The courtyard is deep in spring

Chapter 144 The original misunderstanding

"Miss, Miss! Taifu, he didn't make things difficult for you, did he?"

Once back inside the bamboo building, Liu'er asked in a chattering voice.

Ye Zhaoqing shook his head at her and said, "Of course not, he just gave me something."

"Things?" Liu'er heard the words, and looked down at the thick stack of files Ye Zhaoqing was holding in her hand. She was a little confused, so she said, "Just let the slaves get it, why does he have to run all the way away?" One trip, and ask Miss to pick it up in person?"

Of course, it was because Murong Shen wanted to test himself.

Ye Zhaoqing didn't want to say these words in front of Liu'er, she shook her head, glanced at Liu'er's several sets of colorful clothes on the couch, and asked suspiciously: "Liu'er, what are you doing?"

"This one!" Liu'er immediately walked over to pick up a piece of clothing after hearing the words, gestured to Ye Zhaoqing enthusiastically, and said, "Isn't Second Miss getting married today? Don't tell me you won't participate, Miss?"

If she didn't say it, Ye Zhaoqing would have forgotten that today is the day of Ye Xiangwan's wedding to the Third Prince.

How proud and arrogant that girl was, she never expected to marry the old and playful third prince in the end.

But the power in the hands of the third prince should be what Ye Xiangwan wanted.

Ye Zhaoqing sighed, shook his head and said: "You forgot, I have been removed from the genealogy by Ning Guohou. I am not from the Ye family. There is no need for me to attend Ye Xiangwan's wedding. Besides, they don't need one The abolition of the Crown Princess will only add to the joke." Then, she turned her head to look at the sky outside, and said with a smile: "Look, the sun is about to go down, is there still time to go?"

"Is that so?" Liu'er couldn't help feeling disappointed after hearing this: "Master Hou is too cruel! Even if you are deposed, miss, you are still his own flesh and blood! How could he, how could... "

"People seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. If you want to be more open." Ye Zhaoqing smiled slightly when he heard the words, and said: "Let's live our own lives in peace!"

Liu'er nodded when she heard the words, but said hesitantly: "Miss, I have a question for you."

"Tell me." Ye Zhaoqing raised his eyes and glanced at her, and said.

This glance gave Liu'er some courage, she looked at Ye Zhaoqing and said, "Miss Lin, she probably doesn't want to be the concubine of the crown prince, miss, can you think of a way to help her?"

It was a simple sentence, but she stammered.

After hearing this, Ye Zhaoqing took a fixed look at Liu'er.

Liu'er panicked in an instant: "Miss, did the servant say something wrong?"

"No." Ye Zhaoqing shook his head and said, "Your words are not wrong, but you care too much."

After hearing this, Liu'er's face instantly turned red, full of shame.

"It's not what you think." Ye Zhaoqing looked at her and said again: "You have good intentions for Xirong, and you also hope that I can help her within the scope of my ability, but have you ever thought about it? Did she do it voluntarily?"

"Impossible!" Liu'er immediately retorted: "This servant can tell that Miss Lin has Second Young Master Murong in her heart!"

After hearing this, Ye Zhaoqing couldn't help sighing deeply: "Then Liu'er, have you ever thought about what if Mrs. Lin forces her to agree? If she doesn't agree, she will go to seek life and death? Xi Rong, she will not disobey her. Is it against her mother's will?"

Liu'er's face turned pale when she heard this, but she couldn't say a word.

How could she not understand what Ye Zhaoqing said?Lin Xirong is a person who regards her mother as big as the sky, otherwise there would be no breakup in Fengyang Tower.

"Under such circumstances, if I help Lin Xirong on my own initiative, their mother and daughter will hate me to the bone. No matter, it's the best way." Ye Zhaoqing sighed deeply: "Helping others Getting promoted and getting rich is short-lived."

Now Liu'er couldn't say anything anymore.

"Miss, it's the servant who is talking too much." After a long time, she said in a low voice.

"It's okay, I don't worry about it." Ye Zhaoqing said, glanced at her, and said with a smile: "Liu'er, are you going to prepare dinner? I'm hungry."

Liu'er turned her head to look at the setting sun outside, the red half of the sky, thinking that Ye Zhaoqing got up late today and only had one meal, so she nodded immediately and said: "Okay, servant girl, let's go get ready."

"The sweet and sour pork ribs tasted good last time, I still want to eat it." Ye Zhaoqing said.

Liu'er nodded again and again, and said: "Okay, I will do it now, servant girl!"

