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Chapter 819: Enemies

"Five million taels of silver are already on their way to Ningjun. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Shangguan Xiu said with a smile.

Song Sheng was shocked when he heard this, and subconsciously looked at Shangguanxiu, but Qiu Yi showed joy and arched his hand and said, "Congratulations to Guogong!"

Only Cai Xiao understood what Shangguan Xiu meant, he smiled leisurely and said: "Five million taels, what a big deal, this time, it made Shangguan spend a lot!"

His words, Xiao Jue and Wu Yufei and others who were standing outside the door of the box, their faces showed anger, Shangguan Xiu was silent, he said with a smile: "Anyang bandits are rampant, this time I suffered a loss, however, Lord Cai seems to have lost a lot, it is said that a branch of Baofeng Qian Zhuang was robbed, and the silver lost was as much as one million taels!"

Cai Xiao was pinching the wine cup in his hand, and with Shangguan Xiu's words, his body shook slightly, and the wine cup pinched on his fingertips fell on the table with a snap, and the wine in it spilled on the table.

Seeing this, the servants on both sides of the "Lord ......" hurriedly stepped forward, and were just about to help him wipe the table, Cai Xiao waved his hand suddenly, and the small table placed in front of him was immediately overturned, and the wine and food on the table were scattered all over the ground.

"I have no appetite!" Cai Xiao stood up, took a handkerchief, and smiled at Shangguan Xiu while wiping his hands: "It's just a semicolon, the Cai family won't take it seriously, but Lord Shangguan has to be careful, although the road from Anyang to Ningjun is not far, but the journey is dangerous, if the five million taels of silver are robbed again, Lord Shangguan will not only have to break the bank, but even lose face!"

"Haha!" Shangguan Xiu looked up and smiled, and said: "Lord Cai doesn't take a small family branch in his eyes, and I won't put a mere five million taels of silver in his eyes, as for the face, I will find it back sooner or later." ”

"Well, it's good! If this silver falls into the hands of ordinary robbers, it is fine, but if it falls into the hands of the rebels, Lord Shangguan may not be able to explain it clearly, and he will not be able to argue. ”

"If the silver of Baofeng Qian Zhuang falls into the hands of the rebels, then how should Lord Cai deal with himself?"

The conversation between the two of them sounded calm on the surface, but in fact, it was turbulent.

Shangguan Xiu knew that it was Song Sheng who colluded with bandits and hijacked the official silver, but Song Sheng was just a knife in someone's hand, and the person who really used the knife was Cai Xiao.

Cai Xiao's heart is also like a mirror, the day before Shangguan Xiu just found the underground vault in the semicolon, only two or three days after the underground vault was robbed, the entire semicolon, except for the shopkeeper Cai, the rest of the people were all killed, and Cai's shopkeeper is still missing, to say that this matter has nothing to do with Shangguan Xiu, and he doesn't believe it, but unfortunately, he doesn't have any evidence in his hand, and the whereabouts of the lost gold, silver and jewelry can't be found.

The two looked at each other for a long time, Cai Xiao took the lead in retracting his gaze, snorted coldly, and said, "This meal is almost finished, the old man should leave." ”

"Master Cai, let's go together!The old man suddenly lost his appetite!" Song Sheng got up and walked out with Cai Xiao. Qiu Yi raised his hand and said, "Lord Cai, Lord Song-"

"What's the matter, Lord Qiu still doesn't want to leave?" Song Sheng glanced back at him.

"This ......" Qiu Yi looked at Cai Xiao and Song Sheng, and then at Shangguan Xiu, looking hesitant. If Xin Jiyao and Jun Qihan were not present, he might have really stayed, but with the two of them here, it would be difficult for him to stay, and in public, he would try to avoid too much contact with the envoys of Ningnan.

Shangguan Xiu smiled at Qiu Yi and said, "Lord Qiu, go get busy, you don't have to call me to wait!"

"Okay, okay, Guogong, let's meet again another day!" After speaking, he bowed to Shangguan Xiu, and after the latter returned the salute, he also walked out of the box quickly.

The box that was still overcrowded just now, in an instant, people were gone, and only Shangguan Xiu, Xin Jiyao, and Jun Qihan were left.

Xin Jiyao looked at Shangguan Xiu with a smile, and said sarcastically: "Lord Shangguan is really powerful in the Wind Country, even powerful ministers like Cai Xiao, Song Sheng, and Qiu Yi all shy away from Lord Shangguan, and they know it, they understand that they are in awe of Lord Shangguan, and if they don't know, they still think that Lord Shangguan is a plague god!"

Shangguan Xiu turned his head to look at Xin Jiyao, who was smiling from ear to ear, and said, "You look like you're very happy." ”

Of course I'm happy to see that you're having a bad time. Xin Jiyao muttered in her heart, but she didn't say that, and said with a smile: "Since they are all gone, it's just right, this box belongs to us!" As she spoke, she shouted outside: "Little Er! Little Er!"

The shopkeeper hurriedly came in from outside and stammered, "Little ...... What do you command?"

He could hear the conversation between Shangguan Xiu and the others just now, and he knew that the silver-haired young man in front of him was Guogong Shangguan Xiu, and his heart instantly rose to his throat, and he kept wondering if he had offended or neglected just now.

