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Chapter 749 Secret (Two in One)

Time: On April [-]rd in the fourth year of Yuanhe in the Tang Dynasty, midnight at midnight.

Location: Chang'an City, Kaihuafang, Cui Qun, the Minister of Rites of the Tang Dynasty, and the gate of Cui Mansion.

In such a quiet night, suddenly the door of Cui Mansion was kicked violently from outside.

Suddenly, in this quiet night, that unpleasant noise spread far away.

Old Qin, the concierge of the Cui Mansion who was on duty at the door, immediately became furious. After opening his mouth, he cursed bitterly:

"What reckless creature dares to run wild on the street in front of Cui Mansion."

While he was talking, he picked up a wooden stick at hand and hurriedly opened the side door and left. He planned to give the guy outside who dared to kick the door a hard beating first.

no way!Ever since the second Young Master Cui in the mansion was said to have fallen into the hands of the remnants of the Anxi Army.

All the masters and even the stewards in the mansion had a straight face; if the servants made any small mistakes, they would just reprimand them or even give them a beating.

However, in just a few days, three people had been beaten to death. While the servants in the mansion became more and more cautious, the atmosphere became extremely serious.

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

Just like what Old Man Qin was thinking, I don't dare to offend the master and the stewards, why can't I deal with some lowly Guizhou leaders?

It was just that after Old Qin went out with the stick, he immediately found that there was no ghost outside the door. The person who just kicked the door had already escaped.

I could only see a big bag being thrown at the door on the ground.

Feeling increasingly annoyed, Old Qin kicked the big bag hard.

Suddenly, the bag began to shake violently, and it turned out that there was a living creature inside. This sudden struggle startled Old Qin.

After reacting, Old Man Qin kicked the bag a few more times until the living creatures inside stopped moving, and then untied the rope tied around the mouth of the bag.

Just the next second, he was so frightened that he sat paralyzed on the ground.

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

Only the faint rise and fall of his chest and abdomen proved that he was still alive.

After a while, Old Man Qin reacted and gave himself a big slap, and in this way he forcibly calmed down.

Then he picked up Cui Chong, who had passed out, and walked towards the house, shouting in his mouth:
"Come quickly, everyone, if anyone is still breathing, come out quickly. The second young master is back, but he was beaten up by those thieves. Quickly call the doctor to come and save him..."

At noon the next day, Cui Qun, who had just gone to court, saw that his second son had already woken up.

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

But at least it wasn't like last night. After that crazy look, I finally breathed a sigh of relief.

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

At noon yesterday, he, Hu Biao, and Guo Zhu, a witness, had a formal negotiation with gongs and drums at the famous Chang'an Wine Shop in the city.

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

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

What Hu Biao and others need to do is to send Cui Chong back to the Cui Mansion in full before tomorrow. The most important thing is that 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's none of his business if the two sides fight out of their minds.

Unexpectedly, Hu Biao and his men, although they sent back the second son Cui Chonghuo, every bit as promised, before tomorrow, they would beat him up like this.

What's more terrible is that they don't know what happened to the second son in their hands.

Anyway, after coming back, the trauma will be fine, just take some time to recuperate.

But mentally, there was a big problem.

Specifically, I sometimes felt listless and sometimes cried loudly. It was because I took some soothing drugs, and not long after I fell asleep, I suddenly woke up again.

While yelling, he randomly smashed items in the room.

According to the words given by the famous doctor who was invited overnight, this is a very obvious depression, that is, various reactions caused by neurasthenia in the modern dimension.

Therefore, God knows how much torture his poor child suffered at the hands of Hu Biao and others in the past few days, which led to such a situation.

If he hadn't been confident enough, Taipingdao would definitely take action against Hu Biao and others.

Afraid of offending Guo Zhu, who is a witness, and humiliating the Qinghe Cui family's reputation for being trustworthy for thousands of years, Cui Qun will still take revenge on Hu Biao and others in advance...

After watching Cui Chong drink a bowl of ginseng soup stewed with the best Korean ginseng under the service of the servant, his face, spirit and other aspects finally looked better.

