Chapter 13
At that time, Cui Lingyan was leaning on the bed in a daze with a haggard face. Sensing that her sweetheart had arrived early, she quickly asked all the maids in the house to go out. Then, with a sore nose, she stood up and threw herself into the arms of Cui Ang, who appeared immediately, sobbing and crying. .
"I heard what you and mother said. Please tell me more carefully what happened." Cui Ang held Cui Lingyan in his arms and said while wiping her tears, he suppressed his anger.
As the male protagonist of the original work, his appearance is naturally very outstanding, but because he does not recognize his relatives and uses ruthless methods to criticize his character, his temperament is a bit gloomy, and there is always a cold murderous intention in his eyebrows, which makes people dare not near.
Different from Xiao Ji's gentleness and gentleness, Xie Mingxiao's coldness and arrogance. He is more like a knife that can be unsheathed at any time, with a dangerous attraction.
But Cui Lingyan likes him like this, because his dangerous and terrifying side is facing outsiders. In front of her, he would always show his soft side, surrender to her, and pamper her.
This gave her an extraordinarily satisfying feeling.
"It's Brother Ji..."
At this moment, Cui Lingyan finally no longer had to hide anything from Cui Ang. She told all the unpleasant things Xiao Ji said to her today, as well as threatening her with their affair.
Although Cui Ang didn't have much contact with Xiao Ji, his number one love rival, he knew everything he needed to know. Hearing this, he was also surprised for a while, but thinking of the conversation between Ge Shi and Aunt Liu, he quickly thought about it for a few moments, and said with a sneer: "It's just a little trick of playing hard to get. I guess it's because you and I are in love with each other." Things got so exciting that I felt jealous and unwilling to accept it, so I came up with this eccentric trick to get your attention."
This sounds very reasonable. Cui Lingyan was startled and suddenly realized: "So that's it. I asked you how could Brother Ji do that to me!"
After she said this, the lingering tone that had been stuck in her heart finally came out, and her face improved a lot, "But he couldn't come up with this idea by himself. Someone must be instigating him behind his back..." Well!"
Before she could finish speaking, Cui Ang leaned over and kissed her lips: "Don't think about other men in front of me."
Seeing Cui Ang holding her waist possessively and not hiding his jealousy, a sweet smile appeared in Cui Lingyan's hazy eyes. She nodded with a tearful smile, leaned into her lover's arms obediently, and accepted his domineering and passionate kiss. Until finally I couldn't bear it anymore, my breath was disordered, and I pushed him twice with a shy face: "Enough, enough..."
Cui Ang lay on her shoulder and panted. After a while, he calmed down and said to her, "Mother intends to arrange a marriage between you and Xiao Ji."
The mother he refers to is Gemini. Cui Lingyan came back to her senses and comforted him: "I only have you in my heart, and I will not marry anyone else. If my mother forces me, I will cry until she feels distressed and gives in. It's just..."
She hesitated for a moment and looked up at him, her expression becoming sad, "It's just that we can't be so sneaky all the time."
Cui Ang is not a bloodline of Duke Qing. Thirteen years ago, an old friend of Duke Qing committed a crime and his entire family was executed. Only a five-year-old son was left, who was secretly rescued by Duke Qing in the name of a foreign wife. He took it home and became the second son of the Cui family.
Cui Ang is the second man of the Cui family.
Because of his sensitive identity, the only person in the mansion who knew his true identity was Duke Qing. Therefore, Cui Ang, who had the humble status of a concubine, did not have a good life in Duke Qing's mansion when he was a child.
Although the Qingguo Guild protected him, Qingguo Gong was a grown man and was not in the back house most of the time, so he could only leave him to the care of his wife Ge Shi.
However, Ge Shi hated Cui Ang's origin and didn't care about him on weekdays. The other children in the house also took pleasure in ostracizing and bullying him, and even the servants would look at the food and treat him coldly.
During this period, only Cui Lingyan was willing to get close to him and treat him well, so Cui Ang fell in love with Cui Lingyan.
