Chapter 111: Sympathy

Huang Chao was about to give the order to stop it, but Zhu Wen hurriedly glanced at him. Huang Chao didn't know what he meant, and asked, "General Zhu, is there any good way to keep Zhi'er?"

Zhu Wen saw that Huang Chao couldn't let go of his daughter in his heart, and thought: Huang Chao feels sorry for his daughter, and it is very likely that Xu Zhi will be reused, which not only ruins his position under one person and above ten thousand people, but also frames Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi several times, how can they let themselves go after they gain power?

"Your Majesty the Yellow King, in your humble opinion, we might as well send someone to secretly follow the princess and the concubine first, come to a salute first and then the soldiers, and persuade the princess to return to the palace with good words, if not, we will try to forcibly invite back the two highnesses!

Huang Chao wanted to come to the last Sino-Japanese martial arts conference in person, but he was bound by the concubines all day, and he left the palace late, and he couldn't catch up to watch the real battle between Xu Zhi and Sugawara Dao, he saw that his daughter and the people had dispersed, and he was also a little tired in his heart, and said impatiently: "This matter will be handed over to the general to deal with! But don't hurt Zhi'er, and bring her back to the widow safe and sound!"

Zhu Wen said with a smile: "My subordinates will obey Your Majesty's instructions, and I will definitely invite the princess and the concubine back safely!" After speaking, he let a few cronies sneak into the crowd, and followed Xu Zhi and the Dongying envoy all the way to the Juxian Tower in the city.

Besides, Xu Zhi and the others returned to Juxian Building, Xu Zhi instructed the shopkeeper to arrange a room for the five Fusang envoys to stay, and then returned to his room.

The idiot complained to Zhou Yuanzhi: "Sister Zhou, you are finally back." As soon as we opened our eyes, we found that we were lying in a strange restaurant, and you didn't know where to go, we didn't know what was going on, and we were still worried about you just now!"

Zhou Yuanzhi smiled: "Thank God! You have finally woken up, and it seems that you can fully recover after a few days of rest." You don't have to worry about your brothers and sisters, we are all safe all the way back to Chang'an from Taiyuan!"

He asked curiously: "Sister, this is already Chang'an? Aren't we looking for strange books in Taiyuan? Why did we return to Chang'an from Taiyuan?"

He Mengjiao looked at herself and Zhou Yuanzhi expectantly when she saw it, so she had to tell Li Cunxiao, Xue Atan, Anger, and Idiot about the ins and outs of the matter.

Li Cunxiao saw Xu Zhi coming over, took the medicine bowl in the man's hand, fed himself the medicine himself, and thanked: "Big brother, two sisters, you have worked very hard in order to cure the poison of the four of Cunxiao in the past few days, and Cunxiao has thanked you!", after speaking, he got up from the bed and knelt down to bow to Xu Zhi.

Xu Zhi held him down and persuaded: "Cun Xiao, everyone is brothers and sisters, it is appropriate to take care of each other, and besides, your body has just healed and you still need to recuperate, so you don't have to make this big gift!"

When Xue Atan heard this, he was also very moved, and exclaimed: "Brother Xu, we keep in mind your great kindness to your brothers!

Xu Zhi asked Li Cunxiao and the four of them to thank the guys in the store, and suddenly heard a knock on the door, he opened the door, and saw that it was Sugawara Michizane, Fujihara Harahiro, Yuanzhen, Yuantong, and Yuanhui 5 people, and hurriedly let the 5 people in.

Sugawara Michizhen saw Li Cunxiao, Xue Atan and others looking at him in surprise, and hurriedly introduced himself to them, and Xu Zhi also introduced Li Cunxiao and others to the five Dongying envoys.

After they had finished saluting each other, they sat down. Xu Zhi called the guy to build a cup of hot tea for each guest, and said with a smile: "Several noble envoys have braved the wind and waves, traveled thousands of miles to visit China, and exchanged friendship and culture, which is really admirable!"

Sugawara Michizane took a sip of tea and sighed: "You heroes don't know, in fact, we didn't get the permission of His Majesty the Emperor during our visit to the Central Plains this time, and we secretly crossed the sea here!"

Zhou Yuanzhi was surprised: "So, the visit of several envoys to China has not been recognized by the official authorities of your country?"

Fujihara Harahiro replied: "That's the case, Miss Zhou! The last time we sent the envoy to the Tang Dynasty was my father Fujiwara Tsuneji, 50 years ago, my father led 500 envoys to turn over and wade through the water, came to Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, and got the highest courtesy from His Majesty Wenzong of your country. After the change of manna, His Majesty Wenzong was controlled by domestic slaves internally, and worried about the feudal town outside, every time he summoned us, he was full of sorrow, and his father and other envoys did not dare to live in Chang'an for a long time, and after a simple exchange with all walks of life in Datang, he asked to return to his homeland!"

Xu Zhi comforted: "At that time, my Datang was also stormy, and I was too busy to take care of myself, where is there still a prosperous weather, Ling Zun must be very disappointed when he went to the Central Plains!"

