"Go back to your house and think about it behind closed doors, you don't have to come out again during the spring hunt."

After Shen Xiao finished speaking, Cao Zhaoyi wiped her tears and got up to leave.

She was extremely depressed, her feet were like lead, she stepped on the ground heavily, and she was like Wan Jun pressing down, unable to raise her head, but she still had to take care of her demeanor, straightened her rickety back, supported herself dignifiedly, and walked out of the hall step by step alone under the gaze of everyone.

"Get up."

Shen Xiao's words fell, and Liu Qingshu, Chu Ying, and Xin Wei, who were kneeling, all got up in gratitude and returned to their seats.

King Xuan chatted with the emperor again, and the hall slowly became lively again, as if nothing had happened.

Chu Ying leaned over, pressed Xin Wei's ear, and said with palpitations: "I'm scared to death." ”

Xin Wei said softly: "I know that I am innocent, so there is nothing to panic about, and I have to thank you for standing up and testifying for me." ”

Chu Ying resolutely stood on this side in a situation where the situation might be reversed at any time, although it had little effect, but the sincerity she and Liu Qingshu gave made Xin Wei's heart like a long drought and a rainstorm, countless vitality grew, and she could see the spring in the world.

"This Cao Zhaoyi's heart is really bad," Chu Ying reacted that the Cao family had been demoted, and changed her words, "Cao Cairen." ”

Xin Wei said "um" absentmindedly, her apricot lips pursed slightly, staring straight at the dish in front of her, and her eyes seemed to be empty.

Chu Ying saw that her chopsticks stopped on the dish for a moment and did not move, and she looked worried, when she was still thinking about Cao Yan, she pulled her sleeve.

"I was also very scared when I was framed last time, but I don't want to die if I cut a dance dress, this time, she is going for your life, how vicious, and you also saved her...... I finally know why Sister Liu said that the most terrible thing in this world is not jackals, tigers and leopards, but people's hearts. ”

Xin Wei came to her senses, put down her chopsticks, and said thoughtfully: "You are right, people's hearts are unpredictable. ”

Then he held Chu Ying's hand back, and the two cold hands shook each other, slowly feeling a little warmer.

Xin Wei said: "Don't you ask me, I ...... with the emperor last night"

"What's there to ask about that?" Chu Ying clenched her hand and said in a low voice, "Sister Liu heard that you are the one who is most like that one. ”

"That one?" Xin Wei pretended not to know.

Chu Ying looked around, someone looked at this side, and she didn't dare to say, "I'll tell you when I go back." ”

-

At night, Xin Wei took the initiative to see the emperor.

The guards were about to go in to report, but Father-in-law Xi happened to come out, saw that it was her, and said with a smile: "The emperor has just ordered, you don't have to stop you, little master." ”

Father-in-law Xi took her inside and bowed back.

Shen Xiao put down the letter in his hand, leaned back on the wide throne, and closed his eyes: "You are here." ”

There was only a pair of red sandalwood spitting goldfish palace lamps in the room, and his expression was even more tired in the dim night.

Xin Wei got straight to the point and said, "I want to meet Cao Yan." ”

Shen Xiao opened his eyes and looked at her deeply, his voice faint.

"No need, just ask me."

Xin Wei was silent for a long time, but still said: "I just want to ask why she wants to harm me, since the emperor doesn't let me see it, that's it." ”

She was about to retire after blessing the gift, Shen Xiao smiled: "You specially went on this trip, just to ask her this?" ”

"That's true." Xin Wei lowered her eyes lightly, and her face was not flawless.

Shen Xiao shook his head, his tone tired: "You want to ask her if someone deliberately led her way to the lotus pond last night, because she was going to the queen's house, how could she go around the lotus pond behind her." ”

Xin Wei's eyes moved slightly, and she was silent.

Shen Xiao said: "You should ask me directly, whether that hug and that begonia are intentional." ”

Xin Wei was slightly stunned and raised her eyes to look at him.

