Opposite the entrance hall

Winter in Lin'an came earlier than usual. As soon as the winter month came, it was bitterly cold, even worse in the morning and evening, and even the dewdrops on the branches were icy.

Pushing open the door, a gust of draft rushes into the room without hesitation, making the paper on the desk rustle, and the person leaning over the desk to paint can't help shivering.

Seeing the situation, Chuyi hurriedly closed the door tightly to keep out the cold wind, walked over with the medicine bowl, and placed it carefully in Ji Si's hand, but the man didn't even look at it, so he couldn't help urging, "My lord, the medicine will be cold in a while."

"En." Ji Si replied without raising his head.

"You'd better drink the medicine. If you vomit blood again, you will scare me and Qi Ran to the last half of our lives."

Speaking of the day Ji Si vomited blood, it really scared him.

That day was only the third day he was released from prison, and Emperor Chengde did not allow him to return to the yamen of the Ministry of Household Affairs. It's not too late to take care of your body.

The emperor's words were not meant in plain sight, and Ji Si couldn't figure out what the intention was, so he had to stay in the mansion peacefully, except that day when he had a small gathering with Qi Ran and the others, and then he didn't step out of Ji's mansion, but enjoyed it early I experienced the comfort of returning to my hometown.

He was content with whatever came his way, but he felt that he had nothing to do. He thought about it and didn't want to be idle, so he led the first day of junior high school to dig up a large piece of camellia planted by Mr. Ji, and the two of them reclaimed it by themselves and made a medicine garden. He walked around the fence with a cup of tea to check back and forth.

But the seedlings that had just entered the soil looked lifeless, with their heads lowered, and Ji Si was anxious to see them. If they hadn't stopped them on the first day of the new year, they might have learned from the ancients to pluck the seedlings to encourage them to grow.

When Qi Ran came, what he saw was Ji Si leaning over to inspect the medicine garden with his hands behind his back, he was chanting something, but because he couldn't hear it clearly because of the distance, he couldn't help but raised his lips and deliberately slowed down his steps.

But this person's hearing is quite good, and as soon as he got closer, he heard the sound and turned his eyes, raised his eyebrows, "I guessed it was you, no one in my house walks so lightly."

While talking, he and Qi Ran walked into the house side by side, the weather was so cold, he warmed up as soon as he entered the house, he poured two cups of tea, and took a sip from one of them.

"You haven't been out of the house for a few days?" Qi Ran asked after sitting down.

"The emperor ordered me to recuperate in the mansion. What am I going to do? Although I did not embezzle the military salary, my negligence of duty allowed Zhou Ming to take advantage of the loopholes. I still have to bear the responsibility. It is always good to stop for a while, lest a negligence cause trouble."

After all, he looked at Qi Ran through the dense white mist, saw that his frown was not relaxed, and felt something was wrong, "Why do you ask like that? But what happened outside?"

Qi Ran pursed his lips, and didn't know where to start for a moment, before he said after a while: "Do you still remember what I told you not long ago, that the Emperor intends to negotiate peace with Bei Yan, and Andrew also agreed to this matter?"

"remember."

"The emperor talked about this when he came to court today, and Andrew really showed his sincerity in negotiating a peace. The conditions proposed are both good and bad for the two countries. One of them..." He paused, as if he didn't know Should I go on.

"What's the matter with one?" Ji Si was aroused by the tone, and hurriedly asked.

"Beiyan will send a princess to Dajin, and Dajin also needs to send a princess to Beiyan." Qi Ran looked straight at Ji Si, "At the court today, the emperor issued an order to send It's Princess Junpei."

Hearing the name Shunping at the first glance, Ji Si didn't know who it was for a moment. After waiting for a while, a small face appeared in his blank mind. The little girl of "Brother Ah Si".

When Li Xi was young, she was far less beautiful than she is now. She was round and small. Many concubines and court ladies in the harem teased her. She could cry for a long time, but every time she saw Li Si, she couldn't help laughing. She did what Li Si said. What, very well-behaved.

