Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 119: To Madam Li, a Petal of Peach Blossom Blood
As Deputy Envoy Han and Wanyan Quxing left, the scholars who had squeezed into the tea room could not help but look at each other in bewilderment.

Only then did they realize that the bald scholar who had just had a lively conversation with them was actually a golden man.

Naturally, everyone was talking about what had just happened.

One of them had a gleam in his eyes and immediately rushed forward, bowing to Li Shishi and Dan Niang:
"May I ask the two young ladies, is Wanyan Quxing the envoy from the Kingdom of Jin who came to our Song Dynasty to celebrate the Tianshen Festival?
"Besides using sweet words to trick this young lady into following him back to the Northern Kingdom, he even promised her the position of legal wife and divorced the daughter of the Ugulu family. What else did he say?"

Dan Niang asked back vigilantly: "Who are you?"

The man said hurriedly: "I am the supervisor of the Imperial Court's 'Jinzouyuan', my surname is Su and my name is Qiao. Well, the editor-in-chief of Lin'an Tabloid is none other than me, a humble person..."

……

"Deputy Envoy Han, Deputy Envoy Han, please stay. Deputy Envoy Han, please listen to my explanation..."

Wanyan Quxing chased downstairs and saw Han Zhenyu walking out with big strides. Wanyan Quxing hurriedly chased after him and stopped him in the lobby.

Wanyan Quxing stretched out his hand to stop Han Zhenyu, and said with a humiliated voice: "Deputy Envoy Han, this prince just said nonsense to please that beauty. Deputy Envoy Han is also a man, he should know that if you want to please a woman, can she believe it?"

There were many guests sitting in the lobby, most of them were scholars.

They are talking at length, criticizing current ills, deducing national policies, and their ideas are wild and to the point.

Suddenly I heard, "Can you believe what a woman says to coax her?"

Hiss~, this is also a very insightful statement. Who said it?
There was a sudden silence, and everyone looked towards Wanyan Quxing.

When I looked at the man's clothes and hairstyle, I realized he was a golden dog.

Just then, a handsome young man walked in with a beautiful little servant boy.

"Shopkeeper, give our young master a Ya... Deputy Envoy Han? Young Prince?"

The servant Ah Man suddenly saw Wanyan Quxing and Han Zhenyu standing in the hall, and immediately shouted in surprise: "You two are also having dinner here, what a coincidence."

As she spoke, she gave a look to Nimasa, the trusted attendant of Deputy Envoy Han.

If it weren't for Nima Sa tipping her off from time to time, how could she have grasped the time so accurately.

Nima Sa is not a spoof by the author, it is indeed this person's name, and it is a very formal and serious name.

"Nima" means "holy light" in their language, and "Sa" is an interjection expressing admiration.

If it is translated into Chinese, it means "Holy Light!"

In the Jin Dynasty, there were many people whose names were not as famous as his.

"Pucidu" means eyes, "Wuliyan" means pig, "Wuhu" means smelly, "Liuke" means grindstone, and "Gudi" means kneeling...

Among so many messy names, the one who can come up with a good name like "Nimasa" is not an ordinary person.

For example, Yingge, the daughter of Ugun, whose name means plum in Chinese, is worse than Nima (holy light).

Nima Sa was able to be named "Holy Light" because his father was a great shaman in shamanism.

Although the Shamanism of the Jin people has also been impacted by the Buddhist and Taoist beliefs of the Central Plains, and its status and influence in the Jin Kingdom is no longer as high as before, it still belongs to the upper class.

Nima Sa served as an attendant to Deputy Envoy Han, but was actually sent by his father to General Han to receive training.

Nima Sa couldn't help but smile when he received the look from A'man.

He liked the girl Ah Man very much, and helping her was just a small favor, which was nothing.

Han Zhenyu couldn't help but laugh when he saw Wugun Yingge.

"It's Miss Yingge. You came just in time..."

"Deputy Envoy Han!" Wanyan Quxing shouted, his eyes full of pleading.

But Deputy Envoy Han ignored him and just smiled at Yingge, "Han has something to tell you..."

Wanyan Quxing's face was gloomy, and he said viciously: "Han Zhenyu, are you sure you want to be an enemy of my family?"

Han Zhenyu pretended not to hear and repeated to Yingge what Wanyan Quxing had just said to Dan Niang upstairs.

Deputy Envoy Han was worthy of being a diplomatic envoy. Although he did not exaggerate, he used more straightforward language and a more direct tone.

When someone else hears it, the feeling is very different.

Even though Wugu Lun Yingge was originally plotting against Wanyan Quxing, he was furious after hearing this.

She turned to Wanyan Quxing with a sneer and said, "Wanyan Quxing, hello! Hello! How are you going to explain this to me?"

Wanyan Quxing said in a panic: "Don't get me wrong, I just said that to cheer you up, how can you take it seriously?"

Yingge didn't listen to him and raised her hand to hit him.

Wanyan Quxing knew he was in the wrong, so he didn't dare to fight back and could only dodge and avoid.

For a moment, one was running away and the other was chasing, and there was chaos in the lobby of "Shuiyunjian".

Deputy Envoy Han watched with a smile, he wanted to know how these two big families would marry in the future!

Yu Kongmu and his three younger brothers huddled around a table in the corner, watching this chaotic scene of "you run, I chase, you can't escape even if you have wings", fearing that they would be accidentally caught in the wind.

Suddenly, Mao Shaofan poked Yu Jiguang and whispered, "Kongmu, look, Yang Yuan is there too."

Yang Yuan was already standing in the crowd.

He went around to the jungle behind the building, and after observing that no one was following him, he quickly climbed over the wall into the restaurant and hurriedly changed his clothes.

