Jiangnan Admiral Zhang Yunyi's Admiral's Mansion is located on Moling Street in Jiangning City, as the Admiral who holds the military power of a provincial green battalion, Zhang Yunyi's home is very compatible with his identity, not to mention the exquisite house, the total area of the entire mansion is also more than 600 acres, although it has not yet reached the realm of riding a horse and driving in his own home, from the gate to the door of the hall still needs to trot one or two pillars of incense time. Therefore, when Wei Dongting of Qincha took Wu Ciyou, Su Malagu and other people into Zhang Yunyi's mansion, the group was full of praise for Zhang Yunyi's mansion, among which Wei Dongting, the master of Qincha, was naturally the most praised, and looked at that look, as if he wished that he also had ten sets of eight such mansions.

"Since Lord Wei likes this kind of garden, then the lower official will arrange it and prepare a set of such a garden for your lord in Jiangning City." I don't know what Wei Dongting did when he suddenly came to his house, Zhang Yunyi misunderstood what Wei Dongting meant, endured the distress and prepared to buy the same house to honor Wei Dongting - although the same house cost at least seventy or eighty thousand taels of silver, but in order to prevent Wei Dongting, the first hero who assisted Kangxi in killing Aobai, from speaking ill of himself in front of the emperor, Zhang Yunyi gritted his teeth and was ready to accept Wei Dongting's blackmail. And Wei Dongting was first relieved, and only understood after Wu Ciyou wrote a reminder in his palm, and hurriedly smiled at Zhang Yunyi: "Lord Admiral misunderstood, I like the house here, because of the grace of Lord Long Live, after I finish this trip, I will be crowned as the Governor of Customs, and the Governor's Mansion of Customs is located in this Jiangning Mansion, so I am going to add a mansion in Jiangning City, and I want to refer to the Governor's mansion." ”

"It turns out that Lord Wei is about to become the governor of customs, which is really gratifying, and the lower official first congratulates your lordship." Zhang Yunyi breathed a sigh of relief, the oil and water of the customs governor was ten times richer than that of the admiral, and Wei Dongting really didn't need to extort a mansion from him. But a new question arises again, since Wei Dongting is not here to rip off the bamboo, what is he doing at his house again? Zhang Yunyi's question was quickly answered, and after Wei Dongting arrived at the main hall of his house, he immediately whispered to him: "Lord Admiral, the lower official is here with a secret decree of long live, please let the Admiral leave the servants, so that the lower official can read the secret decree to you." ”

"Xia Guan understands." Zhang Yunyi suddenly realized, and hurriedly drove all the soldiers and servants in the hall out of the hall, knelt down in front of Wei Dongting, and said loudly: "Slave Zhang Yunyi listens to the hadith. Wei Dongting was not at ease, and asked Zhang Yunyi again: "Lord Zhang, this secret decree is very important, but you must not let others eavesdrop on it, are you safe here?" Zhang Yunyi nodded, "Lord Qincha, don't worry, Xiaguan is heavily guarded here, and it is absolutely safe." ”

"Good." Wei Dongting turned to the masters of the rivers and lakes such as Shengjing Qixiong who came with him - Da Xiong was injured and could not come with him, and ordered: "Except for Mr. Wu and Aunt Su Ma who stayed, you all go out, be careful and be on guard, and don't let outsiders approach." After the scum of the rivers and lakes took the order to leave, and after only Wei Dongting, Wu Ciyou, Su Malagu and Zhang Yunyi were left in the room, Wei Dongting took out a bright yellow scroll from his arms, unfolded it and read: "Fengtian carrier, Emperor Zhao said: Wei Dongting, the head of the imperial guard, went south to preside over the northward transportation of grain and salary from the two rivers, and was also in charge of hunting and killing the remnants of the former Ming Dynasty, the Heaven and Earth Society, Mu Wangfu and other anti-thieves, and the soldiers of the Liangjiang Green Battalion will obey Wei Dongting's dispatch and command, and there must be no mistake." Chin this! ”

"Slave Xie Lord Longen, long live the emperor, long live, long live." Zhang Yunyi knelt respectfully three times and bowed nine times before getting up, and asked Wei Dongting: "Lord Wei, since the emperor has this secret decree, then ask Lord Wei for instructions, but I don't know how the lower officials should assist the lord to act?" ”

