The daughter of the first wife is a black lotus, reborn and remarried to kill

Shen Changyun looked at her calm expression and said, "This time, the conditions proposed by Beiyuan for exchanging hostages were rejected by His Majesty, and they changed their proposal, saying that their new king proposed to welcome the fifth princess to Beiyuan with great gifts to be his queen."

Li Qingqian lowered his head and frowned slightly when he heard that. Beiyuan had previously joined forces with the Liu family to harm his eldest brother. He calculated that Zhongyuan needed to build up its military strength at the moment and would never rashly send troops to attack Beiyuan. He could only swallow this loss.

The people of Beiyuan are very cunning. As early as last year, they proposed that the two countries exchange hostages. When they saw that this failed, they continued to propose that the fifth princess marry. In this way, even if the Central Plains wants to settle the score in the future, they have to think of Jiang Huairong, the most noble princess of Dawei first.

Besides, Beiyuan did a perfect job in this matter, so only Zhongyuan and they knew about it.

In addition, the generous gifts given to the Fifth Princess to be sent to Beiyuan could be considered respectable. In the eyes of Xiliang and Nanjiang, Beiyuan seemed like a well-mannered gentleman.

If Zhongyuan directly refused at this time, it would seem very arrogant.

In fact, this is not a problem.

However, Southern Xinjiang has long been at odds with Dawei, and Xiliang has recently made new enemies, which inevitably makes these two countries more inclined towards Beiyuan. This is Beiyuan’s biggest goal - to gather as many forces as possible to try to deal with Dawei.

Li Qingqian snorted coldly. In the past, Beiyuan pretended to be on good terms with Dawei, but now he is not even willing to do the superficial work. He is almost putting Dawei on the spot and getting himself off the hook.

She thought that this was the most troublesome thing for Emperor Hexi right now.

If it is said that the several countries are in disarray, Dawei is undoubtedly the winner.

Once they become united, it will be difficult for Dawei to deal with them, and the people will surely suffer a lot.

But sending Jiang Huairong to Beiyuan...is not necessarily a good thing.

One reason is that the emperor and his wife were reluctant to let their precious daughter go to such a remote and cold place to suffer;

Secondly, if Dawei had just won a battle and wanted to send the princess to another foreign country for marriage, it would be a bit unreasonable.

An idea flashed through Li Qingqian's mind, "So, Jiang Huairong's departure from the palace was not just because of us. She did this on purpose to give His Majesty and the Queen an excuse as a punishment for leaving the palace without permission?"

Shen Changyun looked at her with some hesitation, then nodded.

In fact, he just said that on purpose.

As the legitimate princess of Dawei, how could Jiang Huairong not see the situation clearly? If she were to cause trouble to her parents and country for her own selfish desires at this moment, it would be very unreasonable.

She deliberately escaped from the palace, so she stuck pine needles from Yunzhou's unique Qinglan pine in the letter she left behind.

Jiang Huairong's performance and tricks were so clumsy, but Shen Changyun only figured things out on the way to Yunzhou.

He always thought that the other party was the princess who was once pampered but had her own little thoughts, acted willfully and was his love rival.

It was not until today that he suddenly realized that if Jiang Huairong was really a prince, based on her courage and her determination in secretly coveting Qianqian for so many years, she would not necessarily be weaker than the current crown prince.

If she is really the seventh prince, there is a possibility that Qianqian will marry her, so Shen Changyun was in a stalemate with her just now.

"Something's wrong, Shen Changyun." Li Qingqian suddenly looked up at him.

"what happened?"

"When the envoys from Beiyuan came to Dawei to pay tribute, they were still persuading Your Majesty to agree to the exchange of hostages, but Your Majesty directly refused at that time. But the next moment, they said they wanted to welcome the fifth princess to Beiyuan. Don't you find it strange?" She looked a little solemn.

"I heard that their new king is not a good person. He massacred a city right after he came to power. He is like a tyrant. When he came to Dawei, he said he wanted to exchange hostages, but he actually asked to marry the fifth princess. Do the envoys from Beiyuan dare to make decisions for their king directly?"

Unless, Beiyuan came for Jiang Huairong from the very beginning.

The so-called exchange of protons is just a cover.

"You told me before that Beiyuan's protons had been sent to the capital?"

Shen Changyun nodded, "He has been imprisoned in the abandoned palace of the former seventh prince."

Suddenly, he thought of something horrifying. "There are rumors in the palace that ever since the hostage from the North moved into the palace, there has often been a stench of raw meat coming from there, and when the moon is full, there are even faint wolf howls. However, the palace has always kept strict control over him, and he cannot leave the palace."

Li Qingqian's hand on the back of Shen Changyun's hand slipped gently, and then sneered: "It seems that Beiyuan is really an interesting place."

*

Nanny Chen has been living with her husband's family in An County for many years. Shen Changyun has deployed his own people in Yunzhou over the years, so it is not difficult to find her.

At that time, Mrs. Chen was sitting at the door of the house, listening to the sound of rain, sewing her grandson's clothes stitch by stitch.

Li Qingqian and Shen Changyun were holding umbrellas and walking towards this side, asking for directions along the way.

Chen suddenly looked up and saw the two figures.

The woman in front of me was wearing a silver silk brocade dress embroidered with flowers. The white dress looked very cool in the spring rain.

This woman was born very beautiful. She was so stunningly beautiful that one could not take their eyes off her once she put on some makeup. She had a charming smile and beautiful eyes.

She walked forward, leaned slightly towards her, and said with a smile, "Madame Chen, do you still remember me?"

The woman's voice was crisp, and sounded like the sound of striking jade, but it frightened Chen so much that she was speechless.

She opened her mouth wide, the clothes in her hands fell, and she immediately stood up and walked into the house, but Li Qingqian smiled and raised her hand to pull her back.

This face... this face is clearly the third daughter of the Cheng family, and also the former lady of the Li residence, Cheng Zhaoling!

When she was in the capital, her first husband had not yet died of illness, so she followed the girl from the Liu family and served her. Later, she accompanied her when she married into the Li family.

But it was not easy to marry into the Li family at that time. Lord Li’s original wife was not only alive and well, but also had a very good relationship with Lord Li.

In order to marry Li Zhengkang, Liu used all means necessary.

Originally, Chen's indenture was hung in the Li family's chamberlain, and Liu was assigned to serve her only after she came to the Li family.

But Chen was determined to climb up the social ladder and become a housekeeper, so she gave Liu some advice and asked her to deal with the original wife who was about to give birth.

It was a pity that the plan went wrong, and the original wife still gave birth to the third girl in the mansion safely.

When one plan failed, she would come up with another. One day, she accidentally picked up a few packets of poison, and the mice that were stealing food from the stove died after eating them.

She thought for a moment and gave the poison directly to Liu, who used it as a weapon to poison her original wife.

Later, Chen's career in the Li Mansion went smoothly and she gained a lot of benefits. Her husband also died of illness at this time.

Chen didn't want the third daughter to cause trouble when she grew up, so when Li Qingqian was five years old, she resigned from Liu, took a large sum of money as hush money, and remarried in Yunzhou, which was 180,000 miles away from the capital.

She thought those things would no longer disturb her good life now.

But she overlooked that a five-year-old child had already started to remember things.

Eleven years later, Li Qingqian stood in front of her with a gentle yet cruel smile on his face.