"I didn't-" Zhu Mo hurriedly defended.

"But you know, not only do you know, but you're also thinking about how to make me survive, you want me to watch all my relatives die, and you have to live in your captivity."

Ling Yi stared at him word by word: "You think I'm going to sit still?" Do you think I can ignore their lives or deaths? Anyway, there is nothing you and that person don't know, so I'll just make it clear.

Unless you kill me today, I will not let you succeed. My Ling family has been loyal to your royal family for generations for two hundred years, have you ever had half a complaint? Now because of that unwarranted speculation, because of the uneasiness in my heart, I want to kill my whole family?

Do you think I'll be tied up and not resist? If you can find ten excuses to destroy my Ling clan, then I can find twenty pieces of evidence to prove our innocence. Fourth Prince, today you have to explain, I will explain to you, I have already discovered your true identity, since I have found out, how can I have no doubt as before?

Do you know that I used to envy you very much, you can be free and easy in the world, but the four princes really surprised me, you are not free in the world, you are swimming, swimming, the world is all yours, isn't it you let you rub the round and flat.

I am advocating to keep this matter from you, because I really can't put my trust in your hands until you confess it. ”

Zhu Mo looked at her in a daze, and his heart twitched painfully, "That's how you look at me?" From the realization to the present, more than two years. Even if my identity has changed, I still want to help Cunjin and help you. I've been through so many things with Nagahiko and Cunjin, do you think I'll forget everything because my identity has changed?

Ling girl, I am also a person with a heart, and it is also hot here, and it will also hurt - it will not become hard-hearted just because I am a prince. ”

He covered his heart with one hand and his face in pain with the other. I was sad that Ling Yi doubted him like this.

Ling Yi's tone finally slowed down a little, but he still said firmly: "But I didn't guess wrong, did you, even if you didn't have the heart to kill my Ling clan." But you don't have the heart to save him, you just think about how to keep me. Even though you and I have different positions and are in a dilemma, I can't agree with you.

You help Miao Hairpin create a new identity, yes. I am grateful to you. But why aren't you doing it for yourself, do you know how sad I felt when I learned that you lied to me? I trust you, and there aren't many people I trust in this time, and you are one of them.

But I still didn't expect that you were the one who wanted to destroy my entire clan. What would you do if it were you? I just did what a normal person would do - vigilance. Before you admit it yourself. I'm not going to tell you anything more, it's not my fault, it's you. ”

Zhu Mo squatted on the ground, staring at the ground in a daze, as if he was thinking about her words, and seemed to be thinking about something else, and waited for a while before he heard him say in a low and slow voice: "You said so much, just to ask me to forgive them for deceiving me."

Ling girl, even if I lied to you first, but in your heart, there is a little bit that can let go of my position? You only think I'm joking with you, but you never take me to heart.

You think I've lied to you, but how do you know I'm not scared? I'm afraid you'll hate me if you know the truth, and I'm even more afraid that you'll treat me and my father as the same kind. Unlike my father, I knew that Uncle Ling would never turn his back on his monarch, and I never thought of killing the entire Ling clan. ”

Ling Yi was silent for a moment before changing to the same tone as on weekdays, "Maybe it's just creation and making people, you also said that you won't forget the birth and death of the two of them, you have experienced so much together, how can you give up casually from childhood to adulthood."

I'm not unintentional, but I know it's impossible between us, do you think we're possible? If you really like me as much as you say, why would you force yourself to marry someone you don't like? You're just forced to do it.

In that case, don't you think this is the best result? There are too many people in this world who are destined to have nothing to do, such as you and me. ”

Knowing that it is impossible, but still holding that little fantasy, this is not just a fool's dream, or self-deception, for such a result, to find an excuse to comfort yourself, but I don't know, even if you know it from the beginning, what can you do? He couldn't stop it, and he couldn't convince Emperor Qinglong to let him marry Ling Yi instead of Yuan Xin.

Zhu Mo sat on the ground and was silent for a long time, he knew that Ling Yi was right in everything, but it was very difficult to accept it in his heart.

Ling Yi walked up to him and looked at him with an unprecedentedly serious but gentle look, "They didn't betray you, they are your best friends, your mentors, and your loyal servants in the future, you should understand what I mean, they also understand, they don't need you to say it in the future, they will also serve you."

