A little earlier.
Inside Zhu City.
"How much did you dose?" Qin Huailian asked.
Yazebu glanced at her. Sitting on the stool, he carelessly picked his ear and said, "Don't worry. It's enough for you to take your brother to see him. He won't wake up."
Qin Huailian frowned. After thinking for a while, she stood up and walked straight out of the house.
"Where are you going?" Yazebu looked up at her.
Qin Huailian stopped and said with her back to him, "To the prison."
Yazebu curled his lips but said nothing.
Qin Huailian stood there for a while and said, "When you fight later, you must capture my brother according to what I said. Understand?"
"Humph." Yazebu snorted and ignored her.
Qin Huailian turned to look at him for a while. In the end, she didn't say anything more. Yazebu could clearly feel that Qin Huailian's emotions were on the verge of collapse. Well, it made sense. After all, she was about to confess the truth of the matter, everything she had done, her purpose of this trip, and admit how many people she had killed.
It was really hard for a sixteen - year - old girl like Qin Huailian to bear. But in Yazebu's eyes, Qin Huailian had always been cold - blooded, purposeful, and even willing to do anything to achieve her goal.
It was not until now that he realized that in fact, Qin Huailian was just a little girl.
Qin Huailian's figure flashed at the door and then disappeared.
Yazebu drained the tea in his cup, spat out a few tea leaves with a "pfft" sound, then stood up and walked out of the door.
Stepping across the snow - covered corridor, Yazebu came to Kozel's door. He folded his arms across his chest and whistled into the room.
Not long after, Kozel opened the door slowly with sleepy eyes. He leaned against the door frame, with a look on his face that clearly said "If you don't have anything important, don't bother me while I'm sleeping."
"Yo, sleeping? The battle is about to start soon." Yazebu raised his eyebrows and smiled.
"Aren't you going?" Kozel said expressionlessly and was about to close the door.
"I want to discuss something with you." Yazebu grabbed the door frame and slipped into the room. "You can decide after you listen to me..."
The snow had stopped for about half a day.
A scout reported that Qin Huaiqiu's army would arrive at Zhu City around noon. The high - pitched sound of a horn came from outside the window. The city's army was already ready to go.
Huyelu was sitting by the bed. With a smile on his lips, he slowly swirled a cup of green tea in his hand. With a look of mockery and contempt in his eyes, he listened to the neat footsteps of the army outside the mansion.
"Whoo—" This was the horn for attack. Presumably, the two sides were already fighting outside the city.
Letting dogs fight each other was also a good form of entertainment.
Huyelu slowly sipped the tea in his cup, constantly thinking in his mind whether he should go up to the city wall to enjoy the show.
Just then, his door was opened.
Huyelu didn't care much. His eyes were still looking out of the window. He said in a mocking tone, "Xiaoyun, accompany this king to the city wall and see how they're tearing each other apart."
"..."
No one answered.
Huyelu was puzzled for a moment. Suddenly, his nose caught a whiff of blood.
"?!" Huyelu turned his head sharply. He saw Yazebu covered in blood. Holding a long knife in one hand and dragging a blood - soaked and lifeless maid in the other, he then gave Huyelu a cold look. With a force of his hand, he dropped the maid's body with a "thud" in front of Huyelu.
Huyelu's face turned pale instantly. He looked down at the dead Xiaoyun, then looked up at Yazebu and gritted his teeth, "Why are you here? Weren't you supposed to go to fight?"
Yazebu casually wiped off the blood beads sliding down his cheek. His brisk movement was as natural as casually wiping off sweat. Holding the knife, he slowly turned around to face Huyelu and said, "Ah... I had other things to do today. So I gave that task to that poker - faced Kozel."
Huyelu's face darkened. He stood up warily and stepped back to the window. He asked harshly, "What do you want?"
"I advise you not to move!" Yazebu grinned, showing a row of white teeth. "All your guards outside are dead."
"You—!" Huyelu began to panic. He was alone in the room now, and there was no handy weapon around him. If he fought against Yazebu bare - handed, based on his understanding of Yazebu, Yazebu was known as the leader of the four warriors of Loulan and was also the craziest of the four. Without a handy weapon, he probably couldn't beat him.
"Why are you panicking? Don't the people from the Central Plains have a saying—A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder? " Yazebu smiled and slowly walked towards him. He casually grabbed a chair and sat down. "I'm just here to ask you a question."
"What do you want to ask?" Huyelu slowly leaned against the wall by the window. One of his hands secretly reached behind his back, where there was a hidden dagger.
Yazebu didn't notice his small move. He sat on the stool carelessly, glared at Huyelu, and then said, "I'm asking you, do you know Kuder?"
Huyelu trembled all over, and his eyes widened suddenly!
"Oh? You do know him?" Yazebu raised his eyebrows. "I thought you didn't. After all, you may be more familiar with his other name, Cha Yin, the former national master of Dacheng?"
Huyelu flatly denied it. "Who are you talking about?"
