"I'll fuck you shit!" Li Xu scolded loudly, and at the same time grabbed his subordinates one by one and slapped them wildly, "You stupid, blind? How dare you offend the descendants of the saints! Long live the Lord personally went to Qufu, Shandong Province and didn't dare to enter the Confucian Mansion through the middle gate, you gang of Wang Eight Lambs and Turtle Sons dared to search the old people and young ladies of the Confucian Mansion, did you eat leopard gall? ”

In order to prevent Kong Xingyu from stabbing himself into the court, provoking Kangxi's anger, the rebellion of the people in the world and the Confucian students, Li Xu was merciless when he beat his men, and beat those low-grade imperial guards with their faces full of flowers, and the corners of their mouths oozed blood. But those imperial guards were not angry about this, they just kept kowtowing to the tablet of Confucius, and even said that the students should die. Fortunately, Kong Xingyu's family are all descendants of saints, with everyone's demeanor, Kong Xingyu just bowed his hand to Li Xu and said: "Lord Li, Kong Xingyu swears in the name of his ancestors, there are indeed no entrained assassins on this ship, but there are old mothers and young sisters in the cabin, there are many inconveniences, I really can't let you adults enter the cabin to search, please believe in the next, let the next be a little filial piety." ”

"Of course, that's of course." Li Xu, who was praised by Kangxi as a loyal hound, suddenly became a good baby who respected his parents, nodded and said: "After Mr. Kong is worthy of being a saint, his mother is filial piety, and he is really a model for people in the world. After that, Li Xu turned his head and yelled at his subordinates viciously: "Hurry up and get off the boat, disturb the old lady of the Confucian Mansion, Lao Tzu has picked your skin!" Prepare four more boats to escort the spiritual seat of Sage Kong to the north! ”

"Lord Li, there is no need for this, the reason why we hide our identities is that my mother does not want to alarm the local government to welcome and send off extravagantly, which will increase the burden on the people, and my lord is sending military ships to escort it, which will go against my mother's original intention." Kong Xingyu hurriedly stopped and explained. At that time, although there were many illiterate magistrates who could not read a single big character, most of the officials were still from serious academic backgrounds, and the descendants of Confucius escorted Confucius's spiritual throne to the south and north. Therefore, Li Xu hurriedly changed his words and asked the army to stop preparing, respectfully kowtowed to the spiritual position and disembarked, personally sent Kong Xing's boat to pass the customs, and sent someone to quickly notify Sun Wencheng, the in-law of the next checkpoint, so that Sun Wencheng could prepare and avoid making the same mistake again.

Not to mention that Li Xu breathed a sigh of relief and scolded his subordinates who made obscenities, but Wu Yuanming also breathed a long sigh of relief when he saw the Danyang River Defense Checkpoint gradually disappearing from view, and he was busy with Dai Zi, Pu Songling and Yin Shijie who rushed to hear the news and other scholars kowtowed to Confucius's spiritual position, Wu Lu, Jin Dao and Zhu Fangdan, who was half a scholar, also kowtowed respectfully, but Wang Ying'er stood still and refused to bow down. Wu Yuanming, who wanted to win over the world's scholars, was afraid that his niece would ruin his own affairs, so he hurriedly shouted: "Ying'er, why are you so ignorant? Quickly kowtow to the spiritual position of Sage Kong! ”

"It's not that I'm ignorant, it's mainly that I scolded the descendants of Sage Kong a few days ago, I kowtow to him now, will Sage Kong forgive me?" Wang Ying'er replied pitifully. Wu Yuanming and Kong Xingqi both laughed, Kong Xingqi smiled and said: "Miss Wang doesn't have to care, our family won't care about trivial things - but please scold a little less in the future." Wang Ying'er was overjoyed, quickly knelt down and kowtowed to Confucius's spiritual seat, clasped her palms together and prayed: "Don't scold in the future, don't dare to scold the descendants of Sage Confucius again, otherwise my father, grandfather and uncle will not spare me, and Sage Kong will not bless me." ”