As for Cui Lingyan, at first she just felt that her brother-in-law was a little pitiful. She thought that everyone was a family and if the trouble went too far, outsiders would laugh at him, so she took care of him casually. Later, she accidentally learned Cui Ang's true identity from her father, and in the process of getting along with him, she was gradually attracted to him, and then she developed different feelings for him.
However, due to the apparent relationship between brother and sister, the two cannot be together even if they are in love, so Cui Ang has been thinking of ways to overturn the case for his real family recently.
If the case is overturned successfully, he can be himself and marry Cui Lingyan. It's just that it's difficult to reverse the verdict, and there hasn't been much progress yet.
"Give me a little more time. Two years... two years at most, I will definitely marry you home openly." Cui Ang, who is currently on duty in the emperor's special palace, but has not yet reached the upper echelons, thought of this and felt in his heart Somewhat irritable. While he was thinking of ways to climb up to a high position and gain power as soon as possible, he pinched Cui Lingyan's waist and kissed her greedily over and over again.
The two were in love at this time, and Cui Lingyan responded sweetly when she heard this. But Cui Ang's inner anxiety and annoyance did not dissipate.
He looked at Cui Lingyan's eyes, which were still red and swollen from crying for too long, and thought about how she was panicking and sobbing when he came in just now. His eyes became sinister, and the annoyance in her heart found an outlet.
The girl he held in his hand and loved so much was actually hurt like this...
Thinking again that the reason why the other party did this was to attract her attention and take her away from him, Cui Ang's face became more gloomy and his eyes became more serious.
What about the current prince? What about the emperor's biological brother?
Those who hurt him must pay the price!
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Xiao Ji knew nothing about what happened in the palace of Qingguo. After returning home, he lay in bed for two days before finally hearing that Master Ming Ran had returned from giving lectures.
"Come here, prepare a car immediately and go to Dahuang'en Temple."
When he heard the news, Xiao Ji was running circles in the yard for morning exercise. After hearing this, he immediately changed his clothes and went out to Dahuang'en Temple.
This time he finally met Master Zhiran.
Before meeting the person, Xiao Ji felt a little nervous, because this master Ming Ran was an eminent monk personally certified by the emperor. In the original plot, he also appeared twice as an expert, and each time he looked enigmatic.
Facing such a person, Xiao Ji, a visitor from another world who took over someone else's body and lived, could not help but feel a little guilty.
Although he has the memory of the original owner, he can still deal with it even if he is seen through. The emperor cannot kill his own brother just because of a few words from the old monk, but it is better not to be seen through. He hates it. trouble.
It was precisely because of such concerns that after following the little novice who led the way into the meditation room where Master Ran was, Xiao Ji did not speak directly to the business. Instead, he imitated the original master and exchanged a few words with Master Ran.
The original owner was not familiar with Master Zhiran, but he had met him several times and asked him for scriptures. But after some contact, Master Ming Ran didn't notice at all that there was a different person in the young man in front of him.
Even if Xiao Ji deliberately said that he had been thinking and dreaming a lot lately and often dreamed of some weird scenes, the old monk, who was about seventy years old, just looked at him like a master, counted his fingers and said: "Your Majesty, you have been invaded by evil spirits. However, as you have a precious life and are protected by His Majesty's dragon energy, this evil spirit cannot really harm you, so you only need to go home and have a good rest, and light a pillar of the poor monk's special medicine when you go to bed at night. This soothing incense can ward off evil spirits and calm the mind, and you will be fine in a few days."
After saying that, someone brought over a box of high-end soothing incense and sold it to him with a smile.
Xiao Ji: "..."
Xiao Ji: "???"
Where is the promised master from outside the world, the eminent monk? Why does this look like a charlatan? !
He was stunned for a while, and finally realized that things were different from what he thought.
Looking at the old monk in front of me again, although he has white beard and hair, kind eyes and kind eyes, he looks very noble, but he is wearing a maroon cassock embroidered with gold threads, and hanging on his chest is a string of Bodhi Buddha beads inlaid with ink jade. He also held a pure gold Zen staff in his hand. He looked so rich and noble, and Xiao Ji felt even more speechless.
He was a little worried that if Master Ming Ran was really a capable master, he might not be able to easily persuade him to help lie to the emperor. For this reason, he thought of various excuses and made a lot of preparations. But now it seems that maybe he doesn't need to think so much at all...
