Cai Yan pouted and walked quickly ahead, feeling happy and depressed at the same time. What was happy was that this younger brother seemed to know how to let her win, but what was sad was that none of his targets survived.

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While Ma Su was teaching Wei Zhongdao how to play chess in Cai Mansion, the situation in Luoyang City became even more turbulent.

Regarding Bao Xin's act of killing Dong Zhuo, Emperor Liu Zhui, civil and military officials, and even the traffickers and footmen in the capital all applauded. But for the Yuan family and even brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, the news could only be regarded as mixed.

Accompanied by Empress Dowager He, Liu Zhui, who had just recovered from his shock, praised Bao Xin and rewarded him with a thousand pieces of gold. Then he sent the latter to the Kingdom of Jibei to become prime minister.

Among the remaining "meritorious ministers", Taifu Yuan Wei and Taipu Yuan Ji each received rewards; Yuan Shao, the Sili Xiaowei, was promoted from Sili Xiaowei to the general, and he and his uncle Yuan Wei jointly assisted in the administration and recorded the secretarial affairs; Yuan Shu (due to Dong Zhuo)

After entering the capital, he fled to Nanyang) was also recalled to the capital and resumed his position as Huben Zhonglang General, taking charge of all the troops and horses around the capital.

Since then, the Yuan family has dominated the government and the public, and has monopolized power.

Only the orphaned Emperor Liu Zhu and the Queen Mother He were left, with almost no right to speak.

Fortunately, the Great Han Dynasty is still there and will not collapse.

Because of his close relationship with Yuan Shao, Cao Cao also fulfilled his wish and became the general of the Han Dynasty's expedition to the west. After waiting for the situation in Luoyang to stabilize, he led his army to Guanzhong to quell the rebellion of Ma Teng and Han Sui.

The capital gradually calmed down from the turmoil, and people's lives returned to their usual order.

As for what great contributions the Yuan family made in this national crisis? No one bothered about this, or some people struggled, but it could not be spread to the court level.

However, the imperial court - to be precise, the imperial court controlled by the Yuan family still gave a statement: the Yuan brothers killed the eunuchs, which contributed to the country and benefited the future.

Soon, Cai Yong was appointed as Yushi Zhongcheng because of his good teaching skills, and was given a salary of two thousand dan.

But Bao Xin, the man who really helped put down the rebellion, was not mentioned at all in the imperial announcement.

When the censor came to Cai Mansion to convey the decree, Cai Yong was confused. He had no idea why he was suddenly promoted.

Did he teach his children well? He would never believe this reason. There are so many people in the world who teach their children well, why don't they see them being promoted to official positions?

But no matter what, Cai Yong took office in such a confused manner.

Luoyang, Beigong.

The first court meeting after the execution of Dong Zhuo was unprecedentedly fierce.

Emperor Liu Zhui sat on the throne tremblingly, watching a group of old men in their forties, fifties, fifties and sixties confront each other, grinning, and having all kinds of hysterical quarrels.

There is only one subject of the quarrel, that is, Dong Zhuo's remnant party and the rebel Lu Bu. How should we deal with it?

Everyone has different opinions on how to deal with Dong Zhuo's remnant party, because so far, only Dong Zhuo has clearly committed the crime of contempt for the imperial court, and his former subordinates have not had time to make mistakes, and secondly, they have all made mistakes for the Han Dynasty.

A great general with great achievements.

After a cordial and friendly exchange, all the civil and military officials agreed that the Dong Zhuo clan and Li Su should be killed, and Lu Bu should be designated as a traitor. His murder of Zhi Jin Wu Ding Yuan was a heinous crime that could not be forgiven.

Therefore, when tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from the fifth school of the Northern Army came out of the city to arrest Lu Bu, Lu Bu had disappeared, and only Zhang Liao and more than a thousand people were still stationed at the same place.

Lu Bu actually sensed something bad in the second half of the night that Dong Zhuo was killed. The plains southwest of Luoyang City were filled with the light of torches, and the scouts sent out also said that Dong Zhuo's troops were moving.

However, Lu Bu did not act rashly at that time. On the one hand, he was not sure what was going on in Dong Zhuo's camp, and on the other hand, he was worried about fraud and did not want to get involved in a fierce battle without knowing the situation in the middle of the night.

Lu Bu knew that his act of killing Ding Yuan would definitely lead to the court's condemnation. The fighting on the battlefield was far less brutal and bloody than the one in the court hall. In the chaos in the capital, he seemed to be in a turbulent sea.

The small boat can only drift powerlessly with the waves, unable to control its own destiny.

From the moment he saw Dong Zhuo and his party being arrested, he felt the danger was approaching.

This is the warrior's intuition.

Lu Bu had the idea of ​​​​escape, but where to escape? He didn't know, he could only stay away from Luoyang and the court as much as possible.

When escaping from the military camp, Lu Bu didn't take any of his old generals or soldiers with him. He walked through the night, whipping his red rabbit horse as hard as he could, and rushed toward the southwest. He rushed out all the way.

For two hundred miles, they did not stop until dawn when the red rabbit horse was exhausted and covered in blood and sweat.

Lu Bu found a small river near the official road. He lay down in the water and sucked the wind directly into the water, which finally calmed his panic. Then he came to the water and saw a face with lingering fears.

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Is there anything in the world that is not the land of kings? If you are guilty, where can you escape to?

Only then did Lu Bu realize that he had done something extremely stupid. He didn't know what kind of madness he had gone so crazy that day that he actually killed his adoptive father Ding Yuan in a flash of his mind.

When the fear gradually subsided, endless regret emerged in Lu Bu's heart. He had a lingering sense of guilt for the death of his adoptive father Ding Yuan. He didn't know how to face himself. Ding Yuan had taken good care of him over the years.

Pictures and scenes appeared in his mind repeatedly.

Now that Ding Yuan died in his own hands, Lu Bu suddenly came up with the idea of ​​killing himself to apologize. But this thought passed away in a flash. What was more, he felt resentment towards Li Su. He wanted to kill Li Su.

The corpse was broken into thousands of pieces. If this person hadn't been so beguiling, how could he have gone to a dead end? How could he have become a bereaved dog?!

Lu Bu rested against a big tree for a while, and with extremely complicated and contradictory emotions, he continued to flee toward the southwest. Along the way, he almost didn't dare to close his eyes. As soon as he closed his eyes, he kept having nightmares over and over again.

Ding Yuan's face before his death.

At the same time, he had to endure hunger and the wild beasts at night in the Songluan Mountains - because of his haste to escape, he only brought some gold and silver, but no tent or fire, not to mention wine and meat, which he had already eaten.

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But it's not all good news. Along the way, Lu Bu got some good news from the mouths of local woodcutters and hunters, at least it was good news for him.

Ma Teng and Han Sui from Xiliang are causing trouble in Guanzhong.

Therefore, Lu Bu came up with the idea of ​​​​passing through Wuguan and heading to Guanzhong to join Ma Teng. As soon as this idea emerged, it completely took root.
Chapter completed!