Although Cao Cao did not express the gap between him and Xun Yu in an obvious way, and later explained his dissatisfaction with Xun Yu in front of Sima Yi, Sima Yi still saw through Cao Cao's eyes:

Cao Cao had already lost enough trust in Xun Yu, at least they could no longer return to the relationship between the monarch and the ministers before the Battle of Chibi...

After leaving the Prime Minister's Mansion, Sima Yi did not go home directly, but instead went to the home of Prime Minister Military Chen Qun.

The servant brought Sima Yi into the inner hall. At this time, Sima Yi saw Chen Qun lowering his head and teaching the four-year-old boy in his arms to write. When he saw Sima Yi coming, he put down the pen in his hand and looked up at Sima Yi:

"It's Brother Zhongda who is here..."

After saying that, Chen Qun said to the boy in his arms:

"Hurry, call me Uncle Zhong."

Since returning to Yecheng, Sima Yi has been busy helping Cao Cao formulate plans to move westward. Although he met Chen Qun many times in the prime minister's mansion, he has never visited Chen Qun's mansion once. Most of the conversations between the two talked about military and national affairs, so Sima Yi has never known that Chen Qun had already started a family and had a son.

Seeing Sima Yi looking quite confused, Chen Qun introduced:

"This is my son, named Chen Tai."

"In a blink of an eye, several years have passed. I thought my elder brother must have a family and a house. I haven't come to visit him for a long time. Please forgive me."

After being invited by Chen Qun to take a seat, Sima Yi apologized to his righteous brother for his rudeness. Chen Qun chuckled and said:

"Although you and I have no love for each other, I have long had the right to be brothers. Besides, we are all serving the Prime Minister now. As a minister in the palace, I have the same love as a comrade. I said that, I will not regard my foolish brother as my own."

Chen Qun's jokes reconciled the serious atmosphere created by Sima Yi, and the atmosphere became relaxed instantly.

Looking at Chen Tai, who is one year older than his eldest son Sima Shi, Sima Yi suddenly felt that his life wasted:

"It has been almost fifteen years since we first returned to Xuzhou. I didn't expect that we are all fathers."

Speaking of this, Sima Yi couldn't help but become curious about Chen Qun's wife:

"I wonder which daughter-in-law is from which daughter-in-law?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a woman dressed in a simple but elegant manner walked into the inner hall from the back hall, and Sima Yi quickly noticed her.

Seeing her come out, Chen Qun smiled and said, "Here you just came."

Chen Qun reached out to his wife and introduced to Sima Yi: "This is Zhuo Jing Xunli, and he is Mr. Xun Yu's beloved daughter."

For some reason, when Sima Yi heard from Chen Qun that Xun Li was Xun Yu's daughter, he suddenly felt his mind blank. He could only stiffly raise his waist and bow to Xun Li:

"I've met my sister-in-law."

Although he is already a wife, in Chen Qun's eyes, Xun Li is still the innocent and lovely girl. Sima Yi also noticed this when Xun Li returned the gift to Sima Yi:

"Is the sir the one Sima Zhongda who is often mentioned in his husband's mouth who is ashamed of himself?"

This question caught Sima Yi off guard and didn't know how to deal with it for a while, so he could only smile awkwardly:

"I am not good at learning, but my brother and Mr. Wen Ruo both have the talent of Wang Zuo, which is far from me."

After saying hello to Xun Li, Chen Qun could see from Sima Yi's expression that he must have something to discuss when he came to him this time, so he gently pushed Chen Tai in his arms to Xun Li and said to her:

"I have something to talk about with Zhongda, so you can go down first."

Although Xun Li has a strange personality and is not bound by usual etiquette, she will gather all of them whenever she encounters serious things and completely transform them into a calm and polite virtuous supporter. In addition, her excellent tacit understanding between her and Chen Qun allows her to quickly understand her husband's meaning, so she quietly picked up Chen Tai and left the inner hall.

Seeing that Xun Li had already walked away, Chen Qun began to ask Sima Yi for his purpose:

"Zhongda, what happened?"

