Dajin royal family

Chapter 224 Abandoned

If possible, Cui Shili actually didn't want to visit Zheng Shanyuan.The Gein family had already given up their son, so he had no choice but to come. If he didn't try his best to rescue Yunxiang, then those who were waiting for Yunxiang would die. Similarly, as his father, he would also suffer setbacks.

"Ren Li has seen Uncle Shi." Before the person arrived, the voice came first.Zheng Renli walked quickly into the side hall, and bowed to Cui Shili who was bowing his head in meditation.

Seeing Zheng Renli appear, Cui Shili quickly stopped his thoughts, nodded slightly, and then said: "Brother Zheng fainted from heat stroke in the imperial study yesterday. I am very worried. I am here to visit today. I wonder how brother Zheng is doing?"

The incident of heat stroke happened yesterday, and I only came to visit today. I should say that you came late, or it was just in time.Zheng Renli, who was clear in his heart, didn't show any strangeness on his face, only he sighed in a low voice, "Uncle Shi, please come with me, you can tell at a glance. Alas" Zheng Renli sighed heavily alone.

This expression fell into Cui Shili's eyes, and his heart felt as if he had stepped on the ground, maybe there was something wrong with Zheng Shanyuan's situation.But he didn't say much, and followed Zheng Renli directly to Zheng Shanyuan's bedroom.

As soon as he stepped into the bedroom, a strong smell of Chinese medicine rushed straight into Cui Shili's nostrils, like a strong stench. The smell of various Chinese medicines mixed together made people feel as if their heart and lungs were crushed by a boulder after smelling it.For a moment, I was a little out of breath.

Zheng Renli stood beside the screen, gestured to Cui Shili, and then pointed to the back of the screen, "Uncle Shi is quieter and quieter, my father just woke up, and his spirit is a little distracted."

This is not so good, isn't it that Zheng Shanyuan is pretending to be suffering from heatstroke? Why does it sound a bit serious? Could it be true heatstroke?With doubts, Cui Shili walked over lightly, crossed the screen and saw Zheng Shanyuan lying on the couch.

I saw Zheng Shanyuan with a disheveled face, chapped lips, and cloudy eyes looking at the roof.Cui Shili came to the bed and said softly: "Brother Zheng, brother Zheng?"

He called twice, but Zheng Shanyuan moved his eyes but didn't move his head. Seeing Cui Shili grinned, he smacked down the corner of his mouth. Seeing this, Zheng Renli hurried up and wiped it off with a silk cloth for Zheng Shanyuan.

"Father, Uncle Cui Family has come to see you." Zheng Renli said softly.

Zheng Shan wished for Cui Shili, and said in a hoarse voice: "It's Wenli, what can I do with the old man, there is another problem with the compilation of the Ministry of War. Sigh, it's been so many years, why are you still clumsy? You can’t do such a small thing well.”

Cui Shili: "."

"Brother Zheng, I'm Shili." Cui Shili corrected.

Zheng Shanyuan blinked, showing a rare 'innocence' look, and said with a smile: "Oh, so it's Shili."

Cui Shili nodded and said with a smile, "It's me, Brother Zheng."

Suddenly, Zheng Shanyuan said angrily: "What are you doing here? Are you also here to annul the engagement? Do you dislike Wan'er's bad reputation and come here to annul the engagement? How can you be so shameless? I don't agree, I don't agree."

After finishing the two sentences, Zheng Shanyuan changed his face again under Cui Shili's bewildered state, but became sad and desolate: "My poor Guanyin, the Cui family thinks you have a bad reputation and will divorce you. Don't be afraid, with grandfather here, grandfather will definitely find you a good husband."

Zheng Renli glanced at Cui Shili who was bewildered, with embarrassment on his face, he lowered his head and said in a soothing voice, "Okay, okay, I will definitely tell Wan'er these words, father, you can cultivate with peace of mind."

"It's not Wan'er, it's Ruyi! Ruyi! We've been married for several years, why hasn't Mrs. Zheng Pei's stomach moved yet, can she still have children, and if she can't, let's get divorced." Zheng Shanyuan said to himself again, making it hard Cui Shili didn't know what to say at all.

"Brother Zheng. This?" Cui Shili was completely dazed. Zheng Shanyuan looked like he was pretending to be suffering from heat stroke. He was obviously a confused old man who was about to pretend to be dead. The kind that goes in the coffin.

Zheng Renli coaxed Zheng Shanyuan to close his eyes with great difficulty, and took Cui Shili, who was dumb, to the outside, and apologized: "Uncle Shi, forgive me, my father fainted due to heatstroke, but he didn't want to but caused an old illness, so he couldn't recognize it. Qing people, alas!"

