Father-in-law Gao was not surprised that Li Muhui would be surprised, but he did not persuade him, but said: "The lives of the three mothers and daughters of the Zheng family are in the mind of Master Hou." After that, Gonggong Gao sighed again and said, "Your Majesty actually doesn't want to kill more, but you can't face the events of the year." And the existence of the Zheng family reminds His Majesty all the time and makes him uneasy all night. Don't you know, when Your Majesty first ascended the throne, there was a time when I dreamed that Prince Yin and the King of Nest Assassins led an army to chase and kill him. In the end, it was General Qin and General Wei Chi who guarded both sides of the palace gate in armor, so that they could be stable. ”

"Li Mu, Your Majesty treats you as a nephew, so he entrusts such a thing to you. Our family is soft-spoken, and they dare not force Hou Ye to do things. But our family selfishly thinks that if the Hou Ye has a way, he should contribute to His Majesty. ”

Li Mu nodded and said, "Let me think about it, please reply to Your Majesty, within seven days, Li Mu will give Your Majesty an answer." ”

"Then it's hard to chase the deer marquis, there is still something in the palace, our family will retire first." Father-in-law Gao got up, and Li Mu sent it to the door. returned to the back house, had breakfast with his wife and concubine, and sat alone in the study in a daze.

After Li Ji left Chang'an, he had no one to discuss when he encountered something. Tang Jian welcomed him there, but he didn't want to go, and Tang Jian's personality was too bad and good, and his temper was not right.

Li Chongyi had already gone to the Ministry of Industry for training, leaving only Dugu Jiu to accompany Li Mu. Li Mu was thinking about his thoughts while writing a letter with a brush. His characters are ugly and unique, and they are all simplified, which is a 'typo' in the eyes of people in this era, but you can probably guess the meaning.

Li Mu didn't shudder either, and wrote by himself. After writing it, he put it in an envelope, handed it to Dugu Jiu, and said, "Send this letter to the shopkeeper of Happy Valley." Needless to say, he read the letter and knew what to do. ”

Dugu Jiu took the letter, but did not leave immediately. He looked at Li Mu and suddenly asked, "Is the eldest brother going to heaven and earth to have a tryst with Madame Peony?" ”

"What a tryst! Where is the tryst! Li Mu was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and he denied it like a fried hair, and said with a red face: "What are you guessing?" Your eldest brother and I have always been upright, when have we ever had a tryst? ”

"Last time, my eldest brother broke me away, didn't he go to a tryst? I heard Xiaozhu say that I saw my eldest brother go out through the back door and get into Mrs. Peony's carriage-"

"Hah! Xiaozhu, a dead girl, dared to arrange me! "Since you deny it, of course you have to be stubborn to the end. Li Muyi said in words: "Brother, Xiaozhu is lying, between you and my brothers, don't you even have this little trust?" The eldest brother only asks you, do you believe Xiaozhu or the eldest brother? ”

Dugu Jiu thought for a while and said, "Believe in the eldest brother, but the eldest brother-"

"Nothing but! Just believe in the big brother, go and deliver the letter, this is an urgent matter, and it can't be delayed. ”

"Oh."

Hearing that Li Mu said that it was an urgent matter, Dugu Jiu stopped asking. He was curious, but not that much. It's okay to know, it's okay not to know.

Li Mu maintained the posture of lifting the pen, listened to the footsteps and walked away, put down the pen and quietly slipped to the window, watching Dugu Jiu ride a horse and leave. Hurry out and call the groom to set up the car.

It happened that Xiaozhu was carrying a basin of clothes to the side, and when he saw Li Mu's eager appearance, he pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "Master Hou, where are you going?" ”

"Go to the Temple of Mercy and Grace." As he spoke, the man had already gotten into the carriage.

"Oh......" Xiaozhu dragged out his voice and said, "It's to enjoy the flowers, right?" I heard that the peony flowers at the Temple of Mercy and Grace are very beautiful. ”

Li Mu opened the curtain, glared at Xiaozhu fiercely, and said, "Joke about Benhou again, be careful to send you back to the Jiaofang Division!" ”

"The slave knows it's wrong." Xiaozhu immediately became honest, although she knew that Li Mu would not really do that, but the shadow of the Teaching Workshop Division was too big for her, as long as she thought about it, she would be very scared.

Li Mu snorted and motioned for the groom to go out. Out of the fangmen, Li Mu pointed to the north and said, "Chongrenfang." ”

The groom naturally knew where Li Mu was going, so he didn't say much, threw off his whip, and went straight to Chongrenfang.

……

In the private room facing the street in heaven and earth, a crack opened in a window. In the middle of winter, there are almost no people who open the window. But the guests in this private room seem to be an exception. Every time she came to drink tea, she would open a small slit, and from time to time she would take a look, and she didn't know who she was waiting for.

In front of her, there was an account book. But her eyes were looking out the window. Beside her, there was a maid who was reporting something in a low and uniform voice.

It was Wang Ou.

Suddenly, it seemed impatient. Wang Ou waved his hand, interrupted the maid's report, and said, "These accounts, just let the account room verify them a few more times." You don't have to tell me anymore, but what else is there besides these accounts? ”

The maid thought for a moment and said, "There is one more thing that the saint may be interested in. ”

Wang Ou sighed and said, "Don't talk nonsense, be straightforward." ”

"Our people found traces of Yuan Tiangang in Beidi County, presumably he finished the emperor's affairs and is going back to Chang'an."

