Concubine Jiang was leaning on the soft pillow, with a faint smile on her dazzlingly beautiful face.
She glanced at Zhou Meiren and said in a soft voice: "Xiaojiu, she begged me for several days and said she had something to say to you. I thought she was sincere, so I agreed. Please listen. What did she say?"
Zheng Ji understood that Zhou Meiren must have made some conditions that made her mother and concubine feel very beneficial.
What is the benefit of this? If the mother and concubine don’t say it now, it will be suitable to talk about it later.
"I wonder what Miss Zhou wants to say to me?" Zheng Ji took the teacup handed over by Aunt Huinan and said calmly.
No matter what conditions Zhou Meiren promised, no matter what Zhou Meiren wanted to say, she was in no hurry.
She is on top, and Zhou Meiren is on the bottom. This is the offensive and defensive momentum.
Before Zhou Meiren could speak, she added, "I just took Chang Ding and his soldiers to see off Brother Three Emperors. Brother Three Emperors seems to be fine."
She was telling the truth. For a prince who was under house arrest, Zheng Xun was indeed in good condition.
At that time, she was hysterical and seemed crazy.
"Oh, really? That's good, that's good." Zhou Meiren was stunned for a moment, then thanked her: "Your Highness, are you interested? Thank you very much, Your Highness."
The mother and son both said the same thing. Zheng Ji didn't answer and just drank tea by himself.
Seeing this, Zhou Meiren said, "Your Highness, I know that His Highness gave you that list. I want to say... This list may not be accurate. There are many people in it. The Xue family put it there intentionally. of."
Zheng Ji's expression remained unchanged and he deliberately pretended to be stupid: "List? Brother Sanhuang has never given me any list."
Meiren Zhou actually knows about that list?
No, it should be said that Zhou Meiren could actually know the conversation between her and Zheng Xun?
The Fengchen Guards were heavily guarded, and Zhou Meiren had lost power again. Zheng Xun and his party could no longer send rough news.
So, how did Zhou Meiren know this?
Tsk, she said, her father’s fourth concubine is not simple.
Concubine Zhou Shu smiled bitterly and said, "Your Highness, to be honest, this list was given to you by my concubine, Third Highness."
Zhou Meiren really did not have the ability to know what happened to Zheng Xun after he was imprisoned, let alone the conversation between Zheng Xun and Zheng Ji.
Zheng Ji was wrong about this.
The reason why Zhou Meiren knew about the list was because she had asked Zheng Xun to do it.
Before Zheng Xun was imprisoned, she had a very brief contact with Zheng Xun. This was an opportunity given to her by Emperor Yongning for the sake of her years of being a law-abiding concubine.
Therefore, Zhou Meiren took the opportunity to ask Zheng Xun several things, one of which was to dedicate this list to Zheng Ji.
When she heard that Zheng Ji had met Zheng Xun, she knew that Zheng Ji would definitely get the list.
She looked at Concubine Jiang, who blinked, and a hint of innocence appeared on her beautiful face; she looked at Zheng Ji again, and saw that His Highness Chang Ding had a cold and aloof look on her face, and did not care about her observation.
She couldn't tell anything from these two people.
That's all. Zhou Meiren gave up her speculation and said what she thought: "That list will no longer be of any use if it is left in our hands. We might as well present it to His Highness. Maybe it will be of some use."
Zheng Ji noticed that she said "we". It was obvious that Zhou Meiren was aware of Zheng Xun's ambitious plan and might have made a great contribution to it.
"This time something happened to the Third Highness, the Crown Prince must have done something. When the Third Highness became greedy for Deng Wuyou, he was bewitched by the Crown Prince. Even if I tried my best to persuade him, the Third Highness would not listen."
She was once one of the four concubines, how could she not know about Deng Wuyou in the inner treasury?
She also knew that such a precious and harmful thing was actually a bait. Anyone who wanted to use it to harm others would have to suffer the consequences first.
