General Connan returned to his bedroom in high spirits. This room was obviously specially built, with pink gauze covering everything. Even the light shining through had an ambiguous atmosphere.
And the beauty in the room was already waiting for him.
The beauty was wrapped in layers of pink quilts and placed on his bed, just like the emperor summoning his concubines to sleep with him.
Kang Nan pulled down the corner of the quilt covering the beauty's face, and the beauty's revealed appearance still pleased him very much.
"Your name is Xiaoxue, and you have a pretty face."
The beauty under the quilt was Qin Xuezhen.
Qin Xuezhen looked very shy, and when she spoke again, her voice was almost as soft as water, which instantly softened Kang Nan's whole body.
"Thank you for the compliment, General. It is my great honor to serve you today."
Kang Nan smiled and unwrapped the quilt bit by bit, as if he was unwrapping a long-awaited gift.
"The name is nice and the person is beautiful. This general likes her very much!"
However, the moment the quilt was opened, a cloud of smoke rushed towards him, and Kangnan was unable to move before he could react.
"Well!"
At this time, Kang Nan only felt his body stiff, and Qin Xuezhen turned over under his gaze.
After all the fuss, she was still wearing clothes under the quilt. Kang Nan couldn't help but feel annoyed. These people were getting lazier and lazier. They couldn't even do such a small thing.
"Who are you? What do you want to do by sneaking in? Are you trying to assassinate this general? I'm warning you, even if you kill this general, you will not be able to escape today!"
Qin Xuezhen smiled slightly, turned around and clapped her hands, and soon a man in black rushed in from the back window.
The other party took off his veil, and it was obviously Tang Xicheng who was being hunted by him a few days ago.
"General Kangnan, we haven't seen each other for several days. I didn't expect you to be alive!"
The moment he saw Tangxi City, Kang Nan knew that he was probably doomed today.
But this person was too cunning. He suddenly had an idea and came up with a way to save himself.
"Your Highness, the City King! Why are you here? I heard you were here and have been looking for you for days!"
At this time, Conan's body was stiff and he couldn't move at all, but the eagerness on his face could not be faked.
This confused Qin Xuezhen. Wasn't Tianxi City being hunted by him two days ago?
Logically, he should be very scared when he sees Tangxi City, so why is he reacting like this?
"General Kang, you're saying one thing to my face and another behind my back, and it's frightening to me!"
Kang Nan was acting foolishly at this moment, his face full of ignorance. He hurriedly asked back, "Your Highness, the City Prince, what do you mean by this? I don't understand. I have always been loyal to your mother's family!"
Tangxi City may not necessarily fail to understand Kangnan's methods, but killing him right now would be useless except for venting anger. It would be better to keep him, perhaps they could use him for something.
So he also pretended to be serious and started acting. After a deep sigh, he said, "General Kangnan, I went to your house a few days ago to discuss something with you, but before I even saw you, I was poisoned and almost died. After I escaped from your house, I was even hunted all the way. Don't tell me, you don't know any of this."
Hearing this, Kang Nan sighed guiltily, his face full of regret.
"Your Highness, the City Prince, I was truly unaware of this matter until recently. I only learned a little bit about it in the past few days! However, this matter truly has nothing to do with me. It was all done by one of my advisors."
"Now I have killed him. However, I just thought he was an impostor, so I have been sending people to look for him these days. This is definitely not a hunt."
This could only be used to deceive the children, and Kang Nan really didn't expect that these words would make Tangxi City let him go.
But Kang Nan knew very well that the private soldiers he raised and the weapons he forged were now in his hands.
Tangxi City has no power and no manpower, so it is bound to need me.
As long as you survive today, you can plan for the future.
Kangnan made the right bet, and Tangxicheng chose to believe his lies.
"I see. It seems I really have misunderstood General Kang. Please, General Kang, take the antidote."
When Tang Xicheng said this, he looked at Qin Xuezhen with subtle eyes, and Qin Xuezhen instantly understood what he meant and took out a pill from his arms.
Of course Kang Nan didn't dare to take the medicine, but Qin Xue really didn't care whether he was willing or not, she just pried open his mouth and threw the medicine in.
"General Kang, this medicine is an antidote, but it's also poison. If you're completely loyal to His Highness, it won't cause any harm. But if you're unfaithful, this medicine will make you regret coming into this world."
While saying this, Qin Xuezhen appeared to be as calm as a rock, but she was actually screaming madly in her heart.
[Wow, is this what it feels like to be the heroine? After traveling through time for so long, I finally understand the intrigues and manipulations described in novels, as well as the feeling of manipulating others at will. It feels so good!]
[Remind the host that you are the heroine!] The system's voice popped up at an inappropriate time: [The heroine's character should be true, kind, beautiful, tenacious and independent.]
This sentence instantly dampened Qin Xuezhen's interest. She immediately lost her mind and didn't want to say another word to the system.
After being cured of the poison, Kang Nan stood up and knelt in front of Tangxicheng.
"Your subordinate Kang Nan greets His Royal Highness the City King!"
Tang Xicheng leaned over slightly and helped the man up.
"General Kang, there's no need to be so polite. Right now, I'm just a poor prince, and I don't deserve your courtesy at all."
At this time, Kang Nan pretended to be righteous, shook his head decisively, and insisted on kneeling.
"No, if it weren't for the help from His Royal Highness the City King's mother's family, there would be no Kangnan today, let alone becoming a general."
He was not wrong. His position was quite special, as he was both a military general and a civil official.
Because he was guarding two iron mines, he let the civil officials manage them all. It was difficult to forge good weapons without understanding the battlefield.
But as a military general, his duty was not to fight or guard, but to hide in a peaceful town and mine ore.
But it is precisely this special position that shows how much effort Tangxicheng's grandfather put in to obtain such an honorable position in a foreign country.
"Alright, I understand General Kangnan's loyalty. Now, I want to ask you, what is the annual output of these two iron mines?"
Tangxi City would ask this question, obviously because it already knew how much iron had been offered as tribute over the years.
Now he didn't want to know the actual amount of iron produced, but wanted to know how many weapons were made.
"Your Highness, you may not know that the amount of iron supplied to the imperial court each year is only 30% of the actual production."
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