Time: April 3 of the fourth year of the Tang Dynasty, a quarter in the middle of the night.

Location: Chang'an City, Kaihuafang, the gate of Cui Qun, the waiter of the Tang Rite Department, and Cui Mansion.

In the dead of night, suddenly, the gate of Cui's Mansion was kicked a few times from the outside.

Suddenly, on this silent night, that unpleasant noise was heard from a long distance.

Old man Qin, who was on duty in the gate at the time, immediately became angry in his heart; After opening his mouth, he scolded hatefully:

"What thing that doesn't know whether to live or die dares to go wild at the gate of Cui's mansion."

As he spoke, he had already picked up a wooden stick at hand, and hurriedly opened the side door and left, this was going to beat the guy who dared to kick the door outside, and then he would beat him hard.

No way! Since the second son of Cui in the mansion, it is said that he fell into the hands of those remnants of the Anxi army.

The masters of the house, and even the stewards, each of them had a straight face; The subordinate casually made a little mistake, that is, he opened his mouth to reprimand, or even directly beat him.

However, in just a few days, three people have been beaten to death, which makes the servants in the palace more and more cautious, and the atmosphere is extremely serious.

So much so that in the past few days, everyone in the Cui Mansion has been holding a fire in their hearts.

Just like what Old Man Qin thought in his heart, I don't dare to offend the master and the stewards, and I can't deal with some lowly Qiantou?

It's just that after the old man Qin went out with a stick, he immediately found that there was not a single ghost outside the door, and the person who kicked the door just now had already run away.

Only on the ground, a large bag was seen being thrown at the door.

Becoming more and more annoyed in his heart, Old Man Qin kicked this big bag hard.

Suddenly, the bag shook violently, and it turned out that it contained a living thing; Such a sudden struggle startled Old Man Qin vividly.

After reacting, Old Man Qin kicked a few more times, and only after the living creature inside stopped moving, did he untie the rope tied to the mouth of the bag.

Only the next second later, he was so frightened that he sat down on the ground.

Because under the light of the two lanterns at the door, Cui Qun, the second son of the Cui family, who had a blue nose and swollen face, was now lying in the bag in white flowers.

Only a slight rise and fall between the chest and abdomen proved that he was still alive.

After a while, Qin Laohan, who reacted, gave himself a big coercion and forcibly calmed down in such a way.

Then he picked up Cui Chong, who had passed out, and shouted in his mouth while walking towards the house:

"Come on, people, there are still those who are panting, all hurry out; The second son came back, but he was beaten up by those thieves, so he hurriedly passed on Lang Zhong to save people......"

At noon the next day, Cui Qun, who had just gone down to the court, looked at the second son who had woken up.

Now he was leaning back on the soft couch, sipping ginseng soup under the service of a servant; Although his face is still swollen like a dolphin's head, his complexion is also very bad.

But at least after last night's crazy appearance, my mouth finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Then it was replaced by hatred for Hu Biao and others, which reached a peak level.

At noon yesterday, he, Hu Biao, and Guo Zhu, a witness, were officially negotiated in the famous 'Chang'an Wine Shop' in the city.

Within two days, the Cui Mansion sent all the ransom money to the Deyue Tower, little by little.

And in the next six months, Qinghe Cui is not allowed to carry out any retaliation against Hu Biao and others in any way.

And what Hu Biao and the others need to do is to send Cui Chong back to Cui's mansion before tomorrow, and most importantly, he must be alive.

As for Guo Zhu, as a witness, he has the responsibility and obligation to supervise both parties to fulfill their respective commitments.

If you want to fight, it must be half a year later, and it is none of his business when the two sides play dog brains.

Unexpectedly, although Hu Biao and those people sent back their second son Cui Chong alive and a little bit before tomorrow as promised, they beat him like this.

What's even worse is that they don't know what the second son has experienced in their hands.

Anyway, after coming back, it's okay to have a wound, just rest for a while.

But mentally, there was a big problem.

Specifically, sometimes I was depressed, sometimes I cried loudly, but I took some calming drugs, and I suddenly woke up after falling asleep for a short time.

While yelling and screaming, he smashed the objects in the room indiscriminately.

In the words given by the famous doctor who was invited overnight, this is a very obvious reaction caused by depression, that is, the neurasthenia of the modern plane.

Therefore, God knows what kind of torture his poor child suffered at the hands of Hu Biao and others a few days ago, so that this situation will occur.

If he wasn't sure enough, Taiping Dao would definitely take action against Hu Biao and others.

Afraid that he will desperately offend Guo Zhu, who is a witness, and humiliate the reputation of Qinghe Cui's thousand-year-old trustworthiness, Cui Qun will still take revenge on Hu Biao and others in advance......

