It's another sleepless night, Qiu Tang embroidered three silk handkerchiefs overnight, I really couldn't stay up, my fingers trembled so much that I could barely hold the thin needle, Qiu Tang looked at the hazy morning light outside the window, stretched his waist, it was almost time to stew chicken soup, and after a while, I was going to call Xu's mother to get up and drink soup and take medicine. Qiu Tang tidied up the corner of his clothes, walked to the corner of the wall, and washed his face with the cold water in the basin, the cold water stimulated the skin and drove away all Qiu Tang's sleepiness.

A pot of boiling water was boiled on the big stove, some rice sent by Yuchen was put in, and a coarse grain that he bought, the thickness was matched, so that people would not be particularly hungry, and the food consumption could be slightly slower. The small stove was boiling Xu's mother's medicine, Qiu Tang looked at the fire on the stove, calculated the time, and felt that she should be able to come back, so she went out with a vegetable basket, she was going to buy a live chicken and come back. It would be nice to wait for the weather to be colder, and if it is colder, you can buy some the day before and hang them out the window to store them, so that you don't have to buy them every day. Qiu Tang was thinking about the days ahead, and before he knew it, he had arrived at the lively morning market, the morning market was full of people, selling everything, Qiu Tang quickly passed through the crowd and found the old man who sold live chickens.

"Uncle, sell me one of your chickens." Qiu Tang squatted down and looked at the eyes and beak horns of the chicken, which is what I learned from the well-wishers in the morning market in the past few days, the eyes of the chicken should be bright, and the beak horn should not have foam, so that the chicken can stew soup for the patient to drink.

"The girl buys chickens again, you buy one a day, are the family seriously ill?" The old man who sells chickens and Qiu Tang chatted casually.

"My mother was seriously ill and drank my uncle's chicken soup, and now I am much better, thank you for my concern." Qiu Tang smiled lightly.

"That's good, that's good." When the old man heard that the patient's condition was improving, his face bloomed with joy, "The girl wants this, don't look at it small, the meat is tender, not only the stewed soup is nutritious, but the meat is also delicious." The old man picked up a hen that was not too big and handed it to Qiu Tang.

Qiu Tang took the little hen and looked at it: "Okay, then this one." How much? ”

"This is a little chick, and it's not easy for a girl, so let's give ten copper coins. It's not easy for you to have a sick person at home. The old man laughed.

The kindness on the old man's face made Qiu Tang's heart warm: "Thank you, uncle!" ”

Qiu Tang took the old man's chicken, tied it up, put it in the basket, held it in his arms and hurriedly ran back, not wanting too many people, not paying attention, Qiu Tang hit a broad chest, the basket also took off, and the chicken fell to the ground, struggling.

"Presumptuous! Don't you have eyes! An angry rebuke rang in his ears.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the little girl was rude." Qiu Tang hurriedly apologized.

"Sanglin, don't be so rude, this woman didn't mean to, looking at her hurried appearance, it should be an urgent matter at home. Since there's nothing to do, let's go. The warm voice didn't hear any emotion, but it was a powerful way to stop the angry voice.

Qiu Tang hurriedly packed up his things and apologized again, but out of the corner of his eye, he had already seen two white figures walking by, Qiu Tang peeked over, only to find that it was the man who was riding on the horse that day, the man who might be a prince.

"You Dexing, how long has King Qi been back in the city?" Mu Jianyu put down his pen and rubbed his brows

"Back to the saint, it's been more than half a month." You Dexing secretly pinched his fingers and said.

"What has he been doing for half a month?"

"I heard from the people who followed King Qi that in addition to chanting Buddha and chanting with An Jieyu every day, King Qi is walking around the city, which should be revisiting the customs of the holy city."

"Are there any people you have close friends with?"

"I haven't heard of this miscellaneous family when I arrived, you know, the Holy One, King Qi is indifferent to everyone, neither close nor estranged."

"yes, he's not the same to me." Mu Jianyu sneered.

