Xiang Yan was quite uneasy in his heart and couldn't sleep. After enduring it for a long time, he finally couldn't help but ask Wei Xiaobao: "Xiaobao, you said that we persuaded the emperor to rob Chen Yuanyuan into the palace, how sure are we?" Wei Xiaobao asked rhetorically: "No matter how sure you are, do you have any other way to go?" Xiang Yan groaned, "This ...... Maybe you can offer the "Forty-two Chapters Sutra" and see if you can be forgiven? ”

Wei Xiaobao said: "The Queen Mother once sent people from the Divine Dragon Sect to hunt us down, and listening to the tone of Mr. Lu and Fat Toutuo, the Queen Mother seems to be a member of the Divine Dragon Sect, but she didn't hand over the scriptures." What are you going to do if she tells you that the book has been stolen or accidentally burned by someone who has just reached her? She is the queen mother after all, she insists on not handing it over, what can you do with her? ”

"The Queen Mother should hate you very much, right? If she asks Mr. Lu and Fat Tou to make conditions, she will hand over the scriptures if she kills you. Do you think Mr. Lu and Fat Toutuo will kill you for changing scriptures? Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if she took out the scriptures without mentioning any conditions, can you really get forgiveness and get the antidote? The Queen Mother should have a credit for finding the scriptures, plus the antidote of Mr. Lu and Fat Toutuo, as well as your antidote, can a scripture book really exchange so much credit? ”

Xiang Yan pondered for a while, and said: "Yes, after they handed in the scriptures, most of them would not mention my name, but only said that they found the scriptures. If I want to survive, there is only one way to find the emperor. What do you think I should say to the emperor? Wei Xiaobao said: "You exaggerate the strength of the Divine Dragon Sect by ten times, and others such as the Divine Dragon Sect poisoned you, sent you to arrest Chen Yuanyuan, and sent people to monitor you to tell the truth." ”

Xiang Yan was taken aback and said, "All the truth? Wei Xiaobao said: "The emperor is very shrewd, you may not be able to deceive him if you tell a lie, and it will not be good for him to see through it when the time comes." Don't lie when you shouldn't, lest you export all your wins. Xiang Yan hesitated and said: "If I tell the truth, will the emperor send someone to arrest Chen Yuanyuan?" He's not going to just kill me, is he? ”

Wei Xiaobao said: "Don't think about it. Whether the emperor kills you or not depends on how much he wants Wu Sangui to die. For the emperor, you are just a small person, he doesn't mind whether you are dead or alive, didn't he let the assassins of Mu Wangfu go at the beginning? If you let Wu Sangui die, he doesn't mind letting you live. ”

Xiang Yan said suspiciously: "What does my life and death have to do with Wu Sangui?" Why do you think that the emperor won't kill me if he wants Wu Sangui to die? Will you send someone to arrest Chen Yuanyuan and enter the palace? Wei Xiaobao said: "Wu Sangui is the king of Pingxi after all, there is no evidence, and the emperor can't directly order Wu Sangui to be killed!" However, in the past, Li Zicheng snatched Chen Yuanyuan, and Wu Sangui took refuge in the Qing Dynasty. If the Divine Dragon Sect snatched Chen Yuanyuan, would Wu Sangui confront the Divine Dragon Sect? If the Divine Dragon Sect assassinated Wu Sangui, would it solve a problem for the emperor? However, you need to exaggerate the strength of the Divine Dragon Sect, and make the emperor believe that the Divine Dragon Sect has the strength to assassinate Wu Sangui. ”

Xiang Yan was overjoyed and said, "Not bad." If the emperor wanted to kill Wu Sangui, the best way was to let the Divine Dragon Sect assassinate him. And if you want the Divine Dragon Sect to assassinate Wu Sangui, you need me to thread the needle and guide the two sides to each other. In this way, the emperor will not kill me, and will send someone to arrest Chen Yuanyuan, and ask me to hand over the person to the Divine Dragon Sect to guide the two sides to confront. By the way, Xiaobao, how likely do you think the emperor killed Wu Sangui? ”

Wei Xiaobao said: "Do you remember that the emperor sent us to blackmail Wu Yingxiong? The emperor obviously knew that the assassin was from Mu Wangfu, but he still asked us to scare and blackmail Wu Yingxiong, no matter how you look at it, the emperor doesn't seem to trust Wu Sangui very much. Now that we have obtained Yuan Yifang's testimony, I think we should have a fifty or sixty percent chance to move the emperor to get rid of Wu Sangui! Xiang Yan nodded and said, "Well, there is a fifty or sixty percent chance that you can gamble." Only then did I sleep with peace of mind.

The next day, Wei Xiaobao and Xiang Yan took 300 people to escort Yuan Yifang back to the capital. Zhang Kangnian said: "Lord Dutong, according to the rules of the Qing Dynasty: if a general goes out to fight, he must not return without an edict. Although our army is only one or twenty miles away from the capital, it is best not to go back to the palace on your own to play to the emperor in person. It is better to escort the prisoner back by his subordinates and father-in-law, and Lord Totong can wait here. ”

Wei Xiaobao's face sank, and he said, "I'm not going to fight, how can there be so many rules?" Do you want to escort prisoners? Are you trying to compete with me? Zhang Kangnian was taken aback and hurriedly said: "Wronged! Lord Dutong, his subordinates have no such intentions. Wei Xiaobao's face softened slightly, and said, "Xiao Yan and I will escort the prisoner to see the emperor, you will stay here first, and then we will go to Shaolin together when we come back." This time, no one dared to say anything more, and agreed in unison.

Wei Xiaobao and Xiang Yan came to the palace, presented a recital, and waited for Kangxi's call. After a while, Duolong took people out of the palace and laughed: "Brother Wei, father-in-law Xiang, the emperor has an order, let you hand over the prisoners to us, and you go directly to the book to meet the emperor." ”