February's red is still the same as in the past, with a lot of guests, but it is not too lively.

The first floor is still the richest businessmen in Yangzhou City to set up a banquet, during the banquet you come and go, staggered, the air is filled with the aroma of wine and vegetables, as well as the women's smile and the fragrance of fat powder.

On the second floor, it's much cleaner.

Originally, only dignitaries and dignitaries could come up here, perhaps because there were too many things in the state capital recently, and there were fewer dignitaries and dignitaries, and there were only one room with guests. I walked over with the flask in my hand, and through the beaded curtain, I saw a man in a fine dress drinking inside.

This person is Yang Ji.

Wei Ningyuan told me that Yang Ji often came to February Red to drink, and it was only at this time that I had the opportunity to meet him alone.

He was about thirty years old, very lean, with a treacherous light in his small inverted triangular eyes, and high cheekbones on his face, which made him look a little mean, which made people uncomfortable at first glance.

I slowly lifted the curtain, he raised his head to look at me, his eyes lit up, and he immediately saw my high belly again, and immediately frowned: "Your boss is becoming more and more unruly, even pregnant women dare to come to serve me!" Don't you want to open this restaurant? ”

I walked over with a smile and poured him a glass of wine: "Lord Yang misunderstood, I am not from here. ”

He frowned, reached out and took the glass I had offered, looked down cautiously, then looked at me again, and said, "Who are you?" ”

I looked at him with a smile and didn't speak.

He felt more and more that something was wrong, those little eyes stared at me, and suddenly as if he remembered something, he suddenly stood up and pointed at me and said loudly: "You-you are Yue-!" ”

He swallowed the next words.

I have only met him from afar at a state banquet, but the people in the officialdom will never forget it, not to mention that when I was so bad with Shen Rou in the harem, the people of his family will naturally be impressed by me, and it is also my expectation that he can recognize me.

I smiled at him and said, "Lord Yang has good eyesight." ”

"Y-aren't you dead?"

"Of course I'm 'dead.'" I smiled and said, "As long as Lord Yang doesn't tell others about what he saw me today, I'll still be 'dead'." ”

Yang Ji is not a confused person, and he immediately understood.

He calmed down, looked at me for a long time, and then said in a deep voice, "What are you doing here?" ”

"I want to come and ask Lord Yang for something."

"Please?" When he heard this, he immediately laughed: "You came to beg me? Hahahaha. ”

It is natural for him to laugh, Shen Rou is his cousin, when I was in the palace, I had a-for-tat confrontation with her because of Xu Youling's matter, and the people of the Shen family were afraid that they all hated me, and now I actually opened my mouth to ask him for help, which is indeed a bit funny.

His laughter slowly stopped, and he glared at me and said viciously, "You know, I can chop you into meat sauce with just one sentence now!" ”

I still said, "I know." But adults should also know, when I get to this time, how can I let people chop themselves into meat sauce? ”

He was stunned, looked at me with a frown, and I smiled: "Could it be that when your lord went south, no one sued you, when Yue Qingying was imprisoned, in addition to bullying the king, there was also a charge of fornication and rebellion?" ”

His face changed suddenly, and he looked around in horror.

Although Yangzhou is much more stable now than before, otherwise he would not dare to follow in the footsteps of Liu Yi and his son to go south as a thorn in history, but Yangzhou's mob is famous, and the things he did naturally know in his heart.

I smiled and said, "Don't worry, my lord, I just came to beg your lord today, and I don't want to do anything else." ”

His face changed a few times, and he looked around again, and then he sat down with a palpitation, and I slowly sat down opposite him.

Yang Ji has also been an official for many years, so he quickly calmed down, looked at my high bulging belly, and said, "Who are you - who is this child?" ”

His voice was full of emotion, and I guessed that he was worried that this child was the emperor and would affect Shen Rou.

I smiled faintly and didn't answer, but said, "I came to beg your lord today, because I hope you can release the husband of the people's wife." ”

"Husband? You—" His eyes widened.

"I'm married."

Looking at my calm appearance, Yang Ji seemed to be a little incredulous, and only after a while did he say with a smile: "You, what a bold man, Yue Qingying!" ”

"Have you forgotten? Yue Qingying is dead. ”

“……”

"Now, I'm just here to beg my lord to let go of the husband of the people's wife."

"Your husband? Who is it? ”

"Lord Yang arrested the rebels in Yangzhou City a while ago, and my husband was also mistakenly arrested and put in prison. But he is not an anti-party, nor is he a student who came to participate in the imperial examination, he is just a miscellaneous worker in a restaurant, and he has nothing to do with these things at all. ”

Yang Jileng snorted and said, "You want me to let him go, why?" Do you think you're still that bullshit talent? ”

I smiled and said, "I'm just a common person now, so naturally I don't have the qualifications to ask Lord Yang to do things." It's just that this is a misunderstanding and an unjust case, and I hope Lord Yang will raise his noble hand. ”

He looked at me with an eyebrow: "What if Ben-sama doesn't?" ”

I raised my eyes to look at him and said word by word: "That people's woman can only submit a complaint to the emperor and sue the emperor." ”

He was startled and glared at me.

