novelden Chapter 325: You won’t sell yourself for help, right?
Chapter 325: You won’t sell yourself for help, right?
Yu Jiuer took the note and read: "'I am trapped in Qinghe Palace, hope you can save me!'"
After reading it, Yu Jiuer looked at the thirteen-year-old boy in front of her and asked him, "Where did you get this note?"
The little boy answered honestly: "It was given to me by a hunchbacked old man with a hoarse voice. He also gave me a silver ingot and asked me to give it to the princess who came from the Great Dong Dynasty to marry, otherwise he would cause trouble for my parents. I had no choice but to agree!
But when I arrived at the post station, I was told that the Eighth Princess had already married into the palace. I went to the palace gate to inquire and overheard people talking about how the Eighth Princess had escaped from her marriage and her whereabouts were unknown.
I thought I would never find the Eighth Princess again, until yesterday evening when I saw someone driving away vendors at the market, saying they were going to use a large number of stalls the next day. I kept an eye out, but I didn’t expect to run into you guys!”
Yu Jiuer looked at the Eighth Princess and asked the little boy: "How do you know she is the Eighth Princess?"
It's not that she is suspicious, but it's better to be safe than sorry. This damn place is not safe at all, so she has to be careful.
The little boy said bluntly: "You called her 'Eighth Princess' so loudly at the market, I thought it would be hard for me not to know! But just when I was about to pass the note, you two started fighting!"
Yu Jiuer took out a silver ingot from her bosom and handed it to the little boy, waving at him: "Okay, you can go!"
The little boy left happily with the silver.
Yu Jiuer asked the Eighth Princess in confusion: "How can you be sure that this note was written by the Sixth Prince? What if it is another conspiracy?"
The Eighth Princess confirmed, "About ten years ago, the Sixth Prince went to the Great East Dynasty as a hostage and stayed in the palace for a year. I was six years old at the time, and I often sneaked into the hostage's palace to play with him. He was three years older than me and knew a lot. He often told me stories and wrote for me to read. I recognized his handwriting."
"The Sixth Prince was also a hostage?" Yu Jiuer felt sorry. With such a good fate, why didn't the Eighth Princess fall in love with the Sixth Prince first? What fate is playing tricks on people!
Jun Mo also recalled this incident: "Back then, Miaojiang had just been freed from the Northern Rong and was eager to find an ally. To show his sincerity, the King of Miaojiang sent the Sixth Prince to the Great Dong Dynasty as a hostage. A year later, my father felt that Miaojiang was a sincere ally, so he ordered his men to send the Sixth Prince back to Miaojiang."
The Eighth Princess looked worried: "In order to take revenge on the Great Dong Dynasty, the Miaojiang King lied that the Sixth Prince was dead and wanted to take me as his concubine. How could there be such a heartless father in the world? The Sixth Prince is so pitiful!"
Shang Buqun sneered: "The King of Miaojiang disregarded the Sixth Prince's face and snatched his daughter-in-law in order to insult the Great Dong Dynasty. It seems that he doesn't value this son very much!"
"Sister Yu, the Sixth Prince is in a worrying situation!" The Eighth Princess nervously grabbed Yu Jiuer's hand, "Even if he is just a childhood playmate, we can't just stand by and watch him die, right?"
"Save him, of course! He is your marriage partner!" Yu Jiuer's heart began to boil, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend. The relationship between the Miaojiang King and the Sixth Prince is not good. That's great!"
Eighth Princess: “…”
"God is really helping me this time! Do you want to become the Queen of Miao directly? This is a great opportunity!" Yu Jiuer winked at her and continued to encourage her.
"If we help the Sixth Prince to usurp the throne, you can become the real Queen of Miaojiang. With us, the founding heroes, backing you up, the Sixth Prince will surely be grateful to you. Then, won't you be able to walk around Miaojiang with your head held high?"
"Ah?" The Eighth Princess was surprised. She just wanted to save people and didn't think too much about it.
Jun Mo rubbed Yu Jiuer's head with amusement and pointed out her mistake: "It only takes more than 20 days to drive from Yinshan County to Miaojiang, which is much closer than from Yinshan County to the capital. If you get Miaojiang, you can sell your goods to Miaojiang without restraint and make a lot of money, right?"
"Hehe! The prince is worthy of being the worm in my stomach! It would be great if that were the case! Why should I go back to the capital? I can live freely and enjoy the prosperity in Yinshan County!" Yu Jiuer fantasized about a beautiful future and couldn't stop smiling.
Jun Mo didn't pay much attention to her conjecture. After thinking for a while, he said, "If their father-son relationship is not good, the Sixth Prince can be a breakthrough point!"
Shang Buqun poured cold water on them mercilessly: "Don't be too happy yet. We still don't know what the relationship between the Sixth Prince and the Miao King is like! Maybe the father and son are just having a quarrel and they have a deep relationship."
"Are their feelings so deep that they would disregard their son's reputation and forcibly take their daughter-in-law to be their concubine? Isn't this too 'deep'?" Yu Jiuer couldn't help but want to sneer.
