"Then what does the Crown Princess wish to do?"
Xiao Churen warily raised his eyes to meet Su Liluo's cunning gaze. He had a premonition that Su Liluo was definitely up to some bad idea again!
Every time I confront her, it seems like I'm putting in a lot of effort but getting no reward.
Sure enough, the next second Su Liluo said with a faint smile, "You schemed against my husband today, and you think you can just dismiss it all with a misunderstanding? Now that we have the evidence, shouldn't you at least offer some apology?"
What kind of apology do you want?
Xiao Churen asked, thinking that if it wasn't too outrageous, he might reluctantly agree, considering that he still needed Xiao Ye.
"Well..."
Su Lilu pondered for a moment, then said, "I will temporarily hand over the military command of this army to my husband. After all, you need my husband to help you attack the capital."
military power
"no!"
Xiao Churen flatly refused. Military power was such an important thing; how could he hand it over to Xiao Ye?
This private army was rigorously trained by the Liu family and only recognizes military tokens. If it were handed over to Xiao Ye, what would happen?
"You have schemed against me blatantly time and time again. Now, does the King of Chu not even have the sincerity to apologize? If you continue like this, I will have to seriously consider whether or not to cooperate with you."
At this moment, Xiao Ye spoke softly.
"Yes, King Chu is scheming against us like this. Who knows how he will treat us after he takes down Queen Xiao? We dare not cooperate with someone like you easily."
Su Liluo echoed her sentiments.
Xiao Churen frowned, as if he was struggling with a decision.
Without Xiao Ye's help, and given his lack of combat experience, as well as the fact that Liu's uncles, cousins, and other relatives also lacked battlefield experience.
Even if this army is well-trained, without someone with practical combat experience to lead it, it will be very difficult to deal with Prince Xiao and even to storm the imperial city.
Their original plan was for Xiao Ye to lead the army and the Liu family together, but military power was in the hands of the Liu family and him.
If Xiao Ye is unwilling to cooperate with them now because of his own scheming, then their final plan to attack the imperial city will have to change.
"Your Highness, aren't your demands a bit too much? If you feel wronged, I can apologize to you, but you're asking for the military power of my Liu family right off the bat—that's outrageous!"
Upon hearing Su Liluo and the others' demands, Liu Qinyue's face darkened with anger, and she no longer wanted to maintain her gentle and delicate persona.
"Since you think this is an exorbitant demand, then forget it, let's not cooperate."
Su Liluo shrugged, looking indifferent.
Xiao Ye also got up and took Su Liluo's hand, and the two prepared to leave the tent.
"Slower!"
At this moment, Xiao Churen also became anxious.
He looked at Xiao Ye and the others with a serious expression, "You are on our territory now, and there are our people all around you. Do you think you can leave smoothly?"
It was just a misunderstanding, yet the Crown Princess is making such a fuss; it's really jeopardizing the Crown Prince's future!
"How will we know if we can leave without trying? Does the King of Chu really think you can trap us? The only reason we were willing to cooperate with you was to give you face. Since you don't want it, do you really think we can't conquer your Youyun Prefecture?"
Su Liluo stopped in her tracks, turned her head slightly, and sneered at Xiao Churen.
It's not that they can't take the pass; they just want to minimize casualties.
After all, the civilians and soldiers were innocent; they were simply following orders from their superiors.
"Is that so? Guards—Pfft, what is this? What did you throw at me?"
Xiao Churen's eyes hardened, and he was about to order his men to capture Su Liluo and the others, but before he could finish speaking, he saw Su Liluo suddenly throw a handful of dark powder at him.
He didn't realize that he was breathing into his mouth and felt extremely uncomfortable. After coughing a few times, he inhaled a lot more, and Liu Qinyue next to him also inhaled it.
"Cousin, I...I'm so itchy!"
Liu Qinyue was a bit delicate, so she reacted immediately.
She, who was originally dignified and gentle, suddenly started scratching herself like a monkey.
"cousin!"
Xiao Churen glanced at it with concern, and soon he too started to itch.
When the soldiers outside rushed into the house upon hearing the order, they saw Xiao Churen and Liu Qinyue fiddling around like two monkeys, jumping up and down.
Soldier:"......."
Why did you call them in?
Su Liluo and Xiao Ye crossed their arms and watched leisurely, as if they were watching a monkey show in a circus.
"Su Liluo, what kind of poison have you given me! Give us the antidote at once!"
Xiao Churen was so angry that he stopped pretending and directly called out Su Liluo's name, demanding the antidote.
"You're going to let people bully us, and you still expect me to give you the antidote? Do you think we're stupid, or are you the stupid one?"
Su Liluo said with a smile.
Xiao Churen has experienced so much and lived a second life, so why is he still so naive?
"What exactly do you want in exchange for the antidote?"
Xiao Churen was unbearably itchy all over, feeling as if his body was being scratched raw.
"Cousin, sob sob...please make her give us the antidote! If this continues, I'll be disfigured!"
Liu Qinyue, who was standing to the side, was scratching and crying at the same time. She really didn't want to scratch, but she just couldn't stop the itching.
Her once pretty face was now flushed, and some red scratches could be seen.
"I said, give us the military power as an apology, otherwise, you can just keep itching like this!"
"You... fine, here you go, I'll give it to you, I'll give it to you!"
Xiao Churen gritted his teeth, wanting to refuse, but his body was unbearably itchy.
Then he realized that if they refused to cooperate with Xiao Ye and the others if they didn't give it to them, then they wouldn't be able to deal with King Xiao.
After careful consideration, he decided to compromise for now and find a way to regain military power later.
*
On the other side.
Gao Changhong, who was far away in the southern part of the Northern Desert, had been rushing south since he escaped. Once there, he successfully used his methods to wrest back military power in the south from Mo Hanyu.
At the same time, he was angry that Mo Hanyu had abandoned him at a critical moment and run away with Gao Junning and the others, so he kept Mo Hanyu imprisoned in the courtyard.
That day, he learned of the news from the Liang Dynasty that the King of Chu had occupied Youyun Prefecture, and that the Liang regime, like the Northern Desert, was temporarily divided in two. He then had another idea.
If he could take advantage of the chaos in Daliang to capture several border cities, they would be too preoccupied with internal and external troubles to attend to anything else, and his chances of victory would be very high.
However, war requires funds, and he clearly did not have enough funds at hand. Only then did he remember that Mo Hanyu's maternal grandparents' family seemed to be extremely wealthy.
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