Emperor Junao fell ill, and the court had not been to the court for many days.

The matter of Cining Palace, the people in the palace are even more profound, no one dares to talk about a word, as if this palace has never existed, and the Queen Mother has never existed.

On this day, the emperor actually summoned Mu Rin.

The eunuch who passed the message had an extremely courteous attitude towards Mu Rin.

Why?

Because the first person the emperor summoned after waking up was not the crown prince, the queen, not the fourth prince, not the second prince or other concubines, princes and princesses, but Mu Rin, who was a general.

Then it shows that the emperor is more satisfied with Mu Rin, a courtier, and besides, the emperor's illness seems to be very serious, but he didn't even call any prince to serve the sick, only General Mu Rin was summoned.

At this time, Mu Rin was the first to be remembered by the emperor, which was enough to prove the weight in the emperor's heart.

The place of the audience is naturally in the emperor's dormitory: the Qianlong Palace.

The emperor and the empress can be called respectful of each other, and the queen has been cautious in her words and deeds for so many years, never made a mistake, and left the eldest son of the emperor the crown prince. Although the emperor did not like the empress very much, he never neglected it.

However, this time, the queen was not summoned by the emperor, these days, the emperor is seriously ill, and the queen rarely comes to the Qianlong Palace to serve the sick, silently.

The queen's move was incomprehensible, and the crown prince was also sent away by the fourth prince, which undoubtedly gave the queen and the prince a resounding slap in the face.

The emperor had not seen him for a few days, and he was obviously not lightly ill.

When Mu Rin saw such an emperor, his heart jumped suddenly, his eyes were solemn, the emperor who was once high above, at this moment, his face was full of sickness, almost skin and bones, the eyes that looked at the world were covered with a layer of turbidity, and the sideburns on both sides of his ears actually appeared white, looking old and decrepit, where is the majesty that an emperor should have.

"The minister knocks to see the emperor!"

The emperor was arrogantly leaning on the dragon bed, looked at Mu Rin who was kneeling on the ground respectfully, and said, "Excuse me, get up!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Mu Rin heard this, and stood up.

Suddenly, the emperor spoke without warning: "Mu Rin, who do you think is the most suitable person to take on the great responsibility after a hundred years?"

As soon as these words came out, Mu Rin's eyes tightened suddenly, and his indifferent expression froze.

Silenced, as a courtier, the emperor actually asked you about the throne in person, no matter how you answer this question, it is not clear, what is the best answer?

No!

The matter of storage has been the most taboo topic from ancient times to the present.

Emperor Jun Ao looked at Mu Rin's indifferent expression, and stood there for a while without meaning to answer, so he said: "Are you afraid that I will blame you if I don't want to hear it?"

King's Landing looked slightly moved, raised his eyebrows, opened his thin lips, and said, "The minister is afraid, this is a royal matter, and it is inconvenient for the minister to express his opinion." There is no opinion, what does the emperor want to do, the minister is still a courtier of the Daduan Dynasty. ”

Hearing this, the emperor Jun was arrogant, as if he had already thought that Mu Rin would answer like this, waved his hand, and said: "Okay, okay, I watched you grow up, what kind of person you are, I still have some understanding." But it doesn't hurt to say it!"

"The ministers will march and fight, and I am afraid that they will not be able to give better advice to the emperor. If you take good care of your body and continue to be the abbot, you don't need to worry about this problem. Mu Rin is determined not to fall into this pit.

Hearing this, the emperor pondered for a long time before he sighed: "I know my body, but it is already in the last years of the wind and candle!"

If it is an ordinary courtier, how can it be so close to the emperor to chat, or talk about such a topic, if it is changed to someone else, it will be very inflated and feel that the emperor values himself very much.

However, they didn't expect that the emperor would be so attentive to Mu Rin, it was entirely because of his ability.

Mu Rin's ability is very good, whether it is the marching formation or the scale of the court, it is also very good.

