"Mother, it's okay!" Xu Rui walked up to Concubine Li's side and gently held her hand to comfort her.

Concubine Li nodded, did not speak, and looked at Li Hao who fell to the ground, looking heartbroken.

Xu Rui and Meng Chang glanced at each other and nodded to each other, and then Xu Rui helped Concubine Li to her inner room. Leave Meng Chang to deal with the scene.

Over the years, everyone knows how much Concubine Li trusts this younger brother. Now Li Hao is not only treasonous, but also hostages his own sister, how big a blow this is to her, you can imagine.

In the dimly lit cell, there was a stench. Zhao Guangyi sat on the dirty ground with puffy cheeks, disheveled hair, and ragged clothes, looking at the jailers patrolling outside with gloomy eyes, biting a straw at the corner of his mouth, and secretly calculating in his heart.

If you think about it, he's been locked up here for eight days. It stands to reason that Emperor Meng Chang of Shu should meet him as soon as he arrives in Shudu. Li Hao, the prime minister of Shu, is the deepest buried stake in Shu in the Northern Song Dynasty, as a relative of the emperor, he has always been deeply valued by Meng Chang, and he cannot do nothing. But in the past few days, it has been peaceful, Meng Chang has not met him, and no one has contacted him. Now that he is locked up here, he has no eyes and ears, he is equivalent to a deaf and blind man, and he doesn't know anything about the outside world, which makes Zhao Guangyi feel a little anxious.

A person is not afraid of being used as a bargaining chip, and being able to be used at least means that there may be some variables to change the current situation, and Zhao Guangyi is most afraid of being forgotten. If he was imprisoned to death like this, he would not be willing to do so no matter what.

So after he sensed that the situation was wrong, he began to shout to see Meng Chang. Those jailers ignored Zhao Guangyi's shouting. Zhao Guangyi couldn't, so he began to insult Meng Chang, saying that he was a wine bag and a rice bag, and he only knew how to have fun on a woman's belly, and he didn't even dare to see himself; said that he was destined to be a king of a dead country, and he would lose the country of his ancestors, and Houshu would definitely be destroyed by the Northern Song Dynasty; said that after the destruction of Hou Shu, his harem concubines, including his favorite Madame Hua Rui, and even his mother, Concubine Li, were sent to Bianjing to serve the Song people......

However, even if Zhao Guangyi scolded so unpleasantly, did it still attract Meng Chang. At first, the jailers came to scold him, but then as soon as they heard him scold Meng Chang, they pushed him to the ground and slapped him, making him dizzy, his eyes shining, and his cheeks red and swollen until he stopped talking.

After doing this several times, Zhao Guangyi didn't dare to scold anymore. A slap won't hurt his muscles and bones, but if he breaks his appearance, he will lose his chance to the big position under his brother in the future. Unless there was no choice, the courtiers would not accept an emperor with a flawed face. However, he is not irreplaceable.

When he was just captured, Zhao Guangyi did think about dying to avoid humiliation, but it was just an impulsive idea. The ambition buried deep in his heart has not yet been realized, and his life has just begun, how can it end like this? As time goes by, the unwillingness in Zhao Guangyi's heart is getting stronger and stronger, and correspondingly, his survival ** is also getting stronger and stronger.

So even in such a bad environment, Zhao Guangyi endured it. After finding that any method was useless, he now had to stay quietly in the prison, waiting for Meng Chang's summons.

"What are you ......" Meng Chang asked in shock when he saw Xu Rui's skin was black and yellow, and there was a mole on his right cheek.

"Don't worry, it's just an ugly costume!" Xu Rui smiled leisurely and explained slowly.

"This ...... Does it really matter? It's on our turf, and you don't have to be so careful. Meng Chang said worriedly. He was afraid that his little lady would never come back from now on.

"The mole is dotted with an eyebrow pencil, and the skin tone is whitewashed with a makeup powder made of dark pollen, and the face is off after washing. It's just a cover-up! After all, the concubine is a woman. Xu Rui explained with a smile.

Only then did Meng Chang notice that Xu Rui had changed into the costume of a court lady. The woman's involvement in politics is not good for Rui'er's reputation, although he doesn't mind her sharing everything with him. So Meng Chang nodded, and took Xu Rui to the direction of the prison.

The prison officer reported that Zhao Guangyi had stopped making trouble in the past two days, and Rui'er said that she could go and see him.

There was no light in the prison, and Zhao Guangyi could only calculate the time by the number of times the jailer offered food. On this day, the jailer had just brought a rice plate, Zhao Guangyi looked at a bowl of yellow rice and a plate of vegetarian vegetables on the rice plate, and when he felt that he couldn't swallow it, he found that someone had come to his cell door.

"Are you...... Meng Chang?" Zhao Guangyi saw the golden dragon dancing on the man's clothes in front of him, and confirmed the identity of the other party.

"Presumptuous! Seeing that our majesty dares to be so rude!" Li Dianjiao stepped forward and scolded. He was the warden of the prison here, and he was in charge of the prison all the year round, and now that such an important prisoner was sent, he knew that the time had come for him to earn his watch in front of Meng Chang.

