The counterattack of the villains

Chapter 355

Zheng Zha hurriedly introduced to Fu Tianchou: "My lord, this is my senior sister, surnamed Zhang Mingqin, who is also the dual cultivation partner of the senior brother in charge."

Fu Tianchou understood, it turned out to be the wife of the head of the Emei sect, so he took the initiative to meet him a few steps.

Zheng Zha introduced to Zhang Qin: "Senior sister, this is Master Fu."

Zhang Qin clasped her fists to Fu Tianchou and said, "I've seen Master Fu."

Fu Tianchou stretched out his hand and said, "Madam Li, you don't need to be polite."

It was the first time for Zhang Qin to hear that someone called her "Mrs. Li", and she couldn't help feeling quite amused.

After the two parties met the ceremony, Zheng Zha asked, "Why is Senior Sister here?"

Zhang Qin said to Zheng Zha: "We have found Hero Yan. It turns out that Hero Yan once received my Emei inheritance in the Shushan ruins, and he is the reincarnation of my Emei Sect."

"Now the sect head brother has appointed him as the Great Elder of the Emei Sect. We will come to meet you soon to discuss the important matter of eliminating demons for the country."

"I also ask Mr. Fu to call all the officials of the guards in Nanzhili and explain the matter to them. If there is any disharmony, we may need to launch a war on the side of the 'Qing Emperor'."

Fu Tianchou's face changed drastically when he heard the words. Since ancient times, all wars launched in the name of the Qing emperor were basically rebellions.

Not to mention far away, let's say that Emperor Yongle of Ming Dynasty usurped the throne of Emperor Jianwen in the name of this.

Therefore, regarding Zhang Qin's request, he was a little confused for a while, and frowned: "Does it have to be like this? This is no different from rebellion."

Zhang Qin said sternly: "My lord, this is not rebellion, but saving the country. The civil and military officials of the capital have been swallowed up by Purdue Cihang, and the entire imperial court has become a 'demon court'."

"The civil and military officials whose bodies are occupied by Pudu Cihang's demons are all our enemies. Do you think they will sit still?"

"The three major battalions of the capital and the commanders of the northern Zhili have a total of 20 troops. The middle and low-level officers and soldiers just don't know the truth and are deceived by demons. Can we still kill them all?"

"Besides, being prepared is just in case, and it doesn't necessarily mean that there will be a war. As long as we operate well in the early stage, we may be able to avoid conflicts."

After listening to Zhang Qin's words, Fu Tianchou also felt that it was reasonable, but his deep-rooted thought of loyalty to the emperor made him unsure of his determination.

Chu Xuan on the side instantly saw through his thinking, and said calmly, "I have the courage to ask your lord a question, and I ask you to answer it truthfully."

Fu Tianchou frowned and said, "Master Chu, please tell me."

Chu Xuan said: "My lord is loyal to Daming, or Zhu Youxiao?"

Facing Chu Xuan's soul torture, Fu Tianchou was shocked all over, his eyes flickered, as if he was also asking himself this question in his heart.

As a true loyal minister and righteous man, Fu Tianchou soon had the answer.

He raised his head to look at Chu Xuan, and said firmly, "I am loyal to Daming."

Chu Xuandao: "Then the matter is simple. Zhu Youxiao is ignorant and incompetent, and he favors treacherous officials, causing the demons in the court to dance wildly, causing chaos in the world, and the people are in dire straits."

"Such an emperor, what qualifications does he have to sit on the Ninth Five-Year Throne? Only if another Ming emperor takes the stage, can Da Ming have a chance of survival."

Fu Tianchou's eyes flickered again, doubts arose in his heart, and he said tentatively: "Young Master Chu's words are very true, I don't know what you think, who can be called Mingjun?"

Chu Xuan shook his head and said: "This is Master Fu's business. We will not say much about who should succeed. In short, it is not Zhu Youxiao."

Hearing what he said, the doubts that had just arisen in Fu Tianchou's heart disappeared without a trace.

Just now he suddenly had a thought, Zheng Zha and his group, could not be someone who covets the throne, sent out to trick him, right?

