Chapter 84

After a long silence in the room, Cheng Yuanjing said, "are you determined to do this?"

Cheng Yujin lowered her head and said, "Your Highness misunderstood. It's not that the courtesan intended to offend her, but that she restored the etiquette she should have. The minister's daughter had nothing to say before. She relied on Her Highness's presence in the Cheng family and needed the Cheng family's cover up for the time being. It was really her fault to harass her highness like her uncle. Your highness is a nobleman in heaven. Since you happen to know your identity, you should treat your highness with the courtesy of kings and ministers. Not to mention that he was rescued by his highness yesterday. His highness is not only the crown prince, but also the benefactor of his daughter's life-saving. Naturally, her daughter should be respectful. "

However, Bi Yuanjing did not smile? Why didn't you want to stay away from the Cheng family before, but now you realize it? "

Cheng Yujin sighs in her heart. Sure enough, Cheng Yuanjing's potential is not so good. She can't get away before she gets the skin.

Cheng Yujin didn't think that Yuan Jing would move his mind in this aspect, so she wanted to brush the favor of the future monarch and seek benefits for herself. Finally, she married a potential stock that won the prince's appreciation in the future and realized the triple jump of the winner in life.

But yesterday, Cheng Yuanjing jumped into the water to save her, no doubt in Cheng Yujin's forehead hard hit a brick, let her a little can't find the north. In fact, they had a lot of ambiguous intimacy moves before, which were too close for ordinary men and women. But the sound of "Jiu Shu" was too confusing. Cheng Yujin was gradually blinded by it. She felt that it was normal for her relatives to be intimate with each other, and it was also normal for her to fight and make noise.

However, they are not real relatives. If neither of them mentioned it, after Cheng Yuanjing left, none of them would know about it. Who would know that Cheng Yuanjing didn't intend to stop there. He tore open the window paper between them in front of her. Cheng Yujin had to face another grim fact.

She did it. She did it.

Cheng Yujin really didn't expect that her royal highness would take a fancy to her. It seems that this possibility has been ruled out subconsciously. When Cheng Yujin picked up her husband, she didn't put Cheng Yuanjing in the alternative at all, so she naturally felt that Cheng Yuanjing was the same.

After all, Cheng Yujin was no different from Zou Cheng, who was a poor family and had to rely on his mother and sister to spin for a living.

All of them have excellent personal ability, but the family is dragging their feet everywhere. Considering the special position of Cheng Yuanjing, the lethality of dragging their feet in Yichun Houfu is more serious than that of the Zou family.

Cheng Yujin admires Zou Cheng and is deeply moved by their family's feelings of mutual support. However, Cheng Yujin will never want to marry Zou Cheng and become a high-ranking wife who will help Zou Cheng cross the class. She can choose the best family in the same class, such as Xu Zhixian, or even Lin Qingyuan, who has better family ability.

How big a hole does she have in her mind before she chooses Zou Cheng to do such a high-risk business with no return. From another angle, the situation between her and Cheng Yuanjing is the same.

If there is a barrier between the common people and the scholars, and between the families of the common officials and the families of the princes, then the princes and the royal families are separated by heaven and earth.

The hereditary power and wealth of Gongqing's family do not need the imperial examination, and they do not need a way out. The starting point alone is much better than the imperial examination students. However, in the eyes of princes and princesses, it is just a name. The difference is that some family names are worth remembering, while others are not.

Unfortunately, the Cheng family of Yichun Marquis's residence is not worthy of this category. Dukes are everywhere in the capital. A small, unproductive Marquis's mansion is nothing.

As for the prince, this kind of distant existence, which has to step on the heads of many princes and princesses, has never been contacted by Cheng Yujin. The situation in the DPRK is getting more and more dangerous, and Mrs. Cheng doesn't even worry about the battle for the reserve. It can be seen that what is the weight of the Cheng family.

Only those who will be noticed by the superior will worry about who to stand, Cheng Jia, or even not qualified to stand in the team.