During the period of illness, Li Xi ran to Yong'an Palace every day, and when he saw Li Si lying sickly on the bed, he cried so hard that his eyes were so red and swollen that he couldn't see anyone.

This girl can't bear hardships since she was a child, and she can cry for a long time when she feels a little pain. Compared with Yan Zhao, she is even more spoiled, but she has never had a bad heart. Go to a place where a person is completely unfamiliar.

Too many things happened these days, one after another, without leaving him a little time to breathe, and the exhaustion of the boat and the disaster of the prison, the stretched string suddenly broke.

Seeing that the person hadn't spoken for a long time, Qi Ran immediately noticed the clue, Ji Si's face faded, turned pale, his body trembled, and his eyes were cloudy, Qi Ran panicked, and quickly helped him to check, "Ji Si, what's wrong with you, but where are you?" Discomfort!"

There was a buzzing sound in his ears, Ji Si could see Qi Ran's lips opening and closing, but he couldn't hear the sound, so he could only guess three points based on the shape of his mouth.

Afraid that Qi Ran was worried, he was about to speak out to comfort him, when a smell of iron rose from his throat, he vomited blood with a "poof", the blood slipped down his jaw, stained his clothes and dripped into the tea, the blood stains spread open.

When his consciousness dissipated, Qi Ran's expression seemed to be about to cry, and his heart ached.

Putting the memories back, Qi Ran's flustered eyes still appeared in his mind, Ji Si pursed his lips, finally sighed, put down his pen, picked up the medicine bowl and drank it down.

The boiled medicine in the first day of junior high school was as bitter as ever, like a bowl of water boiled with a lot of Coptis chinensis. Ji Sidrink frowned, and quickly squeezed a candied plum from the plate beside him and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Okay," the first day of the junior high school said angrily, and took the medicine bowl back, "You have always been able to hold back things in your heart, if you can relax your mind, you won't be so depressed that you vomit blood. I'm staring at you, you can't escape with a bowl of three medicines a day, Master Qi also said, let you take care of your body, don't worry about what you have and what you don't have, you don't feel bad about your body, but Master Qi does. "

Ji Si was ashamed by what was said, and quickly looked away and cleared his throat, "It's almost done, I don't know if you listen to Qi Ran or me."

"Of course I listen to you, my lord," Chu Yi tilted his head and rolled his eyes with a smile, "but you, my lord, listen to your lord Qi."

After finishing speaking, Ji Si raised his hand and quickly jumped a little longer. Looking from behind, he looked like a wild monkey, which made Ji Si laugh out loud.

When the two were laughing and fighting, someone knocked on the door of the room. Ji Si stopped smiling and asked the people outside the room, "What's the matter?"

Immediately afterwards, a weak female voice sounded, "My lord, there is a girl outside the house asking to see you."

The voice fell, as if afraid of not being clear enough, he quickly added, "The girl said her surname is Li."

Ji Si narrowed his eyes and stared at the door with sinking eyes.

When he rushed over in a hurry, he saw a figure standing in front of the medicine garden, stretching his neck and looking at something.

Although he didn't wear complicated palace skirts, but only a simple and strong outfit, Ji Si still recognized Li Xi at a glance. He suppressed all the emotions emerging in his heart, quickened his pace, and walked behind Li Xi. He stopped in the distance, and saluted respectfully, "Your Majesty has seen the princess."

Hearing the sound, Li Xi turned around slowly, looked Ji Si up and down, and jokingly said: "It is said outside that Ji Shilang has become a big girl who does not go out of the door, so maybe he is unhappy in the mansion, it is really a tiger's fall Pingyang was bullied by dogs, why does this princess look at you very comfortably, not at all like what people say."

"Princess, please don't make jokes about going down to the government." Ji Si drooped his face and sighed, "I don't know if the princess is going to go down to the government, but what's the matter?"

Li Xi bit his lip and didn't answer.

At this time, there was a gust of cold wind, Ji Si turned his back to cover it for others, and said softly: "It's very cold outside, if the princess doesn't mind, why don't you go in and have some hot tea to warm yourself up?"

"Alright."

