This Northern Song Dynasty is a bit weird

Chapter 156 Negotiate the matter

If it weren't for Lu Sen, the Five Rats would still be playing peek-a-boo with Zhan Zhao in the capital.

However, with Lu Sen as a variable, the whole world will no longer develop in the original direction.

Bai Yutang still has strange hostility towards Zhan Zhao, but now his life horizon has been much broader, and he doesn't fully focus on Zhan Zhao.

For example...he is now very, very interested in Lu Sen's plan to attack the East China Sea Penglai faction.

So when I received Lu Sen's commission, I did it with all my heart.

A month later, there were already rumors in the world that Master Lu was going to attack Penglai in the East China Sea.

At the beginning, fellow Jianghu people didn't quite believe it. After all, Lu Sen has always lived in seclusion and liked to stay at home and not go out, so he didn't pay much attention to anyone who said bad things about him.

Moreover, Donghai Penglai used the banner of Daoist Lu before, but he did a lot of things, and he didn't see any reaction from him.

Now that such news is suddenly spread, the credibility is naturally not high.

However, no matter whether the credibility is high or not, this matter is gradually spreading, and it is said that the person who first handed out the news was the Five Rats.

The Five Rats have a good reputation, and their rumored relationship with Lu Zhenren seems to be okay.

This adds to the credibility of the rumor.

And it was in this situation that Lu Sen appeared in Hangzhou Mansion, face to face with Lu Huiqing.

"We meet again, Master Lu."

Lu Huiqing got up and sat down after bowing to Lu Sen.After all, before Lu Sen left the capital, he was a civil servant of the fourth rank and a direct bachelor of Tianzhang Pavilion.

Although Lu Sen handed back his official uniform and resigned and left, the court did not take back Lu Sen's identity and official position.

"It's really been a long time." Lu Sen looked at the young people facing him with a smile, and said, "In just a little over a year, Brother Lu has the right to know the affairs of Hangzhou as the bookkeeper. It’s really an enviable success.”

If other people praised her like that, Lu Huiqing would definitely be a little proud.When Lu Sen said that, he didn't dare to bear it.

"Where is it, Master Lu don't want to make fun of it." He waved his hands again and again.When he heard Lu Sen call himself 'Brother Lu', he knew that Lu Sen was visiting in a private capacity, and he didn't do any official talk at the moment: "Is there something important to do when Daoist Lu is visiting this time? "

"I want to give you a big gift." Lu Sen said with a light smile, "Have you heard about the recent news about Penglai in the East China Sea?"

Hearing this, Lu Huiqing was still very young, and a look of excitement suddenly appeared on her youthful face: "About the fact that Master Lu is going to attack the Penglai faction in the East China Sea? This is really the news you released, Master Lu. ?”

Lu Sen nodded.

Lu Huiqing looked happier, but soon became serious: "This is not good, after all, Master Lu, you only need to control the power of monks and Taoists in the world, and you have no right to use troops."

"I don't have it, but you do, Brother Lu." Lu Sen smiled, "Those thieves from Penglai in the East China Sea often come to the coastal towns to make troubles. Brother Lu must be very troubled."

It's more than annoyance, it's disgusting.

The thieves of the Penglai faction in the East China Sea often act as pirates, burning, killing, and looting in coastal towns. Otherwise, given the terrain of Penglai Island, which is mostly rocky and has no land to grow food, how could it be possible to support thousands of people.

Lu Huiqing also organized a small-scale naval attack, but was defeated and almost wiped out.

In fact, Lu Huiqing and Wang Anshi imagined that both of them are geniuses in internal affairs, but they are a bit weak in military affairs.

But also extremely proud, like to make up their own minds.

Fortunately, Lu Huiqing is only a "quanzhi" now, that is, a temporary representative, not a full-time job, and dare not do too much, otherwise, with his proud temperament, if he fails, he will definitely organize the second and third times. The navy went to attack Penglai Island.

Lu Huiqing closed her eyes and thought for a while, then asked, "If I don't cooperate with Master Lu, will anything else happen?"

"Maybe one day the people on Penglai Island will disappear by themselves." Lu Sen smiled slightly.

To be honest, although shipping was developed during the Northern Song Dynasty, the official navy's control over the coastal areas was not high.

Pirates were also rampant, but not as exaggerated as in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

This is mainly the court of the Northern Song Dynasty, which has little interest in overseas.

Lu Huiqing understood what Lu Sen meant.

Regardless of whether he helps or not, Lu Sen has made up his mind on Penglai Island in the East China Sea, but because Lu Sen has no right to mobilize troops, he came to ask him to cooperate, which is considered a credit to himself.