Although Cheng Yuanjing has been absent for more than ten years, his position as the crown prince is still good. It can be seen that the emperor clearly prefers him. Under such circumstances, when Cheng Yuanjing regained his status, some high-ranking officials were willing to make advances. He clearly can easily marry a daughter of a high family with a good family background, character, appearance and ability. Having a strong wife family to help him compete with the Yang family will benefit him a lot. Cheng Yujin doesn't believe Cheng Yuanjing.

What does Cheng Yujin have? She had only a colorful but unworthy background, a good but useless reputation, and a beautiful face.

Cheng Yujin always put the interests first, not trapped in the feelings, not in the heart, so she has always thought about others like this. Cheng Yuanjing is far more rational than her, but he never shows it. Cheng Yujin doesn't believe that he will give up his ready-made interests.

In this case, what he did yesterday gradually pointed to another possibility that made people feel chilly.

There is no difference between Zou Cheng and Cheng Yujin. The only difference is that Cheng Yujin can't marry two, but a man can have three wives and four concubines. If Cheng Yujin has the conditions, she also wants to choose Lin Qingyuan as the principal and raise another Zou Cheng to invest, but she can't.Cheng Yujin's throat is getting dry. She stayed in the ice water for a long time yesterday. Now her voice is hoarse. Now, the familiar feeling of cold and powerless is back.

Cheng Yujin's voice is dumb, trying to make her voice sound healthy: "Uncle Jiu, you are from a noble family. You may not need to understand the difficulties of survival all your life. It's new for you, but for me, it's all 15 years of hard work and the rest of my life. "

Perhaps it was the prince's Royal Highness who wanted to get close to her on the spur of the moment. For Cheng Yuanjing, it was a spur of the moment. For Cheng Yujin, it was a lifetime.

The gap between wife and concubine is more than a gap. Even if the Royal concubine is called side concubine, it is also concubine.

Cheng Yuanjing looked at her with deep eyes, and did not miss any change in her face. She also called him Jiu Shu, a disguised sign of weakness. But this kind of begging for mercy was very harsh to Cheng Yuanjing.

"For a while?" Cheng Yuanjing said slowly, word by word, "I am in your heart, is that the kind of person? Or has it always been like this? "

Cheng Yujin lowered her head and seemed to be thinking about how to reply. Cheng Yuanjing was sitting, while she was standing with her head down, revealing a slender neck.

Cheng Yuanjing's eyes first fell on the neck, then slowly moved up and lingered on her face carefully. Cheng Yujin really has an excellent skin look. Her skin is white and delicate, and her neck can't be broken. When she stands still, she looks like a beautiful woman coming out of the painting, which makes people wonder and want to touch.

Cheng Yuanjing thought of what she had said just now, and then he laughed: "since you want to distinguish the boundary, I ask you, what is the ceremony of serving the king? What's the reward for saving lives? "

Cheng Yujin seems to be surprised. She opens her eyes for a moment and gives Cheng Yuanjing a quick glance. Although she tries to cover it up, her eyebrows are still slightly wrinkled. In this way, Cheng Yuanjing has never shown her strong power and no scruples before. Cheng Yujin subconsciously thinks that Cheng Yuanjing has always been a modest, rational and virtuous prince.

Cheng Yujin never thought that Cheng Yuanjing would say such a thing. It's very impolite of the powerful to force each other and ask for repayment with kindness.

Cheng Yujin is speechless. She can be brave enough to reason with each other, but this move is to guard against gentlemen instead of villains. If the other party is a gentleman, it will work. What if the other party has no scruples at all?

Even Zhai Yanlin could make her submit, not to mention Cheng Yuanjing.

Cheng Yuanjing saw that her face had changed. He held out his hand and said, "come here."

Cheng Yujin hesitated, hesitated for a long time, but did not come forward. Cheng Yuanjing is also patient and has been waiting with his hands outstretched.

Patience, but it's not worth mentioning.

