At the end of Chongzhen, Wu Sangui led the Qing army into customs, went south to attack Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng was defeated and left Beijing. For a time, war broke out everywhere, and refugees poured in from the north to the south like a tide. On the main north-south road in Guizhou County, thousands of refugees gathered. These refugees had no money to buy food, so they had to beg for a living. The front of the big family was often crowded. Strangely, none of the refugees dared to go to the door of the tyrant Wen Shaogui's house to beg.

There are always exceptions to everything. On this day, Wen Shaogui opened the door and found a twenty-year-old beggar lying on the straw pile in front of the door, sleeping soundly. Wen Shaogui approached and kicked the beggar, saying, "Get out!" Who knew that the beggar ignored it, turned over and continued to snore.

Wen Shaogui was not angry, so he turned back to the yard and pulled out a big dog. The big dog was called "Wangcai", which had the blood of Tibetan mastiffs. He was three feet long, waist-high, fat and strong, and he was like a man-eating demon. It turned out that the refugees did not dare to beg in front of Wen Shaogui's house because of this vicious dog. As the saying goes, "A dog's eyes look low on people, but it bites the poor and does not bully the rich." Wangcai bit at least 20 beggars, ranging from broken skin to broken bones. In this troubled world, the county officials have run away, so there is no one to deal with these things. So the beggars passed ten to ten, and everyone knew that Wen Shaogui's house had a vicious dog, and no one dared to beg in front of his house anymore.

Wen Shaogui pulled Wangcai to the door. Strangely, this time Wangcai did not rush out to bite the beggar as before. Instead, he sniffled and tucked his tail.

Seeing that Wangcai refused to go out, Wen Shaogui had no choice but to grab the collar around his neck and pull it out hard. Unexpectedly, Wangcai actually competed with Wen Shaogui and refused to leave the hospital. Wen Shaogui got angry and dragged Wangcai out of the yard until he was in front of the beggar. What made Wen Shaogui stunned was that when Wangcai saw the beggar, he actually leaned down, his two claws lying in front of the beggar, his head was on the claws, and his whole body was trembling.

"What's wrong with this dog?" Wen Shaogui was puzzled and faintly felt that there must be some mystery in it. Wangcai was given to Wen Shaogui by a friend, who said that Wangcai was very clever and could identify people. At that time, Wen Shaogui did not believe it, so he changed into the servant's coarse cloth clothes, let the servant put on his own clothes, and came to Wangcai. Wangcai was really powerful, barking at the servant, but rubbed his head against Wen Shaogui to please him, and Wen Shaogui believed it. Later, he tried it several times, and it worked every time.

Wang Cai had never made a mistake, but now he was lying in front of a beggar, trembling with fear. Could it be that this person in front of him is not a real beggar? Wen Shaogui suddenly remembered that not long ago, he had been gathering with the gentry and heard that Li Zicheng had broken through the capital of Beijing, and many royals fled south for their lives and fell to the people. Could it be that this person in front of you really have a lot of background?

Thinking of this, Wen Shaogui looked at the beggar in front of him carefully again, and saw that his fingers were slender and his skin was white, so he was not a hard worker at first glance. Looking at Wang Cai's posture, his two front paws were lying on the ground, his head was resting on his paws, wasn't it the posture of bowing his head and kneeling in worship? Could it be that this person in front of him is actually a descendant of the royal family of Daming, the phoenix son and the dragon grandson?

Thinking of this, Wen Shaogui hurriedly woke the beggar up: "Wake up quickly, come with me to the house to warm up."

The beggar rubbed his eyes, glanced at Wen Shaogui, and opened his mouth and said, "Forget it, I'd better go." Wen Shaogui heard the beggar speak with a pure Beijing accent, and couldn't help but have a little more confidence in his judgment.

"Where can you go in this chaos? Just stay at my house." Wen Shaogui repeatedly asked him to stay, dragged the beggar into the house, and asked the servant to bring good wine and meat to wait on him. In the face of a table full of food, the beggar was not polite. Wen Shaogui carefully observed the beggar's eating behavior, and saw that he behaved politely, and how did he look like a noble person? After dinner, Wen Shaogui asked sideways, "May I ask your surname, sir, and where do you work?"

The beggar hesitated for a moment and said, "My name is Wei Wei, a native of Cangzhou, Hebei. I have always been farming at home, but because of years of war, I have no way to make a living, so I have to wander south and live in the world."

Wen Shaogui heard Wei Wei's gentle words and could not help but nod secretly. Seeing him ponder for a long time before saying these words, he knew that he was lying. Yes, the war is in chaos now, and if his identity is exposed, he may cause immediate trouble. Wen Shaogui thought secretly: The current situation is complicated, and it is difficult to see the outcome clearly. Although Daming is declining day by day, it has a foundation of 300 years. If he keeps this person, once Daming regains the country, he will be a great hero.

So Wen Shaogui left Wei Wei at home and entertained him with good wine and meals every day. On this day, Wei Wei was drunk by Wen Shaogui, and Wen Shaogui took advantage of his confusion to ask him about his identity again in his ear. Only Wei Wei said drunkenly, "I, I am Third Prince Zhu..." Before he finished speaking, he fell to the ground drunk.

