At the Palace Dinner.

The Emperor raised his glass and invited everyone to spend this time together. At the same time, Mu Qingfeng had also returned to the banquet and sat beside Mu Lingxuan.

"Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and I celebrate with all the Aiqing. May the new year be a year of peace and security, smooth wind and rain, and talents. After the emperor finished speaking, he drank the golden bottle of wine in his hand.

Everyone below rose accordingly and raised their glasses back to the Ninety-Five Supreme who was sitting on the throne.

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live." A cadre of people shouted long live.

The prince raised his glass to make a toast, "Erchen wishes my father all the best in the new year, and wishes the people of Wuguo a happy life." ”

The emperor was very satisfied with this, and nodded again and again. The ministers under the seat were amazed.

"The prince is really the dragon and phoenix among people, polite, and has the world in mind."

There were also some courtiers' wives and daughters whispering about this man of extraordinary bearing and noble status, and several young women with good faces couldn't help but cast admiring glances at this man, and their expressions were full of admiration.

"Eniang, you said that later, Rong'er would be good to present a song to the emperor." The woman leaned sideways and whispered softly to her mother.

This woman is the daughter of Taifu Qiu of the current dynasty, and she is slim and elegant, with willow leaves and curved eyebrows, and bright apricot eyes. It is rumored that his father has cultivated with all his might, and he is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.

After the prince finished toasting, Mu Qingfeng responded to the salute, got up and toasted to the emperor and the ministers, "The son wishes his father and the emperor great blessings, and I wish the country and the people of Wuguo." The majestic man looked at the emperor on the throne with burning eyes. The emperor's eyes showed relief and approval.

Everyone in the seat understands that the third prince is now a very important son in the eyes of the emperor, although the position of the prince has already been decided, but there is no guarantee that the position of the prince will not change hands, although most of the forces in the court are one-sided, the prince has the support of many people, but Mu Qingfeng has the queen to escort him, and the family behind the queen is naturally dedicated to Mu Qingfeng, so these two princes will be the best candidates for the heir to the throne. I'm afraid that the battle for the throne between these two princes will bring a different story to this Jinluan Palace.

"This third prince doesn't look half a point inferior to the crown prince." The people below have naturally begun to talk about these two princes.

At the banquet, everyone laughed and laughed, drank and delicacies, sang and laughed.

Except for Mu Qingfeng, probably all the people were immersed in the joy of this festival, and suddenly Mu Qingfeng's guards quietly came to his side, leaned down and whispered: "The subordinates did not find any trace of Miss Shen, but only found out that the last people who saw Miss Shen were a few little eunuchs, it is said that Miss Shen turned back to the firecracker workshop because she lost something, and no one has seen Miss Shen since then, even the little peach girl in Miss Shen's house has never seen Miss Shen." “

Mu Qingfeng's expression was cold, his eyebrows were tightly locked, and the hand holding the wine glass couldn't help but increase his strength, sure enough, from just now he noticed that Shen Mei was not in the palace, and sent his own guards to find out, now that the dinner has begun, she is not in the palace, not good, something must have happened to Shen Mei, otherwise she would not be absent for no reason on this occasion today.

immediately got up, took advantage of the moment when the emperor and the queen were talking and laughing, and left his position.

Outside the hall, Mu Qingfeng sent someone to find those eunuchs, those eunuchs had never seen this prince so angry, even if he didn't speak, he could feel a cautious chill from his peach blossom eyes, which was a little colder than the cold wind in this winter.

"Say, Miss Shen is nowhere to be seen." The tone is cold, but it gives people an invisible sense of oppression.

"The little ones really saw Miss Shen turn back to the Firecracker Workshop, and they didn't see the girls anymore after that, it's none of the business." The little eunuch who spoke was afraid of offending Mu Qingfeng, so he hurriedly explained.

Mu Qingfeng swept the person in front of him with cold eyes, flew and jumped, and the whole person disappeared in front of everyone, and the guards beside him also followed Mu Qingfeng's movements.

A few little eunuchs only heard the last words left by the guards before leaving, and if anyone dared to publicize the matter, he would not be blamed for his sword without eyes. A few people were left looking at each other in a panic.

After a while, Mu Qingfeng came to the firecracker workshop, looked around, but did not see Shen Mei's figure, suddenly saw a glimmer of light in a room filled with ** smell, and took a closer look, it was the silver hairpin that Shen Mei was wearing today, lowered his body and picked up Shen Mei's hairpin, Mu Qingfeng's guards then arrived, lit a lamp in his hand, and saw that there were still a few drops of blood that had already turned black where the hairpin was left, Mu Qingfeng only felt a tightness in his chest, and the anger between his eyebrows and eyes could no longer be suppressed.

"Let the fourth uncle send someone to find out the person for me." A cold sound rang out in the dimly lit room.

"Subordinates receive orders."

Mu Qingfeng suddenly found that the blood stains on the ground disappeared until the window, and then walked to the window, sure enough, the window was now half-hidden, he pushed open the window, and there was a courtyard outside the window, and he vaguely saw the blood stains underneath, and his heart was tight, he must find Shen Mei. Mu Qingfeng walked along the bloodstains to the outside of the palace wall in the west, the towering palace wall cut off the bloodstains, and the last drop of blood was splashed on the wall.

This thief actually entered the palace and dared to do such a thing under his nose, he Mu Qingfeng must kill this person with his own hands.

Mu Qingfeng took out a delicate piccolo on his waist, blew out a melodious melody, and then withdrew it.

In an instant, several people were photocopied on the wall, only to hear Mu Qingfeng speak: "Shen Mei was hidden in the palace, she should be found according to the bloodstains, without further ado, I want to see people dead or corpses." There was a cold hint in the man's voice, and his eyes were cold.

"Subordinates obey."

Several figures leaped over the walls of the palace.

These people are the most powerful helpers under Mu Qingfeng's fourth uncle, and they are respected as the Seven Evils on the rivers and lakes.

Shen Mei suddenly felt something strange outside the house, afraid that it was the person who had harmed her before, so she quickly moved to the corner of the house, curled up and trembled in the dark, for some reason she remembered Mu Qingfeng in her mind, I don't know if he found out that he was missing, he should still be at the dinner party at this time.

I only heard the door lock fall to the ground, the door was pushed open, Shen Mei saw a tall figure enter the room, nervously covered her mouth with her hand, afraid that she would make a little noise, seeing the figure stop in front of the door, suddenly turned her head to look in her direction.