After all, Cheng Yujin had no choice but to sigh silently. She stepped forward two steps and tentatively put her hand in Cheng Yuanjing's palm.

As soon as his finger touched the palm of his hand, it was wrapped in a handful. Then a burst of strong, Cheng Yujin was pulled to sit before the collapse, Cheng Yuanjing very naturally embrace her shoulder, will her place to his side.

This was originally a person's position, but suddenly a person was added, and the space suddenly narrowed. Cheng Yujin almost sat down next to Cheng Yuanjing. Her whole body was stiff, but Cheng Yuanjing didn't seem to find it. First, he tried the temperature on Cheng Yujin's forehead, then turned over her wrist and cut it for a while, saying, "it's much better. Just keep it for a few days."

Cheng Yujin doesn't dare to move, but she doesn't dare to be silent. Cheng Yuanjing tears her face thoroughly. If she has been acting obediently, who knows what will happen later. Cheng Yujin's eyes wandered for a while and asked, "how can your highness feel the pulse?"

"After a long illness, I was not in good health when I was a child. When I saw a lot of people, I would gradually get better."

This involves two generations of court struggle, Cheng Yujin dare not pick up, stopped for a while, conservatively choose flattery: "Your Highness is really smart. Your highness is both civil and martial now. I really can't see that he was not in good health when he was young. "

He often listens to similar words. Instead of answering, Cheng Yuanjing looks at Cheng Yujin for a while and suddenly laughs: "are you afraid of me?"

Cheng Yujin sighed, put down her mustard and talked to him: "yes. I can't be afraid of what your highness said just now. "

Cheng Yuanjing is noncommittal. After feeling his pulse, he doesn't let go of Cheng Yujin's hand. Instead, he still holds it in his hand and plays it slowly. Cheng Yujin didn't dare to smoke, so she had to wait. He fiddled with Cheng Yujin's fingers one by one and suddenly said, "did you see the Zhai family yesterday?"

Cheng Yujin didn't know why he talked about it, and truthfully replied, "yes. Yesterday, my mother and my second aunt went out to look at the lights, and happened to meet Mrs. Zhai on the way. Zhai's mother and I had a look at the two lights on both sides of the stand, so she and I could talk at will. Later Your highness will know the rest. "

"So you didn't hear what they said." Cheng Yuan Jing clear, "no wonder."

"What?" Cheng Yujin didn't understand. She looked at Cheng Yuanjing suspiciously.

As Cheng Jin sat closer to him, she was more and more beautiful. After watching for a while, Cheng Yuanjing suddenly wanted to do something closer, but they are not married or even engaged now. These actions are too cross-border.In the end, Cheng Yuanjing held back his misdemeanor. After more than ten years of education, he showed more respect for order than for wanton dissipation. What's more, he showed more respect for Cheng Yujin.

Cheng Yujin only felt that Cheng Yuanjing looked at her in silence for a while, and that kind of look made her inexplicably alert. Then he looked away and said without exception, "it's not the Zhai family that is going to negotiate, they are going to apologize."

Cheng Yujin frowned and subconsciously replied, "how can it be? If they want to give up their marriage, how can their attitude be..."

The rest of the voice suddenly stopped, Cheng Yuanjing seems to have expected, looking at her with a smile: "so, I say they are to apologize."

This apology has two meanings. One is to apologize for breaking away from the marriage. Cheng Yujin has seen it once, such as the insincere apology of the Huo family. On the one hand, it's because I've offended the wrong person and I'm afraid of being cleared up in the future, so I'm too busy to apologize.

Cheng Yujin thought that Mrs. Zhai's going to Qingfu was the first, but now it seems that it is the second?

It is impossible for the government of CAI to be afraid of the Cheng family. Among them, it is only because of Cheng Yuanjing.

The previous marriage was only a verbal agreement, without deed and evidence, and few people even knew about it. The Zhai family quit the marriage in a good voice. Cheng Yujin didn't lose her reputation, but also received a lot of reparations from the government of the state of CAI. Cheng Yujin's previous best plan was not as good as this.

