After drinking, Xue Fei'er said: "Ke Yao, the master treats you best on weekdays, should you give the master a toast today?" ”

Ke Yao didn't know why, his body shook for a while, and Li'er hurriedly held it up, and said, "Fei'er, don't let Ke Yao drink, she's really drunk." ”

Xue Fei'er ignored it, and helped Ke Yao to walk in front of Du Wenhao: "Master, Ke Yao has given you a toast." After speaking, he smiled strangely at Du Wenhao, and then walked away and returned to his position.

Ke Yao's heart was pounding, she smelled the smell of that night again, it was the smell of a man, she was a little confused, raised a glass with one hand, and put the other hand on Lin Qingdai's shoulder, in order not to let herself fall, she asked the maid to pour the cup full of wine, she knew that Du Wenhao was looking at herself, but she didn't dare to look at each other, dozens of people in the courtyard were looking at her, she was a little weak-hearted.

"Come, let's drink!" Ke Yao lowered his head and said.

Xue Fei'er joked: "Ke Yao, when did you even refuse to shout your brother?" ”

Pang Yuqin smiled and glared at Xue Fei'er, and Xue Fei'er also smiled.

Ke Yao said twice, but he didn't speak, Du Wenhao said softly: "I understand your intentions, I drank this glass of wine, don't drink it." After speaking, he was about to drink, but when he saw Ke Yao raising his head to drink, he quickly grabbed her hand, time seemed to freeze at this moment, stopped, and after a long time, Du Wenhao let go and said: "Be obedient, if you don't let you drink, you won't be delicious!" ”

Ke Yao saw Du Wenhao's hand taken away from her wrist, but the temperature of the handshake was still there, she looked up at Du Wenhao, there was resentment in her eyes, love, and more things that could not be explained.

Du Wenhao coughed dryly, and Xue Fei'er said: "Master, Mrs. said before that our Ke Yao is also a big girl this year, and since we have come back, you should also think about finding a husband for us Ke Yao." ”

When Ke Yao heard this, his hand holding the cup flickered, and all the wine was poured on Du Wenhao's robe. ”

Ke Yao reacted at this time, ahhh ”

Du Wenhao understood in his heart why Ke Yao was out of shape, Xue Fei'er provoked from time to time today, she should have seen something, or with her character, she was not such an aggressive woman.

Du Wenhao asked Lin Qingdai to help Ke Yao sit down, and then let everyone continue to eat, Li'er got up and said, "Master, I'll go with you, right?" With that, he got up.

Lin Qingdai said suddenly: "Although Ke Yao is the birthday star today, after all, she stained her brother's clothes, you can just sit down and eat, and let Ke Yao accompany the master." ”

Pang Yuqin: "This is not appropriate, today is Ke Yao's birthday." ”

Lin Qingdai said: "Don't get in the way, let them go." ”

Ke Yao also stood up and said, "I'm still with you...... Go ahead, brother. ”

Du Wenhao didn't expect Ke Yao to say this, and it was not appropriate to think about it, but for some reason, he didn't speak, and he didn't wait for Ke Yao, so he left the table first.

Leaving the front yard, Du Wenhao walked quickly through an arch, and then stood behind the arch, at this time he only heard a burst of broken steps from far to near, just walked through the arch, Du Wenhao pulled Ke Yao over, and the two of them hugged each other.

After a long while, Du Wenhao let go of Ke Yao, and looked down to see Ke Yao looking at him with a shyly face, his heart was itching, and he wanted to bite the ruddy little mouth and take a good sip, it must be extremely sweet.

"Silly girl, what are you hiding from me?" After Du Wenhao led Ke Yao to a rockery, the two of them found a place to sit down, and Du Wenhao asked softly.

Ke Yao bit his lip lightly and didn't speak for a long time.

Du Wenhao was anxious, knowing that the people in the front yard were waiting for them, and he should send someone to call them soon, so he said, "What about you!" ”

Ke Yao snorted, "Where am I...... Where to avoid you, but I'm afraid that you will get drunk and go crazy again. ”

Du Wenhao smiled and said, "Really? So now do you see I'm drunk? ”

Ke Yao didn't look at it, Du Wenhao held Ke Yao's face with both hands, the distance between the two people at this time was no more than a child's fist, both of them could feel each other's breath, Ke Yao swallowed his saliva, lowered his eyebrows, and said in a low voice: "I don't know." ”

Du Wenhao couldn't help his lips fall gently, softly imprinted on her eyelids, and in an instant, a sweet touch hit her body and mind, making her have an urge to cry, and he dropped light kisses on her face one by one in the same gentle way......