Sima Yi originally thought that Chen Qun and Xun Yu had a master-disciple relationship. Now that the situation is very unfavorable to Xun Yu, the only person who can help Xun Yu wholeheartedly is probably the only one who can look at the entire Yecheng.

However, when he learned that Chen Qun had married Xun Yu's daughter, Sima Yi thought he was looking for the right person.

"Previously, the Prime Minister secretly ordered Mr. Xun Yu to assassinate Empress Fu..."

At the beginning when Sima Yi said that, Chen Qun had guessed the seriousness of the matter and his expression became nervous:

"Mr. Wen Ruo thought about revitalizing the Han Dynasty from beginning to end. The Prime Minister's move was like forcing him to part ways with his beliefs. I know Mr. Wen Ruo, he would rather die than do evil things. But in this way, he would definitely be guilty of the Prime Minister, and he would probably cause trouble over time."

What Chen Qun said was exactly what Sima Yi wanted to convey, so the purpose of his trip was to ask Chen Qun to persuade Xun Yu to resign and retire, leave this political vortex as soon as possible, and at least he could save his life.

"No, although Mr. Wen Ruo is a literary strategist, his bones are much harder than ordinary people. The more dangerous the emperor and the Han Dynasty are, the less he will be out of the matter at this time. No matter who persuades him, it is useless."

As Chen Qun said, Xun You, who had long seen that Xun Yu's future was bleak, was plagued by illness, and still advised Xun Yu not to force himself to persevere. After reading Chen Qun's letter, Xun Yu replied that as a minister of the Han Dynasty, he must be loyal to the emperor and the country, and must resist to the end when facing people who dared to be disrespectful to the Han Dynasty.

Chen Qun showed Xun Yu's reply to Sima Yi. After Sima Yi returned home, he told Zhong Yu about this.

"I don't know what Xun Changqian will feel after knowing this..."

After hearing Zhong Yu's sigh, Sima Yi remembered Xun Yun, a man in white who helped him escape Zhang Fei's arrest when he was on the bank of the Yellow River. In addition, Zhong Yu told him that Xun Yun was currently buried beside "Liu Ji", Guo Huai and others and secretly helped him, and he couldn't help but express his concern to Xun Yun: "How is Xun Yun's situation now?"

Zhong Yu replied: "At Chibi, when Liu Xie and Guo Huai and others joined forces to assassinate you, Xun Yun saw that although you were seriously injured, you still have the possibility of surviving when you were dying. It happened that Cheng Wu and Miss Fu arrived in a small boat and sent out a signal, so he kicked you into the flowing water of the Yangtze River. But it was precisely because of this that he revealed a fatal flaw, but I have sent that person to rescue him, so nothing should happen."

But Zhong Yu's next words attracted Sima Yi's special attention:

"It's a pity that I had so much effort to hit them with a bitter meat trick before, and now I have to leave."

At this time, Xun Yun, who was riding alone in front of the mountain road, ran away as quickly as possible, while turning back to pay attention to the knights behind him who were chasing him.

However, Xun Yun's horse was weaker than Guo Huai's mount, which led the masked death warrior to pursue him, so the distance was constantly getting closer. Guo Huai, who was holding the reins in his right hand, saw that the distance was getting closer, so he placed his left hand on the hilt of his waist: "I see where you are going to escape now!"

At this moment, a figure on the nearby mountain was also paying close attention to the situation between the mountain roads. He saw that Xun Yun's situation was already very dangerous, so he took off a crossbow gun with a long hand held from the horse, placed the long feather arrow in the arrow groove, half-squatted on the edge of the mountain, aimed at the knights chasing Xun Yun, and then quickly pulled the mechanism...

The feather arrow shot out "swoosh" and accurately shot the head of the knight beside Guo Huai. The man fell to the ground.

Guo Huai realized that someone was ambushing him in secret so that Xun Yun could escape. Just as he was about to remind the people around him to take strict precautions, the person holding the crossbow gun again pulled down the mechanism and shot two feather arrows one after another, piercing the faces and necks of the two masked knights. After he put the fourth feather arrow into the arrow groove, he had already set his target on Guo Huai:

"It's time to return this arrow to you..."