"Hahahaha......." Wang Ying'er's exaggerated actions and words caused everyone to laugh again, and the estrangement was gone. After an intimate and polite exchange with the three brothers of Kong Xingqiu, Wu Yuanming asked Kong Xingqiu: "Mr. Kong, how noble is the ancestral spiritual position?" Why did the gentleman take the spiritual throne thousands of miles south to visit relatives in Taizhou? Kong Xingyu sighed and replied: "The family is unfortunate, my Kong family has a Miao descendant in Taizhou, just because the head of the Miao family passed away, the brothers quarreled for property, the old lady couldn't suppress it, and had no choice but to repair the book and ask the family to be strict." In line with the principle of family and prosperity, my mother personally led the four of us brothers and sisters to escort the ancestral spirit to the south, and let several cousins kowtow in front of the spirit and shake hands and talk happily, which resolved the situation of their brothers' rivalry. ”

"I see." Wu Yuanming nodded and sighed, and said in his heart, no wonder you Kong Xingyu dared to swagger and said that he was going to go to Zhu Yuanzhang's mausoleum to worship, it turned out that with the support of such a tough ancestor, the Jiangning government would not dare to trouble you even if he ate the leopard's gall. Thinking of this, Wu Yuanming had an idea, and said in his heart that there are many acquaintances in Jiangning City at this moment, and these hardcore traitors such as Wei Dongting and Wu Ciyou are in the city, maybe they happened to bump into it that day and caused a big disaster, if they can make good use of the golden sign of the descendants of Confucius, it may save a lot of trouble.

"How can I make use of this descendant of Confucius? It is definitely not possible to explain the situation to them directly, these famous families are the most afraid of things, and they are definitely unwilling to join the industry of anti-Qing and Ming restoration. I have to find a way to use their identities to help me cover and even help me help other anti-Qing forces, but what should I do? Also, my godfather must ask me to go to the Ming Tomb to worship, for what? Wu Yuanming faced the night wind, stared at the stars in the night sky and thought hard, but he didn't notice that Kong Xingyu, Pu Songling and the others couldn't resist the late night, and had already returned to the cabin to rest. And Wu Lu knew that Wu Yuanming didn't like to be disturbed when he was thinking about things, so he sat at the door of the cabin and waited for Wu Yuanming to come back to his senses, and he fell asleep unconsciously......

"Those poems that tempted the literati to the tomb of Ming Xiao, are they the tricks of the Tartars?" Because he had too little information, Wu Yuanming was always obsessed with those mysterious verses, worried that this was a trick set up by the Qing army, in a vain attempt to wipe out the anti-Qing literati in Jiangnan. But the occasional clues reveal that this matter is not so simple, Wu Yuanming even vaguely feels that there seems to be his godfather Yao Qisheng's black hand behind this matter - there are not many people in the world who can forge so much handwriting, but in this way, Wu Yuanming is even more confused, if there is really a godfather interfering in this matter, why is he doing this? And why didn't he tell himself......

"Wu Gongzi, it's late at night, why don't you go back to rest?" When Wu Yuanming was puzzled, a gentle voice floated into his ears, and at the same time, a thin woolen blanket was draped over Wu Yuanming's body, "Wu Gongzi, it's cold at night, be careful not to catch a cold." ”

"Ahh It's a little cold. It was only at this moment that Wu Yuanming found that his whole body had been soaked with dew, and he hurriedly grabbed the blanket and wrapped his whole body tightly, but a thought suddenly flashed in his mind - could the godfather want to create a fake third prince Zhu? As long as we have the third prince Zhu in our hands, it will be much easier to win over the Jiangnan literati. Thinking about this, Wu Yuanming was so excited that he couldn't help but punch the side of the ship, and said in his heart that it was no wonder that the godfather was so sure about encircling the Jiangnan literati, it turned out that he still had such a plan!

