Chapter 102

To utter such a curse on Daqi's territory is incredibly vulgar.

Although Zhou Yushu wanted to overthrow the Great Qi, he was also a Han Chinese and could not tolerate hearing such insults. If he weren't currently using Chu Wenjing's identity and representing the Great Qi government, he would have already gone out and beaten this barbarian dog so badly that his own parents wouldn't recognize him.

Most of the guests at Jiu Tian Yi were sons of powerful and influential families. Among the many spoiled brats, some were quite capable. One of them understood the Rong-Di language and angrily slammed his fist on the table, shouting, "You barbarian brat, how dare you bark so arrogantly in my Great Qi?!"

Once one person knows, others will know, and the news spreads like wildfire. After a brief silence, the entire hall erupted in unprecedented chaos, with countless people smashing their glasses and glaring angrily at the Rongdi people.

Seeing that things were going badly, the shopkeeper cursed the Rongdi dogs a hundred times in his heart and ordered someone to immediately find the young master who had the owner's token to come out and make a decision.

There was nothing he could do; it was clear that neither side was someone a commoner like him could afford to offend. The thugs he hired in the shop were probably useless anyway. He had just glanced at them and they all looked like they wanted to kill the Rongdi people on the spot.

It was during the emperor's birthday celebration that envoys from all over the world came to the capital. If they were to attack and injure or kill foreigners at this time, it would directly escalate to the point of damaging diplomatic relations between the two countries. Would they still be able to maintain their diplomatic relations?

The shopkeeper wanted to stop both sides, but before he could even speak to inform the owner, he had just stepped onto the steps when someone smashed a cup. With a loud crack, the porcelain bowl shattered, and the two sides exchanged a few curses before starting to shove each other.

"Wait, stop, sir!" The shopkeeper hurriedly ordered the tall and burly martial arts practitioners in the shop to pull the people apart. Although the group did rush in, they took sides and secretly stirred up trouble, secretly hitting the Rongdi people several times.

"Stop fighting!" the shopkeeper cried out sharply, looking at the increasingly chaotic scene, his heart screaming: Boss, help!

The shop assistant hurried over and saw from afar that the door to the private room was wide open. Lord Chu leaned against the door, arms crossed, coldly watching the commotion below. The person he was looking for was standing in front of the connecting corridor, looking down expressionlessly. From that angle, he could see the entire hall clearly.

“I originally guessed that the troublemakers were just the Rong and Di envoys, but now it seems that there are more than just those scum.” Chu Wenjing said in a cold tone.

The group of Rongdi people were all burly and fierce-looking, with sharp curved steel swords at their waists. They were very stable and moved with the air of a military unit. However, Chu Wenjing was staring coldly at the richly dressed young man who was being protected in the middle of the group.

"Young master!" The shop assistant, who clearly knew something, stepped forward anxiously and whispered in his ear, "It's Galdan, the young prince of the Rongdi."

The Rongdi delegation this time was led by the son of the Rongdi prime minister Bileg and the Rongdi prince Galdan, and brought a dozen or so fierce warriors from the grasslands to the capital. One of them was even more than nine feet tall, as strong as a tower, and very ferocious.

I have no idea what they want to do by bringing this group of people to Daqi.

Merchants in the capital are well-informed, and since Jiu Tian Yi was originally intended to be a news center by Fu Lu, they naturally had a way to identify the group of people.

As they were talking, the pushing and shoving below escalated into fists and kicks. The fourth prince, who had been held down by his attendant, finally couldn't sit still any longer and jumped out, trying to use his status to quell the situation. However, his voice was drowned out by the clamor of the crowd and no one paid any attention to him.

No, it wasn't that no one noticed. The young Rongdi prince had obviously heard it. He glanced at them sideways with a mocking look. His nonchalant attitude emboldened the Rongdi people. One of them went too far and even drew his scimitar from his waist with a "whoosh".

Nine Plus One employs many retired gangsters as their staff, but just in case, they do not equip them with weapons.

At this moment, the Rongdi prince Galdan also looked up and met Xue Jin'an's eyes. A hint of surprise flashed across his eyes. He had obviously noticed the shopkeeper sending someone up to look for someone earlier, and knew that the person upstairs was probably the owner of Jiu Tian Yi, the famous Ten Perfections Prince.

However, instead of seeing the perfect young master, he actually met a young man.

The young man looked a bit younger than him, and he was quite good-looking. Even from this distance, you could see how delicate and beautiful his eyebrows and eyes were. However, his dark pupils stared straight at people, which was a bit creepy. He was probably angry.

From his angle, he couldn't see Chu Wenjing leaning against the door, so he assumed that only Xue Jin'an was there.

"Not the master, but the young master?" The young prince of Rongdi chuckled softly, his eyes slightly raised in a provocative glance.

"Tsk." Chu Wenjing frowned deeply. Just as he was about to step forward, he heard another sound of a sword being drawn, extremely close, as if it were right next to his ear.

He looked in the direction of the sound and saw the lotus sword in Xue Jin'an's hand unsheathed, its cold light gleaming.

