The thoughts of Empress Wei's mother and son are naturally unknown to others. On the first day of entering the palace, An Guogong and Mu Zhengyi were quite satisfied with the current result.

At least for two months, Mu Zhengyi doesn't have to go to the palace to do business, just stay at home. As for whether he really went out of Beijing on a blind date, in fact, Yu Chengqi would not ask more questions without such eyesight, where the eldest son of the Mu family wants to meet is a family matter of the Mu family, he is just Mu Zhengyi's nominal boss during his stay in Beijing, so he will not ask more.

From that day on, Mu Zhengyi was really idle. He began to take his younger siblings to morning classes as if he had never left home to go to the north, sometimes going to the outer study in the morning to meet the staff of the Anguo Mansion, sometimes going out for a stroll, and in the afternoon he would usually accompany his younger siblings to study military books, telling his younger siblings the difference between the art of war on paper and the actual leading of soldiers, or telling them what he had seen on the battlefield.

General Mu, who has become an adult, has no intention of keeping Mu Zhengyi at home, so he is freer than his younger siblings.

However, it is a habit for about many years, even if no one is holding Mu Zhengyi, he actually doesn't go out often, but occasionally goes out to a restaurant, tea shop, dim sum shop, or goes to the bustling Wenchang Street to shop for shops, mostly to buy things for his younger siblings, most of them go back quickly, and they don't hang out for a long time.

The day before Mu Hongsheng's birthday, the luggage sent home by Mu Zhengyi through the post arrived, full of a large cart of luggage and items, almost stunned the entire Anguo Mansion.

"Big ...... Big brother ......" Mu Qingyi stammered: "Are you moving?" You don't have as much luggage as you when moving, do you? ”

"I'm going home, not moving," Mu Zhengyi bent his finger and knocked on Mu Qingyi's head: "My home is here, where to move."

"What are they?" Mu Jinyi was also stunned at a large cart of things: "That corner is exposed like felt."

"Hmm!" Mu Zhengyi nodded: "It's cold in the north, and the people there are good at weaving wool felt blankets, so I bought a few and came back to my grandmother's shop."

"Huh?" Mu Hongsheng suddenly moved her ears: "There seems to be a voice."

Mu Zhengyi smiled slightly but didn't answer, just pushed Mu Hongsheng's shoulder: "Since you hear a voice, go and take a look."

Mu Hongshang glanced at her brother suspiciously, then ran down the steps, began to circle around the big cart, just turned to the back of the car, she suddenly found a big wooden cage, sitting upside down and tied with several wooden boxes, placed at the end of the car, in the wooden cage, a ball of gray speckled fluffy balls, showing a pair of moist eyes, and her eyes, let out a low whining.

"What is this?" Mu Hongshang was taken aback. Cautiously reached out to hold the fence of the wooden cage, but he didn't expect that the fluffy ball was quite powerful, raised his head suddenly, and bared his teeth viciously at Mu Hongsheng.

"Oops!" Mu Hongshang was startled and couldn't help but take a step back. Only then did she see that the fluffy ball seemed to look a little like a puppy, and a little like a kitten, with soft ears and round ears, on top of his head, a round hairy face, green eyes, shiny and shiny, a raised nose and mouth, some round and short, the body was also very round and short, the limbs were short and thick, the round, fluffy feet were not small, a gray fluff, the head seemed to be bigger than the body, and it looked very cute.

"Looks like you're being well taken care of!" Mu Zhengyi walked to Mu Hongsheng's side, looked at the little things in the cage a few times, and nodded with satisfaction: "It really lives up to my trust." In vain, I gave the envoy a large reward. ”

"Is this a puppy?" Mu Hongshang pointed to the hairball in the cage, tilted her head and asked her brother, "You asked the post post to come all the way back from the north?"

"It's the leopard of Cangqi Mountain," Mu Zhengyi replied, "a kind of leopard unique to Cangqi Mountain, most of them live alone. This animal is very intelligent and ferocious, and it is extremely difficult to catch, especially the cubs. A leopard cub may be able to exchange for hundreds of good horses in the hands of the Rongdi people. ”

"So expensive!" Mu Hongshang was taken aback.

"Only cubs are so valuable," Mu Zhengyi replied, "because the leopard is extremely intelligent and loyal, once it recognizes its master, it will be loyal and will not change its will throughout its life." Adult leopards cannot be domesticated and can only be raised from a young age. Therefore, the young leopard is rare, and I heard that the leader of the Rong Didan Eagle tribe has a leopard, which is very envied by the leaders of other tribes. I heard that when the leader of the Danying tribe had just obtained the leopard, the Khan of the Etai tribe wanted to exchange a small subordinate tribe for a young leopard, but the leader of the Danying tribe refused. ”

"Really, it's amazing." Mu Hongshang looked at the short round hair ball with admiration, and couldn't figure out why this little guy was so valuable.

"Don't look at it like this," Mu Zhengyi smiled: "It can grow to be very big, and when it grows up, it will look like a leopard, much bigger than an ordinary cheetah." Adult leopards are fierce and extremely combative, and do not need to hunt in groups, which is why they are used to living alone. ”

"So where did this come from, big brother?" Mu Hongshang tilted her head and looked at the gray hair ball carefully: "The value of hundreds of horses, the eldest brother can't afford it."

"I caught it with Tieyi and Chiyi." Mu Zhengyi replied with a smile: "Cangqian Mountain is near Youzhou, at the end of April, the third uncle's Zhenbei army was transferred, my father sent me to the Youzhou camp, and it just so happened that the fourth uncle also sent Tie Yi and Chi Yi to Youzhou, and the three of us transferred the ten days off on the same day and went up the mountain together. We originally wanted to catch a little wolf, but we didn't expect that our luck was really good, and we actually met a baby leopard. ”

"How did you catch it?" Mu Hongshang pointed at the little leopard: "Didn't you say that the adult leopard is very powerful!" It's still so small, it should be even smaller at the end of April, and it should be guarded by an adult leopard, right? Did you defeat the adult leopard and snatch it? ”

"You also underestimate the leopard," Mu Zhengyi shook his head with a smile: "Cangqian Mountain is the habitat of the leopard, they are very intelligent, extremely strong in combat, and familiar with the terrain. Even if the three of us join forces, it will not be easy to escape under the fangs of the leopard without being injured at all. ”

"Was that stolen?" Mu Hongshang tilted her head and blinked: "Brother, you stole other people's children."

"If it was really stolen, before we could go down the mountain, its mother would have already chased after us, how could it let us go." Mu Zhengyi shook his head again: "The leopard lives alone, although there are no other animals in the entire Cangqian Mountain that can hurt the leopard, but when they compete with each other for territory, the struggle will be very fierce, and they are generally life and death." When we saw this little thing, its mother was already dying, and there were many wounds on its body, which seemed to have been wounded by its own kind, and it was protected by the mother leopard, but it was not seriously injured. ”