Chapter 242: Undercurrents are surging
Xu Ying put the tea cup in her hand on the table, smiled slightly, and said, "In this case, then I can only stay in His Highness's mansion temporarily, and it will really cause trouble to disturb His Highness a lot."
Zhuo Chen, who had a dark face on the side, nodded noncommittally.
"Just take care of yourself." Don't come if you know you're causing trouble, and it's uncomfortable to look at it with a pretentious attitude.
Although she thought so in her heart, Mo Shihuan smiled as if she had to respond on the surface, saying that she was an outsider and didn't need to care about her opinion.
Xu Ying spent the afternoon in the mansion to buy things for her yard in the palace, and also gave Zhuo Chen a lot of valuable calligraphy and painting collections.
In the study, Mo Shihuan was holding a scroll of plum blossoms and looking at it carefully, "This is the painting of the king of the palace painting bureau, it is a good thing at first glance." ”
The flying eagle who sent the picture scroll next to her nodded as if she didn't understand her comments, "These things, Your Highness said that you can adjust the gifts you like and keep them, and if you can't get into the eyes, you can take them into the treasury of the palace, and you can throw them away if you don't like them." ”
Mo Shihuan smiled when he heard this: "I didn't take Xu Ying seriously, he got serious, since these things were all selected by Xu Ying, what a pity to throw them away, I can put them in storage, and keep them for those old foxes in the court."
The shadow of the moon flickered in a thin layer of clouds.
The fragrance of the plum flowers in the courtyard was strong, Mo Shihuan came out of the room wearing a layer of single clothes, and she went to the yard alone to look up at what she was thinking about overhead.
"If you are infected with the wind and cold, we will have to choose another auspicious day for our marriage." As he spoke, a thick coat was draped over her.
"Why do you come out alone in such a thin dress at night? Aren't you afraid of the cold? Zhuo Chen said to her with some numbers while tying her with a tie around her neck.
Mo Shihuan raised his hand and touched the rabbit fur on the big coat and sighed.
"Is Xu Ying settled down there?"
The two of them sat down on the pavilion in the courtyard, Zhuo Chen nodded, "I went to see that everything had been cleaned up, and she brought a lot of things for food and clothing." ”
Mo Shihuan suddenly felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, she tilted her head: "She just moved in like this, do you still plan to investigate the events of that day?"
"Of course I have to check." Zhuo Chen looked at her expression and smiled bitterly.
Mo Shihuan looked up, and the moon didn't know when it had been covered by thick clouds, and the sky was dark.
"Then now that the culprit has moved to your house with great fanfare, how are you going to investigate?" The speed of her speech suddenly became faster, and after saying this paragraph like a tongue twister, she looked at Zhuo Chen's eyes quietly.
"It's not what you think, Shihuan."
Mo Shihuan was a little dizzy now, she suddenly stood up and was about to go back, but Zhuo Chen grabbed her wrist behind her.
Zhuo Chen saw her change of words, and quickly explained: "If Xu Ying lives in my mansion now, you can calm down and think about it, are we safer?" She definitely won't do it here, there are guards with good kung fu patrolling my house every night, once she dares to make a move and get caught, then it's not just her who is unlucky, even Concubine Shu's side will be held by us. ”
"So your plan is for Xu Ying to live in the mansion now, so that it is too suspicious to do something in the palace, so stabilize the situation first?" Mo Shihuan took his words and said.
Zhuo Chen's clenched hand loosened and nodded, "Don't worry, you won't let them go." ”
The solemnity in the air dissipated slightly, and Mo Shihuan wanted to reach out and shake off Zhuo Chen's arm that was grabbing her.
She frowned slightly and looked at Zhuo Chen.
At this time, those who let go are fools, Zhuo Chen knows this, he just loosened his strength a little, but he still refused to let go.
Mo Shihuan wanted to attack, but in the end he still couldn't get angry, and just stalemate with Zhuo Chen without saying a word about this embarrassing action.
"It's the Lantern Festival soon, don't be angry, tomorrow we will go out to the lantern shop in the West Market to pick one you like, prepare it for you in advance, and then go to Fanlou to have a good meal of wine and food, don't be angry, I can't find a doctor with better medical skills than you to see you."
"Oh, yes! Don't talk about it!"
Mo Shihuan successfully shook off Zhuo Chen's hand holding her, and ran into the house without looking back as soon as she bent down and walked out of the pavilion.
The door was closed by Mo Shihuan from the inside, and the little maid who was preparing hot water for her was startled by her sudden arrival, and the hot water in the wooden basin almost spilled out.
I saw Mo Shihuan leaning his back against the door, panting while pressing his hand to his chest.
The little maid got up and wondered: "Miss......"
Mo Shihuan then remembered that there were still people in the house, she looked at the little maid with a red face and a white face, and only exhaled for a long time: "Put the hot water here, I'll come by myself, you can go out."
When the little maid closed the door and left, she opened a crack in the door to make sure that the person had left, then closed the door again, walked to the bedroom, and sat on the bed.
What's going on? What the hell happened to her?
Thinking of what had just happened, and thinking of the words that Zhuo Chen had said holding her hand, she sat on the bed depressedly and covered her cheeks, and her face suddenly changed from the color of pomegranates in the morning to the color of red pomegranate flowers.
She was lying on her back on the bed, her brain was blank at this time, Xu Ying and the others had been forgotten 108,000 miles away, and only Zhuo Chen's words just now remained.
At this time, the initiator was still sitting in the study leisurely looking at the gift list of the marriage proposed by the Ministry of Rites for him and Mo Shihuan, he carefully read all the small characters on those gift lists one by one, and then pointed to one of the lines to the steward next to him: "Look here, are these gilded bottles a little unsuitable in the dowry?" I remember that these bottles were sent by Cheng quite a newcomer. ”
"As you said, it's really inappropriate, and your subordinates should write it down and go back to the Ministry of Rites to correct it." The steward took a pen and paper and wrote it down.
There is not only one steward who is also holding a hair note, Xiao Ziqi and the oil lamp in Mu'an Villa are sketching on the map with a brush, and his eyes are sharp to compare the places marked in red one by one.
There was no one around, and after doing all this, he leaned back in his chair and muttered sadly: "Dog Emperor, I see how long you can be free!"