At night, in the hall of Taifu's Mansion, a few bright candles were quietly lit, illuminating the expressions on the faces of the people in the hall.

Liu Zhixiao sat on the main seat and was still dressed during the day, but he wore a warm cloak, but he still couldn't help coughing lightly.

On the guest seat on the left-hand side below, Gui Yan stood on the side, Mo Yunchen was flashy in red, his long hair was loose and in a bun, and the candlelight on half of his male and female faces was indistinct, making people look like a charm, handsome and enchanting but with a faint and unpredictable danger.

Mo Yunchen ate the tea, and the tea gas instantly engulfed the rich medicinal fragrance on his body, and the tea only felt more bitter when he entered his mouth. So he put down the teacup, took out the mud gold painting autumn maple and red coral tassel from his sleeve and gently tapped it in the palm of his hand, turned his head to look at Liu Zhixiao's eyebrows and smiled, but it was more of a joke, "Just now you asked Liu Tuan to pass on the words to the people from the big house, but is it true?"

Today, Liu Zhixiao returned to the house in a fit of anger, and Mo Yunchen was also waiting in the Taifu Mansion early. During the discussion between the two, Liu Zhengqian's people came to ask to see him, and Liu Tuan drove people away for Liu Zhixiao, but he also brought back the words that the little guy wanted to pass on, saying that Liu Zhengqian beat Ming Yuelan forty times. Mo Yunchen couldn't help but laugh when he heard the news, but Liu Zhixiao's face turned even darker.

"Although the big house and the second room don't have much contact in this imperial capital, they can't be clean, and I won't lose face for the ridiculous things he did. Liu Zhixiao's face was as black as the bottom of the pot, which showed that he was very angry today.

"So you're looking for this king?" Mo Yunchen shook his head and said: "But the secret of the Liufu, how did an outsider of this king know that he was in a hurry to tell others that King Yi Yi had formed a party with the crown prince?"

Expecting Mo Yunchen's reaction, Liu Zhixiao said lightly: "When the ancestral hall of the Liu family opens, there must be someone watching from the Ji family, and the Ji family must know what happened inside." Even if the Ji family doesn't plan to get involved, as long as they think of a way to force the Ji family to prove that there is such a thing, the big house will definitely hurt its vitality!"

Mo Yunchen nodded, "Well, as soon as the matter is exposed, let's not say that Xiao Niang will be sent to heaven for buying murder, and her Liu Sanshu will also be implicated in many things, lose her good reputation and affect her future marriage, and Liu Zhengqian will be even more angry with Long Yan, maybe the emperor will take this opportunity to find out about Liu Zhengqian's other invisible people, and finally uproot the entire Weiguo Mansion." ”

"But ......," Mo Yunchen played with the red coral beads adorned with the folding fan. The coral beads were large and round, and the color was good, because Mo Yunchen was reluctant to perforate from the middle of the beads, so the craftsmen used a good sheep fat jade ring to ring the beads, and pierced holes in the jade ring to decorate the fan and tie the tassel. Mo Yunchen's fingers rubbed the pendant, and the slender fingers were a little better than the red and white ornaments, "The foundation of the Weiguo Mansion is so deep, where can it be lifted so lightly?"

"Moreover, except for the time when Tianqin encountered the danger of destroying the country more than seventy years ago, the Ji family let him Tianqin and his ministers make trouble at other times, when did the Ji family not just cultivate immortals and become gods?"

After Mo Yunchen finished speaking, Liu Zhixiao fell silent. After a long time, Liu Zhixiao said depressedly: "Do you just let Liu Zhengqian do such nonsense?"

"Naturally not," Mo Yunchen raised his head slightly and slanted his lips and smiled: "It's just that it's not the time yet." ”

"When is the time?" Liu Zhixiao's heart was full of anger, and he couldn't help but raise his voice a little higher, and he suddenly became so excited that he began to cough constantly.

Seeing Liu Zhixiao's reaction, Mo Yunchen couldn't help but look at him sideways, "Master Taifu, are you very different from the past?" Liu Zhixiao has always been steady, and he has endured it for nearly ten years in order to bring down Liu Zhengqian, why is he so uncalm when he opens an ancestral hall in Liufu today?

