The moonlight outside the window lattice was just right, and the moonlight was hazy like a silver plate falling in the middle of the sky, but the long wind gradually rose after the middle of the night, blowing up a tree and green leaves outside the Chengqian Palace, but it failed to blow away the uneasiness and anxiety in Mu Shan's heart.

He paced in the hall, although his face was silent, but in fact he was anxious, from the moment he learned that his royal brother was missing, he had not been able to close his eyes for several days and nights.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps outside the hall, and he turned away, hoping that someone would bring him good news.

"Regent, the minions have thoroughly inspected this imperial city and the surrounding areas outside the city overnight, but they have found no trace of King Shengjing." The visitor fell to his knees, leaning over and not daring to raise his head, and said in a slightly trembling voice, as if he was afraid that he would die here if he said something wrong.

When Mu Shan heard this, he was silent and did not speak, but the anger on his face increased unabated, he walked quickly to the front of the desk, raised his hand and knocked the pen, ink, paper and inkstone in front of him and the cup of tea served by the waiter to the ground, making a great noise, and the person kneeling on the ground was really frightened, and saw that his head was buried in the ground.

"A bunch of rubbish!" Mu Shan said coldly, "Go find it for me again!" If you can't find it, you will apologize to the king! ”

Hearing his words, the man hurriedly got up from the ground, and ran out of the hall with his body staggered, as if he wanted to be able to escape from Mu Shan's side quickly after stepping on the wheel.

After the man left, Mu Shan suddenly felt a splitting headache, he frowned, raised his hand to touch his forehead, and slowly walked to sit down before the collapse.

As soon as he sat down to rest for a while, the voice of an attendant came from outside the house, only to hear the voice say: "Regent, there are two people outside the palace gate who claim to be disciples of the Qiongwu Villa, and they ask to see the regent immediately. ”

Mu Shan heard that this voice was an old eunuch who had been serving him all the year round, so he asked him: "Father-in-law De, what did the two of them say when they asked to see each other so late?" His eyes were closed, and he was physically and mentally exhausted.

"They said it was about King Shengjing." The voice of Father-in-law De continued to reach Mu Shan's ears, with a hint of testing his attitude.

When Mu Shan heard the words of King Shengjing, he immediately pulled back his thoughts, opened his eyes suddenly, got up and pushed the door open in front of the hall, "Let the two of them in." "As long as there is information about Jiayang, he can't let go of any of them.

"Yes." Gonggong De answered, and then retreated on his own to deliver a message to the people at the gate of the palace.

In the process of waiting, Mu Shan still did not have a moment of peace of mind, he didn't know if Jiayang was worried about the matter of choosing a concubine mentioned that day, so he fled out of the palace. But if it is only because of this trivial matter, as long as he argues with himself, he has always been partial to him, and he will never force him.

But how could he be so confused, because of trivial matters, he disappeared for a few days and did not return, Jiayang has never taken such things to heart, Mu Shan always felt that all this would not be so simple.

After another stick of incense, there was a sudden movement outside the house, "Regent, someone is here." When the voice of Father-in-law De sounded outside the house again, the two people he brought were already waiting outside the hall for Mu Shan's summons.

"Come in." Mu Shan frowned, how could the people of Qiongwu Villa enter the palace at this hour, and it was still for Jiayang's business? But after sending someone to inquire, he had already learned that Jiayang was not in Qiongwu Villa these days.

"Join the Regent." Mu Shan raised his head, only to see two young people kneeling in the hall, a man and a woman, and he was not familiar with them, he only guessed in his heart that it might be Jiayang's brothers and sisters in Qiongwu Villa.

"No courtesy." Mu Shan motioned for them to get up, "You two asked to see each other late at night, and what you want to say is related to King Shengjing?" ”

"Yes." The words were the woman, she was wearing a water-blue silver crane robe, the green silk was scattered, the long sword was in her hand, under the curved willow eyebrows, a pair of apricot eyes were soft like spring water, and the whole person was as gentle and graceful as the breeze, and she was beautiful, "Regent, Pei Xiqiu, a disciple under the North Mountain Seat of Qiongwu Villa, took the liberty to ask for a meeting, and also asked the regent to forgive him." ”

"If you have something urgent, this king will not blame." Mu Shan is not an unreasonable person, "Tell this king what you know, do you know the whereabouts of King Shengjing?" ”

According to the rules, in the Qiongwu Villa, Jiayang also has to call Pei Xiqiu a senior sister, they have a very good relationship on weekdays, and she always knows a thing or two about Jiayang's whereabouts, so when she heard about Jiayang's disappearance in the village this time, she couldn't help but be shocked, "Let's ask this Situ Gongzi to inform the regent." ”

Pei Xiqiu looked at the man beside him, this man was Situ Jing of the Situ family, and saw that he was no longer as chic as he usually had at this moment, but his face was haggard, his body was thin, and his expression was quite sad.

"Regent." After he participated in Mushan, he slowly spoke, "The grass people are Situ Jing, the son of the Situ family, and last night was unfortunate, more than 100 members of the family were slaughtered by the gangsters, except for the grass people, there was no life. ”

When Mu Shan heard the words Situ Jing, he already had some guesses in his heart, the fire of the Situ family burned half of the sky in the imperial city, and finally made the first step in the disintegration of the five major families.

