There was a wooden tray on the table, and there were several upside-down porcelain cups in the tray, Wen Xu walked to the table, took out three cups, and poured the water from the teapot into the cups.

After seeing that the tea in the cup was seven points full, he put down the teapot and said, "Ziqing, what do you want to say to me?" ”

Xiao Musheng was not surprised at all, just picked up a teacup and said, "I know I can't hide it from you." ”

He looked out the window, as if he was emotional, sighed, turned his head to look at Wen Xu again, and his expression was complicated by others that others couldn't understand.

I only heard him speak: "There is a saying in the world, good birds choose trees to perch, and now the situation in the court is becoming more and more distinct, I want to know, what does Brother Yan Chu think?" ”

Wen Xu didn't answer immediately, and after thinking for a while, he looked into Xiao Musheng's eyes and said, "Ziqing, this question ...... Did you want to ask yourself, or did someone ask you? ”

No wonder Wen Xu is so suspicious, now that there are many people staring at the Xuanping Marquis Mansion, there will be people who will be tempted by Xiao Musheng.

Of course, compared to this, he was more worried that Xiao Musheng would be taken advantage of.

Xiao Musheng understood Wen Xu's hesitation, so he replied calmly: "I want to ask myself." ”

"If you want to ask, then I'll be blunt." Wen Xu said, and took a sip of tea.

After putting the teacup back on the table, he continued: "Now above the court, the second prince, the third prince, and the left prime minister, each form a faction, in order to seek a future, many officials have stood in line one after another. ”

Xiao Musheng and Chen Ce glanced at each other, and then nodded in unison.

"Someone knocked on the door before, saying that it was on the order of the second prince to ask me to get together in the suburbs, I thought it was a trap, so I refused, and no one came to the door again."

Chen Ce said, quite shy, embarrassed to say that the person was beaten out with a stick after he took it as a liar.

After speaking, he looked at Xiao Musheng and asked, "Ziqing, what about you?" Who found you? ”

Xiao Musheng said in a calm tone: "Before the exam, someone followed me, I suspected that it was someone from the Third Prince, but the strange thing is that no one has come to the door until now. ”

He guessed that it should be the second prince and the third prince secretly facing each other, and the third prince was not sure that he could win the first place in the palace examination, so he hadn't appeared for a long time.

Thinking of this, Xiao Musheng picked up the teacup, and while drinking tea, his eyelids closed slightly, which well blocked the complication that flashed under his eyes.

Seeing that the two of them were honest, Wen Xu hesitated for a moment, and without waiting for them to ask, he took the initiative to answer: "Some time ago, Lord Chen came to visit the mansion...... You should have heard of this person, the official residence of the great Si Nongcheng, working under Lord Xun, my father intended to make friends, but unfortunately I was not interested in it at all. ”

Thinking of the words that Lin Ping had relayed to him after seeing Chen Jiong that day and coming back, he felt sarcastic.

If he was really interested in a position of power, he could have chosen to take over the position of Marquis instead of wasting time on a scientific expedition.

He is gentle, and he only wants to die for his confidants in his life, like Chen Jiong, who only knows coercion and temptation, and he will not make friends.

Xiao Musheng breathed a sigh of relief, then smiled, raised the teacup with both hands, and said: "The three of us unexpectedly reached a consensus, I propose, it is better for us to replace the wine with tea and toast each other." ”

Chen Ce hurriedly picked up the teacup, got up and responded, "This proposal is good." ”

As he spoke, he lightly touched the teacup with the teacup in the hands of Xiao Musheng and Wen Xu, and then drank it all, and said: "I have always thought that if you are an official, you have to be a good official admired by everyone, and you should be born for the benefit of the people, and you will not be infamous through the ages after death. ”

He has always been unaccustomed to the way those courtiers compete for power and profit!

Something like this, he had heard Chen Ce say it more than a hundred times in his previous life, and now looking at him, Xiao Musheng seemed to feel something, and said, "What Heng Zhi said is reasonable. ”

But those words are easy to say, but hard to do!

Xiao Musheng suddenly remembered what Zuo said to him in his previous life, and for a while, the words of the two circulated in his mind for a long time.

He hurriedly took a sip of tea, and then slowly calmed down.

I was about to speak, but there was a sudden knock on the door......