I opened a tea shop in Bianjing

Chapter 68
That night, Mo Yunxiao tossed and turned and couldn't sleep.She leaned on the bed, listening to Yun Xiang's snoring, her mind was racing with thoughts.Her beautiful face was as calm as water, and there was no change of mood or anger.

For a moment, she felt like a clown.Zhao Si and Zhao Ji, the words they said were diametrically opposite, but they could both touch her heart and shake her will.Among the two of them, one of them must have lied, but is he Zhao Si or Zhao Ji?

On this night when she was thinking about it and couldn't fall asleep, Zhao Bi didn't sleep.He paced back and forth in his study.He put his hands behind his back, his brows were furrowed, and he seemed to be concentrating on the problem.

Cheng Yu was standing beside him, the joy of completing the task burst out in his eyes, but also mixed with a trace of inexplicable worry.

"Are you reading correctly?" Zhao Si, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly asked.

Cheng Yu replied: "Yes, the villain has sharp eyes, and he will never make a mistake."

"There are people coming and going on the state bridge, and it's unpredictable. How can you be sure that it's Mo Yunxiao and Zhao Ji?" He asked.

"It was dusk at that time, and there were few pedestrians. The two of them stood on the bridge and were very affectionate, talking very speculatively." Cheng Yu said: "Even if the villain didn't look carefully, he could be sure that it must be Mo Yunxiao." and officials."

Zhao Si suddenly felt a surge of anger, he slapped the table heavily, and cursed: "This thief and concubine! This king doesn't care about her humble background and accepts her as an upright person. I can't imagine that she is so shameless. Stealing men behind my king's back!"

"That's right!" Cheng Yu was also filled with righteous indignation, and said, "What's more, what she stole was the king's enemy."

Zhao Si turned around and said excitedly: "Cheng Yu! When she comes back, I will strip this girl for public display, otherwise it will be difficult to appease my anger!"

"Your Majesty, in the opinion of villains, we should be careful." Cheng Yu said, "After all, she is from the official family."

Zhao Si took two steps, sat down slowly, and said while thinking: "That's right, you shouldn't be impulsive, and you should be careful at every step. It's better not to startle the snake."

His eyes turned again, and fell on Cheng Yu again.Cheng Yu looked at him, and hurriedly lowered his head.

Zhao Xi's ferocious eyes gradually revealed a warm smile.He said softly: "Cheng Yu, last time I got angry with you because of that thief and lowly servant girl, and now you take the risk of doing things for me, which shows that you are loyal to me."

Cheng Yu hurriedly knelt down and said, "The villain's life was saved by the king, so he should do his best for the king."

Zhao Si nodded, and smiled again: "That's what I said, but I also promised you before that after this matter is completed, I will prepare for your marriage with Shan Shan. If you have no objection, it will be set in three days, so you My heart can also be at peace.”

Tears welled up in Cheng Yu's eyes, his lips twitched slightly, and he choked up and said: "The villain has received the kindness of the king, and he must work harder in the future to repay it." After finishing speaking, he kowtowed.

Zhao Si hurriedly supported him, and said with a smile: "You kowtow so loudly that the imprint will not disappear for a long time, how can you be a groom?"

Cheng Yu just whimpered and couldn't make a sound.

Zhao Si stood up by himself while helping him up, and said: "You don't have to do this, everyone in the palace knows that I treat my servants like relatives. At your wedding banquet, I still have a reward, then you and Shan Shan will thank you again." I'm not late. Well, you've worked hard today, go and rest quickly."

"Yes. The villain will take his leave." Cheng Yu wiped away his tears with his sleeve, turned and left.

Watching Cheng Yu's leaving back, Zhao Si raised the corner of his mouth to reveal an evil smile.Suddenly, his face changed, and he shouted angrily: "Come out!" A woman timidly moved out of the bedroom.She lowered her head, her body was trembling, she stole a glance at Zhao Si and lowered immediately.

This woman is Coral.She stood behind Zhao Si, Zhao Si did not look back at her, but said: "Did you hear what you just said?"

"Listen...I heard it." Her voice gradually trembled with fear.

Zhao seemed a little interested, put his arms around his chest, and continued to ask: "Then how happy are you?"

"Huan... Huanxi." Her answer trembled even more, and her steps backed up a little.

