A traitor

Mei Liusheng walked out of the house and went outside the courtyard, and he saw Pei Ying waiting.

He walked over and stood still. Seeing that it was him, Pei Ying lowered her body and saluted: "See Your Highness."

Mei Liusheng looked at her indifferently and asked, "What are you doing here?"

There was a maid standing behind Pei Ying. Hearing this, she turned her body and said, "I heard that Mr. Su is not in good health. My servant ordered someone to prepare high-quality medicinal materials and send them to Mr. Su."

"It doesn't have to be..."

As soon as Pei Ying finished speaking, Mei Liusheng had already refused: "There are so many rare medicinal materials in the palace, there is no need for Mr. Pei to bother."

"This is not uncle, but me..."

Before she finished speaking, Mei Liusheng interrupted her again: "Whether it's Mrs. Pei or Miss Pei, Qinglang doesn't need your intervention in the future."

He said, paused again, and continued: "I will remember everything that Mr. Pei has done for this king. Moreover, there will be no less things that Mr. Pei has promised. On the contrary, this king has not promised. , no one has to think too much about it.”

Seeing his straightforward refusal, Pei Ying couldn't hold back her face, she was silent for a moment, and finally confessed to him.

She looked at Mei Liusheng, her originally gentle and gentle face was tinged with coldness and sternness: "What if I want to think extravagantly?"

Seeing her like this, for a moment, Mei Liusheng thought of his mother in a trance.

He was stunned for a moment before sighing: "You should know that the person in my heart is not you, so why should Miss Pei do this and delay my life's happiness."

Pei Ying smiled coldly: "It's not up to you to decide whether you're lucky or not. What I want is to be a queen."

When she said this, she looked at Mei Liusheng meaningfully: "Recently, because of Mr. Su, Your Highness is having a difficult time in court, right?"

Mei Liusheng didn't speak, just looked at her, and heard her say: "If you marry me, I will settle those matters for you. Uncle has always listened to me. Your Highness may wish to consider it."

"Your Highness likes Mr. Su, so you can keep him in the palace. I won't mind about it, let alone ask. As I said before, all I want is to be a queen."

"Master Su has such a reputation that he has already been resented by the world. Marry me and keep him, or His Highness decided to take a risk and gamble with uncle to see who is better."

Mei Liusheng was silent for a moment: "You really have to do this?"

Pei Ying replied very resolutely: "It must be so."

Hearing this, Mei Liusheng stopped talking again, and after a long time, finally said: "Okay..."

He turned and left, his face looking as cold as ice. Speaking of which, he didn't want to marry Pei Ying after all.

However, the position of empress is related to the country, not to mention the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, even he himself, can't accept Su Qinglang very much.

Back in the house, I saw Su Qinglang standing by the window, staring at the scenery outside the window in a trance.

He walked over, hugged him from behind, and gently kissed his dark hair. Although Su Qinglang was thin, his body was as soft as his daughter's. Her long hair was like satin, which made people feel extremely at ease and comfortable. .

Su Qinglang wanted to break free, but was bound tightly in his arms, helplessly, and said: "Let go..."

Mei Liusheng smiled badly, and said jokingly: "What if I don't let it go?"

Knowing that he intentionally made her angry, so as to break the deadlock and ignore him, Su Qinglang didn't say anything, and asked for a long time: "Miss Pei, what's the matter?"

Seeing that he wasn't fooled, Mei Liusheng felt a little regretful, and half of her previous enthusiasm faded, saying, "It's nothing."

After a pause, he asked again: "Qinglang, are you blaming me for trapping you here?"

Su Qinglang didn't answer, because he knew that no matter what the answer was, it would be useless to him now.

Mei Liusheng continued: "Even if you hate me, I will do the same. I really can't figure it out. You want Nan Tang to be good, and I want Nan Tang to be good. From this point alone, we shouldn't be enemies. , why do you have to do this to me?"

"Before, you wanted to be rehabilitated. You knew it would be dangerous for me to do so, but I still obeyed you. How about that emperor? Angry and obstructed in every possible way, even so, you are still willing to be loyal to him, but indifferent to me. Bing, think about it for yourself, is this really fair?"

Mei Liusheng is eloquent, and Su Qinglang is most afraid of this. Hearing him say this, he couldn't help getting annoyed: "Stop talking!"

Sure enough, Mei Liusheng stopped, looked at him, and said after a while, "Okay, I won't say anything."

The current situation, on the contrary, looks like Su Qinglang is domineering, bullying and oppressing him, Su Qinglang looked at him and said: "I owe you, I will pay it back."

Mei Liusheng asked calmly, "What do you pay for it?"

Seeing that Su Qinglang was being questioned by him, he seized the opportunity and said: "How about this, I'm very practical, I want what I lack, gold, silver, treasure, power and status, I have everything you can give, If you really want to pay it back, how about you promise it with your body?"

"You..." Su Qinglang didn't expect that he would say such presumptuous words, anger surged up in his heart, he stopped for a moment, and then gritted his teeth: "Shameless!"

In the past, Su Qinglang was superior, laughing and angrily scolding him for "bullying" him, but now that the situation has been reversed, Mei Liusheng only finds it funny.

