Chapter 358: Appreciating Talent
The 300,000-strong Southern Yan army was defeated, and Marshal Wu committed suicide.
He had no choice but to commit suicide.
If he returned to Southern Yan to apologize, what awaited him was the imperial prison and endless torture until he admitted that it was not the Southern Yan army's fault, but his own stubbornness and arrogance.
However, he was not stubborn and conceited, he just lost to the descendants of Feng family.
The Feng family has produced many war gods, who are mythical beings.
He could also escape and go to Northern Jin, where he would definitely be taken in.
Unfortunately, his silly sister, Concubine Wu Huifei, is still in the palace.
Zhu Huaizhen was deeply saddened when he heard that Marshal Wu had committed suicide.
However, she turned around and went to listen to the opera.
As usual, she reclined on the beauty couch surrounded by black lacquer and gold-painted scrolls of poetry and paintings, fanning herself with a mahogany handle embroidered with a pomegranate, cat and butterfly pattern, moving her hands up and down, her posture as lazy as a Persian cat.
Orioles chirp at dawn in the jade trees of Jinling, flowers bloom early in the Qinhuai waterside pavilions. Who knew the ice would melt so easily? I watched him build his red mansion, I watched him entertain guests, and I watched his mansion collapse. Here, amidst the mossy, blue tiles, I once slept in a dreamlike state; I've witnessed fifty years of rise and fall. No one in Wuyi Lane is surnamed Wang, ghosts cry at Mochou Lake, and owls roost on Phoenix Terrace. Dreams of the ruined mountains are the most real, the old land hard to lose. I don't believe this map is changing manuscripts. I'll compose a lament for Jiangnan, and sing it until I grow old.
Tsk tsk, she is living a good life again, enjoying "Peach Blossom Fan" and Buddha Jumps Over the Wall.
Sugar-heart abalone, pineapple sea cucumber, white shark lips, young deer tendons, claw meat, golden shark fin, ivory clam meat, spider fish glue, quail eggs, ham, pork ribs, clean winter bamboo shoots, king oyster mushrooms, chrysanthemum mushrooms, wild pine mushrooms, morels, snow bamboo fungus, Shaoxing wine, eighteen ingredients, eighteen delicious flavors. The moment you lift the lotus leaf covering the jar, the rich meaty aroma is so fragrant that even a Buddha would jump over the wall.
Of course, there is also the rich and colorful cup of sesame salt, bamboo shoots, chestnuts, loofah kernels, walnut kernels, spring immortal seagull, swan osmanthus, rose and brine-infused Lu'an sparrow tongue bud tea.
"Tu Mi, you are going to be famous." Zhu Huaizhen smiled like a flower, his eyes moving.
"Your Highness, I'm sleepy. Please block it for me." Tu Mi yawned repeatedly.
Sure enough, the next day, the envoys from Northern Zhou rode at full speed to Jiangcheng.
"Your Highness Princess Ronghua, where is the God of War Feng?" The envoy of Northern Zhou bowed deeply with a respectful attitude.
"It's time to sleep." Zhu Huaizhen yawned and stretched.
"Your Highness Princess Ronghua, you are not interested in worldly affairs, so Feng Zhanshen is dispensable to you. To you, Feng Zhanshen is just a personal bodyguard. But to us in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Feng Zhanshen is the hope for the revival of the Great Zhou Dynasty." The envoy of the Northern Zhou Dynasty spoke impassionedly.
"So what did you bring?" Zhu Huaizhen asked casually, holding his rosy cheek.
"If the God of War Feng is willing to submit to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Northern Zhou Dynasty will enthrone her as a prince and grant her a rich fiefdom. If Her Royal Highness Princess Ronghua wants to live a comfortable life in the God of War Feng's fiefdom, that would be great." The envoy of the Northern Zhou Dynasty had obviously put in a lot of effort and impressed Zhu Huaizhen quite a bit.
At this time, Northern Jin also sent envoys to rush over.
"Your Highness Princess Ronghua, the God of War Feng is destined to follow a wise ruler, fight wars in the south and the north, and unify the country. You might as well let go and make the God of War Feng successful." The envoy of Northern Jin opened a box of golden hairpins and presented it to Zhu Huaizhen.
Wow, there are the butterfly-loving flower, pomegranate, and ruyi tortoiseshell silk-wrapped gold hairpins, the red gold filigree hairpins with rubies, the bat-patterned and glazed-beaded gold hairpins with trembling branches, the nine-turn red gold double phoenix hairpins inlaid with jade and seven treasures, the gold filigree hairpins with rubies and kingfisher feathers, the gold-patterned and five-treasure peacock hairpins, the rose quartz crabapple and winged jade phoenix hairpins, the burnt blue peony crystal hairpins, the four-butterfly gold hairpins inlaid with red, blue, and green sapphire beads, the emerald red gold phoenix hairpins, and so on. I spent a lot of money on it.
"I am very touched by your sincerity." Zhu Huaizhen sighed lightly.
It was a bit surprising that they all knew how to please Zhu Huaizhen.
"However, Tu Mi has already agreed to Princess Pingyang to take over the Taoyao Army. My Taoyao Army cannot be leaderless. Besides, I have the treasure of the Great Zhou and need a god of war to protect me. It's not an exaggeration." Zhu Huaizhen refused directly.
She knew Tu Mi's personality, so she simply refused and poured cold water on her, which was very disappointing.
So, she, Zhu Huaizhen, might as well be a villain for once.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
