Yingluo held a banquet to invite Arnold. In order to prevent a sneak attack by Cheng Han, Arnold left Sarda and the generals of the ancient Wu Kingdom in the military camp.
Arnold brought Dieyi and his guards to the Hongmen Banquet organized by Yingluo, and Yingluo showed up at the banquet with Meilin.
When Yingluo saw that Arnold was on time for the appointment, she praised him: "Prince Arnold is really brave!"
"The princess is my fiancée. Even if there are mountains of swords and seas of fire, I will come."
Yingluo was not in the mood to listen to his heart-wrenching words of love, so she let go of Mary's hand and said, "Since Prince Arnold is here, Princess Mary can leave." Mary walked directly to Arnold's camp without saying anything.
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Yingluo stretched out her hand and invited: "The banquet has begun. Prince please!"
Everyone sat down one after another, Murong Xuan sat at the top, Yingluo and Murong Qianmo sat beside them respectively, Murong Xuan did not understand his daughter's intention.
He said politely: "Prepare a little wine, the prince will enjoy it slowly!" The banquet began.
During the banquet, Arnold was a little impatient. Murong Yingluo must have had another purpose in inviting him here. It was not just about drinking. Instead of waiting for the enemy to take action, it was better to strike first.
"What's the matter? Princess Zheng, just say it."
Yingluo originally wanted to talk to him alone after the banquet, but he did not want to make Aman's life experience public.
"Prince Arnold, could you please move on? I have something I want to talk to Prince Arnold alone."
Arnold looked hesitant, but still agreed, as he judged that Yingluo would not take action.
Dieyi was very worried, worried that Murong Yingluo would hurt Arnold, "Master!" her eyes were full of worry.
"Wait here and protect the princess!"
Yingluo took Arnold to another camp, and Yingluo asked: "Prince Arnold, if Gu Wuguo wins this war, what will he get?"
"Of course dignity and territory."
"Wrong! The cause of this war was the destruction of the Lan Kingdom more than twenty years ago. Even if the ancient Wu Kingdom won, it was just to regain part of the Lan Kingdom's territory and fulfill the queen's wish for revenge. It was not for the ancient Wu Kingdom.
Not cost-effective.”
"It is no longer a matter of profit. You killed our princess of the ancient Wu Kingdom. It is a matter of dignity."
Yingluo shook her head lightly, "Prince Arnold should know how Princess Man'er died. This was originally the queen's conspiracy. In this war, Prince Arnold was just a revenge pawn, including the dead Princess Man'er. In the end,
The person who benefits is Oman.”
But Arnold had to admit that what Yingluo said was the truth, "I suddenly forgot that Princess Zheng was once the princess of Oman. Could it be that she has not forgotten her love for Oman and wants to get rid of me for him."
"Prince Arnold has misunderstood. I have only one purpose for saying so much. I want to help you. Why does the prince know that the queen prefers Aman? It's all because Aman is not a prince of the ancient Wu Kingdom, but a descendant of the Lan Kingdom.
Amai, who was killed by you, is my brother. He is the son of my father and the queen of the ancient Wu king."
Arnold's eyebrows were wide and he was shocked, "What did you say? Aman is not his father's son."
"Yes, he is the son of your uncle and the witch Nayi. His waist has the scar of the witch clan's Xuan Yue mark. It cannot be removed by any method."
Arnold felt chilled. He originally thought that his mother was just partial, but he didn't expect that she was abandoning her own flesh and blood in order to restore the country.
If Amai is Murong Xuan's son, "Aren't Amai and Man'er brother and sister?"
"Man'er has known about this for a long time, but it's a pity that she couldn't let go of her obsession with her brother until her death. If you are willing to be a chess piece, you can be said to be pathetic people. In the ancient Wu Kingdom, you are the one with the most power to inherit the throne.
, you only want to unite with Xinyue Kingdom to ascend to the throne. If you are willing to quell the war, Cheng Han is willing to put aside his prejudices and help you ascend to the throne!"
Yingluo has made it very clear and the conditions have been laid out. I believe Arnold should be able to make the most correct choice.
Arnold left with Princess Xin Yue, feeling extremely heavy in his heart. He didn't know whether he should believe Murong Yingluo or not, accepting Cheng Han's help would lead the wolf into the house.
When Mei Lin returned to the ancient Wu Kingdom's camp, Sarda was so anxious that she sent people out several times to investigate.
Mary rushed directly into the camp, looked at her worried brother, and called, "Zelda, I'm back."
Zelda ran over directly, "Mary, did they hurt you?"
Arnold was full of worries and was not in the mood to watch the reunion between brother and sister. "Zelda, you brothers and sisters should have a lot to say. It's getting late. I should go back to the camp."
"Thank you for saving Mary!"
When Mei Lin met her brother Xie Anuo, she had already planned to tell everything about her and Cheng Feng to him.
Zelda looked at Arnold's leaving back and praised: "Arnold is a nice person, and he is willing to put himself in danger for you."
"Zelda, you know people but not their hearts. That Arnold is flirting with his subordinates. There is no way he only has Mary."
Sarda frowned, "In the ancient Wu Kingdom, just like our Xinyue Kingdom, a man can only marry one wife, so my father can safely marry you to the ancient Wu Kingdom. If Anuo becomes the king, you will be the queen. What a good marriage.
