20demayo Chapter 283 Qing Huan is held hostage, Shen Lin resigns
Chapter 283 Qing Huan is held hostage, Shen Lin resigns
Everyone was stunned.
Then, everyone looked at Shen Lin and his wife with complicated expressions.
Mu Qi is indeed lustful, and he took advantage of the peace talks to seize someone else's wife. How shameless.
but……
The stalemate in the peace talks is not a solution.
If handing over Ye Qinghuan can bring stability to the two countries, why not?
"How can the Regent be so deceiving?" Shen Lin stood up angrily and asked loudly.
All the etiquette between the emperor and his subjects is ignored!
I just want to protect my wife.
"Bullying?" Mu Li sneered, "How much suffering has my daughter endured in Daxia?"
"That's none of my wife's business!" Shen Lin clenched his fists, his eyes bloodshot and red.
Mu Li looked at Gao Xun: "Prince, what do you say?"
"Well! I wonder why the Regent wants Madam Shen?" Gao Xun pondered.
"Of course it's a hostage." Mu Li said, "Later, you can exchange it for the head of the ***."
Everyone gasped.
That is impossible!
*** is the emperor's beloved sister. No matter what *** did over the years, the emperor would not punish her severely.
Even if this involved treason, Shen Rong would just take the blame. How could he kill Shen Rong just for Ye Qinghuan?
"Regent..." Gao Xun was in great difficulty, so he simply said, "Regent, Madam Shen is poisoned and won't live long. It's useless for you to keep her."
Mu Qi's eyes flashed with grief, but he quickly concealed it: "General Shen, you want me dead or alive, right?"
"Please, Lord Regent, spare my wife." Shen Lin suddenly knelt down, putting away all his sharpness and making a humble request.
Ye Qinghuan knelt down with a heartache, pretending to hug him, and took the opportunity to whisper in his ear: "He wants to save me."
Shen Lin's whole body stiffened.
He looked sideways at his beloved woman in disbelief.
"I'm willing to stay, take care, General!" Ye Qinghuan let go of him, stepped back step by step, and finally walked behind Mu Li, lowering his eyes and no longer looking at anyone.
Mu Li laughed happily and left with Ye Qinghuan, leaving the civil servants behind to sign and seal the peace documents.
Shen Lin sat on the ground, not coming back to his senses for a long time.
She said the Regent wanted to save her...
Does that mean you are willing to take out the elixir bead?
This is a good thing! But why? Could it be that Jiahe County Lady's words are so effective?
Is Mu Li actually a daughter slave?
Then he will treat Ye Qinghuan well, right?
"General Shen, let's go back to the camp!" Gao Xun came over and personally supported Shen Lin.
Everyone looked at Shen Lin with sympathy.
The poor general sacrificed his wife for the peace of the two countries.
Ugh!
In the past, we had to rely on the *** to maintain peace in the northern border, but now we use Ye Qinghuan to exchange for peace in the northwest.
Really are……
As subjects, they were both glad that the peace talks were successful, yet also felt ashamed.
"General, please get up first." Gao Xun said.
Shen Lin struggled to stand up, lowering his eyes sadly: "Your Highness, my wife..."
"I am sorry for you." Gao Xun sighed, "But there is no other way. Madam Shen is a noble woman, she is willing to go..."
Shen Lin's clenched fists were trembling.
Suddenly he knelt again and said, "Your Highness, please allow me to resign. I want to go to Xiyi to find my wife."
"No. You don't have any internal strength now, how can you find someone?" Gao Xun's face changed instantly.
"Even if I die, I will die beside her." Shen Lin said in a trembling voice, "Your Highness, please take back the military token."
Shen Lin really took out the military token he had.
Just one-third of a military token was enough to make Gao Xun unable to take his eyes off it.
If he accepts it, the 100,000 Shen family soldiers will be his soldiers! Is he still worried about not being able to ascend to the throne?
Then those who bullied the Queen Mother should die!
Especially ***!
But greed is only a moment.
Gao Xun whispered, "The Regent has one more condition. As long as you take the head of ***, you can still get Madam Shen back."
"That's impossible." Shen Lin's heart was pounding.
Prince, are you finally going to abdicate?
"General, there are always more solutions than problems." Gao Xun pulled Shen Lin up, "Let's go back to Beijing and come back to rescue Madam Shen soon!"
What Shen Lin wanted in his life was a stable border and a country without war. As for royal disputes, they were never something he was keen on.
"Your Highness, I will not go back." Shen Lin shook his head, his face ashen.
Gao Xun frowned: "General Shen!"
"I have lost my inner strength and am useless. I cannot lead troops on the battlefield. So, I bid you farewell!"
Shen Lin put down the military token and turned to walk out.
After all, he was heading in the direction of Xiyi!
The Regent and his entourage have already left, and the huge team is just ahead.
He didn't chase, he just walked step by step.
Feng He and Feng Yu followed closely behind, not daring to speak - they were afraid of being overheard.
"General Shen!" Gao Xun called out loudly.
The civil servants who came to negotiate also shouted.
But Shen Lin did not look back.
He just left like that, empty-handed, without even a sword.
"General Shen values righteousness and affection." Someone sighed.
Gao Xun suddenly turned his eyes to the side, his gaze sharp: "What did you say?"
"Your Majesty, I didn't say anything..." The man knelt down hurriedly, shaking like a sieve.
Using a minister's wife to exchange for peace talks will be a joke wherever it gets spread!
This matter must be stopped right here, no one can mention it again!
"General Shen has made up his mind, so let's just leave it at that for now! When he comes back and has thought it through, we'll use him again." Gao Xun got into the sedan chair and ordered his men to return to the camp.
……
On the other side, Feng Yu looked far away from Rong'an Town, and there was no one around. Finally, he said, "General, I have something to say..."
"I know that the Regent wants to save the lady. That's why she followed him." Shen Lin said in a sad tone.
In the final analysis, it was his incompetence that forced her to choose Mu Li. Well, as long as he could save her, he would accept whatever Mu Li asked.
Feng Yu said: "Not only that! Madam, she is the biological daughter of the Regent."
"What?" Shen Lin was shocked.
"It's true! I was there when they recognized each other. Madam was afraid that the general would lose his composure in the meeting room, so she didn't dare to tell the truth."
"But Madam deliberately didn't take us away so that we could stay and tell Shen Lin the truth!"
Shen Lin paused and stared at Feng Yu and Feng He in a daze: "You, are you not lying to me?"
"How dare I?" Feng He said, "Madam, she is the daughter of the Regent and Bai Linglong."
"Then, what about Princess Jiahe?"
"It was a misunderstanding. She was wearing the Cloud Mist Dream Bracelet, so the Regent misunderstood."
Shen Lin opened his eyes wide: "Yunxiao Wumeng Bracelet..."
"Yes! That is the engagement token between the Prince Regent and Bai Linglong. It is the only one known in the world, and I never thought it could be fake."
Shen Lin: …
He made it up himself!
I feel numb. When I made the fake bracelet, I just wanted to help Ye Qinghuan keep his mother's relics, but I didn't expect it would cause so many troubles.
If he had known this earlier, he would not have faked it!