I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 131 Death of Chunyu Deng

Cao Jie found it a little difficult to accept this situation.

"To push Yuan Feng and Yuan Wei to the position of the Three Dukes at this time would be to surrender to them..."

Wang Fu was silent for a while and frowned.

"If this gets out, they might think we are afraid of the Yuan family. If that happens, won't we be even more embarrassed?"

Zhao Zhong also interjected.

"Even if we want to give them the position of the Three Dukes, we can't give it to them at this critical moment, right? It smells too much like surrender. If we really do that, I'm afraid more scholars will take this opportunity to reverse the verdict on the party members."

Yuan She was very dissatisfied with this.

"But if you don't give it to me, how are you going to repair your relationship with the Yuan family? Or are you going to watch the Yuan family and the scholars get closer and closer? Do you still want to continue with your previous goal of dividing the scholars?"

Yuan She's words made the eunuchs even more hesitant.

At the critical moment, it was Zhang Rang who first figured it out and stood up.

"Giving two of the three dukes to the Yuan family at this critical juncture does mean surrender and retreat. But everyone, if you don't give anything, the outside world will definitely misunderstand that we want to fight the Yuan family to the end. At that time, the Yuan family will be forced into a corner, what will they do?
And if we support the second son of the Yuan family to ascend to the position of the Three Dukes, and the second son of the Yuan family accepts it, perhaps we can take this opportunity to spread the word that the Yuan family and us have restored their relationship. In this way, won’t there be another contradiction between the Yuan family and the scholars? "

Upon hearing this, the eunuchs looked at Zhang Rang in surprise.

For a time, many eunuchs felt that Zhang Rang's brain was indeed useful. He worked faster than everyone else and could always find a little hope from disadvantages, which was especially important for the eunuchs.

After Zhang Rang's explanation, what originally seemed like an operation of handing over the spoils after surrendering in defeat turned into an operation to continue to split the relationship between the Yuan family and the scholars, with a bit of the flavor of spiritual victory.

This is much easier to accept.

So, feeling that they had won, a group of Ah Qs made a decision to discuss the matter with Yuan. As long as Yuan agreed, they would work together.

Anyway, Liu Hong would most likely accept what they said. Through the humanoid imperial power device Liu Hong would give two of the three highest positions to the two brothers Yuan Feng and Yuan Wei, helping the Yuan family realize the dream of three highest positions for four generations.

In addition, in order to calm the anger of the Yuan family, they decided to hand over some of the positions of county governor, provincial governor, and county magistrate that they could manipulate to the Yuan family, so that Yuan could arrange them for his own students and former officials.

This was not a punishment of drinking three cups of wine, this was cutting a piece of meat from my body, roasting it and giving it to Yuan to eat.

After you eat this piece of meat, you are not allowed to target us anymore!

Yuan She didn't say anything else, but just added that it would be better for the eunuchs to not have any physical conflicts with the Yuan family. They could just engage in verbal battles but must not involve themselves in offline conflicts.

"Leave Chunyu Deng to me. Also, remember, we have already incurred a lot of blood debts with scholars all over the world. We must not have conflicts with the Yuan family again. Otherwise, there will be no cure!"

The eunuchs did not make any radical remarks about this.

The main thing is that they also know that what Yuan She said makes sense. With the blood feud they have now, if not to say that the blood debt is heavy, it is at least too numerous to list. Leaving behind the powerful Yuan family to appease them, at least they can gain room for buffer.

If even the Yuan family becomes our blood enemy, then we may not be able to keep our composure and avoid a catastrophe.

So if you think about it, the reason why they wanted to deal with the Yuan family before was simply because they were instigated and implicated by others.

It started with Hou Lan, and then Duan Gui. Both of them had grudges against Zhang Jian, and Zhang Jian was hiding with Yuan Shu, so this series of actions took place.

So half an hour later, the two major eunuch factions headed by Wang Fu and Cao Jie avoided Duan Gui and held a private meeting. They decided to launch a round of liquidation against Duan Gui on the basis of liquidation against Hou Lan, to completely eliminate Duan Gui's faction and use Duan Gui's flesh and blood to make up for the flesh and blood they had ceded to the Yuan family.

Yuan She wanted to kill Chunyu Deng, and they also wanted to deal with Duan Gui.

The eunuchs did not gain any benefits in this round of conflict, but instead had to cut off their own flesh and blood to compensate the Yuan family. With such a huge failure and loss, someone must be held responsible for it, right?
Hou Lan and Duan Gui are two guys who are incapable of doing anything good and are more likely to cause trouble than to do anything. They only know how to mislead people, and they are misleading the hearts of our own people. If we keep them, the Yuan family will not feel at ease, and the eunuchs will also be uncomfortable.

The liquidation operation against Duan Gui was launched secretly, and Duan Gui's life entered a countdown.

Yuan She didn't care about all this.

He has his own things to do.

After he returned to Luoyang, in addition to attending a meeting, he immediately went to settle accounts with Chunyu Deng.

Originally, he just wanted to break up with Chunyu Deng, but the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that he had suffered a great loss, so he made up his mind to make Chunyu Deng pay the price.

He led his men to drag Chunyu Deng out of the hut where he was hiding, and beat him violently, leaving him half to death.

"You are stupid. You have implicated me. The Yuan family is an important supporter of mine. Without me, the Yuan family would still be a noble family. Without the Yuan family, I would not be able to maintain my current position. And you want to destroy my foundation. How can I tolerate you?"