Fuji Harahiro sighed: "Yes, my father came to the Tang Dynasty with great expectations, but he saw the devastated Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty with scattered culture and art. After my father returned to China, he fell seriously ill, and rarely talked about the unpleasant experience of sending Tang to the Tang Dynasty, until he was dying, he told me about the shortcomings in his heart, hoping that I could go back to the Tang Dynasty in my dream again, and take a look at the prosperous scene of green mountains and green waters, warblers singing and swallow dances, piano, chess, poetry and painting!"

He Mengjiao saw the misery that Fuji Harato said and sighed: "The beautiful Tang Dynasty in the messenger's heart has long ceased to exist, and has long since turned into a dream!"

Yuantong interjected: "Actually, we have also advised Sugawara-sama and Fujiwara-sama, let's not come to China again, so as not to be sad and regretful, in fact, as long as we have that good in our hearts!"

Sugawara Michizane said helplessly: "Actually, His Majesty the Emperor of our country is also very hesitant in his heart, he summoned his subordinates several times, saying that our country has not sent an envoy to Datang for nearly 50 years, do you want to continue to send envoys? I remembered what happened to Fujiwara 50 years ago, and I was also undecided, so I had to return to His Majesty the Emperor, let the five of us go to Datang first, and then decide whether to send an official envoy to China!"

Xue Atan didn't think about it, and shouted: "Five messengers, you have also seen it, now that the Tang Dynasty is dead, the world is torn apart, and Chang'an is also occupied by the Yellow Nest.

Sugawara Michizane smiled bitterly and said: "Contemptible people also understand Xue Yingying's golden and jade words, but this time we came to China, it can't be said that we have no gain!"

Sugawara Michizane saw that Fujihara Harahiro, Yuanzhen, Yuantong, and Yuanhui all looked at him with puzzled eyes and explained: "Although we have seen the decline of the Tang Dynasty and the decline of Chang'an, the culture and skills of the Tang Dynasty have not been buried because of this, because it has been deeply integrated into the daily life of the Chinese people. Therefore, we are vainly trying to take advantage of the defeat of Datang to compete with the broad and profound Datang culture for a while, and now we think about how self-defeating!"

Xu Zhi saw that Sugawara Michizani was really very humble, and replied: "Your country has been persevering for 200 years, and has been sending envoys to learn the culture of our country, and now your clothing, language, culture, etiquette, and martial arts are not inferior to my Chinese in all aspects.

Yuan Zhen said: "Xu Shaoxia, I know that you have been comforting us, and we are also very grateful to you. To say that this chess competition, contemptible is to lose the heart of the mouth, in our country has never been able to win in 33 hands can win, and Gu Zhao's chess is peaceful and steady, but there is a deep killing machine, just say that one hand 'one son to solve the double momentum', one son, can solve the dilemma of multiple ways at the same time, it is really incredible, admirable!"

Yuan Hui also sighed: "You don't know, that "Mt. Fuji Beauty Picture" is a painstaking work that took 10 years to conceive and write. In order to get the inspiration of painting, every April when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, they will go to the foot of Mount Fuji to meditate on painting, and understand the beauty of the natural human heart, until they meet a beautiful girl under the cherry blossoms and think, only then they have the inspiration to paint, this painting is waved and completed in one go, and it has been praised by the emperor of our country as the first picture scroll of Fuso, but I did not expect that it is not as good as an ordinary woman's "Flying Flowers and Moons"!

Zhou Yuanzhi said with a smile: "The master doesn't know, the "Flying Flowers and the Moon" is not from the hands of an ordinary woman, she is the princess Xiuyun of the Tang Dynasty, not only looks like a fairy, but is also outstanding in all aspects of calligraphy, painting, music, rhythm and martial arts, she loves our big brother Xu, so like Master Yuanhui, she has a heart, and she can't help but draw such an earth-shattering, love-hate and hatred peerless picture!", after speaking, he looked at Xu Zhi beside him. Xu Zhi turned his head away embarrassedly.

Yuan Hui muttered: "It turns out that this is the case, I think this Princess Xiuyun has true feelings for Xu Shaoxia, and she has been in love for a long time, only by truly loving each other, can she make the picture affectionate and brilliant!

Xu Zhi saw that Zhou Yuanzhi had been staring at him, so he had to change the topic and said: "Lord Fujiwara, you can use Xun to play different birdsong sounds, it is really a must in the world!"

Fuji Harahiro said with a smile: "Xu Shaoxia, I heard that you are also a person who likes music and rhythm, and imitating bird calls with ventriloquism is just a trivial part of the rhythm, and it is not worthy of your praise." I want to listen to your country's famous "Qin King Breaking Array Music", and see 120 musicians, wearing armor, holding halberds, and swallowing mountains and rivers, but unfortunately there is no such eye, but I listened to a few performances of "Wangjiangnan" This trip to Chang'an, I wish it was enough!"