Cui Qun, who felt much relieved, said in his mouth:
"Chong'er, please rest in peace. Hu Biao and the rest of the Anxi Army will naturally be dealt with by someone in the future, and they are destined to die miserably."

After saying that, I thought about going back to my room to rest a little.

You know, although there are many servants in the Cui Mansion, Cui Qun still took care of his second son for a long time last night. When it was time to go to court, he left with full of worries.

But at such a moment, Cui Chong suddenly said to him:
"Father, wait a minute. My child has something important and I want to discuss it with you."

Then, without waiting for Cui Qun to give an answer, Cui Chong turned to the servants in the room who were acting like wooden figures and did not even dare to breathe louder and said:
"Get out of here, all of them, and close the door."

After hearing this, the servants in the room quickly retreated and gently closed the door, leaving only the father and son.

Later, when Cui Qun was about to speak, Cui Chong asked first:
"Father, after this incident, am I done with the Cui family?"

After hearing such a meaningless sentence, Cui Qun almost turned red in the eyes.

Why?Because he could hear that Cui Chong was referring to a series of things such as resource allocation and support in the family in the future, as well as whether he could become the clan leader in the future.

In order to select the best talents in each generation, the Qinghe Cui family 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 stand out in the end can have great power in the family and can be cultivated by massive resources.

Not only did Cui Chong fail in this operation, he also greatly lost the Cui family's face.

In this way, once the relevant news is known to the elders of the family, they may also lose hope in the competition of their generation.

Although he was eliminated in the competition, he still held the identity of a member of the Cui family in Qinghe.

He could also be like his eldest son Cui Yan, who would definitely have no worries about food and clothing in his life, and be able to enjoy fine food that ordinary people could not imagine.

He could even get a good official position in the court in the future.

But Cui Qun knew that such a pig-like life was definitely not a situation that his arrogant second son could accept.So after organizing some words, he said euphemistically:
"Chong'er, you don't need to worry too much. Your grandfather was not valued by the family just because he was born from a concubine. With his own efforts, he finally defeated all the competitors and gained the status he has today.

So cultivate with peace of mind, and don't think too much about other things.

After you recover well, I will have someone send you back to Qinghe ancestral house, and study with famous teachers for four or five years before making other calculations. In short, there will be a way out in the future. "

However, after Cui Chong was silent for a while, he made a decision that shocked Cui Qun:
"My child wants my grandpa's help to give me a chance to become a disciple of Taiping Dao."

After taking several deep breaths in succession, Cui Qun suppressed the roaring and cursing thoughts in his heart, and finally said solemnly:

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

Maybe they just made such a hasty decision because they knew that they had all kinds of powerful methods.

Now, at the risk of violating the family rules, I will tell you in detail some secrets that only the few members of the family know. I hope you can change your mind after listening. "

Cui Chong didn't speak, but the look of him listening attentively made Cui Qun have no choice but to continue talking:

"Taiping Dao belongs to the pre-Qin period, and the Taoist lineage of military armor and talismans gradually developed among hundreds of scholars.

In the pre-Qin period, when hundreds of schools of thought were at their most prosperous, there were actually thousands of schools of thought, among which only a few dozen were the most widely spread, influential, and famous.

Among them, the most famous and powerful ones are Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism, Mohism, Yin and Yang, famous masters, miscellaneous masters, farmers, novelists, political strategists, military strategists, doctors, etc.

Since Dong Zhongshu of the Western Han Dynasty "deposed hundreds of schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone," these dozens of schools have not died out, but have gradually begun to withdraw from the world and gradually disappeared from the eyes of the world.

And these people never think about rising again.

For example, the Yellow Turban Rebellion at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was actually just an action organized by many schools of thought, mainly based on Taoism and Taiping Dao.

You also know the consequences. Their action failed after all, and the vitality of these families was also severely damaged.

Some other major events in later generations, such as the Eighteenth Route Army rebelling against the king in the late Sui Dynasty, and the rebellions of An Lushan, Shi Si and others, also have the shadow of some related schools of thought behind them.

