Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Six: The Purpose of the Mission
After the Mauryan delegation entered the Qilin Palace, Fusu finally had the opportunity to see the true appearance of these Aryans from the distant Peacock Kingdom.
I saw that most of these people standing in the court were thick eyebrows and big eyes, full of beards, and then looking at the age of these people, they were probably between seventeen or eighteen to forty years old. They were dressed in half-long robes made of coarse brown fabric, covered with khaki tunics, and their heads were wrapped in heavy turbans, and half of their hair peeking out from under the turbans was still curly. Seeing the Peacock Dynasty envoys dressed like this made the officials of the Great Qin Cultural Relics standing beside them feel very strange. Most of these officials had gone to Hexi with Fusu to investigate, and they had seen the faces of many foreign merchants in the city of Ganzhou, but they had never seen people with such looks and dresses.
Not to mention the hundred officials, even Fusu, the demon of the two worlds, is also full of doubts, he has seen a lot of movies in the Shenyou Country before the crossing, and he is quite familiar with the appearance of the people of the Shenyou Country, but the appearance of the person in front of him is still quite different from the Ah San he has seen in later generations, first of all, the skin of these people is much fairer than Ah San in later generations, and secondly, the color of their hair is completely different from Ah San, because the hair color of these people is flax yellow.
After the erosion of wind, frost, rain and snow on the long journey, although the skin of these people is still fair, but it still becomes a little rough, what makes Fusu puzzled is that there is one person in this team who is completely different from others, and he can't see the slightest erosion caused by the journey on his face, only to see that his delicate face is still so fair, looking at the age of this person, it is about seventeen or eighteen years old. Fusu looked at this person carefully, and saw that this person had a dignified demeanor, although he was in a foreign court, but there was no trace of timidity on his face.
For this person's performance that is different from others, other people in the court may not be able to see it clearly, but Fusu can see it clearly.
Just when Fusu and the ministers were looking at some people curiously, these people were also constantly looking at Fusu and the ministers in the court, and their eyes did not shy away from cruising on the bodies of Fusu and the ministers, as if they wanted to see through the people in this Qilin Palace, especially the young man with extraordinary bearing and delicate appearance, his eyes stayed on the ministers for a short time, and then shifted to Fusu, and then his gaze never left Fusu's body.
At this moment, Fusu really wanted to give the ancestor of this boy playing with mud in the Northeast an authentic Northeast dialect: "What are you looking at? Although Fusu was puzzled by this person's staring in his heart, he finally suppressed the doubts in his heart and generously accepted the scrutiny of these people.
After a while, seeing that the scrutiny was almost over, the people of these envoys and the Great Qin Qunchen successively put away their scrutinizing gazes and started the most important thing of the trip.
"The Great Qin Prince, we are the Moon Protector Kingdom (the Mauryan Dynasty is the name given by historians to the kingdom established by Chandragupta, and the Peacock Kingdom calls itself the Moon Protector Kingdom. Mission, on the orders of my Moon Protector King Relic Jia, I have come to seek the elixir, and I hope that the prince will give it away! ”
After listening to the explanations of these envoys from the Dayue Clan's guest translation, Fusu roughly understood the meaning of these people, as for the immortal medicine that these envoys sought, Fusu was also puzzled, he was also a knowledgeable person, and he had never heard of Daqin's immortal medicine. Out of curiosity, Fusu did not rush to express his position, but patiently continued to ask.
"I don't know what this elixir you are talking about?"
This time it was the turn of these envoys to be confused, they had obviously heard that there was an immortal medicine that could make people live for five hundred years in the ancient kingdom of Cīna, based on their analysis of what they had seen and heard in Great Qin during this period of time, there was no doubt that this Great Qin must be the ancient kingdom of Cīna, so they did not choose to conceal the purpose of this trip, but said their demands in front of the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty, why did this young prince of the prison state still pretend to be confused with them? .
Seeing that Fusu was still "pretending to be stupid", the people of the Peacock Dynasty mission had to patiently explain the purpose of their trip to Fusu again.
"The prince of Qin, there is a rumor in my country that there is a fairy medicine in your country, which can prolong people's life to five hundred years old if eaten, so my king sent us here to look for medicine, we know that this medicine must be extremely valuable in your country, so we will never rush to ask for it, no matter what the conditions, please ask the prince to put it forward, if we can be the master, we will definitely agree, if we can't be the master, then we will repair the book and send it back to my moon to protect the country Hua's city, and ask my king to decide."
Under the explanations of the translator, Fusu finally understood the purpose of these people coming to Xianyang. In Fusu's cognition, only his father, Qin Shi Huang, had done the stupid thing of seeking immortality, and he didn't think that the king of the Mauryan Dynasty would be any better, and he was also a stupid person like his father.
Fusu shook his head helplessly, and sighed at the brainless behavior of the relics: "Alas, another stupid person who is extremely obsessed with power! ”
"I have a question I would like to ask some of your envoys, I know that from your Moon Protector to my Great Qin, the journey has been thousands of miles, I wonder if you have ever seen people who have lived to be 100 years old along the way?"
When Fusu finished asking, the translator translated the sentence that Fusu asked to the people of these missions.
After listening to the interpreter relay Fusu's question, everyone in the hall began to communicate in a whisper, although Fusu didn't know what they were discussing, but it should be related to Fusu's question.
After a few moments, the voices of deliberation fell silent, and it was clear that they had already negotiated the result.
"Prince Daqin, I have been waiting all the way, and I have never seen anyone who has lived more than 100, let alone a person who has lived more than 100, even a person who is fifty years old has never seen much? (During the Qin Dynasty, the lifespan of the nobles of the world's major empires was relatively high, but the lifespan of ordinary people was less than forty years.) )”
"Presumably, you have been in my Great Qin for a long time, I don't know if you have ever seen a person who has reached the age of five hundred."
The two questions thrown by Fusu one after another completely confused the Mauryan Empire mission, since entering the Qin land, they have also paid special attention to the life span of the Qin people, not to mention the people who live up to five hundred years old, even those who can live fifty or sixty years old are rare. For them, the biggest gain was that they learned that a long-lived person named Peng Zu was indeed born in the land of Qin, and it was rumored that this person lived to be 880 years old.
Although the people of these missions had already figured out that it was only futile to seek immortality under a series of questions from Fusu, deep down in their hearts, they still had the last glimmer of hope for the legendary elixir that could increase their lifespan by five hundred years, after all, Great Qin's national strength was prosperous and the territory was vast, maybe there was really that kind of elixir.