Chapter 311 The truth

The elderly family had no time to groan and then fell down softly.

When he fell down, the expression in his eyes was extremely complicated, especially confusion.

He couldn't figure out why Yi Xiangzhu had conspired with him to discuss the subdue of Sima Yi and Cao Pi's servants, but why did the ropes on Sima Yi, who had been tied off by himself?

Could it be that all this is...

The older family members' thoughts were suddenly interrupted when they thought of this.

He is dead.

Cao Pi also had a complicated expression in his eyes.

The expression in Cao Pi's eyes was mainly shocked. Turning his head to look at Sima Yi, Cao Pi said in surprise:

"You...have you expected all this long ago?"

Sima Yi smiled slightly, and while reaching out to his arms, he said to Cao Pi:

"That's right. Second-class young master, I'm so familiar with you that I'm like my own left and right hands. Can't I see what you are thinking? In fact, I hope you can do this."

When Cao Pi heard this, his expression was filled with sadness.

Sima Yi said to Wu Fan who was standing in front of the steps:

"Governor Wu, after a year, referring to the Battle of Hefei, the two of them met you and I met again for the first time... Don't move. If you don't want the second son to die in front of you and want to know what the letter that the young master had secretly written to you, it's best to stand there and don't move. Otherwise, my servants are all rural people who have never seen any world. When you, Governor Wu, your hand trembles, and you might cut off the second son's head."

After saying this, Sima Yi smiled. Wu Fan frowned deeply and secretly pinched the fist under the sleeve of the robe.

After laughing, Sima Yi folded a letter taken out of his arms into a piece of paper and threw it to Wu Fan. Wu Fan stretched out his left hand and clamped it firmly when the piece of paper was about to fly over his left shoulder.

He glanced at Sima Yi and raised Wu Fan's chin in the opposite direction. The meaning was very obvious: Let Wu Fan see what was written in the paper ball.

Wu Fan took the paper ball in front of him, staring at Sima Yi with both eyes, and at the same time spread the paper ball until it was fully unfolded, then he moved his eyes to the paper, and the corner of his eyes was still monitoring Sima Yi's every move.

This paper ball was naturally written by Cao Pi who had hidden it before. In the letter, Cao Pi regretted the mistakes he made and also saw Sima Yi's intentions clearly. He hoped that Wu Fan could spare him for a moment when he was sworn brother with his father Cao. He would not lose his grace and virtue of his eighth uncle Wu Fan.

Wu Fan has always been very conflicted about how to deal with Cao Pi. The reason is that Cao Pi is the son of his sworn brother Cao; and he is able to be today thanks to his appreciation and undoubtedness of his brother Cao. Just these two points, Wu Fan could not put Cao Pi to death. At most, he would be exiled to a foreign land and would not be allowed to enter the court to discuss politics for his entire life.

This is still the case when Wu Fan thought that Cao Pi was the mastermind in the incident targeting him and his family.

Now, this belated letter made Wu Fan's head buzz.

The truth came too suddenly, which caught Wu Fan off guard. His previous ideas about Cao Pi's position and how he should deal with Cao Pi and other matters all collapsed in an instant.

Of course, the progress of things has reached this point, and just one letter is no longer enough to explain the problem. However, before Sima Yi threw out the letter, Cao Pi's shout to Wu Fan, as well as the subsequent conversation between Sima Yi and Cao Pi, plus the true emotions in the eyes of the two during the conversation.

Many factors combined together are enough to tell everything.

And this is exactly what Sima Yi hopes to achieve.

Taking advantage of the moment when Wu Fan's brain was temporarily stagnant, Sima Yi signaled a servant standing next to him with his eyes. The servant understood and pressed the ear of an incense burner behind him. In an instant, he heard a loud "boom" sound, and the beam of the lobby door fell down.

Of course, the door beam is not an ordinary door beam, but an iron gate of about ten centimeters thick and weighs several tons to block the entire lobby door.

As the iron gate suddenly fell, the ground trembled and the dust suddenly rose. Wu Fan immediately pulled over the cloak behind him to cover his mouth and nose, and watched with caution and heard the movements around him.

After waiting until the dust and hustle disappeared, there was no movement; after waiting for a while, the silence was still the same. Wu Fan frowned and changed his mind for a moment, then he punched a bronze tripod beside him, making a muffled sound.

Sima Yi ran away.

This is an escape mechanism

Next, when the soldiers finally pushed down the gable wall of the lobby and broke into the hall, Wu Fan's guess was confirmed: Sima Yi and others were indeed missing.

After careful searching, the soldiers soon found a floor tiles behind the screen in the main seat of the lobby, and a passage that just fits a person appeared inside. The brave soldier went down the passage and came up again in a short while: the passage inside had been blocked.

Wu Fan was angry and anxious. There was no need to say anything about the anger. How could he not be angry if Sima Yi ran away again? This "urgency" was because Cao Pi: he finally knew Cao Pi's true position, and was kidnapped by Sima Yi at this critical moment, and his life and death were unknown. Out of his feelings for his elder brother Cao and his brotherly feelings, Wu Fan was anxious.

