"Hahaha, everyone, I'm a little late." Before the people arrived, laughter came in first. As the sound fell, a man walked in with a few people. He saw that the man was of medium figure, with short beards and handsome face, black and red, wearing black clothes, with several exquisite silver ornaments hanging on his body, with a black cloth covering his head, and a bright feather was inserted on his head. Half a step behind him, another person with similar outfit followed closely, but there was no feather on his head.

"Tian... Lord Tian..." The prefect, as the master, fell behind, and it was not until Tian Rentong walked into the second hall that he quickly arrived.

"Tsk tsk, I remember that this was my Tian family's villa, but I didn't expect that it would become the current prefect's office in a flash. Tian first returned to his hometown and was filled with excitement. He lingered and forgot about the prefect. The prefect wouldn't blame him, right?" Before the prefect could speak, Tian Rentong stood in the hall and looked around and said with a smile.

As soon as this sentence came out, the prefect didn't know what to say. Fan Qing, who was sitting, snorted coldly in his nose: "What Tian family, I only heard that it has been destroyed for more than 200 years. This place has long been returned to the court, so how could it be? Lord Tian, ​​I heard that you were appointed as an official for the court, so why didn't you come here to be in the official uniform? Why didn't you respect your Shangguan?"

As soon as Fan Qing finished speaking, the prefect's face changed color. He did not expect that Fan Qing would offend people as soon as he spoke. The Tian family in Sizhou was deeply rooted in Guizhou. Although it was destroyed as early as the Ming Dynasty, the descendants of the Tian family were still there and continued.

Tian Rentong is the lord of the contemporary Tian family. Now he has taken advantage of the situation. There are many local chieftains in Guizhou who support him. It can be said that he is already a representative of Guizhou. More importantly, today's four-party talks, Tian Rentong is one of the representatives and an indispensable party. Once Tian Rentong gets angry and leaves, how can the negotiation continue?

Even Zhang Miao couldn't help but frowned slightly. Before the negotiations began, Fan Qing fired directly at Tian Rentong, with insulting words in his words, which made him very worried. However, Gao Jin, who was standing behind, saw Peng Rong sitting next to Fan Qing's side, his expression remained unchanged, as if he had not heard Fan Qing's words, and he was immediately thoughtful.

"You bastard!" Before Tian Rentong could speak, the toast beside him rushed up angrily, staring at Fan Qing with his eyes and shouting, "Where did you come out? You dare to be so rude to Lord Tian? You are not afraid that I will take your head off!"

"Hmph!" Fan Qing didn't even look at him, and his reaction even angered the chieftain. The chieftain could no longer hold back and immediately stepped forward and held his hand on the knife inserted at his waist. Seeing this, Fan Qing's personal guards were not willing to be outdone, and immediately added swords to separate him from Fan Qing.

Seeing a conflict about to begin, the prefect was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, but Tian Rentong looked as usual, still admiring the furnishings around him, as if all this had nothing to do with him, and was still intoxicated by the feeling of returning to his hometown.

"Help Lord Liu arrive..."

At this moment, a shout broke the tension. As the sound fell, an old man slowly walked out of the back hall. He saw that the man was wearing a second-grade official uniform, with white hair and beard, walking without any rush. He walked a few steps and coughed twice, took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped his mouth, and walked straight to the main seat to sit down.

"Cough cough cough..." Just as she sat down and coughed a few more times, Liu Yinshu then looked at the court with her cloudy eyes, and then said, "I am old and my body has become worse and worse over the years. I just rested in the back hall, but I didn't expect to beat her and knock her to sleep a little and almost missed the time. Everyone is here, right? Why are there still people standing? Sitting, sitting and talking."

It seemed as if Liu Yinshu had not seen anything confronting each other in the hall, and he was like a host who was greeting a guest.

His interruption eased the atmosphere a lot. First, Tian Rentong signaled the chieftain around him to put away the knife, then bowed to Liu Yinshu, and said with a smile: "Long time no see Mr. Liu. It's okay to see you, my younger brother Tian Rentong salutes you."

"Okay, okay, but at this age, no matter how good it is, it's not much better." Liu Yinshu said tremblingly: "Is Xiaotianzi? When Mr. Wei Dong was there, he brought you to visit me. It's been four or five years in a flash?"

"The elder is really good at memory." Tian Rentong nodded with a smile: "The elder had just arrived in Guizhou at that time, and I was lucky enough to meet the elder by my father at that time."

"Well, they are not outsiders. Hey, why are you still standing? Sit down and talk." Liu Yinshu seemed to find that Tian Rentong was still standing and said immediately.

Tian Rentong smiled and thanked him, sat down directly on Xiangnan's side, and the toast who followed him was sitting down with him.

Although Liu Yinshu was old, he used this method to easily resolve a possible conflict as soon as he came out. What's more, the people present had the highest official rank, and Liu Yinshu was over 70 years old, and there was a saying that the elderly were respected everywhere in China. Even Fan Qing, who deliberately provoked Tian Rentong, dared not neglect it. He quickly shouted out his personal guard and stood up to salute Liu Yinshu.

Liu Yinshu stroked his long beard, listened to Fan Qing revealing his identity, and lit his head slightly, and said a few polite words, then asked about Zhao Hongcan's situation, and then talked about some of the past when Zhao Hongcan had just started his official career and was already the governor.

With this attitude of relying on his seniority and boasting, Fan Qing, as the representative of Zhao Hongcan, was embarrassed that it was not good to go back, and it was not good not to go back, so he could only laugh a few times. Fortunately, Liu Yinshu did not stop nagging about this matter for too long, and then turned his attention to Zhang Miao.

Zhang Miao was not from the Qing army and had no connection with Liu Yinshu, so he naturally would not give him any face. However, in this case, he would not do anything excessive. He just gave Liu Yinshu a polite manner. As for Liu Yinshu, he did not talk like he had just done. He just nodded slightly, then coughed a few times, picked up the handkerchief and wiped his mouth again.

"Ahem... I am old and I am not weak in my energy. I won't say much else. I'm invited you to come today for my sake. I'm thanking you for your arrival..."
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