February Red is still the same as before, crowded with guests, but not too lively.

On the first floor, the richest merchants in Yangzhou City were still hosting a banquet. During the banquet, people came and went, drinking and drinking. The air was filled with the aroma of wine and vegetables, as well as the charming smiles of women and the fragrance of powder.

The second floor is much cleaner.

Originally, only dignitaries could come here. Perhaps because there were too many events in the state capital recently, dignitaries came less and less. There was only one guest room in the room. I walked over with a wine bottle in my hand and looked through the bead curtain.

I saw a man in rich clothes inside drinking.

This person is Yang Ji.

Wei Ningyuan told me that Yang Ji often came to Eryuehong to drink, and it was only at this time that I had the opportunity to meet him alone.

He is about thirty years old, very lean, with a cunning light in his small inverted triangular eyes, and his face has high cheekbones, giving him a somewhat mean look, which makes people uncomfortable at first sight.

I slowly opened the curtain, and he raised his head and looked at me. His eyes lit up and he immediately saw my protruding belly. He frowned and said, "Your boss is becoming more and more unruly. Even pregnant women dare to do this."

Come and serve me! Don’t you want to open this restaurant?”

I walked over with a smile and poured him a glass of wine: "Master Yang misunderstood, I am not from here."

He frowned, reached out to take the wine glass I offered, looked down at him cautiously, then looked at me again, and said, "Who are you?"

I looked at him with a smile and said nothing.

He seemed to feel something was wrong more and more, his little eyes stared at me, and suddenly he seemed to remember something. He stood up and pointed at me and shouted: "You--you are Yue--!"<

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He swallowed the rest of the words forcefully.

He and I only met from a distance at a state banquet, but people in official circles have a photographic memory. What's more, I was so uncooperative with Shen Rou in the harem, so his family will naturally be deeply impressed by me. He can recognize me.

It was beyond my expectation.

I smiled and said to him: "Master Yang has good eyesight."

"You - aren't you already dead?"

"Of course I am 'dead'." I smiled and said, "As long as Mr. Yang doesn't tell others about what he saw me today, I will still be 'dead'."

Yang Ji was not a confused person and he understood immediately.

He calmed down, looked at me for a while, and then said in a deep voice: "What are you doing here?"

"I want to ask Master Yang for something."

"Begging me?" When he heard this, he burst out laughing: "You're going to beg me? Hahahaha."

His smile is natural. Shen Rou is his cousin. When we were in the palace, we had a tit-for-tat confrontation because of Xu Youling. The people in the Shen family probably hated me. Now I actually ask him for help. It's really a bit strange.

Funny.

His laughter slowly stopped, and he glared at me and said fiercely: "You know, I can chop you into pieces with just one word now!"

I still said without changing my expression: "I know. But adults should also know that at this time, how can I let others chop myself into meat paste?"

He was startled and looked at me with furrowed brows. I smiled and said, "Didn't anyone tell you when your Excellency went south that when Yue Qingying was imprisoned, in addition to deceiving the emperor and betraying his superiors, he was also charged with having an affair with a traitor?

”

His expression suddenly changed, and he looked around in horror.

Although Yangzhou is now much more stable than before, otherwise he would not have dared to follow in the footsteps of Liu Yi and his son and go south to become governor, but the reputation of Yangzhou's thugs is far-reaching, and he naturally knows what he did.

I smiled and said, "Don't worry, sir. I'm just here to beg you today. I don't want to do anything else."

His expression changed several times, and he looked around again, then he sat down with lingering fear, and I slowly sat opposite him.

After all, Yang Ji was an official for many years. He quickly calmed down, looked at my swollen belly, and said, "Whose is this child?"

His voice was stern, and I guessed that he was worried that this child belonged to the emperor and would affect Shen Rou.

I smiled faintly and did not answer. I just said: "I came here to beg you today because I hope you can release the husband of a civilian woman."

"Husband? You——" He suddenly opened his eyes wide.

"I'm already married."

Looking at my calm look, Yang Ji seemed a little unbelievable. After a while, he said with a smile but not a smile: "You are so brave, Yue Qingying!"

"Have you forgotten, sir? Yue Qingying is dead."

"..."

