"Exactly!" Mu Yunting knew that Huang Funuo was testing him, and said calmly, "It's a shame to say, in the case of the Canglang Club last year, my brother-in-law was implicated and imprisoned, and he was also convicted of capital crimes, and he was beheaded to show the public, and Neiko also took care of the funeral for him, and also took his daughter to the house to raise, but more than two months ago, the minister inadvertently found his traces in Youzhou, when he was being chased and killed, and was poisoned and dumbfounded, the minister had to save him and arrange him in the Youzhou military camp, I wanted to wait for him to raise his throat and then interrogate him carefully, how do I know a few days ago, The brother-in-law suddenly disappeared from the barracks, and the minister has recently sent people to search for his whereabouts. ”

"Is there a whereabout?" Huang Funuo asked quietly, very surprised in his heart, he didn't expect that Mu Yunting would tell him the truth without concealing it, and he thought that he would bite to death and not admit it!

It seems that he still doesn't know enough about this person.

"No whereabouts yet." Mu Yunting frowned and replied.

Huang Funuo raised his eyebrows, put away the painting, handed it to the eunuch standing beside him, and instructed: "Go and frame it, and then give it to Princess Nanxi, and say that I gave her a birthday gift." ”

"Yes." The eunuch held the painting in his hand and retreated respectfully.

"Shen Ke is in my hands." Huang Funuo waved his hand to the door, and the guards standing at the door quietly retreated, leaving only the two of them in the room, and the atmosphere was a little solemn.

"Shame on you." Mu Yunting hugged his fists expressionlessly.

He said he was guilty, not guilty!

"Hongyuan, sit down, I want to have a good chat with you today." Huang Funuo smiled and sat down. found a comfortable position on the chair, reached out and grabbed the inkstone on the desk and played with it, seeing that Mu Yunting didn't seem to have the intention of sitting, he squinted his eyes again and said, "Sit!" This is the imperial study, not the imperial hall. ”

Mu Yunting had to sit down.

"Where do we start?" Huang Funuo stroked the blue and white inkstone in his hand, and looked at the thin lines on it, "Let's start with Xia Wanyue!" ”

Mu Yunting's eyebrows tightened.

He was embarrassed to say Xia Wanyue!

"I first met Xia Wanyue at my engagement banquet with the Empress, when she was only twelve years old. Still a child. She is very good with the queen, so she has more opportunities to come to the palace than others, and I have always treated her as a child. Crossing the top of the blue and white inkstone, Huang Funuo looked at Mu Yunting with a smile. But later. I see that she sees me every time. With shyness, as a man, I know she likes me. But after all, she was my sister-in-law, and I was the prince at the time, so naturally I couldn't show anything, although I had a good impression of her. ”

Seeing that Mu Yunting was silent, Huang Funuo continued: "But since she saw you, she no longer entered the palace to see me, and later I knew that she wanted to marry you wholeheartedly, Mu Yunting, in terms of identity and status, I am better than you, but Xia Wanyue likes you, as for why she is with me again, I'm afraid you still don't know, right?" That's because your mother told her through your sister-in-law Xia that Mrs. Tai would not agree to you being with her at all, saying that your Yongding Marquis Mansion would never marry a concubine as a wife, Xia Wanyue was very sad when she found out, so she entered the palace to find me, I took her to Chongguo Garden, took her to Lingxiao Temple, and at that time, I got her ......"

"Your Majesty, now that Xia Wanyue has gone, what's the need to talk about this?" Mu Yunting coldly interrupted Huang Funuo's words, "If the emperor has nothing else to do, the minister will leave." Mu Yunting got up.

I don't want to hear about the grievances between them at all.

He wasn't interested in knowing about the two of them.

"Hongyuan, I know that you have resented me for this matter, and I have been resentful for many years, and I am not to you, back then, you obviously broke the personal relationship between me and Wanyue, but you didn't break it, but used Wanyue to disrupt my plan repeatedly, I want to kill you, do you think I will believe that the crazy woman hidden in your house is just a crazy subordinate? To tell you the truth, I inquired, that woman was a woman who was fortunate to be in the first emperor, and then the first emperor abandoned her, and was secretly raised by your Yongding Marquis Mansion, you do this, it is nothing more than pinching a handle of the first emperor in your hands, but it's a pity, the first emperor died suddenly, and you haven't used this trick yet. From this point of view, how can you be sincere to Wanyue? You're taking advantage of her! Huang Funuo got up unhurriedly and paced in front of him, looked at him, and chuckled, "Hongyuan, if people don't know, unless you don't do anything, how Xia Wanyue died, you must know better than anyone else, it's you, it's you who killed her!" ”

