bookrebus Chapter 398 I wish you had come back earlier
Chapter 398 I wish you had come back earlier
"Servants pay their respects to the prince..."
All the servants bowed and saluted, shouting in unison.
"Oh, Your Majesty, you are finally back..."
The old butler turned around and saw Ning Wang Xu Jinren striding towards him, followed by a dozen followers leading horses.
"These are all small matters, just leave them to the servants. You should hurry back to the mansion. The old lady and the others were waiting for you so long that they didn't even have time to eat yesterday..."
The old butler was also very excited that Xu Jinren was able to return safely.
He has regarded the Ning Prince's Mansion as his home for these years, so naturally he cares about the people in the mansion as if they were his own family.
"Then I'll trouble Uncle Wang..."
Xu Jinren glanced at the motionless figure on the ground and felt quite complicated.
After thinking about it, he didn't say much. He followed the old butler's instructions and walked towards the gate.
Although he was not in the capital, he still had many spies there. How could he hide what was happening in the mansion from him?
Besides, he has been brothers with that man for decades. Let alone changing his clothes, he would be able to recognize him at a glance even if he turned into ashes.
Influenced by the old King Ning, he and Xu Jinyi are both very open-minded people. They don't say that they have a clear conscience, but when facing their relatives, they are very sincere and will definitely not be smart and petty.
Ha ha……
It is indeed true as the old saying goes, a dragon gives birth to a dragon, a phoenix gives birth to a phoenix, and a mouse’s son will dig holes.
This man's behavior today is exactly the same as his mother's personality.
Thinking of the things he had asked people to investigate, Xu Jinren couldn't help but sneer and quickened his pace.
“Big…Big Brother…Big Brother…”
At this moment, the person who had been lying motionless on the ground suddenly came back to life and shouted in a weak voice.
"Brother, I was so happy to hear that you returned safely that I couldn't help but run over here in the middle of the night. I didn't mean to disturb you, I just wanted to make sure that you were safe and sound..."
Seeing that Xu Jinren was about to enter the mansion, Xu Jinran no longer dared to pretend to be dead.
She quickly took this opportunity to open her eyes, crawled to Xu Jinren's side using her hands and feet, hugged his thighs and started shouting.
There was no other way. Although he still couldn't get over the hurdle in his heart, he knew that if he delayed any further, he would return empty-handed today, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and charge forward.
Success or failure depends on today, he must seize this opportunity.
Being hugged tightly by someone on his legs, Xu Jinren instinctively wanted to throw the person away.
But suddenly he thought of something, frowned and forced himself to hold it back, softened his tone and said:
"What are you doing? Let go of your hand first. You are an adult, why are you still acting like a child? If you have something to say, stand up and talk to me..."
Xu Jinran, who was originally feeling cold and uncomfortable, heard this and thought of Xu Jinren's care for him over the years, and couldn't help feeling sad.
“Wuwuwu…Brother, I can’t go back. I can’t go back…”
Ever since Xu Jinran's background was revealed, he has endured countless contempt and grievances these days.
Be it the former members of the Xu family or those friends he thought he got along well with, all of them changed their expressions as if they were singing an opera.
A few sarcastic remarks would have been fine, but some people even spoke ill of him, saying that a lowly peasant like him should go back to the countryside and farm for the rest of his life.
If he appears in front of them again in the future, they will have him dealt with every time they see him, to see if he can remember it.
Not to mention the people in Prince Ning's Mansion. These servants, who he beat and scolded at will on weekdays, turned against him and rolled their eyes at their former master after just a few days.
The more Xu Jinran thought about it, the more sad he felt. Not to mention outsiders treating him like this, even his bedmate Qin and his daughter Xu Letie would sometimes look at him with disdain.
"Wuwuwu...Brother, if you had come back earlier, I wouldn't have been mocked and insulted, and I wouldn't even have wanted to die..."
Xu Jinran, who had been looked down upon, burst into tears immediately after hearing Xu Jinren's words.
However, his health was not very good to begin with, and he had been out in the cold all night. With all the extreme joy and sorrow coming up, how could he bear it any longer?
Soon his eyes rolled back and he fainted.
"Find someone to send him back first."
Seeing Xu Jinran fall down again, Xu Jinren's expression did not change at all. He looked at the old butler, said something, and turned to enter Prince Ning's Mansion.
Whether he was really dizzy or pretending to be dead, he didn't really care.
Now there is only one thing he really cares about.
That is, the seventh prince of Beidi came to Beijing, and the additional condition for the peace talks was that he had to marry a noble lady from the Yuan Dynasty.
Logically speaking, I am about to drive the Northern Di people to their own grave, so how can I have the qualifications to make any demands?
But the Seventh Prince and Princess Huizhu who came this time were not ordinary people.
One of their mothers was the sister of the king of Dongling Kingdom, and the other was a member of the royal family of Beirong Kingdom.
This time, Beidi was defeated and the Yuan army even reached the sight of the Beidi king, so he had to use his connections and sent letters to Dongling and Beirong for help.
They had already reached a relationship of mutual assistance. Beidi and Yuan had been fighting for such a long time, and the other two countries naturally knew about it.
The reason why there was no movement at the beginning was that the Beidi side did not speak.
After receiving the letter asking for help, he immediately took action, decisively dispatched troops and began to provoke on the border of the Yuan Dynasty.
It was because of these relationships that the Yuan Dynasty soldiers led by Xu Jinran had to withdraw from the Beidi Imperial City in order to stabilize the current situation.
After a long period of stalemate, the two sides finally reached an agreement on peace talks.
As for Princess Huizhu, her purpose of following here was also obvious.
Although Xu Jinren still has two sons who are not married, it doesn't matter.
As for the little princess of Beidi, she has very high standards. She has already set her sights on the two princes, so how could she look down on anyone else?
What he feared most now was that the Seventh Prince would stir up trouble and deliberately say that he had taken a fancy to the girl from the Ning Wang Mansion.
Although his first wife has no daughter, and Xu Jinyi's two daughters are already married, doesn't he still have Yuxiu from the third wife?
The emperor talked to him a lot last night. Although the Yuan Dynasty is now in the upper hand, there have been constant natural disasters and man-made disasters in recent years.
Nowadays, neither ordinary people nor court officials can withstand any more turmoil.
Therefore, reaching a peace agreement with Beidi is inevitable.