The little guy who reported quickly led Chihiro and the two to the meeting room.

Hong Liangcai used to be an authentic farmer, with a short stature, even if he ate meat these days, he couldn't eat his shriveled body a little plump, and his clothes seemed to be loosely hung on his body with gorgeous materials. The bronzed face was marked with wrinkles carved by the wind and sun, and the two fingers were as short as small fans, covered with calluses.

Seeing Chihiro and Hachi, the old man greeted him with a smile.

"When you visit, you will be forgiven for your sins."

It seems that Hong Liangcai has a lot of guests, and this is also a crepe to say. Chihiro thought it was funny, if it weren't for the fact that she had touched Hong Liangcai's situation two days ago, she really couldn't tell that this person was an old farmer.

Chihiro Kohachi saw the courtesy, and Hong Liangcai, you came and praised each other, and then began to slowly lay out.

Xiaoba took out the family letter that Princess Mingyue asked him to hand over from his arms and handed it to Hong Liangcai.

"This is what Princess Mingyue asked us to give to you."

Hong Liangcai's eyes turned red when he saw the letter, he took the letter, and rubbed his fingers on the envelope with the words "Uncle Qi" upside down, revealing a loving gaze.

Chihiro and Hachi looked at each other and didn't speak.

Actually, this is not intentional, but thinking about it, it is not surprising that Hong Liangcai is illiterate.

Naturally, the family letter cannot be opened and read in front of the guests, not to mention that he is a farmer and does not know a few big characters, so he has to find the housekeeper in the house to read it to him.

"Two, is it okay for Princess Mingyue to come in? Have you eaten well and slept well? Can you get thinner? Hong Liangcai put down the letter, leaned forward, and asked eagerly.

Hong Liangcai asked in too much detail, how could Chihiro and Xiaohachi, two outsiders who were not familiar with the princess, know the princess's daily food and sleep quality, and how could they say a change?

However, it is not difficult to understand that Hong Liangcai is facing the only niece who is far away in the imperial capital, and it is normal to care more about it. What's more, because of Princess Mingyue, he has the opportunity to enjoy endless glory.

"Everything's fine." Xiaoba answered Hong Liangcai's 3 questions simply in four words.

"That's good, that's good......" Hong Liangcai nodded, his eyes returned to the letter, and his eyes became redder and redder.

After a while, he turned his face and wiped the corners of his eyes with his sleeve, and then turned back to Kohachi and Chihiro and apologized: "I'm sorry, people are easy to get emotional when they get old, forgive me." ”

"Your love for Princess Mingyue is touching, and I will definitely tell the princess when our brother and sister go back."

Hong Liangcai nodded and thanked Hachi and Chihiro.

Chihiro secretly said in his heart: Hong Liangcai's concern for Princess Mingyue doesn't look fake, and it doesn't look like he will buy murder.

"However, although the life in the princess's mansion is rich and well-fed, but," Xiao Ba immediately changed to a solemn expression as soon as he said it, "There are many people who want the princess's life." ”

"Huh?" Hong Liangcai's eyes widened, looking incredulous.

"This, it's true? Who wants to kill my son......" Hong Liangcai looked flustered, obviously frightened by the news. Halfway through his words, his face suddenly changed, his eyes looked around, he didn't dare to look at Hachi and Chihiro, and finally closed his eyes, as if he had made up his mind, and continued, "Son...... Daughter-in-law? ”

What the? Hachi and Chihiro look shocked!

Isn't this incest?

As if realizing that he had just said something contrary to morality, Hong Liangcai's face turned red, and his pupils turned sharply: "I'm sorry, in fact, I have always raised her as half a daughter in my heart." The princess is not my brother's biological child either. But since the princess decided to go to the competition, I have lost this kind of mind. ”

Chihiro had just been stuffed with a fly by this old man, and when she heard his explanation, she didn't feel much better.

Hong Liangcai is old and has a son, besides, with such a Hong Yu, isn't his daughter-in-law half a daughter?

Sometimes the more you explain, the more you can't explain it.

"Do you know what you're talking about?" Xiao Ba's eyes were forested, and he almost wanted to poke Hong Liangcai out of a hole.

Hong Liangcai stood up in a panic, knelt down in front of Xiaoba, and kept kowtowing: "My lord! Adults forget what Xiao Lao'er said, these are Xiao Lao'er's own thoughts, princess, she doesn't know anything. Little old man should be damned, little old man is confused! ”

In addition to men are not allowed to participate in beauty pageants, married women or ** girls are also not allowed. Therefore, as long as you are a virgin, even if you are an 80-year-old old man, you can participate.

It must be ice and jade!

Chihiro rubbed the corners of her forehead with a headache, such a dirty thing that this honest person could come up with. In case someone shakes this matter out and adds more oil and vinegar, Princess Mingyue will not want to live regardless of whether she is a virgin or not.

Xiaoba looked at Hong Liangcai, turned his gaze, and said: "We are very good friends with the princess, you get up, don't talk nonsense about this matter again." ”

Hong Liangcai stood up in response, breathed a sigh of relief, and his face softened a lot.

He raised his hand and wiped the cold sweat that had just broken out on his forehead.

"Are you hot?" Hachi saw his movements and asked with interest.

"Ah, yes," Hong Liangcai sneered, his face almost wrinkled into a chrysanthemum, "It's a little." “

Hong Liangcai smiled weirdly, why wasn't he ashamed of what he had thought?

Hachi gently lifted the page and continued the previous topic.

He said in a rather regretful tone: "The assassin who assassinated the princess was caught that night. It's a pity that the man took poison, and before the magistrate could ask who the mastermind behind it was, he was already dead. ”

Hearing this, Hong Liangcai's newly calmed face immediately changed to a look of anxiety and fright, as if he had just experienced an assassination.

"Adult ......"

Hong Liangcai knelt down again, two lines of old tears hung on his ravine-ravine old face, and he begged: "My lord must find out who the murderer is, I am just the one who ...... A niece! ”

Chihiro sighed in his heart, Hong Liangcai's tears couldn't be faked, no matter what he had thought about Princess Mingyue, he really cared about this moment.

However, it is not difficult to understand that this old man is afraid that Princess Mingyue will never be able to live a rich life after she dies.

"The verdict of this matter is decided, you don't have to be so upset."

Xiaoba comforted him, then smiled, and asked casually: "I often heard the princess mention that she has a handsome cousin, why don't you see Hong Gongzi?" ”

Chihiro glanced at Xiao Hachi inadvertently, and said in her heart: I really can't see that this person is lying, when did Princess Mingyue mention this cousin, it is not the news they have heard in the past two days.

Hearing this, Hong Liangcai was stunned at first, and then his face changed again, he quickly wiped away his tears, and even smiled and spoke, but the smile was really ugly, as if it was squeezed out.

"Xiao Gongzi doesn't know, my son followed Lang Zhong 3 months ago, and he didn't even be able to send the princess on her last journey."