"No, who brought me the blanket just now?" It wasn't until this moment that Wu Yuanming remembered that someone had put a blanket on him, and hurriedly turned around to look at the person next to him, but saw Kong Xingyu's veiled sister, who was standing behind him like a peony in the wind, and there was no one else, obviously the person who put the blanket on himself turned out to be this Miss Kong who was blown into the sky by Zhu Fangdan - Wu Yuanming didn't even know what her name was, and Wu Lu and Jin Dao, who were sleeping in the hatch, also had two more blankets. Miss Kong couldn't help but smile when she saw that Wu Yuanming had only reacted at this moment, and said softly: "Wu Gongzi, what are you thinking?" How can you lose your mind to this point? ”

"I'm really sorry, I thought about something at home, so I lost my mind." Wu Yuanming's face was full of embarrassment, and he hurriedly apologized to Miss Kong, "Miss Kong, I'm really sorry, I'm really rude, thanks to your concern for my cheap body, I didn't even have a word of thanks." Damn, shit! While speaking, Wu Yuanming peeked at the Miss Kong family carefully for the first time, but saw her standing there quietly, indifferent, elegant, and in the moonlight of Qing Tan, it was so hazy that it seemed that she didn't eat fireworks. It was only at this moment that Wu Yuanming believed Zhu Fangdan's words, this Miss Kong's temperament is indeed rare in the world.

"Wu Gongzi doesn't have to be polite, I can't sleep at night, so I went to the deck to breathe, and when I saw that you were distracted here and your body was soaked with dew, I went back to the cabin and got a blanket for you to put on." Miss Kong seemed to be afraid that Wu Yuanming would misunderstand her, so she hurriedly explained what happened. Although Wu Yuanming didn't think much about it, he couldn't find anything to talk to Miss Kong for a while, and the two of them were cold. After a long time, Miss Nakong took the initiative to speak: "Wu Gongzi, dare to ask, I saw that you are very afraid of the official search tonight, I don't know what the reason is?" ”

"I didn't ...... For no reason, because ...... Because....... Wu Yuanming swallowed, if he wanted to change the usual, Wu Yuanming came up with a hundred reasons to get by, but in front of this Miss Kong, who exuded an unblasphemous temperament all over his body, Wu Yuanming couldn't even think of a single lie. Miss Kong smiled again and said softly: "If it is inconvenient for Wu Gongzi to answer, you don't have to answer, it is the little girl who is presumptuous." ”

"Thank you, Miss Kong, for your thoughtfulness." Wu Yuanming wiped his cold sweat very much, and secretly said that Zhu Fangdan's pervert really didn't lie, and in front of this Miss Kong family, it was really difficult to tell lies and obscenities. However, in this way, the relationship between Wu Yuanming and Miss Nakong was cold again, and neither of them could find the words to speak, and Miss Nakong seemed to feel very uncomfortable in such an atmosphere, so she bowed to Wu Yuanming Yingying and said goodbye: "Wu Gongzi, don't bother you to think about big things, the little girl will go back to the room to rest first." It was windy at night, and Childe rested earlier. ”

"I'll send Miss Kong." Wu Yuanming hurriedly made an invitation gesture. But at this moment, Wu Yuanming suddenly heard the sound of ping-pong weapons hitting from the canal, and Miss Kong also stopped when she heard this sound, turned to the west bank and looked, "Wu Gongzi, did you hear it?" Someone seems to be fighting over there? ”

"Miss Kong, don't talk yet, and don't alarm your family." Wu Yuanming regained his usual calm expression and calmed Miss Nakong first. Then he rushed to the door of the cabin and kicked Wu Lu and Jin Dao awake, and ordered the two of them to notify the owner of the ship to stop the ship and dock, and the other to take out three repeating muskets. After a while, the boat docked on the west bank, Wu Lu also took three repeating muskets, Wu Yuanming ran to the side of the boat and said to Miss Kong: "Miss Kong, please wait on the boat for a while, we will come as soon as we go, remember, don't alarm your mother and brother." ”

"Wu Gongzi, you go." Miss Kong was very calm and reasonable, and nodded in agreement without asking Wu Yuanming why. After Wu Yuanming secretly praised that he was worthy of being a sage, he hurriedly jumped off the side of the boat with Wu Lu and Jin Dao, and rushed to the direction where the voice came from.

