"Miss Cai should have realized that it is impossible for you to complete this mission on your own - 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 had sincerity in her eyes.
Cai Jin showed a wry smile.
Help her?
She came to the Duke of Zhen's mansion to be an informant, but couldn't find out anything. In the end, even the master couldn't stand it and actually suggested that he help her instead?
What kind of incredible and absurd situation is this?
Her eyeliner was too much of a failure, and it was unprecedented to fail to such an extent.
"I don't understand this. I wonder how Miss Xu can help me?"
Perhaps because his numbness and despair reached a certain level, Cai Jin simply sat down and asked in a somewhat mocking tone.
As for why the uncharacteristically mocking tone?
She couldn't explain clearly, maybe she was influenced by Ah Li.
"It's very simple. Whatever Miss Cai wants to know or investigate, just tell her and I will tell Miss Cai directly." Xu Mingyi's tone was calm and gentle.
Cai Jin only found it funny.
These words are a bit reluctant to use to coax a three-year-old child.
Tell her directly?
Even if the other party dared to say it, she wouldn't believe it.
And the other party clearly meant something in his words——
Where in the world can there be "help" for no reason?
She was not stupid, nor did she 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 thinking about it for a moment, she understood his intention.
"Does Miss Xu actually want me to be a double agent?" Cai Jin simply asked directly.
Anyway, her intentions were almost like lice on a bald man's head in the eyes of the Xu family, and she was too lazy to waste her efforts on acting.
Xu Mingyi seemed to think for a while and replied: "That's not true. I just want to make things simpler. Everyone gets what they need, so that both of us can save effort -"
Everyone gets what he needs?
On this matter, their positions are completely opposite. How can they truly get what they need?
Cai Jin couldn't help but laugh and sighed.
Are you joking with her?
And this little girl is really bold.
Thinking of this, she suddenly became curious——
Looking at the girl sitting there, she asked: "Miss Xu, aren't you afraid that I will leak what you said today?"
How could the other party be so sure that he would not spread these words to the ears of the one in the palace?
"Why are you afraid?" Xu Mingyi asked in confusion: "Your Majesty sent Miss Cai to our Zhenguo Palace, and now irrelevant outsiders are speculating whether your Majesty has any suspicions about our Xu family. Could it be that we Xu
Family, don’t you have any ideas? Now that you have ideas, isn’t it just reasonable to come to Miss Cai for confirmation?”
Cai Jin was stunned when he heard this.
Here's the thing...
But...how on earth is this a reasonable thing?
At this time, I heard the girl sigh again, and said in a slightly aggrieved tone: "Our Xu family has been loyal to His Majesty, but now His Majesty is suspicious of him. I really want to break my head, but I can't figure out what I did wrong...
…My grandfather had trouble sleeping and eating because of this, and his hair and beard were all falling out. But we, the general family, don’t know how to do things and there are so many twists and turns. After thinking about it, I could only ask Miss Cai.
ah."
Cai Jin opened his mouth.
No, let her figure it out...
However, before she could elaborate, the girl continued: "If we really did something wrong, we must apologize to His Majesty in time. And if we were provoked by a villain and caused His Majesty's misunderstanding, we should apologize as soon as possible."
Please clear up some misunderstandings, so as not to delay again and again in the future. If you are unclear, you will create a gap with your Majesty, so that you and your Majesty will be alienated again - "
"..."
After hearing this, Cai Jin even felt that it made sense.
And it seems that if she didn't confess, she would be the culprit causing discord between His Majesty and the Duke and his ministers?
What sudden burden of family and country has fallen on her shoulders?!
Looking at the aggrieved and helpless girl in front of him, Cai Jin felt that his mind was a little confused.
Can……
How could these court affairs be so simple?
However, what Miss Xu said seemed to be true. She could hardly tell whether she had been deceived or not.
"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 a little more hopeful that the negotiation would be successful.
At least the other party didn't continue to pretend in front of her.
Realizing this, Xu Mingyi's eyes became frank: "These days, I can also see that Miss Cai, as Mr. Cai, must not disdain to do such a thing based on her own character.
of--"
If not, nothing would have been accomplished yet, and I would have been so angry that I became ill...
"..." Upon hearing this, Cai Jin tightened her fingers on her sleeves.
Naturally she was unwilling to do so.
She has been studying with her grandfather since she was a child, and her reading is not like "The Women's Commandments". Instead, she has always given top priority to etiquette, justice, integrity, wisdom and trust.
Now she was asked to look pitiful all day long, not to mention playing with such a group of terrible people, but also to please a man who couldn't get out of bed for ten days and a half... Sometimes when I think about it, she would really 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 Cai Jin's lips.
"Yes, my mother and sister are waiting for me to take them out of the palace."
But my mother only thought that she was contributing to the construction of the Wanfu Tower for the Queen Mother's birthday——
But in fact, the so-called meritorious service for painting Wanfu Tower, the recognition of Mr. Cai's former talent and virtue, and the pardon for his descendants on the Queen Mother's birthday are just superficial rhetoric.
All this is conditional——
The condition is that she gets close to Xu Yun and gains the trust of everyone in the government.
But...how did the situation become such that everyone knew about her plan?
Is her acting skills too bad?
Sure enough, she could do nothing but write poetry and read!
She even failed to sell her looks to please men - if her mother, who also came from a scholarly family, learned that she had taken such a path in the future, would she write hundreds of poems to express her grief in anger?
?
Thinking of this, Cai Jin couldn't help but shed sad tears again.
She had never cried in such embarrassment as she did today in her life.
At this time, a plain blue handkerchief was handed to her.
After Cai Jin hesitated for a moment, he took it and wiped away the tears on his cheeks.
Seeing that her mood had almost calmed down, Xu Mingyi finally spoke.
