Chapter 577 Queen of Yue Kingdom_1
"If it were said that the Thousand-Year Fragrant Torreya tree below hid Queen Ya Yu of Yue Kingdom, I would know a few legends about her."
Xian Qianling’s voice came, and you couldn’t help but look over, "Oh? Let’s hear it."
"Just as the world knows, after Goujian was defeated, he took his wife Ya Yu to King Wu Fuchai’s palace and served as a slave for three years. Fu Chai tried every method to humiliate Goujian, he even made him taste his own excrement."
Walking slowly forward, Xian Qianling gently placed her fair hand on the trunk of the Three Thousand-year-old Fragrant Torreya tree in front of her, feeling its rough and time-worn exterior.
"While Fu Chai merely humiliated Goujian, he was quite considerate of the Queen of Yue, only making her act as a maidservant by his side. All of this, however, was observed by the general Wu Zixu. Wu Zixu did not agree with Yue’s surrender and intended to annihilate Yue Kingdom with an armed strike, doing everything in his power to obstruct and humiliate Goujian—who, however, hid his feelings too deeply and remained unmoved. Later, Wu Zixu shifted his attention to Ya Yu. Knowing how deeply Goujian loved Ya Yu, even during their enslavement, he ensured she was well cared for."
Hearing this, you couldn’t help but touch your nose, chuckling, "Crazy woman, you’re not going to tell me that a dignified minister of Wu State would lay a hand on a frail Queen of Yue, are you?"
The response you got was a glare from Xian Qianling, "It was also by chance. Ya Yu was ordered to leave the palace to make some purchases, and on the way, she was spotted by an envoy from Jin State. The Jin envoy, coveting her beauty, openly harassed her in the street, and even abducted her to his own station. At the time, there were those who wanted to inform Fu Chai, because Goujian and Ya Yu were his personal slaves, under his full control, but the messenger was intercepted by Wu Zixu, who then used this incident to extort the Jin envoy by revealing Ya Yu was the Queen of Yue Kingdom."
You nodded, quite approving of Xian Qianling’s account, "That makes sense. Wu Zixu, in his determination to avenge his father and brothers, had the audacity to dig up King Ping of Chu’s corpse and whip it three hundred times. For the interest of his country, he would certainly commit to such stone-killing-two-birds actions as a high-ranking official."