"Ahem, ahem, nothing. Knowing that he was overreacting, Liu Zhixiao was afraid that Mo Yunchen would see something, so he quickly calmed down and stopped coughing. What kind of person is Mo Yunchen, he entered the court at the age of fifteen, and in five years, he gathered a large number of forces in the court and jumped to the head of the four kings with different surnames, and he can be said to be the most powerful person in Tianqin except for the emperor and the concubine family. Such a powerful character, even if Liu Zhixiao wants to hide it, how can he not be seen by the other party?

Mo Yunchen looked at Liu Zhixiao's face flushed with coughing and anger, and the folding fan in his hand unfolded to cover his face and cover his smile, "Isn't Lord Taifu feeling sorry for his second niece?"

"How come?" Liu Zhixiao said calmly after soothing his breathing.

"Master Taifu, it is reasonable for the elders to feel sorry for the juniors. Besides, when the king looked at the willow two thousand gold, he was also very pitiful in his heart. At the mention of Liu Zhilan, Mo Yunchen covered the corners of his lips and couldn't help but raise them a little. I don't know if the medicine has been delivered to the north, and when it is delivered, is the medicine still hot?" "Why does Lord Taifu hide it in front of this king?"

"The prince is serious, and the lower officials dare not hide it from the prince. Liu Zhixiao replied to him with a wooden face, and Mo Yunchen was not annoyed, but the smile on his face was still a little lighter behind the fan.

"That's it. Mo Yunchen got up and closed his fan into his sleeves, "Master Taifu doesn't say it, and this king won't force you." ”

Thinking that Mo Yunchen was leaving, Liu Zhixiao hurriedly got up to see him off, but the other party walked up to him and smiled evilly at him: "It's just that there is something that this king thinks Lord Taifu needs to know." To tell you the truth, this king has formed an alliance with Liu Erqianjin and your second niece. Liu Zhixiao, your second niece is not simple! First, she went back to the house to pretend to be sick, and then she gave the plan to Ming Xiaoniang's mother and daughter, I wonder if there will be any inside story about this incident?"

"Lord Wang, what you said ......" The matter was suddenly said and there was a lot of information, Liu Zhixiao couldn't accept it for a while, just stared at Mo Yunchen with wide eyes, and couldn't say anything with his mouth open.

"I can't believe it, but it's true. Mo Yunchen looked at Liu Zhixiao, "Liu Zhilan is not an extraordinary person, this king has been with her for a month, and someone has been probing for a month, but nothing has been found." If it weren't for the person who was planted by this king in Liu Jiajun's letter yesterday saying that Liu Zhengqian was secretly using Liu Jiajun to secretly investigate Liu Zhilan's affairs, this king would still think that all the things that Liu Zhilan had done outside the imperial capital in the past 14 years had been wiped out by Liu Zhengqian. ”

"......" Liu Zhixiao was speechless, he stood still, his head down, not knowing what he was thinking.

Mo Yunchen smiled deeply, stepped forward and patted Liu Zhixiao's shoulder, and said in a low voice: "Liu Zhixiao, you know, as long as it doesn't endanger this king, this king doesn't mind that the people who work with him have a few secret things that hide from this king. But...... This king doesn't know anything about Liu Zhilan, how dare this king use such a person?"

Before Mo Yunchen's words fell, Liu Zhixiao suddenly raised his head and looked at him. Not caring about the one or two points of coldness faintly revealed in Liu Zhixiao's eyes, Mo Yunchen continued, but with a hint of cold killing intent in his smile, "Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can only be used for a long time, isn't it, Taifu?"

"Return to the geese, go. After saying what he had to say, Mo Yunchen turned around and left with Gui Yan. And Liu Zhixiao was still standing in place for a long time after Mo Yunchen left, and his whole body still felt cold.

"Master," Liu Tuan, who had been guarding outside the hall, turned back to find his master after luring Mo Yunchen out of the Taifu Mansion. But as soon as he entered the hall, he saw Liu Zhixiao standing in the hall in a daze, he hurriedly stepped forward and stood behind Liu Zhixiao's side and asked anxiously: "Yo, master, what's wrong with you, why are you just standing still?"

"Take me back to my room. Liu Zhixiao shook his head, then lowered his head and said no more. Seeing that he was tired, and then thinking that he was going to get sick if he got a little cold today, Liu Tuan didn't ask much, and hurriedly sent Liu Zhixiao back to the bedroom, and then sent someone to fetch hot water to serve Liu Zhixiao to bathe and boil ginger soup, in short, he tossed Liu Zhixiao for a while before letting him turn off the lights and rest.

