Chapter 242 A Double-Sided Bet! This General Pities Your Female Identity!
Zhou Yunyue looked at the palace maids who came up to strip her clothes and remove her headdress, and subconsciously wanted to scold them.
Her veil was a type of gauze dress that only princesses could wear, and her headdress was a complete set of pearl ornaments. These pearl ornaments were a gift from the Empress when she was granted the title of Princess Wanhe. The largest pearl in the center was comparable to an apricot. There was only one set of these in the entire palace, a privilege reserved for princesses of the royal family.
So it has to be placed on the head of a lowly maid?
Zhou Yunyue didn't want to give in, but she was also worried that if she spoke up, Shen Lanxi would send her to be married off. So she could only grit her teeth and glare hatefully at Yinxing, who was surrounded in the center getting ready.
Hmph, no matter how much a pheasant dresses up, it will never become a phoenix!
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Shen Lanxi appeared ten miles outside the city with Princess Zhou Yunyue of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Abe Hiroshi's eyes widened as he looked at the two beauties who appeared in the tent.
The woman walking in front was a great beauty; there was no woman as beautiful as her in the entire Great Turkic Khaganate. The other woman had a fair complexion and was considered above average in appearance, but compared to the one in front, she paled in comparison.
Looking at Abe Hiroshi's lecherous face, Wei Dongzhu felt a chill creeping over him.
"This is our Great Zhou's minister for the peace treaty, General Shen Lanxi!" Sun Zhong solemnly introduced.
Hiroshi Abe thought he had misheard. What did they call such a beautiful woman?
General?
Does the Great Zhou Dynasty have no one capable? If this gets out to the neighboring countries, aren't they afraid of being laughed at?
"Beautiful lady~" Hiroshi Abe called out with deliberate contempt.
Shen Lanxi stopped the people on either side who were about to make a move, and said coldly, "Bring me my weapon!"
"yes!"
Four guards quickly brought over the Twin Moons and Stars Blade, and Shen Lanxi looked at Abe Hiroshi with a half-smile.
"I've heard that General Abe Hiroshi is a great warrior of the Turks. You must be an unparalleled hero. How about we make a bet today? If you can take up my sword and wield it ten more times, I'll give you a thousand dan of barley. What do you say?"
Hiroshi Abe was overjoyed, and his drooling became even more undisguised.
The beautiful woman easily gave him a thousand dan of grain; she must be afraid of him and is begging for peace.
"Alright, if you really deliver that thousand dan of grain to this general, I won't hold it against you for making me wait so long!" Abe Hiroshi patted his big belly and said confidently.
Shen Lanxi extended her hand: "Please!"
A mere weapon—let alone practicing ten moves with it, even practicing for a whole day wouldn't tire this general. The great beauty must be used to seeing the frail, sickly people of the Great Zhou to make such a simple request.
He wanted to show the beautiful woman what a real man was like.
Once the great beauty has witnessed his muscularity and superhuman strength, she will surely be devoted to him!
As Abe Hiroshi reached out, the four guards immediately released him and stepped aside.
Hiroshi Abe stared straight at Shen Lanxi, his smile arrogant and his eyes contemptuous.
The men of the Great Zhou Dynasty are all grass...
Before he could even utter the word "package," Hiroshi Abe's expression changed.
That sword is so heavy, he can't lift it with one hand!
Hiroshi Abe looked down at the stone platform below with a grim expression. Could it be that there was some kind of mechanism in the stone below that had fixed the greatsword in place?
Then he could use both hands, and at worst lift the large rock underneath as well.
That will definitely terrify all these people from the Great Zhou Dynasty.
He was a great warrior of the Turks...
What's going on? Why can't he lift it even with both hands?
Could the stone underneath be made of solid cast iron, and the outer stone just inlaid for aesthetic purposes?
"I wonder if the general is ready? If we keep going like this, it'll be dark by the time we get there!" Shen Lanxi said with amusement.
Hiroshi Abe's expression turned even uglier.
These Zhou people must have deliberately tricked him. That was a thousand dan of grain; how could they give it to him so easily?
The cunning and treacherous people of the Great Zhou wanted to see Abe Hiroshi make a fool of himself, but he would not let them succeed!
"I just remembered something!" Abe Hiroshi said, feigning ease as he withdrew his hands.
Shen Lanxi's eyes flashed, and she asked, "What is it?"
Hiroshi Abe's eyes flashed with a cold, shrewd light, as if he were plotting something.
“Since it’s a bet, it must be two-sided. You’re right, if I, the general, pick it up and wield it for ten moves, I’ll send you grain. We, the Great Turks, are not people who take advantage of others for nothing.”
Shen Lanxi's eyes flashed, and she said, "Does the general mean that if I pick up the broadsword and wield it ten times, I will also be given a thousand dan of barley?"
she?
Hiroshi Abe chuckled dismissively, thinking the beauty would send that guy surnamed Wei.
Since that's the case~
"No, I have always cherished women as beautiful as you. I won't even ask you to perform ten moves. Just pick up your broadsword and I will give you two thousand dan of barley!" Abe Hiroshi said, a smug smile spreading across his face.
Although the great beauty was stunning, she was not as robust as the Turkic women. The strongest and most powerful Turkic woman could only lift a sack of barley weighing two hundred pounds at a time, and not for very long.
This large sword, along with the huge rock below, must weigh over 500 jin (approximately 250 kg). Otherwise, how could a strongman who can lift a 300-jin (approximately 150 kg) cauldron not be able to lift this sword?
Beautiful lady, be careful not to twist your waist later, he'll be heartbroken!
Sun Zhong and the others had already tried to stop Shen Lanxi when she said she would send a thousand dan (a unit of weight) of grain, as they didn't have that much grain and couldn't even come up with a few dan.
If Wei Dongzhu and Xiao Fang hadn't stopped him, he definitely would have.
Unexpectedly, by speaking just one step too late, Shen Lanxi had already fallen into Hiroshi Abe's trap.
He had clearly warned Lord Shen before that Abe Hiroshi was not as useless as he appeared. He was treacherous, cunning, and vindictive. He was like a wolf on the grasslands, greedy and shrewd. So many people had fallen into Abe Hiroshi's hands during so many marriage alliances. Why did Shen Lanxi think she was an exception?
"General..." Sun Zhong was about to speak when Wei Dongzhu glared at him.
Even if he's being glared at, he'll still talk!
Then, Sun Zhong found himself unable to move, his tongue stiff as a piece of wood.
Seeing their expressions, Hiroshi Abe became even more confident, more certain of victory, and more arrogant and smug.
"This bet was proposed by you people of Great Zhou, so it's only right that you people of Great Zhou go first!" Abe Hiroshi provoked, then smiled and prepared to watch the show.
“General, let me do it!” Wei Dongzhu stepped forward.
Abe Hiroshi's expression changed, and he was about to say that if Wei Dongzhu's bet were changed, it would be invalid, but Shen Lanxi waved him away.
"Come here, who will give me two thousand dan of grain?"
Wei Dongzhu stood there, speechless for a moment.
Shen Lanxi walked up to the Star-Companion Blade, grabbed it with one hand, and provocatively said to Abe Hiroshi, "I have been a princess, a commoner, a general who quelled a rebellion, and a valiant count. Now I have become a minister in charge of peace and marriage, and I am in charge of all matters related to the northwest border defense."
Hiroshi Abe frowned slightly, a sense of foreboding rising in his heart for some reason.
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