Looking at Shangguanya's appearance, Su Ronghua felt a little angry, but also a little funny.
Can he not know what Shangguanya's gambling skills are like? She wants to gamble, nothing more than to give him all the wins and losses.
When Shangguanya saw that he didn't speak, he handed over the cards: "Come and gamble."
Su Ronghua sat up and looked back at the person in front of the cell. Shangguanya stretched out her hand, her eyes were full of ingratitude, she probed the card forward: "Would you like it?"
After hesitating for a long time, Su Ronghua finally stood up and took Shangguanya's card.
"Do you think your card is bigger, or mine?" Shangguanya asked him with a smile, Su Ronghua rubbed the card, he looked at the person in front of him, after a long time, he lowered his eyes and said slowly, "You are big. "
"Then let's see how lucky we are."
Shangguanya said, turning over the card, revealing the tiger face on his card.
Su Ronghua turned the card over, revealing the dog's head on his card.
"Yeah," Shangguanya cheered, "Is this the first time I've beaten you?"
Su Ronghua didn't speak. He sat down calmly, leaned his back against the wall, bent one leg, put his hand on his knee, and said slowly, "Okay, I'm not angry anymore, you can go back."
Shangguanya thought for a while, she took a small stool from the side, brushed off the dust on it, and sat on the stool: "Let's chat?"
"Don't dare to talk."
Su Ronghua resolutely refused, Shangguanya smiled: "Why, are you afraid that I will cheat you?"
"Shouldn't I be afraid?" Su Ronghua gave her a cold look, "Isn't it enough for you to fool me?"
"No, didn't I apologize?" Shangguanya cheeky, "Actually, I'm not that bad, I'm just bad for the enemy. Then since we've said it, we can't be regarded as the enemy, then I'm not going to cheat you."
"You believe me when I said I'm not an enemy?" Su Ronghua looked at her coldly and replied to him with her words, "Do you think I'm a fool?"
"You're a bit stupid." Shangguanya smiled embarrassedly, Su Ronghua got up and was about to leave, Shangguanya grabbed his sleeve and said anxiously, "Wait for me to finish, let's have such a deep exchange at last, you Don't go so easily."
Hearing this, Su Ronghua paused, took a deep breath at last, and sat back again.
Shangguanya leaned forward, put her hands on her knees, supported her chin, and looked at Su Ronghua in front of her: "Actually, don't blame me, I've never seen someone like you before. Look, you come from a big family. , You are smart and have so many identities, so I can only suspect you. When I was a child, my family told me that the first person in the world can’t trust politicians, and the second person can’t trust men. You can be both It's all over."
"Is it my fault?" Su Ronghua sneered, "I learned a lot of crooked ideas."
"It's you who is different." Shangguanya immediately echoed, Su Ronghua ignored her, Shangguanya thought about it, and said cautiously: "By the way, I heard from you, you don't seem to be a pursuit of fame and fortune, why do you want to be Teacher Su Wang? Are you still coming to the Superintendent?"
"Your Majesty's name, how can I refuse?" Su Ronghua looked at her with a broken-hearted look.
Shangguanya was even more curious: "But when you become his teacher, you are tied to him, so aren't you worried about your future?"
"Future?" Su Ronghua laughed out loud, "Do you think I have a future? If I wanted a future, I would study hard in the past, like my younger brother, accept the meticulous cultivation of my family, and then take on the family responsibilities, step by step. Entering the court. Why do I want to be Teacher Su Wang? Because His Majesty needs someone from the Su family to be Teacher Su Wang, and the Su family can't refuse, and they don't want to have much to do with Su Wang, so they threw me out as an abandoned son. I'm a lunatic, and I never represent the attitude of the Su family, can't you understand?"
"I understood before," Shangguanya leaned in front of the cell door, "but after you entered the Inspectorate, I didn't understand. What did you come to the Inspector for?"
Su Ronghua didn't say anything. He raised his head and looked at the sky. After a long time, he said slowly, "My brother asked me to come over, and I'll come over. But in my heart, I might also want to see, then you and Your Highness," Su Ronghua turned to look at Shangguanya, "What do you want to do?"
"Since I was a child, everyone said that I was an outlier and that I didn't take responsibility. But I often thought, what is responsibility? The family is responsible, but the people in the official position are not responsible? Don't you have the responsibility on one's shoulders? I have seen countless people. When they were young, they were black and white, frivolous and wanton, but slowly, they seemed to change their personalities. They always talked about identity, responsibility, and responsibility, and then did dark and dirty things. A person can live well, find his position in his position, take care of himself, take care of his parents above, raise children below, be righteous for friends, loyal to ministers, follow the laws of the court, abide by courtesy, righteousness, benevolence and trustworthiness. Do what you want, what can't you do?"
"I hate those hypocrites, and I don't want myself in this city, living like a monster like them. I want to live like a human being, and I want to be free to like the people I like, and to freely choose what I like."
