Su Qin saw that Ning Jun's anger couldn't be suppressed, so he hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop it, and he said: "The three of us went to lobby the princes together, we are people in the same boat, and we can only gain something by working together, and we haven't started yet, you have a quarrel internally, how can you cooperate in the future." ”

Wu Jing and Ning Jun saw that Su Qin was also full of anger, so they stopped arguing.

Su Qin had already made up his mind at this time, and he told the two: "Let's go to Zhao Kingdom together, which is a vast world where we have opened up our achievements." ”

Wu Jing and Ning Jun saw that Su Qin was full of confidence, thinking that he must have some special good plan, and they couldn't help but be infected by Su Qin's optimism and became excited.

In fact, although Su Qin's tone was firm and full of confidence, it was for Wu Jing and Ning Jun, who followed him, and he didn't know the bottom in his heart. However, even if there is no bottom, as the backbone of a small group, there is no room for indecision.

Wu Jing, Ning Jun and Su Qin took turns to be coachmen, driving the carriage all the way north, heading straight to the Mengjin ferry of the Yellow River, where they rested for a while, and crossed the Yellow River early the next morning.

Then they went straight to Handan, the capital of Zhao, and finally arrived there on the morning of the third day.

Su Qin's trip this time was very different from the past, he received a generous gift from Xu Gao, and the cost was no longer stretched.

After arriving in Handan, Su Qin found a high-class inn called "Guihong" to settle down, because he wanted to dredge the dignitaries of Zhao State and socialize with dignitaries, so he couldn't look too shabby.

Su Qin bought a few good clothes for himself, Ning Jun, and Wu Jing. People are matched with clothes, horses are matched with saddles, and different outfits immediately show their unusual identity.

Su Qin rested at the Guihong Inn for two days, and he felt that everyone had almost rested, so he called Ning Jun and Wu Jing to his room after dinner.

Su Qin asked the two of them: "To develop in Zhao State, we must first make friends with the dignitaries and dignitaries of Zhao State, so that we can meet Zhao Hou by the way and persuade him to listen to Hezong's proposition." Now you might as well talk about it, how can you make friends with the upper echelons of the Zhao State? ”

Wu Jing scratched his hair and took the lead in saying, "Why don't we wait at the gate of those powerful people's mansions, and when we see them coming out, we will stop the car and recommend ourselves to them, won't we be able to get to know them?" ”

Su Qin smiled and said, "That way, you can get to know them, but people treat us as poor people, how can they value us, let alone introduce us to Zhao Hou." This is inappropriate. ”

Ning Jun secretly laughed in his heart that Wu Jing's method was too rustic, and he seemed very uninformed. He gave Su Qin an idea and said, "We might as well observe those occasions where the magnates of the Zhao State often come and go, and we will also join in them, and slowly become friends." ”

Su Qin nodded, he also felt that Ning Jun's proposal was more reasonable. Su Qin thought of the special situation of Zhao again: in Zhao State, where the song and dance industry was extremely prosperous, many social activities were carried out in the venue of song and dance performances.

After he arrived in Handan, he specially observed that it was quite popular in the city to drink and chat in the song and dance garden, watch singing and dancing, and there was a large-scale song and dance garden next to the Guihong Inn where he lived.

There are singing and dancing performances every afternoon and evening, and there are often quite high-end horse-drawn carriages parked at the entrance of the performance garden.

Su Qin explained his observations to Ning Jun and Wu Jing, and Wu Jing felt that it was too undignified to meet powerful people in the song and dance garden, and it cost a lot of money to go in and out of it every day, which Wu Jing was also very distressed to think about.

Ning Jun didn't think so, he said: "The Taoist ideal of following the customs of the country is that Mr. Bisu knows the Tao, and when we come to the territory of Zhao State, we have to follow the customs of others." ”

Ning Jun was quite open-minded and suggested: "The magnates of Zhao State like to socialize in singing and dancing venues, of course we have to find ways to get involved." It is not advisable for the gentleman to look at the life of Zhao according to the customs of Luoyang. ”

Su Qin originally thought about breaking into the upper class of Zhao State through the place of the song and dance garden, but he was worried that the people around him thought that he was spending his days drinking and idle, but now he found that Ning Jun also had the same ideas as himself, so he was much more down-to-earth.

Ning Jun persuaded Su Qin again: "Mr. Su may also take care of his reputation. With all due respect, Mr. Su has long been famous for his unprofessionalism and amorous feelings, and now you just want to save your reputation, isn't it too late? ”

Ning Jun couldn't care what Su Qin thought, and said bluntly: "In my opinion, no matter how clean Mr. Su is, he can't change other people's preconceived opinions about you." Instead, it's better to let go of your hands and feet, and think that you can do what is reasonable. ”

Su Qin looked at Ning Jun, and for the first time found that Ning Jun knew him very deeply, and Su Qin remembered that he insisted on not having sex with the Oiran girl in Xu Gao's mansion, but Ning Jun was very able to let go that night.

Su Qin thought to himself: "Maybe after that time, Ning Jun has a restrained view of himself, but he only said it today." ”

Su Qin thought about his father, brother and sister-in-law, and friends' judgment of him, and even that Zhou Tianzi had prejudices against himself.

is really as Ning Jun said, even if he wants to be innocent, he is still speechless. Therefore, what you do must no longer be based on whether you can prove yourself innocent, but according to the situation, and follow the trend.

Su Qin figured it out, so he let it go, and he began to plan his next move.

When he got up the next morning, Su Qin came to the front hall of the inn, and he saw the innkeeper Cheng Zhuang shaking his short and fat body, wandering around, and directing the shopkeeper to clean up the room and prepare the guests' breakfast.

Su Qin then asked Cheng Zhuang about the situation in the song and dance garden next door.

After asking, he learned that the song and dance garden was called "Peach Garden", which was opened by the owner of the inn, and it was also very famous in Handan City.

There are more than 50 kabuki performances in the peach garden, which can perform both large-scale music and dance performances and impromptu performances for small-scale banquets.

Guests in and out of it, there must be a special token, divided into wooden tokens, copper tokens and jade tokens, the purchase of a wooden token to hardware, copper tokens ten gold, jade tokens twenty gold.

After Su Qin asked about the usefulness of different tokens, he immediately asked Shopkeeper Cheng to buy three jade tokens for him, and Shopkeeper Cheng readily agreed, because someone bought three jade tokens in a row, and he also had room to fill his own pockets, so why didn't he do it?

Su Qin immediately went to his room and took out sixty gold and gave it to the shopkeeper Cheng, who said repeatedly: "Don't worry, sir, this matter is wrapped up in me, and I will definitely give it to you as soon as possible." ”

Sure enough, at noon that day, the shopkeeper Cheng sent the shopkeeper to send a small bag made of brocade, Su Qin opened the bag and saw that there were three tokens made of green jade, and the tokens were engraved with the words "Peach Garden" in seal script.

Su Qin then called Ning Jun and Wu Jing and distributed the tokens to them. When Wu Jing learned that each token cost twenty gold, he was so shocked that he glared at the boss, and said distressedly: "This money is enough for the three of us to live in Handan City for a year, and it will be used to buy such a thing made of stone." ”

Su Qin said: "You just don't understand the mystery, and you have to be elegant." This small jade token can sit in the best private room, order the best music and dance, if we have a treat, it will not look shabby. ”