"It's your majesty, not our Northern Song Dynasty, why should I be polite?" Zhao Guangyi said with a roll of his eyes.

"You ......" Li Dianjiao just wanted to say that he toasted and didn't eat and drink, but was stopped by Meng Chang.

"Stand down!"

"Yes!" Li Dianjiao stood behind Meng Chang with his head bowed, glaring at Zhao Guangyi.

"The King of Jin came to Houshu, but he still has the habit of staying?" Meng Chang asked knowingly.

"Hmph! Hou Shu's hospitality, I have it in mind!" Zhao Guangyi glanced at the rice plate on the ground, hating the authentic truth. He hadn't eaten such a humble meal except for the years when he was a child and lived with his mother!

"Houshu people treat their friends with great hospitality and are willing to take out their best things. Treat the enemy...... His Royal Highness King Jin is still here, he should be glad to be here!" Xu Rui said slowly. Her last sentence essentially implied a threat in it. If Zhao Guangyi was bent on making enemies of Shu, they wouldn't mind killing him.

"Are you ......" Zhao Guangyi felt a chill in his heart, but he just looked at the purple-clothed female official who suddenly appeared in front of him, and suddenly became interested, and asked in surprise. The person who dares to interject when Meng Chang is speaking is afraid that it will not be an ordinary female official.

"I ...... I am Concubine Hui in this Shu Palace. Xu Rui hesitated for a moment and revealed her true identity.

She originally wanted to use her identity to perfunctory Zhao Guangyi, but when she saw the look in his searching eyes just now, she temporarily changed her mind.

Because Meng Chang's way of expressing his feelings was too high-profile, because he liked hibiscus flowers, countless hibiscus trees were planted inside and outside Shudu, which gave Shudu the nickname of "Furong City", which aroused the imagination of countless celebrities. Her name as "Mrs. Blossom" has long been spread.

Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi must know themselves, and it would not be a blessing if they were remembered by them (especially the paranoid man in front of them) like in their previous lives. Even if they can get the peace in front of them, they will try to get their own. It's better to take advantage of the opportunity in front of him to get to know Zhao Guangyi with this ugly face, so that he doesn't have any thoughts about himself.

Sure enough, Zhao Guangyi was stunned for a moment, and then reacted.

"Hahahaha...... Meng Chang, Meng Chang, your lady Hua Rui is famous all over the world, and everyone knows her flower and moon appearance, ice muscles and jade bones, but I didn't expect it to be an ugly girl! Aren't you Shu rich in beauties? How could you like such an ugly girl without salt, how could you like such an ugly girl without salt? Hahahaha...... I'm laughing to death!"

Zhao Guangyi has not encountered a pleasant thing since he was captured, and now he found out that Meng Chang's famous concubine turned out to be an ugly girl who was black and yellow, and had a big black mole on her face, and felt that she had finally found something that could make fun of Meng Chang, and immediately laughed out loud regardless of it.

Meng Chang's brows furrowed. Even if Rui'er wanted to, he didn't want to see anyone make fun of her. But just as he was about to speak, a small, soft and boneless hand reached over and patted the back of his hand. He turned around and saw Xu Rui shaking his head at him with clear eyes.

"What about beauty, what about ugliness? Marrying a wife and marrying a virtuous woman, even if she looks like no salt, she is worthy of the position of the concubine of Houshu. How can you make irresponsible remarks?" Meng Chang changed his tone when he said it at Xu Rui's suggestion, but there was still a bit of anger in his tone.

Zhao Guangyi really had the idea of taking Mrs. Hua Rui into his mansion after annexing Shu before. After all, the sense of accomplishment that such a famous beauty brings to herself is not comparable to that of ordinary beauties. But now seeing Xu Rui's appearance, his idea has vanished.

It seems that this Meng Chang is really interested in such a woman. Although Zhao Guangyi thought it was funny, since Meng Chang was already really angry, Zhao Guangyi would not continue to touch his scales without a long eye. Meng Chang didn't come to see him until eight days later, and they had to come up with a result today.

"His Royal Highness the King of Jin, although the concubine is not talented, she is also willing to follow Zhong Wuyan's old story and make a modest contribution to the Shu Kingdom. Our Majesty is here today, do we want to ask, does His Royal Highness King Jin want to be a friend of our Shu Kingdom, or do you want to be our enemy?" Xu Rui pulled the topic back. As long as Zhao Guangyi no longer thinks about her, her makeup today is not in vain.

"I ......," Zhao Guangyi didn't know how to answer. If he is willing to be a friend of Hou Shu, but the Northern Song Dynasty will definitely annex Shu, which is the only way for the Northern Song Dynasty to unify the world, there is no doubt about it. It's not something that can be avoided by making some agreement with them in private.

If he said that he was unwilling to be a friend of Hou Shu, Zhao Guangyi thought of what Xu Rui said just now, "His Royal Highness King Jin is still here, he should feel lucky", and his back spine was cold. He didn't want to die like this!