As the wedding date is getting closer and closer, Shen Lingxi is getting busier and busier.

She felt in her heart that after the wedding, she might not be able to take care of the coffin shop and Fu'an Hall for the time being, so she tried to arrange everything in advance.

Fu'an Village, where the orphans of Shantang and Su Jiajun were housed, was also nearing the end of the construction period, but fortunately, the Dou family also sent a few useful stewards to help, but it was advancing in an orderly manner.

Shen Lingxi knew that the Queen Mother was thinking about her, so that she could rely on the Dou family and have a good relationship with the Dou family. The Dou family also does things very properly, there is a degree of advance and retreat, everything is based on her intentions, Shen Lingxi will not refuse the kindness of the Queen Mother and the Dou family.

The Queen Mother knew that Shen Lingxi had the ability to see ghosts, and she rarely brought people to serve around her.

But after the wedding, Shen Lingxi wants to be the crown princess, and she has to add some useful people around her to take care of the affairs of the palace for her.

Yes, the Queen Mother sifted and screened in the Shoukang Palace, and asked the Dou family to pick some in the house, and sent Gui's mother to the Dou Mansion to take a look at it in person, and then sent it to Wangxian Village, and even the little beans were transferred to Shen Lingxi's side by the Queen Mother.

In this way, Shen Lingxi has not yet entered the East Palace, and the female officials and palace maids who will serve her in the East Palace in the future have already lived in Wangxian Village.

The wedding date was set in a hurry, and in just half a month, not only did she have to try on the crown princess's crown dress, but also the female officials in the palace came to teach Shen Lingxi the etiquette in the palace.

I don't dare to say anything else, in terms of "etiquette" in the palace, whether it is "standing", "sitting" or "saluting", Shen Lingxi can do exactly what he can do with his eyes closed because of the experience of his previous life, and in front of the female official Shangyi, he is simply a genius who "knows himself without a teacher".

The female official Shangyi, who has never been smiling in front of the palace people, looked at Shen Lingxi, smiled from ear to ear, and praised everyone twice: This future princess is really a model among noblewomen.

Finally busy until the day before the wedding, everything was ready, and Shen Lingxi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At night, the female officers and maidservants who were around her also laughed and retreated, leaving her time alone for the last night.

Shen Lingxi carried a wind lantern and two pots of burning knives and wine, and went to Shen Laoweng's grave.

In the early winter, the trees are bleak, the cold wind is whining, although it is a full moon in the sky, the path up the mountain, the withered grass is green, reflecting the moonlight, such as frost.

If others knew that the crown princess, who was about to be crowned tomorrow, would come to this wilderness in the middle of the night to go to the grave, I don't know how to feel.

Shen Lingxi didn't want to care what others thought, it was rare that she didn't even have a ghost by her side tonight, so she should have come to tell Ah Weng the news that she was going to get married.

She respectfully lit three incense candles in front of the grave, poured the wine into a clay bowl, and offered it to the grave.

Shen Lingxi squatted in front of the tombstone, stretched out his hand to caress the cold edge of the stele, and whispered in the usual tone of play in front of Ah Weng in the past: "Ah Weng, although I am pretending to be married to the imperial grandson this time, no matter what, I have to go to the jade plate and go through the motions." Just let the granddaughter keep her promise to you and marry herself, okay? ”

She was answered only by the whimper of the cold wind in the distance.

It's as if Ah Weng was in front of her, and he faked crying to express his dissatisfaction.

Shen Lingxi thought of her own Ah Weng, wiped her eyes and pretended to cry, complaining about her appearance.

She smiled, stood up straight, and muttered: "If you know about it, you will bless His Royal Highness the Imperial Grandson, and find out who the murderer of his parents is as soon as possible, so that I can return my little aunt's innocence as soon as possible, and I can live a happy life." ”

After speaking, Shen Lingxi bowed in front of the tombstone, spilled the two jars of wine on the grave, and then turned around and wanted to leave.

However, as soon as she turned around—

I saw a dark, long figure, standing not far behind her with his chest crossed, looking at her with a faint gaze.

Even if Shen Lingxi can see ghosts every day, at first glance in this kind of barren mountains and mountains, he will inevitably be shocked when he sees this kind of scene.

"You...... Is it a human or a ghost? She asked warily.

Don't forget to pick the wind lamp in your hand and shine it on the person to see if there is a shadow on the ground.

"Shen Lingxi, you are really interested in running up the mountain to go to the grave in the middle of the night."

Qingyue's voice with a ridiculous tone came to Shen Lingxi's ears, making her breathe a sigh of relief.

"Mu Huai'an, are you sick!" She asked angrily: "In the middle of the night, in this barren mountain and wilderness, pretend to be a ghost and scary, do you believe that I ask a few ghosts to follow you every day?" ”

Mu Huai'an walked in front of her, and the amorous peach blossom eyes reflected the lights in her hands, sparkling.