At this time, shouting and cursing had already started in the front hall, so Yang Yuan walked out slowly and squeezed into the crowd to watch the fun.

However, as the figures of the onlookers who were dodging but reluctant to leave moved around, when Yu Kongmu looked at Yang Yuan's position again, he was no longer there. For a moment, he didn't know whether he had changed his position.

"I won't fight with you. I'll wait until you calm down."

Wanyan Quxing saw that he couldn't reason with Yingge today, so he finally gave up.

He fled to the door, said something hurriedly, and then looked at the smiling Deputy Envoy Han fiercely, and said sternly: "Han, you are a dog who relies on others for power! Do you think that you can ride on my head and pee and shit just because you have a good master? You are dreaming! Let's wait and see!"

After saying that, he turned and walked out.

Yingge snorted coldly and said, "Fortunately, I came here to relax, otherwise I would not be able to recognize the true face of Wanyan Quxing."

She turned to Deputy Envoy Han, clasped her fists, and said, "Deputy Envoy Han, thank you very much."

Han Zhenyu smiled and said, "Ms. Yingge is a straightforward person with a true nature. I just don't want you to be deceived."

He glanced at the chaos in the store, and then said to Yingge, "Han is going back to Banjing Hall. Miss Yingge, do you want to go with us?"

Yingge waved her hand and said, "No, I'm feeling hungry, let me have some food first."

Han Zhenyu nodded: "Okay, Miss Yingge, don't leave too late. It's not very convenient to leave the city after dark."

After saying that, he walked out with a smile on his face.

Yingge said loudly: "Where is the shopkeeper? Please arrange a private room on the second floor for me."

After that, she lowered her voice again and whispered to Ah Man who was beside her, "Go find Yang Yuan later and tell him that he did a great job on this matter. I am very satisfied with him and I will give him the balance tomorrow."

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When Deputy Envoy Han came, he rode side by side with Wanyan Quxing, talking and laughing, and they were in great harmony.

When he returned, Wanyan Quxing had already left angrily with his men. The only ones waiting outside the store were a few of Deputy Envoy Han's own guards.

But Deputy Envoy Han did not take it as an offense at all and was in a good mood.

He mounted his warhorse with a smile, and led several guards along the shore of West Lake towards the Imperial Street in the distance.

Wanyan Quxing is such a useless kid, but his father still tried so hard to cultivate him?

This Wanyan Quxing might have been reincarnated into their family to collect debts.

Deputy Envoy Han sneered, turned around and told his trusted follower Nima Sa: "After you return, you will immediately draft a memorial for this general, detailing all of Wanyan Quxing's words. I want to report it to Zhongdu as quickly as possible."

"As you command, my lord!"

In the Central Plains, in this era, "adult" refers specifically to the elders of the family.

But among foreign ethnic groups, the usage of "adult" is no different from that in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Deputy Envoy Han nodded, pulled the reins, took the lead, and ran ahead.

The lakeside is full of greenery, with small boats sailing around. People on the boats, wearing bamboo hats, are picking the fat and big lotus leaves.

Ahead is a long and flat road. On both sides of the road stand a willow tree and a peach tree. The wind blows down petals all over the treetops.

This feeling made Deputy Envoy Han feel indescribably happy.

Another gust of wind came, and the fallen petals, unable to withstand the wind, turned into a rain of peach blossoms, fluttering down.

Deputy Envoy Han rode his horse lightly and slowly, passing through the petals of peach blossoms in the wind. Suddenly, he understood what it meant to "ride the horse's hooves in the spring breeze"...

A hint of coldness suddenly appeared among the peach petals.

There are many lotus-picking boats on the lakeside, including a small boat.

The boatman at the stern pushed hard in the water with a bamboo pole, and the boat pushed aside the green lotus leaves and shot out like an arrow, silently.

Among the flying peach petals, there is a hint of cold light, silently and invisible.

Deputy Envoy Han saw it, but seemed not to have seen it.

Because although his eyes saw it, his brain had not yet reacted.

At this moment, that bit of cold light had already nailed to his forehead.

This is a "featherless arrow", which means an arrow without feathers.

Featherless arrows have the fastest initial velocity and the strongest penetrating power.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, He Guan, a general from Hedong, once used a "featherless arrow" to pierce through two armored soldiers of the Western Xia with one arrow.

But the arrow did not penetrate Deputy Envoy Han's head.

Perhaps it was because it was just a five-inch-long short arrow fired from a crossbow, so its power was smaller.

The arrow penetrated Deputy Envoy Han's forehead, leaving only a small, round dot between his eyebrows.

Because the tail of the arrow was touching the skin level, not even a drop of blood seeped out for a moment.

The happy expression on Deputy Envoy Han's face suddenly froze.

The horse under his crotch was still galloping.

Deputy Envoy Han's body continued to gallop along with the horse, and he rode on the saddle and hit the waves.

He continued to run forward seven or eight steps, and the light in Deputy Envoy Han's eyes completely dimmed.

His body tilted and he fell limply to the ground, with one foot still in the stirrup.

Nima Sa was greatly shocked. He hadn't noticed anything yet and just thought that Deputy Envoy Han had suddenly fallen seriously ill.

He hurriedly kicked the stirrup, rushed forward, and grabbed the reins of Deputy Envoy Han's horse.

The horse stopped.

Deputy Envoy Han lay on his back with his hands spread out and one foot raised high, as if he was dancing in ecstasy among the fallen petals on the ground.

Petals rained down from the sky and sprinkled on his body. A peach blossom covered his forehead, like a beautiful flower ornament.

(End of this chapter)