Time flies, and a few days have passed.

On this day, a horse-drawn carriage slowly drove through the streets of Xianyang City, and finally stopped in front of an imposing mansion.

A middle-aged man with a wide robe and big sleeves, a square face and a black beard, and a serious face stepped out of the carriage and came to the gate of the mansion.

"The trouble is spread through, Zhao Zheng Zhu, ask to see Ying Hou."

The guard at the door looked at Zheng Zhu and said respectfully, "My lord, and later." And he went into the door.

A moment later, the guard hurried out with a gray-haired butler.

I saw the housekeeper nodding towards Zheng Zhu, and said with a smile: "Gong Zheng, it's really unfortunate, my family has gone out this morning and has not returned to the house yet." ”

When Zheng Zhu heard this, the expression on his face did not change in the slightest, as if he had already seen this scene.

In fact, he had seen it many times.

Because these days, Zheng Zhu has to run here almost every day, and he gets the same response at the gate every day, even the angle of the guard's bow and the three inevitable pauses in the butler's sentence are extremely familiar to Zheng Zhu.

Yes, these guys don't even change their lines, and this acting can be said to be very unobtrusive.

Zheng Zhu, an envoy of Zhao, came to Xianyang half a month ago on the order of Zhao Wangdan, in order to discuss the matter of peace with Qin Wangji, the monarch of Qin, and Fan Sui, the prime minister of Qin.

To be honest, Zheng Zhu has made relatively full preparations for this peace negotiation, and he is also confident that he will win certain interests for Zhao Guo at the negotiation table.

But except for that grand banquet attended by the envoys of the other five countries, Zheng Zhu had never seen either Qin Wangji and Qin Xiang Fan Sui again, and this negotiation was naturally impossible.

The people of Qin entertained Zheng Zhu very warmly and thoughtfully, and then ignored Zheng Zhu extremely coldly, as if there was no one named Zheng Zhu staying in Xianyang at all.

In order to accomplish the mission of the peace talks, Zheng Zhu thought of many ways, found a lot of relationships, and used many means.

But it was obviously unrealistic for a foreign minister to want to sneak into the palace of King Qin to meet Qin Wangji, so Zheng Zhu thought about it and decided to put the main target on Qin Xiang Fan Sui.

Qin Xiang Fan Sui was named the Marquis of Qin Wangji, and the Marquis Mansion that Zheng Zhu was facing at this moment was Fan Sui's mansion.

In the past, Zheng Zhu visited every day, but every time Fan Sui would avoid it for various reasons, just like today.

In the eyes of the steward of the Ying Hou Mansion, today's task has been completed, and this envoy of the Zhao State, who does not like to be stalked, should stand still for a moment, sigh and leave.

But what the housekeeper didn't know was that Ying Hou was still Ying Hou a few days ago, but this Zheng Zhu was no longer the Zheng Zhu of a few days ago.

All of this was because of the secret letter sent from Handan a few days ago and came to Zheng Zhu in Xianyang City last night at the fastest speed.

Two secret letters.

Zheng Zhu heard the housekeeper's words, but instead of turning around and leaving as before, he took out a thin silk book from his arms and put it in the housekeeper's hand without hurry.

"Please hand over this letter to Ying Hou, Zheng can wait here."

The housekeeper glanced down at the silk book, with a surprised look on his face, and after hesitating for a moment, he turned around and walked into the gate of Yinghou's Mansion.

Anyway, everyone knows that Fan Sui is actually in the house, so the housekeeper has no intention of hiding it.

Zheng Zhu stood calmly outside the gate of Yinghou's Mansion and waited quietly.

A luxuriously styled, horse-drawn carriage with a hug in front of the Hou Mansion drove past the avenue in front of the Ying Hou Mansion and happened to pass by Zheng Zhu's side.

Conversation came from the carriage.

"Who is this?"

"Zheng Zhu, the envoy of the Zhao State."

"Zheng Zhu? In this way, doesn't he want to meet Ying Hou? ”

"I think so."

"It's ridiculous, since he is an envoy of the Zhao State, why don't you go to meet the king, but come to see the marquis?"

"The king doesn't want to see this Zheng Zhu."

"If the king does not want to see him, how can the prince meet him? It's wishful thinking. ”

This sarcastic conversation reached Zheng Zhu's ears very clearly, but Zheng Zhu was completely unmoved, still smiling, his posture was extremely elegant, and he couldn't find anything wrong.

