Chapter 84: Right in Front of You
It was getting dark, but Yan Xuanyu and the old man on the other side were still on their way.
"Did you build this official road?" the old man asked as he walked.
Yan Xuanyu shook his head, and the old man looked at him in confusion.
Yan Xuanyu explained: "I'm just the one who came up with the idea."
"Oh." The old man responded indifferently.
"If you find the person you are looking for, what promise would you make to ask him to come out of seclusion?" The old man did not continue this topic, but suddenly asked another question.
"Promise what?" Yan Xuanyu hadn't really thought about this question. He touched his chin, "Ten thousand taels of gold? Official position? Power? As long as it's within a reasonable range and he's willing to improve the weapons of the Great Zhou, I'll agree to it."
"He is also a native of the Great Zhou. There is no need for so many rules. Just take him away." The old man suggested.
Yan Xuanyu laughed dryly: "...That can't be the case."
Old man, this idea of yours is very dangerous!
He remembered that the information Yuan Kang had given him said that Wu Shuang was not an easy person to deal with. If he rashly kidnapped him... the scene would be too beautiful for him to even think about!
It is said that geniuses all have tempers. Yan Xuanyu thinks that this is nothing. As long as Wu Shuang is willing to go with him, let alone gold, silver, treasures, power and status, he can kowtow to both of them... Well, it should be no problem.
After hearing Yan Xuanyu's thoughts, the old man looked at Yan Xuanyu with the same familiar look as if he was looking at a fool: "Young man, what are you thinking about every day..."
As he was speaking, there was a noise coming from the front, and there was a faint light. Yan Xuanyu pricked his ears and listened. There were voices and the sound of horse hooves. It must be someone who came to look for him!
But still need to be careful, Yan Xuanyu put the old man behind him and whispered: "Old man, I don't know who they are, I will go over and take a look first, you wait here."
Old man: ...
After he finished speaking, Yan Xuanyu belatedly remembered the old man's biceps that had been accidentally exposed when he was picking grass leaves that morning. He coughed lightly twice and said, "I'll go take a look."
Yan Xuanyu used the bushes as cover and moved forward carefully. He was afraid that the other party would notice him so he didn't get too close and just watched the group from a distance.
They were not men in black, that group of people were all wearing official uniforms!
Yan Xuanyu was delighted and ran forward quickly without caring about his image or dignity.
"I'm here!"
...
"Haven't you found it yet?" Su An asked.
The others shook their heads. They had searched from last night to tonight but still found no trace.
According to Su Yi and the others, they searched around the place where they encountered the assassin. There were no traces of anyone on the east, south, and west sides. Only on the north side was there a mess of half-human-high grass and a large number of shallow footprints. It was obvious that someone with considerable martial arts skills had passed by. And following this path forward -
"How is it? What did you find?" Su An placed his hopes on the team searching to the north.
Su Yi suddenly knelt down.
"My Lord, to the north... there is only a cliff, bottomless."
As Su Yi finished speaking, the surroundings fell into dead silence.
It was precisely because of the extreme silence at this moment that the voice was particularly clear.
"I'm here!"
Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw a dark shadow running towards them.
The voice was too familiar, and a guess emerged in Su An's mind, but he was afraid that it was just his imagination.
"His Majesty?!"
When the man's figure appeared, Su An lost his voice.
Yan Xuanyu, who now appeared in front of him, was wearing a slightly short and ill-fitting outfit, a pair of straw sandals on his feet, and his hair was disheveled, looking like a savage.
Su An almost collapsed. "Your Majesty? Is this their Majesty?!"
The first thing Yan Xuanyu discovered was that Su Yi was kneeling on the ground again.
He had a deep impression of Su Yi. He remembered that when Su Yi first came to work for Su An, he could not speak clearly and was very confused in doing things. Later, he gradually got better.
He frowned, "Why are you kneeling?"
Su An's heart was filled with all kinds of complicated emotions, and he didn't know whether to laugh or cry. It was not until he felt a hint of coolness on his face that he realized that he was so excited that he was crying.
"His Majesty!"
Yan Xuanyu also remembered the unreasonable orders he issued when he was attacked that day, and quickly explained for Su Yi: "I ordered them to go back, they were just following orders."
"Don't worry, everything is under my control." Yan Xuanyu tried his best to act like a master.
But this is doomed to fail - after all, he looks a little too embarrassed now!
"Your Majesty, what exactly happened that day?"
At this time, the old man also came slowly with a straw basket on his back. Su An noticed him, and Yan Xuanyu said, "This is the old man who saved me."
"That day I was attacked and fell into the river. Fortunately, an old man rescued me. I was unconscious for a day before I woke up."
Su An was not stupid. They had searched all around the place where they were attacked. He really couldn't figure out what had happened to Yan Xuanyu as he said he had fallen into the river, but he trusted Yan Xuanyu wholeheartedly, so he naturally wouldn't dwell on this issue. The only thing he cared about was that Yan Xuanyu was back safe and sound.
“That’s great, that’s great…”
Su An calmed down and said, "Thank you for saving me, old man! You guys, make sure to send me home safely."