Ke Yao closed his eyes tremblingly, holding back the sweet impact of kissing her, what was it like? Why had she never felt this way before?

"No...... Don't, brother, don't ...... like this," Ke Yao groaned softly. "You know how to bully me, every time you get drunk, you think about playing drunk with me, and you don't remember anything when you wake up."

Du Wenhao held Ke Yao's hand on his chest distressedly: "I can't remember, it's just that you said it yourself...... this ......, alas! ”

At this moment, two servant girls came not far away, Du Wenhao's eyes were sharp, and he hurriedly helped Ke Yao to get up, and the two servant girls stepped forward to salute.

"Master, Madame said that everyone is waiting in the front yard, do you think you will continue to eat and drink, or will you disperse?"

Du Wenhao glanced at Ke Yao and said, "It's rare for everyone to get together, don't disperse so early, make it when you don't have food, buy it when you don't have wine, everyone has to have fun." ”

The two maidservants were glad to hear this, and bowed down and withdrew.

Du Wenhao went to pull Ke Yao's hand again, but this time Ke Yao dodged it, leaned on the porch, and smiled lightly: "Brother, don't worry about this matter, just when nothing happened, don't secretly make love to me in the future, I will feel guilty." Don't worry, when I meet the right one, I will marry myself, and I won't stay by your side for a lifetime, and I will be blinded by nothing! ”

"Ke Yao......!"

Ke Yao had already turned around and got off the porch and went out of the courtyard to the front hall.

Du Wenhao felt very uncomfortable, and slowly returned to the front hall with his hands behind his back, and saw that Ke Yao was drinking with everyone again, and his laughter was like a silver bell.

Du Wenhao was about to sit down, when the porter hurriedly ran over and bowed down to say: "Master, Lord Yin Caijing Cai of Kaifeng Mansion is visiting!" ”

Du Wenhao's head was clear, this traitor finally came back! Negotiating with the envoys of Western Xia is a big deal, and he can't care about anything else, so he patted Pang Yuqin on the shoulder: "You drink first, I have urgent business to deal with, maybe the time will not be too short, don't get drunk, especially Ke Yao, who was originally happy to pass his life, and was uncomfortable the next day after being drunk." ”

Ke Yao smiled: "If you are not drunk, then it is called uncomfortable." Brother, don't worry, I'm fine! Go get busy! - Come, Fei'er, aren't you going to bet with me who is drunk and lying in the gutter? Let's drink it, how about it? ”

"Okay! Who is afraid of you! ”

"Gotta get it!" Lin Qingdai said, "You two are crazy? It's not such a way to drink if you want to get drunk, you're drunk, we haven't drunk yet, don't be too selfish! ”

Ke Yao said: "Yes, yes! Or my sister is right! Yes! It's not right to drink, let's make a drinking order! ”

Pang Yuqin clapped his hands and said, "This is a good idea!" Liquor Order! - Xianggong, go get busy, with me, I won't let Ke Yao get drunk. ”

Ke Yao glared and said, "That's not good, if you don't get drunk tonight, this birthday will be in vain." Brother, go get busy, I'm fine, they want to get me drunk, but I'm afraid I don't have the ability! Come on, Liquor Order! I can do this......"

Du Wenhao smiled, told Yingzi to take care of it, and quickly left the courtyard and came to the main hall.

Du Wenhao saw that Cai Jing was alone, he was slightly stunned, Cai Jing stepped forward and bowed: "See Du Zaizhi for his humble position!" ”

"Well," Du Wenhao looked left and right, and lowered his voice: "What about the envoys of Western Xia?" ”

"In a lowly dwelling."

"Okay, then let's go, the Empress Dowager has agreed to negotiate with them, and authorized this official to be responsible for the negotiation."

"Great!" Cai Jingxi said, "I was still worried just now, my family often comes and goes, and the place is small, so I am worried that people will see my true face, so I want to find a place to transfer the envoys." But after a while, I didn't find a suitable one. ”

"There's no need to look for it, you can let him go back after talking."

"yes, I didn't expect it to be so fast, hehe."

Because he wanted to hide people's eyes, this time Du Wenhao did not ride a horse, but took a sedan chair to Cai Jing's mansion.

