Heirs of the Seven Swords of the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 1499 Visit
  "But it's really hard for Nong Yu and I to help you. No matter how serious the situation is, it's useless." Yan Lingji spread her hands and said helplessly.

"But I can only look to you two to find a solution!" Gu Xun was also helpless, "As for Concubine Yan, I really can't pry her mouth open. Now it's up to you."

Yan Lingji frowned her slender eyebrows and looked down at Nong Yu, "Well...do you have any clues?"

Nongyu shook his head, "No, but...since the problem is so serious, we have to give it a try no matter what."

"Brother Gu, I will go see Sister Jingyu later and try to figure everything out."

"Hmm... Okay, okay, I'll try too." Yan Lingji followed, but she felt that the chance of success was low.

"I hope you can gain something." Gu Xun replied with a smile after hearing this.

In fact, Gu Xun didn't have much hope for Yan Lingji. He mainly counted on Nong Yu.

Just like the two of them said before, whether they were looking for Jing Salamander or Concubine Yan, it all seemed too deliberate and unnatural.

As long as Concubine Yan's Jing Salamander is not confused, he can tell that this matter has something to do with Gu Xun.

So the first attempt will definitely fail.

Yan Lingji will not have the patience to continue digging for the truth, but Nongyu, who is delicate and tenacious, is different. She may find a breakthrough.

The most important thing is that even if Nongyu gets nothing in the end, Gu Xun may detect some problems from the process and results of her actions.

He, Concubine Yan and Jing Salamander have lived together for more than ten years, and they are all too familiar with each other, but what they are doing now is too abnormal.

This anomaly is enough to reveal a lot of information.

Nongyu's actions may further expand this currently vague information.

Gu Xun, who had always regarded himself as a martial artist, could only use this inefficient and uncertain method when faced with Concubine Yan and Jing Sala, two people whom he could not use force at all.

………………

On the outskirts of Songhai City, the temporary stronghold of the Mohist family.

The professionals invited by Zhang Liang to determine the location of Robber Zhi at this time also came here.

As for who she is... She is wearing a pink palace dress, a 'King Snake' belt around her waist, a coquettish appearance, a girlish temperament, and a sense of coquettishness about her. People can tell that she is not rich without having to say anything. That's expensive.

Needless to say, it is Guren.

As soon as she appeared on the stage, she was not in a good mood, and said angrily to the people of the Mo family:
  "Hmph, your Mo family is really good at hiding your head and showing your tail. If Xiao Liangzi hadn't brought me here, I would never have found it."

"No wonder the people from the empire can't catch you!"

Honglian was not a person who would swallow her anger. She had suffered a loss at the hands of the Mo family before and was determined to take revenge.

If Zhang Liang hadn't asked her for help in person this time, her first reaction when meeting the Mo family would not have been to ridicule them, but to take action directly - as for how much chaos she had caused to the Mo family, it was not her place to consider. problem.

Who has nothing to do but think about how much trouble they have caused to the enemy!
  Hearing Honglian's sarcastic comment, the hot-tempered Sledgehammer was about to curse, but fortunately Gao Jianli stopped him in time.

Not to mention Hong Lian's special status, which is really difficult to offend. The most important thing now is to save Cook Ding and Robber Zhi, and Hong Lian is the key to saving people, let alone annoying them.

Anyway, it's just a bit of talk and making people laugh at you, but you won't lose a piece of meat, so you can tolerate it and get over it.

Gao Jianli saw it very clearly at this time and responded very adaptably:

"There were many misunderstandings with His Highness Honglian before. It was the Mo family's mistake. I hope you can forgive me."

The Mo family has always adhered to their ideals and would not bow down, but in order to save their brothers, it is okay to compromise for the time being. After all, they are not bowing down to the empire.

Zhang Liang also smiled and acted as peacemaker, "Your Highness Honglian, for my sake, please don't worry about the previous misunderstanding."

For a moment, it seemed as if the Mo family had done too many things to regret Honglian.

But there is no other way. To treat this little princess who is actually quite old, everyone has to coax her.

Not to mention Zhang Liang, even Gu Xun was the same.

A girl’s temperament is coupled with princess disease!

In fact, she has improved a lot under Gu Xun's training over the years. If Honglian was the same as before, she would have been even more temperamental.

Hong Lian still cared about Zhang Liang, a playmate she had known since childhood. After hearing what he said, although she still grumbled at the displeasure of everyone in the Mo family, she did not continue to find trouble.

"I found the place you were looking for."

As she spoke, Honglian stretched out her white and tender hands, and a red snake with black stripes spitting out letters crawled out around her arm, and then fell to the ground.

"Here, it will lead you to the place."

This is the solution Zhang Liang thought of.

As an animal, humans have indeed almost reached the top of nature, but they mainly rely on their smart brains and flexible bodies.

