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Chapter 255 A young man and an old man who came to receive the Liao envoy (second update)

Zhou Bangyan squeezed out a smile to accompany him. "Duke Zhuangyuan, when will the Liao envoy arrive?"

"Everyone, Zhou, please be patient. After all, we are the hosts, and the Liao envoy is the guest."

"Don't worry, Mr. Zhuangyuan, I understand, I understand..."

Zhou Bangyan paused for a while, and subconsciously raised his eyes to glance at his personal companion Zhou Mo not far away, and the other two "personal companions" brothers Wednesday and Thursday.

Well, the names of Wednesday and Thursday are not fake, but their "accompanying" nature is fake.

These two are the uncles of the Imperial City Division, but they were arranged by Gao Zhang to be by his side as personal followers.

That kind of uncomfortable feeling made Zhou Bangyan feel as if he went to the toilet to relieve himself, and then there was a big living person squatting next to him staring at him.

However, this number one scholar had a plausible argument, and he entrusted these two capable detectives of the Imperial City Secretary to him as his confidantes.

The purpose is to allow myself to take the Liao ambassador to the Goulan pavilion to make fun of the chickens without worrying about inquiring about news or testing the other party.

Because these two "confidantes" will do what they should do, so that the Liao ambassador can avoid seeing flaws in himself.

It's no wonder that Zhou Bangyan dared to believe this, especially the No. [-] member of the Imperial City Division, Zhao Abban, the sixth-rank Imperial City Division, also mixed with the group of family guards behind Gao Zhang.

Facing Gao Zhang, the No. [-] Scholar, with his obedient and ingratiating appearance, Zhou Bangyan was really afraid.

Ever since he knew that there were many people from the Imperial City Division in the team that greeted the envoys from the Liao Kingdom.

How could Zhou Bangyan dare to pose as an elder? He even had the urge to curl up into a ball and hide under the bed.

If he wanted to annoy this ulterior-minded prodigy number one scholar, all he needed was a look.

This notorious and cruel imperial secretary will definitely make his life worse than death.Even if his reputation in the literary and art circles is great, so what?
Thinking about the days to come, not only would he be instigated by Gao Zhang, but he would also be stared at by the people from the Imperial City Division.

This really made Zhou Bangyan's eyes reddened, Ni Ma, not only would his reputation be ruined for the rest of his life, but he also had to worry about being feared.

I can't wait to pull up my belt and find a tree with a crooked neck to get rid of it...

"Everyone Zhou, let's go..."

Gao Zhang saw a horse galloping towards him, and gestured frequently in this direction, knowing that the team of the Liao Kingdom's envoys was about to arrive.

Zhou Bangyan got up quickly, straightened his robes with a smile all over his face, with a respectful and authentic attitude.

"Young Scholar, please..."

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Gao Zhang walked out of the post house slowly, and stood beside the road. There was already smoke and dust billowing in the distance, and he was walking gradually towards this side.

The scale of this Liao Kingdom envoy should not be large, just like a hundred people.

Gradually, the team got closer and closer, and Gao Zhang finally saw clearly the whole picture of this Liao Kingdom envoy.

With just one glance, Gao Zhang's eyeballs almost turned red, what a shame!

Look, the envoys of the Liao Kingdom on Bailai are all riding good horses, and there are several carriages in the team.

And it can be clearly seen that the good horses of these people are quite tall and handsome, probably no worse than the imperial horse that the officials rewarded him.

And the officials of Honglu Temple behind Gao Zhang did not have such good self-control ability as Gao Zhang.

They all started pointing and whispering in low voices.Naturally, the topics were all related to the good horses of the Liao missions and their attire.

And the big man in the head also looks quite fat and strong, but his clothes don't show a little bit of Liao people's attire.

The only difference is the three small beards under his chin. Unlike Song people who like to grow long beards, Liao people prefer to trim them into short beards. This is the custom of their Khitan people.

And there are not only three small beards, some have a mustache, and the last one has a short beard only under the nose and between the mouth.

I saw that in the Liao army, there were a few fat and strong Liao cavalry with bald shaved hair and iron armor on their bodies, and they had this kind of beard that was very Japanese.

The corners of Gao Zhang's mouth twitched. Well, it seems that he is so rare and strange. It turns out that this beard style, which was popular in the Japanese country, had been popular in the ethnic minority areas of China as early as more than 1000 years ago.

It must be that those Japanese people think that this kind of beard is very characteristic, so they also like to imitate it and pass it down to later generations.

At this moment, Xiao Fengxian, who had two dark circles on his horseback, widened his eyes in disbelief, and pointed to the short figure standing beside the road ahead.

"That one is Gao Zhang, the child prodigy who is in charge of receiving this envoy?"

"Reporting to the Liao envoy, this is my number one scholar in the Song Dynasty, the prime minister of Honglu Temple, and the prime minister of Gaosi. Next to him is the deputy envoy, Zhou Bangyan, the Great Music Commander of the Dasheng Mansion..."

Xiao Fengxian widened his eyes and looked at the two, one was an old man in green robe with gray beard and hair, and the other was a handsome young man in red robe who had obviously not grown up yet, with red lips and white teeth.

This made Xiao Fengxian a little puzzled, he never thought that the court would send such a strange combination to receive him.

Although the old and the young, he was far away in the Liao Kingdom, and he had already heard of their reputation.

At the age of 11, becoming the No. [-] scholar of the Song Dynasty is definitely an unprecedented anecdote, which even aroused a lot of discussion among the ruling and opposition parties of the Liao Kingdom.

As for Zhou Bangyan, his Ci works were also very popular in the Liao Kingdom with those talents who liked the culture of the Song Dynasty.Here, of course, this Xiao Fengxian is also included.

However, I entrusted the emperor of Daliao to come to Song Dynasty as an envoy, in order to put pressure on Song Ting to let Song Ting, who is currently superior in military power, strike down, and also asked Song Ting to return the captured territory to Xixia.

Song Ting unexpectedly didn't appoint one or two sophisticated officials to deal with such a military and state affairs.

He actually just let a newcomer in the officialdom who is tender enough to pinch water, and an artist whose reputation in the Goulang Pavilion circle is far greater than his official skills to deal with him.

Is this looking down on him, the envoy of the Great Liao Kingdom who relies on his younger sister?Or, those ministers and workers of the Song Dynasty were afraid of the prestige of the Daliao, and did not dare to come to receive themselves...

Just after thinking wildly, Xiao Fengxian's mount has already come close.

Xiao Fengxian turned over, jumped off his horse and strode forward, introducing himself in his fluent Song Mandarin.

"... When Xiao was in Daliao before, he had already heard the name of Gao Sicheng's prodigy champion, and today he finally got to meet the real person..."

"And Mr. Zhou, when Xiao went to Goulan when he was young, he had heard of Mr. Zhou's reputation and excellent works. Even now, Xiao can still hear Mr. Zhou's new works from time to time..."

(End of this chapter)