Chapter 4 The Hidden Truth

  "Are you really the Yulin Riding Secretary under General Lü's command?" The woman in plain clothes looked at Qin Xu, who was wearing a general's official attire on his small body, and asked him with a suspicious expression.

  "Hmm." Qin Xu replied absent-mindedly. Although this woman was beautiful, in the history of the Three Kingdoms, women who were both beautiful and long-lived were not necessarily good people, often representing endless trouble, and the one in front of him was no exception.

  "How dare you treat him like that?"

  "Who? What?" Qin Xu now only wants to hurry up and leave this place of right and wrong, to go to Cao Cao. After just "rescuing" the woman, he is somewhat regretful of his malicious prank on Wei Xun in a fit of rage, and can only continue to pretend to be confused.

  "How can you be so young and yet not study well?" The woman in the simple clothes seemed to know Qin Xu's thoughts, her eyebrows slightly furrowed, and she said with a hint of rebuke.

  "If I don't study well, would I still be alive now?" Qin Xu said in a bad tone. But in his heart, he was shocked by the woman's unintentionally revealed posture, and his heartbeat slowed down by half a beat. My god, no wonder Wei Xun was so eager to use force, this woman had seven parts of dignity and three parts of seductiveness, her charm was simply emanating from her bones.

  "What are you following me for? Aren't you afraid of me?" The woman's starry eyes gleamed with a hint of cunning as she turned to question Qin Xu.

  "I forgot the way out." Qin Xu replied honestly.

  There's no way to be dishonest, Qin Xu originally wanted to just leave things as they were.

  Just after finishing Wei Xun, Qin Xu muttered to himself: "It's a pity there is no knife, otherwise it would be good to leave him a mark." Then he saw that the woman actually took out a cow ear tip knife from behind her back!

  A knife!

  This woman actually still has a knife on her!?!

  Was that woman's expression of being on the verge of tears and her eyes full of despair all just an act?

  Whatever, anyway it's also considered as doing something for Lü Bu's army and Gao Shun before leaving. Qin Xu couldn't help but laugh and cry under the gaze of this woman, after designing a new "hair style" for Wei Xu's chest hair, only to discover that this woman had extremely skillfully painted a turtle on Wei Xu's head!

  Draw a turtle with a knife! ?

  This is going to get Wei Xun into big trouble!

  Qin Xu felt a bit dry in his mouth as he saw things had reached this point, and suddenly felt that the brains of two lifetimes were not enough to use. The contrast between the weak woman who was wronged and bullied, and the one who drew turtles on people's faces with an unchanged expression, made Qin Xu's heroic spirit of saving the beauty instantly poured a basin of cold water! Can't the subsequent development of things be normal? What is going on here?

  After seeing the woman put away the knife and staring at herself with a pitiful expression, as if asking herself what to do next, Qin Xuan felt his hair stand on end.

  At Qin Xu's suggestion to hurry up and leave, the woman in white clothes surprisingly suggested that Qin Xu fake the scene and make a big noise to attract people. Almost made Qin Xu think she was also crossing over.

  This woman's acting skills are on par with those of later generations' movie queens, she's a legendary figure, but I don't know which historical figure she is.

  It seems that even if she doesn't show up herself, Wei Xun will probably end up getting nothing good from her in the end.

  Years later, Qin Xu casually asked why he didn't kill Wei Xun directly at the time. The woman only said faintly: "At that time, I had a determination to die, and there was a follow-up plan. Killing him would be useless, and it would also implicate you."

  The book has returned to its rightful owner.

  What Qin Xu said made both of them feel a bit awkward after what happened with Wei Xun, causing the two who had just "worked together" to fall into silence.

  The woman in the plain dress didn't know who she was, but she seemed to be very familiar with Lü Bu's General's mansion. After a few turns, she actually led Qin Xu out of the backyard and into a side door.

  "You go out from here, take a hundred steps and turn left, pass through the small gate, it's the back door of the front yard's woodshed." The eyes of the woman in simple clothes were very lively, and her slightly furrowed eyebrows inadvertently made Qin Xuan feel a hint of sympathy.

  "Be careful yourself. Don't be so reckless again. Good luck can't always be on your side." Qin Xu nodded, wanting to say something but realizing that the two of them hadn't even exchanged names yet, he smiled wryly and decided not to say more.

  "Uh-huh."

  "Perhaps I'll never see this strange woman again." Qin Xu shook his head, forcing himself not to take one last look at the woman, and turned to leave.

  It's a chaotic era, the end of Han Dynasty, and the beginning of Three Kingdoms. With just a slight carelessness, one can die without even a burial ground. As soon as the protagonist gets a whiff of royal aura, heroes and beauties flock to him, but in the end, who will be the one to dominate the Central Plains?

  In reality, people will die, everyone wears a mask, and beauties are not necessarily gentle.

  Especially after knowing what will happen in the future.

  Qin Xu just wants to survive.

  Something like this happened, Lü Bu's banquet ended, and it was bound to ask about this matter. Qin Xu was seen by many people when he walked towards the back yard. Although Qin Xu's age and identity would not arouse too much suspicion from others, Qin Xu was not the former Qin Zhongshu after all, and Wei Xun's order was known to everyone, some things Qin Xu could not explain clearly, it was better to think of a countermeasure quickly.

  "Ah! Don't! Be careful!"

  Just as Qin Xu was thinking about how to respond to the questioning, a mysterious woman in white clothes suddenly appeared behind him and let out an astonished cry.

  Qin Xu subconsciously turned his head sharply, but unexpectedly, what greeted him was a long wooden spear that came crashing down on Qin Xu's head from all directions.

