"Lord Marquis, please wait."
Gongyang Yongye turned to look at the person approaching.
This place was more than ten miles from the Kang encampment. The other man had followed him all this way. Had Shen Youli sent him as a persuader? Or was she worried and wanted him silenced? Gongyang Yongye watched the young man approach with a blank expression. He knew that face very well. "What is it?"
Jimò Qiu stopped two zhang away from Gongyang Yongye.
Getting too close might easily give the other man the wrong idea.
"I heard A Nian mention before that you seemed troubled over having no heirs." Gongxi Chou had said that if Jimò Qiu asked his older brother for help getting an additional rank, he would definitely get it. Hearing that, Jimò Qiu had thought it would be a very worthwhile way to win over a Nineteenth Rank Marquis Within the Pass. The value for money was simply unbeatable.
Gongyang Yongye's train of thought nearly ground to a halt.
He ransacked his memory for a while before recalling that Gongxi Chou had twice mentioned getting an additional rank. Gongyang Yongye had assumed the young man was talking nonsense, deliberately mocking him and messing with his head.
He had been a grown man for several decades, nearly a century. Wouldn't he know whether he had that ability? Gongyang Yongye held back the throbbing veins in his forehead. When he saw Gongxi Chou coming, he silently abandoned the idea of sneaking a beating onto Jimò Qiu. The young man's cultivation was a fair bit lower than Gongxi Chou's; beating him up would be child's play.
"You two brothers had better not make a fool of this old man!" Do your research before trying to scam someone. He was old, not stupid.
Gongxi Chou said,