Prime Minister's Office.

Mei Xiaoren strolls under the weeping willows by the lake, and her daily pastime is no different from that of other wealthy ladies, nothing more than walking in the garden, admiring the flowers, looking at the lake and mountains, or playing the piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine and tea.

She looked slightly, and the lake reflected her appearance at this time. She has always felt that she is a mediocre woman when she wears women's clothes, who can see her ups and downs and vigorous in the past from her appearance at this time.

No matter how unwilling it is, it is in the past, she doesn't regret it or blame anyone, but this kind of leisure will make her feel like she is in the mist, and she becomes more and more confused, especially when Chu Yu is not there, such as these two days.

Nearly noon, the sun was getting more and more poisonous, Mei Xiaoren turned around and walked back, and saw the maid coming over and presenting her with a letter, "Madame's letter." ”

"Who sent it?"

The maid shook her head and said she didn't know.

Mei Xiaoren took the letter, saw that her name was indeed written on the envelope, opened the letter and looked at it, there were only two short sentences on the letterhead.

She frowned, a little hesitant......

At noon, Mei Xiaoren appeared alone on Dongshi Street, without an entourage.

The letter was sent by Ji Nanrou, and Ji Nanrou invited her to come out to talk about it, and the place was still a drunken immortal residence.

In the private room, the table was full of dishes, but the wine and food were ordered casually, and no one came according to their preferences, which shows that Ji Nanrou is not very concerned about today's hospitality.

Ji Nanrou sat in the seat facing the door, holding a tea cup in her hand, heard the sound of the door opening, raised her eyes, and saw that what she saw was not a girl like a flower and jade, but a "child".

Ji Nanrou raised her lips: "It still looks pleasing to the eye." ”

Mei Xiaoren put away the folding fan and sat down on the seat opposite Ji Nanrou nearby.

The etiquette is mutual, Ji Nanrou doesn't treat her as a guest, and she doesn't need to treat her as the master, so she asked directly: "What does Miss Ji want to tell me?" ”

She can't trust Ji Nanrou, and she also understands the truth of the Hongmen Banquet, but now her ears and eyes are closed, so that the word "important matter" said by Ji Nanrou in the letter has a great attraction to her, and it is also a matter related to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Ji Nanrou closed the door with the maid who was surprised, and then looked at her and sneered: "It seems that you are very attentive to your senior brother." ”

"Isn't what Miss Ji said nonsense?" The corners of Mei Xiaoren's lips raised, and he spoke straight.

If others respect her by an inch, she will respect others by an inch, on the contrary, Ji Nanrou's appearance is not worth her consideration of whether the wording is appropriate.

Ji Nanrou glanced at her and said lightly: "But you are pretending." ”

"True or false, it's all about me and Chu Yu." Mei Xiaoren stretched out his hand and picked up the teacup casually, and said, "What's more, Miss Ji is not me, how do you know if my intentions are true or false?" ”

"Because I'm hurting him!"

As soon as the teacup was attached to Mei Xiaoren's lips, she paused when she heard the words, then took a sip of tea indifferently and asked, "What do you mean by this?" ”

"Senior brother is going to drive Haoyang to Wuzhu for you, do you know?"

"I know, but I can't blame me, let alone Xiangye. The princess was ungrateful, and did everything possible to stumble upon me, and I regretted saving her back, and driving her to Wuzhu was a kind of 'regret medicine'. Mei Xiaoren continued, "Being the queen of Wuzhu will be respected by the Wuzhu people, but if she is in the Xia Kingdom, she will only be worse off than dead, and this treatment is cheap for her." ”

"At this time and that time, it was the royal family who married Haoyang to the Xia Kingdom, but now it is the Prime Minister's Mansion that wants to drive Haoyang away, and the royal family tried their best to keep it but didn't keep it, what does it mean, do you know?"

Mei Xiaoren silently put down the teacup, she had long known that the royal family was unwilling to condescend to the noble family and marry Wuzhu, if Chu Yu disposed of Haoyang, it would inevitably deepen the contradiction between him and the royal family.

At yesterday's court meeting, the head of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Rites had already led the ministers to make every effort to promote this matter.

Mei Xiaoren only knew that the marriage was proposed by Wuzhu Kingdom at first, but Chu Yu came back yesterday and told her the truth, saying that it was actually his arrangement.

She couldn't help but worry. That day, she said "forget it" in the palace, because she was afraid that the contradiction between Chu Yu and the royal family would become more and more intense. She should have thought that he would not forgive anyone for a long time, after all, Haoyang had exhausted his patience by doing nonsense again and again.

He hid it from her, probably because he was afraid that she would stop him.

Since she stepped down, her news has become increasingly closed, and unless Chu Yu tells her, she knows nothing about the affairs of the court. If she had known about it, she would have advised him to think twice, not because of kindness, but because the world was more important than her.

She hates someone to stumble on her the most, so she naturally doesn't want to let go of Haoyang, "crime deserves" is the most common right and wrong morality in the world, but from the perspective of Jiangshan Sheji, there are four words that are more important than crime deserved, that is, "the overall situation first".

It's a pity that the matter has come to this, and it is too late for her to put her beak, so she can only let him go.

Mei Xiaoren said indifferently: "What if you know, what if you don't know?" ”

"Do you think the royal family is still the royal family of the year, they have been suppressed by the Prime Minister for nearly 20 years, or they have been dormant for 20 years, and now they should not be underestimated.

She laughed it off, "Why does Miss Ji use the word 'they' to refer to, isn't the person Miss Ji said that should not be underestimated, isn't it Ling Zun?" ”

"I won't tell you what strength my father has now, I can only say that if he leads the royal family to resist, my senior brother won't be able to please him." Ji Nanrou picked up the fan and shook it, glanced at Mei Xiaoren and sighed lightly, "Senior brother, in order to protect you, give you a head start, and fight against the royal family again and again, in exchange for danger, what do you say you are not a scourge?" ”

Ji Nanrou's words, Mei Xiaoren listened to admittedly uneasy, but she would not fall for such a low radical method.

"Miss Ji wants me to feel ashamed and take the initiative to leave Xiangye?" Mei Xiaoren smiled and said bluntly, "I'm sorry, I can't do it." ”

Ji Nanrou's face suddenly darkened a few degrees.

"I don't like to be arrogant, especially I don't like to find unhappiness for myself, since Chu Yu doesn't think I'm a scourge, why should I think of myself?" Mei Xiaoren said with a smile again, "If you want to say that I am shameless, or I don't have self-knowledge, I don't mind, you also said it, Chu Yu has repeatedly disagreed with His Majesty for me, he deserves my death, if you insist on thinking that I am harming him, then I will tell you that I will harm him for the rest of my life!" ”

Ji Nanrou asked rhetorically: "What about Ye Zhi, you don't plan to harm him for the rest of your life, right?" ”

Mei Xiaoren's expression turned cold, she didn't want anyone to add the word "harm" between her and Ye Zhi, this was a sore spot.

"I said that you are a scourge, not only because you will harm Senior Brother, but also because you are also harming Ye Zhi!"

Mei Xiaoren couldn't help but sneer: "Miss Ji, are you interested in Xiangye, or are you interested in me?" Why do you care about who I am with, not with whom? ”

"I'm afraid you don't know yet, because there is no clarity between you and Ye Zhi, so Senior Brother wants to send Ye Zhi to the north to conquer Qiluo and keep him away from you." Ji Nanrou sighed, "This is not an opportunity for Ye Zhi, but a fire pit. ”