The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 825: Heart’s direction
Chapter 825: Heart’s Desire
He raised his eyes and looked around the room: “How about I ask this question…I’ll discuss it with the real Ghost-faced Prince?”
After saying this, Xiao Rongyan nodded and said goodbye to the surprised ghost-faced prince, and opened the carved partition of the wing room…
The noisy and bustling sounds from the brothel immediately poured in, and the ghost-faced prince finally came back to his senses. His face turned pale and he subconsciously looked towards the wall next door.
Yue Shi, who was watching the movement in the brothel, heard the door open and hurriedly went to greet it: “Master, are you leaving?”
“Did anyone go out from next door just now?” Xiao Rongyan asked.
“No!” Yue Shi shook his head.
But just now, when Xiao Rongyan opened the partition of the side room, he clearly heard the person in the next room leave.
“Master, do you have any doubts?” Yue Shi immediately became cautious.
When Xiao Rongyan thought about the layout of the Happy Building, he immediately realized that the Ghost-faced Prince must have left through the window. Without saying a word, he pushed open the partition next to him, and sure enough… the window was wide open.
Yue Shi saw his master rushing forward in two steps and jumping out of the window. He immediately chased after him… He saw his master landed lightly on the roof of a carriage. Yue Shi also chased after him by holding the window with one hand.
Bai Qingyu, who was sitting in the carriage, had a calm look in his eyes. He drew his sword and stabbed at the roof of the carriage. Xiao Rongyan turned over and jumped in front of the carriage. The coachman hurriedly reined in his horse.
Xiao Rongyan chuckled and shook the jade tassels entangled with the forbidden steps on his waist, and said to the carriage: “Please treat me with sincerity, Lord Ghost Face. Otherwise… If the news that Lord Ghost Face is from Jin or the Bai family of the Jin Zhenguo Palace spreads back to Rongdi, I think the King of Rongdi will reconsider whether he can give Lord Ghost Face such great trust and power, and whether he can entrust the government to Lord Ghost Face.”
Since you have the upper hand, if you want to negotiate… you have to show your sword first, so that the Ghost-faced Prince can’t look down on you and put down your airs to have a good talk with him.
The sheepskin lanterns hanging on the four corners of the carriage were shaking because the carriage stopped suddenly. Bai Qingyu raised his eyes in the carriage, and his eyes became even darker and colder.
The coachman who was driving the car just now stood aside, holding the sword at his waist tightly in his hand, and was on guard against Yue Shi who was standing beside Xiao Rongyan with a long sword in his hand. He was waiting for his master’s order and was ready to draw his sword and rush towards Xiao Rongyan.
“Apuru, back off.”
Bai Qingyu’s voice came from the carriage. Apuru then took two steps back holding the hilt of the knife, his expression still alert.
“Your Highness, please get off the car and have a chat…” Xiao Rongyan said in a gentle voice.
Bai Qingyu lifted the curtain of the carriage with the sword in his hand and looked at Xiao Rongyan who was standing in front of the carriage.
The moonlight was bright and clear, and it illuminated the ground, making Xiao Rongyan’s facial features more distinct.
“Does the Ninth Prince think that my king will believe a piece of news he fabricated?” Bai Qingyu’s voice was hoarse and unpleasant, and the tone was flat like that of an old man who had experienced many vicissitudes of life. “Especially… he is the Ninth Prince of Yan who disguised himself as Xiao Rongyan, a wealthy businessman from Wei, to plant spies in various countries.”
This was not meant to be a lie by Bai Qingyu to Xiao Rongyan.
Xiao Rongyan came to see him as the Ninth Prince of Yan State, but the Ninth Prince of Yan State’s words and deeds inadvertently revealed a bit of the lazy style of the Wei people…
Yan State was a martial country, but it could not raise such a prince.
Bai Qingyu then thought of Mr. Xiao, a wealthy businessman from Wei who was by King Xihuai’s side and who was able to control King Xihuai’s itinerary. It was not difficult to connect the two people together.
