In the evening, Mo Bai had dinner with Lin Suyin.

It was Lin Suyin who took the initiative to find Mobai, she naturally didn't come to accompany Mobai to dine, but mainly to ask Lin Dingyu about the situation over there.

Since she went to put pressure on Chu Ruocai last night, she has been waiting for Chu Ruocai's side to rescue Lin Dingyu.

She was in the Ming Palace, and there was no outside news channel, so she could only ask Lin Dingyu if there was any movement over there.

She's been here several times a day.

Hearing "no movement for the time being" from Mo Bai's mouth again, Lin Suyin's already pale face became more and more gloomy.

However, after all, she didn't open her mouth again to ask Mobai to rescue Lin Dingyu, but only asked Mobai to tell her as soon as she could tell her if there was any movement, so she got up and left.

Seeing her back leave, Mo Bai also put down his chopsticks, picked up the wine glass and drank it all.

……

Coming to the front hall, Lu Xunyi was already waiting.

Seeing his figure, he saluted and said, "Sixth Master!" ”

Mo Bai nodded, sat down on the main seat, picked up the teacup on the table, and asked, "How is it in the palace?" ”

"After Yu Zheng and Lu Yutong returned to the palace from the Qu Guo Mansion to refute the rumors, the current situation has basically calmed down." Lu Xunyi reported.

"Lao Jiu never interfered?" Mo Bai rubbed the teacup in his hand and asked thoughtfully.

"No, whether it was the hundred officials forcing the palace to meet him, or Hu Ge Lao came out to refute the rumors, in the end, Yu Zheng and Lu Yu returned to the palace to clarify, and the imperial study remained silent and did not interfere." Lu Xunyi shook his head.

"I thought that he would announce the death of Qu Guogong and make trouble for us when the rumors were spreading and hundreds of officials were forcing the palace, but I didn't expect him to calm down." Mo Bai rubbed the teacup in his hand and said softly.

Lu Xunyi groaned: "There are two possibilities, one is out of fear of the Ming Palace, and he doesn't dare to act rashly. The second is that he is scheming and does not want to make extraneous branches, so he deliberately shows weakness. ”

"Well, whatever he thinks, let him go!" Mo Bai took a sip of tea and said calmly.

Lu Xunyi nodded, if the person in the imperial study had already made up his mind and would have to turn his face tomorrow, then no one could change it.

At this point, it no longer makes sense to work Lao Jiu's ideas.

The only thing the Ming Wangfu can do now is to take more precautions against all situations in order to deal with all the situations that may arise tomorrow.

Mo Bai put down the cup and asked, "Is there anything wrong with Jingying?" ”

"So far, there have been no unusual movements." Lu Xunyi replied in a deep voice.

"Hmm." Mo Bai nodded, and after a moment of silence, he said: "The Jingying is only under martial law outside the palace, and many of the generals are Fang Shuai's subordinates, Lao Jiu and Fang Shuai have long had a grudge, he will not dare to transfer the Beijing camp to deal with me, he will ultimately rely on the forbidden army." ”

"Mo Beichuan ......" Mo Bai muttered the name and looked at Lu Xunyi: "What is the situation on King De's side, why is there no news yet?" ”

"I only know that King De angered His Majesty by interceding with those ministers who forced the palace, and he is still persuading His Majesty to release people in the imperial study." Lu Xunyi reported.

Mo Bai frowned when he heard this: "Most of those who were taken down were Qu officials, Hu Qingyan did not take the opportunity to attack dissidents, and offered to release them, how could Lao Jiu interfere in this matter?" ”

Lu Xunyi said: "After the news came out, Hu Ge Lao was also very surprised, and personally went to the imperial study to find out what was going on, but His Majesty directly refused to see him. Later, Zhang Bangli went to Mo Beichuan again, and confirmed from Mo Beichuan that King De was indeed angry with His Majesty because he begged His Majesty to release him. As for why this is so, Mo Beichuan did not say it explicitly, but only vaguely said that His Majesty now hates people who dare to force the palace. ”

Mo Bai was stunned when he heard this, isn't this just saying that Lao Jiu hates himself to the core, but he can't help himself, so he is angry with the officials who also dare to force him to force the palace.

It's not impossible to say that.

Mo Bai still said: "After all, these people are his own people, if Lao Jiu wants to turn over, he will use them in the end." Even if he is angry in his heart, he shouldn't have a seizure now, isn't this self-destructing his foundation? Lao Jiu doesn't even have this bit of a city government. ”

Lu Xunyi thought for a while and said, "Could it be that it was done on purpose to show us?" Just as he did not announce the news of Qu Guogong's death in the morning, it was all to show weakness in front of us, to make us believe that he was really disheartened. ”

"Is this necessary, he should know very well that even if he kills all the officials of the Qu system now, it is impossible for me to believe him. Whether we can get along well or not depends on whether he will turn against me tomorrow. Other than that, everything is empty. Mo Bai shook his head.

Lu Xunyi said: "As the so-called thief has a weak heart, Your Majesty may not be worried, because we are afraid that he will turn his face tomorrow and finally change his mind, and attack him before he ascends the throne." So he felt that it was possible to do something at this time to make us less wary of him. ”

Not ruling out this possibility, Mo Bai bowed his head, pondered for a moment, suddenly looked at Lu Xunyi again, and asked, "You just said that King De is still trying to persuade His Majesty to release people in the imperial study?" ”

"Yes, many of the Qu officials who were taken down this time were on duty in the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Industry, and they were the main persons in charge of preparing for the enthronement ceremony. If these people are not released, they will have a great impact on the holding of tomorrow's ceremony. Therefore, even Hu Qingyan advocated releasing people, and did not take the opportunity to deal with Qu's dissidents. Lu Xunyi nodded.