If this idea is true, then there is no doubt that what they said before was completely fabricated.

But Chu Xuan made it clear that they would ignore the matter of the change of imperial power, so Fu Tianchou was relieved.

However, he still went further and said: "The old man believes that Zhu Youjian, the king of trust, is knowledgeable, good at riding and shooting, can be called both civil and military, and has a benevolent heart, so he should be a wise king."

Chu Xuan said indifferently: "Since your lord said that King Xin is a wise king, then we will secretly go to the capital and invite King Xin to Nandu to preside over the overall situation."

"When the time comes, the king of faith will be the master, and our Qing emperor will be justified. Your lord will not have to bear the name of a traitor. What do you think?"

Fu Tianchou breathed a sigh of relief, and said happily: "That's very good, then I'll leave everything to you."

……

Nanling County, no house.

After Zhang Jie taught all of the Nanming Lihuo Jue and Tongtian Jue to Yan Chixia's master and apprentice, the two practiced on the second floor of the main room, refining their spiritual power.

Zhang Qin returned from Changzhou and informed Li Mu of the results of their discussion.

After listening to her words, Li Muxin said: "Very well, since Fu Tianchou agrees, when he is ready, I will go secretly to the capital and bring King Xin back."

Zhang Qin warned: "Be more careful."

Li Mu smiled and said: "Don't worry, although my cultivation level is not as good as Zheng Zha's, my combat power is not weaker than him at all. Even if Pudu Cihang finds out, it can't do anything to me."

"Besides, I'm just going to pick up someone, and I'll go back quietly so I won't disturb him."

Lighting a cigarette, Zhang Jie, who was puffing away at the side, suddenly said, "The King Xin you mentioned is the later Emperor Chongzhen, right?"

Li Mu shrugged and said, "It's not him."

Zhang Jie shook his head with a dumbfounded smile, and said, "Then I am blind, even if we help him for three years in order to complete the task, in the end we will inevitably be destroyed by Houjin."

Xiao Honglu smiled and said: "Not necessarily, this is the world of Liao Zhai, and it is not the same as official history."

"In the official history, now is the time when the eunuch party is monopolizing power, and the Donglin party excludes dissidents and fights against each other. The whole country is completely rotten, and the politics is extremely dark, and it is basically hopeless."

"But in this world, civil and military officials are all monsters. As long as they are all wiped out, it is equivalent to a thorough cleansing of the court."

"Then let Fu Tianchou urgently ask Enke to recruit scholars, re-select a group of young officials who can do practical things and are motivated, and with the help of experts like Yan Chixia, the Ming Dynasty may not be able to revive and defeat Houjin."

After listening to his words, everyone felt that it made sense. Without the eunuchs' chaotic government and the disputes between the party and the party, the whole court will be united, and the politics will soon return to clarity.

In addition, Taoist masters will rule the country, sweep away the demons that are disrupting the world, fight against the climate of the Little Ice River, and ensure the smooth weather of Daming.

With all these favorable conditions added up, if Zhu Youjian can still play with Daming, then his death would be unjust.

Although Zhu Youjian's ability is not outstanding, and he is a bit headstrong, he is not a senseless and stupid king, but what he got from the beginning was a bad card.

If you give him a good hand, it won't be a bad game, and it's no problem to be a conservative king.

In the evening, Yan Chixia was still meditating and practicing, but Shi'er had already finished refining her spiritual power first, and finally obtained the middle stage of foundation establishment.

Seeing that his master was still practicing, he didn't bother him, and went straight downstairs to the west wing, just in time to meet Li Mu and his party having dinner.

Seeing such a big table of delicacies in front of them, usually Shi'er of steamed buns and vegetable soup, couldn't help but swallow.

"Hey, nephew, you have left the customs so soon, congratulations, come and sit down to eat." Zhang Jie was the first to see Shi'er, and greeted Shi'er enthusiastically.

Shi'er was not polite, and sat down beside Xiao Honglu.

Zhan Lan took the bowls and chopsticks for him, while Li Mu put an opened bottle of Moutai in front of him, and said with a smile, "Drink?"

