Chapter 20: The Emperor's Birthday Banquet

Because Mu Xize was dethroned for killing the monarch and was imprisoned in the prison for seven years, Wang Guifei confiscated Ning Wangfu on the grounds that Mu Xize was rebellious, and the rare objects and gold, silver and jewelry of Ning Wangfu were confiscated by Wang Guifei, and even the subordinates in the palace only left Mu Xize's personal eunuch Ma Zhong and a maidservant named Xiaodie.

Wang Guifei kindly left two subordinates for Mu Xize to be nothing more than to show the emperor, so that the emperor felt how competent she was as a concubine, even if Mu Xize was guilty of killing the king, but she was afraid that Mu Xize, who was already blind, would not be able to take care of himself in life, so she kindly left two people to serve him.

This day was the emperor's fiftieth birthday, Qin Xiao rushed into Mu Xize's bedroom with an angry face, and found that Mu Xize was still sleeping, so he was so angry that he didn't speak, and directly picked up the scabbard and slapped Mu Xize's buttocks. I only heard Mu Xize just lazily give a few words, turned over and continued to sleep.

"Do you know what time it is, it's Shen Shi, Shen Shi, the sun has set, you are still sleeping!" Qin Xiao said angrily.

Mu Xize opened his eyes lazily, and said in a coquettish tone in a daze: "Dabao, I fell asleep yesterday when the sun set, and now I am very sleepy, if you let me sleep for a while, I promise to take you to the birthday banquet on time, so that you can meet your Princess Danyang." As he spoke, he tugged at Qin Xiao's shirt slightly.

Qin Xiao couldn't stand Mu Xize, who was originally very cold, making such a coquettish move, and immediately took a few steps back, broke free of Mu Xize's hand, and said, "Okay, you sleep, you sleep, don't touch me again!" After sitting on the chair next to him, he said to Mu Xize, who had already fallen asleep: "It's really hard to imagine that the other half of your body will become such a cheap appearance after being released." ”

After Qin Xiao said this, he suddenly looked up and found that Mu Xize was actually holding his head in his hands and looking at him with his eyes wide open, but there was no focus in his eyes.

"You're not sleeping!"

"With you chirping around me like a little sparrow, I should be woken up by you no matter how sleepy I am!" Mu Xize moved with some difficulty, preparing to get out of bed.

Qin Xiao looked worried and said, "But I still feel that my body is in pain!"

Mu Xize quipped a little weakly: "Do you want to try to drive the nine hundred and ninety-nine bone-devouring nails into your body as well, and feel the pleasure that this first-class artifact brings to your senses." When saying the word pleasure, Mu Xize also deliberately picked the corners of his mouth, revealing a witty and cute appearance.

Although Qin Xiao had never felt it personally, he could also feel the power of this bone-devouring nail from Mu Xize's inadvertent expression of pain. In the battle of Wuling that day, Qin Xiao forcibly took Princess Danyang to Guixu to rescue the soldiers, leaving only Mu Xize to rescue Su Zhiwu, and he didn't know what happened in the middle, Mu Xize became a half-human and half-demon monster overnight.

In order to balance the half-demon in Mu Xize's body, the national teacher Ji Beiyuan actually nailed nine hundred and ninety-nine bone-devouring nails into his body, although these bone-devouring nails could not be seen by ordinary people, but each one of them did penetrate into Mu Xize's bone marrow, and the pain was unbearable for ordinary people.

Qin Xiao said with some self-reproach: "If I hadn't left you that day, you wouldn't have become what you are today." ”

"Actually, the seal on my body has been loosened at that time, otherwise how could my body be weak like that, even if you don't leave me, I will still be like this. Mu Xize's tone was flat when he said this, but Qin Xiao was inexplicably sad when he heard it.

"Which clothes are you going to wear in a while, I'll help you get it!" Qin Xiao's words were full of concern.

"Now that my title has been abolished, naturally I can't dress too luxuriously, if I remember well, there should be a pale blue robe in the left corner of the wardrobe, just wear that one. Then he said with a wicked smile on his face: "But your current outfit must not be good, and you will get a change of eunuch costume in the ponyville in a while." Hey, it's a pity that I can't see with my own eyes that you, a majestic hero, look like a eunuch uniform. ”

"I really don't know how you laugh in this situation!" Qin Xiao said and obediently went to change into a set of eunuch clothes and put them on, and even the saber that never left his body was temporarily left in King Ning's mansion, but these little grievances were nothing compared to Princess Danyang, who was about to see his heart. Thinking of this, Qin Xiao's heart suddenly burst into joy, and he couldn't close his mouth with joy.

In order to shorten the time on the road, Qin Xiao reluctantly pulled Mu Xize's shirt all the way, feeling very uncomfortable, and muttered: "In the future, I have to make a bracelet, the kind with a rope, and then put the bracelet on your hand, so that I can take the rope and lead you away." ”

Mu Xize replied with an arrogant look: "I think I Mu Xize also bears the title of the first beautiful man in the country, and no matter how many people want to touch me, they can't touch the edge of my clothes." Don't be so ignorant that you don't even want to touch the placket of my clothes. Besides, I didn't ask you to hold my hand, did you do this?"

Qin Xiao was so angry that he was itching in his heart, and he dragged Mu Xize's clothes towards the palace gate at a faster speed, and said as he walked: "You are a little right, go quickly!"

