He Lin paused slightly, glanced at Gu Qian's features, and organized his thoughts.
"As you know, Huyan Xun is dead, and the Northern Desert is leaderless and disorganized. Now is the time to unite. But those barbarians are unruly, only you..."
Before He Lin could finish speaking, Qiu Yan immediately looked at Gu Qian and shook her head inwardly.
"I'm not going!" Gu Qian blurted out, responding to Qiu Yan with a faint smile.
“You…” He Lin was suddenly interrupted by Gu Qian, his expression freezing, “Even if I personally bestow upon you the title of Prince of Zhenbei?”
He Jinran: That's a possibility, but whether he goes or not, his father isn't a lone wolf.
Qiu Yan: Your Majesty, you cannot keep ordering around one person.
"I'm not going then." Gu Qian was already seething with anger.
"On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, you clearly knew there would be a coup, so why did you still send Yan Yan there?"
Because of this, his daughter Yan Yan almost lost her life.
Now, his daughter Yan Yan's back is covered with whip marks.
Those marks are so deep that even a man might not be able to withstand them if they were hit on the back.
Whenever Gu Qian thought of this, he felt that he had made Hu Yanxun's death too easy.
He Lin: "..." This Gu Qian seems to have forgotten that he is His Majesty.
“That’s right, we’re not going!” He Jinran chimed in from the side. “Father, the Northern Desert is impoverished and the climate is bad. It’s not a good place to go.”
The memory of that childhood moment is still vivid in He Jinran's mind; it was the battlefield where the hunters were.
His impression of the Northern Desert was really not good. "Besides, I don't want my mother to go to such a place in the future."
"Jin'er!" What does this child know? He Lin sighed. He knew that Jin'er only respected Gu Qian, her adoptive father, and would never dare to disobey him in the slightest.
But he often argued with his biological father, leaving him unable to back down.
His son's lack of closeness to him is causing him distress.
In the blink of an eye, he explained to Gu Qian:
"On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, I really didn't know that the barbarian chieftain would come. I thought that the Prince of Qin couldn't cause any trouble, but I never expected that he would betray the country and collude with the enemy."
He admitted that this was a miscalculation on his part.
He only meant well, wanting Qiu Yan to see the excitement.
He just wanted to be with her.
He never denied his feelings for Qiu Yan.
However, this goodwill is quite different from that towards Shu'er.
"But, when something unexpected happens, you just send my mother out to take the blame?" He Jinran's anger towards He Lin's actions was clearly still lingering.
He still holds a grudge to this day.
“Jin’er, given the situation at the time…” He Lin hesitated, unsure how to respond.
"Gu Qian, Xiao Ran, don't blame His Majesty." Listening to the three of them talking amongst themselves, Qiu Yan finally managed to interject.
"Given the circumstances, if I hadn't left, it would have inevitably led to a chaotic battle, and we wouldn't have had enough men to fight them. If that had happened, the innocent people of Dongjin would have been the ones to suffer."
Who let Huyan Xun see her?
“No,” Gu Qian shook his head, “Yan Yan, if you don’t go to watch the dragon boat race, nothing will happen.” He knew that He Lin always had Yan Yan in his heart.
Dragon boat races are a perfect example.
"Qian'er, I didn't think things through properly, please forgive me." He Lin was wondering what he should do to make Gu Qian let go of his prejudice against him.
"It was my fault before, please don't be angry anymore." He Lin bowed respectfully to Gu Qian.
He Jinran: Father, sometimes you have no choice.
Simply because he was sitting in that position.
Gu Qian helped him up with both hands, saying, "You flatter me."
At this moment, the coldness on his face was gone, replaced by composure.
He was, of course, aware that Yan Yan had played a crucial role in this coup.
But... people are sometimes just so contradictory.
"Let Ling Qi and the others handle the matter in the Northern Desert."
He had already thought this through.
Normally, he would definitely go, but now he doesn't want to go because of his wife at home.
He would do his best to protect his wife during her pregnancy.
"Can they keep the northern barbarians in check?" He Lin was somewhat uncertain.
"Don't worry, they were personally promoted by me, they won't make any mistakes." Gu Qian finished speaking, and Qiu Yan silently nodded.
Gu Qian's actions pleased her greatly.
Anyway, Ling Qi and Ling Ba had been to the Northern Desert before, so they weren't exactly familiar with it, but it wasn't entirely unfamiliar either.
He Jinran nodded in agreement, "Father's considerations are indeed thorough."
Just then, Ling Qi, Ling Ba, Ling Yun, and Ling Zhi all arrived at the scene.
When they met His Majesty, they all knelt on one knee and paid their respects.
He Lin lowered his eyes and looked at Gu Qian's four capable deputies one by one.
They had been following Gu Qian since childhood and had distinguished themselves, so their strength was beyond question.
He Lin certainly trusted Gu Qian's men, but General Gu's reputation was so widespread that he thought of Gu Qian first.
"Gu Qian, you can't escape the title of Prince of Zhenbei." He Lin curled his lips, looking at Gu Qian with a calculating expression.
Gu Qian turned the tables on him.
Otherwise, He Lin would say he doesn't know what's good for him.
"Understood!"
The Prince of Zhenbei is the Prince of Zhenbei.
With four lieutenants guarding the northern desert, he was happy to have a leisurely life and even get to sit on a vacant throne.
Anyway, no matter what he says now, he won't go.
He Lin sighed, "Are you really not planning to go?"
Gu Qian: "I'll go after the Northern Desert is stabilized."
He Lin... why did he have a feeling that he had been tricked?
...
Just as Qiu Yan had predicted, the Liang residence...
These past few days have been anything but peaceful.
However, on the surface, everything appeared calm and undisturbed.
Qin Susu's back injury has improved, but the knife wound on her shoulder that exposed the bone has not yet healed and is currently wrapped in thick burlap.
At this very moment, inside Qin Susu's room,
Qin's mother was feeding her daughter the medicinal soup spoonful by spoonful.
"Susu, there's a limit to chivalry. How about it, you've capsized now."
"Oh, Mother, I have no regrets." Qin Susu said somewhat impatiently.
These past few days, her mother has been coming every day at dawn and returning at dusk, repeating the same few sentences over and over again until her ears are practically calloused.
"No regrets?" Qin's mother asked angrily, her eyes brimming with tears.
"Susu, if something happens to you, do you want your father and me to suffer the loss of our child? ... Do you think you're worthy of your parents' kindness in raising you? ... You need to understand that you're a woman, stop trying to be strong all the time!"
As Qin's mother spoke, she began to sob.
"Mother, I'll listen to you, I'll listen to everything you say, okay?" Qin Susu was driven crazy by her mother's crying.
"It's settled then, you're not allowed to act chivalrously anymore," Qin's mother added, still not entirely at ease.
Qin Susu could only nod woodenly, "I've got it."
However, what she really thought was that if she had to do it again, she would still go to save Xiaoyan.
However, she would definitely ask Qiu Xu for more bullets.
Yes, we'll ask for it back once her injury has fully healed.
She just didn't know if Qiu Xu would still give her such contraband.
The only one she owned was the one Qiu Xu discovered in the mountains that day. He found her on the battlefield and told her to save her life and retreat quickly.
However, she did not do as instructed, and focused solely on searching for Qiu Yan's figure.
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