Wishful Things

"Miss Cai should have seen it too. By yourself, it is absolutely impossible for you to complete this errand—if you come back empty-handed, you won't be able to get anything good. Why don't you tell me, maybe I can still help you." Xu Mingyi's eyes were full of sincerity.

Cai Jin showed a wry smile.

help her?

She came to Zhen Guogong's mansion to be an eyeliner, but she couldn't find out anything. In the end, she couldn't even see the master's house, so she proposed to help her instead?

What kind of unbelievable and absurd situation is this?

Her eyeliner was too much a failure, and it was unprecedented to fail to such an extent.

"I don't understand this, I don't know how Miss Xu can help me?"

Maybe it was due to numbness and despair to a certain level, at this moment Cai Jin simply sat down and asked in a mocking tone.

As for why the uncharacteristically mocking tone?

She couldn't tell, maybe she was influenced by Ah Li.

"It's very simple, what Miss Cai wants to know, what she wants to investigate, just tell her, and I'll just tell Miss Cai directly." Xu Mingyi's tone was calm and breezy.

Cai Jin just thought it was funny.

It is a little bit reluctant to use these words to coax a three-year-old child.

Tell her directly?

Even if the other party dared to say it, she couldn't believe it.

And the other party clearly had something to say——

Where in this world will there be "help" for no reason?

She was not stupid, and she didn't think that the girl with good temperament in front of her would be stupid - the other party just spoke too directly and clearly, which seemed absurd at first, but after a little thought, she could understand her intentions.

"Does Miss Xu want me to be a double agent?" Cai Jin asked directly.

Anyway, in the eyes of the Xu family, her intentions were almost like a lice on the bald man's head, so she didn't bother to act in vain.

Xu Mingyi seemed to think about it for a while, and replied: "I can't say that, I just want to make things easier, each takes what he needs, so that we can both save effort—"

Everyone gets what they need?

On this matter, the positions of the two of them are completely opposite. How can they truly get what they need?

Cai Jin couldn't help laughing and sighed.

Is this joking with her?

And this little girl is really brave.

Thinking of this, she suddenly became curious——

Looking at the girl sitting there, she asked: "Miss Xu, isn't she afraid that I will leak what you said today?"

How could the other party be sure that he would not pass these words to the ears of the one in the palace?

"Why are you afraid?" Xu Ming asked puzzledly: "Your Majesty sent Miss Cai to our Zhen Guo Gongfu, and now there are irrelevant outsiders who are guessing whether His Majesty has any suspicions about our Xu family. Family members, do you have any ideas? Now that you have an idea, isn’t it reasonable to come to Miss Cai for verification?”

Cai Jin was stunned when he heard that.

The thing is this...

But...how on earth is this a reasonable thing?

At this time, the girl sighed again, and said in a slightly aggrieved tone: "Our Xu family has been loyal to His Majesty, but now His Majesty is suspicious. I really want to break my head, and I can't think of what I did wrong... ... My grandfather, because of this, has trouble sleeping and eating, and a lot of hair and beard have fallen out-we are a general family, and we don't know how to do things. There are so many twists and turns, so I can only ask Miss Cai ah."

Cai Jin opened his mouth.

No, let her stroke it...

However, without waiting for her to elaborate, the girl continued to say: "If we really did something wrong, we must plead guilty to His Majesty in time. And if we were provoked by a villain and misunderstood by Your Majesty, we should go to the court as soon as possible." To clear up the misunderstanding, so as not to procrastinate again and again in the future, not to be clear, and to create a gap with His Majesty, so that the monarch and ministers will be separated again—”

"..."

After hearing all this, Cai Jin even inexplicably felt that it made a lot of sense.

And it seems that if she doesn't confess, she is the chief culprit who caused the disharmony between His Majesty and the Duke of Zhenguo?

What kind of sudden burden of family and country fell on her shoulders? !

Looking at the girl in front of him with an aggrieved and helpless expression, Cai Jin felt that his mind was a little messed up.

Can……

How can these court affairs be so simple?

However, what Miss Xu said seemed to be true, she almost couldn't tell if she was being fooled.

"Miss Xu, stop joking with me." She looked at the girl and said bluntly, "I don't have the ability, let alone the courage to cooperate with Miss Xu."

Hearing what she said, Xu Mingyi felt that there was a little more hope for the deal to be concluded.

At least the other party didn't continue to pretend in front of her.

Realizing this, Xu Mingyi's eyes became more frank: "I can also see these days, after Miss Cai is Mr. Cai, judging from her own character, she must also disdain to do such things of--"

If not, it wouldn't be the case that nothing has been done yet, and he would be so angry that he would become ill...

"..." Hearing this sentence, Cai Jin tightened his fingers on his sleeve.

She is naturally unwilling.

She studied with her grandfather since she was a child, and she didn't read "The Commandments for Women", but always put etiquette, justice, honesty, shame, wisdom and trustworthiness first.

Now she is required to put on a cute and pitiful appearance all day long, not to mention acting with such a group of terrible people, but also to please a man who never gets out of bed for ten days and a half months... Sometimes when I think about it, she really would rather die Forget it.

But she couldn't die—

"I heard that Miss Cai's mother and sister are still in Yongxiang?" Xu Mingyi asked.

A wry smile appeared on the corner of Cai Jin's mouth.

"Yes, mother and younger sister are waiting for me to pick them up from the palace."

It's just that the mother only thought that she was contributing to the construction of the Wanfu Building for the Empress Dowager's birthday——

But in fact, the so-called meritorious service for painting Wanfulou, remembering Mr. Cai's past talents and virtues, and pardoning his descendants on the occasion of the Empress Dowager's birthday, these are just rhetoric on the surface.

All of this is conditional——

The condition is that she get close to Xu Yun and gain the trust of the whole town government.

But...how did the situation become such that everyone knew about her calculations?

Is it because her acting skills are too bad?

Sure enough, she couldn't do anything except write poems and read books!

Even the point of betraying her appearance to please men is a mess—if the mother who is also from a scholarly family learns that she has taken such a path in the future, will she write a hundred poems to express her grief in anger? ?

Thinking of this, Cai Jin couldn't help but shed sad tears again.

She had never cried so embarrassingly in her life as today.

At this time, a plain blue handkerchief was handed to her eyes.

After hesitating for a moment, Cai Jin took it and wiped away the tears on his cheeks.

Seeing that her mood had almost calmed down, Xu Mingyi spoke just now.

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