Chapter 357: Friend or Foe Are Hard to Distinguish
Li Su had a good impression of Na Yan, which used to be quite ordinary, but later Na Yan only accepted Li Su's two opals as a deposit, and promised to build a house for Li Suyun bricks and stones, Li Su regarded him as a friend, and if this friend was more generous and willing to dig an artificial lake for him in Xizhou, Li Su was even willing to take him as a confidant and take care of Bao's friends.
It's a pity that it's not easy for friends to communicate with each other, no one can guess Li Su's thoughts, and Li Su can't guess that Yan's thoughts, and the process of communication between the two is a nonsense process that is enough to make people with poor patience yawn.
Na Yan is very simple, perhaps because his cousin is the prime minister of Qiuzi, Na Yan's temperament is not like a pure businessman, with a bit of nobility, talking to Li Su as a businessman, his demeanor is neither humble nor arrogant, he has a very equal attitude, and occasionally says a few flattering words are just Spring and Autumn brushwork, and the sycophants are insincere.
said that he was a friend, but everyone had a little bit of a ghost in his heart everywhere, in Li Su's eyes, Na Yan was not just a businessman, or rather, he was not a pure businessman. From the westbound road, Li Su was quite interested in Nayan, and Li Su arrived in Xizhou together, but Nayan lived in the city and did not leave, Li Su couldn't figure it out if he wanted to break his head, a deserted city located in the vast desert, the people's consumption power was low, the government was like a wolf and a tiger, and all kinds of goods could not be circulated.
Li Su is a very real person, it's not that he doesn't have a scheming city, but he is too lazy, his scheming city is keeping a heart eye with Cao Yudou, and he is really not interested in going around in circles with Nayan, so he simply asked directly when he had a question in his heart.
Na Yan smiled bitterly: "Li Beijia, even if it is an animal with goods on its back, it will kneel on all fours and refuse to go again when it is tired." It is really normal for a merchant to lead a caravan and pass by a city, and rest for a few more days after walking tired, and the villain can't even be inferior to livestock, right? ”
Li Su patted him on the shoulder and said angrily: "You are not allowed to insult yourself like this in the future." You're so much better than an animal, and an animal won't build me a house......"
Nayan: "............"
Looking at Na Yan with a smile, Li Su said leisurely: "That brother, we have known each other since outside Jingzhou City, my wife was mixed in your caravan at the beginning, and thanks to you for taking care of it, not to mention, we went all the way from Jingzhou to Xizhou, and experienced natural and man-made disasters on the way." They also fought against bandits together...... Look, brother, we have experienced so many things together, are we destined? ”
Na couldn't help nodding his head and said with a smile: "Of course." It is a great blessing for a villain to be able to get acquainted with Li Beijia in this life. ”
"Well, as insincere as this flattery sounds, I'll just treat you as if you mean it...... Said that since I met you, I have encountered some sandstorms on the way west. Quicksand, bandits, and the like. Well, the more I talk about it, the more I think you're a broom star, and this strange feeling is swollen......"
That Yan was dumbfounded: "............"
Li Su patted him on the shoulder generously and said with a smile: "Okay, I don't dislike you, you see." Along the way, we have experienced a lot, but we just haven't looked at the stars and the moon together, from poetry and poetry to life philosophy, and we have such a rich experience together. We're supposed to be friends, right? What's more, you built me a house for free......"
Na Yan's face was a little ugly, and the question was not easy to answer, because the answers to the two questions were diametrically opposed, Na Yan's lips smacked a few times, and he still felt that he couldn't suffer a loss, so he decided to answer in order.
"That, Li Beijia, it's a great honor for the villain to be friends with you, but ah, you may have misunderstood the matter of building a house, the villain did not build a house for you for free, but received your deposit at the beginning, and the 'deposit' thing means that you have to continue to pay when you build a house......"
"Okay, okay, don't care about this kind of minutiae, you can help me with the money to build a house first, and then I will pay you back when I have money......" Li Su waved his hand perfunctorily, and continued: "Get down to business, don't digress, you see, we're friends, right?" Should friends be honest with each other? ”
"Yes." Na Yan nodded very approvingly, if only the accounts and money were more innocent.
Li Su's indecent appearance suddenly changed a little weirdly, his black and star-like eyes stared at Na Yan's face tightly, Li Su said slowly: "Since you should be honest, why does that brother perfunctory me with nonsense such as being tired and resting?" That brother, you're hurting your friend's heart. ”
Na Yan looked directly at Li Su without changing his face: "The villain is telling the truth. ”
Li Su smiled and said: "You know that I went on a killing spree in Xizhou City the day before yesterday, and you must be able to see that I like to do things simply and rudely, and I am used to using the fastest and most effective way to achieve my goals, if you refuse to tell the truth, and we are friends......
