Because of various reasons, the envoy sent by Shi Dakai, who later decided to win over the Weng brothers, rushed to the Yingzhou Mansion in Anhui earlier than the liaison envoy sent by the Wu army, with the help of the leader of the Twist Army, who had dealings with the Qing army, and secretly contacted the Weng family brothers, who were still in heavy filial piety, and directly asked to meet with the Weng brothers on behalf of the 8,000-year-old Shi Dakai, the winged king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

If it was replaced before, Shi Dakai's envoy dared to contact the Weng family brothers purely to find his own death, and the Weng family brothers, who were loyal to the Manchu court and regarded themselves as extremely high, would definitely be able to tie up Shi Dakai's envoy at the first time, and send them to the capital together with the unopened letter to show their loyalty to the wild boar skin family.

It's a pity that it's different now, since the Wu rebel army who killed a thousand knives laid Kaifeng, the old Weng family in the north of the lonely Huibei has never had direct contact with the Manchu court, just heard that Wu Chaoyue, who suffered ten thousand knives, proclaimed himself the king of the south of the Qing Dynasty, and then heard that the Wu rebel army actually took the capital again, and drove the wild boar skin family that the old Weng family had been loyal to for generations to the gate to gnaw the Wula grass - for this reason, Weng Xincun and the Weng brothers also hugged their heads and cried, hating their own soldiers and widows, lack of food and salary, and could not wave the army to the north to protect the king of Qin, Save the wild boar skin family in dire straits.

There is no object to express loyalty, but the enemies around them are stronger and more ferocious than the other, the Wu army, the Taiping army and the Twist army are any one of the enemies, they are sure that they can even easily drive out the remnants of the Qing army in Anhui, how loyal are the embattled Weng brothers to the Manchu court, for the sake of their wives and children and future generations, they also have to think about being a man and leaving a line for themselves and their families to retreat, so a leader of the Twist Army who has been lifted helped Shi Dakai to make contact with the Weng family brothers, Although the Weng brothers had a fever on their faces and felt ashamed in their hearts, they still deceived themselves with the excuse that the two countries were fighting each other, and agreed to meet with Shi Dakai's envoy with a twist.

For the sake of safety, the Weng family brothers, who have always loved their own lives, asked Shi Dakai's envoy to come to Yingzhou to meet, but to the surprise of the Weng brothers, the Taiping army envoy not only agreed to meet on the Weng brothers' territory, but also identified himself and said that he was Shi Dakai's first champion Yang Chaofu in the Yiwang Palace, so Weng Tongshu, who had also won the champion Weng Tongyi and the Jinshi, was immediately interested in this Yang Chaofu, and was determined to take a closer look at how much knowledge this Yang Chaofu had. What kind of quality is the champion of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?

Yang Chaofu had a good impression of the Weng brothers at the beginning, and he rushed to the Yingzhou capital on time with great promise, and also fulfilled his promise to quietly enter the city with only two personal attendants with braided hair, and did not let the Weng brothers come with great fanfare to let the Weng brothers bear the infamy of communicating long hair. However, after the real meeting, the Weng brothers were immediately disappointed, and the Yang Chaofu who appeared in front of them was not a well-educated and elegant person as they imagined, but a so-called champion who was full of errors and omissions in the dictionary, and from time to time a sentence or two of rural slang and swear words appeared.

"Three young masters Weng, our Wing King 8,000 years old sent me here to discuss with you, I want you to see the current situation clearly, your Qing Demon court is over, beyond the little demon that son of a bitch may proclaim himself emperor at any time, robbing your Qing Demon Court and our heavenly country, your Weng family and beyond the little demon are several generations of feud, he caused your Weng family young master to go to prison, exiled, you also caused him and his grandfather to go to prison, almost lost his head, and hated each other so much that he gritted his teeth."

"You also know what kind of person the little demon is, if he becomes the emperor, he will not let go of your Weng family's whole family no matter what, the lightest is to cut off the head of your family, and if it is heavy, it may kill you all over the house, your Weng family is in great trouble, only by hurrying up to find a way can you hope to survive."

