The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 227: conspiracy
Chapter 227 Conspiracy
Bai Qingyan was resourceful, and Li Zhijie did not want to give Bai Qingyan too much time to catch his breath and prepare. He had to strike while the iron was hot, so he took the still warm body to Youhua Road to ask the Prince of Jin for an explanation!
He wanted to see… whether the State of Jin was really as Bai Qing said, with loyal subjects loyal to their lord without any doubt!
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Bai Qingyan ordered all the remaining soldiers of the Dong family to follow Shen Qingzhu to Shaoyang County, and she took the remaining Tiger Eagle Battalion back to Youhua Road.
On the way, she gave a detailed account of all the elite soldiers of the Tiger Eagle Camp. After returning to Youhua Road, she announced to the public that Bai Jinzhi and Shen Liangyu were sent by her to secretly patrol Qiushan Pass to see if there was anything unusual. As a result, Bai Jinzhi and Shen Liangyu saw people in Jin costumes coming in and out of an inn in Qiushan Pass, so they became suspicious and went to investigate.
Unexpectedly, those people were discovered, and they started fighting with them. Those people burned the inn recklessly, which attracted the attention of the Xiliang soldiers guarding Qiushan Pass. The Xiliang soldiers and those people strangled them together. Fortunately, Bai Qingyan arrived in time and brought people to rescue them.
Don’t mention a single word about the Dong family’s assassins, Bai Qingyun, Xiao Ruohai, and Shen Qingzhu.
This time, Bai Qingyan and others were unable to clean up the battlefield in time, and the bodies of the Dong family’s assassins and the Tiger Eagle Camp’s elite soldiers were not retrieved in time. That being the case… they would report the matter half-truthfully to the prince and count the Dong family’s assassins as Xiliang Li Zhijie’s men. This would prevent Li Zhijie from making use of the bodies of the Dong family’s assassins and the Tiger Eagle Camp’s elite soldiers.
When the sky was about to brighten, the soldiers guarding the Youhua Dao camp were shocked to see Bai Qingyan returning with the injured Tiger Eagle Camp soldiers, and they quickly opened the gate to let them in.
Xiao Ruojiang, who was stabbed in the back while protecting Bai Jinzhi, looked pale. He forced himself to ride his horse back. As soon as his horse entered the military camp, he was unable to support himself and fell off the horse.
“Call! Military doctor! Quick!” the Jin army shouted.
“Xiao Ruojiang!” Bai Qingyan dismounted and ordered his men to carry Xiao Ruojiang to the military doctor’s tent for treatment immediately.
She looked at Xiao Ruojiang’s bloody back, gritted her teeth, and said to Bai Jinzhi and the soldiers of the Tiger Eagle Camp: “You go and treat the wound first, I’ll go see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!”
Bai Jinzhi nodded. She was worried about Xiao Ruojiang, so she followed him immediately.
Shen Liangyu, who was injured, stepped forward and said, “My injuries are not a big deal for now. I will go to see the Crown Prince with General Xiao Bai! I was the first one to arrive at Qiushan Pass. Only I can explain the matter of Qiushan Pass to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.”
Bai Qingyan hesitated for a moment, nodded, and led Shen Liangyu towards the prince’s tent.
The prince had already gone to bed. Quan Yu saw Bai Qingyan, whose armor was stained with blood, and Shen Liangyu, who was from the Tiger Eagle Battalion and was covered in wounds, rushing out to greet them. “General Bai, what are you doing…”
“I have something urgent to discuss with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince! There is a situation inside Qiushan Pass!” Bai Qingyan clasped his fists towards Quan Yu.
Quan Yu was startled and quickly turned back to the tent to wake up the prince.
The prince was awakened in a daze. When he heard Quan Yu say that Bai Qingyan and Shen Liangyu returned with their armor stained with blood and that there was something strange at Qiushan Pass, he suddenly came to his senses.
The prince put on a cloak and asked someone to light the lights, then ordered someone to call Bai Qingyan and Shen Liangyu in.
Bai Qingyan and Shen Liangyu entered the tent with a cold aura, and the blood-stained silver armor scared the prince.
