Three days have passed, and Shen Tunan, who is outwardly visible, still has not woken up.
His confidants, fearing that Shen Yu would kill his father and seize the throne, stayed by his side every day, treating Shen Shi and the others like fools in their act.
The Prince of Huai has also been making many moves in private, and Gu Yuanbai has even disappeared.
A whole host of things happened in the past three days. Shen Yu and Shen Shi each made their own discoveries, and General Wang's troops had already been assembled.
Both sides are tacitly putting on an act; it remains to be seen who will be the first to break through this thin veil of secrecy.
At this critical moment, Shen Shi arrived at Dali Temple alone.
Since the Wanchao Assembly, the Qiang envoys have been captured and brought here. They've been spinning like tops these past few days, and Shen Yu hasn't had a chance to interrogate them yet.
Now that the situation is almost settled, I took some time to come over.
He planned to be a good person and let the seventh prince of the Qiang Kingdom die knowing the truth.
At the same time, it gives a boost of confidence to oneself, who could face utter ruin with the slightest carelessness.
Because two of them were princes, and both were envoys from other countries, the Dali Temple treated them with great favor.
They were only imprisoned and not beaten; they had all the food, drink and other necessities they needed, and everyone even had a single room.
With a creaking sound as the door opened, Chen Shi saw Mu Tu again.
After three days apart, the prince showed no other changes except for a more gloomy expression.
"Tch~" When it seemed that the person was in a daze, Mu Tu clicked his tongue in disdain.
After all, he was a dying man, so Shen Shi didn't care about his attitude.
"Shouldn't you be happy to see me?" Shen Shi sat down on the bench and asked in a narcissistic tone, "After all, not long ago, the Seventh Prince was praising me."
Thinking of the phrase "a face like a beautiful woman," Mu Tu felt nauseous. This fifth prince was far too narcissistic.
"Stop trying to glorify yourself," he retorted bluntly.
"As expected of the Seventh Prince, he still dares to be so defiant even as a prisoner," Shen Shi clapped his hands in admiration.
His arrogant attitude made Mu Tu extremely unhappy.
"Stop pretending you don't know. You know in your heart that we didn't do it." Mu Tu saw through Chen Shi's pretense with a single sentence.
"It's really boring talking to smart people," Shen Shi said with a helpless pursed lip.
"Indeed, you were beaten to it before you even had a chance. How does it feel to go to jail for someone else? Not a good experience, right?"
Shen Shi asked with a narrow-minded look, which made Mu Tu quite angry.
But he was still kept in the dark by his words. He was already a dying man, so why bother arguing with him?
Thinking of Shen Shi's tragic death, Mu Tu felt much better instantly.
"You dare kill me!"
Mu Tu deliberately pointed at Shen Shi's nose in a provocative manner, trying to provoke him.
"If anything happens to us, the Qiang army of hundreds of thousands can march south, and then you... hahahaha..."
Mu Tu's arrogant laughter echoed continuously in the small house.
"Looking at his extremely exaggerated performance, he's really confident," Shen Shi commented.
"What did you say? Aren't you afraid?" Mu Tu was stunned for a moment, not expecting his reaction.
Why is it not quite what I imagined?
"I have to say, you really think highly of yourself." Shen Shi looked at Mu Tu with disdain, as if he were just a piece of trash.
"With hundreds of thousands of troops marching south, if you die, the Qiang king probably won't even bother to send anyone to collect your body."
Although Shen Shi's words were somewhat exaggerated, they were also true.
The Qiang people are known for their open-mindedness and extremely weak moral values. Cases such as sons marrying their fathers and brothers marrying their brothers' wives, which are considered morally reprehensible, are commonplace in the Qiang people.
Qiang Guoguang has twenty or thirty sons, so missing Mu Tu is really nothing to him.
The rule that there are no fathers or sons in the royal family has long been an ironclad law.
"It's not good to get too caught up in the role and act it out yourself." Shen Shi patted Mu Tu's stunned face and reminded her in a venomous tone.
"Nonsense! Do you think you can kill me?!"
Even if the father didn't care about his son, he definitely cared about his own reputation. The death of the Qiang prince in Daqi was undoubtedly a slap in the face for Daqi.
My father could never tolerate such a humiliating thing.
Moreover, he didn't rely on the Qiang Kingdom at all; Mu Tu depended on the support of the Qi Emperor.
Remembering their secret agreement, he knew that as long as he helped the Qi Emperor overthrow the Wang family, the Qi Kingdom would also help him obtain the position of Qiang King.
Mu Tu roared at Chen Shi with full confidence.
"Your father is impossible, but isn't your brother still here?" Shen Shi said with a relaxed expression in the face of Mu Tu's resentful gaze.
Upon hearing him mention Mu Nu, Mu Tu suddenly tensed up, wondering if the two had made a deal.
"What! Explain yourself!" He tried to grab Chen Shi by the collar.
With a "thump," Chen Shi kicked him to the ground.
"You shameless scoundrel, you launched a sneak attack."
Mu Tu lay sprawled on the ground, looking disheveled, still cursing Chen Shi as she did so.
"Me, a shameless scoundrel?" Shen Shi laughed in anger at his words, and stomped hard on Mu Tu's back with his boot.
"Is it honorable for a prince of a nation to collude with an enemy country for the sake of the throne?" After saying that, he used the tip of his shoe to lift Mu Tu's chin.
Mu Tu was a native of the Qiang state, and this "enemy state" clearly refers to the Great Qi.
After hearing this, Mu Tu looked at Chen Shi as if he were looking at a demon from hell.
"You..." Even though he clenched his teeth, he couldn't stop trembling all over. A huge and unknown fear enveloped him, and Mu Tu couldn't even utter a complete sentence.
"What about me?"
Shen Shi kicked Mu Tu to the ground, then squatted down to look him in the eye: "Don't worry, whether it's Shen Tu Nan or Gu Yuan Bai, they will both die."
"the same as you."
To Mu Tu, his tone was like the Black and White Impermanence from hell, coming to claim her life.
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