People in Terra, poor and weak but invincible

Chapter 882 Parting on bad terms

After Zuo Xuanliao arranged for two of his trusted confidants to act as tour guides for Lao Li, he turned around and walked into the tent.

Everyone had already taken their seats.

Wei Yanwu seemed to be more of a master than Zuo Xuanliao. He took out the best tea that Zuo Xuanliao had hidden and brewed it himself.

The aroma of tea soon filled the entire tent.

Zuo Xuanliao walked to the main seat with an expressionless face and sat down, warning Wei Yanwu:

"Soak it well, don't waste it."

"I cherish these good things more than a crude warrior like you." Wei Yanwu said disdainfully.

"Your current behavior is even more vulgar than that of a warrior like me." Zuo Xuanliao confronted him head-on and refused to give in.

Seeing that the two of them had already quarreled for three sentences without saying a word about the main issue, Zhongyue quickly stepped out to smooth things over:

“My sister wasn’t there that year, so no one would have wasted tea. Don’t panic, Brother Zuo. I’m sorry that I caused everyone to worry last year. I didn’t expect her to be so naughty.

Ling, as the eldest sister, you don’t know how to manage things.”

Seeing that the pot was thrown to him by his eldest brother, Ling smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Brother, you know me well. Xiaonian and Xiaoxi are always happy when they are around me."

"You really don't know how to be a sister." Zhong Yue said lightly and continued to lead the topic, "Let's continue talking about the Shanhai people."

This time Zuo Xuanliao took the initiative to speak:

“Shanhaizhong, this group of people should have been wiped out many years ago, but I didn’t expect them to revive.

The hunting of behemoths thousands of years ago ended the era when behemoths ran rampant on the territory of Da Yan, but it did not end people's belief in those behemoths.

Now that they have attacked Yumen for the second time, in my opinion, there must be a leader among them, and it is very likely that he is..."

"It was my second brother's doing." Zhongyue spoke directly and pointed out the truth.

"Not only that, according to the information that Master Taifu told me, Wang is still hiding in the dark this time."

Wei Yanwu poured tea for everyone at the table one by one, and even deliberately put Zuo Xuanliao last: "The one who really caused trouble was another giant beast mixed in with the Shanhai people, but in addition to that, Wang Shangshu also revealed information about two other similar beasts."

"So many?"

Zuo Xuanliao's face was as ugly as it could be.

Ling said: “I was also present when Second Brother discussed this matter with Qi Yan, and now the identities of two of the three giant beasts have been revealed.

One of them is a giant beast named Jing, who committed evil deeds in the territory of Yan State and should be killed. This beast has a life-and-death feud with Qi Yan, so he does not need Yumen to deal with it.

The second one, according to my judgment, should be the black snake shadow from Ursus who calls himself immortal. His strength is average, but his methods are really annoying. He also has a grudge with Qi Yan. I don’t know what purpose he has in joining this time.”

Everyone in the tent was silent, with only the sound of Wei Yanwu slurping his tea.

Just when Zuo Xuanliao was about to reach the end of his patience, Wei Yanwu calculated the timing and spoke in advance:

"Black Snake is an old friend of mine. Since Qi Yan is here with me, I don't mind giving him a ride."

"This is Yumen." Zuo Xuanliao said in a deep voice, "You'd better not forget one thing. There are still countless people in the city. The remaining power of the battle between the giant beasts is enough to cause Yumen to face an unprecedented crisis."

Chen, who was sitting next to Ling, thought about it and reminded him:

"In addition to the giant beast crisis, there is also a natural disaster outside Yumen that is about to take shape."

“Speaking of which, why didn’t the messenger of natural disasters that you rescued return to the city?” Zuo Xuanliao asked.

In response to his question, Chen answered somewhat puzzlingly: "Their work of monitoring natural disasters has not been completed yet, so they stayed outside the city to continue their work."

"Then how did you know that the natural disaster was about to take place?"

"Qi Yan is the best messenger of natural disasters in this land." Chen said confidently.

Zuo Xuanliao: “…”

He had a vague feeling that his niece Wei Yanwu was completely Qi Yan's person, and the content of this discussion would probably end up falling into Qi Yan's ears.

When he had a headache, Wei Yanwu had already asked Chen, who was avoiding him, with a shameless face:

"Did Qi Yan really not make any promises to you?"

This ambiguous question caused the atmosphere in the tent to become awkward for a moment.

But Chen didn't notice this at all, or didn't think about it that way at all, and just nodded and said:

"I have given it to you, you can rest assured."

Qi Yan did assure her on the way that Yumen was just like Shangshu, safe but not dangerous, and would never suffer any losses.

