It took Tuoba Xiong only half a month to pacify the entire grassland and secure his position as the Great Khan.

Soon, as the Great Khan, he summoned Liu Sheng and King Xiang, who were escorting the bride, and first welcomed them and apologized for his previous neglect. Then he got straight to the point and sent troops to escort them back to Dayu.

Liu Sheng looked at Xibe Xiao Ning, who was smiling but showing a dagger in his heart, and was not angry: "Then I'll have to trouble the Great Khan."

"But our princess is a princess of noble birth and is not used to riding in a simple carriage on the grassland. Please, Great Khan, return our Dayu's carriage to us."

"Master Liu, the princess has already married to our grassland. We will take good care of her."

Xiao Ning knew that he wanted to take the princess away, so he tactfully refuted his words.

"In our Central Plains, a marriage is not considered complete if it is not held in the chapel." Liu Sheng threw the words back to her.

The former Great Khan is dead. I really don’t believe you can dig up his body and hold a ceremony in the hall.

Xiao Ning was slightly angry, but he still suppressed his anger: "Lord Liu probably doesn't understand the rules of us grassland people. When the husband dies, the son marries the daughter. The current Khan has the tradition of inheriting the wives and concubines of the previous Khan."

Liu Sheng smiled and said, "Then why doesn't Queen Mother Xiao Ning marry the current Great Khan?"

"How dare you! I'm his mother." Xiao Ning finally couldn't help it.

Liu Sheng still had a smile on his face, but his eyes were very cold: "In our Dayu, the princess is also the mother of the current Great Khan, the legal mother, but she is closer to us than the biological mother."

"But when in Rome, do as the Romans do. Sir Liu, don't you understand such a simple principle?"

"Of course I understand, so I decided to take the princess back. We can't adapt to the customs of you grassland people." Liu Sheng refused to give in.

Xiao Ning gnashed his teeth in anger: "Lord Liu is maliciously destroying the friendship between the two countries."

"Empress Dowager Xiao Ning, there is no need to put such a big accusation on me. Before I went on the mission, I received the imperial order to personally hand the princess over to the previous Great Khan, not the current Great Khan."

Liu Sheng said as he took out the imperial edict from the emperor to Ye Qingwan: "It is clearly written in the imperial edict that Ye Qingwan should be canonized as a princess and married to Tuoba Yanli, the great man, in order to establish friendly relations between the two countries."

Then, he handed the imperial edict to Empress Dowager Xiao Ning: "If Empress Dowager Xiao Ning doesn't believe it, you can read it yourself."

Empress Dowager Xiao Ning did not go to receive the imperial edict. She said angrily, "But Great Khan Yanli has passed away. You are still harping on this point. It is obvious that you are deliberately making things difficult for me."

"Then please ask Queen Mother Xiao Ning and the Great Khan to send another envoy to our Dayu capital and ask His Majesty to grant the marriage. Our Dayu marriage is based on the orders of parents, the words of matchmakers, three letters and six ceremonies, three matchmakers and six betrothals."

"The princess represents the reputation of our Dayu. If we deal with it hastily, then is it our Dayu who is embarrassed, or are you grassland people deliberately slapping our Dayu in the face?"

Liu Sheng spoke so convincingly that Empress Dowager Xiao Ning was speechless.

"If there is nothing else, I will leave first. When the Great Khan and Queen Mother Xiao Ning have made up their mind, they can talk to me whenever they want. I will be free." After Liu Sheng finished speaking, he left.

Leaving behind was Empress Dowager Xiao Ning, whose face had turned purple with anger, and Tuoba Xiong, who was in a very difficult situation.

"Ana, why don't you just let them go back?" Tuoba Xiong actually didn't want to marry Ye Qingwan.

Ana insisted that Ye Qingwan marry to the grassland, wasn't it just to use Ye Qingwan's identity to help him become the Great Khan?

Now that they have achieved their goal, why should we force them to stay?

But Empress Dowager Xiao Ning glared at him and said, "What do you know? This Ye Qingwan is still very useful to us."

Here, Ye Qingwan was roasting a rabbit for Ning Shaoqing. Seeing such a cute rabbit being roasted into a golden color, she was so sad that tears flowed from the corners of her mouth.

Rabbits are so cute, I can eat one in one bite.

"I'm thirsty." Ning Shaoqing lay on the bed and called out to Ye Qingwan in a weak manner.

"If you are thirsty, come down and get some water." Ye Qingwan was speechless. Brother, you were just poisoned, not having a stroke, and you are not paralyzed.

Besides, the poison has been cured long ago, why are you just pretending to be a fool?

“Ouch, it hurts, it’s so uncomfortable…” Ning Shaoqing suddenly groaned, looking like he was going to die.

Ye Qingwan turned her head and glanced at him, almost throwing the roasted rabbit in his face, and said, "Go ahead and do it."

But he still put the rabbit down, stood up, poured him a cup of tea, handed it to his mouth, and fed him.

As soon as she finished feeding him and sat back to roast the rabbit, he started babbling again: "I'm a little cold, get me a hot water bottle."

Ye Qingwan: ...

Where's the knife? Where's my knife? Let me see if I can cut you.

He was about to kill him with a knife.

Liu Sheng happened to come back at this time. Ning Shaoqing saw this and quickly fell to the ground: "Help, Ye Qingwan wants to kill someone."

Ye Qingwan: ...

Liu Sheng smiled, walked over and gently took the knife from Ye Qingwan's hand, and said to her: "Stop messing around, I'll take you to a fun place."

"A fun place?" Ye Qingwan's eyes were shining. She hadn't gone out to play for a long time.

This rubbish grassland doesn’t have the Yihong Courtyard, and there isn’t even a pretty lady. There are only two ferocious looking ones, and she is almost suffocated.

When Ning Shaoqing heard that they were going out to play, he stopped pretending and was about to say that he would go too. But Liu Sheng stuffed the roasted rabbit into his hand and said, "Come on, eat the roasted rabbit."

Ning Shaoqing:? ?

What's the meaning?

Without me?

That won't work.

Just as he was about to speak, Liu Sheng put the teapot in his other hand and said, "Here's the tea, drink it when you're thirsty."

Ning Shaoqing: ...

Still not wanting to give up, he tried to find another excuse, but Liu Sheng stuffed a hot water bottle into his quilt: "Hot water bottle."

He also found two guards and said to them, "Just stay in the room and give Young Master Ning whatever he wants. But you can't let him go out, his injury is not healed yet."

"It's Master."

Ning Shaoqing: ...

Met an opponent.

Seeing that Ning Shaoqing was completely subdued, Ye Qingwan covered her mouth and laughed, "You little bastard, you deserve this day! You deserve it!"

Then the two of them left happily, leaving Ning Shaoqing alone, holding a roasted rabbit in his left hand, a teapot in his right hand, and a scalding hot water bottle in his quilt, feeling very aggrieved.

They rode their horses to an uninhabited grassland with a trickling stream in front of them. The surrounding grass was probably because of the river, so it did not turn yellow but was still lush and green.

It was already dark. Ye Qingwan lowered her head to take a look at the river and muttered, "What's fun here? There are no young ladies."

When I turned around, I saw the old master holding a rope in her hand. She pulled it gently, and a bright ball of light suddenly appeared in the darkness.

The ball of light gradually dispersed, and the sky was filled with flying stars, making her feel as if she was in the universe.

It’s…fireflies!