At the end of winter, Ye Qingchuan finally came to the capital of Yu Country.

Empress Yuexue sent someone to greet them, but what is intriguing is that the reception envoy only arranged for them to live, but did not say when the empress would receive them.

This move is obviously insincere and inadequate. Ye Qingchuan wanted to help the three emperors and the eight emperors of the Ye Mansion in the two camps, but he didn't want the biggest obstacle to be Yuguo.

Ye Qingchuan is funny, if he doesn't get married, how can he talk about marriage?

In the end, it is the shackles of interests that make all the capriciousness possible. At first, it was profitable, but now he is afraid of falling into the abyss, Ye Qingchuan's heart is like a mirror, and he has seen through what Yuguo is thinking.

Looking at Yi Feng's statement to send troops to Yasukuni, Ye Qingchuan didn't know whether to praise or sigh.

On the way to Yuguo, he had already heard about this matter, and at that time he guessed that Yi Feng wanted to use this matter to lower the vigilance of the Eight Emperors of the Ye Mansion, so as to make the marriage go smoothly.

And now, when he arrived in Yuguo, looking at Yuguo's attitude, Ye Qingchuan suddenly felt that Yi Feng's painting had added to the snake, which made Yuguo have concerns, and it was even more unfavorable to the marriage.

If you take a step earlier, if there is a possibility of regression, after all, the marriage is proposed by Yuguo, advance or retreat, and there is no pressure on Qiguo. But now, after Yi Feng issued a statement, Ye Qingchuan had no choice but to rise to the challenge, so as not to compensate his wife and lose his army.

Ten days have passed, Yuguo has not mentioned the marriage, and the empress has not met with Ye Qingchuan and others.

A few days of ignorance made Ye Qingchuan guess that Yuguo wanted to delay until early spring, so as to wait and see the war between Qiguo and Yasukuni before making a conclusion

He has been in Yasukuni and Qiguo successively, and he knows the roots of Qi and Yasukuni, so he understands that if he really lets Yuguo drag it out until then, the marriage will no longer be possible.

Since it couldn't be delayed until then, Ye Qingchuan made a quick decision and invited Qijun, who was accompanying him to greet his relatives, to go out in a big way, wanting to leave Yudu.

However, before they could get out of the city, they were stopped by Ding Yan, the prime minister of Yuguo.

Ding Yan asked with a pleasant face, "Where is the Ye envoy going?"

Ye Qingchuan snorted coldly and said, "Return to Qi." ”

Ding Yan said: "The marriage has not yet come to fruition, why did the Ye envoy leave." ”

Ye Qingchuan didn't want to go around in circles with him anymore, and said bluntly: "Since the prime minister talked about marriage, then I have waited for ten days, why don't you mention marriage in your country?"

Ding Yan was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Our empress has been busy with affairs recently, if you neglect the Ye envoy, I hope you will forgive me." He wanted to stabilize Ye Qingchuan first, but who knew that Ye Qingchuan didn't eat him at all, and left sideways.

Ding Yan hurriedly trotted in front of Ye Qingchuan, stopped him again, and said helplessly: "Why do Ye envoys force each other. ”

Ye Qingchuan said: "Your country has no sincerity, so it doesn't matter if this marriage is not connected." ”

When Ding Yan heard that his face was uncertain, Ye Qingchuan continued: "That's it, I will go back and tell me the truth about Wang Yuguo's rebellion." ”

Ding Yan can no longer turn a blind eye now, otherwise the name of Yuguo's dishonesty will be known to everyone. He said helplessly: "What does the Ye envoy want?"

Ye Qingchuan said with a smile: "Meet the empress and talk about marriage." At the end, he added: "Right now." ”

Ding Yan had no choice but to let Ye Qingchuan and the others go back to the museum and wait, while he would arrange everything as soon as possible.

