He had sent Jian Yi to conduct an investigation half a month ago. Three days ago, Jian Yi returned covered in wounds. Although the injuries were severe, none were life - threatening.
"Your Highness, the tails behind me have been taken care of. Don't worry, I wasn't discovered." The people who had chased and attacked him were not sent by the King of the Grasslands. He had been very careful during the investigation; it just took him a long time.
After he came out, he encountered a group of people dealing with something. He was unlucky enough to be spotted, so he was chased all the way. The martial arts skills of those people were not high, but there were too many of them. They used the tactic of continuous attacks, and he was injured like this because of exhaustion.
"How's the result?" Tule Haojia asked while treating Jian Yi's wounds. However, his hands were trembling as he treated the wounds, revealing his uneasiness.
"Your Highness..." Jian Yi didn't know how to tell the result of the investigation.
Tule Haojia saw Jian Yi hesitating and his heart sank to the bottom. From Jian Yi's behavior, Tule Haojia knew that the result of the investigation was probably not good.
For a moment, no one in the room said a word. After a long while, Tule Haojia slowly spoke, his voice extremely hoarse. "Jian Yi, just say it. I'm not that weak."
Tule Haojia said so, but his eyes were already red and his voice trembled slightly. However, he still wanted to know the answer, an accurate one.
"Your Highness, the Lady... has passed away."
"... Wh... When?" Tule Haojia thought he had prepared himself mentally, but he still shed tears when he heard this news.
As the saying goes, real men don't shed tears easily, except when deeply grieved.
"It was a long time ago. I couldn't find out the exact time." He had investigated in the grasslands for a long time and almost exposed his identity, but he still couldn't find out the exact time.
After treating Jian Yi's wounds, Tule Haojia went to the window alone. Looking at the stars in the sky, he seemed to see the figure of his mother.
She was very beautiful and gentle.
His mother loved him very much and was kind to everyone. But such a good person was now killed by that heartless man!
Tule Haojia clenched his fists. Mother...
Jian Yi looked at Tule Haojia's lonely back and felt quite uncomfortable. But he didn't know how to console him, so he could only silently back out. Such things could only be overcome by the master himself.
Just as Jian Yi pushed open the door and was about to go out, he heard a noise behind him and quickly looked back.
"Your Highness!" Jian Yi rushed to Tule Haojia's side, helped him up, and took him to a pharmacy outside. The doctor said it was caused by excessive grief and there was no major problem.
Jian Yi heaved a sigh of relief after hearing the doctor's words. After all, when he turned around and saw the master just now, the master had spat blood and fainted.
When Tule Haojia woke up, he found himself still in the inn. When Jian Yi came in with the medicine, he saw that Tule Haojia was awake.
"Your Highness, you're finally awake. You've been unconscious for a whole day and night." If it weren't for the doctor's repeated confirmation that it was just excessive grief, he would have thought that his master had been poisoned.
"I'm fine. I've made you worried." Tule Haojia took the medicine from Jian Yi and drank it in one gulp.
"Jian Yi, go and prepare writing brushes, ink, paper, and inkstones for me." A crazy look flashed in Tule Haojia's eyes. Since the King of the Grasslands had played with him for so many years, don't blame him for turning the tables.
Didn't he want to rule the world? He just wouldn't let him have his way. He would make him fall hard from the highest place! It would be best if he could be killed!
Tule Haojia sat in front of the desk and carefully drew the structural map of the grasslands. So what if he was the King of the Grasslands? He knew the grasslands better than him, and he was even more familiar with the countries that had been conquered around.
Did he really think he had him under control? Hmph! He would let him know that there's always someone better.
Tule Haojia locked himself in the room for a full two days and finally finished drawing all the maps. There were nearly two hundred maps in total, all of which were important military bases. He marked out the fatal points.
He wanted to give Mu Fengqie and Jing Xinche a big gift.
After finishing drawing, Tule Haojia didn't stay. He immediately went out to find Mu Fengqie and the others. He just met them on the street, and they seemed to be in a bit of a bad situation.
When Mu Fengqie came out, she saw Mu Nan and Tule Haojia staring at each other.
"Mu Nan."
"Madam." Mu Nan said and glanced at Tule Haojia, afraid that he would make any dangerous moves.
"Don't be nervous. He's Tule Haojia, the Prince of the Grasslands. He should be here to discuss something with me and Ache this time." Mu Fengqie looked at Tule Haojia, who she hadn't seen since the day they talked about his mother. She knew in her heart that he should have found out the whole story.
"Go and deal with the person inside." That person was still alive. The silver needle just now had only made him faint. She didn't want a dead person around when treating Ache.
When Mu Nan heard that someone had broken into the room, he didn't care about anything else and immediately led his men in. It was his negligence that he let someone get in. Fortunately, the master and the madam were okay.
"Tule Haojia."
"Miss Mu, thank you for the information." Otherwise, he might have been deceived for a lifetime.
"You don't need to thank me. My purpose is also not to let the people of the Qin Dynasty suffer from the war." Mu Fengqie said indifferently. The reason she told Tule Haojia was to use his affection for his mother to prevent this war from happening.
"I understand, but I still have to thank you. Besides, I've also brought you a big gift." Tule Haojia took out a black box from his sleeve.
Mu Fengqie took the box. It didn't feel very heavy, and she wasn't quite sure what was inside.
"What's this...?" Mu Fengqie looked at Tule Haojia in confusion.
"Miss Mu, open it and you'll know when there's no one around. Or you can wait until Marquis Zhongning wakes up and look at it together."
"I see." Hearing Tule Haojia say so, Mu Fengqie knew that the things inside must be extraordinary.
"Miss Mu, I'd like to ask you and your companions for a favor." Tule Haojia clasped his fists and bowed. This was a common etiquette among the people in the Central Plains.
"Just say it. I'll definitely help if I can." For old times' sake, she would try her best to help him.
"If there's a chance in the future, I hope Miss Mu can kill the King of the Grasslands." Tule Haojia exuded a strong killing intent when he said this.
If possible, he wanted to kill that man with his own hands.