sbdcsierra Chapter 643: Yang Zhengshi, You Don't Want To...
Chapter 643: Yang Zhengshi, You Don't Want To...
second day
The unfinished talk will continue today, Xu Qing and Xiao Ruxue, who are full of food and drink, came to Honglu Temple together.
The only difference is that Xiao Ruxue, who originally did nothing at the negotiating table, only kept an eye on Zhou Guozheng's mission, changed to focus on Zhou Guozheng today.
Because Deputy Envoy Zhou Guo didn't come today.
Xu Qing saw that there was no one sitting in the deputy envoy's seat on the opposite side, knowingly asked: "I don't know why your country's deputy envoy didn't come today?"
Yang Mingzhi forced himself to smile and said, "The deputy envoy caught wind and cold today, and he was afraid of spreading it to everyone, so he rested at home, which made Anding County Marquis laugh at him."
Xu Qing nodded, and there was a smile on his face, but it was a playful smile and said: "It turned out to be a cold disease. The deputy envoy has a lot of things to do on weekdays. After the peace talks yesterday, he couldn't stay idle. He went out of the city to inspect me. The customs of the state of Chu, and the customs of the state of Chu, it is really a blessing for the state of Zhou to have such diligent officials."
After hearing Xu Qing's words, Yang Mingzhi was taken aback, and his hand on the table almost knocked off the teacup on the table because of this shock.
How did he find out? !
wrong!
When the second brother came back yesterday, he told himself that he had never been seen face to face, and even changed his clothes, and they only fought for a few minutes, how could his identity be exposed?
Could it be that he is deceiving himself?
Well, it must be so!
Thinking of this, Yang Mingzhi bit the bullet and said: "The Marquis of Anding County may have misjudged the person. Yesterday, my Deputy Envoy Zhou Guo stayed in the residence and did not go out."
"Didn't go out?" Xu Qing heard this, and said, "That's because I misjudged the wrong person in a hurry. At that time, an assassin happened to come out. Fortunately, His Royal Highness was by his side, and he kicked him in the waist and abdomen." The kick resulted in a serious injury, otherwise the seriously injured person would have been replaced by me, it is normal to admit the wrong passer-by in this situation, so don't blame Yang Zhengshi."
The smile on Yang Mingzhi's face became more and more forced: "Where..."
Xu Qing said: "Your country's deputy envoy was also injured in our country of Chu. In the past two days, we had a good talk with us at the negotiating table. Now your country's deputy envoy is seriously ill. Why don't we wait until today's peace talks are over?" Afterwards, how about I wait for the peace envoy of Chu to go and have a look?"
The envoys of the Zhou Guo Mission looked at Xu Qing with more and more strange eyes.
This Marquis of Anding County took the wrong medicine today, right?
Yesterday, they all had the face of a profiteer. They talked about business when they mentioned the county uncle of Anding, and their tone was very cheap in their opinion...
It seems that in his eyes, the sophistication of the world is completely superfluous, and entering the arena is the right thing to do.
But why did you start to follow the ways of the world today?
They can still care about the condition of their deputy envoy.
This is really puzzling.
Yang Mingzhi's expression became more and more far-fetched: "No, no, the Marquis of Anding County is busy with a lot of affairs every day, so how dare you waste the time of the Marquis of Anding County."
Xu Qing said with a smile: "Hey, it seems that Envoy Yang still doesn't know me well enough. As a person, the most indispensable thing in my daily life is time. I have a lot of free time."
Yang Mingzhi: "..."
I almost forgot, besides the money, this guy has a lot of time, he doesn't even go to court in the morning!
But at this juncture, how could the Marquis of Anding County be allowed to pass?
Was he visiting for his illness?
He went, so it was obviously to test the wound, right?
If he finds out that his second brother's injury was not caused by wind and cold at all, but was caused by a heavy blow, then neither Zhou Guo nor the Yang family would be able to bear the responsibility.
Thinking of this, Yang Mingzhi quickly said, "No need, this wind-cold disease is contagious to others. If the Marquis of Anding County catches it, wouldn't it be a crime?"
Xu Qing insisted: "Hey, no matter what you are talking about, it is said that brothers work together to cut gold, share blessings and share difficulties. Even if you get sick because of this, it is worth it if you are considerate."
Yang Mingzhi said stubbornly: "No, no, my envoy will definitely convey the wishes of the Marquis of Anding County to our Deputy Envoy, and I dare not trouble the Marquis of Anding County to send it."
Xu Qing said: "Since this is the case, we might as well shelve this matter for the time being. Let's start today's negotiation first. How about deciding whether to visit the deputy envoy after the negotiation goes well?"
If these words fall into the ears of ordinary people, it must be that if the negotiation goes well and the talks are completed ahead of schedule, there is still a lot of time, so it is natural to go to the envoy's residence to visit the deputy envoy.
If the negotiation does not go well, and the delay at the negotiating table is too long, and if there is no time to visit, then go back to your respective wives and children and forget about it.
But Xu Qing's words didn't mean that to Yang Mingzhi's ears.
From what he heard Xu Qing meant clearly, if the negotiation does not go well, if you don't agree to the terms proposed by our country Chu at the negotiating table, we have to visit this deputy envoy of your country who is suffering from the cold.
If the negotiation goes well, we'll let it go and just pretend that your Deputy Envoy has really caught a cold.
In fact, there were so many pleasantries and so many wise words at the opening, but in fact it can be summed up in one sentence:
Yang Zhengshi, you also don't want your deputy Zhou Guo to be exposed when he failed to assassinate and was seriously injured in our Chu country, do you?
Threats, blatant threats.
It turned out that the Marquis of Anding County had already identified the perpetrator!
The reason why he didn't submit the matter to the imperial court for investigation is that he is waiting here for him!
If he dared to refuse the conditions offered by the state of Chu today, it would be difficult to end well!
So today's peace talks really went smoothly unexpectedly.
Hubu Shangshu whispered at the side: "Didn't we discuss yesterday that we would give Zhou Guo a profit this time? Isn't so much money a little too much?"
Xu Qing said: "Hey, senior brother's words are wrong. As the saying goes, if you have money, you don't make money as a bastard, and you see that they are so cautious about bargaining now. Of course, we have to take advantage of the victory to pursue them. They have good intentions..."
The Minister of the Household Department looked at Yang Mingzhi, then at Xu Qing, and nodded: "That's what you said..."
Due to the unexpected smoothness of this negotiation, the exit was ended early.
Just after coming out of Honglu Temple, Xiao Ruxue surrounded Xu Qing and asked nervously, "You... met an assassin yesterday? Are you injured?"
Xu Qing said, "Xiao Ye has been beaten away, it's fine."
The little girl shook her head, and said nervously: "No, I feel that there are already evil assassins targeting you."
Xu Qing looked at the little girl's nervous expression and said, "Then what should I do?"
The little girl said: "How about I follow you home and protect you all the way?"
Xu Qing laughed when he heard this, "What about Su Men?"
Xiao Ruxue said: "Sumen is not sister Su, not as important as you!"