The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 817: Heartbroken
Chapter 817: Heart-shaking
King Xihuai privately believed that as long as Xiao Rongyan was willing to contribute to his motherland and appeal to the Duke of Zhenguo, this matter would surely succeed.
Hearing the repeated calls for Mr. Xiao outside the door, Prince Xi Huai could not wait and stood up and pulled open the carved partition on the second floor. He looked towards the courtyard door downstairs and saw Xiao Rongyan coming in from outside the courtyard holding the hem of his long gown. He hurriedly called out, “Rongyan!”
Although the back of this inn was for distinguished guests who could afford the money, Xiao Rongyan still ordered Yue Shi to book the entire inn and expel all outsiders to prevent assassins from sneaking in to kill King Xihuai.
The three outer floors of the inn are occupied by Xiao Rongyan’s guards, and the three inner floors also have death squads escorting King Xihuai, so the defense is very tight.
Despite this, the guards guarding the door of King Xihuai were still worried and protected King Xihuai who was about to rush out: “Your Highness…you should be more cautious! Last time it was also in the inn, if it weren’t for Mr. Xiao…”
When King Xi Huai heard this, he stood at the door of the room anxiously, looking eagerly at Xiao Rongyan who was going upstairs, and said, “Hurry up!”
Seeing Xiao Rongyan, with a gentle face and a smile on his face, walking to the door of the guest room, he was about to bow to him, but he grabbed Xiao Rongyan’s wrist and said, “Why are there so many false formalities between you and me?”
After dragging the person into the guest room, King Xi Huai asked impatiently, “When did you and Princess Zhenguo get engaged? You have never told me such a big thing!”
King Xihuai sat down at the round table made of huanghuali wood, looking at Xiao Rongyan opposite him, his eyebrows showing joy: “If I had known earlier that you and the Princess Zhenguo of Jin were engaged, I would not have gone to Rongdi to ask for help. I would have asked my brother and sister-in-law to ask the Crown Prince of Jin to put pressure on Yan State and saved the country!”
King Xihuai’s face turned red as he spoke, as if he had found a good plan to save the country. His eyes lit up as he looked at Xiao Rongyan, who was sitting calmly at the round table, waiting for Xiao Rongyan to nod.
Xiao Rongyan still had that gentle and smiling face towards King Xi Huai. He picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea for King Xi Huai. He pushed it in front of King Xi Huai and said, “Your Highness, do you really think that Princess Zhenguo, who could easily burn and kill 100,000 surrendered prisoners, would be loyal?”
King Xihuai was stunned by what Xiao Rongyan said: “But you are not…”
Xiao Rongyan also poured himself a cup of tea, put the teapot back, sat upright and said to King Xihuai: “Yan is from Wei, do you really think… Yan has never asked the Princess Zhenguo for mercy? But this time, Jin wants to take advantage of Dayan’s attack on Wei to destroy Liang!”
King Xihuai looked at Xiao Rongyan blankly: “Rongyan, you know I only know how to eat, drink and have fun, you should say something I can understand!”
Xiao Rongyan dipped his finger in the water in the teacup and drew a map of the nations on the round table made of huanghuali wood. He pointed at the State of Jin in the center and said, “Your Highness, look… Jin is surrounded by other nations. If Jin wants to unify the world, it must either destroy Liang, Rongdi, or Yan. This way, it will not fall into a difficult situation where it is attacked from all sides.”
“Then it’s okay for Jin to attack Yan!” King Xihuai looked up at Xiao Rongyan.
Xiao Rongyan shook his head: “Jin attacked Liang in the beginning because Liang refused to hand over the land and cities it promised to hand over during the last peace talks. Jin attacked Liang… this is called a legitimate cause! Then… Jin offered Liang a prescription for curing the plague, but the Emperor of Liang was eager to avenge his son and refused to surrender, and insisted on fighting to the death! Therefore, Jin destroyed Liang, and it was even more legitimate! Even the other countries could not point out Jin’s fault, but whether Jin destroyed Yan or Rongdi! It was an unjust cause, and if it was not handled properly, it would become the target of public criticism. Jin would not give up the best opportunity to destroy Liang for Wei.”