"The miscellaneous family is too talkative." Seeing that Mu Jianyu had changed his tone, You Dexing knew that he had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly knelt down.

"I don't blame you, I only blame Princess Yuwei for marrying away." Mu Jianyu's tone was quite helpless.

"Princess Yuwei is also for the great ghost energy country and the people." You Dexing trembled and got up, comforting Mu Jianyu.

"That's it, did King Qi go out of his way to visit anyone?" Mu Jianyu didn't want to talk about Princess Yuwei anymore.

"I went to see it...... Not really. His Royal Highness King Qi wanders around the city every day, not buying anything, not looking at anything, and not communicating with people. You Dexing thought about it carefully.

"Okay, keep watching." Mu Jianyu has to do a good investigation, after all, he only has this one son who can compete with the crown prince appointed by the Queen Mother.

"Miscellaneous family understands."

"How is Mother today?" Mu Linghong wandered around the streets of the Holy City for a day, and only hurriedly returned to the palace in the evening when the palace gate was about to be locked.

"Hong'er is back." An Jieyu opened her eyes and looked at her son. At this time, the mother and son were together for the longest time after more than ten years of separation.

"Trouble Sister Zhipei to close the door, I have something to say to my mother." Mu Linghong took a sip of the herbal tea on the table, and Du Zhipei said in a low voice. Zhipei departed, closed the door from the outside, and stood guard at the door. Seeing that only he and his mother were left in the room, Mu Linghong relaxed slightly.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? Although An Jieyu was curious, her tone was still light.

"My son has been wandering around the city recently, and in addition to the person sent by the Holy Lord to follow me, my son has also discovered something that seems to be unusual." Mu Linghong bent down and put his mouth close to An Jieyu's ear, "My son found that there were many strangers coming to the city one after another in the past few days, and they looked like they were big ghosts, but the skin seemed to be too delicate, and my son always felt like he was wearing a mask." Perhaps, they are the lacquer people who sneaked into the city. ”

"It's not hard to talk nonsense." An Jieyu hurriedly covered Mu Linghong's mouth. For the first time, a hint of fear flashed in his eyes.

"Mother, I really saw it." Mu Linghong took An Jieyu's hand, held it in his hand, and said firmly again what he saw.

"It doesn't have to be them, maybe there are people from other tribes who are also good at disguise, I don't know." An Jieyu's hand was held by Mu Linghong, she felt a firm warmth, and An Jieyu gradually calmed down.

"Mother, son can't be mistaken. The lacquer-eyed people entered the city. Mu Linghong's eyes were firm, "Mother, the Holy City may have to undergo major changes. If you agree, your son will now go to the Holy Shrine and take you out of the city. Mu Linghong wanted to take An Jieyu out of this place of right and wrong, and seeing the streets full of people from the Qimu clan in the past few days, he was even more determined to have this idea in his heart.

"It's okay," An Jieyu thought about it again and again, but finally nodded. She didn't want to leave here.

"His Royal Highness King Qi receives the order!" An Jieyu had just responded to Mu Linghong's request, and outside the courtyard, the voice of the eunuch came in layer by layer.

"The mother sits first, and the son comes." Mu Linghong frowned, he didn't come early, he didn't come late, but he came now. An ominous premonition suddenly beat in Mu Linghong's heart, urging Mu Linghong to walk through the layers of courtyards and arrive at the main hall of the front yard, "Son-in-law Mu Linghong welcomes the holy order!" The words fell to the ground along with his knees.

"There is an order from the Holy Authority to promote King Qi to Prince Qi, and from today onwards, he will be given the residence of Qihe Hall to deal with all kinds of affairs of the people of the Holy City on behalf of the Holy City."

"Thank you." Mu Linghong took this holy order with mixed feelings. When Mu Linghong got up, the eunuch who delivered the decree had already left. Mu Linghong took the holy order and returned to the house.

"What's wrong?" An Jieyu's calm voice was mixed with the sound of the collision of Buddhist beads, and the smoke came bypassing it.