He immediately ordered: Zhang Liao, Lu Bu, Xiahou Yuan, Xu Huang, Zhao Yun, Gan Ning, Taishici and other generals, each led a portion of the army and horses to search closely inside and outside the village to find the tunnel exit. Once Sima Yi and his followers were found, they would be killed without any hesitation, but the personal safety of the second son Cao Pi must be ensured.

Wu Fan stayed in Sima Yi's house, and while asking his soldiers to search all corners of the courtyard, he was waiting for news from several generals.

...

About half an hour later, five miles north of Xiaojingli, a rock moved without warning on a north-facing earth slope.

After a while, the rock that had just stopped was suddenly lifted up by a powerful force below, rolling down the slope, bringing up sand and dust.

Originally located below the rock, a deep cave entrance appeared, and several Sima Yi's servants crawled out one after another.

First, he looked around and saw that there was no one nearby, so he reported to the cave that nothing happened. Then, Sima Yi and Cao Pi also crawled out from inside one after another.

These servants under Sima Yi were not ordinary servants, but the personal guards he had always been with him. They were personally selected by him among hundreds of thousands of troops of the First Legion. Their abilities were even better than those of the first death warriors and the trapped camp.

Not only that, Sima Yi gave a lot of money to the guards' families to solve their worries and win them over. In short, he trained several dead soldiers to follow him.

After Sima Yi led these guards to take Cao Pi hostage and return to Xiaojing, he fired several servants from his family and let them serve as servants. He also invited a middle-aged man who had read some books and could take charge of accounting as a housekeeper, that is, the elderly servant in front of him.

Therefore, the cause of death of the elderly family is very clear.

If others don’t say it, just talk about Cao Pi.

In order to facilitate walking, Cao Pi's ties had been untied. However, he was escorted with a single-kill guard, so Cao Pi still couldn't escape.

After coming out of the tunnel, the dazzling sunlight made Cao Pi unable to open his eyes. His pupils adapted for a while and slowly opened his eyes. Cao Pi looked around in a daze.

The eyes were filled with loess, hills, and gullies. There was no figure, and there was no village.

Cao Pi sighed deeply.

He is now completely desperate.

However, he didn't want to be a silent lamb. He was fooled by Sima Yi again. Cao Pi was very angry and turned his head to look at Sima Yi. Cao Pi snorted coldly:

"Sima Yi, what's the use of you escaping here? Do you think you can really escape from my eighth uncle's pursuit?"

Unexpectedly, Sima Yi smiled indifferently, and said:

"Second young master, you were wrong again. I never thought about running away."

"I never thought about running away? Then why are you here to do?"

Cao Pi was puzzled.

Sima Yi looked at a clearing area under the earth slope and said:

"The second young master is so forgetful. Have you forgotten the formation I told you before? This is the starting place of the formation."

When Cao Pi heard this, he hurriedly turned his head to look at the open space below the slope. The surface of the ground hundreds of meters was very flat. It was exposed to the strong wind for years, making it impossible to see even a stone on the open space, as if it had been carefully cleaned.

I remembered that Sima Yi once said that his formation is located underground. Is there any mystery just below this open space?

Cao Pi was shocked.

Instead, Cao Pi thought of a question, but smiled, which was a sarcastic smile, and said to Sima Yi:

"Even if you are secretly hiding the earth-shattering formation, how can you lead my eighth uncle here? Could it be that you have to send a subordinate to come back to Xiaojing and send a message to my eighth uncle, saying that there is a formation here, so that he can ride over alone to try the power?"

After saying that, Cao Pi burst into laughter.

After hearing this, Sima Yi not only did not immediately feel sad as Cao Pi thought, but instead laughed like Cao Pi; his voice was even louder, just like Cao Pi told a funny joke just now.

Cao Pi couldn't laugh when Sima Yi smiled. The reason was that Sima Yi was really scheming. Cao Pi asked himself that he was far from Sima Yi, and I wonder if this guy had already thought of what idea.

Seeing that Cao Pi stopped laughing, but looked at him in confusion, Sima Yi gradually stopped laughing and said to Cao Pi:

"The second young master is worried too much. Yi has his own way to make your eighth uncle come here in a hurry."

After saying that, Sima Yi used the Heavenly Change skill on the earth slope. After a while, the originally clear and windless weather suddenly changed drastically, and it actually caused a strong wind, flying sand and stones, blowing from north to south, towards Xiaojing.

Then, Sima Yi took off Cao Pi's belt in Cao Pi's confusing eyes. After thinking about it, he whispered a few more words to a guard beside him. The guard took the order and scratched the single knife on his arm, bleeding, and then wiped the blood on his arm with the belt.

In this way, Cao Pi's belt was covered with blood, and it was fresh blood.

When Cao Pi saw this, he seemed to know how Sima Yi was going to come here. Before he could react, he grabbed his belt, Sima Yi had already thrown his belt into the sky and flew rapidly towards the south under the influence of strong wind.

"You finally understand why I deliberately asked you to shout that sentence to Wu Fan in the lobby? If you don't shout that sentence, it will be difficult for Wu Fan to believe that you were coerced by me just by the letters in my hand. In this way, this belt will naturally not be able to attract him. Second son, I really should thank you for your cooperation with my plan. Hahahaha..."

Cao Pi looked helplessly at the belt flying further and further away. Sima Yi laughed loudly.
Chapter completed!