Chapter 58: I Don't Want to Be a Queen (18)
Ming Xiaoyue put away the fire fold, walked to the old table, poured three cups of tea, and raised her hand to invite: "Sit." ”
"Your cousin?" Tang Guo was stunned, looking incredulous.
"I didn't expect you to bring someone over." A low voice rang out behind her.
Tang Guo looked back at the visitor, his pupils contracted slightly, and he subconsciously asked the doubts in his heart: "Are you?" ”
"I'm Sima Lan."
The man smiled faintly, lowered his head and suddenly coughed violently, he was wearing a white middle coat, draped in an old smoky gray robe, the robe was washed white, and it was obvious that he had been some years.
Tang Guo was silent for a while before he reacted, the man in front of him, who claimed to be Sima Lan, was the third prince who was said to have died on the road to disaster relief, and Sima Jin was the most threatening contender for the throne back then.
He's not even dead?
Sima Jin actually kept his life, which made her feel a little incredible.
"Sit down and think slowly." Ming Xiaoyue pushed a cup of tea in front of her, took out a porcelain white bottle from her sleeve and pushed it to the table, and told Sima Lan with a solemn expression, "The medicine I gave you should be taken or eaten." ”
Sima Lan sat down on the table, Tang Guo lowered his eyes and looked at his unsteady pace, his eyes fell on his ankle, the wound was very deep, the broken skin was a little suppurated, and the ankle was red and swollen like a steamed bun, it should have been locked by something for a long time to cause such a serious wound.
Now, she somewhat believed that this person was Sima Lan.
"How could he be locked up in the cold palace by Sima Jin?"
Tang Guo picked up the cup and quietly glanced at Sima Lan.
Ming Xiaoyue bent the corners of her mouth: "It's not Sima Jin, it's the emperor." ”
After Sima Lan swallowed a black pill, he breathed a sigh of relief before slowly saying, "It's really not Sima Jin, if he had made the first move, I would have been a dry bone." ”
"You just said ...... Are you cousins with the Third Prince? Tang Guo looked at the two of them hesitantly, "Explain." ”
"Can't see it?" Ming Xiaoyue turned her head to look into her eyes, and didn't find emotions such as panic and fear, but found a kind of excitement to watch a play.
What an incredible woman!
Tang Guo carefully observed the faces of the two, Sima Lan was so thin that he was out of shape, the whole person looked tired of vicissitudes, there was an indescribable old state, sitting with the handsome Ming Xiaoyue, in fact, there was really no comparison, but after watching it for a long time, it could be vaguely found that there were four or five points of similarity between the eyebrows and eyes between the two.
"What are you bringing me here for?"
Tang Guo didn't want to stay for a long time, and he was still a little uneasy in his heart.
Ming Xiaoyue looked back at her quietly, her eyes fell on her plump lips and delicate and beautiful eyes, until Tang Guo was a little impatient, he said calmly: "I want you to do me a favor." ”
"No." Tang Guo didn't listen to it, and directly refused.
Ming Xiaoyue was not in a hurry, turned the cup in her hand, and said with a smile: "Hate me? ”
"I'm just one merit, holding grudges!"
Tang Guo bared his teeth and couldn't help but want to spray him.
Ming Xiaoyue Wan'er: "I'll let you go." ”
"You're putting a little bit there?" Tang Guo slammed the table angrily, put the cup on the table and scolded, "Didn't you learn to count well?" A bowl of blood in three days, you let me go for a month!! ”
At this point, her face twisted a little, and she clenched the sockets of her back teeth before resisting the urge to unscrew his dog's head.
Sima Lan looked at the two people who were facing each other in amazement.
It's not too accurate to say that it's-for-tat, mainly because Tang Guo has an attitude of wanting to eat his flesh and drink his blood, while Ming Xiaoyue on the other side is calm and unmoved.
Between these two men...... Interesting?
Sima Lan didn't mix it in, just held the cup in one hand and ate melons with the other hand to watch the play.
"How about we make a deal?"
Tang Guo rolled his eyes, and the corners of his mouth raised: "Say." ”
"You help me once, I'll spare less of your blood in the future."
"If you don't let my blood go, won't Yan Chengyu die? We'll all have to finish by then. ”
Ming Xiaoyue hid the dark color in her eyes and smiled faintly: "No, even if I take less, I have a way to hang Yan Chengyu's life." ”
Tang Guo's face instantly turned black as the bottom of a pot: "You deliberately took so much blood before!" ”
After Ming Xiaoyue finished speaking, she immediately reacted.
This guy puts a bowl every time, it has been calculated a long time ago, Yan Chengyu doesn't use so much medicine every time, he puts so much blood early, and he can use it as a bargaining chip to blackmail her later.
As for the purpose of blackmailing her......
I'm afraid it's right in front of me.
Ming Xiaoyue put her right hand against her lips and coughed lightly, tilted her head slightly and said, "I have to do it." ”
"I have to be your uncle!"
The cup in Tang Guo's right hand shattered with a bang, and porcelain pieces and powder fell from her palm.
Sima Lan and Ming Xiaoyue both looked at her hands in surprise, as if they didn't expect her strength to be so strong at all.
Tang Guo was so angry that his blood rushed to his brain, and after patting off the powder in his palm, he narrowed his cold eyes and stared at Ming Xiaoyue.
"I've never seen such a brazen person as you in my life!"
Sima Lan covered her lips and chuckled, and looked at Ming Xiaoyue sympathetically: "You have offended people ruthlessly." ”
Ming Xiaoyue stared at Tang Guo's answer, and tapped lightly on the table with her fingertips.
"Rest easy."
"Don't fall into my hands, or you'll be finished."
Tang Guo pointed to his nose and threatened, rubbing his temples that were so angry: "What do you want to do?" Get him out of the palace? ”
"It's not." Ming Xiaoyue shook her head, "I want to protect myself." ”
Tang Guo calmed down and looked at him strangely: "If you can cure Yan Chengyu, Sima Jin will naturally let you out of the palace." ”
"He won't."
The man's voice was loud and determined.
Sima Lan bowed slightly: "Indeed, now that Sima Jin has sat on the throne, I am a person who is not a threat, and he reluctantly followed the last wish of the emperor to keep me alive, but Xiao Yue is different." ”
"His back is to Xizhou."
Sima Lan moistened his throat and slowly explained the reason.
"You should have heard that my biological mother had a very low status in the palace and died after giving birth to me, right?"
Tang Guo nodded, she had seen the life experience of the third prince from the information, and she still remembered it very clearly.
"My mother was born in the Jin family in Xizhou, and she is the second daughter of the Jin family, called Jin Yang, who was arranged by the emperor to enter the palace from Xizhou, but she was only pampered once, and she was beaten into the cold palace by the emperor in anger."
When Sima Lan mentioned this, his expression was very calm, and he didn't seem to have any feelings for his biological mother.
"Actually...... The one the emperor wanted to take into the palace was not my biological mother. ”
Tang Guo's eyes widened and he said in surprise: "It's the other women of the Jin family?" ”
"Yes, it's my aunt, Jin Zhen."
Sima Lan confirmed her guess: "My mother and my aunt are twins, and they look almost identical. The emperor met my aunt when he toured the west, and the two had a relationship, and the emperor sent someone to pick up my aunt after returning to the palace, but my mother wanted to fly on the branch to make a phoenix, so she sent my aunt away, and then Li Daitao stiffened into the palace. ”