Qu Fang and Bai Ning walked into the palace, where Bai Jingrong was talking to Wu Ye.
Seeing the two people coming in, the two people in the palace also stopped talking. Wu Ye glanced sideways at Qu Fang and turned away from looking at him.
Bai Ning respectfully delivered the gilt box to Bai Jingrong. Bai Jingrong took it and didn't look at it in a hurry, and put it on the table next to him.
Wu Ye, who was sitting at the bottom, stood up and said, "I will leave first."
Bai Jingrong smiled and nodded: "General Wu will go first, and we will do what we just agreed upon."
"Don't worry, princess." Wu Ye said, "I will handle the matter properly and will never upset the princess."
"Of course I believe in the general." Bai Jingrong smiled sweetly.
After saying that, Wu Ye turned around and went out. After watching him go out, Bai Jingrong smiled at Qu Fang and said, "I told you that A Zhan won't do anything to that girl. You insist on going and taking a look, okay?"
Qu Fang said: "The girl had already come out of the palace when I passed by. I don't know what she said to the king. She said that the king didn't look at the contents of the box."
Bai Jingrong was noncommittal and chuckled, "She is a well-behaved girl."
She reached out and opened the box at will.
"A-Zhan just looked at it, it doesn't matter."
The box was opened and there was nothing inside.
Both Qu Fang and Bai Ning couldn't help showing a bit of surprise. Bai Ning was stunned for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, what's in this box..."
Bai Ning never thought that the Queen would dare to send an empty box to Bai Jingrong. His first thought was that Chu Chu was young and did not do things well and the items were dropped.
Bai Jingrong picked it up with her fingers and closed the box again.
"It doesn't matter, there is nothing in the box." Bai Jingrong said.
Bai Ning was even more confused. Seeing that Bai Jingrong didn't mean to say more, it was natural that he didn't want to ask more questions.
Bai Jingrong looked at Qu Fang with a smile and asked, "A Fang, what do you think of that girl?"
Qu Fang was silent for a moment and said: "Quite smart."
Bai Jingrong chuckled softly and said: "You are indeed a little clever. This palace is very boring. It's good to have someone to talk to when you have nothing to do."
Qu Fang frowned and said, "You take her with you..."
Bai Jingrong smiled and said: "It's just for fun. Don't you think it's fun for everyone to circle around her and guess what I'm thinking? A Zhan's angry and entangled look in private must be very interesting. And A Rong, he
I thought I didn’t know...he has a lot of little thoughts."
Qu Fang looked at her deeply.
You see your son so clearly, why can't you see through the crux of the conflict between you and Ji Zhan, Ji Rong's hatred for you, and who is that cute little girl next to you?
So, is Bai Jingrong smart or stupid? No one can figure it out.
The royal city has been very uneasy recently. Not only the Qi people who live in the royal city have noticed it, but also the envoys from surrounding small countries and tribes who came to pay tribute to the Qi people are also very uneasy.
This is the case with Zatuo, the second prince of Wumo City. Even after his sister was sent to the palace, the attitude of the Qi tribe towards them has not improved.
Zha Tuo has also inquired about a lot of information in the royal city these days. The current Qi nationality's royal city cannot bear the current population of the Qi nationality, and the water and food sources are very unfavorable. The Qi nationality has the intention of migrating abroad.
Once upon a time, the Qi people migrated all the way east and became a large clan that caused headaches in the Central Plains and shocked the outside world. But now that the Qi people are weak, the Central Plains are seeing it become stronger. There are still Yin people in the west who are eyeing them, so the only places where the Qi people can migrate is
North.
And their Umo City is the first one to do so.
Zatuo has thought of many ways these days, but to no avail. He can't even see King Qi, so how can he change the decision of the whole Qi clan?
As Ji Rong said, things like this cannot be changed by oneself.
Feeling depressed and helpless, Zatuo could only go to a wine shop in the city to drink, where the three religions and nine streams gathered, so as to hear some news.
During this time, there were many more people in the royal city of the Qi people, and there were people of all kinds of clothes and languages.
Zatuo sat in the open space outside the tent, drinking alone at a table.
A man suddenly came over and sat down opposite Zatuo without saying hello.
Zato was stunned for a moment, looking at the girl who suddenly appeared in front of him with some surprise.
The girl's head and face were covered with light green gauze, revealing only a pair of cunning eyes.
Seeing Zatuo raise his head, the girl held her chin and smiled at him with her eyes closed.
Seeing the girl's sweet smile, Zatuo couldn't help but smile.
"Girl, are you here drinking alone?" Zatuo asked.
The girl shook her head and said, "No, I'm here to find you."
"Looking for me?" Zatuo was stunned and said with some confusion: "I... know the girl?"
The girl raised her left hand and shook it towards him.
Zatuo didn't understand what she meant at first, but he suddenly realized after a moment that the girl had a gemstone bracelet on her slender wrist.
He remembered that Pearl had a string of exactly the same ones.
On the day Pearl left Umo City, she had this bracelet on her hand.
Zatuo's expression changed, and when he was about to speak, he suddenly became wary again. He glanced around before lowering his voice and asked, "Did Zhu'er ask you to come see me?"
"I don't know what Zhu'er Bao'er is." The girl said, "Someone wants to see you."
Zatuo asked warily: "Who is it?"
