Wishful Things

It looks like it's a lot of work.

Being stared at by the girl like this, Wu Chao's ears felt slightly hot, he coughed lightly, and said, "It's not really scolding—"

But it was true that he hadn't slept all night.

It's just not because he was reprimanded by his grandfather, but because he was thinking about how he should deal with the next thing if his grandfather really opposed it to the end.

"Grandfather refuses to agree to the current plan." He said bluntly, not hiding anything from Xu Mingyi, and it has always been the consensus between the two of them to discuss with each other when something happens.

King Dingnan disagreed...

Xu Mingyi was slightly taken aback when he heard it for the first time, but after careful consideration, he was not surprised.

What Wu Chao once told her about the previous actions of the Dingnan Prince's House that secretly fueled the flames was enough to show what kind of road Dingnan King chose and paved——

"Then what are you thinking now?" Xu Mingyi first asked Wu Chao.

Whether it is for Wu Chao or King Yan, the words of King Dingnan carry great weight, there is no doubt about it.

Wu Chao basically told the girl in front of him about the conversation in the study last night.

Finally: "I'm still going to try to convince my grandfather—"

If he really can't persuade him, he has already roughly thought out the follow-up response.

Xu Mingyi didn't say anything for a while, just staring at him.

After watching like this for a while, the corners of his mouth curled up, revealing a pair of pear dimples on his snowy cheeks.

Wu Chao was looked at inexplicably, but there was a smile in his eyes unconsciously: "What's the matter?"

"It's nothing." The girl's clear eyes showed undisguised admiration and liking: "Well... I just feel that this is really the Wu Chao I know."

He was indeed someone she liked.

Wu Chao felt uncomfortable instead, and he didn't think there was anything unique about what he did. In his opinion: "It's just an ordinary person's choice."

Xu Mingyi followed suit and nodded.

But in this world, ordinary people do ordinary things, which is precisely what is unusual.

Because most people's pictures are often unusual, and many worries in the world arise from this.

"Old Master Wu's intention is to gain the greatest profit with the least effort, and to seek greater chances of winning..." Xu Mingyi said: "Speaking of it, this is indeed a good way to reduce costs and risks. But the situation in the world is changing rapidly. No one dares to determine what will happen in the future, and what they think is to avoid the price may not turn out to be like this..."

Just like the last life...

King Dingnan's move is nothing more than a game of chess with the people of the world. Even though the price of the Wu family is small, the so-called price falls on the people of the world ten times and a hundred times.

She couldn't decide whether King Nan's move was right or wrong, but she could clearly see the result of the last life. In the previous life, their Xu family died early in the hands of the emperor, and under the arrangement of King Dingnan, Wu Chao Passively left the Wu family in the form of death, King Yan was relatively weak at that time, and everything must be done according to the arrangement of King Dingnan——

It turned out that the Wu family's direct lineage, except for Wu Ran, all perished in the fire...

Afterwards, wars, big and small, continued to increase. Even in her dream, Wu Chao finally ascended to the throne, but the world was still full of disputes. As the king of a country, he frequently went to war in person, which showed how difficult the situation was.

Who can say that the emergence of these consequences has nothing to do with Dingnan King's insistence?

A difference in thought will also affect the real overall situation.

But when it comes to the fire that happened in Ningyang Dingnan Palace in the last life, five years from now, Xu Mingyi has always been a little suspicious——

The situation at that time was quite different from the current situation. After the emperor gained the military power of their Xu family army, he heard the wind from nowhere and learned of the secret plan of King Yan and the Wu family, and he directly surrounded Dingnan Palace in the capital. , And sent troops to Ningyang to escort the rebels Dingnan Wang's family to Beijing for interrogation.

Everything came very quickly.

According to Wu Ran later, the fire was ordered by his grandfather King Dingnan——

When the army encircled Ningyang City, Dingnan Palace was burned before they could enter the city.

Wu Ran said that this was his grandfather's choice to preserve the dignity of the Wu family and the lives of the people in Ningyang City.

She couldn't imagine what kind of determination it was, that the old man could make such a decision...

The patriarch of the gentry, his spine is always straight, if he succeeds, he will succeed, if he fails, he is unwilling to make a living in exchange for life, he does not want to be trampled by those he despises, and he does not want to become a hostage and be humiliated——

And this fire didn't just burn the century-old mansion, it was destined to burn more and more, keep spreading, the fire was fierce, and finally enveloped the whole world in this monstrous sea of ​​flames.