“…… The three young masters Weng, although our Wing King is 8,000 years old and has fought with you before, but at that time, each was a ......, each was a ......, yes, each was its master, or the second young master Weng was knowledgeable, I didn't think of this sentence for a while. We, the Winged King, are fighting with you for their own masters, and we have no enmity in private, so he doesn't hold a grudge against you, and you don't hate him. Beyond the little demon is different from our Wing King Yachitose, he is fighting with you for himself, and he wants to destroy you and avenge himself, which you must know very well in your hearts. ”

"Our Wing King 8,000 years old said, now if you want to survive, the best way is to quickly join forces with our Heavenly Kingdom, and join forces with our Heavenly Kingdom Wo King Zhang Lexing Zhang Wangye, take advantage of the opportunity that most of the army beyond the little demon is in the field, and quickly join forces with our Wo King to enter Hubei, to stir up a chaos in the nest of the Transcendence Little Demon, so that the Transcendence Little Demon will not be able to live in peace every day, and then our heavenly army can turn around and enter Hubei, and join forces with you to kill the Transcendence Little Demon, and help your Weng family avenge their hatred."

“…… Three young masters Weng, please look, this is a gift from our Wing King 8,000 years old, the gift list is here, the Wing King treats us Wing Hall courtiers well, I don't want a penny from the middle. In addition, our Wing King 8,000 years old said again, if it is really inconvenient for you to send troops directly, it doesn't matter, just lend us the road to King Wo, our King Wo guarantees that his army will not move a single grass or tree in your territory, he just wants to pass through your territory smoothly and suddenly enter Hubei. Of course, if the three Young Masters can provide us with a little bit of information and let King Wo know that there are the least number of demon soldiers there, our King Wo and Wing King Eight Thousand Years Old will definitely thank you even more. ”

Although Yang Chaofu is the champion of water, but the gift he brought is quite rich, there are as many as five hundred taels of gold alone, for the Weng brothers who are currently short of food and salary, it is indeed a lot of gifts, and at the same time, the words are not rough, if the Weng brothers are determined to be embarrassed with Wu Chaoyue, at this time they promised to lend the way to the Twist Army or even directly join forces with the Twist Army, which is undoubtedly the best opportunity to retaliate against Wu Chaoyue. So even though they despised Yang Chaofu in their hearts, the parallel champion, the Weng brothers still did not refuse on the spot, and promised to give Yang Chaofu a reply after a little consideration, Yang Chaofu was overjoyed when he heard it, and hurriedly said: "Three young masters Weng, then I will wait for your good news, the opportunity must not be missed, the ...... cannot be lost, and the ...... cannot be lost, in short, don't miss this good opportunity, miss this good opportunity to find revenge beyond the little demon, I am afraid it will be difficult for you to take revenge in the future." ”

Weng Tongshu and Weng Tongyi were silent, but Weng Tongjue, the second eldest of the Weng family, couldn't bear it, and couldn't help but ask again, "Mr. Yang, I heard that you are not only the champion of the Wing Hall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but also the chief examiner of the Hubei Township Examination of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, what did you take the exam?" ”

"Of course, like you, it's all poetry." Yang Chaofu replied truthfully, and asked with a smile: "What?" Second Young Master Weng wants to have a poem with me? I happened to encounter rain on the way to Yingzhou and made a song, is Second Young Master Weng interested in listening to it? ”

"Please advise." Weng Tongjue nodded.

"Then you're welcome, please ask Second Young Master Weng to set things right." Yang Chaofu finally dragged a more decent sentence, and then shook his head and read: "A heavy rain is coming urgently, like a sneak attack by demon soldiers, there is nowhere to hide on the way into the city, it is not uncommon to wet your pants!" Second Young Master Weng, how is it? Is this poem okay? ”

Weng Tongjue was dumbfounded, Weng Tongshu and Weng Tongshu were dumbfounded, and then Weng Tongshu, the boss of the Weng family, couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Yang, what kind of poetry did you use to be the champion in the exam?" ”

