A rebellious minister forced me to be a foolish king

Chapter 474 Meeting the Dragon

Hearing this, the girl in black clothes and ponytail suddenly looked fierce, and Yuan Wuyou's already heroic face became even sharper.

"What? Does Li Mingjian dare to hurt my man?"

"Even if he doesn't dare, there are others who do. Apart from the Gao family, almost everyone doesn't want Gao Yanzong to have a child with you. So don't let him get pregnant. Not to mention that a man's childbirth may harm both the father and the son, even if people knew he was pregnant, they would surely kill him."

Yuan Wuyou didn't buy it and immediately scolded Cang Baishu.

"Don't be so sensational! Is it that the world can't tolerate my child, or can't tolerate that my child's father is Gao Yanzong?"

"Of course it's the latter. With Gao Yanzong's reputation, he can barely protect himself, let alone being the father of the crown prince. Once something happens, he will probably be forced to death on the grounds that a man's pregnancy is a demon."

"I think you are just exaggerating! Who dares to do that?"

"Imagine that you have a Ferghana horse, and you ride a poor horse, and it gives birth to a skinny and disabled foal. Would you raise the incomplete poor horse as a Ferghana horse? Even if you could, it would not be a Ferghana horse. A disabled poor horse is of no use to the family, and will only bring shame to your Ferghana horse."

Yuan Wuyou was unmoved by Cang Baishu's heresy, and just snorted,
"You are not looking down on Gao Yanzong, you are clearly looking down on women!"

"Let's use another analogy. Suppose your horse is a female Ferghana horse, and it was ridden by a meat horse, giving birth to a bunch of meat horses that are only good at pulling carts and carrying grass... and what you need is an authentic Ferghana horse to continue your family line. If others knew that your mare's bloodline was contaminated by a low-class breed, it would only greatly reduce the reputation of your horse. Would you dare to publicize such a dirty thing?"

"This is all nonsense! You are talking about horses, but I am talking about people. How can people and animals be lumped together?"

"Human beings are more particular about respect and order, and the distinction between superiors and subordinates. I won't stop you if you insist on doing what you want, but who else but me will tell you these blunt truths? If you really like him, don't force him to face the power struggles in your family. Instead, you should restrain yourself and let go like you did to Lanling King, instead of using him as a shield."

"Are you trying to persuade me to break up with him?"

"I'm advising you to think carefully about him. Don't wait until he's on the verge of death and there's no cure. It will be too late to regret."

As Yuan Wuyou listened to Cang Baishu's "honest advice may be unpleasant to the ear", murderous intent gradually rose in his amber eyes.

"Have you said enough? Where is the little red-faced girl from the Bailan tribe? Where is She Youyu? Are you saying all this to exonerate your female disciple and divert my attention?"

Feng Lingxin, who was standing aside, walked silently behind Sister Yuan and looked at Cang Baishu coldly.

Upon hearing this, Cang Baishu snorted coldly.
"Then you are judging others by your own standards. I was just about to tell you the contents of the letter."

"What? Did She Youyu really get the Xiao family's secret letter?"

"The letter said that the Xiao family of Hou Liang had intercepted the jade seal that was stolen by Xiao Tongyan and wanted to present it to the emperor of Northern Zhou. They will send someone to meet on the Huangyou Jushui Road ferry at noon today, and let Fengling King Yuan Mingjian take the Chixiao Sword and take the boat to get the jade seal. The contact person is called "Guojianglong."

"What? Why would the Xiao family write a letter to King Fengling? And they even named him and asked Li Mingjian to take my Chixiao Sword to negotiate?" Yuan Wuyou pondered for a moment, and angrily slapped the tree trunk beside him! "I was deceived by Tuoba Yan again! He must have been the one who mediated, passed the message to Bei Zhou and Li Mingjian, and instigated Li Mingjian to take my Chixiao Sword! He actually asked me to take the secret letter back? He's playing me for a fool!"

