The next day, it was just dawn.

Chen Mu sat on the bed in his underwear, thinking hard.

In fact, he didn't sleep all night.

This clock leaves the incense knocking on the door, and Jiaodi calls.

Chen Mu's spirit was lifted, and he pushed open the door and welcomed the girl in.

The girl dressed herself up today, looking more and more beautiful, and her delicate fingers made it impossible to imagine what she looked like a beggar more than ten days ago.

Chen Mu looked at the girl with a smile.

Zhong Lixiang glanced at Chen Mu and said in a strange tone: "You are not very old, but sometimes I think you are old-fashioned." ”

The girl walked into the house, turned around and closed the door.

Chen Mu stopped smiling and sat down listlessly: "I'm only seventeen years old, and the reason why I look older may be because I've experienced a lot." ”

"How did you think about it? Do you want to come with me? ”

Last night, Zhong Lixiang pointed out a way for Chen Mu, if Chen Mu agreed, she was willing to accompany Chen Mu to leave Daliang and go to live in Sangla Country under Kunlun Mountain.

At that time, Chen Mu did not express his position.

The girl waited all night, got up early in the morning to dress herself carefully, and with the smell of incense on her body, she came to see Chen Mu and mentioned this matter again.

Chen Mu still didn't speak.

Zhong Lixiang helped her sideburns in a bun, and her cheeks were crimson: "In the future, I will call you brother, and you will call me Xiang'er, okay?" ”

Chen Mu sneered: "Xiang'er? ”

"What's wrong?" The girl pouted.

Chen Mu shrugged his shoulders noncommittally: "It's good." ”

"Then why do you have this expression?"

Is there anything wrong with this expression? I think it's good. ”

"Look at you, talking like an old man."

"Well, you'll just be an old man."

"But you're not. And you're a prince. The girl smiled.

In the face of the delicate girl, once upon a time, Chen Mu's mind also made a beautiful oil painting appear, in which the boys and girls live in the distant foot of the Kunlun Mountains, in a small border country called Sangla, living an idyllic life of "you plough the fields and come to me to weave". The picture is beautiful, and I can't help but be fascinated.

However, Chen Mu is not a seventeen-year-old boy after all, he just has a seventeen-year-old skin. After a night of thinking, Chen Mu was more determined that he must go to Luoyang, not to Sangla.

The road to Sangla was designed for him by someone else, and this person is "Aunt Empress Dowager Chen", Zhong Lixiang is likely to be sent by Empress Dowager Chen. This aunt may really care about her nephew and doesn't want her nephew to die in a foreign country, so she sent such a girl to seduce her nephew away and go to Sangla to live a stable life.

However, this is just wishful thinking, and who knows if there is danger buried behind this road?

And Chen Mu is not a person who likes to be manipulated by others, living in an environment arranged for him by others will make him feel that life is boring.

Since the future and the "retreat" are unpredictable, it is better to go on according to your own heart. Staying in the sequence of the Shence Army, at least now some resources are in their own hands, and Kong Xiaoxian, the newly promoted lieutenant general of the Third Division, can be trusted. There is also the eighteenth son, Tang Zhen.

The Eighteenth Prince needs someone who can fight to quickly stabilize his position in the military world, and Chen Mu will inevitably become his key training target. There is a lot of room for upside.

The future is bright, why choose a seemingly stable retreat.

As for why the prince Zhao Mu ran away, this matter can only be left for later. Chen Muxin said: I appeared on Luoyang Street in the most unexpected way, but it should be the safest. Now that all the assassins were looking for Zhao Mu all over the country, who would have thought that Zhao Mu was on the streets of Luoyang City? Besides, I can wear makeup.

Chen Mu, who had seen the little secretary remove his makeup, knew what it meant to be a water and a face.

After making up his mind, Chen Mu and Zhong Lixiang chatted.

The two of you were talking word by word, and at this time, an old cough came from outside the door very inopportunely: "Captain Duwei, the lowly Zhang Youtian has something to say." ”

"Come in."

The lame man pushed the door in, his eyes were sharp, and he scratched Zhong Lixiang's body fiercely: "I want to talk to Captain Du in private." Ask the girl to go out. ”

Zhong Lixiang's expression was displeased, and he glanced at Chen Mu.

Chen Mu nodded.

Zhongli Xiang stood up indignantly and walked to the door with a soft snort.

The door slammed shut, quite dissatisfied.

The door shut, and the footsteps outside the door faded away.

The lame man said earnestly: "Chen Mu, are you obsessed?" ”

Originally, Chen Mu planned to tell the lame man what he was thinking, but when he saw the lame man looking so nervous, he suddenly had a bad idea in his heart.

Chen Mu felt that Zhong Lixiang would not go too far, and with that Nizi's character, she would definitely eavesdrop.

In this case, it is better to play a play with the lame.

And the only audience for this play is Zhong Lixiang.

Chen Mu thought of his lines and frowned, "My situation is very complicated. Cripple, I treat you as a friend, and there are things I want to say to you. But after you have heard it, you have to go with me, leave the Liang Kingdom, and go to live in a foreign country. If not, I wouldn't agree. How, do you still want to hear it? ”

The cripple was a little anxious: "Chen Mu, you are a fan of the authorities, don't listen to that little girl fooling you." I'm a bystander, and she's trying to lure you away. ”

The cripple was fooled.

