**018 The world is like a chess game

Chunxi was a little angry, sat down behind her with a cigarette, and raised her tone: "Ruan Xiuyun is here to find Xiangye!" ”

Zheng Yuan was still deaf, her eyes were uninteresting, she put down the ivory comb and got up to lift the tent by the bed, but Chunxi hurriedly stopped her: "You are really stupid to say that you are a stupid woman, aren't you?" ”

"What does it have to do with me?" Zheng Yuan broke her hand and stumbled into the quilt.

"You-" Chunxi annoyed that she didn't argue, pulled a stool and stomped on it and said indignantly: "You are the daughter of a criminal minister, and only the Right Prime Minister's Mansion dares to take you in, and now you are a thorn in the side of others in the mansion, only Xiangye can protect you!" That Ruan Xiuyun is a woman with means, Zhong Huan told me that the relationship between her and Xiang Ye is not ordinary, every time the two of them are alone, she came to Xiang Ye so late today, don't you think it's strange? Have you ever thought that if Xiangye doesn't like you one day, who will care if you live or die? Now you don't want to think about countermeasures, plan for yourself early! ”

Zheng Yuan sat up angrily, her eyes widened angrily: "Who said that I have to rely on men to survive!" ”

Hearing her tone so tough, Chunxi was stunned for a moment, and said in a soft tone: "Okay, good, you can live without relying on men." But you should be able to see Ruan Xiuyun's thoughts Zheng Niangzi, you can't forget him in your heart, if he gets along with her, aren't you sad? ”

Zheng Yuan didn't answer, but thought in her heart: A chess piece that has feelings for the master, if she knows that her master has carefully set up a game of chess before, and now she wants to move her chess piece, but the master still has to pretend to be reluctant to be embarrassed, show his difficulty in front of her, and then ask her to be grateful to him, wouldn't it be sad to see through the chess piece?

"Why don't you speak?" Chunxi was very depressed, and said with the whites of her eyes rolling.

"So what do you want me to do? What do you think I should do? To stop their tryst tonight? Zheng Yuan stared at her tightly and asked, and Chunxi was speechless.

Zheng Yuan changed the topic and asked her again: "Chunxi, tell me, why do people sometimes hate themselves so much?" ”

Chunxi thought for a while: "Probably a lack of self-confidence. ”

"No," Zheng said, "maybe I regret it because I remember something I did and said a long time ago." ”

"Have you ever regretted what you said or done before?"

Zheng Yuan thought about it and nodded her head: "Yes" After saying that, she hooked her lips again, and returned to the topic: "I don't have any thoughts about Ruan Xiuyun, just sympathy." ”

"Do you still sympathize with others?" Chunxi shook her chin and counted her: "People have you like this?" Why don't you sympathize with yourself first? ”

"Me? Yes," Zheng said, "I don't know who will sympathize with me?" ”

"Me!" Chunxi glanced at her again, "What have you become, look at your bullying and silent look, pitiful, I sympathize with you and can't bear to do it to you anymore." ”

Zheng Yuan pursed her lips and smiled without saying anything.

Naturally, she had to swallow her anger in front of Chunxi, Wei Yun, Menghua and others, and pretend to be weak, so that they would be negligent in guarding against her.

People tend to take the weak they look down on, find self-confidence in front of the weak they think they are, and fully show their superiority and strengths while fully exposing their shortcomings.

Wei Yun is a smart person who knows how to keep Taoguang and cultivate obscurity, but Menghua is a sharp and reckless person, and Chunxi is a straight-hearted person with a hard mouth and a soft heart.

Standing in the dark and peeking into the light, the hole is like watching the fire; Stand in the light and peep into the dark, and see the flowers in the fog

"What the man behind you tells you to do to me, you do as he commands." She said it deliberately that day, she didn't want to hurt Chunxi, who was kind-hearted.

Some people are so stupid: she comes to kill you, and if you stretch out a hand and pretend to pull her, she will hesitate and then choose to pull her back from the precipice;

If you treat her well, she will be moved to pour out her heart and lungs to you, such as Chunxi, a stupid girl-

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Qu Boyao sat quietly, staring motionlessly at the candle flame jumping on the window paper. In the dripping rain, there was a clear clattering sound, the sound of the soles of shoes stepping on the gravel, and the lightning became more and more dense, like the sunlight breaking through the clouds, illuminating the window paper brightly, and the phantom on the window turned around.

There was a low noise outside the door, Zhong Huan gently pushed the door open, made a gesture to enter, and the woman walked in calmly.

After the door was closed and Zhong Huan's footsteps faded away, Ruan Xiuyun untied the knot on her neckline, took off her cloak and hood, revealing her fair face that had been slightly abused by the rain.

But Qu Boyao didn't pay attention to her at this time, he was twisting a chess piece in his hand, looking at a game of chess on the case, thinking about it and hesitating.

Ruan Xiuyun stared at him for a long time, and saw that he still looked back at her without distraction, dragging her heavy legs towards him step by step, and the droplets of water falling from the edge of the cloak were dripping like a drizzle on the smooth mirror-like ground. She came to him, knelt down with a plop, and a butterfly hairpin pendant slanted high on the side of the bun shook sharply with her sudden move, and she cried with three points as soon as her voice sounded: "Xiangye, the Ruan family is now desperate, and Xiuyun has nothing to do, so I dared to ask Xiangye to save my father." ”

Qu Boyao Fang Shi Ran turned his face to look at her, the woman in front of her was with pear blossoms and rain on her face, and her tears had dried up without makeup.