Seeing that Cui Chong drank a bowl of high-quality Korean ginseng under the service of the servants, after the stewed ginseng soup, his face and spirit finally looked better.

Cui Qun, who was a lot more relieved, said in his mouth:

"Chong'er, you can recuperate with peace of mind, Hu Biao and the remnants of the Anxi Army will naturally have someone to deal with in the future, and they are destined to die miserably."

After that, I thought about going back to my room to rest for a while.

You must know that although there are servants in Cui's mansion, Cui Qun still took care of the second son for a long time last night, and it was not until it was time to go to court that he left with full of worries.

But at such a time, Cui Chong suddenly said to him:

"Father, wait a minute, the child has some important matters that I want to discuss with you."

Then, without waiting for Cui Qun to give an answer, Cui Chong turned his head to the servants in the room who were pretending to be wooden people and didn't even dare to breathe a little louder:

"Get out of here and close the door."

Hearing this, the servants in the room hurriedly retreated like a tide, and gently closed the door, leaving only the father and son.

Subsequently, when Cui Qun was about to speak, Cui Chong preemptively asked:

"Father, is it true that after this incident, I will finish it in the Cui clan?"

After hearing such a somewhat clueless sentence, Cui Qun almost turned his eyes red.

Why? Because he could hear that Cui Chong was referring to a series of things in the future in the family's resource scheduling, support, and whether he could become the patriarch in the future.

In order to select the best talents in each generation, they can achieve the purpose of leading the family to continue.

That selection process can be said to be not much better than the general way of raising Gu.

The members who finally stand out can have huge power in the family and can be cultivated by massive resources.

Cui Chong failed in this operation, not to mention, and greatly lost Cui's face.

In this way, once the relevant news is known by the elders of the family, I am afraid that in the competition of their generation, I am afraid that there will be no hope.

Although after being eliminated in the competition, he was a member of the Qinghe Cui clan.

can also be like his eldest son Cui Yan, who is absolutely worry-free in this life, and can enjoy brocade clothes and delicacies that ordinary people can't imagine.

Even in the future, he can hang a good official position in the imperial court.

But Cui Qun knew that such a life like a dolphin was definitely not a situation that his arrogant second son could accept.

So after organizing some language, the mouth said euphemistically:

"Chong'er, you don't need to worry too much, your grandfather was not born to a concubine back then, and was not valued by the family, relying on his own efforts, he finally defeated a number of competitors and had today's identity.

So cultivate with peace of mind and don't think too much about anything else.

After your body is well, I will ask someone to send you back to the ancestral house of Qinghe, follow the famous teacher for four or five years and then do other things, in short, there will be a way out in the future. ”

However, after Cui Chong was silent for a while, he said a decision that shocked Cui Qun:

"The child wants Grandpa to help, so that I have the opportunity to worship under the Taiping Dao Gate."

After taking several deep breaths in a row, Cui Quncai suppressed the idea of roaring and scolding in his heart, and finally said solemnly:

"Chong'er, you don't know much about Taiping Dao.

It may be that they only know that they have all kinds of powerful means to make such a rash decision.

Now, at the risk of violating the family rules, I will tell you in detail some secrets that only a few members of the family know, and I hope that after listening to them, you will be able to change your mind. ”

Cui Chong didn't speak, but the appearance of listening attentively made Cui Qun only continue to speak:

"Taiping Dao belongs to the pre-Qin period, and the armor and talismans of the Taoist family among the hundreds of sons have gradually developed.

In the pre-Qin period, the hundred schools of thought were at their most prosperous, although there were hundreds of schools, there were thousands of schools; Among them, there are only a few dozen of them that are widely spread, influential, and the most famous.

Among them, the most famous and powerful are Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism, Moism, Yin and Yang, Famous Scholars, Miscellaneous Families, Farmers, Families, Vertical and Horizontal Families, Soldiers, Doctors, etc.

Since Dong Zhongshu of the Western Han Dynasty 'deposed a hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone', these dozens of schools have not died out, but they have gradually begun to escape from the world and gradually disappear in the eyes of the world.

And these people don't want to rise again all the time.

For example, the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was actually an action jointly held by many princes mainly based on Taoism and Taiping Dao.

As you know, their actions have failed after all, and these princes are also greatly damaged.

Some other major events in later generations, such as the eighteenth road anti-king at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the rebellion of An Lushan and Shi Si and others, there are also some shadows of related princes in the back.

Even behind the Tubo people and the Nanzhao people, there are also the shadows of one or two families of Zhuzi; Otherwise, with those savages on the plateau and southwest, how can they become the henchmen of the Tang Dynasty.

