The shopkeeper was asked by Zeluo and didn't know how to respond. Is it his own shopkeeper? If it was really his own shopkeeper, then there would be green smoke rising from his ancestral grave. This would be a blessing that would take several lifetimes to cultivate.
"My lord, you are joking. How about I treat you as the owner of the small shop today? How about you guys? Please." The shopkeeper did not dare to reveal Li Hong's identity.
I'm afraid not many people know about His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's appearance in the Western Regions, and even Pei Xingjian usually treats Li Hong as the protector of the capital.
The reason is simply that he is afraid that if Li Hong's identity is leaked, some people will target him.
In this way, if the prince makes any mistake, even if he retakes the place controlled by Ashina Duzhi, even if he takes Tubo, it will be a loss of face for the Tang Dynasty, and it cannot be regarded as an achievement. A big victory.
Seeing the attitude of the shopkeeper, Zeluo felt suspicious in his heart. This restaurant has always treated him with great respect, which is why he likes to come to this restaurant, not only because of Datang's food, but also because of Here, I can enjoy the same noble treatment as the people in Tang Dynasty.
And this kind of treatment is an environment that will make you feel that you are a real noble of the Tang Dynasty, and your status will suddenly become as if it is truly noble.
Unlike other restaurants and wine shops, the shopkeeper trembled when he saw me. The most important thing was that the environment was completely different from this restaurant.
But today, not only did the shopkeeper not treat himself, a regular customer, as a distinguished guest, but instead of driving away the young man who occupied his seat, he blatantly asked him to change seats!
In his mind, this was simply an unbelievable thing, and it made him even more curious about the identity of this young man. Who was he? He could make the shopkeeper look like a god just by sitting there without saying a word.
Zeluo withdrew his finger pointing at the young man and looked at the people at the table again. Everyone was dressed simply, not in fancy clothes. At first glance, they looked like they belonged to a wealthy family.
But everyone seems to exude a vague sense of nobility. That kind of temperament cannot be obtained by adding any luxurious clothes to the body, but requires an environment, a kind of cultivation from an early age, and even Natural aristocratic temperament.
This is why he likes to come to this restaurant, hoping to add this kind of nobility to himself.
"I haven't asked you how to call this young master yet?" Zeluo thought quickly. There is only one young man with a mysterious identity in the Anxi Protectorate. That is the chief protector of the Anxi Protectorate.
Thinking of this, Zeluo's expression suddenly changed and he looked more cautious. He looked at Li Hong and asked for advice.
"You've guessed it and you still ask?" Li Hong didn't look at him, but kept his head down, feeding beef to the little wolf with Xia Zhi.
"I guess it's two different things to tell the young master. You might as well speak more clearly." Zeluo was very cautious. If he was the Protector of Anxi, then everything would be easy to explain. If the Tang Dynasty wants to keep a foothold in Qiuci, it can't do without him. Prestige in Kucha.
But if it were not the Protector-General, but other wealthy children of the Tang Dynasty, who deceived his dignified General Dingyuan in Qiuci, it would be a big joke.
Li Hong raised his head calmly and looked at Zeluo quietly. This man was about fifty years old, but he was well maintained despite the harsh weather conditions in the Western Region.
A pair of wolf-like eyes, full of cunning and depth. The short beard makes the whole face very rough. At such an age, the figure is well maintained. There is not even a belly. The whole person looks , very much like a hero.
"Do you come to this restaurant often?" Li Hong ignored Zeluo's question, but looked at Zeluo's wolf-like eyes and asked lightly.
"What do you mean?" Zeluo didn't even notice it himself. He unknowingly put the young man's identity in the perspective of a superior and used the respectful title.
"Nothing else. If that's the case, go find another table and sit down to eat. It's very annoying to stand here." Li Hong's tone remained indifferent.
Just because she was rude to Xiaoxue and others, she didn't say anything, but that didn't mean she wasn't angry. No one had ever dared to be so rude to her maid.
Zeluo looked at Li Hong silently. In his opinion, if he were the Great Protector of the Anxi Protectorate, he would not talk to him like this. Doesn't he know how important he is to the Tang Dynasty
"Okay, okay, okay, since the young master is only bringing his servants for dinner, I think I won't leave Kucha in the next two days, and we will have a chance to meet." Zeluo's eyes showed a frightening chill, and after finishing speaking He walked straight out of the restaurant.
The diners originally thought that Li Hong and others would inevitably be bullied by Zeluo, but they didn't expect that it would be Zeluo who left here in the end.
What surprised them even more was that the restaurant manager didn't follow Zero to apologize, but bent down and apologized to the young man.
After waving the shopkeeper to leave, Li Hong asked, "Did you inform Fang Zhan?"
