Chapter Ninety-Eight: Su Qin Comes Out of the Valley, and the Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell
Yanguo Yishui Riverside.
In a hidden valley courtyard, at this time, a young man carried a heavy burden on his back, bid farewell to the master here, and began to continue to the south to visit the famous teacher Guiguzi.
There was only one left, with a reluctant face, standing at the door looking at the back of the young man, leaving a tear of a peerless beauty and her maid.
This young man is none other than Su Qin, and the woman who watched Su Qin leave was Princess Yan Ji Ling'er and her maidservant Yan'er.
Su Qin and Princess Yan Ji Ling have been together in this valley for more than half a year, and they have naturally fallen in love with each other for a long time, Ji Ling'er wants Su Qin to stay here to accompany her for a lifetime, but Su Qin has great ambitions, and naturally she is not willing to live a mediocre life like this.
Because Su Qin is good at arguing, he also persuaded Ji Ling to let him continue to search for Guiguzi, and in order to make Ji Ling feel at ease, Su Qin promised Ji Ling that no matter what happens within three years, he will definitely come back to this valley to meet him again.
However, the two also talked about a condition, that is, if Su Qin can find the famous teacher Guiguzi within three years and worship him as a teacher, Ji Ling will allow him to continue to achieve his great ambitions, if Su Qin can't worship Guiguzi as a teacher within three years, he will have to live a stable life with Ji Ling'an when he returns to Yougu.
After Su Qin left the valley, he wanted to hire a carriage to go south nearby, but after hearing that Yanwang Ji Zhi was driven out by the Chinese people and fled to Wuyang City, which was not far away, he temporarily gave up the idea of going south to find Guiguzi, and went to Wuyang to see Ji Zhi.
Wuyang City, although it looks very dilapidated, still gathers countless people of Yan Kingdom who support Ji Zhi, but compared to those who support Gongzi Period, it is obviously a big deal.
After Ji Zhi was kicked out of Jidu, he suddenly fell from the branch into an underestimate, and in the palace in Wuyang City, he held a wine bottle in one hand and kept sending it to his mouth, and his mood was naturally extremely depressed.
The mouth also said to himself:
"It's all to blame...... It's all the fault of the widows, the widows shouldn't have dismissed the armies of various countries so early, and now the reason why I have fallen to such a point is that the widows brought it on themselves...... Self-inflicted! ”
Suddenly, at this time, a guard outside hurriedly walked in with a scroll of letters, and said to Ji Zhi:
"The king, the traitor sent a letter again!"
Ji Zhi smiled bitterly:
"It's coming again? But I still want to coerce the widow to recognize its position as the king of Yan, and reply to it for the widow, there is only one king in our Yan country, that is, my Ji Zhi, and it is just a traitor and a thief in the son-in-law period, and I will go back to the thistle sooner or later, sooner or later! ”
The guard asked,
"King, don't you really want to see what's written in it?"
Ji Zhi replied:
"No need, take it out and burn it, hurry up and order someone to give it to it, and reply to what the widow just said!"
The guards deserved to obey the order and threw the unopened letter directly into the furnace.
Yan Guo thistle capital.
At this time, just under the support of the people of Jidu, Ji Ji (that is, the Gongzi period), who ascended the throne as the king, was also very anxious in his bedroom.
It turned out that Ji Qi received a letter of reprimand from Kuang Zhang, the general of Qi a few days ago, and the content was naturally all kinds of accusations that Ji Qi usurped the throne of King Yan, and also warned Ji Qi that if he did not immediately take Ji back to Jidu and let him be reinstated, then Qi would send heavy troops to attack Yan again.
After discussing with the ministers of Yan State, Ji Qi finally decided to compromise with Ji Zhi, but he also wanted to get Ji Zhi to be reinstated first, and he and his wife and children at home could be given preferential treatment, after all, Ji Qi had hundreds of wives and concubines and children, so Ji Qi first wrote a compromise letter to Ji Zhi to find out his attitude towards himself.
And the letter that Ji Zhi directly ordered someone to burn was written by Ji Qi himself.
Ji Qi also received a reply from Ji Zhi, and learned that he directly ordered his letter to be burned.
In Ji Zhi's heart, he originally wanted to test Ji Zhi's attitude, and Ji Qi, who received this kind of reply and news, naturally gave no hope to Ji Zhi to treat himself and his family preferentially.
At this time, Ji Qi also made up his mind, walked out of the dormitory, and after coming to the Yan Palace Hall, Ji Qi said to the ministers of Yan State in the palace:
"The widow has received a reply from the son, he is really a shameless and despicable villain, and he is not worthy of being the new king of my Yan!"
A Yanchen came up and asked:
"My lord, how did this son-in-law reply to the letter?"
Ji Ji replied:
"This letter is angry for a while, it has been burned, its content is naturally insulting and counting me and so on, and said that if you attack Jidu in the future, you will massacre Jidu, and you will also behead the widow and all the ministers in the Yanguo market, how can such a shameless and despicable villain be worthy of being the king of my Yan Kingdom?"
These words were naturally made up by Ji Qi, and they just wanted to tie the lives of the courtiers and his family together.
At this time, all the ministers of the Yan Kingdom were in an uproar, and some ministers were so frightened that they even urinated on the soles of their feet.
After asking the minister just now, he was also surprised, and then asked Ji Ji again:
"Your Majesty, how are you going to decide?"
