"Liu Ji" has lived in Baibo Valley for several years. Although he is very young, he has grown up very quickly under the care of the cloaked man Liu She. In addition, he is also very good at the children who were adopted by Duan Ying and have now recovered their real names, especially the Guo Huai brothers and him who have almost talked about everything.

Since "Liu Ji" is the youngest, these children who are older than him love him like their own brothers. However, Jia Xu always feels strange in his heart, and invisibly he will always distance himself from him "Liu Ji".

Once, while "Liu Ji" and Guo Huai and others were bathing in the stream together, Jia Xu, who was sitting on the shore, clearly saw a round black birthmark behind "Liu Ji". When he was holding "Liu Ji", who was still a baby, he could see that there was no birthmark on Liu Ji's back because he helped him change the cloth, which aroused Jia Xu's suspicion.

However, out of caution, he did not tell this matter directly, but quietly told Liu She secretly. Liu She was shocked when she found out that. Without "Liu Ji" noticed, Liu She took "Liu Ji"'s blood behind her back. When he was injected into the water with his own blood, he found that the two drops of blood were completely incompatible.

For this reason, Jia Xu went to Luoyang to inquire about the Sima family and got Sima Fang's second son Sima Yi was already a companion in the palace as the second prince. This made Liu She begin to doubt the whole story, because according to the information he knew, Sima Fang did hand over a baby to Yu Ji, who had three generations of protecting him. Later, Yu Ji and Zhang Jiao used their son to start the "Yellow Turban Rebellion". After Liu Bei captured Guangzong, he got "Liu Ji". He kept secretly following and looking for an opportunity to take him away. Even if Liu Bei had this intention to replace the pillar, it was impossible to watch the whole process.

Then there is only one conclusion: the person who sneaks the child is not Liu Bei at all, but Sima Fang...

From then on, Liu She's attitude towards "Liu Ji" gradually became cold. He no longer taught any knowledge to "Liu Ji". Three months after learning the truth, he completely disappeared in front of "Liu Ji" and Jia Xu temporarily took care of them.

Worried that Liu Xie's existence would threaten Empress He and He Jin, who ascended the throne, were secretly looking for opportunities to get rid of Liu Xie, but the death of Wang Meiren touched Liu Hong very much, and for this reason his protection for Liu Xie was beyond the scope of what He Jin and Empress He could do. Just when they were having a headache about this, He Jin suddenly thought of the Sima Yi, who was Liu Xie's playmate and book boy, who was the existence that Liu Hong was very afraid of before, so he planned to make a fuss about Sima Yi.

In private, He Jin kept telling Emperor Ling of Han Liu Hong that Sima Yi's appearance was too different from Sima Fang, and it was possible that it was a bastard born to her sister Sima Youran and Liu She. He took advantage of the fact that Empress Dowager Dong was always dissatisfied with Liu Hong's debauchery and intentionally established a new king as an opportunity to create a conflict between Liu Hong and Empress Dowager Dong Liu Xie. Although Liu Hong did not arouse suspicion of Liu Xie and Empress Dowager Dong, the matter of He Jin's mention of Sima Yi aroused his concerns about Sima Fang and Sima Yi.

Just as Liu Hong was about to thoroughly investigate this matter, some people spread the news that "Yongyuan's Relics" was in Baibo Valley. After that, many old Yellow Turbans heard that the "Saint Emperor" had a small force headed by Li Le, Han Xian and others gathered in Baibo Valley, forming a tribal armed force of nearly 100,000 people.

After repeated verification, Liu Hong confirmed this fact from the local officials' report, Liu Hong and the entire court's attention once again shifted from Sima Yi to "Liu Ji" in Baibo Gu. Sima Yi was lucky enough to avoid the crisis of his life hanging on the line. However, "Liu Ji" who had finally lived in peace for several years was once again exposed to the eyes of the world.

No one knew who exposed the news, but Jia Xu from Baibogu knew very well that he was the only one who could do this and who had enough motivation to do this.

A month after the incident, Liu She returned to Baibo Valley. "Liu Ji" who had been waiting for a long time seemed very excited when he saw his father who had not seen for a long time, but Liu She's reaction was very cold. He did not pick up "Liu Ji" like before, but just glanced at "Liu Ji" and quickly turned his eyes to Jia Xu:

"There will be no safety here soon, so you can take them away from here and return to Guzang."

Jia Xu knew what the reason why Liu She said this was, so he did not ask the reason like Guo Huai, Niu Jin and others. "Liu Ji" pulled the corner of Liu She's clothes and shook it and said, "Father, are you going with us?"

Liu She, who did not directly answer the question "Liu Ji", squatted down and reached out to touch the head of "Liu Ji":

"After arriving in Liangzhou, you must listen carefully to Uncle Wen and..."

