"Good! It's time to go home and eat steamed buns! ”

Wu Nianyue, who had not been able to go home for several days, applauded loudly, and shook the neck of Wu Lao comprador vigorously, constantly urging Wu Lao comprador to change clothes quickly, and Wu Lao comprador laughed and scolded the baby great-grandson for not understanding the rules, and instructed Zhou Xiuying: "Xiuying, you also prepare, go into the city with grandpa, after entering the city, you take Nianyue home first, and I will go home to see you after I finish my work." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Zhou Xiuying obediently agreed, and then talked about her second intention, and said, "Grandpa, aunt, and grandmother, they asked me to ask you, when will we go back to the city to live?" Although it's good to live in the concession, but you are so old that they can't wait by your side, so you are a little worried. ”

"When there is news from Transcendence, we will go back to live." Old comprador Wu replied casually.

"Wait for the transcendence to have news?" Zhou Xiuying was stunned and hurriedly asked, "Grandpa, what do you mean by this?" When are we going home, and why wait for news from Beyond? ”

Wu Lao comprador didn't want to answer in detail, but it happened that Wu Nianyue had a lot of trivial things, and suddenly said that he wanted to go to the toilet or a big one, Wu Lao comprador had no choice but to quickly ask someone to take his baby great-grandson to the toilet, and said to Zhou Xiuying in a low voice: "Beyond the letter, saying that there may be a big incident in the court, ask the old man to transfer you to the concession, and let the old man temporarily live outside the city, and wait for the news from the court to confirm, there is no danger, and then you can live back." ”

"Beyond saying that something big is going to happen in the court of the Qing Demon?"

Zhou Xiuying's beautiful eyes were full of doubt, and she subconsciously remembered the secret that Wu Chaoyue once confided in her, and subconsciously asked: "Grandpa, did Chaoyue say that something big is going to happen in the court?" ”

"Transcendence didn't say anything in the letter to me." Old comprador Wu shook his head, and then said in a low voice: "But beyond the thousand instructions, we must be careful these days, we must not take risks, and wait for his follow-up news at any time." ”

Hearing this, Zhou Xiuying was of course even more puzzled in her heart, but the old comprador Wu over there asked the soldiers to wait for him to change his clothes, Zhou Xiuying had no choice but to temporarily retreat outside the room to avoid, with many doubts in her heart, and said secretly: "Why is Transcendence so nervous?" Is he going to do it? Otherwise, he wouldn't need to care so much about the situation in Shanghai? ”

When he was worried, the old comprador Wu had already hurriedly changed his clothes and went out of the door, seeing that Wu Nianyue had not come out of the toilet, the old comprador Wu said to Zhou Xiuying: "Xiuying, go and urge your son, it's not early, and if you don't enter the city, it will be dark, Xue Futai and the gentry of the Shanghai Conference Defense Bureau are still waiting for me in the city." ”

"Good ......."

Zhou Xiuying, who was thinking about something, opened her mouth and just wanted to answer, but when the words came to her mouth, Zhou Xiuying suddenly woke up, quickly looked up at the sky, and saw that the sun had indeed set in the west, and it was about to fall into twilight in a blink of an eye. Then, Zhou Xiuying, who is very experienced in these aspects, hurriedly said: "Grandpa, do you want to reconsider the matter of entering the city today?" ”

"Why?" Old comprador Wu asked suspiciously.

"It's getting dark." Zhou Xiuying pointed to the sunset in the west and said in a low voice: "Grandpa, when you enter the city at this time, you must spend the night in the city, and the army left behind by you all live outside the city, if something suddenly happens, who can save you?" ”

"Xiuying, how can you talk ...... kid?"

Wu Lao comprador wanted to complain that Zhou Xiuying was unlucky, but before he finished speaking, Wu Lao comprador suddenly remembered the lesson of the uprising of the Little Knife Society - that time it was also Wu Lao Comprador who did not pay attention to Wu Chaoyue's warning and gave the Little Knife Society a chance to succeed in the uprising.

"Grandpa, my granddaughter-in-law didn't ask you just now, why did you go into the city at this time?" Zhou Xiuying asked.

"Xue Futai said that he would discuss the apportionment of military salaries next month, and held a banquet in the governor's yamen to entertain the representatives of the Shanghai Conference and Defense Bureau, and invited me to attend." Old comprador Wu replied truthfully.

