"Princess!"
Xiao Jiuhe was furious.
"Mo Yunhan is right here. He is the Ninth Prince of the Great Zhou Dynasty, a war god, and the emperor's most favored ninth brother. I can use him to exchange for land, cities, and a new Great Sui Dynasty!"
Jiang Qingwan retorted coldly,
"Nineteen years have passed. General Xiao has schemed and plotted, suffered countless hardships, but has he managed to reclaim even one city?"
Xiao Jiuhe's face turned red as he was questioned.
He was panting heavily, but couldn't utter a single word in rebuttal.
Jiang Qingwan asked again, "Even if you gain cities, territory, and a new Sui Dynasty, how many days can you hold out? Are you going to call everyone in the Sui Dynasty to live in the new city and then wait for the Zhou soldiers to annihilate them in one fell swoop?"
Xiao Jiuhe was completely speechless.
He clenched his fists tightly, disagreeing, unwilling to accept it, and refusing to back down.
Jiang Qingwan slowly exhaled.
"Of course, there is another way."
She slowly opened her arms, her smile bitter, yet tinged with a broken allure.
"General Xiao, take a look, how many cities is this princess worth?"
"I saved Mo Yunhan, and in return for his kindness, I married him, demanding a city as a dowry. I also publicly declared my identity as a descendant of the Sui Dynasty royal family, wishing to form an eternal alliance with the Sui Dynasty, allowing the Sui Dynasty royal family to divide its territory, settle the people of the Sui Dynasty, establish a vassal state, and forever submit to it."
"Stop talking!"
Xiao Jiuhe shook his head in anguish.
Jiang Qingwan asked casually, "General Xiao, are you dissatisfied? Do you also feel that this is undignified?"
Xiao Jiuhe's face turned deathly pale, and his willpower, which he had held onto for more than a decade, was on the verge of collapse.
Jiang Qingwan gave him no time to recover.
"A dignified general of the Great Sui Dynasty, if he wishes to reclaim the lost dignity of the Great Sui, should not engage in pointless battles, much less infiltrate the Great Zhou and commit petty assassinations, causing his soldiers to be displaced. Instead, he should endure hardship and bide his time, leading everyone to rebuild their homeland, revitalize the nation, and if one generation is not enough, then two generations will suffice, so that the flag of the Great Sui can truly fly high before the world once more. At that time, we will fight the Great Zhou squarely and reclaim the territory that belongs to our Great Sui."
Xiao Jiuhe's heart felt as if it had been struck by a heavy hammer.
Jiang Qingwan raised her hand and gently patted his shoulder.
"I'll leave this matter to General Xiao."
Xiao Jiuhe felt a lump in his throat, still struggling with his inner turmoil, when the small hand on his shoulder suddenly slipped off, and Jiang Qingwan's body went limp, and she completely fainted.
"Princess!"
...
Inside the capital's prison,
Su Yulan, her face covered in red bumps, was roughly dragged by the yamen runners and shoved into a cell.
The cell door slammed shut and the chains were fastened.
Su Yulan was so dizzy from being thrown that she cursed loudly in anger.
"You bunch of bastards! Just wait until I, the county princess, am the granddaughter of the Su family, a county princess personally appointed by the Emperor! Once I get out of here, I'll make you pay!"
The yamen runner spat out a mouthful of saliva.
"What county princess, what Su family? In this capital, where is there any Su family left? Take a good look at the people around you."
After saying that, he turned and left.
Su Yulan was furious, but there was nothing she could do.
Suddenly, a faint female voice came from behind.
"Su Yulan, you're here too!"
Su Yulan felt a chill run down her spine, yet the voice seemed strangely familiar.
She slowly and stiffly turned her head and saw a disheveled woman staring at her with bloodshot eyes.
Suddenly, he raised his hand, grabbed a bloodstained hairpin, and stabbed it viciously into her face.
"ah!"
Su Yulan fled in terror.
Only then did they discover that there were still quite a few people in the prison.
The old Princess Consort of the Su family sat blankly in the corner, Su Qinghe curled up beside her with red eyes from crying, and Cheng Shi, whose face was covered in blood and whose hair was pulled out like withered grass.
The one who was holding the hairpin and trying to slash her face like a madwoman was none other than Su Rong'an, the dignified eldest daughter of the Su family.
"Grandmother, Mother, save me!"
Su Yulan ran frantically to Cheng's side for protection.
Su Rong'an held the hairpin, not in a hurry to chase after him, her smile sinister, like a vengeful ghost.
"Save? No one can save you. The Su family is finished, we are all finished. Your second branch was jealous of the glory of our first branch, so you let Qin Minglang, that traitorous dog, collude with the second prince to cause the third prince to be demoted, prevent my daughter from becoming the crown princess, and even kill Sun Ke and everyone in the Sun family."
"Su Weichuan has also gone mad, actually leading troops in rebellion, plunging the Su family into utter ruin. My son, Su Mingchao, helped the Second Prince break through the city, wanting to use his own strength to change the Su family's fate of being exterminated along with nine generations of relatives, but he was betrayed by Qin Minglang and the Second Prince and died tragically in the palace. All of this is entirely the fault of your second branch!"
As she spoke, she raised the hairpin and lunged at him again.
Su Yulan was so shocked by this information that she was completely stunned and forgot to hide.
Her face, already covered in red rashes and pustules, was instantly slashed open by the hairpin, drawing blood. The pain brought her back to her senses, and she covered her face, screaming in agony.
"You're crazy, you're crazy! Mother, save me! Mother, save me!"
Su Ronghui was awakened from her daze when warm blood splashed into her eyes.
As the hairpin slashed down again, I gripped it tightly.
Seeing this opportunity, Su Yulan kicked Su Rong'an in the stomach.
Su Rong'an was kicked away.
She had just breathed a sigh of relief when Su Qinghe rushed over and slapped her several times.
"You still dare to resist! If it weren't for your second branch, how could the Su family have fallen, and how could we have ended up in this state? And that Cheng Nan, he hid it so well. I thought he was just a good-for-nothing who only knew how to enjoy himself, but I never expected that he had been harboring hatred for the Su family all along, waiting for an opportunity to take revenge. You deserve to die, you really deserve to die!"
She was furious and angrily raised her hand to hit him again.
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