In their opinion, even if your friend deceived him for ten years, even if he approached them with a purpose at the beginning, they would still not forget the feelings of the past ten years. ”

Zhu Mo opened his mouth, as if asking her why. Ling Yi laughed, "I know, at the beginning, you were just arranged by that person to keep in touch with the two of them, and by the way, to inquire about any news from Gong Bai and Zhang Ling's four families. I have to say that his move has been ten years, and he is indeed extremely forbearing. ”

Zhu Mo swallowed his saliva, because what Ling Yi said was right, he did approach Gong Xiru and Bai Lang with a purpose at the beginning, and even planned to turn the latter into his future right-hand man. Looking back now, I feel that it was suddenly possible to be so fast in ten years, and it made him feel that it was just a snap of his fingers.

The anger in his heart subsided, and Ling Yi also stood up, and said with a smile as usual: "Since I'm done talking, I'll let them in, the food on this table has to be reheated, it's a pity not to eat, it's been so long, it's rare for us to get together for a meal, don't you mind everyone sitting at the same table." ”

Zhu Mo hummed a little sullenly, he originally came with full of anger, but now he was full of grievances. This difference is big, the former he doesn't intend to forgive Gong Xiru and Bai Lang, but the latter means that he has forgiven. I just feel that I am very aggrieved and depressed in my heart when I compromise so easily.

Ling Yi opened the door and called a few people from the next room into the house again. Gong Xiru and Bai Lang sat down on Zhu Mo's left and right successively, and the three women sat opposite each other.

The six of them glanced at each other a few times, and finally Zhu Mo took the lead in picking up the wine glass, and said in a muffled voice: "That's it, I'll reveal that matter, and I don't blame you for lying to me or anything." You can't care about me hiding my identity for so many years, and you just agreed to do this. ”

Bai Lang smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "This is the Zhu Mo I know, how can one cup be enough." At least one jar. He touched his glass.

Gong Xiru also raised his glass and touched with Zhu Mo, "This is wishing us the future." In the future, the three of us will definitely go on together. ”

Now that he knows Zhu Mo's identity, how can he not have the consciousness of serving him. Bai Lang understood. Gong Xiru also understood that Zhu Mo's identity was announced at this time, and he married the general's daughter, which meant that he immediately had the support of the army, and winning the throne was just around the corner.

When leaving Lang Tingxuan, Zhu Mo deliberately stayed with Gong Xiru in the end, and the two of them talked in the house for a while before they came out, and the six of them went back to their homes in pairs.

On the way back. Gong Xiru didn't see Ling Yi asking, and couldn't help but wonder: "Aren't you curious about what he said to me in the end?" ”

"What's curious about this. It must have said that you should not let me down, or you will take me away regardless of brotherhood. Ling Yi smiled.

Gong Xiru took her hand, "I have always felt very fortunate that such a smart woman as you married me, in fact, if I hadn't taken the lead, once Zhu Mo ascended the throne, he would definitely take you into the palace regardless of everyone's opposition." But at that time, as a courtier, how could he compete with the emperor, unless he was ready to die in the world.

Ling Yi looked like he saw through him: "So didn't you plan it early." ”

Gong Xiru raised his eyebrows noncommittally, secretly saying that he was indeed cautious in this matter, he always knew that Zhu Mo had such feelings for Ling Yi, and later when he realized that Zhu Mo's identity was expensive, even if he didn't guess that he was the fourth prince, he was still uneasy, so he planned in advance.

Now that I think about it, if I hadn't married Ling Yi yet, then Zhu Mo would definitely bring Ling Yi into the palace. Suddenly, I felt fortunate that I had kept an eye on it.

"You don't have to put the blame on yourself." Hiding from Zhu Mo, part of it was his selfishness, and part of it was that little bit of worry. In the face of the person he likes, even if it is a brother, he really can't trust it completely.

Ling Yi smiled indifferently: "If I don't say it's my idea, even if he doesn't care about it today, one day in the future, he will sit in a high position, and in retrospect, the shallow scar will become a deep scar."

