I opened a tea shop in Bianjing

Chapter 67 On the Bridge
It was dark, and the busyness on the State Bridge had come to an end.

Ships of all sizes are leaning against the banks of the Bian River, and shirtless trackers are busy carrying goods.Even in such a season that is about to enter summer, the night is still a little bit cool.But these trackers are still sweating profusely, reflecting the dazzling light under the shining lights.

A gust of cool wind blew on Mo Yunxiao's face.Her bangs fluttered gently under the blowing of the wind, and her long and curved eyelashes blinked a few times with her eyes. Looking at the scattered lights and busy crowds spreading out on both sides of the Bian River in the distance, it seemed like a An elegant ink painting.

Mo Yunxiao held onto the railing and watched quietly.Zhang Di coughed heavily, pulling her back from her dazed reverie.And Zhao Ji on the side was also looking into the distance, and said to Zhang Di: "Be quiet, you should be quiet now."

Zhang Di was bored, so he had no choice but to shut up.

"Don't you have something to say to me?" Mo Yunxiao still looked into the distance, feeling a little uneasy.

Zhao Ji glanced at her and asked, "You are in Prince Jian's Mansion...does he treat you well?"

Mo Yunxiao rolled his eyes at him, and said angrily, "Whether it's good or bad, it has nothing to do with you."

Zhao Ji was a little embarrassed, and said: "That day in Jinming Lake, I was so angry that I almost ruined your innocence. This is my fault. However, I suddenly heard that he was going to take you away, so I was in a mess for a while. "

Zhao Ji spoke sincerely, and couldn't help but slightly touched Mo Yunxiao's heart.She turned sideways, looked at him, and said with a sarcasm smile: "Your brother is more compassionate than you."

Zhao Ji thought for a while, and then said: "I know, you won't believe everything I say, but I hope you can choose one or two and believe it, maybe it will help you avoid disadvantages."

"Okay, tell me." Mo Yunxiao listened carefully.

Zhao Ji took two steps, frowned slightly, and said, "No matter how you look at Zhao Si, I just want to tell you that he is not someone you can rely on."

"Hmph!" Mo Yunxiao smiled contemptuously, and asked back, "He's not, are you?"

Zhao Ji was taken aback for a moment, and then said: "This has nothing to do with me. At this moment, I just want to talk about him."

Mo Yunxiao glared at him fiercely, then turned to look at the wide Bianhe River, listening to what he said below.

"My younger brother has had a city mansion since he was a child. His father went earlier, and he and I have never seen his face, let alone a father-son relationship. However, every time we go to worship the ancestral temple, He can always cry bitterly in front of his father's memorial tablet, and then change into the swallow clothes afterwards, and still sing and dance. I have seen him play this kind of trick for many years, and I know it very well."

Mo Yunxiao heaved a sigh of relief and did not speak.

Zhao Ji didn't see her retort, so he continued: "When the emperor was in power, he also thought of giving him a marriage, but he refused without leaving any room for it. The nickname of "Dragon". He always plays with women to his heart's content. After he gets a new love, he throws them away like worn-out shoes. Many women don't want to be with him, but they are forced by him. They insult their innocent bodies, but they are thrown away by him again. I have also heard people say that many women have lost their minds because of this, wandering around all day, like ghosts..."

"Okay, stop talking!" Mo Yunxiao suddenly interrupted Zhao Ji's words.She held on to the railing, panting.Zhao Ji looked at her with some doubts in his heart, so he asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Mo Yunxiao suddenly remembered the women she saw in the backyard that day.

They just got mad, like a lonely ghost.However, their origin corals have been made very clear.Coral and Huaner are both kind-hearted people, and there is no reason to lie to themselves.It seems that Zhao Jidao heard it or exaggerated it.

"Who did you listen to these words?" Mo Yunxiao asked while panting.

Zhao Ji blushed and was speechless.Seeing that he didn't answer, Mo Yunxiao was filled with anger in her heart, glared at him sideways, and reprimanded: "Zhao seems to be your younger brother no matter what, and you planted it on him like this! Why is your heart so cruel?"

"No! I didn't frame him! What I said is true!" Zhao Ji also became excited.

"That's good. Tell me how these words reached your ears. How did the person who passed on your words know?" Mo Yunxiao stared at him fiercely and asked.

Zhao Ji lowered his head in shame, and said, "I have placed eyeliner in Prince Jian's Mansion."

Before he finished speaking, Mo Yunxiao was already furious, and approached step by step, saying: "Okay, you really want to kill Zhao Bi, don't you?"

"I'm not trying to harm him! I just... just can't trust him." Zhao Ji hastily defended: "But I just watched and never did anything to him!"

"Hmph!" Mo Yunxiao flicked his sleeves heavily.

