On the forest path, a simplely dressed but neatly dressed young man carried a long cloth bag behind him, holding the reins loosely in his hand, and a snow-haired mount obediently followed behind, walking slowly with his slender legs.

The young man held half a flatbread in his right hand and chewed it from time to time, more like a snack to pass the time than to eat.

It took nearly two quarters of an hour to finish eating the bread in his hand, the young man let go of the reins, patted the crumbs on his hands, turned around and hugged his fists: "Your Excellency has followed me for so long, why did you come from, can you show up?"

The branches of the trees with almost withered leaves barely hide people. But as the young man spoke, the branches of a tree trembled, and a gray shadow fell, kneeling down on one knee ten steps away from the young man: "I've seen the fourth young master, ask the fourth young master how it is." ”

Mo Zhicough was slightly stunned: "You...... Who is it?"

"Subordinate palace tricks. Gong Wei maintained a kneeling posture and raised his head so that he could see his face clearly, "The subordinates secretly protected the fourth young master on the order of the second young master, and signaled that he did not show up. The subordinates had no intention of hiding their traces, they were only afraid of disturbing the fourth young master, and hoped that the fourth young master would forgive their sins. ”

Mo Zhicough's gaze fell on the whip wrapped around his waist and asked, "Can you show me your 'drunken gold fan'?"

Gong Wei was slightly stunned, shook his sleeves, took the pitch-black thin whip in his hand, and raised his hands above his head: "Fourth Young Master, beware of the poison on it." ”

Mo Zhicough asked a little funny, "Your weapon was handed over to me so easily?"

Gong Wei said: "The fourth young master is the master, and his subordinates should obey your orders unconditionally." ”

Mo Zhicough smiled: "Put away the whip and get up, no need to be formal." ”

Gong Wei put away the whip and stood up, not too restrained, but also standing with his hands down, as if waiting for his orders.

Mo Zhi coughed and looked at the bright sky and asked, "Isn't the shallow mark there?"

Gong Wei probably understood what he meant, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching: "We were dismantled by Childe." After thinking about it, he felt that this statement was not appropriate, and added: "Childe wants us to try to perform tasks separately, so I am the only one who comes, and I am going to perform other tasks." ”

Mo Zhi coughed and asked, "Childe?"

Gong Wei said: "It is the current master of the Liquor Hall, and it is a cooperative relationship with the second young master." ”

Mo coughed and hurriedly asked, "What about the eldest brother, is he with the second brother?"

Gong Wei frowned a little embarrassed: "Fourth Young Master, you have been separated for twelve years, and I don't know how to answer this question." ”

Mo Zhicough sighed and looked around: "There is no one here, and it is not early, so I will definitely not be able to catch up with the nearest inn." If you don't have an opinion, let's rest here for the night, and then you can tell me about it, okay?"

Gong Wei nodded: "The subordinates have no opinions, just let the fourth young master decide." ”

Mo coughed and patted the horse's back, let it go to the neighborhood to graze by itself, and then looked at Gong Wei: "You can say that you can just say it, and I won't be difficult for you if it's inconvenient to say it." ”

Gong Wei nodded to show that he understood, and when he saw Mo Zhi's anticipation and anxiety that could not be concealed, he didn't waste any more time: "As far as I know, the two young masters escaped together during the chaos in the puppet palace, and they have been together all the time. Later, the pursuers of the puppet palace caught up with them, and the two young masters fled into the Qi Wangfu in a panic and held the little prince of Qi hostage. I don't know what consensus they reached, King Qi came forward to make a new identity for the eldest young master, and sent him to the army to avoid pursuit. And the second young master was weak and not old enough to join the army, so he was imprisoned in Ouchi's prison. Later, the eldest young master came back from the battlefield and made meritorious contributions, and under the intervention of King Qi, he was sealed a Hou Ye who had no fiefdom and was idle and unfiefdom, which can be regarded as extremely chic. ”

Mo Zhi coughed and asked, "What now?"

Gong Wei shook his head: "I don't know very well, I only know that the two young masters are together, and when they need me, they will order through Fengyun Xuan, and they have no contact with me the rest of the time." ”

Mo Zhicough nodded silently, seemed a little sad, and breathed a sigh of relief. After calming down a little, he asked again: "The second brother asked me to go back to the puppet palace, but he didn't let me tell the third brother about the fact that he came to see me, do you know the reason?"

