Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Chapter 69: It is easy to prove “guilty” but difficult to prove “innocent”
  Hearing this, Li Ji felt relieved and understood that the matter of wooing Jia Xu to join Liu Bei's command was mostly done.

For people like Jia Xu, there is no use following him.

Jia Xu is a person who cares about his body and life. He wants to impress Jia Xu with his passion or lofty ideals, but Jia Xu will never pay any attention to him.

Only by showing the naked benefits to Jia Xu will Jia Xu be truly tempted.

However, those benefits to Jia Xu, almost any sentence are taboo words that cannot be stated openly, and they are hinting that the big man is going to die, either overtly or covertly.

Only in a place like this can one have the opportunity to truly communicate with Jia Xu.

As for Jia Xu’s worries...

Li Ji smiled and said.

"This matter is easy. The person who left the blood letter in his infancy is either a murderer or a benefactor. Whether it is the murderer or the benefactor is decided between you and me."

Jia Xu asked with a half-smile. "It seems that if I don't agree to join Liu Xuande's command, then Mr. Zikun will definitely insist that I am the murderer?"

Li Ji waved his hands repeatedly and denied.

"How could it be? Ji is a pure and honest gentleman, and he would never do anything that would tarnish a person's innocence."

"That's right, that's right. I, Jia Xu, am also a gentle gentleman, so naturally I won't do such evil things."

The next moment, Li Ji and Jia Xu looked at each other and smiled, both showing a faint smile, completely interpreting the phrase "the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water".

'Li Zikun's heart is so dark...'

'Jia Wenhe is indeed evil-hearted. '

However, Li Ji and Jia Xu did not reveal their inner thoughts at all, but began to discuss some details on the blood letter to avoid exposing the secrets.

However, a closer look at this issue will inevitably involve Li Ji's origin.

In other words, Li Ji has been avoiding talking about his past since he joined Liu Bei, in order to prevent Liu Bei from delving into his origins.

After all, Li Ji is a real gangster who cannot withstand investigation at all. Even if he wants to make something up, he can't make it up without knowing the situation of the nobles in various places.

For example, Li Ji directly fabricated that he was the legitimate son of the Li family in Nanyang. It turned out that he only had to check the Nanyang official files and found that perhaps the Li family had never existed in Nanyang.

Or, even if Li Ji bluntly stated that he was from a commoner, others would continue to ask in detail which township or village he was from.

Lies without a certain factual basis cannot withstand any scrutiny.

This time, in order to recruit Jia Xu, Li Ji did not hesitate to personally fabricate the matter of the infant blood letter. Instead of denying it, it is better to take advantage of the situation and make a fuss about it.

"What Ji said is all true. He was abandoned in the wilderness when he was still an infant. I don't know where his clan is." Li Ji replied.

When Jia Xu heard this, it was not surprising.

Today's world is in chaos, with disasters happening from time to time. Similar to Xia Houyuan's son who was forced to starve to death, it is not surprising that many members of aristocratic families unfortunately passed away while traveling, leaving their blood behind.

However, what is needed now is to fabricate an origin for Li Ji that can be related to the infant blood letter and his benefactor Jia Xu, which makes Jia Xu slightly embarrassed.

Jia Xu frowned, and after thinking for a long time, he spoke.

"Zi Kun, I look at the gentry in Liangzhou. Among them, there is the Li family in Longxi, and Li Guang was born in it during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Since then, the Li family in Longxi has declined all the way and has become a poor family, with few heirs, and many branches are even more popular. If it is cut off, it will be difficult to study the origins of future generations.”

? ? ! !
  Li Ji.

The Li family of Longxi, this Li family has been reduced to a poor family in Jia Xu's mouth. Why does Li Ji sound more and more familiar to him!

and many more……

Didn't Li Shimin claim to be from the Li family in Longxi?

Okay, okay, as expected of Jia Wenhe, he just made it up and lifted me to an unimaginable height.

Even if everything Li Ji did was forcibly corrected to the original trajectory of history, when Li Shimin, who would later call himself "Khan of Heaven", saw my name, wouldn't he have to kowtow to it first?
  Of course, this is not without its disadvantages. If someone secretly scolds Li Shimin as "your ancestor" in the future, it will be regarded as bringing Li Ji into it.

Li Ji felt really guilty for arranging his origin in such a way to take advantage of future generations, so he asked.

"Wen He, is there no other better choice?"

Jia Xu, who is from Liangzhou, replied.

"This is the most appropriate. Twenty-one years ago, there were other noble families named Li in Liangzhou where I lived. Their genealogies are also complete and difficult to falsify."

Li Ji sighed deeply, suppressed the corners of his mouth that floated inadvertently, and said, hiding his guilt.

"That's it. Please tell Wen He the specific situation of the Li family in Longxi so that I can be prepared."

Immediately, Jia Xu recalled a little and then told the information about the Li family in Longxi.

Of course, since the Li family in Longxi could only be considered a poor family, Jia Xu did not know much information, but it was enough for Jia Xu and Li Ji to fabricate a story related to the Li family in Longxi.

Basically: a branch of the Li family in Longxi was robbed by horse bandits and the whole family was killed. Only a woman hid at the bottom of a well holding a baby, and was accidentally rescued by Jia Xu who was passing by for a visit the next day.

Later, the woman was soaked in well water for a long time and had a high fever. When she was dying, she entrusted the baby to Jia Xu's hands.

