On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the wind and snow stopped, and a red sun quietly rose in the east.

But no matter how warm the sun is, it can't wake up the frozen people, how many families have been broken in this long Chinese New Year's Eve night, and how many people have lost their husbands, children, parents, brothers and sisters overnight......

The lives of countless people in the capital were fixed on the Chinese New Year's Eve of the twenty-seventh year of Yuankang.

One night, rivers of blood flowed.

In the palace, the emperor, who had not slept all night, finally waited for the good news, all the red guards were controlled by the forbidden army, the chaos at the palace gate ended, and King Duan was leading people to clean up the 'battlefield'.

"Good." The emperor's eyes slowly moved, and he stopped on the crown prince on the right and Mu Beichen standing on the left, looked at the commander of the Praetorian Guard who knelt on the ground to pray, and said, "Interrogate immediately, be sure to find out the master behind these remnants." ”

The commander of the Praetorian Guard led the order to leave, and Concubine Yi helped the emperor in time and said: "Your Majesty, since the traitor has been taken, you have also worked all night, while it is still early at this time, go and rest for a while, your safety is related to the world's plan, and the dragon body is important." ”

Liu Kai nodded again and again: "Yes, your majesty, take care of the dragon body, and the others are the prince and the princes." ”

The emperor's bloodshot eyes were half-blind, and his face was so cold that he could drip water, "Prince, what were you doing last night, why did I summon me for less than half a day." ”

The crown prince came in a hurry until almost dawn, and when he heard the emperor ask, his heart jumped in fright, and he said, "Erchen, Erchen......"

"You're telling me that you're drunk and dreaming of death in a woman's gentle country, aren't you?" As soon as the emperor's dragon robe was flipped over, all the tea bowls and cups on the table swept towards the prince, and the prince hurriedly knelt on the ground in panic, hanging his head and not daring to speak.

The emperor was still angry, pointed at the prince, and said angrily: "As the prince, you don't set an example, but get drunk and sing every day, do you want to be angry?" ”

"Erchen doesn't dare." The prince was annoyed to death in his heart, who knew that such a big event would happen on Chinese New Year's Eve, he was just in a bad mood, found a few beauties to accompany him, drank two more cups, and met the emperor's urgent call.

"You give me back to the East Palace to reflect on it, I don't want to see you again." The more the emperor looked at it, the more angry he became, stretched out his foot and kicked the prince to the ground, flicked his sleeves and walked out, "King Jing, you come with me." ”

Mu Beichen lowered his eyelids, did not glance at the prince who was rolling on the ground with an ugly face, lowered his head and replied, and followed the emperor to the outside of the Zhaode Palace.

Concubine Yi stood up with Nana, her beautiful eyes flashed, and she said to the palace man: "Why don't you help the prince up, it's cold, if it's frostbite, what can I do." ”

The eunuch maid hurriedly pulled the prince up, Concubine Yi personally went over and patted his sleeve, smiled and comforted: "The prince doesn't have to be sad about this, it's all the traitors outside who make the emperor upset, you see that the whole night has been troubled, the emperor is already angry, so he took you out of anger, let's talk about it, how can father and son have an overnight feud, go back to the palace and say it for you, you go to make a compensatory reparation, and this matter will be over." ”

The prince had never been very close to Concubine Yi before, and Concubine Lin had always warned him how insidious and vicious Concubine Yi was, so he had an estranged heart, but at this moment, Concubine Yi smiled and said softly to his heart, he felt that he and his mother were stingy in the past, and Concubine Yi was not such a person at all. After all, Mu Beichen and Mu Yuanche are not her biological sons, she can treat each other sincerely, so how bad will it be.

"Thank you, Concubine Yi." The prince said sincerely.

On the other side, Concubine Jin glanced at the two of them and walked out of the Zhaode Hall without saying anything.

After walking for a while, Shu Qing looked at both sides, and whispered without hiding her words: "Niangniang, look at Concubine Yi, she rushed to show goodwill to the prince regardless of the occasion, as if no one could see her intentions." ”

Concubine Jin's phoenix eyes glanced at her, and the corners of her lips hooked slightly: "You want to say, why didn't this palace go to show the prince?" ”

Shu Qing lowered her head, shrunk her shoulders and said, "The slave doesn't dare." ”

Concubine Jin looked ahead and sighed: "Now that Concubine Hui and Concubine Lin have had accidents one after another, this palace has suddenly become a lot quieter, Shu Qing, this palace knows your thoughts, but the prince is not suitable." ”

Originally, Concubine Hui had the emperor's favorite Duanwang, and Concubine Lin gave birth to the prince of Dazhao, these two people fought in the dark, who could have known that they died in such a hurry in the end.

"Why?" Shu Qing didn't understand, there were not many adult princes in Dazhao, King Jing and King Chun were now under Concubine Yi's knees, so there were only two choices left, King Duan and the crown prince, compared to King Duan, wouldn't the prince who was about to ascend the throne be more sure. One eight

Concubine Jin's eyes swept over the blue lotus pond in front of her, a red-crowned crane stepped on the frozen lake and walked gracefully, her delicate eyebrows were slightly raised, and she said in a deep tone: "The days are still long, who can say." ”

On the other side, the emperor who went out from the Zhaode Hall sat on the chariot, his index finger and thumb separated and pinched his eyebrow bone, and said in a deep twilight voice: "What you said, I asked someone to investigate, but in addition to being killed, the remnants of the Red Spider Sect are missing, you may find out?" ”

Mu Beichen walked on the palace road, the morning sun fell on his royal robe outlined by gold and purple threads, his eyebrows were light, and the corners of his eyes seemed to be cold drawn by ice sculptures, and he opened his lips and said, "Erchen do his best." After he sent Rong Ruo to Xiao Hongmei's place, he hurried back to the palace, not waiting for the emperor to be angry, and briefly said how to find out that the Red Spider Sect poisoned the people of the city, and then Rong Ruo developed an antidote to detoxify the people of the capital.

