After being forced to marry as a substitute, I became famous in the limbo

Chapter 80
Jiang Ning was taken aback, and opened his mouth to answer, but in the end he couldn't say anything.

Before she could answer, Mu Jingzhao stretched out his hand and pushed towards the palace door. With a creaking sound, the palace door was pushed open a small crack.

Jiang Ning's heart beat like thunder, and he turned to look at Lin Zheng beside him. Not long ago, the place where Lin Zheng was was already empty, except for a window not far away that was left open alone.

"So you're here, so why didn't you respond to me?" Mu Jingzhao opened the door and walked slowly into the Jiangning Hall. He slowly approached Jiangning, and unconsciously glanced at the wide open window not far away.

"I just got up and wanted to open the door for the emperor, but I didn't expect the emperor to open the door and come in." She smiled far-fetchedly, and there was still panic on her face. sit down.

Inexplicably, Jiang Ning felt that the way he looked at him gave him a feeling of being caught and raped in bed.

She exhaled heavily, trying to make her breathing easier, then turned her head to face him, "Why is the emperor here now?"

Mu Jingzhao lowered his eyes and smiled, with an almost shy smile on his face, "I want to ask you about the construction of the dam."

Jiang Ning was stunned for a moment. In fact, she just said casually about what happened yesterday. She never believed that Mu Jingzhao would really do what she said.

After all, as a commoner, how dare she think that His Majesty the Emperor would listen to her nonsense?

"Your Majesty, don't disgrace your ministers and concubines." Jiang Ning Shi turned his head and stood facing Mu Jingzhao, "The ministers and concubines are just talking nonsense, your Majesty must not take it to heart."

Mu Jingzhao looked up at her with a complicated expression. After a long time, he still didn't continue the topic.

He was silent for a while, his eyes gradually attracted by the list made by Jiang Ning on the desktop, Mu Jingzhao's eyes quickly swept across the paper, and then he tilted his head and thought for a while.

Pick up the pen and write on the paper smoothly.

While writing, he slowly opened his mouth and said: "According to the etiquette system, at large-scale banquets, the arrangement of seats is very particular. The center of the seat is naturally Zhen, and the concubines behind him are arranged according to their positions. , respect the right."

Jiang Ning was taken aback, and instantly realized that he was teaching him the etiquette in the palace, so he gave up the idea of ​​preventing him from writing, and remembered it carefully.

"Your own words." The movements of Mu Jingzhao's hands paused slightly according to the tone of his speech, "You don't have to be too restrictive. You can be next to me or the imperial concubine as you want."

She felt a little baffled when she heard this. After all, she would definitely sit beside Liu Jinfu because of emotion and reason. I don't know why Mu Jingzhao added this sentence superfluously.

But she didn't bother to ask, for fear that she would divert the conversation and forget the business again.

"Since it's a family banquet, it doesn't need to be too formal. The banquet can be divided into seats according to the family." After Mu Jingzhao finished writing a piece of paper, he took out a blank paper from the side, flattened it, and put it on the table. Pick up the pen again and draw on the paper.

"The imperial concubine needs to invite three people in total, her father Liu Yue, her mother Jiang Yunshu, and her younger brother Liu Bing. What needs special attention is that the imperial concubine is not very close to Liu Yue and Liu Bing. You arrange Jiang Yunshu to sit beside her. On the side."

"There are four people present in the Empress's family. His father Shen Tong, his mother Chen Xuyan, his brother Shen Qiyan, and his younger brother Shen Jiuming. The Empress and her family members have always been close. There are no taboos about seating, you can arrange them as you like."

Mu Jingzhao's writing speed was extremely fast, the tip of his nose flicked across the paper, and the whole process was done in one go.

But his tone of voice was extremely slow, as if deliberately giving Jiang Ning time to remember.

"As for the Jiang family behind you." Mu Jingzhao frowned, but immediately relaxed, "You don't have to worry about this matter. Even if you want to come to Jiang Qingyuan, you dare not deny your daughter."

"Why?"

Mu Jingzhao continued to write quickly on the paper, and the worry on his face was wiped away, "If he denies it, it is tantamount to admitting in disguise that he found someone to marry his daughter instead, which is a serious crime of deceiving the emperor."

"The crime of deceiving the emperor." Jiang Ning repeated silently, and all the sporadic clues were instantly connected together.

In this way, everything seems to make sense.

"The concubine seems to understand the real intention of the person who kidnapped the concubine into the palace."

Mu Jingzhao looked stunned, "Tell me about it."

While thinking absently, Jiang Ning slowly spit out a few words, "Perhaps, killing the emperor is not the real intention of the other party."

Seeing her serious expression, Mu Jingzhao seemed to be interested in an instant. He put down the pen in his hand and looked at Jiang Ning with a serious expression.

"Actually, the real intention of the other party should be—" She took a deep breath, "Your Excellency."

"Actually, it was accidental and inevitable that they chose me." She spoke very slowly, almost thinking for a long time every time she uttered a word.

"Because I am cheap, worthless, and have no father or mother, even if I die and disappear, no one cares."

When she said these words, her expression was quite calm, which was so heartbreaking.

"So, they asked me to marry the prime minister's daughter and threatened me to assassinate the emperor. From the beginning, they hoped that I would be exposed, so that the crime of regicide could be charged to the prime minister, so as to get rid of their own serious troubles." So saying, Jiang Ning His thoughts became clear in an instant, and everything in the past seemed to have a reasonable explanation.

"Once the matter is revealed, the prime minister admits it is treason, and denies it is deception. No matter what the possibility is, it is enough to make him bear the crime of beheading."

Mu Jingzhao's eyebrows, which had been stretched for a while, gradually tightened between Jiang Ning's words.

What he had to admit was that Jiang Ning's speculation sounded very reasonable and logical.

But all of this is reasonable and logical, based on the premise that Jiang Ning's identity is not the daughter of a salt merchant.

If he had heard Jiang Ning's words before today, he might have believed it instantly, and according to what the other party said, he would have turned all his attention to Jiang Qingyuan's political opponents and the missing real daughter.

But now, after he knew Jiang Ning's identity and understood that Jiang Ning's entry into the palace was no accident, everything changed.

Of course, Mu Jingzhao would not be so stupid as to point out his doubts about her, so he continued to follow the other party's words, "If this is the case, then the other party may be waiting for you to show off at the concubine's birthday banquet." , thus implicating the prime minister's family."

Jiang Ning looked solemn, and immediately understood the seriousness of the situation, "Perhaps we should make preparations in advance."

(End of this chapter)