Probably from the later stage of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, these princes gradually cooperated with top families such as us.

Our families provide them with a lot of food and money every year to maintain their necessary operational needs.

They sent some disciples to escort us, provide some medicines and charms, and some other help, so that they could take what they needed.

For example, the Fenyang Guo family is connected to a certain line of the Bing family. ”

After a pause, and after taking a deep look at his favorite and valued second son, Cui Qun talked about the most critical place:

"As far as I know, after all these years of inheritance, the number of disciples in the Taiping Dao is now limited.

Although they are all extremely powerful, the original guest next to me is just a relatively ordinary member of them, and he is not even an elite.

But the process of cultivation is extremely cruel.

It is said that it is necessary to constantly apply and soak the body from secret medicines, supplemented by some inhuman training methods, and often among hundreds of people, there must be one person who can survive.

wants to become Zhang Jiao in the late Han Dynasty, the kind of 'great sage and good teacher' who stirred the world, I am afraid that there is no one among millions of people.

Otherwise, where do you think the family ends up with so many orphans adopted every year? Except for a very small number of personnel, who were trained as tribunes and dead soldiers.

Most of the others have not been sent to Taiping Dao for the same kind of cruel selection of natural selection and survival of the fittest.

These people were lucky enough to survive the selection.

Because of the cruel process, it not only has a huge impact on life expectancy, but basically does not live to be forty years old. ”

After explaining what he knew one by one, Cui Qun finally breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the resignation shown by the second son Cui Chong would not be willing to choose to participate in the Taiping Road.

But Cui Chong actually struggled to get up from the bed and respectfully saluted Cui Qun.

After all this is done, the mouth says:

"There is a saying that the husband is born in the world, and he can't eat five tripods in life, and he must cook five tripods in death; With the rest of the life doing nothing, the child is still willing to fight.

May Grandpa fulfill the child's willfulness, otherwise the child will be shameless and continue to live. ”

Seeing the second son Cui Chong, with an incomparably firm look on his face, Cui Qun let out a long sigh and suddenly seemed to be five or six years old.

Even if he is majestic in the court, recognized as the next prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, and the head of the Cui family in Qinghe, every word that comes out of his mouth, whether it is the emperor or a eunuch like Ju Wenzhen, must be seriously considered.

At such a time, he is still just a father who cares about his younger son.

After being silent for a long time, Cui Qun spoke:

"Well, since you were a child, you have been a child with a very good idea; As long as you make up your mind, no matter how persuaded by others, it will not work at all.

Now that you have made up your mind, I will help you one last time, and it is up to you how everything will be created in the future.

Although Taiping Dao has always only recruited children under the age of 10, I think it would not be a problem for me to use some of the resources I have in my family to send them.

And in and out of the door, you can also receive a little preferential treatment.

Rest well, and when the injuries on your body are almost recovered, I will have someone take you to the secret place of Taiping Road, and I hope you can finally stand out. ”

After saying such a sentence, Cui Qun, who originally had a straight back and looked like a famous man, left the room with a slightly hunched figure.

Such a situation can be said to be the first time in this life

So much so that after Cui Chong saw such a rare scene, after thinking of his father's care in the past, his heart suddenly softened.

But then, as long as he thought of the unprecedented humiliation he had endured at the hands of the Xuange Battalion team.

And after being locked up in a narrow small dark room, and almost biting his tongue to commit suicide, some of the softness in his heart has disappeared.

All that was left in his heart was a monstrous hatred, the idea that he would take revenge on him regardless of everything.

As for why he knew that Taiping Dao would take action against Hu Biao and others, he still insisted on joining it.

That was because he had an indescribable intuition in his heart: Taiping Dao's revenge on Hu Biao and others would not succeed, but would suffer a big loss.

Finally, looking at the direction of Pingkangfang, Cui Chong gritted his back molars and muttered in a tone of extreme resentment in his mouth:

"I, Cui Chong, swear to the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth today, Hu Biao, Guifei, Yu Hanfeng, singer, Mr. Nanze."

After first saying the names of the netizens he had come into contact with, he added a sentence: "And all the remnants of the Anxi Army will definitely die in the most tragic way in my hands."

If I can't do that, I will be sent to eighteen levels of hell, and I will never be reborn. ”

I have to say! Cui Chong, a little cub who is only twelve years old, is really not an ordinary character.

Not only did he recover from the blows that even adults could not bear in such a short period of time, but he made such an amazing decision.

Being ruthless to others, with the rights of these family disciples, is nothing at all.

Only a person like Cui Chong who is so ruthless to himself is a real ruthless person......

(End of chapter)