On the city wall of Qincheng, General Lin looked at the camp with satisfaction.
General Lin was already quite pleased with himself and began to imagine how handsome and dashing the crown prince, who carried the blood of the Lin family, would be when he grew up twenty years from now.
The Lin family holds military power and is a powerful maternal relative. No matter how many concubines Xi Chenzhou takes in, their status will never surpass that of his granddaughter.
Moreover, with him around, if Xi Chenzhou becomes arrogant and takes other concubines as his favorites, or even lets them bear children, he will inevitably send people to kill those women as a warning to him!
This empire was conquered by him for Xi Chenzhou; he is the future elder statesman, and Xi Chenzhou must show him the utmost respect…
Lost in thought, a messenger suddenly rushed out from the northwest army camp below the city, carrying what appeared to be a document, heading straight for Qin City.
General Lin smiled, stroked his beard, and said to the people around him, "This must be Xi Chenzhou's peace treaty. We in Qincheng can start preparing the ten-mile-long dowry for my precious granddaughter!"
Miss Lin blushed and lowered her head shyly. Amidst the soldiers' gritted teeth, she whispered, "Grandpa, I can't bear to part with you..."
"Men should marry when they come of age and women should marry when they come of age. What's there to be reluctant about? Hahaha! When you become the empress and miss your family, you can just send them to the palace anytime!"
General Lin laughed heartily, waved his hand, and ordered the soldiers on the walls of Qin City to lower the basket and prepare to receive Xi Chenzhou's peace treaty.
However, the envoy suddenly reined in his horse and stopped abruptly in front of Qin City!
Head held high, voice indifferent:
"My general refuses to accept peace negotiations!"
For a moment, General Lin doubted his ears, and Miss Lin's blush turned deathly pale in an instant. The soldiers on the city wall looked at each other in bewilderment.
"—What did you say?!" General Lin retorted instinctively, "Refuse? How could he refuse? Does he want to fight?!"
The messenger shouted, "My general said, if you want to fight, then fight! The Northwest Army has never been afraid of battle! Along the way to the capital, nothing can stop the Northwest Army's advance!"
He appeared thin, but his voice was surprisingly loud; even from below the city walls, it could be heard clearly inside and outside Qin City, as well as in the distant military camps.
At a glance, you can tell that this is a messenger specially selected from the soldiers, responsible for delivering messages.
On the walls of Qin City, soldiers couldn't help but curse angrily: "What does Xi Chenzhou mean by this? He's provoking us!"
"This is too humiliating! How can the young lady live like this?"
Miss Lin's frail figure looked as if she were about to collapse. Her face was pale, and her eyes were filled with tears. She gently held onto General Lin's arm, appearing especially pitiful and innocent. She choked back sobs and shook her head repeatedly.
“Grandfather, I really didn’t know things would turn out this way. General Xi must have misunderstood something. Should I explain?”
General Lin, already furious at being humiliated, was enraged upon hearing his granddaughter's words of concern. His anger flared even more instantly; he rushed to the city wall, his face flushed, and roared down at the crowd:
"Absurd—utterly absurd! Even if you are skilled in combat, conquering Qin City won't be so easy! But if he marries my granddaughter, we'll immediately turn hostility into friendship. Doesn't he understand that?!"
The envoy glanced at the city wall, a mocking smile playing on his lips: "The general himself said that General Lin is highly respected and virtuous. If he were to become associated with the general through marriage and gain military power, the Lin family would surely develop into a powerful clan that could threaten His Majesty. This is something the general absolutely does not want to see!"
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