Chapter 37: Upward

The bearded girl was masked with white veil, only revealing a pair of deep and smart eyes, a white dress with a green grapevine pattern tightly wrapped around her body, but she did not show half an inch of skin, and she walked closer, she had already noticed that Wang Yu's eyes were not right, and glared at him, looking extremely stubborn.

Kang Quda smiled dryly: "This is my daughter Kang Lisi, who is rude by nature, don't blame the two big officials." He waved his hand to the orchid and said, "If you see the ceremony, go back." Then Kang Lisi retreated like a woman from the Han family.

Seeing Kang Qu Dagan's dress as a wealthy businessman, but letting his daughter show up in his own shop, Wu Yingying couldn't help but be a little surprised. Wang Yu was fascinated by the thin waist of the orchid who Kang Qu Dagan had called to persuade him to drink, which made Wu Yingying frown.

Kang Qu Dagan picked up the glass cup and said with a smile: "General Wu is famous, I salute you, and I wish you to be invincible like Visepaka." ”

Wu Yingying smiled and raised his glass to drink with him, Kang Qu Dagan looked very much like a foreign instructor in the past, and he also drank so much. This instructor once told him that it is easiest for military personnel to cross the boundaries of race and ethnicity, and that no matter what color you are, the blood that comes out is red.

Seeing that Wu Yingying was very happy, Kang Qu Dagan was also very happy, poured himself a full glass of wine and drank it again, put his arm around Wu Yingying's shoulders and said: "I knew at first glance that General Wu was not like ordinary Han people, but regarded us Sogdians as true friends. ”

Wu Yingying smiled: "How can you see it?"

Kang Quda smiled dryly: "Many Han people are polite outside, but when they enter here, they only care about making fun of women, or borrowing money from me. There are some people who call me brother and sister on the surface, but in their hearts they see me as a barbarian, and there is no one like you see us in your heart. As he spoke, he intentionally or unintentionally glanced at Wang Yu, who was holding his hand at the cockie who was accompanying the wine.

Wu Yingying explained: "Maybe these people were not resentful of all kinds of etiquette constraints, but when they arrived at the place of the Hu people, they revealed their true nature, but they did not completely look down on the Hu people. ”

"I've lived in Middle-earth for thirty years, and I'm familiar with the people and customs here, so you don't have to excuse these people. Then he asked, "Where is General Wu's hometown?"

Wu Yingying drank all the wine in the cup and said gloomily: "My home is far away, and I am afraid I will not be able to go back in this life." ”

Kang Quda smiled dryly: "How far, is it farther than the Western Regions, my hometown is in Samarkand, very close to your great poet Cai Bai's hometown Broken Leaf City." While slapping the table, he said: "Looking at the moonlight in front of the bed, it is suspected that it is frost on the ground." Raise your head to look at the mountains and moons, and bow your head to think of your hometown. ”

Although this Kangqu Dagan has a huge family of assets, he may not be able to return to his hometown in his lifetime. Wu Yingying couldn't help but feel a little sympathetic, shared a drink with him, and asked, "What is Sahan like, do you still remember it now?"

"When I was very young, my father took the family out to do business, and I never went back. Just remember that it is one of the most spectacular cities in the world, with all kinds of gold, silver, jewelry, silk and spices piled up in the bazaar, and the surrounding land is fertile, and the peaches grow so well that if you bite into it, you will never forget its taste. As he spoke, he licked his lips, as if he was still savoring the taste in his memory, but his blue-gray eyes were already a little cloudy.

At this moment, in the secret room of the restaurant on the other side next door, a middle-aged monk was staring at a note in his hand and asked, "Is this really what Lord Wang personally handed you over?" A monk sitting opposite hurriedly said, "It's true, Lord Wang pretended to ask me for a debt, and secretly stuffed the note into my hand when he grabbed my sleeve." "This person is the little elder of Qingliang Temple who is talking in the shop.