Even the Tubo people and the Nanzhao people had the shadow of one or two families of scholars; otherwise, how could those barbarians from the plateau and southwest become the most serious trouble of the Tang Dynasty?

Probably since the late period of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, these families have gradually cooperated with top families such as ours.
Our aristocratic family provides them with a lot of food, fodder and money every year to maintain the necessary operational needs.

They sent some disciples to escort us, provide some medicines and spells, and some other help.

For example, the Guo family in Fenyang is connected to a certain lineage of military strategists. "

After a pause, and then taking a deep look at his favorite and valued second son, Cui Qun talked about the most crucial point:

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

Although each of them is extremely powerful, the original guest minister next to me is just a relatively ordinary member of them, not even an elite.

But the training process is extremely cruel.

It is said that if you need to continuously smear and soak the body with secret medicine, supplemented by some inhuman training methods, often among a hundred people, one person can definitely survive.

If you want to be like Zhang Jiao in the late Han Dynasty, the kind of "great virtuous teacher" who stirred up the world, I am afraid that only one among millions of people can do so.

Otherwise, do you think that where the family adopts so many orphans every year, where do they end up?Except for a very small number of personnel, they were trained as soldiers and dead soldiers.

Most of the others were sent to Taiping Dao for the same kind of cruel selection like natural selection and survival of the fittest.

These people were lucky enough to pass the selection and survive.

Because of the cruel process, it not only has a huge impact on the life expectancy, but basically cannot live to be 40 years old. "

After explaining everything he knew clearly one by one, Cui Qun finally breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that his second son Cui Chong would not be willing to choose the dead end path of joining the Taiping Road because of his resignation.

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

After doing all this, he said:
"There is a saying that when a man lives in this world, he cannot eat five tripods, but he must cook five tripods when he dies; with the rest of his life doing nothing, children are still willing to fight.

I hope that grandpa will fulfill the child's willfulness, otherwise the child will have no face to continue living. "

Seeing the second son Cui Chong's extremely firm expression, Cui Qun sighed for a long time, and suddenly seemed to be five or six years old.

Even if he is majestic in the court and recognized as the next prime minister of the Tang Dynasty and the head of the Cui family in Qinghe, every word he says must be carefully considered by the emperor or an eunuch like Ju Wenzhen. Fan.

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

After a long silence, Cui Qun said:
"It doesn't matter, you have been a child with a very upright idea since you were a child; as long as you have made up your mind, no matter how others persuade you, it will have no effect.

Now that you have made up your mind, I will help you one last time. It is up to you to decide how everything will turn out in the future.

Although Taipingdao has always only recruited children under the age of ten, it is not a problem for me to use some of the resources I have in my family to send it.

And when entering and exiting the door, you will receive some preferential treatment.

You should have a good rest. When your injuries are almost healed, I will send you to the secret place of Taiping Dao. I hope you can finally stand out. "

After saying this, Cui Qun, who originally had a straight back and looked like a celebrity, turned into a slightly hunched figure and left the room.

It can be said that this is the first time in this life

So after Cui Chong saw such a rare scene and thought of his father's care in the past, his heart suddenly softened.

But then, as soon as I thought about the unprecedented humiliation I had suffered at the hands of the Xuange Camp team.

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

All that was left in his heart was the overwhelming hatred and the thought of coming back for revenge at all costs.

As for why he insisted on joining Taiping Road despite knowing that he would take action against Hu Biao and others.

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

Finally looking in the direction of Pingkangfang, Cui Chong bit his back teeth and muttered in a tone of extreme resentment:

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

After naming the netizens he had come into contact with one by one, he added: "And all the remaining members of the Anxi Army will definitely die in the most tragic way in my hands.

If I can't do it, I will be sent to the eighteenth level of hell, and I will never be reincarnated. "

have to say!Cui Chong, a kid who is only 12 years old, is really not an ordinary person.

Not only did he recover from all kinds of blows that no adult could bear in such a short period of time, but he also made such an amazing decision.

Being cruel to others is nothing given the rights of disciples from these aristocratic families.

Only someone like Cui Chong who is so cruel to himself can be a truly cruel person...

(End of this chapter)