I said slowly: "The folk woman also said just now that Yue Qingying is dead, so naturally she shouldn't return to the emperor, but she shouldn't want her to go back more than Yue Qingying, it should be Shen Guifei, right." ”

“……”

"Finally, there is no such person in the harem, why bother to make trouble again?"

“……”

Yang Ji's face sank, and after thinking for a while, he suddenly sneered: "Yue Qingying? Do you think you can return to the Emperor? Even if you go back, do you think you'll be fine? You actually dare to marry behind the emperor's back, do you think the emperor can spare you? ”

My heart trembled.

Indeed, this is also what I was worried about before I married Liu San'er, until I got the news that he had returned to Beijing, and I believed that he had accepted the fact that I was dead, and between me and him, it was finally over.

I thought that I would never be involved with the previous person again in this life, but I didn't expect-

But for now, I definitely can't hold back!

So, my face still did not change, the smile on my face deepened, and said: "Lord Yang is worried that the emperor really can't spare me, but according to the emperor's character, before punishing me, he will definitely punish the officials who are rampant in the south and ignore the people!" ”

His face changed and he said, "What do you mean?!" ”

I smiled and said: "It's not interesting, I just want to remind Lord Yang that when the emperor was still a prince, he went south to Yangzhou, just because Lord Hong Wenquan colluded with grain merchants to make the black money of the victims at that time. And what you did in Enke this time is a big taboo for the emperor. ”

“……”

"Yangzhou, the emperor has put a lot of thought into it, if he knows that this time Enke, the lord takes the opportunity to collect money, and the emperor is angry, I don't know what will happen?"

“……”

"Actually, the adults are also very powerful, so much news to the capital can be intercepted by the adults one by one, until now the emperor doesn't know what happened in Yangzhou. But if there's any news that adults can't intercept, then—"

“……”

"Lord Shen and the concubine Niangniang have also spent a lot of effort for the reuse of adults, but don't fall short."

"......" Yang Ji's face turned slightly pale, and his eyes flickered with a hint of uneasiness when he looked at me, but he still wanted to hide something, so he picked up the wine glass on the table, but suddenly put it down - probably because he was afraid that there would be something wrong with the wine, but the wine in the glass was shaking badly, and I looked at the sparkling inside, and my heart slowly settled.

After being silent for a long time, he slowly raised his head and looked at me, his small eyes flashing with a needle-like light: "You can really still be the emperor?" ”

"I just don't want to do that."

"Are you really, just trying to save your husband?"

"If you raise your noble hand, there will be nothing to do with it."

He stared at me silently, his gaze like a needle, and I just sat calmly across from him, always with the same calm smile on his face, although I knew that the palm of the hand on the table was already covered with cold sweat.

I don't know how long it took, but he finally said, "Okay." ”

My heart skipped a beat, almost jumping out of my chest, and I suddenly felt a pain all over my body, but it was also because of this jump that the blood on my body began to flow again, and I made a little smile: "Thank you, Lord Yang." ”

"This official will issue an official document soon, and you will wait to pick up your husband."

"Thank you."

After he finished speaking, he looked at me again, there was a trace of cruelty in his eyes, I just didn't see it, seeing him get up and walk out, I also stood up and bowed slightly to him.

Two days later, I stood at the door of the prison and watched as the iron door slowly opened, and a cold wind blew out of it.

In the dim light, a familiar figure slowly walked out.

The ragged clothes could not hide the scars on his body, and there was a trace of confusion on his bloodstained face, and the whole person seemed to have walked out of hell, and when he appeared in the sun again, it was like a world away.

He raised his head and looked at the sky, and his eyes that had not been seen for a long time seemed to be a little unbearable to the stimulation of the light, so he immediately stretched out his hand to block it.

Then, he looked at me.

Those eyes, still the same as before, although slightly red from sleepiness and pain, his eyes were still bright, but in this brightness, there was a trace of clarity that had never been seen before.

"Light!"

As soon as he saw me, a smile appeared on his face, and I had already walked over and hugged him hard.

Maybe I touched the wound on his body, and when I hugged him, I could feel him tremble slightly, but at this time I didn't want to let go at all, I would rather him be in pain, and I also wanted to know that this qiē was true.

He's really out!

He seemed to understand what I was thinking, so he let me hold it, and after a long time, the weak hands gently lifted up and stroked my hair: "Don't worry, I'm real." ”

“……”

"Makes you suffer."

“……”

I bit my lower lip and didn't speak, but I was afraid that as soon as I opened my mouth, tears would come out faster than the voice, and after a while, I slowly raised my head from his arms and looked at him: "You, do you still hurt?" ”

"No, it doesn't hurt." He smiled, although there was also a hint of pain in that smile: "Seeing you, everything is fine." ”

"That's good."

I nodded, looked over his shoulder, and looked at Wei Ningyuan, who was standing in the gatehouse not far behind, he only nodded, I also nodded, and then took Liu San'er's arm and walked out, saying, "Then let's go quickly." ”

"Oh."

He didn't think much about it, just thinking that I wanted to get out of here with him quickly, but as soon as he walked outside, he saw a carriage parked there, waiting for us, he was slightly stunned, and said, "This is—"

"San'er, let's go home first." I looked at him and said, "I'll talk about it when I get back." ”