It's cold in high places, and the longer you sit in that position, the more scared you will be. I'm just trying to avoid something that might happen, or at least to create the illusion that trust between the three of you hasn't been broken. ”

Gong Xiru took a breath and nodded slowly, Ling Yi was right, if he really admitted that it was himself and Bai Lang who deliberately concealed Zhu Mo's affairs today, the latter would definitely have a mustard in his heart, even if he didn't attack now, he would one day in the future.

"I'm just a deep girl, and he won't take it personally." Ling Yi comforted.

This is the relationship between the monarch and the minister, no matter how good a friend is, once he becomes your master, once he begins to give orders to you, the brotherhood will become sour, and it will no longer be like the original, even if it is a joke, you must be cautious, because there are no pure brothers anymore.

When Ling Yi left, she only took Weaving Feather with her, and let the Weaving Fan guard in the Closing Hall, because she knew that as soon as she and Gong Xiru left, the person from Bi Hetang would definitely bear not to rummage through the cabinets.

Sure enough, as soon as he returned home, the weaving fan stepped forward with an ugly face and said: "Master Hou, madam, after you left, the old lady really came, and personally brought people over, saying that he wanted to vacate the yard and let people carry out the dowry, and forced the maid to take out the list and show him."

If the servant hadn't remembered his wife's words, he wouldn't have been killed. ”

Ling Yi walked into the house with a smile: "After he saw it, how did he react?" ”

Only then did the weaving fan become proud: "Sure enough, it was the same as what Mrs. said, I thought that the maid didn't take it all out, so the maid opened the box next to him and showed him, and then left after reading it, and the face full of disappointment was really funny." ”

Ling Yi nodded again, "What he wants is not in it, of course he is very unwilling, at this time, I am afraid that people have already asked people to inquire about those places." ”

"Madame, don't worry, the maid has already informed Liangqi and Dr. Liu in advance, as for Moguan's side, didn't you let the maid leave it alone, and the maid didn't let the maid go."

"Okay, anyway, I'm going to live in the Hou Mansion in the next few days, and in the future, let Liangkai and Mr. Liu and the clerk send the account books to the noodle restaurant on Guitai Street, and I will reconcile the accounts there at the beginning of each month."

After the maids retreated, Ling Yicai said to Gong Xiru: "Zhu Mo's identity has just been exposed, before the emperor issues an edict to summon him to the palace, there will definitely be some rats who want to do bad things, so you let Wuying go to get Rouzhai to help him, in case someone will attack Rouzhai at night." ”

"I'm planning to do that too, after all, I'm his courtier from now on. It is my duty to protect his safety. Gong Xiru said softly. He shouted "No Shadow" into the air again, and the latter immediately appeared outside, and after receiving his orders, the figure disappeared in a flash.

At that time, Zhu Mo returned to Lang Rouzhai, and it was really as the two guessed, not to mention that there were several pairs of people gathered outside the door, even Zhu Mo could feel that there were many masters hidden outside Lang Rouzhai.

He wasn't sure if all of these people were sent by Emperor Qinglong to protect him, but those who were hidden would only choose to do it at night, and for now, he had to send those people at the door first.

Zhu Mo led Yuan Xin through the backyard over the wall, so as to avoid confronting those people head-on, and to make excuses that he was not there.

Fuyuan was pacing back and forth in the hall anxiously, for fear that Zhu Mo would bump into those people at the door after coming back without knowing it, although those people were not afraid, but Zhu Mo had not yet reached the moment to meet them.

"Uncle Fu-" Zhu Mo hurriedly walked into the hall.

Fuyuan was overjoyed, and immediately asked urgently: "Can you see those people at the door?" ”

Yuan Xin patted his thumping heart, panting and said, "We-we came in through the wall in the backyard, and no one saw it." ”

Fuyuan was stunned, noticed the ash on Zhu Mo's robe, patted it off for the latter, and persuaded: "Don't climb over the wall in the future, the fourth master's current identity has been revealed, that is to say, your words and deeds now are seen by those old guys."

If they don't think you have the proper demeanor of a prince, they won't support you. You also know that the eldest prince and the third prince are the most vocal in the court now, and these two people are known as virtuous and benevolent, so the fourth master, you should know what you want to do. ”

Zhu Mo raised his head and sighed, this free life in the future is coming to an end. (To be continued.) )