Shi'er said happily: "Drink some, thank you Master Master."

He picked up the wine bottle and poured himself a glass, secretly exclaiming in his heart, he really deserves to be an orthodox Taoist who even drinks in glass cups.

Then he was attracted by the strong aroma of the wine, took a deep breath, and praised intoxicatedly: "Such fragrant wine."

"It's fragrant, authentic Moutai spring, it's not easy to drink in Jiangnan, try it."

"Thank you, master uncle, my nephew respects you."

Li Mu raised his glass with a smile and touched him, and then each took a sip.

Yan Chixia is a drinker, so Shi'er naturally drank a lot.

The alcohol content of the Ming Dynasty was almost the same as that of later generations, so he did not feel uncomfortable with the 53 alcohol content of Moutai.

"Ha... good wine."

"Haha, drink more if you like."

Just when the wine was hot in the wing room, pushing glasses and changing glasses, a young scholar wearing a shabby Confucian shirt and carrying a burden walked through the atrium and entered the back house.

Smelling the aroma of wine and vegetables coming from the wing room, listening to the chatter and laughter in the room, the scholar hurriedly put down his burden, walked to the door of the wing room and looked inside.

Seeing so many people in the wing room, the scholar was very surprised, and asked Shi'er, "Brother Shi, are there any guests at home?"

Seeing that it was a scholar, Shi'er quickly got up and said, "Brother Cui, come here, let me introduce you. These are my elders from the sect, and they are all true masters of Taoism."

After speaking, he said to Li Mu: "Master Uncle, this is brother Cui Hongjian, Cui Hongjian, who is very talented in writing, but it's a pity that I haven't met anyone who can appreciate him."

Li Mu smiled and said, "Meeting is fate, Mr. Cui might as well sit down and have a drink."

Cui Hongjian happily walked into the side room, cupped his hands to Li Mu and said, "Thank you, senior, but Xiaosheng is disrespectful."

He discussed friendship with Shi'er in the same generation, and when he heard that he was called Uncle Li Mu, he also acquiesced that he was a senior.

Xiao Honglu got up sensibly, took his own bowl, walked to another table and sat beside Zelan, and Cui Hongjian sat down beside Shi'er.

He casually asked Shi'er: "Why don't you see Daoist Yan?"

Shi'er said: "Master is practicing in seclusion, please don't disturb him for now."

"I see."

With a wave of Zhan Lan's hand, there was a pair of bowls and chopsticks and a wine glass in front of him. Cui Hongjian was stunned when he saw it, and shouted in his heart that he had done something like a fairy.

Shi'er poured him a glass of wine, and after everyone walked away with him, Li Mu asked, "Does Mr. Cui have any fame?"

Cui Hongjian nodded and said, "I have already obtained the title of scholar in the college examination last year."

Li Muqi said: "Even so, in three months' time it will be the autumn period, and the young master is not studying hard at home, how can he come here to live?"

Shi'er blushed and said, "This is my nephew's fault. Two days ago, my nephew accidentally burned brother Cui's house down when he was out hunting evil spirits."

Cui Hongjian quickly waved his hand and said, "Don't say that. If you hadn't saved me that day, I would have died in the hands of the evil spirit."

Li Mu asked Shi'er, "Why are there so many evil spirits around here?"

Shi'er nodded and sighed: "Heifengya in the northern suburbs, there is an entrance of a ghost creature, and there is a ghost king entrenched in the ghost creature. She gathers a group of evil spirits under her command, and often makes troubles in the surrounding towns of Nanling County."

"Master's many crusades have failed. We have nothing to do with her for the time being. We have to patrol the surrounding areas more. If we encounter evil spirits making trouble, we will get rid of them."

Li Mu nodded and said, "So that's how it is. Now that we're here, we will eradicate this ghost for the people of Nanling County, so as to avoid future troubles forever."

Shi'er asked solemnly: "Is the master master sure? No one knows what's going on inside the ghost creature. Master is afraid and dare not rush into the ghost creature."

Li Mu smiled, patted Mao Xiong's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, with your Master Mao Xiong here, mere ghosts and creatures are nothing to be afraid of."