Cang Baishu said, "Obviously, the Southern Chen royal family and the Xiao family of the Later Liang are in the same boat. I heard that the male fengling prince Yuan Mingjian came here on the ferry of the Southern Chen. I think the Xiao family knew that Yuan Mingjian was the lackey of the Northern Zhou emperor. The two of them were just puppets of their respective regimes. Now the two of them are colluding and intend to get the jade seal without anyone's sight. I wonder how they will turn the world upside down."

After a pause, he suddenly said in annoyance, "Oh, right! The Xiao family also said in the letter that Yuan Mingjian, for some unknown reason, gave the contact person 200,000 taels of silver through Miao Nu to cross the river."

When Yuan Wuyou heard that the Xiao family asked Li Mingjian to go and pick up the jade seal, he felt a darkness before his eyes... It's over, this time he was throwing a meat bun at a dog!
Combined with the fact that Li Mingjian gave someone money to cross the river, Yuan Wuyou became even more certain that he must want to get the jade seal and run away across the river!

Cang Baishu didn't know Li Mingjian's obsession with the jade seal, but she knew it best! If she didn't stop it, the reputation and jade seal of King Fengling, Li Mingjian and the Xiao family would be out of everyone's control.

Yuan Wuyou tightly gripped the Gan Jiang sword in his hand, his sharp eyes slowly raised from the sword in his hand, looking towards the increasingly bright rising sun.

She said with hatred: "Now that the letter has fallen into my hands, I must go and disrupt the situation. Today is noon, right? It's my turn to impersonate Li Ming!"

Before she finished speaking, Cang Baishu added:
"I forgot to inform you that Concubine She has been taken back by the Zhou emperor's imperial guards. If the Zhou emperor really colluded with Yuan Mingjian, he must have known the contents of the letter by now. I hope you can seize the jade seal before him."

Yuan Wuyou had just nodded solemnly when Feng Lingxin walked out from behind her.

"Since the letter mentioned that Li Mingjian should go with the Miao girl Lingdang, I will also go with my sister and pretend to be the Miao girl."

"You?" Yuan Wuyou turned his head and frowned, "You are always concise, don't like to joke, and are upright. How can you pretend to be that chattering Miao girl?"

Feng Lingxin raised her eyebrows and said, "I just don't like to joke with those vulgar people, but I will joke with my sister."

Upon hearing this, Cang Baishu commented sincerely: "Although she is righteous, she is evil in a righteous way. I think she is more reliable than you."

"Come on, since the letter mentions Miao girl, Guo Jianglong must be familiar with the Miao girl. Maybe Miao girl helped Li Mingjian collude with the Xiao family to pass the message. Don't fall into their trap."

Afterwards, Yuan Wuyou sorted out the seemingly complicated situation of "Xiao family secret letter" and felt scared for Xiao Tongyan!
First of all, the Southern Chen and the Xiao family of the Later Liang were enemies, which was known to everyone and beyond doubt. Because the Southern Chen escorted Li Mingjian across the river to the Northern Zhou, and the Later Liang sent troops to pick him up, and now the Southern Chen and the Xiao family of the Later Liang only recognized that Fengling King was Li Mingjian, which was reasonable.

But here comes the question? Let’s not ask how Xiao Tongyan’s jade seal fell into the hands of Hou Liang!
The fact that the Xiao family of Houliang openly broke with Xiao Tongyan, presented the jade seal to the emperor of Zhou, and bypassed the powerful officials of Zhou to stand on the side of the puppet was quite courageous. But the Xiao family would not be so bold as to hand over the jade seal to a ferryman nicknamed "Crossing the River Dragon", right?

No matter what, even if Yuan Wuyou wanted to get back her family's stolen jade seal, she had to make a trip and meet the "Crossing the River Dragon".

What is less known is that Li Mingjian had long intended to betray the Zhou Kingdom and wanted to take the imperial seal and run away back to southern Xinjiang. Then the blame for "Prince Fengling" absconding with the imperial seal naturally fell on Yuan Wuyou and Yuwen Huaibi.

Even though Yuan Wuyou originally planned to let Li Mingjian go and help him return to Southern Xinjiang, now that things have come to this, Li Mingjian will definitely take the jade seal and run away, killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, leaving the mess for her, the True Fengling King, to deal with. She is determined not to let him go.

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