"Yes, I killed her, and if I hadn't taken her for a ride, she wouldn't have died!" Mu Yunting looked at Huang Funuo and said expressionlessly, "The emperor said that I used her feelings, why didn't the emperor treat her sincerely, why didn't he include her in the harem, but let her associate with me?" ”

"That's because she has you in her heart." Huang Funuo's face darkened, and he said angrily, "I got her people, but I can't get her heart, do you think I will take a woman with someone else in her heart?" ”

"The minister will never marry a woman who has lost her body." Mu Yunting said calmly, "Xia Wanyue's fault lies in her pretending to be smart. ”

She thought it was clever that he didn't know about her affair with Huang Funuo.

In fact, he already knew everything about the affairs between the two, including when and where the two had a tryst, he knew it very clearly.

No one will marry the woman whom the emperor has been used for.

Everyone said that if it weren't for Xia Wanyue's unexpected death, she would definitely become his wife, in fact, since he found out about her affair with Huang Funuo, he and her have been doomed.

As a man, the most intolerable thing is naturally the betrayal of his sweetheart.

"Hongyuan, I think this matter has been pressed in your heart for many years, and you have also hated me, hated me for many years, right?" Huang Funuo patted him on the shoulder and said in a deep voice, "After talking for a long time, I actually want to resolve the conflict with you, Xia Wanyue has been gone for several years, so we don't need to continue to resent her for her, right?" So, Shen Ke's matter, I want to make a deal with you. ”

"Minister, don't dare to make a deal with the emperor." Mu Yunting said coldly.

"Don't be too busy saying no just yet." Huang Funuo smiled slightly. "Don't you want to know who told me that Shen Ke was hiding in the Youzhou military camp? Don't you want to know why Lady Zun was plundered to the Western Regions? Hongyuan, you don't want to know any of these things? ”

Mu Yunting was slightly stunned.

Shen Ke's matter is indeed strange.

"Hongyuan, day and night, thieves are difficult to prevent, I received an anonymous letter a few days ago, out of curiosity, I sent someone to inquire, only to know that it was sent in by a person named Xu Youfu." Huang Funuo sold the Su clan immediately, "That's why I told you this. I want to give you a favor. I guess you know who's telling the story, right? ”

"Chen, let's go back and check this Xu Youfu." Mu Yunting frowned.

"Hongyuan, I can promise to release Shen Ke, and issue a decree to correct his name, saying that he is innocent. Restore his earldom. So that he can be a man under the sun again. Huang Funuo smiled slightly. looked at Mu Yunting, and then looked dazed, and said word by word. "It's just that you have to promise me one thing, personally lead the troops to take the old departments of the Empress Dowager into your command one by one, and use the imperial court to unify the dispatch."

"Your Majesty, such an important matter has to be discussed with the ministers, how can the ministers decide it alone?" Mu Yunting suddenly understood, and said in a deep voice, "This matter is important, the emperor thinks twice!" ”

It turned out that Huang Funuo quietly took Shen Ke away, and he paved the way for this matter from the beginning.

The old ministry of the Empress Dowager is entrenched in the border all the year round, supporting the army and self-respecting, and asking the court for food and silver at every turn, which once gave the first emperor a headache, but he was helpless, so he had to allocate a large amount of military pay to them every year.

Although in recent years, some of the ministers have also clamored that they should be eliminated and new generals should be sent to garrison them, but in the final analysis, the imperial court has not come up with a plan for a long time.

Except for the rebellion a few years ago, Daliang almost never sent troops, and the current combat effectiveness of the imperial court is naturally not as good as those soldiers who have been entrenched in the border all year round, and even the generals who can lead the troops cannot pick out a few.

The new Empress Dowager Xiaoci thought that if she wanted to abolish the old ministries of the Queen of Taihuang, she had to rely on Mu Yunting, so she instructed Huang Funuo to release her previous suspicions with Mu Yunting, and the monarchs and ministers worked together to solve the heart disease of Daliang.

Huang Funuo had no choice but to comply.

Even the rhetoric of Shicai was thought out in advance.

It turns out that there are times when the emperor has no choice.

"Ministers are all grass on the wall, as long as the adults agree, they naturally only have the share of the ceremony." Huang Funuo coughed lightly, "Hongyuan, as the saying goes, no merit is not punished, if this matter is not successful, Shen Ke's affairs can only be done on official business." ”

Mu Yunting was about to say something, but he heard a woman's crisp voice behind him: "Brother Huang, can I come in?" ”

A pink figure had already arrived in front of the two of them.

