This person dressed in black, almost blending with the dark night, like a ghost and ghost, was none other than Xiao Qingyu, who had just met with Ye Ningxiang. This man who only has interests and power in his eyes has always shown his ruthless side in front of Ye Ningxiang, but when he really watched Ye Ningxiang roar at him almost like crazy, and then ran out of his mind, his always indifferent heart felt an unprecedented anxiety and uneasiness.

He was not a good man in the past, and he will not be a good man in the future, a person like him has struggled to survive in the whirlpool of power since birth, and his hands that are more feminine than women are stained with the blood of many innocent people, and people like him do not deserve love, and they do not need love.

But tonight, his thoughts have completely changed, he found that his mood would involuntarily change with Ye Ningxiang, he would be irritable because of Ye Ningxiang's resentment towards him, and he would even be afraid, afraid that Ye Ningxiang would leave him.

However, he didn't show up in the end, just hid in the most secluded corner, and watched Mu Xize walk towards the palace with Ye Ningxiang on his back.

That night, the street leading to the palace was so long and long that it seemed like there was no end. Ye Ningxiang lay quietly on Mu Xize's back, her hands naturally crossed his shoulders and around his neck.

When she was most lost, most painful, and most hesitant, what appeared in front of her was not someone else but this biggest enemy in her life.

In such a situation, she was actually a little intoxicated, intoxicated by this moment of tranquility, intoxicated by clinging to his body, quietly feeling the sensation of his even breathing and heartbeat. How nice it would be if time stood still in this moment!

Ye Ningxiang didn't know how she ended up going back to the palace, but when she woke up the next day, she was already lying peacefully on the bed in her bedroom, and the quilt covering her body wrapped her to death, as if she was afraid that she would catch a cold.

Mu Xize, is it the Zhaoyang Hall where he sent him back, Ye Ningxiang knocked on her head, trying to recall the events of last night, only remembering that she was carried on her back by Mu Xize, and then she had no memory. Last night, her mind was not very clear, and she didn't realize a very serious problem: how did Mu Xize know that she was out of the palace, and how did he find her accurately, could it be that he already knew about his relationship with Xiao Qingyu?

"You're awake!"

The sudden male voice really made Ye Ningxiang jump, and when she looked back, it turned out to be Mu Xize.

"I just asked the small kitchen in the Zhaoyang Hall to boil some medicinal porridge for you, and I was going to wait for you to wake up and feed it to you, but I didn't expect you to wake up so quickly. Mu Xize held the medicinal porridge in his hand, looked in the direction where Ye Ningxiang was and said.

"Your eyes ......" Noticing that Mu Xize's eyes were different from last night, Ye Ningxiang guessed that he should be blind again at this time, and couldn't help but open his mouth.

"Yes, I can't see you right now. After speaking, Mu Xize smiled, with deep love in the corners of his eyes, and continued: "Do you know when I first saw your appearance?"

Without waiting for Ye Ningxiang to answer, Mu Xize immediately said: "It was the time when King Duan forced the palace, you and I rode in the same carriage, and at that time you thought I was about to die, and you were overwhelmed with grief and cried. ”

It was actually that time, Mu Xize vomited blood in his mouth and fainted in the carriage, which was also the time when Ye Ningxiang thought that Mu Xize was closest to death, and he didn't expect that at that time, Mu Xize's originally blind eyes that were extremely weak had regained his sight, and Ye Ningxiang was extremely surprised.

"But only for a moment, and when I passed out and woke up, I was back to my old self. Saying this, Mu Xize smiled a little helplessly.

"Last night, how could you be in the empty streets of Yong'an. Ye Ningxiang wanted to find an appropriate time to ask, but it was really difficult to calm the curiosity in her heart, so she asked directly.

"It's just a coincidence. ”

Ye Ningxiang knew that such an almost perfunctory answer just proved that he was deliberately following him in the dark, and even he already knew that her relationship with Yipinju was extraordinary.

After drinking the hot medicinal porridge all night, Ye Ningxiang felt that the strength lost yesterday seemed to have recovered a lot, and the person seemed to be a lot more energetic. At this time, Mu Jingyuan actually brought a few imperial guards to Ye Ningxiang's room.

"Ye Ningxiang, how are you, are you feeling better?" Mu Jingyuan asked with great concern while holding Ye Ningxiang's hand.

However, knowing the truth about Qi Mengyao's pregnancy yesterday, Ye Ningxiang seemed to have set up a big mountain in her heart, firmly blocking Mu Jingyuan from the outside, and she couldn't find any of her former affection, and she was even full of resentment towards him.

So Ye Ningxiang quickly withdrew her hand, respectfully asked for peace, and thanked her: "Thank you for the emperor's concern, Ningxiang is fine." ”

Mu Jingyuan thought that Ye Ningxiang suddenly alienated himself like this because of Mu Xize, so he gave him a look at the guards behind him. The guards immediately realized and quickly surrounded Mu Xize.

"King Ning, I promised you to stay here for the night, but I didn't allow you to stay here during the day, at this time you should go back to the palace and wait for the sentence given to you by Dali Temple!"

Mu Xize's face was calm, and he said with a smile: "Okay, I'll go back." Then he looked at Ye Ningxiang again, and said with great concern: "Xiao Yezi, during the time I was not by your side, be careful in everything, and you must not be as angry as last night." ”

Ye Ningxiang was both shocked and puzzled in his heart, he was very puzzled by the sentence in Mu Jingyuan's mouth, from Mu Jingyuan's expression, he seemed to have grasped the handle that could cure Mu Xize's capital crime, very proud and proud.