"When did you come?" Zhou Xiuying hurriedly asked again.

"Just now, just half an hour ago." Old comprador Wu replied again.

"Grandpa, isn't this time too coincidental?" Zhou Xiuying said very suspiciously: "Transcendence has repeatedly reminded you not to take risks, so that you must live outside the city temporarily, but Xue Futai invited you to enter the city when it was about to get dark, and it would not be long before the city gate was closed after you entered the city." And then if something happens again, how do you get out of town? ”

After a little calculation, Wu Lao comprador decisively gave up his plan to enter the city, and sent someone into the city to report to Xue Huanyu, saying that he still had urgent official business to deal with, and entrusted his assistant Yang Fang, who was in the Shanghai Conference and Defense Bureau, to participate in the meeting on his behalf. And Zhou Xiuying suggested that Wu Lao comprador send someone to tell Zhou Tenghu about this matter, so that Zhou Tenghu also knew about it.

After listening to his daughter-in-law's suggestion, Wu Lao comprador first sent someone to inform Zhou Tenghu of the news, and then coaxed Wu Nianyue with Zhou Xiuying, patiently waiting for Xue Huan and Zhou Tenghu's reaction. As a result, there was no movement on Xue Huan's side for the time being, but when it was dark, Zhou Tenghu's right-hand man Jin Anqing hurriedly came to the tax collection office of Jiang Customs in civilian clothes, and entered the courtyard from the back door, and said to Wu Lao comprador as soon as they met again: "Lord Wu, Lord Zhou sent an official to pick you up and take you to the barracks, you can't stay here, I'm afraid there will be danger." ”

"Why?"

Wu Lao comprador was taken aback, but Jin Anqing shook his head and refused to answer, just urging Wu Lao comprador to quickly change into civilian clothes and go to Wu Jun's camp by himself, Zhou Xiuying also knew that the situation was definitely not good, and also urged Wu Lao comprador to hurry up and follow Zhou Tenghu's request. Wu Lao comprador finally understood that the situation was wrong, and hurriedly changed into a few reliable soldiers on the collar of civilian clothes and left, and Zhou Xiuying also hurriedly changed into men's clothes and brought Xiao Nianyue with him.

When leaving the tax collection office of Jiang Customs, Jin Anqing not only asked Wu Lao comprador and others to go through the back door, but also asked the subordinates and personal soldiers who stayed at the tax collection office to keep it strictly secret and not make a noise.

It was also after walking out of the back door that the old comprador Wu realized how serious the situation was - Jin Anqing actually brought a team of Wu soldiers disguised as ordinary people to pick him up, and let him and Zhou Xiuying sit in an ordinary civilian carriage, and rushed all the way to the camp in the south of the city as far away from the county as possible. Fortunately, there were no words along the way, and Wu Lao Comprador and Zhou Xiuying's mother and son entered the safest Wu army camp at present, and also met Zhao Liewen's brother-in-law Zhou Tenghu and Deng Siyuan and others.

Seeing that Old Comprador Wu and the others came back smoothly, Zhou Tenghu obviously breathed a sigh of relief, and then said happily: "Old Master Wu, thanks to your alertness and didn't enter the city, do you know that Xue Futai and they not only want to invite you into the city, but also want to invite me into the city, if we are fooled, I'm afraid things will be difficult to clean up tonight." ”

"Tao Fu, what the hell is going on?" Old comprador Wu hurriedly asked.

"I don't know yet." Zhou Tenghu replied in a deep voice: "But I can be sure that Xue Futai and Ji Fantai lured us into the city today, and it is definitely not without purpose!" If my expectations are correct, as long as Xue Futai and the others mistakenly think that you are still at the Jiang Customs Tax Collection Office, they will definitely make a move tonight, and we will understand everything by then. ”

"Tao Fu, Xue Futai, why are they targeting us like this?" Old comprador Wu hurriedly asked again.

