Mountains and rivers are waiting for you to return

Chapter 82 King Xiangluo

Pei Nai and Xiao Mingyi returned to Chaoyang together.

Gu Jinheng's health improved, but he had not yet woken up. At the suggestion of the imperial physician, they decided to keep Gu Jinheng and arrange enough people to take care of him.

It's an emergency, others must leave first.

The Wu army has already set off, but they still don't know the other side's plans and purposes.

The confrontation situation in the entire Upper North Continent is already severe. The scale of the Wu tribe's military deployment this time is so large that no matter which country they attack, war is bound to break out.

The most urgent task is to make defensive preparations as soon as possible based on the enemy situation reported by the scouts and the direction of their march.

Before that, they still had one thing to deal with.

Xiao Mingyi said that King Xiangluo was related to Xiao Bin's treason ten years ago.

This made Pei Nai feel that King Xiangluo must know some information that they had no way of knowing.

She even had reason to speculate that the Wu clan's recent actions in Chaoyang, the Wu clan's imperial shadow who broke into the palace to steal the imperial edict of succession, and the upcoming war might all be related.

So she asked Xiao Mingyi and Jiang Yueteng to take her to the prison where King Xiangluo was imprisoned.

But they didn't expect that King Xiangluo suddenly became extremely excited the moment he saw Pei Nai.

He stood up from his seat, struggling against the chains on his wrists, with a look of horror and a bit of madness, he shouted at Pei Nai: "What do you want? What do you want? I have done what I should do! Release Zi Ran! Release Zi Ran!"

Pei Nai was stunned at first, then she realized that King Xiangluo was talking to her.

Although she didn't know the reason, she thought that perhaps she could use this to get some information out of him, so she gave Xiao Mingyi a look.

Xiao Mingyi took the others away, leaving only Pei Nai and King Xiangluo behind.

Thinking of the letters written in her handwriting that were found in Prince Xiangluo's mansion, combined with Prince Xiangluo's reaction when he saw her.

Pei Nai calmed down and said boldly: "I am not satisfied with what you did."

King Xiangluo grabbed the bars of the prison door with both hands, veins bulging on his forehead, "Isn't that enough?! What do you want?!"

"The Wu army is making a comeback. You helped Xiao Bin collude with the Wu tribe ten years ago. Do you think you can have a good ending?" Pei Nai looked at him coldly.

King Xiangluo was extremely impatient. "After Xiao Bin's downfall, I have had no connection with the Wu clan in the past ten years! They came here for the piece of tree they didn't get ten years ago! Someone in Chaoyang City is helping them, but I don't know!"

"Tree pieces?" Pei Nai frowned, "What did they want ten years ago?"

King Xiangluo seemed a little confused, and gradually showed doubt, "You asked me this question before."

Pei Nai thought to himself that something was wrong, but his face showed no emotion. He pretended to be calm and asked him, "When? Why didn't I know?"

King Xiangluo observed her expression and continued, "Xiao Bin cooperated with the Wu tribe back then. In addition to Guancheng and Zibocheng, two of the six cities in the western border, the Wu tribe also wanted a small, peculiar-looking dry tree piece."

Pei Nai took out a piece of the tree from his sleeve and asked, "Is this what you are talking about?"

King Xiangluo froze for a moment, then continued, "Since you've already got it, why can't you let us go?!"

"Who did you tell about the Wu tribe's search for the Hun tree slices?" Pei Nai continued to ask.

Just as King Xiangluo was about to speak, there was a sudden commotion outside.

Suddenly someone came to the door and reported urgently, his tone was panicked.

"Your Majesty, a black horse broke free and rushed into the prison gate. A package was tied to the horse. Yes."

The man hesitated, and King Xiangluo, who was beside Pei Nai, seemed to know something after hearing this.

He was trembling all over and becoming increasingly agitated.

The man outside continued, "It's the head of Princess Xiangluo."

Pei Nai was startled, and King Xiangluo started banging on the door at this time.

He shouted hysterically to Pei Nai: "Give me back Zi Ran!!!" Pei Nai knew that "Zi Ran" was the name of the prince of Xiangluo.

"What on earth do you, the Pei family, want?!" The iron railings vibrated as King Xiangluo shook them violently.

Pei Nai seemed to have heard something extraordinary, "Do you know who I am?"

King Xiangluo stared and gritted his teeth, "It was you, Pei Nai, from the beginning to the end! What are you still pretending to be? His Majesty is outside, aren't you afraid that I will expose all the things you have done..."

As he spoke, blood began to flow from his eye sockets, nose and corners of his mouth.

King Xiangluo's face was ferocious and his body had collapsed. He covered his neck but was unable to speak.

"Someone come quickly! King Xiangluo has been poisoned, open the prison door quickly!" Pei Nai shouted hurriedly.

Everyone rushed in when they heard her voice.

When the prison door was opened, King Xiangluo was stiff and no longer breathing.

Everyone's eyes fell on Pei Nai. Pei Nai knew very well that almost everyone outside had heard what King Xiangluo had just said.

Xiao Mingyi was looking at her steadily at this moment, with no fluctuation in his eyes.

A thought suddenly came to Pei Nai's mind, which made her feel a little scary.

Perhaps after ten years of separation, the person in front of her has become more profound than Gu Jinheng's thoughts, so much so that she can no longer understand him.

But suddenly, Xiao Mingyi looked away again.

"I and Duke Duan Ding's men have always been protecting her. I know better than you what she did."

Xiao Mingyi then glanced at the body in the cell and said, "Coroner, perform an autopsy and find out when the poison was administered."

A group of people knelt down and accepted the order.

He turned around and said, "Let's go back to the palace."

But he never looked at Pei Nai again.

"The two armies did not meet?"

General Zhou Weiguo, who was standing next to Pei Nai, asked back in confusion.

At this moment, almost all the important officials of the court gathered in Qianming Hall.

Pei Nai and General Zhou Weiguo had just met, and he already knew Pei Nai's identity.

But the two of them had only exchanged a few words when an urgent military intelligence report arrived.

General Zhou Weiguo's words also raised the key point that everyone was concerned about.

"The two armies are marching in completely opposite directions? ! ! What is the Wu tribe trying to do? Are they planning to go to war with two countries at the same time?!" A general continued to question and ask.

"The troops of the countries affiliated with the Wu clan have not yet gathered. If they come to Chao Tianyao, it would be very unwise!" A man whose official position could not be seen opposite Pei Nai said this, and then many people agreed.

Pei Nai also felt that their analysis made sense.

Declaring war on Tianyao with only two garrisons was tantamount to throwing an egg against a rock and courting self-destruction.

It doesn't seem like something the Wu people would do.

"The two enemy armies continue to advance along their current route. Where are the possible locations for the battle to begin?" asked Xiao Mingyi, who was sitting in the main seat.

The following response: "Your Majesty, the enemy's northeastern garrison poses a threat to our northwest border, Dongchang, Shangu, Hewei, and Li. The enemy's southeastern garrison poses a threat to our southwest border, Qilu, Tianshi, and Lu."

Everyone understands that this range is too broad.

(End of this chapter)