Ji Period then said:
"Now that my Yan Kingdom has just experienced the battle to resist the Nine Kingdoms, the people are poor, and all kinds of waste are waiting to be rebuilt, if the Qi Kingdom really comes back to attack again, our Yan Kingdom may have to suffer the disaster of destroying the country!"
Another official next to him, who looked very similar to Su Dai, but was older, walked out and said to Ji Qi:
"Yes, instead of waiting to be destroyed by the Qi Kingdom, it is better for our Yan Kingdom to return to Zizhi who is far away in Shanggu, I heard that Zizhi has now organized another 100,000 people in Shanggu, maybe he will come back, and it is possible to keep our Yan Kingdom!"
The minister who spoke before pointed angrily at the minister who had just said that he wanted to invite his son back:
"Su Yu, you are simply talking nonsense, it wasn't you who slandered the first king, and the first king would not have ceded the country to that cruel son, and now you still want to invite that traitor to come back? Are you really one of the henchmen? ”
Su Yu smiled lightly:
"Hmph, if I, Su Yuruo, am a henchman, I would have fled with it a long time ago, so why wait here to be blamed?"
After speaking, he looked at the courtiers again, and seemed to be looking at him with strange eyes, so he questioned the courtiers:
"Then I, Su Yu, would like to ask, now that our Yan Kingdom has no choice but to invite Hui Zizhi to deal with Qi State, can you come up with any other way? Although Zizhi was a usurper and killed the first king, it was also the former prime minister of our Yan Kingdom after all? Moreover, in the past two years of governing Yan Kingdom, he has not done anything disrespectful to you! ”
Then he continued:
"Then think about it, if you welcome back Zizhi, maybe our Yan Kingdom still has the strength of the Qi army to fight, and everyone can still stand on top of this court as now, if the Qi army comes to our Ji capital with Gongzi soldiers, then what you are waiting for is that you and your family will be retaliated by Gongzi and beheaded in the city!"
At this time, the courtiers of Yan State began to discuss again, and it was obvious that many courtiers who had received the favor of Zizhi had changed their attitudes greatly, and some of them supported welcoming Zizhi back.
And Ji Zhi's decision is to welcome back Zizhi, after all, when he wrote a letter to Ji Zhi, he also wrote a letter to Zizhi, and Zizhi's reply was that if he returned to Jidu to be the king, and Ji Qi would be Yan Xiang, and he could get the extremely vast fief of Liaodong.
When Ji Qi announced that he would welcome his son back to resist the Qi State, he still got the support of most of the courtiers, after all, these people had to think about their families even if they didn't think about themselves.
There were also some ministers who opposed the return of the son, and after returning to their homes, they also began to protest with their resignation to Ji Ji on the grounds of illness.
Ji Qi couldn't take care of it so much, and after sending out the honor guard to welcome Zizhi, he no longer paid attention to these opposing courtiers.
At this time, the envoy of the State of Qi came to the Yan Palace again to meet the Yan Wang Ji period.
I saw that the Qi envoy was very arrogant and accused Ji Qi:
"As the son of Yan Kingdom, after assisting the king of Zhaogong, you don't want to protect Yan Kingdom well, but you want to welcome the return of the chaotic courtiers with different surnames to inherit the throne of King Yan, can you be right about your ancestor Zhaogong?"
After Ji Qi made the decision to welcome back his son, he also became fearless, and directly replied to Qi Envoy:
"How good are you Qi country? Isn't your current Qi Jun also the one who usurped Jiang Taigong and won the country? So you don't have to point fingers at the widow here, you have to blame your family Qi Jun for going home first! ”
When the Qi envoy heard this, he was very angry and said:
"Bold Ji Period, you actually dare to accuse us King Qi?"
Ji Qi said with a sneer:
"What my Ji Dynasty accuses is your King of Qi, let me tell you, this is the Yan Kingdom, not your Qi Kingdom, not the place where you can spread wild!"
Then he said to the guards on the side:
"Give the widow the tongue of this Qi envoy and send it back to the Qi country!"
Because Ji Qi cut off the tongue of the Qi envoy, Qi Wang Tian Pijiang was naturally furious, so he directly ordered Kuang Zhang to gather 400,000 Qi troops again and began to cut down Yan on a large scale.
And Ji Qi had secretly transported all his wives and concubines to Liaodong before Zizhi returned to Jidu, and after Zizhi returned to Jidu, Ji Qi directly resigned on the grounds of pretending to be sick, and then returned to Liaodong by carriage and horse.
When Ji Qi's car drove through Liaoshui day and night, Ji Qi finally took a long breath, showing a long-lost joy on his face, and ordered the coachman to stop the car and rest.
After a short rest, the driver asked:
"Childe, why are you so happy now?"
Ji Qi laughed and said:
"Haha...... Haha, this position of King Yan is just a burden, and now I can finally watch the show! ”
The coachman asked:
"Childe, why do you say that?"
Ji Ji replied:
"Because I made a plan to get rid of the shell of the golden cicada, and finally saved myself and my family, I didn't expect Zizhi to be fooled, I think it won't be long before I can hear the news of Zizhi's demise.
Not far from the direction of Liaodong, a car driver slowly drove over this way, and when the car approached, the person riding on it was Yanchen Su Yu before.
Ji Qi hurriedly walked forward and saluted Su Yu, thank you Mr. for saving me Ji Qi this time.
Su Yu replied:
"Childe, let's go back and talk about it, your family is now waiting for your return in Xiangping City!"