A secret door in the screen behind him slowly opened, Mu Chen's white clothes fluttered lightly, and the silver embroidery reflected the bright candlelight, and he said softly: "Very good." ”

Qing Ling turned around and smiled, "It's not that you teach well. ”

Mu Chen's leg injury has just healed, and he is still a little lame when he moves. Xun reached out to help, but he raised his hand to stop him.

Qing Ling stood up and walked in front of Mu Chen, "Do you want to sit down?" ”

Mu Chen shook his head, "I'll leave the table under the pretext of leaving the table, and I'll go back from the secret passage later, so as not to make them suspicious." ”

Tonight, the royal family and the children of the family gathered in Hongyuefang, drinking and having fun, and Mu Chen had the opportunity to go out of the palace and make an appointment with Qingling to meet Mu Duan.

Qing Ling said: "When he hesitated for a while just now, I was really worried that he wouldn't agree, or tell me about finding him, implicating the people on the list." ”

Mu Chen said: "That list is false and real, even if he really checks it carefully, he may not be able to see the clues." ”

Qing Ling thought for a moment and asked, "There is something I can't figure out. Since your ultimate goal is just to ask him not to deliberately exclude your people, suppress their military merits, and let them rise to power by virtue of their own merits, why don't you explain it at the beginning? This is much easier than asking him to arrange important positions in the army, and he will not be so hesitant, which makes me anxious. ”

Mu Chen lowered his eyes and smiled, "This is the means of negotiation." The requirements are higher at the beginning, and the room for maneuver is greater. The promise of the other party is just the opposite, the result of the promise at the beginning is lower, such as promising 100 gold, but in fact taking out a thousand gold, and finally it can make people more grateful. ”

Qing Ling silently digested Mu Chen's "teachings", and sighed at the end: "I really have to obey!" If you hadn't taught me these things and helped me analyze their psychology, whether it was in front of Yu Shicheng or my father, I really don't know how to convince them! ”

Mu Chen said: "Your ability to perceive people's hearts is not worse than mine, but you lack understanding of the affairs of the court. ...... time"

He paused suddenly, feeling a little inexplicable melancholy in his heart, silently shut up, and stopped talking.

He tried his best to return to the royal family, but he also knew that the road ahead was bumpy, and it was not an overnight thing to win the trust of the emperor again and seize power in the court. For this reason, he devoted himself to planning and planning, and was ready to cultivate obscurity and gradual progress for the next hundreds of years, so that the forces loyal to him would slowly infiltrate into the military and politics.

However, Qing Ling's sudden identity reversal and sudden status and power made the progress of the plan unexpectedly accelerated.

But if he had a choice, he would rather embark on the slower and more difficult path......

Qing Ling understood his thoughts, looked away and smiled, then took over and quipped: "In time, I will be able to cover the sky with one hand." ”

In the days when Mu Chen was recuperating from his injuries in the Yinque Palace, the two carefully analyzed and studied the current situation. Now that he can sit down and talk calmly and honestly, Qingling has also lost a lot of stubbornness and hesitation in the past, and focuses on achieving his goals. Both of them deliberately focused their minds on the big plan, no longer thinking about the past of those children's love, and there was an unprecedented tacit understanding between them, and no one wanted to touch and break it......

Mu Chen left from the dark passage, while Qing Ling and Xun went out of the house and walked back the way they came.

Outside the pavilion, the moon and stars are sparse, the clouds are dark, and the fragrance of music and flowers is not different from when entering the workshop, but the mood after relaxing is very different.

Qingling walked briskly through the flowers and willows, walking in the direction of entering the door, and suddenly heard a familiar scolding —

"Bold! Who are you? How dare you stop me? ”

She followed the prestige and saw Ah Jing, dressed as a man, pointing at a woman from the Red Moon Workshop. Looking at the posture, it's almost like a slap in the face......

Qing Ling stopped and hesitated for a moment, but still walked over.

"Why are you here?"

She stepped forward and pulled Ah Jing's arm, and when she saw Ah Jing's angry peach blossom eyes, she immediately glanced over, and hurriedly whispered to reveal her identity: "It's me, Qingling." ”

Both of them transformed into male appearances, but Ah Jing's cultivation was far lower than that of Qingling, and her true appearance was seen through at a glance.

Hearing this, Ah Jing broke free of her hand, but her tone finally softened a little, "Can't I come if you can?" Then he questioned the woman opposite: "You say, why don't you let me in?" Where is the money given to you less? ”

The woman held a bag of objects wrapped in silk handkerchiefs, bowed helplessly and explained: "Thank you for your generosity. But Hongyuefang has rules, and guests who are not introduced are not allowed to enter. If the son breaks in, the slave family can only call the nursing home to come. ”

She saw that Ah Jing was gorgeously dressed and generous, but she was a son of a wealthy family who didn't know the rules for the first time, so she politely explained to him, but she didn't know that she was a completely unreasonable person, and she was looking for someone in a panic, and she broke into it while panicking......

As soon as the nursing home came, Ah Jing made trouble again, and even the forbidden army would be alarmed. Qing Ling couldn't stand by anymore, so he took out his waist card and said: "This son is my brother, and he was introduced by me." I would like to ask the girl to make it easier. ”

The woman glanced at the waist card in Qing Ling's hand, and then saluted, "Yes." ”

Red Moon Fang has been operating in Lingxiao City for more than a thousand years, and its status has always been strong, and it is rumored that its proprietor, Min Niang, has a close friendship with the powerful people of the dynasty, so he has received a lot of protection and favors. However, few people actually know that the person behind Min Niang is Mu Chen, the most disadvantaged prince of Chaoyan today.