"I installed a housekeeper and a few women who boil water, and I want to find out what Zhao Si does on a daily basis, and whether there are any plots for wrongdoing." Zhao Ji said: "It's a pity that these people were all exposed later, and Zhao Si silenced them. "

His words touched Mo Yunxiao's heart again.In the story told by Shan Shan, those women were all killed by the wicked woman and the unscrupulous butler in the mansion, so Zhao Sian punished them severely.

"You mean, you sent a few confidantes to Prince Jian's mansion, and they were the ones who passed on the news to you, and then it was revealed that they were killed by Zhao Xi?" Mo Yunxiao asked.

Zhao Ji nodded and said, "Exactly."

Mo Yunxiao sneered again, and said, "Your lies are wonderful, but there are many loopholes."

Zhao Ji was taken aback, and asked, "Where is the loophole?"

"The maids and servants in the mansion all praised Zhao Xi as a benevolent gentleman, and even my Huan'er, who was sold into the mansion, praised him very much." Mo Yunxiao said: "I can't trust others, but I am Huan'er." Believable."

"It's just buying people's hearts, what's so strange about it?" Zhao Ji frowned.

"That can't be bought by everyone." Mo Yunxiao retorted: "Someone will show the wind."

"Hmph! Those who can let out the wind have already had their tongues cut off by Zhao Si." Zhao Ji said with a sneer.

Mo Yunxiao's eyes lit up, and she said sharply, "What did you say?" There was a murderous look on the brows.

Zhang Di couldn't help being startled when he watched from the side, and hurriedly shouted: "Mo Yunxiao! What are you doing!" But Mo Yunxiao looked at him fiercely, as if a thousand sharp arrows were shooting at him.He was also a little flustered, so he had no choice but to say timidly: "You don't need to be so loud."

Mo Yunxiao turned his gaze back again.Zhao Ji said: "This news also came back from my eyeliner."

"You... you are really... hateful!" Mo Yunxiao was trembling with anger, but she didn't know who she was angry with, whether it was Zhao Ji or Zhao Si, or maybe it was herself.

"He Lu, I..." Zhao Ji was about to speak but was interrupted by her: "Call me Mo Yunxiao!"

"Yes, Mo Yunxiao." Zhao Ji called out, and Zhang Di beside him was secretly amused.In ancient times, it was very impolite to call people by their first names.

Although Zhao Ji is the emperor, except for those above the court, he generally only calls people.But Mo Yunxiao did the opposite, it was indeed for a different kind.

But Zhao Ji cared about her very much, and didn't care about so many etiquettes, so he could only say: "Mo Yunxiao, what I'm telling is the truth, I can swear to the sky and my ancestors."

Her cheeks were flushed with anger, and she said: "Death has no proof, what you say is what you say!"

Zhao Ji was a little anxious, and hurriedly said: "Why do you always refuse to believe me?"

"Why should I believe you, why should I believe you?" Mo Yunxiao retorted: "Because you are the emperor?"

"No, just treat me as someone who truly loves you." Zhao Ji said very sincerely.

"Hmph! You are very affectionate." Mo Yunxiao sneered, and said, "But just because you took the throne from someone else is despicable."

Mo Yunxiao looked at him, and continued: "You are firmly seated in the country, and the treasures of the world are within your reach. Do you still care about me, an ordinary woman? On the contrary, it is King Jian, who has lost his throne, has a depressed will, and is immersed in sensuality all day long. In order to protect yourself, do not hesitate to defile yourself. Do you want to take his life before you give up! You already have the world, I just ask you to let Zhao Si go!"

Mo Yunxiao was emotional, but Zhao Ji was surprisingly calm.He sighed, looked up at the looming moon in the sky, and said: "The clear one clears itself."

"Then let time tell." Mo Yunxiao said.

Zhao Ji shook his head and said, "I'm afraid that on the day when you see his true face clearly, you will be like those poor women."

"Huh! Then I should really accept your love!" Mo Yunxiao sarcastically said, and when he looked at Zhao Ji again, he actually shed tears.This made her unexpected, and it also softened her originally hardened heart.

"I don't need you to accept my love." Zhao Ji said: "If you don't want to believe me, you shouldn't be blamed. But, I hope you can think about it and be more careful in the palace in the future."

After he finished speaking, he turned and left.Mo Yunxiao was at a loss and shouted, "Wait!"

Zhao Ji stopped in his tracks and turned his head to look at her.There were still tears in his eyes.

"That day in the palace, thank you for helping me out." Mo Yunxiao went up and said, "It's just that I don't understand how you guessed such a tricky thing."

Zhao Ji smiled lightly, and said, "We were born in the royal family, and we were well-clothed and well-fed since we were young. This little trick will not trouble me."

Mo Yunxiao nodded and smiled, and said, "In short, you helped me, and I want to thank you."

"That's not necessary." Zhao Ji turned his head and said, "That day in the palace, Zhao seemed to have poisoned me. Do you know about this?"

Mo Yunxiao was startled when she heard this, and said, "What? He poisoned you?"

"Yes, it's just that this kind of poison needs to be eaten twice before it becomes poisonous." Zhao Ji said, "I only took it once, so I can still stand in front of you without any problems."

