After hearing Qin Zhou's accusation, Old Lady Qin just sneered, "Really? That's just your one-sided statement. History has always been written by successful people, but you, Qin Zhou, don't have this opportunity."
Qin Zhou laughed loudly, "Madam Qin, do you think I have this chance? I have more than 500,000 soldiers in my hands. As long as I break into the palace, the Northern Desert will be mine."
"You wouldn't do that." Old Lady Qin looked at her directly, "If you wanted to do that, there would be no need to call me over."
"Indeed, I won't do that." Qin Zhou didn't deny it, and he wasn't even interested in scaring her. "It's just that, just because I don't do it, doesn't mean others won't."
"Without your 500,000 troops, who can resist Prince Luo's 150,000 troops?" Old Lady Qin looked at her sharply, still testing her step by step.
Qin Zhou smiled and said, "I don't know."
Old Madam Qin retracted her gaze and said calmly: "It's useless to come up with any ideas. You will die one day."
"You think that after I die, everything will be yours. Maybe that's true, but how did you let me die? Assassination? Assassination? I, Qin Zhou, cannot die in obscurity. If there is any suspicion in my death, someone will investigate. Do you think they won't find out about you? If they do, do you think those people will still be Chu Jing's?"
Madam Qin frowned and said angrily, "Everything you have was given to you by the Emperor, Qin Zhou, don't forget your roots."
Qin Zhou shook his head and said coldly, "No, everything I have is what I fought for. They don't recognize my title of general, but me, Qin Zhou. They think I am a general worth following and a brother worth dying for. On the contrary, everything Chu Jing has is given by me. If I hadn't stabilized the border for him and expanded the territory for him, could he sit on the throne? Could Beimo resist the invasion of Xianbei? He forgot the national hatred and family feud and actually formed an alliance with Xianbei. I was very unhappy about this, but I still listened to him because I wanted it to be the last battle, to win fertile land for the people of Beimo, and then I would retire. So I became a general of the main war faction and led my subordinates to fight north and south. But he secretly calculated against me and the people. My foolish loyalty killed many people."
Old Lady Qin straightened her clothes and said calmly, "It seems that we can't get along at all. It's better not to talk at all."
"I called you here not to have a conversation, but just to sever the blood ties with you. From now on, you go your way and I go mine." Qin Zhou said coldly.
"Bid?" Old Madam Qin laughed so hard that she couldn't help herself. "Why did you send me here? Do you really think you are a prince?"
"That's right, I'm a prince. I helped Emperor Kangping to ascend the throne, and I will keep him on the throne forever. And you are the real traitor." Qin Zhou pointed.
Old Lady Qin stood up and sneered, "Well, let's see who will have the last laugh. I know you want to go to Da Zhou. Da Zhou is a good place to go. If you go to Da Zhou, your 500,000 soldiers and horses will not be able to follow you. If something happens, who can save you?"
This was a message. As long as Qin Zhou went to Da Zhou, he would be able to kill her.
Qin Zhou didn't care. "When I was in prison, you couldn't kill me. The Great Zhou is not your sphere of influence. What should I be afraid of? Can you rely on your Concubine Yi in the Great Zhou?"
The old lady's eyebrows twitched, and the muscles on her face also twitched a few times, but then she said calmly: "Then let's go and see!"
After saying that, she straightened her chest and strode out.
Qin Zhou said calmly from behind: "Grandmother, walk carefully and don't rush!"
Old Madam Qin curled her lips and sneered, anger gradually rising in her eyes. She turned around abruptly and said, "Do you really think it's difficult to kill you in prison? I was giving you a chance, but you gave it up yourself."
"Opportunity?" Qin Zhou laughed. "I was falsely accused of killing Queen Wang. I took the blame and was convicted. What happens next? Can I be safe and sound?"
"At least, as you said, the laws of the Northern Desert stipulate that merits and demerits offset each other, so you can still be alive after all."
"I might as well fight hard instead of just living in humiliation!" Qin Zhou stopped smiling and stared at her. "In fact, I gave you a chance. When you came to visit me for the last time in the prison, I told you that I respect you and I can do anything you ask me to do, but don't play tricks on me, do you understand? How disgusted I am to see you acting so hypocritically there?"
She was heartbroken, but she was unwilling to admit it at the moment.
Old Lady Qin lowered her eyes and said, "Okay, let's stop the verbal battle. I am waiting to see if you, Qin Zhou, can come back and continue to be a high-ranking official."
After saying that, he left coldly.
Qin Zhou looked at her back with a cold face, and saw the guards following behind her, so majestic and awe-inspiring, completely lacking the kind attitude he had shown towards her that day.
She had never seen this great-grandmother clearly.
She held the armrest of the chair and sat down slowly. All the strength in her body seemed to be drained away in an instant. The indifference and hardness in the confrontation just now were all pretended. She could charge into battle at the front of the station and show no mercy, but there was no way. Fighting with her own relatives was the cruelest war.
She tried to suppress the discomfort in her heart, but couldn't help trembling all over.
Murong Jie walked out slowly and sat on the chair that Old Lady Qin had just made.
He didn't look at Qin Zhou either, but seemed to be in deep thought.
Qin Zhou said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty. I'm fine."
Murong Jie raised his head and looked at her blankly, "What?"
Qin Zhou saw that he looked absent-minded, and knew that he was not here to comfort her, so he could not help but said unhappily, "Nothing."
"Hmm!" Murong Jie continued to lower his head, still in deep thought.
Qin Zhou stood up and said, "Your Majesty, please sit down. I will go back and rest now."
Murong Jie raised his head again, "Do you feel comfortable?"
Qin Zhou looked at him, "What does Your Majesty think?"
"I don't know!" Murong Jie shook his head, a sarcastic smile on his thin lips, "I haven't experienced any of this, how would I know?"
Qin Zhou said coldly: "Who are you kidding, Your Majesty? Didn't your mother also harm you? Your Majesty knows this feeling best."
Murong Jie was a little stunned, "Who told you that she is my mother?"
"No?" Qin Zhou narrowed his eyes. Isn't Concubine Linggui his biological mother
Murong Jie said slowly: "Since she had the slightest intention to harm me, she is not my mother."
Qin Zhou looked at him, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "Are all the words of comfort from the prince so original?"
"Who is going to comfort you? I'm just telling you the truth. She hurt you, but you still treat her as a relative. Who is sad? Why would you do something that would put you at a disadvantage?"
"Non-vegetation… "
"That's bullshit!" Murong Jie stood up and said coldly, "Why should you show any affection to the people who hurt you? If you want to think about it, force yourself not to think about it. If you miss them, force yourself not to miss them. If you really want to miss them, you have to put them in your enemy list."
After saying that, he left too.
Qin Zhou was left standing there in a daze, chewing on his words.
It sounds reasonable, but the helplessness behind it can only be understood after experiencing it. If he could really let it go so easily, why didn't he fight back at the beginning
Perhaps, he was just deceiving himself, but he was quite successful.
I deceived myself very successfully.
(End of this chapter)