Chapter 304 I'll Take the Blame
Mei Cheng'an, who was originally a little sleepy, became fully alert after hearing what Guo Baokun said.
I thought that with my intervention, his situation would be different, but I didn't expect to return to the original world line after going around in circles.
This is his grandma...
Mei Cheng'an frowned and thought about the pros and cons of the current situation for Guo Baokun. As he was thinking, he suddenly froze.
Hiss~ Although I feel powerless and unhappy, if I calm down and think about it carefully, this may not be a bad thing for Guo Shao.
If everything returned to the original state and he still went to Northern Qi to assassinate Fan Xian, then he would actually gain a lot from this trip.
He eased his relationship with Fan Xian, found a way to save his father, discovered his own "strengths", and found a career that suits him.
The most important thing is that it helped him regain his confidence and gain actual achievements that made him proud in front of his father.
If Guo Shao's situation really changed because of my intervention, what can I bring to Guo Shao?
It seemed that, apart from being able to rescue Guo Youzhi from prison using Fan Xian's method, he couldn't help in any other way.
Money? Don't be ridiculous. The Guo family is not short of money. What they lack seems to be a career that can reflect their personal values and that he likes.
And this is something that Mei Chengan may not be able to provide.
To sum up, when comparing the two, what should be lost has been lost, but what should be gained is far less.
This is a huge loss for Guo Shao.
As the eldest brother, Mei Cheng'an naturally hopes that his younger brothers can get the biggest gains and obtain the greatest benefits.
So it is obvious how to deal with it.
That is to do nothing and let him do whatever he wants!
After realizing this fact, Mei Cheng'an was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
It's a rare opportunity for me to take the initiative to intervene, but in the end nothing changed. This is one of the reasons.
The second reason is that I didn't consider the pros and cons thoroughly before getting involved, and I almost did something bad with good intentions.
Fortunately, the world line convergence ability is strong enough, and fortunately, I figured this out quickly enough, otherwise, Guo Shao’s good deeds would have been almost ruined.
That being said, when you cannot control the outcome of a change, it is best not to take the initiative to change, regardless of whether you have good intentions or not.
Unless your purpose is to cause destruction!
"Tsk tsk, I am such a good brother who cares about my little brother wholeheartedly. How can I be so good?"
Mei Cheng'an praised himself quietly and was about to get up and go back to his room for a nap when another unwelcome guest arrived.
"What are you mumbling about? Are you talking to yourself?"
Fan Xian walked into the front hall, looked around and asked curiously.
Mei Chengan rolled his eyes and sat back down.
"What are you here for?"
Fan Xian hissed.
"My dear, your tone is not very friendly. Did I provoke you? Why do you seem to be unwelcoming to me?"
While asking the question, Fan Xian stepped onto the bench and sat down opposite Mei Cheng'an, then picked up the teapot and poured himself a cup of tea.
Mei Cheng'an rested his chin on his hand and shrugged.
"You're not wrong!"
Fan Xian calmly drank a sip of tea and said casually.
"Why? Give me a reason."
Mei Cheng'an glanced at him and spoke briefly.
“Because I’m unhappy.”
Fan Xian uttered an "oh" and took another sip of tea.
"Why are you unhappy?"
Mei Chengan squinted his eyes and rolled his eyes.
"Because my plan to take a nap was ruined by you."
Fan Xian looked surprised.
"is it?"
His expression soon returned to normal and he blinked.
"So why do you want to take a nap?"
"because…"
After answering with two words subconsciously, Mei Chengan quickly realized that he was already unhappy, so why should he answer any questions?
"It's none of your business! I'm happy to do it!"
Fan Xian sighed.
"Look at you. If you don't want to answer, just don't answer. Why are you so angry? Your mentality is a bit bad, my friend, and your character is not good either!"
Mei Chengan rolled his eyes to the sky.
"No, sir! Tell me now! What do you want from me?"
Fan Xian chuckled and put down the teacup.
"You are quite cooperative. Okay, I'll go see the princess off in the morning."
Mei Cheng'an said "oh" and asked casually.
"How does she look?"
Fan Xian didn't think much about it when he heard it. He thought he wanted to know what the loser looked like from the perspective of the winner, so he smiled.
"She still looks like a strong woman, with delicate makeup and a radiant look, not at all like she just suffered a defeat.
Facing my ridicule and sarcasm, she smiled and said nothing at all. To be honest, I admire her a little bit.”
Although Fan Xian's answer was irrelevant to the question, Mei Cheng'an still heard the answer he wanted from his words.
Her energetic look means she is in good spirits, and her calm response throughout the whole process means she is in a good mood, which means she has had enough rest.
It must be said that compared to men, women recover faster. There are only oxen that die of exhaustion, but no land that is damaged by plowing.
I can’t deceive the ancients!
Mei Chengan smiled and put his thoughts back to their original state.
"That's normal. The eldest princess can't even bear this. She is not worthy of stirring up trouble in Kyoto."
Fan Xian nodded.
"That's true. I spent all my efforts just to drive her out of Kyoto. Forget it, let's not talk about it."
"Before she left, she said she left me a gift."
Mei Chengan pretended to be curious.
"A gift? What gift?"
Fan Xian spread his hands.
"I don't know. She said it was a gift, but I guess she dug a hole for me and waited for me to jump in."
Mei Cheng was happy.
"You know her well enough."
Fan Xian sighed.
"I have to understand it, otherwise I won't even know how I died. Do you think this is a kind of long-term illness that makes a good doctor?"