The door of Yinghou's Mansion opened again.

The figure of the butler reappeared, and the shock on his face was still faintly visible.

"Lord Zheng Zhu, my lord is invited."

The carriage behind Zheng Zhu was still slowly driving across the avenue, but the conversation in it was cut off in an instant.

The smile on Zheng Zhu's face became even stronger, and the envoy of the Zhao State smiled like this, and then took elegant steps and walked into the Ying Hou Mansion that he had been wanting to enter for half a month, but he had never been allowed to enter.

After a while, Zheng Zhu came to the living room, and on the top seat of the living room, there was already a middle-aged man in his forties, dressed in black, with a long face and small eyes, and a shining eye.

This is the current Xiangbang of Qin, Qin Wangji's number one confidant Ying Hou Fan Sui.

Zheng Zhu stepped forward and smiled at Fan Sui: "I've seen Ying Hou." ”

Contrary to Zheng Zhu who was full of spring breeze, Fan Sui's mood didn't look so good, I saw Fan Sui raise his hand, and a silk book slowly fell in front of Zheng Zhu, which was the one that Zheng Zhu handed over to the housekeeper to forward.

"Zheng Zhu, what does it mean in your letter?"

Zheng Zhu's smile remained unchanged and he picked up the silk book.

There is only one sentence on it.

"Sigh that the death period is approaching, but I don't know it."

This sentence was written by Zheng Zhu himself.

Zheng Zhu said with a smile: "Zhu's intention is all in the letter, but he doesn't know how to protect himself when the catastrophe is coming, but he blames Zhu instead, which is really strange." ”

Fan Sui snorted coldly, and stared at Zheng Zhu with raised eyes: "If you can't say that you are ugly today, don't blame Benhou for expelling you from Xianyang!" ”

This is really not a verbal threat, it is not the first time that Fan Sui has done this to drive away other countries to make this matter.

"Expulsion from Xianyang?" Zheng Zhu smiled slightly and said: "The good teacher Ying Hou learned that the fate of the king of Handan has arrived, and after paying homage to Ying Hou today, Zhu will leave for Handan." ”

"What?" Fan Sui showed a slightly surprised look, but he was not too surprised. Obviously, this Qin State Prime Minister had some expectations for the possibility of Zheng Zhu returning to China.

Anyway, the use value of Zheng Zhu's guy has been used up by Qin Wangji and Fan Sui in the banquet with the participation of the envoys of all countries, and it has also achieved the purpose of making all countries not send troops to rescue Zhao State, so it is already an irrelevant matter whether Zheng Zhu leaves or not.

The biggest reason why Fan Sui is willing to meet Zheng Zhu today is this letter that Fan Sui is killed, but some rumors from Handan about Zheng Zhu's possible return to China are also one of the reasons.

Fan Sui also wanted to take this opportunity to see if he could get something out of Zheng Zhu's mouth.

Zheng Zhu said with a smile: "Ying Hou must want to know what Zhu Xin's words mean. ”

Fan Sui snorted coldly again and said, "I was about to ask for advice." ”

As the prime minister of the Qin Dynasty, Fan Sui won the trust of Qin Wangji, and it can be said that he was in power in the Qin State, and he covered the sky with one hand except for Qin Wangji.

When Fan Sui first became the prime minister of Qin, he had done something to force the envoy of Wei to eat horse forage in public, if Zheng Zhu couldn't say one, two, three, four today, Fan Sui didn't mind letting Zheng Zhu also taste the taste of forage, and then drove Zheng Zhu out of Xianyang.

Zheng Zhu smiled again, and didn't seem to take Fan Sui's threat to heart, but Shi Shiran said: "Dare to ask Ying Hou, where is Wu Anjun now?" ”

Wu Anjun, this is a title that is not uncommon in the Warring States Period, for example, the famous Su Qin was awarded the position of Wu Anjun by Zhao Suhou.

But since Zheng Zhu is located in the Qin State at the moment, and he is facing Qin Xiang Fan Sui, this Wu Anjun in Zheng Zhu's mouth is obviously referring to the more famous and more well-known Wu Anjun of the Qin State in later generations, of course, this person is-

"Human slaughter" is white!