However, he has never been particularly in the limelight, and it is precisely because of this calmness that the emperor is impressed by him.

"The emperor is auspicious!" Mu Rin said indifferently and seriously, and then was as indifferent as ever.

The emperor Jun Ao saw him like this, and continued: "According to the instructions of the officials below, the crown prince has been imprisoned, and almost all the officials related to the Xiao Mansion have been imprisoned and raided. Droughts and floods are natural disasters, floods are man-made disasters, and now the common people have become hooligans, but the prince has devoted his energy to this aspect, do you think this is the way to be a king?"

Mu Rin's eyes moved, and he said, "The emperor has already made a decision in his heart, isn't it!"

Emperor Jun Ao was not angry, but just stared at Mu Rin tightly with a pair of cloudy eyes, and said, "I have decided to ask you to investigate this matter thoroughly. ”

After saying so much, it turned out that he came to do such a thing, Mu Rin's eyes were gloomy, and he replied: "The emperor wants Weichen to collect evidence of the prince's mistakes?"

Emperor Jun Ao listened to his words, and said without turning around: "Yes, that's why, I came to you as soon as I woke up. When I was asleep, I thought a lot, a lot......"

Such a frank answer made Mu Rin completely stunned.

Since the founding of the Daduan Dynasty, there has never been a precedent for abolishing the crown prince, and the emperor is now saying this to him, clearly trying to find a good reason. It can not only block the mouths of people in the world, but also shut up the officials in the entire court.

Then, what to do is to pull the prince down from the position of the prince, after all, the prince was born to the queen of the main palace, and the eldest grandson of the concubine is the heir to the throne.

"Your Majesty, isn't it a little inappropriate for the minister to do such a thing, the minister and the second prince Jun Qingzhen are contracted by marriage. Mu Rin frowned and reminded.

If he came to find out that the prince had made a mistake, then it would turn into a struggle among the princes.

Is the emperor really sick and confused?

"I'm not sick enough to get my brain confused!" the emperor opened his mouth to make a sound, interrupting Mu Rin's musings, and said, "Since I called you, I naturally took this issue into consideration......

When I came out of the Qianlong Palace, it was already noon.

Mu Rin walked out of the palace gate, and when the carriage passed through the vermilion and tall palace gate, he lifted the curtains and looked back at the magnificent palace behind him.

The carriage drove until an hour and a half later, when it stopped at the palace of the valiant general.

As soon as he got out of the carriage, the housekeeper of the mansion came forward.

"General, Lord Ye is here. He whispered in his ear.

Hearing Lord Ye's three words, Mu Rin's expression sank, and he said, "Well, I know! You go and invite your uncle to the study, and I'll be there later!"

The housekeeper replied, "Yes, the old slave will do it." ”

Mu Rin didn't go directly to the study, but walked to a certain place in the mansion.

It didn't take long for Mu Rin to appear in the study.

"What is my uncle here for?" Mu Rin walked to the chair opposite Ye Jingzhi and sat down.

Ye Jingzhi looked at him with a serious expression and said, "How is the emperor's condition?"

"......" Hearing such a straightforward question, Mu Rin sank for a moment and said, "Your Majesty wants to check the prince!"

When Ye Jingzhi heard this, he didn't show a look of surprise, but instead showed a worried look, and said, "That's true!"

Mu Rin asked a little strangely, "Why do you say that?

Ye Jingzhi nodded and said, "Your grandfather had already told me about the crown prince being taken back by the emperor to act as the superintendent, but I didn't expect it to be true!"

Mu Rin frowned and said, "Then the eldest uncle came to me to verify this?"

Ye Jingzhi's expression was a little subtle, and he said calmly: "In addition to certification, there is also a word that my father asked me to tell you, you have to remember." ”

"What?"

"Chaos, don't forget your original intention, be diligent, don't take it for your own benefit!"

