Chapter 86 A sudden change
"How's Altai?" Ziro threw away the dagger in his hand and sat back on the throne.
Pabu covered his bleeding arm and said with a smile, "Don't worry, King. Everything has been arranged."
"Miss Lian'er is waiting for you outside the king's tent." said Papu.
Ziro's eyes fell on Pabu's arm.
Pabu said, "It will not scare Miss Lian'er."
After saying this, he bowed and asked several servants to come in and replace the bloodstained blanket on the ground, and then he went down silently.
As soon as Lian'er entered the king's tent, she walked over gently and snuggled in Ziluo's arms.
"Why are you here?" Ziluo asked, his expression softened for a moment when Lian'er looked at him.
"King, on the day of the peace talks, can you please let Lian'er accompany you?"
Zi Luo was stunned. He obviously didn't expect that Lian'er was talking about this. He chuckled and said, "What are you going to do?"
A hint of cunning flashed in Lian'er's eyes, making her already beautiful features even more lively, and Ziluo saw it all.
But the words she said with her red lips were very ruthless: "I want to see Yan Xuanyu die."
"Back then, Lian'er was in the Central Plains, and she suffered quite a bit of anger."
"Okay." Ziluo laughed, "Then you can follow me."
"Wang, Lian'er never dared to imagine the life we are living now." Lian'er clung to Ziluo like a small animal.
"Lian'er remembers that I was shocked by the first time I saw Wang, and my heart has been tied to you since then." Lian'er said softly.
Ziluo pinched her chin and rubbed it gently with his thumb: "Why are you talking about this?"
Lian'er shook her head and leaned on Ziluo's shoulder.
After Lian'er was brought back to the Turkic Empire by Ziluo's assassins, she stayed by his side. Everyone knew that she was the king's woman, but the king did not give her any status.
They all knew that this woman was once the concubine of the emperor of the Central Plains. The Turks did not care about that. They just thought that the king was very powerful because he could make such a woman follow him wholeheartedly without any official status.
They would also look at her beautiful face with disgusting eyes.
Everyone is afraid of the king, but how much can the king care about a woman who is not even his concubine?
Lian'er lowered her eyes.
When she returned to her residence, a maid came over and saluted her: "Miss, the hot water is ready."
"Okay." Lian'er nodded with a smile, "Sang Rou, come with me."
She took Sang Rou's hand and walked to the box where she usually kept her jewelry and opened it.
Sang Rou exclaimed in surprise: "Girl, the king is so good to you!"
The jewelry box was filled with gemstones of various sizes, which appeared to be of good quality, as well as some gold and silver jewelry, some in Turkic style and some imitating the Central Plains style.
"I give you all these." Lian'er said, "You are the only one who treats me well here, Sang Rou. I treat you as a sister."
Sang Rou looked at Lian'er confusedly.
Lian'er smiled but didn't explain anything, "You can take it with you."
"Girl?!" Sang Rou's expression froze, and she immediately knelt on the ground. "But what did Sang Rou do wrong?"
"Hurry up and get up." Lian'er quickly pulled her up from the ground. "I'm not trying to drive you away, but I'm leaving."
"Where are you going, young lady?" Sang Rou asked. "Does the king know?"
"He...knows." Lian'er said.
"Sang Rou, hide them well and don't let others snatch them away. Didn't you say your sister was sick? You can exchange these for some medicine." Lian'er picked out a silver hairpin from the jewelry box and explained patiently to Sang Rou.
While the two were talking, another maid came in. Lian'er quickly restrained her expression when she saw her and said calmly, "Please help me bathe."
The maid's eyes flashed with disdain, but she immediately put on a smile: "Yes, young lady."
She glared at Sang Rou, who was standing blankly beside her, and said, "Why don't you go get some hot water?"
"Okay, okay." Sang Rou responded.
After Lian'er finished bathing, the maid left and came to the king's tent. After bowing, she said to the person sitting at the head of the table, "Your Majesty, there is nothing unusual."
...
On the fifth day, peace talks.
This was the first time the two groups met.
It was also the first time that Yan Xuanyu saw what the legendary Ashina Ziro looked like.
The other party was particularly conspicuous among the group of Turkic men. In Yan Xuanyu's opinion, he... how to put it, seemed more like a Central Plains person, giving people a gentle and elegant appearance.
"Your Majesty, I am well." From a distance, Ziluo smiled and gave a Turkic salute.
Before Yan Xuanyu could react, Ziluo smiled and said loudly, "Your Majesty has so many people around him, what are you afraid of?"
Behind Yan Xuanyu were the civil officials who came to negotiate, and military officers such as Yuan Kang were protecting him, which made it seem that there were fewer people around Zi Luo.
Yan Xuanyu saw a woman next to Ziluo. When the two got closer, he suddenly realized that it was the missing Lian'er.
This did not surprise him, so he just glanced at it indifferently.
"What? Your Majesty is interested in our king's woman?" A Turkic man raised his eyebrows in a very offensive manner.
Yan Xuanyu said calmly, "It's just that it looks a little familiar."
Everything was normal after that, so normal that Yan Xuanyu felt something was wrong.
Something is so wrong.
Yan Xuanyu clenched his fists in his sleeves. He tried to see if there was anything wrong from Ziluo's expression, but there was nothing.
The other party looked at him calmly.
"The Turks are willing to restore peace with the Central Plains and engage in mutual trade..."
A treaty was signed and written in two copies, one in Turkic and the other in Chinese.
"What do you think? Your Majesty, have you seen the sincerity of the Turks?" Ziluo said with a smile.
"I hope the Turkic king can follow the terms of the contract and allow both the Turkic people and the Great Zhou to recuperate."
"Of course," Ziluo said. "Please."
