Chapter Fifty-Nine: Checkmate
From anyone's point of view, the old man Zhou Yanxi at this moment already looks terminally ill - his body is weak, his gait is faltering, and there is a flush on his pale face.
At this moment, when he heard that the person in front of him was actually the eldest marquis......s daughter, he was stunned for a moment, choked up slightly, and trembled under the support of his son.
However, Cheng Yunsu, who was dressed as a men's guard at the moment, was not moved at all.
After Zhou Yanxi saluted, she smiled and said, "Old General Zhou, my father wants to kill me, what can I do?"
Zhou Yanxi's body trembled.
Zhou Chengjie, the eldest son who was supporting him beside him, couldn't help but twitch on his face.
Zhou Yanxi looked drooping and decrepit, and said, "Uh...... Well, the old minister is old, and he is sick, this ear is not good, just now, what did the eldest marquis say? Someone wants to kill you? Who dares to kill you!"
Cheng Yunsu was about to speak, but Hou Xiang Wang Chengzhang suddenly said: "Cheng Jie, help your father sit down first!"
Zhou Chengjie agreed, and hurriedly hugged the old man over and sat down.
No one expected in advance that Cheng Yunsu, the eldest marquis who should have been blocked outside by Pan Zhenhua, the head of the Xianyang Marquis Mansion, and might have even been arrested, had already appeared in Xianyang City, and was actually taken to his home by the Hou Prime Minister Wang Chengzhang in the appearance of a guard!
Moreover, as soon as the eldest marquis girl spoke, Zhou Chengjie was frightened.
He really didn't want to hear a word.
When the old father sat down, he lowered his head and shrunk his head, and wanted to go out. But at this time, Cheng Yunsu suddenly said: "My father has loved me since I was a child, I think, he will definitely not send someone to kill me, then the problem comes, if I guess correctly, now the head of our family, Pan Zhenhua, should still be outside the city, waiting for me to throw myself into the net! Who gave him the courage to attack this marquis?"
Zhou Chengjie glanced at it, and saw that the eyes of the eldest marquis were extremely sharp, and she was looking at her father with blazing eyes at the moment - just one glance, he quickly lowered his head.
Zhou Yanxi coughed continuously, and finally the coughing stopped, he snorted and gasped, and said: "Alas, the old minister is really old, sick, and really rude, this, this...... Uh, Cheng Jie, how dare you tell the eldest marquis to still stand? Hurry up and ask the eldest marquis to sit down, life, life...... Commanding ...... cough, cough...... Belch...... Cough...... On and on the tea ......"
Cheng Yunsu suddenly said: "Does General Zhou know that in order to hunt me down, in order to prevent me from returning to Xianyang City alive, they actually connived at the people of the Guo family to run to Heyang County and blocked the entire Dayan Mountain to round me up! That was the ground of Heyang County, that was the place under my father's rule, and they actually connived at the people of the Guo family to run over, hundreds of people, unscrupulous. It doesn't matter if I die, it's just that I dare to ask General Zhou, if such a person is allowed to take over the two counties of Xianyang and Heyang, how many years can you keep it if you older generation follow my grandfather and my father to fight for many years to get those lands? How should you deal with my mother's entrustment to you?"
Zhou Chengjie looked at her in surprise.
The surprise in his heart had made him forget his identity.
Since the Marquis of Xianyang was seriously injured and the eldest marquis came back from other places and began to take charge of the family affairs in the Hou Mansion, her shrewd and resolute, keen and eloquent style has spread everywhere with the things she has done, inside and outside Xianyang City, and even within the two counties, so that people like Zhou Chengjie who have never dealt with her also know that this Changhou girl is a shrewd and capable person who is not easy to mess with.
It's just that everyone said it a thousand times, and it wasn't as good as meeting it in person!
The words of the eldest marquis are so sharp that they are simply sharp!
At this time, Zhou Yanxi stopped talking, and Hou Xiang Wang Chengzhang couldn't help but sigh suddenly.