Thinking of this, Xiao Ji paused, and then without any nonsense, he took out the five hundred taels of silver notes from his arms and placed them in front of Master Mingran: "Actually, I came here today because I want to ask Master for help. If Master is willing, To help me with this, I am willing to donate five hundred taels of incense oil money."
People these days are superstitious, and people also like to use superstitious means to solve problems. As the abbot of Dahuang'en Temple and an eminent monk certified by the emperor himself, Master Mingran was often asked to do things. He was already very proficient in the kind of business in front of him. Seeing this action, he put away the bank note very naturally and said with a smile: "If the prince has any instructions, just say it. I will do my best to relieve the prince's worries."
...This old monk turned out to be a real stickman who gets paid to do things.
Xiao Ji looked at Master Ming Ran speechlessly, wondering how he could fool his wise and powerful brother. However, he was not in the mood to ask these questions at the moment. He just said that he didn't want to get married yet, but he couldn't refuse the emperor's kindness, so he wanted to ask him to help tell the emperor that his fate had changed and it was not suitable to get married too early.
It doesn't matter if he is a magic stick or not, as long as he can help him achieve his goal.
However, after Master Ming Ran heard what he said, his smile froze: "This... if the prince wants to reject other people's kindness, the poor monk should be duty-bound to share the prince's worries. But you are facing His Majesty... This is the crime of deceiving the emperor, a poor monk would not dare to do this!"
"How can I be deceiving the emperor? My destiny has really changed. I will not be able to marry in the past few years. If you don't believe me, master, please tell me." If this matter can be solved with money, that would be great. So after Xiao Ji said this, he took out a five hundred tael silver note from his arms and handed it over.
Master Mingran: "..."
Master Mingran looked at the banknote with excitement and embarrassment: "Your Majesty, it's not that the poor monk doesn't want to help, it's actually this matter... the poor monk can't do anything."
Xiao Ji thought he was deliberately taking Qiao to get more money. He couldn't help but narrowed his eyes and clicked his tongue with some warning: "My brother has great trust in you, master. As long as you say it, I believe he will do it." letter."
Looking at Xiao Ji's unkind eyes and thinking about his identity as the emperor's brother and the current prince, Ming Ming didn't dare to offend him, so he could only smile and try to make it up: "The prince doesn't know something, even if the poor monk follows your instructions Your Majesty said it, but Your Majesty won't believe it. The poor monk is old and his eyesight is not working well. Recently, he often feels unable to do things well. Because of this, Your Majesty is very dissatisfied with the poor monk. So you see... you should not do it again. Think of another way?"
"It's okay, just say it and leave the rest to me." Xiao Ji ignored his refusal, "Even if my brother is dissatisfied with you recently, your status in his mind is still different from others. .After all, the world knows that you met the young imperial brother back then, asserted that he had the potential to fly into the sky and become a dragon, and gave him a silver bowl to help him survive the famine..."
Wait, in ancient times, imperial power was given by heaven. In order to better consolidate the imperial power and rule the world, the emperors of the feudal dynasty liked to do some auspicious miracles for themselves to show that they were the orthodox emperor recognized by heaven...
Damn it, the silver bowl that Brother Cheap has been worshiping for so long, couldn’t have come from this way, right? !
Xiao Ji, who suddenly thought of this possibility, was stunned for a moment, feeling inexplicably that he had discovered the truth.
When he looked at the old monk who was no different from a liar, he was helped up to the altar by his royal brother. At this moment, the old monk was still trying to reject him. The corner of Xiao Ji's mouth twitched heavily, and he suddenly stepped forward to ask. He said: "My brother, the emperor, also knows that you are pretending to be clever and cheating people out of money, right? How do you two compare?"
"Sanqi——"
Because Xiao Ji jumped into the topic too quickly, he was caught off guard, so he subconsciously said to Master Zhiran: "!!!"
Seeing him shut his mouth suddenly, with shock and regret on his face, Xiao Ji was actually just guessing: "..."
I actually guessed it right!
Damn, his brother really deserves to be the founding emperor of the country, he has such a dirty heart!
