Chapter 228: Thoughts from all parties (Part 1)

"Hmph! Xu Changqing has been inside for more than ten days, and we can't feel any of his breath at all. If we don't cut the ghost curtain open, how can we know whether he is dead or alive?" Chang Yin took back the magic weapon with nonchalant look on his face, but he felt extremely shocked in his heart. When he was under the command of Xuangang Heavenly Demon a few years ago, although Zheng Xuan hid his strength, Chang Yin believed that if he competed, the two would be just a match. Although Chang Yin was unable to improve with him later because his cultivation was completely destroyed, after restoring his skills through the Spirit Bone Token this time, he felt that it was much more than before, and it was enough to make up for the gap during the period when his cultivation was completely destroyed. But from today's small competition, he was probably wrong. The gap between the two was not shortened, but widened even wider.

Zheng Xuan frowned, turned to look at the slightly anxious Huang brothers and sisters on the side, and asked, "Did you see anything?"

The Huang brothers and sisters shook their heads with ugly faces, and Huang Juan said, "After the master was in seclusion, I could not calculate his existence even if I used the innate Great Yan divine hexagram, as if the master suddenly disappeared from this world."

"Why is this happening?" Zheng Xuan frowned, touched his chin's beard, and said, "If this is still the case tomorrow, open the bamboo curtain!"

Just as Zheng Xuan and others were discussing countermeasures, in the ancestral home of Chenjia Chongshan City, various forces were also discussing what to do in their own courtyards.

"We won't wait!" Chen Fan's annoyed voice came from the courtyard of Tongmenghui, saying, "Does the revolutionary cause of China also depend on the face of a genius in the martial arts world?"

"God?" Ma Jinchun, who was standing beside him, was extremely unhappy about Chen Fan, a person with no qualifications and no achievements, being the position of deputy negotiating envoy. Seeing him talking about a revolutionary cause, he said disdainfully: "If he were a charlatan, why would your Chen family have regarded him as his teacher in the past dynasties? It's not that I underestimated your Chen family, if it weren't for your Lord of the Yi Manor to help, perhaps your Chen family would not have reached its current status."

"Ma Jinchun, you..." Chen Fan suddenly stood up and glared at Ma Jinchun. The atmosphere suddenly became tense, and the smell of gunpowder became stronger and stronger.

"Ziyu, your family has so many books! Many ancient and rare books that have been lost outside can be found here. I really regret not coming to your house early." At this time, Song Jiaoren, who had been sitting next to the window and watching the book, suddenly made a secret and said nothing. This sentence instantly dissolved the tense atmosphere around him without a trace.

Chen Fan took a deep breath, suppressed the fire in his heart, sat back, and said in a calm tone: "Mr. Song, if you like any book, just take it. I don't think my father and Uncle Dejing would mind."

"Oh! Well, I really want to ask Mr. Chen for a few books." Song Jiaoren looked surprised and took off a few sets of books from the bookshelf without hesitation. He put them on the table. Then he turned to look at Chen and Ma and said, "The two of them were selected to participate in this negotiation that would affect China's future. It is a kind of affirmation of the two's abilities. Mr. Sun, Mr. Huang and all the comrades of the Tongmenghui have put their hopes on us. We have a long way to go! If there is an internal strife before the negotiations have started, how can we get the best interests from the Beiyang Army like a wolf?"

"Mr. Song, the lesson is that we have been taught." Chen Fan and Ma Jinchun looked at each other and said in unison.

Ma Jinchun then frowned and said, "It's just that it's not a solution for us to wait like this. Otherwise, let Weng Chen take the lead and start negotiating with the other party."

"No! If this is the case, our momentum will be weak. Although negotiation skills and strength are important, the momentum of both sides is also important." Song Jiaoren shook his head, looked at the direction of the courtyard where the Beiyang Army lived with a serious expression, and said, "It depends on each other now, who is more patient."

"Who is patient? Can the boys from the Tongmenghui be more patient than us?" Fu Liangzuo said disdainfully in the courtyard of the Beiyang faction: "Now we take the initiative to control it. We can talk if we want to talk, and fight if we don't want to talk. With our Beiyang strength, we are afraid that several revolutionary rioters will not succeed."

"After that being said, Mr. Yuan is afraid that he will not want to fight, because the situation in Beiyang is not much better than that in Tongmenghui." Xu Shuzheng, who was dressed in a well-formed manner, took a sip of tea and said expressionlessly.

Xu Shuzheng's words made the other two people in the room a little stunned. Fu Liangzuo looked puzzled, while Yang Shiqi was full of surprise and signaled: "Youzheng, continue talking."

Xu Shuzheng frowned slightly and said, "According to the news I have received, the northern Russian troops have begun to be mobilized frequently, and more than 50,000 troops have begun to prepare to cross Outer Mongolia to move closer to Inner Mongolia. Recently, Yikuang and Zaifeng held a cocktail party in their houses. Every time there are Russian consuls. It seems that they are preparing to use external forces to make a comeback. Yuan Gong naturally would not let such a thing happen, so the Chinese civil war must end as soon as possible. Although the southern troops of the Tongmenghui are not too strong, don't forget that the 19th towns of Cai E of Yunnan are the elite of the new army, and Cai E is also the unparalleled general in Yuan Gong's words. Such a person and the army will never be wiped out in a short period of time. The longer the civil war situation is dragged down, the more unfavorable we are."

"Okay!" Yang Shiqi clapped repeatedly and said, "No wonder Mr. Yuan often said that in addition to three heroes, there is also a thousand-mile horse. It seems that Youzheng will definitely achieve extraordinary achievements in the future."

"Mr. Yang is too much." Xu Shuzheng smiled indifferently and clasped his fists.

"Since the situation is so urgent, what should we do?" Fu Liangzuo's expression changed and became serious after understanding the situation.
Chapter completed!