Chapter 139: The Negotiation Begins
Liu Fan watched the killer's brother's actions speechlessly, and couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart - this guy is too condescending to be a killer, he can actually do some more superficial work, such as cashiering, accounting and other jobs. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Although you don't necessarily earn more than a killer, this kind of profession has a future and a stable income......
The killer brother slowly took the silver ticket into his arms, his hand was dry and strong, and his knuckles pinched the corner of the silver ticket like catching a dancing butterfly and slowly put it into his arms, like in slow motion in a movie.
Liu Fan looked straight at the side, and said hurriedly: "Big brother! Uncle! Why is your virtue worse than Ben Hou? Please, hurry up! After saying that, Ben Hou still has silver here to reward you......"
The killer's brother ignored him, still slowly put away the silver ticket, patted the placket of his shirt, and made sure that the silver ticket was properly placed, and then said, "Someone wants to kill you." β
Liu Fan was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help but shudder, and exclaimed: "Who?" Who is so bold? β
The killer brother said coldly: "Someone paid 10,000 taels of silver to buy your head." β
Liu Fan was taken aback, and the outstanding young man was chased and killed by the ancients. ββWhat a bloody and bad plot, why did you just let yourself run into it?
Wiping the cold sweat that kept coming out of his head, Liu Fan said in a trembling voice: "Do you know who it is?" β
The killer brother shook his head.
Who? Who else could it be? In fact, you don't need to think about it to know the answer. Liu Fan has traveled to the present and really offended the only people who have died, only Liu Yi, and his two sons.
There may be a prince, but the prince's attitude towards him is still unclear, and it stands to reason that he will not do anything. Only Liu Yi is the most suspicious. Now that Liu Yi is powerful in the DPRK, he can't see Liu Fan gaining power. If Liu Fan's negotiation with the grassland people ends perfectly this time, Xiang Jingwu will undoubtedly reward Liu Fan, and Liu Fan will be a nail that can't be pulled out in Liu Yi's eyes. So to get rid of Liu Fan before he was fledgling, this was the best choice for Liu Yi.
Marquis Liu can figure out such a complicated matter, and he really can't help but admire himself a little. Then he suddenly reacted, and now his mood should be scared, and narcissism is indeed a bit out of place at this time. Thinking of this, Liu Fan's expression changed in an instant, and he said to the killer brother with a sad face: "What else do you know?" Tell Ben Hou quickly, it's a critical juncture for Ben Hou, and if you play cool for a while, you will really kill Ben Hou. β
The killer brother shook his head and said, "I found out about it." β
Liu Fan looked around nervously for a while, and whispered: "How do you kill people who are killers?" Is it flying down from the roof? Or did it suddenly come out of the ground? Or is it poisoning the food? Strangled the neck with a rope while someone was asleep? Brother Killer, give me a hint......"
The killer brother said coldly: "There is no fixed method, as long as you can kill people." β
Liu Fan was stunned and said dissatisfied: "You are inevitably too unprincipled, right?" It's like using a knife to change poison, so can it still be done? It's not professional at all! Don't people like you pay attention to "the knife is in the person, and the knife is dead" or something?! β
The killer brother raised his head and looked at Liu Fan strangely, his eyes were clearly like looking at an idiot.
At the moment when his eyebrows were burned, Liu Fan couldn't care about the meaning of the killer brother's eyes, and said with a flattering smile: "Brother killer, congratulations, your business is here." The killer brother looked at him coldly and didn't speak. Liu Fan continued: "From today on, you will be responsible for protecting Ben Hou and never leaving an inch." Whoever wants to kill Ben Hou, you will help Ben Hou kill whomever he wants; Whoever Ben Hou wants to kill, you also have to help Ben Hou kill. What do you think? Did you do it? β
The killer brother stretched out his hand to him: "Give money." β
Liu Fan Khan: "Didn't I just give it to you?!" β
The killer brother said coldly: "That's the money to buy intelligence." β
This guy is much more greedy for money than this marquis, I really don't know why he wants so many silver tickets!
Liu Fan took out a silver ticket from his arms and slapped it in front of the killer's brother: "You have to be loyal to your duties, if Ben Hou suffers a little internal or external injury, you will have to pay Ben Hou's silver, and you will have to pay five... No, 10 times the compensation! β
The killer brother silently put away the silver ticket, and then nodded at Liu Fan.
Liu Fan looked at him, and suddenly sighed and said, "I really don't know if asking you to be a bodyguard is the wisest or least wise choice Benhou has made......
In the first month of the 14th year of the Ming Dynasty, the tripartite talks between the Chu Dynasty and the Khitan and the Turks finally opened in the waiting of everyone with their own ghosts.
The venue for the negotiations was chosen at the Deren Temple outside Luoyang City.
