After Ye Mingchen and Bai Gui were executed, no one came to collect the corpses, although Jiang Guolin and Zhou Qibin had political disagreements with Ye Mingchen and Bai Gui, they were always colleagues, and the two felt that people died like lights going out, and Ye and Bai should pay off any debts as soon as they died, so the two planned to collect the corpses of the two.

When Jiang Guolin told Wang Kai about the convergence, Wang Kai smiled and said: "Convergence is not a big problem, I can report it to my boss, but do the two masters have the money to collect corpses?" ”

Jiang Guolin and Zhou Qibin glanced at each other awkwardly, now the two of them are really penniless prisoners, where can they have the money to converge? Wang Kai took out a few silver dollars, handed them over and said, "I can give the money to the two of you, but not for nothing." ”

Jiang Guolin was slightly stunned, and he was not hypocritical, and took the thanks: "Thank you, Brother Wang, but what can the two of us do, just say it." ”

Wang Kai smiled and said: "These days, I have seen that the handwriting of the two masters is quite good, and I want to ask for a few ink treasures from the two of them. ”

When Jiang Guolin heard this, he immediately nodded and agreed: "This is a gesture, I didn't expect that Brother Wang is also an elegant person." ”

Wang Kai smiled and didn't speak, and helped the two of them to restrain the corpses of Ye Bai and the others. At this time, the funeral customs of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom have changed, except for those who believe in Confucianism and Christianity, many people still resume burial, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has not hindered it, after all, the beliefs are different, and many customs are also different, so it is natural to respect their respective customs. Therefore, Ye Bai and the others each got a thin coffin, and then buried them in a Yizhuang cemetery outside Tianjing City.

After Jiang Guolin and Zhou Qibin prepared some incense and paper money to pay tribute, Jiang Guolin looked at the wooden tombstone and sighed lightly: "Lord Taiwan." As the saying goes, people are doing it, and the sky is watching, and if the killing is too heavy, there will be retribution......"

After returning to the detention place after the burial, Wang Kai excitedly took pens, ink, paper and inkstones. Please ask the two of them to copy a few paragraphs of text, these words are not related, and I don't know where Wang Kai found these words, Jiang Guolin read it several times and didn't know what to do, but Wang Kai insisted that the two copy it, and Jiang Guolin and the two couldn't wipe off their face, so they had to do it. After each of them copied a copy. Wang Kai happily thanked him and left, and Jiang Guolin and the others also read books and newspapers to pass the time.

A few days later, after breakfast. The Taiping soldiers guarding sent yesterday's "Declaration", Jiang Guolin took a sip of tea and opened it, and couldn't help but squirt out even a sip of tea, Zhou Qibin saw him so gaffe. Qi said: "Brother Yu Nong." What's wrong? ”

Jiang Guolin's face turned red, and then his muscles were bruised, and he slapped the newspaper on the table and said angrily: "We were fooled, look! ”

Zhou Qibin strangely picked up the newspaper and looked at it, only to see that the front page of the two people's anti-Manchu Qing Dynasty article was published on the front page, and it also said that the handwritten letter of the two had been widely posted in front of the Confucius Temple in Tianjing City, praising Jiang Guolin and Zhou Qibin for their deep understanding of righteousness and abandoning the darkness to cast light on the clouds.

Zhou Qibinqi said: "When did we write an essay? Jiang Guolin frowned and said angrily: "Have you forgotten the incomprehensible articles you wrote for Brother Wang a few days ago?" I guess Brother Wang must have taken it to cut the required zigzag, and then asked the paster to reframe it and then post it out! ”

Zhou Qibin was also dumbfounded. Jiang Guolin was stopped by the guards when he walked to the door, and he shouted angrily: "Wang Kai." Tell Wang Kai to come and see me! ”

Before the words fell, Wang Kai walked over with a smile and said, "Don't be angry, the two great masters, His Royal Highness the King of the West has invited two." ”

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Jiang Guolin and Zhou Qibin followed Wang Kai to the Xiwang Mansion with extremely complicated feelings, if they were just captured and let the two of them see the biggest thief leader in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at the moment, the two must be ready to scold happily, and then be generous. But now more than 20 days have passed, the two have seen all kinds of situations under the rule of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and they have been confused by many "anti-books", plus these many days have passed, and the will to die has also faded a lot, and when they entered the West Palace, they didn't know how to face this thief later.

Before that, Jiang Guolin and Zhou Qibin saw that some officials of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were leading Huang Kaiguang, Ren Anbang and other generals from Guangzhou who had surrendered to the Taiping Army.

Jiang Guolin and Zhou Qibin are not tasteful, but when they were about to open their mouths to scold, Huang Kaiguang actually spoke first: "It turned out to be Lord Jiang and Lord Zhou, the two anti-Manchurian essays are really wonderful, and they show up to say that they can be used a lot more than our martial artists, and the future is limitless. ”

Huang Kaiguang's words choked the two of them very lightly, and even refuted and explained, the two of them didn't know how to exit, and Ren Anbang on the side also hugged his fists and smiled and said: "King Xi is still waiting to see the two, so don't delay, Brother Huang, let's go back to Shanghai, King Xi arranged for us to enter the military academy to learn new tactics, and then lead the new army, I can't wait." Huang and Ren also smiled and hugged their fists to say goodbye, while Jiang and Zhou Erren were soulless, and followed Wang Kai into the backyard after the last.

The backyard is a rather large garden scenery, the small bridge and flowing water, the pavilion and the water pavilion have it, turn a winding path to the secluded, come to a pavilion outside, only to see several Taiping soldiers outside to guard there, a big man in a yellow scarf and yellow robe in the pavilion sits in it, this person looks rude, full of meat, the beard of the cheeks is obviously not rested for a few nights, I saw him frowning and looking at a few official documents, his eyebrows twisted into a Sichuan character.

