Chapter 151 What is the grudge between Zhao Cheng and the Southern Zhou spy?
Yuan Xiu immediately understood the meaning of Yuan Yun's words and said: "Sister Huang, what you care about is not whether the right minister will come, but Zhao Cheng, right?"
Yuan Yun glared at Yuan Xiu and said, "Don't forget what you promised me!"
"Okay, okay, my good sister!" Yuan Xiu said with a smile: "This time I not only want the right minister to come, but I also want to invite Zhao Cheng by name alone!"
Yuan Yun asked: "Isn't this too obvious? Just ask the Prime Minister to bring Zhao Cheng with him. Many high-ranking officials and nobles who come to Beijing for banquets will bring their children out to gain knowledge."
"But the right prime minister has four sons. Wouldn't it be more obvious to ask him to take care of Zhao Cheng?"
Yuan Xiu explained: "Sister Huang, you don't know something. Zhao Cheng has made another meritorious service in Qingdong City this time."
"What skills does he have and how can he make meritorious deeds?"
"He captured the Southern Zhou spy Chen Hai who was lurking in Qingdong City, and through Chen Hai he mastered the Southern Zhou Dynasty's intelligence network in the thirteen cities of Jingdong. Compared with the Southern Zhou spy who took out Yanchuan City in one go last time,
This time is truly a great achievement!"
"Another Southern Zhou spy?"
Yuan Yun was stunned for a moment and asked: "What grudge does Zhao Cheng... have against the spies of Southern Zhou?"
"That's a good question!" Yuan Xiu said with a smile: "Wei You gave Zhao Cheng a nickname, saying that he is the evil star of the Southern Spy, hahaha!"
"Pfft!" Yuan Yun covered her mouth and couldn't help laughing.
Smiling, Yuan Yun's expression cooled down and she said: "His meritorious services are his and yours, and I have no control over whether you want to reward him. But you are not allowed to interfere in his and my affairs. He humiliated me like that last time.
I must take revenge!"
"Don't worry!" Yuan Xiu smiled evilly: "After you trick him here, I will definitely send him to you myself!"
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"Ah, ah, ah! I've been sneezing all morning, who is thinking about me?!"
"Master, didn't you say you sneezed because someone was scolding you behind your back?"
"That's you! If I sneeze, someone will definitely notice me!!"
Zhao Wu curled his lips and asked: "The court calls you to go, will you go?"
"If the old man isn't going, why should I go?"
"Well, Yan Lan said that Miss Cai'e will come back the day after tomorrow and wants to take her for an outing to relax her. Master, if you don't go to Changsui, then we can go for an outing together?"
Zhao Cheng was stunned and said, "Cai'e will come back the day after tomorrow?"
Zhao Wu nodded and said: "Yan Lan said that Miss Cai'e wrote to her, so there can be no mistake."
Zhao Cheng's expression darkened, he closed his eyes and thought for a while, then said to himself: "By the way, I haven't been to Changsui in almost five years, and I don't know what our country is like now... otherwise...
Let’s go take a look?”
"Do I have to go too?"
"Nonsense! If you don't go, who will protect me?!"
Zhao Cheng pointed at Zhao Wu's nose and cursed: "A grown man thinks about the girl's family affairs all day long. What future can you have? Yan Lan can't run away, so why panic?!"
"Master, I haven't been worried about the girl recently..."
"You've learned to talk back! Can you try another one?"
Zhao Cheng nodded Zhao Wu's head with his finger and said: "You haven't seen the girl from Changsui, have you? Have you never seen the girls in the palace? Go and let you see enough!"
"I just like to see Lan Lan."
"Bah, Huan Lanlan, disgusting!"
…
Zhao Huan was half-lying by the lake of Yasu Manor fishing, while Zhou Chuan was sitting on a wooden stake beside him.
"Not to mention, Acheng's garden is quite nice. Although it is noisy at night, it is very quiet during the day."
Zhao Cheng was not here. If he were, he would definitely sneer at Zhao Huan's leisurely and contented appearance.
The old man's ability to occupy a dove's nest is not as good as his own!
"I heard that the emperor summoned you and Zhou Nuo. You don't want to go?"
Zhao Huan also fished very casually, pressing the fishing rod with his legs and looking at the lake lazily.
Zhou Chuan said: "I am a commoner. I only have a sister and a sword. I don't desire anything else."
"Caring about the Jianghu and being in the Jianghu is also the realm I long for. But since ancient times, when the imperial court is strong, the Jianghu is weak, and when the imperial court is weak, the Jianghu is strong. The temple and the Jianghu have never been separated."
"So who's strong and who's weak now?"
"As far as Dajing is concerned, it's half and half." Zhao Huan touched the ends of his hanging hair and said, "But you have to remember that the place with the most masters in Dajing is in Changsui."
"What the right minister means... is that you want me to go?"
"The Southern Zhou Dynasty and Dajing were separated from the north and the south, and many small countries in the west were independent. In this case, the Jianghu should be stronger than the imperial court. But why are the imperial courts of Dajing and Southern Zhou so strong? Because there are many masters in the Jianghu
He defected to the imperial court."
