An old Confucian from Chengdu stood on the long road outside the palace and shouted with great energy.
Yan Pi, who was full of worries, was about to enter the palace with the gift list in his hands. However, he never thought that a subordinate following him suddenly turned pale and fell to his knees twitchingly.
"What?" Yan Pi looked shocked, thinking that the Shu people were going to kill the envoy.
"General Yan, my stomach hurts so much that I can't bear it anymore!"
At this juncture, acting like this is tantamount to contempt for Xi Shu.
"Bear with me a little longer——"
Wow.
Unexpectedly, the subordinate vomited a mouthful of blood and passed out.
Yan Pi looked up in shock and found that many Shu officials on both sides had gathered around him with doubts on their faces.
"What's wrong?"
The tired Commander Sun also frowned and approached. After taking a look, he sent the unconscious Beiyu subordinates down first.
Yan Pi gritted his teeth, but he did not dare to cross the line after all, so he had to hold the gift list and continue walking to the palace.
At the end of the long road, Xu Mu and Jia Zhou stood side by side, with extremely calm faces on their faces.
…
"There are three other people?" Yan Pi, who returned to the post house, felt worried after hearing the news. He was a spy, and it was his nature to be suspicious.
If the Shu people killed the envoys, they would definitely not survive.
wrong.
If the Shu people really wanted to kill the envoy, why bother?
"Mr. Yan, after presenting the gifts, we have packed up and can leave immediately to return to Beiyu."
According to the rules, after a foreign minister returns the courtesy, he should leave immediately if there is nothing else to do.
But at this moment, Yan Pi suddenly smiled.
"Go and invite Commander Sun, who is our Beiyu envoy group. Four people are sick and need to stay in Chengdu for a few days for treatment. Also, try to find out why these people suddenly fell ill."
"Officer Yan, if I remember correctly, these four people were together yesterday and all ate mutton soup."
"Mutton soup?"
Yan Pi was startled. He seemed to remember that his subordinates brought something back yesterday, but he knocked it over.
…
"Don't worry, my lord, what can't be found is the magic medicine of Miracle Doctor Chen. Most likely, it will only last four or five days in coma and then it will heal on its own." Jia Zhou said with a smile.
"Those mutton soup vendors are all people arranged by me, so it is naturally easy to do it. However... there is one more thing I want to tell my lord. Yesterday, General Tiger went to buy mutton soup and couldn't stop him.
, he grabbed two bowls and ran away, and also passed out together..."
Xu Mu's face was speechless. Fortunately, he woke up after a few days.
"Wenlong, the next step is Huo Rong's arrangement."
"When the time comes, Yan Pi will try his best to use these few days to explore the reality of Chengdu. But he doesn't know that in this way, his cleverness will be mistaken for his cleverness."
If the envoys sent here were ordinary envoys, they would probably leave in a panic as soon as the gifts were presented. But as Jia Zhou expected, Yan Pi and the others were really the people of the iron torture platform.
"Sun Xun, what are Huo Rong doing these days?"
Sun Xun, who was on the side, heard Xu Mu's words and immediately started talking nonstop.
"My lord, what else can I do? Try a different way to play. Yesterday, you asked me which flower girl in the Qing Palace in Chengdu is more handsome."
"Although Huo Fu is cunning, he is still considered a great talent. It's sad to have such a son." Xu Mu sneered.
As long as the plan succeeds and Huo Fu dies, the threat from Xi Shu will be reduced. In addition, after this incident and before going to the Western Regions, it is time to have a good meeting with Chang Laosi.
…
After coming out of the palace, Xu Mu planned to go to Si Hu. His silly brother's greedy habit seemed to have changed a bit at first glance, but it seemed that he had not changed at all.
Furthermore, Luan Yu is also pregnant, and as the elder brother, he will eventually come to visit her.
"Sun Xun, go to the shop and choose some boxes of preserves."
Instead of riding in a carriage, Xu Mu sat at a tea stall on the roadside, greeting the excited people along the way warmly from time to time.
Someone in white robes came over, and several secret guards were about to show up, but Xu Mu waved his hand and withdrew his body.
"Huang Zhizhou has met my lord."
Looking up at the person coming, Xu Mu nodded and asked the tea stall owner to serve another bowl of tea. After Jia Zhou analyzed Lao Huang's matter, Xu Mu never felt relieved.
Therefore, many people in the entire Western Shu regime knew that Huang Zhizhou did not have any official status. Xu Mu had to be careful about this kind of thing.
"Zhizhou, take a seat."
"Thank you, Lord." Huang Zhizhou thanked him and sat down firmly.
The setting sun after the beginning of spring finally brought the sky full of glow. Under the glow of the glow, the entire ancient and simple giant city of Chengdu was quickly covered with a layer of gold.
"Zhizhou, I heard that you were at the top of the double examination last year. This is incredible. We are a great talent in Western Shu."
To be honest, in Xu Mu's heart, Huang Zhizhou is more like a proton. Unfortunately, the proton's mother's family is gone.
"My Lord, if Xiao Han is lucky enough to be here, I won't be able to take the lead."
"That's good. I did not misjudge you. You are indeed a great talent."
"Several teachers in the General Hall, as well as Military Advisor Jia, said that I no longer need to study in the General Hall. If your lord is willing, I want to make contributions to Western Shu." Huang Zhizhou raised his head, his eyes full of expectation.
"I don't need to be a general. I can be a captain or a small staff member of the camp general. As long as my lord is willing, I will join the army immediately. My lord, the war between the north and the south is about to begin. I, Huang Zhizhou, am willing to surrender to Western Shu."
Xu Mu smiled lightly, "I need to read the military files on these matters before making a decision."
Huang Zhizhou nodded, saluted Xu Mu, and walked forward with a somewhat dejected figure. After only walking a few steps, he suddenly turned back, with unconcealable unwillingness on his face.
"My lord, when we accepted Han Jiu, Sun Xun, Chao Yi, and Lu Xiu, they all entrusted them with important positions from the beginning. Why can't I, Huang Zhizhou... I can't? Regarding my father and the Grain King, I
I didn’t know it at first. I have been studying hard these years. If I am still a white body at the end of my life, what is the meaning of it——"
Xu Mu frowned and interrupted, "Zhizhou, I told you, I will reply to you in a few days, how about that?"
On the long street, people were slowly gathering around. Many people looked at the somewhat lost Huang Zhizhou and couldn't help but point.
There was a child who thought Huang Zhizhou dared to quarrel with the King of Shu, so he even threw a pile of mud at him. His clean white robe suddenly became dirty. Sun Xun came back after buying candied fruit, and when he saw this scene, he became angry.
He was about to draw his sword at him, but Xu Mu suddenly stopped him.
Huang Zhizhou silenced his voice and stood alone on the street, his body shaking faintly.
"My lord, although I am a proton, I have survived by eating rice from Shuzhou for the past two or three years. I, Huang Zhizhou... am not an outsider."
"I know and will consider it." Xu Mu's expression remained unchanged.
Huang Zhizhou bowed, turned around in his white robe, and disappeared at the end of the long street in the afterglow of the setting sun.