Mu Xue thought she was going home.

Unexpectedly, this man took Mu Xue to the palace.

Mu Xue was placed in the side hall of the Heart Cultivation Hall to rest, and then Nangong left himself to find the emperor.

Since that incident happened three days ago, Nangong Li could clearly feel that his father's spirit was not as good as before.

It's not because of the poisoning.

It's because this incident hit the emperor too hard, he couldn't sleep at night, couldn't wake up during the day, didn't know how to eat, and his spirit suddenly withered a lot.

At this moment, the emperor was lying on the dragon chair, and there were two little palace ladies beating his legs for him to relax his spirit.

Hearing footsteps approaching, the emperor opened his eyes and took a look.

Nangong Li entered against the light, looking inexplicable.

"It's over?"

"Hmm. All the imperial uncles and princes should have gone back. ”

The emperor got up and waved his hand to let the people around him go down.

Then I saw him pick up a dense letter, and said a little tiredly: "This is the secret letter sent by Mu Zhennan's old puppet Baili urgently, you can see for yourself." ”

Nangong Li came to the emperor to actually prepare to talk about this matter.

Because the order given to him by his father was that he would set off for the border pass to negotiate with the Huns.

It's just that he promised Mu Xue to wait for Mu Haifeng to come back before he goes, so he is ready to come over and say something today.

He took the letter handed over by Father-in-law Zhou, although it was densely written with words, this man quickly understood it at a glance.

"Father, are you saying that you don't need your sons and daughters to go to the border again, but that their envoys will come to the capital to talk about compensation and reparation?"

Seeing that the Huns planned to come to the capital by themselves, Nangong Li's eyelids jumped.

"Hmm. That's what it means, but since they have officially sent envoys to negotiate, the attitude of admitting mistakes is okay. In this way, our Great Abyss Country cannot lose its demeanor and let other countries think that our country is a bully. I have thought about it, you will set off in five days and pick them up in Fengyang County, and when the time comes, you should come to the capital together, and you should be in time. ”

Fengyang County is not very far from the capital, and it belongs to a county town with a decent scale under the capital.

Nangong Li was actually reluctant to pick it up.

Shouldn't such ceremonial matters be arranged for reception by the Ministry of Rites?

Besides, this time it was the Huns' fault first, and letting him pick up a dignified prince would be too embarrassing for the Huns.

Actually, this is not an excuse.

It was Nangong Li who saw the content of the letter, which clearly stated that the people who came with the envoys this time also included Princess Chaoyang, the youngest princess of the Huns.

Guessing with his toes, Nangong Li knew what it meant to send a princess over at this time.

However, the Huns would admit their mistakes in a friendly way, which really surprised him.

We all know that if it was a confrontation between the two countries, this time the Xiongnu would have to pay a lot of cattle, horses and silver to settle this matter.

But now, if there is a cement-like relationship like marriage, the matter of compensation becomes delicate.

Besides, Nangong is so good at cleaning himself, he doesn't want to have anything to do with other women.

"What? You don't want to go? If your third brother is still in the capital, I don't have to trouble you..."

"Yes, Erchen is not shirking, but I think that this time it was the fault of the Xiongnu treachery in the first place, and General Mu Da sent someone to escort his team to the capital safely has given them great face, if Erchen comes forward again, it will inevitably make them think that we look down on them..."

Nangong Li's words are very reasonable.

But the emperor felt that he was not telling the truth.

"But if my father must send the prince to pick him up, the fifth brother is not young, it's time for him to go out and experience the experience."

Nangong Liang is already sixteen years old.

I think that when Nangong Li was only fifteen years old, he had already gone to the battlefield to kill the enemy....

Thinking of this, Nangong Li felt that this Xiongnu was really a little annoying, his land was not fertile, so he only stared at the meat in the bowls of others.

Hearing this person's suggestion, the emperor did not agree quickly.

just asked with some suspicion: "Aren't you afraid that your princess will think too much, so you don't want to go, right?" ”

Nangong did not change his face, he was confident, and said confidently: "Father is too worried. Xiao Xue'er is not an ordinary woman with long hair and short knowledge, but Erchen feels that if Erchen goes in person, it is indeed too much face for the Huns, if it is not for your father, you are a heavy salute, and you want to let the fifth brother exercise, Erchen thinks that it is enough to be greeted by the waiter of the Ministry of Rites. ”

The reason why the emperor sent the prince was just because there was a princess in the other party's team.

If it was just an ordinary envoy, he would only send a squire to pick him up.

The emperor nodded: "Well, that's what I said, but this time I thought that they dared to insert fine works into the palace and destroy the peace between the two countries!! ”

The cattle, sheep and horses are all small, and the real ones are still land and cities.

Nangong Li also has this meaning.

They advocate peace and do not love the golden iron horse to fight for life and death.

After all, the battlefield is too evil, and I don't know how many people have died in a war.

But that doesn't mean that if someone is so provocative, they won't fight back!!

