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Chapter 59 Breaking the Game
That day, when Chen Jiao came in from the outside, he saw Wu Jie sitting on the porch outside the apse, with a small medicine basket in front of her.
She was wearing a smoky red dress, her jet-black hair was tied with a coral hairpin, and she was reaching out to fiddle with something in the medicine basket. The wide sleeves were tied with emerald buttons, revealing her arms as smooth as white jade.
Her brows were slightly frowned, but it was not anxiety or fear, on the contrary, there was an unconvinced mischievousness, which was extremely cute.
The golden afterglow of the setting sun fell on her body, illuminating her whole body with brilliance.
The picture in front of him was so beautiful, Chen Jiao couldn't help but stopped and watched quietly, lest he make any noise and disturb the beautiful scenery.
It's a pity that after only watching for a while, Wu Jie found him as an unexpected visitor, and immediately greeted him, "What are you doing standing there, come and help me."
Chen Jiao came to his senses, walked quickly to the corridor, and asked with a smile, "What herbs are you looking for? Do you want to poison someone?"
Wu Jie glared at him, "Here, I will poison you to death, you talkative."
Chen Jiao said with a smile, "My lady can't wait to cross the river and tear down the bridge."
He leaned forward and immediately saw that there were not herbs in the medicine basket, but many flower petals.
"They were all collected by Chi Rui and others in the imperial garden a few days ago."
At the end of summer every year, Princess Lu in Prince De's Mansion likes to bring her two daughters to brew flower dew by herself. The prescription they used was found by King De from an isolated ancient book, and the flower dew they prepared was known to be top-grade in Dongyue circles. It can be worn and used to increase body fragrance, and it can also be blended into fine wine and drinks. It is difficult for a wealthy family to ask for a bottle.
Fangzi Wu Jie brought it with her, and these days she has nothing to do, so she thought about brewing a few bottles by herself.
Chen Jiao had heard Chi Rui and the others mention it before, seeing them busy in and out these days picking a lot of flower petals, and preparing a bunch of bottles and jars.
"I'm going to brew the anemone dew, but I always feel that it lacks some flavor. Come and help me take a look."
It was only then that Chen Jiao noticed that there was a small white wine jug and several wine glasses beside Wu Jie, and a light aroma radiated out.
Wu Jie picked up the jug and poured out two glasses, and handed Chen Jiao a glass.
Chen Jiao moved his nose and took a deep breath, the fragrance was so light that it seemed to be there. He took a sip slightly, the mellow aroma was slightly astringent.
After tasting the taste carefully, he said with a smile, "It's a very light drink. It tastes great, but it's too weak."
"So I'm worrying about what to use to add fragrance. If it's like sweet-scented osmanthus and peonies, it's too overwhelming. If it's like camellia and crabapple, it's not very useful."
"You are looking for a fish from a tree. The lotus has almost no fragrance. If you use other flowers, the brilliance will be obscured. Instead, it is better to just choose other flowers."
While talking, the two quickly drank a pot of wine.
While speaking, Wu Jie looked at him, a little lost in thought.
He was dressed in green clothes, and he didn't know where he had been just now. His black hair was scattered like splashed ink, and his whole body was like a mountain god walking down from a spiritual mountain, with indistinguishable beauty.
His eyes are pure and cold, like a clear spring flowing, reflecting the stars in the sky, as long as one looks into them, it seems to melt into those eyes.
The setting sun finally completely sank into the sky, Chen Jiao held up his cup and looked at the lone moon rising in the sky, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.
Chen Jiao turned his head to look, and Wu Jie was also smiling.
"What are you laughing at?" Wu Jie asked first.
"I laughed because I saw the beauty of this world. A few years ago, I got rid of the cage-like life in the past. At that time, I was confused and panicked, and I didn't know where to go. A brand-new life, life, is indeed indestructible." Chen Jiao answered speciously, full of emotion.
After a while, he asked back, "What are you laughing at?"
"I'm laughing at Mrs. Yuheng from South Chen, is she such a pure and defenseless person?"
Chen Jiao's smile smothered "you"
"Unexpectedly, I'm so confused, I didn't expect that you are from South Chen." Wu Jie jumped up, took two steps back, and stared at him bitterly. "You lied to me for so long."
"It's because you didn't ask at the beginning." Chen Jiao categorically rejected her accusation, "Otherwise, I would have brought it from the truth."
"Lie, you liar." Wu Jie stared at him vigilantly.
Chen Jiao frowned, and wanted to stand up, but felt his legs go limp, and fell back.
Sitting on the porch, he tightened his gaze, staring at Wu Jie, "Your Majesty moved her hands and feet in the drink just now."
