Mu Zhiling was really there.

Mu Zhixuan's heart was shocked, but it was only for a moment that she regained her calm and calm appearance.

The moment Mu Zhiling pushed the door, she walked forward quickly, held Mu Zhiling's hands, and said in a very anxious tone: "Fifth sister, why did you go back alone?" Didn't my sister tell you to wait for me where you were? How unsafe you are on the road alone, you don't even know how worried I was about you just now. ”

Mu Zhiling looked at Mu Zhixuan with a tired expression, her sleepy eyes were slightly open, and she murmured in a low voice, "Third sister, I'm sorry." ”

Just a few words, and never spoke again.

Seeing this, Mu Zhixuan had no choice but to give up and said, "Then you are so resting, I will ask Imperial Doctor Zhang to come and see you." ”

Mu Zhiling shook her head weakly, suddenly raised her head, stared at Mu Zhixuan's eyes without the slightest hint of worry, and said, "No need, I'll rest for one night, Sister Xuan, you should go back and rest earlier." ”

Mu Zhixuan frowned and left, and when she walked slowly, she felt that Mu Zhiling was very different today.

What the hell happened to her, why did she suddenly become like this?

But if Mu Zhiling didn't want to say, even if she asked, it would be useless.

Thinking of the words that the Jiang family said to her when she was in the Gao family, Mu Zhixuan felt extremely irritable.

What do you say, although she is the daughter of the second room of the Mu family, she is also an orphan girl, and she is not worthy of marrying Gao Zhong at all.

She's not unusual!

Thinking of Gao's contemptuous tone, Mu Zhixuan couldn't help but be angry, and her chest twitched.

The Jiang clan called her to the side hall and talked with her for a long time, and the Jiang clan sat all the way the whole time, while she stood in front of her.

The Jiang family looked at her coldly and said contemptuously: "You should be glad that our Gao family can accept a woman born like you." Although you are the daughter of the Duke of Yingguo, so what, a random daughter of the market is much stronger than you. How can you afford a family like our Gao family? But since Brother Zhong likes you and insists on marrying you, I will no longer stop you. It's just that my ugly words are ahead, although you will become the daughter-in-law of my Gao family, but if Brother Zhong wants to marry whoever he wants in the future, he doesn't need your consent. Don't think that if you become the young lady of my Gao family, you can do whatever you want. Your identity is too embarrassing, if he is for his own future, he will definitely marry a wife. ”

Mu Zhixuan only felt her head buzzing.

They were all angry with the Jiang clan.

What if she is an orphan girl, her son pesters herself, and in the end she is ridiculed by the Jiang family.

She, Mu Zhixuan, no longer wants to be so angry.

One day, she must pay for what she has said.

After the first month, it is the beginning of spring.

This year's township test was suddenly advanced from autumn and August to spring and February. All the students of Luoshan Academy referred to it, but what Mu Zhiling didn't expect was that there were three other special candidates.

One is the Zhao Xiao prince of Prince Xin's mansion, and the other is Li Shizi of Zheng Wangfu, no one expected that the third one would be the eldest son of Gao Yuanwai, Gao Ming.

It is rumored that Gao Ming was the first place in the student examination the year before last, but why he didn't go to Luoshan Academy to study later, he couldn't do it. It's just that he didn't expect that he would also participate in the township test this time.

And Song Yingzhao has been in the military camp all the year round, and it stands to reason that these so-called literati exams have nothing to do with him......

and Brother Li, he has been in the southwest all these years, and she doesn't know what happened.

In her previous life, she didn't care about these things, but in this life, because her brother also participated, she was familiar with it, and she also knew a little about Luoshan Academy and the so-called imperial examination.

After the results of the township examination came out, my brother actually won the first place and became a Xie Yuan.

The rest of the people were taken from the list, and the three special candidates, plus their brother and Mu Yao, became the top five in this township examination.

Mu Yu had a faint expression on his face, and he didn't look surprised from beginning to end.

Mu Zongze came back from the court and saw Mu Yu and Mu Zhiling in the courtyard.

Pacing lightly, Mu Yu saw Mu Zongze and saluted him.

Mu Zongze looked calm, looked at Mu Yu carefully, raised his eyebrows invisibly, and said, "I heard that you won the first place in the township test?" ”

There was no surprise, no surprise, and no questioning tone, as if he was telling a fact, and he needed Mu Yu to admit it himself.

Mu Yu bowed again, lowered his eyes and said, "Yes, father." ”

Mu Zhiling sensed the subtle atmosphere between her brother and her father, so she walked up to Mu Zongze, put her arms around Mu Zongze's arm, and said, "Daddy, my brother has only been enrolled in school for a short time, and he can get the first place in the township examination. Many people, even if they live their whole lives, can't even be on the list, and my brother is only sixteen ......"

