At this moment, the war drums had stopped beating at Lu Zhenzhi's signal. The onlookers had also retreated. A stack of memorials had just been delivered to the court.
Fu Tong'er had never been afraid of Lu Zhenzhi, the Regent Prince, from the beginning. The more he talked, the more she would talk back to him. When others were afraid, she would have the upper hand:
"The Regent is right. I'm not very good with a whip, so I can only subdue my enemies at close range. If the Regent needs me someday, feel free to send me to bed with other men. He has plenty of women anyway."
General You Yi was stunned and growled, "Tongtong!"
Lu Zhenzhi's face darkened with rage. This damn girl was talking nonsense again, so he said calmly, "Okay. I will make sure your wish comes true."
You Yi looked at Jiu Ye in surprise, then turned to Fu Tong'er and said, "Tongtong, don't take it to heart. Jiu Ye was just saying that in anger."
"That's what he thought! He couldn't bear to leave Lan'er in his heart! He even found her a husband, a good man! Why didn't he find a good man for me? He hugged me in prison and said he would be sincere to me, but it turned out to be a lie. His sincerity was with Lan'er! She got married, and his sincerity was gone. If that's the case, why did he leave a shell for me!"
"That happened half a month ago...Tongtong, go take a nap first. We still have training this afternoon. The recruit exam will be in three days. Big Brother promised to give you a white horse."
"Then practice now. We're exhausted anyway, and the Prince Regent will only be thinking about Lan'er."
"Tongtong, take a rest first. Sleep for an hour or two, and I'll teach you later."
"Then I'll go sleep at my brother's."
Lu Zhenzhi looked at Fu Tong'er. He felt that she had a unique temperament the day they first met. He never thought that this temperament was that of a daughter of the Fu family. He had to meet with some ministers soon, so he wanted to go back and take a rest. So he said: "General You Yi, do you dare——"
You Yi: “…”
The drawn-out ending and lowered tone made the atmosphere extremely tense. Fu Tong'er said: "If one day, Dayan needs a marriage alliance,"
Lu Zhenzhi frowned slightly. What was going on in this girl's head? Since the founding of the Great Yan Dynasty, there has never been such a humiliating act as ceding a city for a marriage alliance.
"I need a marriage alliance—Jiu Ye can send me there. I want to see if Jiu Ye will miss me as much as he misses Lan Er now."
Lu Zhenzhi raised his head, touched her head, leaned over to look into her eyes, and said, "As long as I am in power, there will be no marriage between Great Yan and other countries!" He paused, raised his body, and said, "If Tong'er wants to get married, I can arrange it for you."
“You,” Fu Tong’er sniffed, “Well, you, you’re not Master Jiu at all, he wouldn’t do this to me!”
Lu Zhenzhi reached out and smoothed her high ponytail. "Tell me what the 'Nineth Master' is like in your mind."
"He's a hero. He'll solve a lot of problems for me. He'll pamper me, tolerate me, and treat me well."
Lu Zhenzhi smiled slightly, loosened his hand, leaned down, and asked: "Isn't it now?"
"No! The one standing before me now is just a schemer, a hollow shell, a bully! The Prince Regent! He's nothing but a ghost man!"
Lu Zhenzhi couldn't help but laugh out loud: "I am a ghost man?"
General You Yi suppressed his laughter and said calmly, "Tongtong, Master Jiu is very busy with court affairs every day. He is more than ten years older than you, so he is naturally cunning and manipulative. You should be more understanding."
"That's his job, and it's different from bullying me. It was clearly Lan'er's fault, but not only did he not punish her, he also found her a good husband... He will never stand on my side again..." After saying that, the emotions that he had been suppressing for half a month finally burst out.
General You Yi said, "Tongtong, perhaps that woman met with an accident on the way."
Lu Zhenzhi glanced at You Yi, then bent down to look at Fu Tong'er, who was crying. Half a month had passed, and she was still thinking about it. So he pulled her into his arms and said, "Silly girl, Meng Lan made you so angry, how could I let her go?"
"But you clearly found her a husband. And he's an honest and decent man."
Lu Zhenzhi said: "That man is addicted to alcohol and gambling. If Meng Lan marries him, she will only live a life worse than death."
Fu Tong'er suddenly stopped crying. She raised her head and looked at Jiu Ye in disbelief: "Really...?"
Lu Zhenzhi continued, "But the soldiers reported back that Meng Lan was beaten to death by another group of people on the road."
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