Seeing Su Qinglang's "little doormat", who can only let others slaughter him, he couldn't help but find it even more interesting.

So he said again: "Don't forget, your prince and princess are still in my hands, what you owe me, plus the freedom of the two of them, which is more important, Mr. Su, think about it for yourself clear."

Su Qinglang didn't speak, but her brows were slightly frowned.

Mei Liusheng knew that he had already been persuaded by her, so he said persistently: "I said I want you to agree with me with your body, but I didn't really want your body. I said, here, as long as you don't want to, I won't treat you." What do you do, you just need to be by my side so that I can see you all the time."

Su Qinglang was still unwilling to answer, he turned around and took a few steps away from Mei Liusheng, but he didn't refuse either.

Seeing him like this, Mei Liusheng smiled, walked over and hugged him: "Qinglang, I'm so happy."

In the next two days, Mei Liusheng would come over whenever he had free time, Su Qinglang's attitude towards him was always lukewarm, but he was very interested.

On the third day, Mei Liusheng did not come, and he was not seen from morning to noon.

Su Qinglang sat alone in the pavilion in the pear garden, and when he heard the faint sound of ritual and music outside, he knew that today was the day when Mei Liusheng ascended the throne.

The emperor is dead, and the court should indeed establish a new emperor.

Although he talked nicely about being loyal to the emperor and devoting himself to the emperor, in fact, Mei Liusheng's rebellion also had his "credit".

Su Qinglang smiled bitterly, and did not comment on this matter again.

Mei Liusheng had promised him that as long as he was willing to stay here, he would let the prince and princess go, but since the last time they met, he hadn't seen the prince.

I don't know whether Mei Liusheng has fulfilled his promise.

Thinking that Mei Liusheng is not here now, and the palace is busy with affairs, no one will watch over him, so Su Qinglang got up and walked in the direction of the East Palace.

The East Palace is a bit far from the Pear Garden, Su Qinglang walked for a long time to arrive, and when he saw the soldiers guarding the gate of the palace, he knew that Mei Liusheng hadn't let the prince go yet.

He watched from a distance for a while, turned around and left without asking, and went to wait for Mei Liusheng at his residence.

The place where Mei Liusheng lives now is still the palace he lived in ten years ago, although it has been abandoned for many years.But for him, it's better than living in the place where the emperor's uncle used to live.

The relationship between Su Qinglang and His Highness Prince Yi was tacitly understood by everyone in the palace, so no one stopped him.

After waiting in the hall for a long time, Mei Liusheng still didn't come back, Su Qinglang didn't want to wait any longer, when he got up and was about to leave, he saw half of something under the soft pillow at the head of Mei Liusheng's bed.

Originally, with his temperament, he really didn't like to rummage through other people's things, but the shape of that thing was very familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

He walked over, lifted a corner of the pillow, and took out the things underneath.

Sure enough, it was the mask someone gave them when they were in Yizhou back then. Hearing that Mei Liusheng didn't bring it with him, he thought that he put it in Yu Huaizhong's mansion.Unexpectedly, he was still with me.

When Mei Liusheng came back, Su Qinglang was staring at the mask in a daze, and seeing Su Qinglang felt a little embarrassed.

After all, she was still wearing clothes that Su Qinglang didn't like very much.

He came over and said, "Why are you here? I wanted to change my clothes, so I went to find you."

Su Qinglang followed the sound to look at him, saw the dragon robe on his body, fixed his eyes for a moment, then turned his eyes away coldly.

Handed him the mask with a side hand: "Your..."

Seeing the mask in his hand, Mei Liusheng smiled: "Do you still remember this mask?"

Su Qinglang said indifferently: "I don't remember..."

Mei Liusheng was blocked by him for a while, he was at a loss for words, but he didn't know what to say.

After a while, he took off the mask and asked in a bad tone, "What's the matter with you?"

Only then did Su Qinglang look at him, and said indifferently: "What you promised me, you haven't done yet."

Seeing that he mentioned the crown prince again, Mei Liusheng was even more displeased: "Did I say I wouldn't let him go?"

He held back his anger and said in a calm voice as much as possible: "Now the civil and military courts are all forcing me to kill him. Now you let me let him go, can you give me some time?"

Su Qinglang raised his head: "How long?"

Mei Liusheng was so pissed off by him, he gritted his teeth and said bitterly, "Three days!"

Ignoring his intentional anger, Su Qinglang said: "Okay..."

He raised his foot and was about to leave, but he just passed by Mei Liusheng's side, but he stretched out his hand and pulled him back: "Where are you going?"

Su Qinglang looked at him, unable to speak to the "Pear Garden" that symbolized the status of a male favorite.

He also heard Mei Liusheng say: "I've thought about it, if you don't like it, just move out from there, the inner courtyard of the palace, the size of the palace is up to you to choose."

This is also one of Mei Liusheng's strategies. Who, if he was arranged elsewhere from the beginning, Su Qinglang would feel the same grievances. How about putting him in the troupe for a few days, making him sad and humiliated enough, and then Call him out.In this way, it was easier for Su Qinglang to accept it.

Sure enough, hearing what he said, Su Qinglang's expression softened a lot.

Seeing this, Mei Liusheng took the opportunity and said, "I'll give you everything you want, now, come and have dinner with me."