Chapter 225: Hope

If it weren't for the acquaintance, with his understanding of Bei Xiaohan, he would definitely not take the initiative to help Qing Mu.

"It turns out that person is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

Qing Mu was a little shocked, she just guessed that the person was the identity of a prince, but she didn't expect it to be the prince of the East Palace.

Mu Qi was obviously not satisfied with her reaction and snorted, "Huh? ”

Qing Mu honestly said that they bumped into each other that day.

"I don't know why he's helping me? Maybe it's pitiful to see me, I'm afraid I can't withstand the majesty of the Queen Mother! Qing Mu tentatively spoke, and saw that Mu Qi's face softened before he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Stay away from him in the future, the battle of the royal family is not so easy to get out of."

Qing Mu pursed his lips and didn't speak, and nodded after a while, "Well, I naturally know." ”

After the palace banquet, on the way back, King Yi specially sent Zeng Huaqian to sit in a carriage with Qing Qingran, and he got into the carriage where Qing Mu was.

"You've been in the palace this month, why didn't you say it?" turned out that his official position was one grade higher than his own grade.

Qing Mu saw King Yi's questioning eyes, and was a little amused, "Father, have you ever heard me explain?" ”

As long as he hears the rumors outside, he always scolds when he comes back and waits for her, even if it is not scolding, where has anyone really believed her.

King Yi was stunned by Qing Mu's question, and in retrospect, he really hadn't heard her explanation, and every time he opened his mouth, he was scolded.

"Wen'er, I ....."

"Father, I'm tired today, I don't want to say anything more." Qing Mu interrupted King Yi's words and closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.

"Alas......"

On the second day, Mu Shanjiu woke up and sat on the edge of the bed in a daze, she remembered that she was drunk, it was Mo Qingfeng who helped her go, and when she couldn't stand steadily in the background, Mo Qingfeng seemed to carry her again.

Xin'er pushed the door in and brought the water in, "County Lord, you can be regarded as awake!" ”

Since she came back to the house yesterday, she has been drunk, and she can't drink sobering tea, she has always gotten up early and doesn't snooze, and she slept surprisingly early in the morning today.

"Who sent me back yesterday?"

Mu Shan didn't pay attention to the nagging in her heart, but asked about last night's incident, she really didn't remember it clearly.

Xin'er cleaned the veil and handed it to her to wipe her face, and replied, "Master Mo came back with you, I opened the back door." The county lord can rest assured that no one will see it. ”

Mu Shan wanted to ask something, so Mu Xiang trotted all the way over to find Mu Shan, "Sister, my father asked me to call you over for lunch." ”

"Why did Dad suddenly let me dine with him?"

Mu Xiang didn't say anything, just urged vigorously: "Let's go, sister, Xiang'er is hungry!" ”

"Okay, Xiang'er, sister wash up immediately."

After freshening up, Mu Shan took Mu Xiang's hand and rushed to the hall. After lunch, Mu Xiang followed the housekeeper to take a lunch break, leaving Mu Shan and Mu Zhenghuai to sit.

"Shan'er, are you really moved by that ink boy?"

was suddenly asked, Mu Shan knew that his father must have known something, and he couldn't hide it now, so it was better to admit it generously.

"Dad, since he saved me, one of my hearts has been in him."

On that day, he helped himself get his money bag back, and he was injured in order to subdue the thief, and later helped her teach the bully who teased him on the street.

Everything she remembered deeply in her mind.

Mu Zhenghuai looked at Mu Shan's shy face, and knew that she was emotional, but he could see that Mo Qingfeng had no love for Shan'er at all, and some were just friends.

"Are you really in love with him?"

Mu Zhenghuai still wanted to ask again, he was a person who came over, and he was afraid that she would break her heart in the end, her mother left early, and as a father, she couldn't say a lot of intimate words, but now after all, it was a lifelong event for her daughter, so she could only take the initiative to speak.

Mu Shan glanced at Mu Zhenghuai with a red face, stomped his feet, and shouted softly, "Dad!" Then he turned and ran away.

The daughter's family's thoughts were brought up like this, so she was naturally a little embarrassed.

After Mu Zhenghuai watched Mu Shan leave, he could only sigh, the so-called children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, and the future depends on their own creation.

In the courtyard of the Dingwang Mansion, the dark fourteen knocked on the door, and the three treasures came to open the door slowly.