Mu Xize showed a naughty smile and walked towards the palace gate very obediently following Qin Xiao's pace.

Because Mu Xize was blind, and Qin Xiao had only seen the palace on the map before, but even if he memorized the map, there would always be some differences in the actual terrain, Qin Xiao was a little foggy, and he didn't know the way to the banquet site, plus the palace was very heavily guarded, which made Qin Xiao, who was already a thief, break out in a lot of cold sweat.

Mu Xize sat on a stone step, patted his thigh and said, "Look, I said I shouldn't use it so early, the big army hasn't come yet, and you can't even find anyone to follow now." ”

"Then what do you say. Qin Xiao said anxiously.

"What else can I do, wait, there should be some people in official uniforms passing by here in a while, so let's just follow them." Mu Xize patted the stone steps he was sitting on with his hand as he spoke, and said, "Dabao, come, sit here with me to rest." ”

Qin Xiao shook his head violently and said, "No, no, no, I'll just stand here." ”

Mu Xize made up Qin Xiao's current look in his heart, showed surprise on his face, and asked, "Do you think that the other half of my body is a broken sleeve!"

Qin Xiao's face instantly turned red to the base of his neck, and said, "Then you honestly admit to me whether you are or not." Then he said very embarrassedly: "I always feel that I have been rubbed with oil by you in the past three months, you know, I am a man who stands up to the sky, and I have a woman I like in my heart." ”

Mu Xize said a little helplessly: "I am also a man who stands up to the sky, and I also have a woman I like in my heart." I didn't expect you to misunderstand me like this!" Mu Xize pursed his lips and turned his head to the side.

Hearing that Mu Xize also had a woman he liked, Qin Xiao's eyes immediately lit up and asked, "Who is that woman, can't it really be your dead wife?"

Mu Xize didn't answer, and his eyes, which had no focus, were full of sadness at the moment. Seeing this expression, Qin Xiao didn't dare to say more, just stood quietly beside Mu Xize.

After a while, as Mu Xize said, a few people in official uniforms came, Qin Xiao pulled Mu Xize to follow them, only to see them pass through a gate hole, and there were a few guard-like people in the door hole who searched them one by one, and only let them in after confirming their safety. These people talked and laughed along the way, and they didn't seem to take the guards along the way seriously at all.

However, Qin Xiao is different, you let him compete with a few martial arts masters, and the fight is okay, when he sees this kind of big pomp and battle, the whole person looks very flustered.

Mu Xize seemed to see Qin Xiao's uneasiness, and comforted: "You don't have to be nervous, I haven't appeared in the palace for seven years, and the changes in the palace in the past seven years will definitely be turned upside down, I believe that not many of the palace guards and palace people will know me, even I don't know you." When the time comes, I will say who you are, and you will be who you are. ”

Mu Xize said very reasonably, when they passed through the guards in the gate hole, none of the guards knew Mu Xize, or Mu Xize took out the token given by the emperor before, and the guards let him go.

Qin Xiao let out a long sigh, and the previous nervousness also dissipated. Then the two of them deliberately found a very inconspicuous corner and sat down, the purpose was to facilitate Qin Xiao to sneak away to Guanju Palace to find Princess Danyang for a while. In order to confirm whether Princess Danyang would really be in Guanju Palace for a while, Qin Xiao asked again: "Is Princess Danyang sure that she will not come to the banquet for a while, will she definitely be in Guanju Palace?"

"It's true that I didn't come to the banquet, but I don't know if it will be in Guanju Palace, in case people feel that they are tired of living in their aunt Concubine Li's residence and change their residence temporarily, then it may be! But I will follow you as a guide for you, don't worry!" Mu Xize pretended to be serious.

"Don't talk nonsense, don't talk nonsense!" Qin Xiao's already calm heart fluttered and jumped again.

Mu Xize felt that Qin Xiao's appearance must be very cute now, and he couldn't help laughing.

After a while, I saw the emperor dressed in a costume, with Wang Guifei on one side and Concubine Li on the other, slowly walking into the banquet hall surrounded by all the attendants, and then sat down unhurriedly. Probably a little thirsty along the way, the emperor first took a sip of tea, and then looked around to see who were the people who came to his birthday party.

Then the emperor's words made Mu Xize almost squirt out a sip of tea that he was about to swallow, "Where is Xize, where is it, didn't I say that he should also come to the banquet, what about people?"

"Oh no, this emperor still remembers you, it seems that it will be difficult for you to be my guide for a while!" Qin Xiao said with a sad face.

"Don't talk nonsense, don't talk nonsense! The emperor will ask casually, and he will not specially summon me. Mu Xize inadvertently repeated what Qin Xiao had said to Mu Xize before, which suddenly eased the tense atmosphere.

It's just that the emperor's next words made both of them collapse. "Xize, why are you sitting so far aside, come, come up and sit next to me. After that, he specially asked Manager Liu to add a table next to him for Mu Xize's use.

Mu Xize sighed and sat down beside the emperor under the guidance of Qin Xiao, but Qin Xiao never dared to raise his head, for fear of missing a flaw. After a while, the banquet began, Mu Xize turned his head slightly, and Qin Xiao immediately understood and quietly escaped from the banquet scene.