Just when the two sides were about to fight, a team on horseback came rushing over from the city, raising a cloud of dust.

"stop."

In the team, a white-faced, beardless man stopped between An Xin and the city-guarding general named Dong. He jumped off his horse and glanced coldly at the carriage parked behind them.

The voice was shrill, "Master Liao, aren't you coming out yet?"

When the people here saw the man with a fair face and no beard and a soft and high-pitched voice, they knew that he should be a eunuch in the Beiming Palace.

As the lord of a city not far from the capital of Beiming, Liao Angkuo is certainly no stranger to eunuchs.

He spat viciously: "If I find out who told the secret, I will kill him!!"

Liao Angkuo, who had been the city lord for so many years, was certainly not a stupid person. Of course he guessed that someone coming from Kyoto at this time must have received the news that the diplomatic envoys were intercepted here.

He suspected that those people in the Lindu City officialdom who were not on good terms with him were behind his back and secretly reported to their superiors that he had intercepted the diplomatic envoys and prevented them from passing.

They wanted to take advantage of the change of imperial power and the chaos among the various factions in the court to bring him down, so Liao Angkuo was so angry.

Liao Angkuo was helped down from the carriage by the butler with great difficulty, and he occasionally made painful groans in his mouth, "Slow down, are you trying to hurt me to death?"

The people from Kyoto City gasped when they saw Liao Angkuo's miserable appearance.

His head was wrapped in white cloth, blood was seeping from his eye sockets, and one of his sleeves was empty.

"!!?" No matter how deep the hatred and grudge he had with someone was, he still had one of his arms chopped off and one of his eyes gouged out.

An Xin touched his nose, "..." That's cruel enough.

But she felt that Liao Angkuo had brought this upon himself.

His cousin Liao Angxiong, who used to be a garrison general in the border town of Cangbei, was captured by him for a period of time, but in the end Beiming was willing to return the land between the two countries to Daqian and compensated with some gold, silver and jewelry.

After the two countries made peace, she released the people.

As for why he was later beheaded by order of Emperor Bei Ming, it had nothing to do with her.

Since he can send assassins to chop himself.

She is not a good person, so how could she suffer this loss for nothing?

Even if no one attacked him, An Xin was prepared to kill him when she left Bei Ming after attending the celebration. Unexpectedly, someone was more anxious than her and did it first.

The eunuch opened his mouth, but ultimately did not ask him who did it.

The people in the palace are all shrewd people. They are used to seeing conspiracies and intrigues, and they are also the most cold-hearted. They will never ask any questions about things that are not their business.

After all, he came to deliver a message, and other matters were none of his business.

"Lord Liao, the crown prince has issued an order." A shrill voice sounded, "Quickly allow the envoys from Fangqian to pass through Lindu City. Anyone who disobeys the order will be executed immediately."

Liao Angkuo knelt on the ground with difficulty, his head lowered. His face looked extremely gloomy and ugly, with a hint of blood in his eyes and a fishy-sweet taste in his mouth.

"Yes, I obey your command." This short sentence sounded like it was squeezed out from between teeth, causing pain in the eardrums.

"Master Liao, you should plan for the future as you are in this state now."

Perhaps this eunuch was just giving a simple reminder.

However, this also made Liao Angkuo lower his head and grit his teeth in hatred.

An Xin stood nearby and saw that Liao Ang's broad cheeks were trembling. He knew how unwilling and angry he was at the moment.

The eunuch didn't care what Liao Angkuo did. He just followed the order and safely welcomed the Daqian delegation from An Xin to the capital of Beiming and handed them over to the embassy. Then he completed his mission.

So he turned around and saluted An Xin respectfully, saying, "Mr. Envoy, you are a distinguished guest invited by our country. Come with us to the capital. The master is waiting for you."

An Xin curled the corners of his mouth, feeling as if he was attending a Hongmen Banquet.

I looked at the sky and saw that the sun had already risen.

The golden sunlight shines on the earth, instantly making the dim sky colorful.

"We came here with sincere wishes for the new emperor of Bei Ming, but we were inexplicably stopped for so many days. You have to give us an explanation, right?!"

An Xin was an honest person, she spoke her mind directly: "I heard before that the envoys from other countries provide food and accommodation, so we didn't bring extra money when we went out.

I have been stopped outside the city these past few days, and now I am so hungry that I can’t even move.”

How could the eunuch Bei Ming not hear it? An Xin was implying that their country did not know etiquette.

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For example, when other countries invite envoys from other countries to visit every city they pass through, local officials who have received the notification or the people in the post station will greet them at the city gate.

However, they were rudely stopped at the city gate and not allowed to enter, and others were left hungry.

"Haha! Haha!" The eunuch grinned awkwardly: "My Lord, please forgive me. I will invite you to the city to prepare good wine and food to entertain the envoys."

One day, someone invited An Xin to dinner. He smiled and nodded to the eunuch, indicating that he was very considerate.

However, after seeing the guards who had had enough rest and eaten game every day during the past three days, she felt that it was very hard for these people to protect her along the way.

So she wanted to give them some benefits, but she didn't want to pay for it herself, so she wanted to cheat someone who was about to become emperor.

You are about to become the emperor, and I have been invited from far away to celebrate for you. It is not too much for you to spend some money to give some benefits to the guards who sent me here.

An Xin nodded to himself: "..." It's not too much.

The eunuch saw An Xin rubbing his hands, looking like he had something to hide.

Thinking of his master's obvious displeasure upon hearing that Daqian's envoy An was intercepted here, the eunuch still asked, "My lord, is there anything else?"

"Good wine, good food, send someone to the city to prepare them first." An Xin said without any embarrassment: "Even you know that when we came here, we thought Bei Ming would arrange food and accommodation, so we didn't bring much money.

For the past three days, we have borrowed money from the guards to buy food and drink. Can you please settle the bill for us, sir?"

"This..." The eunuch rubbed his ears to make sure he didn't hear it wrong, then he grinned and gritted his teeth and said, "It should be...it should be. Your Excellency is on a diplomatic mission to our country, and I, Bei Ming, should treat you to food and drink."

An Xin patted his chest, looking as if he was fine with this, and he played the role of a stingy and miserly official to perfection.

She was able to have such acting skills thanks to the fact that she had a student who was really stingy with money, Zhu Shijing, also known as the eldest son Zhu.

In the past, when everyone was traveling and it was his turn to pay, they would show a look of threat on their faces. Even if An Xin didn't want to learn, he would have learned it a long time ago.

Leng Xiangbai and General Chen all turned their heads away silently when they saw the minister leading their own delegation. How could such a good minister look so greedy and scoundrel? It was really offensive to the eyes.