Zhao Si turned around leisurely, looked at her and smiled.But in Shan Shan's eyes, his smile is so ferocious and terrifying, like the greedy expression of a wolf when it sees a lamb.

He leaned towards her slowly, but Coral backed away in fear.Zhao seemed to enjoy this cat-and-mouse game, and asked with a smile, "What? Are you afraid of me?"

"No, I dare not." She lowered her head and shook her head a few times in a panic.

Zhao Si cornered her and said, "Soon, you will marry someone else. Will you miss me?"

"Villain...the villain misses the prince all the time." She answered like this.

A fierce light suddenly appeared in Zhao Si's eyes.He grabbed Shan Shan's jaw and pushed her against the wall with a "boom", Shan Shan screamed "Ah!", but stopped immediately.She suppressed the tears and the pain on her cheeks caused by the strong clamping, and could only make a small sound like a mouse's cry,

Zhao Si put his face close to Shan Shan's face, forcing her to look into his eyes.His eyes were like two bottomless black holes and two turbulent whirlpools.Coral's back was leaning tightly against the wall, and his heels were moving restlessly, making the sound of hitting the wall.

"Are you also like that thief and lowly maidservant, stealing men behind my back?" Zhao Xi showed a wicked face, and he was completely different from the gentle and elegant noble son in ordinary times.

Coral couldn't open her mouth, so she had to shake her head desperately, her eyes showing the fear of dying.

"Let me tell you, even if you marry someone else, this body can only be mine, understand?" Zhao Si said.

Coral nodded desperately again, but was still speechless.

Zhao Si smiled with satisfaction, but his hand pinching Shan Shan's face did not relax.However, there was also a trace of tender love in his eyes.

"Shan Shan, you know, everything I do is for you." Zhao Si's hands gradually relaxed, and the sharp and cold steel claws turned into soft touches.He lightly stroked the delicate skin of the coral, and said: "I think you will not understand my painstaking efforts. You give me your own body, so that I can wash away the dirt for you, and you can reach bliss early after a hundred years. You Do you understand? A beautiful woman like you should lie quietly on the lotus leaf like the morning dew, and should not fall into the dung pile. What is that Chengyu, who dares to have unreasonable thoughts about you? Want to defile your body. You said, should he die?"

Coral is already in tears.She chattered her teeth due to excessive nervousness and fear and could not speak.She had no choice but to nod, and kept nodding with tears in her eyes.

Zhao Si sneered, and said: "Next month, I will marry that lowly servant girl Mo Yunxiao. At that time, Zhao Ji's son will definitely come to congratulate him. I will let him drink the second glass of poisoned wine, so that he He died. And who killed him? Coral, do you know who killed him?"

"No... I don't know." Coral cried.

Zhao Si raised his eyebrows and slapped her hard on the face.Coral yelled "Ah!" again and fell to the ground.Zhao Si grabbed her arm and pulled her up, laughing more ferociously.

"I'll ask you again, who killed Zhao Ji?"

Coral was already sobbing, and said faintly, "It's Cheng Yu."

"Tell me again, who is it!" Zhao Sichai asked.

"It's Cheng Yu!" Shan Shan's voice also increased.

Zhao Si laughed, and asked again: "Cheng Yu, he did such a heinous thing as killing the king, I should kill him. I killed him only because I couldn't give up on you. But you want me to give up. So, I want to kill him. Coral, are you happy that I do this for you?"

Coral nodded and said, "Happy, the villain is very happy."

"Then you should repay me well." As Zhao Si said, he stretched out his hand and roughly tore off Coral's clothes, exposing her snow-white shoulders and arms.Coral screamed again, and Zhao seemed to have entered a state of madness, like a tiger tearing its prey mercilessly.

He laughed loudly while tearing Shan Shan's clothes, and Shan Shan was in a hurry, instinctively trying to reach out to cover his body, but it was obviously futile.Zhao Si quickly stripped her clean, like a white and clean carrot, and carried her on his shoulders while laughing as he walked into the bedroom.

Coral did not speak, and did not speak all night.It wasn't until dawn that the depressed Zhao Sicai lazily got up from the bed, and Shan Shan fell asleep beside him.

Zhao Si said calmly with a smile, "How can you understand my painstaking efforts?"

Coral nodded and said, "I understand, little one."

"Then do you appreciate my kindness?"

