Mu Jingzhao's voice turned a little eager, "I have already held a funeral for her, and the reward has comforted her family, which is already a great gift for a subordinate!" I have done my best. ”

Jiang Ning got up and casually threw away the fur that Mu Jingzhao had draped on her body, she glared at Mu Jingzhao, and for a while, she actually chuckled. "What a gift?" She hooked her lips and smiled, the sarcasm on her face even worse, "This gift is what you think, if it is given to you, do you want it?" ”

Mu Jingzhao was choked for a moment, and he also stared at Jiang Ning expressionlessly, without speaking.

"The gift in your mouth is a beautifully built cemetery, a good reputation for her faithful protector, and a sum of money for her family to live in, but do you know that she is only seventeen years old, she is not married, and she can have a more complete and beautiful life, which is what she should have."

At the mention of this, Jiang Ning suddenly felt a throbbing pain in his chest.

"That day, just before going to the banquet that day." Jiang Ning closed her eyes in some pain, barely suppressing the tears that were about to burst out of her eyes, and the trembling of her lips almost made her unable to say a complete sentence.

"I'm still discussing with her about her marriage to Lu Feng, a beautiful wedding, a wishful husband, this is what she deserves!"

Jiang Ning's voice was hoarse, and when he shouted this sentence, he even had a bit of a hoarse taste.

And when she opened her eyes with tears suppressed, Mu Jingzhao in front of her still looked at her without saying a word, with a calm expression.

At that moment, Jiang Ning instantly felt a basin of cold water splashing down on her head, pouring cold from head to toe.

She suddenly understood that all her hoarseness at this time was just an unreasonable mess in Mu Jingzhao's eyes.

Because this person is no different from the hundreds of little palace maids in the palace to him.

She is just a subordinate who can be discarded and erased at any time, and this lowly life is not enough to enter his eyes.

He couldn't understand that the slave in his eyes who was like a mustard was all that supported Jiang Ning's survival.

"What the hell do you want me to do?" Mu Jingzhao frowned slightly, his voice was cold, and his eyes were full of strangeness.

Jiang Ning straightened up, and his tone gradually calmed down, "Give Liu a fair deal and make the person who killed her pay the price." ”

"So, you mean that I should have arrested Shen Tong and killed him now, just because of a palace maid?"

His tone was frivolous, and he was extremely sarcastic and disdainful when he said the words "a palace maid".

Jiang Ning was silent, and probably understood in his heart.

Whether it was his extremely mocking tone, or his deliberate erasure that Shen Tong's real poisoning target was himself, it was enough to show Mu Jingzhao's attitude.

That's his choice.

Whether it was Zheliu or himself who was poisoned at the banquet, it would be easily erased, for his own sake and for the so-called righteousness of the family and country.

"I have clearly told me my plan, and I have promised that I will definitely give you an explanation, at such a critical moment of life and death, why can't you endure it and take care of the overall situation?"

Jiang Ning looked up and glared at him, his facial muscles trembling violently, and finally a distorted and weird smile bloomed.

"Whose big picture? What does your overall situation have to do with me? She chuckled, the resentment and ridicule in her eyes were self-evident, "At the beginning, you said that for the sake of the overall situation, you killed my whole family, and you understated it, and there was no place to cry and mourn; Later, for the sake of the so-called overall situation, I forced my relatives and friends to become outlaws, embarked on a desperate road, sacrificed the lives of countless people in Qingshui County, and understated it, and even praised the initiators behind it; In the end, for the sake of the so-called big picture, I turned a blind eye to the imminent assassination, sacrificed my only relative, and asked me why I was not satisfied. ”

She looked up at Mu Jingzhao, her cheeks were red like a sleepy beast, "Mu Jingzhao, why should I be content?" ”

Mu Jingzhao stared at her, his expression seemed to be dodging, and vaguely, he seemed to see those residents of Qingshui County who died in vain, one by one, in rows, and asked him hoarsely, Your Majesty, why?

"Why should I put up with it? Why should I endure it, what did I get in exchange for enduring it for so long? One by one, the people close to me died, and I was the only one left. What can you get in exchange for enduring it any longer? Who will be the next to be unjustly killed? ”

Mu Jingzhao looked at her in a daze, as if he didn't know how to react.

He had seen Jiang Ning countless times, she was innocent, she was cheerful, she was indifferent, and she was bright.

But there has never been a moment like now, when the sky-high resentment has almost swallowed up all her innocence in the past, leaving only strangeness.

Mu Jingzhao looked at it and had some palpitations.

"Ning'er—" He took a deep breath, barely calming his tone, and reached out to pull Jiang Ning's shoulder.

In the next second, a white light flashed, and a dagger sank into his chest.

Mu Jingzhao was stunned, and he was about to shake Jiang Ning's shoulder, and he lowered his head and looked at the dagger on his chest.

The dagger didn't penetrate deeply, but only shallowly into a blade, and blood oozed from the wound, dripping down the blade and falling to the ground, ticking.

Jiang Ning is obviously not very skilled in this kind of thing, her action of holding the dagger is a little awkward, her fingers tremble slightly, but the action of holding it has never relaxed at all.

"Your Majesty, the old slave brought the medicinal soup!" Li Zinian shouted a few times outside the door, but there was no response from inside the house, he pushed the door a little hesitantly, and prepared to enter the imperial study.

The door was pushed open a small crack, Mu Jingzhao came back to his senses, and with a wave of his hand, the door was instantly closed, making a muffled sound.

This sound seemed to wake Jiang Ning up in an instant, her hand trembled violently, and the dagger fell to the ground with a crisp sound.

Mu Jingzhao didn't speak, just looked at her quietly.

She took two deep breaths hard, barely pressed her heart, and the sticky feeling from her fingers made her a little uncomfortable, and she wiped it on her dress, which barely suppressed the discomfort.

"Mu Jingzhao." Jiang Ning took a deep breath, and there was a faint tremor in his voice, "From today on, my agreement with you will be terminated, and the two of us will have nothing to do with each other, if you really want to say that there is, then you are the accomplice who handed the knife to my enemy." ”

She said it very hard, and every time she said a small sentence, she had to stop and slow down her breathing, and she said it intermittently for a long time.

In the end, she left a sentence, "From now on, you and I will break off." Then he turned and walked out of the study.

(End of chapter)