Cheng Yuanjing said that she didn't have to worry, he would solve it for her. It was true.

Cheng Yujin can't speak. Because of the poor information, she didn't know what Mrs. Zhai said last night, so she risked her life to gamble on Lin Qingyuan's character. If Lin Qingyuan comes down to save her, she will marry Lin Qingyuan for the reason of zhengyanshun. If Lin Qingyuan doesn't come down to save her Then she can see a person clearly, so that she won't be ungrateful in the rest of her life.

If a day later, Cheng Yujin learned that the Huo family's crisis had been lifted, she would never do such a risky thing. But she didn't know that the time was fleeting. At that moment, Cheng Yujin had to make a decision.

Cheng Yujin didn't speak for a long time. At last, she sighed: "it's all right, it's here. There's no regret. There's nothing to say."

Cheng Yuanjing chuckled, pinched her index finger from top to bottom, and said, "you don't believe me."

"Because you don't trust me, you have to dive in winter to save you. If you have some trust in me, it won't be

Cheng Yujin is silent. It's true that she saved people at the beginning, but when she saw the ice breaking behind, she gave birth to some other ideas. She fell into the water, half to save people, half to take advantage of the situation.

She cheated everyone. Even Du Ruo, who had been with her for the longest time, felt that she was eager to save people and couldn't help jumping down. In fact, if it wasn't for Lin Qingyuan's presence at that time, Cheng Yujin's turning back to shore was nothing. Her reputation was important, but her life was more important. There were strong and experienced yard guards in Hou's residence. Why should she take risks on her own?

But Cheng Yuanjing saw it at a glance. Maybe he knew what she wanted to do when he jumped down to save her.

Cheng Yujin sighed and asked: "since you already know, why did you come down to save me at the beginning? The river water in winter is not for fun

"What if I don't come to save you? Is it to watch you exhausted, or to watch another man come to save you? " Cheng Yuanjing's voice was slow, and he didn't have a strong tone, but in his ears, he was speechless and frightening, "for the sake of a man, you should ignore your own life. Do you like him so much that you don't even have to die to marry him? "

Cheng Yuanjing is angry. It's different from scaring her before. This time, it's true.

The more angry he was, the more motionless he was.

Cheng Yujin didn't reply for a long time. Her hand is still in the palm of Cheng Yuanjing's hand. Without warning, Cheng Yujin suddenly clenches her hand into a fist and holds Cheng Yuanjing's tiger mouth in her backhand.

Her eyes were wide open. She didn't dodge. She didn't have the consciousness to offend. She directly saw Cheng Yuanjing in her pupils: "Uncle Jiu was born as the eldest prince. He became the prince at the age of five. He took what he wanted when he was young. He acted openly and aboveboard. Didn't he look down on me as a person who only wanted to be attached?"

Cheng Yujin didn't wait for Cheng Yuanjing to answer, but she said, "if I were a man, I wouldn't like it. If you want to live a noble life, you should become a strong man and always want to marry a strong man

"Don't you think so?" Cheng Yujin's eyes are as clear as glass, and her lines are beautiful. She looks like she has been elaborately outlined. At such a close distance, she would definitely look at Cheng Yuanjing, who could see her own figure shrinking inside.

"If I were a man, would I do such a thing whenever I had other choices? Do you think it's easier to practice manners than to take a scientific examination? Is it easier to practice the same movement over and over again and put every step in the right place than to read at night and write with endorsement? "

"I can recite poems faster than all my brothers, and I can write as well. If I can take part in the imperial examination, I will concentrate on closing the door and reading only the books of sages, and I will think about how to make myself better day by day. But I don't have a chance. "Cheng Yuanjing looked at her without saying a word. He saw a tear whirling around in his beautiful eyes and slipping down.

Cheng Yuanjing's fingers vibrated slightly, as if burned by that tear. After a while, he raised his hand to cover Cheng Yujin's cheek, like a treasure that broke at the touch of something, and gently wiped away her tears: "don't cry."