Huangfu Zhuo stood on the edge of the cliff with his chest crossed, carefully examined the cliff under his feet, turned his head and asked, "You said that Master Mu jumped from here?" ”

"Yes." The guard beside him nodded, and said, "I heard that Master Mu saw his wife fall off the cliff with his own eyes, and he couldn't think about it for a while, so he also jumped down." ”

"Oh?" Huangfu Zhuo's face was full of teasing smiles, "It means that Master Mu was martyred with his wife?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, Chongshui is all spread like this." The guard frowned.

Huangfu Zhuo suddenly laughed a few times: "Haha, Mu Yunting will be martyred?" I sue you, I would rather believe that I will be martyred one day, and I don't believe that Mu Yunting will be martyred, there must be another hidden truth in this matter, who did you listen to when you said this. "If Mu Yunting is an infatuated person, he jumped two years ago, can he wait until now?

"Yes, it was from the people around the prince." The guard replied with some confidence.

"I guess so." Huangfu Zhuo immediately smiled and walked down the cliff.

Unexpectedly, the prince chose to make a move at this time, and the thing was so obvious that the person who made the idea had a grudge against the prince!

When I entered the palace, I met Huang Funuo head-on.

The two brothers saluted each other, and Huangfu Zhuo took the lead in speaking: "Now that the imperial brother is in charge of the country, the state affairs are heavy, and he is really lacking in skills. ”

Who doesn't know that the only one who is most looking forward to Emperor Zhaowu's early death is Emperor Funuo.

"Having said that, after all, I am the crown prince, and it is natural for me to serve here, since you all have this thought, then I can return to Beijing with confidence." Huang Funuo looked at him. He asked expressionlessly, "I heard that Meng Ge of the Western Regions just offered a unicorn to pray for his father two days ago?" ”

This time, Situ Kong came with Mengge's envoy, and the purpose of his visit was to take his former student, that is, Mu Yunting's wife, to the Western Regions.

It's just that I didn't expect something to go wrong, but it made that Shen Qingli fall off the cliff.

For this, Situ Kong was furious. Accusing Huang Funuo of being ill-conceived. caused his beloved woman to die at the bottom of the valley, cut off his robe and break off his righteousness in a fit of anger, and threatened to be an enemy if they met again in the future. It made Huang Funuo very depressed, he couldn't understand how Mr. Situ, who had always been gentle and elegant, would turn his face, if it weren't for his personal feelings. He would not have taken such a big risk to offend Mu Yunting.

Now, he's patted his ass and left. The rest of this mess is not cleaned up by his emperor?

"Exactly." The corners of Huangfu Zhuo's mouth moved, and he said in a deep voice, "For this." The Empress Dowager also rewarded the envoy of Mengge, and I heard that the old princess Mengge also had a private letter to the Empress Dowager, as if it was for the affairs of the Canglang Society. ”

Originally, the Western Regions was not a unified state. Rather, it is made up of four tribes, the most powerful of which is the Monge tribe. Controlling most of the territory of the Western Regions, often making chaos on the border, in order to envelop him, the Great Zhou Dynasty had to marry the princess Nangong Yan'er to the then Mengge Khan as a concubine, but when the Great Zhou was defeated and retreated, I don't know why, as an in-law Mengge Khan, did not send troops to help, and watched the Great Zhou Dynasty die.

Until the founding of the Great Liang Dynasty, Gaozu suddenly sent troops to help Mengge unify the Western Regions, supported Mengge as the king, and changed the other three tribes into vassal states, so as to achieve the absolute dominance of Mengge in the Western Regions today.

"When, the state affairs of my Great Liang are also available to foreigners." Huang Funuo frowned, and asked again, "What does the Empress Dowager mean?" ”

"The Empress Dowager seems to be unmoved, and insists on beheading the prisoner to show the public." Huangfu Zhuo raised his eyebrows, "The Empress Dowager hates the family of the previous dynasty the most, and the Canglang Society is an organization privately established by the family of the previous dynasty, do you think, how could the Empress Dowager let them go?" It's just that at the moment, the imperial brother is in charge of the country, and the younger brother thinks that the imperial brother should go back to the palace to discuss with the empress dowager, so as not to give the old princess a face, and spare those people in the Canglang Society, if he offends Mengge's side because of this, it will be troublesome to cause war. ”

Huang Funuo sighed and asked, "Do you remember the death of Youzhou Tusi Urva?" ”

"Of course I remember, as far as I know, this case was investigated by Mu Yunting, and the case was closed a year ago, saying that the person was killed by the people of the Canglang Society, the reason is that Urwa repeatedly went to the court during his lifetime, saying that the people of the Canglang Society were plotting against each other in Jingyou and Youzhou, but they didn't want to be killed by the people of the Canglang Society unknowingly." Of course, Huang Fuzhuo remembered these things.

