Chapter 9 I can kill him myself
Everyone saw her drink it all in one gulp and had no time to stop her, so they all looked at Jiang Yu anxiously.
"In the border army, there has never been a reason for the commander to be afraid of fighting and the soldiers to fight for their lives." Jiang Yu narrowed his eyes, "The princess is your master, it is reasonable for you to do this, and I will not stop you."
"You are not ordinary guards, but soldiers. If the commander is unwilling to share life and death with you on the battlefield, why should you be loyal to him?"
Jiang Yu spoke in a serious tone. Everyone was stunned for a moment, then they showed a resolute look.
"Your servant Jiang Qibin is willing to follow the princess!"
Jiang Qibin was the first to speak, and immediately picked up a glass of wine from the plate and drank it.
Seeing this, others also picked up their wine cups.
"Your servant Chen Jin is willing to follow the princess!"
"Your servant Chen Xiu is willing to follow the princess!"
"I would rather follow the princess!"
"Your servant Xu Chong is willing to follow the princess!"
"Your servant Ruan Yisui is willing to follow the princess!"
The wine was finished, but nothing happened to the group of seven.
Jiang Qibin was stunned. Oh, is everyone so lucky?
Everyone looked at each other in astonishment.
Jiang Yu tried his best to hide the smile in his eyes and said, "It seems that everyone is very lucky."
Jiang Xue looked at his expression and figured out something.
It seems that there is nothing interesting in this wine.
"Jiang Xue is here, thank you all for following me!" Jiang Xue said solemnly, "I promise that I will give you all a chance to show your talents in the country in the future, and I will not let you be constrained by trivial matters at home and fail to realize your ambitions."
Everyone clasped their fists in thanks.
Jiang Xue called Xiaochun and asked her to prepare for the handover and leave the palace before dinner.
Wu Anlang returned to his residence to pack his luggage.
Jiang Xue and Jiang Yu walked into the inner hall together to rest.
"Royal brother, I'm afraid there is no 'pulling machine' in the wine." Jiang Xue spoke, tilted her head and looked at Jiang Yu with a smile.
Jiang Yu tapped her forehead and said, "Do you think I would do such a thing?"
Jiang Xue stuck out her tongue and said, "How would I know? I thought that three years of trials at the border had hardened my brother's heart."
Jiang Yu said seriously: "Even if they are not soldiers, but ordinary people, their lives are not to be taken lightly."
"Besides, they are all the best in the army. In recent years, they were transferred to the palace to guard because the country is at peace. Otherwise, with their abilities, after a little training, each of them is capable of commanding hundreds of soldiers in the army."
"No one in the army would ever, and would never, gamble with the lives of the soldiers."
Jiang Xue looked at him blankly. She thought that her brother, who was now a strong-willed man, might become cold-hearted after going through so many hardships.
Who doesn't know that those in high positions, when they achieve great things, usually become lonely?
However, the Second Prince is still the same as before, not arrogant when in a high position, and not dangerous when in a high position.
"I am very happy," she said with tears in her eyes, "My brother has achieved great success in his training, but he still remembers his original aspirations."
If my father, my mother, and my eldest brother who has passed away knew about this, they would definitely be very happy.
"I just wanted to test whether they are really willing to serve you." Jiang Yu said with a smile, "If they have no intention of staying and no loyalty, keeping one more will become a hidden danger for you in the future."
As he spoke, his voice gradually faded, "I will be returning to the Northland soon. I will not feel at ease if I don't make arrangements for the people around you."
Jiang Xue choked up: "Are you leaving again soon?"
"Although the border has been stable for more than a decade, the Northern Xi have been restless in the past year and have repeatedly provoked riots in the border trade areas."
Jiang Xue asked, "My mother said that you were originally planning to attend my wedding, but were delayed by border issues. Was it because of the harassment by the Beixi people?"
"Yes. We have been gathering our strength for more than ten years, and Beixi has also been recuperating for more than ten years." Jiang Yu's brows gradually furrowed, "Now I'm afraid they are already preparing for war, intending to invade the south again."
Jiang Xue asked: "Brother Emperor, can I do something for you?"
Jiang Yu looked at her with complicated eyes. After a long while, he spoke.