He didn't want to pay attention to those relatives who could only flatter and slap horses, he didn't care about him when he was in trouble, but now he heard that he was working as an errand in a rich family, and he ran so far to come to him.

Who knew that when he opened the door, he saw the dusty Dark Fourteen, "Dark Dudu, why are you here?" ”

"I'm on the orders of the major general, and I'm coming back to investigate some things, so I don't have to care."

After eating, he went to the periphery of the prime minister's mansion and walked around, planning to see the path, where it was more convenient to go in, and when it was dark, he would go in to check the situation.

Suddenly, a black shadow flashed, and Dark Fourteen hid in the dark, looking at the ghostly person, only to feel that this figure was very familiar. It's the godson that Qing Mu recognized before! No, now he is the adopted son of the Qing family.

Why is he here?

At night, inside the prime minister's old house.

Qiu Ling took Liu Yong down to the basement, and below was a row of dungeons, clearly visible under the swaying of candle flames, and there was a youtong in each dungeon.

With a pale face and lying lifeless on the dry grass, Liu Yong looked at this scene and twitched in his heart and clenched his fists.

I didn't expect the secret guards of the Night Palace to be so ferocious!

Qiu Ling wore a black gauze hat and completely covered her face, only to hear her sneer.

"What? Lord Liu, can't help it? If these children are still like this, the true dragon son will be like this one day. ”

Fourteen has already gone to the capital, they must not have imagined that the "Prime Minister Liu" in the capital will be pretended to be the killer of the Dark Night Palace, as long as they enter the palace, they will have the opportunity to get close to the old emperor, and it will be easy to kill him.

It's just that she doesn't allow it, she wants to avenge her family with her own hands, and letting the Fourteenth go to Beijing first is just for him to eradicate the right-hand men around the old emperor first.

Liu Yong ignored her taunts, but pleaded a little, "Let them go, they are still children, they shouldn't bear this kind of pain, how can you bear to do this!" You weren't like this before, you weren't like that when you were a kid......"

The methods of the Night Palace are so terrifying that they often change their faces in order not to reveal their identity, and every time they kill someone, they will peel off a person's face, and they will be warmed with your heart's blood.

He has not seen such a bloody picture in the Dark Night Palace in the past few days, he has arrested people back, locked them firmly with iron chains, scraped off his face alive, and those screams echoed in the cage, he often can't sleep at night these nights, and those scenes are those scenes when he closes his eyes.

"Shut up, you don't deserve to mention when you were a child!"

When they were children, they were indeed childhood sweethearts, growing up together, and the courtyards of the two families were only separated by a wall, and their teachers were the same person, but so what?

In the end, they became strangers, and her family died on the execution ground, but he became that person's most powerful courtier!

Qiu Ling in front of him is like a different person, they only have similar faces, if she is disguised by others, but he remembers everything between them, he has been in the Dark Night Palace for so long, and he still doesn't know anything about this woman codenamed Qiu Ling, this woman who looks the same as Qiu Ling.

He only hated himself for being a useless scholar, if he had the ability to do it like Xu Ran, he would be able to easily rescue these Youtong.

Seeing that Liu Yong was gone, the people on the side hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Protector, are you still taking your heart today?" ”

In the past, he took his heart and blood day and night, all in order to show the boy just now, so as to provoke him, but now he is gone.

"Take it, and send someone to send the packed blood to the capital after you get it!"

She didn't want Fourteen to make any mistakes and show her feet, if it weren't for his support, she wouldn't have been able to get out of the nameless mountain alive.

So she naturally hoped that he would live forever, complete the task, quit the Night Palace, and live his life well.

"Yes!"

A few of them answered, and went to another place with their things. Qiu Ling turned around and walked out of the dungeon, she needed to go back to the Night Palace.

Mo Qingfeng put on his night clothes, evaded the patrolling guards, and turned into the courtyard, where he heard the heart-rending cry of a child in the house.

There are really ghosts in this courtyard!

The capital, the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Fourteen sat in the study, looking through the things that Liu Yong had left behind.

It is not easy to eradicate the emperor's right-hand man, the uncle who is in the limelight today, as well as the outstanding Muqi, plus Prince Gu, these forces should not be underestimated.

When Prince Gu was still the prince, he was the most friendly with the Wing King, but in the future, he betrayed the Wing King for the sake of power, and wholeheartedly assisted the current saint. The Winged King had already given an order to separate the two of them, even if they couldn't kill him.