"Urva was one of the most trusted old ministries of the Empress Dowager back then, and now that the people of the Canglang Club are in the hands of the Empress Dowager, how can the Empress Dowager give up?" Huang Funuo's brows tightened, it is true that he is in charge of the country at the moment, but most of the government is actually in the hands of the Empress Dowager, what can he do......

"It's hard to be a royal brother." Huang Fu Zhuo glanced at Huang Fu Nuo sympathetically, the corners of his mouth twitched, and said, "So in this extraordinary period now, the people around my father and the emperor should not move, the so-called pulling a hair and moving the whole body, if there is really a mess and no one comes forward to control the situation, it will be really bad." ”

It doesn't hurt to give him a hand, he's not his opponent anyway.

Huangfu Zhuo chuckled in his heart.

Huang Funuo was a little puzzled.

He hates people who talk around the bush the most.

Huangfu Zhuo understood and said bluntly: "I guess there is any misunderstanding between the imperial brother and Master Mu? Otherwise, the royal brother wouldn't have made a move openly, would he? ”

Huang Funuo suddenly weighed it, and replied: "The crown princess suspects that Xia Wanyue's death was done by Mu Yunting, so I was angry for a while, so I wanted to avenge Xia Wanyue, but I was confused and actually listened to the woman's words." ”

So far, the only way to do this is to betray the crown princess to clean himself.

"Brother Huang is confused." Huangfu Zhuo shook his head heavily, "Mu Yunting had a deep love for Xia Wanyue at the beginning, as we all know, how could he be ruthless to Xia Wanyue, he misunderstood!" ”

"So what now?" Huang Funuo really doesn't know.

"If the imperial brother can trust the minister, the younger brother is willing to be this intermediary and go to Mu Yunting to explain." Huangfu Zhuo pretended to be a little embarrassed.

"Then, there is the fourth brother Lao." Huang Funuo frowned at this time.

It's confusing. In fact, he should have taken Mu Yunting under his command and worked hard for himself.

What if he is not the son-in-law of the Guogong Mansion?

It is true that Mu Yunche is the son-in-law of the Guogong Mansion, but he doesn't have any real power in his hands, what's the use?

Even if Mu Yunting dies and Mu Yunche becomes the son of the world, then Mu Yunche can't go into battle to kill the enemy at a critical time. Stand alone for the girders.

Mu Yunche is just a gentleman.

The brothers rarely reached a unity.

Huang Funuo secretly withdrew the killer who went to hunt down Mu Yunting. took the crown princess Xia Wanbing back to the capital overnight, and Huangfu Zhuo inquired privately and determined Mu Yunting's general location. Also head to Maple Leaf Town.

Maple Leaf Town is a century-old town.

The town is especially famous for its maple trees, hence the name.

It is said that this place was originally the hometown of one of the favorite concubines of the Great Zhou Emperor of the previous dynasty, because this concubine liked maple trees, and the Great Zhou Emperor wanted to please the beauties. He ordered her hometown to be planted with maple trees.

Later, the Great Zhou perished, and this concubine was helped by eunuchs. Escaped from the palace and returned to his hometown, only to hang himself under a maple tree.

It is said that the maple leaves were the reddest that year.

It was May. Elsewhere, the maple leaves are still lush, but the town is still a dazzling red.

It has attracted many literati and writers to come here to play and chant poetry, which is so lively.

"It was under this maple tree that Concubine Shu died." The shopkeeper of the tea house Zhou respectfully led Mu Yunting and Shen Qingli to a fiery red maple tree. said, "Shizi." Young lady, Concubine Shu is an aunt of the villain's own family who has not come out of five suits, so every year during Qingming, the villain will come here to incense her aunt. ”

Mu Yunting stood under the tree, standing with his hands in his hands, without squeaking, if it weren't for Shen Qingli's insistence on coming here, he wouldn't want to come to see the maple tree that hanged the concubine!

Idle!

Shen Qingli listened with relish, slowly circled around the maple tree, watched the sunlight spill from the leaves of the trees, and plated the red of the tree with a golden halo, and said: "I think that Concubine Shu must be a great beauty, otherwise how would the emperor plant so many maple trees for her." ”

"It's not a secret, my aunt is actually average, not beautiful, but gentle, what is even more rare is that before she entered the palace, she heard that the emperor had an old migraine disease, and deliberately learned the technique of relieving migraine, and massaged the emperor day by day for nine years, so she was favored by the emperor." Saying that, the shopkeeper Zhou sighed, "It's a pity that the sky is jealous, not long after she entered the palace, Da Zhou was gone." ”

Mu Yunting frowned, turned his head and said: "Shopkeeper Zhou, now the court is very afraid of the affairs of the previous dynasty, and you can't tell outsiders about this in the future, so as not to get into trouble." ”

"The villain is confused, Xie Shizi reminded." Shopkeeper Zhou looked around with palpitations, and retreated in disdain.