"I'm coming with you." He pointed to Shen Laoweng's tombstone, and the corners of his lips rarely smeared, "I didn't pretend to be a ghost to scare you, but you just cared about talking to Lao Weng and didn't notice me." ”

Shen Lingxi's apricot eyes widened slightly.

She subconsciously remembered what she had just said in front of Ah Weng's tombstone, and asked vigilantly, "Are you eavesdropping on me?" You hear it all?? ”

"Hear what?" Mu Huai'an's eyebrows raised slightly, and he naturally took the wind lantern from her hand, turned around and walked back.

Shen Lingxi stepped up to follow, Qing Lingling's apricot eyes, examined him, and asked tightly, "Just now, did you hear all the whispers I said to Ah Weng?" ”

"That'......"

Mu Huai'an forcibly suppressed the corners of his mouth that couldn't stop rising, and pretended to be relaxed: "Isn't it that you and Your Highness are married for a purpose, and it's not a secret, what if I accidentally hear it?" ”

Shen Lingxi was stunned for a moment, and looked at him suspiciously, "What do you mean by this, you already know it?" ”

"Is that hard to guess?" Mu Huai'an looked at her sideways, and said in a natural tone, "You told me before that you have no love for His Highness between men and women, and now you suddenly decided to marry him, there must be other reasons." ”

"I've known you for more than a day or two, can I not know you? Your brain is also lacking in tendons. If you say you don't like someone, you're probably 80% true. But if you say that you like someone with all your heart, it is ten out of ten false. ”

Hearing him say the word "like", Chu Yan's eyebrows and eyes appeared in Shen Lingxi's mind, and a trace of strangeness flashed in his heart.

"You're just missing a root in your brain." She retorted quickly, unwilling to continue the discussion with him, and asked with a straight face, "What are you doing with me?" ”

Mu Huai'an walked with the lamp, and said with an understatement: "Naturally, I think that if you regret it, I will take you away." I'm such a righteous person, when it's time to make a move, I naturally want to stick a knife in my friend's ribs, and I can't just watch you jump into the fire pit and be indifferent, right? ”

"That's not necessary." Shen Ling's eyes moved slightly, pulled the corners of his lips, and said meaningfully: "Shaoqing is too worried, I will never regret what I decided." ”

The smile on the corner of Mu Huai'an's lips condensed slightly, and the joy of hearing that she and Chu Yan were "fake marriage" dissipated in an instant because of these words.

However, when I thought of it, the treatment of the imperial grandson was no different from him, and my heart was very comfortable.

He bent his eyebrows and nodded in approval, "Very good, you must do what you say, don't regret it." This is the Shen Lingxi I know. ”

Shen Lingxi saw that his expression was as usual, but when he had let go of his obsession with himself, his heart was much more relaxed.

"Are you really looking for me?" She asked again, "Previously, when you returned to Beijing in advance, didn't you say that you wanted to inquire with Grandpa Guo about the affairs between the Guogong Mansion and Yunjiang?" Is there any progress? ”

In the past few days, Chu Yan has not brought news related to Yunjiang, she is really curious about the progress of things.

Mu Huai'an's expression moved slightly, but he said: "What can happen, it's nothing more than that when Yun Chong fled for his life, his father led the troops to chase after him and almost killed him, and Liang Zi ended it like this, and now he wants to secretly provoke the relationship between the Mu family and His Royal Highness." ”

As soon as Shen Lingxi saw his expression, he knew that he must have hidden something.

"You don't want to talk about it." She snatched the wind lamp from Mu Huai'an's hand, with a cold face, and walked quickly down the mountain, "It's not early, Shaoqing should go back early, if people see it, the night before the wedding, I am still with you, Shaoqing and I will die." ”

When Mu Huai'an heard this, he didn't know what to think, and said with a smile, "What are you afraid of, since Your Highness is pretending to marry you, you must have no personal relationship between men and women, right?" As long as Your Highness believes that you and I are innocent, isn't it? Could it be that His Royal Highness can still be jealous of a fake family affair? ”

Shen Lingxi's footsteps slowed down instantly.

She couldn't refute that.

She looked sideways at him, her eyes clear.

"Good, good." Mu Huaian smiled and teased: "I'll tell you everything I know, it's done, right?" I've at least got to show you that I'm more reliable than your fake husband, right? ”

Shen Lingxi frowned and turned his head in extreme displeasure.

"I am really married to His Royal Highness, and he is also my true husband. Since I have married him, in my heart, he is naturally reliable. This family matter, true or false, how to call it, is a private matter between us, and I also ask Shaoqing to put his beak indiscriminately. If you say that about him in front of me again, you don't have to come to me again. ”

Mu Huai'an is a stalk.

Looking at her angry face, he immediately remembered—

When Shen Lingxi didn't know Chu Yan before, in front of him, he always looked at him with a pleasant face, but in his heart he actually refused indifferently.

Neither dare to offend him, nor will he compromise easily.

Like this, all the joy and anger are written on the face, but there has never been one.

I have to say that compared with the past, the current Shen Lingxi is more vivid and real.