"But I have too few. Until last year's Qixi Palace banquet, I smelled a fragrance at the banquet," said Su Ronghua, smiling, "The fragrance has a familiar smell to me, I voted for that fragrance, Later, I wanted to look for the incense owner, but I found out that the incense burner was made by the second Miss Qin, but I continued to investigate, but I found that the second Miss Qin was not good at mixing incense at all. Finally, I found out that there was a girl who did not want to enter. Gong, it turns out that His Royal Highness Pingle is helping the Crown Prince to delay his marriage."
"Look," Su Ronghua spread his hands, "It turns out that everyone is struggling in this palace city. So I really want to come and see, what are you and Your Highness thinking about?"
Shangguanya listened to Su Ronghua's words, she hugged her knees, and Su Ronghua turned to look at her: "Why did you enter the Supervision Division?"
"In the final analysis, maybe it's the same as you," Shangguanya laughed, "I want to live like a person."
"I don't want to change, but I know that I'm not a saint. If I enter the palace, I'm afraid it will be no different from the elders I see now. I will do anything for the benefit of the family, and I can give in anything. But I don't want to. so."
"So I have to be useful," Shangguanya looked at Su Ronghua seriously, "I have to provide irreplaceable value to the family, more important than marrying one person. Only then," Shangguanya laughed, "I will always be Shangguan. elegant."
"In the future, I can gamble with you, drink a little wine, and quarrel with you," Shangguanya said with a smile about her imagined future, "I will never marry, have my own manor, and adopt a few boys from my family. Girls too. Be an old aunt for a lifetime, and train many girls like me."
"You can still think of gambling with me for a drink," Su Ronghua raised her eyebrows, "It seems that you have a good impression of me."
"Approximately," Shangguanya shrugged, "we are all aliens?"
"Su Ronghua," Shangguanya thought for a while, she stretched out her hand, "I'll check with you."
"Um?"
"In the future, I won't use your kindness to me to dig a hole for you." Shangguanya stared at him, "Don't lie to me, okay?"
"it is good."
Su Ronghua stretched out his hand and hooked her little finger.
When the skin touched, Shangguanya couldn't help trembling. She couldn't tell what it was like, but she heard the noise from outside. Shangguanya hurriedly stood up and said nervously: "I'll go first, please ask you another day. Have a meal."
With that said, Shangguanya hurriedly left on another road.
After a while, a line of guards walked in. Those people saw that they were people from the palace. Su Ronghua gave them a sidelong glance and said indifferently: "What are you doing? Find a few dance girls, and if you want to be locked up, you will be punished. Don't try to judge, it's annoying."
"take away."
The guard spoke directly, entered the cell, pulled Su Ronghua out, and began to interrogate him.
Su Ronghua admitted generously that he invited Xia Wensi to dinner, called a few dancers, and only said that he was not a prostitute and nothing else.
After the guards reviewed his and Xia Wensi's confessions, they sent the confessions into the palace. Li Ming read the confessions carefully and put them on the table.
Fu Lai brought in the soothing soup from Concubine Rou, and seeing Li Ming's brows furrowed, he couldn't help but say, "Your Highness, it's getting late, and Empress Rou has just brought soothing soup, you drink it and rest early."
Li Ming raised his eyes and shifted his gaze to the soothing soup. He frowned, and Fu Lai saw his displeased expression and said, "Your Majesty?"
"Do you think Concubine Rou is going too far?"
"Your Majesty?"
Fulai hesitated and didn't say anything. Li Ming threw the confession on the ground, closed his eyes and leaned back on the chair, and said irritably, "See for yourself."
Fu Lai put the soothing soup on the table and bent over to take the confession. After he read it carefully, he asked, "Your Majesty, this Young Master Su... how could you do such a thing?"
"How can you do such a thing?" Li Ming sneered, "He is a son of a noble family, doesn't he want fame? I'm afraid it's fake to recruit prostitutes, and real to seek personal gain."
Fu Lai didn't dare to speak, Li Ming stroked the front and back in his heart.
Someone deliberately promoted Pei Wenxuan to be the official minister just to make him suspicious of Li Rong. After he was suspicious of Li Rong, he was worried that the inspector was in Li Rong's hands. Who would be the biggest beneficiary
If Li Rong wanted Pei Wenxuan to be the Minister of Officials, it would be impossible not to disturb him. For such a big position, Li Rong could just ask him directly, why was it so sneaky
And now Su Ronghua has met with Xia Wensi, who is Su Ronghua? Who has he entertained alone in the courtroom for so many years
Meeting with Xia Wensi alone, if there is no secret plan, this is a ghost!
Li Rong cried and complained that Hua Le laughed at her vividly, and Li Ming closed his eyes.
It's not that he can't tolerate Concubine Rou and petty tricks. If Concubine Rou can cultivate a force by herself to fight the Queen, he will be happy to see it.