Huangfu Nanxi quickly glanced at Mu Yunting, and then bowed to Huangfu Nuo and said, "Thank you for the painting, I like it very much!" ”

"Your Majesty, Princess Nanxi can't stop ......" The confidant eunuch ran in upside down and said embarrassedly.

"That's it, the princess came in and came in." Huang Fu Nuo smiled faintly, and said to Huang Fu Nanxi, "You are now fourteen years old, you are a big girl, you must be calm in everything, you must not run without moving, you know?" ”

When he was the crown prince, everyone ridiculed him for being idle and not doing his job, but this sister was the only one who sincerely admired his talent and liked his paintings.

It is naturally a happy thing for someone to admire, and Huangfu Nuo treats Huangfu Nanxi more closely than others.

"Obey the royal brother's orders." Huangfu Nanxi smiled, turned around again, looked at Mu Yunting, and said coquettishly, "Master Mu, didn't you see this palace?" ”

After not seeing him for many days, he was more upright and handsome than before, but his face was darker and his expression was more serious.

"The minister knocks to the princess." Mu Yunting greeted him with a salute.

"I heard you have a son." Huangfu Nanxi looked at him with a prickly look and said sourly, "Congratulations." ”

"Thank you, princess." Mu Yunting saluted again, then turned to Huang Funuo and said, "The minister will leave first." ”

"Okay, let's discuss the matter tomorrow." Huangfu Nuo was also happy, and immediately agreed to let him out of the palace.

Mu Yunting walked out of the imperial study with his front foot, and Huangfu Nanxi followed with his back foot, and simply stopped in front of her, tilted his head, pouted, and said: "Master Mu, today is the birthday of this palace, what gift do you give to this palace?" ”

"I wish the princess flowers and golden Xuan, and Xinghui Baowu." Mu Yunting saluted again.

"Haha, Lord Mu is getting more and more stingy, can you perfunctory with a word?" Huangfu Nanxi laughed a few times, and said, "I don't want anything else, I want you to accompany me to ride a horse, even if it is a birthday gift for me." ”

"Today is the princess's birthday, and all the palaces must be racking their brains to congratulate the princess on her birthday, and the princess should stay in the palace for her birthday." Mu Yunting excused himself, how could he have the heart to accompany her on horseback.

"Master Mu, can you just ride for half an hour?" Huangfu Nanxi stepped forward and grabbed Mu Yunting's sleeve, and said reluctantly, "In the past few months, I have been serving the Empress Dowager, the door is not out, the second door is not stepping, it is rare to have time on today's birthday, Master Mu will accompany me, right?" ”

A few little eunuchs passed by the two of them, hurriedly lowered their heads, and fled away.

"It's better to be respectful than to obey orders." Mu Yunting had no choice but to answer.

"Thank you, Lord Mu, please wait a moment, I'll go change my riding clothes." Huangfu Nanxi immediately became excited and ran away.

Outside the Lingxiao Temple.

Two fast horses hurriedly swept through the empty suburbs, and then circled back, the woman's fiery red riding dress was like a burning sunset on the horizon, the man next to her was dressed in white, the corners of his clothes fluttered in the wind, the picture was very beautiful.

A few turns.

Mu Yunting grabbed the reins, turned his head and said to Huangfu Nanxi: "It's not early, the minister will send the princess back to the palace." ”

"It's been half an hour so soon." Huangfu Nanxi looked at the sky and said reluctantly, "I don't know when the next time I will ride a horse with Master Mu." ”

The golden sunset shines on the girl's handsome face, adding a little charm, Huangfu Nanxi is not very beautiful, but the eyebrows and eyes are very attractive, giving people a beautiful and refined beauty.

"Recently, the minister has been busy with official business, and I am afraid that I will not have time to accompany the princess on horseback riding." Mu Yunting said indifferently, "The princess likes to ride horses so much, she can let someone accompany her, and she can come over and ride a few laps by herself." ”

"However, I like to ride horses with Muta." Huangfu Nan Xijing came to him and said with a blushing face, "I feel very relieved to be with adults. ”

"If I have time, I will accompany the princess on horseback." Mu Yunting turned the horse's head and walked back.

"Is it a month, or a year?" Huangfu Nanxi said quietly, "The happiest thing in my life is to ride a horse with Master Mu. ”

Mu Yunting was silent.

"Lord Mu, are you angry?" Huangfu Nanxi asked.

"Nope!" Mu Yunting frowned, and quietly changed the topic, "How is the Empress Dowager's illness recently?" (To be continued......)