Zhu Gaoxu suddenly felt that he was a little cruel.

But he still couldn't help it, turned his head to look at the curtain in front of the door of the room, and spoke, "General Ruan, come out."

When Chen Xianzhen heard this, her face changed suddenly, and her expression seemed to be frozen on her face. All kinds of shock, worry, luck and other emotions seemed to be intertwined and changed subtlely in extremely difficult to detect.

There was a silence in the room, and the curtain was hanging quietly, without any movement. Chen Xianzhen followed Zhu Gaoxu's gaze and looked at the other side of the ear room. She seemed to have held her breath.

After a while, Ruan Jingyi lifted the curtain and walked out of the ear room silently. Chen Xianzhen saw that "General Ruan" was indeed Ruan Jingyi, and her cheeks twitched slightly.

Eunuchs Cao Fu and Zhu Gaoxu didn't say anything anymore.

Zhu Gaoxu just observed silently, as if in the Sui Dynasty nearly a thousand years ago, the Taoist priest mixed all kinds of things together and turned into the original fire medicine. After igniting them, he observed and waited for unknown results.

Four people stood in this quiet house, silence filled the space. Ruan Jingyi spoke first to break the silence, but he spoke in Annan dialect, which Zhu Gaoxu couldn't understand.

At this time, the eunuch Cao Fu reminded: "You all speak Chinese?"

Ruan Jingyi looked at Chen Xianzhen and said in Chinese: "Why are you trying to frame me?"

Chen Xianzhen sneered, her expression seemed to be crying and laughing: "How could it be a frame-up? At the time in Qinghua, you didn't have much contact with Li Li?"

Ruan Jingyi said, "You are not the same? Besides, Li Li also defected to the general of Emperor Chongguang (Chen Jikuo)." He was stunned for a moment and asked again, "Why did you harm me? What's wrong with me?"

When Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he wanted to know the answer, so he carefully observed Chen Xianzhen's expression.

Chen Xian's face was completely blood-colored, filled with extreme anger that everyone was completely ununderstood: "You are alive, it's a problem for me! We should all go to death!"

Ruan Jingyi sighed and said, "Chen Xianzhen, you still don't understand my heart. Although I surrendered to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, I have never said half of the words that are not good for you. In order to save you, even my father was implicated. Do you still don't trust me?"

Cao Fuxing gloated and said, "Oh, you two still have a relationship! Ruan Jingyi, the emperor treats you very generously, so you can't hide it. Why don't you tell me in detail?"

Ruan Jingyi smiled bitterly and kept shaking his head, saying, "It's not considered a private relationship, it's just wishful thinking."

He then told the old story, how did he know Chen Xianzhen when he was young, how did he admire her? How did he save Chen Xianzhen during the period of Emperor Jianding (who became emperor before Chen Jikuo); Emperor Jianding's empress dowager wanted to kill Chen Xianzhen. After Ruan Jingyi, who was the then guard general of the palace, rebelled, it caused political turmoil, and his father died in it.

Zhu Gaoxu just listened carefully and didn't say much.

Cao Fu looked carefully at Zhu Gaoxu, then looked up and down at Ruan Jingyi, who was black and thin and often listless, and said, "I can't tell that General Ruan is still a love-infatuated person."

Chen Xianzhen's face was flushed, bloodshot appeared in her eyes, and the water of tears flashed. Her voice was very loud, as if she was crazy: "Who asked you to save me? Do you think you can control me like this, and I have to repay you for my whole life? Do you just want to make me feel like I am a sinner and can't pay you back in my three lives; do you just want to see that I am not as good as death in my guilt and self-blame? I tell you, I think it's beautiful! I can only regret it, I shouldn't accept your favor, you might as well kill me and take back the debt!"

While cursing, she cried with tears on her face and pointed at Ruan Jingyi and said, "Everyone in the Chen family thinks I owe you, think I am not a human being, are you satisfied? Ruan Jingyi! But do you know, how much I hate you? It's not because you are ugly, but because you hate your temperament. I feel depressed and breathless by your side, without any laughter, just like an endless abyss. I hate you..."

Ruan Jingyi was stiff and stood there and murmured: "It's just that you don't know how to be grateful, but I really don't know it will turn out like this."

Chen Xianzhen ignored the truth and squatted on the ground, crying there, which was heartbroken.

Zhu Gaoxu finally spoke: "General Ruan is a little bit clear, there are some things that cannot be forced."

Ruan Jingyi said: "At that time, young...young."

He said "young ignorance" twice without any reason.

Zhu Gaoxu nodded, approving his reasons.

Ruan Jingyi glanced at Chen Xianzhen on the ground, and he sneered, his face as if he was drunk: "It's just that I was too impulsive when I was young, but I felt it was not worth it later. But I had paid such a great price and had put too much in her for many years, and I was reluctant to destroy it.

Before, in order to serve Chen Jikuo, she had to go to Beijing to lure the emperor; then I was discouraged. I thought she was an ordinary person of "Mrs. Erzheng". Now it seems that she was deliberately retaliated against me! Then I still helped her many times, but it was just a habit and I couldn't go back..."

"Hahaha..." Ruan Jingyi said this and suddenly raised his head and laughed, "It's great, it's good." After he said that, he kept laughing.

Cao Fu kindly asked, "General Ruan, are you okay?"