In other aspects, human body functions are often inferior to other animals.

Long before Robber Zhi was caught, he had been smeared with special powder.

This kind of medicinal powder was prepared by Honglian himself. It has no special effects, but snakes are extremely sensitive to it. As long as it is contaminated with the medicinal powder, it can be accurately tracked even if it takes a long time.

However, this kind of medicinal powder is not attractive to snakes. Only trained and controlled snakes will actively track it.

Honglian actually studied this thing just for fun. After all, she had a red-trained snake king who could control thousands of snakes, so she would definitely have to tinker with it.

Anyway, this thing is very useful, but it is useless for quicksand.

The birds of Bai Feng and Mo Crow are much easier to use than snakes.

But it is enough to solve the dilemma that the Mohist family is facing now.

………………

A few days later, it was the day Fusu visited Xiaoshengxian Manor.

Songhai, Xiaoshengxian Village.

The little Shengxian Manor, which was always quiet and quiet on weekdays, was particularly lively today.

The villa, which had always been empty and deserted, was densely packed with people.

The open spaces, corridors, and rooms on the ground were filled with fully armed Imperial soldiers, while the roofs of the pavilions and pavilions were filled with Shadow Guards wearing splendid robes and short blades. At a glance, they were all full of human heads.

Not only inside the village, but from the gate of Xiaoshengxian Village, the entire mountain road is also full of soldiers. There is a guard every three steps, and a sentry every five steps, extending to the foot of the mountain. There are also unknown numbers of Shadow Guards hidden in the woods on both sides. Secret whistle.

As Zhang Liang had expected, in order to ensure that Fusu would not be assassinated again, the imperial court mobilized a large number of troops and blocked the entire mountain.

The only slight discrepancy is that more manpower was mobilized than Zhang Liang expected. At least half of Songhai City's troops are now at Little Saint Xian Manor.

There was no other way, Meng Tian left, and Songhai's defense military affairs also fell on Li Si.

Although in theory Fusu's safety is now taken over by the Shadow Guard, he still cannot escape responsibility as long as something goes wrong. The matter with Haiyue Xiaozhu was not over yet. Even if he was not afraid, he really did not want to continue to get into trouble.

Li Si simply arranged this super-standard protection... and at the same time, he could use the empire's military power to intimidate the Confucians.

At the entrance of the villa, there was a welcoming team headed by the master Fu Nian, the great scholar Xun Kuang, and the other two of the Three Heroes of Qilu - Yan Lu and Zhang Liang. They had been waiting at the door since early in the morning.

Yes, this time, Xun Kuang, who has always been reclusive and secluded from the world, also came forward.

There was no way, Fusu's status was not comparable to that of Li Sineng. He personally paid a formal visit to Xiaoshengxian Manor, and even Xun Kuang could not stay away.

More importantly, Li Si was a student of Xunzi, but Fusu was not.

Next to Fu Nian and others, there is a guy who is incompatible with Confucianism - the black swordsman Sheng Qi.

From the day he sent the letter, he has been staying at the gate of Xiaoshengxian Manor until today.

During this period, Xiaoshengxian Village also provided meals to Shengqi, but he didn't eat any of them.

As for how Shengqi will solve the dietary problem specifically... the people in Xiaoshengxian Village don't know. Anyway, as long as people don't starve to death or die of thirst, that's fine.

The three vermilion-red main entrances of Little Saint Xian Manor were all opened today, a rare occasion.

The first gate of the main entrance welcomes distinguished guests, the second gate welcomes the officials, and the third gate welcomes the king.

Among them, the princes and the emperor are considered to be in the ranks of kings, and Fusu is a prince. If he is enfeoffed, he will theoretically become a prince, so he will enjoy the treatment of a prince.

In front of the wide open door, in the space behind Fu Nian and others, six rows and six columns of Confucian disciples stood neatly and squarely.

There are thirty-six people in six rows and six columns, some old and some young. Everyone is wearing a special uniform and holding two things in their hands.

On the left hand is a bright red rod-shaped object. It is a musical instrument, shaped like a flute, called a 龠.

On the right hand is a brown wild pheasant with long feathers tied to the same bright red stick, which can also be called a pheasant.

A knowledgeable person can tell at a glance that these Confucian disciples must be dancing the Eight-Yang Dance.

The Eight Yi Dance is the highest standard of sacrificial dance under the ritual and music system of the Zhou Dynasty, and is regarded as the most perfect interpretation of "ritual".

The formal Bayi dance is a sacrificial dance. The dancers not only have to wear standard attire, but also half of the dancers are men holding shields and qi, and the other half are women holding pheasants, zhai, and shackles.

But there are no female disciples in Xiaoshengxian Village, so there are only men.

