Prime Minister dare not be

Chapter 20

After Wei Yizhi left, Xie Shu didn't see anyone from him for more than half a month, but Mu Miaorong came to her several times, each time for her brother's marriage.She seemed to think that as long as Xie Shu was persuaded to give up the marriage, everything would be settled.

Xie Shu thought this kind of girlishness was very interesting, and never stopped her.She also became more and more unscrupulous, and once even said directly to Xie Shu: "I heard that the prime minister is not close to women, why bother to delay the girl of the Lu family, it is better to let my brother."

Xie Shu pressed her forehead, and with her temper, this was a tactful statement, at least she didn't directly say that she was masculine.

Alas, with this temperament, if Wei Yizhi really married her, and Mrs. Xiang was added, I don't know how lively the family will be.

At the end of September, Wei Yizhi was still living in the barracks, but Xie Shu couldn't help it, because there was an urgent need to discuss with him.

The Qin army has recently been playing with the idea of ​​​​Tuyuhun. When the army reaches the border, it will rely on Ningzhou.Lord Tuyuhun requested to join forces with Jin to resist, and the booklet has been handed over to Xie Shu.

Xie Shu's idea was that he would meet the Lord of Tuyuhun in the border town of Tuyuhun.This place is the junction of the three countries, and she is here to inspect the border instead of the emperor, which is equivalent to holding a meeting between the two countries here.Qin Guo thought that the two countries would form an alliance, so they must be afraid and would not advance rashly.

She thought that Wei Yizhi was busy with military affairs and had no time to spare, so she wrote a letter and asked Mubai to send him to the military camp.

Wei Yizhi came back that day, and his boots were covered with dust, which shows the hard work of the past few days of training.

He sat down in Xie Shu's room, and stopped him when he opened his mouth: "Ruyi, don't go rashly. You have never confronted Qin soldiers before, so you don't know their cunning. If they do the opposite, the whole army will come and take you captive." With the Lord Tuyuhun, that is not worth the loss."

Xie Shu said: "I have sent someone to inquire about the general of the Qin army, but it is Shi Di who is suspicious by nature, he will never take risks."

"I understand that you want to retreat the enemy without bloodshed, but after all, it's too risky, so it's better for me to go."

If he went alone, it would be said that he was persecuted by the timid prime minister. Xie Shu said: "Then I will go with you."

Wei Yizhi still refused: "No, just take this opportunity, so I can avoid Mu Miaorong."

"Okay then." Xie Shu sighed: "She is also a beauty who can overwhelm the country and the city, why don't you look down on her?"

Wei Yizhi said lightly: "I don't have deep contact with you."

"Well, Luoxiu has a good temper, and you have a deep enough contact."

"Ruyi is very concerned about my marriage." Wei Yizhi suddenly got up and left, seemingly a little displeased.

Xie Shu patted his mouth angrily: "If you talk too much, you will lose it."

About the meeting, Xie Shu first reported it to the emperor who was far away in Jiankang, and then drafted a letter of credence to the Lord Tuyuhun.Half a month later, Tuyuhun sent a reply, saying that the lord had already set off and would arrive at the border town in a month at most.

Wei Yi's relatives ordered [-] soldiers and horses to be on the border of Ningzhou at any time, and another [-] soldiers and horses were sent to the border city of Tuyuhun with him.

On the day of departure, Xie Shu personally sent him ten miles away, expressing that he was by no means a covetous person and that he had no hostility towards King Wuling's sincere friendship.

During this period, Mu Zizhen's health improved a lot. He came to see Xie Shu once, but he was still quite disappointed in his words.

Xie Shu scratched his heart anxiously, why does no one in this family dare to quarrel with the Lu family!Obviously you are right!
However, she couldn't say it bluntly, Mu Chong would not be willing to be her pawn, and she must not let them know her intentions.She could only beat around the bush, her arms were numb from the blows, this family is still not enlightened!
Go ahead, Truth will help you later!

Fortunately, there is another Mu Miaorong who still comes to Xie Shu every day to reason.Xie Shu simply pushed the boat with the flow, and said to her quietly: "The truth is that I have a good idea, but I'm afraid you won't dare."

Mu Miaorong immediately said: "Prime Minister just say, as long as he can help my brother fulfill his wish, Miaorong will not dare."

"Well, you go write a letter to Lu Cheng, scold him however you want, in short, make him realize that he broke his promise first. Anyway, you are a woman and a junior, so he doesn't care about you, even if If your father finds out about it, it will be nothing more than a scolding."

