After agreeing with Yu Zizhen on all matters related to the joint attack on the Lu family, the King of Zhenbei's biggest worry was resolved, and his mind inevitably began to wander again.
He stopped Yu Zizhen, who hadn't intended to reminisce with him, and said, "Wait a minute. Now that we've finished our business, isn't it time for us, father and daughter, to catch up on the past?"
Yu Zizhen thought that he would be tactful and not bring up this topic again. After all, they had already signed an agreement to jointly attack the Lu family.
Being able to sign this agreement with her means that King Zhenbei has been forced to acknowledge that she is a person of equal status with him.
But now this guy was dragging her to talk about "father and daughter" and "reminiscing about the past". Yu Zizhen was really confused about what he was thinking.
She took a deep breath and sat back down. "Your Highness, you're joking. Where did your daughter come from? How come I've never heard of her before?"
King Zhenbei's expression was complicated, "Are you blaming me?"
Yu Zizhen shrugged. "I'm just asking out of curiosity. How can there be any difference between strange and not strange?"
King Zhenbei sighed, "You should blame me, after all, it was me who made the decision to send you to the capital. But you also have to understand me and your mother, we have our reasons for doing this."
Yu Zizhen had no expression on his face, waiting for him to continue his performance.
When King Zhenbei saw that she didn't respond, he knew that she was determined not to recognize him, and a surge of anger surged in his heart.
If he hadn't been concerned about the fact that Yu Zizhen had already formed an alliance with Duke Weiguo and Duke Jingguo, the King of Zhenbei would have wanted to scold Yu Zizhen without caring about anything.
He took a deep breath and tried to make his expression more friendly. "Well, since you don't want to talk about this, let's talk about it in depth later. But Mr. Jiang, I hope you can return him to me first."
Yu Zizhen played dumb, "Mr. Jiang?"
The King of Zhenbei cursed Yu Zizhen inwardly for his pretense, but on the surface he had to patiently say to her, "Yes, I asked Mr. Jiang to lead his team over to discuss an alliance with you, but not long after he entered your sphere of influence, he suddenly lost contact with us."
Yu Zizhen pondered for a moment, "They must have been captured by other forces along the way. I'm different from you. My foundation is shallow, and my control over the prefectures and counties under my jurisdiction is far less than yours."
King of Zhenbei: ...
He agreed with the second sentence of Yu Zizhen's words, but the King of Zhenbei instinctively thought that the first sentence was something Yu Zizhen made up to fool him, and the truth was definitely not what she said.
Although there was no evidence, King Zhenbei felt that Mr. Jiang and his group must have fallen into Yu Zizhen's hands.
She withheld Mr. Jiang from him and did not even admit that Mr. Jiang was in her hands. Her only intention was to indirectly weaken the overall strength of the Zhenbei Palace.
After all, although Mr. Jiang misjudged Yu Zizhen, he is still very capable in other aspects.
In addition, Mr. Jiang has always been the trusted aide of the Prince of Zhenbei. He even once controlled the intelligence system of the Prince of Zhenbei's Mansion in the capital. Through him, Yu Zizhen will definitely be able to dig out a lot of things about the Prince of Zhenbei's Mansion.
The King of Zhenbei was certain that Yu Zizhen wanted to deal with him through Mr. Jiang.
He cursed her as "evil girl" in his heart, but at the same time he had no evidence and could only passively let Yu Zizhen make excuses and pretend that she knew nothing.
If it weren't for that bastard Duke Wei...
The Prince of Zhenbei was gritting his teeth, taking his anger out on the Duke of Weiguo, but Yu Zizhen had already stood up again. "If Your Majesty has nothing else to say, I will take my leave."
Although the place belonged to her, Yu Zizhen didn't mind giving the room to King Zhenbei temporarily.
She strode out of the house without giving King Zhenbei a chance to call her back.
The King of Zhenbei gnashed his teeth in hatred, but due to the situation being more pressing than he was, he did not dare to confront Yu Zizhen head-on at this critical juncture.
He snorted coldly, and stormed out of the house back to his northern border with his group of unfortunate subordinates who were like quails and didn't even dare to breathe.
Feeling as depressed as he did was Duke Jingguo, who sent his fourth son and eldest grandson as representatives to discuss cooperation matters with Yu Zizhen.
The sudden intervention of the Duke of Weiguo was beyond his and the King of Zhenbei's expectations. Although they had given up their plan to swallow up the power in Yu Zizhen's hands first after assessing the situation, and also gave up targeting Kaiyang and others when Yu Zizhen had nowhere to attack, the sense of crisis and unhappiness in their hearts always lingered in their hearts.
They all felt that although Yu Zizhen did not treat them and the Duke of Wei differently on the surface, and she readily agreed to their proposal of an alliance, in fact, the only person she was willing to trust and truly help was the Duke of Wei, who stood up to support her when she was in trouble.
Unlike the Prince of Zhenbei who was resentful and often scolded Yu Zizhen for not distinguishing between right and wrong, the Duke of Jingguo was able to think from Yu Zizhen's perspective.
In his opinion, if he were in Yu Zizhen's position, he would definitely do the same as Yu Zizhen and be closest to and trust the Duke of Weiguo who supported her the most at the critical moment, instead of foolishly getting close to and trusting the King of Zhenbei and the Duke of Jingguo who wished she would die immediately so that they could rush over and divide up everything she had.
Duke Jingguo felt that Yu Zizhen's choice was completely in line with common sense, but the more it was in line with common sense, the more he knew that once the Lu family fell, Yu Zizhen would definitely join forces with Duke Weiguo to deal with him first, and then deal with King Zhenbei.
In the opinion of Duke Jingguo, no matter how much Yu Zizhen disliked the Prince of Zhenbei and his wife, for the sake of her own reputation, she would definitely not really do anything to those guys in the Prince of Zhenbei's Mansion.
But their Jingguo Mansion was different. They had no way to suppress or control Yu Zizhen.
There are more than just Duke Jingguo in the Duke Jingguo's Mansion. Most of the other members of the Chen family in the Duke Jingguo's Mansion can also think of the problems that the old man can think of.
In order to prevent themselves from falling into the dangerous situation they were most worried about, the people in the Jingguo Mansion, who had just formed an offensive and defensive alliance with Yu Zizhen, were urgently discussing how to play tricks on their three allies when attacking the Lu family.
Coincidentally, the people in the Zhenbei Palace, who also believed that Yu Zizhen would not really do anything to them even if it was just for her own reputation, were now planning how to trap Yu Zizhen, the Duke of Weiguo and the Duke of Jingguo at the same time when they jointly attacked the Lu family.
They all wanted to hide their tricks as much as possible, and consume their allies' manpower, food, weapons, etc. while preserving their own manpower as much as possible.
Yu Zizhen was well aware of the little calculations of these two families, but she was different from them. From the beginning, she had no intention of getting involved with the Prince of Zhenbei and the Duke of Jingguo during the war.
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