"Yes, my father is wise."

Hearing this, the emperor leaned back from the dragon chair a little tired, waved his hand and said: "It's okay if you are wise or not, although Xun'er has been abolished before his death, but he has already paid the price of his life at this moment, you will bury his body in the imperial mausoleum for me." ”

It is not difficult to hear that the emperor's voice contains too much tiredness.

"Yes."

"Li'er, do you say that I have been too pampered since I was a child, and I made him the prince when he was still very young, and he was full of pampering, which caused him to be unable to bear the slightest frustration when he grew up, and now he is still doing the thing of killing his father?"

This time, there was some guilt in the exhaustion.

When the emperor was alone in the Heart Cultivation Palace, he imagined in his mind the bits and pieces of getting along with Xun'er.

He felt that if he hadn't named Nangong Xun the crown prince when he was so young because of the Yin family, maybe Nangong Xun would not be so arrogant and complacent, and he would not be so unfilial.

"Actually, there's one thing that you may not have known all along."

"What's the matter??"

"When that poison was first introduced, it was not prepared by the second brother, but by the queen mother. It's just that the second brother didn't stop this matter later. ”

The emperor is about to be Yin Xiyuan.

Hearing this, the emperor smiled weakly: "It's all wronged, even now I didn't think about killing her, but I never thought that she wanted me to die a long time ago."

It's a wife.

The wife wants her husband to die.

What a hatred this has to be.

"I heard that she has been making noise in Kunning Palace these days and wants to come out to meet the saint, today is the day when the second brother is going to be beheaded, presumably..."

Before Nangong Li's words were finished, Gonggong Zhou immediately ran in.

"Back to the emperor, something happened at the execution ground...."

Nangong Li and Mu Xue left early, and they didn't know what happened later.

"What's wrong again?"

"After the abolition of the queen mother, she didn't know how to run out of Kunning Palace, after seeing the second prince beheaded, she was so sad that she hit the stone pillar on the spot, and the imperial doctor didn't have time to treat her, and she was already dead."

As soon as the father-in-law's words fell, the heart cultivation hall fell into an oppressive silence.

"Father, this deposed corpse...."

"Move the concubine mausoleum."

has been abolished, naturally it is not eligible to be buried in Tailing.

Hearing that people would be placed in the concubine tomb, Nangong Li's eyes turned slightly, his mother and concubine were also in the concubine tomb, and these two rivals were buried in the concubine tomb, he was a little unhappy.

"Father...."

The emperor raised his hand to stop him.

"I know what you mean, since you don't plan to go to Fengyang County, then you should go to the imperial tomb twice more in the next few days, move the remains of your mother to Tailing, and wait for me to die in the next hundred years. At the same time, you will bury Xun'er, their mother and son. ”

Nangong Xun's mother and son died unbearably.

Not even a decent funeral after death.

Mu Xue was actually a little surprised, and the emperor would hand over this matter to Nangong Li.

Nangong Li was busy dealing with this matter, and after sending the corpse to the imperial tomb, he came back, and it was already completely dark.

There is a long stream in the bamboo forest, and Mu Xue moved a chaise longue that can be reclined and sat on the side of the stream, lazily closing her eyes and listening to the natural heartbeat.

The woman's white robe was loose, her long hair was pouring down, and the hem of her skirt was stained with some water.

A gentle breeze.

The sound of endless bamboo leaves in the sand.

On the open space not far from the chaise longue, there is a papier-mâché lantern with a yellowish light and a few tiny flying insects lingering on the side.

There was a small sound of footsteps behind her, and Mu Xue didn't even raise her eyelids.

"How? Is the prince back? ”

Nangong Li sat silently behind her, and then reached out to wrap her in his arms.

His head hung over her shoulders and rubbed against her neck socket as if coquettishly.

"Why are you sitting here alone, what if you encounter a snake?"

"Well, the bright moon shines among the pines, the clear spring stone is upstream, I've been sitting here for a long time, my heart is quiet...."

While speaking, Mu Xue tilted her head and rubbed his head against him, like a cat who wanted to please him, and the whole person leaned into his arms.

"Under the nine springs of the mother concubine, you can look at it...."

After a while, Mu Xue said such a sentence without a head.

"Hmm. Today, when Ah Li sent the bodies of their mother and son to the imperial mausoleum, he saw that the person was buried in the concubine's mausoleum, and Nangong Xun just picked up a place at random and buried it hastily, and suddenly saw a lot of things. ”

Many of the things he saw could probably be covered by that sentence that the human heart was not enough to swallow the elephant.

He subconsciously hugged Mu Xue tightly...

He's not greedy...

It's good to have her...

Nangong Li's sudden dependence made him a little dazed, and he scratched his head with his upper hand: "How can you be like a pet dog, and you are reluctant to let go of it."

Mu Xue was laughing at him for being childish.

"Because I like..."

I don't let go because I like it!!