Chapter 582 Princess of a Vassal State

She asked, "Are you this happy just because I like you? Do you really like me that much? Am I that good?"

She felt she wasn't that great. There were many beautiful women in the world. Lin Yu was beautiful, Bai Yuhan was beautiful, and Xie Shang, being powerful and influential, must have had many women who liked him!

Xie Shang answered every question, saying, "I'm happy, I like it, it's great."

She asked, "Besides me, is there any other woman you like?"

“No.” His gaze was firm.

Are there other women who like you?

Xie Shang smiled slightly, "I only like you."

Jiang Fenghua felt really stupid for asking such a question. No matter how she asked, he would answer that he only liked her.

She calmly got up from his lap. "Want to play chess again?"

"Let me go for a walk with you!"

"I'm not going." She was shy, and Xie Shang's contributions made everyone in the military camp aware of her physical discomfort.

At this moment, Lin Yu rushed in and saw the two of them being all lovey-dovey. "Meng Yao and the other officials are hosting a banquet for the envoys of the vassal states." She wondered what kind of romantic trouble Xie Shang had gotten into again. The princess had specifically asked to see him and wanted to give him a gift, but she didn't say the rest.

She secretly eavesdropped and learned that the princess of the vassal state had come for Xie Shang. Xie Shang's character was really not good, which was why she was quite worried.

She was more worried that Jiang Fenghua had been deceived by him and that her trip to the sea had attracted other suitors.

Jiang Fenghua, unaware of her thoughts, asked directly, "Has everything been settled?"

Lin Yu said, "If His Highness Prince Heng doesn't go, they won't even talk to him."

Xie Shang said in a deep voice, "There's nothing to talk about. Have Jiang Jinyan inform the envoys of the vassal states that the Great Zhou Kingdom will send troops to garrison Linhai. Is such a small matter really worth discussing?"

Jiang Fenghua was also puzzled, "That's right, they are a defeated country. Their envoys from a vassal state came to our territory, and he still dares to be so arrogant. Just who are they!"

At this moment, Jiang Jinyan also came over. He bowed and said, "The princess of the vassal state requests to see Your Highness. She also said that she brought gifts to give to Your Highness personally. It seems that she wants to marry into the Great Zhou in exchange for her life."

Jiang Jinyan didn't hide it either, because since the other party had directly provoked the Princess Consort of Heng, Ruan Ruan had to face this matter personally, and of course, she couldn't lose in terms of momentum.

"Who is she going to marry?" Xie Shang asked.

“Your Highness Prince Heng.” Jiang Jinyan was also a little angry when he heard this, and said, “Tu Jun is still in our hands, yet they dare to force a marriage, and even specifically ask for Prince Heng to marry her. I think there is something fishy about this.”

Jiang Fenghua asked in confusion, "Is something strange about it?"

Jiang Jinyan took out a map and placed it on the table. "The vassal state and the Great Zhou state are not adjacent. Even if they want to fight, they must pass through these two countries or cross the border of the Southern State to enter the Southern State. In other words, they must conquer the Southern State before entering the Great Zhou. Now the Southern State has submitted to the Great Zhou. Our army has already entered the vassal state's customs camp and forced them to retreat from Linhai. Now the vassal state's princess wants to travel thousands of miles to marry into the Great Zhou. This is very strange."

Jiang Fenghua said, "For the sake of peace between the two countries, it is understandable for a vassal state to send a princess to marry you. The key is how His Highness Prince Heng offended them, causing their dignified princess to leave her homeland to marry you."

Jiang Jinyan quickly tried to smooth things over, saying, "I've been with the Prince ever since we went to sea. I can testify that he really didn't provoke Tu Jina. I don't know what's wrong with the princess of the vassal state."

Xie Shang quickly said, "I'm innocent! I don't know her at all. Even if I did, I wouldn't want to marry anyone else. I only want to marry Ruan Ruan."

Jiang Fenghua said, "Stop grinning like that."

Xie Shang's eyes were cold as he said in a deep voice, "It's already suspicious that a vassal state would send a woman as an envoy. Now they're playing this trick. Their intentions are despicable. Ruan Ruan, believe me, I have no idea that any princess from that vassal state wants to marry me."

Jiang Fenghua wasn't worried at all about Xie Shang marrying the princess of a vassal state. If Xie Shang wanted to marry the princess, she could simply stay far away from him; it wasn't a big deal.

Jiang Jinyan said worriedly, "Back then, when we captured the Fourth Prince Tu Jun, the king of the vassal state took the initiative to seek peace and wanted to cede territory in exchange for Tu Jun. Now, however, they want to marry a princess to us before they will agree to withdraw from Linhai."

"What if I don't marry her? Do you think they can cross the sea and attack the Great Zhou?" Lin Yu scoffed. "If she dares to steal Aruan's man, I'll go out to sea with you and kill her without leaving a single one alive."

What made Jiang Jinyan both laugh and cry was, "It's really true. They would rather not save Tu Jun than marry the princess to Prince Heng, otherwise they would start a war. It's as if Tu Jun is not important at all, but marrying a princess to him is what matters."

Jiang Fenghua understood. "They want to use us to kill the Fourth Prince Tu Jun. If Prince Heng does not agree to marry the princess of the vassal state, the relationship between the two countries will definitely be in dispute again. We killed Tu Jun in anger, and they were just happy. They might even send troops to attack Da Zhou."

Xie Shang said, "Perhaps they have strategists behind them, but I always feel that they are not targeting me, but Ruan Ruan."

"What does this have to do with me? I've never met the princess of the vassal state." Jiang Fenghua felt that this was getting further and further absurd. Who in the Southern Kingdom even knew her?

Jiang Jinyan thought so too, adding, "At the banquet, she did target Ruan Ruan at every turn."

Everyone was confused, so she added, "Since she wants to see me, I'll go see her."

Xie Shang grabbed her hand, "Ruan Ruan, believe me, I really didn't attract any suitors."

“If Your Highness were truly so charming, would you still be pressured into marriage?” Jiang Fenghua continued, “I’m not a jealous person who would take out my anger on you. If someone wants to sow discord and deal with me, then they must know Xie Shang and me very well, and be very familiar with our relationship.”

The group fell into deep thought and finally decided to meet Princess Gina.

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Meanwhile, a caravan from the northwest arrived in the vassal state. A handsome young man was seen holding a folding fan. He thought to himself: I never expected that His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Zhou Kingdom would leave the capital and come to the southern country thousands of miles away.

Xie Minmin asked, "Why did Second Brother insist that Princess Gina marry Xie Shang?"

Xie Yun said, "Isn't his favorite person his empress? Now that there's another woman, his relationship with the empress will break down. We don't need to lift a finger to defeat Xie Shang. You've forgotten the information we've gathered; it's not just hearsay. Xie Shang is a romantic."

Xie Minmin fell into deep thought.

He added, “Don’t forget, it was his father who drove our father to the harsh northwest. We both know how our father survived.”

Xie Minmin also did not expect that Jiang Fenghua had come to the Southern Kingdom, and that she and Xie Shang had become the Prince Heng and Princess Heng again.

It was strange that they came to the South.

Ever since Jiang Fenghua showed great disrespect to the Empress Dowager, she had no good feelings towards her. After that, the Empress Dowager fell seriously ill. After recovering, she seemed to have lost all her fighting spirit. If her father hadn't written her a letter, the Empress Dowager would not have secretly left the Hengyang Palace to reunite with her father in the Northwest.