After saying that, he raised his hand and asked everyone behind him to step back, leaving only Lian'er by his side.
Yan Xuanyu asked with a smile, "What does the Turkic king mean?"
He narrowed his eyes and looked at the other person. After failing in the first assassination attempt, he really wanted to know how the second attempt would come about.
"It's just you and me," Ziluo said.
"Okay." Yan Xuanyu tilted his head slightly, "You should do the same as them. The farther they retreat, the farther you should retreat."
There were obviously many people present, but at this moment it was so quiet that people felt inexplicably depressed.
"I remember that Huangsha City was once invaded by the Rongdi tribe, causing heavy casualties?" Ziluo said casually as if chatting.
"Yes," Yan Xuanyu said, "the Rongdi tribe has lost almost half of its elite troops."
Ziluo looked at Yan Xuanyu, and Yan Xuanyu looked at him calmly.
Finally, it was Ziluo who spoke first: "Your Majesty, please."
The contract has been finalized, and all that is missing is the seals of the Turkic King and Yan Xuanyu.
Ziluo slowly took out the seal representing the Turks.
Time seemed to be stretched very slowly at this moment. After the Turkic king took out the seal, Yan Xuanyu suddenly heard an extremely short sound of breaking through the air!
"Protect the emperor!"
It's too late! From the perspective of the Great Zhou officials, they could clearly see an arrow shooting straight towards Yan Xuanyu from a high altitude in the distance!
In the next second, time seemed to have been sped up again as if by someone. Before Yan Xuanyu could react, he suddenly felt a strong force coming towards him, and someone was standing in front of him!
Yan Xuanyu looked closely and saw that it was Lian'er!
He widened his eyes and looked down to see the tip of an arrow piercing Lian'er's chest, bringing out a blur of flesh and blood!
This is enough to show how much strength the archer put in.
"You——" Yan Xuanyu was so shocked that he lost his voice.
Countless thoughts flashed through his mind - could it be the system's protection mechanism that pushed Lian'er over here? How could the system's protection mechanism drag someone else down with it?! This is so inhumane!
Lian'er's blood dyed Yan Xuanyu's outer robe red.
Lian'er's body almost lost support, and Yan Xuanyu had to barely support her to keep her standing.
"I'm sorry..." She whispered so only the two of them could hear.
It was the first time that Yan Xuanyu saw with his own eyes that even speaking at this time would cause blood to be vomited continuously.
Her beautiful appearance gradually lost its vitality, and her eyes slowly lost their luster and became empty.
Yan Xuanyu raised his eyes to look at Ziluo, and was shocked to see his gaze.
That look was like a poisonous snake, making people's hearts chill.
The next second, as if it were Yan Xuanyu's illusion, Ziluo's eyes were suddenly filled with sadness, and he shouted, "Go catch the assassin!"
The people behind him took orders.
Yan Xuanyu was also surrounded by people.
"We must find out who is trying to hinder the peace talks between the Turks and our Great Zhou." Yan Xuanyu said.
"Your Majesty, we only captured a few people, and the rest ran away." Yuan Kang knelt on one knee and said in a deep voice. After that, he turned his head to look at the Turkic king Ashina Ziro who was opposite Yan Xuanyu.
"I only know of one person who has such archery skills," Yuan Kang said.
"Who?" Yan Xuanyu asked.
"Altai, Rongdi tribe."
"I have discovered the seal of the King of Rongdi."
...
On the fifth day, the Turks and the Great Zhou signed a contract.
The Emperor of Great Zhou was attacked, but it was the Turkic King's Concubine who died.
Yes, the Turkic king Ashina Ziluo posthumously conferred the title of Grand Consort on this woman and buried her according to the specifications for a Grand Consort.
It was the Rongdi tribe that intended to disrupt the friendly peace talks between the Turks and the Great Zhou.
On the third day of July, the grieving Turkic king ordered a war. After that, he was unstoppable and swallowed up most of the Rongdi tribe along the way. The remaining members of the Rongdi tribe were forced to move westward.
...
Lian'er saved him, but... he wouldn't have died anyway.
On the way from Huangsha City to the capital, Yan Xuanyu looked a little dazed when he was alone in the carriage.
That day, when Lian'er said sorry, she used her body as a shield and stuffed a letter into his arms.
When he was taken away that day, Pabu wanted to kill all the guards, but Lian'er stopped him, saying that he didn't want to cause trouble and that being completely safe was the best policy.
Lian'er said that she said these things in the letter not because she wanted Yan Xuanyu to thank her, but because she did want to kill Yan Xuanyu.
She had spent several days in the Lanxue Academy, met countless women, and also saw Yan Xuanyu's attitude towards women - Yan Xuanyu never looked down on women.
At this time, everyone thought that women were unreasonable, stupid, and only cared about love, and they could be deceived with just a few words.
So Ziluo thought that he could get her to go to the Central Plains to be his spy with just a few words, and that she would follow him wholeheartedly.
Even her name was chosen by that person at random. It's really ironic when you think about it.
She said that she envied the women in the Lanxue Academy founded by Yan Xuanyu, and she also wanted to be like them, but it would never be possible.
Lian'er said in the letter that this was the ending she had thought of a long time ago. She did it not for Yan Xuanyu, but to teach Ashina Ziro that the very things he looked down upon and despised could also ruin his plans.
Yan Xuanyu keenly sensed that Lian'er had something else to say, as if she knew something.
Yan Xuanyu lowered his eyes.
The current situation is complicated. The Turkic annexation of the Rongdi must have been planned long ago. It will be much easier to sort out after knowing the result.
Since Lian'er knew that Altai would assassinate her, it must be the work of Ashina Ziluo.
Kill two birds with one stone, what a good strategy.
The only variable is that he, the Emperor of the Great Zhou, is not dead.
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