The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 581: deal with
Chapter 581 Disposal
The deputy general glanced at the sentry who was still kneeling outside the tent and waved his hand, signaling the sentry to retreat first.
After seeing the sentry retreat, Fu Ruoxi’s deputy general walked to Fu Ruoxi’s side and said in a low voice: “General, the prince is the crown prince. His Majesty is unconscious, and the prince can act on behalf of the emperor. The prince’s orders are the emperor’s orders!”
Fu Ruoxi, who was in a dilemma, calmed down in a flash…
If the prince came this time to ask him to lead the troops with him into the capital, he could express his loyalty to the prince and agree to it without hesitation, and then follow the prince to lead the troops all the way back to the capital. By then…if the queen has the upper hand, he will take down the prince in one fell swoop and ensure that Prince Xin ascends to the throne.
If the Queen did not have the upper hand, he could also claim that it was the Queen who sent him a secret order to escort the Prince back to the capital in case of any accidents, in order to at least save the Queen’s life.
Only in this way can we attack when we advance and defend when we retreat.
Thinking of this, Fu Ruoxi made up her mind and said to the deputy general, “Go and gather the generals to follow me out of the camp to welcome the prince.”
“Yes!” Deputy General Fu Ruoxi clasped his fists and said yes, then hurried out of the general’s tent.
Fu Ruoxi walked back and forth in the big tent with her fists clenched tightly, then paused.
He needed to send a letter to the Queen. If he didn’t, given the Queen’s character of preferring death to disgrace, when she saw him leading the troops back to Dadu with the Prince, she would definitely think that he was determined to follow the Prince and abandon the friendship between them, and there was no guarantee that the Queen would not do something irreversible.
Sending a letter is too risky. If it is intercepted, you will be killed without a burial place.
If I don’t send her off, I’m afraid the Queen will be in danger.
Fu Ruoxi hesitated for a moment, and suddenly ordered at the door: “Call the person who delivered the letter just now!”
“yes!”
Fu Ruoxi walked around to the back of the desk and knelt down. She pulled out a piece of paper that was only used to send urgent military reports to the capital city, wrote the four words “wait and act” on it, put it into the mailbox, and when she looked up, she saw that the person who delivered the letter for the queen had arrived outside the tent.
The assassins around the queen had traveled day and night all the way from Dadu. When the letter was delivered, they had no time to eat and fell asleep. When they were suddenly awakened, they were not fully awake yet.
“Come forward!” Fu Ruoxi put the letter tube back into the cloth bag, looked up at the assassin who had entered the tent and was kneeling in front of the table, and said, “This letter must be sent back to Dadu as soon as possible and handed over to your master in person. Leave immediately! Hurry!”
The man’s eyes were bloodshot and his face was haggard, but he still respectfully took the cloth bag handed to him by Fu Ruoxi: “Yes!”
It’s not that Fu Ruoxi cannot use his own people, but any movement of his own people will alert the people in the Anping camp. His people will also not be able to deliver the letter to the queen without any hindrance, and can only deliver it to the Fu family first.
But this matter must not be known to the Fu family. Otherwise, with his mother’s intelligence, she would definitely guess what the Queen is going to do, and even think that the Queen wants to take advantage of his guilt towards the Queen in the past to force him to rebel… and report the Queen in front of the Grand Princess.
So even though she knew that the people sent by the Queen were extremely exhausted, Fu Ruoxi had no choice but to use the Queen’s people.
After watching the Queen’s men leave, Fu Ruoxi breathed a sigh of relief and cheered herself up to go out of the camp to welcome His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
Fu Ruoxi came out of the big tent with her helmet under her arm and shouted, “Beat the drum! Invite the troops!”
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When the Anping camp was already in sight, the crown prince suddenly called out to Bai Qingyan in a hoarse voice, “Princess Zhenguo!”
Bai Qingyan slowly slowed down his speed and rode side by side with the prince: “Your Highness, please tell me something!”
