Chapter 177: The White Lotus Cousin in Ancient Chinese Literature (6)
Cui Ling met his gaze fearlessly, without flinching or avoiding it: "Your Highness is of noble status, and you should know how to be cautious in your words and actions better than Han Zhang."
Seeing that the eldest prince didn't take it seriously, Cui Ling dropped a bombshell: "The emperor is investigating the salt tax recently. I wonder if your highness has cleaned up the mess?"
The eldest prince's face changed slightly. He didn't even have time to care about how Cui Ling knew that he was involved in the salt tax. He hurriedly asked for confirmation: "Is the news true?"
Cui Ling glanced at him indifferently, without saying anything more, and turned and left, with an attitude as arrogant as possible.
As the next head of the Cui family, Cui Ling has the right to be arrogant. In the past, he believed that less trouble is worse than more, but that doesn't mean he is afraid of imperial power.
What's more, Qi Yue is just a prince, as for the rest, we can talk about it after he really sits on that position.
The eldest prince had a gloomy expression.
Looking at Cui Ling's back as he walked away, he gritted his teeth and spoke word by word: "Cui, Han, Zhang."
If we didn't need the Cui family's support now...
Once he sits in that position, he will kill Cui Ling sooner or later.
Cui Ling might not be unaware of the eldest prince's thoughts, or maybe he knew, which is why he acted like that. There is only a thief who can steal for a thousand days, but there is no one who can guard against thieves for a thousand days. The eldest prince is a vicious person and is not capable of shouldering such a heavy responsibility.
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Su Yu didn't know what happened here after she left, and she walked towards Cui Yue with cheerful steps.
The plan to find a scapegoat went smoothly.
Su Yu sincerely prayed that the eldest prince could live longer so that she could complete her mission.
Cui Yue had seen Su Yu a long time ago, and also saw that she came with her brother. She wanted to take Lin Jinse to find her brother, but he turned and left before they got close, and only Su Yu came alone.
Lin Jinse saw it as well.
She frowned: "Yuer, who is the woman next to Brother Hanzhang?"
"She is a beggar... She is the niece of my father's concubine. Her parents are gone, so she came to stay in our house for a while." Cui Yue changed the words midway and almost said what was in her heart.
"Strange, why did she come here with her brother?"
Cui Yue frowned and pulled Lin Jinse up: "Sister Lin, let's go over and ask her what's going on."
As the two approached, Su Yu also saw the heroine's appearance clearly.
She has a dignified and beautiful appearance, a cold expression, a noble posture, and she is wearing a flowing and graceful ice-blue dress, like a fairy in the Moon Palace.
It was mentioned in the original plot that in order to get closer to the hero, the heroine intentionally or unintentionally imitated the hero's style. The hero is Leng Yue Qinghui and the heroine is the fairy in the Moon Palace. Even their daily expressions and postures are 50% similar.
In response to this, Su Yu said...it’s hard to comment.
Regarding changing one's clothes and appearance for a man, everyone has their own opinion. It is understandable for a woman to dress up to please herself, but would Cui Ling really like another version of herself?
The male version of Cui Ling and the female version of Cui Ling are together.
Are the two people sure they won’t freeze each other to death?
The scene was so beautiful that Su Yu shuddered and got goosebumps all over her body.
While they were thinking, the two of them had already approached.
Su Yu calmed herself down and deliberately looked less at the heroine to avoid laughing.
"cousin."
Cui Yue got straight to the point and asked, "I just saw you coming here with your brother. What happened? Where did you go?"
Su Yu guessed they would ask, and according to what she had said before, she lowered her eyes and answered obediently, "I was a little bored admiring the flowers alone, so I wanted to take a walk, but I got lost the more I walked, and I couldn't tell the direction. Fortunately, I met my cousin, and he took me back."
Cui Yue narrowed her eyes: "Just like that?"
Su Yu was puzzled, raised her eyes and blinked innocently: "What else?"
Lin Jinse tugged at Cui Yue's sleeve and said in a clear and generous voice, "Forget it, Yue'er. This cousin must have just lost her way. Brother Hanzhang has a good temper and will help even if it's someone he doesn't know. Don't make things difficult for her."
Cui Yue was still worried and warned Su Yu: "Did you hear that? Brother is just good-tempered. Don't have any unreasonable expectations. Brother's wife will only be..."
Her sleeves were tugged again, and Lin Jinse said in an embarrassed and annoyed voice: "Yuer."
Cui Yue suddenly fell silent. This kind of thing could not be told outside, as it would affect Sister Lin's reputation.
She raised her chin and said, "Anyway, remember that my brother will never fall in love with you. He will definitely marry a woman who is well-educated, worthy of him, and of equal status."
Su Yu looked dazed, with pure confusion in her eyes.
After a while, she asked hesitantly, "What is my cousin talking about?"
Cui Yue snorted coldly: "Don't play dumb, don't think I didn't see it. When you came over just now, your face was so red, if not because of your brother, what was it?"
Su Yu was slightly stunned, then said: "Was my face... red just now?"
The woman's eyes were pure and innocent. She was pointed at her nose and warned. Her eyes were red, but she really didn't understand what she meant until she was exposed by her blushing and shy expression...
A face with a frivolous smile came to mind.
Su Yu's cheeks turned red again, and she quickly waved her hands to explain: "No, I'm not blushing because of my cousin..."
"Who is that for?"
Su Yu stammered, took a step back when questioned, and dared not say anything.
One is aggressive, the other is weak and pitiful, and people's hearts are biased at first sight.
This girl from the Cui family is really rude.
Feeling more and more eyes on her, Su Yu lowered her head, looking more pitiful, making Cui Yue look even more unruly and rude.
He did this not only to prevent Cui Yue from asking further questions, but also to extricate himself.
She is just an orphan, what else can she do if she doesn't learn some tricks to protect herself.
Even though this method was not presentable and she had disdained it in the past, it was very useful to her now.
Seeing this, Lin Jinse quickly pulled Cui Yue and whispered to stop her, "Okay, Yue'er, stop talking. There are so many people watching. If you have anything to say, go home and talk about it. The flowers over there are blooming beautifully. Let's go over and take a look."
Cui Yue came to her senses and saw the pointing eyes around her, her face turned pale.
She glared at Su Yu in annoyance: "It's all your fault."
Then he was hurriedly dragged away by Lin Jinse.
After walking a distance, Lin Jinse suddenly turned around and caught Su Yu's eyes without a single tear and a faint smile at the corner of her mouth.
The woman raised her eyes, her eyes without a single tear were very calm, which was totally inconsistent with her timid and pitiful appearance.
It was as if her previous performance was all pretended.
Lin Jinse was startled and turned back immediately before Su Yu looked over.
After walking a long way, she asked in surprise, "Yuer, your cousin doesn't seem to be simple."
Cui Yue looked at her: "What?"
Lin Jinse couldn't tell whether she was being overly suspicious or what.
"I always feel that your cousin is not as weak as she looks."
Cui Yue sneered: "How is that possible? She is just like a soft bun. No matter how you squeeze her, she won't say a word. I told her in front of her that her family is a poor family and she didn't refute it."
"Besides, her parents are gone, and she only has an aunt to protect her. What tricks can she do?"
Cui Yue didn't care at all.
Lin Jinse thought so too and murmured, "Then I must have seen it wrong just now."
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