Mei Chengan burst into laughter when he heard this.
"You, you know what, it's really quite interesting, haha."
"right."
Fan Xian also laughed. After they laughed for a while, Fan Xian suddenly remembered something.
"Oh, by the way, you know what? I ran into Guo Baokun outside the city gate this morning, and he stabbed me right away."
Mei Chengan smiled and nodded.
"know."
Fan Xian was a little surprised.
"Know? How did you…"
As he said this, he glanced at the teacups on the table in front of him that had not been cleared away yet, and realized something.
"Ah, Mr. Guo has been to your place?"
Mei Chengan smiled.
"I just left not long ago and you're here."
Fan Xian didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"Well, luckily we didn't run into each other again, otherwise I think he would have stabbed me again."
Mei Chengan smiled and waved his hand.
"That's not the case."
Fan Xian shrugged and said nothing.
"By the way, this morning I heard what Master Guo said, it seems like he wants to blame me for his father's arrest. It's totally inexplicable.
Originally, I wanted to talk this matter over with him, but who knew that after he missed his target, he ran away faster than a rabbit and wouldn't listen to me.
He talked to you about this, didn't he? He didn't tell you why he put the blame on me. I was really wronged in this matter."
Mei Chengan nodded.
"We talked about it. Actually, when Guo Youzhi was arrested yesterday, due to some coincidences, he had already blamed you.
Guo Baokun thought that his father and son's plan to discredit you failed, and you settled accounts with them afterwards, so his father was arrested.
His father Guo Youzhi knew a little more than he did, but it was limited.
Guo Youzhi thought he was arrested because Guo Baokun said the wrong thing to you before the night banquet and revealed his true identity in advance.
What he didn't know was that whether Guo Baokun said something wrong or not would not affect his arrest. It was just a matter of time.
After all, as long as the connection between the princess and Zhuang Mohan is investigated, he will be found out sooner or later."
Fan Xian slapped the table.
"That's right, didn't you explain this to Master Guo?"
Mei Chengan smiled.
"I must have explained it to him clearly, and he listened to it."
Fan Xian expressed doubts about this.
"From this knife, it's obvious that he didn't listen!"
Mei Chengan smiled and raised his index finger and shook it left and right.
"NONONO, he really listened to you. At that time, he wanted to go to the Fan Mansion to find you and cry for your forgiveness, asking you to let his father go.
He calmed down after I explained it to him. You know how fierce his personality is. If you didn't really believe him, he would have come to you and cried."
Fan Xian was left in a state of confusion at this remark.
"It's wrong to stab me. Since he believed it, he should bear a grudge against the princess. It was the princess who sold out his father to protect herself. What does it have to do with me, a victim?"
Mei Chengan smiled.
"If you hadn't beaten Guo Baokun so badly that he couldn't get out of bed for half a month, Guo Youzhi wouldn't have held a grudge against you.
If the eldest princess hadn't wanted to deal with you, the father and son wouldn't have actively participated in it to avenge their hatred.
If none of the above had happened, would his father still have been arrested? Now that his father has been arrested, do you dare to say that you have nothing to do with it?"
Fan Xian opened his mouth wide and was stunned.
"Can it be calculated this way? No, this, this, what kind of divine logic is this?
If that's the way it is, then he should blame the prince. If the prince hadn't ordered him to target me, I wouldn't have beaten him."
Mei Cheng'anle is not good enough.
“It’s no use telling me, this is his logic, not mine, I’m just describing it for him.
He obviously won't think according to your logic, he will only think according to his own logic.
And in his logic, all the sufferings that the father and son have endured are closely related to you, and the relationship is very big.
But his brain capacity was not enough for him to figure out whether these relationships were the real cause of their family's misfortune.
Because it was too troublesome, he simply stopped thinking about it and simplified it to one idea: his father went to jail because of you!"
"..."
Fan Xian was speechless. This sentence was too familiar to him. Guo Baokun had said it to him personally in the morning. So this was how it came about.
"No, then it's too unfair for me to be blamed!"
Mei Chengan waved his hand.
"Actually, he didn't think this way yesterday. This idea came to him instantly before he stabbed you."
"What the hell?"
Fan Xian was stunned.
"Why, why?"
As he spoke, there was a hint of thought in his eyes, but soon they became blank again.
"I left Fan's house this morning and went straight out of the city. I didn't run into Master Guo on the way, let alone have any conflict with him.
I didn't even see him until I finished talking to the eldest princess and sent her away, and he came to assassinate me, and then I knew he was there.
This… I don’t understand what I did to irritate his fragile little brain.”
Mei Chengan smiled.
"You are the one who will send the princess off in person."
"What?"
Fan Xian was confused. He couldn't understand it at all.
"How did I send the princess to irritate him?"
The more confused he was, the happier Mei Chengan laughed.
"Hahaha, you don't understand, this is their reason."
As he spoke, he repeated to Fan Xian what Guo Baokun had confessed at that time.
"How about it? Is this reason awesome? Is it strong? Is it impeccable?"
"..."
Fan Xian was extremely speechless, and he rolled his eyes so hard that he thought he had fainted. After it was over, he gave a thumbs up.
"It's really awesome, really powerful, and really impeccable. After hearing this, I feel like I deserve to die. I'm convinced, wholeheartedly!"
Mei Chengan burst out laughing.
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha."
Before Fan Xian could finish his words, he slammed the table.
"Okay, since he can come up with such a perfect excuse, I'll take the blame!"
……
(End of this chapter)
