"Yuexi's throat seems to be a little uncomfortable in the afternoon, so I'll give her a fire."

Sure enough, it's still Mrs. Xiao!

He Tong didn't dare to laugh when he wanted to laugh, so he retreated.

When Mu Yunqing took care of the trivial matters in his hand and returned to the dormitory, Xiao Yuexi was sitting in front of the desk and writing something. Hearing the sound of footsteps, he raised his head and glanced at Mu Yunqing, and the hand holding the pen did not stop.

Mu Yun lightly put the pear soup in front of Xiao Yuexi, and without him asking more, Xiao Yuexi explained by himself: "I happened to be out of the palace tonight, and I wrote a letter to send people from outside the trust to Binzhou, and there was still no news over there, which made people very uneasy." ”

Many of the people Xiao Yuexi can entrust are low-key hermits with low reputation in the rivers and lakes, and it stands to reason that it should be easy to help with the investigation, but there is no movement at all these days, so it is worth paying more attention to.

Mu Yun shrugged lightly, noncommittal, just pushed the bowl of Sydney soup that had just cooled to her side, and said softly: "Taste?" ”

Xiao Yuexi glanced at it hurriedly, she didn't really want to taste it, she didn't like sweets, but Mu Yun was not the only one.

Mu Yun continued lightly: "I didn't put so much sugar, your throat is uncomfortable, and you don't like to take medicine, you can feel better if you drink a little bit of this." Besides, you didn't eat much for dinner, aren't you afraid of being hungry at night? ”

"......" Xiao Yuexi raised her eyes to look at him, speechless for a while.

I saw His Majesty the Emperor smiling at her, and his voice was soft as if coaxing the child: "Be good, drink a little." As he spoke, he scooped a small half spoon and handed it to her lips, with a smile on his face, his peach blossom eyes bent into two crescents, and he looked at her with a little teasing.

After a stalemate for a while, Xiao Yuexi finally put down the pen as if resigned, and reached out to pick up the spoon in his hand: "I'll come by myself." ”

Mu Yun chuckled and took his hand back: "You keep writing, I'll feed you." ”

Xiao Yuexi: "......"

"Come, open your mouth, ah......"

…… That's enough! It's getting more and more like coaxing a child!!

There was a trace of lovelessness on her face, Xiao Yuexi opened her mouth resignedly, took a sip, and found that His Majesty the Emperor really didn't deceive people, the entrance of this thing was a rich pear fragrance, without the sweetness that made her unacceptable, light and refreshing, and her throat was indeed a lot better when she drank it.

As soon as she was in a hurry, her throat burned as if she had a fish bone stained with spicy seeds, which was painful and numb. The news I heard today was too frightening and anxious, and I didn't even care about my little problem for a while, but at this time, when Mu Yunqing mentioned it like this, Xiao Yuexi felt uncomfortable.

Mu Yunqing fed her a few more mouthfuls before asking: "Looking at you like this, it doesn't look like a cold and cold, but when you come at noon, it's still fine, is it because the things in Binzhou are in a hurry?" ”

Xiao Yuexi finished writing the last few sentences of the letter, and sighed while cleaning up: "What do I have to worry about, Jiangshan Sheji, good or bad has nothing to do with me; In Binzhou and other places, no matter how serious the epidemic is, it has not affected me...... In the end, it's all about me, so what qualifications do I have to ......?"

Mu Yun frowned lightly: "Yuexi ......"

"That's right!" Xiao Yuexi suddenly held up her spirits, squinted her eyes and asked, "I haven't asked yet, how can the emperor sneak out of the palace without knowing it?" ”

"Huh...... Isn't that a word slippery? Mu Yun chuckled lightly, and said, "Go and change into lighter clothes that are convenient for night out, I know you must have secretly let people do it!" ”

Xiao Yuexi replied: "Yo! The emperor really knows me! ”

As soon as the words came out, Xiao Yuexi noticed the change in His Majesty the Emperor's gaze, and the original joke disappeared in an instant, becoming sincere and eager: "Of course! It took a lot of effort to get to know Madame! ”

Xiao Yuexi's heart trembled inexplicably. She heard Mu Yun call her "Madam" more than once, but most of the time when there were outsiders, he would call her "Mrs. Xiao", and he would also call himself "I". But right now, this lady makes people's hearts beat faster inexplicably.

Xiao Yuexi stood up a little cramped, and said dryly: "Inner ...... I'm going to look for clothes. ”

Running away as if he was running away, Mu Yunqing didn't move in place, and asked in a tone full of teasing: "Madam, are you uncomfortable?" Why are you blushing? ”

……

In the middle of the night, Xiao Yuexi, dressed in a dark red short suit, followed His Majesty the Emperor energetically to an unusually remote courtyard in the palace - Fangcao Garden. The garden was uninhabited for a long time, overgrown with weeds, and there was a damp rancid smell everywhere, and although a simple palace was not dilapidated, it also fell a thick layer of ash inside.

"How can there be such a messy place in the palace?" Xiao Yuexi couldn't help muttering while looking around.

Mu Yun replied lightly: "It is said that this place has been haunted since more than ten years ago. ”

"Whew-" A gust of wind blew from under the eaves very appropriately, and with the words of His Majesty the Emperor, the effect was wonderful.

