Wu Jing trembled and was moved when he heard this, thinking that Sun Quan also had a side of love and justice.

He was about to go in for comfort, but words of sobriety came from the cabin again.

"A person lives for one life, and grass lives for one autumn. As long as he dies with value, his life will not be in vain. Zi Lie died heroically in battle, and his head was used by Cao thieves. This is the value."

Wu Jing came to see Sun Quan at night, mainly to remind Cao Cao of his plan to frame the situation. Now that he knew that his nephew's heart was like a mirror, his original worries were put down.

Sun Quan ordered that no one come to the third floor to disturb him. Wu Jingxun thought that he might want to be alone for a while. Since Zhongmou knew that it would be meaningless to disturb him anymore, he turned around and held on to the bulkhead to leave.

The moment he turned around, Wu Jing's ears opened.

It was obviously midsummer, but it was like being in an ice cave. The chill came from the cabin and from Sun Quan's mouth.

"All the more than 20,000 soldiers are gone. He destroyed all my capital to establish a foothold, but he came back licking his face to plead guilty. With my mother helping me to speak, what crime can I be punished for? It would be better to die, or really become a thief.

If you are captured, you can indirectly help me. Damn it."

Wu Jing was ashamed and angry, and also disappointed with Sun Quan.

Family love is not worth mentioning in the face of power, and siblings are thorns on your way forward.

I thought this kid was just thoughtful, but now it sounds like he has no heart at all?

Just die? That's fine.

There is nothing more sad than death. Wu Jing lost his soul and disappeared into the night. Soon there was a thud on the side of the main boat, temporarily interrupting the chirping of summer insects, but it was followed by another chirping sound.

The night guard on the ship heard the noise, and after a brief inspection of the surroundings, he found nothing out of the ordinary. No one paid any attention to it in the dark night.

Early the next morning, Sun Quan's cabin door was smashed and made a clanging sound.

"Cao Jun is calling? Oops."

Sun Quan was so startled that he jumped up from the couch. He didn't consider the height of the cabin and directly pushed a bag on his head. After a closer look, he realized it was Lu Meng.

"Ziming? How can you be so flustered?" Sun Quan covered his head with one hand, his face full of sullen expression.

The midsummer morning should have been extremely refreshing, but beads of sweat kept rolling down Lu Meng's forehead, and he clasped his fists with a grimace on his face: "My lord, something serious has happened. Please come with me to the deck to have a look."

Sun Quan frowned: "What's the big deal?"

"General Wu. He drowned."

"What?"

Sun Quan was stunned for a moment. He quickly put on his coat and ran to the deck with Lu Meng.

On the way to the first deck while holding the stairs, Sun Quan saw a lot of people gathered below. He kept wondering how Wu Jing could drown? Could there be an assassin invasion last night?

Lu Meng introduced the situation as he walked. In the morning, someone found a corpse floating in the lake. When they fished it out, they found it was Wu Jing, but there were no wounds on his body.

Sun Quan came to the deck to inspect, and saw that Wu Jing's whole body was white with water. He squatted on the ground and banged the ship's deck to vent his anger. Then he stood up, looked around at everyone and shouted:

"Who can tell me why the dignified general in command of Jiangdong drowned inexplicably?"

Seeing that everyone was silent, Sun Quan stood up and called Lu Meng, and asked in a deep voice: "Ziming, I want you to investigate the cause of my uncle's death. The main ship is such a big place. Can you investigate it in half a day?"

"I will do my best in the end." Lu Meng responded with clasped fists.

Sun Quan shouted hysterically: "I don't want to try my best, I just want the answer."

"Wei." Lu Meng shouted loudly.

Sun Quan then nodded with satisfaction, asked the others to cooperate with Lu Meng's investigation, and then returned to the cabin. He always felt that Wu Jing's death was strange and that he died in the wrong place.

If he died in battle and there was no news, and then Cao Cao got a fake Wu Jing in exchange, he could send Sun Yi in exchange, that would be the most ideal result.