"I asked you to go to Changsui, not to encourage you to defect to the imperial court, but because I think you can see more of the world, see the emperor of Dajing, and see the civil and military officials of the imperial court. It will not do you any harm."
"The way of officialdom is also the way of humanity, and the way of humanity is also the way of swordsmanship."
"The great road leads to simplicity."
Hearing this, Zhou Chuan was shocked, stood up from the wooden post and bowed deeply to Zhao Huan.
"Thank you, Prime Minister, for your advice."
He knew Zhou Chuanbai's sincerity very well. From the time Zhao Huan told him about the relationship between Jianghu and temples, he no longer regarded him as an outsider.
In front of him, Zhao Huan was a benefactor and right minister, but he was also an elder worthy of respect.
He hoped that Zhao Huan could simply treat him as a junior.
"I also have selfish motives." Zhao Huan waved his hand and said, "Taozhi has to stay and do something for me. If you go with Zhou Nuo, you can protect Acheng for me."
Zhou Chuandao: "Actually, I know that Brother Zhao Wu is also a master."
"Let's go to the Changsui Palace. There won't be any big problems in front of the emperor. Zhao Wu is indeed enough. But as a father, I always want to give my son an extra layer of insurance."
Zhao Huan winked at Zhou Chuan and said with a smile: "This is also a good opportunity for Acheng and Zhou Nuo to cultivate their relationship."
"I understand!" Zhou Chuan clasped his fists and said, "Don't worry, Prime Minister, I will definitely protect you!"
"Go clean it up."
"yes."
Zhou Chuan turned around and walked for a while, then suddenly thought of something and asked: "Right Prime Minister, if the emperor offers a reward, will my little sister and I accept it or not?"
"This is your own business. I have nothing to do with it, but I can give you a suggestion."
Zhao Huan straightened up, holding the fishing rod in his hand instead, and said: "You brothers and sisters are going to Changsui this time. I'm afraid that in addition to the emperor's reward, there will be other people wooing you."
"Whatever you want to do, do it."
"As you wish."
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The front yard of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion.
Except for the Zhou Chuan brothers and sisters, who were dressed as Jianghu people, Zhao Cheng and Zhao Wu and their entourage were all dressed in rich clothes, and the saddles and carriages were engraved with the mark of the Prime Minister's Office.
Zhao Cheng and his party were not large in number, except for sisters Zhao Wu and Xia Qi Qiu Shu, there were only ten soldiers following them.
When going to the palace for a state banquet, Zhao Cheng didn't want to make any publicity, so the lower profile the better.
Zhao Huan and Mu Zhaojun both hoped that Dong Hua could go out with Zhao Cheng, but Zhao Cheng said that Yanchuan's business could not be separated from Dong Hua, so he took Xia Qi and Qiu Shu with him.
Of course, there was another reason for not bringing winter paintings, but Zhao Cheng just couldn't explain it clearly.
Including Zhou Chuan brother and sister, there are sixteen people.
"Uncle, Xiao Nuo, you just follow the team at a distance. When you stay at night, just stay in the same inn."
Zhou Chuandao: "Understood."
Zhou Nuo asked: "Is this necessary? As long as you investigate our movements in Qingdong City and Yanchuan City, you will know that we know each other."
Zhao Cheng waved his hand and said: "Keeping distance on the road is not to deceive others, nor can we deceive those who really want to investigate us, but we must do the best we can."
Zhao Huan said from behind the team: "What Acheng said makes sense. If some things are not revealed, then it can be treated as if they did not happen."
Seeing that Zhao Huan had said this, Zhou Nuo stopped talking.
"Go!" Zhao Huan waved his hands to everyone.
So Zhao Cheng and his party and the Zhou Chuan brothers and sisters left the Youxiang Mansion one after another. Also leaving on the same day were Xue Yun and Wang Yuluan from the General Mansion.
Different from the Right Prime Minister's Palace, hundreds of people gathered in the front yard of the General's Palace, but most of them were dressed as people in the world.
Wang Yuluan was dressed in silver-white armor, the pleats shining in the sunlight.
Two women, an older one and a younger one, stood around him. The older one was his mother, Xue Yun, and the younger one was his sister, Wang Yucen.
Perhaps it was because of his growth during this period, or perhaps because Wang Ren's victory in the Northern Expedition gave him enough confidence. At this time, Wang Yuluan was full of heroism, with a look of confidence on his face.
He is even more handsome than when Wang Yufeng was named General Zhaoyong.
"Second brother, you are so handsome today!" Wang Yucen said in an eccentric way.
Wang Yuluan touched his sister's head lovingly. The whole family loved their only sister.
After a while, a man with quick feet jumped down from the roof, ran to Wang Yuluan and knelt down in front of him.
"Junior General, Zhao Cheng has already set off!"
Wang Yuluan's confident eyes showed a sinister light and asked: "How many people did he bring?"