In this regard, Ye Qingchuan did not forget to threaten: "Please hurry up, otherwise Ye will really leave next time." ”

Ding Yan smiled and said, "It must be." ”

Then, the next day, the Empress of the Feather Kingdom was enshrined in the Feather Palace

The palace officially received Ye Qingchuan and others.

In the palace, Empress Yuexue apologized first, and said: "Recently, I have been busy with affairs, if I neglect the envoy, I hope the envoy will forgive me." Yuexue's voice was gentle and soft, and there was a sense of nobility, like a phoenix's cry.

Ye Qingchuan replied: "The empress is serious, and the foreign minister has only waited for eleven days. ”

When the ministers in the palace heard Ye Qingchuan say this, they couldn't help but be furious, and reprimanded: "The envoy is presumptuous!"

Ye Qingchuan asked: "The foreign minister just stated a fact, where did he come from being presumptuous?"

When the ministers heard this, they couldn't help but be dumbfounded. Although Ye Qingchuan deliberately stated the time to ridicule, it was indeed just a fact, if you talked about it in detail, they really couldn't say anything presumptuous.

Ding Yan saw that Ye Qingchuan was alone, so the ministers were speechless, so he came forward to mediate: "The cultures of the two countries are different, and it is reasonable for the ministers to blame the Ye envoy for it. However, the two countries are about to get married, and there should be more exchanges in the future. ”

Ye Qingchuan replied: "What Prime Minister Ding Cheng said is extremely true, our king is lazy and lazy, and the foreign ministers will persuade our king to learn more from the queen's diligence when he returns." ”

Ding Yan couldn't help but be a little angry when he saw Ye Qingchuan grabbing Yu Guo and snubbing them. At this moment, Empress Yuexue spoke: "It's a happy event that the Ye envoy came to greet her relatives, don't worry about such trivial matters." ”

After hearing Yuexue's words, Ye Qingchuan replied, "Yes." Even Ye Qingchuan himself didn't know how to say this answer, he only felt that he couldn't say anything to refuse Yuexue.

After Ye Qingchuan responded, Yue Xue continued: "Princess Yuanzhi is not only a princess of my country, but also my daughter, and now that she is married to another country, I am naturally reluctant." But when my daughter is older, she will eventually get married, and I am reluctant and helpless. ”

"So, as a mother, I hope to let her marry beautifully. ”

Ye Qingchuan said: "The empress, please command." ”

Yue Xue motioned to the maid standing beside her to step forward, and then spoke: "When my daughter gets married, I want to give my daughter the best dowry, and it just so happens that I have a nine-song pearl and a piece of gold thread. ”

After she finished speaking, the maid walked up to Ye Qingchuan and lifted the red cloth on the tray, and Ye Qingchuan immediately saw a pearl and a ball of gold wire.

Empress Yuexue said: "Envoy Ye, as you can see, the golden silk is a mess, and the pearl is a nine-song pearl, can you wait for me to sort out the golden silk and wear the pearl and give it to the princess?"

Although Empress Yuexue said it tactfully, Ye Qingchuan understood it, and he knew that if he couldn't do it, then there was no need to mention this marriage.

This is the embarrassment of Ye Qingchuan in disguise, wanting him to retreat.

But Ye Qingchuan laughed, and after picking up the golden thread, he straightened the end of the thread on one side, and the messy golden thread instantly tied countless dead knots, but at the same time, he also sorted out a section of unknotted gold thread.

Ye Qingchuan asked Xue Yue for a dagger, and cut off the messy section with a knife in his hand, so that there was a piece of gold thread about seven or eight inches long.

Ye Qingchuan said with a smile: "Empress, this gold-threaded foreign minister wearing beads has been prepared. ”

Empress Yuexue said with a smile: "Ye Envoy is decisive, I look forward to Ye Envoy's performance below." ”

Although it was a compliment, Ye Qingchuan looked embarrassed after hearing it, because the empress reminded him that there were still pearls to wear, and Ye Qingchuan had not thought of how to solve this problem at this time.