He was always considerate and immediately sent a Jinyiwei to go back and get the gold to give to the old man.
"I'll go with you." The old man shook his head.
Yan Xuanyu was quite surprised. After thinking for a moment, he told the old man, "Old man, I'm not traveling for fun. I'm going to the border to negotiate peace with the Turks. This journey is tiring and dangerous, so I really can't take you with me."
"Oh? The weapons are not going to be improved?" the old man said indifferently.
Maybe it was because he fell and hit his head, Yan Xuanyu's mind is still numb. After the old man said this, he didn't react immediately and said, "Of course I want it, but you can't force anything..."
Halfway through his words, his eyes suddenly widened, "Old man, you!"
Even though the old man didn't want to laugh at this moment, he was amused by his appearance and couldn't help but smile.
He bowed and said, "I am Wu Shuang."
Su An was also stunned. He wondered what was going on. His Majesty had been missing for a day, and he actually brought back the legendary master of casting who had long retired?
But Yan Xuanyu didn't think about anything. All he could think about was - after searching high and low for something, it finally came to him without any effort.
Old man, no, Wu Shuang said slowly: "Your Majesty was assassinated because of me, how can I not follow His Majesty?"
...
Yan Xuanyu felt that this world was too mysterious. How could things develop at this pace?
He suddenly remembered that the old man had just suggested that he kidnap "Wu Shuang".
The old man said that he decided to go with Yan Xuanyu on a whim and had not told Xiuniang yet, so he had to go back and give her some instructions. Yan Xuanyu of course agreed without hesitation. Not to mention waiting for a day for this master casting master, if nothing else, he would be willing to wait for several years.
When two armies fight, the importance of weapons is self-evident. If they can improve the weapons of the Great Zhou, then this will be an advantage for them in the battle!
Just thinking about it made Yan Xuanyu very excited.
He couldn't help but ask Mr. Wu curiously why he was willing to go with him.
To this, Mr. Wu replied: "The official road is very easy to walk on."
After that, he remained silent no matter how much you asked him.
Yan Xuanyu was very puzzled, and finally came to a conclusion that the saying was indeed right, "Just do good things and don't worry about the future." You see, now someone wants to "repay" him for something he had done in the past, although he didn't know what the relationship between the two was.
Old Wu laughed in his heart. If he said "because you are stupid", would he be beheaded for insulting the emperor?
Of course not.
But even if he didn't, Mr. Wu didn't say so, and still gave Yan Xuanyu enough face.
...
When Yan Xuanyu returned, everyone was in the same mood as Su An when he first met Yan Xuanyu today, especially Han Yuan, who almost suffocated again. Fortunately, the people around him quickly stepped forward and helped him calm down.
"You are the emperor, you can't be so careless!" After saying this, Han Yuan paused for a long time and finally said nothing.
Han Yuan did not show much surprise at the old man's arrival.
"Wu Shuang?" Han Yuan thought for a moment, "The once world-famous weaponsmith?"
Speaking of which, no matter how surprising something is that happens to His Majesty, Han Yuan will not feel much.
...
After two days of rest, according to the agreement, Wu Shuang was escorted by Su Yi and his men back to the capital's farm to begin work on improving the weapons, while the imperial carriage continued to head towards the border of the Great Zhou.
When Yan Xuanyu disappeared, the news was suppressed, and then Yan Xuanyu came back very quickly. As a result, almost no one knew that Yan Xuanyu had disappeared.
"Let's pretend nothing happened for now," Yan Xuanyu said. "I wonder if they'll lose their composure?"
Lian'er was originally under his order to be guarded. On the night Yan Xuanyu came back, he ordered people to capture Lian'er. Unexpectedly, Su An told him that all the guards around Lian'er were knocked unconscious, and she herself had disappeared.
"It is indeed the Turkic King." Yan Xuanyu sneered.
However, Yan Xuanyu did not ignore the details in Su An's words. The person guarding Lian'er was just knocked unconscious. Why did the Turkic king's people do this?
He didn't believe the sudden "kindness" of this group of people.
"They should be the same people who want to kill me." Yan Xuanyu said.
"It's my fault for not doing my job well." Su An apologized.
Yan Xuanyu shook his head. "How can I blame you? I've been missing for a day and a night, and everyone was sent to look for me. It's inevitable that the defenses at the station were lax. They just took advantage of that moment and broke in."
Fortunately, no one was injured.
Yan Xuanyu thought of something else: "Those men in black must be Ashina Ziluo's assassins. Now that they've been discovered, he's so smart that he wouldn't let his assassins, whom he's worked so hard to raise, die in the Central Plains. He must have already found a way to leave the Great Zhou."
"For the current Great Zhou, it's already pretty good to be able to defend itself to its current state. There's a saying that you can only steal for a thousand days, but you can't guard against thieves for a thousand days." Yan Xuanyu said.
The more this happened, the more interested he became in the peace talks. He really wanted to see what the Turkic king's expression was when he saw him, and to see what the Turkic king was up to by proposing peace talks.
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