Chapter 161

The two of them rode at full speed, and it was already dusk when they arrived at the border of Dayue.

Xie Chuji could speak Dayue language. After she went to negotiate with the guards at the gate of the palace, she came back and shook her head at Lu Linyuan: "The guards refused to pass on the message, saying that the King of Dayue would not see guests today, and if there was anything, he could come again tomorrow."

Lu Linyuan glanced at the sky and said: "We can wait, but I'm afraid the Turks can't."

If the Turkic cavalry attacked at night, he would not be able to resist with the young men he had temporarily recruited.

It was no wonder that Xie Chuji didn't know all this, but the timing was really awkward. It was no wonder that King Dayue didn't want to see guests. She asked Lu Linyuan, "Didn't you say before that you were 90% sure that you could get King Dayue to send troops? What's your plan?"

Lu Linyuan said, "I am 90% sure that I can convince King Dayue when I meet him, but it's difficult for us to even have an audience with him now."

Xie Chuji sighed helplessly, while Lu Linyuan was surprisingly calm. It was unknown whether he was calm or had already thought of a new way.

The capital city where the palace of the Great Yue Kingdom is located is naturally more prosperous than Xizhou. When Xie Chuji saw that almost all the stalls on the street were selling porcelain, she felt a subtle sense of pride in her heart - these porcelains were all shipped from the porcelain kilns of Xizhou.

She approached a stall and asked the price of the porcelain in the Great Yue language. The stall owner replied with a number and gestured and said something. Xie Chuji's face showed a little more approval.

When she came back, she said to Lu Linyuan with emotion: "Almost all the porcelain in the entire Dayue Kingdom is supplied by the caravan under the name of Miss Chu Si. They transport the porcelain here, and take the unique products of Dayue Kingdom to farther places or to the interior of the Central Plains to sell. Thanks to her connection, the people of Dayue Kingdom have made a lot of money. When I was learning the language of Dayue, my teacher said that the people of Dayue were rude and arrogant. Now it seems that the people of Dayue are quite welcoming to the people of Daxuan."

Lu Linyuan looked at the stalls selling various common utensils of the Daxuan Dynasty, and his expression was dazed for a moment: "The changes are quite big."

Xie Chuji was slightly stunned. What Lu Linyuan meant by this was that he had been to Dayue Kingdom before?

But now was not the time to ask questions, so she did not change the subject. After she finished her sigh, she still had to do her business. She asked, "What are our plans next?"

Having hit a wall in the palace, they had to find another way.

Lu Linyuan's eyes lingered on the porcelain sold along the street for a moment longer, and said in an unpredictable manner, "Change into presentable clothes and go see the King of Dayue."

Xie Chuji was a little puzzled, "Do you have a way to see the King of Dayue?"

"I just thought of it."

The two entered a clothing store on the street. Thanks to the fact that Xizhou and Dayue were neighbors, they had frequent business dealings this year, and the store sold Daxuan clothing.

Lu Linyuan bought a noble and elegant white robe. As the saying goes, clothes make the man, and saddles make the horse. After putting on this robe, he became noble and looked like a noble from a noble family.

Xie Chuji knew that her frame was smaller than that of a man, and even if she put something on her shoulders, it would still be easy to show her belly if she looked closely, so she chose a wide and wide sky-blue Confucian robe to cover her body.

She had a beautiful and elegant face, and her eyebrows and eyes were filled with the fragrance of books for more than ten years. With such a refined dress, she seemed like a young scholar in a college who had become famous at a young age.

When the two returned to the gate of the palace again, Lu Linyuan said, "Tell the guard that I am from the Chu family in Xizhou. There is a war in Xizhou, and a batch of porcelain needs to be transferred urgently. I want to do business with King Dayue."

Xie Chuji suddenly realized and said, "Are you trying to use the financial resources of the Fourth Miss Chu in Dayue as a door-knocking stone?"

Lu Linyuan said, "So far, this is the best way."

Xie Chuji thought about it and pointed at herself and said, "What about my identity?"

Lu Linyuan took a look at her attire, raised his eyelids and said, "A scholar who is fluent in Dayue language."

Xie Chuji was stunned for a moment, but when she thought about her identity carefully, except for her gender, everything else seemed to be true, so she gladly accepted it.

After she explained her purpose to the guards guarding the palace, the guards hesitated for a moment and asked them to wait there while they went to report.

Things went more smoothly than Xie Chuji had imagined. Although Dayue Kingdom was called a country, its territory and population were all there. In Daxuan, it was at most a small prefecture. In terms of royal majesty, there were naturally not as many red tapes as in Daxuan.

After a while, a eunuch came to the palace gate and respectfully welcomed them in.

Dayue Palace was built more magnificently than ordinary palaces, but the door frames and window frames were all painted with gold and inlaid with gems. At first glance, it felt gorgeous but not gorgeous, but a bit rustic, like showing off.

The Great Moon King was a middle-aged man with a plump figure and a thick beard. One could tell how gorgeously and beautifully he was wearing clothes. The cuffs and lapels of his clothes were covered with thick gold edging and inlaid with various gems. The backrest and armrests of the throne he sat on were also inlaid with several night pearls.

Under the candlelight, the Great Moon King was simply shining.

It was the first time that Xie Chuji had seen someone wearing such clothes. He was dazzled after taking a look at them, and quickly lowered his head. On the other hand, Lu Linyuan was much calmer, and bowed to the Great Moon King, saying, "I have seen the Great Moon King."

Xie Chuji followed suit and bowed, translating Lu Linyuan's words to the Great Moon King.

King Dayue glanced at them and said with a rather arrogant look: "You said you are from the Chu family?"

