It's sunset and dusk, and night is approaching.

Wuji County, outside the Xicheng Gate.

Tattata!

With the sound of horse trampling, Yuan Shao ran to the city gate first, immediately lifted his reins and stopped the horse, raised his hand to signal the army behind him to stop slowly.

"At the hour of You, before the city gate was closed, Wuji County closed the city gate. What's going on?"

Seeing that the city gate ahead was closed, Yuan Shao stopped outside the city gate, frowned, and looked very unhappy, and asked in a deep voice.

The people following Yuan Shao were two people, one civil and one martial artists, Guo Tu, a counselor under Yuan Shao, and the military general was Ju Yi, the general of Jizhou who came to the Zhen family to "borrow grain" three days ago. In addition, behind them were two tiger generals, Yan Liang and Wen Chou, the generals of Hebei, who were the two most respected.

This time, Yuan Shao personally led a 10,000-strong iron-armored guard to the Wuji Zhen family, and the generals accompanied were Yan Liang and Wen Chou. Ju Yi was not at the same place, but because of Guo Tu's advice, Yuan Shao made a decision to come with him.

In fact, two days ago, Yuan Shao had ordered the army to withdraw troops, and tens of thousands of troops were withdrawn back to Yecheng one after another. In other words, Yuan Xi, Feng Ji and Ju Yi led 1,500 soldiers to the Wuji Zhen family, early the morning of the next day when Yuan Shao's army evacuated Changshan camp.

In this battle of bandit suppression, Yuan Shao personally took charge and led a 50,000 army to confront the Black Mountain bandits for more than two months. He experienced more than ten battles of all sizes, annihilated more than 30,000 Black Mountain bandits, and lost tens of thousands of troops. In the past half month, the Black Mountain bandits have been defending the mountain. No matter how Yuan Shao's army provoked and invited the battle, the Black Mountain bandits avoided fighting, which led to the morale of the army becoming increasingly declining and declining, and the soldiers have grown old. In view of this, Yuan Shao and the generals under the tent all thought that it would be useless to confront the Black Mountain bandits again and they were just trying to consume money and food. It would be better to give up and withdraw their troops and return to Yecheng. When they find a powerful fighter opportunity in the future, they will send troops to completely wipe out the Black Mountain bandits.

With the words of everyone, Yuan Shao made a quick decision and resolutely ordered the withdrawal of his troops. Then more than 20,000 soldiers and thousands of wounded soldiers took the lead in withdrawing back to Yecheng, while Yuan Shao himself and his personal guards were behind the tent, waiting for Yuan Xi, Feng Ji and others to escort the food and grass back from the Zhen family.

On the day when the camp was drawn and the troops were withdrawn, Yuan Xi, Feng Ji and more than 1,000 personal soldiers did not come back. At noon, Ju Yi brought more than 100 personal soldiers back to the camp first.

After some inquiry, Yuan Shao realized that he was suspicious. The Zhen family had no dissatisfaction with him. It was just that Zhen's cousin "Zheng Feng" interfered with it, causing trouble for borrowing grain. However, this kind of trivial matter was not worth mentioning in Yuan Shao's eyes. After all, the Zhen family was a merchant family, and he took the opportunity to bargain and try to win greater benefits. How could such snobbish behavior be hidden from Yuan Benchu's eyes? He naturally knew it well and was very disdainful, but he also knew that it was reasonable for merchants to pursue profits. "It was very normal". So Yuan Shao's central army stayed in the camp and waited for Yuan Xi and others to escort the food and grass back.

But that night, Yuan Shao felt a little uneasy, and he felt that he had ignored something. He was lying on the couch and tossing and turning and unable to sleep. He felt inexplicably palpitations, and had a premonition that something big happened. He had been in power for many years, and Yuan Shao firmly believed in his premonition. He always felt that things were strange about the Zhen family in Zhongshan, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. Perhaps it was the information that Ju Yi fed back that was normal, but he felt that it was a bit abnormal.

Because the Zhen family and the Yuan family have been in the family for many years, they often cooperated with each other in the past. The Yuan family had power, and the Zhen family had money, and the two families cooperated with each other. Naturally, they were invincible. However, since Zhen Yi, the head of the Zhen family, died young and his widow, took over the family business by his widow, Zhang, the relationship between the two families gradually became distant, and there were fewer and fewer things to do with each other. There seemed to be an indelible gap invisibly.

Immediately afterwards, Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang to control the court and acted against him. Yuan Shao angrily scolded Dong Zhuo in court and then fled to Bohai County. Later, Yuan Shao responded to the forgery of the edict and raised an army to attack Dong Zhuo. Although he became the leader of the princes, he prompted Dong Zhuo to besiege and kill, and he beheaded more than 200 direct descendants of the Yuan family in Luoyang.

As soon as this incident happened, almost all the most famous elders of the Yuan family and the famous clan were killed by Dong Zhuo and died tragically. Although Yuan Shao was elected as the leader of the princes, he invisibly lost the help of the elders of the family. However, it was he who led the army of princes to threaten Dong Zhuo that led to the tragic death of the elders of the Yuan family. This incident spread like wildfire and spread all over the country and became well-known.

Although Yuan Shao was the leader of the princes and the act of becoming the leader of the princes was not intentional, it ultimately implicated the whole family of Yuan's family. This will never be erased. Although Yuan Shu also participated in this matter, the leader of the princes was Yuan Shao, and he was the eldest son of the Yuan family. Therefore, this unfilial name will always be remembered on him, and it will have little impact on Yuan Shu.