Fourteen flipped through and turned out a portrait, and the two people on the painting looked at each other with affection, they were a pair of beautiful people.

The man in the painting looks the same as him, and the woman is also Qiu Ling, who he is very familiar with, and the two of them look like a perfect match.

But he knew that the man in the painting was not him.

Thinking of this, Fourteen felt full of anger and tore the painting apart.

Xu Ran walked in and looked at the broken drawing paper.

"Prime Minister, isn't this a portrait of you and Miss Qiu? Why are you willing to tear it? ”

In the past, he had to take out this painting once a day to look at it, and then carefully put it back for fear of damaging it.

What's going on now? When I returned to Suzhou, I didn't see him looking for Miss Qiu. After he came back from worshipping his ancestors, he was still sick at home, and he didn't even attend the palace banquet of the Queen Mother, and now it is even more strange that he even tore up the things he cherished the most.

"People who change their minds like this, don't do it!" After Fourteen finished speaking, he shook his sleeves and left.

When the two of them were in Nameless Mountain, they supported each other, and he did his best for her in front, just to let her survive, and she always bandaged herself gently. He originally thought that there might be some different affection between them, but he didn't expect that after all, he couldn't compare to her childhood sweetheart!

The two are inseparable in Suzhou, but he helps her avenge her in the capital.

What is this love? It's so crazy!

Xu Ran only thought that he had learned some bad news, maybe this autumn girl had married another woman, so the prime minister was depressed, so he ruined the painting.

Thinking about it, he squatted down, picked up all the scraps of paper, took them all back to his room, and put them together one by one.

Wait for the prime minister to be angry and then pay him back, after all, this is one of his thoughts.

"Hurry up and get a bowl of decanting soup."

Lou Qingyao was angry and distressed when she saw Pingyang who was drunk on the bed, and hurriedly asked Qiu'er to get the sobering soup. I fed her and drank it myself.

Mama Chang, who was accompanying her, could see that the queen actually felt very sorry for the princess, but the two were always at odds, and only when the princess was drunk, would she be so well-behaved and let the queen touch her.

"Qiu'er, go and make some porridge with me, the princess will be hungry when she wakes up at night, and she won't digest those pastries if she eats too much."

Qiu'er saluted, followed Mama Chang and walked out, leaving the house to their mother and daughter.

Waiting for everyone to retreat, Lou Qingyao approached Pingyang and imprinted a kiss on her cheek.

"Yang'er, my poor boy, have you really thought about that Mu Qi?"

Today she could see it clearly in the seat, Pingyang saw Qing Mu and Mu Qi entering and leaving together, although there was no Ren Qing dislike on her face, but the spirits in her hand were down one after another.

I guess I don't care about it.

Pingyang seemed to be touched, and muttered a few words, "Mother, Chen... My brother doesn't like Yang'er. But... Yang'er likes him very much. ”

After muttering, a few tears fell from the corners of his eyes.

The child actually called her mother in her dream, although she knew that Pingyang was calling the concubine who had already gone first, but she felt that this was calling her again.

Lou Qingyao's eyes could no longer contain the hot teardrops, and one after another fell, and he swore in his mouth, "Yang'er, don't worry, Mu Qi can only be yours, and everything has a queen mother." ”

Among her two children, the one who owes the most is Pingyang, who is obviously her own flesh and blood, but she can't recognize each other. Now that Han'er is already the prince, he can only wronged him and marry the medical girl Qingmu, and Mu Qi is naturally Yang'er's.

In the prime minister's old mansion, Mo Qingfeng flashed into the room where he saw the masked man that day, and walked around the house and found nothing abnormal.

"It's weird, the sound is from here......"

Hearing the footsteps outside, Mo Qingfeng hurriedly dodged and jumped on the bed, but his center of gravity was unstable and he fell from the inside.

"Shhhh

Mo Qingfeng covered his back in pain, and slowly stood up, only to find that there was actually a dungeon under this room, and he should have accidentally touched the switch just now.

Although it was lit by candles, the whole space was still very dim, and before he could react, he heard the sound of someone talking.

"Do you hear the movement?"

"Let's go! Check it out! ”

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and Mo Qingfeng leaned his body as close to the wall as possible, holding his breath and hiding his figure. When the person approached, he stepped out with a brisk step and raised his hand to knock the person unconscious.