“Your Highness! There is something unusual at Qiushan Pass!” Bai Qingyan knelt down on one knee.
“Quan Yu, help General Bai up! Call General Zhang Duanrui and others to come!” The prince didn’t know much about war, and since there was something wrong with Qiushan Pass, he had to call several generals to listen. After thinking for a while, the prince added, “Please invite Elder Fang, Ren Shijie, and Qin Shangzhi!”
These three are the prince’s advisers.
Before things get out of hand, what Bai Qingyan said would make people have a preconceived idea, which would be good for Bai Qingyan, so she didn’t stop him.
Soon, Zhang Duanrui and several generals rushed over to listen to Shen Liangyu’s account of what happened at Qiushan Pass.
“Today, I followed the order of General Bai and led 20 people with Miss Bai to investigate the situation in Qiushan Pass. Unexpectedly, we saw a group of martial artists in Jinfu coming in and out of an inn in Qiushan Pass. Miss Bai and I noticed something was wrong, so we sneaked in quietly to find out what those people were doing. Unexpectedly… we were discovered as soon as we entered. Those people were very skilled and alert! We wanted to capture them alive for interrogation, but they were not afraid of alerting the guards of Qiushan Pass and set fire to the inn to attract their attention! After the guards of Qiushan Pass Xiliang came, they strangled us together with those masters in Jinfu. More than 20 people were killed or injured. Miss Bai and I almost died in Qiushan Pass! If it weren’t for His Highness sending General Bai to help in time, we would have gone there without a chance to return!”
Shen Liangyu said that the prince sent Bai Qingyan to provide assistance. This statement was very clever and gave the generals present the illusion that the Tiger Eagle Camp’s trip to Qiushan Pass was also under the order of the prince.
Bai Qingyan saw blood dripping down Shen Liangyu’s clothes, so he said, “General Shen, quickly bandage the wound. I will talk to His Highness and the generals about the rest!”
“Go!” The prince nodded to Shen Liangyu.
Only then did Shen Liangyu clasp his fists and leave the prince’s tent.
Bai Qingyan looked at the prince and said, “During the peace talks, Xiliang Yan Wang Li Zhijie made many excuses, even saying that Your Highness arranged for a maid to sneak into the peace talks tent… He wanted to shirk the peace talks and talk about it another day! In Qiushan Pass, there were masters wearing Jin costumes who, together with the Xiliang Qiushan Pass defenders, strangled the Tiger Eagle Battalion who went to investigate the situation. There must be something wrong!”
Zhang Duanrui recalled that Li Zhijie had indeed repeatedly made excuses in the peace negotiation account, saying that the peace negotiation should be held on another day. Then he thought of what had happened in Qiushan Pass…alarm bells suddenly rang in his heart.
“Damn it! I think this Xiliang dog hasn’t been beaten enough! He still wants to fight! Are we afraid of them? Beat him, bastard!” Zhen Zeping cursed angrily.
“Xiliang is in internal turmoil right now. I think if they want to fight… they don’t have to come here to ask for peace!” Bai Qingyan pretended to lower his eyes and think carefully before saying, “I’m afraid Xiliang has some conspiracy! But I can’t figure out what they want to do by arranging a group of masters in Jin costumes in Qiushan Pass!”
Old Fang, who was sitting next to him, stroked his goat beard and said, “Since he is wearing Jin clothing, it must be related to our Jin State!”
Zhang Duanrui gritted his teeth and said, “But what does Xiliang want to do by arranging these people?”
Bai Qingyan shook his head: “General Shen and his men wanted to capture him alive, but the Xiliang defenders came too quickly and they were too busy to take care of themselves… They still haven’t figured it out yet.”
“It’s impossible that they would let those people assassinate the prince, right?!” Shi Panshan raised his eyebrows and said, “Would Xiliang dare?!”
The prince’s mind was a mess.
Qin Shangzhi also didn’t understand. With civil unrest in Xiliang, it would be in their interest to negotiate peace. Why did they have to do this?
“Since we can’t figure out their intentions, we might as well take the initiative!” Qin Shangzhi said slowly.
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