The sound of night rain is annoying.

Li Zhi sat there in a daze, and it had been two days. During this period, except for Mei Niang, who brought water and porridge to feed him from time to time, and helped him to rest at night, he never saw him do anything else.

Mei Niang didn't interfere much, just let him, except for preparing things for him and arranging all affairs during the day, the rest was just sitting with him. Look out the window at the rain.

The sound of rain is like a wash.

"I still remember what he once said to me when I was in the Manna Temple, and he will protect me for the rest of my life."

After a while, Li Zhi finally opened his mouth, but what he said made Mei Niang a little dazed for a while.

"Hmm." For a long time, she just nodded and said casually. Other than that, she really couldn't think of anything else to say.

"I was like, really? Can he protect me for the rest of my life? Impossible...... My mother can't stay with me for a lifetime, and my father is still busy with government affairs and often can't stay by my side...... What's more, it's ...... him" As if thinking of something, Li Zhi shook his head ridiculously: "It's just that I didn't expect that what he said would be done...... If you say it for a lifetime, it's really a lifetime...... I'm so bored with it, I wish he would be able to do it sooner and disappear in front of my eyes. ”

Whispering like silk, but with a real hint of disgust. This made Mei Niang hang her head, and she didn't know what to say for a while.

She doesn't hate Eldest Sun Wuji, and even respects him quite a bit - even if many people don't believe it, but it's a fact.

So she knows better than anyone how Li Zhi feels in the face of the eldest grandson Wuji - all because of her respect for the eldest grandson Wuji, it is Li Zhi's evil to the eldest grandson Wuji.

Because I understand, I can't say it.

Li Zhi also understands her, but unlike her, he can say: "I know that you respect him very much, because he takes care of me - you know better than anyone else, and you ......"

Envy - these two words, Li Zhi still didn't say them after all, but Mei Niang had already turned her head in another direction.

He sighed and continued to whisper, "But your honey and my arsenic—in this way I am indeed a ruthless person, and I am not a wise man—at least not when facing him. ”

"If Uncle Yuan hadn't done those things to Mei Niang, maybe Jiro wouldn't have resent him at all. At the end of the day, it's me who caused everything. Mei Niang smiled gloomily: "If it weren't for me, maybe all this would ......"

"Still." Li Zhi calmly turned his head, looked at her side face, and repeated again: "It's still the same." ”

He looked at her and said earnestly and gloomily: "He should have understood me best, but unfortunately, he never thought to really understand me as a person, my heart, as far as he is concerned, I will always be a child hiding behind him and needing him to take care of and comfort." ”

Li Zhi looked at her and said calmly: "Otherwise, he wouldn't know who he is living for in this life...... He, like his father, had so many things that they could never be satisfied. ”

Mei Niang hung her head and didn't say a word.

After a while, Li Zhicai continued: "I am also at fault—my fault is that I never really told him what I thought, and I always let him speculate...... No—" Li Zhi shook his head and said in a low voice: "It should be said that from the beginning, I didn't give him enough trust...... I've never trusted him......"

"If there is no trust, why have you never suspected that he had the intention of rebellion?" Mei Niang asked rhetorically: "Or why...... From the very beginning, there has been no reduction in power and dismissal? Zhilang said that he didn't believe in Uncle Yuan, but in Mei Niang's opinion, it was the opposite: Zhilang believed in him too much, and believed too much that he would be loyal to Zhilang and Datang all his life, and would never betray. Therefore, it is believed that the real reason why he wants nothing is because what he wants is to manipulate Jiro's life. ”

"Isn't it?" Li Zhi asked rhetorically: "Interfering with everything about me and the two of you, isn't this what he did?" ”

Li Zhi asked a rhetorical question, but Mei Niang smiled bitterly: "Zhilang, you once told Mei Niang a sentence, in this world, except for ourselves, no one else can control our hearts." ”

Li Zhi was speechless, silently turned back again, staring blankly ahead, and for a while, the husband and wife were relatively speechless.

Wake up the next morning.

Mei Niang got up early in the morning, but she didn't stay by Li Zhi's side like she did two days ago, but turned her head to look directly outside the hall, her eyes sharp.

"Minghe." After a moment's pause, she called.

"Mother." Minghe listened to the call, hurriedly came out of the side hall, saluted and saw Mei Niang, and then said: "What does Niang Niang command?" ”

"Has there been any news from Huaiying?"

"Count the journey, Lord Di just arrived in Qianzhou yesterday, I'm afraid it won't be so ......fast," Minghe shook his head.

"No, it won't." Mei Niang said categorically: "The means he has always used to handle cases, this palace also knows." If he should have traveled to Qianzhou yesterday, then at least the day before yesterday, he should have sorted out the facts of the case...... You go and ask the secret guards who stayed in the capital, and see if there is any news from the secret guards. ”

"Yes." Minghe took the order and left.

Then, Mei Niang called the new little maid again: "Yuming is here, it's time to go back to Beijing, pass her on." ”

The little maid took the order and left.

After a short time, Yuming entered the hall first: "Niangniang." ”

"You have been working hard with their two brothers and sisters these days." Mei Niang nodded and said lightly.

"Niangniang's grace, Yuming is ashamed." Yuming made a forked hand salute before continuing to ask: "I don't know what Niangniang called Yuming here today, what are your orders?" ”

"This palace wants you to do something, but before I tell you something, I need to ask you a question first."

Mei Niang's words made Yuming very strange, but although she was lively by nature, she knew how to measure, so she said bluntly: "But according to Niangniang's orders." ”

"Hongu asks you, if this palace wants you to choose between Hongu and Jiro now...... Who will you choose? ”

Yuming's pupils shrank, and he looked at Mei Niang, who was also plain and waveless.

Half an hour later. Ninety into the palace green dragon gate.

With one after another, the palace gate slowly opened, and a peach blossom horse jumped out, with a coquettish sound, Yuming and the people and horses galloped towards the southeast.

"Who would you choose? This palace will give you a little time, and I hope that when you return this time, you can give this palace a clear answer. ”

In her mind, Mei Niang's voice still echoed.

Who will she choose?

Li Zhi or Mei Niang?

Or......

A face floated in front of her eyes, and soon disappeared again.

Shaking her head, she laughed to herself: "How can it be ......"

…… Why not?

A voice of retort sounded in her heart—

It's her voice, unwavering.