In the Chongzheng Palace, Han Zhongyan fought Zeng Bu and An Tao, and finally won a party battle.

Wu Haogu was staying in the "home", quietly watching a woman prepare lunch for him.

The "home" where he is located is not the martial arts mansion in Kaifeng City, nor the Pear Blossom Courtyard outside the city, but the simple small building near the Fang Building, Bai Feifei.

Probably because the dick silk mentality in the previous life is still in play. Compared with the pear blossom courtyard dissolving the moon and the pear blossom courtyard with a faint breeze in the catkins pond, this small building gives Wuhao Gu more of a homely feeling.

And Bai Feifei, a woman who always looks light and elegant, also makes Wu Haogu feel particularly cordial - this is a feeling of living at home with an elegant beauty, which is indeed very comfortable and relaxing.

Wu Haogu came over early in the morning, just like the head of the family, and after enjoying the breakfast made by Bai Feifei himself, he instructed Bai Feifei to send someone with his letter to Dutingyi, which was not far away, to invite Xiao Bao to come before.

Xiao Bao is a person who is inconvenient for Wu Haogu to meet, he is an envoy of the Liao State, how can Wu Haogu, a bureaucrat of the Great Song Dynasty, meet him privately? However, Bai Feifei had a way to contact him, because Bai Feifei was the head of the Qinglou line in Kaifeng Mansion. Xiao Bao came to the Great Song Dynasty first to be He Zhengdan's envoy, not to be a monk, and it was too normal to find a prostitute to hold hands.

After Bai Feifei sent his maid to deliver the letter, he prepared lunch for Wu Haogu and Xiao Bao, who was about to visit, in the kitchen.

Today's lunch is flat food, in the Song Dynasty flat food refers to dumplings, which are dumplings filled with pork, chopping filling, noodles, and wrapping flat food, all completed by Bai Feifei alone.

Wu Haogu wanted to help, but Bai Feifei didn't let him touch his hands, he really looked like a good wife and mother. However, he didn't drive Wu Haogu out of the kitchen, but let him watch him work.

The fire in the kitchen was already lit and it was very warm, and the snowflakes were fluttering outside the window, which was very poetic.

It's a pity that Wu Dalang, who worshiped Su Dongpo as his teacher, still has no poetic talent, otherwise he would have been able to chant a poem.

After adjusting the filling, mixing the dough, and starting to wrap the flat food, there was a knock on the door.

"Official, a guest is coming." Bai Feifei put down the work in his hand, wiped his hands with a clean cloth towel, and said with a smile, "You go and sit in the hall, and the slave will open the door." ”

"Lady, I'm tired." Wu Haogu also replied with a smile.

These two are obviously a dewy couple, but they play the same as the real thing, and they respect each other like guests......

The visitor was not someone else, it was Xiao Baoxian, who was being made by He Zhengdan of Liaoguo, accompanied by Xu Qiqi, who was dressed as a talented woman. Xu Qiqi was holding a paper umbrella with plum blossoms falling into the snow, and Xiao Baoxian, who was dressed as a scribe, was holding a folding fan in his hand - what is the use of this fan on a snowy day?

"Xiao stays behind, do you remember Kaifeng Wu Haogu?" Seeing Xiao Baoxian and Xu Qiqi coming, Wu Haogu stepped forward and sang a fat song.

"How don't you remember?" Xiao Bao smiled first and arched his hand, "I heard that you entered the Sumen and became a disciple of Mr. Dongpo?" ”

This Xiao Da is a fan of Su Dongpo, and he still knows the situation of his idol very well. Moreover, Wu Haogu's entry into Sumen was also published in the magazine "Wenqu Xing", so there are quite a few people who know about it.

"But there is such a thing." Wu Haogu said with a smile, "It's because the teacher can afford it, so he accepted me, a junior student." ”

As the two men spoke, they had already taken their seats in a simple hall without any decoration.

Bai Fei flew a blessing, said that he was going to make flat food, and left with Xu Qiqi.

"That's your ......," Xiao Baoxian looked at Bai Feifei, who was dressed as a housewife, and was very puzzled.

Could this be the home of Wu Haogu? Isn't he super rich? This house seems to be a bit shabby.

"An outhouse." Wu Haogu smiled faintly.

"Oh." Xiao Bao nodded first, and said in his heart: Wu Haogu's outer room is really comfortable to look at, although he doesn't use powder, and he is dressed very plainly, but he still can't hide the charm that comes out of his bones. Elegance and charm are perfectly combined...... When I go back to Xijin Mansion, I have to build an outer room like this.

No, the outer house should be placed in Jiehe Commercial Market, and it is best to find a woman from the Song Dynasty...... This is the mood,

"Stay," Wu Haogu spoke again at this time, he didn't go around any circles with Xiao Bao first, so he went straight to the point, "When Xia Guan returned to Kaifeng Mansion a few days ago, he met Wu Yanzhong of the Goryeo National Military Department. ”

"Oh?" Xiao Baoxian didn't have the heart to think about "good family" anymore, and his expression became serious.

Although the long war between the Khitan and the Northern Hindu was over, an even greater crisis was approaching the Great Liao Kingdom, where Emperor Yelu Hongji fell seriously ill and was likely to die soon.

The fierce struggle within the Liao State is about to begin!

When the door was closed and there was infighting, he naturally had no time to deal with the rising Nuzhi and the Goryeo Kingdom that was about to move.

And once these two sides decide the winner, then Daliao will face a new strong enemy.

