Shaojun riding the sea

Chapter 40 What's the old love?

"Please, Prince Yue, I have been entrusted by someone, and I have something to give to you."

In the small courtyard of Lanxin, the door was closed tightly, and two rows of Wujin guards from the Zhenfu Division were guarding the door. Shi Xuanling couldn't even take a step closer, so he could only stand by the flower garden, watching from a distance, secretly worried in his heart.

In the room, Pei Shixi led the snow wolf, but turned around slowly, shook his head, and said with a smile:
"Although it's a bit crude, it's neat and clean. It seems that the prince has not given up on himself in exile on the island. He is worthy of being the son of the first family in Shengdu who has both civil and military skills and has a bright future. He really can bend and stretch. I admire you."

Between the yin and yang praises, Yue Wugui sat at the table and said coldly: "If you have something to say, hurry up, I don't like staying in the same room with animals."

His phrase "animal" scolds both wolves and people.

Pei Shixi didn't care about him, just smiled, sat down at the table, took out a letter from his bosom, and pushed it to Yue Wujiu unhurriedly.

"Let's take a look, my son, you are suffering on this island, but there is a girl who loves you in the imperial city. If the Yue family hadn't committed a major treason case, I'm afraid you and this second Miss Shi would have been married by now, right? "

Hearing the words "Second Miss Shi", Yue Wujiu immediately understood, but he just frowned slightly, glanced at the letter on the table, and didn't intend to reach out to take it.

"Won't your son take it apart and take a look? Anyway, it's a childhood sweetheart, don't you miss a little bit of old love?"

"What's the old love?"

As Yue Wujiu said, he directly picked up the letter, but instead of opening it, he burned the letter with the candle at hand without hesitation.

"My son, you, you are..." Pei Shixi was caught off guard, with a face full of disbelief: "How could you burn this letter?"

"This person has nothing to do with me. Why should I read the letter from her? Since I don't read it, what is the letter left here for? Why can't it be burned?"

Pei Shixi opened his mouth, but was speechless. He never expected that Yue Wujiu would be so straightforward. He didn't talk too much. He burned the letter as soon as he came up, and he didn't even bother to give alms!

The flames rolled up and gradually devoured the letter written by Shi Xuanqin himself. Pei Shixi watched helplessly, but couldn't even say a word to stop it, because he saw the determined expression on the young man's face.

Could it be that the Second Miss of the Shi family really has no weight in Yue Wujiu's heart?

Pei Shixi didn't show his face, but still wanted to take a gamble. He shook his head and sighed with pretended regret: "My son, why is this so? Thanks to Miss Shi thinking about you day and night, she even sewed a suit for you. Clothes, if you burn the letter, you have to accept the clothes, right?"

As he said that, another package on the table was opened, and the clothes Shi Xuanqin had carefully embroidered were revealed in front of Yue Wujiu.

Pei Shixi unfolded his clothes, and deliberately praised: "Look, this stitch and thread is so delicate, but the second lady spent a lot of time embroidering it, and she still treats Shizi..."

"Take it back."

Yue Wujiu's cold voice interrupted Pei Shixi's "boasting", Pei Shixi's smile froze, but Yue Wujiu glanced at the clothes, and said indifferently:

"This is the underwear that the woman made for her husband before she got married, but I have broken off the engagement with this person long ago and have no relationship with him anymore. Why do I accept this dress?"

"But after all, it's Miss Shi Er's wish, she still treats the son..."

"Is her heart very precious, so I have to accept it? I'm afraid Mr. Pei has forgotten that my current wife's name is Shi Xuanling, not Shi Xuanqin. According to Dongmu customs, my underwear should not belong to my wife." Sew it for me, what other people need to worry about?"

"If I accept this piece of clothing, where will my wife Xuan Ling be? For an irrelevant person, do I want to break my wife's heart?"

The cold words made Pei Shixi stunned again, he stared at Yue Wugui, trying to look into his heart, and said quietly: "My son is like this, how can I tell Miss Shi Er?"

With a sound of "stab", the young man tore his clothes into two halves. He threw it in front of Pei Shixi, raised his eyes indifferently and said, "Can we explain now?"

Come on, it was okay not to ask, but when I asked, I added a piece of clothing. Shi Xuanqin really wanted to thank Pei Shixi.

Now that the letter has been burned and the clothes are torn, the more innocent attitude is obvious. After a few changes in Pei Shixi's eyes, he finally changed the subject and said with a half-smile: "That's right, I don't blame the son for being unfeeling. After all, it is Shi Er." Miss regrets her marriage first, and whoever encounters such a betrayal will not turn back easily."

Since you can't arouse his tenderness, let's deepen his hatred. As long as the young man's mind is in a mess, why not show his feet?
Pei Shixi thought about this, and sighed: "In fact, although Second Miss Shi writes letters and makes clothes at the same time, she is not idle on the other side. People always have to plan for themselves. Now she spends all day with her. An Junwang is a couple, so close, maybe good things are coming, if the Shi family can get into this marriage, it will be a great blessing, but it is a pity that the son is far away on this Yunzhou Island, I am afraid that he will not be able to drink that. A glass of wedding wine..."

He pretended to casually talk about Shi Xuanqin's current "new love", and there was even a bit of accusation in his words, as if he was trying to defend Yue Wugui.

