52. Self-reliance

Lu Zhen's figure paused and asked her, "Where did you learn that?" ”

Mei Rui told Huaizhu's words to Lu Zhi as they were, and Lu Zhi pouted, "She doesn't know this matter better than she knows." ”

Looking at his expression, Mei Rui sighed with some disappointment: "It seems that the guards knew about this matter early in the morning, and I was bored again." ”

turned around and was about to leave, but was pulled by Lu Zhen, and when he turned around, he saw that he looked angry and funny, and picked the corners of his lips to her: "If you are wronged, I don't know about this matter." ”

"That has nothing to do with me, I'm just here to tell the Protectors, whether the Protectors know it before, or if they don't know, I want to open up my heart to the Protectors," she glanced at him, and then asked, "The Protectors are discussing something with people, and they look strangely stern." ”

Lu Zhi tucked his hand in his sleeve and said, "It's not a big deal, a medical woman fell into the lake and was found in the morning." His expression turned pale, and his affectionate eyebrows and eyes were a little more solemn, "I thought it was an accident, but after listening to what you just said, I felt that there must be something strange in it." ”

"The medicine girl stumbled and fell into the lake," Mei Rui's face was a little pale, she turned her head, the lake in the palace was not as bright as the Taiye Pool, but it was still shining mightily, "Is it the medicine girl?" ”

Lu Zhi was silent for a moment, "It should be." He said softly, "Don't think too much about this matter, and don't sue SΓΉ Huaizhu, I'll take care of it, you know?" ”

Mei Rui nodded, suppressing the discomfort in her heart, "Then I'll go to His Majesty's place, you should be careful in everything." ”

In fact, it is an unrelated human life, but Mei Rui always has a kind of sadness about the death of a rabbit and a fox, and she is absent-minded all day, the little emperor looked at it in his eyes, picked up the chilled melon and fruit in his hand and came to her, and said, "Oh, Ruirui." ”

Mei Rui thought that he wanted to eat the fruit, so she took it and peeled it for him, but the little emperor pushed it back: "I don't eat it, you eat it." ”

"Thank you."

She was still in a trance, she didn't know what she was thinking, the little emperor was a little anxious, but he didn't know how to ask, so he could only speak: "Rui Rui, when will you make sugar cakes for me to eat, I have been reading it." ”

"If you want to eat, just tell the slave and maid, and the slave and maid can go and make it for you now."

"Don't do this," the little emperor waved his hand, and the little ghost stood on tiptoe and nodded Mei Rui's eyebrows, "The sugar cakes made by Rui Rui now are not as delicious as they used to be, and I don't like to eat such sugar cakes." ”

Mei Rui sighed, squatted down, and said softly, "Your Majesty has grown up." ”

The little emperor pursed his mouth a little dissatisfied, "Lu Zhi always likes to treat me as a child, but I know everything, and I know what you are worried about, isn't it the Queen Mother's!" ”

Mei Rui was shocked, "How did Your Majesty know these things?" ”

"I have my own way," he didn't hide anything from Mei Rui, squinting and smiling like a little fox, "Rui Rui, I know that you treat me sincerely, but I don't want you to be too tired. ”

Where can she be considered tired, it is Lu Zhi who is tired, she is only worrying about it on the side, thinking about Honghu Dazhi but not knowing how to start, Mei Rui raised her hand to close the collar for the little emperor, and said with a smile: "Thank you for your sympathy, you should do your homework today." ”

The emperor only listened to Lu Zhen's words, and the homework was arranged by Lu Zhi, and he would send it over every day to be read by him personally, and the little emperor would cry out to the sky and grab the ground as soon as he heard the homework, Mei Rui got up with a smile and saluted him: "The slave will go and make sugar cakes for you, and retire for the time being." ”

After a few steps outside, she was intercepted by Sui Yuan, the man picked up peach blossom eyes, frivolous and frivolous, "Cousin, don't come to harm?" ”

Mei Rui took half a step back vigilantly, and said in a flat voice, "Cousin Ah Yuan." ”

Sui Yuan looked at her with a smile, "Cousin is afraid of so-and-so?" ”

"No, I didn't."

"Then why did you see a certain beast like a flood and avoid it?"