The middle-aged monk muttered: "This Wu hero imprisoned Lord Wang in the mansion, and we have never had a chance to contact him, and the Wu Mansion soldiers are all dead soldiers, so it is inconvenient to rescue them. Recently, Wu Yingying put all the personal soldiers and servants back home for the New Year, which was supposed to be a great time to rescue Lord Wang, but Lord Wang handed me a note telling me not to do it for the time being, which is really incomprehensible. ”

The little elder said, "Brother Fan, is this Lord Wang stupid by Wu Yingying, why don't we rescue him and send him to Jiangbei as originally planned?"

The middle-aged monk slapped the table, stared at the little elder and said sharply: "Even Lord Wang's warrant dares to question it, Jiang Zheng, you don't want to live anymore." ”

The little elder with the common name Jiang Zheng looked like a high-ranking monk in front of Cai Yu, but at this time he looked quite cowardly, and said in a low voice: "The little brother is short-sighted, and I hope that Brother Fan will forgive his sins." ”

The middle-aged monk waved his hand and said, "Those who don't know are not to blame." Tell you, this Lord Wang is the heart of the King of Jin, and he is still the top boss of our waiting, my brother has handed over the gold and jewelry shells of dignitaries and dignitaries everywhere, and the true scriptures and relics of your filial piety to the old monk of Qingliang Temple have all been handed over to me by the subordinates sent by Lord Wang. However, if you offend Lord Wang, there is only one way to die. ”

Jiang Zheng shrank his neck and said busily: "Brother Xie Ruoshui instructed." Stretched out his chopsticks and took a piece of meat from the table and put it in his mouth, and said vaguely: "This Lord Wang seems to be just an ordinary official eunuch, why does he have great power." ”

The middle-aged monk said: "At the beginning, I took a fancy to your unforgettable talent and led you to this path, but you don't want to make progress, except for the Buddhist scriptures, you don't read the history of the scriptures, do you really want to be a monk for the rest of your life?"

Jiang Zheng said with a smile: "I am also an embroidered pillow, if I talk about real skills, even if I shoot a horse, I can't catch up with Brother Fan." ”

The middle-aged monk seemed to be quite interested in this sycophant, and said: "These secrets are unknown to idlers, and I also deduced them from some clues and some words of others. At that time, Wang Pu assisted Zhou Shizong to dominate the world, vigorously recruited dead soldiers, and sent a wide range of detailed investigations to the princes of the Quartet. Do you think that every move of the princes of the Quartet is under the noses of others, can you not defeat the battle? It is a pity that Zhou Shizong and Wang Pu have great talents, but they are not considered to be God, and they have died violently in a very short period of time, and this country has fallen into the hands of the current saints. ”

He saw that Jiang Zheng was so big that he heard it, and said with a smile: "Don't you see that although Lord Wang is ostensibly under Cao Bin and Pan Mei, he actually holds the power to supervise the army. ”

Jiang Zheng sighed: "It's a pity that we were born in an ordinary family, and we don't have a capable father like Wang Pu." He added: "I don't know what kind of person Wang Pu is, he can actually establish such a detailed organization and play the princes of the world in the palm of his hand." ”

The middle-aged monk said in a deep voice: "I don't know about this, but you have to remember that betraying Lord Wang is the only way to die." ”

Jiang Zheng hurriedly said: "I know, Brother Xie Fan mentioned something." ”

These two people are conspiring with themselves, Wu Yingying and Wang Yu also left Kang Qu Dagan's restaurant, and then Kang Qu Dagan's shop guys often send some good wine and good food to Wu Mansion to eat, Wu Yingying made the yamen sit in the hall during the day, and his subordinate officials made some food and wine in Jinling City to honor him, these things sent by Kang Qu Dagan were cheap to stay in the mansion Wang Yu. However, Wu Yingying assigned two officials to guard Wang Yu, he couldn't step out of the gate of Wu's mansion, this Wang Yu was also at ease, reading and writing every day, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is the New Year. In order to show his submission to the Song Dynasty, Cai Yu had removed the emperor's honorific title and claimed to be the lord of Jiangnan, but after the Song Dynasty's southern expedition, Cai Yu no longer called Kaifeng a vassal.