow stump and shouted to sell wine."

Dong Zhuo seemed to remember something at this moment, with a look of nostalgia on his face.

"The lame old man's surname is Li, and it is said that he is a branch of the Li family, a big family in Longxi. It's just that when he was young, he accidentally fell off his horse during a battle at the border, and his right foot was crushed by the horse. That's why he fell to the point of selling wine!"

Grandmother Jia became excited: "Yes, yes, yes!"

"It seems that you are not young anymore, young man, but you still remember this person!"

"I just don't know if the old man is still alive. Although his wine doesn't taste good, you can't taste half of the flavor of that wine anywhere else except Lintao."

At this moment, Dong Zhuo suddenly felt the saliva in his mouth and tongue turn into the familiar smell of wine, which instantly flowed into his throat.

"Old Man Li has died a long time ago. The one selling wine now is his son who had one arm chopped off by the barbarians."

"But the taste of his wine is far inferior to that of his father's."

(End of this chapter)