The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1099: Yu Chan’s Secret
Chapter 1099 The Secret of Jade Cicada
Uncle Jiu devoted his life to the State of Yan, to the Murong family… and to him, the Emperor of Yan. He must not disappoint Uncle Jiu’s feelings.
Fortunately, when he discussed the merger of Great Zhou and Great Yan with his uncle, he persuaded his uncle not to let his mother know, otherwise… his mother would not know how she would misunderstand his uncle.
At this time, Murong Yan was sitting in the study with a gloomy expression, and ordered Wang Jiuzhou to send someone back to investigate why the Queen Mother had already arrived in Mengcheng, but their people had no idea about it.
Not long after, after settling Empress Dowager Yan, Murong Li came to Xiao Rongyan’s study.
He wanted to go in but didn’t know how to apologize to Uncle Jiu. He stood under the corridor, looking at the white snow on the green tiles on the roof, with his head lowered, but did not go in.
Feng Yao came over with a cup of strong tea and was about to give it to Murong Yan when he saw Ah Li and bowed quickly: “This old servant greets your majesty…”
“Grandpa Feng!” Murong Li bowed to Feng Yao as he did when his father was still alive, without putting on any airs as an emperor.
Feng Yao quickly moved aside to avoid Murong Li’s greeting and said with a smile, “Your Majesty, why don’t you come in?”
Murong Li glanced into the study and lowered his head again: “I…”
“Ali, come in…”
Hearing the voice of his uncle, Murong Li finally responded, “Here I come!”
Feng Yao held a cup of hot tea in one hand and opened the cotton felt curtain for Murong Li with the other, then followed Murong Li into the room.
Murong Li walked in and saw his uncle sitting behind the desk through the screen, writing a letter with a purple brush in his hand. He glanced at Feng Yao, took the hot tea from Feng Yao, walked to the desk, and placed the hot tea in front of Murong Yan: “Uncle Jiu, what happened today… A Li comes to apologize to Uncle Jiu on behalf of my mother!”
Murong Li did not avoid Feng Yao and bowed deeply to Murong Yan.
“We are all family, there is no need to be like this…” Murong Yan wrote a letter to Bai Qingyan, dried it, put it in an envelope, sealed it, and handed it to Feng Yao, “Uncle Feng, go there in person and deliver the letter to the Emperor of Great Zhou. If she asks you about Yuchan, Uncle Feng, don’t hide anything and tell her everything. She will trust you.”
Feng Yao took the letter with both hands. Bai Qingyan said that Feng Yao could be trusted. Not only was she the sister-in-law recognized by the late emperor, but she was also the young master’s sweetheart. Now she had the young master’s child. “Young master, rest assured. I will tell Emperor Zhou everything I know.”
“Thank you for your hard work, Uncle Feng!” Xiao Rongyan nodded.
Feng Yao left immediately.
Xiao Rongyan did not vent his anger on Murong Li because of what happened just now. He just said, “We have not received any news about the Queen Mother leaving the palace and coming here. Uncle Jiu will investigate this matter thoroughly. Don’t do anything.”
“Yeah!” Murong Li nodded.
Xiao Rongyan hung the pen back on the pen holder, wiped his hands with a handkerchief, and then picked up the teacup: “Tomorrow, Great Yan and Great Zhou will send troops at the same time. The soldiers of Great Yan still need you to go in person to boost morale. Go change your clothes and we will go together!”
“Yes!” Murong Li responded.
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After Li Tianfu and the general of Tianfeng Kingdom escaped from the battlefield outside Pingyang City, that night… Sar Khan chopped off the head of the general who had not yet woken up, in order to intimidate those generals who were eager to make merit, and never allow any disobedience to his orders to happen again.
Although the Tianfeng Kingdom awards titles based on military merit, Sar Khan does not want a general who does not obey his orders… Not to mention… This time, because of this general’s greed for merit, he lost twelve giant elephants at once. You must know that the most precious wealth of the Tianfeng Kingdom is these giant elephants. In Sar Khan’s eyes, the life of a giant elephant is much more precious than this general!
Not to mention, because of this general’s recklessness, his plan to first occupy the land of the Great Zhou and the State of Yan… and then erode their territory was completely disrupted.
If he had known this earlier, he would never have sent the elephant army to follow that madman Li Tianfu to capture Li Zhijie.
But he had to send someone to the Great Zhou to ask for the person back. Sak Khan was worried that Li Zhijie would tell the Emperor of the Great Zhou… the secret of Yu Chan.
Sar Khan was filled with annoyance.
Now that Great Zhou and Great Yan have seen how powerful the elephant army is, they will definitely not rent land to Tianfeng Kingdom anymore. Maybe… they will work together to lock Tianfeng Kingdom in Xiliang, or even drive it back to the other side of the snow mountain, and then build a checkpoint at the already narrow passage from Tianfeng Kingdom to Xiliang…
At that time, it would not be so easy for Tianfeng Kingdom to come to this land again.
If the Great Zhou and the State of Yan were smarter, they might have already begun preparing to take action against the State of Tianfeng.
It was all because of this damn idiot who listened to Li Tianfu’s instigation and wanted to take credit, but in the end… he disrupted the plans and steps of the Tianfeng Kingdom. Even if this general died a thousand times, Sar Khan would never be able to ease the hatred in his heart.
More importantly, there is Yuchan…
The jade cicada was once the property of the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, so the jade cicada must still be in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and he must get it no matter what.
Sar Khan sat in front of the brazier, took out a jade cicada and rubbed it in his hands. The jade cicada glowed with a warm luster against the backdrop of the red charcoal fire in the brazier.
It is recorded in the “Heavenly Book” of the Tianfeng Kingdom that this jade cicada was once a living cicada. Because it was eloquent and could sing… it brought some fun to the endless lonely life of the gods, and thus became the pet of the gods and was deeply loved by the gods. However, the life of the cicada is ultimately finite. After growing from a larva into an eloquent adult, it only has a short lifespan of three months.
The cicada knew that it was loved by the gods, so it prayed to the gods to grant it eternal life. The gods said… even if the cicada was granted eternal life, it would not be able to survive the cold winter.
The cicada prayed to the gods to grant him eternal life and keep summer forever. The gods said… he could not grant the cicada eternal life and keep summer forever at the same time. However, he could give the cicada the ability to go back in time, but going back in time came at a price.
Without asking what the price would be, the cicada cheerfully begged the gods to grant it such power. It was willing to serve the gods forever and sing for them.
After that… the cicada gained the ability to go back in time, so there is no cold winter in Tianfeng Kingdom, and the climate is warm all year round, which is suitable for the survival of cicadas.
The cicada’s ability to go back in time is not something it can control itself. Whenever a cicada’s life is about to enter the countdown, time will go back to the time when the cicada just became an adult.
At first, the cicada was very happy to have such an ability. It would use time travel to know what it knew about the future, to get whatever it wanted in the cicada group and change anything it wanted to change.
But every time the cicada goes back in time… it is not without cost. Every time it goes back in time, it will lose something that is particularly precious to it, such as the big tree it likes, its friends, and even its brothers and sisters…