Chapter 477: Lobbyist
"Cui Hao?" Qiu Xiao said directly, Lan Ziyi repeated the name several times. When Lan Ziyi first came to the capital, it was the poetry club that Cui Hao introduced him.
Now that Lan Ziyi can confirm that this person is sheltered under Zhang Mingyue's wing, the question is what is he doing here now?
After Lan Ziyi recited Cui Hao's name a few times, he frowned and stopped squeaking, and his face was cloudy. Qiu Xiaozhi and Qiu Wenruo changed their eyes, and both of them knew that Lan Ziyi was thinking at this time, so they didn't bother, and Tao Zhuhu and Tao Zhulu didn't make a sound. Only Tao Zhutu, who was lying on the bed on his side, clinged to the edge of the bed and said:
"Cui Hao? Is that the head of the poetry club? Right? ”
Hearing this, Tao Zhuhu turned around and nodded to his third brother. After getting affirmation, Peach Rabbit opened his mouth and scolded:
"That bastard! Relying on the sound of dogs and horses to trick the young master into the ** inside to spend all day drinking, if it weren't for me and my two brothers to go over and bring the young master back, the young master would have been hollowed out by the wine.
Didn't he say that he was Zhang Mingyue's person? What other face does he have to come here to find the young master? “
While Tao Zhutu was cursing on the bed, Qiu Xiaozhi was observing Lan Ziyi's face.
To this day, everyone can see that the two ways of civil and military in the capital can be described as distinct, and the literati look down on martial arts, and Zhang Mingyue did not frown when he betrayed Qi on time. The people of the poetry club are all the children of the members of the Jingzhong University, and they were called brothers and sisters with Lan Ziyi that day, but they were only instructed by Zhang Mingyue to have other plans. Qiu Xiaozhi felt that with Lan Ziyi's temperament, this matter would only be regarded as a shame, and now it was a sting in the sore spot when he mentioned it.
However, Lan Ziyi's expression did not change because of Tao Zhutu's words, he still looked sideways at the window, as if he didn't hear Tao Zhutu's words.
It is not Qiu Xiaozhi who observes Lan Ziyi, Tao Zhulu is also observing Lan Ziyi, and when Tao Zhulu finishes speaking, Tao Zhulu will open his mouth to bury his younger brother and say:
"San Lang, it's my duty to wait to find the young master, why did it come to your mouth that the young master owes us a favor? Why do you lie down in bed and talk so much? Relieved? ”
Tao Zhulu said this to buffer what Tao Zhutu said just now, so as not to provoke Lan Ziyi and step on the thunder. Surprisingly, Lan Ziyi laughed when he heard Tao Zhulu's words, and he said:
"Second brother, you're really joking. If the third brother can really rely on this bed to slow down, I will give this bed to him to sleep in. ”
When the others heard this, they all laughed with Lan Ziyi. Then Lan Ziyi said to the ladies outside:
"Let the porter bring Cui Hao in, he and I are also brothers, what does it look like to lock him in the door?"
When the lady heard this, she took the order. Lan Ziyi in the house asked:
"What do you say Cui Hao is doing now?"
Qiu Wenruo replied:
"Recently, there has been the hottest quarrel in the court than the celebration banquet. I think Cui Hao must be here today to talk about this. ”
The peach rabbit on the bed heard the words and asked:
"Didn't you and the young master go to the palace for a celebration banquet when you first entered the city? Why is it that half a month has been tossing and celebrating the banquet. “
Qiu Xiao replied bluntly:
"San Lang, the meal in the palace is the Hongmen banquet, which is a strategy to cut Qi Zhun Domain. Now the court should be called the celebration ceremony, since the establishment of the Taizheng Dynasty, every time the army returns from victory, it will enter the city, the commander of the army enters Beijing from the Gongji Gate, and is praised by the emperor in front of the noon gate. It's the rule. ”
Hearing this, Peach Rabbit said disdainfully:
"Can this expedition also be called a victorious return? Killed so many people, but the result was to let the demon thieves spread across Jiangdong, how can this have the face to celebrate the ceremony. ”
Qiu Wenruo said:
"San Lang thinks so, and the adults in the court also think so, so they fight, from the beginning of entering Beijing to the present."
Lan Ziyi asked:
"Didn't the father-in-law at the table already negotiate with Zhang Mingyue that day? Why are they fighting again now? ”
Qiu Wenruo and Qiu Xiaozhi exchanged glances and replied:
"It seems that this was not discussed that day. At the end of the banquet that day, Father-in-law Yu specially summoned the Marquis of Wei to discuss the matter, didn't Father-in-law say anything at that time? ”
Lan Ziyi shook his head and said:
"My father-in-law didn't mention it that day."
Qiu Wenruo says:
"If Wei Hou didn't know, my father and I wouldn't know. Fortunately, now Cui Hao has come to the door......"
Saying that, Qiu Wenruo looked at his father, Qiu Xiao looked directly at his son, nodded and continued:
"If you don't have anything to do, you will go to the Three Treasures Palace, Cui Haolai must be a lobbyist for Zhang Mingyue. We can take this opportunity to get some news about Zhang Mingyue from his mouth. “
Qiu Xiaozhi was talking, and the voice of a lady came from the gate of the outer gate
"Cui Ye, please!"
Then there was a sound of umbrellas waving rain and squirming at the door.
Lan Ziyi turned his head and glanced at everyone in the room one by one, and when his eyes finally fell on the door, Cui Hao was already standing at the door of the bedroom.
I saw Cui Hao waving his hand slightly, owing to Lan Ziyi, and said:
"Wei Hou."