After Mu Xize left, Mu Jingyuan became more refreshed, and his eyes seemed to be shining when he looked at Ye Ningxiang.

"Ye Ningxiang, I think that it is really overkill for a talent like you to condescend to the harem and do some work to serve people every day. You are now a second-class female official, and you can be regarded as a person with an official rank, I want you to help me do something. ”

Ye Ningxiang knelt on the ground, exuding a look of great loyalty, and said respectfully: "Ye Ningxiang will definitely die for what the emperor ordered." ”

"Okay, you first live here for five days, and after five days, I will send you to Dali Temple as a minister in charge of embezzlement of military salaries. ”

Then Mu Jingyuan deliberately lowered his voice and said solemnly: "I have only one ultimate goal, to destroy the Fuheng Chamber of Commerce, and finally cure King Ning's crimes." ”

The Fuheng Chamber of Commerce is the largest chamber of commerce in Jing'an City, controlling most of the business in the country, how could such an organization with a mellow business background have anything to do with Mu Xize, Ye Ningxiang was puzzled, so she asked: "What does King Ning have to do with the Fuheng Chamber of Commerce?"

"Because King Ning is the master of this Fuheng Chamber of Commerce. ”

Five days later, Ye Ningxiang wore the official uniform of a female official who had just been rushed out, and under the personal leadership of Mu Jingyuan, she came to the core criminal institution of the entire country, Dali Temple.

Early in the morning, Mu Jingyuan gathered all the officials of Dali Temple together, in order to introduce everyone to this Lord Qincha who represents his will, and his personal female official Ye Ningxiang.

Seeing Ye Ningxiang, who was younger than his own children, the officials present lowered their heads one after another, with a look of disdain on their faces, as if they looked down on this weak woman who had no fame at all, and only flew away to become the emperor's most trusted person by virtue of blocking some flesh wounds for the emperor.

Even after the emperor left, they said directly in front of Ye Ningxiang: "What a red face!" "It's a fox spirit!"

But she didn't care, because she didn't think that these people who laughed at her were anything to do, and their words were not worth hearing from her. Moreover, she was confident that everything that the emperor had given her would be properly handled.

Fortunately, there was another person in the entire Dali Temple who stood on her side, and this person was Wei Xun, the youngest in the bureaucratic team of the Dali Temple.

I don't know when, Wei Xun had already walked behind Ye Ningxiang, and said very gently and respectfully: "Congratulations, you have been reused by the emperor." ”

I didn't expect that there would be someone like me at this time, Ye Ningxiang turned her head in some surprise, facing Wei Xun's clear eyes, but at this time, Wei Xun suddenly turned his head away, his cheeks were slightly rosy, and he continued: "Ningxiang, you can give full play to your talents to a greater extent when you get here." ”

"But I'm a woman, it's not easy for a man to be in a high-ranking position, let alone a woman who hasn't done anything yet!"

"It is precisely because you are a woman and do not belong to any party in the DPRK that the emperor will trust you and reuse you. What's more, judging whether a person is talented or not seems to have nothing to do with whether the person is male or female!"

"Wei Xun, I want to ask you to help me, are you willing?"

"Beautiful women ask each other, how can they refuse!" Wei Xun smiled, as if he had been waiting for Ye Ningxiang to ask him to help him, revealing a happy and complacent expression.

In the next half day, Wei Xun patiently explained to Ye Ningxiang the progress of the case of embezzlement of military salaries. However, as soon as the problem of military salaries was exposed, the salaries that had been postponed and not paid were suddenly distributed to every military camp, and there was no flaw in the accounts between the military headquarters and the military camps, as if the delay in the payment of military salaries had never happened.

Because there was no evidence, the Criminal Department suppressed the matter without further investigation on the principle that more is better than less. However, more than half a month ago, the emperor seemed to be stimulated during his patrol, and on the day he returned, he summoned the Criminal Department and Dali Temple to order that those who did things in military pay should be severely punished.

About half a month ago, Qi Sheng, the most likely to take over the post of secretary of the military department, suddenly submitted his resignation, and then disappeared without a trace. The day after the new officer took over, the military headquarters suddenly ran out of water, and many documents and chapters were burned to ashes.

In other words, Qi Sheng's initiative to escape can prove that he is one of the criminals in this case, but now there is no evidence to convict him. What's worse is that without evidence, it is not possible to justifiably request the Criminal Department to issue a wanted warrant against Qi Sheng. In this vast sea of people, it is impossible to find Qi Sheng and escort him back, and it can be said that it is impossible to confront him face to face.

As for King Ning's suspicion, he suddenly emptied all the silver coins he had stored in Fuheng Qian Zhuang more than two months ago, a full 3,000 taels of gold, and finally donated them to the large and small military camps in the name of Fu Heng Qian Zhuang.

From this point of view alone, it can only show that King Ning is kind-hearted and serves the country and the people. However, in the next two months, the Fuheng Chamber of Commerce, which has always been very good, was suddenly sold cheaply, and in just two months, it changed hands three times, and finally transferred to Mu Xize's hands, and Fuheng Bank, which is a subsidiary of the Fuheng Chamber of Commerce, was naturally taken into Mu Xize's bag.

However, it is precisely because of these repeated resales that many important documents that may become evidence in this case have been lost in the Fuheng Chamber of Commerce. Even if he knew that Qi Sheng was transferred to the military salary through the line of the Fuheng Chamber of Commerce, he still couldn't find any evidence.

In a word, the conjecture in my heart is wild, but to this day there is no evidence that can be punished.