A day later, Chihiro and Kohachi came to visit Hong Liangcai again.

Seeing the two, Hong Liangcai was stunned, as if he had returned to the day before yesterday.

How did they come so soon? Hong Liangcai's heart was numerous, and even the reaction was half a beat slower than usual.

It wasn't even until Hachi reminded him that he came back to his senses and asked Hachi and Chihiro to sit down.

"I don't know what the two of you are doing here today?" Hong Liangcai tugged at the corners of his mouth, revealing a smile that he thought was kind.

"I have a business here that I want to talk to about with Hong Yuanwai." Hachi said, and looked at the maids standing around.

Hong Liangcai was slightly relieved in his heart, since he didn't come for Yu'er's business, it would be good.

But he thought about it, he had planted the land all his life, and only set up a stall in the county to buy some vegetables, was this kind of business?

Hong Liangcai doesn't know a single big character, but he is very accurate in weighing his own pounds and pounds in this regard.

However, since Xiaoba said this, although Hong Liangcai was puzzled in his heart, he still followed his intention and asked the maid to withdraw.

"Outside Hong Yuan, you have to tell us the truth now." Xiaoba held the tea cup, looked at the tea leaves floating in the hot water, and said.

Hong Liangcai's body tensed up in an instant, he sat upright, pretended not to understand, and said, "Isn't Childe here to do business?" ”

"I'm here to do business, but the premise of doing business is that we are honest with each other and have no secrets."

"Childe, this is agreeable?" Hong Liangcai didn't quite understand, but he vaguely realized that the secret that he had been hiding in his heart was about to be exposed.

"Princess Mingyue is Hong Yu, don't tell me that you don't know!" He placed the teacup on the table, making a crisp sound of cups and saucers colliding.

Hong Liangcai felt that his brain suddenly swelled and hurt, he stood up suddenly, pointed at Xiaoba, and scolded loudly: "You, you are talking nonsense!" What are your intentions, you say? ”

Xiaoba's face was calm, and he raised his hand to signal Hong Liangcai not to be too excited, and said, "Why don't you listen to me tell a story first?" ”

Without waiting for any reaction from Hong Yuanwai, Xiao Ba said eloquently, saying: "17 years ago, a farmer came to have a son, and he was very precious. It just so happened that the king recruited beauties from all over the world and set up competitions, but men were not allowed to participate in the election, and the child was born really beautiful, and the old man risked killing his son to disguise himself as a woman and send him to the palace, and finally the old man got his wish. His son won the first place and became a princess, and the old man enjoyed the glory and wealth of the old man. Am I right, Hong Yuanwai? ”

After Hong Liangcai listened, his face was no longer bloodless, but he was still trying his best to deny it: "I don't understand what you're saying." ”

Xiao Ba analyzed Hong Liangcai in detail: "It doesn't matter if you don't want to admit it, those who want Hong Yu's life won't stop because of this." If you continue to conceal it, the result can only be a white-haired person sending a black-haired person. Or do you want to talk to Hong Yu's ghost that Daddy is an accomplice to those who killed him? ”

Hong Liangcai's love for Hong Yu is not fake, not to mention that Hong Yu's death is not good for him, so Xiaoba is willing to believe that Hong Liangcai has nothing to do with this case.

Hong Liangcai listened to Xiaoba's words, especially when he was in the last sentence, two lines of tears welled up in his eyes, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he was dumb and ate Coptis chinensis.

"Who has an enmity with you, or with Hong Yu?" Hachi continued to ask.

Hong Liangcai choked up, his eyes were full of endless sadness, and he shook his head and said, "I don't know, I really don't know." ”

"Then why did you send Hong Yu to the competition?"

"This ......" Hong Liangcai sneered and closed his mouth.

"I didn't let Hong Yu go to the competition, our father and son were forced." Hong Liangcai's voice trembled, and he was overwhelmed with grief.

Forced? Is there anyone still forcing this kind of thing? Participation in beauty contests is voluntary, and even those selected by county officials from all over the country need the consent of the person concerned.

"Who forced you?"

Hachi felt that he was about to touch the people behind the scenes, but Hong Liangcai's answer pulled them into the whirlpool.

"I don't know." Hong Liangcai shook his head and wiped the tears on his face and the snot left behind with his sleeve.

"Why is that?"

"I don't know who gave my niece the name, but when the list came out, Hong Mingyue's name was already on it." Hong Liangcai said as he slowly sat down.

In the selection of local officials, 1 to 3 are generally selected, and then identity documents and portraits are submitted, and the government officials select suitable women for selection.

At the beginning, the two women reported by the county order of Reservoir County posted a notice that there was no Hong Yu from their family, but in the end, they were told that their niece Hong Mingyue was on the selection list, and asked him when he would have a niece.

He didn't know how he had a niece, so how could he answer the answer of his fellow villagers!

The most important question is, where did he go to find a beautiful and suitable woman to send the imperial capital to participate in the competition?

"Do you really have a niece named Hong Mingyue?"

Hong Liangcai shook his head and said, "No, in fact, I don't have a brother, we moved here 20 years ago to avoid the rogues. ”

No wonder, Chihiro secretly thought, if he was born and raised here, the neighbors would not be unaware of Hong Liangcai's family relationship. Hong Yu was able to successfully dress up as a woman to participate in the beauty pageant thanks to his deadly personality and the neighbors' ignorance of their family background.

"So you've come up with a way to get your son to be the replacement?"

"I also had to do it as a last resort!" Hong Liangcai said, tears broke out again, "The two of you don't know, since I learned about the selection list, in order to find a replacement woman for tea and dinner, since Hong Yu went to the imperial capital, I have never slept well." ”

"But there is a portrait on Fu Yin's side, how do you find a person who is exactly like the portrait?" Hachi frowned, thought carefully and asked.

"This is still painted secretly by the county magistrate! Later, we found out that the person in the portrait was eight points similar to Yu'er, so we took the risk of letting Hong Yu participate. Hong Liangcai raised his sleeve to wipe away his tears, and continued, "At that time, I thought that Hong Yu would lose the first round, and in the process, I just need to be careful not to let people discover my gender." ”

"Why don't you find a county order to withdraw from the competition?"

"You don't understand this, it's not that I haven't looked for it, the county order said that when Fu Yin sent the list over, the same documents had already been submitted to the imperial capital, and it was impossible to withdraw from the competition. If we insist on withdrawing from the competition, we will still lose our heads for the crime of bullying the king. ”

I see. After listening to Hong Liangcai's explanation, Chihiro felt uncomfortable in her mouth, and took a sip of tea. She suddenly sympathized with Hong Yu, this can be regarded as a flying disaster!

What's even more unfortunate is that Hong Yu relied on his own advantages to pass all the way, and was chosen by the people of this country to ascend to the throne of the country and the city, and became the object of their envy and worship.