But even if he doesn't come, he should at least ask someone to reply.
While I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard someone knocking on the door: "Sir, your guest has arrived."
Xu Mingyi raised her voice and said, "Please come in."
The waiter answered and pushed the door open.
Ji Xiu took Ji Wanyou into the elegant room and cupped his hands towards the girl sitting there. There was no expression on his face and his tone was neither cold nor hot: "Miss Xu."
Ji Wanyou had a smile on her face: "Long time no see, Miss Xu."
"Yes." Xu Mingyi stood up and returned the greeting: "Ji Shangshu, Miss Ji, please sit down."
The father and daughter sat down. Ji Xiu didn't touch the tea in front of him and asked straight to the point: "Miss Xu invited Ji to come here. What's the important matter? Do you have to risk the interview here?"
Ever since the last time he saw this little girl in the lacquer shop, when she appeared with King Yan and King Dingnan, he knew that he shouldn't judge this girl Xu the same way he would an ordinary lady -
If not, he wouldn't be here today.
But the people in the Pingqing Palace are very arrogant, and if it is rumored that he met the girl from the Zhenguo Palace, he is afraid that there will be trouble.
"Don't worry, Minister Ji. I have taken care of everything. No one will say a word nonsense." Xu Mingyi said: "I invite Minister Ji to come here today because there is indeed something important to discuss. To be precise, I want to talk to you about it."
Shangshu makes a deal."
trade?
Ji Xiu frowned slightly - Lord Zhen Guo was about to return to Beijing. At this time, what kind of deal would the other party want to do with him?
After hesitating for a moment, Ji Xiu thought about the current situation of himself and the court, and turned slightly to look at his daughter: "Wan'er, go and walk around the courtyard, help my father keep an eye on it, and don't let anyone get close to this place."
This is an elegant room in the backyard of Pingqing Hall.
Each elegant room exists alone, and the left and right are not worried about the partition walls. Moreover, he has just noticed that Miss Xu has arranged for people to stand nearby——
But if you want to support your daughter, you still have to arrange a job for her.
Ji Wanyou understood in her heart, so she didn't say anything and followed the words to avoid it.
"Miss Xu can speak frankly now." It's not too late for him to decide whether to agree or not after hearing whether it's a deal or not.
"I would like to inquire about an old matter with Minister Ji - the late emperor passed away eighteen years ago. I wonder whether it was caused by an old illness or by the so-called miracle doctor who was brought from outside the palace?"
Ji Xiu's expression changed when he heard this.
He asked the other party to speak frankly...
But he didn't expect it to be so straightforward!
And it’s so straight that it’s deadly!
Meeting the girl's eyes waiting for an answer, he subconsciously denied it. He couldn't help but look left and right, and then lowered his voice and said, "As we all know, the late emperor died of illness back then! I don't know where Miss Xu heard this from.
Rumors!"
"Of course I also know things that are well known." Xu Mingyi looked at him with calm eyes: "What I want to ask now is what everyone doesn't know - otherwise, why would I specially invite Minister Ji to come here?"
Mentioning this old incident, Ji Xiu's heart beat wildly, but a sneer escaped from his lips and teeth: "Taking a step back, even if there was an inside story about what happened back then, what reason would Ji have to tell Miss Xu?"
Is he crazy if he tells someone something that is enough to kill him?
Just for the cup of tea in front of him? If the other party asks this, he will say it?
The little girl was so naive that it was ridiculous.
"Of course there is a reason - I'm afraid Shangshu Ji didn't listen carefully just now. I said it from the beginning. This time I want to make a deal with Shangshu Ji. I don't ask for nothing." The girl raised her eyes and glanced at the closed door.
Door, "For example, in exchange for Miss Ji's life - what does Minister Ji think?"
Ji Xiu's face turned cold after hearing this.
"Why, you actually want to threaten me with Wan'er's safety?!"
She dared to say such things in front of him. He thought this little girl was crazy!
not good……
Wan'er just went out, and there were many people from the other party outside!
When Ji Xiu put his hand on the table and was about to stand up, he heard Xu Mingyi say: "Ji Shangshu has overthought things. We are both women. I would not use an innocent and weak woman to blackmail her father -"
Ji Xiu frowned and turned to look outside the door. The lamps had been lit in the corridor, and his daughter's shadow could be seen standing on the corridor through the window lattice.
"However, if it is said that Miss Ji's safety is being exchanged, it is true, but it is not danger, but just safety." Xu Mingyi said: "Ji Shangshu tells the truth, and I guarantee that Miss Ji's life will be safe in the future."
Only then did Ji Xiu understand.
But he still found it funny: "Can't I protect my own daughter? I still need Miss Xu to guarantee it?"
"I can protect it now, but in the future when Minister Ji cannot protect himself, how sure can he be?" The girl's tone was calm and serious, without ridicule, and without the slightest sense of deliberately exaggerating the crisis.
Everything is in front of you——
The worst result can be seen at a glance.
"..." Ji Xiu's eyes changed.
In the future?
The future of his Ji family is indeed not optimistic.
The emperor had already had murderous intentions towards him before, but he pretended to be stupid and was stunned, barely able to stabilize the situation for a while, and now it was the time for the imperial court to employ people...
This is from his own perspective.
If we look at the overall situation, now the people's hearts are in turmoil, and turmoils of all sizes are constant, and before King Yan returned to the north, he suffered another assassination like that... Everyone wants to live, and when the time comes, King Yan really knows how to do it.
No resistance at all?
Then there is the Duke of Zhenguo...
He often said before that it would be too fanciful for the Xu family to talk about rebellion, but that was in the past... He did not expect that the emperor could act so quickly. The current situation is already very different!
Now if the Xu family is really forced to rebel and confront the imperial court, which is on the verge of death, and if those forces, big and small, take the opportunity to pounce on them and share the food, Daqing may really be doomed...
Every time he thought about this, he would scold himself in his heart - why was he so blind that he boarded this broken ship in the first place!
If the helmsman has no skills, he just knows how to drive blindly! Now it’s better, the ship is about to sink, and everyone will die together!
Not to mention, when his second son died in vain, he was used to take revenge on King Yan in every possible way...
Even if there was a misunderstanding, he knew what he had done, and there was no way he could erase everything just because he was used.
Speaking of which, he had already cut off his own way of survival after the shipwreck...
Thinking of this, Ji Xiu looked at the calm girl in front of him and asked tentatively with a fake sneer: "Guarantee that my daughter's life will be safe in the future... The Xu family is in such a situation, but Miss Xu is so worried."
By your tone, could it be that Duke Zhenguo has secretly reached a consensus with some noble person?"
He somewhat understands the character of Lord Zhen Guo——
If he had previously said that the other party was cheating and secretly colluding with King Yan, he would not believe it.
