Return of the Swallow

"Who would it be if it wasn't this official?" Although Lian Shengjie's answer was full of confidence, he could see how dry his voice was when he listened carefully.

Pang Xiao squinted at his stern face, sneered and ignored it.

With slender fingers with distinct joints, he held a delicate gold-painted and white porcelain wine cup, and immediately a beautiful maid with a smile like a flower held a copper pot to pour wine for him.

The amber-colored nectar falls into the wine cup, with a crystal clear color and a strong mellow aroma.

The maid's red lips were slightly raised, and her eyes carefully lingered on Pang Xiao's handsome face, her cheeks immediately became dizzy, and her eyes lowered in shame.

Seeing this scene, Lian Shengjie felt envious, he couldn't help swallowing, and took a few quick steps forward.

Pang Xiao didn't care, he raised his head and drank the wine in one go, his Adam's apple rolled, and the tough curvature of his jaw added a bit of casualness and domineering to him.

The maid's cheeks were getting redder and she was about to pour the wine, but Pang Xiao held the wine cup upside down with her slender fingers, waved her hand to signal people to step back, squinted at Lian Shengjie, and said lazily:

"Master Lian must have obtained the will of the sage, otherwise, he would not be embarrassed, and he would not salute when he saw this king."

Only then did Lian Shengjie look away from the beauty, and when he met Shang Pangxiao's mocking eyes, he shook his body and almost fell to his knees.

"Cough, my official, this official came here on an edict. It's not like some people came here privately." Lian Shengjie said with extreme anxiety.

He was really afraid of being beaten, and when he saw Pang Xiao, his whole body was tense, and the places behind him began to ache.

Pang Xiao raised his eyebrows and smiled, and pointed to the empty seat: "Sit down, why do you have to stand to answer, this king has not punished you for standing."

Lian Shengjie's face turned red, his anger rose, his timidity subsided a little, and he sat down opposite Pang Xiao with his neck stuck.

Seeing that the two of Da Zhou seemed to be at odds, Honglu Siqing's nervous palms were sweating, for fear that the two would fight each other, if such a thing happened under his eyes, the emperor would definitely be angry.

Seeing that Lian Shengjie stopped talking after taking the seat, the minister of Honglu Temple breathed a sigh of relief, and ordered several officials accompanying him to sit down together, and then ordered a banquet, singing and dancing.

The sound of the elegant orchestral silk and bamboo is melodious and melodious. The young dancers are dressed in tulle dance clothes, dancing gracefully and gracefully. In the splendid flower hall, there is a bit of ethereal and fairy-like appearance. On the table of the Eight Immortals, the jade plate is delicious, and the wine is mellow.

Somerset eats food and wine,

There was another beautiful woman waiting for her, staring at the dancing girl with good eyes. She only felt comfortable physically and mentally, and her tense mood was relieved in an instant.

Pang Xiao squinted at Lian Shengjie's heart-wrenching stupidity, took the jug from the maid's hand and poured himself a drink, and his eyes were extremely cold when he admired the song and dance, as if he didn't see the beauty of this world into his eyes at all.

Seeing the diametrically opposed attitudes of Pang Xiao and Lian Shengjie, Honglu Siqing and other Dayan officials had their own guesses and did not dare to participate in the battle between the two, so they only accompanied them silently.

After three rounds of drinking, Lian Shengjie was completely relaxed, and his mood was also high due to drinking.

"Prince Zhongshun, why did you come to Dayan privately this time?" The original awe-inspiring sentence was unfounded by his stuttering after drinking.

Pang Xiao said lazily, "The two countries have successfully negotiated peace and have become friendly neighbors. What's wrong with this king who just walks around?"

"You are arguing! As the general of the Hu Ben army, don't you know that your position is important? The sage did not allow you to travel, but you made a decision privately. Do you know that you have angered the sage?"

The singing and dancing stopped suddenly, and everyone was stunned by the sudden anger of Lian Shengjie.

Honglu Siqing did not dare to participate in Da Zhou's affairs, so he got up quickly, waved his hands and led everyone back down.

The scene where he was singing and dancing just now was quiet and strange now.

Pang Xiao took a sip of wine and was too lazy to speak.

Lian Shengjie saw that Pang Xiao did not speak, and sneered: "If you don't speak, you are afraid! I tell you Pang Zhixi, it has been a day or two since I saw you being rampant. You have always been disrespectful to us old officials in Northern Hebei, I will wait. You have been loyal to the sage, but you are poking at us, beating and scolding at every turn, but fortunately, the emperor, Shengming, also sees through your domineering nature."

Pang Xiao poked his ears, "Have you finished speaking?"

"The emperor asked this official to ask you, why didn't you return to the capital, but Dayan came! You still haven't answered?!"

"I will be outside, and the military orders will not be accepted."

Pang Xiao put down the wine jug, the bottom of the brass jug touched the table lightly, and made a "tuk" sound.

"What's more, this king has his own reasons for this king."

Lian Shengjie couldn't help sneering when he saw that Pang Xiao was not as violent as before.

What about the tiger talisman with the tiger ben army?

One hundred thousand tigers and Ben army are brave and good at fighting, so what about one enemy ten?

Even if Pang Xiao is the king, he still has to bow his head to the sage, and he is also afraid of the officials of the old Northern Hebei and the Longxiang army of Ji Zeyu, the Dingbei Marquis!

Not to mention that Longchung's army is sufficient.

Just talking about the massacres and other things that Pang Xiao led the Hu Ben army to do for the vanguard when the Great Zhou stepped on the mountains and rivers in Beiji; the officials who had already expressed their surrender were also pulled out by Pang Xiao and slashed alive to feed the dogs. This viciousness has already made the old officials of Beiji jealous.