"The emperor's affairs ......" Wang Ou read these words, his slender fingers tapped lightly on the table, and suddenly asked: "He has been going to Huining County for a while, what can we find out?" ”

The maid knelt on the ground: "Back to the Holy Maiden, Yuan Tiangang has been haunting the mountains and forests since he arrived in Huining County. His light work is so good that our people can't keep up with him. The shadow was caught several times, and then quickly disappeared. He was not seen to have any dealings with anyone in the area, so he failed to find out valuable news from the saint and asked the saint to punish him. ”

"I don't blame you." Wang Ou motioned for the maid to get up and said, "Yuan Tiangang's kung fu has been perfected, and there are few opponents in the world. It's me, and I'm no match for him without poison—okay, you step down, there's new news, and I'll be informed—"

Suddenly, Wang Ou's eyes froze, and he saw Li Mu's carriage, and said hurriedly: "Hurry up, let the secret guards also withdraw, Lang Jun is here, I don't have time to delay." ”

The maid hurriedly withdrew, and with one of her gestures, several of the guests who were drinking tea on the first floor also left with their accounts.

Li Mu got down from the carriage, threw a handful of copper coins to the groom, asked him to find a place to stay for a while, and stepped into heaven and earth. Xiao Chen's father-in-law went out to buy, but Li Yourong saw him and didn't like to take care of him. Li Mu didn't bother to pay attention to him, and went straight to the elevator to the fifth floor.

Wang Ou saw Li Mu get on the elevator, and the look in his eyes suddenly dimmed. She thought that Li Mu was here to meet her, but she didn't think that Li Mu was here to find Li Yuan.

The maid came out like a ghost again, and said carefully: "Holy Maiden, do you want the slave to tell the Hou Ye that you are here?" ”

"Tell what? He doesn't have me in his heart, but he comes to see me because of his affection, and how can he have affection - it's just that he is lacking today, let's go back. With that, Wang Ou took the lead downstairs, and the maid hurriedly entered the private room to pack up the account books, and followed closely.

Wang Ou's mansion is next to heaven and earth, and it doesn't take much effort, just a few steps away. Entering the gate and looking at the carriage of the Hou Mansion parked across the street, Wang Ou snorted, and the gate slammed shut, shaking down a lot of snowflakes.

Where does Li Mu know these things. He was anxious about Zheng's affairs, and he wanted to find someone to come up with an idea, so he thought of Li Yuan in his mind.

Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng are his sons, and Zheng is his daughter-in-law. Anyway, this is also his family matter, so it's better to listen to his opinion.

When Li Mu came, Li Yuan had just gotten up. The elderly have low energy and wake up late. Li Mu guessed that this was probably related to the viscosity of Li Yuan's blood. Before leaving the palace, Li Yuan sang songs in Taiji Palace night and night, eating seas, at his age, he didn't have cerebral thrombosis to take care of him.

Seeing Li Mu coming, Li Yuan was very happy and asked someone to add a pair of dishes and chopsticks for Li Mu to eat together.

Li Mu had already eaten breakfast, but in order not to let Li Yuan disappoint his fun, he also made do with a bowl of porridge. At his age, drinking an extra bowl of porridge is like drinking an extra bowl of water, and he doesn't feel panicked at all.

Li Yuan's appetite was not so good, and he barely drank a bowl of porridge, so he asked people to remove the rest.

"You kid came to me so early, there must be something, don't hold it back, right?"

"You're as discerning as a torch." Li Muxian slapped a little sycophant before telling the matter: "Old man, the kid knows that he shouldn't come to trouble you, but this matter, the kid is really difficult to do——"

"Hehe," Li Yuan smiled, interrupted Li Mu's words, and said, "It's not that it's difficult, but you don't want to do it, right?" ”

"......" Li Mu smiled bitterly and said, "You know the character of the kid, you really don't want to get involved in these things. ”

Li Yuan was noncommittal, was silent for a while, and said, "I have sat in that seat before, and I understand what it feels like to sit in that seat. Everyone in the world thinks that being an emperor and owning the world can be reckless. But no one knows that as an emperor, there are many things that he has no way to do. When he was not an emperor, he fought the world and was still free. When he became an emperor, he put himself in a cage. ”

"Just like the people of the world, he was once a general of Tiance, leading the world's soldiers and horses, fighting in the south and the north, invincible, how happy. Now that he is the emperor, he lingers between the cases all day long, and the palace gate rarely comes out, what is the difference between this and being in prison, it is nothing more than a bigger cage. ”

Li Mu bowed slightly, he very much agreed with this truth.

"Although the emperor is the Son of Heaven, he is also a human being. If you are a human being, you have seven emotions and six desires, and you will have things that you can't bear to read and can't face. The events of that year have always been a knot in his heart. It was like a maggot on the tarsal bone, which made him uncomfortable, and he wanted to cut off this rotten meat, but he couldn't do it, so he wanted to find a doctor to treat it. And you're this doctor—" Li Yuan pointed to himself and said, "You have already healed an injury for him, and he can trust you." ”

Li Mu pursed his lips and was silent, he had already heard what Li Yuan meant. I didn't say it explicitly, but I also hoped that I could do it.

After a long time, Li Mu spoke: "The kid can do it, but he is worried about the hidden princess and doesn't want to listen to the arrangement of my junior." ”