Eighty-four, the wild boar of the arch cabbage

Before Zhou Quan's words were finished, he suddenly heard a whining horn.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of horses' hooves was as fast as a ten, countless banners flashed out from the side of the mountain, and a team of knights rushed out, like a stormy wave, instantly surpassing Zhou Quan and them.

"It's the Leather Room Army!" Wu Yang recognized the comer at a glance, he clenched his waist knife and blocked Zhou Quan's side.

On the other side, Di Jiang's face turned blue, and he muttered to himself: "It's over, it's over, this time it's over, don't want to get out this time...... Lao Tzu did not die at the hands of the Western Thieves, and now he is going to die at the hands of the Northern Thieves! ”

"We are the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty, what are you afraid of!" Zhou Quan said.

Wuyang and Di Jiang did not have his confidence, after all, the Great Song Dynasty of this era was not enough to act as a solid backing for its envoys.

The rushing leather room army surrounded them in a blink of an eye, and the shouts of the Khitans, the neighing and galloping of the war horses, circled around them again and again.

The purple horse snorted uneasily, and Zhou Quan also frowned: These leather room troops are menacing.

Suddenly, the horn sounded again, and then the leather room army that had been calling for more than one fell silent, the crowd was differentiated, and a Khitan nobleman surrounded by everyone, passed through the crowd, and arrived in front of Zhou Quan.

"Who are you to be rude to my beloved baby Moon!" The Khitan nobleman had a thick beard, and he couldn't tell how old he was, and he spoke.

Zhou Quan couldn't understand the Khitan dialect, but the little girl next to him understood it very well, and smiled: "My father is here!" ”

After she finished speaking, she gently wrestled from Zhou Quan's arms, and then jumped off the horse. Although the purple horse was tall, her movements were extremely flexible, and she only stumbled slightly when she jumped, and then trotted towards the Khitan noble.

As soon as she left Zhou Quan's control, Zhou Quan suddenly felt that there was a murderous aura around her, and there were already countless people bending their bows and arrows, as if they were going to shoot the three of them to death on the spot.

"I am an envoy of the Song Kingdom, waiting for the emperor of your country here, and I have no malicious ...... when I meet this noble girl by accident," Zhou Quan exclaimed.

The little girl ran up to her father and muttered a few words, and his father looked at the little girl and smiled.

"This fox is mine!" The little girl pointed to the red fox and cried, "I will give it to my mother, and make a scarf for her!" ”

She said this in Chinese, and Zhou Quan was shocked when she heard it: This little girl turned out to be the princess of Liao!

So the man in front of her, who she said was her father, could it be said that it was Yelu Yanxi, the emperor of Liao?

"This horse is also mine, I will sacrifice it to my father, and my father can ride it to hunt everywhere!" The little girl pointed to the horse under Zhou Quan's seat again.

Yelu Yanxi laughed, and her eyes were full of joy. In fact, he is rich in a country, and a good horse like the purple horse, even if there are not dozens of them in his stable, there are always a dozen, but the things that his daughter has offered, even if there are more, are precious.

"This person is also mine, I want him to be my guard!" The little girl pointed at Zhou Quan again.

As soon as these words came out, the surroundings suddenly fell silent, and even Yelu Yanxi's laughter stopped abruptly.

Nominally a guard, in fact...... It's horseback riding.

It's just that in the last sentence, the little girl said it in Khitan dialect, and she was a little shy after all, so she didn't dare to say it directly to Zhou Quan.

At this time, the Khitan has been deeply sinicized, like a little girl, it does take a lot of courage to say in public that she wants to be a horse for herself. Even if the little girl was just talking about the guards, the surrounding leather room soldiers, Khitan nobles, and Yelu Yanxi in front of her were all stunned.

Then when Yelu Yanxi looked at Zhou Quan again, Zhou Quan felt a little creepy.

It seems to be an old farmer, looking at the wild boar that has lost his cabbage, and is wondering where to start and make it into a dish.

"He is an envoy of the Song Kingdom, and he deserves my daughter's ...... Bodyguard! Yelu Yanxi said.

"Then let him not be an envoy of the Song State! Father, Father! The little girl began to snort.

At this moment, Yelu Yanxi's bones suddenly became crispy, he coughed twice, and said perfunctorily: "Okay, see your father leave this kid behind for you!" ”

The little girl was still a little shy after all, she rode her jujube red horse and ran, a little farther away, Zhou Quan heard her sing an unknown ballad in Khitan language, desolate and affectionate, although she couldn't understand the lyrics, but it also made Zhou Quan resonate.

After the little girl left, the smile on Yelu Yanxi's face retracted, and he looked at Zhou Quan: "Is there no one in the Southern Dynasty, why did you send a little doll like you to serve as an envoy?" ”

"The northern country is cold and has nothing, and the foreign minister doesn't want to come, but it is said that it was the Great Liao Emperor who appointed the name of the foreign minister, and the foreign minister had to come." Zhou Quan responded.

This made Yelu Yanxi suddenly angry: "I am a great Liao, rich in the four seas, with a wide territory, better than the Song Kingdom, rich in products, unparalleled in the world, you dare to say that I have nothing here?" ”

"Your Majesty said that the minister is a little doll, and the minister regards Da Liao with the heart of a little doll, so naturally he has nothing. Since Your Majesty is rich all over the world, there should be no problem if you want to accommodate the words of a little doll. ”

Yelu Yanxi was stunned for a moment, he had seen many groups of envoys of the Song Kingdom before, all of whom were famous literary scholars, and there were many people who were extremely strong in their tongues, but they were so shameless and shameless, and they were the first in front of them!