This fire was the last voice of the Wu family in this world, silent but deafening, it completely ignited the chains that bound Yan Wangfu in Mizhou.

King Yan rebelled.

And she always felt that the fire was too decisive, like a blood-stained arrow sent to Mizhou, but why...it must be fire? That would leave no room for anything, and burn everything...

She could imagine the feeling of the family's strength of character not wanting to be humiliated after death, but what happened before the fire?

How did the emperor learn about the plans of the Wu family and King Yan?

Was it the emperor's suspicion? Self-directed and self-acted deliberately framed, just like how she dealt with the Xu family back then?

--No.

The Wu family and the Xu family were always different. At that time, the emperor's attack on the Wu family would definitely cause the situation to be completely out of balance. No matter how stupid the emperor was, he would never fail to know this.

But the emperor did it anyway.

Then, there is only one possibility - the emperor really has the evidence of the Wu family's conspiracy with King Yan!

So he was irritated, even scared, panicked, and desperately wanted to be the first to act first, control the Wu family, threaten and deter King Yan, and wanted to cut off the crisis as soon as possible.

But the emperor probably never expected that the Wu family would be so decisive.

In this way, it was the king of Yan who was angered. The Wu family made such a choice, and the king of Yan no longer had any scruples.

In the end, Yan Wang and his son became what the world calls rebellious officials and thieves.

She didn't know whether King Dingnan, who fell in the fire, regretted it, or such an old man would never regret it. If he loses a bet, he loses. At that moment, he managed to cut off everything without hesitation, without leaving any trouble for King Yan and his son——

It's just that the price is too heavy.

And after the Wu family's accident in the previous life, she often thought, the Wu family has always acted very meticulously, how did the emperor get the news that prompted him to attack the Wu family immediately?

The Wu family... Could there be a traitor?

She tried to ask Wu Ran, but the young man who had just experienced the destruction of his family at that time couldn't think of anyone suspicious.

As for whether Wu Chao and Wu Ran found out anything after she died, it is unknown.

"Zhao Zhao?"

Seeing that her eyes were not fixed, apparently she was distracted, Wu Chao called out.

Xu Mingyi came back distracted, looked at him, but asked, "Wu Chao, do you still remember that when I went to Ningyang to look for you last year, I told you to pay attention to the people around you?"

At that time, she suspected that the person Wu Chao said was going to take advantage of the chaos to kill him, or the traitor who would betray the Wu family in the future, so she took the opportunity to remind him a few words.

Although Wu Chao didn't know why she suddenly asked about it, he nodded immediately: "I remember."

How could he forget such an important thing, let alone her reminder.

"Wu Chao, I have never told you that I had a very long dream... In the dream, something happened to our Xu family, and the Wu family was not spared, and it was destroyed in a fire... ...And during that fire, I vaguely saw a figure in the Dingnan Palace in Ningyang, and my intuition told me that something happened to the Wu family might be related to that person."

This dream, and that figure, were not lies, or daydreams, she had indeed had such a dream.

Wu Chao was stunned for a moment.

Of course, he has seen how his family's Zhaozhao's dream came true.

It's just that most of the previously manifested dreams were aimed at individuals and certain things, but this time they directly wiped out both the Xu and Wu families...

"If there really is that one person, at such a critical juncture, I'm afraid something will go wrong..." Xu Mingyi said seriously: "We must be careful and be on guard."

Although Wu Chao felt that this dream was too big, he accepted it seriously: "Don't worry—"

So, she was distracted just now, was she worried about what happened in this dream?

He was even thinking, if she had had this dream early enough, would her reminders of 'unintentional' in his opinion when they first met, be purely out of kindness? It's not as complicated as he thought at the time.

He thought of the situation when he first met in the Duke's mansion that night——

She called him "Wu Shisun" as soon as she opened her mouth. He felt strange at the time, but she explained that she had guessed it.

Was it guessed, or 'recognized'?

Now that I think about it, I actually feel very mysterious.

Perhaps, before he knew her, she had already 'know' him——

Thinking like this, the young man reached out his hand to hold the girl's hand next to the teacup across the table between the two of them, as if it had been a lifetime, and said to her warmly, "Don't be afraid, it's up to people to do it. Look, don't I, as Wu Chao, sit right in front of you now?"

Xu Mingyi nodded with a smile: "I'm not afraid."

She was no longer afraid.

From time to time, the wind blows, carrying the rain and drifting into the window, and the drizzle of rain and mist sticks to the girl's satin-like black hair.