These people have now surrendered to Da Zhou, and in their hearts, Pang Xiao is the culprit that led to the demise of Beiji.

How could they not hate Pang Xiao?

Moreover, Pang Xiao's military strength was feared by the sages, and Ji Zeyu's Longchong army was growing stronger and stronger, which was a powerful weapon to check and balance the Huben army. However, Pang Xiao still didn't know how to restrain himself, he was still arrogant and arrogant, and he was always playing around.

Lian Shengjie, as a courtier of the Northern Hebei Province who surrendered to Da Zhou, has been disliked by Pang Xiao for many days.

Now, seeing that Pang Xiao, under his questioning, just said with a sullen face, "I will be exempted from the orders of the military abroad", he was so proud that he was about to float up.

"You've been complacent for too long." Lian Shengjie laughed loudly: "Brother, I advise you to be more restrained. Now that you are happy to explain to me, I can also give you some good words in the letter to the sage. If you don't, you probably don't know how you died. Besides, why you came to Dayan is not for me to ask, but for the Holy One."

Lian Shengjie said, he stood up with his arms on the table of the Eight Immortals, leaned over to listen, but his face was full of mockery, "Come, come, talk to me first."

Pang Xiao kept smiling and drooping his eyes, playing with the golden wine cup in his hand.

The tiger beside him has long been turned purple by Lian Shengjie's smug face, wishing he could rush up and break his neck.

Seeing that Pang Xiao was still silent, Lian Shengjie leaned forward a little, and smiled proudly: "Why don't you say it? You say you have your own reason, but you say your reason. !"

"Crack!" With a crisp sound, Lian Shengjie covered his swollen face in disbelief, and looked at Pang Xiao blankly.

"What kind of thing are you, and what qualifications do you have to listen to this king?" Pang Xiao stood up and looked down at Lian Shengjie's face.

Lian Shengjie's wine was beaten awake, recalling his own mocking words just now, covered his face and took a few steps backwards, as if he could escape Pang Xiao's attack range.

Seeing that Pang Xiao was too lazy to pay attention to him, he turned around and left the flower hall with Hu Zi.

Lian Shengjie covered his face and stared at Pang Xiao's back, and roared sternly: "You, don't be mad, sooner or later you will cry!"

And this scene in the house was clearly seen by Honglu Siqing and others who were peeping from the crack of the door, and quietly went to report it to the emperor.

The emperor was hugging the empress, sitting on the Luohan bed with bright yellow mattress by the window of the imperial study, making fun of him.

After listening to the words of Honglu Siqing, the queen first smiled coquettishly: "It seems that Prince Zhongshun is nothing more than that."

The emperor was fed up with Pang Xiao's domineering, patted the queen on the buttocks, and whispered a few words in her ear.

The queen acted coquettishly for a while, seeing that the emperor really wanted her to leave, so she reluctantly took someone out of the imperial study.

The emperor smiled and watched the queen walk away, and then his expression became condensed, and he stood up and said, "So, Emperor Zhou is afraid of Pang Zhixi."

"Wei Chen also thinks so. Otherwise, with Pang Zhixi's usual domineering temperament, he would definitely not tolerate the envoy's repeated questioning."

"Cut! I know that people who are mad when they are in power, even if they are rich, they will not last long. How can others be snoring on the side of the couch? Emperor Zhou was afraid that he would not be used to what he did and intended to suppress. Otherwise, what? How dare someone with the surname Lian dare to be so bold in front of Pang Zhixi?"

"Emperor Shengming." The minister of Honglu Temple nodded again and again.

The emperor waved his hand and sent the minister of Honglu Temple down.

When there was no one left or right, the emperor sat down with a gloomy face behind the black lacquered paulownia wood dragon book desk.

Recalling that in the daytime his courtesy towards Pang Zhixi had been looked down upon by so many people and courtiers, the emperor felt regretful.

Who knew that Pang Zhixi's status in Da Zhou had already been shaken?

Knowing this earlier, he should be tougher! Quantity Pang Zhixi can't control Zhou Emperor's thoughts now!

He actually listened to the threat of Pang Zhixi's war?

What a misstep, misstep!

In a fit of anger, the emperor swept the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the table to the ground.

The guards and the inner servants outside the hall heard the voice and rushed in to escort them in a panic. Seeing that it was the emperor's dragon nature, he was a little relieved, but everyone was silent and dared not approach to persuade.

The emperor's temper has become more and more irritable recently. Anger is often uncontrollable. The last time the big eunuch with a pen was only persuaded, he was pulled out and beaten twenty boards.

If it wasn't for the eunuch's strong prestige, and the relationship in advance, where would he still be alive now?

After the emperor smashed everything that could be smashed, he let out a sigh of relief.

"Bring me the elixir donated by Liu Xiangu."

"Yes." The big eunuch immediately went to get a delicate gold box, and presented a black pill with both hands.

The emperor swallowed it with cold wine, and immediately felt very refreshed and happy.

He laughed loudly and said, "Liu Xiangu recommended by the queen is very good. I instructed the queen to let her reward her as appropriate, and take whatever she wants from my inner pocket."

"Yes. The servant will go here." The big eunuch smiled and saluted, and whispered to the little servant to quietly clean up the mess on the ground.

The emperor thought for a while and then said: "Also, you go to deliver the decree early tomorrow morning, the grace I gave to the Qin family is not a fake, since the Sun family has now become a super-ranking official, there should be no less reward. I wrote on the plaque tomorrow that you will send it to someone to make it, and I will set up an archway for the Sun family in front of the Qin family, and after you send the reward in the morning, go to the Qin family and explain it together."

"The slaves obey the order."