In Zhou Quan's words, it is clear that you think I am a little doll, then I am a little doll, the little doll speaks, and the childlike words are unscrupulous, if you care about me, you are worried about a little doll.

If the emperor of the emperor of the emperor of a big empire is worried about a little doll, aren't you ashamed?

"That being the case, you little doll, tell me what you have in the southern country that I don't have!" Yelu Yanxi Road.

"At this time, it is the middle of winter, our big Song Jingshi, there is a thing in the past six months, the appearance is like snow, sweet and honey, and the life is called snow sugar, which is the favorite snack of the little dolls." Zhou Quan immediately lifted the snow candy out.

When Yelu Yanxi heard this, he laughed, and then beckoned.

In the leather room army, a guard suddenly rode away, and after a while, he returned to Yelu Yanxi's side, holding a brocade box in his hand.

The brocade box was opened, revealing the jar inside, which was filled with crystal clear snow sugar.

"Snow sugar, we also have it in Daliao." Yelu Yanxi Road.

Zhou Quan was dumbfounded, he didn't expect that the fame he had only made a few months ago had already spread to the Liao Kingdom.

Originally, I wanted to put it up with snow sugar, but now I can't do it.

"It's the minister's fault...... But Your Majesty, this snow candy should come from my Great Song Dynasty, right? Zhou Quan said.

Yelu Yanxi laughed, and among the nobles of the Liao Kingdom beside him, one of them drove his horse forward slightly: "It is produced in the southern country, so what can it be?" ”

Zhou Quan's eyes rolled slightly, thinking of his mission here.

"This snow candy was made by the foreign minister according to the law of the extreme Western Fan Kingdom!" He said: "Originally, there was no China! ”

As soon as these words came out, the Khitan nobles who were laughing around and despised Zhou Quan suddenly suppressed their smiles.

Although Yelu Yanxi took out snow candy, it seemed very easy, but in fact, limited to production capacity, the amount of snow sugar that was brought to the Song-Liao border by merchants and smuggled to Liao was very small, so far, it is two or three hundred catties at most.

In the land of Zhongjing, the price of snow sugar, almost equal to the same weight of silver, has increased more than 20 times compared with the price in Bianjing. Even so, there is still no market for it, and there is simply nowhere to buy it.

Only when he won Yelu Yanxi's favor would he give some snow candy, and he would only count two each time.

And at this moment, the young envoy from the Song Kingdom in front of him actually said that the snow candy was also made!

As a result, the Zhou Quan that these Khitan nobles saw in their eyes was no longer a living person, but a pile of walking silver.

"It turned out to be you...... I remember, you are the Southern Dynasty boy named Zhou and Zhouquan! Yelu Yanxi said.

"It's the foreign minister!"

"Since you are an envoy of the Song Kingdom, you are not in the Datong Station, why did you come here?" Another Khitan nobleman asked.

"The foreign minister was in Datong Yizhong, and he was friendly with Xiao Chage of your country, and he went out to shoot and hunt, but he was unintentionally separated, and then met Her Royal Highness the Princess." Zhou Quan didn't want to be considered a spy, although he was actually responsible for some spy work.

Hearing Brother Xiao Chage's name, everyone looked at the person who had just asked, and the man's face sank: "Go back and find this kid to settle accounts!" ”

He is Xiao Delidi, the father of Xiao Chage, who served Yelu Yanxi and assisted him in handling government affairs, and was Yelu Yanxi's most trusted favorite.

"What my daughter said, you can't do it...... The horse is gone, but when I see your southern figures, I am very happy and give it to you. Yelu Yanxi confirmed Zhou Quan's identity, and his demeanor slowed down slightly, after all, this doll minister was the one he wanted to see by name.

Although this list to be seen was drawn up by Xiao Zhizhong, it was also after his royal approval, otherwise Xiao Zhizhong would not have such courage.

Moreover, he was also very interested in this young man who stirred up a lot of storms in the Great Song Jingshi.

And Zhao Ji, the emperor of the Song State, really appointed Zhou Quan as an envoy and sent him to the Liao State.

Although Yelu Yanxi is absurd, the basic qualities of an emperor are still there, and he faintly feels that the young man in front of him seems to be an opportunity to leverage the relationship between the Great Song Dynasty and the Great Liao.

"Snow sugar is very popular in Daliao now, Zhou Qing, you said that snow sugar was made by you, I don't know if you can leave the method of making snow sugar in my Daliao, I will not hesitate to reward you!" He said slowly.

"The raw material of snow sugar is produced in the south, and your country does not have it, even if you have a secret method, you can't make it." Zhou Quan flatly refused.

This snow candy is a commodity that will earn a lot of benefits for the Great Song Dynasty, how can he leak it out at will, even if Yelu Yanxi promises a heavy reward!

But after refusing, he changed his tone: "However, the foreign minister has a way to increase the supply of snow sugar in your country." ”

The surrounding Khitan nobles' eyes suddenly became hot, and before Yelu Yanxi could speak, someone had already shouted: "How can I have more snow sugar?" ”

"Not only snow sugar, but also many products of the Great Song Dynasty can be increased, such as books, silk silk, porcelain, lacquerware, tea, incense, and ...... Anything goes! ”

Zhou Quan went north all the way, looking for every opportunity to find out the news and investigate, these days playing with the Khitan nobles, and learned a lot of news from their mouths, so as soon as he opened his mouth, it was the most needed product of the Song State in the Liao State.

It is only said that these Khitan nobles, from Yelu Yanxi to an ordinary leather room sergeant, are all short of breath.