The two walked out of the front hall one after the other, and the servant girl served hot tea with great eyesight. Li Xi touched it with her fingertips. He frowned, and a few traces of displeasure flashed across his face, just like when he was a child.

Seeing it in his eyes, Ji Si raised his lips and lowered his voice, "The hot tea is a little hot, the princess should be careful."

"Do you usually talk to the prince like this?" Li Xi asked without beginning or end.

"what?"

"That's it..." Li Xi searched for words in his mind, but felt that it was not appropriate to say anything, so he simply gave up, and according to his initial thoughts, "Like my concubine mother."

"..."

"You don't dare to be an official," Ji Si was amused by her words, "If Concubine Chang heard about it, she might have stripped the lower officials."

As if he realized that what he just said was inappropriate, Li Xi drank his tea with his head down and stopped talking.

After a long while, she said slowly, "I was going to look for Qi Ran."

Ji Si paused, raised his eyes and stared straight at him. Li Xi didn't seem to notice, and continued to say, "But I'm afraid that I will soften my heart when I see him, regret, regret, and then I won't want to I left, although I was self-willed in the past, I could still see right and wrong, so I didn't dare to go halfway, I didn't know where to go to the palace, and somehow I thought of you..."

She paused, looked up at Ji Si, and then continued: "I don't know if Master Ji has heard the news that I'm going to Beiyan to get married?"

"..." Ji Si's throat tightened, and he nodded hoarsely, "I know."

"I'm so upset in my heart, I don't know who to tell. Whenever this matter is mentioned, my mother and concubine cry. My father and his brothers are fighting openly and secretly, and I can't even open my mouth to Qi Ran. I know people inside and outside the palace. There are not many people, so after thinking about it, you are the only one who is suitable."

"The emperor loves the princess very much. If the princess is unwilling, there may be room for relaxation."

Li Xi didn't think about it but shook his head, "I can't help myself. From the day I became Li Xi, I didn't do whatever I wanted. I can save tens of millions of people by myself. If Lord Ji, Ji How should adults choose?"

Ji Si pursed her lips tightly and remained silent. Fortunately, Li Xi didn't really need an answer. She drank another sip of tea, and talked about the recent events in a casual tone, "Father is very kind to me. Qi Ran bestows a marriage, and then randomly assigns a minister's daughter as the princess to marry Bei Yan."

"Look," she winked at Ji Si proudly, "I can change other people's fate at will with just a nod, but that lady is so innocent, Qi Ran is so innocent, he never liked me, just I even stole those special things through that person's face."

She said the last sentence in a very low voice, and Ji Si couldn't hear it clearly, "I know that the princess has always been a good person, and the common people will remember the princess' kindness in their hearts."

I don't know which word made Li Xi amused, she covered her lips and smiled a few times, "Maybe I think Qi Ziheng, a young minister of Dali Temple, is not good enough for me, so I'm going to Beiyan. The mother of the world, the mother of this country must be much more comfortable than being a princess."

"If the princess is happy, she won't come to the official residence."

After saying this, the two of them didn't make a sound for a while, and the surroundings became quiet for a while, and it was only after a long while that Li Xi asked in a low voice: "But because I'm not good, I can't get Qi Ran to like me at all?"

As an older brother, Ji Si should comfort, encourage, and tell Li Xi that she deserves everything in this world, including Qi Ran.

But none of those words came out of his mouth, darkness and jealousy surrounded his heart, and he wanted to scream: You don't want to like Qi Ran anymore, the person he likes is me, and he definitely won't like you even half of it, no matter what you do Can't discuss half of the joy.

In the end, he just lowered his eyes, and took up the conversation half-truthfully, "Love is not a matter of good or bad. Even if the princess is very good, she is not the person in Master Qi's heart. For the princess, this love is something I can't bear to bear." If you can't let it go, it means you can't avoid it for Master Qi, sometimes you must have it in your life, and there is no time to force it."

"There must be, don't force it," Li Xi repeated, with an ugly expression on his face, as if someone had suddenly exposed the embarrassment of self-deception, and smiled with trembling lips, "Xu Shizhen is as Master Ji said, I am just Qi Ran can't avoid it."

