Chapter 169 Let It Be

In the past few days, Zheng Boyou has always received secret reports of frequent changes from the princes in various places, and since Qin Bo's death and Yingde was named the Marquis of Qin, the Qin State has been gathering the nearby princes and small states in an attempt to form a huge alliance, so that the surrounding countries have to rely on or form alliances with other countries.

Zheng Boyou guessed that Yingde's move was because he was worried that after Ji Gongyan dealt with Qi Guo and Dongyi, he would turn around and deal with himself and the dog Rong, so he simply made the first move.

And Zheng Guo's ally has and can only have one person, that is, King Zhou, and this matter is no longer up to Zheng Boyou.

When the doctor heard Zheng Boyou's reply, he was quite dissatisfied, and immediately stepped forward and asked with a tough attitude, "Now that the ambitions of the Qin State are known to the world, and we will expand our territory by winning virtue and strength, if we do not ally with the Jin State, we are afraid that it will be difficult to protect ourselves under the iron hooves of the Qin State, please Zheng Bo think twice." ”

"Zheng Guo will not form an alliance with any princes!" Zheng Boyou frowned and waved his sleeves, "Convey my words to the envoy of the Jin Kingdom, if there are such people in the future, they will not be seen!" Although his voice was low, there was an indescribable deterrent, which startled Twenty-seven, who was still sitting on the bed, she was stunned, pinched the quilt in her hand, and looked ahead with a stunned blink, not knowing that Zheng Boyou still had such a side.

"Uncle Zheng," the doctor responded lightly, and he didn't seem to put Zheng Boyou in his eyes, "I'm afraid that you can't decide whether this matter is up to you or not!" If it is because of this matter and the Jin State hurt the peace, I am afraid that it is not good, we all think that the alliance with the Jin State is imperative, and now the Zheng State and the opposition have reached an agreement, and they just came to inform Zheng Bo! After this person finished speaking, he turned around and left, Zheng Boyou frowned, and after he went out, he pushed all the books on the table to the ground, and propped his hands on the table panting.

Twenty-seven stood outside the screen, looking at Zheng Boyou, who was angry.

Zheng Boyou raised his head and remembered that Twenty-Seven was still there, and took a deep breath, his tone was still extremely relaxed, "You go out first!" ”

"Why?" Twenty-seven looked at Zheng Boyou and asked, "Why is this happening, how did Zheng Guo's situation become like this?" ”

Zheng Boyou pinched the bridge of his nose and didn't want to say more, his entourage was transferred by Ji Gongyan, on the one hand, to weaken his power, and on the other hand, to blame. Now that the blame incident has happened, everyone has led the disaster of Qi and Dongyi to Zheng Boyou, and his already small prestige has declined again. In addition, Zheng Boyou has been transferred out of Zheng Guo for many years, and it has always been Zheng Qizhi who has been giving orders instead of the old Zheng Bo, and now sitting in the position of this prince, Zheng Boyou is really sitting on pins and needles.

Twenty-seven couldn't get an answer from Zheng Boyou, so she had to retreat from this small room, she sat in her room and looked into the distance silently, her mind was blank. Outside the door, Mrs. Zheng passed by wearing a blue cotton jacket, looked at the door of Twenty-seven, and asked the person who was clearing the snow outside the door, "Is the second lady back?" ”

"Just got back from the master's study." He nodded in response.

"Stayed overnight?" Madame Zheng frowned.

"Yes!" Xiren replied, "I went last night, and I just came back this morning, and the master left ......" Her voice became smaller and smaller, and finally she was almost inaudible, and suddenly her voice turned louder and asked Mrs. Zheng, "Madame, do you want to go in to see the second lady?" ”

"No, my mother's family is here today, and I'll talk about it another day! There's no need for her to go to bed at night! Mrs. Zheng said sharply, and the person immediately nodded, "The slave knows!" ”

The courtyard of the Zheng Mansion is very quiet, especially in winter.

Although Twenty-Seven was lying on her desk in a daze, she still listened to everything that happened outside the door, and her mind quickly turned, just now someone came to say that the envoy of the Jin Kingdom had arrived, and at this moment Mrs. Zheng said that someone from her mother's family had come, and looking at the moment, Zheng Guo was not only worried about internal troubles, but even external troubles.

If you want to say that the wolf ambition of the Qin State, what about the other princes, everyone wants to replace Ji Gongyan and become the monarch of the world, but everyone's strength is not enough to command the world, and now this Qin State has made a good move, in the name of the alliance, it is actually an attempt to steal the country; The Jin State concocted it in accordance with the law, starting from the small country around him, and saw that Zheng Boyou at present had the name of a prince, and the real power in his hands was not firm.

Twenty-seven's heart was flustered, and she took out a white cloth from the table, spread it on the table, and wrote all the situations here to Bao Xi with black ink stroke by stroke, looking forward to her reply to give her a little mention in the letter. Bao Xi read the whole letter again, although it can be seen that Zheng Guo's situation has reached the point of imminence, but at the moment Zheng Qizhi is obviously just fake death, what kind of arrangements the king wants to make, she can't refer to it yet, if she helps Zheng Boyou at this moment, then the king will return to the dynasty in the future, I am afraid that this matter is not easy to explain, but it will harm Zheng Boyou.

Bao Xi sighed softly, shook her head, put down the cloth in her hand and looked at Nian'er.

Nian'er saw that her mother was done, and immediately stretched out her hand to hug Bao Xi, Bao Xi shook her head, couldn't hide her smile, bent down and picked up Nian'er, and held it in her arms, Nian'er turned her head and was still chasing the doll in Xiuxiu's hand, which made Xiuxiu keep complaining, "It's really greedy, and I want to be hugged by my mother, and I want to play with you!" ”

"What kind of person is Mrs. Zheng?" Bao Xi suddenly asked.