Then, he said, "Old Zhou, what do you think?"
Just over an hour ago, the eldest marquis suddenly came to the door, and said about the same thing directly to make him speechless, and remembered her mother's kindness back then, so regardless of the age of seventy, she resolutely went out and personally took her to this Zhou Mansion to meet this old man who was even not inferior to the two generations of Xianyang Marquis before and after!
Zhou Yanxi's lips moved a few times, and he opened his mouth to speak.
A room full of people stared at him intently.
He suddenly looked up at his son and said, "Chengjie, why haven't you served tea yet!"
Zhou Chengjie was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly agreed, ran to the door in person, and called the subordinate who had been far away just now to drink the tea.
A flash of disappointment flashed in Cheng Yunsu's eyes, and Wang Chengzhang frowned a little dissatisfied.
The room fell silent.
After a while, the next person brought the tea tray, and Zhou Chengjie personally picked it up at the door, waved his hand, and ordered them to retreat farther away, and then brought the tea in.
Both guests sat down and took the tea bowls.
But at this time, they obviously didn't have the heart to think about the taste of the tea soup, so they just barely touched their lips and put it down, but Zhou Yanxi trembled and picked up the tea bowl, took a sip, but squirted out.
Everyone was taken aback.
The old man panted and angrily rebuked: "Stupid! I can't even make a bowl of tea! I still expect you to provide for me? You are just squatting at home and eating Lao Tzu's share all your life! Stupid! Stupid!"
Cheng Yunsu's eyes moved slightly.
Wang Chengzhang suddenly said: "I'm old, I'm going to be here, I should go back to the old mountains and forests with you! When the time comes, I must come over and listen to those obscene songs you wrote yourself! Haha! By the way, Lao Zhou, you are very fond of Xianyang Taishou Cheng Maowei now, and you think that he is old and has the demeanor of a general, and I am ready to recommend him to succeed me as the Marquis of Xianyang, what do you think?"
When Zhou Yanxi heard this, he immediately knew the elegance, and nodded slowly at the moment, although he still looked old, but the shrewdness in his eyes unconsciously revealed something.
"This person is very good! He is also a cousin of Hou Ye, and he has a peaceful personality, proper!
Wang Chengzhang laughed slightly when he heard this, and said: "You think it's best to be appropriate, over the years, if you look at people's eyes, except for the two generations of Hou Ye, I am the most convinced of you!"
After a pause, he said: "If Maowei succeeds me as the prime minister, I plan to let Cheng Huang come and serve as Xianyang County, for the Hou Ye and the eldest marquis, and guard this ancestral land, what do you think?"
Zhou Chengjie was dumbfounded.
When Zhou Yanxi heard this, his fat face trembled slightly, and he looked dazzled and smiling, people who didn't know him, just looking at this respectful face, would even feel that he was a little naïve.
"No! No! Don't!" He waved his hand again and again, then pointed to Zhou Chengjie beside him, and said: "This son is only a talent of a hundred miles, how can he cure a thousand miles! No, never!"
But when he said this, he suddenly turned his head to look at Cheng Yunsu and asked, "Dare to ask the eldest marquis, how is the relationship with Brother Ling?"
At this moment, his gaze suddenly sharpened.
It's like a falcon staring at its prey.
Of course, this sharp gaze was only fleeting, and then he lowered his head and returned to the decadent appearance of the old dragon clock.
Cheng Yunsu thought for a moment when he heard this, and said, "I will kill him to prevent future troubles!"
Wang Chengzhang turned his head to look at him in a little surprise.
Zhou Chengjie was so shocked that he opened his mouth slightly.
But at this time, Zhou Yanxi suddenly took the case.
"Good!"
This "good" word is full of anger and murderous spirit!
The generation of famous generals of the year, and today's obese old man, suddenly straightened his waist.
"In this case, what does it matter if the old minister's life is sold to the eldest marquis!"