"The Holy Majesty ordered that his son be promoted to Prince Qi, given to live in the Qihe Palace, and asked his son to handle the affairs of the city in place of the Holy Lord."

"He knows you want to go, he doesn't want you to go." An Jieyu seemed to have guessed Mu Jianyu's thoughts, and she was not surprised at all, nor was she half angry.

"My son doesn't want to ......" Mu Linghong still couldn't be as indifferent as he was to others in front of An Jieyu, and as he spoke, all his emotions were brought into his words.

"Hong'er, how did Wei Niang teach you?" An Jieyu opened her eyes, glanced at Mu Linghong, and sighed slightly.

Mu Linghong was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously replied: "Don't be impatient, your joy and anger are invisible, and your likes and dislikes are unknown." Not sad, not happy, not worried, not angry, not afraid, not panicked, not alarmed. The son always remembers and does not dare to forget. ”

"If you remember, do it. What you see and hear may be true or false, which requires you to calm down and analyze it slowly, peeling back the cocoon, in order to see the truth. When you see the truth, you can understand how to respond. An Jieyu still calmly instructed, as if she was talking to the air, "Fortunately, the Qihe Hall is not far away, so if you have time, you can accompany Weiniang to recite the scriptures for your sister." ”

"My son understands." An Jieyu's words calmed Mu Linghong a lot. He was still a little impatient, just because Mu Jianyu disrupted his plan, he almost couldn't sit still, "If the mother has nothing to do, the son will retire." ”

"Go, go to the Qihe Hall to see your new residence." An Jieyu didn't hold back, as soon as the words fell, the sound of the rosary colliding sounded.

"My son is leaving." Mu Linghong walked backwards and left.

"Ma'am, everyone is almost here. The last group will enter the city early tomorrow morning. Ke Xia stood in front of Yue Shumei with his hands down and reported on the work of the past few days.

"Well, when they arrive, they will infiltrate the Zhang Guoshi Mansion as originally planned. Food and weapons have already been arranged. Yue Shumei took a sip of tea and continued, "A few days ago, I received news from the palace that Mu Jianyu wanted to depose the crown prince, but in the end he was blocked by a will of the queen mother, but is there such a thing? ”

"Yes, I also heard from the people I arranged in the Prince's Mansion." Kesha responded in a proper manner.

"Mu Jianyu is too self-conscious. In order to let her son Mu Jianyu ascend the throne smoothly, the queen mother fought with the harem concubines at that time, and fought with the first emperor, and finally Mu Jianyu ascended the throne, Mu Jianyu also had to fight with his mother, he was his mother's opponent. Yue Shumei sneered, "In other words, Mu Jianyu is preparing to depose the crown prince, and who are you going to appoint as the crown prince?" ”

"This ...... The little ones don't dare to talk nonsense, if it's about intimacy, it must be that the twelve princes are more loving than the seven princes, and if it's about the eldest and youngest, the seven princes are more suitable. Kesha seriously analyzed.

"The Twelve Princes are just a milky doll that has not dried up, and is still curled up in swaddling clothes, what can it do. It's the Seven Princes, what is his origin? ”

"There are very few rumors about the Seven Princes in the world, I only know that it is the child of An Jieyu in the palace, and he is not favored like his mother, he was crowned king early and driven out of the holy city, and his recent return to the city seems to be just a debriefing, and according to the observation of small arrangers, this Seven Princes is wandering around the city every day, and he doesn't communicate with anyone, so he can't see what purpose he has except to wander. It's just ......" Kesha wanted to say and stopped.

"Just what?"

"It's just that today I heard that King Qi was named Prince Qi, gave Qi He Palace, and lived in the palace. It seems that Mu Jianyu doesn't plan to let him return to the fiefdom. ”

"Reliable information?" Yue Shumei's face became slightly solemn.

"This one needs to be smaller, go and do more research."

"Check it out! Check this Prince Qi for me! ”