After hearing Wang Kai's report, the big man raised his head, and a smile appeared on his face, although this person looked rude, but the way he smiled gave people a very sincere feeling, "Please two gentlemen to speak in the pavilion." ”

Jiang Guolin and Zhou Qibin advanced according to their words, and the two of them also knew that this person was one of the only two remaining kings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and now the actual controller of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom made all the Qing troops fear the god of war of the Heavenly Kingdom, Xiao Yungui, the king of the West!

When they entered the pavilion, the two of them did not salute, and the king of Naxi did not seem to blame, pointed to the stone chair next to him, and motioned for the two to sit down. Jiang Guolin and Zhou Qibin did not thank each other, and sat down.

King Xi's eyes returned to the official document in his hand, but he said lightly to the two of them: "I asked Second Lieutenant Wang to do the matter of the document. Hehe, I didn't expect that the craftsmanship of the pasters in the edict was quite good, and the original manuscript of the edict really looked like there was no trace of Pies. ”

Jiang Guolin didn't understand what the traces of Pierce were. But when he mentioned the text, he was furious, and immediately stood up and said: "This is the prince of Taiping, I think you are also a dignified prince, a hero who holds several provinces, I can't imagine that such a third-rate frame-up is not a hero!" ”

King Naxi didn't think it was at all wrong, and smiled faintly. Put down the official document in his hand and said: "This is Mr. Jiang, don't be angry, how many thousands of cases of anti-interrogation have we Han people made for thousands of years?" Why isn't it a hero's work when he comes to this king? The two of them didn't want to surrender. Don't you allow the king to make a little plan? ”

Jiang Guolin didn't know that the debate of the West King came from the little woman of the West Wangniang, and he was speechless for a while, but Zhou Qibin smiled and said: "The West King is informal, he is a real hero." ”

Jiang Guolin was stunned for a moment. King Naxi saw Zhou Qibin say this. His eyes lit up, and he turned to Zhou Qibin and smiled: "This must be Mr. Zhou, this king will also say that when the two meet, they will scold this king for being a pseudo-king and a thief in the west, since Mr. Zhou is commensurate with the word king of the west, I don't know if I am willing to devote myself to Taiping and contribute to the revival of my Han people?" ”

Zhou Qibin got up calmly and said with a long sigh: "I wish to do what I want, and I wish to assist the King of the West to achieve the great cause of the rejuvenation of the Han people." ”

The great cause of the rejuvenation of the Han people is a propaganda slogan published in many newspapers almost every day. Jiang and Zhou are familiar with each other, and Jiang Guolin really admires this grand wish of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. As a Han Chinese, he naturally hopes that the Han people will be revived one day, but Jiang Guolin didn't expect Zhou Qibin to surrender to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as soon as he came up, and he didn't even have a little twist, which caught him off guard.

Zhou Qibin was not as tough as Jiang Guolin, and he was able to save his life in the past 20 days, so he began to weigh it repeatedly, and he was like Jiang Guolin, who was confused by those books, but he was more aware of current affairs. When he saw Ye Mingchen and Bai Gui being publicly shot that day, Zhou Qibin had already made up his mind to return to peace, he didn't want to be like Ye Bai and the others, and even his reputation would be stinky after death.

King Xi was naturally overjoyed, and said with a smile: "If my heavenly kingdom can get Mr. Zhou's help, it will definitely be like a tiger with wings." Then he sighed lightly and said: "At first, this king followed the king of heaven and other troops, at first it was just because he couldn't survive, but as more and more soldiers and horses followed us, and his knowledge became more and more extensive, this king understood that the Han people in the world have been oppressed for a long time, so this king made a grand wish, to lead everyone to overthrow the Manchu Qing, expel Hu Nu, and return my Han family to the rivers and mountains, so as to realize the recovery of the Han people." But many Han people in the world are still deceived by the Manchu Dynasty, thinking that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is the emperor's orthodox Shuo, and they are still protecting the Qing court and fighting with our Han army, which is really sad! This king hopes that Qing court officials like the two who have the people in their hearts, but have not harmed the people, can be put into peace, as the so-called more help for the righteous and less help for the unjust, one day this Manchu Qing will be overthrown by us. ”

Zhou Qibin still stood, bowed slightly and said: "King Yingming of the West, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has stolen the rivers and mountains of the Han family for two hundred years, and it should be returned to my Han family, just like when Zhu Ming overthrew the Mongols, this Middle Earth land should still have our Han people in charge." Zhou Qibin had already recognized the king of the West as the master, and his slave appearance of the Manchu officials could not be changed for a while, so he bowed his head and spoke carefully.

King Xi patted his thigh and smiled: "Mr. Zhou said it well, come and sit down and talk, there are no masters and slaves here in the kingdom of heaven, only superiors and subordinates, everyone is still generally equal in front of the laws of the kingdom of heaven, and as a citizen of my kingdom of heaven, there is no distinction between high and low origins, only the difference between superior and inferior, and you will get used to it in the future." Then King Xi looked at Jiang Guolin and asked, "I don't know what Mr. Jiang is going to do?" ”

Jiang Guolin hesitated, and Zhou Qibin suddenly said: "Brother Yunong, the Kingdom of Heaven has recruited us with national righteousness, and we must not be confused in such a big joint, whether you want to be loyal to the emperor of the Manchurians or serve the righteousness of our Han nation, you should consider it carefully, don't make a mistake." ”

Jiang Guolin's face was blue and white for a while, and he slowly got up after a while, and said with a long sigh: "I am willing to follow the King of the West to revive the former glory of the Han family!" (To be continued......)