After embarrassing himself, Yang Tao obediently sat in the background. Looking at the wine on the table, the alcohol in his stomach began to stir.
"Shao Yang, just let me drink a little. Just one cup?"
"Not even a drop." The young scholar glanced at him coldly. Yang Tao tensed up. "Your old wounds haven't healed and you still want to drink?"
Yang Tao lowered his head and looked at his father, Yang Jian, who was sitting in front of him, gulping down wine. He seemed to be in a bad mood.
"Father, your arrow wounds haven't healed yet. You shouldn't drink right now."
Yang Jian glared at him. "Little brat, now you have the guts to mind your father's business?"
Yang Tao was speechless.
His heart had been stabbed twice by his best friend and father. His heart was broken!
The young scholar Yang Tao called "Shao Yang" held his wine cup and observed the scene around him.
Everyone was drunk and the atmosphere was very lively.
In comparison, the people around Yang Jian treated him like air.
They looked everywhere but at him, obviously isolating him. Yang Jian's drinking had something to do with this.
The young scholar squinted his eyes and snorted with disdain.
Even though the leader of the alliance had been elected, it didn't change the fact that everyone had their own agenda.
He wasn't optimistic about the outcome of this rescue mission.
Otherwise, why wouldn't everyone seriously discuss the plan after the leader was elected? Instead, they were drinking and having fun?
As he thought about it, he keenly noticed that someone was staring at him.
After searching for a while, he finally found the source of the gaze. It was Liu She.
The middle-aged man sitting on the left smiled at him in a friendly manner. The young scholar was suspicious.
"Shao Yang, I just saw Governor Liu smiling at me," Yang Tao whispered to his best friend.
The young scholar frowned and suppressed his suspicions. "Yeah."
"Governor Liu is just as I imagined. A gentle and kind person."
A long time ago, Liu She was still the governor of Hu County. Zhangzhou's East Gate County had a food shortage and had to rely on Hu County's food to survive.
Therefore, Yang Tao had a good impression of Liu She. He always believed that he was a good person.
If Yang Jian knew what his son was thinking, he would definitely vomit blood.
How was Liu She a good person? Did he send food for disaster relief for free?
That was all because Yang Jian had paid a price for it. Liu She, that unscrupulous businessman, had squeezed him dry in secret. How could he be considered a good person?
"The young man beside Liu Prefecture's Magistrate is Liu Xi, the one who asked Father for help? He looks alright, but his bones aren't too strong. "
Not strong enough?
When Yang Jian heard his son's words, he almost spat out the wine in his mouth.
If Liu Xi could not be considered healthy, then what kind of person could be considered healthy?
"Learn from other people's wisdom. You're already an adult, yet you only know how to write your own name."
Yang Tao, who had been ridiculed by his father for no reason, was speechless.
"It's okay, I have Shao Yang anyway."
Yang Tao admitted that he wasn't good at studying, and his brain wasn't good at scheming, but it was fine as long as his close friend was good at it.
To put it in more modern terms, Yan Lin was Yang Tao's external brain, and this was a one-to-one match.
The banquet lasted until the middle of the night.
Most of the people in the tent were drunk. Jiang Pengji also drank some wine and prepared to get up to change her clothes.
"Magistrate Liu."
As soon as she stepped out of the tent, she realized that someone was following her. She couldn't help but stop.
"You are?" She squinted her eyes and realized that it was the young scholar beside Yang Tao.
"I am Yan Lin, courtesy name Shao Yang," the young scholar said. "Magistrate, when do you plan to return the man you borrowed?"
Jiang Pengji crossed her arms and asked him in return.
"Why? It hasn't even been two days, and County Military Chief Yang is already rushing me?"
Yan Lin said, "The County Military Chief didn't rush me. It was my idea."
"I think Qi Kuang is a good person. I'm afraid he won't return him. I don't think County Military Chief Yang will mind if a centurion stays or goes. "
Borrow?
She always took. Even if she borrowed, she would never return it.
Yan Lin frowned. Jiang Pengji's words had confirmed his speculation.
"Magistrate Liu is still stuck in the north, and his footing isn't stable. Yet he's already thinking about the south, where there's plenty of water?"
He was eating from his bowl and looking at the pot, but he was still thinking about the one that hadn't been put into the pot.
"Everyone should have dreams. Can't I prepare for a rainy day?" Jiang Pengji said with a smile. "The water army will come in handy sooner or later."
"Magistrate Liu, you have great ambitions," Yan Lin said.
"If you don't have ambitions, what's the difference between you and a stranded salted fish?"
Jiang Pengji suddenly thought of something. She said, "Instead of testing me, Mister Yan, why don't you help County Military Chief Yang find a way out? He's someone Prince Changshou promoted, so the alliance is afraid of him. But he's already on the same boat as the alliance. In Prince Changshou's eyes, he's betraying his master. If Yang Jian is pushed to the vanguard position, you have to be careful. "
She wasn't afraid of anything else, but she was afraid that Yang Jian would be used as cannon fodder by the alliance to test Prince Changshou's combat power.
Yan Lin's face darkened. He knew that Jiang Pengji wasn't lying. He'd been worried about that recently.
"Thank you for the reminder."
"No problem."
Jiang Pengji and Liu She ate their fill. The father and daughter brought a group of guards with them and prepared to leave.
On the way, Liyun, the honest child, said, "My lord, I feel that something's wrong with this alliance meeting."
Jiang Pengji asked him, "What's wrong?"
"Why did they only choose one alliance leader? Why didn't they discuss how to split the troops, how to save His Majesty, or how to resist Prince Changshou …?"
As Jiang Pengji's military officer, Liyun was young and inexperienced. Even though he was full of doubts, he didn't dare say anything.
After all, not everyone was as naive and pure as Yang Tao.
Dian Yan followed behind. "I also feel that something's wrong, but I can't pinpoint what's wrong …"
Jiang Pengji explained with a smile.
"Everyone has their own plans. They're all very shrewd. Whoever takes the vanguard will sacrifice more. Who would be willing to suffer such a loss? Who wouldn't want to take advantage of the situation if they could take advantage of the situation? Who wouldn't want to take advantage of the situation without putting in any effort? Now let's see who can't hold back and bring up the matter of sending troops first … If no one brings it up, I'm afraid it'll drag on for a few more days … "
Liyun was dumbfounded.
In his imagination, the forces of the alliance meeting were all brave and good at fighting. They would fight to the death with Prince Changshou no matter what.
At the banquet just now, he also heard many people denouncing Prince Changshou. They scolded him to their heart's content, wishing they could dig up his ancestors' graves.
But in reality?
One by one, they shouted slogans and fought to be at the back.
Jiang Pengji smiled faintly and concluded, "So you see, the outcome of this alliance meeting won't be good."
"Then, my lord, what should we do?" Liyun asked.
Jiang Pengji said, "Your lord is here to take a look. I'm not here to fight to the death. Let's just go with the flow."
Liyun was silent for a while. He said, "It's a pity that Officer Meng … He's been working hard these days …"
Meng Hun was so busy that he couldn't be seen.
Apart from eating and sleeping, he spent the rest of his time training his troops or practicing martial arts.
Even the bystanders would feel exhausted for him when they saw how desperate he was.
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