Mu Miaorong thought for a moment, then clapped her hands, "Okay, let's do it like this!" She got up and took a few steps, then turned her head wonderingly: "Why is the prime minister willing to help me?"

Xie Shu closed his eyes, his face moved: "I am moved by your persistence."

Mu Miaorong's spirit has been revived, she has to be more persistent until she gets the King of Wuling!

These words were not casually said, in order to know what King Wuling likes, she also specially wrote to ask relatives and friends in Jiankang City.

Although the news that Huan Ting conjectured before was secret, it was also spread among the children of several aristocratic families, including Mu Miaorong's relatives.The news was handed to Mu Miaorong along with the letter, her beautiful mouth was almost wide enough to swallow her own fist.

How could a person like King Wuling be so masculine, even if he was so masculine, he would never have anything to do with his opponent, so she absolutely did not believe this!
The border town meeting was just a formality, but Wei Yizhi's grand arrangement made people feel serious.

Shi Di was once Wei Yizhi's defeated general. When he learned that he showed up, he felt a little guilty. Seeing that the prime minister of the Jin Kingdom is sitting in Ningzhou, the alliance between the two countries must have been discussed a long time ago. The more he thought about it, the more disturbed he became. People quickly reported to Emperor Qin and waited for the arrangement.

The State of Qin had plotted against Tuyuhun for a long time, and did not expect to succeed in a single battle. Seeing that the timing was not right, it decisively withdrew its troops and waited for another opportunity.

The king of Tuyuhun was very determined, and felt that the credit was all due to King Wuling, so he ordered fine wine and food, and entertained him with songs and dances.

Xie Shu was also very happy when he heard the news, and immediately wrote a memorial to report to the emperor, and attributed all this to the emperor's credit, praising his existence incomparably.

The empress dowager has been feeling unwell recently, and the emperor is upset. After receiving this note, I feel a little better.

The prime minister is not a bad young man when he is not overbearing.

After a full month, it was already late autumn, and Wei Yizhi finally came back.

In order to show his dignity, Xie Shu ran to meet him again, and said a lot of praise in public, which made Wei Yizhi get goosebumps all over his body.

Mu Chong was very excited when he saw that King Wuling had made another contribution. He wished he could rush to call his son-in-law immediately, so he planned to find an opportunity to talk to him about marriage.

Mu Miaorong also quietly mixed in with the welcoming team, seeing the Prime Minister's praise for King Wuling, she couldn't help frowning.

It is impossible for the King of Wuling to be masculine, but the prime minister is well known for his masculinity. He is so feminine and beautiful that he is indistinguishable from male and female. If he deliberately seduces King Wuling...

She pulled the veil hard, what a prime minister, first snatched her sister-in-law, then her brother-in-law, there is no end to it!
Wei Yizhi obviously wanted to avoid the Mu family's father and daughter. After returning to Ningzhou, he stayed at the house of a lieutenant general. He even invited her to go there when he needed to see Xie Shu.

Behind the lieutenant general's house is a large sloping field full of fragrant bamboos, which is too beautiful to behold.Xie Shu was invited there, and saw Wei Yizhi sitting on the floor in black, holding a piece of paper and looking at something.I haven't seen him for more than a month. He seems to be a little tired and a little thinner.

"Why did Zhongqing call me here?"

Wei Yizhi looked up at her and said, "I brought something for you."

"Oh, what is it?"

He raised the paper in his hand: "When Lord Tuyuhun hosted a banquet for me, I met your benefactor. Before leaving, he gave me this paper, saying that it was a song composed for the prime minister, and asked me to bring it to you."

"Really?" Xie Shu was pleasantly surprised: "How is he now? How is he doing?"

Wei Yizhi replied indifferently: "Not bad."

Xie Shu took the paper, looked at it again and again, and sighed: "Li is a good gift, but unfortunately I don't know music, what should I do?"

Wei Yizhi said: "I don't know how to play, but the rhythm is the same. I guess it will be the same if it is replaced by Guqin. Do you want me to play it for you?"

"Ah, that's great." Xie Shu nodded repeatedly.

Wei Yizhi ordered Fu Xuan to fetch the guqin, tried a few notes, and asked Xie Shu to sit down.

Xie Shu also simply sat on the floor, watching him stare at the music score seriously with his head down and eyebrows down, and then stretch out his slender fingers to touch the strings, and suddenly he felt admiration.

These hands are strong enough to bend a bow to shoot at the moon, skillful enough to make a book with a stroke of a penny, and they can even caress the strings of a zither, which is many times stronger than hers.

Wei Yizhi played the piano and listened carefully to the sound of the piano.