Before he could react, someone rushed up from behind, and Mo Qingfeng just wanted to make a move, when the man in black suddenly appeared and dealt with the person who rushed towards him.

"You are ???"

"Let's go! We've got to get these kids out there! ”

After Dark Fourteen finished speaking, he walked quickly forward, he entered through another entrance, and was the first to see the rows of cells in the dungeon, about a dozen children, most of them were locked in with pale faces.

As soon as he finished speaking, the entire dungeon was surrounded.

"Someone broke in, on, slaughtered on the spot!"

With the order of the leader, a group of people surrounded him, Mo Qingfeng and Dark Fourteen glanced at each other, and tacitly fought a bloody way out.

"You go first, I'll break off."

Mo Qingfeng's arm was slashed, and the knife penetrated deep into the bone, penetrating the black night clothes. Dark Fourteen didn't answer him, threw down the smoke bomb, and took the opportunity to escape with Mo Qingfeng.

"I've got to bandage you first."

Dark Fourteen took ink Qingfeng and hid in a house in a remote courtyard, alarming the people in the house. Dark Fourteen was about to get rid of the person who spoke, but when he raised his eyes, he was stunned.

"Prime Minister Liu, why are you here?!"

Liu Yong recognized Dark Fourteen at a glance, he still had some friendship with Mu Qi, and this person had always been inseparable behind Mu Qi. However, didn't he return to Beijing with Mu Qi?

As soon as he finished asking this sentence, there was a sound of footsteps in the courtyard, "Young Master Liu, open the door!" There are Assassins in the house, and for your safety, we are going to search your room. ”

"Let's go! I don't have any Assassins here! ”

Liu Yong threw a porcelain cup, and at the same time gave Dark Fourteen a look at the two of them, and the two of them understood, hiding behind the bed curtain.

The guard who knocked on the door saw that Liu Yong was not cooperative, and said in a deep voice, "Since Liu Gongzi is not cooperative, then don't blame me for being rude." ”

Liu Yong pondered for a moment, picked up a broken porcelain piece and held it in his hand.

With a bang, the door was slammed open.

"Childe, I'm sorry."

Several people searched around but found no one, and when they were about to leave, the leader suddenly stopped.

"There's blood!"

Where Dark Fourteen and Mo Qingfeng stayed, there were indeed a few drops of blood, as well as some broken porcelain pieces.

"Young Master Liu, what's going on?"

"The cup shattered, and I accidentally cut my hand!" Liu Yong stretched out his hand unhurriedly and looked at the leader with a calm face.

"Disturb the child's rest, withdraw!"

The person to be searched left, and Dark Fourteen and Mo Qingfeng walked out, both of them looking at Liu Yong curiously.

Prime Minister Liu Cheng has finished worshipping his ancestors and returned to the capital, why did he appear here again? !

"Sit down!"

Dark Fourteen handed the rest of the gold sore medicine to Liu Yong, "Let's get some medicine!" ”

Although it was cut by broken porcelain, the wound was still a little deep, and I had to admire him, and I was willing to be so ruthless to myself.

"You must be very strange, why did the prime minister appear in the old mansion in Suzhou even though he had returned to Beijing."

Dark Fourteen frowned and said tentatively, "Are you really the prime minister?" ”

Liu Yong laughed helplessly, "I was kidnapped when I returned to my hometown to worship my ancestors that day, and now I am the one who kidnapped me in the capital." I don't know what method he used, that face looked exactly like mine, and now the ancestral house is full of their people. ”

He didn't tell the Dark Night Palace, there were too many doubts about Qiuling's affairs, and now was not the time.

"Prime Minister, why did that person do this? What happened to Youtong in the dungeon just now? ”

Now he has to rush back to the capital as soon as possible to stop that person, otherwise if His Majesty trusts "himself" too much, he is afraid that the consequences will be unimaginable.

"So the person in the carriage that day was no longer you?"

Mo Qingfeng couldn't help but sigh after hearing this, when they hadn't gone to the capital yet, they had a relationship with this prime minister, his voice was extremely feminine, and the leading guard was very arrogant.

Mo Qingfeng told Liu Yong about the encounter with the fake prime minister that day, and Liu Yong couldn't help laughing.

"Xu Ran is not bad, but he is a little short-tempered."

At the moment, he was worried that Xu Ran had a certain suspicion of the "self" in the Prime Minister's mansion, and he only hoped that if he really found out something, he could calm down.