The two didn't chat for a long time, most of the time it was Li Xi who spoke, and there was no standard, but he just said whatever came to his mind, and he didn't expect Ji Si's response, as if he just needed a quiet listening person.

It wasn't until the servant outside the door came to urge Li Xi to stop talking. When he got up to say goodbye, he finally couldn't help but say, "I'm going to Beiyan in a few days, can Master Ji see me off with Qi Ran? ?”

Perhaps her expression was too desperate and helpless, Ji Si couldn't think of any other meaning, and just nodded in response.

On the day Li Xi left Beijing, the first snowfall fell in Lin'an, which had been cold for a long time. After one night, when he opened his eyes again, the world became a vast expanse of white.

The princess's wedding is supposed to be a happy event to be announced to the world, not to mention the princess' marriage, which is a grand event between the two countries. There are more than 500 maids serving in the palace, let alone one handed over to Princess Shunping. The elite guards, looking at the ten miles of red makeup that can't be seen at the end, all of them show the prestige of the Jin Dynasty, and it will be discussed by later generations until many years later.

With great momentum, hundreds of officials sent off, Li Xi covered his face with a round fan, and walked towards the carriage with the support of the maid. Before getting into the carriage, she finally looked back at the deep palace where she grew up. The palace walls were the same as before. It is particularly gorgeous against the backdrop of the Jin Dynasty, witnessing the prosperity and decline of the Jin Dynasty.

She seemed to understand that if she left here, Yu Sheng would never see her again. She looked at it very seriously, and even hurriedly passed through the crowds, wanting to see the farthest father and mother, but after all, they were too far away. So far away that I can't even see a shadow.

The maid urged in a low voice, Li Xi lowered his eyes, and bowed into the carriage.

The carriage moved slowly, the wheels whirling and turning, running over the snow and leaving ruts.

There are many people surrounded on both sides of the street, and everyone's face is full of excitement and curiosity, as if they want to look up at what the married princess looks like. When they see the boxes of dowries, they not only sigh in their hearts: Everyone has their own destiny. , birth is the most unreasonable.

The car was swaying, and the curtains of the scenery outside were tightly covered, making it difficult to tell the time and place. Li Xi asked in a daze, "Have you left the city yet?"

The lady-in-waiting raised the curtain and probed around to look around, then retracted her gaze and lowered the curtain, "I've been out for a while, and now I'm almost at Panlong Peak."

Hearing this, Li Xi hurriedly opened the curtain to look around, and when he glimpsed a place out of the corner of his eye, he hurriedly yelled at the people outside, "Stop!"

The team stopped, and the commander of the princess's personal guard came over and asked inexplicably, "Why did the princess stop? But is there any discomfort? Can you call the imperial doctor to take a look?"

Li Xi pushed open the door, and stepped on the pedals to get out of the car without caring about the maid's support. He trotted for two steps with his skirt in his hands, and the faces of the people behind him changed subconsciously, and they chased after him, but the little princess stopped again and turned back. She turned around and said, "Qi Shaoqing is at the front, this princess is going to have a few words with him, don't you guys come with me."

She ran forward wearing a red palace dress, her face was smiling like a flower, it was more beautiful than thousands of flowers in full bloom, her eyes couldn't tolerate anything else, Ji Si just stared at Qi Ran, and when she came to the two of them, she was a little out of breath, covering her eyes He calmed down for a while, then smiled.

"I've met the princess." Qi Ran restrained himself and kept his etiquette, not exceeding his duty.

It's been a long time since we saw each other, but it seemed like yesterday, Li Xi opened his arms and twirled around a few times, gripped his waist tightly, his long sleeves fluttered in the wind, and he was dressed in a red dress among the white snow. It's hard to take your eyes off.

"Does it look good?" Li Xi looked down at the palace dress, looking forward to Qi Ran's answer.

"It looks good on a princess." Qi Ran nodded.