Therefore, she never told her son that there was such a thing, because she knew her son's nature too well, and she would not be able to withstand the temptation and only see the outer layer.
The benefits ignore the innermost harm.
Until that day, her son came to ask her if she knew Deng Wuyou, and she heard it from the prince.
She was so frightened and horrified that she sternly rebuked his inquiry and forbade him to have any thoughts about it.
But she underestimated her son's greed. He promised well at the time, and she thought he knew the stakes and gave up the idea of Deng Wuyou. .
Unexpectedly, before he left the palace and opened his mansion, he actually told her that he had exchanged half a plant of Deng Wuyou.
At that moment, her heart felt like it was dipped in ice water.
She knew that from this moment on, her son had fallen into the prince's trap, but she did not dare to make any announcement, for fear that she would reveal some clues and that the prince would notice something.
"I clearly knew that something was wrong with the prince, but after a long time, there was no movement from the prince, so I was lucky. But I was wrong. The prince didn't take action. As soon as he did, he directly trampled the third highness into the dirt. . We are powerless against the Crown Prince."
When Zheng Ji heard this, he always felt that there was something strange there, but he couldn't place it for a while.
However, Concubine Jiang seemed to have little patience and asked directly: "So? I am not interested in hearing these old things from you. Now that the third prince has been imprisoned in Shannan Dao, and you have been demoted to beauty, what are you going to do?" "
She made a few gestures like playing with the abacus, and said softly: "Let's talk about it first. The scholars you mentioned can only allow me to let you meet Xiaojiu. If you want to do more, you have to use It’s time to get something else to change it.”
"..." Zhou Meiren was speechless. She didn't know how she could take greed for money so naturally.
What's more, I don't understand that the other party is obviously so greedy for money, but because of his beautiful face, it doesn't make people feel like he is full of copper, but he only feels innocent and charming.
Perhaps, this is the reason why the emperor favors him.
Immediately, Zhou Meiren replied: "My dear concubine, I know it. Those things I did before were regarded as filial piety to your concubine. Since I want to ask for my favor, I will give you my sincerity."
"Then come and listen." Concubine Jiang said without comment.
Seeing that Zheng Ji's expression was always calm, she added: "Let's talk about it first. The third prince is imprisoned in Shannan Road. There is no way for us to get him back to Jingzhao. Don't say anything about this request. Say it. We can’t do it either.”
Unexpectedly, Zhou Meiren immediately shook her head and said cheerfully: "My dear concubine, please rest assured, this is not what I asked for."
After that, she turned to Zheng Ji, knowing that this was the one who really made the decision.
She seemed to have adjusted her breath and said to Zheng Ji: "Your Highness, to show your sincerity, I can first tell you the conditions I can promise. That is... it has to do with next year's imperial examination selection and the imperial examination questions!"
The place in Fuqing Palace suddenly became quiet. Zheng Ji slowly sat upright and finally looked at Zhou Meiren.
Although the woman in front of her looked haggard, she could not hide her bookish air and her elegant temperament.
She said, it has something to do with next year's imperial examination selection, and has something to do with the imperial examination questions?
The imperial examination is a major event for the imperial court, and it is related to the selection of talents by the imperial court. Every link is a major event.
The most important thing is the imperial examination questions!
Now, Zhou Meiren, who was demoted from a concubine to a beauty, actually said that the imperial examination questions were the condition for her promise.
Zhou Meiren came from a scholarly Zhou family. The Zhou family's children had countless disciples, so it was not surprising that they knew something about the imperial examination questions in advance.
She put down her teacup and finally said, "Tell me, beauty, what do you want me to do?"
It was related to the imperial examination. Regardless of whether it was true or false, she had to listen to Zhou Meiren's request.
What Zhou Meiren wants is nothing more than to surround the Third Emperor Brother. Probably, she wants to use her power to help the Third Emperor Brother who is imprisoned in Shannan Road.
Zhou Meiren smiled slightly and said slowly: "Your Highness, I have two requests. The first... is to kill the Third Highness!"
