Chapter 17: Quelling the Civil Unrest
17
Lin Xing had been imprisoned for several months. Although he didn't know what was happening outside, he was not panicked at all.
He is a hostage, and Fu Jiangyu cannot kill him. If he kills him, it means that Fu Jiangyu is sending a signal that the two countries are going to war.
Moreover, Fu Jiangyu still relies on their country's salt. Even if he committed a serious crime, it is impossible to kill him.
As for why that idiot Lin Baige didn't come to find him, maybe he was exposed. He might have been torn into pieces by Fu Jiangyu now.
After all, Lin Baige assassinated the king, and Fu Jiangyu is not dead, so it is impossible to keep him.
But he is under someone's supervision now, so he has to find a way to pass the message on.
His bedroom was surrounded by guards wearing masks. He had never seen these guards before and he suspected that they were Fu Jiangyu's secret guards.
He has a way to brainwash anyone who is a human being. During this period, he always goes to the door to talk to the guards.
The guards stood motionless, like puppets.
"Are they all deaf?" He was wondering when he heard a familiar voice.
"Next time he talks to you, just slap him in the face." Lin Baige stood outside the palace gate with a smile, took out the sign Fu Jiangyu gave him and said to the secret guards, "This is an order."
As soon as he finished speaking, several secret guards at the door finally moved, and one of them slapped Lin Xing in the face.
"Puff louder." Lin Baige said with a smile.
"You dare! Are you crazy?" Lin Xing had never been treated like this before. He covered his face in disbelief and looked at Lin Baige outside the door.
"Of course I'm not crazy. I pretended to be miserable in order to uncover your accomplices. To keep you trapped here, I even used His Majesty's secret guards as my protection. It was not easy." Lin Baige smiled at him. "Although you are powerful, you won't live for many more days. Enjoy your last moments."
"What are you talking about? The last time you came to me to ask for my name, it turned out that you wanted to eliminate my followers? Have you forgotten the vows we made to each other? Why do you treat me like this?" Lin Xing couldn't believe it, but seeing that Lin Baige was alive and well, while he was trapped and cut off from all external contacts, it turned out that Lin Baige had betrayed him.
That's right, this idiot is easily shaken and was easily brainwashed by a few words from him. He has helped him do so many things. Could it be that he is brainwashed by Fu Jiangyu again?
"Who made a solemn promise to you? Don't slander me. From the beginning to the end, I have only had Your Majesty in my heart. In order to bring you down, I have been lurking beside you for more than ten years, just to find evidence of Your Majesty's guilt. These ten years have not been in vain. Now you can finally die." Lin Baige knew that Fu Jiangyu had been keeping an eye on his movements. The last time he came to see Lin Xing, Fu Jiangyu asked him if he came to see Lin Xing after he returned. Lin Xing was about to die, and he couldn't let a dead person become a thorn in Fu Jiangyu's heart forever. He needed to remove it as soon as possible.
He had been telling Fu Jiangyu that the person he liked now was not Lin Xing, but Fu Jiangyu never believed him. So he thought it would be better to change his mind and go directly to Lin Xing, and let others pass on what he and Lin Xing said. This would make it more credible. "When I think of all those days when I pretended to like a piece of trash like you, I want to vomit."
Lin Xing's eyes turned red with anger. It would be fine if someone else betrayed him, but it was a fool who deceived him. Doesn't this prove that he is even more stupid than the fool!
"I don't believe that our feelings are fake. Did someone say something to you? Have you forgotten our promise?" Lin Xing began to pretend to be affectionate, but he couldn't say it too clearly. After all, there were secret guards around. If they knew that his promise to Lin Baige was to make Lin Baige the queen, Fu Jiangyu would kill him immediately.
Lin Baige turned around in front of him and said, "Your Majesty ordered someone to make me a new dress. It's the only one of its kind in the world. What can I gain by being with you? Your Majesty can give me everything I want."
"What can I give you? Have you forgotten? It's the thing that I can give you, but Fu Jiangyu can't give you." Lin Xing was hinting at him about the queen. He once used this matter to sow discord between Fu Jiangyu and Lin Xing. Lin Xing told him that Fu Jiangyu didn't love him at all, otherwise how could he only let him be a concubine instead of the queen, and he could give him the position of queen.
Lin Baige couldn't help but laugh at him: "You mean, the Queen? How can your Jiang Kingdom let a foreign man be the Queen of your country? Do you think I'm stupid enough? Besides, you can't be the Emperor either. If I follow you, I can only be killed by the sword. If I follow His Majesty, I can become the Imperial Concubine. What's more, His Majesty is handsome and you are ugly."
"I'm ugly?" Lin Xing's vision darkened as he was furious. He was most proud of his appearance, followed by his strategy. "You can't kill me. You still have to rely on Jiangguo to import salt. People can't live without salt."
"We don't need your salt, we have our own." Lin Baige calculated the time and thought that Lord Zhang would be back soon. Once he came back, Lin Xing would die.
"Impossible..." Lin Xing repeated this sentence like crazy, "There is no sea here."
"That's all I have to say." Lin Baige said with a smile, turned around and left, leaving the crazy Lin Xing behind.
When Master Zhang returned, he said that Lin Xing should be imprisoned first: "Now is not the time to kill him. We must first quell the civil unrest and capture the rebels, and then kill Lin Xing. Otherwise, Jiang State will use this as an excuse to attack us, and we will be in trouble both internally and externally..."
Lin Baige felt that what he said made sense. He turned to look at Fu Jiangyu, who nodded at him: "I have already sent down an order from the Marquis of Nan'an to lead the army to quell the rebellion in ten days."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
