"Did you say enough!?" Cheng Yong covered his head and slowly squatted down: "You all come to force me, each of you is forcing me with your so-called sense of responsibility, third sister, I am not you, you have been a concubine since you were a child, and your father has long said that everything in the Wei family is yours." So I never wanted to fight with you, although I am the eldest son of the Wei family, but my father has never expected anything from me. I just want to study in peace, marry the woman I love, and live a peaceful life. I've been like this for so many years, but you suddenly said no to me, and put a lot of inexplicable burdens on my shoulders, I can't do it!"

Yuan Xi looked at the angry Cheng Yong, and was speechless for a long time, several internal prisoners hid on the side to probe their brains, and were scolded away by Yuan Xi.

The wind at the end of spring has a humid breath, and it is still a little warm, and the catkins are crumpled in an instant, sticking to the corners of the clothes, like a well-behaved hairy rabbit cleverly avoiding the invasion of the warm wind.

"I can't do it......" Cheng Yong slowly buried his head in the crook of his arm: "Third sister, if you don't let me shave my eyebrows, I'm useless." You are a seedling born to do great things, and I am a coward who shares peace and leisure, but am I wrong? I just want to live a life of peace and security, what crime has I committed? What crime am I? How innocent is Lan Yu? Just because the princess has taken a fancy to me, I have to accept my fate, and Lan Yu will be trampled on and humiliated?

Cheng Yong hid his face and cried bitterly for a while, slowly stood up, and stepped in front of Yuan Xi in a few steps: "You are a natural phoenix nirvana, you do your big things, but my life's major events have nothing to do with you, why do you want to force me hard again and again? I would like to ask you, if you really treat everyone equally, why do you dare not say such a thing to the princess? ”

"Wrong!" Yuan Xi raised his chin slightly: "The fault is that you don't distinguish between grievances and grievances, you don't distinguish between right and wrong, and the fault is that you protect traitors and connive at evil thieves." The fault is that you are weak and unsavory. ”

"What?" Cheng Yong stared at Yuan Xi in surprise.

"When the first emperor appointed you as the captain of the horses, it coincided with an eventful time, princes and nobles, and how many people wanted to marry the princess, but they had no chance. What are you, a white-bodied scholar who doesn't even have a reputation, why did the first emperor want to give you the princess? That's just for my sake, for the sake of Weifu's face. Back then, Xiao Rongshen competed with His Majesty for the throne, and the two forces twisted together. Weifu is a big mountain of gold, once Xiao Rongshen ascends the throne, he will swallow Weifu in one bite, and not only will you not survive, but even your father, grandmother, Aunt Yu, and hundreds of people in Weifu will not survive. But if you become the captain of the horse, the Wei Mansion will still have Princess Chenxiang as a backing in times of crisis. Do you understand?"

"You're using strong words. When Xiao Rongshen ascended the throne, he imprisoned the princess, and Prince Bao attacked the Chu Palace before he took Princess Chenxiang out. At that time, the princess was panicked like a lost dog. Hmph, she can't even protect herself, how can she keep the Wei Mansion!"

"What do you know?" Yuan Xi glanced at him sharply: "That's just a captivity, no matter how bold Xiao Rongshen is, he didn't move Cheng'an Palace for half a point after all." Xiao Rongshen was anxious to get rid of Princess Chenxiang, so he plotted to marry the princess to Lu State. Do you think that Xiao Rongshen cares about the friendship between brothers and sisters? To tell you the truth, it is because Princess Chenxiang's biological mother is also from the royal family surnamed Chu, and she is of the same clan as my biological mother, do you really think that without the royal family surnamed Chu behind her back, Xiao Rongshen can let the Wei Mansion stay to this day?"

Cheng Yong pursed his lips and shook his head vigorously: "I don't understand what you're saying." ”

"Of course you don't understand, because you don't have a string in your head to be a slaughterer for officials, even if you pass the top three, you're just a rotten Confucian. Hmph, I'm glad that the eldest brother has no intention of taking the exam, otherwise wouldn't it be a problem for the emperor? Such a mediocre person, with an article, has to occupy a high position, which is really ridiculous in the world. ”

Cheng Yong's body was shocked, since he was a child, he had a thought in his heart, that is, one blow must be hit, once he takes the exam, he will definitely go to high school. He thought that he had read poetry and books, and that he must be superior in talent and learning. Listening to Yuan Xi's words today, it was like a thunderbolt slamming directly in the face, and he was at a loss.

"My sister said I was a mediocre person?"

"You're not only a mediocre person, you're also ungrateful, and you don't know what to do. The first emperor operated everywhere, painstakingly and lonely, in order to give Wei Fu and give him a line to keep the way back. And you, but you have ruined all the good intentions of the first emperor. Yuan Xi waved his robe sleeves indignantly and scolded: "Lan Yu is a hard life, but the person who killed her is not the first emperor, it is Xiao Rongcheng, it is Xiao Rongshen! Since you love Lanyu so much, it is better to avenge him." Xiao Rongshen and Xiao Rongcheng are both dead, but the remnants of their party are still there, and the emperor has exiled them to the border, so you might as well go to the border and kill them all with a quick horse!

"I ......"

