Gu Wenheng didn't expect the envoys from the island country to appear so quickly. Looking at the few figures clamoring as they arrived, he curled his lips. "These are the envoys? This isn't much of a display of pageantry, is it? Any random official traveling from our side has a grander entourage than this."
Especially those old fogeys in the Capital—who among them didn't keep a host of aides and guards in their manors?
"Were they always like this?" Gu Wenheng ignored the scrutinizing gazes from the other side, turning his head to ask Xiao Yuling curiously.
Xiao Yuling replied, "Yes, every time these people come over, they put on this domineering air. It's clearly them coming to our lands to pillage, but they act as if we owe them something.
