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In the early morning of the fifth day, Beiting Jun's request for peace was sent to the desk of King Hui's study. The post was preceded by some usual rhetoric, which was nothing more than "why bother to lose both, it's better to have a peaceful truce", but the last few sentences caught Jin Shitong's attention-
“…… Another deceased person is still in the North Garden, I wonder if His Royal Highness King Hui still remembers? The old people miss their homeland very much, and they are looking forward to returning to Lanxi all the time, and mention the current His Royal Highness King Hui, saying that his courage is very great, and his thoughts are ruthless. If the two countries can reconcile the truce, the old man should return to his homeland to recuperate, and drink and talk with the current His Royal Highness King Hui, if the two countries cannot negotiate peace, then Beiting has no choice but to send the old man to the path of Rao whom he trusts. ”
This old man naturally refers to the real King Hui, and "His Royal Highness the current King Hui" naturally refers to Xue Huai, and Beiting's words repeatedly emphasize the "now", proving that they know that the person who is in charge of Lanxi now, although he is King Hui on the surface, he is not at all, because the real King Hui is in their hands
But if it were King Hui himself, he would not want to "meet in person with His Royal Highness King Hui as a close friend", because they had already known each other and were already close friends. This proves that the people of Beiting only know that there are people pretending to be King Hui now, but they don't know who this Ran Di is.
King Hui did not spit out.
This surprised Jin Shitong but made sense
King Hui is willing to hand over his authority to Xue Huai, how can he reveal who he is in front of the people of Beiting, and what if it attracts Beiting Rao to assassinate him? You must know that the Beiting Rao assassination technique is unique in the world, and there were three generals in Great Xia who died in the Beiting assassination, and they couldn't catch the murderer at all.
Even though King Hui is in the hands of an opponent, he still cares about Xuehuai.
But whether he is doing this for Xue Huai or for himself, Jin Shitong is not sure. After all, it is Xue Huai who can compete with Beiting now, even if it is because he is pretending to be King Hui, Jin Shitong cannot take any risk to cause Xue Huai to fall into danger.
What's more, judging from the news from King Hui last time, if there is no force that can fight against Beiting, the people of Beiting will not save King Hui's life.
Jin Shitong has always been unsure whether King Hui was captured by the people of Beiting, and it was not until the last news that he was sure that King Hui was indeed in the hands of the people of Beiting, but it is really difficult to guess whether it was forced or voluntary, and no matter what the purpose of entering Beiting was in the first place, it is very likely that King Hui is truly unable to escape.
The people of Beiting used King Hui as a bargaining chip to seek peace. The last two sentences make it clear that if peace is not negotiated, then the people of Beiting will "send this old man to the path of Rao whom he trusts", which is obviously a warning to "His Royal Highness King Hui now": If you do not agree to negotiate peace, your identity will be revealed, and even if you have merit, you will be convicted of pretending to be the king - because the real King Hui involves at least three huge forces, and neither party will be willing to be replaced by the real King Hui, which will deeply affect their control of Lanxi and the border, and the fake King Hui will definitely be severely punished.
If the royal family, the Yue family, and the Ke family all attack together......
Jin Shitong didn't want to make this kind of assumption at all, as long as he thought about it a little, he felt a headache. At that moment, he took the peace book and rushed to the medical hall. When he walked out of King Hui's mansion, he inadvertently glanced up at the sky, feeling that something seemed to be missing, but he left in a hurry without thinking too much.