With a snort, he dropped the chess pieces in his hand, stretched out a hand and knocked on her wrist to pull people, "It's cold on the ground, don't kneel." ”

Ruan Xiuyun still cried incessantly, her body began to twitch one by one, and her body, which was about to be lifted up, suddenly sank again, and in an instant, the torrent of emotions erupted towards him: "Please save my father!" He really didn't instruct that person to assassinate His Majesty, Zheng Mansion was copied, how could my father still keep something related to Zheng Xiangguo, that letter was framed by someone. ”

He replied: "I already know about Ling Zun, and after working together for a while, I also know that Ling Zun is a person, how can I see death and not save me?" ”

"Then, how is the Xiangye going to save it?" She hurriedly asked excitedly, but the next moment she saw his thick eyebrows slightly twisted into a small mountain, and the fire burning in her heart gradually dimmed.

"As soon as the results of the trial of the Criminal Department came out yesterday, I wrote to intercede for Ling Zun, but it made His Majesty unhappy; I came out of the Xiangguo Mansion, and His Majesty was already afraid of me, and if he frequently wrote to show his feelings, he was afraid that it would backfire, and it would only add to His Majesty's suspicion of Ling Zun. He looked very guilty, stared at her helplessly, and said, "Yun Niang, it's not that I can't save me when I see death, I just have more than enough heart and not enough strength." ”

When Ruan Xiuyun heard this, two lines of hot tears rolled down, and she sat on the ground dejectedly, still grabbing his sleeve and begging him relentlessly, but she said vaguely because of crying: "No! You must, there must be a way, I beg you, I beg you, I beg you, save my father no matter what! ”

He sighed softly: "Solution, it's not nothing, it's just"

"What's the solution?" She asked eagerly, and her dark eyes immediately lit up.

"Yun Niang," he squatted down, his eyes full of pity and sympathy, and his slender fingers slightly supported her thin chin: "If you enter the palace, you will be favored by Your Majesty, and you may be able to save your father."

Ruan Xiuyun's cloudy eyes immediately stopped moving, and she only stared at him in a daze, and moved her lips for a long time: "I entered the palace?" Is there really only one way to enter the palace? Xiangye really wants me to enter the palace? ”

"Yes," he said in a tone that gradually affirmed, "entering the palace is the only way to save your father, and Yun Niang must obtain His Majesty's favor in order to save your father." ”

Ruan Xiuyun lowered her eyelashes: "However, as soon as the Huyintai assassination case happened, the Ministry of Rites removed me." The words fell, but she saw him stretch out a hand, but she still didn't have any resistance to hand her hand up, and he pulled her up.

"It's useless to cry," he caught the crystal tears that slipped down her jaw: "Yun Niang, cheer up, go back to the house and prepare to be selected, the affairs of the Ministry of Rites will be handed over to me, and I will definitely try my best to get a place for you." ”

Ruan Xiuyun nodded lightly: "There is labor." Yu Guang glanced at the chess game on the case, and a wave of loss surged in his heart for no reason, and he suddenly asked: "If Xiuyun is the person at the top of Xiangye's heart, is Xiangye still the only way to help Xiuyun?" ”

The figure of the woman flashed in his mind repeatedly, he looked at Ruan Xiuyun's reddened eyes, nodded heavily, and was suddenly hit hard in the chest, he didn't expect Ruan Xiuyun to suddenly pounce into his arms, hitting his chest numb, she hugged him so tightly, and cried with a woman's desire and expectation to see through the autumn water: "The only time, hug me, okay?" ”

Let her gargle and cry softly, how delicate and pitiful, but his heart has always been as hard as a rock, the wind and rain have not moved, or maybe because he has taken root, he has always longed for the center of the earth, and he has been stationed a thousand feet deep in the center of the earth.

Finally, he reached out and tapped her on the back twice, and she thought he would hug her. But he never thought that he would pull her away so ruthlessly, although his tone was calm but without warmth: "Yun Niang, don't be like this, the wall has ears, and the beam has eyes, if you fall today, I am afraid it will be unfavorable to you in the future." ”

Ruan Xiuyun was stunned for a while, and it took a long time to come back to her senses and wipe off the dryness on her face, and after turning around, she turned back again: "The person on the tip of your heart is Zheng Yuan, right?" As soon as Zheng Yuan blurted out the words, she met his gaze, and her shiny and sharp eyes stood up in the air like a bright knife.

Ruan Xiuyun's heart sank: "That day, I saw the double night on the embroidered handkerchief. And smiled bitterly: "I still remember that in the garden of Xiangguo's mansion, many daughters laughed around the Zheng sisters, and a man came to see him when he passed by, he was dressed in knotted and rough brown clothes, and the noble ladies covered their faces with gold fans, and laughed at each other's ears, and they said harshly: 'Where did you come from called Huazi?' From head to toe, there is a sour smell of poverty, this kind of person can also enter and exit the Xiangguo Mansion? Just when everyone was making fun of him for being shabby, Zheng Yuan jumped out in a rage and tried her best to defend that man, do you remember what she said at the time? ”