"Ambassador Hong, I will send you here."
The steward of Duke Wei's mansion walked to the threshold of the gate and stopped.
"Thank you for your hard work." Hong Chengchou said hard work, and immediately stepped over the threshold and walked out of the gate of Wei Guogong's mansion.
The steward of the Duke of Wei did not leave immediately, but watched him leave.
There were many officials waiting to see Duke Wei gathered outside the gate of Duke Wei's mansion.
When these people saw someone coming out of the Duke of Wei's mansion, or the steward of the Duke of Wei's mansion personally delivering him, their first reaction was that the person who came out of it had an unusual identity.
A seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister, let alone a steward in the home of an auxiliary minister.
An official who had had a few words with Hong Chengchou before took the initiative to greet him because he knew Hong Chengchou better than others.
"Brother, is this done?" The official's tone was mixed with envy. At the same time, he did not forget to look at the steward of Wei Guogong's palace who was standing at the gate of Wei Guogong's palace.
When Hong Chengchou saw the visitor, he said unexpectedly: "Have you been waiting here all this time?"
"Except when I go back to my residence to rest at night, I have been staying here during the day these past few days." The official said with some embarrassment.
They may be the envy of many people in other places, and are even called "big master" by many people, but here in Wei Guogong's Mansion, they are in the same condition as the mud-legged people who appeared in front of them before.
Hong Chengchou nodded in understanding.
There were so many candidates for Jinshi in the Ming Dynasty. If they wanted to be granted official positions, they had to have someone to speak for them. Otherwise, they would be waiting in line at the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and it would be unknown how long it would take to be selected.
"I hope all your wishes come true and I won't disturb you." Hong Chengchou cupped his hands and turned to leave.
The official stepped forward to stop him, and said with an embarrassed look on his face: "Um, can you wait a moment? I hope you can give me some advice on something?"
Hong Chengchou retracted his outgoing leg, looked at the person in front of him up and down, and said: "I can enter the Duke of Wei's house because of official business, not because of any personal relationship between me and the Duke of Wei. If you do it because of me, It may not be a good thing for you to enter the Duke of Wei's house because of my relationship. It is very likely that you will be hated by Duke Wei because of me. It is better to stay here and wait for the opportunity. I believe that sooner or later you will have the opportunity to meet Duke Wei."
With that said, he patted the other party on the shoulder and left without looking back.
The official who stayed behind looked disappointed.
He didn't believe what Hong Chengchou said, he just thought that Hong Chengchou was unwilling to help him.
As for Hong Chengchou, who had left because of this, there was no mention of it. Originally, he only came together again as a precaution, so it was normal that the other party was unwilling to help.
It was a chance encounter, and we had never met him a few times in total. To put it bluntly, he was just a stranger.
Hong Chengchou left.
After leaving the Duke of Wei's mansion, he didn't go anywhere and returned directly to the house where he lived.
When he returned to the courtyard gate, he did not forget to say hello to the general manager of the Ming army who was guarding here before entering.
Because the Ming Dynasty Hall was not stable these days, the guards who came to the Ming Dynasty arranged for people to guard every corner of the courtyard to prevent anyone from sneaking into the courtyard.
As soon as Hong Chengchou entered the courtyard, he was immediately spotted by a guard guarding near the courtyard gate.
The guard immediately walked towards Hong Chengchou.
He came closer and whispered: "Ambassador, the deputy envoy asked you to go to him immediately after you come back."
"What happened?" Hong Chengchou asked in surprise.
When he left, he had already greeted Yang Jiachen. The other party knew that he was going to Duke Wei's mansion, but he still sent guards to wait for him at the door. The first reaction in his heart was that something had happened.
The guard whispered: "I don't know, I don't know. You'd better get there quickly!"
"Okay, I understand." Hong Chengchou responded and walked quickly to the backyard.
He didn't pay attention at first, but as he got closer and closer to the backyard, he found that there were more than twice as many guards in the yard as when he went out.
There were even guards on the roof.
This made the bad feeling in his heart become stronger.
The room where Yang Jiachen lived was next to Hong Chengchou's room, and it faced the moon door leading to the backyard.
As long as someone comes out of the moon door, he will be discovered immediately by the people in the house.
The premise is that someone keeps staring at the Moon Gate.
As soon as Hong Chengchou walked out from behind the moon door, Yang Jiachen's door was immediately pushed open by someone from inside, and Yang Jiachen walked out.
"Why is the atmosphere in the yard heavier than when I left?" Hong Chengchou said directly after seeing Yang Jiachen.
Yang Jiachen pulled Hong Chengchou's right arm and said, "Go back to the house and talk."
As he spoke, he pulled the person into one of the rooms.
After entering the room, Hong Chengchou asked before sitting down, "Did something happen?"
Yang Jiachen nodded with a heavy face.
Seeing his appearance, Hong Chengchou's heart sank. It seemed that something big had happened.
"The secret agents of the Foreign Intelligence Agency found me shortly after you left and promised to send the cannon over tonight." Yang Jiachen said.
Hearing this, Hong Chengchou felt relieved, his expression became much more relaxed, and he said, "This is a good thing. Why are you looking so sad? I thought something bad had happened."
"In addition to promising to deliver the cannon at night, the other party also has one more thing." Yang Jiachen said.
At this time, Hong Chengchou had already stood up and walked aside, lifted the teapot on the table, opened the teacup on the table, lifted the teapot and poured water into it.
"If there is anything else, let's finish it together, don't be coy."
Water was poured into the teacup and he picked it up to drink.
Yang Jiachen said: "The other party told me that the peace talks are now being suspended and we are asked to evacuate from Nanjing."
"Evacuate, evacuate!" Hong Chengchou was stunned and forgot to drink the water in his tea cup.
Yang Jiachen nodded and said, "Yes, it's evacuation. When I first heard the news, I was about the same as you are now. I didn't expect such an order to come suddenly."
"Didn't you come for peace talks? Why did you say evacuate? Just evacuate! What happened?" Hong Chengchou asked with a frown.
Yang Jiachen shook his head and said: "I don't know what the situation is. The person who sent the message just told us to evacuate, and to evacuate from Nanjing as soon as possible."
"What about the peace talks? Are we not going to talk? I just met Wei Guogong today, and he promised to work with other nobles to put pressure on the court to promote peace talks." Hong Chengchou said.
Yang Jiachen said: "It is the order from above for us to evacuate, and the people from the Foreign Intelligence Agency only passed the message on our behalf."
"Didn't you tell me the reason?" Hong Chengchou asked with a frown.
Yang Jiachen shook his head and said: "I asked the other party, but he didn't say anything. Maybe he didn't know very well. In short, we must carry out the evacuation order."
"Can't you wait for two more days? Seeing that the peace talks have a chance of success, if you leave like this, there must be no hope for the peace talks." Hong Chengchou was unwilling to leave like this.
Seeing that if he waited for two more days, he might get a good result, but he was really unwilling to leave now.
