After a while, the sound of whips was heard outside the door, but Wang Da was stubborn and remained silent.
After a long while, Wang Da finally couldn't bear it anymore and screamed. Zhang Yangquan hurriedly asked: "Master of the village, a hundred lashes won't kill him, right?"
"If you are a military advisor, it may be a bit dangerous. Wang Da is thick-skinned and thick-bodied, so it doesn't matter." Qin Lingjun actually teased him a little.
Zhang Yangquan didn't care and said with a smile: "I heard from Ling Si that your sisters learned martial arts from your father when you were young?"
Qin Lingjun lowered his eyes and nodded gently: "My father told us since we were young that the world might be in chaos, so he asked us to learn martial arts to defend ourselves."
Every time when their father was mentioned, the Qin sisters were in a low mood. Zhang Yangquan did not ask any more questions, but changed the subject and said: "These water spinach are ready to be picked."
Qin Lingjun raised her head and asked: "Then when will you set off?"
"Tomorrow!" Zhang Yangquan replied: "In addition, help me select a dozen people, all of whom rarely leave the village, so as not to be recognized by people in the city."
Qin Lingjun said hurriedly: "Don't worry, we used to cover our faces during robberies so no one could recognize us."
At this moment, there was a burst of hurried steps, and Qin Lingsi ran in quickly, smiling: "Hey, Zhang Yangquan, I've washed your weird clothes for you, so you can wear them tomorrow!"
"Did you wash it?"
"What are you looking at? Don't think that this girl is as pampered as you. I feed all the horses in the village. What's wrong with washing a few pieces of clothes?"
"No, no, thank you to the second village master!" Zhang Yangquan said hurriedly.
Qin Lingjun asked curiously: "Commander, what are you doing washing that clothes? You don't plan to wear it tomorrow?"
"Yes, this suit of clothes will come in handy tomorrow!" Zhang Yangquan smiled and nodded, everything is ready, and then all we have to do is see what happens on the spot.
……
In the twelfth year of Zhizheng, the eighth day of August.
Wheels were rolling and dust and smoke were rising. A motorcade came from the east and slowly arrived at the east gate of Jiangdu City.
The people entering the city and the city gate guards suddenly opened their eyes wide and looked sideways at the convoy.
The convoy was not big, with only two carriages, seven horses, and more than a dozen people, but the person leading it was dressed really weirdly.
The captain of the city gate is over 40 years old this year. He has been guarding the city gate for more than ten years. What kind of foreigners in strange clothes have not been seen?
But it’s also the first time I’ve seen such a person!
I saw that the man was young, wearing a pure white tights on his upper body and a set of blue tights on the bottom. What was even more strange was that the other person had stuffed the clothes into his pants and had a black belt wrapped around the waistband.
In addition, the young man has short hair, no headband, a dark complexion, and a black beard on his lips, which makes him look very strange.
If they are foreigners, their hair and eyes are black, and their facial features are not much different from those of Han people, except that their skin is darker. The same is true for the dozen or so followers behind them.
The captain of the city gate was greatly confused. When it was the other party's turn to enter the city, he stretched out his hand to stop them and shouted: "Who are you, and what are you doing in the city?"
All the people immediately came closer, wanting to hear the origin of this weirdo.
The visitors were none other than Zhang Yangquan and his party. He put on some disguises, put on some beard on his face, and darkened his cheeks. He smiled slightly at the captain of the city gate and made a hand-cross-chest salute.
"I am an overseas Australian. I came to your country this time on the order of the king to offer some treasures to the king of your country!"
The captain of the city gate was surprised and thought: "It turns out that he is from overseas. There are indeed people with black hair and black hair in overseas countries. His accent is really different from our Dayuan accent. It turns out that what he said is true."
He raised his hand and said: "Since I am an envoy from a foreign country, can I have documents to prove it?"
Zhang Yangquan sighed and said: "To be honest, general, the certificates and credentials we carried with us, and even the treasures we wanted to present, have all been snatched away!"
The captain of the city gate frowned and said, "Could it have been robbed by pirates?" He thought to himself, "Since all the tributes have been robbed, what are you doing here?"
Zhang Yangquan said with a bitter face: "We were in Wenzhou, your country, and were deceived by a man named Fang Guozhen. He claimed that your country was Dinghaiwei, and sent a ship to take us to Hangzhou. When we got off the ship, we found something on the ship.
All the treasures and belongings are gone!”
The captain of the city gate touched his forehead and said to himself: "I heard that Fang Guozhen rebelled again in March this year. If these people come from overseas, wouldn't they fall into his hands? Alas, it's a pity that so many treasures are available to traitors.
Got it!"
"What does the foreign envoy plan to do now?" he asked.
Zhang Yangquan said: "Although my belongings were robbed, I still have some domestic vegetables on hand. I plan to donate them to the emperor of your country, and then ask him to send troops to escort us out to sea!"
The people watching laughed one after another: "Foreigners, we have a vast land and abundant resources. We don't have any seeds, so why do we still need your vegetable seeds?"
"It's just that the barbarians don't know how high the sky is!"
"You can't be fake, right? Why do you look exactly like us Yuan people?"
Zhang Yangquan showed an angry expression and stamped his feet: "I thought that your country is a country with great etiquette, so it would be helpful to communicate with each other. How can you humiliate this country like this?"
Qin Lingsi was secretly amused when she saw Zhang Yangquan's face was red, he was panting like an ox, and his acting skills were superb.
When the captain of the city gate saw that he had no treasures on him, he was not so polite. He rolled his eyes and said, "If you can find any good seeds in your small country, go ahead!"
Zhang Yangquan took out a radish from his trouser pocket, looked around, and said loudly: "Your country is so vast and rich in resources, is there such a thing?"
The common people looked at it with wide eyes, and someone immediately shouted: "Isn't this just the Yingtao? We have so many yuan, how can it be considered a rarity?"
"Haha... We have a lot of this stuff at home, and our kids can eat it every day."
"Our family uses it to feed chickens and ducks!"
In fact, the output of Yingtao at this time was very small and the price was expensive. Only nobles and wealthy businessmen could afford it. However, the common people deliberately said this in order to enhance the appearance of their country.
At this time, everyone agreed that no one would expose the other's lies. After hearing this, Qin Lingsi and other bandits secretly cursed the Jiangdu people for being shameless!
Zhang Yangquan smiled slightly and said: "You are all wrong. This is a kind of radish from my country, but it looks like a peach!"
"Nonsense, how can there be such a small carrot?"
"No, it seems to really have a rhizome, it's not the same as Yingtao..."
"Damn, I've learned so much! There are such carrots in the world!"
The captain of the city gate has been guarding the gate for a long time, and his knowledge is higher than that of everyone present.
He could tell at a glance that this thing was not available in his country, so he confirmed Zhang Yangquan's identity as a foreign envoy. He thought that foreign countries had no small business, and no one knew the value of this thing, so he could not neglect it any longer.
A smile appeared on his face and he said: "The envoy please come in, would you like me to send someone to inform Prince Zhennan on behalf of the envoy?"
Zhang Yangquan was secretly overjoyed and hurriedly gave a hug to his chest and said, "Thank you so much, General, for your kindness. We just heard about the name of King Zhennan and came here to visit. Thank you, General!"
The captain of the city gate was so annoyed by him shouting "general" every time that he stopped sending anyone and went to the palace to report the news himself.
If these foreign envoys really have something good, he can also get a share of the credit.