Chapter 70 Northern Chu declares war
The smile on Su Yang's face froze.
"Master, what did you say?"
Su Song repeated calmly, "I didn't do it, I won't admit it."
This was the last chance he gave Su Yang. If Su Yang still had a conscience and confessed his guilt, he would take all the punishment and save Su Yang's life.
If you don't recognize...
"Susong! You are not a human! You actually watched your only relative die!"
Su Yang cursed loudly with red eyes. Su Song's body stiffened and he slowly turned around with his back to Su Yang.
He was still being too self-indulgent, thinking that Su Yang would admit his mistakes and correct them.
Su Song's eyes were red. Amidst Su Yang's scolding, he calmed down for a while and felt relieved.
He should have known this would happen. He had seen Su Yang's selfishness before, but they were trivial matters and he didn't take them to heart.
And this time...
"From now on," Su Song's voice seemed to have aged several years, "let's sever our master-disciple relationship and go our separate ways."
Su Yang's curse got stuck in his throat. When he saw Su Song slowly walking towards the door, he instantly regained his senses.
He desperately called out to Su Song, begging him to save him, but Su Song did not stop.
After Su Song left, Qi Yunxi came in.
In order to protect himself, Su Yang pleaded, "Miss Qi, my master refuses to admit his guilt and even accuses me of framing him. What should I do?"
Qi Yunxi spread his hands and said, "Just let it sit."
"By the way, a friendly reminder, we didn't believe what you said~"
Su Yang's face froze. "Why? I was clearly forced to do this..."
Qi Yunxi snorted lightly, "You still don't admit it? Then I'll let you die knowing the truth!"
"Lord Su swallowed the poison my uncle made. In order to get my mother to let him return to the capital and to reassure her, he only had my uncle make him a lot of temporary antidotes, but they didn't completely cure the poison."
"Based on this alone, Lord Su has no intention of harming my mother."
"Also, all the correspondence between him and Prince Su has passed through my parents' eyes. Is it possible for us to know whether their letters mentioned the thing you mentioned?"
After saying that, Qi Yunxi covered his mouth exaggeratedly, "Oh no, I accidentally let it slip. If you tell Prince Su, wouldn't Prince Su suspect that Lord Su is colluding with my parents?"
"But," Qi Yunxi's expression changed quickly, and she said with a smile, "But you don't have this chance~"
"My dad doesn't have time to take care of you, so I came to see you off."
Su Yang felt like the sky was falling.
Seeing Qi Yunxi take out a porcelain bottle from his purse, he trembled and asked, "What is this?!"
"Poison," Qi Yunxi shook the porcelain bottle. "I respond to you in kind, isn't that reasonable?"
"It's just that this is the poison that my uncle improved."
Qi Yunxi smiled coldly, "I guarantee that your life will be worse than death, you will neither be able to live nor die!"
Su Yang looked terrified, but Qi Yunxi would not let him refuse, so he pinched his mouth and forced the medicine down his throat.
In order to prevent Su Yang from committing suicide due to too much pain, Qi Yunxi did not let him go and tied him up with a rope.
After enjoying the pain he suffered from the poison, Qi Yunxi happily left.
"Watch him, don't let him kill himself."
Qi Yunxi walked out of the prison door with a charming smile, "The effect of this medicine will last for more than a month. Take your time to enjoy it. I'll be leaving first."
Su Yang could only watch her leave.
After walking out of the cell, Qi Yunxi felt much happier. Hui Niang had been released, and she was holding a red dress in her hands.
"Hui Niang, you didn't leave?"
Hui Niang smiled and handed the dress to Qi Yunxi, "Yunxi, this is the dress I made for Axun. I originally wanted to give it to her during the New Year, but I didn't expect..."
"I have a few more finished ones in my room for you girls."
Qi Yunxi touched the clothes. They were made of high-quality fabric. She knew that every time someone went out to purchase goods, Hui Niang would ask them to buy some fabric.
I didn't expect it was used to make clothes for them.
Qi Yunxi hugged the dress tightly, "Don't worry, Hui Niang. My eldest brother has already taken people to find the Black and White Divine Doctor. My mother will wake up soon."
Hui Niang said with a pious expression, "May the Buddha bless you."
Although Shen Xun was unconscious, Youzhou continued to be built in an orderly manner as she had planned.
The people who fled to Youzhou discovered the good things about this place. In order to have a stable place to live, they also worked hard to build infrastructure and open up wasteland.
Outside of Youzhou, Northern Chu declared war on Daxia.
Chu Tiankuo and his men stayed near Youzhou, but they had no chance to sneak into Youzhou to search for treasure.
After a few people finally managed to sneak in, they were caught by Xie Lan and others and dealt with under certain pretexts.
The people he sent to the capital to look for Chu Jingyao and her son also returned empty-handed. Not only them, but even Prince Su failed to find Chu Jingyao.
The King of Northern Chu was anxious. He used the excuse of sending two princes to pick up the princess for marriage, but unexpectedly the princess was not picked up and one of the princes was missing.
Using this excuse, he declared war on King Su.
"Bang--"
In the imperial study, Prince Su's eyes were bloodshot, "Old bastard! How dare you threaten me!"
What he threw on the ground was a declaration of war from Northern Chu. It stated that Prince Su should hand over the princess and her son and the prince, otherwise war would be declared on Daxia. The king would also be exposed in front of the whole world for colluding with Northern Chu in order to fight for the throne.
The room was full of Prince Su's confidants. They passed the declaration of war around one by one, and when they had all finished reading it, their faces became solemn.
There is nothing wrong with declaring war. The two countries are equally powerful. As long as the King of Northern Chu is not afraid of mutual destruction, war can be started.
But the fact of collusion with Northern Chu must never be known to the people of the world. Otherwise, wouldn’t Prince Su be cursed by the people of Daxia?
"Your Majesty," a minister pointed out, "This letter from the King of Northern Chu states that if Your Majesty gives the Youzhou territory to Northern Chu and hands over the Ninth Princess and her son, they will just pretend that this never happened. So, why not..."
Prince Su was annoyed. "Where can I find the Ninth Princess for him? I even said that it was Bei Chu who secretly took the Ninth Princess and her child away, but used this as an excuse to declare war on Da Xia!"
After Chu Jingyao and her two children disappeared, Prince Su sent people to look for them, but they were never found.
He was certain that Chu Jingyao had no ability to escape on her own, and firmly believed that it was Beichu who sent people to take them away.
The ministers below looked at each other in bewilderment. One of them said with a stiff upper lip, "Your Majesty, Daxia has suffered many disasters recently and cannot afford the turmoil of war. We should simply return the Ninth Princess and her son to Northern Chu. How about..."
They did not believe what Prince Su said and all agreed that Prince Su still loved Chu Jingyao and did not want to let her leave.
After all, when Prince Su was in his fiefdom, the love between Prince Su and Chu Jingyao did not seem to be acted out.
Besides, the palace is heavily guarded. Who could take Chu Jingyao and her mother and son away under the watchful eyes of so many guards?
Prince Su's face darkened, "You don't understand what I'm saying, right?"
The love they had before was not acted. He did have feelings for Chu Jingyao, but he loved his concubine and power more!
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