"Aunt Su Ma, please introduce Mr. Wu's strategy to Master Zhang first." Wu Ciyou's strategy is quite complicated, Wei Dongting has no ability to forget, so he can only ask for help from Su Malagu, whose nose bridge has been broken by Li Yuliang. Su Malagu, who wore a veil on her face and broke off the bridge of her nose, also knew that Wei Dongting didn't have the ability, so she could only narrate Wu Ciyou's plan of the third prince of Zhu to Zhang Yunyi in an urn voice, and finally said to Zhang Yunyi: "Lord Zhang, we have discussed every step of the plan, and decided to ask you to help two things, one is to ask you to transfer 3,000 green battalions from Changzhou and Tongzhou to help, and secretly deploy them to Maoshan, Purple Mountain and Dulongfu next to the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum; In order not to alarm the rebels and make them escape, the 3,000 troops had to enter the country in civilian clothes and be secretly deployed in place by the eighteenth hour of September. ”

"The lower officials understand that the lower officials must let them be deployed in place unconsciously." Booby-trapping so many anti-Qing literati is a miracle, and Zhang Yunyi can also get a piece of the pie, so is there any reason not to follow? Su Malagu nodded, and then ordered: "This second thing, we need someone to pretend to be the third prince of the former Ming Dynasty Zhu in our plan, this person must be the same age as the missing Zhu Cijiong - between twenty-nine and thirty years old, familiar with the affairs of the former Ming Dynasty, and must be shrewd and capable, good at disguise, not alarmed, and it is best to have some martial arts-because that day, Mr. Wu will also preside over the overall situation in front of the Ming Xiaoling, and when necessary, he must be able to protect Mr. Wu's safety." More crucially, he has to be loyal to the emperor and the court. ”

"It's hard to find someone like that." Zhang Yunyi scratched his head, and was embarrassed: "I have a lot of good hands under my hands, and I don't need to say that I am loyal to the emperor, but it is difficult to find the age of thirty years and the familiarity with the history of the former Ming Dynasty. ”

"It's hard to find, so we came to ask Master Zhang for your help. Although Xiao Weizi brought a lot of people, Mr. Wu picked and chosen, and he couldn't pick such a suitable person. Su Malagu also frowned under the veil, knowing that most of those anti-Qing literati were capable people, and just finding someone to pretend to be the third prince of Zhu could not fool those old foxes. But at this moment, Wei Dongting and Zhang Yunyi heard someone talking under the west window, and the two hurriedly rushed to the west window and shouted, "Who is talking outside?" ”

"Under Zhang Bing." Outside the window, Zhang Bing, the second of the seven bears in Shengjing, replied: "Just now our people saw that there seemed to be a figure shaking here, so we rushed here to check, I don't want Yuan Rui to be dazzled, everything is normal here, and the villain is reprimanding Yuan Rui." ”

"Notice if there are footprints on the ground?" Wu Ciyou was the most careful, and he was busy writing a reminder in Wei Dongting's hand, and Wei Dongting asked. Outside the window, the second bear Zhang Bing replied: "Lord Hui Qincha, there are no footprints outside the window, not even a trace." Unless you are a master of light skills who walk on the snow without leaving a trace, it is absolutely impossible for anyone to come here. ”

"Be careful, tell them to lead the dog to sniff and inspect it." Wu Ciyou was still not at ease, and asked Wei Dongting to force the Shengjing Seven Bears to use their specially trained hounds to check if there was anyone eavesdropping and peeping, although the Shengjing Seven Bears were troublesome but still did as they were told, but the hound sniffed and barked wildly, and then scurried around in the yard like a headless fly, the two bears Zhang Bing was busy going to the place where the hound smelled just now, and a spicy smell immediately came to the face, and the two bears exclaimed: "Who sprinkled pepper noodles here?" The dog's nose sucks! ”

"That road leads to the kitchen, probably someone accidentally spilled it there when they were serving." Zhang Yunyi said disapprerovingly. Wu Ciyou didn't think so, and nervously wrote in Wei Dongting's palm: "Xiao Weizi, it must be the pepper noodles sprinkled by the person we talked to, so that the hound will not find his traces." Send someone to find out! We must find the person who eavesdropped on our conversation and kill him! And Wei Dongting also felt that Wu Ciyou was too suspicious and cautious, and shook his head impatiently: "Forget it, there are neither footprints nor smells, who knows if anyone is eavesdropping?" Besides, even if someone eavesdropped, how would he have known in advance that we were going to hunt him down with hounds, and specially prepared pepper to face the hounds? Don't think about it so much, let's think about how to find the right person. ”

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"Hoo ——。" Li Xihua breathed a long sigh of relief, threw the pepper noodle packet that had been sprinkled in his hand into the Qinhuai River, and muttered secretly: "Fortunately, I first learned about the Tartar chasing and killing the assassin a few days ago, and knew that the Tartar had the hunting dog of the Northeast horse thief to track this hand, so I had to prepare in advance, otherwise I would have to expose my whereabouts today." But....... Li Xihua let out another long sigh, looked at the lanterned flower boats on the Qinhuai River, and muttered: "But just as the little traitor surnamed Wu expected, the Tartars are really using Zhu Cijiong's influence to trap and kill anti-Qing literati. How do I do that? Is it to ignore it? Or go and inform the little traitor? ”

Thinking of this, Li Xihua couldn't help but think of the voice and smile of a beautiful girl, and a feeling of heartbeat arose spontaneously......

