401 In the Imperial Study
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Peng De was extremely familiar with Emperor Chu, and when he saw this, he knew that Emperor Chu had something to discuss with Xue Rou alone, so he hurriedly saluted and took a few steps back, and then waved his hand to the palace people serving on both sides.
Those people hurriedly bowed down, cautiously stepped on small steps and followed Peng De out of the imperial study, and after everyone left, Peng De looked at the two people in the room who were looking at each other, and then lightly closed the door of the imperial study, standing a little farther away without squinting.
The sunlight shone through the tall eaves beams, and some golden glazed light was projected into the imperial study, so that it was not dark at all, but quiet and a little weird.
At this time, in the imperial study, only Xue Rou and Emperor Chu were left.
Emperor Chu looked up at Xue Rou, his eyes were dark and mighty, Xue Rou looked back at him faintly without fear, his face had long since lost the respect he had when he first met, and his indifferent appearance made Emperor Chu's eyes flash a little interest. He picked up the teacup on the side and took a sip, and then said lightly: "I and you are also the second time we have met, the last time I thought you didn't look like an ordinary person, now I really underestimate you, I don't know if I should call you Xue Rou or Ning Ziqing?" ”
Xue Rou suddenly realized in her heart that Emperor Chu really knew her identity.
As early as when Huo Jingling appeared in the Xuanwang Mansion, she had already vaguely guessed, and now that she thinks about it, I am afraid that only this thing can make the Chu Emperor so eager to let her enter the palace, although Xue Rou was a little jealous in her heart, but her face did not show it at all, and when she heard this, her lips raised and smiled, and she said with a little shallowness in her eyes: "Your Majesty the Emperor of Chu is probably mistaken, this is the third time we have met, if the Emperor of Chu likes it, call me Xue Rou or Ning Ziqing." ”
Seeing that Xue Rou was so honest, Emperor Chu admitted that she was Ning Ziqing, without the slightest shirk or justification, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and said, "Why did you admit it so easily?" Aren't you afraid that I'm deceiving you? ”
"His Majesty the Emperor Chu said that he laughed, since you can send someone to bring me, and even use the forbidden army, I am afraid that there is already conclusive evidence to prove my identity, why should I prevaricate and try to make people laugh?"
"You're bold."
Xue Rou smiled lightly: "Xue Rou is not bold, but His Majesty the Emperor of Chu invited me over today and treated me with courtesy, why should I be afraid, if Your Majesty sent troops to arrest me, I may have been scared and begged for mercy at this time, but it is just that Your Majesty will not embarrass me because of His Majesty's open-mindedness, and in my opinion, Ning Ziqing's identity is not something that cannot be said, but I like to be quiet, so I think that I can hide it from one day at a time, with Your Majesty's wisdom and martial arts, it is only a matter of time before you are exposed, now I know, It's just a little more trouble in the future. ”
Emperor Chu heard Xue Rou's vague flattery, and his face eased a lot, but he didn't believe what Xue Rou said about sending troops to arrest and beg for mercy, he knew a lot about the affairs of Zhou through Concubine Yue, and it was rumored that Ning Ziqing's temperament was known to everyone in the world, she could turn Zhou Guo upside down, I'm afraid there are few people in this world who are harder than her, so Emperor Chu just frowned and said: "You can think about it, but I want to ask you, you are the young master of the Ning family's business house, sitting on the wealth of the world, why did you come to my Nanchu Institute?" ”
Xue Rou said lightly: "I just have an old relationship with King Ling, and I owe him a favor." ”
Emperor Chu looked slightly stunned, he thought about many possibilities, but he didn't expect Xue Rou to come to Nanchu because he owed Rong Jing a favor, he couldn't help but squint at Xue Rou slightly, and said with a bit of danger in his expression: "According to your meaning, you made a move on the previous Hundred Flowers Festival because of Jing'er?" ”
Xue Rou frowned, and almost subconsciously asked, "Hundred Flowers Festival?" Your Majesty is talking about the assassination of the official ship? ”
Emperor Chu looked at Xue Rou's expression, his eyes were sharp, and he didn't let go of any fluctuations in her eyes, and even faintly said with a little persecution: "Don't tell me that the things on the ship of the official are not your doing, the people who can lay out such a big situation and turn around the group of my sons and ministers, except for you Xue Rou, I can't think of anyone else in this capital!" ”
Xue Rou immediately laughed when she heard this: "Your Majesty Emperor Chu, I have to admit that I am very proud of what you said, after all, there are probably not many people in this world who can be praised by you like this, but praise is praise, and I don't want to admit what I haven't done." ”
"You want to quibble?" Emperor Chu suddenly frowned.
