Chapter 66: Yan Yun returns to the pot meat
When Cheng Wanli and Ma Zhi were facing the Liao State's ambition to go to Beijing and Linhuang Mansion, Ximen Qing, who was far away in the Central Plains, was also thinking: "Now our envoy group should arrive at the imperial capital of the Liao State, right?" ”
To be honest, this time he went to Liao, Ximenqing really wanted to go back in person, but now he is in a high position, and it is not the time for him to do whatever he wants and be willful. In desperation, Ximen Qing could only select the most suitable envoys to go - "Make it to Wanbang and live up to your orders, this expectation may be too high for Cheng Wanli and Ma Zhi; But if you make it to Liaobang, you should still be able to do it! ”
This mission, with Cheng Wanli as the bright line, Ma Zhi as the dark line, and Yelu Yujian as the volcanic line, each of the three roads performs its own duties, and the things planned are definitely a matter of course.
Ximen Qing had confidence in the people he sent, Cheng Wanli and Ma Zhi also had strong self-confidence, and the two of them walked into the Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing with full fighting spirit.
After entering the city, Yelu Yu said goodbye and hurried into the palace to report the envoy to the Liao Emperor Yelu Yanxi, and the envoy in charge of receiving the Liao State arranged the envoy of the Chinese Federation into the Jinting Pavilion.
Cheng Wanli is a scholar in the end, he was tired of bumps all the way, and after arranging miscellaneous things such as standing guard, he lay back on the bed and did not move at all.
Ma Zhi is different, Ximenqing arranged a new identity for him is just a member of the envoy group of miscellaneous servants, these people usually do some chores, and they don't have to stand guard when they get to the ground, Cheng Wanli each gave them a sum of money, let them go to the streets and alleys of the imperial capital of the Liao State to spend money, and try to make friends with the locals when they are loitering, invite them to drink, give them small gifts, and establish the warmth, hospitality, kindness, and righteousness of the people of the Chinese Federation...... And so on and so forth.
Whether it is now or in the future, this kind of treatment of spending the public's money and squandering their own desires is something that everyone dreams of working hard. Soon, the retinue and miscellaneous servants who received the money got up together laughing in twos and threes, so the copper coins of the Song Dynasty were common in the Liao Kingdom, and they didn't have to worry about spending them.
On weekdays, Ma Zhi has always been low-key when he is mixed in the crowd of the attendants, so when shopping, everyone is not interested in pulling him, an honest elm pimple. Ma Zhi got his place, went out alone, walked along the street, tasted snacks here, asked the price of local products there, bargained for a few words - walked around for about an hour, made sure that no one was following him, Ma Zhi turned his body around and stepped into a wine and food shop in a bad alley.
The shop is out of the woods, so business is deserted, and the customer in the shop is lonely and only Ma Zhi. Xiao Er stepped forward to greet him, invited Ma Zhi to sit down, and reported a bunch of flower names for raw and cooked food, but Ma Zhi waved his hand: "It's okay to be on the side, I heard that you have a signature dish called 'Yanyun Hui Pot Meat' here, bring it to me to taste." ”
Xiao Er perked up, looked around, and then said: "Guest officer, although this 'Yanyun Hui Pot Meat' is available, it is not cheap!" No matter what, you have to always pay a customer! ”
Ma Zhi raised his eyebrows and said, "Is it always a guest of money?" Do you sell it for four money? ”
Xiao Er said with a smile: "Isn't it too expensive to spend money and a guest?" ”
Ma Zhi said: "It's not expensive, it's not expensive!" As long as Yanyun can really return to the pot, it is not expensive to make cattle and horses for you! ”
Xiao Er listened, and saluted Ma Zhi uprightly: "Guest officer, please come with the little one." ”
Ma Zhi followed him through the back kitchen, entered a courtyard, knocked three times on the door panel of a room, and then said, "The owner, there is a guest who wants to buy Yanyun's pot meat." ”
"Squeak" sounded, the door opened, and a big man stepped out, this person was seven feet tall, with a bee waist and grasshopper back, squinting his eyes, and a lazy expression, just casually glanced at Ma Zhi's body, his eyes were shining.
Stretching his waist, the big man said to Xiao Er: "Okay, go and ask Li Sanye to come over, and then go back to busy yours!" Xiao Er took the order and bowed down, and the big man didn't greet anyone, but turned around and went back to the house, as if he regarded Ma Zhi as nothing. Ma Zhi was unceremonious, and tiptoed into the house with the footsteps of the big man.
After entering the house, he casually covered the door, and the big man had already turned over and fell to the ground: "Second brother, didn't you and my brother meet in a dream?" ”
Ma Zhi stretched out his hand and hugged each other: "Good brother, this blue sky and white day, but what you say is all the words in a drunken dream?" ”
Dahan got up and looked Ma Zhi up and down, shook his head, and sighed: "Second brother, since you left the Liao Kingdom with Tong Guan, the great eunuch of the Southern Dynasty, you haven't heard from you for several years, but you have made the brothers miss bitterly. I, Liu Fan, am a rough man, I eat and sleep, but Li Zheng and Li Sange are worried that you are not doing well in the Southern Dynasty, and your hair is a few more gray stems; Boss Rouji is usually in your Ma family, and he gets along best with you, and when you go, he doesn't know how much he has eaten up and down, but he still has no regrets - it's just that the Song Dynasty you went to was destroyed by Liangshan Ximenqing, second brother? Second brother, how are you doing now? Is there anything else to do with the great vows that our brothers made in the past? ”
Ma Zhi listened, as if he was in a different world, when he visited Yanyun Haojie, looking for like-minded people, the sea of people was vast, and he only got four people - Ma Zhi himself counted one, plus Yanzhong Haojie Li Zheng, Liu Fan, and Ma Zhi's brother Ma Rouji, the four of them sprinkled wine and prayed for heaven under the Arctic Temple, united in righteousness, and vowed to work hard to return Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures to their homeland.