Xiao Yuexi had goosebumps on her back, and her scalp was numb: "Don't scare people!" ”

A low laugh overflowed from Mu Yunqing's lips, and he seemed to be extremely surprised to ask, "Are you still afraid of ghosts?" ”

"No, I didn't ......," Xiao Yuexi said as she involuntarily leaned closer to His Majesty the Emperor's side.

Mu Yun couldn't bear to laugh any more, stretched out his hand to wrap around her waist, and teased: "Don't be afraid, madam, there is me!" ”

Xiao Yuexi: "......"

"This is it!" Mu Yun lightly pointed to an unremarkable empty bookshelf in the corner of the dormitory, and under Xiao Yuexi's gaze, Yun Jin pushed it on the left side of the bookshelf, and the bookshelf slanted silently, revealing a black entrance.

A gust of cold wind blew out, and next to his ears was Mu Yun's soft voice: "The underground is empty, except for me to enter and exit, there will be basically no one at ordinary times, so it will be colder." ”

Xiao Yuexi's brain was a little sluggish, and it took a while to react, he was reassuring her and telling her not to be afraid.

"I'm really not afraid of ......" Xiao Yuexi said helplessly, she felt that this defense was too pale.

Mu Yunqing looked like he couldn't pierce it, lit the red candle with a thick layer of ash on the table next to him, pulled Xiao Yuexi with one hand, and held the candle flame with the other, stepped into the entrance, and pushed the bookshelf up again.

"Yun Qing, I was at the door just now, and I suddenly felt a little flustered...... We didn't bring any of them, so we left the palace so rashly, is it really okay? ”

After stepping into the Fangcao Garden, Xiao Yuexi's premonition was not very good, and she always felt that tonight would not be so peaceful, and she suddenly felt that His Majesty the Emperor was a little suspicious of his life.

Mu Yun smiled calmly on his face, and said unhurriedly: "It's okay, someone outside is secretly taking care of me, if something really happens, I will have a chance to clean up the group of moths with ulterior motives around me!" ”

"So confident?" Xiao Yuexi said in disbelief: "I still remember the first two times when you were so confident, what I became!" Your Majesty, are your hole cards reliable? ”

Mu Yunqing's expression froze, as if he had been stepped on and had a sore foot. He let out a long sigh and whispered in a low and aggrieved voice, "Madam, the first two times were my negligence, and I was wrong...... Don't laugh at me for such things. ”

Xiao Yuexi: "......" looks at him who has been wronged! In the end, she became a heinous bad person?

The secret passage was deep and long, and although the two of them walked quickly, they also walked for half an hour, during which they passed through six or seven forks, and finally got out of a cover disguised as a flat ground, Xiao Yuexi found himself in a deep mountain and old forest, with a bright moon above his head sprinkled a few soft beams of light through the dense canopy, and two tall and sturdy jujube red horses were tied to a tree trunk not far away, and were standing motionless there napping.

Xiao Yuexi couldn't help but ask: "Yun Qing, where will this fork in the road go if you choose the wrong one?" ”

"It's all traps, and you can't come back if you take one wrong step." Mu Yun said a shocking sentence casually.

Xiao Yuexi secretly sighed in her heart, and couldn't help but become more curious about him.

This curiosity couldn't help but glance at Mu Yun a few more times, and finally provoked Mu Yun's light and narrow gaze: "What? Madame has finally discovered my goodness, and is she going to look the other way at me? ”

“…… Let's go! ”

Although the mountain road was difficult, it could not bother the two men, and soon they stopped at the back door of the superintendent.

The back door was cold and quiet, and it was late at night, and the faint sound of horses' hooves was unusually noisy, and the two of them almost dismounted when they alarmed the people on duty inside.

"What people!" A figure jumped down from the courtyard wall, the sword in his hand unsheathed, but still powerful enough. "How dare you come here in the middle of the night, do you know where this is!"

Both were shrouded in cloaks, not expecting to be recognized.

Xiao Yuexi took a step forward, lifted her cloak, and said softly, "It's me." ”

The man was stunned for half a pillar of incense.

"Right, right??? Oh no! Mrs. Shaw?! ”

Xiao Yuexi: "......" scared you like this when he saw a former envoy, and he couldn't scare you to death when he saw the emperor? "Gao Ge, shut up for me! Do you want to bring in irrelevant people? ”

This person's name is Gao Ge, he has no background, Xiao Yuexi just joined the Prison Department before entering the palace, and his kung fu is good, but he is too careful and shallow, and he needs a lot of sharpening to succeed. It is not surprising that the rest of the people are such people when there is an accident in the Department of Supervision and Detention this time.

After Gao Ge suppressed the shock, he hurriedly led Xiao Yuexi into the door, and turned around as he walked, involuntarily glancing at the man behind Xiao Yuexi, intuition that it would not be an unfamiliar face covered under the wide cloak eaves.

Mu Yunqing didn't seem to intend to reveal his identity to him, and had been acting as a follower since he entered the door, dutifully following behind Xiao Yuexi, constantly lowering his sense of existence.

Xiao Yuexi said to herself: "What happened to the people who came back from Binzhou now? ”