Joy of Life: I'm really not a saint

This is not the place to talk about things.

At this time, Lin Jing, the deputy envoy of the delegation, who had been somewhat nervous, was anxiously wandering around at the gate of the palace. When he saw the chief envoy Fan Xian arrive, he first breathed a sigh of relief, then pulled Fan Xian to a deserted place by the wall and whispered, "Sir, you go out alone every day, and we can't even see you if something happens!"

After complaining in a low voice, he continued, "Now that Yan Bingyun is in our hands, we should quickly exchange the procedures, hand over the painted land, and return to Qing Kingdom!"

Lin Jing didn't know whether the Northern Qi emperor had summoned him today for this matter. The key point of his words was on the issue of drawing the land. At this time, the people of Northern Qi had only heard that their country had been defeated, but they didn't know that there was also the issue of ceding land, so they spoke in a slightly lower voice.

Fan Xian naturally could not tell them that he had secretly reached a deal with the Emperor of Northern Qi on the first day of arriving in the capital. At this time, the deputy envoy was still worried about the negotiations.

Fan Xian asked curiously, "Can't you handle the exchange procedure and land delivery?"

"The procedure is easy to deal with." Lin Jing said with despair on his face. Lord Fan was born smart, scheming, and had all the skills of martial arts, but he just didn't understand some common sense rules of officialdom. He explained: "But the matter of drawing the land and ceding the land to determine the border still requires the presence of the envoy!"

Fan Xian nodded. After meeting the Northern Qi Emperor, he would start to deal with this matter. He had to finish it before the Queen Mother's birthday.

A group of people entered the palace. In the side hall, officials from both countries were busy.

Fan Xian received a summons and came to the palace garden. It was the same lake and pavilion as last time.

"Master Fan, please sit down."

Zhan Doudou always seemed to have a confident smile on her face, as if she was well taken care of by the Queen Mother and had never suffered a single setback. She waved her hand and pointed to her left, motioning for Fan Xian to sit down. On the bunk bed to her right, Haitang Duoduo and Langtao were already kneeling.

When Fan Xian lifted his trouser curtain and sat upright, Zhan Doudou spoke, "I have already explained what happened to Master Langtao. Mr. Fan, don't worry anymore. Misunderstandings like today will not happen again."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Fan Xian also bowed to Lang Tao with a smile, as if he didn't care about what happened before, and said: "Master Lang Tao has a high level of cultivation. I admire him very much!"

Lang Tao just glanced at Fan Xian without any other expression.

He asked Xiang Zhandoudou, "Your Majesty, can you trust Mr. Sijue just because of what one person said?"

Upon hearing this, Zhan Doudou's expression froze and he shook his head.

"At this point, I still can't see what benefit Mr. Li can get from these things?"

"He is a Grandmaster, and even Yan Xiaoyi and Wang Shisanlang beside him are not mediocre. Together, they are a powerful force. Let me ask you, if you were the emperor of the Southern Dynasty, would you feel comfortable sending them to the enemy country?"

After asking, she smiled and said affirmatively: "Besides, who in the world can command a great master who has no worries?"

Lang Tao lowered his head helplessly, thinking only of informing his master about the matter.

Let the master decide whether to kill Sean or not!

Chapter 147: Farce outside the palace.

There are many precedents for diplomatic procedures between two countries. Some affairs were being arranged in an orderly manner. When Fan Xian arrived at the side hall, it happened to be the time to draw the border.

The two sides argued back and forth endlessly!

Although the general framework has been determined, it is necessary to argue for the details!

Fan Xian did not understand the specific strategic geography of the border, but he knew that he could not be careless, so he handled the matter carefully.

The Northern Qi court would certainly not announce the agreement on prisoner exchange and territorial cession to the world and let the common people know about it.

But the news leaked out at some point and some irrelevant people knew about it.

When the group left the palace, the outside world had already been surrounded by countless children of royal nobles.

They are still young and have not been contaminated by the officialdom, so naturally there are many hot-blooded young men among them.

As soon as Fan Xian walked out of the door, a fist hit him in the face.

Fan Xian didn't even have time to look before a tiger guard stepped forward, slapped away his fist, and captured the man.

Looking from the side, the person who threw the fist was a boy of only ten years old. He was fat, but had a fair complexion and was dressed in fancy clothes. I guess he was a young master from some family.

With a cry of "Ouch", the young man, whose hands were tied behind his back, sat down on the ground and cried out in pain: "You damned southern barbarians, do you know who I am? Even my father has never beaten me like this!"

Fan Xian, who was about to walk forward, stopped, turned around with a smile on his face and asked, "Then I wonder which family you are from?"

"Fuck you!" The young man cursed, saying that he was the eldest son of the Chang'an Marquis's Mansion, and that you dared to treat me like this, and that this and that would definitely happen to me afterwards.

Fan Xian withdrew the hand that was about to help him and his face darkened.

Upon seeing this, the tiger guard exerted force with his hands, and with a snapping sound, the young man's arm was dislocated - it was removed!

