"Lord Zheng doesn't have to be polite." Tang Ping asked knowingly: "I don't see Your Majesty today, but are you sick?" ”

"Indeed!" Zheng Luofeng nodded and said: "A few months ago, Your Majesty contracted a strange disease, and invited the famous doctors of the entire Nanzhao, but they were never cured. ”

"That's why I, Nanzhao, was absent from the Tang Dynasty, and I hope that the Duke of Pingguo will explain a thing or two to the Holy Son of Heaven to help me explain a thing or two."

"It's okay!" Tang Ping said with a smile: "Second uncle, he is not such a stingy person, and I didn't come this time to ask for guilt." Instead, he was concerned about Your Majesty's illness, and specially asked me to bring Dr. Li Shen, the first doctor in the Tang Dynasty, to your Majesty. ”

"This ......" Zheng Luofeng hesitated for a moment and did not immediately agree.

"What? Master Zheng, is there anything hidden in this? Tang Ping asked suspiciously: "Along the way, I heard someone say that Your Majesty is pretending to be sick, but I don't believe it, you say, right?" Lord Zheng! ”

"Nature, nature." Zheng Luofeng said: "Your Majesty is indeed seriously ill, but this illness is strange because it usually looks good, but once it has an attack, it may break out and hurt people." ”

"This is Doctor Li, the first doctor in the Tang Dynasty, but if there is an accident in our place because of the illness of His Majesty, then how can we afford it?"

"And ......" Zheng Luofeng hesitated, gritted his teeth and said: "And when Your Majesty was ill, he was indeed out of character, so he didn't want to meet guests." ”

Tang Ping looked at Zheng Luofeng, and only after a while did he smile and said, "Since that's the case, then forget it, or I'll turn around and go back now?" ”

Tang Ping's nonsensical style made Zheng Luofeng stunned for a moment, and then wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead and said: "Ping Guogong has been traveling all the way, why do you want me to wait for a treat." Although my Nanzhao country is small and the people are small, but it is also some special and delicious, and I also invite Pingguo Gong to enter the city to evaluate it, which can be regarded as letting me wait for the friendship of the landlord. ”

"Got good food?" Tang Ping's eyes rolled and said, "Hey, it's a pity that I don't know if the water and soil are a little unaccustomed to this journey, and this stomach is making a lot of trouble." Why don't you let me rest here for two days and invite me to dinner again? ”

"It's nature." Zheng Luofeng said: "Although it is only March and April, but

Nanzhao is already a little hot and miasma, and Ping Guogong has a good rest for two days, and it will be okay if he thinks about it. ”

After speaking, he asked someone to lead Tang Ping and them to the post house that had been prepared a long time ago.

Tang Ping nodded and said, "Although you are not as prosperous as Chang'an, you have a different taste. ”

Xie Pingguo praised him. Zheng Luofeng arched his hand and said: "If Pingguo Gong has any needs, you can order Liu Hong to do it, the old man really still has some political affairs to deal with, and he can't stay here longer, please don't blame Pingguo Gong." ”

"No blame, no blame!" Tang Ping waved his hand: "I happen to be a little sleepy and want to take a break, Master Zheng is busy with your own." ”

Zheng Luofeng confessed and left, Tang Ping asked Li Shan and Gou Shaoqun: "How is it?" See something? ”

Gou Shaoqun thought for a while and said: "This surnamed Zheng is clearly not letting you see the king of Nanzhao, it stands to reason that they did not participate in the Tang Dynasty ceremony, and they should let San'er see the king sick, so as to prove that it is indeed difficult to go due to illness." ”

"But he just found all kinds of reasons to prevaricate, and I think most of the people surnamed Zheng have problems."

Li Shan also nodded and said: "If you only look at the ultimate beneficiary this time, the king's family has a strange disease, and the power of the entire Nanzhao Kingdom has fallen into the hands of Zheng Luofeng, and he is indeed the most suspicious one." ”

"But now Zheng Luofeng has made it clear that he won't let us see their king." Gou Shaoqun said: "Brother Ping, you said that you can't come hard, how do you do this?" ”

Tang Ping thought for a while, looked at Li Shan and said, "I remember, you can use hair to check, right?" ”

Li Shan nodded and said, "It is indeed possible, and it is more accurate than a blood test." ”

Tang Ping walked a few steps back and forth in the room, and shouted outside, "Please come over to Lord Liu Hong." ”

Liu Hong was left in the post house, originally to serve Tang Ping, and when he heard Tang Ping's call, he quickly came over.

"Lord Liu still hasn't remembered where I saw that flower?"

"Nope." Liu Hong shook his head: "If I think about it, I will definitely come to report to Pingguo Gong as soon as possible." ”

Tang Ping looked at him for a while, until he saw that he had a chill down his spine, and then asked, "Lord Liu,

Can I trust you? Which side are you on? ”

"Huh?" Liu Hong was asked by Tang Ping's words in a fog, and he didn't know how to answer.

"Lord Liu is Han, right? Why do you want to be an official in Nanzhao? Tang Ping suddenly asked again.

Liu Hong sighed: "That's right, I was originally from Luoyang, but when I was young, I offended the Qinghe Cui family and broke off my future." At that time, I was a scholar, and I had been reading poetry and books for more than ten years, if I couldn't be an official, would it be difficult to write letters and Spring Festival couplets to people on the street? ”

"It just so happens that there is a classmate in the academy who is the son of a Nanzhao nobleman, and when he returned to China, he invited me to come to Nanzhao together.

"Then Lord Liu didn't think of going back to Datang? You see that now there is a lot of use for Datang scholars, and the major families are not as able to cover the sky with one hand as they did in the past. Tang Ping looked at Liu Hong: "And I and Lord Liu hit it off at first sight, if Lord Liu is willing to return to the Tang Dynasty as an official, just say that it is my friend, I don't think any family will dare to embarrass you." ”

Liu Hong was shocked, just like he said, learn to become a martial artist and sell it to the emperor's family. Didn't he study hard back then just to become an official in the court? It was really helpless to go away to this remote Nanzhao.

Of course, he also wanted to go back, but with his experience as an official in Nanzhao, even if he went back, he might not be able to get any reuse, and it is estimated that it was an idle yamen who became a petty official and died for the rest of his life.

But if it is really as Tang Ping said, with his recommendation, Tang Ping is still willing to take him as a friend, not to mention that he is making steady progress in Chang'an, at least he can get a good position.

And it is impossible for a little person from any family with no name or number to dare to embarrass himself.

Thinking of this, Liu Hong knelt down directly and said: "Liu Hong actually has no status in Nanzhao, otherwise the errand of receiving Pingguo Gong like walking on thin ice would not fall on my head. ”

He figured it out, and began to ask Tang Ping what kind of person he was, and then asked himself if he could trust, there must be something that he needed to do.

There is no free lunch in the world, Tang Ping can let himself return to Chang'an officialdom, so he must do something for him.