Xu Zhichang sighed: "Lord Fujiwara doesn't know, now that Chang'an is destroyed, Sheji has been overturned, the court musicians are either exiled or dead, and the palace band has long existed in name only, where can the earth-shattering and majestic music be played in this troubled world!"

Sugawara Michizane persuaded: "Xu Shaoxia is really young and promising, there is no need to be so sad, let's just say that this martial arts competition, I also admire Your Excellency's chic and elegant swordsmanship!

Xu Zhi smiled bitterly: "Don't hide it from your envoy, Xu has done his best to be able to deal with it." If you don't have those pillars in the ring as a foothold, or if you fight for a few more rounds, you will definitely lose. If it's convenient, please ask Sugawara-sama to teach you the mysteries of the Five Elements Escape Technique!"

It turns out that this Five Elements Escape Technique comes from the Spring and Autumn Period of the Central Plains and the Warring States Period, which is a kind of Taoist escape spell, after being passed to Dongying, it is widely used by the warriors of Fusang State, and it has been carried forward, and has become the only way to defeat the enemy, so each Dongying warrior has mastered different shades of escape and escape techniques, for their own safety, never talk about it to the outside world. Sugawara Michizan really saw that Xu Zhi was very sincere, and wanted to tell him several times, but he was struggling with the rules and was inconvenient to say it clearly.

When Li Cunxiao heard that Sugawara Michizan knew the Five Elements Escape Technique, he suddenly remembered Grandpa Wang's deep hatred and unavenged hatred, climbed down from the bed, knelt down in front of Sugawara Michizane, and prayed: "Please also ask Sugawara Lord to help Cunxiao! Cunxiao can only avenge his grandfather if he knows the secret of the Five Elements Retreat Technique! Otherwise, Cunxiao will not be able to kneel for a long time!"

Sugawara Michizane was very surprised to see Li Cunxiao suddenly kneeling down in front of him, he helped Li Cunxiao with both hands, and asked, "Li Shaoxia, what kind of deep hatred do you have?

Li Cunxiao told the story of how Wang Jin's father was in the Luoyang martial arts arena and how he was plotted by the Dongying warriors and died tragically under the Five Elements Escape Technique.

Yuantong said to Sugawara Michizane: "Lord Sugawara, these ronin samurai pretended to be our envoys to the Tang Dynasty, killed people and oversold goods at sea, and colluded with local dark forces, which is really hateful! Haven't you always taught us to learn martial arts to help the world and support justice? These five elements of escape art originally came from China, and now that the art of stealth is in decline in China, why should we stick to the rules, why don't we secretly return it to our Chinese friends and let them punish these treacherous scoundrels, this is not in vain for our trip to China!"

Sugawara Michizane sighed and said, "Okay! Just as Master Yuantong said, this Five Elements Escape Technique originally originated from China, and now the contemptible people will give feedback on the essence of it to all the Chinese friends here!", after speaking, he told Xu Zhi and others the essentials of the Five Elements Escape Technique.

Originally, the Five Elements Escape Technique was mainly divided into five escape methods: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Among them, the Golden Escape Technique: It is to use bright metal to reflect light and hurt the opponent's eyes, so as to escape. Wood Escape: Mainly use climbing and jumping, with the help of some climbing tools to escape. The source of Mu Dun is that when practicing, it is generally practiced on trees, and those who can climb trees can basically sneak into any house and escape invisibly. Water Escape: Cultivating water nature, using a tube to do underwater breathing, crossing the river with special wooden shoes (water spiders), etc. Fire escape: It is the use of fireworks, etc., or some props to set fire, used to escape. Soil escape: It is to dig some tunnels and traps in advance, especially if the ground is soft and easy to implement. Depending on the nature of the soil, people who learn this technique will dig tunnels or burrows in the ground to hide and use them to escape.

Xu Zhi saw that Sugawara Michizane finished talking about the basic essence of the Five Elements Escape Technique, and pulled Li Cunxiao, Xue Atan and others to thank him, Sugawara Daozhen waved his hand and said: "Everyone, remember, I just talked about the basic essence of the Five Elements Escape Technique, in fact, every Dongying ninja has their own unique escape technique and escape tools, and please adapt to the situation and deal with it carefully!"

Xu Zhi and the others nodded one after another and bowed down again to express their gratitude.

Sugawara Michizane smiled: "You heroes don't have to be polite, we can meet in distant Chang'an, which can be regarded as fate in this life." Although today's Chang'an City is full of ruins and depression, this is only temporary, and no matter how withered the flowers and plants are, they will usher in a brilliant spring. Ladies and gentlemen, there is no such thing as an indispersible feast in this world, and tomorrow the five of us will leave Chang'an and return to China, and after we return to China, we will play the role of His Majesty the Emperor tomorrow and send an envoy to China again, hoping to meet you again in the splendid season of green mountains and clear waters and beautiful spring flowers! I also hope that the friendship between the two countries will be passed on from generation to generation and will never stop!"