Chapter 45: Secret
Su Qin couldn't help but cheer up and carefully discern the content of their conversation. After all, his Yiqu level of speech is still limited, and he can only hear some general sounds, as if the high-ranking official of Yiqu asked Huo Xuan to step up his march tomorrow and arrive at the camp in the evening.
Su Qin vaguely heard the two talking about the things on the carriage, he recognized the word "person" in the Yiqu language, listened to them use this word repeatedly, thought for a while, and suddenly realized: Could it be that there is someone hiding in the carriage?
Thinking of someone hiding in the carriage, Su Qin couldn't help but be horrified in his heart: the envoys of the righteous canal had unknowingly concealed all the way, didn't they harbor ulterior motives.
He was careful, watching the movement around the felt bag, and at the same time his ear was close to the wall of the felt bag, and continued to listen to them. However, he suddenly saw a figure flash behind him, and the light leaking from the gap in the felt bag was dimmed, and it quickly recovered.
Su Qin thought to himself: "It's not good, someone has discovered his whereabouts." He hurriedly looked around for a while, but there was no movement around him. Su Qin expected that someone was secretly staring at him nearby, and the so-called praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches were behind, and he himself became food in other people's mouths.
Su Qin didn't dare to stay any longer, he was on guard against the secret attacks around and quickly left.
Su Qin ran towards his felt bag, and suddenly looked behind him halfway to see that no one was coming, he was glad that he was not exposed by the Yiqu people on the spot, in that case, he Su Qin would be charged with sabotaging the relationship between the two countries, even if he was not captured, it would be difficult to accommodate himself in the Qin State Mission.
When he crept back, he crept down and lay down in his clothes, but he was still thinking about the mysterious man in the carriage.
The ground of the felt bag was attached to the grass, and the sleeping blanket was still uneven, and Su Qin had a heart again, and he couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning, and he didn't fall asleep until very late.
Sure enough, early the next morning, the Yiqu people came to urge everyone to move, and they kept shouting on the road to speed up the carriage.
Su Qin took a look at it and realized that the conversation he heard last night was true, and he felt a little proud, but he turned worried: if what he heard was correct, then there was really a mysterious person in the carriage, what was the intention of the Yiqu people in doing this?
On the grassland, the speed of the carriage increased, but the road was still potholed. Everyone had a bumpy journey, only some dry food for lunch, and rushed to the camp of the Yiqu people, which was already dusk.
The convoy went around a hill, and Su Qin saw that in the middle of the hill, there was a large basin, and on more than a dozen higher platforms in the basin, groups of felt bags were located.
On a slightly larger terrace near the northwest direction, there was a tall and eye-catching golden tent, surrounded by more than twenty blue yurt houses, and Su Qin guessed: "That must be the royal court of King Yiqurong." ”
What Su Qin expected was right, Huo Xuan led everyone and went straight to the golden tent. Arriving at the square in front of the tent, the convoy stopped. Huo Xuan came to see Wei Wei and asked the Qin delegation to rest in the red yurt for the time being, and after he was ready to pay homage to King Rong and prepare properly, he would pick up the wind and wash the dust for everyone that night.
Wei Weike followed the lord and agreed to come down, so the people of the Qin delegation were arranged to live in the yurt first. After a full hour, Huo Xuan came and said to Wei Wei: "King Yiqu Rong has invited an envoy from Qin. ”
Wei Wei, Su Qin and others hurriedly tidied up their clothes and followed Huo Xuan to see King Rong.
On the way to the royal court, Su Qin and the others saw the Yiqu knights holding torches and scimitars, carrying bags full of bows and arrows, and mighty horses under their crotches, standing on both sides of the road with a strong momentum, there were thousands of people, and the firelight illuminated the platform brightly.
Su Qin and Wei Wei looked at each other and smiled, and understood in their hearts: This is not so much to welcome the Qin State Mission, but to be the dismount of King Rong to the Mission, he wants to make the Qin people frightened with a majestic formation.
Su Qin and the others had already fought with the Yiqu people and had some understanding of their combat methods and abilities, so they didn't take this formation seriously.
The Qin envoy followed Huo Xuan into the royal court, and everyone suddenly felt that the eyes were even brighter, only to see that the royal court was ten zhang wide, surrounded by hundreds of lampstands more than one foot high, and in the middle was a road paved with red felt, and there were soldiers with spears on both sides.
When people come to Yiqu, they often feel that they are in an extremely desolate place, and there should be no gorgeous decorations, but what Su Qin saw with his own eyes was a different scene, and the royal court of King Yiqu Rong was also extremely luxurious.
Wei Wei and the others bowed in front of Yiqu Rong King Yizhi's seat, Su Qin raised his head and glanced at King Rong, and his heart was suddenly shocked: "Isn't this the Yiqu person who yelled at him in Huo Xuan's yurt room last night!" ”
Su Qin originally thought that he was just a big official, but he didn't expect that it was Yizhi, the king of Yiqurong, and what shocked Su Qin even more was that Yi Zhi went to Qin in person, and the people of Qin were all kept in the dark, allowing him to enter and leave the border of Qin without any precautions.
Su Qin looked at Wei Wei and found that he was not surprised, expecting that Wei Wei had not discovered this secret, and he had not had time to remind Wei Wei to pay attention because he was in a hurry.
Su Qin realized that the main reason why the Qin State and Yiqu were always at a disadvantage in the war was that the Yiqu people knew the Qin State very well, and the Qin State knew very little about them, the Qin State knew itself but did not know the other, but Yiqu knew itself and knew the other, so the Qin State was almost defeated in every battle.
After Wei Wei and the others saluted, they were arranged to sit down on the right side, and they were still accustomed to etiquette, sitting upright. The ministers of Yiqu sat on the left side, and they were much freer, some sitting cross-legged, some with their legs spread out. Wei Wei sat on the top, and Dong Ji approached him so that he could translate his words.
Huo Xuan was opposite Wei Wei, and he also learned the sitting method of Yiqu people, sitting cross-legged. Seeing him like this, Wei Wei secretly scolded him in his heart for forgetting his ancestors, but then thought about it: "In such a troubled world, everyone wants to do everything they can to seek fame and wealth, and it is understandable for Huo Xuan to take refuge in Yiqu." ”
Wei Wei looked at Huo Xuan's head again, but if he didn't look at it, he was angry.
Huo Xuan's leader, who was sitting at the post station to attack the leader of the Hu people of the Qin State Mission, Wei Wei looked at it carefully and made sure that it was this person.
He immediately asked Dong Ji to translate and protest to King Rong, exposing Yiqu who was obviously friendly, but in fact secretly saw each other.
When King Rong heard this, he laughed. After a long series of words, he asked Huo Xuan to translate it to Wei Wei.
King Rong said to the effect that his son went to Qin to meet the envoy, but was blocked by the soldiers on the border of Qin, so he attacked the Qin post station in a fit of rage, and they did not know that the Lu Dao mission was in the post station at that time.
Only then did Su Qin know that the person who led the team to attack the border post station that day was actually Prince Maodun of Yiqu, and this young man was really bold enough. But at that time, there was still his father Rong Wang Yizhi in the post station, was he not afraid of killing his father by mistake? Su Qin was a little puzzled.