Chapter 280 Of course I do
"Oh my God, this is a huge lobster!" Qin Qingyao rolled up her sleeves and compared it with her forearm. The lobster tail alone was longer than her forearm!
The person who had just decided to use cold violence was already pulling Dugu Yu's sleeve and started swallowing his saliva.
Dugu Yu held her and sat down at the table. He first gave her the sliced conch to eat, and then began to help her peel crabs.
"These were all shipped over from Qingli Country. We originally wanted them to be delivered on August 15th, but the weather was too hot and these things didn't survive. They all died on the way, and we've been stuck with this until now."
Qin Qingyao still had a piece of conch meat in her mouth and looked at Dugu Yu in amazement. Dugu Yu thought she wanted to eat crab, so he handed her the peeled crab legs.
Qin Qingyao lowered her head and took a bite. The meat was so delicious, they must have been cooked alive.
Qingli Country is so far away, if it is delivered before August 15th, then doesn’t that mean it has been delivered here in May or June, or even earlier?
It's already November, and after half a year of hard work, a living person was finally delivered?
How much money will this cost, and how much manpower and material resources will be wasted?!
"A tyrant!"
Dugu Yu picked up the oversized lobster and plucked off the tail with his nimble hands. The snow-white flesh was steaming hot, and a fresh aroma filled his face. He passed the tail to Qin Qingyao's mouth, raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Isn't it delicious?"
Qin Qingyao opened her mouth wide and took a vicious bite, "Delicious!"
Considering that the surprise Dugu Yu gave her was not really a spanking, Qin Qingyao decided to end the cold violence early.
"How could you possibly think of this? You've been struggling for half a year just for a few bites of food?"
"Don't some people write on their bedside tables that they should remember all holidays and anniversaries? Isn't it about eating crabs on the Mid-Autumn Festival? Even though it's a bit late, it's definitely better than river crabs, isn't it?"
As Dugu Yu spoke, he placed a large plate of peeled crab meat in front of Qin Qingyao.
Qin Qingyao suddenly felt her eyes burning, "Hubby, I'm sorry..."
"What's wrong?"
Qin Qingyao put down her chopsticks, leaned on Dugu Yu's chest, and said nothing. She felt extremely sad.
She was tricked out so easily and almost lost her life. Dugu Yu must be worried to death, but she was still angry at him for beating her.
Qin Qingyao grabbed the front of Dugu Yu's shirt with both hands, buried her face in the sand and said in a muffled voice, "Why don't you just beat me up again?"
Dugu Yu gently patted the back of her head. When Qin Qingyao raised her head, he lowered his head and kissed her on the lips. The kiss was instantaneous and she said, "Eat, I'm hungry too."
Qin Qingyao immediately picked up the conch with chopsticks and fed it to him. At least she had eaten a meal in the past two days. Did Dugu Yu not eat anything?
She felt so uncomfortable thinking about it, but she was too embarrassed to ask out loud, "Hubby, I promise I will never be cheated again!"
"good!"
As long as she can learn from her mistakes and become smarter, that's more important than anything else!
After dinner, Dugu Yu took Qin Qingyao to the study. "Didn't you ask me what I've been busy with recently? I want to have a good chat with you about this."
Dugu Yu's serious expression made Qin Qingyao very nervous. "What's the matter?"
"Do you still remember what you said before: if I was willing to listen to you, what would you let me do?"
She said so much in the past, how could I remember it all?
"You said you hoped I would resign and retire, stop being a general, stop getting involved in court disputes, and hope we could go far away and live our own lives."
She seemed to have said this, "So what are you...what are you doing now?"
Dugu Yu looked at Qin Qingyao's face full of excitement and disbelief, and knew that his decision was correct. He reached out and gently stroked Qin Qingyao's hair, and finally held her in his arms.
"I'm preparing for our future and asking you to close down Fenghuaxueyue. Actually, that's why I've had the butler carefully liquidate the palace's assets over the past few months."
"Whether to take away, to leave behind, or to share with other brothers, everything has been clearly accounted for."
Qin Qingyao, "You've been preparing for several months? When did you start planning?"
"After Grain in Ear."
Isn't that April?
"I transferred your third brother to the Yanling Army and asked Jin Feiang to assist him. The Yanling Army will be a good destination for him in the future."
"As for the remaining 200,000 troops, I will hand them back to the Emperor before we leave. What happens in the future is beyond my control."
Perhaps the emperor would keep it for himself, or he would promote a general he trusted to take charge, or even possible that these military powers would eventually fall into the hands of the prince's men. This was not something Dugu Yu could control.
"Without our military power, King Wu Ling is nothing more than a title. Whether the Emperor takes it back or not, it won't stop us from wandering the world freely. What do you think?"
Qin Qingyao looked up at Dugu Yu, his eyes sparkling like stars, "But will the emperor agree? Even if you are willing to give up your military power and resign your position as general, and no longer be a king of a different surname, will the emperor let you go?"
