Chapter Eighty-Eight: Choice

Wei Cheng's eyebrows moved, the corners of his mouth were hooked, and Erlang's legs were raised. Under his gaze, Ruoxi's cheeks flushed heavier, and his head was buried lower, "Your Highness, where do you want to go, I just feel that Lord Zhong has been coming to see me these days, and I feel very sorry to go, so I ......"

"Oh," Wei Cheng chuckled, "I haven't said anything yet, why are you nervous?" ”

In this way, Ruoxi seems to be a fool who has no silver three hundred taels here. wringed the brocade cloth in his hand, "What kind of patterns does His Highness like, I also embroidered it together, which is a little heart." What she said was a bit sincere, but Wei Cheng was also the one who saved her from the tiger's mouth.

"You're going to repay me?"

"Of course, the little ones are the ones who know how to repay their kindness." She said it seriously. Very well, he was waiting for her sentence.

"If I ask you for a favor, you'll do too, won't you?" He narrowed his eyes, Ruoxi knew it, but his face didn't seem to understand, and he agreed, "Of course, what His Highness tells the little one to do, the little one will definitely die." ”

"That's not it, let me ask you first, do you still can't let go of the third brother in your heart?" He asked very directly.

Ruoxi was stunned for a moment, her face was a little ugly, and she bit her lower lip and said slowly, "The little one never dares to be delusional, His Royal Highness ......" Wei Cheng did not stop her lies, but looked at her with amusement and continued to entangle, and asked rhetorically, "I remember that the third child took good care of you in the past." ”

Ruoxi's breath stagnated, don't look around, "Third Highness, if he really has a small one in his heart, the small one will not cause trouble to your Highness here at this moment." ”

This sentence is from the heart. Wei Cheng raised his eyes and looked directly into her eyes, "He is my brother, and I, as the eldest brother, naturally know his temperament, the third child is used to it, and there are many girls in the capital who are sad and sad for him, and I haven't seen him sincere." ”

Ruoxi's lowered eyelashes moved, what he said was the truth, that is, to tell her that there were many women who surrendered under Wei Sa's feet, and most of them were played. Tired of losing it, she can only say that it is one of these people, nothing special. She understands all of this, and it is also something that she has thought clearly in her heart a long time ago, but now she was said by Wei Cheng so face-to-face, and she couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable.

"I can't let go of my heart, so I'll go back to the Hall of Forgotten Souls when I'm ready." Wei Cheng said casually.

Ruoxi frowned and looked at him, "Out of the matter of Princess Xianyue, I'm afraid the little one won't be able to go back." If Wei Sa believed her at the beginning, the matter would have eased, but Wei Sa has now made it clear that he is leaving her aside, even if she is cheeky and willing to go back, she is willing, Wei Sa may not be willing.

"If you want to go back, I can figure it out for you. But......" he curled his slender eyebrows, and the calmness in his eyes was another side she had never seen, "After you have successfully returned to the third brother, find a way to get the letter from him and his henchmen, and then hand it over to me." ”

"Huh?" Ruoxi looked back at him in astonishment, "You want me to betray Your Highness?" ”

"How can this be said that you betrayed him?" Wei Cheng said contemptuously, "Who is it that gave up in chaos and let you be bullied and ignored?" Ruoxi couldn't speak again, and listened intently to his words, his eyes were empty as if his soul had wandered away.

"Think about it, when you return to the Hall of Forgotten Souls, you can still be with him day and night, the moon is a useless ornament, a foreign race, no family and no background, it is true to be a princess, but the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, if her father really has the ability to let her not be wronged, she will not become a tribute to her relatives. The third brother is frivolous, and marrying Xianyue is just the king's order, as long as you are still by his side, there is a chance. ”

Wei Cheng looked at her virtue, only smiled slightly, fiddling with the brocade cloth, the boxy brocade cloth was as smooth as water, one end was tightly held by Ruoxi in his hand, he stretched the other end, "Many opportunities are unavoidable, if you miss it, you won't come again." ”

As soon as his hand was empty, the brocade cloth had already reached Wei Cheng's hand, Ruoxi looked at him in a daze, his originally pale face became more transparent, and even his lips trembled slightly irrepressibly. Wei Cheng was not in a hurry to listen to her answer, and the way she looked made him believe that this woman had listened to his advice.

Silent, quiet, Ruoxi could even hear her heart beating in the cavity, too quiet the environment shrouded the room with invisible pressure. Wei Cheng is right, as long as she stays by Wei Sa's side, she has hope, but he misunderstood, the hope that Ruoxi is looking forward to in her heart is not to be happy with Wei Sa again, but that as long as she stays in the Forgotten Soul Palace, the core area of the camp of the Three Highnesses, she will have the opportunity to have access to the most direct intelligence and information, and what she has is the hope of destroying the Wei family with her own hands. She had thought about relying on her own strength, but there were many mechanisms in this palace, and the eyeliner was intricate, how could she be a little woman who could play with it? She needed a strong partner to work with, but she didn't expect Wei Cheng to open her mouth first.

In fact, there is one thing that Wei Cheng said is wrong, Xianyue is not a threat to her at all, first, she has no intention of competing with her for anything, and second, she ...... It is still unknown whether the marriage of Xianyue and Wei Sa can be successfully completed.

"Is there any way Your Highness can let me go back?" She withdrew her empty gaze and looked at him again, with a little more determination in her eyes.

