Shen Yan was full of thoughts, how could she see that Xi Niang had scruples, she was neither the host's family, nor was she good at keeping guests enthusiastically, but Xiang Xiang left Xi Niang before leaving, and it was really a little unreasonable, she simply said a few polite words, hoping that Xi Niang could stay, but she still left. Coming and going, just like that person, Shen Yan secretly thought, I don't know how long Pang Shifeng has been standing behind that tree, is he looking at himself?

"Miss, the one just now, looks older than you." Juan Er was still not convinced, "What kind of person is she, I haven't seen any young lady and lady, and she has met a man who hugs and hugs." ”

Shen Yan felt that Qi Hui and Xiangxiang were both frank and frank in dealing with Xi Niang, and Pang Shifeng was the same, so she didn't need to shy away from Xi Niang's identity, so she said that Xi Niang was a person from Qinglou, and asked Juan Er to be careful about her words and deeds, Xi Niang was a distinguished guest among the guests of the palace, not something she could talk nonsense behind her back.

Juan Er was stunned when she heard this, and said that there were too many strange things in this palace, but the happiest thing was: "Then she won't pester Pang Gongzi and let go, right, just playing around?" Then the slave and maid were at ease. ”

Knowing that the little girl was thinking about herself, Shen Yan was inconvenient to always blame her, just when Xiangxiang came back from the study, she wanted the three sisters to talk for a while, but without Xi Niang, she was inevitably very disappointed. asked the people below, saying that Xi Niang was really gone, she sat back at the desk and said, "I really want to be lazy for a while, just go and invite her next time." ”

Xiangxiang flipped the book to the place where he talked before, reviewed the book he learned in the morning, and forgot what it meant when he saw a sentence, and hurriedly looked up to ask Shen Yan, but saw Mr. holding the scroll, his eyes were fixed on the tender yellow plum in the white jade porcelain bottle, and occasionally a trace of eye waves swept over, which was a little sentimental.

Xiangxiang remembered that when she and Xi Niang came to the study, she saw Pang Shifeng in a daze under the porch, and when she got closer, Xi Niang ran up to play with him, but Xiangxiang saw Pang Shifeng in a daze facing Mr. Shen. At this moment, seeing Mr. Goodbye's stupid look, thousands of emotions in her heart are intertwined, and she really wants to be a matchmaker and become a marriage, but she is a little less courageous, all because she knows the preciousness and difficulty of this child's love.

Thinking of Xi Niang leaving in a hurry, thinking of Xi Niang's not very good face when she and Shi Feng left, could it be that Mu Qing was mentioned, and even Xi Niang, who was playing in the red dust, was timid because of her heartbeat.

Imagine that Qi Hui has always been an upright prince, even if they are given more opportunities, Xiangxiang will be afraid that he is not worthy of him, and he will not dare to take that step. At that time, in the depressing cold palace, he rescued himself from the mass grave, and asked for warmth to give him deep care in his heart, how could Xiangxiang not be moved. But in that environment, even if she was worried that she might not be worthy of Qi Hui in the future, she didn't feel that there was a gap between them that was difficult to cross, and then look at Mr. Shen and Pang Gongzi, and look at Xi Niang's cousin Mu Qing, it turned out that the hardships she and Qi Hui endured were not bitter.

At this moment, the three men in the study were surrounding the territory map, and Mu Qing said that he and his father had about 10,000 men and horses, although it was not much, but if the palace was forced into Beijing, it would be enough. And they are all ordinary people who are serious on weekdays, and they can assemble on the spot when they go to the capital and kill the emperor by surprise. Mu Qing drew a circle on the map and said, "More than 10,000 people, scattered in the villages and towns around here, as long as they see the codes we left everywhere, they can get here within three days......"

He pointed to another place and said, "Most of the people of the Mu family, in fact, are here, in the past twenty years, we have hoarded countless weapons. ”

Pang Shifeng was listening excitedly, if his father knew this, he didn't know what he would be angry about, and Qi Hui and Mu Qing did not hide it from him, which made him feel the solemnity of being trusted, he gradually found his position recently, and no longer felt that he was a person caught in the middle of the two dilemmas, so he revealed his curiosity without scruples at this moment, and asked: "Twenty years, how did you survive, and where did you get the money to build weapons?" What's more, it can hide people's eyes and ears, even my father doesn't know. ”

"Hengfeng Qianzhuang feeds everyone." Mu Qing said with a smile, "It's a long story here, but we have been doing serious business for the Feng family, so naturally no one is surprised." The most difficult thing was the copper, iron, wood, and gunpowder needed to make weapons, and it took a lot of effort to send them to the mountains. ”

"Gunpowder?" Qi Hui and Shi Feng were stunned.

"We have enough artillery to blow up the walls." Mu Qing said lightly.

Qi Hui and Shi Feng looked at each other, they went to visit the firearms camp that day, and heard General Wang say a lot of things about building weapons, he spent almost all his military expenses on studying weapons, and he also wanted to embezzle, but there was not a single copper plate, and it was hard to imagine where the Mu family got so much gold and silver.