Dugu Yu looked at Qin Qingyao and asked softly, "Will you support me? Are you willing to come with me? Are you willing to try a completely different life?"
"Of course I do. As long as I'm with you, I'm willing to go anywhere. No matter what decision you make, I support you!"
More than just willingness, as long as Dugu Yu could stay away from the court disputes, and not have to be in dire straits between the Ling brothers, and not have to risk his head day and night, she would be more than happy to do so!
"Then let's go to the Qin family later. I want to tell my father about my thoughts first, and then I will go to the palace to see the emperor."
"Are you going today?"
Dugu Yu nodded, "Yes, let's go today!"
He didn't go to court today, and he still has to explain to the emperor...
In fact, this was not a good time, because Prince Duan had just been found to have "raised a private army with the intention of rebellion", and the emperor must be very angry now.
But from another perspective, the emperor had just experienced his son raising a private army to prepare for rebellion, so wouldn't he feel that it would be safer to hold the military power in his own hands?
Even his own son is unreliable, let alone Dugu Yu, a foreigner who is good at fighting? Now that the world is peaceful and there is no need for war, it seems that there are only benefits and no disadvantages for the emperor if Dugu Yu returns the military power!
The two of them first arrived at the Qin family, and then found that the atmosphere in the Qin family was extremely heavy, and her elder brother Qin Yuefeng, whom she had not seen for half a year, also returned home.
What made Qin Qingyao most nervous was that her father's eyes were red, as if he had just cried bitterly?
Dugu Yu went to the study to talk with Qin Shangshu. Qin Qingyao quickly asked Qin Yuefeng, "Brother, what happened to Daddy?"
Qin Yuefeng sighed, hesitating whether to tell it or not, but his hesitant expression made Qin Qingyao even more flustered.
"What happened?"
"It's His Royal Highness Prince Ning... Dad received news today that Prince Ning fell into a glacier shortly after arriving at his fiefdom. The ice was too thick... and he couldn't be rescued in time..."
Prince Ning is dead?
Qin Qingyao was stunned on the spot. She had never expected this to happen. "Is it an accident? Does Concubine Shu know?"
Qin Yuefeng shook his head. Who could tell whether it was unexpected or not?
"Dad doesn't dare tell the Concubine Shu, alas..."
The Northern Frontier is not like Yulin City. It is already November and there has been no snow yet. The cold weather there has already arrived early, with snow covering the mountains and ice covering thousands of miles.
In such an environment, the ice in some places on the river surface could not be split even with an axe, and even running a horse on it would not be harmful. So how did King Ning fall down?
Because the river water under the ice cover is still flowing, it is impossible for a person to stay where he fell through an ice hole and still be able to show his head and climb up from where he fell.
Instead, they were swept under the ice by the river, and the more they struggled, the further they were from the hole. In this situation, it was obviously unrealistic for others to break the ice to save them.
Since the rescuer couldn't even break the ice, it means that the ice should be very solid. So how did the ice under King Ning's feet break?
Qin Qingyao couldn't stop shaking just thinking about Prince Ning being frozen to death in the glacier.
"Even if we don't tell Concubine Shu, how long can we keep it a secret?"
Prince Ning only left the imperial city for his fiefdom, but his title of prince still remained. If something happened to him, it must be reported to the emperor immediately. Since the emperor and her father already knew about it, Concubine Shu would probably know about it soon too.
She had been trapped in the palace for her entire life, and now she had finally let go and left. She no longer competed with the people in the palace, but instead ate quietly and chanted Buddhist scriptures.
She had given up on the emperor and power, and her son was her only hope. How could she accept such a thing?
I don’t know if it’s because I’m too dark inside, so I always think of conspiracy theories, but intuitively, Qin Qingyao feels that King Ning’s death is not simple!
"Brother, what's the situation with Prince Duan now?"
"I've already called a doctor for him, but his condition isn't good."
"Call the doctor? What happened to him?"
Qin Yuefeng, “don’t you know?”
"Oh, I haven't asked much these past two days. Can you tell me from the beginning?"
The story is very simple from the beginning. There is solid evidence that Prince Duan intends to rebel, and the emperor is furious.
He was ordered to be stripped of all his positions and rights in the court, exiled to the clan house, and beaten with a hundred lashes, and no one was allowed to visit him.
He was whipped a hundred times, his back was covered in blood and flesh, and he was almost dead when the whipping was over.
In the blink of an eye, the person who was so high and mighty was trampled into the mud.
It was true that Ling Jingxuan had a private army, but Qin Qingyao knew that he had no intention of rebelling while the old emperor was still alive. His private army was prepared for the crown prince.
But such a purpose does not reduce his guilt in the slightest. If he is caught doing such a thing, he will be killed.
The emperor only threw him into the clan house and didn't take his life directly. He already took into consideration the father-son relationship!
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