Bai Yuegang of Prince Ning's Mansion

Chapter 218
Seeing that Ruixue still wanted to persuade her, she continued.

"There's no need to rush this matter. My father doesn't necessarily just go to the northern border. If I really go to the northern border, I will definitely not refuse to help you. Don't mention it now."

"It's only been a few days since Rongniang left. If you leave this matter to me now, the other sisters will feel uncomfortable."

Ruixue smiled, seeing Gu Jingjue's refusal so absolutely, it must be because she was really squeezed out by those noble girls a while ago.

Gu Jingjue came here, but didn't ask Ruixue what she wanted to know.

Instead, Ruixue made a lot of talk, and after lunch, she said goodbye and left.

Strangely, Xiaoliu, who was called by Ruixue to inquire about the news in the palace early in the morning, also did not hear from her.

Li Jiuchen also never came back.

The worry in Ruixue's heart deepened again.

Zhao Fengnian seemed calm, but he was a little impulsive when it came to the northern border.

Especially when facing the Holy Majesty and talking about the northern border issue, I couldn't suppress the anger in my heart.

If it was as Rui Xue thought, the Holy Majesty would not care about Qiqilu's life or death at all.

And because Zhao Fengnian wanted to keep Qi Qilu and got into trouble with the Holy One, things became a bit difficult to handle.

What's more, there is still Bishui participating in it now, and it is not known what role they played, so the matter is even more complicated.

If Bi Shui wants to take this opportunity to recover the debt owed by Da Lan more than ten years ago, it is not impossible to have a connection with Bei Que.

Zhao Fengnian, the general of the northern border, was caught in the middle, so it should be difficult to deal with.

Ruixue thought about it for a while, and when she looked around, she seemed to be surrounded by enemies.

It seems that just because Zhao Fengnian is not a selfish person who only considers his own interests, he appears to be extraordinarily independent and has become an opponent with everyone.

The more Ruixue thought about it, the more frightening she felt, and she felt restless.

I hope Zhao Fengnian doesn't want to fight against the Holy Spirit, even if Qi Qilu really has to be sacrificed, Ruixue also hopes that Zhao Fengnian will be safe and sound.

In the old palace in the corner of the imperial city, Zhao Fengnian flipped through the books his father had left with his annotations.

On one side of the couch, Qiqilu was soundly asleep.

After Zhao Fengnian and Qi Qilu returned to the banquet last night, the Holy One had already left.

Zhao Fengnian knew that even if we meet again in the past now, the Holy One might not agree to see him.

Then he took Qiqilu to the old palace where he and Ruixue had been before.

After the Holy Majesty knew about it, he just nodded his head in agreement and didn't say anything else.

It's not that he didn't know that those traitors in Beique wanted Qiqilu's life, and he neither agreed nor opposed to it, it was Beique's business.

For the Holy Majesty, who is in power in Beique now has no effect on his plan.

The more fierce Bei Que's internal fighting, the greater the consumption, and when he is ready to attack Bei Que, it will be more beneficial.

But his behavior of turning a blind eye and allowing them to do something at his palace banquet undoubtedly fueled the arrogance of those Beique traitors.

He thought that Da Lan was for them, hoping that they would overthrow the current Bei Que regime and replace him with a new Shan Yu.

Have nothing to fear, plus unscrupulous.

Ever since Zhao Fengnian and Qi Qilu entered this old palace, Jing Feng, who was on watch outside at night, has settled no less than five waves of assassins who came here to die.

The Holy Majesty was also a little annoyed, these Beique people really don't know what politeness is.

They were allowed to feed Qiqilu poisoned wine, but they were not allowed to blatantly play assassination in their own imperial city.

This abandoned old palace is also an imperial city, if I did this under my nose, I would make the envoys of other countries look at him as a joke.

Where the monarch of a country lives, assassins come whenever they want, and kill whoever they want, Chunchun is just slapping him in the face.

Being sneaky, he just pretended that he didn't know about it. With such a big fanfare, how could he just sit idly by.

But most Beique people are single-minded and don't care about that at all.

Anyway, the Holy Majesty promised that they could do something to Qi Qilu, and if it didn't work once, they would come twice.

Once you've been noticed, there's nothing to worry about.

The reason why Zhao Fengnian didn't go back was because he was afraid of taking these things back to Prince Ning's mansion.

He knew that it was impossible for the Holy Majesty to ignore the incident, and he would not let these Beique people continue to assassinate Qiqilu openly for the sake of face.

As long as the sage opens his mouth, he will be able to protect Qiqilu in a fair and honest way.

It's not that Zhao Fengnian is ignorant of the Holy Majesty's desire to annex Beique in one go.

But this can only be an idea, and it is not impossible to realize, but it cannot be accomplished overnight.

Swallowing it is not difficult, what is difficult is how Dalan digests it.

The Holy Majesty's obsession with expanding the territory has reached the point of bewilderment.

It's not a good thing for Da Lan to not think about development and focus on expansion.

Zhao Fengnian knew these things, but the Holy Majesty didn't like to hear them. He was just a courtier and he could do limited things.

We can only try to balance the relationship between Beique and Dalan, guard the northern border, and prevent things from developing too quickly to an unmanageable situation.

Shanyu of Beique, Qiqilu can't die before the end of his rule, at least he can't die in Dalan now.

Otherwise, sooner or later, this will become the reason for Beique to start a war against Dalan, even if Beique replaces Shanyu in the future.

Zhao Fengnian always felt that he was born to fight.

As for why he fought, he thought very little.

Probably to defend the territory, to achieve fame?

These days away from the battlefield, someone made him think differently.

Ruixue once told him that a good general charges and fights on the battlefield so that future generations will not have to do this.

A man who fights for the sake of fighting is no more than a war madman no matter how brave he is.

In order not to fight in the future, only those who bleed and die on the battlefield to fight against the enemy can be praised as heroes by later generations.

Zhao Fengnian thinks these words are very reasonable, no one wants to live a peaceful life.

If there is a way to resolve disputes peacefully, who would want to fight every day to get bloody.

After decades of war in the northern border, it has already been overwhelmed and riddled with holes.

The reason why he was willing to return to the capital from the northern border was because he wanted to find a chance for the northern border to recuperate.

But he couldn't persuade His Majesty, nor could he change His Majesty's mind.

When I wanted to leave, I realized that there was already something I cared about in Kyoto.

Just as Zhao Fengnian was thinking, the door of the palace was pushed open, and Jingfeng entered the room with a bloody long sword.

Standing the sword by the door, he washed his hands and face with the water on the side.

Picked up a few pieces of pastries and stuffed them into his mouth, took a sip of cold water, and said to Zhao Fengnian.

"It gets better after dawn, Xiao Liu is watching outside, I'll take a break."

Zhao Fengnian closed the book: "There is no injury, the imperial decree should be coming soon."

Jing Feng shook his head, sat on the ground, leaning against the pillar to doze off.

(End of this chapter)