After breakfast, Yan Xiruo pulled Xuanyuan Mo to the yard, it was almost hot today's summer day, and the gardenias in the corner of the yard also bloomed after the flowers bloomed in spring, and the intoxicating fragrance could make people relax for a moment.

Yan Xiruo pulled Xuanyuan Mo and stood in the corridor of the courtyard, and also stood in the only shaded place, in the courtyard in front of him, under the scorching sun, all the servants and subordinates of the Mo Wangfu were standing.

Yan Xi comforted Xuanyuan Mo, then walked to the courtyard, and stood with them under the sun, the corners of her mouth always had a smile, faint but beautiful.

Yan Xiruo carefully looked at the servant in front of him, counting before and after, since there are about thirty or forty people, and most of them are young male servants, and there is one female, Yan Xiruo heard Mama Lin talk about it, it is the grandma who has been taking care of Xuanyuan Mo, because she is a mute, so the people in the house call her dumb grandma.

"Butler, have you arrived?" Yan Xiruo stopped in front of a middle-aged man, she looked at the man in front of her, obviously a housekeeper, but she didn't have the posture that a housekeeper should have, but stood straight, and there was only perseverance and loyalty in her eyes, it was not like a housekeeper, but like a general, or rather, a person who had experienced life and death and killed people.

"Back to the princess, it's all together." Even his voice was neither humble nor arrogant, without the slightest submissiveness or humility, as if he were not a steward, but a warrior.

"That'll be fine." Yan Xiruo didn't care if he was disrespectful to herself, on the contrary, she liked his backbone: "Let everyone come today, just to get to know each other, there is no other meaning, since I am married, I am your master, I hope you can understand this truth." And from this day on, I will be in charge of this house. ”

In the last sentence, Yan Xiruo looked at the housekeeper and said.

"The slave only knew, and this made people hand over the account book of the expenditure in the palace to the princess." The butler's expression did not change in the slightest.

"I don't want the ledger, it's good for you to take care of that thing, I just want you to know, I have the right to know anything in the future." The corners of Yan Xiruo's mouth still had that smile, but his eyes became cold.

The housekeeper's eyes flickered slightly, his eyes glanced behind Yan Xiruo, quickly collected his emotions, and bowed his head: "The slave only knows." ”

"All right, then, go down."

Yan Xiruo looked back behind her, except for Mama Lin, who had been standing behind her, there was only Xuanyuan Mo, Yan Xiruo didn't know who the housekeeper was looking at, but she knew that the housekeeper's promise was the beginning of her official performance of the princess's duties.

"The minions are gone." The steward bowed with a group of servants and left.

Yan Xiruo had been standing in the courtyard, looking at their departing figures and smiling softly.

"Princess, what are you laughing at?" Mama Lin stood behind Yan Xiruo and asked her suspiciously.

Yan Xiruo glanced at her, then looked at Xuanyuan Mo who was playing alone in the corridor, and asked Mama Lin: "Mama, what do you think I'm laughing at?" ”

Mama Lin shook her head, she had never had a color for her young lady: "I don't know, I still want the princess to tell me." ”

"Mama, did you find out?" Yan Xiruo looked at the place where the housekeeper disappeared: "This Mowang Mansion is very different?" ”

"Huh? Is there and different? ”

"Lord Mo is an unfavored prince, the emperor canonized him as the only prince of Daliang because he didn't want to see him, it stands to reason that his servants will not exceed ten people, but have you found out, there are forty-one servants in King Mo's mansion, except for a dumb mother who has been taking care of the prince, the others are all men, and they are all young men." Yan Xiruo looked at Mama Lin and continued with a smile: "I have just carefully observed, those people are different from other ordinary domestic servants, they do not kneel, and they stand straight, they do not have Vino and caution in the eyes of ordinary domestic servants, their eyes are perseverance and loyalty, they are like soldiers, or soldiers who fight bloodily. Iron-clad. ”

Mama Lin was frightened by Yan Xiruo's words, and subconsciously glanced at Xuanyuan Mo behind her: "Could it be they?" ”

"They won't hurt Lord Mo." Yan Xiruo knew what Mama Lin was thinking, so she quickly denied it.

"Then they ......"

"If I'm not mistaken, they're the shadows that Big Brother once mentioned." Yan Xiruo's expression became serious, she was only that time when Yan Ruijing talked to the prince in the middle court, that is, she didn't have any understanding of the so-called shadow, which she had never met in her previous life.

She could only roughly understand this so-called shadow from the mouths of Yan Ruijing and the crown prince.

The Shadow is a shadow army, no one knows how many people there are in the Shadow, but the only thing that is certain is that the Shadow is very dangerous, they used to be Xuanyuan Mo's subordinates, and it was Xuanyuan Mo who brought it out single-handedly, and followed Xuanyuan Mo to fight in the north and south.

Shadows tend to deal with things that can't be handled on the surface, so they're extremely powerful.

The Shadow will only follow orders from one person, and that person is Xuanyuan Mo.

Yan Xiruo also knew from their mouths that when Xuanyuan Mo was attacked, the emperor wanted to kill the Shadow, and finally under the intercession of the prince, he made an agreement with the Shadow that they would stay in the Mowang Mansion, but they could not leave the Mowang Mansion until one day, Xuanyuan Mo recovered.

Yan Xiruo originally thought that it was just an exaggeration, but when she saw the servants in the palace today, she knew that it was true.

The servants who stood in front of her just now, she could smell a strong smell of blood on everyone's body, that is, the smell that would not dissipate after killing many people and staining a lot of blood, and what could become that kind of person was either a murderous demon, or a soldier who had fought bloodily on the battlefield.

Those people are not demons, their eyes are too loyal, they can only be soldiers who have fought bloodily on the battlefield.

"Shadows?" Mama Lin also made Yan Xiruo's answer a little confused: "What does the princess mean is that they are the all-powerful shadow in the legend, the shadow led by Lord Mo himself?" However, didn't it mean that after the attack on Lord Mo five years ago, the shadow disappeared? It is rumored that they were all secretly executed by the emperor. ”

Yan Xiruo smiled and shook his head: "The emperor will not kill them, after all, there are many things, only the shadow can do, if I guess correctly, five years ago, the Mo prince was attacked, and the shadow lived in seclusion in this ink palace, which is why there are so many people in the Mo Palace, and they are all male servants." ”

"How so?" Mama Lin obviously couldn't digest this fact, if the people in the palace are all former shadows, then why did the emperor do this, isn't he afraid that the shadows will rebel?

"Shadow will only obey one person, and that is Xuanyuan Mo." Yan Xiruo looked back at Xuanyuan Mo, who was still playing behind him, and then said: "They will only obey Xuanyuan Mo, the self-confident Xuanyuan Mo who is known as the God of War." ”

Mama Lin also looked back at Xuanyuan Mo, and was even more puzzled: "I don't understand, if the shadows will only listen to Xuanyuan Mo's orders, then how can they be willing?" ”

"They're waiting, waiting for this man to return to his former formality, which is also the contract that the Shadow signed with the Emperor."