When the Eight-Yuan Dance is used to welcome distinguished guests, it is not suitable to use battlefield weapons such as shields and Qi, so only the Pheasant Zhai and the Qi are needed.

At the same time, like the door of Xiaoshengxian Manor, Bayiwu also depends on the dishes.

According to the regulations, there are eight emperors, six princes, four officials, and two scholars.

If it was Ying Zheng who came, he would be greeted by a full force of sixty-four people in eight rows and eight columns. If Fusu was the one to greet him, it would only be a six-by-six scaled-down version.

Of course, if you are at the level of a soldier, you will only have a pitiful two times two.

How can I put it... The Bayi Dance is performed completely according to the dance score. The movements are solemn and uniform, the rhythm is steady, and there is no difference in speed. It is a purely ceremonial sacrificial dance.

This kind of dance looks more beautiful when there are more people. If four people dance it, it will be very weird.

Fu Nian and others were standing at the gate with straight backs and waiting since early in the morning. Fu Nian and others were fine. With their martial arts skills, they could stand for a whole day without being out of breath or blushing. However, those Confucian disciples were a little unable to hold on. From time to time, someone would make some small movements, moving their shoulders, twisting their waists, and so on.

At this time, a cavalryman galloped forward on horseback, raising dust all the way. He reined up his horse and stopped near the gate, shouting loudly:

"His Royal Highness is already here!"

After coming out of the General's Mansion in Fusu, there were constant messengers going up the mountain to accurately report the points. Basically, they would report every mile they entered.

It seems useless, but actually...it's really useful.

On the one hand, it can remind Confucians that it is time to prepare.

On the other hand, it was to give the thirty-six people standing behind something to look forward to.

Waiting for an endless amount of time is excruciating, and the more exhausted you are, the easier it is for your mental state to affect your body.

Just like now, when they heard the news that Fusu was finally arriving, everyone was shocked and their posture became standard again in an instant.

Fu Nian and others also held their breath and concentrated, preparing to welcome Fusu's arrival.

The distance of one mile is fleeting for a carriage.

Soon, Fusu's motorcade appeared at the other end of the mountain road, catching the eyes of everyone in the Confucian family.

The size of Fusu's motorcade this time when he visited Little Saint Xianzhuang was much larger than when Li Si visited before, mainly because of the large number of guards around him.

As for carriages, there are five in total.

There was a carriage for Prime Minister Li Si, a carriage for Zhao Gao, the magistrate of the Central Vehicle Office, a carriage for the sage Nangong of Chu, a carriage for the famous Gongsun Linglong, and a carriage for the young master Fusu - none of the important figures this time shared a carriage. A horse-drawn carriage is, after all, more formal.

Among them, Li Si and others are considered the vanguard, responsible for taking over the handover with Confucianism first, while Fusu still lags behind, a little further.

The ones leading the way at the front of the motorcade were not Fusu's guards, but six enchanting and strange figures - Luowang Six Sword Slaves!

Six Tianzi first-class killers opened the way to escort them, which shows that Li Si attaches great importance to this matter.

After the motorcade approached, the carriage slowly stopped, and the Six Sword Slaves stopped.

Zhang Liang keenly noticed that Sheng Qi's expression changed slightly when he saw the Six Sword Slaves on the side, and he seemed to hate these people.

There seemed to be some discord between the two parties.

After the motorcade stopped, the first person to lift the curtain and get out of the car was naturally Li Si. His carriage was the first one in front.

This time when Xunzi was present, Li Si could not put on airs as a prime minister, so he took the initiative to greet him and bowed first:
  "Students pay homage to their teacher. I didn't expect you to come too."

Xunzi didn't want to talk to him, but the occasion was different this time, and it was hard to make things too stiff, so he replied calmly:
  "His Royal Highness the Young Master is here for this visit. I'm sorry to trouble Mr. Li."

This is not an unintentional statement. Fusu's visit to Little Sage's Manor is far from ordinary people's visit. Little Sage's Manor needs to make a lot of preparations in advance, and outside Little Sage's Manor, Li Si needs to arrange even more things.

It’s really no small project after a lot of hard work.

Li Si smiled when he heard this, and the wrinkles on his forehead relaxed a lot:
  "Li Si is a disciple of Confucianism, and you are all my fellow teachers and friends."

"Li Si is the leader of hundreds of officials in the dynasty, and he is the king's minister who leads the land."

"Being dedicated is just my duty."

This scene was very beautifully said, and it also had hidden implications, secretly knocking the Confucianists a bit.

Xunzi heard that this was not the right thing to say, but he was really too lazy to talk to Li Si - too lazy to talk to Li Si in all aspects, no matter what he said.

At this time, a feminine voice sounded from a place further back, but it was Zhao Gao, the commander of CRRC, who also got out of the car:
  "Master Li only cares about reminiscing about old times and does not introduce me to the subordinates."

(End of this chapter)