Laughing and sighing, Li Su said distressedly: "That brother, what do you say I should do with you?" ”
That Yan's eyelids jumped violently a few times.
It's a very ordinary sentence, but Na Yan heard the killing intent from it!
Yes, a simple and ordinary sentence of a teenager has boundless killing power! Without warning beforehand, a murderous aura silently permeated the two of them.
Na Yan had no doubt about the decisiveness of the young man in front of him, the smell of blood in the open space of the Xizhou market had not yet dissipated, and it had been several days, and the officials and people of the city still couldn't hide their horror when they passed by the open space, and they covered their noses and mouths and made a detour.
This mild-mannered-looking young man, once he shows his fangs, his face is more hideous and terrifying than anyone else's.
If you have the courage to kill thirteen officials in one go, will you care about killing him as a turtle merchant? I'm afraid that no one will take it seriously even if they sue the Tang Dynasty......
"Don't drive Li...... Since the villain has known you in Jingzhou, he has always been very respectful to you, and he asked himself if he had never done anything sorry for you, why don't you force each other so much? Na Yan said with a gloomy expression.
Li Su also sighed and said, "Let's talk openly, although you have always been very good to me since I met you, but ...... I doubt you, and don't ask you what your words and deeds have caused my suspicions, suspicion is suspicion, there is no reason to speak of, and there is not the slightest evidence...... Fortunately, in the deserted city of Xizhou, there is no need to be too reasonable in talking and doing things. Sometimes it's just fists. ”
Li Su said with a smile: "I am a teenager, if I am in Chang'an, Guanzhong, a teenager like me has just reached the age of marrying a wife, and I am ignorant of the world, I may inevitably take many detours and gain many life lessons." Twenty or thirty years old will gradually mature, you see, others are in their teens, I am also a teenager, but I was transferred by His Majesty to the vast desert desert in the desert as an official, here is the spring breeze outside the Yumen Pass, the court decree is not smooth, the emperor's grace is not to, there are worries inside. If there is trouble outside, maybe one day you will wake up with a steel knife and a neck, or a foreign enemy soldier will come to the city......"
Li Su's smile gradually converged, and his eyes showed a rare sharp edge.
“…… I can't trust anyone, including you, in such a dangerous place, that Xizhou is too sinister for me to take the wrong step. If I believe in the wrong person, what awaits me may be the abyss from which I will never recover. And now, there is a man of unknown origin, unknown purpose, strange deeds, and unpredictable thoughts, which arouse my suspicions. Brother, if you were me, what would you do? ”
Na Yan understood what Li Su meant, and couldn't help but smile helplessly, and sighed: "If I were you." I'm afraid that someone will put a knife on his neck and ask him, if he doesn't tell the truth, a knife will be chopped, it will be ......"
Li Su smiled with satisfaction: "We are really friends, we really have a heart, I think the same way, the difference is that I am still relatively gentle, I didn't ask someone to hold a knife on his neck, knowing a friend like me, it is really a blessing in three lives, life should be a big white ......"
That Yan was silent.
Although Li Su said these words with a bit of a joke in his tone, it was very clear that although the tone was joking, the meaning in the words was not a joke, if he really took Li Su's words as a joke, then he would not be far from the moment of blood luck.
Li Suxiao looked at the silence.
In fact, Na Yan has been behaving very normally these days, at least in front of Li Su, there is nothing to doubt at all, but some things can't just look at the surface, with the experience of being raided by the Turks outside the city of Shazhou, and Na Yan knows a lot about the origin of the bandits, and the road is like a few treasures, and the day before yesterday outside the camp was raided again, plus Na Yan is the identity of the nephew of the prime minister of the Qiuci Kingdom, the Qiuci Kingdom has been hostile to the Central Plains Dynasty since the Sui Dynasty, The nephew of the minister of the state who was hostile to the country had nothing to do every day and stayed in Xizhou, a city that did not get any benefits at all, and also violated the principle of mercenary nature of businessmen, and generously helped Li Suzhang build a house......
All kinds of signs are superimposed, and it is a little ridiculous to say that this person is purely a turtle businessman.
What Li Su just said was in his heart, the situation in Xizhou is sinister, there are many internal and external troubles, in such an environment, if Li Su is still stupid and casually believes in a person's words, it is certain that he will be classified as "untimely death" by future generations, and he is not qualified to enjoy such a high-level praise as "Heavenly Jealousy of Talents", "It is not a pity to die" is more appropriate.
External troubles cannot be solved temporarily, but internal worries can be prevented and eliminated, such as the thirteen officials who were cut off a few days ago, and the Na Yan in front of them is also within the scope of Li Su's elimination.
Na Yan was silent for a long time, probably figured it out, and finally broke the suffocating silence.
"Li Beijia, I am the cousin of the Prime Minister of Qiuzi, and this identity must be known by Beijia......"