"Do more, I'll try it too." But at this moment, a disharmonious voice broke in.

Ye Zhaoqing turned his head, looked at Murong Shen who was striding in with colorful clouds, and said with a dark face, "What are you doing here?"

"I'm here for dinner." Murong Shen didn't take her attitude at all displeased, sat down and said: "By the way, someone came to the Jokhang Temple today."

"If it's an irrelevant person, you wouldn't bring it up." Ye Zhaoqing frowned after hearing this, and said, "Who is it?"

"Guess." As Murong Shen said, he turned his head and told Liu'er, "Do you understand how to treat guests, pour tea!"

Liu'er rolled her eyes when she heard this, but obediently poured tea.

"I can't guess." Ye Zhaoqing frowned and said, "Isn't it someone from Ningguo Houfu?"

It must have come to ridicule her.

"Master Tai Tu, please have some tea." Liu'er brought the tea up, put it down and left.

Murong Shen casually picked it up and took a sip before saying: "It's Lin Xirong, my second brother accompanied her here."

"Miss Lin came up the mountain??" Liu'er turned around abruptly, her voice trembling with excitement.

Murong Shen nodded and said, "Yes."

Liu'er immediately turned her gaze to Ye Zhaoqing, her face full of anticipation.

However, Ye Zhaoqing frowned: "She is going to be the prince's side concubine, and she is so close to your brother, isn't she afraid of spreading the word and causing trouble?"

"You know, she doesn't want to be the crown prince's side concubine." Murong Shen said in a deep voice.

Ye Zhaoqing frowned when he heard the words, glanced at Liu'er and said, "Go and prepare dinner!"

"Yes, miss." Liu'er obediently replied, turned around and backed away.

Murong Shen looked around the room casually, seeing Ye Zhaoqing put the files that he had taken from him on the case where he was used to writing, his eyes couldn't help but darken.

"Obviously not that heartless, but still pretending to be cold-blooded and ruthless." Murong Shen said in a deep voice, "Are you tired?"

"Murong Shen, you seem to meddle too much." Ye Zhaoqing said coldly, "This is my business, and you don't need to intervene."

"You asked Liu'er to prepare dinner, didn't you want to invite Xi Rong over?" Murong Shen asked back.

Ye Zhaoqing glanced at him and said expressionlessly: "No, I'll eat by myself, I'm afraid I won't be able to eat after they come."

Murong Shen: "..."

"Just keep your mouth shut!" he said with a sigh.

In the end, at dinner time, Ye Zhaoqing ordered someone to invite Lin Xirong and Murong Jin over.That battle was like entertaining a distinguished guest.

The more she did this, the more Murong Shen frowned.

Between friends, there is no need to be so polite.

But he was unable to accuse Ye Zhaoqing of anything, those things had already happened, and she was not a saint, so how could she not care at all?
Being broken up by one's best friend in front of everyone, no one is not sad at all.

It can only be said that Lin Xirong really went too far.

Bless yourself!
Murong Shen sighed, thinking that if the situation gets out of control later, he must stop his younger brother more.

Ye Zhaoqing was very calm from the beginning to the end.

When the lanterns first came on, Murong Jin came late with Lin Xirong.

Farewell to Fengyang Tower, this is the first time the three meet.

Seeing the thin figure slowly walking in behind Murong Jin, Ye Zhaoqing finally showed a trace of surprise on his usually calm face.

How did you lose so much weight?
What has Lin Xirong experienced during this time?
There was a big question mark in Ye Zhaoqing's heart, but there was a polite smile on his face: "Thanks to the two of you who don't dislike you, you are willing to come in and have a talk, please take a seat!"

"Zhaoqing, it's too polite of you to say that." Murong Jin couldn't help but said, "You don't know, when Xirong learned about your being deposed, she didn't close her eyes for days and nights..."

"Shut up! I don't need you to talk about my affairs!" Lin Xirong suddenly interrupted him, saying: "I can't sleep because of other things, don't talk nonsense!"

Murong Jin was choked, and couldn't help stretching out her hand to touch her nose, but finally closed her mouth, and looked at Lin Xirong helplessly.

Hard-spoken and soft-hearted, these two women really look alike!
"Xi Rong, how are you recently?" After sitting down, Ye Zhaoqing finally smiled and said, "I see you have lost a lot of weight..."

Before she finished speaking, Lin Xirong's eyes suddenly turned red.

"See clearly! What happened in Fengyang Tower last time, I really didn't know that it would cause you so much harm! Me, I didn't mean to..."