"Humph." Yazebu sneered. "Stop pretending. I've sent people to find out."
"This king doesn't know him." Huyelu's eyes were cold and he said fiercely, "This king has never heard this name either."
"Oh, so it seems you silenced him?" Yazebu said mockingly.
Huyelu didn't say a word, but his eyes were filled with hatred as if they could cut Yazebu.
"Or do you not remember? Do you want me to help you recall?" Yazebu placed his hands on both sides of the chair's armrests and slowly stood up. "How about starting from eleven years ago?"
Huyelu: "..."
"Humph..." Yazebu played with the long knife in his hand and pretended to say casually, "You sent Kuder to sneak into Dacheng under the name of Cha Yin. I don't know exactly when he sneaked in. But eleven years ago, he had already managed to become the national master through fortune - telling or his eloquence."
"Eleven years ago, your elder brother had his head chopped off by Nie Rong, a deputy general under Qin Feng of Dacheng, so you ran away dejectedly. But actually, although you left on the surface, you secretly let Cha Yin start his operation."
Huyelu's face was gloomy and terrifying. He pursed his lips and stood by the bed, motionless.
"First, you sent people to assassinate the young crown prince at that time. Of course, the time was just chosen when the female general of Dacheng, Gu Hanfang, was back in the capital to report her duties. Then, when the imperial doctors were at a loss, you came up with a way to save the prince with 'snow lotus'. " Yazebu glanced at him and continued, "The emperor at that time naturally wanted to save him. After all, that old guy only had three sons. The second son was full of tricks, and the third son was a dullard. Only the eldest son was a bit promising. So, instigated by Kuder, he sent troops to Kunlun in the name of 'attacking Loulan' to look for the snow lotus."
"At that time in Dacheng, the threat from the Huns in the north had disappeared because you had pretended to retreat. So, Loulan had to bear this blame. Of course, in the end, Gu Hanfang encountered an avalanche and fell off a cliff. Presumably, that was also your doing?"
"After Gu Hanfang's death, Qin Feng hated Loulan to the core because he thought Gu Hanfang's death was directly related to Loulan. So he led his troops to attack the next year, and our Loulan was almost destroyed. You originally thought the young crown prince would also die, but unexpectedly, the snow lotus was brought back, and that boy Sikong Ting got a free life. Your plan to kill two birds with one stone failed, but you could plant a mine for future use. So Kuder wrote this matter in the history books and put them in the imperial library."
"Then, when Qin Huailian entered the palace, you sent people to pretend to be 'Loulan people' and let her accidentally find out about this matter. Then you continued to stir up her emotions and made her hate Sikong Ting. " Yazebu walked up to Huyelu, his eyes gloomy and terrifying. He said word by word, "Did I say anything wrong? Hmm?"
Huyelu was breathing heavily. He stared intently at Yazebu, and a thin layer of sweat had covered his forehead. His eyes became more and more terrifying, but despite this, he still didn't make a sound.
"Are you admitting it?" Yazebu sneered. "If Qin Huailian hadn't said something like 'it was you who lured her to the library' in front of me, I might not have discovered this matter."
"Your plan is really wonderful!" Yazebu didn't get angry but laughed instead. He carried the long knife on his shoulder, and a blood - thirsty expression appeared on his face. "Ten years ago, you used Qin Feng's hatred to attack Loulan, diverting the attention of Dacheng's army. You used the deaths of Loulan's people to buy some time for your Huns to survive... If Loulan hadn't diverted the pressure from Dacheng, it should have been your Huns who were attacked by Qin Feng and reached your capital ten years ago! Moreover, you also took this opportunity to plant a mine called 'treason' for the Qin family. It's really a good move."
"And now, do you actually still expect Loulan, which has been used as a tool, to believe in your so - called 'cooperation'?" Yazebu's voice became louder and louder. Raging flames shot out of his eyes. "Huyelu, you and your Hun country deserve to die!"
"Humph..." Huyelu glared at him and didn't refute. Instead, he gritted his teeth and mocked, "It took you so many years to realize it? That's why you're just lowly Loulan people. Your land is small, and your knowledge is pitifully limited. You've been used as a gun, and you're still fighting so hard in the front line now?"
"Qin Huaiqiu is not easy to deal with, is he?" Huyelu twitched the corner of his mouth, and his voice became extremely crazy. "Without this king's help, Qin Huaiqiu, who hates you, will kill all of you! The Qin family's hatred for you runs deep. After all, you 'killed' Gu Hanfang! You also took away his father and sister! Oh right, this king should thank you for massacring Gengnan City!"
Yazebu kept silent with a gloomy face.
"Hehe呵呵... You're just a small country with a tiny piece of land, and you still keep thinking about fighting this and that every day?" Huyelu widened his eyes and mocked, "You'd better follow this king earlier. After this king uses that stupid girl from the Qin family to flatten Dacheng and kill Sikong Ting, this king might still leave you a little bit of meat scraps!"