Three Kingdoms: I choose Xiao Qiao and Da Qiao, why are you crying, Diao Chan?

Chapter 460: Using the opponent's trick against him! (Thanks to my brother Shengci and book friends 202...239 for their monthly ticket support~)

"Squeak."

The door opened, and Lu Bu and Chen Wu walked into the room and saw the assassin tied to a chair.

Considering that the previous assassin committed suicide by biting his tongue.

He had to think about how to prevent the assassin from dying and at the same time be willing to give up the mastermind.

Lu Bu looked at Chen Wu and asked:
"Zi Lie, how do you think we can make this guy confess who is behind this?"

Chen Wu pondered and said:

"There are many torture methods that can be used, such as hanging the man upside down and sawing him in half from the perineum downwards.

“Or you can prepare a giant wooden spike and let him sit on it, so that the spike can penetrate his internal organs little by little until it comes out of his head.

“Oh, there is another way, tie him to the boat and cover him with honey.

"Prepare some wild bees that can continuously eat honey and sting people, and let them sting them to death..."

After listening to the three punishments mentioned by Chen Wu, even Lu Bu, who had killed countless people on the battlefield, felt his scalp tingling.

Could it be that Chen Wu has lost his hands, so his mind has become abnormal?

When the assassin next to him heard Chen Wu's words, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he was obviously frightened.

Lu Bu turned his head to look at the assassin and asked with a smile:

"If you are willing to reveal the mastermind behind this, I can spare your life, or at least give you a quick death.

"But if you don't confess, then I can only follow the punishments Zilie provided and let you try them all."

Hearing this, the assassin's eyes became more and more frightened.

However, he hesitated for a long time and still did not express his opinion.

Lu Bu quickly lost his patience and said to the guard beside him with a gloomy face:

“Go, get a big saw, and hang this man upside down.

"I want to see him being sawed in half, starting with his second brother!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the assassin tied to the chair turned pale instantly!
His body began to struggle violently, and his mouth, which was stuffed with a wooden stick, made vague "er er er" sounds.

Seeing that the other party was finally willing to speak, Lu Bu curled the corners of his mouth and ordered someone to take off the other party's shoes.

A brush was clamped between the opponent's big toe and index toe, and a piece of white paper was spread on the ground, asking the opponent to write down the name of the mastermind behind the scenes.

Then the assassin tremblingly wrote two crooked words on the paper:
"Cao Cao!"

When he saw this name, Lu Bu's face suddenly changed!
The person who sent the assassin was actually Cao Cao? !
How can this be?

The six generals of the Cao family all worked under him, and they were rewarded according to their merits last time.

There is no reason for Cao Cao to send assassins to kill him?
Could it be that the other party wanted to kill him so that they could replace him in the future?
If this is true, then it seems reasonable that the other party did not send people to kill his wives and concubines...

Lu Bu couldn't care less at this moment. He immediately pulled the stick out of the assassin's mouth, grabbed his collar and asked:
"Are you sure the person who ordered you is Cao Cao?!"

The assassin nodded repeatedly:

"It is absolutely true! It was Cao Cao who sent this villain to assassinate you.

"He also said...he also said..."

"What else can you say?!"

"He also said... that we must not hurt the beauties in the mansion. By then, these beauties will all be his people..."

As soon as these words were spoken, even though Lu Bu was always calm, a surge of karma could not help but rush to his forehead!

He really guessed it right!
If they were coveting his wives and concubines, that's why nothing happened to them, then that makes sense!
Otherwise, wouldn't it be easy for these assassins to sneak into the mansion and assassinate a few powerless women?
Chen Wu, who was standing by, was also furious when he heard this, and immediately said to Lu Bu:

“No wonder Cao Cao asked Xiahou Dun and his men to come first, but he himself did not come.

"On the surface, they want Xiahou Dun and the others to help Duke Chu, but in reality, they want to develop their strength in our army and suddenly stab us in the back one day in the future!"

Hearing what Chen Wu said, Lü Bu, who was in a rage, felt that this was the case! Although he took advantage of this opportunity to split the six generals of the Cao family into pairs and sent them to various places to guard.

But he had already brought the two young men, Cao Ang and Cao Chun, back to Wancheng.

Originally, he admired these two young people and planned to train them well.

However, it now seems that if their motives are really impure, then it is definitely a huge hidden danger!

Lu Bu immediately stuffed the stick back into the assassin's mouth and ordered Chen Wu to guard him well.

He turned and walked out of the room, ordering someone to call Liu Ye and Zhou Yu over.

Then he went straight to the study to wait for them.

Soon, Liu Ye arrived first, but Zhou Yu seemed to have gone out for something, and the servants did not find him.

Lu Bu did not wait for the other party and directly told Liu Ye the mastermind behind the incident as revealed by the assassin.

After hearing this, Liu Ye's face was full of surprise.

But soon, he vaguely felt that something was wrong.

He asked back with doubt in his eyes:
"My lord, do you really believe what the assassin said?

"Is it possible that this is the work of other forces who are using others' skills to kill people?"

"Ok?"

Hearing Liu Ye's words, Lu Bu immediately narrowed his eyes.

The heart that was originally filled with anger suddenly calmed down.

After carefully considering Liu Ye's opinion, Lu Bu felt that what he said was equally possible.

If you think about it carefully, it would be too difficult for Cao Cao to seize the throne by relying on his six family generals.

Moreover, Cao Cao has always been cautious in his actions. How could he let the assassin see his true face or know his identity?

He even said in front of the assassin, "Those women will be his sooner or later."

It doesn't fit Cao Cao's style at all!

Following this line of thought, Lu Bu felt more and more that what Liu Ye said was right.

It seems that someone really wants to use me to get rid of Cao Cao and the six generals of the Cao family!

I just don’t know whether the real mastermind was Zhuge Liang or Liu Xie.

Apart from these two forces, there should be no third party.

Lu Bu breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Liu Ye approvingly:

"Luckily you are here, Ziyang. Otherwise, I might have fallen into the enemy's trap."

Liu Ye did not get complacent because of the praise, but said seriously:

“Having said that, we do have to guard against the possibility that Cao Cao might do something like this.

"These six generals of the Cao family can be used, but they must not be reused!"

Lu Bu said "hmm" in agreement:
"I will pay attention to this matter. But how should we deal with the assassin?"

After thinking for a moment, Liu Ye suddenly said:

"Why don't we use their own trick against him? Let's deliberately leak the false news of the execution of the six generals of the Cao family to the assassin, and then let him escape quietly.

"Then send someone to secretly follow him to see which direction he escapes to.

“In this way, we can basically determine which force sent the assassin.

“In addition, recently many of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao’s former subordinates have been absorbed by the imperial court and Gongsun Zan.

"Perhaps we can take this opportunity to alienate some generals and civil officials and use them for our own purposes!"

(End of this chapter)