#864 - All very confident
“Rumble!!!”
Not long after Zhang San finished speaking, just as Wei Changtian had expected, the heavy city gate of Linchuan City finally opened slowly amidst a loud noise.
Looking at the man standing behind the city gate, Xu Quan immediately whispered to Wei Changtian:
“Young Master, that is Su Qi.”
“...”
Looking up through the car curtain, Wei Changtian immediately saw this Daqian official who was said to hate evil like poison.
Not tall, about fifty years old, his official uniform was spotless, and he stood upright.
Well, he does look quite upright.
“Let’s go, enter the city.”
Wei Changtian glanced at Su Qi, who was standing behind the city gate as if waiting for him, calmly lowered the curtain, and casually gave an order.
Zhang San immediately returned to the carriage upon hearing this, and drove towards the city.
“This official is the Prefect of Linchuan, Su Qi!”
“Is the person in the carriage Young Master Wei Changtian?”
Standing beside the carriage, Su Qi stared at the car curtain, and said word by word:
“Young Master Wei, I wonder if you would be willing to get out of the car and have a chat with this official?”
“...”
A breeze拂过the corners of his clothes, and the purple official uniform gently swayed.
Su Qi stood alone by the carriage, motionless, as if he was not afraid at all that the person in the car was the “Living Yama” that countless people feared.
Putting aside everything else, this at least showed that he was indeed a person with considerable courage.
It's just that Wei Changtian was very disdainful of such a “good man”.
“Get out of the car and have a chat?”
“Lord Su, are you and I very familiar?”
Some mocking sounds came from the car, but the car curtain was never opened.
Faced with Wei Changtian's ridicule, Su Qi's face remained unchanged, and he still replied in a humble tone:
“Young Master Wei, you and I have never met before, so how can we talk about familiarity?”
“But since you are here to return my Daqian soldiers, and I am ordered by His Majesty to receive these 200,000 people, I would like to talk to the Young Master. That should be right!”
“Return? Receive?”
The smile in Wei Changtian's voice was even stronger: “Lord Su, you are mistaken.”
“I am not so kind, I am not here to return surrendered soldiers.”
“As for anything else, you are not worthy to talk to me. Go find Jing Guoqing.”
“Zhang San, go.”
After leaving the last sentence, there was no more sound from the car, and the carriage slowly drove again, heading towards Linchuan City.
Looking at the carriage that was gradually moving away, Su Qi did not stop him, but stood still in place, his expression showing no joy or sorrow, nor the anger of being humiliated.
“Sir...”
Not long after, an attendant ran quickly to his side and asked cautiously: “Now we...”
“Keep an eye on him, see where he lives and who he meets.”
Still staring at the direction the carriage was leaving, Su Qi slowly said:
“Also, send a letter to His Majesty, saying that everything here is under control!”
“...”
Two quarters of an hour later, an inn located in the west of Linchuan City.
“Husband, since you don’t plan to talk to that Su Qi, why did we enter the city?”
In the guest room, Yang Liushi asked with a puzzled face: “Wouldn’t it be safer to wait for Jing Guoqing to come in the military camp?”
Regarding the “first confrontation” that had just ended, Yang Liushi was obviously quite puzzled by Wei Changtian’s actions.
First of all, just like Wei Changtian said, they would definitely not easily hand over the 200,000 surrendered soldiers this time, but would use them as a bargaining chip to do something.
In that case, these 200,000 people can no longer move forward, and can only go to Linchuan at most.
Therefore, Yang Liushi originally thought that Wei Changtian entered the city to talk to Su Qi first to see if he could find out some information in advance.
But he didn't expect that Wei Changtian had no intention of talking at all.
Then why enter the city?
Wouldn't it be better to just stay in the military camp and wait for Jing Guoqing to come?
“Who said I don’t plan to talk to Su Qi?”
Faced with Yang Liushi's question, Wei Changtian smiled and said meaningfully: “It’s just not now.”
“Then when is it?”
Yang Liushi was even more puzzled: “We don’t have anyone in this Linchuan Prefecture, what does Husband want to do?”
“You will know this soon.”
Wei Changtian smiled mysteriously, stood up and said, “Let me ask you first, do you think that if I ask Jing Guoqing to come to Linchuan, will he come?”
“This...”
Yang Liushi thought for a while, and then shook her head: “He shouldn’t.”
“He will definitely be afraid of Husband killing him, so he may not dare to show his face.”
“It’s not maybe, it’s definitely not daring.”
Wei Changtian glanced at the window, and said very firmly: “Now, there are not many people in the world who don’t know my methods, not to mention the lessons of Yan Huanwen and Lü Hongji, how dare he meet me.”
“So, I have to think of a way to make him show up, or even come to Linchuan in person.”
“But how can this be done?”
Yang Liushi looked worried: “I’m afraid no matter what happens, he won’t take this risk.”
“Well, forcing him to come is definitely not possible.”
Wei Changtian nodded: “But we can trick him into coming.”
“Trick?”
Yang Liushi blinked: “How to trick him?”
“This depends on Su Qi”
After talking in circles, he finally returned to Su Qi.
Wei Changtian walked to the window, closed the open wooden window, and said with a smile:
“It can be seen that he is indeed trusted by Jing Guoqing, and he is indeed an upright person.”
“In that case, it will be easy...”
“...”
The sunlight entered through the window, and there was no more sound in the guest room.
While the two were talking, Xu Quan had already quietly arrived outside the yamen of the Linchuan Branch of the Demon Slayer Division.
Standing under the familiar plaque, he took a deep breath and took out the Demon Slayer Division token that he had not used for a long time from his arms.
Looking at the token in his hand, which was engraved with the words “Slaying Demons” and “Exterminating Evil” on the front and back respectively, Xu Quan's eyes were quite emotional.
But soon this emotion disappeared, and then he said to the yamen servant who had just pushed the door out:
“Brother, I am from the General Division in the capital.”
“Is your Lord Wang in the yamen?”
“Please inform him immediately, I have something important to tell him!”