Nanguo Pan Ye and Zhong Qi are both famous for their abundance of beautiful women. At the beginning of the founding of Chaoyan, there were many fireworks girls from the south who settled in Lingxiao City to run the business in Fengyue Field. Later, under the instruction and support of the previous generation of the lord of the Fenye Kingdom, an organization to collect intelligence for the southern country was gradually formed, which was the predecessor of the Red Moon Fang.

Later, Emperor Hao suppressed the southern kingdom one after another, and the national power of Fan Ye became weaker and weaker, and after several changes of ownership, he slowly lost control of Hongyuefang. At that time, Hongyuefang also lost confidence in the cowardly Fan Ye royal family, and instead focused on helping Ji Zhenji, the eldest king of Fan Ye, who married into Chaoyan.

Zhen Ji has a gentle and kind temperament, and takes care of the women of her homeland who live in Lingxiao City many times, so she is also deeply loved by the clan. However, she has a distant, has no intention of operating power, and has never used Hongyuefang to do anything, but before she died of illness, she secretly entrusted Min Niang to help her son Mu Chen when necessary.

At first, Mu Chen had a high reputation and a stable position in the royal family and the court, so Min Niang did not take the initiative to contact him. Later, the Fang Shan clan began to stir up the political situation, and there were actions against Mu Chen one after another. Min Niang saw the signs, so she found Mu Chen to identify herself, but unfortunately it was too late, and she still couldn't block the final joint attack of the Fang Shan clan and the Mo Nan clan.

When Qing Ling first learned about this "secret", he was quite hard to believe.

It is not difficult to connect the charming Luo Yao with the slender of Wutong Town. But it is really ...... to pull the elegant Mu Chen and the Red Moon Fang in Chun Yuyan's mouth together It's a bit out of line.

Ah Jing was pulled by Qing Ling to the corner of a secluded verandah.

"Where did you get that waist tag? What do you want to do when you go to Red Moon Fang? She interrogated.

Qingling was familiar with Ah Jing's temper, and just now she didn't want to see things get big and there was any possibility of implicating Mu Chen, so she came forward to "save" her. Now that she was questioned about herself, she could only arrange it indiscriminately: "Didn't my father give me a token to enter and exit the Vermilion Bird Palace?" I showed the token to the owner here. She knew that my identity was important, so she gave me a waist card. ”

Ah Jing didn't have the privilege of leaving the palace at will, and this time her anger also sneaked out, and now when she heard Qing Ling say this, the grievances in her stomach came up again, and she stared at Qing Ling with a slight red corner of her eyes, "What identity matters?" If you have the ability, you can let your father take back his order and not send troops to the south! ”

Her afterglow swept over Xun behind Qing Ling, and then she turned her head to look at the dissolving pool water in the night, as if she was trying to control her emotions.

Qing Ling gave Xun a look, motioned for him to retreat aside, and then asked Ajing, "What are you doing here?" If his father found out, wouldn't he be punished in vain? ”

Ah Jing was silent for a long time, and her tone was slightly choked, "If he wants to be punished, he will be punished." It's better to kill me......"

Qing Ling was surprised, "What are you talking nonsense?" ”

Ah Jing turned around suddenly, hugged Qing Ling, and two lines of tears flowed down, "Why do you say he is so ruthless?" I have to destroy the nine hills...... He clearly knew that the queen of Jiuqiu was Fuyao's mother......"

Qing Ling had never seen Ah Jing like this, and she was a little overwhelmed for a while. She grew up around a group of senior brothers, and there is no lack of sibling care like brothers and sisters. However, at this moment, the soft body with the fragrance of fat powder is close to herself, begging for comfort and pouring out the girl's heart, but it is a kind of sisterhood that has never been experienced.

Qing Ling slowly raised his hand and stroked Ah Jing's back comfortingly, "Father's order to attack Yuzhong, not Jiuqiu, don't worry." ”

However, it didn't take long for Ah Jing to allow herself to show weakness.

She propped up her head and suppressed her crying, "Don't take me for a fool! I've been in the palace longer than you, how can I not know my father's thoughts! ”

She pushed Qing Ling away and said resentfully: "You are naturally happy, I wish your father would destroy Jiuqiu so that you can avenge your mother......

Not only Qingling, but all the people around him are looking forward to Chaoyan's complete victory and domination of the Eastern Continent!

Needless to say, Mu Han and the cousins of the Fang Shan family, even his close friends, Mo Nan Shiyin, Xi Ying, Mu Linglu or something, because their father and brother held important positions in the army, they all wished that Chaoyan would win in one fell swoop and set foot in the southern country!

She tentatively revealed some of her thoughts to her mother, but was severely beaten by Queen Fangshan, warning her not to show the slightest sympathy for Jiuqiu in front of her father. If Daze is really involved in the end, she must immediately dissociate herself from the Baili family and regard the Fuyao brothers and sisters as strangers and enemies......

Ah Jing held back her grievances, didn't dare to vent in front of her parents, and couldn't find anyone to talk to, so she ran out of the palace in one go.