If he is unwilling to help, Lu Sen will also deal with those thieves, but the matter will be done more secretly, so as not to give others a chance to catch a sore foot.

Besides, with the current degree of "tightness" of the imperial court towards Lu Sen, let alone the thieves on Penglai Island, even if 10,000+ soldiers were killed like Wang Anshi, nothing would happen.

After weighing the pros and cons, Lu Huiqing said with a smile: "Then I would like to thank Master Lu for giving us wealth in the next round."

"Good talk, good talk."

The two looked at each other for a while, then laughed at the same time.

After Lu Huiqing was settled, Lu Sen felt much more relaxed.

With the official intervention, many things became logical, such as... righteousness.

Lu Sen has a lot of things to do in the future, and he doesn't want his reputation to be tainted or flawed for the time being.

Afterwards, the two drew up a time and plan, chatted casually, and Lu Sen quietly returned to his cave.

As soon as he got home, Lu Sen sat in the garden, admiring the beauty of the flowers in full bloom.

And Pang Meier was behind him, gently helping him beat his shoulders.

After enjoying Pang Meier's 'serving' for a while, Lu Sen said with a smile: "Meier is so active today, could it be that she has something she wants?"

Pang Meier's face was a little red, and after hesitating for a while, she lowered her head and said shyly: "Officer, can you help me practice?"

Oh!
Lu Sen turned around in surprise. Pang Meier was a little bit of a mental cleanser. She believed that the love between a man and a woman was a concrete manifestation of the love between husband and wife. It was sublime and sacred and should not be mixed with other factors.

So at first she was quite resistant to the technique of dual cultivation, because she felt that the intimacy between husband and wife would be mixed with other 'interest' factors, which would tarnish her sincere feelings for Lu Sen.

But a few days ago, in order to help Pang Meier get through her meridians so that she could practice spells, Lu Sen had a half-forced double practice with her.

Now it seems that she understands the benefits of the technique of dual cultivation!

Lu Sen turned around, took Pang Meier's little hand and said with a smile, "My wife has something to ask for, so I should satisfy my husband."

These words made Pang Meier even more ashamed.

Compared with Lu Sen's happy life, Zhao Zonghua's life is a bit difficult.

Although he once went to the Spice Islands with the 'treasure ship', drifting on the sea, even through the strong winds and waves, it sounds very hard, but in fact, he is surrounded by many servants of his own family, no matter how hard it is, it will not go anywhere.

However, he is alone in tracking Qingyang guest now.

Even with Lu Sen's body protection, it was extremely difficult. The Qingyang guest was not very good at lightness kung fu, but he was very skilled. What's more, his disguise technique was extremely powerful.

Becoming a middle-aged person, becoming fat, and becoming an old man are just trivial things. Zhao Zonghua tracked her down one time and found that the other party turned out to be a peasant woman in makeup. There were almost no flaws.

As the price for being careless, he received another slap from the opponent, but fortunately, he was protected by the jewelry, so he didn't suffer any harm, except that his chest had been aching for two days.

At this time, Qingyang Ke was even more uncomfortable. He was dressing up as a peddler, pushing a wooden wheelbarrow, loaded with some coal, and heading out of the city.

In fact, as a hunted person, his mental state is always in tension.

People are a lot haggard.

Not only did he have to guard against all kinds of martial arts masters who might recognize him, but he also had to guard against that noble son who came running from the south and chased him all the time.

At first, it was easy for him to tease the opponent, and even slightly injured the opponent, and then he was free for about ten days.

But as time passed, this dude surnamed Zhao became more and more powerful.

Not to mention the more and more experience in the world, the vigilance has also become much stronger.

If he had been able to get close to the opponent before, he would have been able to beat the opponent seriously and escape with a surprise attack.

But the day before yesterday, he disguised himself as a farmer's woman and made a sneak attack. He was noticed by the opponent, and then counterattacked. Been with it for too long.

Pushing the wheelbarrow, Qingyang Ke walked out of the city.

This place is Daming Mansion (Beiping), which is quite close to the Khitan Kingdom, and it is actually within three or four hundred miles to reach the territory of Liao.

When I arrived in Liao Kingdom, I thought I could take a breather.

But Qingyang Ke was a little unwilling. As a pure Song person, he didn't really want to live in Liao Kingdom, unless the situation was really bad to the extreme.

And he originally wanted to go to Tokyo City, but he didn't expect to be forced to flee to this place by a dude.

When he left the city and walked further north, he saw many chariots and horses carrying a large amount of goods to and fro.

Although the relationship between Khitan and the Song Dynasty is not very good, it has not reached the point of war, especially since the two sides have signed a trade agreement, so in the north, the degree of commercial activity is actually quite high.