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"Shizi, do you really want me to do this? If the readers knew that I did this, I would be dismembered by them - I was still a virgin, and I didn't want to die yet. Zhu Fangdan almost cried, tremblingly observing whether anyone else was eavesdropping. Wu Yuanming ordered in a low voice: "It's okay, do as I say!" I just asked you to add some ingredients to the medicine of the old lady of Confucius, let their family rest in Zhenjiang for a day or two, and I didn't let you poison the old lady of Confucius! ”

"I made an appointment with Li Xihua to connect in Zhenjiang, but I want to enter Jiangning City with the Kong family and borrow his gold-lettered signboard to cover me, so you have to help me let the Kong family rest in Zhenjiang for a day or two." Wu Yuanming explained to Zhu Fangdan the reason for the delay in Zhenjiang, and promised: "Aren't you a virgin?" As long as you help me do this, I promise to find you a beautiful yellow flower girl and end your more than 30 years of virgin body. ”

At this time, the subordinates of the Confucian Mansion had already gone outside the cabin to urge, "Doctor Zhu, our old lady has woken up, waiting for you to use medicine to cure the migraine, our young master and young lady invite you to come over." Wu Yuanming attached to Zhu Fangdan's ear and ordered: "Go quickly, do what I ask, the people of the Kong family pay attention to filial piety, don't have to be seriously ill, just let the old lady get seasick." Zhu Fangdan was forced to be helpless, so he had to grit his teeth and said: "Shizi, I will do what you arranged, but don't cheat me." ”

"I promise not to cheat you." Wu Yuanming smiled treacherously and pushed Zhu Fangdan out of the hatch, and he slipped back to the bottom cabin to please Mu Meng, who was resting. But as soon as Wu Yuanming met Mu Meng, Mu Meng asked with a slap in his face: "What bad things have you done that lacks morality?" ”

"I didn't do anything bad, did I?" Wu Yuanming was stunned and asked Mu Meng in confusion. Mu Meng said disdainfully: "Look at the treacherous smile on your face, you know that when you lived in your house before, every time you were ready to do something immoral, you always smiled so treacherously on your face." Li Yuliang, who was lying on the other bed, also said disdainfully: "What other bad things can you do?" Eighty percent hooked up with that girl from a good family again, ready to cheat people, cheat money, and cheat sex. ”

"Yun Niang, you can scold me for anything, but you can't scold me for being lustful - if I were lustful and greedy, you and Mu Meng would have been my people a long time ago!" Wu Yuanming rarely refuted it with confidence, and Li Yuliang and Mu Meng also knew that Wu Yuanming's character in this regard was quite passable, so they snorted a few times and didn't say anything. Wu Yuanming thought about it, and asked Li Yuliang again: "Yun Niang, I have one thing I want to ask you, when you and Wu Ciyou left Beijing and went south, did you have to go to the local places of interest everywhere you went?" Wu Ciyou still left some poems in each place? ”

"Yes, sometimes he dictates it, and I ghostwrite poems for him." Li Yuliang tried his best not to miss Wu Ciyou, and said lightly: "Since you asked me about this, it seems that you already know or guessed that Wu Ciyou pretended to be the third prince of Zhu and left poems everywhere, preparing to booby trap and kill the anti-Qing literati who visited the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum on September 18. That's all I know, and as for what to do, you'll have to worry about the rest. Li Yuliang added, "There are also Wei Dongting and Su Malagu who have also arrived in Jiangning, Wei Dongting has a secret decree from Kangxi in his hand, which can mobilize the Jiangnan Green Camp, and Su Malagu is ready to let Wei Dongting also participate in this matter." ”