Mu Rin was stunned when he heard this, and couldn't understand what he meant, "I don't understand, what about my grandfather? ”

Ye Jingzhi said indifferently: "No need to look for it, my father is not in the house." ”

Hearing this, Mu Rin's heart jumped suddenly, and he said solemnly, "Where did my grandfather go?"

Ye Jingzhi shook his head and said, "I don't know where your grandfather went, I just came to pass the word according to what your grandfather left." ”

Mu Rin raised his eyes to look at Ye Jingzhi, and after a short silence, he said, "The emperor let you enter the Hall of Light to discuss matters, right?"

"Hmm!" Ye Jingzhi nodded and replied very calmly.

"The Hall of Light is the rule set by the founding emperor when the Daduan Dynasty was founded, in order to find the most capable and talented courtiers to wait here for the new emperor to solve the problems of the new emperor in the fastest time. Mu Rin said in a deep voice: "And, although this rule has always been there, it is the first time since the beginning of the past generations that rebirth has begun. Your Majesty, this is going to ......"

Ye Jingzhi was silent and said: "There are some things that don't need to be asked, you will know soon, you can wait! As for the matter of the Guangming Palace, the emperor is just too sick to deal with too many state affairs at once, as a courtier, he naturally has to work for the emperor who is unable to handle state affairs, as for whether it is what you think, time will tell you." ”

Mu Rin saw that Ye Jingzhi was leaving, stood up, and said, "Uncle, you have stepped into the center of power like this, which is equivalent to Da Sima being directly promoted to Zhengyipin, which means being at the pinnacle of power." The news will come out soon......"

"At the beginning, when I came to the capital, the emperor had secretly sent someone to find me, I don't know if it was, according to all kinds of signs, the emperor seems to know that there is such a day, you can think of things, the emperor may have already thought of it. And I was able to accept this position, and naturally I also thought about the dangers I should bear. Ye Jingzhi said lightly: "In life, a gentleman has something to do and something not to do." ”

"Things in the future will naturally conform to the will of the people, what our descendants of the Ye family want to do is to serve the country and the people, and the time is also fate, and give up the small family to become a ...... for everyone."

Mu Rin looked at Ye Jingzhi, who left with such a sentence, his expression was heavy, the Hall of Light was only qualified to enter by the elders of the Three Dynasties who had a transcendent status, and the door bar was very high.

To be able to make the emperor Jun Ao so entrusted to the Daduan Dynasty, and did not hesitate to make an exception to choose Ye Jingzhi as the Great Sima, so reused, it is naturally outstanding.

In general, the eldest uncle Ye Jingzhi is the person who has been the most inherited or even surpassed by his grandfather, but he has always been low-key and no one knows about it......

Moreover, the deliberations of the Temple of Light have always been prepared for the new emperor who is not capable, but it was only in the early days of the founding of the country, and then the Daduan Dynasty gradually became stronger, and this rule was abolished.

Over the years, the Queen Mother has thought of thousands of reasons to let the emperor open the Hall of Light, so that she wants people to enter the Hall of Light, but they have all been rejected by the emperor and the four princes one by one.

This time, the fourth prince did not stop him, and seemed to be very much in favor of the emperor's approach.

If the news comes out, I am afraid that the ministers of the court and the central government will change color for it.

"Why did you ...... so suddenly" Ye Ting jumped off the beam of the roof and said incredulously: "The emperor won't be ......"

Mu Rin's cold eyes directly slashed his face, cut off his words, and said, "What do you want? Do you really dare to say it, don't you know that the disaster comes from the mouth? I haven't seen anyone these days, and I dare to hide when I see my uncle, it's really out of luck." ”

Ye Ting sat down very unfiguratively, crossed Erlang's legs, took a cup of tea from the table and drank it in one sip before saying: "It's not because of you, besides, I have so much industry, so I naturally have to take care of it, what's wrong with not seeing people?"

The words fell, and he threw a box in his arms to Mu Rin.

Mu Rin stretched out his hand and grabbed it gently, grabbed the box steadily, raised his eyebrows, and asked, "You seem to have disappeared because of this, and returned the charges to me, and then tried to gag my mouth with such a little thing?"