Wei Yanwu straightened his back, picked up his teacup and glanced at Zuo Xuanliao:

"General Zuo, please be careful when talking to me next time."

"Humph!"

Zuo Xuanliao snorted coldly and didn't say anything.

At this time, a soldier walked in from outside the tent and reported: "General, the people in the city have captured a member of the Shanhai Clan."

"Tell me in detail." Zuo Xuanliao leaned forward slightly.

But after the soldier finished describing what happened in the restaurant, he became confused again and subconsciously waved his hand to send the man away.

"Well, that Jijing is Qi Yan. If nothing unexpected happens, Myrtle and Qin Liu are Nian and Qi Lin. These are the code names of the Rhodes Island operators."

Chen explained awkwardly, "I think Qi Yan sent this person here specially to provide us with clues... But it's better to send someone to make up for the tea money afterwards."

She was too embarrassed to tell Qi Yan that his real purpose was just to escape the bill.

"Which side is Qi Yan on?" Zuo Xuanliao's thoughts were a little confused at the moment.

Wei Yanwu continued to sip his tea and said leisurely, "With Qi Yan's ability to plan the world, if you could see it, you would have long been more than just Pingshun Hou, and the Grand Tutor would probably have to take the initiative to abdicate and let others take over."

"I know you are resentful because I dragged you into this, but you can't joke with the Grand Tutor," Zuo Xuanliao warned.

"Don't be so nervous. The Grand Master is also on his way from the capital to Yumen. He will agree with my joke when he comes."

Wei Yanwu was still making jokes: "And I would like to remind everyone here that Qi Yan hates hypocrisy. If you have fun with him, he will be happy to be friends with you."

Although he said it was a reminder to everyone, Wei Yanwu only spoke these words to Zuo Xuanliao.

"In that case, then why hold the meeting? We might as well just disband." Zuo Xuanliao was obviously really angry.

"That's what I meant. Goodbye."

Wei Yanwu stood up and left: "Hui Jie, I am going back to Longmen to arrange some surprises for Black Snake, you come with me."

Chen hesitated for a moment, but still reluctantly stood up and followed Wei Yanwu away.

Chongyue took a look at Zuo Xuanliao's ugly expression, knowing that today's meeting was doomed to fail, and found an excuse to take Ling Hexi away.

Finally, Zuo Xuanliao, with a gloomy face, was the only one left in the tent.

But soon, a confidant came out from behind the scenes deep in the tent.

He looked at Zuo Xuanliao's expression and said cautiously:

"General, Duke Wei is probably just angry. He will calm down in a few days."

"Angry? No, he's not angry at all."

Zuo Xuanliao took a breath and gradually calmed down: "On the contrary, he was very happy, so happy that he was a little too proud... and also a little too happy to be fake."

The confidant obviously did not understand the meaning of these words.

Zuo Xuanliao glanced at him and said calmly, "This guy wasn't forced to stay by me and the Grandmaster using our status, but because of my attitude."

"manner?"

"How long has it been since I was so angry with him?" Zuo Xuanliao's eyes flashed with a sigh, "Facing Qi Yan, whose mind and strength far exceed mine, I know I have no chance of winning, but I am unwilling to be manipulated by him, and I cannot entrust the safety of the people of Yumen to outsiders.

So I can only rely on this method to accompany Wei Yanwu in making jokes and make him stay for the sake of our friendship. I need him to help me guess Qi Yan's actions."

"But Duke Wei..."

"He was right about all his speculations about Qi Yan, wasn't he?"

The confidant quickly bowed his head and said, "I have never questioned Duke Wei."

"...You can continue to question it." Zuo Xuanliao closed his eyes and said, "Wei Yanwu...after all, he is still the Governor of Longmen, not the Governor of Yumen.

His happiness was genuine, but it was a little too genuine, so genuine that it was obvious that it was an act.”

Outside the military camp, Wei Yanwu led Chen walking slowly on the street.

He suddenly seemed to have some feeling and looked back towards the military camp.

"What's wrong?" Chen asked.

Wei Yanwu lost his previous joking attitude, looked up at the vast sky, and said leisurely:

"I wanted to buy sweet-scented osmanthus and drink it with me, but it turned out to be different. I was a young man traveling."

Chen was confused: "Why are you..."

"Sorry, Huijie."

Wei Yanwu suddenly whispered, "Uncle was wrong about what happened at Longmen. I asked you to come with me just now, not because I really wanted to plan anything against Black Snake."

He continued to walk forward, leaving Chen with only a somewhat bleak back:

"Wen Yue has been missing you. Let's go back and spend more time with her."

"……it is good."

Chen was slightly moved and followed Wei Yanwu's footsteps.

But she didn't notice at all the gleam of brilliance that flashed in Wei Yanwu's eyes when he turned his back to her.