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At this moment, it was already three watches, the night sky was silent, the sound came out far away, Wu Yuanming and others ran out of four or five miles to find the scene of the fight, only to see that on a small lawn, more than a dozen Qing soldiers were besieging two thin girls, by the cold moonlight of the waning moon in the sky, Wu Yuanming recognized at a glance that the taller of the two girls was Li Yuliang, but the other person surprised Wu Yuanming - naturally it was Mu Meng who had made Wu Yuanming dream.

"Why is the county lord of King Mu's Mansion with Li Yuliang? Could it be that the group of people who picked up Li Yuliang's escape was Mu Wangfu? Wu Lu also recognized the identities of the two, and subconsciously raised the repeating musket to aim at the Qing soldiers. Wu Yuanming hurriedly held him down, "You can't shoot, the gunfire will alarm the Kong family on the ship, they will not agree to the assassin who assassinated Qin Cha to go on the ship and hide." ”

"What then? Miss Mu and Li Yuliang are afraid that they won't last long. Wu Lu asked anxiously. And Li Yuliang and Mu Meng on the lawn are obviously injured, Li Yuliang has been replaced with a sword in his left hand, and was killed by more than a dozen Qing soldiers.

"Undress and wrap the muzzle." Wu Yuanming had an idea, remembering that wrapping the muzzle of the gun with cloth on movies and television can play a silencing effect, although Wu Yuanming didn't know whether it was useful to do this, but the current situation could not tolerate Wu Yuanming's hesitation, he quickly took off his robe and wrapped the barrel of the gun hastily, hugged the machine gun and ran into the lawn from the hidden place, and then Wu Lu and the golden knife followed closely after concocting the same method. Those Qing soldiers who besieged Li Yuliang and Mu Meng were very skilled in martial arts, and immediately discovered the traces of Wu Yuanming and others, and quickly rushed out of the three to stop in front of Wu Yuanming, and one of them shouted: "Who are you?" What do you want to do? ”

"In broad daylight, Lang Lang Qiankun, more than a dozen of you men actually joined forces to bully two weak women, I really can't stand it, so I came out to stop it." Wu Yuanming, who had a machine gun in his hand, shook his head and said in a pinched tone, even these so-called masters in the era of cold weapons. The three Qing soldiers who were pretended to be masters of the rivers and lakes who were bought by the imperial court were furious, but Wu Yuanming and the others did not hold swords and weapons in their hands and did not think about other places, and one of the Qing soldiers scolded and scolded: "Boy, do you want to find death?" The government is arresting felons, and if you don't want to die, get out! ”

"The government is arresting felons?" Wu Yuanming looked at him in surprise and exclaimed, "It turns out that the official mission is arresting the female assassin who assassinated Lord Qincha!" I've seen that female assassin, and the wanted notice shows her like her! Wu Yuanming waved his hand to Wu Lu and the golden knife again: "Hurry up, hurry up, this is the official messenger arresting the Qin criminal, not the gangsters bullying the people's daughters, let's go quickly!" After that, Wu Yuanming really took a few steps back and made a posture of being afraid of escaping. Those Qing soldiers who were disguised as scum believed it and were really relieved, but Wu Yuanming took a step forward again, pointed at Mu Mengse and said with a smile: "Ladies and gentlemen, that relatively small girl doesn't seem to be a prisoner, right?" Since she is not a prisoner, how about giving her face in the next one and letting her go? ”

"Good boy, how dare you entertain grandpa?" began to scold Wu Yuanming's Qing soldiers in anger, and slashed Wu Yuanming's head with a knife, "Little bastard, running around in the middle of the night with the pipa in his arms, looking for death!" ”

"Porphy! Porphyry! Two small gunpowder explosions sounded from the pipa in the hands of Wu Lu and the golden knife, and the Qing soldier who carried the knife to cut Wu Yuanming didn't even see the firelight, only felt that his chest was hit twice by a heavy object, and when he looked down, the Qing soldier almost couldn't believe his eyes - there were already two more blood holes in his chest, and then the Qing soldier staggered and fell on his back, and died with a whimper. And Wu Yuanming saw that the clothes wrapped in the barrel of the gun did have a silencing effect, and he was overjoyed and immediately pulled the trigger on the other two Qing soldiers, and after a few dull gunshots, the two Qing soldiers also fell on their backs in a pool of blood. The other Qing soldiers over there had already been stunned, and they had even forgotten about the siege of Li Yuliang and Mu Meng.