Cai Jing placed the secret envoy of Western Xia in a side room next to his master bedroom, and after entering the door, he saw a short and fat old man standing in front of the window with his hands behind his back, looking out in a trance. When I heard footsteps, I turned my face.

Cai Jing hurriedly introduced the man: "Lord Wei, this is the new chief executive of my Great Song Dynasty, and the three yamen have all inspected Lord Du Wenhao. - Du Zaizhi, this is the secret envoy sent by Emperor Huizong of Western Xia, Wei Mingshanli Gongma (referred to as Wei Ma), who is a close confidant of Emperor Huizong. ”

Wei immediately glanced at Du Wenhao up and down, and arched his hand: "Wei Ma is polite!" ”

This person's Chinese words are not bad, Du Wenhao also returned the salute, sat on the chair on the side, and motioned for Wei Ma to sit down as well.

Du Wenhao said: "Is Lord Wei here on behalf of Emperor Huizong?" ”

"Yes!" Wei Ma took out a small golden scroll from his arms and handed it to Du Wenhao with both hands: "This is the authorization document of Emperor Huizong." ”

Du Wenhao took it and unfolded it to see that it was indeed the holy decree of the Western Xia Kingdom, covered with a jade seal. Weima was authorized to negotiate with the Great Song Dynasty on "important matters between the two countries".

The decree is vaguely written, but it can only be so, it seems that Emperor Huizong is still very cautious.

Du Wenhao returned the holy decree to him and said, "Lord Wei, let's tell me what you mean first." ”

"Okay, then I'll get straight to the point. Now, the emperor's power has fallen into the hands of the Empress Dowager Liang, and the emperor wants to ask the Great Song Dynasty to help regain the imperial power, and he must be grateful. ”

"Well, how do you want us to help Emperor Huizong regain the imperial power?"

"It is reported that Empress Dowager Liang will inspect the Songxia border in the near future, and our people will tell you her whereabouts at that time, and you can send an elite army to infiltrate the ambush and kill her!"

Du Wenhao smiled: "Empress Dowager Liang will definitely guard against this, right?" I'm afraid that there will be no shortage of elite escorts around me, and it is very risky to go deep into the territory to ambush. ”

"That's for sure, for my emperor, he can only strive to succeed in one fell swoop, so I will choose the most appropriate time to inform you. As long as the two sides reach this intention, that is, you are willing to assist our emperor to kill the Empress Dowager Liang and regain the imperial power, as for the details of the specific action, we will further discuss it. How is it? ”

"I have been authorized to join forces with you to kill the Empress Dowager Liang and help you regain imperial power. The premise is that the quid pro quo you offer will satisfy us. ”

"Great! First of all, I would like to express my gratitude on behalf of my emperor. As for the quid pro quo, what my emperor means is that as long as the imperial power is recaptured, I, Xixia, am willing to form a brotherly alliance with your country forever, and no more swords and soldiers. At the same time, I am willing to return all the more than 40,000 of your captives captured by us in the Battle of Yongle, but I hope that you can return the forts south of Hengshan and Lanzhou that we had previously occupied, and cede the four fortresses of Jialu, Mizhi, Futu, and Anjiang to China. As long as the annual gift is still implemented according to the previous agreement between the two parties. ”

Du Wenhao's eyes widened, although the two countries would negotiate and would definitely bargain, he could never have imagined that Xixia would offer such a condition, and laughed angrily: "You mean that we helped your emperor regain the imperial power, and we still have to pay you land and compensation?" And you only released our captors? ”

"That's right."

Du Wenhao tried his best to suppress the anger in his heart, chose words that were not too impulsive, and said slowly: "Lord Wei, don't you think the conditions you offer are simply ridiculous? ”

"Lord Zaiji, if you can listen to my explanation, it won't be ridiculous."

"Okay, tell me about it."

"The forts south of Hengshan and Lanzhou are our territory that you have invaded and should be returned, there is no doubt about it, this ruler has no opinion, right?"