  "Bandit, look out for a fight!"

  This was the last thing Qin Xu heard before he fell down.

  Time had passed unknowingly, and the fragrance gradually woke Qin Xu up. He couldn't smell what kind of scent it was on his pillow, but it was warm and fragrant, very pleasant to smell, and Qin Xu couldn't help but take a few more deep breaths.

  Recently, Qin Xu's head seems to be extremely unlucky. On the first day of arriving in the Three Kingdoms, he was beaten twice in the same place. I really don't know if there will be a third time, whether Qin Xu will go back again.

  Qin Xu opened his eyes, without asking the clichéd question of where he was. Because right next to him, less than a meter away from the bed, the woman in white clothes was pulling back a young girl wearing a bright red embroidered battle robe, who looked around eleven or twelve years old, with an innocent face, and at this moment, she was staring unwaveringly at the woman in white. And wasn't the long wooden spear in the red-clothed girl's hand the culprit that had put Qin Xu in this situation?

  "My god, what's going on?" Qin Xu saw the wooden spear and subconsciously picked up something to block in front of him.

  "Debauchee! Lustful demon! I'll kill you! Sister Yan, don't hold me back!" The red-clothed girl's eyes turned red as she saw Qin Xu's movement, her delicate face filled with anger. Suddenly, she pulled her hand out of "Sister Yan"'s grasp and picked up a wooden spear to strike at Qin Xu.

  Unfortunately, the red-clothed girl forgot that Qin Xu was on the bed. The long pole of the wooden spear she swung was blocked by the bed frame, making a loud "crashing" sound, and the entire bed shook violently. Qin Xu didn't dare guarantee that this little girl wouldn't make the bed collapse with her next move.

  "What a huge strength!" Qin Xu swallowed hard, disbelieving his eyes as he stared at the violently powerful girl in front of him.

  The red-clothed girl had a youthful face, but her height was only half a head shorter than the mature and elegant woman in white. Her figure was also not inferior to the woman in white under her tight-fitting dress. The small face filled with anger had two slanted eyebrows that gave off a strong and beautiful impression, and a pair of beautiful eyes were emitting an overwhelming killing intent, causing Qin Xu to subconsciously hold the object in his hand tighter.

  "You!... Sister Yan, look at him!" The young girl in red was still young after all, and after being pulled back by "Sister Yan" again, she looked like she was on the verge of tears.

  Qin Xushun followed the gaze of the red-clothed girl and saw that due to moving on the bed, he had unknowingly pinched a pillow between his legs, finally understanding the source of the girl's anger. He also roughly figured out what had happened.

  "Right, sorry! I really didn't mean to." Qin Zhuli hastily apologized. As a usually very polite person, he couldn't help but notice the girl's attire and temperament, as well as her signature weapon, and if he still didn't know the identity of this red-clothed girl, then Qin Xu would have worn it in vain.

  Lü Lingqi, Lü Bu's only beloved daughter, her mother being Lady Yan, almost became the crown princess of Yuan Shu's pseudo-dynasty. Today, I see that she indeed has a majestic aura about her.

  "Yan sister, he's such a bad egg, a pervert! He actually put someone else's pillow in that place! It stinks!"

  Upon hearing Lü Linggui's words, not only Qin Xu but also the white-clothed woman "Yan sister" broke into a smile.

  "It's really making all the flowers pale in comparison." Qin Xu blurted out.

  "You two little rascals." The woman in white clothes pointed at Qin Xue and said to Lü Ling'ei, "Ling'ei, don't underestimate this young man, he just rescued me from your uncle's hands!"

  "Uncle?" Qin Xu knew something was wrong as soon as he heard this word. How could they have forgotten that Wei Xun is Lü Bu's wife's younger brother, and Lü Lingqi's mother Yan Shi's cousin? This, this, how can you talk nonsense like this? Qin Xu gave the woman in white clothes a somewhat resentful look.

  "That rascal is not my uncle." Unexpectedly, Lü Linggui did not target Qin Xu again as Qin Xu had worried, but instead seemed to have no good feelings towards Wei Xun either.

  Lü Linggui suddenly seemed to remember something, and said to the woman in white: "Yan sister, you said that this rascal rescued you from my rascal uncle, doesn't that mean that even he can't do anything about Master Cai's matter? Do you want me to go beg Father?"

  The woman in the plain dress, "Yan sister", slightly furrowed her brow and shook her head: "That old scoundrel Wang Yun will not agree to it, so let's not bother your father. Fortunately, your Uncle Cai has a high reputation, that old scoundrel dare not make a move so quickly."

  ！！

  Sister Yan! ?

  Uncle Tsai!?!

  King Wang is an old rustic!？

  Qin Xu only felt that his plan to leave Lü Bu's army as soon as possible was being obstructed by too many subjective and objective obstacles!

  Is this woman in plain white mourning clothes with a woman's hair bun really Cai Wenji, who was married to Wei Zhongdao, a man suffering from tuberculosis, and became a widow soon after their wedding, then was abducted by the Xiongnu people and became a princess of the Xiongnu kingdom, and later returned to Central Plains and composed the famous "Eighteen Beats of the Barbarian Flute"? Cai Yan!

  It's all messed up, everything is messed up.

  Cai Yan suddenly appeared in Lü Bu's mansion! ?

  Cai Yan is unexpectedly close to Lü Lingxue like sisters!？

  Cai Yan actually sacrificed herself for a minor character like Wei Xun!?!

  Tsai Ing-wen is so cunning and full of tricks!?!

  Is this a hidden history of the Three Kingdoms or just a small butterfly effect caused by Qin Xu?