After everyone sat down, Ling Tiancheng first poured wine into Shen Jie's wine glass, and then poured it into his own wine glass. "Master Shen, let me toast you first." He raised his glass and said to Shen Jie.
Shen Jie looked intently into the wine glass and found nothing unusual.
Zhuo'er immediately pulled the corner of his clothes and whispered in his ear: "You are not afraid of poison."
Miss Wan was sitting on the right side of Shen Jie. She heard what Zhuo'er said, but she pretended not to hear it and looked at Shen Jie next to her.
Shen Jie didn't answer, but raised his wine glass to greet him.
As soon as the two clinked glasses, Shen Jie poured the wine into his mouth. A burst of magic instantly enveloped the wine and he swallowed it.
"Refreshing." Ling Tiancheng said. Seeing this scene, others also came to toast Shen Jie one by one.
After a while, he had drank six glasses, but his face didn't look strange at all.
"Young Master Shen has a really good drinking capacity. It seems that none of us will be able to stay awake tonight." Ling Tiancheng said with a smile.
"Master Shen, where are you going on this trip?" Wan Haihua asked.
"Let's go to Huai'an Mansion, where are you?" Shen Jie said.
"I thought Mr. Shen that you were going to a certain city along the way, but I didn't expect that we were at the same destination." Second brother Ling Tiandong said.
"I heard that the Lawa people have surrounded the entire capital. It's very dangerous to go north now, so only you people are going north," Zhuo'er said.
"Girl, can you tell us your name?" Ling Tiancheng asked.
She glanced at Shen Jie and saw that he had no objection.
"Wang Zhuo'er."
"It turns out to be Miss Wang. I don't want to go north like this. My father works in Huai'an Prefecture. During the war, if you send your children to other places and are discovered by the Jinyi Guards, it is equivalent to surrender and your home will be confiscated." The third child, Ling Tiannan, said. .
"They dare, my father has a high position..." A younger man in brocade clothes sitting on the other side of Wan Haihua was about to speak, but was immediately interrupted by Ling Tiancheng.
"This group of Lawa people only has 50,000 or 60,000 people. Our great Ming Dynasty is at its peak in the world. Even if they once ruled the world in the previous dynasty, but now the Ming Dynasty has muskets and artillery, these barbarians who rely on horses to conquer the world cannot be so rampant. How long?" Ling Tiancheng said
"My Ming Dynasty's 500,000 people were defeated by a mere 60,000 barbarians. I'm afraid these aliens are not as simple as Big Brother said." Miss Wan said in disapproval.
"I heard that Your Majesty was bewitched by the great eunuch Wang. He led the expedition in person. When he arrived in Datong, he discovered that there was a shortage of food and grass. Think about it, the army has not moved yet, and food and grass go first. This is something that even a child can recite. Why does the imperial court not understand? The army was underfed and encountered extremely cold weather, which caused the morale of the army to be shaken. After several sneak attacks by Lawa, the army of hundreds of thousands collapsed." Ling Tiandong said angrily.
"These Lawa people are really hateful. After our ancestors destroyed the Yuan Dynasty, they drove these Lawa people out of the Central Plains. Instead of killing them all, they traded with them and bought horses. However, these Lawa people became more and more playful. . Slippery, often transporting some old and sick horses, so the court only paid three levels of the horse price in the past. These people marched on our Ming Dynasty just because of this. They really didn’t deserve our Ming Dynasty as the country of heaven. In the beginning, Taizu This group of people should be..." Ling Tiannan said.
Shen Jie just listened. He didn't know anything about this history, but it would be useful for him to go north immediately and understand the current situation.
"Okay, okay, let's not talk about this anymore." Seeing that Shen Jie didn't say a word, Miss Wan quickly interrupted. Ling Tiannan was talking happily and stopped helplessly.
At the dining table on the other side of the corridor, the three of them were all immersed in eating, and their voices were far less lively than the New Year celebrations next to them.
"It's been ten days since we left Hangzhou, and there's nothing unusual on the road. Brother, do you think Eunuch Zhao will fulfill his words?" Yichuan asked.
"Since Eunuch Zhao has promised to promote his eldest brother to a hundred households after completing this task, he must fulfill it. If he does not fulfill his promise, the three of us brothers will go to his official residence." said the man in black on the left, who was already on a business trip. For more than a month, the capital was surrounded by foreigners. Now he was eager to return to the capital to see her.
"Second brother, don't talk nonsense. I need to be more careful at this moment. I just went outside the boat to check and there are basically no other boats in the river." said the oldest man in black in the middle.
"Could it be that this area is not a prosperous waterway in the first place?" Ikawa said.
Lu Jianxing shook his head.
At the same time, on both sides of the river outside the official boat, a dozen black dragon boats suddenly appeared, rushing towards the official boat quickly, and more than a dozen hooks were hooked onto the official boat by the men in black on the dragon boats.
Zhuo'er was taking a piece of fragrant mutton from the pot in the middle when the round table in front of her suddenly slid towards her. She couldn't sit still and couldn't hold the mutton in her hand, so it was thrown away.