"What is there to quibble? Whether it is Xue Rou or Ning Ziqing, if you have done it, you have done it, and if you don't do it, you haven't done it, the thing that ordered someone to assassinate someone on the official ship was indeed not done by me, to put it mildly, if I Xue Rou wants to act if I don't want to, who can see the flaw? Things on that day were full of loopholes, if I really wanted to do something, how could it be so easy to be exposed, besides, Emperor Chu felt that with my ability, I really wanted to do something, and the people on the official ship could still live? ”
Xue Rou's expression was extremely calm, and there was even a bit of arrogance in her words, in fact, what she said was not a lie, the things that night were indeed arranged by her and Rong Jing, whether it was King Xuan's imprisonment or the later affairs of King Qing and Cai Anyi, they laid it out, but what Emperor Chu asked was the assassination of the official ship, it was really not her idea, but the arrangement of King Fu, she just did something else with King Fu's arrangement.
Chu Huang has been looking at Xue Rou, he didn't let go of even the slightest discoloration on her face, looking at Xue Rou's arrogant and even a little disdainful but calm, although Chu Huang was angry in his heart, he also subconsciously believed that the events of that night were not Xue Rou's doing, not to mention that Xue Rou's scheming was indeed as she said, what she wanted to do would never leave so many flaws, not to mention that he subconsciously felt that the woman in front of her had arrogance in her bones that could not be ignored, she disdained to lie, but Chu Huang didn't expect Xue Rou to drill the leak in his words.
Although he understood it in his heart, Emperor Chu said angrily on his face: "Presumptuous, if it weren't for you, who else would there be?" I, Nanchu, have always been safe, but since you came to Beijing, there have been twists and turns, do you still want to quibble? ”
Xue Rou raised her eyebrows when she heard this, with an expression of "Your Majesty Emperor Chu, you are joking", which inexplicably made Emperor Chu think of King Ling, and his eyebrows couldn't help jumping.
The corners of Xue Rou's mouth raised lightly with a bit of mockery: "What is the situation in Southern Chu His Majesty the Emperor Chu knows better than me, in the early years, when His Majesty was healthy, it was naturally Antai, with you suppressing no one dared to have dissent, and the top and bottom were also single-minded, but since you were seriously ill and dying last time, what bulls, ghosts, snakes and gods have come out, the situation in the middle of the Southern Chu Dynasty is in chaos, the princes are in their own affairs, and the former dynasty and the harem are colluded, so they almost lifted this Southern Chu, if it weren't for Your Majesty, you suddenly recovered from your illness, I'm afraid that Southern Chu is still not as good as Zhou Guo, but you said that these are all because of me, Your Majesty the Emperor of Chu, I was still in the Great Zhou at that time. ”
Emperor Chu looked at Xue Rou's expression and suddenly felt a pang in his heart, thinking of the tragic situation of Zhou Guo, he couldn't help but squint his eyes slightly. Xue Rou suddenly mentioned Zhou Guo at this time, obviously wanting to tell him that if she really wanted to make Southern Chu chaotic, it would not be the current situation, thinking of this, Emperor Chu couldn't help but have a fierce look in his eyes: "Are you threatening me?" ”
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