After this incident, some people think that Yuan Shao's move was very clear about the righteousness and served him, while others felt a grudge against him, and kept him away from him, and did not plan with each other. Some of the century-old noble families felt sad about this, thinking that Yuan Shao was cold by nature and was deeply dissatisfied with him, unwilling to invest in supporting him, and unwilling to send his family's children to him to serve. For example, the Sima family in Hanoi, the Chenliuwei family, the Yingchuan family and the century-old noble family in Sili. Even Yuan Shao suspected that the Zhen family in Zhongshan might be dissatisfied with him because of this.

That night, Yuan Shao couldn't sleep all night, and many old things that had gradually faded came to his mind and could not be forgotten.

The next morning, that is, this morning, Yuan Shao still felt uneasy after thinking about it. In addition, Yuan Xi and Feng Ji led their troops to the Zhen family for three days without returning, which made him even more suspicious and made him believe that his premonition was correct. Something must have happened to the Zhen family in Zhongshan. So he immediately took the personal soldiers of the Central Army to Zhongshan to check the truth. Anyway, he would withdraw his troops and return to Yecheng and take a look at the Zhen family before leaving. If the Zhen family is as usual, then he would treat it as a visit and walk around to exchange feelings. If the Zhen family really has a strange intention, don't blame him for being ruthless, and this time he will wipe out the Zhen family.

At the gate of Lema City, no one could answer the questions raised by Yuan Shao because they were as confused as Yuan Shao and did not know what was going on in the city.

However, when others remain silent, there is someone who cannot help but speak. This person is Ju Yi, who came to Wuji City the day before yesterday.

"Reported to the lord, when the Mo General followed the second young master to this city the day before yesterday, there was nothing unusual here. However, the second young master brought the Mo General and others into the city and drove all the soldiers guarding the city back to the county government. The personal soldiers took over the city, guarded the city gate, and strictly ordered the four gates to be closed and no one was allowed to enter and exit,,,,,,,,,"

"This rebellious son dares to be so arrogant. The decades of friendship between the Yuan family and the Zhen family can not allow him, a junior, to be so bold and reckless!" Before Ju Yi finished speaking, Yuan Shao angrily scolded Yuan Xi for being ignorant of the importance of being reckless and rude.

Yuan Shao, who was swearing, suddenly felt a lot more relaxed and depressed in his chest for a long time. Then he turned his head and asked Ju Yi: "Why did you hide these things before?"

"This,,, I am worried that the lord will be angry, so I dare not report it bluntly." Ju Yi hesitated for a moment and said according to the truth.

Then he saw Yuan Shao's gloomy face relaxed slightly, Ju Yi whispered: "In theory, when the soldiers in the city saw the lord's flag and the lord himself, they would have opened the city gate as soon as possible to welcome the lord into the city. But they didn't know why it was so strange today. There was no guard on the wall, and there were no pedestrians entering and leaving, but they closed the city gate tightly? I was foolish in my opinion, I didn't have to wait any longer, and rushed into the city to take a look, and I would naturally understand."

"Yeah." Yuan Shao nodded slightly, waved his right hand immediately, signaling Wen Chou to lead his troops into the city, while he himself stopped his horse and did not move.

Wen Chou, who was nine feet tall, did not hesitate for a moment after he got the order and immediately led a schoolman behind him to the city gate. However, what surprised Wen Chou was that although the city gate was closed and seamlessly, it was not bolted, so he rushed open the city gate with his troops and entered the city without any obstacles.

In a cup of tea, Wen Chou came in and came back, rode his horse to Yuan Shao, and said anxiously with a panic: "Report to Lord, lord, the people in the city are somehow staying away from their doors, there is no one on the street, and the Zhen Mansion is empty, no one!"

"What? There is no one in the huge Zhen Mansion?" Yuan Shao's expression changed drastically, and he said in shock with shock.

After hearing Wen Chou's words, not only Yuan Shao's expression changed drastically, but Guo Tu, Ju Yi, Yan Liang and others were also shocked and showed a look of surprise.

"That's right!" Wen Chou nodded and said, "There is no one in the Zhen Mansion. The members of the Zhen family, the maids and servants, etc. are all missing. Not only that, even the second son, Mr. Feng Ji and the 1,500 soldiers are nowhere to be seen, and they are not seen in life or death. In addition, the courtyard of Zhen Mansion is very messy, and the front yard and the main hall and other thousand rooms are gone, empty and nothing is left!"

"Ah! This,,,,,,," Yuan Shao felt his head "buzzing" in his ears, and he opened his mouth but couldn't speak.

"The premonition was indeed fulfilled. The Zhen family really had a strange intention. They betrayed themselves and moved their family away to other princes!" At this moment, Yuan Shao had only this idea in his mind. Apart from that, his mind was in chaos. He couldn't even remember the rhetoric of swearing, and he didn't feel like scolding.

After standing there for a while, he rode his horse into the city in a daze, not knowing whether everyone behind him had followed, and he didn't even care about what they were thinking.

At this moment, Yuan Shao just wanted to hurry to the Zhen Mansion to see if Wen Chou said it with his own eyes, and whether the Zhen family really abandoned him and moved his family.

—————————————— (To be continued)
Chapter completed!