Zhou Tenghu hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Lord Wu, forgive me, because of the request of the Comfort Pavilion, there is something I have been hiding from you, in fact, on the second day of the first month of March, the Comfort Pavilion has already arrested the Hunan Governor Chong'en in Dongting Lake. ”

Wu Lao comprador and Zhou Xiuying opened their mouths wide at the same time, and when they asked the reason, Zhou Tenghu said: "Su Zhongtang's political enemies in the imperial court secretly issued an edict for the empress dowager of the two palaces, so that Chong'en tried to trap the comfort pavilion, but fortunately, the comfort pavilion found out first, and in turn designed to arrest Chong'en. Weiting was worried that this was a sign that the imperial court was about to have a coup d'état, and if Su Zhongtang won the coup, then of course it would be easy to say anything, but if Su Zhongtang lost this coup, then Weiting had no choice but to turn his face with the court. ”

With a plop, before Zhou Tenghu's words were finished, Old Comprador Wu was already sitting on the ground, and he had long known that Old Comprador Wu would react to this Zhou Tenghu smiled bitterly, so he could only pick up Old Comprador Wu with Jin Anqing, and said with a wry smile: "Master Wu, this is the reason why Weiting must hide it from you, he knows that it will be difficult for you to accept that he is ready to do something with the imperial court." But there was no way, he was also forced. ”

"This ......, so to speak, transcendence is to prepare for ......, to prepare for ......, to rebel?"

It was not easy for Wu Laomai to say a word, and Zhou Tenghu said with a smile: "Not necessarily, if my expectations are not bad, if Weiting really decides to tear his face with the imperial court, nine out of nine will beat the side of the Qing monarch and crusade against the banner of traitors in the court." ”

"But on the side of the Qing monarch, it is also a rebellion?" Old comprador Wu, who had read a few books, said tremblingly.

"Master Wu, what are you afraid of?" Zhou Tenghu smiled mysteriously and relaxedly, and said in a low voice: "Didn't you find out, boss, as long as the Comfort Pavilion raised troops, the Qing Dynasty would be over?" Although the long hair is currently powerful, but they don't know how to govern, and they are not popular with the people, but your grandson has both the hearts of the people and the territory of soldiers and horses, if he is determined to compete for the throne, you Wu Lao may not necessarily have the blessing of being the emperor of Gao. ”

"I don't have that blessing!" Old comprador Wu jumped three feet high and roared angrily: "My family's ancestral tomb doesn't have that feng shui!" ”

"Master Wu, you are very wrong in this sentence, your family has this feng shui, and your ancestor in Xiangshan also happens to be located on the dragon vein!"

Zhou Tenghu's close friend Jin Anqing suddenly took over the conversation and said with a smile: "Last time Tao Fu asked me to go to Hong Kong to do business, he once asked me to secretly visit your hometown once, and I have explored your family's feng shui, and I can be sure that your hometown is indeed located on the dragon vein!" ”

When the old comprador Wu opened his mouth, Jin Anqing also took out the feng shui map of the world and the feng shui map of the ancestral tomb of the old Wu family, and explained to the old comprador Wu: "Lord Wu, please see, the dragon vein in the world begins in Kunlun, and the dragon vein divides to the four directions after leaving the Central Plains in the east, among which the lower Yuan dragon goes along Yungui through Guangxi to Guangdong, where the dragon head goes, is where your hometown Xiangshan is located!" ”

"Master Wu, please look at your ancestral tomb again, your ancestral tomb is backed by the ploughshare Jianshan, facing the Lingding Ocean, with the mountains and rivers at the back, and there are twin mountains standing on the left and right, which is the image of the double dragon playing with pearls!"

"The emperor Tian is singing, the dragon is on the high mountain, the hole is hidden in the deep pit, there is an eyebrow case in the center, the tooth knife in front is horizontal, and there is a treasure box behind it. There is a building upstairs, there is a support below, a horn is separated on both sides, and the bell is covered with a high maid, and the kettle is short and the waiter. Left and right, purple micro elephant huan! ”

After thinking in a deep voice, Jin Anqing paused for a moment, and then asked: "Master Wu, these are all your ancestral graves!" Can you still say that you don't have this blessing? Your ancestral tomb doesn't have this feng shui? ”

Wu Lao comprador, who didn't know anything about feng shui at all, was fooled and lame by Jin Anqing, and he opened his mouth for a long time before he trembled and asked Jin Anqing: "Meisheng, you really didn't lie to me?" ”

"Master Wu, the students don't dare to lie to you." Jin Anqing nodded solemnly, and said in a low voice: "If Master Wu doesn't believe it, you can ask any feng shui master to see your ancestral tomb, if your ancestral tomb is not located on the dragon vein, it is not in the shape of a double dragon playing with pearls, the student is willing to apologize with death!" ”

"Master Wu, we are determined to fight the world for your grandson, and it is also because of this." Zhou Tenghu also said solemnly: "In fact, Qi Huifu has long known that your ancestral tomb has good feng shui, and you should be a nobleman, but he has never told Weiting and you." ”

In fact, Zhou Tenghu and Jin Anqing really weren't fooling Wu Lao compradors, because they were proficient in feudal feng shui theory and found through research and observation that Xiangshan was indeed a treasure land, and there was indeed some dragon vein - so Xiangshan even changed its name later.

