Chapter 107 The Trust of a Cup of Tea
Wen Renchi was silent for a long time, not knowing whether he accepted Mo Junjiu's words or hesitated.
It wasn't until Mo Junjiu was a little impatient that he said softly: "That letter is just Mo Shujun's one-sided words, it doesn't mean that Shi Junhe is also a father who wants to harm me, and besides, the lower official has a question and needs to ask His Highness for advice." β
"What?"
"Since this letter has arrived in your hands, how did Shi Junhe attack my father based on this letter?"
Mo Jun was speechless for a long time, staring at Wen Ren and not speaking.
Wen Renchi seemed to be just asking the question and didn't really want to get an answer, his expression was gentle, and he got up and said, "Thank you for your kind invitation today, as for what Your Highness said, the officials will seriously consider it and investigate." β
In fact, the problems and contradictions he pointed out just now were obvious, but he was first 'kicked out' of the Shi family by Shi Junhe, and then suddenly told the 'truth' of Wen Renbo's death by Mo Junjiu, so he hated Shi Junhe without thinking about it, and pushed all the sins on Shi Junhe.
But now......
Wen Ren secretly gritted his teeth, determined to find out the truth of this matter no matter what.
"Uncle Li, why are you standing at the door?" As soon as Wen Renchi returned to Wen Ren's Mansion, he saw Uncle Li, the housekeeper, standing at the door, with a welcoming posture.
Uncle Li shouted to the young master, and reminded Wen Renchi helplessly, "The eldest lady of the Shi family came after you went out for the banquet, and she has been sitting in the living room waiting for you, and she has just left less than a stick of incense." β
These two are really a perfect miss!
Hearing this, he was stunned, "Oh." β
"Do you need the old slave to send someone to chase her back?" Uncle Li thought that it was not a good thing for the fiancΓ© to miss each other like this.
"No need, I'm a little tired." Wen Ren shook his head tiredly and entered the house.
Thinking of something, he suddenly stopped and asked, "Uncle Li, you have been with your father until he died, what do you think of his relationship with my father?" β
The expression on Uncle Li's face remained unchanged, and he replied in a decent manner: "The old man has always regarded General Shi as a close friend during his lifetime, and the two have close contacts in the army and cooperate tacitly. β
It's all compliments!
Wenren stared at Uncle Li suspiciously, but the latter stopped talking for a while, so he had to ask: "But what?" β
Uncle Li was a little confused, "What but?" There is no but. It is known that the two generals have a good relationship. β
Wen Ren was helpless, he also knew the well-known rhetoric, but he needed something different now!
"And what kind of person do you think my father is?"
Uncle Li, an old man, even if he didn't know what Wen Renchi was worried about, he also knew that this matter was related to Shi Junhe. He didn't answer directly, and said cryptically: "The master's vision of people is still very accurate. β
Wen Renchi suddenly understood, yes, if Shi Junhe was really bad, it would be impossible for Wen Renbo to be good friends with him, let alone for more than ten years.
But what about Mo Shujun's letter?
He raised many doubts in front of Mo Junjiu, but it was only suspicions, Mo Shujun's letter was not forged, and the malice of the Shiguo Mansion towards his father was not fake.
Wen Renchi fell into a deeper entanglement, while the Shi family at the other end was still preparing for Shi Baoning's marriage in an orderly manner.
Especially Shi Qingxue, these days, basically the door is rushing to her screen, and the visitors are all prevaricating for various reasons.
"Liuniang, Princess Yuzhen is here again, she wants to see you by name this time."
Shi Qingxue was dropping a needle, hearing this, the needle was accidentally pierced on her index finger, and the pain made her hurriedly stop, Dongshuang on the side wanted to see the injury for her, she just waved her hand, "It's okay, just prick it." β
After a pause, I saw that the second-class little girl was still standing at the door waiting for her answer, so I could only say helplessly: "Just say that I am seriously ill and have not recovered, and it is inconvenient to see guests, and when I am well, I will go to the princess's mansion to ask for guilt." β
"Liuniang......" Xia Mang looked at Qingxue worriedly, and persuaded in a low voice: "Princess Yuzhen has invited you three times, and you have avoided it every time, if you are taken by someone with a heart, it will be troublesome." β
Shi Qingxue bit her lower lip, her face was full of confusion, she also knew this truth, but she just felt twisted, and she was also a little scared, unwilling to face Mo Yuzhen.
It seems that as soon as the two meet, she can see their bleak future, which is really boring.
"Forget it, I don't see anyone now, and I'm not alone with her, others can't set off the storm."
As soon as her words fell, an arrogant and laughing female voice came from outside, "Yes, you are now a silkworm baby, and you can't become a butterfly if you don't break the cocoon, right?" β
Mo Yuzhen directly pushed away the second-class maid who was blocking the door, and strode into Shi Qingxue's boudoir, with an expression on her face that seemed to be smiling but not smiling.
Shi Qingxue had to suppress the complicated thoughts in her heart and smiled at the other party, "Why are you here?" β
Mo Yuzhen didn't speak, glanced at Xia Mang and Dong Shuang, Qing Xue had no choice but to leave all the people in the house, close the door, pour another cup of tea for the former, and then ask the question again.
Mo Yuzhen still looked at her, and after a while, she suddenly smiled, "Qingxue, don't you want to see me?" β
"How, how?" Shi Qingxue stammered a little, her expression couldn't hide her panic, and she was still not very good at lying in the face of people she really cared about.