Du Wenhao didn't know if there was such a thing, so he turned his head and glanced at Cai Jing with questions in his eyes. Cai Jing nodded slowly. Du Wenhao thought to himself, the Song army was so weak that it actually occupied the land of Western Xia, he really couldn't have imagined it, but on the surface, he didn't back down, and said, "You go on first." ”

"Your invasion of our country was defeated in the Battle of Yongle City, and we captured more than 40,000 of your people. Now it is used to exchange for reeds, rice fat, Futu, and Anjiang Sisai, and you still take advantage of it. ”

Du Wenhao's lungs were about to explode, and he said slowly: "When the war is over, the prisoners of war should be released unconditionally, this is a matter of course, how can it be used as an exchange condition?" ”

Wei Ma was stunned and said, "Unconditional release? Adults, please don't make such jokes. ”

"Who is kidding you, isn't it all like this?"

Du Wenhao is thinking about ancient things with modern thinking, there was no reason for the unconditional release of prisoners of war in ancient times, due to the shortage of population, prisoners of war are generally used as official slaves or for hard labor in the army, and at most the two sides can exchange with each other. Therefore, Wei Ma felt very incomprehensible about Du Wenhao's statement about the unconditional release of prisoners of war. Shaking his head, he said: "What the adults said is incredible, please forgive me for not being able to obey my fate." ”

Cai Jing leaned over and said in a low voice: "Lord Zaizhi, the four places such as Jialu are not big, and they are very good for retrieving 40,000 prisoners ......of war."

Du Wenhao's armrest slapped heavily: "Can you row?" Dare to love that this is not your back garden! Naturally, you don't know how distressed! Tell the two of you, you want the Great Song to cut the land and pay compensation, and you want me to nod my head, unless I cut off my head! ”

The reason why Du Wenhao is so sensitive to the compensation for land cession is that he was tormented by the humiliating history of modern China, and the most helpless thing about learning history is to learn this modern history.

Du Wenhao suddenly became angry, startling Cai Jing, and hurriedly bowed down and claimed that it was. Wei Ma couldn't expect Du Wenhao to react like this, and couldn't help but shrink his neck back.

Du Wenhao remembered that this was a negotiation, and it was very advantageous to get it done, and when it was negotiated, he had to control his emotions, picked up the teacup and drank it dry in one go, wiped his mouth, and arched his hand: "I'm sorry, I spoke a little louder, you continue." ”

"I ...... I'm done. "Wei Ma Dao.

"Finished?" Du Wenhao was furious, and said coldly: "We will help your emperor kill the Empress Dowager Liang and regain the imperial power, and in exchange for 40,000 people?" And it's in exchange for land reparations! You're really good at business! ”

"Lord Zaizhi, we also promised to form a brotherly alliance with your country, and never raise sword soldiers, isn't this the result that your country hopes for the most?"

"Hehe, you expected that we were afraid of you, as soon as we heard that the two sides had stopped the sword soldiers, we would definitely rush to agree, right?"

Wei Ma didn't answer, but a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, which was obviously what he meant. In his opinion, this is the most favorable condition offered by Western Xia, and as the Great Song Dynasty, which has been defeated repeatedly, he will definitely agree.

He didn't expect that he was facing an indignant young man who had crossed over from modern times and had the unforgettable pain of more than a hundred years of humiliation in modern history, and he was already indignant about the issue of the old coins between the Song and Xia dynasties, and now he sent troops to help regain the imperial power, and he still ceded land and paid reparations, in exchange for only the prisoners of war who should have been released and the peace that both sides longed for. For Du Wenhao, this is no longer an alliance negotiation, but a shame.

So Du Wenhao broke out, he stood up with a snort, and said coldly: "Okay, go back and tell you the puppet emperor, I'll send him a word, remember!" ”

"What?" Wei Ma asked subconsciously.

"Let him die!"

Wei Ma's face changed, and he stood up: "Why is Lord Zaizhi so disrespectful? ”

"Mouthful? Hehe, this is still light, tell you that bastard puppet, if you want to fight, you will fight! Do you want us to cede land and pay reparations in exchange for peace? Be a fucking spring and autumn dream! Exercise! Du Wenhao spat on the ground, flicked the sleeves of his robe, turned around and left.

Wei Ma didn't get angry, and hurriedly stepped forward and arched his hand: "Lord Zaizhi, please stay!" ”

Du Wenhao turned around abruptly: "How are you going?" ”

"Your Excellency, everything is negotiable, don't be angry, if you think our conditions are unacceptable, you can put forward conditions that are acceptable to you. If I can decide, I will decide immediately, and if I can't decide, I will go back and report to the emperor. The heart of our emperor and the alliance of the Great Song Dynasty comes from sincerity. There is no disrespect. If you offend the general, please Haihan! With that, he bowed again.