"Yes, the little one is grateful for the kindness of the king." Shan Shan raised her blank eyes and said, "The king is merciful and loving, and the little one will never forget it and repay it forever."

Zhao Si smiled with satisfaction, and rolled up the incense again, wrapping the two of them inside.

Mo Yunxiao also got up, and quietly avoided Yunxiang, Yunxi and Du Juan, opened the door and walked out.She looked up at the sky, and the sky was faintly bright, but the surroundings were still quiet, without any sound.

She put on a thin leather jacket and went out of the store, when a watchman happened to pass by and shouted: "It's cloudy, it might rain." Mo Yunxiao went back to get a flower umbrella.

She was wrapped in a jacket, striding forward with a flower umbrella under her arm.She walked through Tianjie and Majie, and went straight to Zeng Bu's house.But when she got to the gate, she was a little hesitant. I'm afraid Mrs. Wei is still awake at this time, so it's not good to disturb her rashly, but then she thought again, her relationship with Wei Wan is very comparable, and Wei Wan has a bold personality , I will never worry about this little detail.

So she made up her mind, lifted her skirt slightly, and stepped up the stone steps. Just as she was about to pat on the vermilion lacquered door, it opened with a bang.

A servant came out first, followed by two porters carrying a soft sedan, followed by Zeng Bu, who was neatly dressed.The two looked at each other, and Mo Yunxiao smiled shyly.

The servants were also a little surprised to see Mo Yunxiao standing in front of their house, so they couldn't help whispering a few words.

"It's Miss Helu? Oh, are you looking for Yuru?" Zeng Bu asked.

"Yes." Mo Yunxiao nodded and said, "There are some things that I can't figure out no matter how hard I think, and I want to talk to her."

"That's good, Yuru doesn't have the habit of snoozing." Zeng Bu said with a smile: "In the past few days, she has been talking about you all the time."

Mo Yunxiao nodded with a wry smile, and said, "It's expected."

The two looked at each other and smiled, and let it go.Zeng Bu went to court in a sedan chair, and Mo Yunxiao walked through the corridor and entered the hall under the guidance of his old servant Ding.Mrs. Wei was reading "Historical Records" while eating snacks.

Mo Yunxiao came up and called out, "Yu Ru."

Mrs. Wei only glanced at her sideways, then continued to read and eat.Her indifference was also expected by Mo Yunxiao.So she walked over and sat beside Mrs. Wei, and said, "Yu Ru, I know you blame me. But the world is impermanent, and many things are unpredictable for us."

Then she put down the book and said: "He Lu, I know you are not a person who is greedy for wealth and honor. But why did you marry someone like King Jian? You promised me that you would only enter the palace to save people You got in by yourself. But now? Not only did you get yourself in, but you couldn’t save the person you wanted to save. Why did you do this? Could it be that King Jian fed you some kind of medicine that lost your mind? Can't it?"

"No, Yuru, it's definitely not what you think." Mo Yunxiao hastily argued: "It's true that I want to save people, but the people I want to save don't want to come out with me."

Mrs. Wei frowned, and asked again, "Why?"

Mo Yunxiao shook her head and said, "I don't know. Anyway, when I saw her again, she had changed. She wasn't as affectionate to me as before. Instead, she praised King Jian and kept saying that she would repay her kindness. "

"Repay the favor? Who should I repay the favor to?" Mrs. Wei asked.

"Naturally, it is to repay King Jian's kindness." Mo Yunxiao smiled again, and said: "There is also a girl named Shan Huan, who is also smart. She, like Huan'er, praised King Jian for his kindness and treated them very well. work there for the rest of my life.”

"Hmph!" Mrs. Wei glanced at her head and said coldly: "Since you are willing to believe these girls' words but not mine, then that's up to you."

"Yuru, that's not what I meant." Mo Yunxiao paused for a moment before saying, "Last night, I met with the official family."

This sentence surprised Mrs. Wei even more, "What? You met the official? Privately?"

"Yes, we talked for a long time, the most important thing is about King Jian."

"Oh, He Lu! You are so confused!" Mrs. Wei suddenly stood up, walked back and forth a few steps anxiously, and then said: "He Lu, if you still recognize me as a friend, just listen to me. Today , don’t stay too long, take your younger brother and concubine and escape from the city.”

(End of this chapter)