When the people are gone, and the house is completely quiet. Liu Zhixiao lay on the couch and opened her eyes to look at the dark room, feeling uneasy as if she was about to step into the abyss.

Mo Yunchen's last words were already a very obvious threat. However, when Liu Zhilan was sent out of the mansion 14 years ago, he was only a teenager, and he had not yet entered the office, and at that time he and Liu Zhengqian had already had a disagreement, so how could Liu Zhengqian tell him the inside story of sending Liu Zhilan away? Besides, even now he is just a prince and a prince, and he is only responsible for the prince's teaching on weekdays, and how can he find out about things that even Mo Yunchen himself can't find out? But if he doesn't provide information to Mo Yunchen, although Liu Zhilan is allied with him, he is also a person in the Patriotic Mansion. Mo Yunchen has always been ruthless and unscrupulous towards political opponents, and it is not good to use Liu Zhilan until in the end, Mo Yunchen will really end up with her by the way!

Alas...... Liu Zhixiao let out a long sigh, it seems that he has to find a chance to meet Liu Zhilan. He helped her this time, so it should be easier for him to get news from her than Mo Yunchen.

Not far outside Taifu's mansion, Gui Yan drove the carriage and walked slowly and steadily. Mo Yunchen smiled after getting into the carriage, and at this moment he was holding his head on the small copywriter with his hand, and his eyes were closed in brocade.

"Why should the prince scare Lord Taifu?" Gui Yan sat in the front room of the carriage, he held the reins in his hand, hesitated for a while and asked the question in his heart.

"It's not something you can ask. Mo Yunchen closed his eyes and warned him.

"My subordinates know their mistakes. Gui Yan closed his mouth, but he could hear Mo Yunchen's voice in the carriage behind him slowly float out again, lazy, without any displeasure, "Don't scare him, how do you know if he cares about Liu Zhilan?"

"......" doesn't mean that he shouldn't know. Gui Yan paused, and heard that Mo Yunchen was not angry, so he continued to ask: "The Liu family's big house and the second room are not in harmony, why does Lord Taifu have some importance for Liu Erqianjin?"

"Not just for her. Mo Yunchen stopped talking halfway through his words, and Gui Yan also knew that he couldn't ask any more, so he changed the topic, "Does the prince want to go and see Miss Liu Er?"

"Taifu's Mansion is on West Street, and Weiguo's Mansion is on East Street. So far, not going. After Mo Yunchen finished speaking, Gui Yan stopped looking for a topic. It's just that although his mouth has stopped, there are indeed more and more question marks in his heart.

He looked at the past month, Mo Yunchen went to the Weiguo Mansion every day to accompany Liu Zhilan to relieve boredom and go shopping, and he didn't see him too far! Moreover, in the past month alone, counting the precious medicinal materials sent at the emperor's mouth and at his own expense, the silver spent on shopping (although Liu Zhengqian returned in the end), and the medicinal materials wasted by today's decoction, Mo Yunchen has smashed hundreds of gold on Liu Zhilan. Although a few hundred taels of gold is only a small amount for the Yixi Palace, it costs so much money to a girl who has only known each other for a month, even the prodigal son of the Xinjiao Palace's Yuan Lai may not be able to do it, but his master Mo Yunchen, who has never been close to women, actually did it, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that Mo Yunchen likes Liu Zhilan, okay!

But while Mo Yunchen showed favor to Liu Zhilan, he secretly sent people to inquire about her news non-stop, and he was threatening Liu Zhixiao's life with Liu Zhilan's life. It was clear that after knowing that Liu Zhilan was injured yesterday, he was so anxious that he sneaked into the Weiguo Mansion in broad daylight alone, and scared him, the secret guard responsible for guarding Mo Yunchen's safety, almost lost his soul, and then he now thinks that the mansion is too far away to visit, it is really ......

That's it, he is a secret guard, and he can't slander his master. However, he is as close as a goose, and sometimes he really doesn't understand what Mo Yunchen is thinking in his head.

At this time, Mo Yunchen was in the carriage, and he didn't know all the entanglements in the hearts of his subordinates. He changed his posture and lay directly on the desk, and his breath was deep and long in his nose under the lightly closed peach blossom eyes, and he fell asleep directly.

In fact, how can it be as complicated as Gui Yan thought, Mo Yunchen didn't go to see Liu Zhilan today, but it was just a decoction during the day and a discussion with Liu Zhixiao at night, so he felt a little tired.