However, just when Jia Xu was about to take the baby to the main line of the Li family in Longxi to return it, he unexpectedly encountered horse bandits on the way. In order to save the baby's life, Jia Xu bit his finger and wrote "Wuwei Jia Wenhe" on the swaddling clothes. He then placed it on a wooden basin and let it drift down the Tao River. Jia Xu went towards it. Go up the Tao River to lure away the horse bandits.

……

The next day.

"Ugh……"

Jia Xu let out a long sigh, and faced Liu Bei, whose eyes were already red, and said with emotion.

"At that time, the reason why I left a blood letter in my infancy was because as soon as I saw the baby, I felt a deep sense of fate and regarded it as my own son. I thought that if Wen He did not die, the baby would not die either, and one day we might be able to identify each other based on the blood letter. .”

"Mr. Wenhe!!!"

Li Ji cried bitterly and threw himself in front of Jia Xu. It was a tear-jerking scene of farewell to his benefactor.

However, from an angle that only Jia Xu could see, Li Ji gave Jia Xu a look that said, "Enough is enough, don't add drama to yourself."

Among the scenes agreed in advance last night, there was no part about them being regarded as parents and children. This was obviously an attempt to take advantage of Li Ji.

However, Jia Xu turned a blind eye to Li Ji's reminder. Instead, he touched Li Ji's head lovingly and said.

"Today, Xu and Zikun meet again. It is truly God's will. It will comfort me for the rest of my life."

Zhao Yun on the side saw this, his face was moved, and he couldn't help but asked with some doubts.

"Then why did Mr. Zikun misunderstand him as an enemy when he asked Mr. Zikun yesterday?"

Jia Xu shook his head and said.

"This happened sixteen years ago, and the baby had no name. At that time, all I could think about was: I have always been good to others, but how could I ever have such a deep hatred for Li Zikun? But for a moment, I never thought of the person I put in Tao Babies above the water.”

"How to prove it?" Zhao Yun looked at Li Ji, who seemed to be in a state of confusion, and asked again.

Jia Xu held up the cloth with the blood letter "Wuwei Jia Wenhe" written on it and said.

"Last night I wrote it in blood again. When Zikun saw the writing, he judged that it was written by the same person as the one he had written in his swaddling clothes. This is enough proof."

When he said this, Jia Xu lowered his eyes slightly, and his eyes were moist, as if he was about to shed tears.

In fact, it hurts!

Li Ji secretly twisted Jia Xu's thigh with force to remind him to shut up.

At this moment, Liu Bei wiped away his tears and said with emotion.

"Perhaps there is God's will in the dark. It is difficult for Bei to imagine how Zikun drifted down the Tao River thousands of miles away. After sixteen years, he met Bei in Zhuoxian County and sent Zikun away. Arriving at Bei’s side…”

"Also, perhaps God couldn't bear to see Mr. Wen He and Zikun separated, so he arranged for you to meet again in Julu City sixteen years later."

"As I see it, if we take this opportunity to meet again, what if Mr. Wenhe accepts Zikun as his adopted son, and Zikun also regards Mr. Wenhe as his adopted father, and continue this fate that has been interrupted for sixteen years? ?”

In an instant, the expressions of Li Ji and Jia Xu stiffened.

how is it?

That's obviously not very good.

Both Li Ji and Jia Xuke knew very well that the two sides were just playing along, and with this relationship, Jia Xu could integrate into Liu Bei's small group as soon as possible after joining Liu Bei.

However, Jia Xu didn't want to be a father at all, and Li Ji didn't want to have multiple adoptive fathers on his head.

However, as a "non-stick pan" expert, Jia Xu subconsciously asked the question to Li Ji.

"Zikun, what do you think?"

Li Ji:......

"Su Wen: My parents are here and I won't travel far away. However, Ji's relatives were buried in Longxi but I didn't know anything about it. Now I am so confused and confused that I can't wait to return to Longxi in a hurry to find my fellow clansmen to serve the elders and talk about blood and family ties..."

Listening to Li Ji's choked words, Liu Bei's eyes widened and he almost cried.

Liu Bei was not willing to let Li Ji go to Longxi County, Liangzhou. He immediately forgot about the suggestion that Li Ji should become Jia Xu's adoptive father and comforted Li Ji repeatedly.

Finally, Li Ji, who finally calmed down a lot, picked up the cloth that Jia Xu had written in blood and left the room to have some quiet time alone.

Only Jia Xu knew clearly that what Li Ji took was the blood book and cloth. It was clearly the "book of life and death", and he was deliberately leaving space for Jia Xu and Liu Bei.

If Jia Xu had not worshiped Liu Bei as his master, then Li Ji, who was guarding the door with a blood book, might have claimed on the spot that the handwriting on the cloth was different from that of the infant blood book.

Then, Li Ji's words are enough to overturn all the stories that Jia Xu has just fabricated, and to completely define Jia Xu as a cunning villain who is extremely evil and has a grudge against Li Ji to destroy his family.

Anyway, what can Li Ji remember when he was still a baby sixteen years ago?

On the contrary, the blood-stained book and cloth in Li Ji's hands are now solid evidence, enough to be used as sufficient evidence to take off Jia Xu's head.

At this moment, Jia Xu deeply understood what it means: It is easy to prove "guilty" but difficult to prove "innocent".

(End of this chapter)