The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1277: Insatiable
Chapter 1277: Pushing the Limits
Yue Shi hurriedly followed Xiao Rongyan, feeling inevitably guilty. No wonder the eldest girl didn’t tell him anything. It turned out… he couldn’t hide his emotions well, which gave his master a headache.
Yue Shi made up his mind that once things in Xiliang were settled, he would go back and ask Wang Jiuzhou for advice to find out how Wang Jiuzhou usually concealed his emotions.
When Xiao Rongyan arrived at the main hall, Wei Zhong was drinking tea from a cup when he heard someone outside announcing, “The Ninth Prince has arrived…”
Wei Zhong then slowly put down the teacup in his hand, stood up and greeted Xiao Rongyan: “This old servant greets the Ninth Prince.”
Behind Xiao Rongyan followed Yan’s second prince Murong Ping, general Xie Xun, and other Yan generals who glared at Wei Zhong with angry eyes, wishing they could eat him alive. However, Wei Zhong was not afraid at all and still had that smiling look on his face.
“Eunuch Wei, long time no see…” Xiao Rongyan nodded and took a seat at the head, then said, “Please sit down!”
The general of Yan thanked him and sat down, but Wei Zhong stood up and faced Xiao Rongyan, folded his hands in front of his lower abdomen and said, “This time, I am here to meet the Ninth Prince of Yan on the orders of your majesty. It is because when our Great Zhou army and Yan worked together to defeat the enemy, our Great Zhou was betrayed… so that your majesty’s brother, the fifth son of the Bai family, was seriously injured and captured alive, and has not woken up yet.”
When Xiao Rongyan heard Wei Zhong say this, he knew… that he had brought the generals from Yan State just right.
“That’s not right. I heard that the fifth prince of the Great Zhou has woken up!” the general of the Yan State said loudly.
“When I arrived, the Fifth Young Master woke up once, but then fainted again. If General Yan doesn’t believe me, you can go and see for yourself.” Wei Zhong spoke at a moderate pace.
Xiao Rongyan raised his hand to stop the general of Yan State, pretending to be sincere and said: “I have sent Yue Shi to personally deliver a letter to the Emperor of Great Zhou to explain this matter, and… General Chu, who betrayed the fifth son of the Bai family, has been punished by military law. I don’t know how the Emperor of Great Zhou wants to deal with him. Eunuch Wei, please tell me. I will definitely satisfy you if I can.”
“Ninth Prince, as far as we know in Great Zhou… it was not General Chu who sold the two countries’ tactics to old General Cui Shanzhong, but the Queen Mother of Great Yan. Great Zhou asks itself that it has a clear conscience towards its ally Yan, but when the two countries joined forces to attack Yunjing and destroy Xiliang, the Queen Mother of Yan was worried that Great Zhou would take Yunjing first, so she stabbed us in the back and sold the two countries’ tactics to Xiliang.” Wei Zhong was neither humble nor arrogant. Seeing that a general of Yan stood up, he was not affected at all, and continued, “And asked Cui Shanzhong to ambush Great Zhou and capture the emperor’s brother or sister alive, and send them to Yan…”
The second prince Murong Ping tightly gripped the sword at his waist and looked at his ninth uncle with a nervous expression.
Others don’t know that Uncle Jiu is not really competing for power with Xiao Ali, but Murong Ping knows it. If Uncle Jiu wanted the throne, he wouldn’t have to push Xiao Ali to the throne. He could have ascended the throne himself with his father’s imperial edict.
The apparent discord between Uncle Jiu and Little Ali was for others to see. Naturally, the discord between Uncle Jiu and the Queen Mother was also for others to see.
This time…if the Queen Mother really made a mistake and joined forces with old General Cui Shanzhong, the ministers around Uncle Jiu would definitely instigate Uncle Jiu and take this opportunity to pull the Queen Mother down from the position of regent. How should Uncle Jiu respond?
If they really take this opportunity to bring down the Queen Mother, then Uncle Jiu wants to hide little A Li behind him, so that outsiders and Yan’s ministers will see the dispute between the Queen Mother and the Regent. Some national policies cannot be successfully implemented if little A Li is hidden behind Uncle Jiu and the Queen Mother.
On the one hand, the Great Zhou had already deployed troops on the border of the Yan State and came to the Yan State to demand punishment.
On the one hand, the court of Dayan is currently in a balanced situation, and the ministers under Uncle Jiu are ambitious and want to drive the Queen Mother out of the position of regent.
This is like putting Uncle Jiu on the fire.
“Cui Shanzhong is dead now! There is no evidence after his death. Do you in the Great Zhou think that just because of this, you can have the final say on whatever you say?” The general of the Yan State was very emotional.
“That’s right! From what you said, you guys…are planning to do something to our Yan Kingdom’s Queen Mother?”
“You are simply asking for more! Although our Yan State betrayed your Great Zhou first, didn’t our Ninth Prince sneak into the city and risk his life to save people? And your Fifth Prince is still alive!” An angry general of the Yan State rolled up his sleeves and approached Wei Zhong, shouting, “After our Yan army entered the Yunjing Palace, we withdrew from the Yunjing Palace, but you stayed in the palace when the two countries had not yet determined who would win Yunjing. How can you explain this?”
When Wei Zhong heard “Isn’t your fifth young master still alive?”, his pupils suddenly tightened, a smile appeared on the corners of his lips, but the coldness in his eyes was not concealed at all.
Not to mention Wei Zhong, even Xie Xun and Murong Ping felt extremely uncomfortable when they heard this. Murong Ping was the first to speak: “General, be careful with your words!”
Wei Zhong stared blankly at the general who was speaking: “From what this general said, he only remembers that your Yan State invaded Yunjing, but he doesn’t remember how your Yan army invaded Yunjing. Under the capstan at the east gate… your Yan army was able to enter Yunjing at the cost of the corpses of the Bai family army of the Great Zhou!”
Wei Zhong’s smile deepened: “Yes, it was the Bai family army that you betrayed… They fought desperately to open the city gate for you. Who among you Yan army has counted how many corpses of the Bai family army were under the capstan of the East Gate? It was… the fifth son of the Bai family who was betrayed by your Yan queen mother, seriously injured and captured alive. He was thinking about the alliance between the two countries and separated half of the Bai family army in the prison in the city to open the East Gate! Instead of… the South Gate where Gao Yijun of the Great Zhou ambushed!”
After these words were spoken, the Yan generals who had been very emotional just now calmed down a little.
The Yan army had to admit that they did enter the city by stepping on the corpses of the Bai family’s army. If the Bai family’s army had not fought to the death to open the city gate… their Yan army was not as good at attacking cities as the Shuoyang army of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and they would certainly not have been able to open the city gate so quickly.
In fact, Yan State betrayed the Great Zhou. Even if the Great Zhou did not bother to open the East Gate for Yan State at this time, Yan State had no complaints.
“Of course. Great Zhou has always been a one-size-fits-all country. Since the two countries are allies, the city gate should be opened for Yan. But… now that Xiliang has been successfully conquered, our Great Zhou Emperor and all the court officials want to settle the score for Yan’s betrayal of Great Zhou.” Wei Zhong smiled and looked at the emotional Yan general. “This general just said he wanted evidence. If there is no evidence… this old servant will definitely not come to your door today!”
Wei Zhong looked at Xiao Rongyan and said, “We in the Great Zhou have captured General Cui Shanzhong’s confidants alive. We have found out that General Cui Shanzhong did send people to the State of Yan and reached an alliance with the Queen Mother of Yan.”