Li Su smiled and nodded: "Yes, I will know on the way west." ”
Na Yan sighed: "I didn't mean to deceive Li Beijia, and my identity has never been concealed, because I have no ill will towards you and Datang......"
Li Su blinked: "Listening to what this means, there are other people who have malicious intentions towards me and Datang?" ”
Na Yan hesitated, nodded and said, "Yes." ”
Li Su pondered for a moment, and said slowly: "I heard that the country of Qiuci is quite unpeaceful, and the lord of the country, Bai Ha Libu, is fighting very hard with the state minister Nali, you are Nali's nephew, and you have walked between Datang and Qiuci for many years in the name of business, what is your purpose?" ”
Na Yan sighed: "I don't have a clear purpose, I just squirted in Chang'an on the orders of my cousin Nari, or it was a temptation. ”
"Tempting what?"
Na Yan looked at Li Su and said in a deep voice: "Although Li Beijia is only a teenager, I don't dare to treat you as an ordinary teenager, you are a figure in the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty, you should know that there is no undying enemy in the officialdom, and there is no friend who will never betray, the trend of profit, the trend of the trend, the enemy can become a friend overnight, and a friend can become an enemy overnight, officialdom is like this, and the same is true between countries......
"What I want to test is the attitude of the Tang Dynasty, if my cousin Nali chooses to reconcile with the Tang Dynasty, can the Tang Dynasty monarchs support my cousin to overthrow the lord of the country, Bai Ha Libu, and canonize my cousin Nali as the new lord of the Qiuzi country......"
Li Su was shocked in his heart, but his face did not change and smiled: "What if the Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers don't agree?" ”
Na Yan sighed, and said helplessly: "The desire for power is moving, if the Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers don't agree, what should my cousin do or what will he do, Qiuzi has been taking refuge in the Western Turkic Khan Yibi Lu since the Sui Dynasty, it can be said that the two countries have been hostile for a hundred years, the Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers do not support my cousin, for my cousin is nothing more than an existing enemy, let him more thoroughly take refuge in the side of the Yi Bi Lu Khan, besides, His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty is now mobilizing the world's soldiers and horses to conquer Xue Yantuo in the north, and he can't spare his hands to deal with the Western Regions, But it's different......"
Na Yan glanced at Li Su with complicated eyes, and said: "I believe that Li Beijia is very familiar with the surroundings of Xizhou, you should know that Xizhou is only a few hundred miles west of Qiuci, Qiuci is only a small country, and there are less than 20,000 soldiers and horses in the country, this point of soldiers and horses naturally dare not lightly brush the tiger whiskers of the Tang Dynasty, but behind Qiuci stands the Western Turkic Yibi Lulu Khan, and it is only a few hundred miles away from Xizhou, which can be described as a ...... of morning and evening."
Li Su's smile gradually turned cold: "So, what does your cousin Nali want?" ”
Na Yan looked directly at Li Su and said slowly: "Just wait for him to overthrow the lord of the country and unify the Qiuzi country, the first thing is to send troops to Xizhou!" ”
Li Su sneered: "Does Nali have the guts?" Isn't he afraid that my Tang Dynasty King will level the country of Qiuzi in an instant? ”
Na Yan also sneered: "Then, what is the name of the Tang Dynasty?" Don't forget, today's Xizhou nominally belongs to Gaochang Kingdom! Moreover, the lord of Gaochang and Qiuci have long been allies of each other, and the Tang Dynasty occupies Xizhou, which is an unrighteous move, and it is a matter of course for Gaochang and Qiuci to join forces to take back Xizhou, not to mention that there is a Western Turk standing behind Qiuci and Gaochang, and at that time, His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty had just finished conquering Xue Yantuo, whether it was victory or defeat, the Tang Dynasty had finally hurt its vitality, and the re-expedition of Qiuci would undoubtedly shake the country's capital, for the sake of a mere Xizhou, would His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty send troops? ”
Li Su's face suddenly became gloomy, dark clouds were thick, and the mountain rain was coming.
Seeing that Li Su's face was wrong, Na Yan sighed and said: "Li Beijia, I am just a person who is ordered to do something, I can only do what my uncle orders me to do, even if you kill me, it will not help, but give my cousin an excuse to send troops, I often lead caravans to and from Chang'an and Qiuzi, I have to say, I have been deeply fascinated by the customs of the Tang Dynasty, as well as the knowledge that has been precipitated for thousands of years, as well as the simple and hard-working people of Guanzhong, I have no ill will towards the Tang Dynasty, on the contrary, I love it very much, And I really don't want to see the day when Qiuzi and the Tang Dynasty soldiers meet, if Li Beijia can persuade the Tang Dynasty monarchs to support my cousin, then it will be great, and you and I can continue this friendship relationship......"
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PS: Big Chapter...... Grand Chapter ...... The routine is reversed again...... So sad...... (To be continued......)