He even recognized Zhang Xuan and hurriedly held his hand and said:
"Two to five hundred masters, I didn't know that I was coming late at night..."
Zhang Xuan interrupted the shopkeeper with a "hum":
"Shopkeeper Wu, the soldiers I commanded witnessed the night bandits escaping into your inn."
"Do you know where they are hiding?"
When shopkeeper Wu heard this, he was so frightened that his legs weakened.
"Two or five hundred masters, I only heard a few strange noises in the backyard. I thought it was animals making trouble, but I didn't know it was bandits..."
Zhang Xuan raised his hand to interrupt Shopkeeper Wu, then waved his hand and ordered: "Search!"
The soldiers responded and broke into the inn with murderous intent.
They were not polite, rummaging around and making a fuss.
Shen Bing was not in a hurry and followed the soldiers to search up the floors. When he reached the third floor, he was blocked by several people.
The leader was the tall man with a beard that Shen Bing met at the top of the city. Shen Bing didn't show up at that time, so he didn't recognize him.
The big man with a beard raised his hands and said:
"Everyone is polite, we are the envoys of the State of Yan."
"We have reserved the upper room on this floor, and it will always be guarded by someone who will never slack off."
"We can guarantee that there are no bandits here. It would be better if you go elsewhere..."
Before he could finish speaking, Zhang Xuan pushed back unceremoniously:
"Whatever envoy you are."
"How can I, Zhang Xuan, be so easy to deceive?"
"The gangster might be sitting quietly in your room!"
Zhang Xuan said this because he really didn't take the envoys of Yan State seriously.
He even believed that Shen Bing was right and these people were indeed acting suspiciously.
Otherwise, why did the envoy come earlier and later, but why did he come to Handan at this time...
Did you come here to secretly learn the techniques of water wheel and car rollover?
Are you here to deceive the people and seize the opportunity to cause chaos?
Are you here to rescue the nobles of the Zhao Kingdom or to pass on information secretly?
…
In short, in the eyes of Qin soldiers, no country is a friendly army.
If there is, it is Qi: Qin has been sending money to Qi to make peace so that Qi will not interfere in the struggle between Qin and other princes.
The Qi State was indeed obedient and did not send reinforcements to other countries from the beginning to the end.
This was also one of the reasons why Qi was finally destroyed.
Another reason is that some people in Qi State are rumored to have seen immortals on the sea... In fact, Qi State is near the sea, and fishermen saw a mirage while fishing on the sea and regarded it as a fairy mountain.
Out of awe of the gods, King Yingzheng of Qin chose to finally destroy Qi and also used a milder method: forced landing.
As for the Yan country in front of us, who would take him seriously?
The bearded man wanted to say something else, but Zhang Xuan pushed him aside.
This big man also had a bad temper. As soon as his expression changed, he and a group of his men drew their swords to guard the corridor.
Just then a voice sounded in the guest room:
"General Fei, it doesn't matter if we let them search him!"
The big man with a sharp beard responded and then signaled his subordinates to put away their swords.
Zhang Xuan did not give in at all. When he stepped forward, he deliberately pushed the bearded man again. He was so angry that his face turned blue but there was nothing he could do.
Shen Bing and Zhang Xuan pushed the door open with a few soldiers and saw two men in brown clothes playing chess with an oil lamp in front of the case.
Shen Bing guessed that these two people were Jing Ke and Nie Gai.
The momentum was indeed extraordinary. When everyone came in, they didn't even glance aside and just played chess on their own.
One of the men with a mustache said calmly and calmly:
"Everyone, please help yourself. I won't get up to greet you when the chess is in full swing."
Shen Bing glanced around and saw a wooden box and a baggage next to the case.
Unexpectedly, the mustachioed man suddenly raised his head and looked at Shen Bing, with murderous intent in his eyes.
Shen Bing suddenly realized that he had made a mistake:
How can you search with purpose as soon as you come in?
If you stop looking as soon as you find the key point, doesn't that mean you're telling the other person that you're not looking for a gangster but have other intentions?
The mustache must be Jing Ke. His reaction and agility were unparalleled. Shen Bing felt threatened just by his tiny movements.
But Shen Bing couldn't care less at this moment. He looked at Jing Ke warily, then took a step back and asked:
"What's in the wooden box and baggage?"
Jing Ke replied word for word:
"This is a generous gift from us to King Qin. Do you want to take a look at it first?"
"It's not that important to me, but if anything goes wrong, I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it while I'm waiting for you, Your Majesty!"
Zhang Xuan was immediately frightened when he heard this.
He may not take the Yan envoy seriously, but the generous gift given to the king... is indeed like what Jing Ke said, and he cannot afford it if something goes wrong.
How could Shen Bing be frightened by Jing Ke? His face darkened and he said:
"Is it possible that after just one look, it will disappear?"
"If anything goes wrong, I, Shen Bing, will be responsible for it alone. You don't need to worry about it."
"Bring it!"
Jing Ke was stunned for a moment, then slowly lifted the wooden box and placed it on the case.
Then he opened it under the oil lamp...
Everyone exclaimed, and the wooden box contained a human head soaked in antiseptic spices.
Jing Ke showed it off and immediately closed the wooden box and said:
"This is the head of Qin general Fan Yuqi."
"The King of Qin offered a reward of thousands of gold, and I traveled thousands of miles to deliver him. Is this how you treat him?"
"If this head is sent to the King of Qin and is so rotten that he cannot recognize it, I'm afraid..."
Zhang Xuan quickly raised his hands and said:
"Forgive me, envoy, I didn't mean to..."
Before Zhang Xuan could finish speaking, Shen Bing interrupted him:
"Without further ado!"
"Throw the baggage over here."
Everyone was stunned. Zhang Xuan even whispered from the side:
"Engineer, this seems to be true."
"I recognize Fan Yuqi, the one in the wooden box is..."
Shen Bing raised his hand to stop Zhang Xuan from continuing.
Jing Ke's methods are quite clever.
Shen Bing's focus has always been on baggage.
But Jing Ke used the wooden box and the human head in the wooden box to divert his attention and attention, and then used Ying Zheng to suppress Shen Bing and his party.
If Shen Bing didn't know the answer, I would have been confused by him right now.
Shen Bing explained in a pretentious manner:
"Two to five hundred masters, don't listen to his nonsense."
"Then Fan Yuqi's head may be true, but why did he take the head first but not the baggage?"
"There must be something wrong with that baggage, so I used my head to cover it up!"
When Zhang Xuan heard what Shen Bing said, he felt that it was really the case.
So after thinking for a while, he ordered to the two people around him:
"Go get the baggage!"
Jing Ke laughed and said:
"No need to bother you, this is just a map."
As he said this, he took the baggage to the case and unpacked it, and it turned out to be a sheepskin map.
Jing Ke even expanded a little and said:
"This is the map of Dukang of Yan State. We are about to present this place to the King of Qin..."
Shen Bing sighed secretly:
This Jing Ke is a talented person and his psychological quality is off the charts.