"According to your method, I have already informed you. But do you know this, sir? This slave is just familiar with the furnishings here, so that's why she said that this place looks like two princesses..." Xia Zhi felt a little confused.
"Go out and look at the signboard yourself. Apart from our Chinese characters, what do you think the patterns on the cloth look like?" Li Hong reached out and flicked Xia Zhi's jade-white forehead, and said coldly.
"Then I won't go and see you. You must be right."
After several people finished eating, some of the diners who came in with them saw that they walked out of the restaurant slowly without even paying, with the shopkeeper's attentive greetings.
Continuing to stroll along the busy streets, the prosperity of Kucha City is limited to the two or three east-west streets, and the other streets seem a bit deserted.
"Someone is following us, Master." Hua Meng frowned and said, "Do you want me to cut off my tail?"
"No, that's something wrong if no one is following them. Don't pay attention to them." Li Hong said while looking at the vendors selling whole sheep, selecting the fat sheep.
The little wolf started to get excited again. When he saw the horse team, he wanted to go over and take a bite. Now that he saw the sheep, he was struggling in Xia Zhi's arms, trying to fight to the death with his food.
"By the way, has the Yumen Pass been approaching recently and the guards at Yumen Pass have been a lot less relaxed?" Li Hong looked at the sheep and the familiar powder on the ground. He squatted down, grabbed a handful, and kneaded it with his fingers.
Looking at the brown powder on his fingers, starting from the sheep vendor, it formed a faint straight line and extended forward. Li Hong couldn't help but frown a little.
The cement was actually smuggled out! Although cement is no longer a rare thing in the Tang Dynasty, leaving the customs has always been prohibited. How can you see cement here now
He casually patted a very plump live sheep and motioned for the sheep to buy it, and then began to slowly explore forward along the cement scattered on the ground.
After crossing a street, we came to the back door of a house, and the lines of scattered cement formed a small pile at the back door. Apparently, the scattered cement accumulated here while waiting for the door to open.
No one could be heard in the house. I stood at the door and looked around for a while, but I couldn't see any pedestrians coming and going on this deserted street.
So Li Hong began to walk around the house, and when he arrived at the gate of the front yard, Li Hong muttered to himself: "This house is not small. According to the square system of Chang'an City, it already occupies more than half a square. "
"Who is he? Leave quickly, you are not allowed to stay here." The guard at the door saw Li Hong standing in the center of the door, looking around the inside of the house unscrupulously, and immediately scolded him.
Li Hong was too lazy to pay attention to him. When the guard's eyes at the door were about to fall on Xiaoxue and the others, he led a few people away. Behind him, of course, there was a man holding a live sheep and bleating.
During the summer solstice, the two hundred and five wolf cubs were placed on the ground. They were chasing the sheep's hind hooves and biting them, but it looked more like they were playing.
The two people following them looked puzzled when they saw Li Hong coming to the house. They didn't expect that he would wander here.
But what surprised them even more was that the young man wandered around and finally entered the Protectorate's Mansion. The two people who were following them looked at the backs of Hua Meng and others walking in, and immediately looked at each other. It seemed that this young man was really the Protector of Anxi. The protector of the mansion.
As soon as he walked into the mansion, Li Hong saw Xu Yanbo, whom he had not seen since setting off from Chang'an, waiting for him anxiously.
Seeing Li Hong and others coming in with relaxed expressions, Xu Yanbo's face relaxed, he hurriedly ran over and stood about ten steps away from Li Hong, and said respectfully: "The last general Xu Yanbo has met the Great Protector."
"Travel-dusted person, where did you come from? Haven't you always been in Qiuci Barracks?" Li Hong asked strangely, looking at Xu Yanbo who was dusty and dusty, with sweat stains mixed with loess still hanging on his face.
"Back to the Great Protector, the general came back from the grassland."
"What? Is there any news about Ashinadu's support?" Li Hong was overjoyed, kicked away the little wolf who gave up the mutton leg and bit his trouser leg instead, took two steps forward, and asked hurriedly.
"Back to the Protector General, we haven't found any news about Ashina Duzhi yet, so I can't let the general give this letter to you." Xu Yanbo said as he took out a letter from the gap between the two armor leaves of his armor. Secret message.
"Did he tell you anything?" Li Hong tore open the envelope, took out the letter paper inside, and asked while reading.
"Back to the Protector General, I have no choice but to tell you that this letter needs to be handed over to you. No one who wants this letter can give it to you. Even if someone threatens me, you can't give this letter to anyone else, including General Pei Xingjian."
Xu Yanbo is now the same as Li Hong. During this period, he has become much stronger. He has completely lost his bookishness and looks like a military man.
(End of chapter)