"Ling Aiqing, don't worry. I heard what General He said, you are ready to ask Ji Aiqing's daughter for marriage, and now in front of Ji Aiqing, I will call the shots for you, and I will propose to Ji Aiqing for marriage, so that you don't have to spend time to ask for marriage. The emperor did not allow Ling Rongjin to refuse, and resorted to a way to ask for marriage instead of Ling Rongjin.

In the face of the emperor's substitution for marriage, Ji Juyi did not directly replace his daughter and should accept it: "Qi played the emperor, the minister thought that the emperor could stay for more time with the envoys of the crow country, so that the personnel of the Qing Dynasty envoy could be fully prepared, and then go on the road with the envoy of the crow country and calmly send the envoy to the crow country." ”

"Played by Zhun Qing. The emperor thought for a while, agreed to Ji Juyi's suggestion, and he turned to the two envoys of the crow kingdom and said: "Envoys of the crow country, I will leave you to be guests in my Qing Dynasty for as long as possible, so that the envoys who let us return to visit do their important things, and then follow you, and come to you to participate in the ceremony without worry, what do you think?"

Among the foreigners who visited, the woman immediately spoke to the man, and the man also talked to her in the foreign language. The ministers in the palace couldn't help but whisper, and each showed a blank face.

Seeing this, the emperor explained to the ministers: "All the Shouqing, no wonder you are confused. This time, the envoys of the Crow Kingdom came yesterday, and when they came to ask for a meeting, they had already withdrawn from the court, and I received them in the imperial study, so you don't know where they came from. The male one was the head of the mission, Tommy Baker, and the female one was their interpreter, Vera Eaton, and they were going to have a crow games there, and there would be an opening and closing ceremony, and there would be various theatrical performances, and they invited me to send someone to watch the ceremony. ”

"Thank you, Holy One, for clearing up your doubts. There was a voice from the main hall from the ministers thanking the emperor.

At this time, the female translator said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the head of our envoy has thought about it, according to the opening time of the Raven Games. Except for the time it takes for us to return, we should be on the road within half a month before we can return to the Raven Country before the opening of the Raven Games, and we can only be guests in Daqing for another half a month at most. ”

The emperor thought that time was enough, so he nodded to the female translator: "Then you can stay and be a guest for another half a month." ”

When the female translator translated the emperor's meaning to the head of the envoy, the emperor said to Ling Rongjin: "Ling Aiqing, you will do a good job of courting relatives within half a month." ”

Ling Rongjin said to the emperor gratefully: "Thank you to the emperor for your success, Weichen has already agreed with Master Ji." After waiting for the early dynasty, he went to Jifu to ask for relatives. ”

The emperor then spoke: "General He, have you done anything about asking you to find an accompanying interpreter?"

He Lushi came out of the class and said: "If you go back to the emperor, the translator has been found, it is this foreigner, and he is also from the country of crows." The two of us brothers had already taken him to Prince Jin's mansion last night to discuss with Prince Jin various matters concerning the envoys of the Raven Kingdom in the past. ”

Helüsch beckoned to Bruce Dodge. The foreigner walked up to He Lushi and said to the emperor respectfully: "I am willing to serve the emperor!"

The emperor immediately made sure and said, "Okay! We will have Prince Jin as the head of the envoy corps, Ling Aiqing as the deputy head of the delegation, and Bruce Dodge as the interpreter." Then they will select some entourage by themselves, and after half a month, they will go on the road and solemnly send an envoy to the country of crows!"

"The emperor is wise! Long live my emperor, long live!" Above the court, a voice of praise immediately sounded.

The emperor said to the envoy of the crow country: "The crow country is coming." Why is your Crow Games called the Crow Games? In addition to the opening and closing ceremonies, what else do you need to do?"