Either this Ninth Prince is an impostor of Xiao Rongyan, a wealthy businessman from the Wei State, or… the Ninth Prince is impersonating Xiao Rongyan, a wealthy businessman from the Wei State, and doing business in various countries.
But Bai Qingyu prefers the latter.
Xiao Rongyan tightened his hands behind his back and looked at Bai Qingyu who was hidden in the darkness. “Yan is destroying Wei right now. Your Majesty is confusing me with the people of Wei… is that credible?”
“Then, Ninth Prince, is it credible that you would lump me… together with the people of Jin? The people of Jin, the Rongdi people… could it be that my king cannot tell the difference?” There was a mocking smile in Bai Qingyu’s hoarse voice.
“If so, I will send the descendants of the Bai family whom I rescued at the Mengcheng market and the Bai family army found in Yan State in the past two years to King Rongdi. I wonder if His Majesty can be so cruel to the Bai family army?” Xiao Rongyan said slowly.
Bai Qingyu said indifferently: “This king never makes assumptions. This king can only promise you… From now on, the envoys of Yan will never see my king again. And let me make it clear… As long as Yan does not stop attacking Wei, the Rongdi will not give up the prisoners of Yan. If Yan is willing to give up its former comrades, please do as you please.”
“What if Yan State insists?” Xiao Rongyan’s eyes fell on the guard called Apuru, “How about, Your Majesty, please dismiss the attendants so that we can discuss it in detail? Yue Shi…”
Yue Shi nodded and shouted to Apuru, “You, let’s wait at the alley entrance.”
Apur stood motionless beside the carriage until Bai Qingyu inside the carriage told him to wait. Apur then nodded respectfully towards the carriage, glanced coldly at Yue Shi, and walked towards the alley entrance without paying any attention to Yue Shi.
“No matter whether the Ghost-faced Prince admits that he is a descendant of the Bai family or not, I will definitely get back the Yan army that is being held captive in Rongdi.” Xiao Rongyan stared quietly at the direction inside the carriage and decided to have a frank talk with Bai Qingyu. “Let’s be frank. I don’t want to use any tricks on you, not because I’m afraid of you!”
“It’s because you are from the Bai family, and you are Abao’s younger brother! However… Abao and I have an agreement that we will not discuss personal feelings when it comes to major events! You can propose any conditions for releasing the Yan army, and we can help each other. If you really don’t give in, I have no choice but to make Abao sad.”
On the way of escorting King Xihuai to meet the Ghost-faced Prince, Xiao Rongyan’s mind was filled with the scene in Dengzhou when Bai Qingyan learned about the Ghost-faced Prince from him and couldn’t control his emotions.
Therefore, Xiao Rongyan restrained his desire to use those sinister means against the ghost-faced prince and chose the way of negotiation.
In fact, if it were in the past, Xiao Rongyan would abandon the Yan soldiers who were detained by Rongdi and would never ruin the overall situation for anyone!
They would not waste time traveling a long distance to negotiate terms with the ghost-faced prince just for those less than 10,000 Yan soldiers.
But ever since Xiao Rongyan conquered Southern Yan, he used Bai Qingyan’s method to reduce many casualties among soldiers and save a lot of trouble.
Ever since seeing how Bai Qingyan won the hearts of the people in the capital city, seeing how Bai Qingyan led his troops, and knowing the moral principles of the Bai Family Army passed down by word of mouth by the soldiers, saying that the Bai Family Army would not abandon any soldiers who had fought with them through bloody battles, Bai Qingyan was able to rally the hearts of the people.
Only then was Xiao Rongyan willing to give up what he thought was a shortcut and solve the problem in a…relatively peaceful and moral way.
Perhaps the difference between Bai Qingyan and Xiao Rongyan in their ways of dealing with things is due to their completely different growing environments and the education they received since childhood.
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Xiao Rongyan: Why didn’t you tell me that this was my brother-in-law? !
Bai Qingyu: Hehe…
Xiao Rongyan: What should I do if I offend my brother-in-law? Waiting online… Very anxious!