The clerk was so frightened that he took two steps back.
"It's Mr. Xu who is here with his people, standing outside the door." Sun Fujia paced back and forth, his heart wavering. He had just captured one and finally had a breakthrough, and now he actually said that the Western Turkic envoy was back?
At this point, Eucalyptus has finally found a breakthrough. Now the messenger appears again? Having to face all the doubts in his heart, Sun Fujia sat down again,
"please come in."
"Here!" There was silence in the Dali Temple hall, and everyone held their breath as they watched Xu Shilang come with the envoy from the Western Turks.
Sun Fujia had a straight face,
"What does Mr. Xu mean?" Xu Jingzong saluted first.
"I've met Shaoqing. In addition to Dali Temple investigating the whereabouts of this Western Turkic envoy these days, our Diplomatic Academy is also investigating." Sun Fujia remained calm as much as possible.
"In that case... Dare I ask where the envoy was before? What happened again? He hasn't returned to Chang'an City for a long time, but he made me wait for half a year to make inquiries!" An Yanyan was about to speak, Xu Jingzong stepped forward and said: "Back to Shaoqing, this envoy left Chang'an City for hunting. He liked the scenery in Guanzhong very much, so he never came back. He stayed for half a year. He didn't know what was going on until he arrived in Chang'an City. After realizing the misunderstanding, he asked his subordinates to bring him here to apologize and explain the misunderstanding." After saying this, Xu Jingzong faced An Yanyan with a smile.
"Messenger, is this explanation appropriate?" An Yanyan nodded and said, "As Shilang Xu said, I have indeed forgotten the time while hunting." Sun Fujia swallowed hard, and there was sweat on his forehead. Sliding down, he clenched his fist with one hand, there must be something wrong here.
Looking at Xu Jingzong's calm and calm appearance, it feels very uncomfortable to be manipulated.
"Xu Jingzong! Do you think I will believe these words?" Sun Fujia stood up and looked at the messenger carefully.
Anyanyan took out the Khan's credentials, which were only available to Western Turkic envoys.
"My minister is not someone else's fake one. Shaoqing, you can dispel your doubts." Sun Fujia took the credentials to confirm, then took out the portrait to confirm, and then checked the palm prints.
The fact is before our eyes. He is indeed the Western Turkic Khan who disappeared for half a year. He cannot be fake. Sun Fujia calmed down,
"My officer inquired about the post house. The clerk in the post house said that the envoy was taken away at night. What's going on?" Xu Jingzong said with a smile: "The clerk in the post house has a grudge against our Diplomatic Academy, so he naturally tried every means to give us To cause trouble, he quit his job three months ago and cursed our officials, so you can go and investigate."
"So someone lied?"
"Mostly yes." Xu Jingzong smiled modestly and said
"Even the envoy himself said that he came back late from a hunting trip. Why do you ask, Shaoqing?" Sun Fujia laughed angrily.
"As the envoy of the Khan of the Western Turks, you don't take the affairs entrusted by the Khan seriously, but you go out hunting for half a year, Mr. Xu! Do you believe it?"
"What's so unbelievable about this?" Xu Jingzong looked around and said,
"Moreover, the envoy likes to do things like this. What does it have to do with the official? Now that the misunderstanding is clear, the official will take him back first."
"Wait a minute!" Sun Fujia shouted, grabbing the beard on his chin.
"Sun Shaoqing, is there anything else?"
"There was a witness in court that the envoy was kidnapped, and the gangster who kidnapped the envoy has been captured by me." Xu Jingzong looked at the beggar who was standing aside with his body hunched over.
"Is it him?" Sun Fujia nodded,
"Exactly." Xu Jingzong frowned and looked at it.
"Dare you really see that the envoy was kidnapped?" The beggar looked at Sun Fujia first, and then nodded slowly.
Xu Jingzong said again: "Answer me yes or no." The beggar lowered his head.
"yes."
"When did you see it?"
"March 2, night."
"What time and where?"
"Zi Shi, across the street from the envoy's post house." Sun Fujia listened to the conversation between the two and was still observing the envoy's expression.
Xu Jingzong cupped his hands and said, "That's strange. It's supposed to have been half a year, but why do you remember it so clearly, even the time?"
"Villain..."
"Shaoqing, do you know the topography of the street where the post house is located?" Sun Fujia nodded, but suddenly felt that something was wrong, and turned to glare at the beggar.
Xu Jingzong smiled and said: "Across the street from the post house is Zhuque Street. Ten feet is a foot, and the street is thirty feet wide. I dare to ask how you can clearly see the tied people from a distance of thirty feet at midnight. Who is this person? It’s very difficult to just see a figure clearly, let alone a face.”