King Xihuai’s mind was in a mess, but he felt that Xiao Rongyan’s words made sense. He stood up and walked around the room anxiously: “What should we do? Is it only to ask that Rongdi ghost-faced prince for help? I don’t know if the queen mother can hold on until then. Otherwise, we should send gifts to Jin… use the whole country’s strength to send generous gifts?!”
As soon as King Xi Huai finished speaking, he heard Yue Shi whisper outside the door: “Master, the eldest lady is here, and she is almost in the yard, with soldiers!”
When the anxious King Xihuai heard the word “soldiers”, he looked at Xiao Rongyan with fear. Seeing Xiao Rongyan stand up slowly, he asked hurriedly: “Who? Who brought the troops?”
“Princess Zhenguo…” Xiao Rongyan explained.
Before Xiao Rongyan could stand up to greet him, King Xihuai pulled open the carved partition first and tried to go downstairs to greet him despite the guards at the door trying to stop him. But as soon as he reached the stairs, he saw a heroic woman with long hair tied on top of her head, wearing silver armor, and holding a sword at her waist. She stepped into the gate of the courtyard. King Xihuai’s hand that was holding the mahogany carving suddenly tightened, and his heart was shaken.
The setting sun was slanting, and the orange-red light reflected Bai Qingyan, who was wearing armor…
What he saw was clearly a beautiful woman with a skin as white as ice and bones as jade, extremely pure and beautiful. If it weren’t for the woman’s dark eyes and the majestic spirit of killing and fierceness, King Xi Huai really couldn’t connect the fairy-like woman in front of him with the killing god of Jin.
King Xihuai had never seen Bai Qingyan, but had heard that Bai Qingyan was extremely beautiful. Once at a banquet in Jin State, she was mistaken by Wei Qiheng, the fourth prince of Daliang, for Liu Ruofu, the most beautiful woman in Jin State. At that time, King Xihuai, who had a portrait of Liu Ruofu, was still skeptical about what kind of beauty Bai Qingyan was, who could be even more beautiful than Liu Ruofu, who was as beautiful as a lotus emerging from water.
When I saw her today, she was truly stunningly beautiful and breathtakingly stunning.
If it weren’t for the fact that she was more solemn than his brother…the bearing of a person in a high position, and the restrained yet arrogant aura, King Xihuai would have felt disrespectful to her.
Xiao Rongyan stepped out of the inn and saw Bai Qingyan looking up at him with her brows slightly tightened. He clearly told her to have a good rest, so why did she still come? She really didn’t take care of herself.
But on second thought, Xiao Rongyan understood that perhaps Bai Qingyan did this for the Ghost-faced Prince, the son of the Bai family.
“Princess Zhenguo, please come this way!” The guards around King Xihuai knew that their master was eager to see Princess Zhenguo, so they hurriedly stepped forward and made a gesture of invitation to Bai Qingyan.
Bai Qingyan moved his gaze away from Xiao Rongyan and looked at the man who was wearing a frosty white dress with a golden cloud-like pattern on the edge, a warm jade belt around his waist, and a tall but overly thin and pale figure.
She guessed that it must be King Xihuai.
Bai Qingyan followed the rules and took off the sword from his waist and handed it to King Xihuai’s guard. He raised his hand to signal the accompanying soldiers to wait outside, and then walked upstairs.
King Xi Huai’s lips moved slightly. He had something to ask for and was in a weak position. He lowered his posture very low and saluted towards Bai Qingyan: “Greetings, Princess Zhenguo.”
Bai Qingyan lowered his head and walked up the steps: “King Xihuai, there is no need to be so polite.”
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