"Help my brother take good care of our father and mother. Now they only have the two of us. The affairs of the court are complicated. Although our father looks strong, he can't bear the day and night work."
"The Great Ji Dynasty has not experienced war for too long, and there are too few experienced soldiers and generals. I asked to go to the border on my own initiative, on the one hand, because I blamed myself back then and wanted to avoid leaving the capital."
Jiang Yu continued with a self-deprecating tone.
"On the other hand, I also hope to be able to manage the border for my father, so that if there is another war in the future, my father will not be without generals to use."
"But my brother, have you ever thought about this!" Jiang Xue said anxiously, "It is not easy for me to directly interfere in the affairs of the court! If you stay at the border for a long time, if the emperor can't hold on one day--"
"What kind of turmoil will the Great Ji Dynasty face!"
Jiang Yu reached out his hand to comfort her and said, "I think this is why my father promised you to the top scholar Gu Lintan."
"Although my mother's family has served as prime ministers for three dynasties, my uncle did not inherit my grandfather's talent and ability. My grandfather is already old, how many years will he be able to support the affairs of the court?"
Jiang Yu sighed and said, "You know our three cousins well. None of them is useful. They are even less troublesome than cousin Qiong Shuang."
"The Gu family married a princess, has no relatives from outside the family, and has no roots in the court. Father will feel more at ease if he uses him. I'm afraid he will be entrusted with important tasks in the future and will rely on him even more."
"If I go to war outside, the only person left in our family will be Gu Lintan, who can temporarily serve as father's right-hand man."
Jiang Yu looked at Jiang Xue and said solemnly: "So this person must not only be talented, but also be upright and pure in heart."
"What if he is not upright and his heart is not pure?" Jiang Xue raised her eyes with a solemn expression.
Jiang Yu's heart tightened, and after thinking for a moment, he said:
"I saw you get married yesterday, and today when you returned to the palace you asked your mother for a military confidant. You did a lot of unusual things, so I knew there must be something wrong with your marriage."
"Brother, I'm not sure. Some things are... too vague to be believed."
Jiang Xue turned around, walked to the palace gate, looked around, and then looked back and said:
"I need time to verify. I feel uneasy. Some things just don't seem that simple." She raised her eyes firmly.
"But I can't tell you now. I will tell my brother when things become clear."
If Gu Lintan simply concealed his marriage and did not report it, although he would be guilty of deceiving the emperor, given his father's kindness, the worst that could happen to him would be the loss of his official career.
After she had a dream that was almost identical to reality, she felt not only deep hatred for Gu Lintan, but also suspicion and fear.
This person is very scheming. He was able to pass the palace examination and even escape the family registration check of the students by the Supervisory Department. He concealed the fact that he was married. I'm afraid -
I'm afraid he has an even bigger deception behind this matter!
If she informed the palace at this time, she was afraid that the royal family's reputation would be damaged, and she was even more afraid of alerting the enemy.
Jiang Yu felt that it was inappropriate. "But Xue'er, you have been raised in the deep palace since you were a child. You have never seen the evil of human nature. How can you investigate it by yourself?"
Jiang Xue frowned and asked, "Have you never seen a vicious human heart?"
"If I say before I was sixteen, I really had never seen a treacherous heart, a little princess raised in the deep palace!"
The resentment in Jiang Xue's eyes grew deeper.
"But when I was sixteen, I promised my true heart to the wrong person. I treated him with my heart, but in the end, I let a wolf into the house! I was bullied and betrayed, and I was implicated and killed by my eldest brother. I have already experienced the most sinister human heart in the world!"
Jiang Xue closed her eyes, tears streaming down her cheeks.
The brother and sister didn't say anything for a long while.
Jiang Yu looked at her and felt a burning sensation in his throat, as if he was swallowing a ball of fire, unable to swallow or spit it out, and he was almost suffocating.
After so many years and suffering from the border sandstorms, he still doesn't dare to face it.
He believed that the mistake he made back then was no less than monstrous, and that Jiang Xue was the only one who suffered from it.
He put his arm around Jiang Xue's shoulders and listened quietly to her sobs.
"But I killed him with my own hands." Jiang Xue cried enough, raised her hand to wipe her tears, her voice cold.
"But I can kill him with my own hands. Second brother, do you still think that I can't deal with Gu Lintan, a mere person like me?"
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