"How, how is this possible... How is this possible..." He flipped through the pages one by one with trembling hands, unable to believe that his deepest secret had been revealed.
"Your Majesty, you are innocent. This is... someone has framed me. Please understand." At this moment, he no longer called Ling Feng directly.
Helian Lingfeng didn't listen to a word he said and just waved his hand.
"Come here, hold Helian Qi down and wait for your punishment."
"No, I was wrongly accused. I didn't collude with foreigners. I really didn't."
He was dragged outside, his voice growing fainter.
The Central Plains envoy kneeling beside him was shaking more and more violently.
This included Xu Mingzhe, who had been kneeling for another night because his knee had not healed yet from the previous beating.
He knelt in the main hall, and from time to time he glanced at Tu Qingyu who was sitting in the main hall.
As a son of a wealthy family, he already had a maid when he was fifteen or sixteen.
So he knew very well why Tu Qingyu had that charming look in the corners of her eyes and eyebrows.
Considering the Chinese medicine Helian Lingfeng took last night, what else is there to not understand?
He knelt here all night, his legs almost broken, but she spent a night with someone else.
At this moment, he hated Tu Qingyu very much.
"You are the only ones left."
Helian Lingfeng's voice brought him back to his senses.
He looked up with a pale face, and happened to meet the superior yet indifferent gaze of the King of Mobei.
"Someone come..."
He spoke slowly, but Xu Mingzhu thought he was going to kill them all.
She rolled and crawled forward a little, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please spare us. We are envoys from the Central Plains. We are here to marry a princess, Your Majesty..."
"I, I don't want to be a concubine anymore. I can be an ordinary concubine or a servant, Your Majesty..."
Xu Mingzhe looked at her in disbelief, as if he couldn't understand how she could be so humble.
But at this critical moment of life and death, if begging for mercy would be useful, he would have started begging long ago.
Helian Lingfeng didn't even look at her and directly decided the fate of several people.
"As for you, you drugged this king. Logically speaking, you deserve to be cut into pieces."
His voice was light, and when he mentioned the words "being cut into pieces", the people kneeling below still trembled.
Helian Lingfeng continued, "However, since you are a diplomatic mission, I will not kill you now."
"Starting tomorrow, you will all follow the herdsmen to herd cattle and sheep." He then looked at Xu Mingzhu and Xu Mingzhe, "You two, go pick up manure."
Everyone: ???
No one expected that the king, who was always ruthless and ruthless, would say such a punishment.
Isn't it usually the case that they kill first and talk later?
Could the king really come up with such a punishment worse than death?
Some smart people set their sights on Tu Qingyu.
I wonder if it was this queen who changed the king's behavior.
But is this possible?
Would a man as iron-fisted as the king change himself because of a woman?
If not, how do you explain this?
No matter how much they guessed, those people were also dragged away.
Xu Mingzhu and Xu Mingzhe both came from wealthy families. They had been provided for with everything they wanted since childhood. They had never even lifted a broom at home, so naturally they were not capable of doing something like picking up manure.
No one beat them, they were just told that if they didn't finish the work, they would have no food to eat.
At the beginning, both of them thought that even if they starved to death here, they would not do a single move!
Unfortunately, they could handle the first meal, but could barely handle the second. After going hungry for three meals, they would subconsciously swallow their saliva when they saw the cows eating grass.
When they woke up the next morning, they were so hungry that they had no strength left.
The endless prairie did not make them feel broad-minded at all, but only lonely and panicked.
Such a big place is guarded everywhere by the Mobei King's army, and there is no way to escape.
The next afternoon, Xu Mingzhe was so hungry that he picked up the tools for producing manure.
"How could you do such a thing?" Xu Mingzhu looked at him in disbelief.
He was retching while doing what he was doing. "What else? If I don't do it... Ugh... If I don't do it, will I starve to death here? Ugh..."
A young man who had never done any rough work naturally could not complete all the work as required.
But the manager still gave him a dry biscuit, which he picked up and ate without paying any attention to the environment.
Xu Mingzhu was watching eagerly from the side. After swallowing her saliva, she called out tenderly, "Cousin..."
Xu Mingzhe turned his back and said, "This one is not enough for me to eat alone. If you want more, you can earn more tomorrow."
"You!" Xu Mingzhu obviously didn't expect Xu Mingzhe to be so heartless and refuse to give her anything.
Early the next morning, both of them started working obediently.
Tu Qingyu watched the live broadcast provided by Dabao on the couch in the bedroom every day and was extremely happy.
"What are you looking at? You look so happy." Helian Lingfeng came in and snatched the book from her hand.
"The Art of War? What's so funny about the Art of War?"
"Of course there is." Tu Qingyu sat up and turned a page. "Look here, Song Chu fought against Yu Hong. He repeatedly acted 'benevolent and righteous', but in the end he became a laughing stock."
She flipped through the pages casually. "It felt like I was reading a ridiculous story. It was very funny."
Helian Lingfeng sat down next to her. "He is indeed foolish. He wants the world, but he thinks that the previous overlord won the world through benevolence and righteousness. Benevolence and righteousness without absolute strength is nothing but a joke."
After saying that, he reached out to the side and easily lifted Tu Qingyu onto his lap.
The two discussed military strategy for a while, and he found that Tu Qingyu was really extraordinary.
He grew up in the desert, and even when reading military strategies, he used the typical thinking of people from the desert.
But Tu Qingyu is different. She often hits the nail on the head with these strategies and gives him a lot of inspiration.
"You are such a treasure." He lowered his head and rubbed Tu Qingyu's head with his chin. "So what do you think, should we let those people from the Central Plains go back?"
After saying this, he lowered his eyes, seemingly casual, but in fact he was paying attention to Tu Qingyu's changes at all times.
Unexpectedly, the next moment, Tu Qingyu raised his head, and when their eyes met, he could almost hear the two people's breathing.
After a long pause, she slowly raised the corners of her mouth, "Why? Is the king testing me?"
He really didn't expect her to be so direct, and he felt a moment of panic in his heart.
"No, I'm seriously seeking your opinion."
"Since you've asked, then I say..." She dragged out the last syllable, "Of course we should."
"Why?" These days, both of them have been living a shameless life. Helian Lingfeng is not like before, thinking that Tu Qingyu was pleading for Xu Mingzhe from the beginning.
"They've been working for a while now, and we don't really need two dung pickers here. Wouldn't it be better to exchange them for something else?"
"Wait until tomorrow..."
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