In Liu She's view, in order to protect Sima Youran's son, Sima Fang did not hesitate to let his son fall into dangerous wandering. Although Liu She could not do what Sima Fang did in order to protect his son, after he successfully attracted the court's attention to Baibogu, it was an obligation that must be fulfilled to ensure the safety of "Liu Ji".

However, before leaving, Jia Xu and Liu She had a late-night conversation. Guo Huai and "Liu Ji" who happened to pass by clearly understood. At that time, Liu Ji wanted to make a bowl of soup for his father before leaving. For this reason, he specially asked Guo Huai, who had the best relationship with him, to help him. But when he stood at the door holding the soup bowl with his left hand and was about to stretch out his right hand to knock on the door, he heard a huge blow to him. Standing beside him, Guo Huai looked at the dumb expression of "Liu Ji", as if he could fully appreciate his pain. Perhaps he was constantly used to it. For him, who was only seven years old, he had already become accustomed to it, but this time it was completely different...

He was betrayed by his only "father" who could feel family affection and warmth from it since he was born. The huge destructiveness of this blow was incomparable to Zhang Jiao, Yu Ji and Liu Bei.

After learning about his true life experience, he began to feel unwilling to accept it. Why did he, who should have been favored by his parents and brothers, have to undergo such displaced and unpredictable days instead of others? Whether it is Sima Fang, Liu She, Zhang Jiao, Yu Ji and Liu Bei, they are all good. Why do they change their destiny without authorization according to their own wishes?

Seeing that "Liu Ji"'s expression was quite scary, Guo Huai tried to ask:

"What are your plans next? Should you go to Guzang with Jia Xu or go back to Sima's house..."

"Go home? I've lost my home since the moment Sima Fang abandoned me..."

He sat quietly by the stream, and the soup in his hand had already cooled down.

After maintaining a fixed sitting position for a long time, his hand holding the soup bowl began to slowly tilt to the lower left, and the soup was poured into the river and stream. When the soup was not left in the bowl, he threw the whole soup bowl into the river and stream, turned around and said to Guo Huai:

"I've had enough of the disgusting life of being randomly tricked by others as puppets. From today on, I want to live for myself. I want Sima Yi, the entire Sima family, and the whole world to accompany me in pain!"

Guo Huai was able to understand his feelings. As the first child adopted by Duan Ying, his feelings for Duan Ying were extremely behind him. In his opinion, if it weren't for the "Yongyuan Relic", Duan Ying would not have committed suicide in prison, and the Duan family would not have ended up in the situation of destruction of the family. So at this time he had made up his mind to accompany "Liu Ji" to completely eradicate the culprit.

In February of 188 AD (the fifth year of Zhongping), the Duan family members such as "Liu Ji" followed Jia Xu to take refuge in Guzang, while Liu She stayed to incite Guo Tai to revolt in Baibo Valley. Their troops were nearly 100,000 people called the Baibo Army.

As Bai Bo's army became increasingly powerful under the command of Liu She, the imperial court sent a large army several times but returned in a crushing defeat.

In May 189 AD, Emperor Ling of Han, Liu Hong, died. Before his death, he wrote a will to pass the throne to Liu Xie and handed it over to Jian Shuo, whom he believed he trusted very much. However, Jian Shuo realized that He Jin and Empress He were more powerful behind Liu Bian, so he conspired with He Jin to make a forgery of the imperial edict to change Liu Bian as emperor.

When Empress Dowager Dong learned about it, she scolded eunuchs such as Jian Shuo for competing with the power, and fought fiercely with Empress He in order to make Liu Xie ascend the throne. However, the weak Empress Dowager Dong was finally defeated and eventually became angry to death.

Liu Xie was in a very dangerous situation at this time. After Empress Dowager Dong died, she had lost the most favorable barrier. Sima Yi, who was only ten years old, also saw that the situation was very unfavorable to Liu Xie. For this reason, he suggested that Liu Xie take the initiative to tell Empress He that he had no intention of fighting for the throne, and asked Empress He to exchange a large number of fun and interesting objects.

After hearing Liu Xie's words, Empress He thought that he was just a child under ten years old. She only had fun in her eyes and could not pose any threat to Liu Bian and herself. Therefore, she relaxed her vigilance against Liu Xie, which not only gave up the years of killing him, but instead envoked Liu Xie as the King of Bohai after Liu Bian ascended the throne, and later became King of Chenliu.

Just when Liu Xie was planning to go to the fiefdom with Sima Yi, a bloody storm suddenly broke out in the Luoyang Palace. General He Jin caused panic among the eunuchs after killing Jian Shuo. Soon after, he was plotted by Zhang Rang, Duan Gui and ten regular attendants to kill He Jin in the palace and announced his intention to rebel, intending to regain the power of the government.