And looking at the pair of smiling eyes in front of him, which seemed to have a sense of distance, Wu Chao was inexplicably absent-minded, and there was an unspeakable mysterious feeling in his heart, and he blurted out a word without thinking——

"Zhao Zhao... I feel like I have known you since the last life."

After finishing speaking, I couldn't help but feel that these words were a little silly, and a little too vulgar.

But just now he really had such a feeling for a moment, it was very real and very strong.

Xu Mingyi was startled when he heard that, and then the smile in his eyes became wider, he nodded and said, "Actually... I think so too."

The four eyes meet, and the young man's brows are full of smiles.

"By the way, you just said that you remember what I told you, so have you found any suspicious people?" Xu Mingyi shook his hand slightly, and asked him softly.

Wu Chao nodded: "I have ordered people to investigate this matter for a long time. There are indeed a few people in the family who are slightly suspicious. I have been secretly and closely monitored by people. Even if there is any change, it is within the controllable range."

And one of them, even calling him a clansman seems too light.

Hearing this, Xu Mingyi breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's good."

Immediately, he sighed again.

"What's wrong?" Wu Chao asked.

The girl pulled out the hand that was held by him, stretched both hands towards him, cupped his face with cool white fingers, squeezed it, looked at it seriously, and said seriously——

"I was just thinking, for a person like you, you can clearly do everything so well..."

Why did Dingnan Wang feel that he might become angry after learning the truth?

He has enough care and patience and the sense to control the overall situation. Wouldn't it be better for such a person to stay by his side to discuss major issues? Where can I find such a useful person?

But in the previous life, King Dingnan didn't discuss it at all, so he designed a feigned death, putting Wu Chao in a completely passive position.

These elders...

Although this kind of stubborn approach is generally understandable, if you think about it, it really makes people feel very unconvinced.

A wise man still has one thing to worry about, so arbitrarily, or in other words-he has too much sense of responsibility, and he just wants to take care of everything, which has many disadvantages.

If you want her to say, how wonderful Wu Chao is!

Xu Mingyi praised again and again sincerely in his heart.

And Wu Chao felt like a dog right now...

You must know that when he rubbed Gouzi's face, he was like her...

When the dog was rubbed by him, he squinted his eyes and enjoyed it very much, not as angry as him, and the mood at this time is also the same...

The young man thought seriously——if humans also had tails, he must have already wagged them right now, and it had to be the kind that wagged the most joyously. I'm afraid that the one who consistently wags his tail the happiest and outshines the dogs Xiao Hei also wants to bow down.

But... Zhaozhao is actually dissatisfied with him, is he wronged?

Thinking of this, the boy became more and more willing to be rubbed, and when the girl took her hand back, she even felt a little reluctant.

He also had no choice but to take her words and said: "I want to have a good talk with my grandfather again, but my grandfather is not very willing to see me at this time."

He went to pay his respects this morning, but he didn't see his grandfather.

Xu Mingyi heard the words but said: "Perhaps Mrs. Wu is hesitating?"

"hesitate?"

"Think about it carefully, why did Mrs. Wu come to the capital so far away?" Xu Mingyi pondered and said, "If you want to urge you to return to Ningyang, just ask someone to beat you unconscious and tie you back. How about this trip?"

In fact, according to this, this old man can be regarded as a person who respects the wishes of the younger generation, or in other words, he really loves Wu Chao——

If not, why bother to remind me one after another.

This approach is like her grandfather scolding the second uncle for not wanting to start a family all the time, but never really forcing the second uncle.

It's just that in comparison, this old man Wu pays more attention to the overall situation in his own eyes. Therefore, it is not possible to judge whether he is a qualified elder based on good or bad, right or wrong.

Wu Chao was taken aback.

That's right, grandfather came to the capital in person at this time, it must not be just because he——

It was because of a very divisive conversation last night that he saw it too one-sidedly.

Xu Mingyi continued: "Perhaps after Mrs. Wu got the letter from the prince, he was also shaken, so he decided to go to Beijing to check it out for himself, and I also want to hear your thoughts—"

Although King Dingnan was stubborn, it wasn't because he didn't pay attention to the actual situation. The majestic head of the Wu family might have made a wrong bet, but it definitely wouldn't be because of ignorance.

After all, compared with the previous life, the current situation has indeed undergone many changes.

First of all, their Xu family——

The previous king of Yan did not have the support of the Xu family army, and even at this time there is no Xu family army in the world. Under such a situation, King Dingnan will inevitably be more cautious.

But now it's different.

"Otherwise... How about letting my grandfather meet Mrs. Wu?" Xu Mingyi suggested.

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