A very common sentence made Li Xi's eyes turn red, and he quickly swallowed the sour feeling in his mouth, and said slowly: "I used to always hope that one day I could wear a wedding dress and marry you as my wife. Joy just thinking about it can make me happy for a long time, I know that you have no self in your heart, but it's just because of brother Ah Si's face, so I think that as long as you don't marry me, you will have a chance..."

Speaking of this, Li Xi stopped, and smiled self-deprecatingly, "How can such a simple thing be so simple, it has brought you a lot of trouble these years."

"Princess..." Qi Ran wanted to say something, but was cut off.

"Don't talk about it, I know what kind of nature I am, but you don't know what to do." Li Xi looked at Ji Si who was on the side, raised his chin, and forced the sourness in his eyes back, "Master Ji said It's reasonable, it's your good fortune that my majestic Princess Dajin has taken a fancy to you, and you don't care much because other people want me to favor you."

"It's Qi Shaoqing who doesn't know what's good or bad," Ji Si smiled apologetically, "He's just a stinky rock, ignorant of knowledge and interest, and not enlightened at all. The princess has a lot, so don't bother with him."

"Forget it, my princess has lost her status by being so fussy with him," Li Xi forced a smile, but his face seemed to cry out, "This princess is going to be the princess of Beiyan, so I won't care about it in the future." If you are gone, I definitely won't miss you even half a cent, and you don't have to remember me either, there is no debt between you and me."

Li Xi choked up a few times, with a faint sob in his voice, "Farewell now, I won't see you in this life, I hope you will be happy for the rest of my life."

After finishing speaking, she turned around and walked towards the way she came, holding back the tears for a long time, but still biting her lower lip tightly so as not to make a sound.

The wind was whistling, the sky and the earth were covered with white snow, everything around seemed to lose its color, and only the bright red was left, which was a bit dazzling.

A group of people set off again, and the carriage drove across the snow, leaving ruts.

The sound of the horse's hooves gradually faded away, and it didn't take long for them to disappear, and the surroundings became calm again.

Ji Si looked at the snowflakes, and spoke softly, with nostalgia and reluctance, "I remember when we were young, Li Xi always liked to run behind us. We thought she was coquettish and didn't like to play with her. I was still thinking about this girl If I have a son-in-law in the future, I am afraid that someone will bear it, but I did not expect..."

The words came to an abrupt end, he bit his lips and did not want to continue the topic, but looked at Qi Ran beside him, pretending to be relaxed and asked: "Speaking of which, Li Xi looks very good, but he treats you like a ruthless man." Chen, you are the one who is full of heart and eyes, have you really not been tempted all these years?"

Qi Ran glanced sideways, and his face was not very good-looking.

As if he understood that his question was inappropriate, Ji Si rubbed his nose and said awkwardly: "I'll ask casually, if you don't want to answer..."

Unexpectedly, Qi Ran suddenly threw the question back, "Then do you want me to answer yes or no?"

Ji Si's face darkened, he raised his eyes to look at the person in front of him, thought for a long time, and smiled wryly, "Your question really stumped me, I should have said that I hope you answer yes, even if it's not Li Xi. Others are fine too, because if Li Si had not become Ji Si, then there would be no need for anyone in this world to remember the dead. He turned into a handful of loess and stopped at the age of eighteen, and the living should not stop. In the past, Li Si was afraid that you would be alone, and wished that someone could fill him with tea and prepare clothes for you, so he hoped that you would have many wives and concubines, a house full of children and grandchildren, and you could have the same sex with the woman you love after a hundred years."

"But in my heart, I want you to answer no. Li Si is a person with a very small mind and a strong temperament. He believes that no matter how difficult it is for others to be in one person's eyes, he is actually afraid that you will forget him, that you have never had him in your heart. I am even more afraid that you will have children with other women, love her forever, share the same bed with her, and vomit blood just thinking about it, and bite your back molars. This kind of jealousy and envy can drive people crazy , he can't wait for the fraudulent corpse to jump out of the coffin and tell everyone who you belong to."

As soon as the words fell, Qi Ran's voice suddenly sounded, "I belong to you."

"Ah..." Ji Si was a little dazed.

