Two million taels of silver, for the accumulation of the Green Forest, wasn't really anything significant after careful calculation. However, for the Green Forest to hand over such an amount willingly, they naturally had a hard time swallowing their pride.
The third Helmsman of Green Forest hadn't expected that they were forcing the new leader to reveal himself by leveraging Ling Hua. He had thought their plan was flawless, but he didn't account for Ling Hua seeing through it, and now that Zhu Lan had been captured, they were suddenly at a disadvantage.
Now that the third Helmsman couldn't identify the mole leaking information, he had no choice but to send three emissaries to proactively seek peace, offering to return the seized grain transport ships and retrieve Zhu Lan, but to his surprise, Ling Hua disagreed.