Chen Mu continued to perform: "Cripple, I only ask you, do you want to hear it?" I emphasize again, if you listen, later you have to leave the girder. Your old boy is worried that no one will provide for you, so I'll save a coffin book for you. How is it? ”

The cripple frowned: "Okay, you can say it." ”

Chen Mu's expression was serious: "I may be the emperor's illegitimate son Zhao Mu that you once mentioned." ”

"Huh!" The cripple smiled bitterly: "What do you want?" If you are Zhao Mu, do you know what your status should be in the Shence Army now? ”

"What status?"

"Tang Qiong can offer you up! Now the patriarch of the Tang clan is looking for you every day, and he is offering a reward of 10,000 taels of gold. ”

"To the west of Tongguan, why didn't Zhao Mu's portrait be posted?"

"The bounty for killing Zhao Mu is higher, and there are two families, as long as Zhao Mu is killed, both families will give money."

Chen Mu was speechless.

The cripple sighed bitterly: "I have all the portraits of Zhao Mu in my heart, and you two are not like each other at all." ”

"Really?"

"Nonsense. If you don't believe it, ask Zhang Han. Before you came to the army, we had all seen the portraits. ”

"Where did the portrait go?"

"Who knows where the portrait went?"

Chen Mu fell into deep thought, rubbed his chin, and suddenly asked, "Cripple, do you remember the first time you saw me?" What was my state at the time? ”

"Why do you ask this?"

"With my combat strength, how did you get caught as a strong man?"

"You're starving to death, do you still need us to catch you?"

"Oh......"

The lame man said bitterly, "If it weren't for the hunger for too long, you wouldn't have fallen off the city wall." ”

Chen Mu said: "Then I have a letter on me, have you seen it?" ”

"Letter? What letter? The cripple shook his head: "I haven't seen it." ”

Chen Mu frowned.

The cripple said impatiently, "Oh, don't think about it. You're just letting that girl fool you. But it's not surprising, at your age, dry wood and fire, hehe. ”

Chen Mu shook his head.

Seeing that Chen Mu was obsessed, the lame man was anxious: "Chen Mu, you are really smart and confused for a while. Where's your usual cleverness? When you meet a beautiful girl, you will be fooled in a few words? I'm telling you, I promise that Nizi is here to harm you. With your combat power, she can't beat you, not to mention that Zhang Han and I will protect you all day long. So, only by luring you away can she and her accomplices do it to you. When the time comes, you'll have to go with them. How they are at your mercy, I don't know. But it certainly won't make it easy for you to get into the Down Gate. Listen to me, kill her now, you can't bear to do it, I'll go with Zhang Han. ”

"Don't be reckless." Chen Mu said seriously: "I don't think the girl is as complicated as you say, she is a simple person, the kind of person who can see through at a glance." She's a little smart, but she's still too young, and she's smart on the surface. If it's a big plan, she's a pawn at best. I tell you explicitly, I know she's on a mission, but she's strayed from her original mission route. I don't know how she fell in love with me, it was like love at first sight, this kind of thing can only happen to a girl her age. ”

"Chen Mu! You foolishness! ”

"I'm convinced, I can't be mistaken!"

"How old are you!" The lame man is in a hurry.

Chen Mu glared: "I'm not ...... than you!" ”

Before he finished speaking, Chen Mu was discouraged and sat down in a chair.

At this point in the performance, Chen Mu suddenly felt that he was a very good actor, and it was estimated that that little girl should be fooled.

Anyway, the cripple is deeply trapped.

"Look at you, what is the city of confusion already in? I'm fifty-two years old, and you compare your life experience with me? The lame man persuaded bitterly: "You will not be wrong to listen to me." I'm going to follow you in the future, whether I can mix well in the future or not, but it's all up to you, can I hurt you? ”

Chen Mu calmed down: "Cripple, this is Yuzhou, the territory of the Xuanjia Army, you go and get me a portrait of the prince and Mu." ”

The cripple smiled: "That's right. This is the Chen Mu I know. You wait, I'll go. ”

The cripple left, and Zhong Lixiang came to knock on the door again.

Chen Mu didn't let Zhong Lixiang in, and said through the door: "Xiang'er, I think you better go." ”

"You don't believe me?"

"Have you ever thought about it, Sangla Country is located in a remote area, full of plateaus and snow-capped mountains, how do we live? Steppe nomadism or male farmer and female weaver? ”

"What, isn't that bad?"

"You are still young, and you can't appreciate the taste of 'no filial son in front of the bed for a long time, and no good wife in the poor family for a long time'."

"We don't necessarily have to be farming, we can do business."

"...... doing business" Chen Mu sighed bitterly: "Shopping malls are like battlefields, and they are in a foreign country where the people are fierce, so it is not easy to talk about it." In fact, no matter where, no matter at what level, what occasion, it is nothing more than the weighing and exchange of interests, if you think it is appropriate, you will exchange, exchange is buying and selling, so buying and selling is everywhere. People who understand the sophistication of human feelings are more likely to make deals and obtain benefits. And the danger also came. I guess you must have overheard me when I was talking to the cripple just now. Do you think I will believe in my comrades-in-arms who lived and died with me, or will I believe in you who met in Pingshui? ”

"You think it's also a deal? Do you think I'm a person who deserves to let you give up your current conditions? ”

"I don't want to give up on you, I want you to walk with me."

"Really?"

"But not to Sangla, but to Luoyang." Chen Mu paused: "Now it's your turn to do business, how about it, do you think I'm worth it, are you willing to do this deal?" ”

The girl outside the door was silent for a long time.