The emperor set up a stage to let powerful ministers sing a play that humiliates the emperor. If he hadn't heard it with his own ears, Xu Xian would not have believed his ears. Such a thing probably only happened in the Five Dynasties.

Xu Xian peeled bamboo shoots for Abao nonchalantly, while listening carefully to the conversation between Guo Wei and Lao Mu Tou.

Only Guo Wei said: "It's too early to take action now, otherwise others will think that I can't tolerate the hero and let him be rampant for a few more days. It would be great if he can make some noise on the day of the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony."

"Your Majesty is wise!"

"How's it going with Fu Yanqing?"

Lao Mu didn't answer but turned to look at Xu Xian, "Xu Dutou, are you going to tell your little lover what I said?"

Xu Xian wanted to pretend to be obedient and fool him, but after thinking for a while, he replied seriously: "Your Majesty must trust Wei Chen when he calls Wei Chen back to the palace for duty. Boss Mu is better off guarding against Princess Jin to guard against me."

Be careful if you reveal your mouth."

Guo Wei laughed and said: "Haha... Xu Xian is right. Even if Fu Yanqing knows that I am suspicious of him, what can he do? Just like I know that he has evil intentions, I can't do anything to him."

Xu Xian cupped his hands and said, "I heard that Duke Fu Linggong was full of loyalty, filial piety and justice, so he shouldn't have any evil intentions."

Guo Wei snorted softly, "I'm afraid Fu Yanqing himself doesn't believe what you are saying. In these troubled times, let alone Fu Yanqing, who has a lot of troops and is famous for his evil intentions. Even if you admire the dragon chair under me, I don't think so.

strangeness.

Do you think that if you say a few nice words for him in front of me, he will marry his daughter to you? I advise you to stop dreaming. One of Fu Yanqing's daughters can bring an entire town to Jiedu. You have a small head.

I'm afraid I won't be able to catch his eye."

"Everything depends on people. If a humble minister gives up just now, wouldn't he be letting down his beautiful lady in vain?"

"When you become a Jiedu, I'm afraid all the beauties will become old women. I have a shortcut to give you some advice. Tell Fu Yanqing everything that happened here, and he might accept you as his son-in-law."

Xu Xian put down the bamboo shoots in his hand and fell to the ground, "I dare not betray a beautiful lady, let alone His Majesty and Dazhou!"

Old Mutou chuckled and said: "Even if you react quickly, that old bastard Fu Yanqing has a treacherous heart but no courage. He has been a coward all his life. If you tell him a secret, he will think that His Majesty is testing him, and maybe you will

I'll cut off your head and bring it to His Majesty."

A eunuch suddenly entered the back cabinet, handed a memorial to Li Tingfang and whispered a few words. Li Tingfang held the memorial in front of Guo Wei, "Your Majesty, the urgent memorial from Honglu Temple said that an envoy from the Tang Dynasty has arrived.

, requesting an audience with His Majesty tomorrow."

"Oh?" Guo Wei raised his thick eyebrows and then grinned, "Li Jing sent someone to see how many days I have left. I will let him see clearly. Li Tingfang sent an order to Honglu Temple to let the Tang Dynasty envoy

Come and see me."

Li Tingfang obeyed the order and left. Old Mu went to the inner room and took out a small brocade box and held it in front of Guo Wei. Guo Wei stretched out his hand to open it and saw a huge black pill inside. Guo Wei took it in his hand and swallowed it with rice wine.

After a while, I saw that his originally sallow face turned slightly red, his somewhat depressed spirit was lifted, and the look in his eyes was as bright as when Xu Xian first saw him in Liuhe Bay.

"I have a visitor, so you can take Hanzhu'er outside."

Guo Wei was very angry, and he didn't know that the miraculous medicine he took was so effective. Xu Xian suddenly remembered that Chai Rong often interacted with the alchemists in Chanzhou. Could it be that lead-mercury mixture that is said to prolong life? Is this because he was afraid that Guo Wei would not die quickly enough?

Xu Xian took Ah Bao to the edge of the flower bed outside the back pavilion. Ah Bao collapsed on the ground and rubbed his back against the edge of the flower bed from time to time.

Xu Xian pressed it and scolded: "Do you think you are a pig? You are not afraid of breaking the skin."

Zhang Dejun, who was waiting outside, came over and said, "The silly pig must have had lice again." He took out the comb from his arms and gently scraped A Bao's back.

"What? Does Po have lice too?"

"People can get lice, but animals are even better at it. I usually catch lice for stupid pigs." Zhang Dejun put the grate in front of Xu Xian's eyes, "Look at these two big lice. They are from stupid pigs."

Just scraped off my body."

Listening to the popping sound of Zhang Dejun squeezing lice, Xu Xian felt his scalp numb for a while. Just as he was about to walk aside, he saw Li Tingfang leading more than ten people through the corridor to the back pavilion. He knew it without guessing.

They were envoys from the Southern Tang Dynasty. Their clothes were almost the same as those of the Zhou Dynasty.

Generally speaking, it was enough for the emperor to meet with his envoys and summon his and her deputy envoys. Guo Wei probably summoned the entire Southern Tang envoys to let them see his mental state. No one knew whether there was an imperial doctor hidden among them.

When the envoys from the Southern Tang Dynasty passed by Xu Xian, Abao, who was enjoying Zhang Dejun's service, suddenly jumped forward and hugged the calf of one of the envoys. The man was startled and couldn't help but scream.

"Abao, let go!" Xu Xian scolded in a low voice, pulling Abao away and apologizing to him.

The man looked to be no more than eighteen or nineteen years old, with a fair complexion and a slim figure. He was wearing a junior official's clothes and had a humble look on his face. He was still walking behind the envoys. He was probably a waiter.

Seeing Xu Xian apologizing to him, the clerk waved his hands and said: "No problem, no problem." Then he turned around and chased after him.

Zhang Dejun looked up at his back and said to Xu Xian: "This man is a eunuch like a slave."

"Haha...how does little Eunuch Zhang know? Could it be that you can still see inside his crotch?"

Zhang Dejun explained: "No, because A Bao is usually taken care of by eunuchs, so A Bao is particularly close to eunuchs. He often hugs eunuchs' calves, so we guess that the person is a eunuch."

Xu Xian joked: "So it's because Abao's eyes are so good."

"It's not that the stupid pig's eyes are good, it's probably that its nose is good. I don't know that eunuchs like slaves have a smell on their bodies. This man is obviously a eunuch but he is dressed as a minor official, so I feel a little weird."

"Don't worry about that. I saw that that man didn't have any masculinity in his movements. He was definitely not someone who had practiced martial arts. He must have been searched before entering the palace. They had no chance to assassinate His Majesty."

The Emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Li Jing, was neither a bastard nor a fool. He would not do the stupid thing of letting others pick the fruit after being reviled.

As Xu Xian expected, after half a stick of incense, all the Southern Tang envoys came out, including the little official who was suspected of being a eunuch. The meeting between the two parties seemed quite pleasant. Li Tingfang smiled and led the Southern Tang envoys to leave.

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Chapter completed!