Don't look at Emperor Li Jing and King of Qi Li Jingsui both readily agreed to Lin Feng's trip to Chu, but they inevitably had a trace of apprehension in their hearts.

Because Lin Feng had mentioned the matter of plotting Chu hundreds of years ago, after learning of the arrival of the envoy of Chu, both of them subconsciously concealed the matter completely first, and did not openly discuss the matter in the court. If it finally comes to pass, it will be earth-shattering and everyone will be happy; If it doesn't work, there won't be much loss, if it really doesn't work, then put the responsibility on Lin Feng alone.

Lin Feng knew this point even better, and he never proposed to make the matter public. If it is taken to the court, it will definitely be a big debate between benevolence and conquest, and when a result comes out, I am afraid that the cucumber dishes will be cold.

Historically, the reason why the Southern Tang Dynasty did not send troops until a full year later was because of the constant arguments in the court and the unremitting efforts of the ministers to grab credit. In Lin Feng's view, life sometimes requires a desperate gamble in order to achieve great success against the sky.

In this way, a plan to seek a great power was tacitly adopted by the three of them.

Before saying goodbye, Lin Feng made two requests.

One is about westbound. "All the way west, there are a lot of variables. The safety of our 31 people has become the biggest problem, especially the daily drinking water and food after entering Chu, and Weichen wants to solve it by himself. Lin Feng said that he was going to introduce merchants to be responsible for the daily food delivery and security of thirty people at this time.

Li Jing didn't think much about it at all, waved his hand and agreed, but just told Li Jingsui to give Lin Feng some more money.

The second request is about the new village where Yaya and the others live. Although the village has not yet been completely completed, Lin Feng wants to invite Li Jing and Li Jingsui to attend the inauguration ceremony of the new village tomorrow or the day after tomorrow because he has to go out for a long time.

Li Jing groaned for a while, and decided to go over to Houwei in the morning of the day after tomorrow.

Lin Feng bowed in thanks, gave Li Jing a look when he got up, and exited the imperial study.

Lin Feng didn't wait long at the palace gate before Li Jingsui arrived.

Lin Feng invited Li Jingsui aside, told Li Congqian that he was going to participate in the Chu State operation, and asked for his opinion.

Li Jingsui immediately became angry, stretched out his hand and slapped Lin Feng's shoulder, and scolded: "Do you still need to ask?" My royal brother has lost four children, and you still want him to have no more children? "Li Jing's first four sons all died, so Li Hongji, who was originally ranked fifth, was able to ascend to the position of prince.

Lin Feng secretly rolled his eyes in his heart, you don't know how difficult your precious nephew Li Congqian is to clean up now, and said with a wry smile: "This is a housework under Your Majesty, and my minister can't stop His Royal Highness the Nine!" ”

Li Jingsui punched him hatefully again, and burst out with a foul sentence: "Fart's housework, if you can't stop it, don't go west!" After saying that, he turned around and walked over to the location of the imperial study.

Lin Feng laughed secretly in his heart, dressed up, swaggered out of the palace gate, and went straight to Situ Mansion with Zhang Bin and Feng Jingyun.

This time, Lin Feng didn't have the courage to go directly to Emperor Zhou E, but first formally asked to meet the boss of Situ Zhouzong.

The old man did not go to the court today, nor did he go to the Qingsi Palace. Since Situ Zhouzong, Sikong Li Jianxun, and Shangshu's right servant Sun Sheng invited themselves to the Qingsi Hall to participate in the reform, the three of them have actually not been there a few times. Compared with the people in the Qingsi Palace, especially Feng Yansi, these three elders are three "nuclear weapons", mainly playing a threatening and deterrent role. Anyway, now Feng Yansi has become more humble and amiable in the Qingsi Palace, and he is completely harmless to humans and animals.

When Lin Feng saw the boss, his heart was sour again, he hadn't seen him for more than ten days, and the boss's body seemed to be a little worse, his face became haggard, and his whole body was buried in the soft recliner.

Lin Feng rushed over, gently grabbed the old man's hands that were so thin that there were almost bones left, and asked how his body was doing?