"General Ben is here to eat, not to eat people, what are you afraid of? Hurry up and clean up this place!" Xin Jiyao glanced at Shangguan Xiu, who was light and breezy, and muttered again: "If you want to talk about cannibalism, your Royal Highness Guogong is the most experienced." ”

Shangguan Xiu shrugged, and when the shopkeeper cleaned up the table, he casually found a place to sit down. Seeing that he was not sitting in the middle of the main seat, Jun Qihan waved his hand and said, "Lord Shangguan, please take a seat." ”

"No, it's just a light meal, just casual. Shangguan Xiu said: "General Jun, on the battlefield, you and I are enemies, outside the battlefield, since you are willing to visit, you are my guest, there is no need to be restrained." ”

Jun Qihan is also a cheerful person, hearing Shangguan Xiu say this, he laughed twice, no longer polite, and sat down behind the square table on the side.

Xin Jiyao sat at the square table, took off her shoes and socks without any scruples, pulled up her trouser legs, and soaked a pair of white jade feet into the waterway.

She said in surprise and joy, "It turns out that the water is still warm!" she sighed comfortably, put her hands on the back of her head, leaned back, and lay on the ground with a thud.

Looking at her complacent appearance, how could she have the image and reserve of a girl's family, Jun Qihan couldn't help but roll his eyes, and secretly rejoiced in his heart, fortunately, Xin Jiyao pushed the Jun family's proposal, otherwise let herself marry her, and if she would not be bullied to death by her in the future, she would have to be angry to death.

After a short time, several shopkeepers rushed in and placed the wine and food on it one by one. Xiao Jue and Wu Yufei walked in from outside, and the two took out silver needles and inspected them one by one in the wine and food in front of Shangguan Xiu.

Seeing this, Xin Jiyao scoffed and muttered, "The poison that can be detected with a silver needle, will we not be able to eat it?"

Xiao Jue and Wu Yufei glared at her fiercely, ignored it, and continued to test the poison with a silver needle.

In fact, Xin Jiyao is not right, using a silver needle to test poison can only test arsenic.

(At the level of science and technology in ancient times, the extraction of arsenic was not very pure, and it would be mixed with a small amount of sulfur, and sulfur and silver would have a chemical reaction to produce silver sulfide, so when arsenic was detected, the surface of the silver needle would turn black.) But the world's poison is not only arsenic, the rest of the poison, silver needles are all undetectable, in modern times, silver has lost the effect of testing poison, modern technology produced arsenic, there are no impurities in it, and silver does not have chemical reaction. Therefore, in TV and movies, the silver needle test turns black, and what is tested is arsenic, if it is other poisons, it is pure nonsense. After the idlers and others left, Xin Jiyao sat up, picked up his chopsticks, and asked, "Shangguan Xiu, do you know the purpose of our visit to the Wind Country this time?"

"Of course. Compared with Xin Jiyao, who gobbled up and ate, Shangguan Xiu and Jun Qihan looked much more gentle.

"What are you going to do?"

"I would advise Your Majesty not to make an exchange. ”

His answer was completely expected by Xin Jiyao, and the moment he learned that Shangguan Xiu had returned to Beijing, Xin Jiyao knew that there was a chance that this matter would not be possible.

She gulped down her meal, and said indistinctly: "The dishes in this Dingque Building are really good!" She swallowed the food in her mouth, took another sip of wine, and said: "Shangguan Xiu, you have to think clearly, the location of Pingguan is important, but after all, it is far away from the Wind Country, at best, it is only a lonely city, and Utar borders the Wind Country, which is equivalent to a county in the Wind Country, so you don't want to fight for such a good opportunity to expand your territory?"

"There is such a good opportunity to expand the territory, you are willing to give way to my Fengguo, then it is strange!" Shangguan Xiu said disapprovingly.

"In order to recover the homeland, my country can only be wronged a little and suffer some losses. Xin Jiyao shrugged and looked at Shangguan Xiu with bright eyes.

"At the moment when I was about to go down to Pingguan, I didn't plan to return Pingguan again, not to mention that I don't agree with Ningnan exchanging Utar for Pingguan, even if I use the entire Duki to exchange Pingguan, I won't agree. This is my decision, and it will not change. Shangguan Xiu said with a smile.

"You don't die in my heart!" Xin Jiyao glanced at him and continued to eat and drink.

In such an exchange, it is obviously the Wind Country that takes advantage, but Shangguan Xiu is holding on to Pingguan and refuses to let go, there is only one explanation, his goal is still Haotian, and he plans to use Pingguan as a springboard to invade Haotian from the south in the future.

"The royal family is not partial, and the wind and thieves are not separate!" Shangguan Xiu narrowed his eyes, picked up the wine glass, raised it to Xin Jiyao's side, and drank it all.

Xin Jiyao laughed out loud and said, "Lord Shangguan, you are now doing with the 'thief' in your mouth, eating and drinking!"

Shangguan Xiu smiled: "I said it, on the battlefield, we are enemies, but in private, we can also be friends......"

"Even a confidant!" Xin Jiyao answered.

"That's right! The people who know you best are usually your enemies, and we already know each other so well, how can we not be confidants?"

"Haha!" Jun Qihan smiled when he heard this, raised his glass and said, "It's so good! Let's make a toast to this foreign confidant!"

"It's okay to have a drink, today, if you don't get drunk, you won't return!" Shangguan Xiu also laughed heartily, lifted the wine jug, and drank a glass with Xin Jiyao and Jun Qihan.

It is precisely because everyone is an enemy, and the hostility between the two countries has reached the point where it cannot be resolved, sitting with each other and drinking, but they can unload their defenses, have no worries, and say whatever they want.

[This text is provided by Meng Meng Da の Luo]