"Look, little man..." The beggar hesitated and didn't know what to say. Sun Fujia shouted angrily: "How did you see clearly?" The beggar knelt on the ground, trembling all over and not knowing how to explain.
Xu Jingzong smiled calmly and said,
"Sun Shaoqing entered Dali Temple as an official. He has been working very hard. Why was he deceived?" Sun Fujia was so surprised that he could not speak for a long time.
"If he wasn't a witness, why would he lie?"
"People's hearts are not old, just like an unknown person. He needs a chance to clear his name, or use this incident to attract others' attention and praise for him. He just wants to live with a different identity." Sun Fujia Breathing heavily,
"Why...you!" He hesitated to speak. At this moment, the Dali Temple minister was so angry that he stamped his feet and said loudly: "Someone will take him down!"
"Here." Seeing the beggar being taken away, Xu Jingzong saluted again.
"Now that the misunderstanding has been resolved, I will go back with the envoy to explain the matter. Sorry to bother you." Walking out of the Diplomatic Academy, Xu Jingzong was melancholy, wondering what would happen to this huge Diplomatic Academy without his subordinate.
You have to do everything yourself, and you don't have to rely entirely on your subordinates. Not long after, the strong man also came out of Dali Temple. A vendor gave him a piece of silver cake.
"Take this silver cake to treat your family members. If you think the doctors in Chang'an City are not good, you can go to Lishan." The strong man was about to say thank you when the other party said: "Don't ask too much, you know our rules. "The strong man nodded and bowed as a thank you.
At this moment, Xu Jingzong was walking with An Yanyan. Knowing the urgent message from Yehu Khan and the dangerous situation in Western Turkestan, this man named An would submit.
Everyone regards Yehu Khan as a cash cow. No one wanted this tree to fall down like this. Anyan Yancai is willing to cooperate with the Foreign Affairs Council. Some people can value interests more than life.
That's who he is. The two came to a wine shop and sat down. An Yanyan said doubtfully: "I was indeed kidnapped by your people." Xu Jingzong poured him a bowl of wine.
"You were not kidnapped by us. How could our Diplomatic Academy do such a thing? The envoy was joking."
"That was also your order. I have been working as a coolie for half a year and have been calcining silver for you."
"It's good if you can live. What's the point of suffering a little?" Xu Jingzong grinned: "I'm sure that witness is lying. You were kidnapped in the early morning, not at midnight, and you didn't walk from Zhuque Street. You entered the West Market through the back door of the post house."
"If someone really saw it, it would have been arranged in advance, and no witness would appear at this time." An Yanyan took a sip of wine and said
"A beggar wouldn't be so bold." Xu Jingzong nodded,
"Indeed."
"Is there someone behind him?"
"We in the Diplomatic Academy have offended many people, and our Minister of Rites also has many enemies." Xu Jingzong poured him wine again.
"Since our interests are the same, how much food can you buy?" Anyanyan thought for a while,
"Ten thousand stones."
"As expected of a descendant of the nine surnames of Zhaowu, he has courage!" After two bowls of wine, Xu Jingzong watched him wolfing down some food and said with a smile: "We have arranged manpower outside the city to escort the envoy back." An Yanyan Chewing food in his mouth,
"Where are the guards who came with me?" Xu Jingzong said calmly: "I thought you were a smart man, but the bad thing is that you let people come to assassinate me. For the safety of me and other officials in the Ministry of Rites, these people All of them will be taken down as assassins, and they were beheaded just last month." There were still drinkers in the wine shop making a lot of noise.
An Yanyan looked at Xu Jingzong speechless for a long time.
"Don't worry, our manpower will escort you back to the Western Turks. If you are full, let's hit the road now." Hearing this, Anyan Yan stood up and followed him to Chang'an City. He got on a war horse and left.
Xu Jingzong stood outside the city to say goodbye. Zhang Xiangxiang came with a baggage.
"Can this person be trusted?"
"Of course I can't believe it."
"Then why send him back?"
"So we arranged a manned escort." Zhang Elephant looked at the group of soldiers and horses in the distance.
"Did you arrange it?" Xu Jingzong replied in a low voice: "It was not arranged by my subordinates."
"Whose troops are those?"
"Your Majesty arranged it." Your Majesty rarely interferes with matters in the Diplomatic Academy, and even the DPRK rarely intervenes. Zhang Elephant asked suspiciously: "How could your Majesty arrange these people to escort someone who cannot be trusted." Xu Jingzong took it. Out of cloth and silk,
"The arrangements between Zhang Shangshu and His Majesty are all written on it. These people seem to be escorting...but they are actually going to investigate the truth about the nine surnames of Zhaowu. If they find a place where people from their clan live, they will arrest them."