After listening to this, Mo Bai was slightly silent, and then asked: "Before King De went to the imperial study, did he go to Mo Beichuan alone?" ”

"Before King De went to see His Majesty, he went to find Mobeichuan first." Lu Xunyi replied.

Hearing this, Mo Bai's expression condensed slightly, and then asked, "How long has he been with Mo Beichuan?" ”

Lu Xunyi really didn't pay attention to this, and after hearing this, he was slightly stunned, and said: "This is not clear, after King De went to find Mo Beichuan, he never showed up again, until the news of him being reprimanded in the imperial study was reported, and it was about a total of more than an hour." ”

Speaking of this, Lu Xunyi finally reacted, and His Highness asked, as if he meant something else.

After pondering for a while, he raised his eyes to see Mo Bai's increasingly solemn face, and couldn't help but feel his heart skip a beat, and asked carefully: "Is Your Highness suspicious that King De has already had a secret conversation with Mo Beichuan when he went to find Mo Beichuan?" ”

Mo Bai glanced at him and said in a deep voice: "Do you think King De is a person who doesn't know the severity?" He didn't know that we were still waiting for news from him? The preparation of the ceremony is indeed important, but which is more important than what I explained about the matter involving Mobeichuan? But now King De is still in the imperial study, busy with the so-called release of people, do you think this is normal? ”

Lu Xunyi heard this, and his complexion gradually changed.

Mo Bai continued: "Besides, in order to avoid suspicion, King De always avoided contact with Mo Beichuan during the time of the first emperor. This release of people will have some entanglement with Mo Beichuan, and if King Yide has always avoided suspicion, I am afraid he will not take over. Since I agreed today, I took the initiative to find Mo Beichuan, most likely because of my explanation to him yesterday, he used this reason to release people to go to Mo Beichuan for a secret talk. ”

"But such a major matter related to the life of the family, King De should not dare to be so careless, so he went directly to the Praetorian Guard Camp to talk to Mo Beichuan, no matter what, Mo Beichuan is a Praetorian Guard general who is directly responsible to the Son of Heaven, even if King De has a favor for him, it does not mean that King De can run in front of him to let him betray His Majesty. King De ran like this, if he didn't talk to Mo Beichuan, then could he still get out of the Praetorian Guard......"

Lu Xunyi obviously hadn't thought about this before.

Although he knew that King Ming asked King De to subdue Mo Beichuan, he thought that King De must be careful to avoid the eyes and ears of others, and would not let anyone know that he went to see Mo Beichuan.

It was impossible to be so open-minded, and everyone ran to Mo Beichuan to talk about such a confidential matter.

It is precisely because of this that he did not think about the matter of King De going to find Mo Beichuan today.

However, halfway through his words at this moment, he was shocked, didn't King De just come out after he went to see Mo Beichuan?

Although he was still not sure whether King Ming's guess was right, Lu Xunyi still showed shame: "This matter is my negligence, and I almost missed a major event." ”

Mo Bai's face also turned cold, and he didn't pursue this.

In fact, if it weren't for Lao Jiu's anger because of the release of people, which made Mo Bai always feel wrong, he wouldn't have thought of this.

As Lu Xunyi said, this is a major matter involving the life of the family, and he went directly to find Mo Beichuan, if Mo Beichuan refused to rebel, then King De would throw himself into the net.

Mo Bai said in a deep voice: "The relationship between King De and Mo Beichuan may be closer than we think, so close that he is sure that even if he reveals to Mo Beichuan that he has betrayed His Majesty and taken refuge in our Ming Palace, Mo Beichuan will not touch him." It's just that this time he is afraid that he is overconfident this time, if nothing else, King De should have an accident. ”

After that, Mo Bai got up directly: "I'll go to the palace." ”

"No!" When Lu Xunyi heard this, he immediately stopped: "Your Highness, everything is still just speculation, the current focus is to determine the situation of King De first, if it is really as we expected, it is not too late to make plans." ”

"If I don't enter the palace, I can't be sure of the situation, Hu Qingyan and Zhang Bangli can't force their way into the imperial study, they have neither the heart nor the courage, and now they can't determine the situation except for me entering the palace in person." Mo Bai Dao.

"You can summon the ......" Lu Xunyi was so anxious that he almost said that he would let the Queen Mother go to the imperial study to investigate.

But fortunately, he reacted quickly and didn't really say it.

Now it's still unclear what the situation is in the palace, if King De has really had an accident, then the Queen Mother's imperial study to stab through this matter, isn't it to send the Queen Mother into danger?

I had to change my words: "Your Highness, the situation is unknown now, if Your Majesty really breaks the kettle, and with the help of Mo Beichuan, it is too dangerous for Your Highness to enter the palace so rashly......"

Thoughts flashed in Mo Bai's eyes, and he shook his head and said: "The danger is there, but it's not that big, the most important thing now is that I must find King De immediately, and I must confirm how much Lao Jiu knows from King De, as long as King De doesn't confide in that secret agreement, it's not a big problem." Even if Lao Jiu knew that King De had taken refuge in us, how dare he help me? If you act rashly, you are not afraid that the original palace change will repeat again? ”

"But what if King De has already revealed it?" Lu Xunyi said uneasily in his heart.

"Then tonight, Lao Jiu and I are destined to have only one person to see the sun tomorrow." The white figure flashed and disappeared.