"Mengmeng, Yun Niang, lie down!" Wu Yuanming turned his gun and shouted to Li Yuliang and Mu Meng. The two women subconsciously lay on the ground, Wu Yuanming, Wu Lu and Jin Dao immediately pulled the trigger, and the remaining seventy bullets ruthlessly poured into the remaining ten or so Qing soldiers, in front of this weapon beyond the times, those Qing soldiers didn't even know how to dodge, only heard the sound of "porphyry porphyria", the dozen or so Qing soldiers fell down like a sickle cutting wheat, and when all the bullets were fired, each of the dozen or so Qing soldiers had five or six more blood holes, either killed on the spot, or fell in a pool of blood**, There was not the slightest resistance. Among the two daughters of Mu Meng and Li Yuliang, Li Yuliang, who had seen the power of a machine gun in Yangzhou Prison, was calmer, and Mu Meng, who had never seen such a weapon, opened his mouth so wide that he could stuff two eggs into it, and he couldn't even speak.

"Golden Knife, make up for each of the Tartars who are not dead, and don't leave a living mouth to expose our whereabouts." Wu Yuanming gave an order to the golden knife, grabbed Mu Meng, who was still in shock, and carried her on his back, while Wu Lu next to him carried Li Yuliang on his back. After the golden knife hacked to death the seriously injured Qing soldiers, several people immediately rushed towards the road they came, leaving the corpses of the Qing soldiers all over the ground......

"Mengmeng, what about your brother Mu Shenbao them? Why aren't you with them? When he was about to return to the boat, Wu Yuanming finally remembered to ask Mu Shenbao and the others about the situation. At this moment, Mu Meng also recovered a little from the shock and lost her mind, and replied in a low voice: "I was killed by the Tartars, and Miss Yunniang and I fled here, and my brother and Uncle Liu didn't know where they fled to." ”

"Thank goodness your brother and they were separated from you." Wu Yuanming was sincerely grateful to the Heavenly Dao. Mu Meng was stunned at first, although she quickly understood the reason why Wu Yuanming was happy - she was afraid that Mu Shenbao's identity would be revealed, but she couldn't help but pinch Wu Yuanming's ear lightly, and said with a thin snort: "Villain, my brother and I are separated, are you still so happy?" Wu Yuanming didn't answer with a dry smile, but just rushed towards the canal.

When panting and running to the canal, Wu Yuanming's big boat was still parked on the edge of the canal without lights, only the veiled Miss Kong stood at the bow of the boat and waited for Wu Yuanming. When Wu Yuanming and the others climbed onto the boat, Miss Kong hurriedly came forward, and Wu Yuanming asked her, "Miss Kong, your mother and brother were not woken up by the sound of muskets, right?" ”

"Muskets?" Miss Kong smiled lightly at first: "No, even I didn't hear the sound of muskets, let alone my mother and brother." ”

"That's good." Wu Yuanming nodded reassuringly, and pleaded with Miss Kong: "Miss Kong, these two girls are my friends, I think that some things are being hunted down by the enemy, I plan to let them hide on the boat for a while, please don't tell your mother and brother, I'm afraid they won't allow it." ”

"Mother and brother are a little timid." The Miss Kong smiled at the veil and nodded, "Okay, I'll just pretend that I didn't see anything, I didn't hear anything." ”

"Thank you, Miss Kong. Meng Meng, Yun Niang, thank you to Miss Kong. Wu Yuanming was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered Mu Meng and Li Yuliang. Who knew that Mu Meng and Li Yuliang took one of Miss Kong's hands, but what came out of their mouths was not words of thanks, Mu Meng said: "Miss Kong, you have to be careful of this Wu Gongzi, he hugs the beautiful girl at every turn, be careful not to be taken advantage of by him." Li Yuliang said: "Miss Kong, don't believe this big liar, he tricks women into undressing in front of him at every turn, if you believe him, you don't know how big your belly is!" ”