Old comprador Wu's reaction did not surprise Zhou Tenghu and Jin Anqing, and after being dumbfounded for a long time, Old comprador Wu really trembled and said, "Tao Fu, Meisheng, don't talk nonsense about my family's ancestral grave outside." If people know that they have deliberately broken the feng shui of my house, then it will be a big trouble. ”

At the same time, Zhou Xiuying, of course, was also thoughtful, and couldn't help but look at the son in her arms.

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It was the second watch of the night, and in almost no warning, the Qing army's naval division Wu Quanmei stationed in Wusongkou suddenly arrived at the city of Shanghai, and as soon as the Qing soldiers on the ship landed, they immediately divided their troops into two routes, all the way into the city to assist in defending the city, all the way to the Jianghai Customs Taxation Office located outside the city, and took the handwritten warrant of Xue Huan, the governor of Jiangsu, and directly rushed into the tax collection office to arrest Wu Lao comprador. And after learning that the old comprador Wu had gone to the concession, the Qing army sailors even broke into the concession directly to arrest people!

The news was brought back to the camp by Wu Jun's spies, and the old comprador Wu was paralyzed on the ground, unable to say a word for a long time, Zhou Tenghu decisively gave up the plan to immediately send troops to fight, and sneered: "At this time, you dare to break into the concession, if you want to find death, I won't stop you, wait until you provoke the foreigners in the concession first, and then I will make a move, and things will be much easier." ”

"Tao Fu, what about you and my family in the concession?" Old comprador Wu suddenly remembered a major event, and hurriedly asked: "If the official army can't catch me in the concession, what if we arrest our family members?" ”

"It's been transferred." Zhou Tenghu smiled and said: "When you sent someone to report to me, in order to prevent accidents, I had already sent someone to the concession to inform me and Huifu's family to immediately transfer our residences, as well as Lord Wu, your nine aunts and wives, I also asked people to invite them to live temporarily in the British foreign firm, Xue Futai and they were not so easy to take hostages." ”

Hearing Zhou Tenghu's arrangement, Wu Lao comprador felt a little more at ease, and he was even more confused, worried about the safety of his children and grandchildren, and even more worried about the consequences of his grandson and the Manchu court completely tearing their faces, and couldn't help but think of the topic just now......

"Could it be that my ancestral tomb really has that feng shui?"

"If there is a ......, it would be great." From a chicken picker to today's old comprador Wu, he can't control a trace of greed.

At this time, in order to confuse Xue Huan and others, Zhou Tenghu encouraged them to make trouble in the concession and offend the Western powers to death, and deliberately pretended to be very panicked, and sent an envoy into the city to question the reason. At the same time, he unleashed a lot of rumors, insisting that Wu Lao comprador was trapped in Shanghai, so that he could become famous for attacking Shanghai County next. As a result, Xue Huan, Gilhang'a and others were really deceived, knowing that they would offend the foreigners, but in order to catch Wu Lao comprador and Wu Nianyue as hostages, they still gritted their teeth and did not take back the troops sent to the concession, and openly connived at the Qing army to forcibly break into the temporary residence of Wu Lao's comprador family and search the concession.

It was not only Xue Huan and Gil Hang'a and other Manchu officials who were trapped, but they found out that Shanghai was suddenly in chaos, and they heard the rumors that Wu Lao comprador was trapped in Shanghai, and the Taiping Army did not have time to verify the truth of the rumors, so they immediately made a report to Lu Shunde, the chief general of the Taiping Army in Songjiang, and Lu Shunde of course also sent a good letter to Yang Xiuqing as soon as possible, asking for instructions on whether to take the opportunity to attack Shanghai. Then, of course, there is the story of Hou Yukuan coercing Wu Chaoyue.