At this time, the Sili lieutenant Yuan Shao, the Dianjun lieutenant Cao Cao, the Huben General Yuan Shu and other He Jin's old subordinates could not tolerate this situation after seeing this, so they led their troops into the palace to kill more than 2,000 eunuchs. Zhang Rang and Duan Gui had no power to fight back and had to hold a few followers such as Chenliu King and the Young Emperor Liu Bian to escape from the palace, and Sima Yi was also among them.

When Lu Zhi led Cao Cao and Yuan Shao to Deming Palace, he saw that there was no trace of anyone in the palace. At this time, Cao Cao noticed that there were scattered bamboo slips on the ground and threw them on the ground and headed west in a certain direction.

At this time, Cao Cao said to Lu Zhi: "Sir Shangshu, I think Zhang Rang will take His Majesty and the Prince hostage and flee westward."

The problem Lu Zhi was thinking about was not only the safety of King Chenliu and Emperor Shao, but more importantly, Sima Yi was also among the hijacked entourage, so he made a quick decision to lead his troops to chase him along the direction of the bamboo slips.

Sima Yi, who was sitting in the carriage, held the bamboo slips that had been torn off the rope by him. He quietly threw them away from time to time while Zhang Rang, Duan Gui and others were not paying attention. Until he fled to Xiaopingjin by the Yellow River, there was no way out.

At this time, the Ma Lai reported that Dong Zhuo had led 5,000 Western Liang cavalry toward this place until the capital changed. The troops led by Lu Zhi from Luoyang also chased him from east to west. Zhang Rang and Duan Gui knew that they had no possibility of survival at all, so they devoted themselves to the Yellow River in despair.

Sima Yi, who was worried that Zhang Rang would jump over the wall, finally felt relieved after seeing this situation. However, in the face of the current situation, Sima Yi intuitively believed that among the two troops, he should try to move closer to Lu Zhi in the east.

After hearing Sima Yi's words, Liu Xie immediately expressed his thoughts to Liu Bian. Just as they were about to get on the carriage and go east to quickly, the troops led by Dong Zhuo had already arrived in Xiaopingjin and intercepted them.

When he knelt down to Liu Bian and Liu Xie, Liu Bian seemed very scared when answering Dong Zhuo's questions because he had not yet escaped from the bloody storm. At this time, Liu Xie stood up and answered the questions raised by Dong Zhuo in a slight manner, and seemed very calm and calm, without any fear, which deepened Dong Zhuo's impression of him.

When Lu Zhi led his troops to arrive, he quickly dismounted and apologized to Liu Bian and Liu Xie. Sima Yi was still very young at that time and did not know that the two young generals standing behind Lu Zhi were Cao Cao and Yuan Shao who were in power in the future.

Dong Zhuo took out the secret edict issued by He Jin on the order of the emperor and claimed to be the minister of the regent. At this time, Liu Bian and Liu Xie were already under Dong Zhuo's control. Lu Zhi and others only regretted that they could not get one step earlier, so they had to give in temporarily.

Afterwards, Dong Zhuo began to fully control the government and forcibly conquer Yang Qiu and Liu He before, thus avoiding Cai Yong, who was protected by Mount Tai and was protected by the Yang family. He also had the idea of ​​abolishing Liu Bian and establishing Liu Xie to increase his reputation.

However, this move was strongly opposed by Lu Zhi and Yuan Shao. Fortunately, Cai Yong pleaded with love for Lu Zhi to survive, but he was dismissed from office. When he saw him off at the city gate, Lu Zhi knew very well that Cai Yong and his eldest daughter Cai Yan and Liu She had a relationship, so he couldn't help but worry about this: "You are now in office under Dong Zhuo, and you may not have a good future, so you must be more careful."

Cai Yong understood what Lu Zhi meant, and he smiled: "If that's the case, there's nothing I can do. I just need to have a clear conscience."

Soon, Liu She completely disappeared from the Baibo Valley. After the Baibo army led by Guo Tai lost control, it began to attack Hedong. Under the heroic battle of Li Le and others, Dong Zhuo sent his son-in-law Niu Fu to conquer the troops who repeatedly failed.

In 190 AD, Dong Zhuo was forced by the Kanto Alliance Army to move the capital to Chang'an by Emperor Xian of Han, and set fire to the city of Luoyang. During the breakout, he encountered Bai Bo's army. The leader Guo Tai died in battle, Yang Feng surrendered to Dong Zhuo, and the remaining Bai Bo army was led by Li Le and Han Xian in a guerrilla state in the Hedong region.
Chapter completed!