Chapter 575 Who wants to attack Dai Yue again?
Xiling sat with Yunqin's people.
"It seems that the itching powder that Poison Master sprinkled in the Nansang Palace back then left a shadow on Zhao Yu. Even after all these years, he still can't forget it." Mo Liren held the teapot and respectfully poured tea for the elegant and beautiful woman sitting beside him, grinning. "But Zhao Yu has shrunk compared to a few years ago. He's a lot smaller. Hahaha! It must be that Lord Long fought Lingjiang for two years and lost all the flesh on him!"
He deliberately joked to liven up the atmosphere, but failed to amuse the lady next to him.
The Second Princess pushed the teacup away and picked up the wine pot instead. "Drinking tea on this occasion, are you worried that I can't hold my liquor?"
"Who said the princess can't drink much? As long as you want to drink, Old Mo will risk his life to accompany you!" Mo Liren said this heroically, but he was complaining in his heart.
Before coming, the emperor asked him to take good care of the second princess. How could he possibly take care of her?
I shouldn't have taken this task at that time.
Mo Liren silently sighed as he glanced at the Second Princess's slightly pale face. He mustered up the courage to take the wine jug from her hand and said, "But the banquet is still very long. Princess, there's no need to rush to drink now. Drinking too much can make you dizzy. When Master Bai and the others arrive, it would be bad if the Princess couldn't even see clearly."
The second princess lowered her eyes and remained silent, and finally stopped trying to grab the wine jug.
Mo Liren breathed a sigh of relief.
"Mo Liren, do you think I'm pitiful?"
The noble lady's sudden words made Mo Liren's spine, which had just relaxed, immediately tense up again, and his scalp went numb. "Hey, Second Princess! Listen to what you're saying. You're insulting Old Mo, aren't you?
If you say you are pitiful, then you are not as pitiful as me. I have been exposed to wind and rain every day, with swords and sabers flashing and fighting. To put it more miserably, I have rolled through the mountains of swords and the pots of oil many times. Am I not pitiful?
You—there's really no need to be so hard on yourself. Is it your fault for what that stinky man did? Why are you taking the blame on yourself?
If you really want to argue with yourself about right and wrong, the most you did wrong was that you didn't have a good eye when you were young. That's really not a big deal! Who hasn't misjudged a few scumbags when they were young? Right?
After a pause, he lowered his voice and sighed, "Nan Sang has been planning this vicious scheme for decades. Even without you, they would have found other ways to accomplish it. It's not because you misjudged someone that Xiling has been embroiled in disaster. Second Princess is a wise woman. Don't put the cart before the horse and torture yourself, lest your loved ones grieve and your enemies delight."
The second princess's drooping black eyelashes trembled, and her eyelids lifted and tilted slightly. Her former arrogance immediately returned, "Mo Liren, you talk too much."
Mo Liren, “…” I slapped myself in the face.
At this time, there was a commotion outside the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
The eunuch's shrill voice rang out, "The Emperor and Empress have arrived—"
Palace music played and the banquet began.
In the hall, the emperor, his ministers and guests drank together and toasted each other. After a few drinks, the alcohol got to their heads and the things that the envoys had been thinking about were gradually forgotten.
Everyone was unaware that a table had been set up in the side hall behind the Hall of Supreme Harmony. The old man who had made the envoys from various countries nervous was sitting cross-legged on a chair and enjoying the meal.
The round carved solid wood dining table is packed with people sitting around it.
The three brothers of the Su family were all there, and two leaders of the three major forces in the exile land came, plus Tianbao, Xiaomai Sui, Bing'er, and Zi Yi accompanied them.
Ten people in total.
The old man commented as he ate, "The food in the palace is quite good, worthy of the skills of the chefs in the imperial kitchen... Tianbao, try the Eight Treasure Duck. Grandpa specially saved a duck leg for you! But this sweet wine isn't very good, not as good as the one made in Baixiaofeng Tower. When we get back, we can go to his place and get a couple of jars—Hmm! Yeah, it's really good. Did I offend you?!"
Bai Xiaofeng stuffed a piece of jade wine into the old poisonous creature's mouth and continued to eat slowly, treating the old man's incoherent shouting as farts.
Bai Kui was so happy that he drank half a bowl more of wine.
The younger generations just pretended they saw and heard nothing.
Su Wu was a person who could not sit still. After eating half his fill, he would frequently go to the screen that separated the side hall and glance at the banquet scene in the main hall through the gap.
From this position, one can see the layout of the tables in the hall at a glance. Nan Sang is unique, sitting alone in a corner, with no one within a half-meter radius around him.
"Tsk tsk, knowing that they are already public enemies, Nan Sang actually dared to send envoys to observe the ceremony. Yan Changkong must be quite stupid."
Little Wheat Ear snorted, "He's very smart. If Nan Sang doesn't send someone, he'll be laughed at by the world. If he comes, maybe he can find out some information and bring it back. Even if he can't go back, it won't be a pity—"
Bing'er was puzzled, "Why not a pity?"
"Because these are low-ranking officials." Su An smiled and explained to his wife, "A few years ago, after the Nansang Palace incident, most of the Nansang officials died. The officials who came after were all newcomers selected from the imperial examination candidates to fill the numbers. They have little experience and little experience. Look at those people from Nansang, sitting there uncomfortably and stiffly. They must be low-ranking officials among the low-ranking officials... Yan Changkong expected that they would not be able to return, so he picked a few of them as discarded pawns."
Bing'er was so confused by this whole conversation that she ran to the screen and looked out, "Emperors are all so treacherous!"
Tianbao was amused by her cute and naive look. After he had eaten his fill, he followed her to the screen.
After looking around the banquet hall outside, his brows furrowed, "One group of people is missing."
The men, young and old, at the table all stopped eating and looked over, "One group missing?"
"A few days ago, a few foreigners appeared in the lobby of the First Teahouse. I originally thought they were foreigners coming to observe the ceremony," Tian Bao relaxed her brows and sat back in her seat. "I just looked around, and those people aren't here. If they're not envoys, then they must be spies."
Bai Xiaofeng didn't let his guard down. "I'll have someone investigate later. They were still in Changjing a few days ago. Even if they ran away, they couldn't have gone far. We should be able to find their whereabouts within the country."
"Even if they find the people, the information they're trying to gather will have already spread." Tian Bao's voice was calm, without any sign of nervousness. "Those people are very conspicuous and easy to recognize, with high eyebrows, deep eyes, and brown hair... Godfather, Uncle Bai, you have a wide range of experience. Do you know where people from this region look like this?"
"There are people with high eyebrows and deep eyes in neighboring countries, but it's rare to find them with brown hair."
Bai Xiaofeng and Bai Kui looked at each other and had a vague impression in their minds after listening to Tianbao's description.
After traveling all over the country for many years, I must have seen people like this before. As for where they are from, I still need to check to confirm.
Taking advantage of the gathering of various nations for the Dai Viet Grand Ceremony to appear in Changjing can greatly avoid suspicion...
Tsk, who is planning to attack Dai Yue again?
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