The beginning is obscure, like a person's difficult childhood; then the resentment is the lingering sorrow; after that, it is suddenly clear, like the joy of reunion, like the joy of hope at first glance; after that, it is like flowing water , slowly, like a cloud, wanting to speak, but unable to suppress it, just like a person tangled in a daze, walking and stopping again and again, when thinking of it, it is like a spring flower, and the heart is happy, when leaving, it is like a dark cloud, full of worries, Although it is plain, it clearly contains the deep-seated love that wants to tell the heart...

With a sound of "Keng", Wei Yizhi pressed down on the strings.

Xie Shu woke up from shaking his head: "Eh? Gone?"

Wei Yizhi turned to look at her: "What did you hear?"

"Uh...it sounds nice."

Wei Yizhi clenched his fists: "I'm done."

"Oh, okay, thank you very much." Xie Shu walked over, took the score, folded it carefully and put it in his sleeve.

"By the way, you haven't told me what you saw during this trip to Tuyuhun. What did you discuss with their king?"

Wei Yizhi didn't seem to hear, and looked away in a daze.

"Zhongqing, Zhongqing?" Xie Shu stretched out his hand and shook in front of his eyes.

Wei Yizhi got up suddenly, frowned and stared at her, approaching her step by step, as if full of resentment with nowhere to vent.

Xie Shu was taken aback by his appearance, backed away again and again, and didn't stop until his back was against the bamboo.

"what happened to you?"

"It's okay." Wei Yizhi turned his back.

The situation is not right, it seems that we need to find out what exciting things happened to him in Tuyuhun.Xie Shu quickly found an excuse to slip away.

Wei Yizhi stood alone for a long time, with many emotions in his heart churning, only feeling angry and annoyed, and looking at the Guqin again, the more he looked at it, the more glaring it became.

He suddenly pulled out the long whip around his waist, and slammed it violently, the guqin was split in two.

There was nothing wrong with Tuyuhun, but the lord of the country had misunderstood, thinking that the prime minister's questioning must be because the Wuling king thought that his hospitality was not good enough, so he gave a considerable amount of good horse gold as a reward.

Xie Shu was a good prime minister, he didn't leave the good horses to Xie's family horses, but the Duke selflessly filled them into the barracks.

As for the gold, how heavy it is, the Xie family should be reluctant to keep it.

Mu Miaorong deserved to have one-thousandth of Mrs. Xiang's demeanor, and she really wrote a letter to scold Lu Cheng bloody.Xie Shu didn't see the original manuscript, but Lu Cheng actually wrote a letter to tell her that he had a marriage contract, and he was clearly intimidated.

She took the opportunity to reply to the letter and declined the marriage. She counted the reasons from personal honor to family reputation, and finally even rose to the righteousness of the country-let other countries know that there is a prime minister like me in Dajin who takes other people's wives, and the whole country will be ridiculed. Your Majesty is not immune either.

The emperor soon sent a sealed letter to Lu Cheng, expressing with deep sorrow that he should not be a morally bankrupt monarch, and asked him to think twice.

Lu Cheng didn't mention the marriage again, but he didn't give up either. Instead, he wrote to Mu Chong to apologize, and "praise" his good daughter by the way.

When Mu Zizhen received the news, she was in good health. When she learned that Xie Shu had rejected the marriage, she hurriedly came to pay her respects, but Mu Miaorong advised him to rest more, and then took the initiative to thank Xie Shu on his behalf.

As soon as he walked to the prime minister's residence, Xie Shu's voice came from behind the layers of flowers and trees: "Zhongqing will see me in the future, and he said that I offended you. You looked really scary that day, what happened? "

Mu Miaorong looked out quietly, the Prime Minister and the King of Wuling were sitting side by side in the gazebo by the pool, one was talking and laughing like a spring breeze, the other had a calm expression but clearly wanted to avoid it.

Sitting together, this pair of characters is surprisingly harmonious, but she has long been suspicious, and she will naturally think wildly: It really is the prime minister who seduced King Wuling!
She walked away in a hurry, the more she thought about it, the more unwilling she was. Her appearance was unparalleled in the world, and everyone who saw it was amazed that she wanted to let a man who was a treacherous empress step in!
"You want to be a girl, right? Then I'll help you!" She ruthlessly tore off the flower branch next to her.

Xie Shu came to Ningzhou much more leisurely than in Jiankang, he would take a short nap every afternoon, and Mubai and the guards would closely guard him at this time.

Mu Miaorong personally came to see him with a lot of presents, saying that her brother thanked the Prime Minister, and she must come to give presents in return.