At this time, Shi'er also remembered that Li Mu said that Master Mao Xiong's identity is equivalent to Zhong Kui, the celestial master of Raksha Kingdom, who is the nemesis of ghosts, so he couldn't help but feel relieved.

Shi'er immediately picked up the wine glass, smiled at Mao Xiong, and said, "Little nephew respects Master for a glass, and it's up to Master to destroy ghosts and monsters."

Mao Xiong also picked up his wine glass, laughed and said: "I can't deal with monsters and monsters. It depends on your master uncle and the others. But when dealing with ghosts, your uncle will do my part."

After finishing speaking, he clinked glasses with him, and then drank half a glass of vodka in one gulp. Seeing this, Shi'er had no choice but to hold his breath, and drank most of the glass of white wine.

Seeing this, Li Mu said amusedly: "Silly boy, your Uncle Mao Xiong is just a wine barrel, don't compete with him, or you will have to get down sooner or later."

Shi'er scratched his head and giggled, and said: "It's okay, my nephew can drink well, my uncle is so bold, my nephew will always have a good time with me."

"Hahahaha... Good boy, be angry with me."

Mao Xiong laughed heartily, and the others were also smiling. They already knew from the plot of the movie that Shi'er seemed to be out of character, and seemed immature.

In fact, this kid is so righteous and affectionate, and he can really risk his life for his friends, but Yan Chixia loses a little bit of enthusiasm because he sees through the world.

In order not to neglect Cui Hongjian, Li Mu took the initiative to talk to him: "Young Master Cui, are you sure about Qiu Wei?"

Cui Hongjian said with a wry smile, "If the current imperial examination is still a test of knowledge, Xiaosheng is somewhat sure of passing the exam."

"But in today's imperial examinations, the chances for a poor scholar like me are very slim. I am afraid that being a scholar is the limit."

Li Mu asked, "Where is Brother Cui's examination room?"

Cui Hongjian said: "Ningguo Mansion Tribute Court."

Li Mu nodded and said, "I will leave this place soon, and go to the Southern Capital to meet Lord Fu, Minister of the Ministry of War. He is also serving as the political envoy of Jiangnan Cheng."

"At that time, we will mention your name to him. Although it is not sure that you will win the exam, at least it can guarantee that you will get a fair judgment."

Cui Hongjian was overjoyed when he heard the words, he got up and gave Li Mu a deep bow, and said, "Thank you for your care, senior. If Cui achieves something in the future, I will never forget the great kindness of senior."

Li Mu waved his hand and said, "I'm just giving you a fair chance, whether you can take it or not is up to you, sit down, don't be so polite."

Cui Hongjian sat back on the stool without hesitation, raised his wine glass with both hands and said, "For people like me, a fair opportunity is already a great opportunity, Xiaosheng respects seniors."

……

The dinner ended in a cheerful atmosphere, and Shi'er drank a little too much, and went back to his room to sleep soundly as soon as it was over.

On the contrary, Cui Hongjian did not get drunk because he was more measured. After dinner, he and Li Mu walked in the courtyard to digest food, while discussing the most important part of the "policy question" in the imperial examination.

The so-called policy question is to propose some solutions to the current affairs.

The current affairs in the examination questions often involve the actual problems of the country, which can make scholars get up from the pile of old papers, face the society, observe and think about problems, and then solve problems.

Cui Hongjian felt that he had benefited a lot from this chat with Li Mu, and was even more shocked by him.

As the night darkened, everyone went back to their rooms. Li Mu and the others still replaced sleep with practice.

Cui Hongjian returned to the room, still thinking about the content of the conversation with Li Mu.

It wasn't until she sat down at the desk that she suddenly remembered something and took out a white gauze from her bosom.

After being intoxicated with the white gauze for a while, he unfolded the rice paper and drew a portrait of a woman on it in one go.

Just when he finished painting and picked it up to admire, a strange wind blew the painting away, and coincidentally flew out of the broken window.

Cui Hongjian hurriedly got up and chased after him. In the wing room, Li Mu and other Zhongzhou team veterans opened their eyes one after another.

(End of this chapter)