Quick Wear: Under the Skirt, All Beings Are Equal

Chapter 446: The Traitor: Bright Moon, Drinking Alone in the Autumn

The cold moon was growing colder and colder, and the flickering candlelight on the banks of the Yanzhi River in Bianliang City was disturbed. Tang Ran was leaning on the railing with a half-jar of sake in her hand.

Too many emotions filled Tang Ran's heart, making him feel as if his heart was about to explode. He just stared into the distance quietly with Xue Nanyin without saying a word.

Those beautiful eyes were dim and unclear under the cold moon, as if something was tumbling and struggling, and finally gradually returned to a sense of oldness like the sunset.

"sorry."

The boy's voice rang out in the night.

Xue Nanyin tightened her grip on the railing, her knuckles turning white from exerting too much force. She lowered her eyes in panic, then felt something was wrong and looked towards the hibiscus flowers that she could not see clearly in the yard in front of her.

He whispered, "It's okay, I'm a doctor."

Tang Ran was silent for a moment, but ultimately did not speak again.

The days passed by neither fast nor slow. The old emperor did not send anyone to invite Tang Ran to the palace, and Tang Ran did not know how to face the emperor of Northern Qi.

The Chen State captured four more cities at an extremely fast speed, and finally faced the Northern Qi army rushing to the border at Ersuopan Bridge, facing each other across the river.

When the reports of defeat came in, the civil and military officials were in a panic, their bodies trembled uncontrollably, and they wrote letters requesting that envoys be sent to seek peace.

Guo Xu said: "My Lord, I don't think that Chen Kingdom will really go to war with us at this time. Now that they have stopped attacking, it seems that they have other intentions. It is very likely that they are here for Xu Jianshen."

He spread out a map, pointed at those countries and said, "Chen Country and Nanning Country have been at war for three years. It is now a critical moment and there is no way they will withdraw their troops.

He has repeatedly interfered in the succession of the throne of Houwu Kingdom, which has long made Houwu Kingdom dissatisfied. If Chen Kingdom dares to declare war on Nanning Kingdom and Beiqi at the same time, Houwu Kingdom, which has always been good at backstabbing, will definitely not miss this opportunity. "

Zhao Lianye is not a fool. Even if Chen Kingdom has a million strong troops and is not afraid to fight several countries at the same time and stretch the front line so long, the logistics may not be guaranteed.

Not to mention, winter is coming soon.

As expected, the Chen Kingdom quickly sent an envoy to express its willingness to negotiate peace and offer five cities in exchange for Xu Jianshen.

Even though these five cities originally belonged to Northern Qi.

Tang Ran agreed. That was the reason why he spared Xu Jianshen's life. As for Zhou Wenye's body, Tang Ran proposed that both sides cease fire for ten years in exchange, otherwise don't blame him for doing anything extreme to the dead.

The envoy of Chen State was unable to make a decision on this matter, so he wrote a letter and sent it to Chen State at full speed.

Who would have thought that the letter was sent out the night before, but Zhao Lianye's letter was received the next afternoon. He made the same request as Tang Ran, but for five years.

Tang Ran looked strange for a second, but in her heart she became more wary of the emperor of Chen Kingdom.

Even if one sends a letter from Northern Qi at full speed, it will take at least ten days to arrive. And this letter was sent by Zhao Lianye at least ten days ago.

What's more, it was clearly written in the letter that he believed Tang Ran would preserve Zhou Wenye's body well and use it to maximize profits.

His request was not to let Zhou Wenye return to his hometown, but to ask Tang Ran to give Zhou Wenye a grand funeral and recognize Zhou Wenye's identity as a saint of Northern Qi.

The Chen Kingdom needs time now, but Northern Qi needs it even more.

The current Northern Qi is far from being a match for the Chen Kingdom. Once the Chen Kingdom makes a desperate move, it will simply give up the Nanning Kingdom that it is about to conquer and turn around to deal with the Northern Qi with full concentration.

At that time, Northern Qi was isolated and helpless.

The Kingdom of Nanning was on the verge of destruction, so how could it possibly have the time to send a large army all the way to help Northern Qi? It would be good enough if they didn't turn around and take a bite.

For Tang Ran, these conditions were much better than he had expected.

As for acknowledging Zhou Wenye's identity as a saint of Northern Qi, it is equivalent to admitting that he has killed a saint, which will become a sharp knife that stabs him in the future.

Tang Ran said very nonchalantly that since there were too many lice and he was not afraid of the itchiness, it didn't matter if he had this little sin.

The two sides happily reached a cooperation agreement and signed a friendly agreement. When Xu Jianshen arrived at the border, Chen State returned the five cities of Northern Qi.

What Tang Ran didn't expect was that Zhao Lianye had played a trick on her and sent envoys again, asking for the marriage of the legitimate princess of Northern Qi under the pretext of maintaining peace between the two countries.

"It seems that this incident has touched Zhao Lianye's sore spot. He doesn't want to bear this humiliation and wants to marry our legitimate princess. It is clear that he wants to humiliate Northern Qi."

What shocked them was that Zhou Wenye and Xu Jianshen were so important in Zhao Lianye's heart.

Hearing that Xu Jianshen had just returned to the land of Chen Kingdom, Zhao Lianye was afraid that Tang Ran would shamelessly send someone to assassinate him, so he specially asked his personal guards to escort Xu Jianshen back to the capital of Chen Kingdom.

Tang Ran felt that Zhao Lianye was somewhat judging others by his own mean standards.

Although he did have this idea and even put it into action, he failed. He didn't even touch a hair of Xu Jianshen.

It turned out that Xu Jianshen did not travel with the envoys from Chen State, but set out secretly in the middle of the night. In order to conceal their whereabouts, the envoys from Chen State even deliberately found a small carriage.

After Tang Ran found out, he felt a little regretful. After all, he had released the man in front of the whole world. As for why he was assassinated, how could he know?

Maybe someone wanted to provoke a war between Northern Qi and Chen Kingdom, or maybe Xu Jianshen was very annoying and people hated him, so they didn't want him to go back alive.

Tang Ran had even prepared the evidence to frame Houwu Kingdom, but old man Xu Jianshen was quick-witted and as vigilant as a thousand-year-old turtle.

In fact, the reason why he was able to defend himself against Tang Ran to this extent was that he saw with his own eyes that the faces of his few surviving men were scratched and they were also drugged with so many aphrodisiacs that they felt they would rather die than live.

In his heart, Tang Ran had no bottom line at all and was the epitome of meanness, vulgarity and shamelessness. Because of Tang Ran's actions, Xu Jianshen always felt uneasy, so he used a tactic of building a false front while secretly attacking Chencang.

Just in case.

But he really didn't expect that Tang Ran would be so bold that he wanted to kill him even when the two countries were negotiating peace.