Yuan She brought many young and strong eunuchs, surrounded all of Chunyu Deng's cronies, disarmed them, and then killed them one by one, chopped off their heads, and dragged their bodies away to feed the dogs.

Finally, Chunyu Deng, who was beaten like a pig, was left lying before Yuan She, begging for mercy. Tears were streaming down his face, and he was pissing and shitting, looking very ugly.

"I was wrong, I was wrong. Please spare my life for the sake of our friendship..."

Chunyu Deng, with blood all over his face, crawled to Yuan She's feet, reached out and grabbed Yuan She's ankle, holding on tightly and begging bitterly.

Yuan She sighed deeply.

Thinking of the past scenes of his good friendship with Chunyu Deng, he felt somewhat touched, but he quickly shook his head, erased all those scenes, and left only pure interests.

"Before I left Luoyang, I warned you repeatedly not to get involved in the affairs of those idiots. You and I have a close relationship, and you must not become an enemy of the Yuan family, otherwise it will affect me. You didn't listen, and even came to deceive me in person. Now, how do you want me to face Yuan Feng and Yuan Wei?"

Chunyu Deng spat out a few mouthfuls of blood and continued to beg Yuan She to spare his life. He just wanted to be allowed to live and to have something to eat. He didn't want anything else.

But Yuan She still shook his head.

"Don't blame me. Blame yourself. Of course, you can also blame Duan Gui. I don't think Duan Gui will survive. When you get to the underworld, remember to settle the score with Duan Gui."

After saying that, Yuan She pulled out a sharp dagger from his arms, and the dagger, flashing with a cold light, pierced straight into Chunyu Deng's chest under his horrified gaze.

Yuan She closed his eyes and stabbed in and pulled out, stabbed in and pulled out, repeating this eight times until Chunyu Deng was dead beyond death.

Then, he used Chunyu Deng's luxurious clothes to wipe the blood off the dagger, and gave orders to his confidants beside him with an expressionless face.

"Cut off his head, treat it with lime, and put it in a nice box. I still have a use for it. As for the body, drag it out and feed it to the dogs."

"Here."

The confidants, with a look of panic on their faces, immediately dragged Chunyu Deng's body away, completed a whole set of procedures quickly and skillfully, and soon handed an elegant and exquisite wooden box to Yuan She.

For these young eunuchs, this is also a traditional craft.

Yuan She took the wooden box and some exquisite gifts and set out to visit his family.

At this moment, in Yuan Mansion, Yuan Feng was receiving the matchmaker from Jingzhao Du family.

Upon learning that Yuan was interested in their family, the Du family became very excited and mobilized all the clan members to select a woman who met Yuan Shu's needs.

Fair skin, beautiful appearance, proud figure, well-educated, good at needlework, gentle temperament, tolerant and generous, etc.

To be honest, all the members of the Du family felt that Yuan Shu’s requirements were a bit strict, but no one thought that Yuan Shu’s requirements were very high.

Because with his identity, status, fame and power, it was natural for him to choose his wife according to the same standards as for choosing a queen.

At most, everyone felt that Yuan Shu was very particular about his requirements for his wife, and was worried that there was no suitable female member in his family who could stand out and catch her eye.

The Yuan family finally chose our family and they have the intention to have further contact with us. How could we let them down in terms of selection?
The head of the Du family has even made up his mind that as long as there is a suitable female relative, even if she is just a illegitimate child from a side branch, he will make special arrangements to quickly adopt her into the name of the eldest son of the main branch, making her the undisputed legitimate daughter of the eldest son under the patriarchal system, and marrying her off with the most honorable ceremony in the family.

After some trouble, the Du family selected the five most suitable female candidates of marriageable age and brought them all to the head of the family for examination. The head of the family then carefully selected the best three and sent painters to paint their portraits. The portraits were then taken to Yuan Mansion and handed over to Yuan Feng for examination.

Yuan Feng also took on the attitude of a big boss of the time, and screened Yuan Shu with the most discerning and strict attitude, and would never compromise.

And in order to ensure Yuan Shu's right to know, he also let Yuan Shu participate in the selection.

It must be said that although the selection was limited to the Du family, the Du family itself was also the winner and the essence of the best among the best for hundreds of years. It had been prosperous for more than 200 years and became rich earlier than the Yuan family of Runan. Naturally, there was no shortage of handsome men and beautiful women in the family.

The Jingzhao Du family originated from Du Zhou, the imperial censor during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty. It has been more than two hundred years since then, and has been passed down continuously in Guanzhong.

His family has had high-ranking officials and nobles from generation to generation, and has intermarried with many wealthy and powerful families. It has also intermarried with some emerging small families in Guanzhong, which has achieved the good effect of having a high level of control over both the upper and lower levels.

For example, the Maoling Cai family, which was once targeted by the Yuan family, was just a small corner of the Du family's overall strategy to control the marriage of their subordinates.

In this way, Du actually has a little grudge against Yuan Shu.

However, Mrs. Du had no intention of revenge at all, and would never cause any unpleasantness with Yuan Shu just because of the descendants of Mrs. Cai and a concubine's daughter from a side branch.

Worthless.

Now that there is an opportunity to marry Yuan Shu himself, Mrs. Du has long thrown all these things out of her mind. The whole family is mobilized and is determined to grab this big pie that fell from the sky and not let it fall into the mouth of others!

Especially when the head of the Du family learned that the Wei family was still trying to win over Yuan Shu, he became even more anxious.

(End of this chapter)