What he couldn't tolerate was that Concubine Rou was beyond his control.
The late emperor had already raised a Shangguan family, and he did not want to raise another Xiao family. Concubine Rou can only be a tool for the balance of the court. If she is out of his control, she will be unforgivable.
The more Li Ming thought about it, the more inappropriate it became. He stood up and walked directly to Mingle Palace.
Concubine Rou didn't expect Li Ming to come back so late, so she chatted with Hua Le Bai Lai.
Li Ming was in a fit of anger and rushed all the way to the Mingle Palace. The palace staff didn't even have time to stop him, and saw Li Ming strode in. As soon as I entered the inner courtyard, I heard Hua Le and Concubine Rou laughing in the room.
When the palace servant saw Li Ming, he was about to kneel immediately. Li Ming raised his hand to stop them from making a sound, and the whole yard was quiet. Li Ming did not let anyone make a sound or move, and only listened to the mother and daughter. The two were joking in the room, and Hua Le was quite happy: "If I get married, I can't marry someone like Pei Wenxuan. I don't have any skills except to look good. I came from a Han family and married my eldest sister. Now I don't even have a test score. You can't even be the boss. You said that the eldest sister has been arrogant all her life and married such a person... "
Hua Le couldn't stop laughing, Li Ming was furious, kicked the door open and rushed in. Concubine Rou saw Li Ming coming in, and her face instantly paled with Hua Le.
"Your Majesty," Luckily, Concubine Rou quickly reacted and got up with a smile, "Why are you here?"
"You teach your good daughter." Li Ming raised his finger and pointed at Hua Le, staring at Concubine Rou, "A princess, just gossiping in the back like this?"
"It's Qiong'er's fault," Concubine Rou confessed her mistake simply and quickly said, "Hua Le, make amends to the royal father."
"Apologize," Li Ming nodded, "is she the one who should apologize? Get out!"
Li Ming looked at Hua Le, Hua Le glanced at Concubine Rou, Concubine Rou gave her a wink, Hua Le hurriedly got up and retreated respectfully.
When only Li Ming and Concubine Rou were left in the room, Concubine Rou poured tea for Li Ming and said softly: "Hua Le is young and ignorant, and was taught badly by the palace staff, I was about to scold her..."
"Did you make Pei Wenxuan serve as the official minister?"
Li Ming resolutely opened his mouth, and Concubine Rou showed a look of horror: "Why did Your Majesty say this? How can the concubine stay in the harem all the year round, how can you decide such an important matter? Where did Your Majesty listen to the rumors and misunderstand the concubine?"
"Rumours and rumors?" Li Ming sneered, "I know your abilities very well. If it wasn't for your ability, do you think this ant's body could be in this position?!"
The smile on Concubine Rou's face did not diminish, and she only said respectfully: "Your Majesty said, but this matter has nothing to do with the concubine. Your Majesty listened to some villains to frame it, it is better to call out and confront the concubine..."
Before he finished speaking, Li Ming raised his hand and slapped it heavily on Concubine Rou's face.
Concubine Rou was staggered by his whole body, she knelt on the ground, motionless, Li Ming stood up and looked at her coldly: "I can allow you to play tricks, but also allow you to play tricks in this harem. But I can't allow you to lie to me. If I can help you up with one hand, I can drag you down with the other."
"I don't like to lie, I gave you this face today, and I won't pursue it at this time." Li Ming squatted down and stared at Concubine Rou, "But Xiao Rou, remember what you said to me back then. You are willing to be me. A knife, don't forget your identity."
"Chen and concubine keep it in mind."
Concubine Rou spoke softly, Li Ming saw that she was obedient, and the fire went down a lot. He stood up and looked at the weak and flowery woman sitting on the ground, her skirt like a blooming lotus flower, even at this moment, she still carried a heartbreaking beauty.
Li Ming was silent for a long time, and finally turned to leave.
After he left, Hua Le hurried in, lost his courtesy, and said directly, "Mother, are you alright, mother?"
Concubine Rou clenched her fists, and she slowly raised her head with a smile on her face: "It's okay."
She is a knife, she will always remember it.
Seeing Concubine Rou's smile, Hua Le relaxed in her heart. She quickly stepped forward and helped Concubine Rou: "Concubine Mother, what did the emperor just say?"
Concubine Rou's expression was still, she was about to give an order when she saw a servant hurried in from outside the corridor.
He rushed to Concubine Rou's side and whispered something in Concubine Rou's ear. Concubine Rou raised her head in surprise and said eagerly, "Really?"
The attendant nodded and said softly: "It's true, people are already outside the palace."
"Excellent!" Concubine Rou said happily, "I'm going to find Your Majesty. Li Rong dares to do this," Concubine Rou laughed, "I'm afraid this time I'm going to lose my skin."