Mei Rui lifted her eyes and looked at him, her face was full of spring breeze and pride, thinking that she was very appreciated by King Xiang, since he was from King Xiang's faction, then he naturally did not deal with Lu Zhen, Mei Rui pursed her lips: "I never wanted to avoid my cousin, but I also asked myself if I didn't have such a close friendship with my cousin, just take a look." But my cousin is so attentive that I am very puzzled, is there anything in me that my cousin can draw? ”

She said straightforwardly, but she failed to make waves on Sui Yuan's face, he was still smiling and groaning, and the hanging sleeves of the robe were all with a romantic meaning: "I don't like to listen to what my cousin said, what is called profitable, it is to read it on the origin of the blood relationship, and my cousin can also bear my courtesy." ”

Sui Yuan got closer, his lips were less than three fingers away from her ear, and the hazy warm breath was very ambiguous, and he said, "The prince asks my cousin to talk about it." ”

Before his words fell, a loud shout came from not far away: "Sui Changyao!" ”

In the next moment, the person had arrived, Zhao Chun's right arm was suddenly inserted horizontally, separating the two of them, and looking at Sui Yuan with a cold face: "What do you want to do?" ”

Sui Yuan belched, "The prince asked a certain person to invite Cousin Rui Rui to go and talk about it, didn't the commander misunderstand something?" ”

Zhao Chun glared, "Please please, what are you doing with such affection?" As he spoke, he pushed Sui Yuan again, "Stay away from Ruirui!" ”

Mei Rui stared at the beast pattern on Zhao Chun's shoulder, and asked him with a little cry and laughter: "What is the commander doing?" ”

Zhao Chun's face was very ugly, he was on duty nearby, and he saw Sui Yuan and Mei Rui behaving intimately through the green land of the flowers and willows, and he was angry. He also heard the rumors of the last incident, and he added contempt for Sui Yuan, and he didn't know why King Xiang had the intention of recruiting him. But this person followed King Xiang since he beat him, and Zhao Chun saw him unpleasantly, extremely unpleasant.

Mei Rui is his favorite, he reluctantly regressed and gave it to Lu Zhi, how could he come to Sui Yuan out of thin air, Zhao Chun hated his teeth, and his voice was full of annoyance: "I still have to ask what are you two doing?" ”

In broad daylight, Zhao Chun's face was pale, but Mei Rui looked at him suspiciously, as if he had stirred up a good thing, Zhao Chun couldn't help but feel a little distressed, and wanted to find a quiet place to have a good chat with Mei Rui, but Sui Yuan opened his mouth on the side: "Commander Zhao, don't let the prince and others be anxious." ”

King Xiang invited Mei Rui to go, and it was not convenient to say anything to her at this time, Zhao Chun could only press the corners of his lips and lowered his head to look at Mei Rui: "The prince is still waiting, you go first." ”

"Hmm." She replied without a vague voice, and then left with Sui Yuan, and as she walked, Mei Rui asked Sui Yuan: "Does my cousin know why the prince invited me to go?" ”

Sui Yuan squinted at the sunlight above his head, "I don't know." ”

"What does my cousin know?"

"I know you've been suffering from blood and light in the past few days."

His tone was as lazy as ever, with a naughty smile, Mei Rui didn't take it to heart, and smiled: "When will my cousin do divination?" ”

"I just understand it." Sui Yuan looked at her with a smile, the shallow water of the rockery in front of her was scattered, the three words of the dragon flying and the phoenix dancing were engraved on a boulder, and a pavilion could be seen in the middle, King Xiang was sitting with his back to him, Sui Yuan stopped in front of the three words of the Amazing Garden, Mei Rui glanced at him: "Cousin, isn't he going in?" ”

"The prince doesn't like to be disturbed." Sui Yuan casually turned his head to look at the angular rockery, and raised his hand casually, "Please, cousin." ”

His cousin who kept saying was more affectionate than Zhao Chun shouted before, Mei Rui reluctantly smiled, and said to him before entering: "If my cousin has no intention of Huaizhu, please let her go, always remember some old things, don't involve innocent people, tired others, and tired yourself." ”

Sui Yuan's expression suddenly froze, but Mei Rui had already walked to the pavilion, Sui Yuan's eyes behind her were like thorns in her back, and she walked up the stairs to the pavilion without being shocked, and there was only King Xiang in the pavilion, and two teas.

