I saw the slight curve of the red lips under the bamboo hat, and heard Mi Xiayao's voice.
"Why should I trouble you?"
Looking at the embarrassed and dirty Lin Miao in front of her, Mi Xiayao suddenly recalled the scene in front of her -
When she was lying on the bed, that white-eyed adopted son took the poison that had harmed her for many years, and before he died, he wanted to humiliate her about how stupid she had been in her life.
The adopted son's cunning face was a bit like a combination of Duan Honglin and Lin Miao.
The picture in the memory overlapped with Lin Miao's face in reality, but the difference was that one person's face was fair and cunning, while the person in front of her was ferocious and dirty.
"The accounts between you and me have been settled clearly a long time ago." She leaned over slightly and looked at Lin Miao.
On the first day after she was reborn, the first people she executed swiftly and swiftly were Lin Miao and the child in her belly.
"Then what do you mean now, Duan Honglin got into trouble outside? And now he wants to drag me with him to die together?"
Lin Miao was full of vigilance and fear at the moment, and it could be seen that she had been living a very miserable life during this period.
Mi Xiayao had neither pity nor sympathy for her current fate. She had brought all this on herself.
"Yes, so you know a lot about Duan Honglin. If you tell me everything now, I might be able to be kind enough to let you go."
"How can you be so kind!?" Lin Miao obviously didn't believe her words.
Mi Xiayao also guessed that she would be so wary. She stood up straight, crossed her arms across her chest, and shrugged helplessly.
"That's such a pity. I was considerate of you being a pregnant woman. I thought that if you gave me useful information, I would persuade him to let Duan Honglin go. You could also use Duan Honglin's flesh and blood in your arms to help you."
The two of them will become a fake couple again and spend the rest of their lives living in confusion."
She dropped the hook and turned around to leave.
Lin Miao was quick-thinking, and coupled with the hardships she had experienced recently, she still thought about clinging to someone again and just living like this. Once she heard that she could return to Duan Honglin, she was less cautious and looked for a way out again.
"Wait!" She quickly stopped because she was afraid that Mi Xiayao would really leave.
Although Mi Xiayao stopped, she did not look back at her. She was waiting for Lin Miao's next words.
She didn't have the patience to accompany Lin Miao around here.
"Do you really mean what you said? Can you help me connect Duan Honglin so that I can live a good life with him again?"
Live well?
Mi Xiayao sneered in her heart, but when she turned around, she lifted the gauze curtain of her bamboo hat with one hand, revealing her beautiful and delicate face.
"The premise is that the information you provide is valid."
"I said, I said, Duan Honglin's release from Jingzhou City Prison was deliberately done by someone in the capital. He had always thought that Pei Xingyuan's hostile forces wanted to win him over, so they saved him!
"Later... later you took revenge on him. After he couldn't stay in the Ministry of Rites and was dismissed from his official position, Duan Honglin was bored at home for a long time. Suddenly one day someone came to the door and took him away forcibly. I observed carefully that the group of people were dressed in all kinds of clothes.
He is extraordinary, he looks like... someone from the palace!"
In the palace, this process is similar to Mi Xiayao’s prediction. The first person to be eliminated is Prince Qin Qiao.
But she was surprised that the third prince asked Duan Honglin to target Pei Xingyuan.
"Then why weren't you kidnapped?" Lin Miao's words were full of doubts, and Mi Xiayao sharply debunked her words.
Lin Miao's eyes dodge for a moment.
"When he was deposed...I stole the last money from the family and ran away."
"Tsk." Mi Xiayao couldn't help but sneered.
The coldness in Mi Xiayao's eyes suddenly rose when she thought that such a stupid person had been deceived all over her in her previous life.
Lin Miao saw the surging anger in Mi Xiayao's eyes. She regretted it and leaned against the wall again and again.
"I have told you everything I know! You must keep what you said before!"
All she got was useless information, and Mi Xiayao suppressed the coldness in her eyes.
"I helped you plan the future, but I only said that I would ask people to let Duan Honglin go, but it's a pity..."
Her tone paused slightly for a moment, and through the gauze curtain, Mi Xiayao's red lips gradually rose into a bright smile.
It's just a pity that Lin Miao can't see it.
"Duan Honglin is not in my hands."
These words were used to manipulate Lin Miao, taking advantage of Lin Miao's fragile heart, but in the end they crushed Lin Miao's last straw of hope to the ground.
She turned around and left the slum without hesitation. As for how Lin Miao went crazy behind her, it had nothing to do with her.
Back in the hospital, Mi Xiayao intuitively told herself that the Jingzhou City investment case would never bring disaster to only the prince's party.
If the Rong family wants to fully ascend the throne with peace of mind, they must at least get rid of Pei Xingyuan, a powerful official whose position is unclear.
The most dangerous person at the moment is Pei Xingyuan.
She frowned for a long time, and even Song Qiao felt distressed for a long time.
This solemn mood lasted until the next morning, when Chen Xi came to the hospital with Pan Cuan.
Mi Xiayao quickly put Pei Xingyuan's disaster into the back of her mind.
After a long sleep and waking up in the morning, Mi Xiayao escaped from the center of the matter. After reviewing the situation with the mentality of a bystander, she firmly believed that based on Pei Xingyuan's ability, he would definitely be able to get through it safely.
The one she wants to worry about should be herself.
"The attack by Ying Waihe here really refreshed me for several days and wiped away all the grievances I had suffered over the years!"
Chen Xi has a smile on her face, and unlike the seemingly calm lady in the past, she seems to have a little more freedom and ease in her bones.
She sat on the Taishi chair and would share her psychology with anyone she met.
Linglong and Song Qiao were both tortured.
"You just left the Chen family and your father didn't say anything?"
"I told you," Chen Xi took a sip of hot tea, "if he reveals this family, don't recognize him as his father again."
"But he doesn't care about me now. That woman beat the Chen family's face to pieces in front of the Queen. He is now racking his brains to think of how to please the Xu family again and clean up his own image. Anyway, I have nothing to do with the Chen family.
If you are nostalgic, just leave."
Chen Xi waved her hand. She looked bold and generous, as if she had gone to a gambling house and made thousands of taels of gold, becoming a nouveau riche overnight.
"Where is Xia Yao? When do we set off?!"
When Mi Xiayao entered the hall, she heard Chen Xi's angry voice. She raised her eyelids and glanced at him.
Chen Xi immediately exclaimed, "It's been a while since I last saw you. Why do you look a little mellower?"
"If you keep talking too much, you can take Mi Xiaobao for the whole day." Mi Xiayao got up a little angry in the morning.
Chen Xi knew that he could not offend this woman, so Qingqing stopped talking.
"I'm going to Mi Mansion to discuss things with my grandfather in a moment. You go find Gu Yun. She should be almost ready these days. Let's get together in the past few days so that we can act together."