Later, Ma Zhi quietly followed Tong Guan to sneak south, and since then he has rebelled into the Song Dynasty, but left three brothers in the Liao State as the internal response, thinking that one day if the army can come to the city of Liao, then the brothers should be united inside and outside, and also set up an immortal miracle.
Sighing, Ma Zhi said: "What happened to my brother, and wait for the third brother Li to come, so as not to say it now, and then it will take more time to speak." ”
The big man Liu Fan is an acute person, listening to Ma Zhi say this, he suffocated him as if there were twenty-five little mice hidden in his chest - a hundred claws scratched his heart for a while, you see that he is not sitting, not standing, grinding back and forth on the ground, and several times he wants to speak and stop. Ma Zhi took out his cup and plate to drink wine, but he was secretly funny in his heart.
Fortunately, after a while, the footsteps outside the door sounded sharply, and as soon as the door panel was pushed, a lean man flashed in. When Liu Fan saw it, it was really like a living dragon, so he stepped forward and said, "Third brother, you're here!" If it's a little later, you won't be able to suffocate your little brother to death! ”
At this time, Ma Zhi had already pushed away the cup and plate, and said to the lean man: "Third brother, don't come to harm?" At a glance, I saw that his hair was more white and less black, and he was a little more shapely and boneless than before, and he couldn't help but feel sad in his heart.
The thin man Li Zheng had already fallen to the ground, and Ma Zhi hurriedly helped him up: "Third brother, this etiquette is unacceptable!" Brother, I am now a member of the Chinese Federation, and our country is not willing to bow down! ”
As soon as he heard this, Li Zheng's eyes suddenly released two fine lights: "Second brother, it turns out that after the death of the Song Dynasty, you became an official under the Western Menqing of Liangshan of the Chinese Federation?" ”
Ma Zhi nodded and said, "Exactly!" But in order to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, he is a house slave with the surname of three, four, five or six, but he can't take care of it! ”
Li Zheng and Liu Fan both said when they heard this: "How can this be true! The second brother is so painstakingly lonely, how can he be a slave with a few surnames? That's so ugly! ”
Ma Zhi smiled bitterly: "Alas! Treacherous and not deceitful, pretty, not hidden. The road that I have come through in the past few years as an elder brother is really not glorious! ”
Li Zheng hurriedly said: "Second brother, speak slowly." Do you want me to go up to Mafu and invite Boss Rouji over, our four brothers will get together, and say as many things as you want at that time! ”
Liu Fan shouted when he heard this: "Kill me hard!" finally waited for Third Brother Li, do you have to wait for Boss Ma again? There are a lot of things going on in the boss's mansion, and when he comes empty, the younger brother has already let his curiosity swell to death for a long time! ”
Ma Zhi smiled and said: "In this case, the eldest brother doesn't have to be busy, so I will tell the two brothers about the deeds after parting!" Otherwise, Liu Laosi was really inflated to death by curiosity, and the eldest brother would have to blame me! ”
The three of them smiled, straightened out the cups and plates, and talked in detail, starting from Ma Zhi's rebellion against Liao and Song Dynasty, and until now, he has been secretly ordered by Ximen Qing to sneak to Linhuang Mansion in Beijing and want to do great things.
Liu Fan jumped up when he heard this, and shouted, "Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! Today is scratching my old Liu's itch! I have heard for a long time that the three strange sons are a good man, and after listening to the words of the second brother today, he is known and true! Since he sent someone to envoy Tu Yan, if he has a useful brother, even if he is instructed, the younger brother will whip up and leave, and he will not hesitate to go to the soup and fire! ”
Li Zheng said: "I have heard the legend of 10,000 people that Ximen Qing, the son of the Three Wonders, is the reincarnation of Tianxing, and he has no last resort. He wants to take Yan Yun, if he expects you to go and spill blood and sell his life, then it will not be far from defeat - second brother, if this Ximen Tianxing wants to take Yan Yun, he must have a clever strategy, yes or no? ”
Ma Zhi nodded again and again: "The third brother can see it!" The head of my family sent an envoy this time, taking the road of attacking the heart and attacking the city, thinking of surrendering the army without a fight and taking back the sixteen states of Yanyun! I don't know the specifics of his plan, I only know what I should do, but I still need the help of my brothers - but so, so, so! ”
Li Zheng listened, clapped his hands and smiled: "This favor, the brothers are the most easy and convenient to help!" ”
Liu Fan was dejected: "It's just like this, but it's not interesting, it's really boring and murderous!" ”
Li Zheng slapped him on the back of the head with hatred, and said, "What's so interesting and uninteresting!" If you can teach Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures to return to their homeland without being disabled or damaging people's lives, it is a great thing with immeasurable merit! If you only think about pushing the edge and the blade, and the blood on the knife edge, it is really just the insight of a brave man, and he is only worthy of fighting on the streets, and he will never be on the stage! ”
Liu Fan touched his head and smiled: "What's wrong with fighting on the streets?" The younger brother has been unifying the brothers on the road of Linhuang Mansion in Beijing all these years, can't he also do things for his brothers? ”
Ma Zhi stood up and said: "Brothers, don't have to argue in words, just do your best to do this errand well, and our four brothers will have a lively meal of Yanyun back to the pot meat!" ”
Li Zheng and Liu Fan's blood boiled, they all got up, and shouted: "Oh! "This is exactly what it is:
Who is the queen of the palace in several ways? I'm the first to take a three-pronged approach. But I don't know what will happen next, and listen to the next breakdown.