When Xue Jin'an encountered the Third Princess beating up the Ninth Prince last time, he reflected on his failure to carry a weapon, which forced him to use arrows to attack the Third Princess. This time, he specifically brought the Lotus Sword with him, and unexpectedly, it was the right choice, as it was drawn so quickly.

"What are you going to do?" Chu Wenjing's heart skipped a beat. "If you kill the Rongdi people, it will cause a diplomatic incident. You—"

"The territory of the Central Plains will not tolerate the barking and running rampant of foreign dogs." After saying this, Xue Jin'an pointed his long sword at Galdan and, to Galdan's sudden surprise, aimed and hurled it at him.

A cold light ripped through the sky and stabbed straight at Galdan's face. He only had time to barely dodge to the side. The sword blade grazed less than a centimeter from the side of his face, severing a strand of hair and cutting through a layer of skin.

With a "whoosh," the lotus sword nailed into the door panel, embedding itself three-tenths of an inch, the blade still humming.

The entire room fell silent.

Chu Wenjing retreated and concealed himself in the private room.

“Lotus Sword… Seventh Brother!” The Fourth Prince suddenly looked up and saw Xue Jin’an standing there looking down at him, as well as a familiar piece of clothing that flashed by beside him—the hem of his uncle’s clothes.

The Fourth Prince was filled with shock and disbelief.

The stinging pain came belatedly; Galdan touched the wound on his face, and his fingertips were immediately stained with blood.

"Your Highness!" The Rong and Di people rushed over to protect him, drawing their scimitars in a wary manner, finally releasing the fierce and bloodthirsty aura that belonged to the battlefield.

"Shut up, you noisy bastard." Galdan scolded, then looked up at Xue Jin'an, raising his eyebrows slightly and laughing in his barely audible Central Plains Mandarin, "What does this mean, young master? I've heard that the Heavenly Kingdom is a great and prosperous nation, a land of etiquette. I've traveled a long way to pay my respects to the renowned Young Master Shi Quan, but I never expected to receive such treatment."

"This... is this how the Great Qi treats its guests?" Galdan lowered his eyes, and the smile in his eyes vanished, replaced by an icy coldness that revealed a wolf-like ferocity.

"Politeness is for guests, but we only have fists for enemies." Xue Jin'an had no interest in discussing the etiquette of Daqi with him and directly gave him the order to leave. "The rule of 'nine plus one' is posted on the wall. We do not entertain guests who do not have a sense of contract. Get out."

Galdan threatened in a slightly cold voice, "If the young master treats me like this, I will definitely complain to someone."

He would deliberately cause trouble with his men because he knew that during the Emperor's birthday celebrations, no one would want to offend the Emperor. He would only punish a few commoners and smash a newly opened shop. No one would be foolish enough to report this to the Emperor, since even if they did, nothing would happen; the only one who would suffer would be the official who filed the complaint.

The Great Qi is unwilling to go to war with the Rongdi. Otherwise, based on the provocation before the New Year, the Great Qi would not have let go of such a good opportunity to launch an attack.

Galdan thought to himself that these common people of the Great Qi Dynasty probably didn't want to go to the government office either; people from the Central Plains always had some inexplicable sense of shame and self-respect.

For example, when neighboring small countries complain about being poor, they always generously provide them with supplies. However, in reality, those small countries are just taking advantage of them and trying to get something for nothing.

The Prime Minister said this was the arrogance of a great power, as had been the case in every dynasty. They could exploit this arrogance to devise some strategies and snatch food from the mouth of this behemoth. The Rong and Di tribes wanted to invade the Central Plains; brute force would not work.

As Galdan thought this, he saw some retreating expressions on the faces of those around him. He was satisfied and was preparing to use a strategy of giving a stick and then a sweet treat, pretending to be magnanimous and not caring about the matter. However, he did not expect to hear a calm voice from above: "Shut up."

Xue Jin'an really didn't want to analyze this Rongdi prince, but this guy's acting was really bad. He would show whatever he was thinking in his eyes and eyebrows. His acting skills were probably only slightly better than the Ninth Prince's.

Xue Jin'an wasn't very good at understanding human emotions, but he was very good at "watching" plays, after all, his opponents were all of the caliber of the Eldest Princess and the Fifth Prince.

The eldest princess's composure and acting skills are beyond question; she has reached the point where she can make others see and know whatever she wants. The fifth prince, with his extraordinary talent, could reach a whole new level if he could change his usual quiet nature and his tendency to chatter incessantly when digging a hole.

Add to that a bunch of other oddly shaped siblings, and the camera module's ability to capture micro-expressions has been trained to be extremely sophisticated. Someone of Galdan's stature can tell what he's thinking just by looking at him with Xue Jin'an's eyes.

The level of "stomping noobs" was so low that it didn't interest Xue Jin'an at all.

Xue Jin'an didn't bother to answer; he simply picked up a piece of candy from the tray next to him.

Whoosh! No one saw how the candy was shot out, but with an unpredictable angle and speed, it struck Galdan's speech point directly, silencing him abruptly.

"Please get out." Xue Jin'an still managed to be friendly and display some of the manners and etiquette expected of a great nation.