This is the change that has taken place in the face of the emperor, His Royal Highness, who has crossed the path for her ability in front of the emperor and silently supported her to stand in front of others.

This is where he is ashamed of himself.

But one thing hasn't changed, she won't allow others to belittle the friends she cares about.

In front of him today, he was not allowed to say Chu Yan.

Then in the future, in front of Chu Yan, she will definitely protect him......

Thinking of this, Mu Huai'an smiled faintly, saluted her, and responded, "What you said is that I was rude." ”

Seeing this, Shen Lingxi turned sideways to avoid his salute, and the anger between his eyebrows and eyes diminished a lot.

Mu Huai'an's expression was a little more serious.

Knowing that Shen Lingxi was most worried about Yunjiang, he sighed for a few breaths and said directly: "I asked my father about things related to Yunjiang, and my father told me that when he led the vanguard to attack the five cities of Yunguo, he encountered a strange thing. ”

"Odd things?" Shen Lingxi raised his eyes to look at him, his eyes were full of doubts, "What's the matter?" ”

Mu Huai'an said: "Father said that the night before the attack on Qicheng, there was a Yunjiang man, who suddenly came to his account in the middle of the night, saying that he wanted to make a deal with him, as long as he promised to take the Yunguo and promote Yunhongshan as the king of Yunjiang, he would cooperate with the outside and help him take the five cities of the Yunguo." ”

"This kind of thing, if you don't handle it well, you will be guilty of collaborating with the enemy, and my father naturally didn't dare to make an assertion, and flew pigeons overnight to pass the book to the emperor."

"If you can take down the Yun Kingdom without wasting too many soldiers, the first emperor will naturally not refuse, and immediately agreed to this matter. Therefore, the Mu family was able to capture five cities in a row and win great military exploits. ”

Speaking of this, Mu Huai'an laughed at himself, "This is the greatest achievement of the Mu family so far, and it is the first time I know that this battle achievement actually came from this." Although the people of Yunjiang came to the door to cooperate with the outside world, winning in the end is not as glorious as fighting with real knives and guns. ”

Shen Lingxi's apricot eyes were slightly deep.

Qicheng is the first city on the border of Yunguo, after the initial loss, in the next half a month, it was captured by the Great Zhou Dynasty and four cities, and the army was in turmoil, so that the war would be defeated all the way.

Shen Lingxi remembered that on the day she died, after the scum father was shot into a hedgehog, the city gate was opened from the inside, and all the officials in the city surrendered......

It turned out that from the very beginning of this war, Yun Hongshan had turned against him.

Thinking of this, Shen Lingxi had mixed feelings in his heart.

If it weren't for the destruction of Yunguo Guo, she would not have died tragically.

can think about it from another angle, under the rule of her scumbag father, Yunguo is already starving all over the wilderness, and the people are struggling to make a living.

The soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty were strict in discipline and brave and invincible, even if there was no Yunhong Mountain collaborating with the enemy, it would be difficult for the Great Zhou and Yunguo to escape the life-and-death struggle.

The war is cruel, and if you take the initiative to retreat, at least the people in the city can avoid the poison of war, which is not a good thing for the people.

"Real knives and real guns fight, killing is too heavy after all. The country of Yun was destroyed, and the blame was only for Emperor Er's lack of being a man, and he couldn't blame others for calculating. Shen Lingxi said expressionlessly.

She paused, and her eyebrows moved slightly: "Then how did the Yunjiang people get into the Mu family's military marshal's account?" ”

"That's where the weirdness goes." Mu Huai'an said in a deep voice: "Father said that the man came alone, and he did not alarm a single soldier, but outside the tent, there have always been heavy guards......

"It's the god who can wish Yujutsu to be charming!" Shen Lingxi is categorical.

"Zhu Yushu?"

Mu Huai'an, as the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, naturally knew what Zhu Youshu was, and he asked suspiciously: "Zhu Youshu must be face-to-face with people in order to be hypnotized by the person who performs the spell, how can he be under the heavy guard, into the handsome account?" ”

When the ghost of the first crown princess appeared, Mu Huai'an had already left the imperial tomb, and he didn't know about Zhu Youshu.

"He's good at disguise." Shen Lingxi looked at him and said.

Mu Huai'an's eyes were shocked, and he instantly thought of something, and his face changed slightly, "If you are good at disguise, you will wish you to enter a place guarded by heavy soldiers, if you enter a land where no one is in the world, is it ...... Is he the one who broke into the Yongtai Palace and locked the soul well underground palace? ”

"That's right." Shen Lingxi said meaningfully: "Not only that, that person is also the murderer of the former crown princess. If my expectations are correct, now Yun Chong is trying to find a way to hand over the evidence of Yun Hongshan's connection with the murderer of the crown princess to His Royal Highness the Imperial Princess. That murderer not only killed the first crown princess, but also colluded with your Mu family in the war, you say, what will Yun Chong do next? ”

At this point, she muttered, "Or...... Your Mu family also has something to do with the death of the first crown princess? ”