Lu Linyuan nodded slightly and said, "Yes."

King Dayue's already long and narrow eyes narrowed, making it even harder to see where his eyeballs were, and asked, "What kind of business do you want to do with me?"

Lu Linyuan stared at King Dayue and said, "I beg you to send troops to protect the people of Xizhou. My Daxuan Dynasty will definitely reward you handsomely."

King Dayue picked up the luminous cup beside him with his fat five fingers, shook the fine wine inside, and sneered, "So doing business is fake, and borrowing troops is real?"

Lu Linyuan said, "As long as you send troops this time, Daxuan and Dayue will not only have business dealings in the future."

King Dayue stretched out his index finger and shook it, his fat eyes narrowed into a line with shrewdness: "The reason why Dayue Kingdom is what it is today is that it has always kept itself out of trouble. The Turks are strong in military and horses, and even Xizhou cannot stop their offensive. If Dayue sends troops, it will be tantamount to seeking its own death. Daxuan has business dealings with Dayue Kingdom, and I am being polite to you, but if you want to use this to drag Dayue into it, you are being too smart."

Lu Linyuan hurriedly said, "There is no need for Dayue Kingdom to confront the Turks head-on. You just need to guard the border and prevent the Turkish cavalry from bypassing Dayue to Daxuan. The main Turkish army will be restrained by our Daxuan soldiers. Moreover, Dayue Kingdom was free of war in the past because it was poor. Now the people of Dayue have become prosperous thanks to the Daxuan caravans. Do you still think that the Turks will not attack Dayue Kingdom?"

The King of Dayue was silent.

Seeing this, Lu Linyuan knew that the King of Dayue had taken these words to heart. He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I hope the King will consider this carefully."

Then he glanced at the screen behind the King of Dayue before looking away.

The trip to Dayue in this life was easier than in the previous life because of the economic chain laid by Jiang Yanyi.

When Xizhou fell in his previous life, he also came to Dayue for help. At that time, he spent hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to get a Dayue official to introduce him to the King of Dayue. At that time, the King of Dayue refused to send troops no matter what, and it was all thanks to that person...

When Lu Linyuan was lost in thought, Xie Chuji had already relayed his words to the King of Dayue. After a pause, he added, "With the bravery of the King of Liaoning of our Daxuan Dynasty, it is just a matter of time before we can repel the Turks. Today I came to ask the King to borrow troops, but I just couldn't bear to see the people of Xizhou being slaughtered by the Turkic cavalry on their way to escape. If the King helps at this time, it will be a favor to Daxuan. If other countries dare to get involved in Dayue's territory in the future, Daxuan will surely protect Dayue. On the contrary, if the King does not help today, when the Turks fail to defeat Daxuan and turn to attack Dayue, Daxuan will not send a single soldier to help."

Her words were sonorous, and she made the pros and cons clear.

When the King of Dayue was still hesitating, a clear voice suddenly came from the screen behind his throne: "Father, let's send troops."

Lu Linyuan didn't understand Dayue language, but when he heard the voice, he immediately looked at the screen with Xie Chuji.

A woman in a golden mandala tailed skirt walked out slowly from behind the screen. She was wearing a veil, so her face couldn't be seen clearly, but her eyebrows and eyes had the unique depth of foreigners.

"Hanguli..." King of Dayue whispered.

The woman put her hands on her chest, bowed slightly to Lu Linyuan and Xie Chuji, and said in Dayue language: "I have met the two envoys of Xuan Dynasty. I am Princess Dayue, Hanuli."

Her eyes stayed on Xie Chuji for a while, her eyes were eager and admiring.

Xie Chuji felt something was strange, and avoided looking at her uncomfortably, translating for Lu Linyuan: "She said she was the princess of Dayue, Hanguli."

Lu Linyuan naturally knew that the graceful foreign beauty in front of him was the Princess of Dayue. In the previous life, the King of Dayue refused to send troops, and she also stood up to persuade the King of Dayue.

However, at that time, she asked to marry her herself, but he was concerned about Jiang Yanxi, so he would never agree.

Later, Hanguli still persuaded the King of Dayue to lend him troops, but it was a pity that since the fate of Daxuan Kingdom, he could not change anything with the troops borrowed from Dayue Kingdom, and finally Dayue Kingdom was conquered by the Turks.

In the previous life, he owed many favors, and the one he owed the most was Hanguli.

On the way here, he had already made preparations. If Hanguli still made the same request in this life as in the previous life, then he would marry her, treat her well for the rest of his life, and pay off all the debts from the previous life.

The person he loved was dead, and the person who loved him had married someone else. He had clearly experienced it once, but he still felt indescribable sadness in his heart. In this new life, the two sisters had simply turned their lives upside down.

For a long time, Lu Linyuan couldn't figure out why God let him live one more time. Now, it seems that rather than saying that he was going to change something in his new life, it's better to say that he came to pay off his debts.

Defending Xizhou City was his long-cherished wish in his past and present lives.

Lu Linyuan looked at Hanguli, waiting for her to make the same request to marry her as she did in her previous life.

Hanguli did speak, but he didn't understand Dayue language. He only saw Hanguli staring at Xie Chuji eagerly, pointing at her and saying something to the King of Dayue.

The King of Dayue frowned and looked at Xie Chuji, asking her a question, but Xie Chuji didn't answer, her expression was a little dull.

Lu Linyuan finally realized that something was wrong, he asked Xie Chuji: "What are they talking about?"

Xie Chuji turned his head stiffly, looked at Lu Linyuan and said: "The princess of Dayue asked me to marry her."

Lu Linyuan: "???"