Before Mu Zhiling finished speaking, he was interrupted by Mu Zongze's words, and he said in a deep voice: "It's just a Xie Yuan, what use can it be, it's still far away." ”

Mu Zongze walked away, but at the moment of leaving, he glanced at Mu Yao as if unintentionally, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly.

He had never cared about the affairs of these literati, but this time Emperor Mingde openly praised Mu Yu above the court before he learned about it.

He still remembers the envious expressions of the civil and military officials.

Everyone congratulated him, although it was only a local exam, but if he could get the first place in the township exam in Kyoto, he would have a good chance of standing out in the palace exam. After all, Kyoto has the best academy in the Great Jin Dynasty - Luoshan Academy. Since the founding of the Great Jin Dynasty, the champions once every three years are all from Luoshan Academy.

Mu Zongze only felt that he was in a good mood, and his walking pace couldn't help but speed up.

His son is naturally outstanding, even if he doesn't kill the enemy, he can make a difference.

Mu Yu stared at the back of his father's departure, smiled bitterly, as if talking to himself, and said, "Really, no matter what I do, it's useless, it's completely useless." ”

When he turned to leave, he was stopped by Mu Zhiling.

"Brother! It's not like that. ”

Mu Zhiling grabbed the corner of Mu Yu's clothes and chuckled: "Brother, in fact, my father is very happy. ”

Mu Yu still hung his head and said, "How can he be happy, I have never done a thing to satisfy my father, sister, don't comfort me anymore." ”

He tried his best to make Yiqiē the best, just to make his father happy, just to not let him down.

But in the end, my father didn't care at all.

Because he was wrong from the beginning, he didn't do what his father asked him from the beginning, but went the other way, just ask him like this, how can his father be satisfied.

Mu Yu moved his steps dejectedly, only to feel that his feet were frozen and he couldn't lift them at all.

Mu Zhiling tugged at his sleeve back and forth and said, "Brother, you have done well enough, I didn't comfort you." Daddy obviously laughed just now, but you didn't see it. Besides, Daddy is only a little stricter on the surface, but in fact, he has always cared about you in his heart. ”

Mu Yu's eyes brightened a little, and the next moment his face collapsed, and he said, "Okay, I've done my best." ”

If his father is dissatisfied with him, he is afraid that no matter how good he does, it will be in vain.

Mu Zhiling watched Mu Yu leave for a moment, looking at his lonely back, and her heart hurt slightly.

She wants her brother to always be happy and happy, not to live for someone else, even if that person is a father. The elder brother in his previous life was already very tired, and finally took his own life.

Isn't he still able to live freely in this life?

If you can, let her bear all the pain on behalf of her brother, there was too much pain in her previous life, and the hatred was too strong. She doesn't mind more, she just wants the people she cares about in this life to be good, that is her greatest wish in this life.

In her previous life, she wanted everyone to live for her, but in this life she only wants herself to live for them.

Her time was stolen.

These days, Mu Zhiling turned out the medical book and looked at it, and then went to her brother's place when she had nothing to do, borrowed a few books from her brother's study, and sat in her brother's study. While flipping through the book in his hand, he watched his brother draw.

I looked through the book in my hand at random, and felt bored, so I looked for another one from the shelf.

There are so many books here, and half of the study room is full of books and picture scrolls.

And most of the books and picture scrolls were written by my brother himself.

Suddenly saw a copy of "The Art of War", Mu Zhiling's hand shook suddenly.

Since the books in his brother's study were copied by his own hands, he must have read them carefully and even memorized them.

She remembered her brother's ability to never forget the ten lines at a glance a long time ago.

My brother read these books very much, Mu Zhiling turned her head and glanced at her brother who was concentrating on painting, opened the book, and found that there were still vermilion ink in it, which was clearly my brother's own opinion.

What does this mean, brother.

Mu Zhiling didn't dare to think about it, and after carefully putting the book back in the distance, she walked to her brother and looked at the painting he had made.

It was a picture of a plum beauty in winter, with a plum tree standing alone in the endless snow, and the pale red flowers bloomed proudly in the wind. And under the plum tree, a woman in a snow-white jacket raised her slender hand and touched the plum blossom hanging high on the branch.

The painting is vivid and lifelike.

The only flaw is that the woman's face has no facial features.

And there are just a few random inscriptions on the left side: Lamei is exclusive in deep winter, and the beauty of the cold night has no return.

Mu Zhiling looked at the woman's figure, and felt a little familiar.

Take a closer look, because there are no facial features, and I am not sure.