"What to do? Of course, it is to inform those who oppose the Qing literati not to be fooled! My brother and Uncle Liu will definitely do this as long as they get rid of the pursuers. Mu Meng interjected. Because the identities of Mu Shenbao and others were not known by the Qing soldiers, Li Yuliang, the only eye-catching Li Yuliang, fled to the protection of the golden signboard of the Confucian Mansion, and Mu Shenbao was also protected by Liu Dahong, the first master of Mu Wangfu, so Mu Meng was not worried about the safety of Mu Shenbao and others. Wu Yuanming shook his head, "It's too late, today is the tenth day of the ninth month, there are only eight days left, and there are many literati from all walks of life rushing to Jiangning, so it's too late anyway." ”

"What then? Watching those literati who cherish their homeland and country die tragically under the Tartar butcher's knife? Mu Meng asked worriedly. Wu Yuanming pinched his bare chin and muttered, "It's not impossible, but I have to find a way to figure out what means and steps the Tartars are going to use first, and then find a way to sabotage their actions." ”

"I really don't understand you, why don't you go back to Yunnan to enjoy the glory and wealth, and be the prince of Pingxi? I want to wander around the rivers and lakes and worry about others! Li Yuliang glanced at Bai Wu Yuanming, who was disgusted, then sat up and said: "The pervert doctor just now has already said that my body can be healed in only three or four days, and when the time comes, I will find a way to sneak into the Jiangsu Governor's Mansion and spy on the Tartar plan for you." ”

"No, I've already sent someone." Wu Yuanming smiled slightly, turned his eyes to look at the distance outside the cabin window, and said secretly in his heart: "Li Xihua, don't let me down." ”

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Zhu Fangdan's medicine is very effective, Wu Yuanming and others' boat passed the Zhenjiang Canal checkpoint - the Qing soldiers who got the news in advance were beating gongs and drums to send the Confucian family through the customs, and before the boat turned into the Yangtze River, the old lady of Confucius began to get seasick and vomit, and the Kong Xingyu brothers and sisters, who regarded filial piety as a matter of course, hurriedly asked Zhu Fangdan to treat their mother. Zhu Fangdan got Wu Yuanming's guidance and asked Confucius's mother to rest in Zhenjiang for a day or two before leaving, otherwise her condition might worsen, so frightened that Kong Xingyu's brothers and sisters hurriedly ordered the boat to stop and let their mother rest in Zhenjiang for a while - fortunately, there are still eight days before Zhu Yuanzhang's birthday, and Zhenjiang and Jiangning are not far apart, so there is no time in time.

Of course, Wu Yuanming, who is half a scholar, in order to express his admiration for Sage Kong-at least Wu Yuanming himself explained it, also accompanied Kong Xingyao's family to Zhenjiang to stay, and paid money to charter an inn for Kong Xingyao's family to rest, and I don't know that Kong Xingming's brothers and sisters are still very grateful to Wu Yuanming. And Li Yuliang and Mu Meng changed into men's clothes, pretending to be Wu Yuanming's subordinates, and they also temporarily lived in the inn. Of course, Wu Yuanming had to leave a secret mark at the door of the inn and inform Li Xihua to come here.

It was already noon when the group had all settled down, Wu Yuanming chose a side room with a separate door for himself, and then took his nephew Queen Ying'er out of Dai Zi's room and called her to his room to talk to her alone. After entering the room, Wu Yuanming closed the door first, and smiled treacherously at his niece who was holding two steamed hairy crabs in her hand: "Ying'er, uncle has one thing to ask you, do you remember the day we met that Li Xihua in Huzhou Mansion?" Uncle thinks he's very interesting to you. ”

"Uncle, what do you say?" Wang Ying'er was a little angry, put down the steamed crab and muttered: "Ying'er has been promised to Dai Zi, or is it your uncle's matchmaker, do you plan to make your niece like the new and hate the old?" ”

"Don't get me wrong, don't get me wrong, Uncle just wants to ask you for a favor. If nothing else, today or tomorrow, Li Xihua will come to me again, and you will ...... when the time comes. Wu Yuanming leaned into his niece's ear and whispered his despicable plan. At the end, Wu Yuanming lured and said: "Ying'er, if you help your uncle do this, when your uncle succeeds your grandfather and succeeds to the throne of Pingxi, I will guarantee that you and your brother Dai Zi's family will enjoy endless glory and wealth for the rest of their lives, and they will be high-ranking officials." ”

"It's ......." Wang Ying'er was still a little hesitant. But there was already a shopkeeper outside the door shouting: "May I ask if there is a guest officer surnamed Wu Yuanming here, and there is a gentleman surnamed Li outside the store looking for you." Wu Yuanming was overjoyed and said: "It's so fast, it seems that he has already succeeded." Wu Yuanming took out two pieces of cut ginger and put them in front of Wang Ying'er, and said with a wicked smile: "Good niece, hurry up and prepare, don't show the filling." With that, Wu Yuanming went out and left.

