After I got into the drama, I led the plot astray

I was very satisfied with Yingchun's arrangement. I asked the servants to send Zhao Ping'an and his mother to the cleaned house, and I returned to my room.

Yiping was not in the room and no one knew where he had gone.

After Xichun brought the hot water, I took a nice bath, changed into comfortable clothes, covered myself with a small blanket, and lazily lay on the recliner, eating and thinking. Just as I was thinking intently, Gongsun Wen actually came.

Seeing me lying on the recliner like a big boss, with Yingchun waiting on me, Gongsun Wen couldn't help but roll his eyes, and unceremoniously sat on the chair next to me, saying, "You are so comfortable, but I am almost tired and my legs are broken."

I opened my hazy eyes and asked in confusion: "You're back in Beijing, what else are you busy with?"

Gongsun Wen immediately sneered and said, "You think your majesty can let me have some free time? And you, I told you to make trouble, but you set fire to the Jinxiu Palace, making your majesty so angry that he couldn't even hold the sacrifice today, so it was postponed to tomorrow. Today, you called me into the palace and scolded me for a full half hour in the palace. If your majesty wasn't tired, you would have scolded me until dinner."

I was startled and quickly sat up straight and asked, "How does your majesty know that you gave me these ideas?"

Gongsun Wen rolled his eyes at me and said, "There is nothing in this world that Your Majesty doesn't know, unless he doesn't want to know."

Come to think of it, Zheng Xian has so many secret guards, and there are several of them around me now. They can know my every move, even if I sneeze.

I lowered my head and thought for a while, then said, "I'm afraid this won't be resolved."

Gongsun Wen snorted and said, "You are right. His Majesty is the one who cannot afford to lose. If you dare to plot against him, I am afraid you will suffer the consequences."

I quickly raised my head, grabbed Gongsun Wen's hand, and said, "Didn't you give me this idea? You said that as long as I make a fuss, His Majesty will be unable to bear it and will let me go. Now that something has happened, you have to think of a way for me to get out of this."

Gongsun Wen was startled by my action. If it was someone else, he would have been thrown away by me. He swallowed his saliva, pulled his hand, but found that he couldn't pull it back. He coughed lightly and said calmly, "Anyway, it's done. It's impossible to remedy it. Let's just wait and see. The king's mind is hard to predict. I can only take it one step at a time."

I let go of Gongsun Wen's hand, slumped down on the recliner, and said dejectedly, "In fact, I didn't have to set that fire, but when I saw that couple having fun, I didn't want them to have an easy time, so I set that fire to scare them. Who knew that the fire would burn more and more fiercely and could not be put out, and finally caused a disaster. What should I do now? I've been confined to my house. Will His Majesty never let me go out for the rest of my life?"

Gongsun Wen blushed when he heard this and stammered, "How could you go and see someone else having sex?"

I said angrily, "That's not what I wanted to see. I just wanted to cause trouble for Mingzhu and teach her a lesson so that she wouldn't bother me again. Who knew she would have so much fun and even have sex with her own brother? It's really immoral."

As I spoke, I clicked my tongue a few times, with a look of disgust on my face, as if I had stepped on dog shit.

Gongsun Wen was a scholar, and he was taught not to look at or listen to anything indecent. Although he was rebellious, he still had the pride of a scholar. When he heard me speak so bluntly, his face turned red, and he said breathlessly, "You are a girl, don't say these words anymore. If people hear them, they will think you are uneducated, and it will be difficult for you to find a good husband in the future."

I turned my head to look at Yingchun. When she heard the word "a girl", there was not much reaction on her face. This girl probably knew that I was a woman a long time ago.

I said quietly, "I don't really care whether I can find a good husband or not. I'm just worried that His Majesty will imprison me for life."

Gongsun Wen paused and said, "It's for your own good that I don't let you run around. I heard that you went to the Wei River today and demolished the dilapidated temple. If General Du hadn't arrived in time, you would have killed a lot of people and the Wei River would have been a river of blood."

I was really shocked and said loudly, "I just got back, how did you get the news so quickly?"

Gongsun Wen glanced at me and said, "When I came to the general's mansion just now, I happened to see General Du escorting a prisoner to the Chang'an government office. General Du told me this."

I looked as if I understood, and said, "No wonder, you scared me. I thought you also arranged secret guards to be around me."

Gongsun Wen looked a little unnatural after hearing this.

I continued, "I demolished the dilapidated temple, and I have my eyes on that large piece of vacant land. Who do you think I should contact for this matter?"

Gongsun Wen thought about it carefully and said, "Lord Li should be more clear about the ownership of this land."

Li Jin?

Before I could say anything, Gongsun Wen asked again, "What do you want this piece of land for?"

I said, "Open a clinic and a charity."

If I hadn't looked so serious, Gongsun Wen would have thought I was joking.

He frowned and said, "Opening a charity? Opening a charity in a place like that, are you sure your brain is not burnt out?"

I rolled my eyes at Gongsun Wen and said, "Your brain is burnt out. Not only do I want to open a charity, I also want to open a school. There are many poor families along the Wei River, and their children simply cannot afford to go to school. Without knowledge and culture, these children will become like their parents, working the hardest and most exhausting jobs but still not being able to earn a bite to eat, and eventually stealing, robbing, and killing people. If we don't change them, this vicious cycle will continue."

Gongsun Wen treated me as if he was meeting me for the first time. He felt as if his body was glowing, which inexplicably infected him and made this cold and aloof man suddenly want to do good deeds and influence the evil people in the world.

Just as he was lost in thought, a message suddenly came from the outer gate: "The general has arrived."

Zhao Zhenyuan is here?

Gongsun Wen and I stood up quickly.

After Zhao Zhenyuan had been lying at home for two days, his body had almost recovered. People who practiced martial arts for many years were not that delicate, but in order not to see guests and deal with those boring people, he had to close the door and continue to pretend to be sick, claiming to the outside world that he was seriously ill and looked like he was about to die.

But Gongsun Wen came to visit suddenly today. Although he did not say he was visiting him, his official position was lower than Gongsun Wen's. Even if he was too sick to move, he had to be carried to see him. So Zhao Zhenyuan had no choice but to rush to meet Gongsun Wen.

Zhao Zhenyuan was wearing a navy blue cotton-padded gown with a black fur jacket on the outside, and thick cotton shoes made for him by Yi Ping. He looked ordinary and gentle, not at all like a killing god of war.