This location was determined by the negotiations of the Chu Dynasty that Liu Fan was strong, and others asked him why he chose this place, and Liu Houye only said one sentence: "This place can be attacked, retreated and defended, and the geographical location is superior." β
Everyone couldn't help but feel strange, Luoyang was the capital of the Chu Dynasty, the foot of the Son of Heaven, and the center of the convergence of various forces of the Chu Dynasty.
But who called Liu Houye the right envoy, whatever he said was what he said.
Early in the morning, Liu Fan came to Deren Temple with a folding fan. After observing the terrain, he nodded in satisfaction. The terrain here is open and endless, and there are a few small saplings planted around it, and there is no way to hide people. If there is a killer who wants to kill him here, the difficulty is not ordinary.
Behind Liu Fan, the killer brother followed him with a cold face.
"Master Hou, is this ...... behind you?" Lu Dingwen looked at the killer brother carefully for a long time and found that he really didn't know him.
"Behind Ben Hou?" Liu Fan glanced behind him blankly, "There is no one behind Ben Hou." β
Lu Dingwen was shocked, and pointed at the killer's brother with trembling fingers: "Who is this...... What? β
Liu Fan pretended to be weird and glanced at Lu Dingwen: "Is Lord Lu overworked?" As a result of hallucinations? In this blue sky and white day, what is behind Ben Hou? β
Lu Dingwen rubbed his eyes vigorously, looking like he was about to faint, and pointed at the killer brother tremblingly: "You, you, you ......"
Seeing that Lu Dingwen didn't breathe and was about to be scared, Liu Fan smiled and said, "Oh, Lord Lu, you don't have a sense of humor, Ben Hou is just joking with you......"
Lu Dingwen was shocked and said: "He ...... Is he a human or a ghost? β
"Nonsense, people! Of course it's people! I don't believe you're touching him, it's still hot. But it's better for you to be careful, he doesn't have a good temper......" Liu Fan squinted and said.
Liu Qiaode walked up and said with a smile: "Okay, Master Hou, let's go in, Shulu and Itamu are waiting in the courtyard." β
The outside of Deren Temple had been surrounded by the cavalry regiment transferred by Chu Yi, and the sergeants stood straight in the sunlight with spears in their hands. Several old monks in the temple have been invited out by Chu Yi and temporarily live in private houses.
Negotiations took place in a meditation room. The Khitan national teacher Shulu and the Turkic envoy Itamu had already arrived with their entourage, and they were sitting cross-legged on the futon, but these two people sat with their backs to each other, ignoring each other, looking unrelated.
Liu Fan looked at the incompatible appearance of the two parties, smiled with satisfaction, and sat cross-legged at the desk.
After Liu Qiaode and Chu Yi waited for Liu Fan to sit down, they also sat down separately. Although they had known each other for a long time, the two sides had once again introduced each other on such formal occasions of negotiation and diplomatic relations.
Shu Lu looked around, and then smiled at Liu Fan: "I didn't expect Lord Hou to be such an elegant person, and he would choose to discuss diplomatic relations in the Buddhist meditation room, and the old man really admired it." β
Liu Fan was stunned, and then nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, let's discuss such an important national event in the Buddha's sound and Sanskrit singing, which is to show my Buddha's compassion and the spirit of universalizing all sentient beings." The Buddha said: 'Put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the ground'. Ben Hou hopes that this negotiation can be carried out smoothly, and in the future, the people of your two countries will no longer suffer from the suffering of that life......
Shu Lu's eyes suddenly brightened when he heard this: "It turns out that Lord Hou believes in Buddhism? β
Liu Fan scratched his head, believe in Buddhism? Don't believe me?! This marquis never worships Buddha, and if he wants to worship, he also worships gold......
"Hehe, the Buddha is a believer, and if you don't believe, you don't. He also said, 'Emptiness is color, and color is emptiness.' 'Too obsessed with believing and not believing, but instead obsessed with the appearance. What do you think? "Since you are sitting in the meditation room, of course you have to learn to play the edge, but fortunately, this kind of tongue twister-like edge has long been said to be rotten in the TV series that Marquis Liu watched before he crossed.
Shu Lu stroked his chest and saluted Liu Fan, and said solemnly: "Lord Hou is young, I didn't expect to have such a realm. The emperor of your country really has the wisdom to know people, and the old man admires it very much. β
Liu Fan smiled like a chrysanthemum, and he was very happy to be praised in person: "Where is it, the national teacher has praised it falsely." How can Ben Hou be as good as you say, at most only half of what you say. The national teacher is so polite......"
Before the negotiations officially began, these two people patted each other on the back about what you said and what I said.
Liu Qiaode and Chu Yi looked at each other and smiled behind Liu Fan - if you talk about the smooth tone and pretense, there is no one in the Chu Dynasty who can stand side by side with Liu Fan! No wonder His Majesty would entrust him with such an important matter, just a few words of greeting, he can be on par with the dignified Khitan great master, oh, no, it seems to be better. Your Majesty is really wise......