Mu Shan sneered in his heart, he couldn't help but sigh that Ge Feng lacked the proper handling of this matter, although he left a Situ Jing, but it didn't have much impact.

"But the grievances of the rivers and lakes have come to seek revenge?" Mu Shan opened his mouth and asked pretendedly.

"The grass people don't know." Situ Jing shook his head, with tears in his eyes, "When the fire started, the grass people went to fight the fire together with the elders in the family, and later fought with those who set the fire. ”

"What does this have to do with King Shengjing?" Mushan cut to the chase.

"The grass people remember that they had been with Gala before that day...... King Shengjing made an appointment to go to Qiongwu Villa together on that day, because the grass people wanted to worship in Qiongwu Villa, so he asked King Shengjing to bring the grass people to go. He paused, "It's just that something like that happened suddenly that day, and the grass people didn't see King Shengjing in the end, and after escaping from that group, they went straight to Qiongwu Villa, hoping to see him there." ”

"It's just that when you arrived at the Qiongwu Villa, you still haven't seen King Shengjing, so you suspect that he was also involved in a fight with those people?" Mu Shan's eyes lit up, it turned out that Jiayang had run out of the palace without permission that day.

But if it is according to what Situ Jing said, then Qingyang will definitely explain the situation to himself, but Qingyang only said that the matter was done, but he only omitted the Situ Jing in front of him, how could he have anything to do with Jiayang.

"Not bad." Situ nodded.

Mu Shan naturally didn't know that Ge Fengque regarded Jiayang as Situ Jing that day, so it was naturally difficult to find a flaw.

"Xiqiu felt that there was still a possibility, maybe King Shengjing witnessed this catastrophe with his own eyes and was upset for his friends, so he chased in the direction where those people left, and he never came back." Pei Xiqiu boldly said another idea in his heart.

After Mu Shan heard this, his eyes narrowed, and after a little thought, he felt that what Pei Xiqiu said was not impossible, and he himself was more inclined to this idea.

But if this is the case, things will be out of his control, Jiayang is bent on avenging his friends, if he finds the location of Ge Fengqing, Yu Shengying Sect is outnumbered, and Qingyang is not in the sect at the moment, the consequences at that time, Mu Shan dare not imagine.

He immediately summoned Gonggong De in, wrote a letter a few days before the case to inform Mu Shan of the matter, and then raised his head to Pei Xiqiu and Situ Jing and said, "You two have brought extremely useful news to this king, and this king will reward you." ”

"Regent, we don't want any reward, but we ask the regent to grant us one thing." Pei Xiqiu and Situ Jing glanced at each other, "We want the regent to agree that we will go to find the whereabouts of King Shengjing on our own." ”

Mu Shan pondered in his heart for a moment, feeling that their heart was commendable, and besides, the two of them were close friends of Jiayang, if he saw Jiayang, no matter what reason he left the palace, he should be able to listen to a little persuasion.

So, Mu Shan said: "Okay, this king agreed." He glanced at the two of them, "You two can have this heart, this king is very grateful, if you find King Shengjing, this king will have his own reward." ”

Pei Xiqiu and Situ Jing glanced at each other, "Thank you, Regent." "But at this moment, Situ Jing faintly felt that this man was really ambitious because of Mu Shan's sentence 'This king has his own reward', and now that there is someone on the throne, the emperor has not died, he no longer puts the emperor in his eyes, but in the future, it is impossible to say whether he wants to take the throne.

"Regent, then we'll retire first." Pei Xiqiu blessed him with a blessed body, and after saluting, he left with Situ Jing.

Mu Shan looked at their departing backs, hoping that things wouldn't become as complicated as he imagined.

He has a great cause, but he also cherishes his own brother Jiayang very much, he doesn't want Jiayang to be involved in this endless strife, he only hopes that he can stay by his side, be a carefree prince, marry a wife and have children.

All those blood-stained things, let him do it, even if he wades through the sword mountain and the sea of fire, he will send the best in the world to Jiayang.

His hand on the desk gradually clenched into a fist, and the green tendons appeared, in his life, he couldn't care about how terrible he was, he just wanted this world, and Jiayang was safe and sound.

After Pei Xiqiu and Situ Jing came out of the Chengqian Palace, they followed Duke De all the way to the palace gate, and after thanking Duke De, the two went to the direction of Qiongwu Villa after leaving the palace gate.

"You say, did Jiayang really go to help me get revenge?" Situ Jing suddenly spoke.

Pei Xiqiu looked at him, "I don't know." She shook her head, "But Jiayang has always been jealous and hateful, and if he had seen his friend's family ruined, and he happened to know who had done it, he would not have let those people go." ”

"You're right." Situ Jing nodded, "But I'm afraid, Jiayang was also hunted down by that gang, and his whereabouts are unknown, so I don't dare to say that in front of the regent." ”

Pei Xiqiu's eyebrows suddenly dyed with a touch of sorrow, "It's not unreasonable for you to say this, but Jiayang is strong in martial arts, and he has the name of "Seven Peerless Shadows" in the rivers and lakes, and the master once said that he is very likely to be the next head of Qiongwu Villa, how can he not beat others?" ”

"A mountain is higher than a mountain, and there is too much uncertainty in this world." Situ looked up to the sky and looked at the bright moon, looking at the moon, he seemed to look at the past.