"Now, I just come to beg you to let the husband of the civilian woman go."

"Your husband? Who is it?"

"Master Yang arrested someone who rebelled against the party a while ago in Yangzhou City, and my husband was mistakenly imprisoned. But he is not someone who rebels against the party, nor is he a student who came to take the imperial examination. He is just a busboy in a restaurant, and he has nothing to do with these things.

It doesn't matter, I hope Mr. Yang will see clearly and let him go."

Yang Jileng snorted and said: "Why do you want me to let him go? Do you think you are still that shitty talent?"

I smiled and said: "I am just a common person now, so naturally I have no qualifications to ask Mr. Yang to do anything. However, this is a misunderstanding and an unjust case. I hope Mr. Yang will show his respect."

He looked at me with raised eyebrows: "What if I don't?"

I raised my eyes and looked at him and said word by word: "The common woman can only submit a complaint to the emperor."

He was startled and stared at me.

I slowly said: "The civilian woman also said just now that Yue Qingying is dead. Naturally, she should not return to the emperor, but the one who wants her to return more than Yue Qingying should be Concubine Shen, right?"

"..."

"After all, we no longer have this person in the harem, why bother causing trouble again?"

"..."

Yang Ji's face darkened, and after thinking for a while, he suddenly sneered: "Yue Qingying? Do you think you can return to the emperor? Even if you go back, do you think you can still be fine? How dare you carry it?

You want the emperor to marry, do you think the emperor can spare you?"

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My heart suddenly trembled.

Indeed, this was what I had been worried about before marrying Liu Saner. It was not until I got the news that he had returned to Beijing that I believed that he had accepted the fact that I was dead. It was finally over between me and him.

I originally thought that I would never be involved with the previous person in this life, but I didn’t expect——

But now, I absolutely cannot back down!

So, my expression remained unchanged, and the smile on my face deepened, and I said: "Master Yang is worried that the emperor cannot spare me, but according to the emperor's character, before punishing me, he will definitely punish the tyrants in the south.

Officials who ignore the people and ignore them!"

His expression changed and he said: "What do you mean?!"

I smiled and said, "It's not interesting. I just want to remind Mr. Yang that when the emperor went south to Yangzhou when he was still a prince, it was because Mr. Hong Wenquan colluded with the grain merchants to make money from the victims and became the magistrate of the state without even asking for an order.

If you kill him directly, you will know how much he hates corrupt people. And what you did in Enke this time violated the emperor's taboo."

"..."

"Yangzhou, the emperor has put a lot of thought into it. If you know about Enke this time, you will take the opportunity to make money, and the emperor Long Yan will be furious. I wonder what will happen?"

"..."

"Actually, Your Excellency is also very powerful. So many messages to the capital can be intercepted by Your Excellency. Until now, the Emperor still doesn't know what happened in Yangzhou. But if there is any news that Your Excellency cannot intercept, then

——"

"..."

"Master Shen and the Imperial Concubine have put in a lot of effort to rehabilitate you, so don't let your efforts fall by the wayside."

"..." Yang Ji's face turned slightly pale, and his eyes flashed with uneasiness when he looked at me. But he still wanted to hide something, so he picked up the wine glass on the table, but suddenly put it down - probably because he was afraid of the reception.

What's the problem? It's just that the wine in the glass was sloshing around a lot. I looked at the ripples inside and slowly calmed down.

After being silent for a long time, he slowly raised his head and looked at me, his small eyes shining like needlepoints: "Can you really still present yourself to the emperor?"

"I just don't want to do it."

"Do you really just want to save your husband?"

"If you hold your hand high, there will be nothing to do with each other."

He stared at me in silence, his eyes like needles. I just sat calmly opposite him, with an unchanging and calm smile on my face. Although I didn’t know until myself, the palm of the hand lightly placed on the table had already

All in cold sweat.

After an unknown amount of time, he finally said: "Okay."

My heart jumped hard, almost jumping out of my chest. I suddenly felt a burst of pain all over my body, but it was also because of this jump that the blood in my body started to flow again. I made a little smile: "Thank you Yang

Your Excellency."

"I will issue an official document soon. Just wait to pick up your husband."

"Thank you."
To be continued...