She saluted King Xiang without being humble or arrogant, "Lord Wang." ”

King Xiang sighed, "The etiquette is still so incomplete, and it is becoming more and more similar to Lu Zhen." ”

The flowers embroidered with gold thread shook Mei Rui's eyes a little dizzy, she lowered her eyes, not looking at the gold of that body, the tangled branches and lotus on the tips of her shoes were blooming, and she avoided answering very steadily: "I don't know what the prince is looking for slaves and maids?" ”

In fact, since the incident between King Xiang and Empress Dowager Zhao was broken that day, she was a little afraid of King Xiang, this prince's means were not much lower than Lu Zhen, otherwise he would not have confronted Lu Zhi in the court for so long. Alone with him, the sense of coercion was no less than what Lu Zhi gave at the beginning, she asked the king of Houxiang and did not answer, but knocked on the wall of the cup with her hand, which was heavier than the next, and the wind around him was dull, and after the fifteenth stroke, he slowly spoke: "This king knows that it was you that day." ”

He knows?

Mei Rui was stunned for a moment, barely froze her mind, and gritted her teeth, "What the prince said, I don't know." ”

King Xiang sighed, "If you lie to this king, if you don't know, you don't know?" ”

Cold sweat stained her back, but Mei Rui still said the same sentence: "The slave and maid really don't know." ”

Only those who are stupid enough to go home will admit it directly, King Xiang squinted his eyes at her, looked up and down, and didn't even know what Lu Zhi and Zhao Chun liked about her. Probably because they have their own love, King Xiang was a little disappointed in Lu Zhi and Zhao Chun's eyes, and sighed: "It doesn't matter if you saw the things of that day, or if you didn't see them, it doesn't matter, this king naturally knows it in his heart, so you can't cheat." ”

Since he knew it in his heart, Mei Rui didn't know why this prince had invited her to this place, she raised her head in confusion, and met his terrifying gaze, and couldn't help but feel a sense of relief. King Xiang is different from Lu Zhen, one is introverted and the other is outgoing, this prince can't wait for the world to know how powerful he is, and the corners of his mouth are lightly raised: "Since you know, then Lu Zhi also knows, right?" ”

She didn't know how to answer, so she simply didn't answer, and King Xiang continued: "Now that he knows, with his attitude towards the Queen Mother, he must have made some moves, do you want to help him?" ”

Nothing to do, either a traitor or a thief, Mei Rui was a little vigilant, but she couldn't figure it out, and her doubts were never dispelled, she looked at Xiang cautiously

Wang: "What is the prince talking about?" ”

As for her pretense of stupidity, King Xiang was reluctant to make more comments, and glanced at her with disdain: "This king gave you a prescription, you will know after reading it." ”

As she spoke, she took out a prescription note from her sleeve, Mei Rui took it, and after unfolding it, she looked at it from the beginning, the more she looked at it, the more frightened she became, she knew a little bit about everything, and it was clearly a medicine that could cause miscarriage. She pinched the prescription with her fingertips, bit her lip and said, "What does this mean, prince?" ”

"The meaning of this king is very clear," King Xiang said with a smile, "You also heard it that day, it was she who pestered this king, and recently she has been getting more and more inches, although this king is fighting with Lu Zhen, but what is she Zhao Shi, and she is also trying to influence this king?" Lu Zhi has never been able to find the reason for the abolition of the Zhao family, and he can't relieve his sister's hatred, this favor is given to him by the king, and by the way, he will settle the trouble of the Zhao family for the king. ”

For King Xiang, Zhao's brother and sister-in-law are just unwilling when they were young and vigorous. One is a lonely queen in the deep palace, and the other is a depressed prince, who happened to meet Emperor Huai's illness with Zhao's contribution to fanning the flames for him, at least the incense in the Zichen Palace was done by Zhao, but Emperor Huai died, but he failed to take over the throne smoothly, and it was his young and casual little nephew who became the new emperor.

What's even more troublesome is that Lu Zhen, who has already covered the sky, the remnants of the Lu family, have survived to this day with Emperor Huai's dirty thoughts, and even have full wings. King Xiang's expression darkened, he alone couldn't get rid of Lu Zhen.

Unless.

His voice was very deliberately lightened, restrained a little arrogant, and said to Mei Rui calmly: "Take the Zhao family as a gift and make peace with him, is this king very sincere?" ”