"He said that the Goryeo Kingdom was about to go to war with the female Naoto," said Wu Haogu, "This is a battle between two tigers!" ”

"Two tigers?" Xiao Baoxian smiled, "At best, it's just two dogs." ”

"Oh?" Wu Haogu smiled, "Is that really how you look at staying behind?"

Then I will truthfully report to my country's officials. ”

"This is the official family of the Great Song Dynasty who asked Dongmen to ask the envoy?" Xiao Baoxian asked with some uncertainty.

Wu Haogu smiled but did not answer. At this time, Xu Qiqi had already brought steaming flat food, gave Wu Haogu and Xiao Baoxian a bowl each, and then left with interest.

Wu Haogu picked up the chopsticks with a smile and said to Xiao Baoxian: "Stay behind, how about trying my Feifei's craftsmanship?" ”

"Okay," Xiao Baoxian was really hungry, and glanced at the steaming flat food in front of his eyes, "It looks good!" ”

"The ...... of pork filling" Wu Haogu picked up a flat food with chopsticks, and without sticking to the sauce, he stuffed it directly into his mouth and chewed it in a big gulp.

Xiao Baoxian also picked up a flat food and put it in his mouth, it was a little hot, and the filling inside was very tender, no worse than the flat food with mutton filling.

"Both the Goryeo and the Nunoto are ready to do a big job," Wu Haogu swallowed the chewed flat food, "and have been selling medicinal herbs, furs, and other mountain goods lately...... In addition, they are all looking for ways to buy ironware. ”

Goryeo was able to make iron, but like other handicraft products in Goryeo, iron was not produced much and had to be imported from the Song and Liao kingdoms—there are even historical records of Goryeo kingdoms exchanging cattle and grain for iron tools from the Jurchens of Holadian.

Of course, the Jurchens themselves could not make iron, and their iron tools were all obtained from the Bohai people.

When the relationship between the Jurchen and the Goryeo Kingdom became increasingly tense, the channel for iron to flow into Goryeo was naturally blocked, and the Goryeo people needed to obtain replenishment from the Song State.

"Isn't it strictly forbidden for you to leave the country with iron weapons?" Xiao Bao asked rhetorically.

"It's not strictly forbidden," Wu Haogu smiled, "It's just a little restrictive." ”

The iron ban was not strict in the Song Dynasty, because the Western Xia and Liao, the two main enemies of the Song Dynasty, would make iron, and they produced better iron than those of the Song Dynasty......

"You want to help Korea?" Xiao Baoxian's tone had already relaxed.

"What do you call aid?" Wu Haogu shook his head again and again, "Those who don't need money are aid!" Stay behind, you don't think that our country will give things to the Koreans for nothing, do you? ”

If this matter is really discussed in the imperial court, it may really come to the conclusion of "no money" - the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty have always had illusions about Goryeo.

However, Wu Haogu preferred to join Liao...... Today, he met with Xiao Baoxian to discuss how to slaughter the Koreans.

Xiao Baoxian picked up another flat food, "Then Wu Dongmen, do you also think that Gao Li and Nuzhi are two vicious dogs?" ”

"Goryeo is a vicious dog," Wu Haogu smiled, "but the female straight is a tiger!" ”

"Tiger?" Xiao Baoxian smiled, "For you Han people, the female straight is also a tiger, but for my Khitan, it is also a vicious dog." ”

A typical swollen face and fat man! Wu Hao scolded for a moment, and said: "It's a vicious dog, it's good to die a few more."

Stay behind, our two countries are now brothers, why don't we join forces and let the female straight and the Korean people fight for a few more years, and how about losing both? ”

Xiao Bao first stuffed the flat food he had just picked up into his mouth and chewed it slowly, but he couldn't taste anything, because all his thoughts were savoring what Wu Haogu said.

Regardless of whether Goryeo or Nuzhi is a tiger or a dog, it is always good for the Khitan to die more!

What is needed now is whether the Song people will use this war to support the Goryeo Kingdom to become bigger?

When two dogs compete, it is not necessarily a lose-lose situation, sometimes there will be a situation where the winner swallows up the loser and becomes a tiger!

"Stay behind," Wu Haogu spoke again, "You can think about this matter, and the stakes can always be thought out clearly."

In addition, there is a small matter for you to help me with today. ”

"What's the matter?"

Wu Haogu said with a smile: "Dutingyi is very old, there have always been for more than a hundred years, do you feel uncomfortable staying behind?" Moreover, the lower officials also heard that the vicinity of Dutingyi was haunted. I don't know if I've ever seen a ghost left behind? ”

"Huh? Haunted? Is there such a thing? Xiao Baoxian was stunned, "Wu Dongmen, what do you want this official to do?" It's not going to help you catch ghosts, is it? ”

"Ghosts have their own people to catch," Wu Haogu said with a smile, "but someone has to report the dilapidated and haunted inn." Stay...... Can you do this a little favor? ”

"But I haven't heard of the haunting." Xiao Baoxian still didn't understand what was going on, but when he spoke, he thought: Probably the copy of the "Diamond Sutra" given by His Majesty (referring to Liao Daozong) that I brought with me has mana, and the ghosts of the Song Dynasty are afraid of the emperor of Liao and dare not come to offend, right?

Wu Haogu smiled and took out a book of poems, "Stay behind, this is the "Hetao Poetry Collection" of family poems, which is written by my master (actually Mi Youren's ghostwriting). If the left-behind helps, this collection of poems will be given to the left-behind. ”