"I just added a little boiling grass juice. I heard that this substance has the effect of reducing martial arts, and it is considered taboo by martial arts practitioners. Looking at the situation of Madam, the rumors are true."
Chen Jiao smiled wryly, he really lost everything in one careless move, the cute gestures of this little fox before made people completely defenseless, how could he have thought that just now, after doing all he could for her, he would use poisoned wine to kill her in the blink of an eye? Put yourself down.
"Your Majesty, I don't think this act is ungrateful"
"For a South Chen expert like Mrs. Yuheng, I am a little deep palace concubine, and I dare not bear any kindness."
Chen Jiao shook his head, "Actually, why do you have to be so tricky? I cooperate with you with sincerity and sincerity, and we both benefit from each other."
Wu Jie tilted her head slightly, "Aren't you denying it? To Mrs. Yuheng's identity, you admit it so readily."
Chen Jiao smiled wryly, "Your Majesty is so sure, I deny that it will work."
Wu Jie gritted her teeth for a while. She had to admit that, deep down, she was expecting this man to deny it. After spending so many days together, in this lonely deep palace, the person in front of her has become a bit of warmth that she can rely on. Now it faces such a betrayal.
Regarding Chen Jiao's origin, she had always thought that he was Prince Fu's remnant party. Even if he killed Prince Fu himself, she could at most guess that he was a pawn of a certain force in the DPRK. Influenced by the memory of the previous life, Prince Fu's rebellion finally came to an end. I didn't hear that South Chen was responsible for it. Instead, I vaguely heard that Prince Fu had colluded with Gao. They even confiscated secret letters between the two parties. But under Yuan Jing's suppression, he quickly disappeared. So Wu Jie secretly suspected that Chen Jiao had something to do with the Gao family.
From the beginning to the end, she never suspected that Chen Jiao was from South Chen.
Thinking of the death of the prince's elder brother, Wu Jie doesn't have the slightest affection for the people of South Chen now. Especially this guy has another important thing to deceive himself.
"you liar"
"I concealed something, but it was out of helplessness after all." Facing Wu Jie's accusation, Chen Jiao said in a low voice, with a solemn expression, "Since I followed my empress, I have never done anything to apologize to you, why bother?" so outraged"
"How dare you say that if you don't feel sorry for me, your own existence is a big trouble." Wu Jie raised her voice unconsciously, gnashing her teeth, "I want to ask, what kind of crime is it that the maid next to any concubine is a man?"
Chen Jiao's smile finally couldn't hold back.
"How do you even know this?"
"You even admitted this?" Wu Jie couldn't bear it anymore and jumped up, glaring fiercely at Chen Jiao who was opposite her.
He is really a man. He recalled the details of the relationship between the two of them. She was defenseless when this guy sneaked into her bedroom several times, and the last time they entangled and hugged each other in the small Buddhist hall all night.
Wu Jie wished to destroy this guy immediately.
Chen Jiao thought for a while, and asked cautiously, "If I deny it, will the empress have to verify her authenticity?"
"You..." Wu Jie's eyes were about to burst into flames. A hundred methods of destroying corpses and traces were quickly conceived in his mind.
Seeing that she was about to explode, Chen Jiao quickly subdued, "Don't be so angry, I admit it." He spread his hands together, "I don't know how the empress is going to deal with me, a sinner."
"You pervert!" Wu Jie let out a low growl, pulled out a dagger from under the jug, and stabbed directly at Chen Jiao's neck.
Chen Jiao closed his eyes abruptly, neither dodging nor avoiding.
Wu Jie stabbed someone's throat with the blade, but stopped involuntarily.
Even if his martial arts were affected by the boiling grass, with his agility, he could still dodge it. But now she looked like she was waiting to die with her eyes closed, which made her unable to do anything.
"Why don't you hide?"
Asking this sentence, Wu Jie felt that she was very inferior, like a female cultivator who wanted to kill someone in the book she often read, but couldn't do it, and could only cover up her mood with nonsense.
Chen Jiao's answer was also very script-like, which made Wu Jie wonder whether he had secretly read the books in his private collection.
"If it can make you calm down, even if you lose this life, it will be just a cheap life after all."
Wu Jie's cheeks twitched, she simply withdrew the dagger.
She couldn't do anything about it, the person in front of her, regardless of the inside information, had indeed helped her a lot since entering the palace, but she had never done anything to hurt her, at least not found now. She is not my ungrateful generation, it is impossible to really kill people.
In the end, she gritted her teeth and asked, "You should have a way to leave, right?"
"I don't want to leave so early." A certain person was shameless and flatly rejected this opportunity to make a difference. Even have an inch,
He stared at Wu Jie, "If you want to leave, I will take you with me."
