However, these words were too arrogant. Immediately, some of the Sun family's staff stood up and scolded:
"Bold! How could His Majesty, the True Dragon Emperor, disappear? What crime do you deserve for cursing the Emperor?"
Zhuge Liang looked at the old Confucian scholar who jumped out to accuse him speechlessly and asked him:
"What is a true dragon emperor? If all emperors are true dragons, then why did the late emperor die? Why did the great ancestor die? Was it also my curse?"
"Kong Ming didn't know that he was so capable of killing people with curses."
"You, you, are so eloquent!"
Unable to find a reason to refute, the old Confucian scholar could only launch a personal attack, saying that Zhuge Liang was sophistry.
Zhuge Liang was too lazy to pay attention to him. He looked at Sun Quan, wanting to test his thoughts.
Sun Quan asked Xu and Mei about their coming from Jiaozhou.
"The road to Lingnan is full of mountains. I wonder which road the two envoys took?"
Zhuge Liang looked back at Xu Mei.
Xu Mei replied: "The nearest road is to cross the miasma, cross the mountain, and cross the water."
This is true.
Sun Quan and others didn't believe it when he told it.
On the contrary, I feel that Xu Mei deliberately did not want to tell the true route.
Only Lu Xun and Zhou Yu started to look at Xu Mei again.
But I saw that she was about 1.65 meters tall, with a well-proportioned figure, and her complexion was different from the fair and delicate skin of ordinary women at home. Her whole body was like wheat, and she exuded a healthy luster.
The two exposed arms look slender, but in fact, just holding the chopsticks gently reveals the firm muscle lines.
These hands are very powerful!
"The fastest route from Jiaozhou to Yangzhou must pass through a natural chasm. The cliff is fifty feet high. There is nowhere to stay during this period. The rocks are rugged. May I ask the envoy how to cross it?" Zhou Yu asked curiously.
Sun Quan also looked over, trying to judge whether Xu Mei was lying from this answer.
Zhuge Liang knows this question.
He thought of the thrill and inconceivability of this high cliff, and now he couldn't help but take a breath.
Xu Mei saw Zhuge Liang's eagerness to give it a try and signaled him to speak.
Zhuge Liang then spread his arms and said: "Use the rope to climb down the cliff. The rope is still in the same place at this moment. If you are interested, you can bring it to me when we return. You can go over and have a look."
"Rope climbing?" Zhou Yu still didn't understand how people could stand on a smooth cliff.
Furthermore, the fifty-foot-high hemp rope is extremely heavy. Do Xu Mei and Zhuge Liang have to carry a large bundle of hemp rope when they are on the road?
Obviously this is not the case.
Zhuge Liang smiled and described it, "The rope is not hemp rope, but made of light steel. It is no more than the thickness of a little finger. It is only a small roll when rolled up fifty feet, less than twenty kilograms."
Hearing this, the whole palace was shocked.
Even though it is just a small steel cable, with the current forging technology, Wu Jun cannot even make half of it.
Even if there is one, it is a treasure-level weapon and can only be used by the most powerful warriors.
But Xu Mei and Zhuge Liang hung the rope directly on the cliff without bringing it back.
Of course, they had already descended the mountain and could not unplug the rope.
While Zhou Yu was surprised at Xu Jiajun's forging prowess, he asked curiously: "I have been to that cliff myself, and there is only a foothold in the thirty-meter section. How do you stand on the rest of the cliff?"
Speaking of this, Zhuge Liang puffed up his chest proudly, looked at Xu Mei in admiration and said:
"Xu Mei has unique rock climbing techniques, and she doesn't take it seriously at all. It's only 50 feet."
"Even with me, a grown man, I can't go down that fifty feet."
As soon as this was said, the staff shook their heads in disbelief.
There is no such thing as bragging!
Xu Mei sneered and couldn't help but say: "Just because you haven't seen it, it doesn't mean that you don't have it."
As he said that, he looked up at the roof of the main hall and shook his head in disgust, "This hall is too short. If you don't believe it, just follow me out!"
After saying that, he got up and walked out.
Lu Xun rushed out without saying a word.
Zhou Yu followed closely behind.
Immediately afterwards came Sun Quan, who led a group of staff around him.
Xu Mei stood still in the courtyard, searching everywhere with her eyes, and finally fixed her gaze on the attic to the north.
"That's Miss Axiang's boudoir." Lu Xun reminded.
Xu Mei glanced at him and smiled gratefully.
She had long discovered that this young man was very friendly to her.
Xu Mei took a deep breath, bent her knees and arched her back in a starting position.
Outsiders couldn't understand it, and the staff thought it was funny, so they all raised their hands to cover their mouths and snickered.
Zhuge Liang glanced at them coldly, and then these old Confucians restrained themselves.
However, I couldn't hide the joke in my eyes.
Xu Mei snorted disdainfully in her heart and thought to herself, she must give these old Confucians a good look.
Thinking like this, his sharp eyes suddenly swept across the group of old men, and then he selected the old man who had hesitated to speak to him before, and rushed over with a strong step.
Then, with long arms, he directly picked up the old man and threw him to the eaves under everyone's astonished gaze.
And she herself, like a cat, used the pillars of the corridor to climb up to the roof in a few clicks, and then the old Confucian scholar screamed in terror.
He was carried on Xu Mei's shoulders and jumped and moved all the way. In just a moment, when everyone found their figures again, the two of them had already appeared on the roof of the north attic.
Xu Mei put the old Confucian scholar on the roof and jumped directly from the roof.
After a few more breaths, Xu Mei returned to the crowd.
In the complicated Jiangnan house, she felt like walking on flat ground.
I just felt sorry for the old Confucian scholar, who was lying alone on the high attic roof, angry and scared, no longer caring about Confucian etiquette, and yelled at Xu Mei.
Xu Mei just pretended not to hear, patted the messy clothes, and sneered:
"If you can, come down and scold me. If you can't, just shut up!"
The old Confucian scholar had never experienced such an insult. He was so angry that he couldn't breathe and passed out on the roof of the attic.
"Who?!"
A woman's horrified shouts came from the attic.
The attic window, which was never opened normally, opened wide, and a young woman wearing men's clothing poked her head out of the window.
The attic is on a high ground, and you can see the front of the main hall at a glance.
I saw my brother leading a group of people standing in the courtyard, including two strangers I had never seen before and wearing strange clothes.
Suddenly, there was already a calculation in my mind.
She looked up towards the roof and asked tentatively: "Who is on the roof?"
After a long while, the old Confucian scholar who had regained his composure cried and replied: "Miss, please save me..."
Before the young lady had time to react, the rescuers sent by Sun Quan had already arrived at the attic.
Erecting the ladder across the wall can be regarded as bringing the old Confucian scholar down safely.
"Who are those two guests?" the young lady asked the guard curiously.
The guard replied: "Miss, you are the envoy sent by the Xu family army for peace talks."
After saying that, he helped the old Confucian scholar and left.
The lady in the attic wanted to ask more questions, but she had no choice but to give up.
She looked towards the front of the main hall again, and saw that everyone had already entered the main hall and could not see anything.