"You watched the torture wind being burned alive." The emperor sneered and said, "Taifu is my mentor after all, how do you let me explain to him now." "The old lady has come to the Xinglufeng here, and it can be regarded as a broken root.

Mu Beichen lowered his eyebrows, respectfully but not humbly, and said: "At that time, the scene was too chaotic, and where the sons and daughters neglected, they hoped that their father would give them the sin." The conversation between the two people is indifferent, unlike father and son, only the monarch and the minister are left.

The emperor moved his fingers away, his eyes opened slightly, and he looked down at Mu Beichen from top to bottom, from his vision, he only saw Mu Beichen's slender eyebrows, straight nose, and pursed lips, but he couldn't see the emotion in his eyes, he snorted from his nose, and said with a cold and cold look: "I should reward you for your efforts in relieving the siege of the capital." ”

Mu Beichen arched his hands: "Erchen doesn't dare, this is what Erchen should do." ”

It is such a calm and indifferent attitude that makes the emperor always upset and irritable when he sees Mu Beichen, as if in front of this son, he seems to be unable to hold his breath, suppresses the impetuousness in his chest, and wrinkles his brows and says: "According to what you said, Zhang Xunli was also bewitched by the Red Spider Sect?" ”

"Yes, the Red Spider Sect seems to have a secret method that can manipulate people's words and deeds, and Erchen believes that General Zhang must have fallen under the control of the other party, so he did such an involuntary thing." Mu Beichen heard Rong Ruo say that not only was the corpse jar used for corpse poison found in the small courtyard of the Taoist Chief, but also Concubine Lin's poison powder was also made by him, and he also seemed to have made a special medicinal powder, through a certain medicinal induction, it can make the poisoned person obey the command of others, let him do whatever he wants, it is a very terrifying strong hallucinogenic agent.

The emperor's mouth fell: "That is also a crime that deserves death." "Besieging the palace, a big rebellion, should punish the nine clans.

Mu Beichen did not argue with the emperor about whether Zhang Xunli should die or not, in short, it was not something he could decide, and there was naturally silence between the two of them, only the sun in the sky, the cold wind that ran through the palace road, blew waves and surges.

"Now that King Duan is going to deal with the Red Warrior Guard, you and Zheng Zhi will search for the remnants of the Red Spider Sect and the White Crane Sect." The emperor waved his hand to let Mu Beichen leave, and then summoned Liu Kai to his side: "Call Xie Zhizhang of Shuntian Mansion to enter the palace." ”

Chengqi Medicine Hall

Hu Xiaoqi poured a handful of medicinal herbs into a large cauldron, raised his chin and looked behind the stove, and said in disgust: "Let you burn the fire, you deviate from the small fire, now tell you to extinguish the two pieces of wood and turn the fire warm, you have burned the fire, are you a heart or a heart?" ”

Mu Yuanche wiped his face and scratched it twice, he didn't know what small insects were in this pile of wood, which made him itch all over his body, this fire had been burning for almost an hour, what did he come here for?

"Who let you rub me for a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner." Fox Xiaoqi lifted his eyelids and said angrily: "Hurry up, don't work hard, there is no food!" ”

Mu Yuanche looked at Hu Xiaoqi sadly and walked out with a copper basin, it was not that he didn't want to work, but the dignified prince didn't, where did he do this kind of rough and dirty work, okay, he didn't get a word of praise, he felt that he was a cheap laborer!

However, Mu Yuanche admires Hu Xiaoqi a little, don't look at the people who pick the door on weekdays, he is still very righteous in front of the big right and wrong.

They didn't go out again last night, they only heard the sound of a fight outside, and then Hu Xiaoqi secretly opened the door and took a look, and saw the sword and sword, but a few injured people ran over, and Hu Xiaoqi was treated.

When they were busy until dawn, the two of them heard that someone had poisoned them last night, and most of the capital was in chaos, so there were more injured and sick people. Hu Xiaoqi didn't shirk it, and hurriedly got a bunch of medicines, which were basically given for free, and not a penny was confiscated.

Of course, Mu Yuanche also helped to lay a hand, from dark to dawn, and there was no sign of stopping.

Suddenly, there was a cry from Hu Xiaoqi outside, Mu Yuanche hurriedly threw the wood in his hand, and the person flew out from behind the stove.

Fox Xiaoqi smashed the copper basin over, and the big basin of water was a hot medicinal soup, I don't know if it was a coincidence or the other party was already injured, and the arm let Fox Xiaoqi pour it, and suddenly stopped in pain.

That is, this hesitation, just when Mu Yuanche played it, he twisted his arm with his backhand in a few moves, and he had a sense of joy as a winner in life, and he took out the nest gas that had just burned the fire, rubbed his nose, and said majestically: "Little example, if you don't restrain you, do you dare to commit murder." ”

Hu Xiaoqi looked at the black line on the left and the black line on the right on Mu Yuanche's face angrily and funny, and pointed at the man: "Eh, I think this person is similar to the Red Spider Sect Leader drawn on the arrest document, send it to the official...... Uh......"

Mu Yuanche felt that the person in his hand softened, and glanced at Hu Xiaoqi, this is dead? He still wants to make meritorious contributions!