Wen Shaogui secretly rejoiced after hearing this, and couldn't help but have other plans. It turned out that he was nearly fifty years old, childless, and had only one daughter, Wen Fengying. At the beginning of the year, the son of the county princess took a fancy to Wen Fengying and sent a matchmaker to come and say goodbye. Wen Shaogui agreed and accepted the betrothal gift, but he had not yet gone through the door. Unexpectedly, last month, the county princess heard that the Qing army was going south, and he was so scared that he left the county government office, and the whole family fled in a hurry. There is no news so far.

Wen Shaogui thought to himself that instead of betrothed his daughter to the son of the county magistrate, it was better to seize the opportunity in front of him and climb to the royal family. Even if the county magistrate came back and he was a relative of the royal family, he would have nothing to do with himself.

Wen Shaogui made up his mind and found his daughter and expressed his thoughts. When Wen Fengying heard that her father actually regretted the marriage and wanted to marry herself to a beggar, she immediately cried and refused to agree. Seeing this, Wen Shaogui had a plan and said to her daughter, "Hey, Fengying, let me tell you the truth. Your fiancé's family was killed by robbers half a month ago, and I found his body and buried it. I never dared to tell you because I was afraid that you would be sad. Now that you are in a troubled time, finding a husband for you is also afraid that something will happen to your mother and me. At least there is a man to protect you!"

Wen Fengying heard these words and cried for a long time. In the end, she had to agree. Wen Shaogui was afraid of changing her mind halfway through, so she held a wedding for Wei Wei and her daughter while the iron was hot, and let the two enter the bridal chamber.

After Wen Fengying and Wei Wei got married, they were also in love, but Wen Fengying was always brooding, blaming her father for marrying her to a beggar. Wen Shaogui quietly said to her daughter, "What do you know? Wei Wei's real identity is the dignified third prince of Zhu. It's just that it's troubled times now, if you ask him, he will definitely not admit it." While speaking, she also told her daughter about Wangcai's actions. Wen Fengying also knew that Wangcai had the ability to understand people, so she had to believe her father's words.

Things were often unexpected. Wen Shaogui was counting on Daming to reorganize the country, but the Qing army was invincible and soon attacked Guizhou County. Overnight, Daming's Guizhou County became the Qing Dynasty's Guizhou County. Wen Shaogui originally wanted to be a royal family, but he didn't expect that Wei Wei had become a burden and had to beat his front teeth and swallow blood. What he didn't expect was that after more than two years, the world was gradually peaceful, and Liu Qinghao, the son of the county magistrate, came back and said he wanted to marry Wen Fengying. Wen Shaogui had to tell the other party that he thought he was dead and had betrothed his daughter to someone else.

Liu Qinghao was speechless, but he still didn't give up on Wen Fengying, so he spent money to buy a servant. The servant secretly informed Wen Fengying and finally asked Wen Fengying out. After seeing her former fiancé, Wen Fengying realized that her father had lied to her and couldn't help crying. She told her father's thoughts and Wei Wei's identity. Liu Qinghao asked Wen Fengying to elope with him, but Wen Fengying cried and said, "Marry a chicken and follow a dog. At this point, I have to live with Wei Wei for the rest of my life."

Liu Qinghao was indignant when he heard it. According to etiquette at that time, Wen Fengying was Liu Qinghao's wife who had never been through the door, and she was put on a green hat for no reason. Liu Qinghao couldn't swallow this breath. Suddenly, he thought: Didn't Wen Fengying say that Wei Wei was the third prince of Zhu? Now, although Emperor Shunzhi has amnesty for the world, he will definitely not let the Daming royal family go. Thinking of this, Liu Qinghao was so evil that he went straight to Guizhou County Yamen and told the county magistrate. When the county magistrate heard about this, he couldn't help but be shocked and immediately sent someone to arrest Wei Wei and Wen Guishao to the county yamen.

Hearing that Wei Wei was the third prince of Zhu, Wen Shaogui couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh: "The sky is going to destroy me!" Unexpectedly, Wei Wei, who was on the side, shouted: "I have been wronged! The grass people are just the cook of the third prince of Zhu. After Li Zicheng entered the capital, I fled the capital with the third prince of Zhu, but I didn't expect to get lost in the middle and end up in Guizhou County alone."

The county magistrate asked, "Then tell me, why doesn't the prosperity of the Wen family bite you?"

Wei Wei smiled bitterly and said, "Actually, I'm just a dog butcher. I've been killing dogs for generations, and I've done a good job at dog meat banquets. I'm already in my tenth generation. Third Prince Zhu is addicted to dog meat, so he recruited me into the mansion and became his full-time cook. After entering the mansion, I rarely do manual work, so I raised fine skin and tender meat, and I've seen some big scenes. I'm in Guizhou County this time, and I'm starving. I heard that the dogs of the Wen family like to bite people, so I wanted to deceive them to kill and eat them. I didn't expect that dog to be smart. He knew that I was a dog killer, so he lay on the ground and begged for mercy, but my father-in-law misunderstood."

Hearing this, the county magistrate still didn't believe it, so he asked someone to bring a vicious dog from the backyard. Sure enough, when the vicious dog saw Wei Wei, it was like a muscle and bone, lying on the ground, not daring to move. This time, the county magistrate completely believed it, so he released Wei Wei on the spot.

Wen Shaogui saved his life and secretly called himself "lucky" in his heart. However, the news that he chose a butcher's son-in-law by relying on a dog also spread. Everyone laughed and said, "Wen Shaogui really has a pair of dog eyes."