Chapter 245 Peace Negotiation
The weather is getting colder, which is a sign that it is going to snow.
Chen Yu exhaled white air, loosened her fingers, and the arrow shot into the distance with the wind.
The soldier ran over and stuck a small flag in the ground as a mark.
"How far can you shoot with all your strength?" Chen Yu asked Xiao Chuan.
"Let me try." Xiao Chuan held a bigger bow in his hand, which ordinary people could not pull. He had great arm strength, so he tried the feel of it and shot an arrow to a place much farther than the small flag.
Chen Yu praised: "Good arm strength."
Xiao Chuan said embarrassedly: "My brain is not enough, but fortunately I have brute force."
Chen Yu looked at the second small flag planted in the distance and asked, "How confident are you that you can hit the origin?"
Xiao Chuan picked up the bow again, and this time he didn't shoot at the original point, but the distance was close.
"It depends on the wind speed." Xiao Chuan looked at the distance and said, "If it's northwest wind, the distance will need to be closer."
Shen Yu nodded, and when she heard footsteps approaching, she turned her head and frowned immediately.
Jiang Lianzhi walked closer, "Yu Hou."
Shen Yu turned to face him, "Master Jiang should address me as Princess Beilin."
Jiang Lianzhi's eyebrows twisted slightly, "I have something important to discuss with you."
He glanced at Xiao Chuan, meaning to ask him to leave.
Chen Yu didn't say anything, so Xiao Chuan didn't move.
When he "defected" from Shengjing, he decided not to obey anyone in the court anymore. He only had one master, and that was Shen Yu.
In fact, Chen Yu also happened to have something to ask Jiang Lianzhi. She gave Xiao Chuan a look, and Xiao Chuan left with the knife. When he passed by Jiang Lian, his eyes lingered on his face until they passed by.
Jiang Lianzhi ignored this silent warning and looked towards the wilderness outside the pass after the people walked away.
"Before I left Beijing, the person who sent the gift came back, and I also received the letter Xie Yun wanted to bring to me." He was referring to the warning of killing only one person and returning to report the news.
This is exactly what Shen Yu wanted to talk about.
If the gift was swapped, then there must be someone with bad intentions behind it, perhaps targeting Jiang Lianzhi, or perhaps Shen Yu.
Chen Yu said calmly, “Lord Jiang gave such a generous gift, Beilin had no choice but to return it with the same generous gift.”
Jiang Lianzhi narrowed his eyes slightly because of the wind, "You clearly know that the gift has been replaced by someone else. I feel very wronged to accept this return gift."
"It's not unfair." Chen Yu said, "I have no friendship with you, so I shouldn't have given you this gift."
Jiang Lianzhi knew that she wanted to completely cut off ties with him, but when he thought about it carefully, they really had nothing to do with each other in this life.
Jiang Lianzhi said: "I didn't send the body, I have no ill intentions, I only sent some household items."
"You still call this no ill intentions?" Chen Yu tilted her head, "Jiang Lianzhi, you returned the hairpin and comb, are you trying to make others think there's something going on between you and me?"
"I am not..."
"Don't be so quick to deny it." Chen Yu interrupted him, "I don't believe that you haven't thought of this."
Jiang Lianzhi is very smart. He is smart enough to stay out of the fight for the throne. No matter who ascends the throne, he can always sit firmly in his original position.
How could such a calculating person not have thought of this?
Jiang Lianzhi was silent. He couldn't defend himself. Perhaps he hadn't thought about it at that time, but he had such malice in his heart.
It was as if it would be nice to have some connection with her, any connection would be fine as long as she wasn't a stranger.
Chen Yu no longer looked at him, "No matter what you come to Yanliang Pass for, you and I will not interfere with each other."
Jiang Lianzhi said: "I'm afraid not."
Before he finished speaking, Shen Yu had already put the knife on his neck.
Seeing this, Jiang Lianzhi's guards not far away wanted to step forward to rescue him, but the knife was just a few inches out of the sheath when Xiao Chuan slapped it back with the sheath.
"Brother, let me remind you that my master has a bad temper. Don't get involved in things that you can't control, or you may get into trouble."
Chen Yu looked at Jiang Lianzhi and said, "This is Yanliang Pass, not Shengjing. Whether I kill you or not, my reputation as a traitor will not change. If you dare to ruin my plans, I will chop off your head."
Jiang Lianzhi remained calm, lowering his eyes to glance at the sharp knife on his neck, "I am here on the orders of the Emperor."
He slowly uttered two words, "Discussion, peace."
Shen Yu's expression changed immediately, "Who proposed this?"
"The Queen's elder brother, now the Emperor's uncle." Jiang Lianzhi asked, "Can you put down the knife now?"
Shen Yu's rhythm was disrupted. She put Yin Feng back into the scabbard and asked, "Why did Li Zhaonian send you here?"
Jiang Lianzhi said without hesitation, "I came here to negotiate peace on my own initiative."
The Great Zhou had not yet been defeated. Even if a large army was approaching, it was far from being invincible. Proposing peace talks at this moment was a conceit that
Chen Yu would never allow such a thing to happen.
Jiang Lianzhi looked at Chen Yu who was thinking, and suddenly asked: "They labeled you a traitor, but you still wanted to guard the border for them. Can you repay evil with kindness and forgive them for everyone?"
This question has no beginning or end.
Shen Yu was too lazy to answer him.
She was not repaying evil with kindness, she was avenging her father and the soldiers, and defeating the nightmare that lingered in her body.
Chen Yu said: "I will not agree to negotiate peace."
"This is also the reason why I came here on my own initiative." Jiang Lianzhi looked at her, "If you have time, I would like to talk to you about this matter."
Changliu was walking back and forth at the gate of the yard, where he could see Chen Yu and Jiang Lianzhi talking about something.
He clearly remembered that the man surnamed Jiang had kidnapped the princess. This man surnamed Jiang had evil intentions towards the princess.
"It's been half an hour, why haven't they finished talking yet? It's almost time for dinner, he can't be trying to eat here, I absolutely disagree, our prince asked me to stay with the princess."
"How can a grown man like Jiang talk so much nonsense? Can't you just say it in a few words? Why does he have to keep on talking? I have never seen a man as long-winded as him."
Xiao Chuan picked his ears. It was the first time he saw someone nagging non-stop and accusing others of talking too much nonsense.
Jiang Lianzhi finally stood up and said goodbye. When he passed the door, Chang Liu snorted lightly to express his dissatisfaction.
When everyone walked out of the yard, Chang Liu ran over immediately, "Princess, that guy named Jiang, I snorted so loudly, is he deaf? He even nodded to me, can't he see that I hate him?"
Chen Yu smiled, "There are snacks in the room, go eat some to calm down."
Changliu forgets everything when he hears about food.
Xiao Chuan then asked, "Princess, what is this Jiang guy planning?"
Xiao Chuan's ears were callused after being nagging by Chang Liu for so long that he couldn't help but follow Chang Liu in calling him "Jiang".
Chen Yu stood up and said, "The court is not at peace either. The peace faction has won the fight. If Jiang Ji does not come here on his own initiative, the peace talks will be a foregone conclusion."
Xiao Chuan frowned and said, "That means Jiang doesn't want to negotiate peace, so he can only take up the position of envoy. Whether the talks can be concluded or not will be entirely up to him. This way, the peacemakers' plans will fail."
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