Chapter 328 At Least He's a Prince
"Your Majesty, it is only a little thought that reveals that someone is trying to frame us."
"If you say that, how could that person have accurately predicted that you would want Yu Hai to return to your Western Xia, and then send someone like this?" Jiang Wan Ning said calmly. "Why not ask this assassin if he is actually a Western Xia person?"
Everyone looked at the assassin, who tremblingly raised his head. He had been captured, confessed, and punished inexplicably.
At this point, he was stunned and speechless; to be precise, he didn't know how to explain himself.
"If you confess honestly, perhaps I can spare your life; I'll leave you with a whole corpse." The prince consort, Chen Jie, lashed the assassin with his whip. "Speak now!"
The assassin was slapped hard, and almost passed out.
"I...I'll talk..." the assassin said weakly, "I'm from Xixia, but I don't know any princes. What I said is true."
"Then where is your master from?" Pei Yanchuan asked calmly. "To be precise, you were given orders by your master and had no idea whether your master was related to the Western Xia people, right?"
After Pei Yanchuan explained it this way, everyone suddenly understood.
Just as the assassin was about to speak, he spat out a mouthful of black blood, and the prince consort gently turned the ring on his index finger.
Mo Ran quickly stepped forward to investigate, "Your Majesty, the person is already dead."
“Your Majesty, it was my carelessness. We should have first checked whether this person was hiding poison in his teeth,” said Prince Consort Chen Jie.
"This person didn't hide poison in their teeth; the poison was already planted in their body long ago, it just happened to flare up just now and there was no antidote available," Jiang Wan Ning said with a casual glance.
She was just curious, since this kind of poison should cause pain for a while first, how could she die so suddenly?
Jiang Wan Ning's suspicions deepened.
“I don’t know much about these things,” Prince Consort Chen Jie said apologetically.
Xiao Yu gently raised his hand, and Wu Panpan directed the eunuchs to drag the corpse away.
“Alright,” Xiao Yu said, “Since we haven’t found the real culprit, and today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Lord Yu has nothing else to do, let’s just let this matter go.”
"It's just that whether Lord Yu is willing to go back or not is up to him. I will neither force him to stay nor forcibly send him away."
Xiao Yu said this because he had already figured it out: Shen Ruzhi and Jiang Wanning didn't want Yu Hai to return to Xixia.
This suited his wishes perfectly, and he didn't have to be the bad guy.
Since Emperor Xiao Yu had already said so, Tuoba Wenjing naturally couldn't say anything more. It seemed that the immediate priority was to persuade Shen Ruzhi.
"Royal sister," Tuoba Wenjing said softly, "Father is getting old and hopes you can return to get married..."
"You must stop now," Shen Ruzhi said. "Will he get better if I get married?"
"To bring good luck?"
"You'd be better off spending that time researching medicinal cuisine and the like."
Although Shen Ruzhi had no feelings for Tuoba Xiong, she did not want him to die so soon after they recognized each other as family, so she asked Yu Hai to prepare a variety of medicinal meals and herbs to help him recover.
Yu Hai said that as long as no one poisons him, Tuoba Xiong could live for another three to five years without any problem.
"Alright, I know what you're thinking. Well then, since you've said so, I will neither let Yu Hai stay in the Eastern Mausoleum Palace nor in Western Xia."
"Let him go to the Lingxiao Sect, is that alright?"
Although the Lingxiao Sect was founded by the Empress of Western Xia, only Shen Ruzhi can hold her back now.
Although Xiao Yu was somewhat reluctant to let Yu Hai leave Dongling, he had already made the decision, so he had no choice but to accept it.
Seeing that he wouldn't gain anything by continuing like this, Tuoba Wenjing realized that he couldn't deal with Yu Hai right now, so he had to target Shen Ruzhi instead.
Furthermore, the Lingxiao Sect was, after all, located on Western Xia territory.
At worst, I can find a way to abduct Yu Hai on his way to Lingxiao Sect.
"Since my sister has said so, then I will not say anything more."
After speaking, Tuoba Wenjing looked at Xiao Yu on the dragon throne and said, "Your Majesty, this matter is over. There is still one more matter, which concerns the marriage between my Princess of Xixia and your Prince of Dongling Jin."
“His Majesty wrote a letter before, and my father considered it carefully and felt that this marriage would be a good thing for both Western Xia and Eastern Ling.”
"Father is now old and not fit for long journeys." It is impossible for the ruler of a country to condescend to travel to another country.
"So I took this opportunity to discuss the marriage between the two of you with His Majesty."
As soon as Tuoba Wenjing finished speaking, Prince Jin, Xiao Rui, jumped up. "Brother, are you serious?"
"I'm still young, and I don't want to get married so early, especially not to a shrew." The Prince of Jin said the last three words in a very low voice.
But Tuoba Yan'er on the other side seemed to have ears that could hear everything, and she still heard it, "You little thief, who are you calling a she-devil?"
Everyone knows who they're talking about.
"If you say that again, I'll beat you to a pulp."
"This is my Dongling, not some Jianghu (martial arts world). How dare you!"
"You'll see if I dare!" Tuoba Yan'er rolled up her sleeves.
Emperor Xiao Yu looked at the two of them with a headache. He also regretted this matter. He originally thought that if Xixia didn't mention it, he would just forget about it and let the matter pass.
Unexpectedly, Tuoba Wenjing brought this up now.
"Rui'er, that's enough." Xiao Yu scolded in a deep voice, "You are a prince, you should give way to a young lady."
“Brother, you’re saying she’s a girl?” Prince Jin, Xiao Rui, pointed at the fierce-looking Tuoba Yan’er. “She’s even more terrifying than the white tiger that Prince Langya keeps.”
"Brother, if I've done anything wrong, just tell me. Why did you arrange this connection for me?"
"I'm getting married today, but I'll be dead tomorrow, okay?"
Emperor Xiao Yu...
I also want to regret it, but what can I do?
Upon hearing this, Tuoba Yan'er became even more indignant, "What did you say?"
Tuoba Wenjing pulled her back, "Yan'er, be quiet, don't be rude."
The people of Dongling already considered the Western Xia people to be rather barbaric, and Yan'er's behavior only reinforced that impression.
"Prince Tuoba, I think I may have made a mistake in arranging this marriage. The way the two of them are behaving..."
"It's just marriage, right? I'll marry you then." Before Xiao Yu could finish speaking, Tuoba Yan'er pointed at the Prince of Jin and said, "Your Majesty, please issue a decree so that we can get married as soon as possible."
"It would be best to get married on the spot."
"Well... there's no need to rush. I think it would be better if I discussed this matter thoroughly with your Western Xia emperor before making a decision."
"No need to discuss it anymore," Tuoba Yan'er said. "I'm not leaving this time. Your Majesty, please choose a date, the sooner the better."
"No, why?" Prince Xiao Rui of Jin asked, puzzled. "Does this marriage really have to happen?"
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