"I have long forgotten the poems I wrote when I took the top prize." Yang Chaofu shook his head and said, "I only remember that the exam question is - who is the reason for everything under the Heavenly Father?" What was the crucifixion of Jesus? (PS: Don't laugh, there really is this exam question.) ）

"By whom does the Father do all this? What was the crucifixion of Jesus? The three brothers of the Weng family were stunned again, lost their souls, and then invariably bowed their hands to Yang Chaofu, and said in unison: "Yang Zhuangyuan is highly talented, I admire it so much, and I also ask Yang Zhuangyuan to go to the pavilion to rest first, and I will definitely give a reply to Zhuangyuan as soon as possible." ”

Yang Chaofu happily followed the personal soldiers of the Weng brothers to the pavilion to rest, and on the way, he never forgot to recite the rapid rain poem he made on the road, but as soon as Yang Chaofu left with his front foot, Weng Tongjue's face changed on his hind foot, and he slammed his fist on the table, and said angrily: "I'd rather die than grow hair!" As an official in the same dynasty as such a long-haired champion, it is better to kill me with one sword! ”

"It can't be said that there are all such people in the long hair." Weng Tongyi picked up Zeng Jinqian's ghostwritten letter for Shi Dakai and re-read it, and said matter-of-factly: "At least the long-haired person who wrote this letter has the ink of Xiucai, and if you work harder, it is not hopeless to be admitted to a lifting person." ”

"But at most, it's barely able to lift people." Weng Tongshu made an angry comment, and said: "Long hair is destined to be not a person with us, for long hair, we can only use it, we can't join forces, let alone join forces with them!" ”

"Brother, listen to your tone, do you have any plans to lend the way to the twisted bandits and long hair?" Weng Tongjue heard the sound of Weng Tongshu.

Weng Tongshu hesitated, nodded hesitantly for a while, and said: "This is a rare opportunity to serve the imperial court, to use the hand of long hair to deal with the Wu rebel thief army, so that they can both lose and suffer, and avenge both the country and the Xue family." ”

"But brother, you have to think about it." Weng Tongjue reminded: "This matter has leaked the news, not to mention the disreputation of our Changshu Weng family, the people of Huguang will inevitably hate us to the bone, and in the future, even if the Qing Dynasty is prosperous and the imperial court reorganizes the rivers and mountains, our opponents in the court will definitely use this matter to make a big fuss and put our Weng family in an unkind and unjust place." And also....... ”

"And ......." Speaking of this, Weng Tongjue paused for a moment, and said hesitantly: "If we do this, we will completely offend Wu Chaoyue to death, and he will definitely not let us go in the future." ”

"Second brother, do you think that if we don't borrow the way to give the bandit long hair, Wu Chaoyue will let us go?!" Weng Tongyi, who had the narrowest chest in the center of the three brothers of the Weng family, opened his mouth and said coldly: "If you really let this traitor destroy the long hair, the first thing you will do when you turn back is definitely to clean us up, don't forget the feud between our family and his Wu family!" And don't forget the Gui Zhongxing incident! ”

Weng Tongjue, the only one of the three brothers in the Weng family who did not have a direct enmity with Wu Chaoyue, closed his mouth, and Weng Tongshu, who was a little broad-minded than Weng Tongxiao, stopped talking, and said dejectedly for a while: "Don't mention Wu Chaoyue's traitor, let's discuss, whether you should lend the road to the long-haired bandit." ”

The result of the discussion was that Weng Tongjue resolutely opposed borrowing the road, the first reason was that the infamy was too heavy, the second was that the discipline of the Twist Army was too poor, and it was like a locust crossing the border when he walked there, and the third was that Weng Tongjue was afraid that the Twist Army and the Taiping Army would be wiped out on a false journey, so he took the opportunity to borrow the road and suddenly turned his face and killed the remnants of the Qing Army in Anhui, which had long been at the end of the road. Weng Tongyi, out of revenge against Wu Chaoyue, resolutely advocated borrowing the road, and proposed to lend the remote road to the Twist Army to cross the border to avoid the danger mentioned by Weng Tongjue. The two brothers argued, and neither could convince anyone.