Ruan Jingyi was gasping for breath, and the laughter finally calmed down. He shook his head and said, "It's okay, I really feel very... it's very comfortable. I won't lie to you."

Zhu Gaoxu suddenly remembered Duan Xueheng and thought to himself: Is it really a sense of abusing yourself?

However, Ruan Jingyi continued: "Really, if you are abandoned by everyone, you can feel that the world is open and there is a kind of happiness without taboos. In the past, I was always bound by the righteousness and moral grievances of the country, and I lived in fear and fear. Emperor Chongguang, Ruan Shuai and many others who raised the army were dead, and only I surrendered and lived in vain. But now it seems that what is scary about this? People in the world are sorry for me, why should I be worthy of whom!"

The room was in a cold situation again, Ruan Jingyi stopped laughing, and Chen Xianzhen stopped crying.

After a long time, Cao Fu pointed at Chen Xianzhen and asked, "Chen Xianzhen, what kind of heart do you have when you enter Beijing this time? You..."

"Cao Fu!" Zhu Gaoxu suddenly interrupted him.

Cao Fu hurriedly stopped and bowed to please him, "I am here."

Zhu Gaoxu said: "Don't pursue it anymore."

Cao Fu hurriedly advised: "But the emperor, Chen Xian is really suspicious. Why would he send her to the imperial prison and torture him severely?"

Zhu Gaoxu said: "No need. Zhang Fu is a good general."

Cao Fu looked confused.

Zhu Gaoxu also felt that he had not made it clear, so he said again: "I believe that Zhang Fu was just an unintentional mistake. But because Zhang Fu made many enemies in the court, some people would not care about what he was thinking, and they would only think that this was a good opportunity to turn Zhang off.

If Chen Xianzhen's plot to assassinate was made, some people would definitely want to take the opportunity to deal with Zhang Fu; if this matter is not done well, it would have to create a political storm. Put it on the table, the state has national laws, at least Zhang Fu's crime of missed supervision, and even I can't excuse him."

After hearing this, Cao Fu suddenly said, "The Emperor is wise!"

Chen Xianzhen looked at Zhu Gaoxu in surprise: "Why is the emperor suspicious? I am an assassin?"

"What about that?" Zhu Gaoxu said innocently.

Chen Xianzhen finally calmed down a lot. She calmly asked, "What evidence does the priest have? At least it must be reasonable inferences?"

Zhu Gaoxu said: "This place is not a judicial yamen, why do we need to talk about evidence? What is reasonable?"

However, Zhu Gaoxu immediately felt that Chen Xianzhen seemed to be saying something. As soon as Chen Xianzhen entered Beijing, she did nothing; without any evidence, she didn't even have a set of logical reasoning. Zhu Gaoxu convicted her, which seemed a bit too much.

But Zhu Gaoxu did not want to betray her, but instead had an intuition through various signs. There must be some reasons to come to such a conclusion, but he cannot make a rigorous argument at present.

Zhu Gaoxu did not intend to change his mind and said to Cao Fu: "Take the Jinyiwei and send Chen Xianzhen to Fengyang first."

Chen Xianzhen stared at Zhu Gaoxu angrily: "Why do you... look down on others so much? You are noble, should you regard Annan people as so lowly?"

Zhu Gaoxu didn't want to argue with her, but she mentioned "Annan people" and immediately raised the matter to the political level. Zhu Gaoxu had to say: "Northern and lowly are really an eternal proposition. You can say that I despise you, but you can't say that I discriminate against Annan people."

He glanced at Ruan Jingyi and said, "The people of Annan, including the Yao, Yi, Miao, etc. in Annan, have similar races to us and cannot reach the level of discrimination at all. And the "small things" and "survival in the gaps" between countries is an order and strategy. If you don't get to that position, don't worry about those things."

Chen Xianzhen said coldly: "Invasion and robbery, it is so underestimated in the words of the emperor."

Cao Fu scolded: "Chen Xianzhen, how dare you talk to the emperor like this?"

Zhu Gaoxu raised his hand and signaled Cao Fu not to worry about it. He then said, "Cao Fu, take Ruan Jingyi back and rest."

The two thanked each other and gave up.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu said to Chen Xianzhen: "You are a person who is prone to being kidnapped and responsible. If you really have no desire to bear it, then others will not see hope of reward from you; and how can you not let go of what others impose on you?

I heard your words mention "Mrs. Erzheng". Chen Xianzhen, a woman like you can indeed bear the responsibility of the country? There are only three things in this world: your affairs, mines, and God's affairs. If you have not enjoyed God's power and luxury, why should you bear the responsibility of God? Why bother?"

Chen Xianzhen stared at Zhu Gaoxu in despair: "You are such a cold-blooded and ruthless person!"

Zhu Gaoxu looked up at the top, looked out from the window, raised his arms and made a gesture: "Otherwise? Do you want to see me, and you are as chaotic as you are?"

Chen Xianzhen said again: "You always insult me! You condemn me for no reason!"

Zhu Gaoxu didn't need to defend these questions anymore. He walked to the window and looked outside and took a few deep breaths. After a while, he suddenly turned his head and looked at Chen Xianzhen. Chen Xianzhen looked surprised, as if she didn't expect that she thought the arrogant Zhu Gaoxu would pay attention to her again.
Chapter completed!