Chapter 150 Embracing All Rivers
As soon as the palace banquet began, the Chu delegation eagerly said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, now that our two countries have reached a consensus, may we bring the Ninth Prince back?"
Huangfu Nanying and Huangfu Dai also looked at him with eager expressions.
The emperor touched his nose; he had only recently learned that the ninth prince of Chu had been in Qin Jinzhi's hands all along.
He glanced at Qin Jinzhi's empty seat and frowned. Why wasn't that brat here yet?
"What's the rush, everyone? Do you think my Jin Kingdom will hold your Ninth Prince hostage?"
Just then, Qin Jinzhi's voice came from outside the hall.
The magnificent palace attire suited her perfectly.
Qin Jinzhi stepped into the main hall.
Huangfu Nanying and Huangfu Dai reacted like roosters with their feathers standing on end the moment they saw Qin Jinzhi.
Huangfu Nanying said with a mocking expression, "Jin is really a great country. It can tolerate everything. Women can attend court and stroll around the streets. It's not like our Chu women, who are strictly disciplined. Even when they go out, they have to wear hats, let alone sit with men and women at the same table."
Because it was a banquet for foreign officials, there were no female relatives present.
In the state of Jin, only one woman, Qin Jinzhi, appeared.
Qin Jinzhi gave Huangfu Dai a strange look. "Are you a man?"
Huangfu Dai was also taken aback, then said sternly, "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Qin Jinzhi looked at her even more strangely, "Then he was babbling something about men and women not sitting together. I thought you were a man too."
Huangfu Nanying's face immediately darkened.
The ministers of Jin watched the people of Chu with schadenfreude.
Although they did not support women attending court, they would not undermine Qin Jinzhi at this moment.
Qin Jinzhi really couldn't understand it.
Women are a group; there are only two kinds of people in the world.
Men and women.
Some men always try to belittle and suppress women by using their identity as women.
Their status as men makes them arrogant, rude, and superior.
So they also forgot that their mothers, sisters, and daughters were all women.
Huangfu Nanying even tried to use so-called family traditions and upbringing to attack the State of Jin.
His own sister was sitting right next to him.
Qin Jinzhi seemed to suddenly realize something, "Ah, I know now, you two don't get along, he wanted to humiliate you, he said you have no manners."
Huangfu Nanying immediately looked at Huangfu Dai, "Seventh Sister, I didn't, don't listen to her nonsense."
Huangfu Dai's face flushed red: "Stop trying to sow discord between us siblings."
Although she knew Qin Jinzhi was trying to sow discord, she still felt uncomfortable.
Qin Jinzhi immediately smiled and said, "Oh, I can see that. But my Jin state is a great and inclusive nation, and your Chu state can't envy that."
Huangfu Nanying snorted coldly, "Our Chu Kingdom would never stoop to such a disgraceful act!"
Qin Jinzhi smiled and looked at him, "Did you receive the finger?"
Huangfu Nanying was stunned for a moment. Fingers, Ninth Brother's fingers!
He stood up angrily, "Ninth Brother is in your hands!"
When Huangfu Nanying saw the finger that the Chu delegation brought back, he almost went to Qin Jinzhi's house with his sword to settle accounts, but was stopped by the delegation.
If it were someone else, they might still consider the diplomatic relations between the two countries, but Qin Jinzhi is Qin Ye's granddaughter, and the person who hates Chu the most is Qin Jinzhi. They have seen Huangfu Dai's fate.
They didn't want to spend another 200,000 taels to ransom the person.
Who knows if this person will try to raise the price again?
The ministers and princes who attended the palace banquet also realized what was happening.
It turns out that the Ninth Prince was actually in Qin Jinzhi's hands.
Then the ninth prince of Chu is going to suffer a bit!
Before long, many people at the table began to have their own thoughts.
Why did the ninth prince of the empire end up in Qin Jinzhi's hands?
Huangfu Dai glared at Qin Jinzhi, "Hand over my ninth brother right now!"
Qin Jinzhi's smile turned wicked again. "No problem."
She clapped her hands, and suddenly an iron cage covered with a red cloth was carried in from outside the hall.
Everyone in the hall looked at the cage with puzzled expressions, wondering what this young princess was up to now.
The emperor's eyelids twitched violently as he watched Qin Jinzhi's strange laugh.
That brat's going to cause trouble again!
Qin Jinzhi carried the wine jug and came to the cage.
Without warning, the red cloth was torn off.
Inside, a man dressed in a fiery red dancer's costume, his eyes covered by a red cloth strip, his chest wide open, leaned against the cage.
Even with her eyes covered, you can still tell she has a very beautiful face.
He looks like he's unconscious.
The people of Chu were stunned for a moment, then erupted in fury.
The man dressed as a dancer was none other than their ninth prince.
Not only were they locked in a cage like monkeys, but they were also dressed in such humiliating clothes!
"How dare you insult our Ninth Prince like this! Your Majesty, is this how your Jin Kingdom treats its guests?"
Qi Tianxing was furious; he simply couldn't believe his eyes.
Qin Jinzhi looked at Qi Tianxing and laughed, "Entertaining guests? He's a prisoner, a hostage, a detainee. Of course I'll humiliate him. Otherwise, why would I bring him back?"
Damn it, what utter nonsense is she spouting? Damn it, I can't find any words to refute her for a moment.
Huangfu Nanying glared at the Jin Emperor, her eyes blazing. "Your Majesty, is this how your Jin Kingdom treats us, the Chu Kingdom, in our friendly relations? We agreed to all your conditions, and now you're allowing this madwoman to humiliate my Ninth Brother like this!"
Qin Jinzhi looked at Huangfu Nanying with some impatience, "Why doesn't this person learn from his mistakes?"
She casually drew a dagger from her waist and stabbed it into Huangfu Nanfeng's shoulder.
"As I said, one must kneel when speaking to our king."
Huangfu Nanying immediately lunged forward, shouting, "I'll kill you!"
The Chu delegation quickly intervened, saying, "The Ninth Prince is still in her hands! Fourteenth Prince, calm down! She just wants to humiliate our Chu Kingdom!"
Qi Tianxing had anticipated that the banquet would not be peaceful, but he never expected that this princess would come up with such a way to humiliate their Chu Kingdom.
He stepped forward and bowed. “Your Majesty, Fenglao Pass is a strategic military location of our Chu Kingdom. We offered it up with both hands for the sake of friendship between our two countries. Is this princess trying to humiliate our Ninth Prince and damage our diplomatic relations?”
This is actually a very serious statement. If relations between the two countries break down and war reignites, Qin Jinzhi will be the culprit.
Qin Jinzhi was used to being dissolute in the capital, so no one in the city found her doing anything surprising.
She doesn't hesitate to attack people from Chu, and she'll attack people from Jin as well.
Moreover, apart from these two, the Qin family members all died on the battlefield fighting against the State of Chu.
Qin Jinzhi was already being very lenient by not killing them all when they arrived in the capital!
The emperor tried to smooth things over, saying, "I've spoiled my granddaughter, please bear with her. Jinzhi, what's going on here?"
The people of Chu were speechless as the emperor abruptly changed the subject. Did he even consider them human beings?
Qin Jinzhi drew her dagger, and the person in the cage frowned slightly.
She chuckled softly and poured the wine onto Huangfu Nanfeng's wound.
Huangfu Dai roared, "What are you doing!"
The wine mixed with blood seeped into his clothes; if the scene hadn't been so bizarre...
It's all too erotic.
As the wine was all poured.
Qin Jinzhi approached the cage. "Still pretending to be unconscious? I'll stab you twice more."
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