Qi Ran took another step closer, and there was only a circle between them. He lowered his head, looked straight into Ji Si's eyes, with a solemn expression, and repeated the words, "I belong to you, from beginning to end, It's all yours."

"Here, here, here..." Then, he took Ji Si's finger and stroked it from his forehead, eyebrows, and nose one by one, and finally stopped at the heart. "And here, it all belongs to you."

Ji Si raised her lips, leaned forward and kissed Qi Ran's lips lightly, and said with a smile: "Well, I know."

The white snow outside the pavilion is getting bigger and bigger, but the inside of the pavilion is full of spring.

It took Li Xi more than half a month to arrive at Beiyan. Beiyan was greeted by hundreds of officials. It was not difficult to see the importance it attached to Dajin. The next day, they ordered their troops to withdraw.

And Ji Si has passed a small month since he left the imperial prison, and it will be the twelfth lunar month in the blink of an eye. Emperor Chengde seemed to suddenly remember his existence. It was a mess, and Guan Shishan was busy with the official duties of the Ministry of War and the affairs of the Ministry of Households, and he complained repeatedly.

Therefore, Emperor Chengde immediately ordered Ji Si, the servant of the household department, to return to the Yamen as soon as possible, and withheld three years' salary as a punishment. If you pursue too much, you can only give up.

After returning to the yamen of the Ministry of Households after a long time, Ji Si was overwhelmed with thoughts, all kinds of feelings could not be expressed clearly in a few words, he stood in front of the tree in the courtyard and looked, and a voice suddenly sounded behind him:

"Master Ji?"

Hearing the sound, Ji Si looked back, and saw Sun Xing coming up to him with a face full of joy, "The lower official was still talking about it, saying that Your Excellency should be back in the Yamen these few days, and was about to tidy up your Excellency's desk, and Your Excellency came."

"Long time no see, how is Wen Hou doing well?" Ji Si frowned.

Sun Xing was a little emotional, his thoughts were surging, and he replied in a hoarse voice, "Master Lao is worried about it, everything is fine for the lower officials, and it is still safe to support the affairs of the yamen, but your lord seems to have lost a lot of weight."

After so many things, Ji Si lost a lot of weight compared to before, and the official uniform looked a bit loose on his body. He waved his hand indifferently, "You look thinner, you look thinner."

The two walked in side by side, and met many officials from the household department along the way, as well as many newly promoted newcomers. They all cast curious eyes on this uproarious Ji Shilang from Lin'an City.

Fortunately, Ji Si didn't take it to heart, and let them watch. Sitting at his desk, the restless heart was finally settled, as before, without any change.

"Are you cleaning these days?" Ji Si asked while touching the table.

"The lower officials always think that your lord will be safe and sound, so they wipe the dust from time to time, thinking that your lord will be half happy when he comes back." Sun Xing's tone was not flattering at all, it was full of sincerity.

"I'm sorry." Ji Si looked around, and when he sensed something was wrong, he hurriedly asked, "Is the household department in charge of Guan Shangshu these days?"

"Isn't it?" Sun Xing sighed, "The Ministry of Households has violated Tai Sui, Cao Shangshu..."

Sun Xing stopped talking suddenly, as if he had suddenly realized that Cao Weiyuan was only a first-rank prisoner, and he had also been removed from his official position, so he changed his words, "It is a fact that Cao Weiyuan has embezzled military pay, and Yushitai also found out that he has accepted bribes over the years." The property is stored in the other courtyard of the Cao family in the name of a collateral branch of the Cao family, and all of them match the papers handed over by Wan Ping. The emperor was furious, and the queen killed his relatives righteously, begging the emperor to severely punish Cao Weiyuan. It was confiscated, and the whole government was locked in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. I heard that there were more than a hundred boxes in large and small boxes on the day the house was confiscated, which shocked the government and the public."

"Empress?" Ji Si heard something strange from it, "Empress asks the emperor to punish Cao Weiyuan severely?"

