The old emperor spread his hands.
"What else can we do? Give me an explanation and bring the person back.
Otherwise, if they become suspicious and investigate further, and if they find any clues, Xiyue will be in trouble."
Queen Jiang disagreed.
"The people who knew about this have been dead for decades. What could they possibly find out?"
The old emperor shook his head repeatedly.
"What if that happens? That would be a disaster. Dongling Kingdom is much stronger than our Xiyue Kingdom right now. I feel uneasy."
"In that case, we'll take the initiative to compensate them with some property and exchange the person back."
Concubine Jiang's words touched the old emperor's heart, and he nodded repeatedly.
"How much compensation do you think is appropriate?"
"I don't understand this. Your Majesty, please do as you see fit."
The end of the first year.
The old emperor sent an imperial envoy, who brought five million taels of silver notes exchanged in various countries and ten carriages of precious specialties, and went to the border secretly after many twists and turns.
After a round of negotiations with Chu Ruofeng, Xue Lin was taken away.
Chu Ruofeng wrote a letter and sent it back to the capital urgently along with a list of property.
After doing all this, he breathed a sigh of relief and called out to the sky: "Someone come!"
A personal guard came forward to receive the order: "General!"
"Brothers, you have been on high alert for over a month. Thank you for your hard work.
From today on, just have everyone patrol normally. No more ambushes along the border. We have to give those spies a chance."
The guard smiled and took the order to do it.
Chu Sheng looked at Chu Ruofeng angrily, "Dad, Xue Lin almost harmed my aunt's family, and we just let her go. I'm so unwilling to accept this."
"Don't worry, she won't live for a few days!"
"Why? Did you do something?"
Chu Ruofeng gave his son a slap on the face: "In your eyes, am I the kind of villain who does evil things behind people's backs?"
Chu Sheng covered his forehead and wailed, "Dad, please stop keeping me in suspense."
Chu Ruofeng glanced at Chu Sheng and said, "Don't you think you're smart? You can't even figure out this little twist?
The old emperor of Xiyue suffered such a huge loss, how could he still keep her?"
Chu Sheng jumped up and said, "That's right. Xue Lin has become a bad chess piece of the old emperor. Is she still alive to annoy me if she doesn't die?
Haha...our emperor is still one step ahead."
Imperial study.
Late February.
After the morning court session ended that day, Emperor Dongling had just returned to the imperial study and sat down when he received a letter from the border. After opening it and reading it, he was very pleased.
"Haha... Not bad, not bad. Using Xue Lin's worthless life to exchange for a large sum of money, this deal is quite a good deal!"
Gao Xingwan buried his head in the jade case to deal with memorials.
Eunuch Wei bowed and prepared to leave the imperial study, but Emperor Dongling suddenly raised his head.
"Laifu, how long has it been since Jiuer and her mother entered the palace?"
Eunuch Wei counted on his fingers.
"It has been a month and a few days now. I remember clearly that the princess last entered the palace on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
Your Majesty, how about I send a message to the General's Mansion, asking Madam Xue and the Princess to come into the palace for a walk?"
Emperor Dongling waved his hand and said, "Forget it. When the weather gets warmer, I'll let them enter the palace to accompany the Queen."
Eunuch Wei agreed and left the imperial study. As soon as he reached the door, he bumped into a young eunuch who was trying to enter the imperial study.
Eunuch Wei scolded him in a low voice, "Why are you so reckless?"
The young eunuch raised his hand and pointed outside, whispering, "Princess Dingguo is here!"
"What? Where is it?" Eunuch Wei hurried out the door.
The young eunuch pointed to the corner in the distance.
Eunuch Wei looked up and saw Nangong Jiu sitting upright on Xiao Wang's back, walking towards the imperial study.
"Oh my, the emperor was just talking about the princess, and now he's here."
Eunuch Wei trotted forward and said, "This old servant greets the princess!"
Nangong Jiu waved his arms and greeted everyone with a grin.
"Oh, you're starting to learn to speak?"
Eunuch Wei looked around and didn't see Nangong Yunxue. He asked hurriedly, "Princess, are you here alone?"
"clatter!"
Nangong Jiu's chubby hand pointed to the imperial study.
Eunuch Wei nodded quickly: "Okay, Princess, you have to go see the Emperor!"
When Xiao Wang carried Nangong Jiu on his back and walked slowly into the imperial study, Emperor Dongling raised his head happily when he heard the sound.
"Jiu'er, are you here to see Grandfather Huang?"
"Da!" Nangong Jiu stretched out his hands towards Emperor Dongling.
Emperor Dong Ling smiled and picked up the little guy, placing him on his lap. "Did you come here alone?"
[Yes, Xiao Wang and I went out to play, and while walking, we ended up at the palace.]
"Does your mother know that you're out playing?"
"I know! He told us not to go too far. Grandfather, this place isn't that far, right? Little Wang came all the way here in one breath."
Emperor Dongling looked at Xiao Wang.
This breath is too long...
"You guys didn't run into any trouble on the way?"
[No, it's just that some people are really weird and keep staring at us, and Jiuer doesn't have anything delicious in her hands.]
Emperor Dong Ling shouted outside, "A Bing!"
Ah Bing, who was hiding in the shadows, quickly slipped into the imperial study and said, "Your Majesty, I greet you!"
"Well, you guys have been following Jiuer?"
"yes!"
"Does Xue'er know that Jiu'er is going out?"
"Young lady knows! The princess couldn't stay in the mansion and kept clamoring to go out and play, so young lady let her and Xiao Wang go out and play for a while.
This was not the first time the princess went out to play by herself.
The first few times I just wandered around the streets near the General’s Mansion and then returned home.
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