"aunt?"
Pei Yuan sneered: "Why didn't I see this aunt when I was being hunted? Why didn't the Qin royal family come to recognize me when I was struggling in the Great Chu army camp?"
"Why do you think of blood ties now and want to welcome me back to the country?"
Qin Jialuo was frightened by the coldness in his eyes and his face turned pale. His lips trembled but he couldn't speak.
If her father wasn't on his last day and her two elder brothers were both indulging in sensual pleasures and doing nothing, how could her father have remembered that he had lost his eldest grandson in his early years?
At present, the Qin Dynasty was in turmoil, and my father no longer had the energy to balance it. So after learning that his eldest grandson had become a general of the Chu Dynasty and investigating some of his life, he immediately decided to summon his eldest grandson back to the country to inherit the throne.
Qin Jialuo, Ge Zhong and others came here this time in accordance with the order of the Qin Emperor, and they must bring Pei Yuan back to the Qin Kingdom safely.
Seeing this, Ge Zhong knelt down and stepped forward: "Your Highness, please calm down. The princess is young and ignorant. If you want to blame someone, blame this old minister—"
Pei Yuan raised his hand to interrupt, his tone cold: "Since Da Qin has no sincerity and thinks that I, the eldest grandson of the emperor, am dispensable, why not say goodbye now? I can still become a great general in Da Chu if I stay. But you——"
He glanced meaningfully at the direction of the imperial city outside the window: "If you offend the princess, you will have to leave your life in Da Chu!"
As soon as these words came out, Ge Zhong's face turned pale.
He suddenly pulled Qin Jialuo, who was still trying to explain, and kowtowed heavily on the ground: "Your Highness, please understand. I will take the princess back to reflect on her mistakes. There will be no more trouble before the autumn hunt!"
Qin Jialuo was pulled and staggered, almost falling.
She bit her lower lip tightly, and the voice seemed to be squeezed out from between her teeth, "This princess knows she was wrong."
Pei Yuan said nothing, just looked at her.
Qin Jialuo raised his head and glanced, and found that the other person's expression was still cold, and there was no warmth in those eyes that were exactly the same as his father's.
"I will personally go to the princess's residence tomorrow to apologize."
She said this with great reluctance.
However, Pei Yuan decided to stop while he was ahead and did not continue to dwell on this matter.
"It's up to you, but remember, if you dare to play any tricks in the princess's mansion, this general doesn't mind killing your relatives for the sake of justice!"
There was naked murderous intent in his words.
Qin Jialuo's hands trembled slightly under her sleeves, and she barely maintained her princess's demeanor: "This princess... knows her limits."
…
A quarter of an hour later, Pei Yuan's figure finally disappeared outside the door, and Qin Jialuo sat down on the chair, as if he had been pardoned.
Ge Zhong stepped forward to support her, but she pushed him away.
"Go check it for me!" She squeezed out a sentence from between her teeth: "Make sure to find out what kind of magic potion Chu Qingluan gave him!"
Ge Zhong was groaning in his heart and hurriedly advised: "Oh my princess, please don't make trouble again."
"What are you afraid of? This princess just wants to see how much he cares about Chu Qingluan."
Ge Zhong’s eyes went dark and he almost fainted.
He seemed to be able to foresee what kind of turmoil would arise in the princess's mansion tomorrow.
…
Soon, the people below brought back the news. Qin Jialuo held the information he had found and became more and more frightened the more he read it.
It turned out that Pei Yuan and Chu Qingluan were childhood sweethearts and had been together since childhood. When Pei Yuan was stranded in the Imperial Palace of Great Chu, he accidentally became Chu Qingluan's study companion and guard. The two were inseparable, one practicing martial arts while the other studying, and they stayed together for seven years behind the high walls of the deep palace.
That year, Chu Qingluan was involved in a military pay case and disappeared in the Jiangnan area. Pei Yuan went through three states and nine counties alone to find her whereabouts, and finally fell in the snow with serious injuries. If the guards had not found him in time, Pei Yuan would have turned into a pile of yellow earth.
"What a pair of infatuated mandarin ducks." Qin Jialuo couldn't help but sneer.
However, as he continued his gaze, he was suddenly stunned when he saw the information below.
The letter mentioned that the relationship between Xie Yunqi, the prime minister of Great Chu, and Chu Qingluan was even more complicated.
Xie Yunqi had been Chu Qingluan's tutor. Back then, the cold and noble young prime minister taught her how to review memorials in the imperial study and explained "The Emperor's Code" to her under the plum tree.
The most shocking thing is that in order to support the new policies of the royal family of Great Chu, he did not hesitate to cut off his own arm, personally disintegrated the power of the Xie family in the six ministries, and even broke with the family in public. Most of the connections that the Xie family had accumulated over the past hundred years were destroyed by him.
"madman……"
Qin Jialuo slammed the secret letter shut, his chest heaving violently.
She finally understood why Pei Yuan protected Chu Qingluan so much in Sifang Pavilion, and why Xie Yunqi showed murderous intent.
One would go through fire and water for her, the other would be deserted by his friends and relatives for her.
"What a Chu Qingluan..."
Qin Jialuo tore the secret letter into pieces bit by bit, with a dangerous light flashing in his eyes: "I want to see what kind of magic power you have..."
——
The next day, Qin Jialuo did not wear fancy clothes, but only a plain and elegant moon-white skirt and a white jade hairpin in her hair. There was no trace of luxury in her body, but she looked like someone who came to sincerely apologize.
She brought two maids with her and rode in an inconspicuous carriage, which stopped at the side door of the princess's mansion.
The steward in the mansion received the notice and hurried to report to Chu Qingluan.
"Your Highness! Princess Jialuo of Daqin wants to see you. She said she came to apologize."
Chu Qingluan was reviewing memorials in the study. Hearing this, she paused and said, "Oh? That's strange."
She closed the manuscript and pondered for a moment.
Qin Jialuo spoke sharply at Sifang Pavilion yesterday, but today he took the initiative to come and apologize?
interesting.
"Let her in."
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