"Look at how scared people are." Shen Qingli glanced at him coquettishly, stepped forward to take down the maple leaf that fell on his shoulder for him, and said in a low voice, "Shopkeeper Zhou has always been cautious and will never talk nonsense." ”

She found more and more that these towns around the capital are like paradises, although Maple Town does not have as many fruit trees as Chongshui, but the maple trees here are very eye-catching, and the scenery is not inferior to Chongshui.

And the people here are also quite simple.

Say what you believe in.

"I'm precautionary." Mu Yunting took advantage of the situation and looked at her eyes, a smile flashed in his eyes, "He said that he was jealous and red-faced, I don't agree with it, Concubine Shu is just a child, nothing else." ”

Not far away, a young man stopped, saw the scene in front of him, hurriedly stopped, took off the drawing board on his back, found a flat place to spread the rice paper, the scholar next to him was busy grinding ink, held it in front of him, and for a moment, a vivid picture jumped on the paper.

He was carefully blowing the undried ink on the painting, when he heard a voice come coldly: "Bring the painting." ”

As soon as I looked up, I saw that the man on the painting didn't know when he had arrived in front of me, he was stunned for a moment, touched the coldness in his eyes, and hurriedly explained: "Don't misunderstand, Childe likes to paint, and when I saw that the picture of Childe and Mrs. hugging each other under the tree was too beautiful, I couldn't help but start painting it, and there was no malice." ”

Seeing that his words were sincere and his attitude was humble, Mu Yunting also breathed a sigh of relief and said, "You can't take this painting with you, I don't want my wife and I to become the people in the painting that everyone appreciates." ”

Shen Qingli also came over curiously to take a look, secretly surprised, although this painting is the silhouette of two people, but the painting is really lifelike, and even the patterns on the hairpin ring between her temples are clearly drawn, at first glance, it looks like a magnified black and white photo.

"This son doesn't know how to lift, my son is a famous painting saint here, many people admire the son to ask the son to paint their portraits, most of our sons politely refused, saying that there is no reason not to use the pen, I don't want to, today I took the initiative to paint a portrait of the son, but I was disgusted by the son, and the villain was unfair for the son." The Tsing Yi scholar said angrily.

"It's a sunny day, and it's rude." The young man hurriedly drank the scholar, put away the scroll, and sent it to Mu Yunting, the good-looking phoenix eyes flashed a trace of embarrassment, and his thin lips moved, "Forgive me for being reckless and rude." ”

Mu Yunting took the painting and was about to tear it off, but was stopped by Shen Qingli: "Shizi, no matter what, this painting is painted by us, how can you tear it off!" ”

There is no camera here, and it is rare to meet a master of painting, how can you tear up such a good picture!

Mu Yunting had no choice but to stop and handed her the painting.

Shen Qingli seemed to breathe a sigh of relief when he saw the man who painted the painting, so he asked again: "Childe, we bought this painting, how much silver?" ”

When Mu Yunting heard this, his face darkened, and he looked at Shen Qingli's gaze, the young man in front of him had clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, wearing a half-worn robe, although there was a small patch on the cuffs, the whole person looked very clean and refreshing, and his gestures were also a bit of a big demeanor.

"It's already reckless to draw the son and the lady without permission, where do you dare to mention the silver?" The young man bowed his hand.

"This son's skills are outstanding, and the paintings he paints are vivid, they are really superb, why don't you dare to mention silver?" Shen Qingli carefully rolled up the painting, smiled, and said, "We came out to play, and we didn't have much silver on us, so don't dislike it." As he spoke, he tugged at the corner of Mu Yunting's clothes.

She didn't believe that this man was a saint!

Is there a painting saint who comes out in broken shoes to swagger around?

It's probably just a down-and-out talent!

Mu Yunting didn't say anything, just took out a silver ticket from his arms and threw it over, pulling Shen Qingli away.

"Wow, Childe, one hundred taels!" The Tsing Yi scholar exclaimed.

I met a nobleman.

"Let's go to the capital." The young man put away the silver ticket, knocked him on the head, and reprimanded, "In the future, you are not allowed to say that I am a painting saint, and then I will fool your mouth if you say nonsense." ”

"Childe, in your little heart, you are a painting saint! Looking at the beams, how many people can catch up with Childe's painting skills? Childe deserves it! The boy in Tsing Yi scratched his head and said, and then looked up, but saw that his master had already walked a long way, so he didn't care about saying anything, so he hurriedly picked up his burden and chased after him.

"Look at you, have you been deceived?" Behind the tree, Mu Yunting also knocked Shen Qingli.

Hehe, I dare to blow it!

"I've seen it for a long time, okay?" Shen Qingli smiled and said, "I actually saw his shoes broken. ”

As soon as the words fell, there was another blow on the head: "You are not allowed to look at other men in the future, remember!" ”

I also saw that people's shoes were torn, what were you doing so carefully!

"Okay, I won't watch it in the future, just look at you alone, okay?"

"That's pretty much it!"

The two were talking and laughing, but they saw the shopkeeper Zhou hurriedly coming: "Shizi, there is a son in the tea house, saying that he has something important to see Shizi." (To be continued) R580