"
Mary's eyes flashed, and she said: "Brother, Mary already has someone she likes. This time she was deliberately arrested just to meet him. Mary made an oath to the Mother Goddess. If you don't marry him, she will accept it."
curse."
Zelda's eyes were full of horror. They had always believed in the curse, "Ridiculous! How could you do such a stupid thing. We all love you, don't give up a good marriage for a man you just met a few days ago."
"Selda, if you really love Mary, you should let Mary marry the person you love. No matter what kind of life you live in the future, it will be Mary's choice. I have made it clear that I love him
, I want to break off my engagement with Arnold!"
Sarda said forcefully: "No, the marriage between the two countries was decided by the father. How can it be dissolved just at your request!"
Mei Lin raised her neck to confront him and said: "The reason why Xin Yue sent troops is that the ancient Wu Kingdom agreed to the conditions for cooperation, and Mei Lin's marriage is just one of them."
Meilin took out the letter from her arms and handed it over, "This is the condition proposed by Cheng Han. As long as my brother can stop supporting the ancient Wu Kingdom, our children from the Xinyue Kingdom will not become orphans."
Salda glanced disdainfully at the letter that Mei Lin handed over, which was stamped with the royal seal of the ancient Wu Kingdom, and asked after a moment: "Is this the letter from Emperor Cheng Han?"
"No, but the woman who wrote this letter is the concubine of the regent of Chenghan. She promised that Chenghan can satisfy whatever is mentioned in the letter."
Sarda couldn't help but took the letter and unfolded it. It put forward three conditions. Xinyue Kingdom agreed to cooperate with the ancient Wu Kingdom. It probably agreed to two conditions, one was firearms and the other was silk.
On this basis, Cheng Han added another condition, which was food. Cheng Han could open trade channels to Xinyue Kingdom and sell firearms to foreign countries, and it would definitely not be worse than the ancient Wu Kingdom. The conditions for silk and ancient Wu Kingdom were almost the same.
The most important thing is food. As a big country with sufficient food, it is not a bad thing to turn surplus food into money, and the price will not be very high.
Faced with the conditions proposed by Cheng Han, Sarda was tempted, "I will report this matter to my father. You should go back to the camp and rest first!"
Seeing that her brother's attitude was wavering and that there was hope of quelling the war, Mary looked forward to breaking off her engagement with Arnold as soon as possible so that she could marry the one she loved openly.
On the other side, Arnold returned to the camp. Dieyi always felt that Arnold had intentions, "Master, what did Murong Yingluo think you said? It made the master worried all the time."
Arnold's voice was unusually low, "Aman is not my father's son, he is the son of my uncle and the witch Nayi, and Amai is the son of my mother and Murong Xuan."
Dieyi was also a little confused by the confusing relationship. She didn't expect that Amai would be Murong Xuan's son. It was really unbelievable. Then Princess Man'er fell in love with her brother.
"The queen mother only wanted to take revenge and restore the power of the Lan Kingdom. Man'er died unjustly! What I am worried about now is my father. The queen mother has gone crazy."
Beidu has been very calm, and no news has come. Yu Junning wiped out Arnold's forces in the capital. The news of the emperor's death has been tightly blocked by Yu Junning, because he was worried that Arnold would make any changes at the border and destroy
Her plan to take revenge on Murong Xuan.
Dieyi couldn't worry about Arnold and looked at him in distress, "Master, why don't you go back to Beidu and find out the real situation in Beidu."
"This is all we can do now." Arnold ordered to rest his troops and call a temporary truce!
In the week after Dieyi left, there was a truce between the two sides. Meilin would occasionally sneak out to see Chengfeng. Seeing that his health was getting better day by day, she felt much more at ease.
Murong Yingluo has been busy setting up a firearms battalion, while Murong Xuan is still training with his troops to prepare for battle at any time.
I don’t know how long this situation can last. The long-term truce can be regarded as a good thing, both in terms of the situation and the enemy’s momentum. Faced with his daughter, Murong didn’t know what kind of method Yingluo used to make the two countries temporarily truce.
I can't understand this daughter more and more.
About the ninth day after Dieyi left, someone suddenly appeared outside the military camp of the ancient Wu Kingdom with the token of the king of the ancient Wu Kingdom and asked to see the prince Anuo.
Arnold has been waiting for news from Dieyi, and it would take at least a month to get back the news from the northern capital. At this time, there was news from his father.
He ordered someone to bring the man to the camp quickly. The man was about forty years old, wearing a thick cotton robe, and still looked very thin and old.
Arnold knew this person very well, he was the eunuch who had always stayed with his father.
"Anu! Why are you here?"
Anu hurriedly knelt on the ground and burst into tears. He did not dare to break into the military camp without permission, so he could only come in an honest manner.
"Prince Arnold, the queen wanted to kill the king. The king had long expected that such a day would come, so he trained a substitute early. On the night of the assassination, he escaped the queen's poison and hid quietly. He sent the old slave to come
Come to the border to find the prince."
Arnold was shocked, but not surprised that the queen mother really rebelled, "So now Aman is the king."
"Exactly! The king hopes that the prince will give up the war against Chenghan and return to the court quickly. The king has united the forces in the court and hopes that the prince will take back the kingdom of ancient Wu."
After getting the exact news from Beidu, Arnold also had a plan in mind. He already knew what he should do.