It should be that she was thinking too much, it was just a coincidence.

A few days later, a father-in-law in the palace came to Yingguo's mansion, saying that it was to convey the emperor's message, the second son of the Mu family was talented, and he heard that the painting of the second son of Mu was unparalleled in the world, so he ordered him to go to Beijing every day to teach the princess to practice painting for two hours.

After Mu Zhiling heard this, her heart was shocked.

is so dignified, why did he suddenly let his brother enter the palace to teach the princess to learn painting. Who the hell does this mean.

What does this mean......

Some people also secretly speculated, could it be that the emperor intended to marry the princess to the second son of the Mu family?

It's impossible to tell the difference.

Emperor Mingde clearly wanted the princess to get married, wasn't that the case in his previous life?

Thinking of harmony, Mu Zhiling's eyes shrank sharply.

Princess...... I want to go and kiss ......

In her previous life, the princess was at the end of this year, when it was the middle of winter, and it was the season of depression.

Now that I think about it, it's only been more than half a year.

Does the princess really have to go and kiss?

I remember that it was a triennial court meeting, and the Great Jin lost to the Liao State. After that, the Liao State began to harass the borders of the Great Jin Dynasty with impunity, so much so that Emperor Mingde had to send Princess Ninghe, the only one who was suitable for her age, to the Liao State to marry the old khan in her twilight years.

Mu Zhiling was about to come up with a divine opinion, Mu Yu took a step forward, knelt on the ground and said, "Mu Yu has the order." ”

Mu Yao, who was on the side, saw this scene and smiled.

Mu Zhishu looked sideways at the smile on her brother's face and wrinkled her eyebrows fiercely.

After everyone left, Mu Zhishu followed behind Mu Yao, listened to Mu Yao's low laughter, and asked tentatively: "Brother, are you okay?" ”

This Mu Yu was summoned to the palace, and his brother must have been hit hard.

After all, Mu Yu won the first place in the township examination, and although his brother won the top five, he was not as good as those candidates who had never been to Luoshan Academy.

Mu Zhishu bit her lip, walked up to Mu Yao, stopped Mu Yao, and said, "Brother, then Mu Yu must be because of good luck, how can he compare to his brother." He just won the first place in the township examination, and next year's real general examination and palace examination, he will definitely not be as good as his brother. Who has the last laugh is not certain, brother don't care too much. ”

The smile on Mu Yao's face was even worse, and he even laughed out loud and said, "Who said I cared?" ”

Mu Yao laughed a little arrogantly, and even leaned forward and backwards.

Mu Zhishu knew that the more his brother was like this, it could only mean that the more uncomfortable he felt in his heart.

When she first arrived in Zhenzhou six years ago, her brother hugged him every day, and sometimes she watched her brother slam the table with his hand, and his hand was bleeding, but he just laughed vigorously.

"Brother, if you feel uncomfortable, you can cry or get angry. Now that there is no one around, why should you hide all your emotions? Brother, don't you want to be like this, okay. Mu Zhishu hugged Mu Yao's arm, with a worried look on her face.

After Mu Yao heard this, he lost his mind for a moment, and the place where he was hugged by Mu Zhishu felt a faint pain.

There, yesterday he was hit hard by Mu Zongsheng with the hilt of his sword, and he even felt difficult to raise his hand. Just because he not only failed to win the first place in the township test, but also lost to so many people, what is even more infuriating is that he lost to Mu Yu.

Not only Mu Zongsheng could not accept it, but he himself could not accept it either.

Since some people have to climb out to get in the way, don't blame him for acting ruthlessly.

He hadn't been ...... for a long time

Mu Yao's laughter became louder and louder, and his chest trembled, causing Mu Zhishu to feel uneasy.

She looked up confused and worried, and asked, "Brother, what's wrong with you?" ”

Mu Yao raised his eyebrows, looked at Mu Zhishu in his arms, and said, "Sister, do you think my brother is unhappy?" ”

Mu Zhishu didn't quite understand what he meant, but she still nodded.

Mu Yao smiled and said, "Then let's go out and have some fun together, how about it?" ”

Mu Zhishu is hesitating, according to the female virtue and female ring of the Great Jin Dynasty, women should not go out at will, even if they want to go out, they must be accompanied by a maid and a woman, and the teacher will move the public.

Go out with your brother...... It's nothing.

If it is recognized, it is good to have a bad reputation.

Mu Yao saw through her thoughts, gently pinched her cheek, and said, "Brother is laughing, how can my brother be willing to let his sister show up, it's too late for my brother to feel sorry for you, and your brother is the most distressed by you." ”

For some reason, Mu Zhishu felt that Mu Yao's smile was inexplicably mad. R1152