"Don't think that people like him will obediently help us sell food after they come out of confinement. We at the Diplomatic Academy have always done things for justice, for the sake of the country, and even more for the peace of the world."
"If they can't be used by us, we can't keep them. Otherwise, these people will be an obstacle to the Tang Dynasty's unification of the Western Regions. This trade route in the Western Regions must be in the hands of the Tang Dynasty itself." After saying this, Xu Jingzong returned to God and said: "Elephant Brother, have you made arrangements?" Zhang Elephant lifted the baggage on his shoulders and asked,
"Bring them all." The horse ran across the official road, and the dust kicked up was very annoying. Xu Jingzong waved his sleeves to brush away the dust in front of his eyes.
"Let's go back and discuss it." From August to mid-October, His Majesty's summer vacation trip finally came to an end.
Li Yue is saying goodbye to her younger brothers and sisters. Another day, Zhang Yang was saying goodbye to the prince.
"Old Wang, you must take these salted duck eggs back." Wang Gonggong sighed: "I haven't finished eating the ones I sent last time." Zhang Yang added: "You can just leave these eggs like this, usually one is enough." It can handle a meal.”
"The county prince is really..." Zhang Yang straightened the old man's clothes and said,
"Old Wang, you have reached the age where you should take care of yourself. Please think about it again and come to Lishan to live in the future." The prince smiled wryly and saluted.
"Your Majesty, please don't embarrass me. This old slave will be at your Majesty's side until your death." Knowing his loyalty, Zhang Yang smiled.
"It doesn't matter, I'll think of a solution later."
"The county prince's care for me will be remembered in my heart." Xiao Wu came with a basket of medicinal materials.
"Master, we asked them to be delivered from the medical center." Zhang Yang put another basket of medicinal materials into his other hand.
"You must accept this basket of medicinal materials. These are good medicinal materials for replenishing your vitality. You work very hard, so you must pay attention to your health."
"The old slave is not sick yet."
"Remember the last time you went to Lishan Medical Center to check your pulse? At that time, I asked them to prepare medicinal materials suitable for your constitution. You usually drink it even if you are not sick, just as a treatment. Look at how bad you look." Zhang Yang I frowned, feeling very distressed.
"Old Wang, if you want to live a long life, one day I will find a way to get you away from His Majesty." Listening to the words of the County Marquis, I felt the County Marquis's enthusiasm.
The prince was in a dilemma and couldn't refuse. Seeing that the carriage was about to start, he bowed and made a big salute, then hurriedly left with two baskets.
"Master is really trying his best to recruit talents." Hearing the words of this girl Xiao Wu, Zhang Yang put away his smile and said,
"You are still young and don't understand the ways of the world."
"I understand, even if this father-in-law can't come to Lishan, master can still make this friend, and since he is someone close to His Majesty, we will have a lot of conveniences with master in the future." Seeing master looking at him all the time, Xiao Wu was Feeling a little guilty, he lowered his head and saluted slightly and muttered: "Disciple talks too much." Zhang Yang clicked his tongue and said: "People should be born with good intentions, and think about the best things as much as possible."
"Disciple, please remember." The car started driving, and the family stood at the entrance of the village to say goodbye. After the car team had gone away, the couple returned to the village. It was not a good habit for Li Yue to hold a book in his hand. "
"This story from Liaozhai is very touching."
"How many times have you read these stories?" As he spoke, Zhang Yang took her hand and pulled her two steps closer to him, avoiding the stones on the roadside.
Innocent people will not be afraid of Liaozhai stories. In fact, the daughter-in-law's experience is very simple, and her heart is also simple.
Li Yue's eyes were still on the scroll.
"Are you really not writing books anymore?"
"Well, I won't write anymore."
"I heard from my mother that my husband told my father about the diary of a madman. What kind of story was that?"
"It was a story about an ordinary person living in a terrible era, who was tortured and crazy by feudal ethics and ethics."
"I want to read this story." Facing the little expectation in her eyes, Zhang Yang raised his head and said, "I promised your father that I will never write another book in the future." Li Yue put away the scroll in her hand. , holding her husband’s arm,
"What a pity." Zhang Yang nodded,
"There's nothing you can do about it, man! Once you say something, it's hard to catch up!"
"How about this? My husband will tell me and I will write it."
"This story is too ironic and tortured, and it is not suitable for you." Zhang Yang glanced at his eyes and said,
"While your father and everyone else are gone, how about we go to the mountains to blow up earth mines and have fun?"