"That's the case," Sun Xing nodded, "The emperor reads that the Cao family is loyal to the Jin Dynasty, and there have been many officials who have contributed to the Jin Dynasty in the past dynasties. Exempted from the death penalty, showing the benevolence of the house, and sentenced the whole family to exile, counting the days, it should be a few days."

Ji Si pursed his lips in thought, and then asked, "If I want to meet Cao Weiyuan, can I arrange it?"

"Your Excellency wants to see Cao Weiyuan?" Sun Xing was a little surprised, frowned and thought for a while, "Cao Weiyuan is currently guilty of a felony, so logically speaking, it should not be possible. I will go to the Ministry of Punishment and ask to see if it is possible."

"It's too much trouble for you."

It took only two days for Sun Xing to make an arrangement, and it took half an hour on the pretext of handing over the official duties of the household department.

The Prison of the Ministry of Punishment was darker and damper than the Prison of Yushitai. Cao Weiyuan was dressed in rags and was unkempt, far from his previous high-spirited and arrogant appearance. Taking off his official robes, he was no different from ordinary people.

He heard the footsteps stop in front of his cell, and slowly raised his eyes, his eyes were bloodshot, and his eyes were a little cloudy, he looked for a while before he could see who was standing in front of him, he sneered, and asked sharply, "Ji Si, you're still alive!"

"Thanks to Mr. Cao, I'm still lingering." Ji Si covered his nose with his hands, frowned, and said in distaste, "It's just that Mr. Cao doesn't look very good, I'm afraid even a dog can't live in this place." I don't know if Mr. Cao slept well?"

When the words fell, Cao Weiyuan was furious. He jumped up and rushed towards Ji Si, but was blocked by the iron bars. The picks are clean, but man is doing what the sky is watching, my today is your tomorrow, you must be a thousand times worse than me!"

After finishing speaking, he spat in Ji Si's direction.

The latter dodged sideways, and slowly squatted down at a distance, with a gloomy smile on his face, and said softly, "Master Cao, do you really not know why I was able to come out of the imperial prison? "

Cao Weiyuan listened in a daze. He was not smart since he was a child. If it wasn't because Cao Jiamo said that he was the Minister of the Household Department, he might not even be able to pass the imperial examination. Therefore, listening to Ji Si's question, he couldn't understand the reason at all. .

Seeing the person's dumbfounded look, Ji Si laughed mockingly in his heart, and thought to himself: It's really an idiot.

On the surface, he leaned closer and lowered his voice, and said somewhat ambiguously: You and I both belong to His Highness the Crown Prince. On the surface, we are in charge of this household department, but in fact it belongs to one of His Highness' forces. Mr. Cao thought carefully Thinking, do you really think His Highness the Crown Prince really doesn't know anything? "

He pointed to Cao Weiyuan, "You," and pointed to himself, "Me."

Then he continued: "It's just a pawn in the hands of His Highness the Crown Prince. It's never up to you and me to decide how to make this move and whether to do it or not."

Cao Weiyuan was half-knowledgeable, frowned and asked in a low voice, "What do you mean by that?"

Ji Si licked his lips, showing a meaningful smile, "His Royal Highness chose me between you and me."

Sun Xing's words let Ji Si hear the clues. It stands to reason that the family status of the harem concubines can ensure the long-term honor. The empress not only did not plead for mercy, but also asked the emperor to punish him severely. All destroyed.

If he had been a queen in the past, he might have been a kind and benevolent queen, but once he knew that this person was capable of poisoning his own son in order to fight for power, why couldn't he get rid of the Cao family for other reasons? .

She wanted to get rid of the Cao family, or she wanted to get rid of Cao Weiyuan, which happened to illustrate one thing. Compared with the advantages brought by the Cao family, she was more worried that Cao Weiyuan would affect her layout.

The empress was deep in thought, every move she made was justified, she had a reason to get rid of Cao Weiyuan, and the most worrying thing right now was the impact on her status and Li Hongyang's succession.

To put it another way, Cao Weiyuan must have known a secret of the queen, and this secret made the queen afraid, so this situation came into being today.

Ji Si thinks that he has never been a kind person, and he has a temper of vindictiveness. What Li Hongyang has done these years and the Pei family's affairs, all the things he has suffered should indeed be taken back from him.