The pearl of Jiuqu is famous for its thin hole and nine bends in the middle. Therefore, it is unlikely that you want to pass it directly with a gold thread.

Ye Qingchuan was silent for a while, and said, "Qiyu."

Empress, the ministers have not come up with a solution, can you give the ministers a few days to think?"

Empress Yuexue already had the intention of delaying, and Ye Qingchuan's move was exactly what she wanted, so she said: "Then please ask the foreign minister to think slowly." ”

Ye Qingchuan knew that he had fallen into the trap of the empress, but he was helpless, so he left temporarily under the pretext of going back to the museum to think.

But even if he returned to the museum, he was still worried, because it was too difficult to wear the pearl of nine songs.

And when he meditated to no avail, he was not in the mood to eat, and he couldn't sleep for a long time while lying on the bed.

Finally, tired, he closed his eyes unconsciously. And while he was half asleep, it occurred to him that if a living creature could pass through the bead hole and thread it for him, wouldn't this problem be solved?

At this moment, Ye Qingchuan woke up instantly, he got up and shouted, calling all the Qi soldiers around him.

"You have men to go and look for the ants. ”

Ye Qingchuan's inexplicable order made the Qibing puzzled, and one of the Qibing asked, "Lord Youxiang, where are we going to look for ants this winter?"

"Winter?" Ye Qingchuan was stunned for a moment, and said unreasonably: "I don't care about these, as long as I see live ants, you will find them if you dig three feet into the ground!"

The soldiers had no choice but to dig holes in the soil to find ants.

And the next day, when they finally came to respond, they had dug up a nest of ants in a tree.

Ye Qingchuan hurriedly asked, "Alive?"

"Back to the right minister, those ants are still moving. ”

Ye Qingchuan was overjoyed and said, "Take me there, take me quickly." ”

Then Ye Qingchuan followed the soldier to the tree, and really saw ants crawling all over the ground.

Ye Qingchuan ordered: "Catch a few quickly, be careful not to kill them." After grasping it, he will follow me to meet the Empress of Yuguo. ”

Zhong Qibing obeyed Ye Qingchuan's order, caught a few ants, and then followed him into the Feather Palace to meet the empress.

At the Fengtian Palace, Empress Yuexue asked: "Envoy Ye is in such a hurry to find me, didn't he solve the problem of wearing the Nine Songs Pearl?"

Ye Qingchuan said with a smile: "Empress Mingjian, the foreign ministers thought about it day and night, and finally came up with a way to solve the problem. With that, he took out a ponytail by the way.

Empress Yuexue asked, "What is this?"

"Ponytail. ”

The empress asked again: "Does Envoy Ye want to use this horsetail mane to wear the Nine Songs Pearl?"

Ye Qingchuan said: "Please take a closer look at the empress." ”

Empress Yuexue couldn't see the cat anymore, so she got up and walked down, and when she got closer, she found that there was an ant tied to the horsetail.

At this time, Ye Qingchuan took out the previous gold thread, tied it to the other end of the horsetail, and then let the ants climb into the hole.

Later, honey was smeared on another hole in the pearl to lure ants.

After that, after waiting for nearly a pillar of incense, the ant finally crawled out of another hole, and the horsetail mane passed through the pearl of Jiuqu.

After that, it came naturally, Ye Qingchuan pulled the horsetail mane and pulled the golden thread, so that the golden thread passed through the Jiuqu Pearl.

At this point, Ye Qingchuan finally breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Fortunately, I don't disgrace my life." ”

Empress Yuexue was silent for a moment, but she still couldn't help but praise: "Ye Envoy is really resourceful. ”

Ye Qingchuan said with a smile: "The foreign minister thanked the empress for her praise, so this marriage ......"

Empress Yuexue said: "If the dowry is available, it can be done." I will see off the princess in the new pavilion. ”