Of course, there is no way to compare with sea freight.

Qingyang guest took the official road, so there were people along the way, and even at intervals, there were some vendors setting up food beside them.

After walking for a while, Qingyang Ke quietly threw away the wheelbarrow in a place where no one was around, went to a roadside stall, found a place to sit down, and said with a northern accent: "Shopkeeper, come here. Some thirst-quenching soup."

"Guest officer, do you want rice wine or rice wine?"

"Yellow bar."

"Okay, how about serving a bowl of plum wine to the guest officer?"

"Row."

The plum wine brewed with rice wine tasted really good. Qingyang guest finished drinking it in two gulps, ordered some food, and saw three Jianghu people wearing bamboo hats coming from behind.

When they came to the stall, their eyes swept over everyone, and they also fell on Qingyangke for a while.

But Qingyang Ke looked calm, so they turned their gaze away again.

After letting the shopkeeper serve the food and wine, the three people from the rivers and lakes began to communicate.

"Third senior brother, where do you think that Qingyang guest went?"

"It should have been out of Beiping City for a while."

"Damn Xipi, you can really run. We chased here from Suzhou, we ate wind and drank sand all the way, and we couldn't even see a single person."

"I heard that Qingyang Ke has a very high disguise skill, so we have to pay attention along the way."

"of course."

"However, he is so powerful in disguise, why do the melon skins in the world know where he is?"

Hearing this, Qingyangke's eyelids trembled.

In fact, he also wanted to know about this matter, why he obviously got rid of the pursuers, even changed his identity two or three times, and then those people came after him again.

He reckoned that this matter had something to do with Master Lu and that noble boy, but guesses were guesses after all, and he wanted a definite answer.

No, the three of them started talking again.

"I heard that Master Lu also sent a good tracker who could sense the location of the stolen fairy artifact by the Qingyang guest, so he was able to track down the Qingyang guest."

it is as expected!
There was no unnecessary expression on Qingyangke's face, but he was full of anger in his heart.

He really wanted to take out the lump in the flesh and blood on his back, but he didn't dare... and he was not reconciled.

I didn't steal this thing by myself, but it might not be that there was an inner ghost in Lu Zhenren's family who quietly sewed it onto himself.

If so, he must find a way to take this thing away.

Dao Xianren, he also wants to get involved.

Of course...he has also considered the possibility of Daoist Lu using himself to achieve some purpose, but he thinks it is not high.

A kind of greed, let him hypnotize himself, deceive his subconscious instinct, gradually ignore, and then ignore this possibility.

"I heard that Bei Xia Ouyang Chun is also here."

"Hiss, isn't he looking into Hongsi's matter, and he's here to join in the fun of Qingyangke."

"How big a problem Hongsi can have, he settled it in a few strokes. Now he is heading towards Beiping. I heard that he intends to help Master Lu retrieve the fairy artifact in order to repay Master Lu's kindness."

"That's true, without the bottle of jade bee jelly from Master Lu, he would not be able to reach his current strength at all."

Now everyone in the world already knows that in the martial arts conference three years ago, the prize was originally a sword that cut iron like mud, but it was stolen later. Yumao Zhanzhao went to beg Zhenren Lu, and only then did he get a bottle of honey As a prize for the leader of the martial arts.

Hearing that Ouyang Chun had come, Qingyang Ke's mood became more and more bad.

Who is Ouyang Chun?

It is recognized that among the younger generation, he is the strongest.

Moreover, he is still the leader of the martial arts, and now he is rushing over here with his subordinates, and then join the boy who can track him!

Damn, my heart trembles just thinking about it.

I can't waste any more time, I have to leave Song Dynasty as soon as possible, go to the north, and go to Liao Kingdom.

After having this idea, Qingyang Ke got up, put a few copper plates on the table, and said in a simple and honest voice: "Shopkeeper, pay the bill."

Afterwards, he pretended to be a little drunk and staggered away.

The eyes of the three Jianghu people swept over him, but they didn't notice anything unusual, and continued to drink.

And less than half an hour after Qingyang guest left, Zhao Zonghua also rushed here. He took out the tracking talisman to have a look, and found that the two of them were already relatively close. It is estimated that after a long time of catching up, they would be able to find him.

So he was not in a hurry, sat down, prepared to eat something, and then chased after him. After all, he had the strength to fight when his stomach was full.

Just when he was about to finish eating, a man with blue eyes and a beard, leading three well-dressed men, also came into this stall and sat down.

Zhao Zonghua's eyes met the man's.

"Leader Ouyang?"

"Zhao Xiaolang?"

(End of this chapter)