After pulling off the mechanism, the feather arrow headed straight for Guo Huai at a fast speed, but strangely, Guo Huai originally thought that the arrow was also coming to his head, but he never thought that it was the head of the horse under his crotch.

At this time, Xun Yun also discovered the person who helped him and couldn't help but laugh:

"It seems that Li Jin has trained you well, so thank you this time!"

After being caught in an arrow, the horse fell to the ground. After Guo Huai landed, he turned around skillfully and wanted to chase him with other horses. But just as he stepped out his left foot, another feather arrow was firmly nailed to the ground in front of him, only a finger wide from his toes.

Guo Huai knew that this man had no intention of taking his life. He was warning himself that he could no longer pursue him, so he had to give up temporarily. After pulling up the feather arrow tied on the horse's head, he immediately grabbed the horse of the knight beside him and ran towards the mountain where the feather arrow was shot. However, when he felt it, there was no one or anyone else.

After Xun Yun escaped from danger, he successfully met with Li Jin and Cheng Wu at the Yellow River Ferry and went to Yecheng with them.

When they met again, Sima Yi found that Xun Yun had no changes compared to before, and if he had to say anything, he would be more mature.

Although Sima Yi had already seen his maturity when he was rescued.

Out of his secret help to himself and his life-saving grace, Sima Yi bowed respectfully to him:

"Mr. Changqian has suffered these days, and Zhongda deeply apologizes here."

Xun Yun, who had just escaped from danger, didn't know where the leisure came from, but actually joked about Zhong Yu who was standing beside him and said:

"But don't thank me. I wouldn't have gone if I had known that Zhong Yu had set up a trap for me."

“Set a set?”

Sima Yi didn't understand what Xun Yun meant, Zhong Yu explained:

"In addition to the older Li Jin, people including me, Jia Mu, Xun Yun and Cheng Wu have been touched by the man wearing a hat you mentioned before. He invited us to join his extremely crazy plan, but we all refused. In order not to let his identity be revealed, he wanted to kill us to silence us. Fortunately, he received help from noble people and survived at the cost of disappearing in front of everyone. In order to cover us, Xun Yun pretended to agree to his invitation."

Now Sima Yi finally understood that Zhong Yu and others helped him, and that he was forced to be an enemy at the beginning, but he soon realized that something was wrong with Zhong Yu's words just now:

"The noble man helps me? I wonder if the 'noble man' mentioned by Mr. Zhishu is..."

As soon as Sima Yi began to inquire about the whereabouts of the noble man, Zhong Yu interrupted him and instead led the topic to Xun Yun again: "By the way, have you found their recent movements during this period?"

Xun Yun, who was standing aside, also realized that the flaw that was unintentionally revealed in Zhong Yu's speech just now was noticed by Sima Yi, so he was also very assigned to Zhong Yu. Moreover, there was indeed a very critical thing he came back this time and told Sima Yi:

"Actually, before the Battle of Chibi, both Guo Huai and Guo Pei did not trust me. My actions of kicking you into the river during the Battle of Chibi also aroused the suspicion of the 'Your Highness'. From then on, all their plans were basically in the stage of keeping me secret, until the 'Your Highness' finally lost patience with me and ordered Guo Huai to chase me. However, I also got an unexpected information: just five years ago after Cai Yan returned to the Han Dynasty, they tried to hijack Cai Yan to find the whereabouts of the jade seal and the will."

Zhong Yu was very clear about this matter: "Yes, it was precisely because you notified us of this news in time that I could contact Mr. Jiangong and Mr. Kong Ming as soon as possible and let Mr. Kong Ming arrive in time to stop them."

Xun Yun added: "However, I was careless at that time. This plan was just a bait to attract me to the bait. It was because of this that I revealed my flaws. The plan they really implemented against Cai Yan started this year..."

After saying that, Xun Yun turned to look at Sima Yi:
Chapter completed!