The old man stared at Lin Feng deeply, and asked slowly, "Say, do you have any major events to announce?" ”

Lin Feng respectfully knelt on the side of the recliner and said softly: "Someone is coming from the west, and the kid wants to lead thirty tigers to go straight to the wolf's den and seek a country." ”

The old man's eyes widened suddenly, and he grabbed Lin Feng's left hand tightly with both hands, and asked in surprise, "Which knots cooperate with you?" ”

"Lord Liu Renzhen, the envoy of the Wuchang Festival." Lin Feng replied softly, his right hand gently stroking the old man's hand.

The old man's body suddenly softened, his hands loosened, but his strength did not decrease, the green tendons on the back of his hands burst out, and he shook his head and sighed: "Why do you want to take such a big risk?" ”

Lin Feng smiled slightly and said, "When the old man was eighteen years old, he dared to go north to the grassland desert alone, and the kid also wanted to follow suit!" The boy's move is for the Tang Dynasty, but for himself and for Emperor E! ”

The old man slowly closed his eyes, and instead grabbed Lin Feng's hand with one hand, and stopped speaking.

"Don't worry, sir. His Majesty has already promised to 'pacify the territory and the people, reduce rent and tax', although this trip is dangerous, but as long as it is properly handled, it should be fine. Lin Feng explained.

"That's fine. If it weren't for the good impression I left on you before, I would have banished you from my house from now on! Zhou Zong opened his eyes and sighed.

"I have to earn a prince to be worthy of Emperor E!" Lin Feng said softly.

"You know, I don't care about that." Zhou Zong replied.

Lin Feng's body moved back a step, he knocked his head on the ground crisply, raised his head, stared at Zhou Zong, and said very solemnly: "The kid officially pleads with the boss, as long as I return safely, please allow me to propose to Emperor E!" ”

Zhou Zong shook his head lightly and said with a smile: "You stinky boy!" If we don't agree, can you easily enter my mansion and find Emperor E privately? Fortunately, you have finally taken the initiative to say it now, Zhou Ming and they are all ready to fix you! ”

"Xie Lu, Lord Xie Situ!" Lin Feng solemnly kowtowed three times, which can be regarded as a semi-formal recognition of his son-in-law. Then, Lin Feng took another step forward, gently picked up the old man's hands, closed them in his palms, and said sincerely: "Although the stinky boy doesn't have any money, he is definitely not here for money, I just love Emperor E too much!" I swear to the boss that except for the emergency money that the boss promised me before, the stinky boy will never touch the wealth of the Zhou Mansion in his life! ”

Zhou Zong glared at Lin Feng and said angrily: "Do you think that the old man will take those things very seriously after working hard for half his life?" ”

Lin Feng shook his head resolutely: "No! A gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way; What is not your own, you will never mess with it! The stinky boy will never break this vow! ”

Zhou Zong glared at him for a while, then finally withdrew his gaze, pulled out his right hand, pointed to the drawer of an old table next to him and said, "You go and help me get a small jade ornament that looks like a horse." ”

Lin Feng got up as he said and took out a green jade horse with a very rough texture.

Zhou Zong turned over the pony in his hand and looked at it several times before handing it to Lin Feng and said, "More than twenty years ago, I once rescued a young man named Huang Zongwang who was robbed by a horse seller in the Chu State on the northern grassland. This is a token that he has to give me, stating that as long as he gives him this in the future, he will definitely give me all his financial resources in return. Now, he is already one of the richest people in Chu State, you can take this and find him. ”

Lin Feng leaned down and gently pressed against the old man's thin body for a short while, before choking up and saying, "Xie Lu, thank you, old man!" ”

Zhou Zong stroked Lin Feng's head and said softly, "Zhou Ming and the three of them, although they are a little clever, they are definitely not the assets of the Venerable. In the future, you should guide them more and help them. ”

Lin Feng had tears in his eyes and nodded solemnly.

", stinky boy, go see Emperor E. Remember, I'm here waiting for you to come back in triumph and call me instead! Zhou Zong smiled lovingly and gently pushed Lin Feng.

Lin Feng stood up, bowed deeply, retreated out of the study, and gently closed the door of the study.