Chapter 257

"Miss Cai should also see that you can't finish your job alone - if you return empty handed, you can't ask for anything. Why don't you tell me, maybe I can help you." Xu Mingyi's eyes are sincere.

Cai Jin showed a bitter smile.

Help her?

She came to the town hall to make an eye liner, and could not find anything. The result was that she could not even see the house. What was she proposing to turn over to help her?

What absurd situation is this?

Her eye liner was too far from failure. It was with no predecessors.

"I don't understand that. How can Miss Xu help me?"

Perhaps it was numbness and despair. At this time, Cai Jingan sat down and asked in a mocking tone.

As for why it is an abnormal mockery tone?

She doesn't know. Maybe she was influenced by ah Li.

"It's very simple. Just tell Miss Cai what you want to know and explore. I'll just tell Miss Cai directly." Xu Mingyi's tone is light.

Cai Jin only felt funny.

This is used to coax three-year-old children. They are reluctant.

Just tell her?

Even if the other party dares to say, she can't believe it.

And the other party clearly has something to say——

Where can there be "help" in this world for no reason?

She is not stupid, nor does she think that the girl with good temperament in front of her will be stupid - the other party just speaks too directly and clearly. At first, she feels absurd, but she can know her intention by thinking about it.

"Does Miss Xu want me to be a double-sided spy?" Cai jingancrisp asked directly.

Anyway, in the eyes of the Xu family, her intention is almost the lice on the bald head, and she is too lazy to waste her energy in acting.

Xu Ming thought for a moment and replied, "I can't say that. I just want to make things easier. Take what you need, or save each other's effort --"

each takes what he needs?

On this matter, their positions are completely opposite. How can they really get what they need?

Cai Jin couldn't help laughing and sighing.

Are you kidding her?

And this little girl is really bold.

At the thought of this, she was suddenly curious——

Looking at the girl sitting there, she asked, "aren't you afraid that I will reveal what you said today?"

How can the other party be sure that he will not spread these words to the ears of the one in the palace?

"Why should we be afraid?" Xu Mingyi asked incomprehensibly, "Your Majesty sent Miss Cai to our town government. Now there are irrelevant outsiders. They are wondering whether your majesty has any doubts about our Xu family. Do we Xu family have no ideas? It's reasonable to come to ask Miss Cai for confirmation when we have ideas?"

Cai Jin was stunned.

It's such a thing

But... How on earth is this a reasonable thing?

At this time, the girl sighed again, slightly wronged and said: "We Xu family are loyal to your majesty, but now your majesty is suspicious. We really want to break our head and can't think of what we did wrong... My grandfather has trouble sleeping and eating for this, and his hair and beard have fallen off a lot - we don't know so much about the family. After thinking about it, we can only ask Miss Cai."

Cai Jin opened his mouth.

No, let her touch it

However, without waiting for her to touch it carefully, the girl continued: "if we really did something wrong, we must apologize to your Majesty in time. If we were provoked by villains and caused your Majesty's misunderstanding, we should remove the misunderstanding as soon as possible, so as not to delay again and again in the future, so as to estrange ourselves from your majesty, so as to make the monarchs and ministers centrifugal --"

“……”

After hearing this, Cai Jin even felt very reasonable.

And it seems that if she doesn't confess, she will be the culprit of the discord between her majesty and the princes and ministers of the town?

What is this? The sudden burden of family and country fell on her shoulder?!

Looking at the wronged and helpless girl in front of her, Cai Jin felt a little confused.

But

How can these court affairs be so simple?

But this girl said it like it was true. She almost couldn't tell whether she was fooled or not.

"Miss Xu, stop joking with me." she looked at the girl and said bluntly, "I don't have the ability and courage to cooperate with Miss Xu."

Listening to her, Xu Mingyi felt that there was more hope of a successful negotiation.

At least the other party didn't continue to disguise in front of her.

Aware of this, Xu Mingyi's eyes became more frank: "I can see these days that Miss Cai, as Mr. Cai, must disdain to do such things according to her own nature -"

If not, I wouldn't have done nothing, and I would have been so angry that I became ill

"..." hearing this sentence, Cai Jin tightened her fingers holding her sleeves.

She is naturally unwilling.

She studied with her grandfather when she was young, and she did not read the women's commandments, but always put etiquette, righteousness, shame, wisdom and faith first.

Now she has to look pitiful all day, play with such a group of terrible people, and please a man who can't afford to go to bed for ten days and a half months... Sometimes when I think about it, she really would rather die.

But she can't die——

"I heard that Miss Cai's mother and sister are still in Yongxiang?" Xu Mingyi asked.

Cai Jin smiled bitterly at the corners of her mouth.

"Yes, my mother and sister are waiting for me to take them out of the palace."

But her mother only thought she was helping to build the Wanfu building for the Empress Dowager's birthday——

But in fact, the so-called meritorious painting for Wanfu building, reading Mr. Cai's former talent and virtue name, and forgiving his descendants by the Empress Dowager's birthday are just plain words.

All this is conditional——

The condition is that she approaches Xu Yun and obtains the trust of the government.

But... How did the situation become that everyone knew her calculation?

Is her acting too bad?

Sure enough, she could do nothing but write poems and read books!

Even selling her looks to please a man is a mess - would a mother who is also a scholar write a hundred poems to express her grief if she learned that she was going this way in the future?

Thinking of these, Cai Jin couldn't help crying again.

She had never cried in such a panic in her life.

At this time, a plain blue handkerchief was handed to her.

Cai Jin hesitated for a moment, then came over and wiped away the tears on her cheeks.

Seeing that her mood had almost calmed down, Xu Mingyi just opened his mouth.