A rebellious minister forced me to be a foolish king

Chapter 740 Hostage Exchange
Seeing that the queen's intention to kill him had wavered, Shan Wuling was overjoyed, and while the iron was hot, he shouted at the top of his voice:
"Listen to me, little fairy. If I die, your man will probably not be able to avoid those disasters! If you leave me here, I will protect you and change your fate. It's better to believe it, isn't it?"

Yuan Wuyou finally raised his hand to stop him: "Bring him back."

As soon as the queen gave the order, several imperial guards lifted up the people lying on the ground. Then they realized that they were too obedient and had accepted orders beyond their authority. They all looked at the emperor standing proudly in yellow.

Upon hearing this, Yuwen Huaibi suddenly turned his head halfway and looked at her with his cold deep blue eyes. "You don't want to kill him? Aren't you afraid that he will take the opportunity to kill you?"

"That's not the case. Since he mentioned your fate, I have to take precautions. I might as well lock him up in jail and let him write down everything he knows."

Hearing her cold concern for him, Yuwen Huaibi slowly lowered his long eyelashes, covering his sinister and sharp phoenix eyes, and his tone became much gentler: "I don't believe in fate, I'm just afraid that he doesn't want to write it down in order to save his life, or he writes nonsense."

"Then correct it if there is any, and try your best if there is none."

The Xianbei man suddenly looked at her with gloomy eyes, worried, "Do you believe everything he said?"

Yuan Wuyou shook his head, "Of course I don't believe it, I just prefer to believe it."

His eyes suddenly dimmed, and he complained in a low voice: "Just now you misunderstood that I was in cahoots with the people who wanted to kill you. I am so disappointed."

She patted his shoulder helplessly, "I wronged you."

The young man, who was still being carried by the guards, couldn't help but say, "I... I became part of your play?"

The two people were talking to each other as if no one was around, and then they remembered that there was someone in front of them.

Since this young man named "Shan Wuling" had met the Emperor of Zhou several times in Huaxu three years ago and had a criminal record of assassinating the king, he must be highly suspicious as he is now an envoy of Later Liang.

Naturally, the Zhou Kingdom did not dare to let him get close to its own emperor again, but the King of Huaxu said that he had nothing to worry about, as he had been assassinated by him before.

After all, Houliang was a vassal state of Northern Zhou, so the dialogue with Houliang had to continue. Although Shan Wuling was detained, he had to be brought to the camp to confront other Houliang envoys.

Yuan Wuyou went to see Shan Wuling, who was tied up, off.

Even though she was walking beside him, she didn't even look at Shan Wuling, and only said coldly: "Don't think I want to save you, I just think you are still useful."

Shan Wuling saw that her face was full of gloom and she didn't take to heart what he said to her in the middle of the night. He was about to sigh that "the emperor is ruthless", but he was afraid of really angering her.

At the same time, she was a little worried. If she didn't care about the common people like she did when we first met, would her brain still be useful?
The boy tried to calm her temper, "Don't be angry about what I said just now. I really want to protect you. I'm afraid you'll stand on the wrong side and die early."

"It's useless. If you keep saying it's useless, I'll have your mouth sewed shut. Anyway, it's enough to leave a pair of hands for writing."

"Oh, don't! Actually, keeping me is like keeping a pistachio. My bracelet can occasionally receive signals, but it seems to be out of tune. It plays the projection screen to me every day... You keep my mouth and listen to me tell you about my future entertainment life?"

"unnecessary."

After saying that, Yuan Wuyou raised his hand and ordered the imperial guards who were holding the rope.

"Find something to plug his mouth."

——At the same time, outside the west gate of Bowang City.

The Zhou army, which was driven out of the city, camped a few miles away from the west gate, and trained their horses and troops in the middle of the night, ready to go.

At this time, Lanling Wang, who had captured the flag first, came to the front line with only a few people, claiming to redeem someone. Princess Xiangyang, who happened to be out to check the sentry, saw him. She had heard of Lanling Wang of Northern Qi, who was so beautiful that he had to wear a ghost mask to deter the enemy, and knew that he had been engaged to the crown prince of Western Wei. Therefore, with pity for her brother-in-law, she asked him who he wanted to redeem.

He said that the person he wanted to redeem was Zheng Xuannu, the "Queen of Runan".

That is, they were the pioneers who had just captured the flag in Bowang City.

But as soon as she hoisted the "Lanling" flag, the people disappeared as soon as they entered the city. There was no doubt that she was "captured" by the Zhou army.

The ransom brought by Lanling Wang was also from one person, namely the Northern Zhou emperor's younger brother, Duke of Wei, Yuwen Zhi.

It turned out that just now Yuwen Zhi learned that his royal brother insisted on waiting for King Fengling, and he was so angry that he went to Bowang City alone to spy on the enemy, but he was ambushed and caught as a spy.

The one who captured him was a husband and wife soldier who spoke the northern dialect. They claimed to be subordinates of the Ru'nan Lady and took the captive Yuwen Zhi to Bowang City to find Lanling King and asked him to come forward to exchange hostages.

Prince Lanling had met the two men a few times, and when he heard that his wife was trapped in the enemy camp, he hurried over.

As soon as Princess Xiangyang saw Bell and his wife, the others tacitly pretended not to know them and even acted as messengers.

At that time, the Xianbei emperor, accompanied by his royal sister, came to the gate of the camp to meet King Lanling.

When he heard that Prince Lanling was trying to redeem the "Queen of Runan", he sneered.

"I don't have your wife, Lady Ru'nan, here. Prince Lanling has come to the wrong place."

The Ghost-faced General was not polite either, and raised his hand to point at Bell beside him. "I came here with my wife's men. If they find her, will Your Majesty still imprison her? And they want to find their own Khan, but even I can't stop them."

"She is going back to Chang'an to be the King of Fengling and my Lord of Suxing Mansion. How can you be her husband? Do you have a matchmaker and six certificates to marry her? Do you have a legitimate reputation?"

The two men stood opposite each other, their eyes met fiercely, and neither of them was willing to give in.

A sneer emanated from under Lanling Wang's ghostly face, and his dark phoenix eyes slightly narrowed. Even though he was two inches shorter than the Xianbei emperor in front of him, he still looked down upon him with his phoenix eyes, and was no less imposing than him.

He said in a neither humble nor arrogant manner: "I am her fiancé. It was the Western Wei Empress who gave the betrothal gift and engaged us, and there is an imperial edict to prove it. It is definitely more legitimate than your Majesty, who has a wife and children, right?"

These words hit the nail on the head for Yuwen Huaibi.

He usually regarded himself as her child husband and concubine, and just wanted to have a unique position by her side. However, he knew very well that because he had nominally married and had children a long time ago, he had even become a son-in-law who wanted to curry favor with his wife's family and deposed the queen and established a new wife!
In name, it was difficult for him to become her first wife.

Therefore, whenever Gao Changgong shouted that he wanted to be her "married husband and wife", Yuwen Huaibi could only envy him and never competed for his favor.

Thanks to the jade mask on the Xianbei man's face, his long eyelashes covered his eyes, and he closed his eyes tightly. When he opened them again, his eyes were full of cold and murderous intent.

"But there is a national hatred and family feud between you and her, so there is absolutely no possibility of you getting married."

Gao Changgong had heard such words so many times that they no longer hurt him.

His phoenix eyes held a smile of confidence.

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