Wu Jie's eyes widened in an instant, this guy was talking nonsense about walking together, this pervert, he couldn't mean what she thought.
Chen Jiao smiled calmly, "This palace is not suitable for you. Come with me, and I can take you back to Dongyue. I will accompany you as much as you want to eat every day, and wherever you want to play."
While speaking, he even raised his hand and pressed it against the back of Wu Jie's hand that was pressing on the corridor.
It's a pity that such heartbreaking words did not move the person opposite at all. Wu Jie only felt horrified. Anyone who was confessed by a person who you thought was the same sex before would be so terrified.
As a result of being lost, Wu Jie raised her hand and poked hard at the dog's paw that was stretched out to him.
she has a knife in her hand
With a crisp sound, the dagger knocked off the dishonest hand and nailed it to the corridor floor.
Wu Jie reacted, her heart trembled. In fact, she never thought of hurting Chen Jiao, but if she couldn't stand someone, she had to be cheap.
Unexpectedly, she froze all over.
Chen Jiao was also taken aback by this reaction. It was the first time in his life that he confessed his love, and it ended so badly.
It turned out that she really didn't have the slightest affection for herself, and this was the first time Chen Jiao felt such a blow, but after thinking about it, she thought that she was a woman before, so it was impossible for her to be charming, so she comforted herself and felt relieved.
"Well, I told you not to move your hands and feet." Continuing silence is not an answer, Wu Jie felt that she should say something to ease the awkward atmosphere, "I'll go to the back and get some medicine to bandage you. Hurry up when you recover from your injury." Leave. Go back to your South Chen."
As she spoke, she let go of her hand, but as she let go, the dagger suddenly fell off.
Wu Jie was taken aback by this bizarre turn of events, she looked at it calmly, the blade of the dagger was as clean as new, with no blood at all, and the hand of someone next to her was also intact, not even a scratch of skin.
By the way, when he was stabbed by his own dagger just now, Chen Jiao's expression was more shock than pain.
what's going on.
She stretched out her hand to grab the dagger, looked carefully, and immediately realized the mystery. The dagger turned out to be a mechanical knife with a spring on the blade, and it went in with a poke.
It wasn't the dagger she had prepared just now, she was too nervous to take a closer look, but now that she was holding it in her hand, Wu Jie immediately recognized that the pattern on the handle was different.
"Ahem, when you were pouring wine, I found a knife under the corridor. I thought it was too dangerous, so I changed it." Chen Jiao said with a smile.
He tried his best to keep his attitude gentle, but in Wu Jie's eyes, it was full of sarcasm. She stared at him coldly, "So you already knew about it. You were just playing with me, you pervert."
Chen Jiao felt aggrieved, "I found out after drinking."
Before Wu Jie invited him to drink lotus dew, he didn't suspect it and drank it readily. After Wu Jie continued to pour the wine, she began to feel something was wrong. can't help but think of those drugged crabs in mind.
So he took advantage of Wu Jie's turning around to pour the wine, quickly checked the surrounding environment, and then found the dagger hidden under the corridor, and replaced it with wit.
"So you've been watching my jokes."
"How could it be, the empress used her body to lure the enemy, she was clever and clever, no matter how cunning I was, I still fell into the empress's game." Chen Jiao said with a smile.
Said to admit defeat, but the expression on his face was not like that at all.
The guy who closed his eyes and waited to die just now, this guy is sure that he can't kill him
Wu Jie bit her lip. really want to go back to the room and find a real knife to stab it in, and it will be over from then on.
Looking at her angry expression, Chen Jiao regretted that he had replaced the dagger just now, alas, it's better to let her poke the knife to calm down.
"There is no enmity between you and me that cannot be resolved. Why should we be so tense? The moonlight is so good tonight. How about turning hostility into friendship and shaking hands?"
Chen Jiao spoke softly with his utmost sincerity.
Wu Jie angrily threw the dagger aside, "You've lied so much, how dare you say you didn't blame me."
"Cheating before was out of necessity, but now the empress has seen through her identity, so I won't hide anything from now on."
"Really?" Wu Jie tilted her head slightly. Every gesture of this person carried a kind of elegant charm, no matter how embarrassed his posture was, it would not damage this temperament. Coupled with the stunning appearance, it is no wonder that there is no flaw in pretending to be a woman.
It was a coincidence, and she asked casually, "Why don't you tell me why you wear women's clothes?"
Chen Jiao was startled, she didn't expect her to bring up this topic, she pondered for a while, and said with a smile, "This is a very long story, sit down and I will tell you slowly."
Wu Jie hesitated for a while, but sat down anyway.