"That wasn't your fault in the first place." Ye Zhaoqing shook his head after hearing this and said politely, "I don't believe that based on our past relationship, you would intentionally mix up with Murong Yan. She just used it..."

Having said that, Ye Zhaoqing sighed silently.

She really didn't want to talk about things that had already passed, but seeing Lin Xirong's guilt-ridden appearance, it was hard for her to stop her.

And I don't know how to persuade.

"But I don't know people well, so I thought Murong Yan was kind enough to save me from embarrassment in Fengyang Tower alone, but who knows, she actually, unexpectedly..." Lin Xirong said, tears fell.

"You are so naive." Ye Zhaoqing sighed.

Facing Lin Xirong like this, she really couldn't bear to criticize anything harshly, and now she forgot the politeness she had deliberately shown.

She couldn't bear it, but Murong Shen didn't.

"Miss Lin, why did you speak out in public in Fengyang Tower that day? Is this different from what you said to my brother before? So you used him?"

This is straight to the point, not at all polite.

A hint of shame suddenly appeared on Lin Xirong's face.

"Brother, forget it, don't criticize her..." Murong Jin hurried out to smooth things over.

"Shut up!" Murong Shen glared at him coldly and said, "It's fine if you can't even take care of your own woman, why do you want to involve others? Do you know that without her, the people in Fengyang Tower would have been in trouble that day?" The thing wouldn't have happened at all? Wouldn't His Royal Highness be poisoned? Thanks to you, you grew up with him!"

When Murong Jin heard this, she immediately lowered her head in shame.

But Ye Zhaoqing said slowly: "Master Taifu, what you said is too one-sided. Even if there was no incident that day in Fengyang Tower, would Lingmei give up and pull me down from the throne of the princess? Will His Highness give up? The third prince is willing to just be an idle prince?"

"These things are still going to happen eventually, it's just delayed."

Lin Xirong did not expect that Ye Zhaoqing would still be willing to explain to her at this time, and she couldn't help being touched, and finally summoned up the courage to say: "Zhaoqing, I'm sorry, the reason why I did that in Fengyang Building that day , just because, the day before, my father lost his temper in the study and wanted to divorce my mother."

"I, I'm so flustered that I can't help it. It just so happened that you asked Liu Er to send a letter of breaking up the relationship, so..." Lin Xirong said with guilt.

Ye Zhaoqing suddenly realized: "It turned out that the letter caused the trouble!"

"Yeah, that's not all." Lin Xirong bit her lip and said, "At first my father didn't intend to divorce his wife, but that night, he didn't know what happened, and he suddenly knew my mother's solution to Liu Er The medicine was mixed with arsenic, and she was determined to be cruel and merciless, not worthy to be the mistress of the Xiangfu, so..."

As she spoke, she glanced at Ye Zhaoqing with guilt on her face.

But Ye Zhaoqing was like a thunderbolt, something that she had neglected gradually surfaced in her mind.

"Ji Yan! Where is Ji Yan! Tell him to get out and see me immediately!" Ye Zhaoqing said angrily.

Everyone in the room, including Murong Shen, was shocked when they saw her appearance.

"Zhaoqing, what do you want to see Ji Yan for? Isn't he the secret guard given to you by His Royal Highness?" Murong Jin was puzzled.

Ye Zhaoqing made a stinky face and didn't answer.

Lin Xirong, who had already fallen into guilt, couldn't care less about guilt, and her face was full of curiosity.

Murong Shen's eyes flickered, but he didn't speak.

After a while, Ji Yan was brought in. Seeing that everyone was looking at him with strange eyes, he was very puzzled: "Master, what are your orders?"

"The night Liu'er was sent back, I discovered that the pills Mrs. Lin gave her were adulterated with arsenic. I told you not to tell about this. I want you to throw away those pills quietly. How did you do that? ?”

Others are acceptable, but Lin Xirong's heart was shocked after hearing this.

It turned out that those pills were not sent back by Ye Zhaoqing on purpose?That is to say, the fact that her father wants to abandon her mother has nothing to do with her...

A trace of guilt welled up in her heart again.

Hearing this, Ji Yan was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head: "Master, at that time, my subordinates felt that this matter should not be left alone, and they did not throw away those pills, but delivered them overnight Master Lin's study..."

"No wonder." Hearing this, Ye Zhaoqing couldn't help sighing: "You belong to the crown prince, how could Prime Minister Lin not know? He thought the crown prince was dissatisfied with his wife and hinted that he would divorce his wife..."

(End of this chapter)