Qi Hui said with a deep face: "The Mu family has been building weapons for the imperial court for some years, but why do you want to hide and build so many weapons in private." Recently, I learned that the Mu family had been divided into factions during the ancestral period, and what my uncle and you inherited was originally a non-offensive spirit, and only used the mechanism technique for people's livelihood. ”

Mu Qing bowed, "Father said that there are some old officials in the court, they should know this legend, but I didn't expect you to have heard about it." The Mu family is indeed divided into two factions, and the family is supported by the imperial court, and has unlimited gold and silver to study the art of the machine, so that it can be used for the people's livelihood and the benefit of the people. And the other branch did not die out because there was no one to support them, they not only had successors in the bloodline, but even the mechanism was also supported, they never abandoned the surname of the Mu family, and quietly passed it down in other countries. The reason why the family gave up the spirit of non-aggression and delved into weapons was to resist them for the sake of the country. ”

The expressions on Qi Hui and Shi Feng's faces became more and more solemn, they had the enthusiasm to help the world and save the people, but a few people and a few hands could not turn the sky upside down, how lofty the ideal was, how heavy the responsibility was, once there was civil strife, if there was a foreign invasion, when the time came, could they afford the survival of this country.

Qi Hui has not yet informed his cousin that there are countless gold hidden under the Mu family's land that should have belonged to the treasury, but Mu Qing said: "When we left, we took away the last batch of treasury silver gold minted for the imperial court, which was also the capital that could be connected with the Feng family later. ”

Shi Feng asked in surprise: "The Mu family minted gold for the imperial court?" ”

Mu Qingdao: "Naturally, it was a secret at the time, and not only our family made gold for the imperial court, I was only ten years old when I left the capital, but later I heard from my father that the Mu family began to cast gold for the country a hundred years ago. Our family directly spends a portion of the gold as a fund for the study of weapons, and the rest is turned over to the state treasury, in other words, as long as there is enough to pay to the state treasury each time, the rest is more or less ours. ”

Qi Hui said: "My cousin also knows that under the Mu family's land, there is countless gold hidden. ”

Mu Qing shook his head: "Mechanism is not endlessly consumed, my father can cut an ordinary piece of wood into a bearing that is enough to lift the city gate, and the deeper the mechanism doorway, the less gold and silver will be consumed." My father said that the gold that had been sold for more than a year was left in the cellar of the ancestral house, and only the year we left the capital, we took all the gold that was cast. ”

Qi Hui took out a gold bar from the cabinet, handed it to his cousin, and said, "This year is the year when my grandfather and uncle left Beijing, and there are at least two boxes of such gold underneath, didn't you say that you took them all away?" ”

Mu Qing got his hands on it, just glanced at it, and said, "This is not cast by our family." He asked Qi Hui if there were any other years, Qi Hui took it out, Mu Qing compared the two gold bars to them, at first glance there was really no difference, even the year engraving was exactly the same, but if you looked closely, under the gold bars cast by the Mu family, when the light was different, you could vaguely see a Mu word.

Mu Qing weighed the weight again and said, "As long as there are simple tools, it can be proved that there is a clear difference in the weight of these two pieces of gold, and the gold content is completely different." One or two pieces can't see anything, and if there are more, it will be obvious, this should be the gold secretly created by other families for the imperial court, and the craftsmanship is slightly lacking. ”

Shi Feng's brain turned quickly, and he hurriedly said: "That is another person, who opened the cellar of the Mu family and put the gold in his hand together with the gold left by the Mu family?" But the boxes below are all locks locked with traps, where in the world can people make exactly the same locks? ”

Qi Hui had an epiphany: "That's still from the Mu family." ”

Mu Qing said: "It is the people of the Mu family, we are looking for the key to unlock, and the one who made the lock is the ancestor of another faction, whether they buried weapons enough to destroy the country, or a large amount of gold and silver, it is unknown." Perhaps the man who helped hide the gold in the cellar was in contact with the Mu family of another faction, and this identical wooden locking box was also imitated by them. ”

Shi Feng sighed: "Could it be that the biggest reason why the Mu family disappeared twenty years ago was the threat from another faction of his own family?" ”

Mu Qing nodded, but shook his head again, he looked at Shi Feng and said: "The Mu family's mansion was destroyed in one fell swoop, but this ancestral mansion was left, although the prime minister only bought this mansion after all these years, but before that, who was secretly taking care of it, I am afraid that only a huge number of people know." The threat of the Mu family does come from some of its own people, but it is also a huge number of people who are behind the scenes. ”

Pang Shifeng's face turned pale, he understood what he said just now, the other faction of the Mu family is rooted and grown in other countries, if it is his father who joins forces with them, does it mean that his father is the one who collaborates with the enemy and treason?

Mu Qing knew that such words were cruel, but he had to say: "The ambition of the huge man seems to be to the whole world, the third prince, if there is a confrontation one day in the future, how should you deal with yourself?" ”