Wei Cheng looked at it in his eyes, smiled, no matter how he looked at it, there was a kind of treacherous conspiracy that succeeded, and put the brocade cloth on the palm of his hand and slowly slid it up and down against her cheek, as if he was gently stroking her. "The solution is very good, but it will wronged you."

Grievance? Ruoxi snorted softly in her heart, she had suffered the biggest grievances in her life, what else was she afraid of? She closed her eyes slightly, and opened them again, "Your Highness commands." ”

"You and I have teamed up to play a bitter trick, the third child has always been conceited and pity, and he will not be too ruthless to his own women." As soon as Wei Cheng's fingers loosened, the brocade cloth slipped from Ruoxi's eyes, and the cold watery silk texture swept across her eyelashes, but Ruoxi didn't even blow up her eyes. "Of course, you don't have to be afraid, this bitter trick won't really do anything to you."

Ruoxi nodded numbly. Wei Cheng patted her face and left satisfied.

Hundreds of miles away, the ice disaster in Lingnan is in a hurry, Wei Sa arrived here three days ago and began to plan non-stop preparations for disaster relief, in the afternoon, the accompanying staff came to tell him that the north embankment because of disrepair and could not help the collision of a large number of ice cubes, has begun to loosen.

After receiving the news, Wei Sa quickly rushed to the north embankment with a team. From time to time, the stones on the embankment fell with the impact of the ice, and there were obvious cracks in the surface of the dam, and the situation was very bad. Standing on a nearby hill and looking down, the lower stream of the embankment is divided into east and west, with rows of cottages on one side and large fields of farmland on the other. Most of the rice and grain transportation in the Great Qi Kingdom depends on the Lingnan area, because the topography here is very suitable for the growth of crops, and the people who live here have also made a living by farming for generations.

"There are a lot of residents here, and the people are scattered, and we have people who tried to persuade them to evacuate, but these residents are not cooperative. Moreover, the village Lizheng also brought people to the book of 10,000 people, asking His Highness to let them live and die with this fertile land that has lived for generations. ”

"Ridiculous!" There were other staff members behind him who objected, "These dirt buns are short-sighted and regard a few points as the root of life. ”

Wei Sa glanced at the indignant staff, and the staff closed his mouth in amusement.

The root of the peasants is the land, and if they were to choose between their lives and the land, they would definitely choose the latter, and this psychological preparation Wei Sa had already made when he came. However, he glanced at the 10,000-word book handed over by Yuan Xing, the so-called 10,000-word book was drafted by someone, and then all the villagers were asked to press a handprint on the rhubarb paper to express their support. It's just that it is really because of the brain fever of these farmers who are facing the loess and their backs to the sky that they are swallowed up by ice together with the farmland?

This is probably not a choice that the superior should make. Wei Sa pursed his lips and didn't speak, he watched the large slices of ice in front of him crash, and large white bubbles rose and fell under the ice.

"Looking at the current situation, the only way to do this is to open the dam and release water." Staff member Yuan Xing was behind him, and his voice was very low. Wei Sa also looked solemn, Yuan Xing was right, if he could take measures before the embankment burst, the loss could still be reduced a lot. This involves a difficult dilemma, whether to keep farmland or to keep villages and towns.

Yuan Xing glanced sideways at the pensive Wei Sa, his handsome and almost evil face had a rare seriousness and contemplation written on it, obviously, he was also hesitating. After a long time, Wei Sa opened his thin lips and asked, "How big is the farmland?" He only asked about the farmland but not the population, and Yuan Xing had already guessed eight or nine in his heart.

Yuan Xing sighed in his heart, like every king, abandon the pawn to protect the car, there can be no more people, and the farmland is gone, how much grain will the Great Qi Kingdom lose every year. Starting from the overall situation, Wei Sa knows how to do it, and they still have this "Book of Ten Thousand Words" in their hands, even if His Majesty reproaches them, they have the evidence, and they just obey the wishes of the people. "My subordinates have asked nearby villagers about it, and there are more than 100 hectares of fertile land here, and most of the crops are rice and millet rice."

"What's over there?" He pointed to the southeast with his whip on his horse, where there was an inconspicuous place, densely planted with some trees, and he was far away, and some of them could not be seen clearly.

Yuan Xing called a soldier and asked a few words, and then reported, "Over there is a rich tea garden here." ”

"Tea plantation?" Wei Sa smiled, "This isn't an ordinary rich man, is it?" Is there no edge in sight of a garden that is big? "A mere merchant who can open up a large area of tea plantations in such a fertile area and occupy it for a long time must not be a good merchant.

Yuan Xing's heart understood, and his eyes lit up, "Your Highness, are you going to do so?" ”

"The soldiers were divided into three routes, one to support the front line, to strengthen the embankment as much as possible to delay time, and the second way, to dig a deep ditch to divert the embankment, and the other end to the tea plantation. This is the third way. Wei Sa hooked the corners of his mouth a little, "Go and control that rich man, so that he doesn't have anything bad and delay time." ”

Yuan Xing glanced at Wei Sa with admiration, bowed, and then retreated. Wei Sa's soldiers have a strong ability to act, and as soon as his order was issued, they had already rushed around the tea garden with shovels and hoes, and began to work hard. Yuan Xing, the person at the head, even recognized it, and whispered to Wei Sa in his ear, "Your Highness, this person is not an ordinary businessman, but a protΓ©gΓ© raised by His Highness. ”