Ji Mu 吉穆

In Chapter 69 of the Romance, when Guan Lu says that there will surely be a fire in Xudu the following spring, Cao Cao stays in Ye Commandery and gives the Chief Clerk Wang Bi command of the troops and horses of the Imperial Guard, stationing him outside the Donghua Gate of Xudu. In the 1st month of spring in the 23rd year of Jian'an, the Privy Treasurer Geng Ji, resentful that Cao Cao has risen to the rank of king and uses the Son of Heaven's carriages and robes, consults secretly with the Director of Rectitude Wei Huang, and Wei Huang's trusted confidant Jin Yi proposes to kill Wang Bi by acting together from inside and outside, seize his command and uphold the Son of Heaven's carriage, and to join hands with the Imperial Uncle Liu Bei as support from outside. Romance, Ch. 69 §23–26 · 29–30

Jin Yi says that he has two trusted men, sworn enemies of the traitor Cao Cao for the killing of their father, who live outside the city and could serve as wings, and reveals that they are the sons of the Imperial Physician Ji Ping: the elder is named Ji Miao, with the courtesy name Wenran, and the younger Ji Mu, with the courtesy name Siran. Cao Cao had once killed their father over Dong Cheng's girdle edict affair, and the two sons had escaped disaster by fleeing to a distant countryside, but had already returned secretly to Xudu. When Jin Yi has them summoned in secret, the two Ji brothers soon arrive, and after hearing the matter in detail from Jin Yi, the two weep with emotion and indignation and swear to kill the traitor of the state. Romance, Ch. 69 §30–31

In Jin Yi's plan, Ji Wenran and his brother are to fight their way in from outside the city at the second watch on the night of the fifteenth of the 1st month, setting fires as a signal, raising their voices to call on the people to kill the traitor of the state, and holding off the relief troops from inside the city. The five men swear an oath to Heaven, seal their pact by drinking blood, and each returns home to put troops, horses and weapons in order. Ji Miao and his brother gather three hundred men on the pretext of a hunt and complete their preparations. Romance, Ch. 69 §31–33

On the night of the fifteenth of the 1st month, after the second watch, fire breaks out behind Wang Bi's camp; Wang Bi, struck in the shoulder by an arrow from Geng Ji, flees, realizes from what Jin Yi's wife says that Jin Yi too is one of the conspirators, and reports it to Cao Xiu. Xiahou Dun arrives with a large army, surrounds Xudu and sends a detachment into the city to support Cao Xiu, and the fighting continues until daybreak. Someone reports that Jin Yi and the two Ji brothers have all been killed, and Geng Ji and Wei Huang, fighting their way out through the city gate, are captured by Xiahou Dun's main army. Xiahou Dun puts to death the entire families, old and young, of the five households. Romance, Ch. 69 §34–37 · 41