Slowing down, the prince turned his head and said to Bai Qing, “A month ago, when General Fu was still in the capital, I went to the palace to pay my respects to my father. I saw from afar the Queen’s personal maid escorting General Fu out of the palace. I didn’t take it seriously at the time, but now the capital may be in chaos. Fu Ruoxi… we have to be on guard!”
The prince did not finish his words to Bai Qingyan. He then retrieved the records of entering and leaving the palace that day. After comparing, he found that after meeting the emperor, Fu Ruoxi stayed in the palace for half an hour.
The prince did not speculate about what the queen had going on with Fu Ruoxi. He wondered whether the queen had asked her personal maid to seduce Fu Ruoxi. After all, Fu Ruoxi was in control of the Anping camp.
In the past, the prince would have just kept this matter in mind, but now that the emperor is in a coma and he, the prince, is not in the capital city, things may change in the capital city at any time, so the prince has to be on guard.
“Princess Zhenguo!” Elder Fang, who was dizzy from being tossed around by the horse, adjusted his helmet, gritted his teeth, walked around from behind the crown prince to Bai Qingyan’s side, and lowered his voice to Bai Qingyan, “Before this matter, the crown prince and I both felt that Fu Ruoxi was far away in the Anping camp, so we just need to be more cautious! But now the situation has changed. If Fu Ruoxi is really involved with the queen’s maid, she might be restrained by the queen. What I mean is… I ask the princess Zhenguo to find a chance to kill Fu Ruoxi later, and let His Royal Highness the crown prince take charge of the army himself!”
The prince only told Old Fang about this matter. Even Qin Shangzhi and Ren Shijie didn’t know about it. If the prince hadn’t felt more and more uneasy the closer he got to the Anping camp, he wouldn’t have wanted to tell Bai Qingyan about this.
Bai Qingyan tightened his grip on the reins, and seeing the group of people riding out of the Anping camp from afar, he raised his hand and shouted, “Stop!”
The two thousand Dengzhou light cavalry obeyed orders and acted in unison.
The frightened Crown Prince and Mr. Fang quickly reined in their horses.
Bai Qingyan reined in his horse and stopped, looking towards Old Fang with a cold gaze, which made Old Fang feel a chill suddenly run up his spine.
Elder Fang also saw the cavalrymen leaving the camp in the distance, and he became quite nervous. He shouted loudly, “Quick! Protect His Highness!”
“Don’t panic, Mr. Fang!” Bai Qingyan looked ahead and spoke calmly, “The people coming out of Anping Camp… are no more than 200 people. I think they are here to welcome you!”
After saying that, Bai Qingyan turned to look at the prince, held the reins, clasped his fists and whispered, “Your Highness, Fu Ruoxi is in charge of the Anping camp and has made many contributions. Killing her rashly may cause chaos in the army. I have asked Lupin to lead people to intercept the road between the capital and the Anping camp. If no one delivers the letter… then let Fu Ruoxi go back to the capital with us first, and then think of a way on the way!”
“What if someone comes to deliver a letter to Anping Camp, or Anping Camp sends a letter out?” Old Fang asked anxiously.
“If someone sends a letter, Lupin will definitely stop it. Then the prince will seize Fu Ruoxi’s military power and escort Fu Ruoxi back to the capital. After arriving safely in the capital, the prince will retrieve Fu Ruoxi’s palace records and confront the queen’s maid, and deal with her according to the law. But at this time… unless it is absolutely necessary, Fu Ruoxi must not be killed to disrupt the morale of the army.” Bai Qingyan turned his horse’s head and moved closer to the prince and Elder Fang. “Your Highness, you must be fair in everything to convince the people, especially now. Your Highness must win the hearts of the soldiers in the Anping camp.”
“Is Princess Zhenguo afraid that… killing Fu Ruoxi will cause a mutiny?” asked Old Fang.
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