The young man screamed and wailed, already crying bitterly. At first, he thought that this fair-skinned scholar was an attendant of the delegation, so he didn't take it seriously, thinking that he would just beat him up, but he didn't expect that he would suffer such a disaster?

Seeing that the young man had learned his lesson, Fan Xian waved his hand and the tiger guard let him go and stepped aside.

"Chang'an Marquis' Mansion?"

Wang Qinian's voice responded to Fan Xian: "He is the brother of the Queen Mother of the Northern Dynasty, the brother of the Marquis of Changning."

Fan Xian nodded, ignoring the many young masters present who were angry but suppressed by the Tiger Guards, and prepared to go to the carriage that had been prepared long ago.

"How dare you! You want to run away after beating someone up?" Someone behind him cursed angrily, "You are a southern barbarian who doesn't know etiquette. You are so vulgar. You should tie your hands and go with us to Chang'an Marquis Mansion!"

Fan Xian never paid any attention to that person, but he had a plan in mind.

He glanced meaningfully at the commander of the Imperial Guards who showed up 'in time' to maintain order, and decided to make a big fuss about the matter, so that he would have an excuse to go to the Changning Marquis' Mansion.

"Commander Wei, with so many eyes watching, I wonder how you maintain the peace of the imperial city? Although I am an outsider, I still want to report you to the Emperor of Northern Qi!"

Fan Xian looked around with contempt and chuckled, "As the chief envoy of the Qing Kingdom delegation, I have been attacked for no reason. What? Commander Wei wants to watch the delegation being attacked and have another war between the two countries?"

Fan Xian's words made Commander Wei break out in a cold sweat.

He was instructed to watch these powerful children and the Qing Kingdom delegation's face, but he didn't expect that things would develop like this in such a short time. If it was really as the envoy said, then he would become a sinner, and ten lives would not be enough to compensate.

After thinking about it, in order to escape the blame, he took it seriously and personally ordered his subordinates to separate the crowd and let Fan Xian get on the carriage.

The young men who were watching realized that the person in front of them was the envoy of Qing State, but this was too arrogant! Could it be that the men of Northern Qi were afraid of the barbarians of the South? Seeing that the envoy had obviously hidden back in the carriage, they cursed and swore at him, saying foul language, and sent the carriage off at the gate of the imperial city.

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"Sir, shall we go back to the inn now?"

Wang Qinian asked carefully, "He's even cursing my mother. It seems that something is not right in the adults' faces!"

Fan Xian smiled and responded: "We are not going back to the posthouse. We are going to the Changning Marquis' Mansion!"

Just when Wang Qinian thought that this person was going to call for punishment, he changed his mind and thought, this is not right! Even if he was going to call for punishment, he would go to Chang'an Marquis's Mansion. Going to Changning Marquis's Mansion must be for some important matter.

He hurriedly asked the driver to change direction, and Fan Xian's words came again.

"Gundam!"

"What's the matter, sir?"

"Find two brothers to handle this in the back!"

"What?" Gundam asked blankly.

Fan Xian stopped pretending. It was really hard to pretend to be as calm and composed as Li Ang!

"Hit me!"

I can't understand other things about Gundam, but I can totally understand this sentence!

Without giving any instructions to his subordinates, he got off the carriage with an excited look on his face, and called two tiger guards to go to the back of the carriage. They would beat anyone who opened his mouth, and relying on their status as guards of the diplomatic envoy, they could not be stopped.

There was constant noise for a while, and the scene was very lively!

Wang Qinian knew his master's temper and it was useless to persuade him at this moment.

"Your Excellency is acting so high-profile, but do you have any plans with the Changning Marquisate?"

"What?" Fan Xian raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "Are you planning to tell Chen Pingping about this again?"

"You are joking!" Wang Qinian quickly shook his hands. Why did this sound so scary? If you don't allow me to ask, then don't ask. Why do you bring up the dean to scare people?

"We did have something to do at Changning Marquis' Mansion, but this time we are on a diplomatic mission to Northern Qi to represent the prestige of Qing! Although the man who just attacked was a child and his attack was a bit heavy, there is no guarantee that there is someone behind him who is instructing him and that he has evil intentions. Regardless of whether he is being used by others, this prestige must still be established."

Wang Qinian nodded after listening to Fan Xian's explanation. He felt a chill in his heart and became serious.

"That's what my lord said."

The carriage was moving slowly, and after a while Gundam turned around and returned, leaving the scene in a mess and a look of excitement on his face.

When the carriage stopped outside the Marquis of Changning's mansion, the servants who had already received the news hurriedly invited the few people into the mansion, took them to the main hall, and treated them to good tea and cakes.

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"Why is Lord Wei so indulgent, allowing these Qing people to run rampant in our capital?" Jingzhao Prefecture Yin was almost worried about his hair turning white. This official was really not easy to be! He glanced at Commander Wei, his face full of helplessness. If nothing unexpected happened, Jingzhao Prefecture would have an accident today!