The girl shrugged and said, "He said that you two are old acquaintances. You will know it when you go there."
Zatuo was silent for a long time, then nodded and said: "Okay, I'll go with you, let's go."
Zatuo followed the girl around, turning east and west, and finally entered a tent on the easternmost side of the royal city. Most of the people living in this place were business travelers from other places, and they could hardly stand out when they walked here.
After entering the tent and seeing the people sitting inside, Zatuo was stunned.
"Prince Zatuo, please sit down." Xie Yan sat in the tent and looked at the young man in front of him calmly.
Zatuo has naturally met Xie Yan, but he actually does not know Xie Yan's true identity.
Instead, he suddenly thought of Luo Junyao, whom he hadn't seen for a while.
"Thank you, sir."
Xie Yan had previously taken everyone to Wumo City to have a secret conversation with the Lord of Wumo City. Zatuo did not know the real inside story, but only vaguely knew that this man had an extraordinary identity.
Apart from anything else, the current Dasheng royal family has the surname Xie.
After that, Xie Yan left Luo Junyao and Xiying and left. Zhatuo could only guess based on his father and brother's attitude toward Xie Yan and his party, but he was not sure what Xie Yan wanted to do when he came to the Qi Clan's royal city.
The two sat down, and Zatuo didn't know what to say for a moment, so he had to ask: "I wonder if Miss Lan is okay?"
Xie Yan lowered his eyes and said: "She is very good. Thank you to the second prince for your concern."
"No, it's just that the Qi Clan's royal city now has three religions and nine streams gathered together. Miss Xiaolan is still young after all. It's very inconvenient for the girl's family to go out..."
Before Zatuo finished speaking, he faced Xie Yan's indifferent expression and for some reason he silently stopped talking.
Xie Yan raised his head and stretched out his hand towards the girl standing aside. The girl raised her hand and pulled down the veil on her face, revealing Qin Yaoer's pretty face.
Qin Yao'er took off the bracelet from her wrist and handed it to Xie Yan, then made a face and walked out.
Seeing the bracelet placed in front of him, Zato finally came back to his senses.
He grabbed the bracelet, calmed down and asked anxiously: "Mr. Xie, Zhu'er..."
Xie Yan said: "The second prince can rest assured about Princess Jinzhu's safety. She is fine."
Zatuo breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Xie Yan and smiled bitterly: "Thank you, sir, for making you laugh."
"Serious words." Xie Yan said calmly.
Xie Yan took out a letter from his sleeve and put it in front of Zatuo, saying: "The second prince can take a look."
Zatuo glanced at him in confusion, and when his eyes fell on the envelope, his expression couldn't help but change.
The seal of the envelope was stamped with the seal of the Lord of Umo City.
In other words, this letter was written by his father.
Zatuo looked at Xie Yan doubtfully. Xie Yan nodded and said, "This is for the second prince."
Zato then took the envelope, opened it, and looked at the letter in his hand carefully.
After a long time, Zatuo finally raised his head, with a very complicated look on his face.
"Second Prince, what do you want to ask?" Xie Yan said.
The expression on Zatuo's face was changing, and after a long while he slowly asked: "Will the prince save Zhu'er?"
Xie Yan said: "Of course, I guarantee that Princess Jinzhu will not be in any danger. If the second prince does not believe it, I can have her replaced now."
"No need, I believe the prince." Zatuo said solemnly.
He could see that the noble man in front of him from Dasheng didn't care about Zhuer.
It's not that he doesn't take Zhu'er's life seriously, but he doesn't need Zhu'er to do anything for him at all, and he doesn't care about his father's insistence on sending Zhu'er to the Qi Clan's royal city.
But as the second prince of Umo City, Zatuo can understand his father's decision.
Umo City is a small country, and its total military strength is only twenty to thirty thousand.
They can neither afford to offend Dasheng nor the Qi tribe. Now that the Qi tribe is so vicious, it would be best if Dasheng could eliminate the Qi tribe. But what if Dasheng fails...
Dasheng is thousands of miles away, and the Qi people are now severely injured and unable to invade the Central Plains. But it is still easy to deal with a small country like them.
My father also wanted to be prepared.
But my father probably didn't expect that they wanted to have both sides, but the Qi people had already set their sights on them.
He had already sent someone to send this news back to his father as quickly as possible, but the reply from Umo City should not arrive so soon.
Now this letter... can only mean that this prince got the news earlier than they did, and sent the news to his father earlier than he did.
Faced with the threat of destroying the family and the country, his father finally made up his mind to stand by Da Sheng.
"Za Tuo, please follow the prince's instructions." Za Tuo lowered his head and said.
Xie Yan nodded and said: "Thank you, Second Prince. This is very good. In three days, the Qi Clan Palace will hold a banquet to entertain envoys from all walks of life. At that time... I would also like to invite the Second Prince to bring me into the palace with you."
"This..." Zatuo hesitated.
Not to mention how eye-catching Xie Yan's appearance is, his aura makes him stand out from the crowd wherever he goes casually. Is it wrong to be noticed without just a glance?
Xie Yan said: "Second Prince, don't worry about other matters, I will take care of them myself."
After he said this, Zatuo naturally couldn't say anything else, so he could only nod his head and said: "That's very good. Please invite the prince to come to the place where you are staying in Umo City in three days."