Shang Buqun thought that the couple were just daydreaming. He turned around and taunted Jun Mo without any hesitation: "Yu Jiu'er is crazy, but why are you, the dignified Prince Jing, also making trouble? Do you think you are a god who can change the dynasty with a wave of your hand? You can't even handle your own affairs, and you're meddling in other countries' affairs?"
"I didn't say I would help the Sixth Prince to usurp the throne. I just wanted to use him to get some useful information!"
Yu Jiuer shook Jun Mo's hand and said coquettishly: "My Lord, you used the Sixth Prince to obtain information and helped us destroy the Miao King. It's a two-birds-at-one deal, how great!"
Before Jun Mo expressed his opinion, Shang Buqun said, "Tsk! It's terrible that you have never seen the world! For the sake of the position of queen and business, you are willing to help others usurp the throne. Why don't you just let your prince be the king here?"
"This is a good idea!" Yu Jiuer was not ashamed but proud of it.
After saying that, he raised his eyebrows at Shang Buqun and said, "What do you mean by your sarcastic tone? Don't you want the Eighth Princess to marry the Sixth Prince and become the queen?"
Shang Buqun avoided her sharp gaze, which seemed to be able to rip open a person's heart and only cause trouble!
The Eighth Princess lowered her head and pondered for a while, then said softly, "I suddenly remembered that when I was a child, the Sixth Prince once told me that his mother was just a foot-washing maid, and it seemed that the Miaojiang King had never treated them well.
Before leaving the Great East Dynasty, the Sixth Prince told me that he was happiest in the Great East Dynasty. Being a hostage was happier than being a prince. It is conceivable that his life in Miaojiang must have been difficult. "
"For now, let's find the Sixth Prince to find out the situation first." Jun Mo waved his hand and ordered the guards, "Send all the Gu people to the 'Witch Village'!"
Yu Jiuer then remembered to ask: "By the way, how do you know how to whistle to control the Gu people? And where is this witch village?"
"The Witch Village is a village established by a group of people who practice witchcraft in Miaojiang." Jun Mo lowered his eyes and looked at Yu Jiuer, explaining a little uncomfortably.
"A few years ago, I accidentally saved a witch at the border of Miao. This time, we went through a lot of trouble to find her because of the Gu people. She taught us how to control the Gu people."
Yu Jiuer's sensitive nerves told her that things must not be that simple. She stared at Jun Mo and asked, "You saved her life, didn't she ever think of marrying you?"
Jun Mo choked, a trace of panic flashed in his eyes, and he hurriedly avoided Yu Jiuer's inquiring gaze.
Is this really the case?
Yu Jiuer was furious, but she didn't want to lose face for the prince in front of everyone, so she gritted her teeth and endured it, planning to deal with him at night.
Shang Buqun, however, was only afraid of chaos in the world, and gloated on the side: "It seems that the prince promised the witch something, so she dared to risk being expelled by the tribe and pass the whistle to us to control the Gu people!"
"What did you promise her?" Yu Jiuer couldn't bear it anymore, and poked Jun Mo's chest with her index finger and asked, "You're not going to sell yourself for help, are you?"
"Who do you think I am?" Jun Mo grabbed Yu Jiuer's hand, glared at Shang Buqun, then lowered his eyes and said to Yu Jiuer, "I just promised her that when things are over, I will go to the Witch Village to help her win the position of the Saint of the Witch Village."
"Didn't you save her life? She just taught you a whistle, and she wants to keep you by her side? Can a life not be worth more than a whistle? In my opinion, you are even. Don't go to her again in the future!" Yu Jiuer put her hands on her hips and acted like a rogue.
"You have the final say!" In order to appease his wife, Jun Mo had to agree first.
Yu Jiuer was not someone who could be easily fooled. She glanced at the unhappy Gu man and asked, "Why were these people sent to the witch village? Can the witches detoxify the Gu man?"
"No! Maybe someone just wanted to see more of that beautiful and cold witch, so they used the excuse to send the Gu person there to ask others to help take care of him." Shang Buqun was still adding fuel to the fire.
Jun Mo could no longer bear it, and said to Shang Buqun in a cold voice: "Shang Buqun, I think you are too idle, why don't you let you take care of and feed all these Gu people!"
After saying that, he took Yu Jiuer’s hand and left.
The Eighth Princess couldn't help and could only give Shang Buqun a sympathetic look and then catch up with Yu Jiuer.
Shang Buqun stood there in annoyance: "Hey, hey, hey, I'm just kidding! You can't be so unreasonable, right? I'm a poor scholar who can't even tie a chicken, how can I afford to feed these Gu masters? You think too highly of me!"
Jun Mo didn't even bother to turn his head. He just raised his hand and waved towards the sky, letting him figure it out on his own.
Shang Buqun ordered the guards with disdain: "Hey, you guys, send the Gu man to the Witch Village!"
"But, Lord Prime Minister, blowing the whistle to control the Gu people to walk for a long time requires a lot of internal energy. I'm afraid our internal energy is not enough. We need your amazing internal energy to drive these Gu people faster!" A guard bowed obediently.
Shang Buqun slapped his forehead. He was just a bad-mouthed person who was always looking for trouble.