"Your Majesty's decree requires me to protect the safety of the delegation, so there can be no accidents! This is related to the war between the two countries, and I can't be indifferent!" Wei Wuji said with a wry smile: "It's just that I was burdened by human relationships and the requests of the dukes, so this farce happened! Fortunately, it is still within the controllable range, otherwise, I would lose my official hat, which is secondary. If the war between the two countries is provoked, my head will not be my own!"

The implication is that it is not one's fault.

If there is an accident, let it harm Jingzhao Prefecture.

The prefect of Jingzhao, who was known as the trash can of depression in the capital, nodded slightly, accepting this statement. Others didn't understand, but how could he not know?

This is the difficulty of being an official!

Without further embarrassment for Wei Wuji, he pretended to cheer himself up and prepared to go back to deal with the questions from various families in the capital.

Chapter 148 Marquis Changning.

Changning Marquis Mansion.

The servants could tell clearly from the guests' attire that they were envoys from Nanqing!

At that moment, they all accompanied and served carefully, fearing that if something went wrong it would bring trouble to their master and then implicate themselves.

What surprised them was that the people in the south didn't know the rules. As envoys, they were not afraid of getting into trouble when they met with nobles from other countries privately.

The butler standing nearby gave a look to the person next to him, and that person quickly turned around and ran to the backyard.

During the waiting period, Fan Xian was also feeling very uncomfortable.

It's fine that the layout of this marquis' mansion is so exquisite, but the servants who serve him also have so many rules, which is really too much.

Fortunately, at this time, Marquis Changning, who came from the study in the backyard, had already arrived in the hall and sat in the main seat.

He is already quite old, but he is full of energy.

Fan Xian walked up to the old man very enthusiastically, took his hand and shook it vigorously, saying, "My drinking buddy is visiting. It's been more than a year since we last met!"

He looked the man in front of him up and down for a few times, and then said, "The Marquis is so handsome, even more so than before!"

After saying that, he turned around and took the wine that Wang Qinian brought down from the carriage, along with a delicate glass wine bottle. As expected, seeing Fan Xian's actions, how could he not know that this was a gift for him!

Marquis Changning immediately smiled happily, took it and played with it carefully.

It was helpless to say that since Ye Qingmei invented glass, all exquisite glass products came from Qing State. Although the Marquis of Changning was rich, it was difficult for him to have such an exquisite wine jar.

He looks to be in his fifties or sixties, but he is actually younger.

However, he had been indulged in alcohol and sex for many years, and the white swelling on his face and the traces of excessive indulgence could not be eliminated. Although he was the elder brother of the current queen mother and was more than ten years older than her, he was actually a drunkard. Facing his powerful sister, he had to listen to her opinions on everything.

Even his second brother, Marquis of Chang'an, who was still able to fight on the battlefield, could not compare to him. He could be considered the mascot of the Northern Qi Kingdom.

He laughed, uncorked the wine and smelled it, knowing that it was a long-brewing fine product. This gift was very thoughtful of him. After receiving the gift, he responded softly: "It's only been more than a year since we last met, and Master Fan's name has spread all over the world. I've heard of it like thunder, like thunder!"

In fact, as early as last year, he had met him in front of the palace. The two of them had nothing to do but to taste the wine, and they criticized the wine in the Qing Palace. If you want to talk about good wine, it has to be the private brew of Qing Yu Tang!

I didn't expect that the unintentional act at that time would become a convenience today.

"I wonder why Master Fan took the risk of contacting me without permission?"

Fan Xian smiled and said, "I don't have many friends in Shangjing City. I wanted to visit them when I arrived a few days ago, but I was summoned to the palace by His Majesty as soon as I arrived, so I missed the free time. Today, I have something to ask for, so I can come here with a legitimate reason."

Marquis Changning naturally knew what had just happened. Hearing this, he nodded and waited for Fan Xian to continue.

Seeing that Marquis Changning did not take the matter of his brother Marquis Chang'an's grandson to heart, Fan Xian continued chatting.

".Besides, with the noble status of the Marquis, who would dare to say anything when I come to visit? Why should I care?"

Speaking of noble status, Marquis Changning sighed and said, "I am a powerless idler. Even my brother was ordered by the Queen Mother to recuperate at home because of the unfavorable situation in the war. It is called recuperation, but how can people not know that it is a punishment and confinement? Today is different from the past, everything is difficult!"

Although he didn't know what Master Fan had come to his house for today, the Marquis of Changning still subconsciously left himself some leeway. You can see that this is the situation. If things are too difficult, don't blame your elder brother for not helping you.

Fan Xian did not respond, and the two continued chatting. The marquis became happier and happier.

No matter how you look at it, it's sad. Over the years, not many people have looked up to me. No matter what his purpose is, this is the only one who can visit the mansion!

"Master Xiao Fan, please tell me what you want. If I can help you, I won't refuse."

Marquis Changning said with a smile, his eyes were almost invisible, and you could imagine that he was in a happy mood.

"Well then." Fan Xian stopped being polite. "Since you are so straightforward, I will tell you the truth. I believe you also know about the smuggling between your country and my Ming family."