"Oh, let's see what's in there first!" Ye Ting was not annoyed, and drank tea leisurely, looking like he hadn't drunk tea for a long time.

Hearing this, Mu Rin felt a little strange in his heart, and then opened the box and saw that there was an arrow and a dagger inside.

"Where did these weapons come from?" Mu Rin reflected these weapons in his eyes, his expression was solemn, and he saw that the color and quality on them were similar to the weapons in the army he managed, but the quality seemed to be better.

"In Hengzhou!" Ye Ting said proudly: "Don't you know, in order to get these two weapons, I spent a lot of effort." As he spoke, the body that was originally holding Erlang's legs moved and changed his position.

Mu Rin stared straight at him with a pair of eyes, and suddenly, he stepped forward and suddenly pulled Ye Ting's clothes open, only to see that blood had already oozed from Ye Ting's white middle coat, and the wound was just below the horizontal chest of his left shoulder.

"Damn, you don't want to die, you're so badly injured and you've been waiting here for so long!" Mu Rin was a little angry when he said this.

That's right, just before returning home, he received a message from Ye Ting saying that something important was handed over to him, and he originally wanted to see Ye Ting immediately after returning home, but he didn't expect his uncle Ye Jingzhi to come.

Unexpectedly, Ye Ting refused to see Ye Jingzhi, so he went to the study where he came to meet Ye Ting first.

Ye Ting also followed to the study, but he just hid on the beam.

"It's okay, I can't die!" Ye Ting smiled and said, "The wound looks scary, but it'......s actually a skin injury."

Mu Rin's hand pressed suddenly, and Ye Ting's originally relaxed words disappeared, and his whole face turned white.

"Oh, Mu Rin damn it, what are you doing, do you want to murder?" Ye Ting glared at Mu Rin with a pale face, God knew that he had exhausted all his strength to pretend that nothing happened.

"Don't pretend?" Mu Rin stared at him coldly and said, "It's obviously a terrible injury, who can you pretend to show it! The wounds are bleeding seriously, you still dare to die, do you want to bleed to death?"

Ye Ting admitted that he was at fault, reached out and touched his nose, and said: "I have already asked the doctor to bandage it, but I don't know why the bleeding stopped not long after it started to flow again, and it has been repeated many times, and the doctor doesn't know what is wrong." ”

Mu Rin's expression was solemn, and he said: "The medicine Yan'er gave me, there is still a little left, it is very effective in stopping bleeding and removing stasis, and the bandage is untied." I'll help you with the medicine!" said the man, who had already walked to the side of the cabinet and rummaged through it.

Ye Ting listened, naturally he didn't dare to disobey, you must know that Mu Rin and Mu Qingyan, the brother and sister, have the same temper, looking cold and indifferent on the surface, smiling Yan Yan, but if some things are not done according to the two of them, the consequences will be very serious.

"Damn!" Mu Rin came back with the medicine bottle, and when he saw Ye Ting's opportunity to scratch the wound in the heart, he said angrily: "If the knife edge falls another inch, you will die!"

Although he said cold words in his mouth, the movements of his hands did not relax, and he took medicine while talking.

"Hiss...... Hurt...... Tap, tap......" Ye Ting's handsome face was distorted and he shouted in a low voice.

Finally finished taking the medicine, Mu Rin put the empty bottle aside, and then wanted the bandage to help him re-bandage the wound, but unexpectedly, the blood that had just stopped from the wound began to come out again.

"How can this be?" Mu Rin looked at the knife wound on Ye Ting's chest in disbelief and said solemnly.

Ye Ting took the strap and began to bandage it skillfully, and said while bandaging: "I have taken the medicine, I have to bandage it quickly, so that blood will flow out later." ”

Mu Rin snatched his strap, bandaged it, and said with a solemn expression, "How long have you been injured?"