Lan Ziyi looked at Cui Hao at the door with a smile, waved his finger to the coffee table on his right hand and greeted Cui Hao:
"Brother Cui, please take a seat."
Although Lan Ziyi was smiling, others could see that his eyes were like iron. Cui Hao naturally saw it, he hesitated at the door for a salary, and then stepped into the bedroom, and he did not follow Lan Ziyi's guidance to sit on the coffee table with Tao Zhuhu and them, but walked to the desk by the window on Lan Ziyi's left and sat down.
Peach Chase Tiger and Peach Chase Deer looked at Cui Hao with their backs to them, and sneered disdainfully, Peach Chase Rabbit didn't plan to learn from his two elder brothers to swallow this breath, he scolded directly:
"What do you mean by the surname Cui? When you go into your master's house and turn your back on us, do you think this is your backyard? “
Cui Hao didn't get angry when he heard the sound of Tao Cha Rabbit, in fact, he didn't even react at all. As if no one was around, he picked up the "New Book of Ji Xiao" that Lan Ziyi put on the table and turned a few pages, and then said to Lan Ziyi leisurely:
"I was supposed to be a confidant of Wei Hou and the right way, but I didn't expect you to disappoint me so much."
Lan Ziyi was annoyed when he heard this, Cui Hao's condescending and arrogant appearance might have been able to bluff Lan Ziyi when Lan Ziyi first entered Beijing and didn't understand anything, but now his appearance is clearly poor and showcasing, looking for a beating.
However, on the bright side, Lan Ziyi still replied with a smile:
"My Lan family guards the frontier, so my family motto has always been martial arts and Chongwen, and it is normal for me to read military books."
The Tao brothers all covered their faces and snickered when they heard this, others didn't know if the three of them could not know? The Lan family also likes to read because Lan Ziyi likes to read, and there is no family motto of martial arts and literature at all.
Lan Ziyi continued:
"It's Brother Cui, since you look down on martial artists in your bones, why do you want to come to my door to surrender your identity?"
Hearing this, Cui Hao turned around in his chair and asked Lan Ziyi:
"I don't look down on martial artists, why did Wei Hou say this?"
Lan Ziyi said:
"Reading military books can disappoint Brother Cui, so wouldn't seeing a real martial artist make Brother Cui desperate."
Cui Hao sighed when he heard this:
"Virtue is the foundation, talent is the end. Therefore, the saints are all cultivating the virtues of the ancestors, preaching the scriptures and teaching the people, and never teaching people to kill. Wei Hou was already murderous when he came down from the battlefield, wouldn't it confuse his mind to read the military book now? “
Cui Hao's tone when he spoke could not be described as insincere, and his feelings could not be described as insincere. It's just that Lan Ziyi didn't have the leisure to listen to his nonsense, and when Cui Hao turned around, Lan Ziyi turned right and drank tea sideways, leaving the back to Cui Hao.
At the same time, Lan Ziyi replied:
"The sage said; To fight without teaching the people is to kill them. A saint does not ask people to kill, but that is the heart of not teaching people to kill, not the art of not teaching people to be armed. “
At the same time, Lan Ziyi didn't want to entangle these details with Cui Hao anymore, he wanted to give the enemy father and son at the same table a glance while serving tea, and signaled the two of them to hurry up and pull Cui Hao to business.
Qiu Xiaozhi and Qiu Wenruo nodded slightly after receiving instructions, and Qiu Wenruo now looked at his mouth and said:
"Presumably, Mr. Cui didn't come here to discuss the words of the saint with Wei Hou, right?"
Cui Hao was choked by Lan Ziyi's sentence just now, and when he heard the words, he could take the opportunity to divert the topic and ease his breath. He said:
"I'll come and see Wei Hou."
Hearing this, Peach Rabbit said sarcastically:
"I've never seen anyone come to see a patient empty-handed."
Cui Hao said:
"The gifts have been placed in the concierge. I didn't expect Weihou Jiading to be so shabby, and I didn't forget to think about that gift every year. ”
Lan Ziyi heard this:
"The third brother is my brother, not a family member. Brother Cui, don't talk nonsense. ”
Cui Hao wanted to say something when he heard this, but he stopped talking, he moved his chair closer to Lan Ziyi and said:
"Wei Hou, I have something to chat with you privately, and it is inconvenient for outsiders to be present."
Saying that, Cui Hao raised his head and looked around at everyone, with the words "go away when you know each other" in his eyes.
It's just that how could Lan Ziyi let Cui Hao succeed, he immediately replied:
"Brother Cui, please tell me something, there are no outsiders here."
The others only cared about serving tea and drinking water, completely ignoring Cui Hao's eyes.
Cui Hao was a little embarrassed when he saw this, and his face began to twitch, and he seemed to be about to lose his face.
Lan Ziyi still wanted to talk from Cui Hao's mouth, he didn't want to tear his face now and let Cui Hao slap the table and leave, so he turned sideways in the chair and smiled at Cui Hao:
"Brother Cui has something to say, the people sitting in this room are their own people, and I promise that they will not leak today's words."
Cui Hao knew that it was impossible for him to break people apart, so when Lan Ziyi gave him the steps, he could only take a step back along the steps. Cui Hao asked:
"What do you think Wei Hou will do this expedition do?"
When Lan Ziyi heard this, he wanted to ask Cui Hao, but this matter also needs to be talked about secretly? But chatting like that would have killed words, so Lan Ziyi took the opportunity to sip tea and gave the enemy father and son a look.
Qiu Xiaozhi immediately replied:
"Naturally, it is a great achievement."
Cui Hao snorted coldly when he heard this, and laughed:
"Xiaozhi, you're really embarrassed to say."