Indeed, the shallow hug under the begonia tree is very abrupt, and it is even more inexplicable for the guards to send the begonias.

If Cao Yan deliberately misunderstood and did such a thing from digging a grave, it would make sense again.

She wondered if that was the case...... But she didn't dare to ask the emperor directly.

And he broke it so bluntly, but it made her panic.

Shen Xiao said again: "You should also ask me if it is because Cao Shangshu surrendered to the imperial sister that I am jealous." ”

Xin Wei's heart was shocked.

Sure enough, it was.

But he is a dignified emperor, and now that the Cao family has collapsed and analyzed, why is he calculating a Zhaoyi that is not enough to see?

"The eldest princess has never formed a party, why did Cao Shangshu say anything to her? Did the emperor listen to the slander and make the eldest princess suffer an unjustified injustice! ”

Shen Xiao said helplessly: "You are so nervous, do you think I will treat the imperial sister?" ”

Xin Wei pursed her lips, endured the turbulent waves in her heart, and remained silent.

There was a hint of mockery in Shen Xiao's tone: "She is the sister of my mother's compatriots, the only one, no matter what, I can tolerate her, why bother you to worry about it." ”

She knows about their sister-brother relationship.

His biological mother died early, and Shen Shuning was only two years older than him, but he firmly believed that the eldest sister was like a mother and treated his younger brother very well.

Caring for him since he was a child, protecting him, teaching him, and scolding him.

There is only one eldest princess in this world, who does not have to abide by etiquette in front of the emperor, and even tells the emperor to avoid it, even if he speaks ill of each other, it will not make him angry.

It was clear that he didn't say a word, and Xin Wei's forehead was wet with a thin layer of sweat.

The idea of winning over Cao Shangshu for her own use was her idea. If the emperor didn't blame the eldest princess, he would be angry with her.

She calmed down and said, "Got it." ”

"What do you know?" Shen Xiao didn't laugh angrily, "Do you think I'm beating to wake you up?" ”

Or else?

Xin Wei was speechless.

"I know that you mistakenly thought that I was jealous of the imperial sister," Shen Xiao avoided her gaze and said lightly, "It's that I'm narrow-minded, and none of the Cao family wants to let go, it has nothing to do with the imperial sister, and it has nothing to do with you." ”

Xin Wei was stunned for a moment, and reacted quickly and said: "The emperor is not narrow-minded, but he hates officials who are fake public and private." The emperor's words and deeds are for the well-being of all people. ”

Shen Xiao responded with four words: "High-sounding." ”

Saying anything is wrong, Xin Wei closed her mouth in amusement.

Shen Xiao said: "You can speak outright in front of me, you don't have to hide it, you don't have to test me around the bush, let alone say those high-sounding words." ”

"Got it."

That being said, Xin Wei didn't listen to a word.

She can be less reserved, but she can't be outspoken. She didn't dare, and she didn't believe it.

Shen Xiao closed his eyes again, stretched out his hand and rubbed his temples, showing fatigue, and asked abruptly, "Is what the imperial sister said true?" ”

"What?"

"Your injuries."

Xin Wei's eyes were as quiet as a deep tan, and she said: "When I first arrived in Gusu, there was a man who wanted to do something wrong to me. ”

Shen Xiao's hand rubbing his temples stopped, and he opened his eyes suddenly, "Then you ......"

Before he finished speaking, his voice stopped, and he couldn't speak again.

Xin Wei continued: "I kicked and injured his son and grandson bag to save my innocence. He sued me to the county office, and the county government asked me to pay money, and I paid it. But he was still not angry, and went to me privately. This time, he didn't dare to do anything wrong to me again, but he used the whip to hurt me to vent his hatred, and I used my arms to block it, so that these scars were left. ”

Shen Xiao's chest rose and fell, his wheezing voice was heavy, and he said after a while: "His name and surname." ”

Xin Wei didn't speak.

"Tell me his name and surname."

Shen Xiao's eyes burst with murderous intent, and his tone was cold.