When the two younger brothers argued, Weng Tongshu, the eldest of the Weng family, remained silent, wanting to take this opportunity to disgust the old enemy Wu Chaoyue, but also extremely worried that doing so would make his brother become the finger of Wanfu and make the Qingliu leader Weng family discredited............

It was also a coincidence that when the second and third elders of the Weng family were at a stalemate, a pro-soldier suddenly came to report outside the door, presenting a name and saying: "Of the three sons, one of them claimed to be the staff of the former Henan political envoy Shen Fantai, and was ordered to mourn the old man Weng on behalf of Shen Fantai, and implored the three sons to ask to see him. ”

"Former Henan political envoy Shen Fantai? That one Shen Fantai? ”

Because the soldiers did not directly say their names, the three brothers of the Weng family were a little confused for a while, and they hurriedly remembered that the last political envoy of Henan was the Lord Shen, and then Weng Tonggong, who still hated Wu Chaoyue to the bone, was the first to react, and immediately roared angrily: "Shen Baozhen! Lin Zexu's son-in-law Shen Baozhen! Wu Chaoyue's uncles! Shen Baozhen, who surrendered to Wu's rebel thief army when Kaifeng City was broken! ”

"That's right! It's him! Weng Tongshu came to his senses and hurriedly took the name thorn presented by his own soldiers, but saw that the brand-new bamboo name thorn was neatly written with the words Xia Xie on the river, Weng Tongshu was immediately taken aback and blurted out: "Xia Xie who wrote the "Chinese and Western Chronicle"? Xie Shan Jushi Summer Theory? He actually entered Shen Youdan's shogunate?! ”

"Xia Xie's summer affairs?" Weng Tongyi was also stunned, and then snorted coldly: "It's not strange, they all like to get through the things of foreign people, of course, they have to be complicit and embarrassed!" ”

"Third brother, have you read "Chinese and Western Chronicle"?" Weng Tongjue refuted: "Xia Li's "Chronicle of China and the West" is mainly based on recording the violent acts of the Yangyi, and the "Martyrdom of Haijiang" is specially set up to commemorate the Chinese martyrs who died against the Yangyi. Shen Baozhen's father-in-law and uncle Lin Zexu was the first person in China to lead an army against Yangyi, Xia Li was familiar with him, and he was in and out of his shogunate, how can it be said that they were embarrassed? ”

Weng Tongxiao, who hated foreigners and hadn't read the book "Chronicle of China and the West", closed his mouth, and Weng Tongshu asked with some surprise: "Second brother, since Shen Baozhen has surrendered to Wu Chaoyue and is an enemy of us, why do you want to send someone to mourn our father?" ”

"Mourning should just be an excuse, and it's true to do another big thing." Weng Tongjue replied in a roundabout way: "Wu Chaoyue has an enmity with our Weng family, Shen Baozhen is his uncle, and like our Weng family, he is on the right path to enter the office, and he is also very famous, and there are some things that ask Shen Baozhen to come forward and contact, which is the most suitable and convenient." ”

Weng Tongjue didn't say it too clearly, but Weng Tongshu understood it, and said with a straight face: "Second brother and third brother, Xia Li is a famous scholar in Confucianism today, and he is here for mourning, the ceremony cannot be abolished, you quickly go with me to greet him." ”

"What my brother said is very true."

Weng Tongjue solemnly nodded and agreed, but Weng Tongjue, who had a rat belly and chicken intestines, kept silent with a straight face, but unfortunately Weng Tongshu and Weng Tongjue didn't think about the third brother's thoughts at all, and reached out to pull Weng Tonggong together, and said in unison: "Third brother, go, come with us to meet Mr. Ji Li." ”

Unable to resist the two brothers, Weng Tonggong had no choice but to hang his head and go out with the two brothers to meet the secret envoy of the Wu army, because Weng Tonggong also knew very well in his heart that the name of the old Weng family could be sold, but it could never be sold to the long-haired bandits who did not share the sky with the Confucian scholars, and could only be sold to the person who still had a chaste archway, even if this person had an enmity with his own family, he was essentially doing a business of prostitution and laughter, but as long as he did not tarnish the name of the old Weng family.