It's a pity that after hearing these words, Yue Wugui didn't respond, he sat upright at the table, didn't even lift his eyelids, and just said indifferently: "Don't talk about others behind their backs, this bit of etiquette, Mr. Pei There's none?"

Although he was betrayed, he didn't bother to slander others, such a villain's behavior would only dirty himself.

The smile on Pei Shixi's lips froze again.

In just a few back and forth, he was choked every time, and one hand was clenched almost imperceptibly under the table. After a few changes in his eyes, he finally held his breath, and stroked his palm with a half-smile: " Mr. Yue is so kind-hearted, Pei admires him."

That's enough, let's not mention the second lady of the Shi family, it's a move that can't be used anymore.

He could see it completely, this kid from the Yue family had put it down long ago, he had no nostalgia for the past, he didn't even care about it at all, and using that "little green plum" from the Shi family to disturb his mind, wasn't it just a dream?
Pei Shixi coughed twice, and after clearing his throat, the topic changed again, but this time he really pinched Yue Wujiu's acupoint——

"I have conveyed all the things that should be conveyed on behalf of others. There is nothing that Yue Shizi doesn't want to listen to. I just don't know that your 'righteous sister' who married to Youzhou and has now become Mrs. Lan's family, her News, are you interested in knowing?"

Sure enough, when Ning Jiuniang was mentioned, Yue Wujiu's expression suddenly changed.

Pei Shixi finally smiled with satisfaction, and calmly said: "The Zhenfusi has now been ordered by the emperor to arrest the remnants of the conspiracy. The Yue family is deeply implicated, so how do you know that they didn't help each other in the dark and plan things together? It's hard to clear up the suspicion, what do you think, son?"

"Pei Shixi, what do you want to do?" The young man was obviously panicked, and his breath was short of breath: "It's not enough for you to slander me for treason, why do you want to drag my sister and brother-in-law into the water?"

"I have not come to a conclusion yet, Shizi Xiaohuo."

While stroking the snow wolf at his feet, Pei Shixi continued to speak slowly: "I heard that your sister is now practicing with her hair, kneeling in front of the Buddha all day long, copying scriptures for the souls of the Yue family's dead, and your brother-in-law is always by her side. Never leave, never leave, such a deep love between husband and wife, even this official is very envious, I want to visit them in Youzhou, son, you said that this official should lead the troops of the Zhen Fusi, when are you going to leave?"

"Pei Shixi, how dare you!"

Yue Wujiu suddenly stood up, with an extremely excited expression, as his chest rose and fell, he said every word loudly: "Don't say that my sister's surname is not 'Yue' at all, she can't be implicated in the case of Yue's family, let alone she married early in the morning. Ren, now is the young wife of the Lan family. The Lan family has lived in Youzhou for generations, and they have always lived in peace. They can't be more low-key, and they don't set foot in the court at all. They are all innocent people, so don't touch them!"

The young man looked like a "sister who is eager to protect", and his true feelings were not fake. Pei Shixi saw it in his eyes and made his own judgment in his heart.

After some probing so far, it seems that this "Yuejia Orphan" is really ignorant, so it is very good.

What Eunuch Pei said to him that day when he was standing under the eaves seems to be echoing in his ears now: "When you arrive on the island, go find out the truth about the child from the Yue family. If he knows the inside story, you ...abandoned him."

Now it seems that he doesn't need to make a move for the time being.

Just in this trip to Yunzhou Island, he still has a lot of things to do, now he only needs to secretly send someone to keep an eye on this Lanxin courtyard to see if there is any change in this Yuejia boy.

Pei Shixi had a measure in his mind, stood up, and raised his lips with a smile: "The Zhenfusi investigates the case only for the emperor. He has always been impartial and selfless, and he has a clear conscience. Zhoulan's family is also clean, so you have nothing to worry about, otherwise, the Zhen Fusi will never let a traitorous minister go!"

After throwing down these "scene words", Pei Shixi led the snow wolf away, and the young man behind him still shouted angrily: "Don't touch them, Pei Shixi, my sister and brother-in-law are innocent!"

After the door was closed and Pei Shixi left completely, the boy's excited eyes cooled down. He seemed to take off his mask instantly, and he was a different person from the previous "sister nurse's eagerness".

Even if Pei Shixi was as scheming as he was, how could he have guessed that he deliberately mentioned the Lan family in Youzhou in front of Yue Wujiu, trying to test whether he knew about it or not, but Yue Wujiu became more and more sure of a certain guess in his mind, so he followed the plan and took advantage of the situation. There was a play before him.

The young man's "revealing of his true feelings" just now, of course he got away with it and successfully deceived him, the evil wolf.

I'm afraid Pei Shixi would never have imagined it in his dreams. By coincidence, Yue Wugui had already discovered the secret on the mural and locked the Lan family in Youzhou. He used it to test it, wasn't it in his favor?
Yue Wujiu's three-point doubts about the Lan family had become seven points because of Pei Shixi's temptation. As for the remaining three points, he had to obtain substantive evidence. State can be solved, otherwise conjectures are just conjectures after all, so what about the facts?

In the dark, is the hidden truth getting closer to him?

A sneer floated on his lips, the boy's dark eyes were deep, he stared at the void for a long time, and only he could hear the whispered words:
"Youzhou, Lanjia, Jiuniang, and... my good brother-in-law, just wait, one day, I will go to Youzhou to find out."

(End of this chapter)