Mo Yunxiao gritted her teeth and said, "He promised me that he would not harm you."

Zhao Ji smiled: "Conspiracy, you are not his opponent."

"I don't believe he will hurt you."

"That's all right. Anyway, I'm safe and sound now." Zhao Ji said: "When it comes to eating, I suddenly feel hungry. May I invite you to eat the fish soup from Fan Lou?"

She shook her head and said, "I don't like fish."

"Let me treat you to dinner once, I'm afraid you and I are..." Zhao Ji paused, and then said: "This is the last time we meet. From now on, you will be your princess and I will be my emperor. Do not violate the river."

Mo Yunxiao raised her head and said, "I don't eat fish, but I didn't say I wouldn't eat anything else."

Zhao Ji was stunned, then he laughed and said, "Then what you want to eat is up to you. Granny Cao's meat pie? Yulou soup buns? Or..."

"Have you ever eaten at a roadside stall?" Mo Yunxiao interrupted him suddenly.Zhao Ji was puzzled, "Ah?"

Mo Yunxiao pointed to an ordinary foot shop.There are unemployed trackers and some civilians eating.

Mo Yunxiao smiled and said: "You are the emperor, I know you are not willing to condescend."

Zhao Ji laughed loudly and said, "It's fun to cook cattle and slaughter sheep, and you will have to drink three hundred cups at a time. Good! Let's go."

"Young master! Where is the young master going?" Zhang Di hurriedly came to stop him, then gave Mo Yunxiao another look, and said, "It's really going too far."

"Zhu Yuanzhang still has dinner, so it would be too much to ask him to eat at a roadside stall!" Mo Yunxiao retorted.Zhang Di was a little scared, and went straight to hide behind Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji asked with a smile, "Who is Zhu Yuanzhang?"

Just as Mo Yunxiao was about to explain, she suddenly remembered that this was the Song Dynasty, and she couldn't explain to him the people and events that happened in the future, so she said perfunctorily, "That's none of your business, are you going or not?"

Zhao Ji smiled, and strode towards the foot shop.Zhang Di gave Mo Yunxiao a hard look, and had no choice but to follow.

The three sat down, but Zhao Ji pushed Zhang Di away.He could only sit with some trackers, looking at Mo Yunxiao with anger in his eyes.

"You are kind to me, I will remember. But..." Mo Yunxiao gently stirred the soup cakes in front of him with a spoon, and said: "You are playing tricks and tricks to usurp Zhao Si's throne. I don't care about that." Can't forgive you."

It was the first time for Zhao Ji to sit in such a store, and he was very cramped, and he also hated such a noisy and noisy environment. "Who said the throne is his."

"Zhao seems to be the younger brother of the first emperor with the same father and mother, and you are the younger brother of the same father and mother. In terms of blood relationship, isn't he closer." Mo Yunxiao said.

Zhao Ji nodded, and said: "That's not bad. However, this matter is much more complicated than you think. On that day, I was rushing to Jinming Lake to watch the dragon boat competition. I didn't expect a letter from the palace suddenly Come on, tell me that the officials are urgently recruiting me into the palace. Those days the officials have gradually become bankrupt, and it will be a matter of time before the dragon controls Bintian. When I get the news, I will rush back immediately. But..."

"But what?" Mo Yunxiao asked.

"Later, I heard that because my people blocked the entrance of Jinming Pond, a woman who fell into the water could not be treated in time and died. Alas, what a crime."

Mo Yunxiao suppressed the anger in her chest, and said with a displeased look, "Don't change the subject, just keep talking."

"I hurried back to Da Nei only to find out that the official family had died. I heard that Prime Minister Zhang Dun insisted on the unification of King Jian, but the Queen Mother objected."

"Why?" Mo Yunxiao asked excitedly.

"Huh! King Jian and the first emperor came from the same family as Concubine Zhu. If her two sons are allowed to succeed one after another, what will she do with herself as the Queen Mother?" Zhao Ji shook his head and said, "And my other brothers are either too shallow or young. I am still young, and the only one who can succeed me is me."

"According to you, it's not you who usurped the throne but the Queen Mother?"

"No, this is not usurping the throne." Zhao Ji said: "We are all sons of Shenzong, and we all have opportunities. It's just that Zhao Xiang is clever but was mistaken by his cleverness. He thought he could still play a filial son and grandson. Which of the court ministers and relatives don’t know? It’s just that he thinks others don’t know.”

"So what?" Mo Yunxiao asked with a frown.

Zhao Ji looked at her and said seriously: "Except for a snob like Zhang Dun, there is no one who speaks for him. Therefore, even if there is no queen mother, Zhao seems unable to sit on the throne."

"You are so arrogant!" Mo Yunxiao couldn't help raising her voice, but it also attracted the attention of some diners around, so she could only keep her mouth shut and ate her noodle soup with a dull head.

(End of this chapter)