After a while, Wu Yuanming and Li Xihua, who was in the dust, returned to the room side by side, and saw that Wang Ying'er, who had been dreaming about her for the past few days, was actually in the room, Li Xihua was first surprised, and then suddenly found that Wang Ying'er's beautiful eyes were red, and tears rippled on her pink cheeks. Li Xihua was furious and immediately shouted, "Miss Wang, what's wrong with you?" Who bullied you? Tell me, I'm going to kill him! ”

"No one bullied me." Wang Ying'er wiped her red eyes and sobbed: "My uncle told me just now that there was a traitor who set up a poison plan to kill many innocent literati, if they were killed by a traitor, what would happen to their children?" I think those people are pitiful, but I can't save them, so I ...... So I'm ...... Only...... Whining......! ”

"Li Gongzi doesn't know, I have received the news that Tatar is indeed the same as I guessed, setting up a treacherous plan to trap and kill anti-Qing literati." Wu Yuanming shook his head and sighed, as if he was very distressed, and said: "My niece has been kind-hearted since she was a child, and she is usually reluctant to hurt even an ant, and she likes small animals the most. Speaking of which, Wu Yuanming peeked at his niece's hand - for fear that she was still holding two steamed hairy crabs in her hands - fortunately, Wang Ying'er had already put the hairy crabs next to Wu Yuanming's bed. Wu Yuanming, who was relieved, added: "So after she heard that there were many innocent literati who were going to be killed, she couldn't help crying out ......." ”

"Wow......!" When Wu Yuanming said this, Wang Ying'er cried loudly, shook Wu Yuanming's arm and pleaded: "Uncle, you can think of a way to save those poor scholars, if they die, how sad the people in their family should be." Wu Yuanming shook his head and sighed, and said helplessly: "Ying'er, it's not that my uncle doesn't want to save those innocent literati, but my uncle can't help it, even if there is a way, my uncle is weak, what can he do?" ”

"That'...... So what should I do? Wang Ying'er shouted to the sky and grabbed the ground. Li Xihua couldn't bear it anymore, he only felt that the blood rushed to his head, stepped forward and grabbed Wang Ying'er's soft and boneless little hand, and said eagerly: "Miss Wang, I didn't expect you to have such a compassionate heart, you don't have to worry, I will work with your uncle to find a way to rescue those innocent literati!" I have already spied on the movements of the Tartars for your uncle, and the Tartar Admiral secretly transferred 3,000 green battalions from Changzhou and Tongzhou, and deployed them near the Ming Tomb in disguise; Tartar is also going to find someone to pretend to be Zhu Cijiong, who will be used to lure those literati into taking the bait. ”

"Tartar is going to use a person to impersonate Zhu Cijiong?" Wu Yuanming was taken aback and hurriedly asked Li Xihua for details. After Li Xihua introduced the espionage information without missing a bit, Wu Yuanming immediately discovered a major problem - the Qing court was going to find a person who knew martial arts to pretend to be Zhu Cijiong, in order to protect Wu Ciyou if necessary, which means that Wu Ciyou would also go to the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum that night to personally command! Thinking of this, Wu Yuanming said in his heart: "It's time to get rid of Wu Ciyou, a hardcore traitor!" ”

"Uncle Wu, that's all I spied on, what should we do next?" Li Xihua asked Wu Yuanming eagerly with a very strange title. Wu Yuan understood Li Xihua, and said in his heart For the sake of machine guns, my niece can't marry you anyway, you are about the same age as me, don't call me too old...... Wait, Li Xihua is about the same age as me, and I am the same age as Zhu Cijiong......

"Gongzi Li, since the Tartar can't find a suitable candidate, why don't you pretend to be the third prince of Zhu?" Wu Yuanming had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and said to Li Xihua, who met Wu Ciyou's requirements in various conditions: "Li Gongzi, you go to Jiangning to pretend to take refuge in the government, and let the Tartar know that you know that you know martial arts and are proficient in Ming history, and the Tartar will definitely let you pretend to be Zhu Cijiong." This makes it easy for you to keep track of the various movements of the Tartars, and it is convenient for me to adjust my countermeasures. Second, you can also do me a favor - on the night of the operation, you deceived the woman named Su Malagu to the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, she has a noble status in the Tartar court, as long as we control her, the Tartar army will not dare to attack the Ming Xiaoling! ”

"Li Gongzi, can you help my uncle...... Woo...... (Oops, too much ginger.) ）”