"If you don't have the guts, don't grit your teeth. Big brother, I know you, no matter how bold you are, you can't be as big as the courtyard wall of the Wei Mansion. Out of that high-walled courtyard, you are penniless, you are nothing. If the prince and I had been defeated and died under Xiao Rongshen's sword, Weifu would have been fish to be slaughtered. When the first emperor married the princess to you, he re-entrusted the Wei Mansion to the royal family surnamed Chu, otherwise, the royal family surnamed Chu was powerful and the city was deep, even if they saw the Wei family disappearing, they would not help. ”

"What you say, it's all the truth?" Cheng Yong's eyes lost their looks, like a dead fish on the board.

"When it comes to that, it's really boring. You just saw a piece of blue jade, but what the first emperor saw was the entire Wei Mansion and the whole world. Yuan Xi glanced at Cheng Yong with disdain; "Just by you, you are also worthy of marrying the daughter of the first emperor? Just by you, you are also worthy of the favor of Princess Chenxiang? You just rely on the good skin that Aunt Yu gave you, with your polite appearance." In fact, in your essence, there is no difference between you and those ignorant hypocrisy and corrupt people!"

Ling'er heard Yuan Xi's scolding of Cheng Yong from a distance, and hid aside and didn't dare to come. Yuan Xi saw her hiding her head and tail next to the stone pillar, so he shouted, "Ling'er, come here." ”

Ling'er pursed her lips, cautiously walked to Yuan Xi's side, and blessed her body: "Master, it's time to drink fetal medicine." ”

Yuan Xi let out a long sigh: "Cheng Yong, what you do today, if the first emperor knew about it, he would definitely be chilled, no wonder people say that all people are readers, and the more you read, the more you don't understand right and wrong." ”

Cheng Yong's face turned white for a while, blue for a while, and licked his lips until he licked the smell of blood.

"Do you think that you are the only one who has been wronged? You take a look at this Chu Palace, this is the center of power in Great Chu, and everyone who survives here, without exception, has all walked all the way through the bloody wind, and which of them has a journey that is not a hundred times more difficult than you? Do you think that if you lose a beloved woman, you are qualified to be disgusted with the world? The world is pushing people away, if you stop, you will be crushed to pieces immediately, it is not that you are disgusted with this world, but that you are not worthy of living in this world at all. ”

As soon as Yuan Xi stretched out his hand, Ling'er hurriedly stepped forward to support him: "Wei Chengyong, this palace will punish you to kneel in the corridor to reflect, when you figure it out, when to get up." Ling'er, let's go. ”

"Wait!" Cheng Yong shouted, "If what you said is the truth, why didn't you tell me clearly?"

At that time, Xiao Rongshen had not yet killed the monarch and usurped the throne, and the eldest brother would say that these were all excuses for the first emperor, and it would be like today. ”

Ling'er peeked back to look at Cheng Yong, and saw him kneeling down slowly, looking melancholy with broken hearts and galls, and she felt a little unbearable in her heart.

As the saying goes, killing people and punishing hearts, slaves and maids look at it, the soul of the eldest young master is gone. ”

Yuan Xi turned his head to look at her: "You mean, my words will drive him to death?"

Ling'er hurriedly lowered her head and muttered, "That's not what the slave meant. ”

"His soul is unproductive, spineless, and brainless, what's the use of coming? You see that today's events are so troublesome, the emperor is angry, and the princess has suffered a great shame, you look at it, today's affairs can't be finished. The Queen Mother will definitely not be able to hide it for long. The sixth master originally wanted to take advantage of today's banquet to settle the marriage of the second sister, but the second sister was blessed by misfortune. ”

"The master is saying that the queen mother will think that the eldest young master will be jealous of the Wei Mansion and not let the sixth master go to the second miss?"

"Eighty percent. Yuan Xi said casually.

Suddenly, a figure flashed in front of him, like a night cat, and swooped down on the top of the corridor. Ling'er screamed and stopped. Immediately, I saw a group of internal guards running over: "Over there! Catch him!"

"Master, it must be the guy named Skinny Monkey. Ling'er leaned in Yuan Xi's ear and said softly.

The tiles overhead were silent, but there was still a faint sense of dust seeping down. It should be caused by a person lying on top of the tiles.

Cold sweat broke out in Ling'er's palm, sticky and damp.

The guards ran away as they spoke, but they couldn't scream, and if the inner ghost named Skinny Monkey stepped through the tiles and jumped down, he would be able to break his neck in an instant.

"Master, let's leave it alone. Ling'er said anxiously in her ear.

This inner ghost is so close to him, if he is let go like this, wouldn't he let the tiger return to the mountain? Yuan Xi leaned down, plucked a few hairpins from his head, and grinded them on the blue brick floor a few times, grinding out a few sharp corners. The green bricks in this palace are paved flat, Yuan Xi picked hard, and finally pulled out the mud in the brick crack, pointed the hairpin upward, and stuck it into the brick crack upside down.

Try to pluck it twice, the hairpin is not shaky, touch it with your hand, and it is quite prickly.

Ling'er's face was entangled, and she couldn't stop pulling Yuanxi's sleeves.

Yuan Xi got up and took five or six steps back, pushed Ling'er, and said softly: "Call me the queen loudly, hurry up." ”