After this incident, he has already drawn a clear line with Li Hongyang, but this person is not easy to deal with. If he succeeds to the throne, he will be the first to get rid of him. Therefore, when confronting each other, it depends on who has more bets. Being the banker himself, he can also win a win-win situation, so he put his idea on Cao Weiyuan.

Sure enough, the man's expression changed suddenly after hearing this, his pupils widened, as if he couldn't believe Ji Si's words, "Impossible, this is impossible, you are lying to me!"

"Cheat you? Why should I lie to you?" Ji Si pressed on step by step, "Lord Cao never thought about it. The money I got is not a small amount. Why can't Yushitai be found in my account? Like this Silver never appeared?"

Following what he said, Cao Weiyuan's expression became even more ugly as he continued to think deeply.

"Because the silver fell into the hands of His Highness the Crown Prince from the very beginning, from the beginning to the end I was just a pawn on the bright side, and the one who made this move was His Highness the Crown Prince."

"So," Ji Si stopped, looked him up and down with disdain, and said in a cold voice, "You are just an abandoned child."

The voice was not loud, but the two heard it clearly. Every time Ji Si said something, Cao Weiyuan's eyes turned red, and finally he clenched his fists with both hands and bit his back molars, and a creaking sound came out of his mouth. , looking extremely angry.

Seeing that the situation was as expected, Ji Si squinted his eyes, and said according to the words he had planned in advance, "Is Mr. Cao still not clear? You know so many things, not to mention the prince, even the queen is not allowed to keep you. The official is thinking about his colleagues, and wants you to understand when you die. This saying is good, only the dead can shut up forever. From this point of view, the queen is still thinking of family love and blood to keep you alive. Master Cao is not grateful. Thank you The queen is kind."

"Impossible!" Cao Weiyuan clasped the fence with both hands, fixed his eyes on Ji Si, wishing to bite off a piece of meat from him, and said viciously: "How much do you know? How do you know!"

Hooked.

Ji Si hooked the corners of his lips, and led Cao Weiyuan to walk towards the situation he had set up, "If I didn't know, I wouldn't be standing here today talking about it with Mr. Cao."

"I don't believe it, it's impossible!" Cao Weiyuan was a little crazy, his disheveled hair looked like a lunatic who had lost his mind, and he muttered to himself, "Impossible, that poisonous woman Cao Yuhan wants to kill everyone who knows Chengde's 20-year history Killed, how could she tell you..."

Ji Si listened carefully, and those few words were beyond his expectation, so he couldn't help repeating, "Chengde 20 years?"

Unexpectedly, this sentence gave away his flaws, Cao Weiyuan's eyes flashed a little, and he suddenly laughed, "You don't know? You don't know? Ji Si, oh Ji Si, it turned out that I underestimated you. I played around and around, and I was almost plotted by you, seeing how you look, I'm afraid that the one is your own."

Cao Weiyuan has been confused all his life, but he has become smart at this moment.

"What happened to Chengde in the past 20 years?" Seeing the plot revealed, Ji Si thoughtfully asked this person, "Since you hate the queen so much, why don't you tell what you know?"

But no matter what he said, Cao Weiyuan seemed to have made up his mind not to speak.

Ji Si had no choice but to return home in a hurry, he was a little annoyed by his previous impulse, but it was not in vain, when he was about to go to the Yamen of Dali Temple to consult with Qi Ran, he saw an unexpected person.

He greeted him and saluted, "I have seen the prince."

"Ji Shilang?" Li Hongyu was surprised, and then smiled, "I really saw you, I met Ji Shilang here."

"Where are you going, my lord?" Ji Si also smiled.

"I just came out of the palace, and I was ordered to go to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice," Li Hongyu did not hide the slightest, "Cao Weiyuan will be exiled outside the border in a few days, there must be no mistake, but Ji Shilang, looking at the direction he is coming from Is it the Hubu Prison?"

"I received a lot of care in the household department, and I was thinking about my colleagues, so I came to see you off.