"Mrs. Zheng?" Xiuxiu looked at Bao Xi and asked puzzled, and then remembered that this lady was not Mrs. Other, "What?" Twenty-seven was bullied in the Zheng Mansion? ”

"Just casually asked, she didn't say." Bao Xi said softly.

"Mrs. Zheng's temperament is similar to Uncle Zheng, gentle and gentle, even if she is angry and framed, she will never hold a grudge." Xiuxiu looked at Bao Xi and said, "In the past, Mrs. Zheng had a very good relationship with the eldest lady when she was not in the palace, so I knew that Sang Zhu was going to frame the eldest lady because she loved Uncle Zheng, so she was so angry!" can know that Sangzhu has ill intentions towards him, and the eldest lady never seems to think about it. ”

"How did Mrs. Zheng know that Sangzhu was going to kill the eldest lady?" Bao Xi asked.

"Mrs. Zheng happened to see Sangzhu drugged!" Xiuxiu said, I don't know what Bao Xi is asking these for?

"Mrs. Zheng happened to be passing by?" Bao Xi asked.

"That's not it," Xiuxiu shook her head, "Is it that the eldest lady asked Mrs. Zheng to go and pick up some things that day, and the eldest lady was delayed on the way, and she was a ......little late," the more she spoke, the more she felt that it was wrong, and then suddenly raised her head to look at Bao Xi and asked, "Niangniang asked me this mean to suspect that the eldest lady's gentleness is pretended?" Did something happen to the twenty-seventh girl? ”

"She didn't mention it, but she could see it," Bao Xi shook her head, "What she said and wrote was the difficulties that Zheng Bo encountered in Zheng Guo. Now the Qin State unites all the small countries, intending to compete with Zhou and Chu. The Jin state, which was close to the Qin state, was afraid of causing trouble to itself, so he invited Zheng Guo to form an alliance, and Zheng Bo planned to refuse this matter, but the entire Zheng State scholars and doctors were inclined to form an alliance, and Zheng Bo's power was hollowed out. Twenty-seven was worried about Uncle Zheng, so he wrote this letter. ”

"How so?" Xiuxiu's brows were tightly locked, "Uncle Zheng used to be very prestigious in Zheng Guo, and the people loved him very much. ”

"It's one thing for the people to love him, it's another thing to be in the government and the opposition," Bao Xi sighed, Ji Gongyan has worked Zheng Boyou's body over the years, and he originally planned to eradicate him, so in order to be able to empty him, he took a lot of thought. Now that everything he did back then has finally achieved initial results, Ji Gongyan found that he couldn't help but reuse Zheng Boyou, which caused the current embarrassing situation.

"I really didn't expect it," Xiuxiu shook her head, "How did Niangniang see the eldest lady's personality from this incident?" ”

"Isn't the eldest lady the daughter of Jin Bo?" Bao Xi said.

"There's nothing wrong with forming an alliance." Xiuxiu thought about it carefully and said, still can't figure out the relationship.

"If Uncle Zheng wants to form an alliance, there is only a dead end!" Bao Xi said.

"Why?" Xiuxiu was getting more and more entwined.

"If the princes are alliances, then what is the use of having a monarch?" Bao Xi looked at Xiuxiu and asked, "If the Qin State unites the countries, if it borrows force and uses a suitable excuse to annex the countries, then the power of the Qin State will become bigger and bigger, and sooner or later it will surpass the royal power of the Zhou Dynasty, and the world should be Zhou or Qin at that time?" ”

"The Jin State and Zheng Guo are also for the same reason, the purpose is to expand their power?" Xiuxiu seems to understand something.

Bao Xi nodded, "Zheng Boyou is Zheng Bo who was helped up by the king, if this stone has to hit his own feet, then why does he need to exist?" ”

"So if Uncle Zheng forms an alliance, the king will definitely kill him and find someone to replace him?" Xiuxiu asked in horror and took a deep breath, not expecting that there was such a deep doorway hidden under this simple matter.

Bao Xi nodded.

"There's no reason why the eldest lady will harm Uncle Zheng!" Xiuxiu became a little restless, and threw the doll in her hand aside, she was completely out of interest in teasing Nian'er, and all she was thinking about was Zheng Boyou, who was stuck in the quagmire at the moment.

"The eldest lady is not trying to harm Uncle Zheng," Bao Xi said, "I'm afraid that the eldest lady didn't expect that this matter would involve so many interests, and she should just want to take the right to live in the Zheng family." Once the alliance with the Jin Kingdom is reached, then the position of the eldest lady will be higher than now, and Uncle Zheng naturally does not dare to slack off, but it is a pity that ......" she said and shook her head.

"What a pity?" Xiuxiu asked.

"It's a pity that she didn't know her husband, and she didn't expect that Twenty-seven would marry into the Zheng family halfway." Bao Xi said that he could already think of what kind of misfortune Twenty-Seven was living in at this moment. Zheng Boqi seems to be gentle as jade, but in fact he is also very stubborn, the character in his bones is really similar to the deceased Mrs. Zheng, Zheng Boyou will not change the things that he recognizes, he recognizes that he is just taking care of Twenty-seven, not really married, but afraid that Twenty-seven will be infatuated and will eventually pay wrong. In addition, Mrs. Zheng is kind and ruthless, but she is afraid that she will be caught in injustice everywhere, and this trip to troubled waters is really not easy.

"How are you going to reply to Twenty-Seven's letter?" Xiuxiu looked at Bao Xi and asked tentatively.

"Four words," Bao said.

"Which four?" Xiuxiu looked at Bao Xi and looked forward to it.

"Let it be!" Bao Xi replied lightly.

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