"If not, why should I see you once, it's even more difficult than going to the palace to see you?" Mo Yuzhen asked aggressively, she even wanted to see Mo Xiangbin just by handing over a post in advance, but when Qingxue refused her invitation for the first time, refused to go out with her for the second time, and wanted to call her sick for the third time, she couldn't even call her sick when she came to the door, which could make her crazy.
Shi Qingxue was very embarrassed, and she couldn't explain those words, so she could only be silent.
Mo Yuzhen's face sank, and he asked dissatisfiedly: "Qingxue, don't you really want to break off with me?" β
Shi Qingxue looked surprised and subconsciously denied it, "Of course not." β
The tone is 120,000 resolute.
Mo Yuzhen's face looked a little better, and he slowed down his tone, "Then are you angry that I am good at advocating and tossing Shi Baojin?" β
She knows how protective this girl is Shi Qingxue.
"It's not." Shi Qingxue didn't expect this at all, and seeing that the other party was angry, she could only explain, "I know you are angry for me." β
"Then why are you mad at me?" Mo Yuzhen was impatient, walked up to Qingxue and broke the other party to himself, and asked word by word: "Even if you really want to break off your friendship with me, you have to give me a reason, right?" Otherwise, I wouldn't be reconciled! β
Mo Yuzhen is the most favored princess in Mo Country, but for the sake of Shi Qingxue's neglect, she personally came to the door to ask for peace, even if this friendship made Qingxue have a pimple in her heart, it was impossible not to be moved.
She was silent for a moment, and finally chose to confess, "You know about Qingluo Mountain, right? β
"Huh? I've heard, what's going on? β
Mo Yuzhen's face was inexplicable.
Qingxue stared straight at her, "The battle of Qingluo Mountain is very dangerous, my father and eldest brother almost died there, but someone deliberately wanted to harm them." β
"How so? Didn't your father exterminate the Qingluo Mountain bandits and get the reward of your father? Mo Yuzhen opened her mouth suspiciously, but the other party's serious expression told her that the other party was talking about things.
After thinking about it again, her face turned white, and she blurted out: "Do you suspect that my imperial brother did it?" β
Shi Qingxue shook her head, Mo Yuzhen just wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, and the former's next words made her heart rise to her throat again.
Qingxue said lightly: "It's not a suspicion, I'm sure there is the handiwork of the Third Highness in this." β
Mo Yuzhen: "......"
She was a little angry because of Shi Qingxue's suspicions; I was a little happy because of Shi Qingxue's straightforwardness......
In the end, it all turned into crying and laughing, "How are you sure?" β
Qingxue's first reaction hesitated, she didn't want to say the things that Mo Junhao told her, but then she thought of the identity of the other party, and suddenly showed a slightly cold smile, "Your Royal Highness, you have also traveled a distance to Qingluo Mountain, you should know about this matter, right?" β
She was gambling: Since Mo Junhao could easily know her whereabouts, he should know her location regardless of whether Mo Junjiu sent someone to kill her.
Mo Yuzhen asked in a tangled way: "So what?" β
"How?" Shi Qingxue felt a sense of relief to get the answer, but her chest was also suffocating.
She lowered her eyelids and tried her best to keep her voice flat and emotionless, "But you probably don't know that it's not just my father and eldest brother who died in Qingluo Mountain, I was stabbed twice on the way, and I almost died each time." β
Mo Yuzhen was stunned, all the resentment against Shi Qingxue for snubbing her turned into guilt, she wanted to ask at first: Are you hurt - even if you ask, it only makes her more hypocritical, she didn't ask.
Silence permeated the two, and Mo Yuzhen didn't even have the strength to argue.
Just asked in a very low voice, "Are you really going to break up with me?" β
The trembling and fear were palpable.
Shi Qingxue still shook her head, but she only shook her head.
At this moment, for the first time, the two deeply realized that the hostile position would only make the relationship between the two sides slip further and further, and there was no way.
"Yuzhen, I ......" Shi Qingxue opened her mouth but was unwilling to put on those hypocritical statements, and shut up again.
She picked up the cup of tea on the table that had not been touched by Mo Yuzhen, stuffed it into the other party's hand, and said softly, "Have a cup of tea, I'll pour it for you." β
Mo Yuzhen took a sip of tea, her eyes kept glued to Shi Qingxue, and the latter also looked at her fixedly, so she took another sip of tea.
It wasn't until the cup of tea bottomed out that Shi Qingxue took the teacup away and put it on the table, and smiled slowly, "Yuzhen, this is our relationship." β
"What?"
"Whenever I bring you tea, you dare to drink it defenselessly, and so do I." It's just that the intimate relationship of the past can't go back.
Shi Qingxue didn't say the last half of the sentence, but Mo Yuzhen already understood what she meant.
Mo Yuzhen smiled bitterly, "Okay, then I'll go, take care." β
Shi Qingxue nodded and watched her leave.
Mo Yuzhen walked out step by step in such a heavy gaze, her mood was heavier than ever, and just when she had already walked to the door, she suddenly stopped.
Under Shi Qingxue's stunned gaze, she walked back to Qingxue quickly, "I know our positions are different, but I have something to tell you." My father plans to marry you to the fourth emperor brother as a concubine. β