After all, it is the master's house, so Mubai had no choice but to go in Tongbing.

Xie Shu was upset when his dream was disturbed, but he couldn't lose his temper with a little girl, so he could only deal with it absent-mindedly.

Mu Miaorong put down the gift but did not leave in a hurry, and took out a wine bag from the gift, saying that this is good wine from the Western Regions, and in order to thank the Prime Minister for his generous help, she must personally toast her a glass.

It's definitely not a good thing to drink in the afternoon, let alone a beautiful girl like her come to drink in her "man"'s room.

Xie Shu had a point in his mind, and wanted to see what she was up to, so he readily agreed.

Drinking is a compulsory course for a man, and she has already reached the full level, so there is absolutely no need to worry.

Where did Mu Miaorong want a drink, it was obvious that she wanted to get her drunk.Xie Shu fulfilled her wish, and after taking a few sips, she yelled "So strong", tilted her head and fell on the bed without moving.

"Prime Minister? Prime Minister?"

Mu Miaorong yelled a few times, found that she had fallen asleep, snickered, then turned around and took the red dress that had been prepared in the gift, quickly put it on Xie Shu, and even nodded her lips, doing everything. humiliation.

She thought simply, Xie Shu said that she was a woman and young, and Lu Cheng would not care about her, so she thought that Xie Shu had nothing to do with her.

Hmph, it's a man who wants to seduce King Wuling?I want you to recognize the fact that you will never be a woman!

Xie Shu kept her busy, didn't open his eyes until she left, jumped out of bed quickly, and became angry as soon as he sat in front of the mirror.

He also said that Mu Miaorong is willful, this is not willful, it is clearly reckless!Mu Chong's good daughter is really lawless!

She smashed the bronze mirror fiercely, immediately Mubai asked outside: "What's wrong, young master?"

"Don't come in!"

"Yes." Just as he answered, Mubai said again: "My lord, King Wuling is here."

Xie Shu was shocked, he quickly wiped off the danzhu on his lips, and wanted to take off the women's clothes, but the more anxious he became, the more frantic he was, the belt was tied in a knot, he hurriedly hid behind the screen and continued to toss around.

Wei Yizhi would not come to her if he had nothing to do, and he couldn't stop him from coming to see her if he had something to do.

He entered the room and saw that Xie Shu was not there, so he called out: "Mr. Xie hasn't got up yet? This king has something to discuss."

Xie Shu hurriedly said: "Here we come."

Wei Yizhi took a look and saw someone standing behind the screen. Knowing that she had gotten up, he took a few steps closer: "The patrol in Ningzhou is almost over. You and I have been here for several months, haven't we?" Time to go back?"

"That's right, it's time to go back. I'll just wait until I receive Xie Ran's letter to confirm that Lu Cheng's affairs have been arranged."

"That's good." Wei Yizhi didn't notice anything unusual, but when he turned around, he suddenly saw a corner of the red cloth exposed from behind the screen, so he was puzzled, couldn't help but go around the screen, and was stunned when he saw it.

Xie Shu finally untied the knot, just as he took off his clothes, when he looked up and saw him standing in front of him, he was startled.

"I don't know how I offended Mu Miaorong, but she actually used this method to humiliate me." She slammed the women's clothing, and stomped on her feet angrily: "I was not reconciled to being ridiculed for being a woman before, and I don't want to do it today It's really bad luck to run into this again!"

Wei Yizhi didn't say anything, he took a few steps back, turned around and left, still dazed, even turning a deaf ear to Xie Shu calling him.

After all, this matter is embarrassing, and it is easy for people to notice the abnormality if it is known to everyone.But Mu Miaorong's behavior really angered Xie Shu, she asked Mubai to reprimand Mu Chong, saying that he had no way to teach his daughter, and even came in to collide with her when discussing important matters with King Wuling, which already made King Wuling very displeased.

When Mu Chong learned about it, he was furious, and was so angry that he scolded Mu Miaorong: "You displeased the King of Wuling, how can you marry into the Wei family as a father? Alas, I thought you could succeed just by showing your face. , who knows that the King of Wuling doesn't care at all, he must be fancying a woman's character, now that you are making such a fuss, no matter how hard he likes you!"

Mu Miaorong was puzzled: "I never ran into them."

"Shut up! You still dare to quibble, go back to the room and think about the past!"

Mu Miaorong hadn't been scolded like this before, and ran away crying.Mu Chong sat at the table and sighed. In this way, the marriage with the Wei family might become a phantom.

(End of this chapter)