"It's been seven days, and I've been rushing back to the capital from Hengzhou, and the wounds have been so repeated, bleeding sometimes more and sometimes less. Ye Ting frowned and said.

"I'm afraid that the person who attacked you put some kind of medicine on the knife so that your wound will not heal. After Mu Rin bandaged his wound, he looked at Ye Ting's wound with heavy eyes, and said, "Do you know who killed you?"

Ye Ting thought for a while and said, "I saw these weapons from a person by accident, and later, I followed that person to a relatively barren wood, and then robbed the person's weapon. Originally, I thought that I just wanted to grab a weapon, and I didn't think about killing someone, but the man who was robbed actually called someone to chase after me, and several people chased me, and I was cut for a while. ”

"Those people don't want you to take the weapon out of Hengzhou, not only do they just want to snatch it back from you, but they should also kill it!"

When the words fell, the two looked at each other, and there was solemnity in their eyes.

Ye Ting recalled the chaotic process of being chased and killed, and suddenly, his eyes flashed and became sharp, as if he had grasped the key point, and said: "You say, is it possible that Lin Hanting's people did it? Have you found that the ingredients of these weapons are extremely similar to those found from Lin Tingsheng before, so is it possible that they have been improved? If so, then ......" Speaking of this, his face flashed with great joy.

Hearing this, Mu Rin nodded, and said, "There is such a possibility!"

"Then you hurry up and tell the fourth prince about this weapon......" Ye Ting was interrupted by Mu Rin before he finished speaking.

"It's not me, it's all going to go!"

"I ......"

Before Ye Ting could refuse, the person had already been summoned by Mu Rin to be a secret guard and disappeared into the study.

Four Princes' Mansions.

"Master, Mu Rin and ...... Ye Ting is here!"

Zhang Heng hurriedly walked into the study from outside the door, walked into the ear of King's Landing, who was dealing with official business, and whispered.

Hearing this, King's Landing stopped what he was doing, raised his eyebrows and asked, "What are they doing here?"

At this time, it was an eventful time, and Mu Rin was called by the emperor in the morning, he didn't do what he had to do, what did he do here?

Zhang Heng said: "This is what Mu Rin asked his subordinates to hand over to his master. With that, he opened the box that Mu Rin had brought.

King's Landing raised his eyes and glanced into the box, and after looking at it for a while, his eyes tightened slightly, and he asked in a deep voice, "Now, where are they?" Reaching out and taking a look, he weighed it, this arrow and dagger are military, but they are definitely not weapons for the army that Mu Rin is now managing.

"Back to the master, Ye Ting was injured and is now in the princess's medicine garden. Zhang Heng replied.

Hearing this, King's Landing put down the matter in his hand, got up from the desk, and walked out on his long legs.

Zhang Heng naturally followed.

"Have you captured all the people on the list?" King's Landing walked in the direction of the medicine garden, not forgetting the list on the ledger found in the Cining Palace as he went.

Zhang Heng said in a low voice on the side: "Back to the master, one hundred and twenty-six people, one hundred people have been arrested, and twenty-six people seem to know that there will be an incident on the east wall, so they are all hiding." The Dark Guard has searched the whole city, and it is believed that they will be able to arrest everyone soon. Just ......"

Hearing this, King's Landing raised his eyebrows, didn't look back, just said lightly: "Say!"

"It's just that some of the people who were arrested have already begun to have seizures because of drug addiction, delirium, self-harm, and I am afraid that they will not live long. If so, it will be impossible to get clues from their interrogation. Zhang Heng thought of the people who were arrested in the dungeon, the people who did not take hallucinogens, one by one they began to go crazy, and then, with a pair of hands, they scratched their whole body and didn't know the hell on earth, and he couldn't help but tremble after seeing countless tortures.

Such a person has no humanity and basic self-esteem.

"Find one to study the antidote for one hundred miles, and the others are burning!"

Seeing the medicine garden appear in front of him, King's Landing said lightly, directly deciding the fate of the people in the dungeon......