"How could this happen?" Cui Shili looked unwilling, he took Zheng Shanyuan as the last straw, trying to use the in-law relationship of the two families to rescue Yunxiang, but now Zheng Shanyuan is like this, what can he say.In other words, can Zheng Shanyuan help him if he speaks out?
Zheng Renli said sadly: "Yesterday I was fine after taking the medicine, but I didn't expect the old illness to flare up again today. Oh, by the way, Uncle Shi came here to discuss important government matters with my father?"

Cui Shili's face changed drastically, he hesitated for a while, and then sighed, "There is indeed something important, but Brother Zheng is in such a situation, I'm afraid he can't help me."

At this juncture, how did Zheng Shanyuan become like this? He didn't suspect that Zheng Shanyuan was pretending to be sick, because he only received the news from his family today that Yun Xiang was arrested by the inner guard and sent to the prison of the Criminal Ministry.

Zheng Renli thought for a while and said, "How about that, Uncle Shi might as well tell me the matter, and I'll tell my father after he's in better spirits, how about it?"

When your father recovers, I'm afraid my son will be cut off in half and abandoned.Cui Shili shook his head with a wry smile, "Forget it, since brother Zheng is not in good spirits, I can't bother you. I'll come visit you someday."

After finishing speaking, Cui Shili didn't delay at all, turned around and left.Staying here to face Zheng Shanyuan like this will not get any help except wasting time, and now he can only seek help in another place.

"I'll send Uncle Shi off."

After a cup of tea, Zheng Renli returned to Zheng Shanyuan's bedroom, walked to the couch, and said, "Father, I have sent you away."

Hearing this, Zheng Shanyuan opened his eyes immediately, like a corpse, touched the makeup on his face, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that my little daughter's stuff would come in handy one day, Wan'er's skills can be used A rouge shop has opened outside."

Zheng Renli laughed dryly, he would not allow his daughter to go out and show his face, and do that businessman's business. "Father, Cui Shili hit a wall on our side, where will he go?"

"Guess it?"

Zheng Shanyuan got up, walked to the wooden frame, stretched out his hands to wash his cheeks with clear water from the copper basin, and opened the window to ventilate.The smell of Chinese medicine in this bedroom is not only unbearable to Cui Shili, but also to himself.

Zheng Renli thought for a moment, and said, "East Palace, or Zuo Xiang Gao Xun."

"Then do you think they will help Cui Shili?" Zheng Shanyuan asked again with a silk cloth to wipe off the water stains on his face.

"I don't think so." Zheng Renli analyzed: "Because of the matter of the canal, Prime Minister Gao has already hated His Majesty. If Prime Minister Gao intercedes for Cui Yunxiang's matter again, His Majesty will probably be furious, and Cui Yunxiang's crime is a capital crime. There is no justification."

"That's right, so Cui Shili can't see Gao Xun, and he can't see the prince either." Zheng Shanyuan put down the silk cloth and squinted at the dim sun in the sky, "The storm is coming, I don't know who will profit in the end the one."

"By the way, you go and prepare. After Cui Yunxiang is sentenced, you can go to the Cui Mansion to deliver Guanyin's marriage certificate." Zheng Shanyuan said in a low voice: "You can't spoil my daughter of the Zheng family."

Zheng Renli looked a little embarrassed, and said immediately: "Father, are we going too far by doing this? After all, we were the first to bring up this matter at the beginning. Now we are going to divorce the engagement just after something happened to the Cui family. This is really bad for our reputation."

"Fame?" Zheng Shanyuan said coldly: "Fame is nothing in the face of life and death. If it wasn't for the Cui family's self-imposed cocoon, why would today's disaster come about? A rebellious Cui family member dares to contact secretly. What else is the Cui family afraid to do? , we can’t get too close to such an aristocratic family, so as not to hurt Chiyu in time. Could it be that you still want to marry Guanyin to be a widow?”

"No, no, my son understands." Zheng Renli hurriedly agreed.

Zheng Shanyuan sighed, "If I had planned more carefully back then, none of these worrying things would have happened today, and Guanyin would have had a good husband."

Zheng Renli was silent, until now his father still regrets that he was not able to marry Zheng's prostitute daughter to the son of King Zhao.But he thought about it, if it was really Guanyin who married the son back then, maybe these worrying things today would not have happened.

But no one expected that the eldest grandson would appear on the way.

Just as Zheng Shanyuan guessed, Cui Shili hit a wall at both the East Palace and Gao Xun at the same time, and the prince's family will say that the prince is not in the East Palace, but is out of the city to inspect farming matters.Gao Xun was unwell and couldn't see the guests. In short, he couldn't see Cui Shili.

He would be really stupid if he still didn't understand by now. The smart people in Chang'an City should have heard about Yun Xiang's arrest, and now he has been abandoned.Not only was he abandoned by his allies, but also by Qinghe Cui's family.

"Okay, let me see who can have the last laugh!" Cui Shili's face was cold, and he took a last look at the aloof Prime Minister, turned and left on foot.

(End of this chapter)