He was woken up without waking up, and Sun Quan then returned to the cabin and lay down.

While thinking, he closed his eyes in a daze, and snoring slowly came from his nose.

Lu Meng was very efficient at his young age, and the lack of trauma on the body meant that it was not an assassination; then starting with Wu Jing's guards, he learned that Wu Jing did not drink alcohol last night, which ruled out that he fell into the water due to drunkenness;

During the investigation of witnesses, it was discovered that Wu Jing went to the third floor to meet Sun Quan, and finally went down to the first floor and lost sight of him, and did not return to his cabin.

This discovery shocked Lu Meng, and he hurriedly found Sun Quan and woke up his sleeping lord again.

Sun Quan sat up, holding on to the bed board, and asked with half-squinted eyes: "Ziming? Have you finished checking?"

Lu Meng clasped his fists and reported: "My lord, General Wu can rule out homicide or being drunk and falling into the water. When I check the witnesses, the last person who saw General Wu is your guard outside the cabin."

"Um?"

Sun Quan looked puzzled, sat upright and asked, "What next?"

"They said that General Wu went to the third floor last night and disappeared after going downstairs." Lu Meng stopped abruptly in the middle of his words.

Sun Quan was startled at first, and then asked in disbelief: "Does Ziming think it has something to do with me?"

"How dare you not be a general?"

Lu Meng waved his hands hurriedly: "General, I would like to ask my lord to recall whether there was anything unusual about General Wu last night."

"I kept a vigil until midnight last night and didn't see anyone on the third floor. What abnormalities could I find?"

Seeing that Sun Quan's tone was harsh and there was no need to lie to him, Lu Meng hurriedly clasped his fists and explained: "The general has no other intentions. General Wu did not commit suicide or accidentally fell into the water. He could only throw himself into the lake on his own initiative."

"Take the initiative to throw yourself into the lake?"

Sun Quan thought of what Lu Meng had just said, and suddenly thought that he had drunk some wine last night and seemed to have said something to Chen Wu's head. Could it be that his uncle listened to him?

It was so dangerous, but fortunately he committed suicide by throwing himself into the lake, otherwise it would have been unthinkable.

Sun Quan was nervous in his heart, but his face was calm. He looked at Lu Meng and nodded: "Ziming's analysis is reasonable and well-founded. My uncle may have seen Zilie's head being seriously injured, and thought of the previous defeat and blamed himself, so he couldn't think of anything and did something stupid."

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Lu Meng echoed softly: "What the lord said is true. The general estimates that he went upstairs last night just to say goodbye to the lord, but in the end he left silently."

"Alas" Sun Quan sighed and told Lu Meng: "My uncle committed suicide by drowning himself in the lake, causing me to lose a pillar in the east of the Yangtze River. The governor cannot afford to lose anything. You rush to the front line to see him. Anyway, Huainan has been completely lost to the Cao thieves, and we really can't retreat to the Yangtze River."

Forget it, there is no point in fighting head-on at this time. Sooner or later, Cao Cao will go north to fight Yuan Shao for a decisive battle, and it will not be too late for us to make a comeback by then."

"Wei, I will definitely bring the message."

Lu Meng clasped his fists and turned to leave, but Sun Quan temporarily stopped him: "General Wu's matter, you have to keep it secret for the time being. I'm afraid it will affect the morale of the army."

"It will be saved in the end."

Lu Meng then hurried to the front line to convey Sun Quan's thoughts to Zhou Yu.

After hearing this, Zhou Yu said that he knew what he was doing, and signaled Lu Meng to return to Chaohu to reassure Sun Quan. He said that his young lord would not know how to use false or true troops.

Before Lu Meng arrived, Zhou Yu had reached an agreement with Zhang Liao, agreeing to "exchange prisoners" on the south bank of Xiang'an in five days, and said that he would let Sun Yi enter the court.

Zhou Yu gave Cao Cao the person he wanted most in order to use Sun Yi as bait to plot against him.
Chapter completed!