Chapter 371 Yes, damn them!
Bu Ruo sneered: "Why don't you agree to leave now? Don't you know what's going on? Do you think this princess is a fool?"
"Haha, I'm not afraid to tell you, once I get involved with fur, I'm smarter than a monkey, so you and your cheap father's shameless tricks are best kept to yourself, or I'll turn your Beining upside down."
Guo Shuangwen didn't know what Bu Ruo was talking about. She only knew that her cheap father had sent compensation but had no idea what was inside. She also didn't know that her father actually didn't even intend to give the tampered compensation.
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Two days later, Xiao Yulan led the Bu family army to the border. Although the Bu family had handed over the military power, the emperor still returned the military power to the Bu family and promised never to take it back. He even issued an imperial decree and awarded a gold medal.
After Bu Ruo knew about this, she once said in the imperial study that the emperor had a lot of tricks up his sleeve, but the emperor didn't care. He smiled and said that the country would belong to Xiao Jin anyway, and the Bu family was Xiao Jin's maternal grandfather, so what if he had some private soldiers.
In fact, the emperor was very smart and clear-minded. He knew that as long as his uncle and aunt were around, the Great Zhou would never be annexed by the other two countries, so he also gave the Bu family an unbeatable status.
The Bu family members were also very sensible. They did not form cliques or engage in private interests. As long as there was no war, they would stay at home all day to look after their children and take care of their health. They would go out for a walk every now and then. As for the military power of the Bu family army, it was given to Bu Ruo.
“General Shen, we meet again. How is it going? Is the compensation ready?”
This time, it was Jin Congcong who spoke in front. This was also his own request, in order to... practice spiritual power.
After hearing that the other party was ready, Jin Congcong suggested opening the box for inspection, but the other party hesitated and made various excuses, saying that he would not agree and that this showed his lack of trust in Beining.
Bu Ruo looked at the calm Guo Shuangwen and smiled, "How much silver do you think you are worth?"
"Haha, you don't have to look at me like that. You'll know how much you're worth soon."
Bu Ruo looked at Jin Congcong holding the little girl and arguing with the other party with a smile in her eyes. In fact, even if Jin Congcong had not brought it up, she would have wanted him to go. After all, it was impossible for her, a princess, to scold others when two armies were fighting, right?
As for Xiao Yulan... I'm afraid he would start fighting without saying a word.
"You don't agree to open the box for inspection. Is there something fishy going on? You're making us look down on you, Beining. Why don't you do something that makes us look up to you, Beining?"
"You just tore up the treaty that our ancestors signed a few generations ago, which stipulated that we would not invade the border. You sent a princess to represent peace and a ceasefire between the two armies. She's a bastard who's had a miscarriage and who knows where she came from. And you think you're sincere in Beining? Pah!"
Bu Bu: "Yes, damn them!"
Jin Congcong: ...
"You agreed to the compensation we proposed. Since ancient times, compensation has been inspected before it's handed over. Why don't you, Beining, allow it? Could it be that those boxes are filled with stones? Are you guilty of a crime?"
Bu Bu: "Brother, they are not all stones. Only two boxes are. I guess we can't put them all together."
Jin Congcong: ...
"Look, those are the two boxes, the two big boxes that they mixed in the middle and pressed down at the bottom."
Jin Congcong nodded and counted for a long time...
"General Shen, since you don't agree to test all of them, then we will only test two boxes, the 22nd and 23rd. If you still don't agree, then you probably don't have the sincerity to compensate, so let's wait for the war to start."
"I heard that you Beining no longer have a prince, right? I wonder if your old emperor's heart can withstand the war. If, by some chance... hehe, if Beining has no successor, it might become part of our Great Zhou's territory."
Shen Cong had no choice but to grit his teeth and agree. Among so many boxes, he only knew that a few of them had problems but didn't know which ones. He just ordered the deputy general beside him to open the boxes.
But he didn't know that the deputy general knew it, because the deputy general was sent by the emperor.
"Hey? Hey, hey, hey? Don't you Beining people know how to count? I was talking about the twenty-second and the twenty-third. Why are you moving the twentieth and the twenty-first?"
The deputy general gritted his teeth and said something nice: "Little Divine Doctor Jin, those two boxes are pressed down underneath and it's really hard to get them. We have to test them anyway, so it doesn't matter which one we test, right?"
"No!" Jin Congcong yelled, "I didn't check everything. Now I'm only checking two boxes and you're still nitpicking. Do you have any shame?"
Bu Bu: "Yes! Shameless!"
The little girl was held in the other's arms and looked at the two boxes that the other party was protecting. Her eyes turned and she pointed at the two boxes with her chubby little hands. Suddenly, the two boxes broke open without warning, and the stones inside rolled all over the floor, scaring Shen Cong.
Not to mention Shen Cong, even Guo Shuangwen was frightened, and the envoys and guards next to him were so scared that they lost their souls.
"You... you're so bold! You actually dared to steal and replace the compensation that was supposed to be given to Da Zhou with stones. Are you really going to die?"
Wei Jieying was indeed a veteran who had been in the officialdom for more than ten years. As soon as he opened his mouth, he put the blame on Shen Cong.
"You... you're talking nonsense! How dare you frame me? I'll kill you!"
Seeing the other party panic, Wei Jieying continued, "Who else could it be if not you? You've been the one escorting the compensation all the way here. Who else but you would have the chance to swap the compensation?"
Shen Cong was originally a military general who only knew how to fight. Now he was at a disadvantage in a verbal battle with a scholar, and the other party was sure that he would not dare to expose the emperor.
Shen Cong glanced at the deputy general beside him and suddenly shouted, "It's you, isn't it? Deputy General Wang, I told you you were sneaking around all the way here. It turns out it was you who exchanged the compensation for stones!"
Shen Cong is not good at speaking but that doesn't mean he has no brains. He knew there was a problem when the deputy general deliberately didn't move the two designated boxes.
Deputy General Wang knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "General, you are wise. It is really not my doing. I have never touched the compensation."
"Then why didn't you take the two boxes that Jin Xiaoshen Doctor specified? If you don't have something to hide, what is it?" Shen Cong said with a sad face: "Deputy General Wang, you have been with me for several years. It is true that you can only know a person by his appearance but not by his heart. This general never knew you were this kind of person."
"If you have any difficulties, you can tell this general and I will help you. But you should never, ever touch the compensation. It will cost you your life."
Deputy General Wang was so confused that he couldn't explain himself. The Shen family was a noble family and he couldn't afford to offend them. He couldn't say that the two boxes of stones and half of the other worthless things were placed there by the emperor's orders.
If I don't tell anyone, the emperor will let me die alone because I took the blame for him. But if I betray the emperor... then it will be a nine-clan elimination game.
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