Reborn Princess

Lu Zelin knelt on his knees with his neck on the blade and looked up at Zhou Cechen with a complicated expression.

"You win." Lu Zelin said.

"As expected of you, you are the King of Ding'an of Da Qi. You deserve this title."

Zhou Cechen looked down at the man kneeling on the ground and said, "If you surrender and submit to Da Qi, I can guarantee that you will still be a general of Da Qi."

Lu Zelin sneered: "Surrender, and then let me go back to the place where there is nothing but wind and sand?"

"I was devoted to the country and guarding the border. But the court forced me to do so. The emperor forced me to do so. My Lu family is full of loyal and brave people, but now I have to use all my family's wealth to raise an army. I can't even afford to support an army!"

"The salaries and military pay have been decreasing year after year, and the food and cotton clothes for the winter have not arrived yet. While you people in the capital are enjoying the winter at home, do you know how the people in the western border are doing?"

"Do you know that this winter, tens of thousands of people in Western Xinjiang died of freezing and starvation alone?"

"It's the imperial court that won't let us live!"

Zhou Cechen looked at the man kneeling on the ground with his dark eyes, and a shadow covered his eyes.

"This year, the imperial court allocated nearly one million taels of silver to the western border and border defense." Zhou Cechen opened his thin lips slightly.

Lu Zelin looked at Zhou Cechen in shock: "What?"

"How could that be? If there was a grant, how could I not know about it..."

Zhou Cechen: "Then you have to ask your vassal king."

Lu Zelin looked at Zhou Chao. Zhou Chao was still lying on the ground with blood spitting out of his mouth, and the bleeding would not stop.

Lu Zelin crawled over and looked at Zhou Chao: "Is it you?"

"You used whatever means to achieve your goal. You killed so many generals and civilians!"

Lu Zelin grabbed Zhou Chao by the collar and roared, "You crazy bastard!"

If the people in Western Xinjiang had not been destitute and their lives were not in tatters, how could Lu Zelin have rebelled? Now his entire family is sentenced to death.

Zhou Cechen said: "You only have one way, surrender."

Lu Zelin looked at Zhou Cechen. He closed his eyes, sighed, and spoke with a trembling voice: "I surrender and submit to Da Qi. I hope Da Qi will treat my soldiers well, and I...don't deserve to die!"

Shen Xilan looked at the surrounding environment. She felt dizzy, suddenly her ears rang, and then she fainted.

Zhou Cechen caught a glimpse of a frivolous figure falling from the horse. He hurriedly dropped the sword in his hand and caught Shen Lilan.

"Lan'er..." When Zhou Cechen saw that she had fainted, he immediately took her to the horse, held Shen Lan in his arms, and rode away on the horse.

He left a sentence: "Yanci, stay and do as I told you before."

"Yes."

Yanci looked at Zhou Cechen's back and then at the army and said, "Your general has surrendered. If you surrender, you can continue to follow your general. If not, the army behind is coming, you can continue to fight."

When the soldiers heard this, they all put down their swords and said, "We surrender. We hope the court will show us leniency."

"We surrender, and hope the court will show leniency to us."

……

When Shen Yizhou rode his horse to the front of the army, Zhou Cechen had already left. He stepped on his horse and looked at Yanci: "Where is your prince?"

Yanci looked at Shen Yizhou, this was General Shen, the eldest son of Shen Jibei and the elder brother of Shen Lilan.

"General, the prince has returned home with his wife."

Shen Yizhou frowned: "Why is your princess here?"

Yanci lowered his head and closed his eyes, saying, "Your Majesty, please take care of yourself."

"This is a long story..." Tang Song immediately responded.

Shen Yizhou looked at Tang Song: "Did I ask you a question?"

Tang Song also lowered his head. It was over. The prince was finished.

"It's a long story." Shen Yizhou looked at Yanci with a cold look in his eyes: "Wait until I have dealt with these people, then you can tell me slowly."

Yanci coughed lightly.

"Yes."

Shen Yizhou pulled the reins with one hand to change the direction of the horse. He looked at Lu Zelin with cold eyes: "We meet again, General Lu."

Lu Zelin clasped his hands together and said, "General Shen."

Shen Yizhou looked at the surrendered rebels. He glanced around and said to the people behind him, "Take them back to the barracks."

Shen Yizhou looked at Zhou Chao, who was already dead on the ground, and sneered, "It's all in vain."

"General Lu, come with us and we will meet the emperor together tomorrow."

Lu Zelin got back on his horse.

Shen Yizhou looked at Yanci again: "You, come here."

Yanci walked over, and Shen Yizhou asked him again: "Go ahead, I'm not afraid of long words."

Yanci sighed in his heart.

"The queen was kidnapped by the eldest princess and Zhou Chao..."

"How dare you! How dare you touch my sister?" Shen Yizhou cursed angrily after explaining the whole cause and effect.

He was about to ride off on his horse when he was stopped.

"General, we have to go back to the General's Mansion first and report to the Emperor tomorrow."

Shen Yizhou stopped, looked at the person who reminded him and said coldly: "Did I say I was going somewhere else?"

The person behind him shook his head, "I'm sure the general will go back home first, your subordinates are talking too much."

Shen Yizhou nodded, "Very self-aware."

He looked at Yanci and said, "Tell your prince, if he can't protect my sister, or if anything happens to Lan'er, he will be dead!"

Without saying anything, Shen Yizhou was about to leave but stopped: "Did you hear what I said?"

Yanci immediately said, "Yes, I heard it."

Shen Yizhou left with satisfaction.

……

In the palace, when Tang Yi hurriedly arrived with a medicine box, Shen Lilan had already been carried to the bedroom in Liyuan Pavilion.

Tang Yi saw Shen Yanlan, who was covered in blood, and stood there for a moment. "Why is she injured like this?"

"Save her quickly." Zhou Cechen said.

Tang Yi immediately put the medicine box on the table and opened it. She looked at the blood all over Shen Xilan's body and face, and really had no idea what kind of suffering she had endured.

After taking Shen Lilan's pulse, Tang Yi frowned, "The cold has entered her body, her body is weak, and she has a fever again."

Zhou Cechen said: "Save her, she must live."

Tang Yi nodded, "You go out first, I want to give her acupuncture."

Zhou Cechen walked out of the room and stood at the door waiting. He looked at the door and didn't dare to leave.

Is it destiny?

He would rather Shen Lilan never had any feelings for him, would rather she was cold to him, than to let her suffer like this.

If it happened again, he wouldn't want to do it this way.

When Yanci arrived at Liyuan Pavilion, Zhou Cechen was standing at the door. He looked at his master's back with an unprecedented anxiety.

"Your Majesty." Yanci called him.

Zhou Cechen turned around.

"It's all done." Yanci reported.

"Ah."

He struggled with words for a long time. Seeing Zhou Cechen staring at the door of the room, worried about the princess's safety, he didn't know how to start.

After a battle in his heart, he spoke: "Your Majesty, General Shen knows about the princess."

"Yeah." Zhou Cechen agreed.

Yanci breathed a sigh of relief, finally saying it out.

At this moment, the door was opened.

"She's awake." Tang Yi said.

Zhou Cechen went in immediately.

Half of Shen Lilan's clothes were cut open, and there were needles stuck in her back.