The female interpreter and the head of the delegation had a brief conversation. replied to the emperor: "Back to the emperor, now our head of the regiment asked me to answer the emperor's words directly, without talking to him in advance, so as not to delay the time to answer." That's right, the sports meeting held by our crow country is a grand event of sports competitions, so it is called the crow games. In addition to the opening and closing ceremonies to hold cultural and artistic activities, the main thing is to carry out sports competitions, including high jump, long jump, boxing, sprinting, marathon and so on. ”

The emperor smiled knowingly: "There is also a marathon? Because I am really in a hurry, I can't come to your crow country to experience this grand event in person. In my opinion, aren't there still dozens of people in your envoy group who have not entered the palace this time? Now I have a small request, please come to the Huangka Inn where you are staying, and ask your people to come and give me a marathon performance, how about it?"

The female translator replied happily: "It's okay to perform a marathon for the emperor, but you have to choose a spacious venue to carry it out, we have a total of fifty-five people, and we will perform for you together, and the scene is very spectacular!"

The emperor was overjoyed, and immediately announced: "Then let's go to the suburbs to watch the marathon! Ling Aiqing, Ji Aiqing, if you want to handle the matter of courting relatives, don't go, and you don't need to go to the yamen, just go to the courtesy! Civil and military officials, go to the suburbs with me, and watch the foreign envoys show us the marathon!"

In the suburbs, the emperor and hundreds of civil and military officials sat at a large row of tables covered with red cloth, waiting for the envoys of the Raven Kingdom to come from the Huangka Inn to perform, and a large number of officers and soldiers were arranged on both sides.

In front of the row of tables was a spacious lawn, and behind them, there was a large lush forest with various trees growing in it.

A bell rang, and a large group of men and horses came running, and that was the messengers of the Raven Kingdom, and they were riding horses, each with a bell tied to their necks.

The centaurs ran straight into the woods, drew their swords, and cut down the trees inside!

The emperor shouted to He Lushi in surprise: "General He, go and see why they are going in to cut down trees!"

"Whew!" said Helios, pulling Bruce Dodge as an interpreter.

After a while, He Lushi called the head of the envoy and the female interpreter over, and the female interpreter explained to the emperor: "Your Majesty, we cut down those trees, they are all pine trees, and they are to be tied behind the horses with ropes, and they are used to run and race, and that is the marathon tree race-marathon!"

"So that's what happened. The emperor breathed a sigh of relief, and he asked the female interpreter: "You and the head of the envoys, don't participate in the marathon, just sit beside me and explain to me about your crow country! ”

"Yes, I am willing to serve the emperor!" the female translator readily agreed.

The emperor asked the ministers next to him to move to both sides, and asked the head of the envoy of the Crow Kingdom and the female interpreter to sit on both sides of him.

The remaining fifty-three members of the legation tied the cut pine trees to the back of their respective horses with ropes, and at the command of the regiment commander, they lined up in a row, and at the same time they ran out on horses pulling a pine tree.

The female translator explained to the emperor: "The current rule is that they ride in a big circle in front of us, and whoever can't run on his horse will lose, and whoever persists to the end will be considered victorious." ”

The emperor looked at the competition team that dragged up a large cloud of dust and said: "This kind of competition can be used in actual combat, so that when the enemy sees the dust in the sky and the sound of horses' hooves and shouts, he will think that a large number of men and horses are coming from afar, and he will immediately frighten the enemy!"

The female translator happily replied: "It has this effect, thank you for the emperor's affirmation and appreciation of our competition!"

The emperor asked the female translator strangely: "I still have a little doubt, how did you come here when you are so far away from the country of crows? Why is it called the country of crows? You see that we are called 'Daqing', how nice it sounds!"

"We came from the sea in a big ship, and the big ship had many horses with it, and when we came to your land, we anchored the big ship on the seashore, and we rode these horses. You call yourself 'the Great Qing Dynasty', but we call your country 'porcelain' because the porcelain you produce is very famous. We are called the country of opium because we are famous for the opium we produce. The female translator took the trouble to explain to the emperor.

The emperor said to the female translator seriously: "So that's the case, people who don't know will think that you are the descendants of crows or jackdaw monsters." You call us 'porcelain', we can't be presumptuous, we also have a name in the Qing Dynasty, called China, that is, the country in the middle, the center of the world. I have heard that outsiders still call our continent Asia, and we ourselves call ourselves 'Guanzhou', which is the self-confidence and willfulness of my great power!" (To be continued......