Gong Wei hesitated for a moment and pursed his lips: "Forgive your subordinates for Yue Yue, I personally ask the fourth young master a question: If you have to choose between the eldest young master, the second young master and the third young master, who will you choose?"

Mo Zhitu's pupils shrank, and his eyes sank a little: "Do you know what you're asking?"

Gong Wei knelt down: "If the fourth young master wants to know the question he just asked, his subordinates must know your answer." ”

Mo coughed and said, "Then you will tell me the reason why you let me choose first." ”

Gong Wei lowered his head, unable to see the expression on his face clearly, but his voice was very calm: "Because the third young master has been staying in the puppet palace." ”

Mo Zhiqi's eyes were in a trance.

"Cough, listen. You have to hand over this box to your eldest brother and hide it from your third brother, understand?"

"Your father's instructions are to give it to your eldest brother when necessary. If your eldest brother is gone, give it to the one of your brothers who is not left in the puppet palace. If they are all in the puppet palace, open the box, and there is a letter left for me inside, which says who this box can entrust. ”

Mo Zhi coughed and muttered to himself: "Why? I would rather believe in someone who has no blood relatives than believe in the third brother...... Is it?"

Gong Wei didn't hear clearly, and looked at him inquiringly: "Fourth Young Master, what did you say?"

Mo Zhi looked at him steadily, word by word: "Tell me, why don't you believe the third brother who stayed in the puppet palace?"

Gong Wei struggled with his eyes, and after a long time, he still chose to answer: "Because the death of the palace master was caused by someone close to him, and we don't know who that person is." Even the third young master may be influenced by that traitor and do something contrary to the palace master's wishes. ”

"Someone close to you, a traitor?" Mo coughed puzzled, "Isn't it the second uncle? Isn't it Lu Chuhan?"

Gong Wei said: "The subordinates don't know, but before the palace master died, he did write a secret letter and handed it to my master, ordering us to withdraw from the puppet palace, and if the traitor is not found, never go back." Moreover, this traitor is not among the hall masters. ”

Mo Zhicough asked, "Maybe my father believes in Lu Chuhan too much?"

Gong Wei lowered his eyes: "This is the order of the second young master, and his subordinates have no intention of speculating more." ”

Mo Zhicough clenched his fists fiercely, and then slowly released his fingers: "Okay, I know, I will believe the second brother." As long as there is a conflict between the words of the eldest brother and the second brother and the words of the third brother, I will definitely choose to obey the orders of the eldest brother. ”

Gong Wei glanced at him in surprise: "Is the fourth young master serious?"

Mo Zhicough smiled faintly: "My only relatives are only three brothers and my master." Since I have to choose, then I should listen to Master's words. ”

Although Gong Wei didn't listen to his words much, it was enough to get the required results: "Fourth Young Master Xie understands. ”

Mo Zhicough sighed lightly: "Now you can tell me the reason why the second brother asked me to go back, right? Since you are all worried that there are traitors in the puppet palace, why do you want me to go back? You won't let me look at the third brother, right?"

Gong Wei smiled a little awkwardly: "Of course not." It's just that now that the dark tide of the rivers and lakes is surging, and the big war is about to start, the second young master is worried that it is not safe for you to be out alone. The puppet palace has at least the old department of the palace master, and the third young master and the Tang Duo master take care of it, which is undoubtedly the safest place. The puppet palace has just changed hands, and the foundation is unstable, with the fourth young master, the pressure on the third young master to be in charge of the puppet palace will definitely be greatly reduced. ”

Mo Zhicough nodded, and asked again, "Did the second brother send you here to bring me anything else?"

Gong Wei stretched out his hand and touched it in his arms for a long time, before he took out a cloth bag and handed it to him carefully: "This." ”

Mo Zhi coughed for a moment, and when he saw that he was acting carefully, he also took it extra carefully. The cloth bag was opened, and inside were two letters, and a purse.

The light blue satin surface is embroidered with a few butterflies, and the back is embroidered with four words "Hold Jin Huaiyu".

This one...... Mo Zhiqi's eyes were dark, and he hurriedly held on to the tree to stabilize his body, but his chest cramped again.

"Mother, what do you pronounce this word?" the six- or seven-year-old doll struggled to hold the arm of the young woman on the chair and climbed up, pointing to the purse that was almost embroidered and asked in a tender voice, her watery eyes embedded in her porcelain-white face, so cute.

"Stupid! pronounce 'Yu'!" Another doll who looks almost exactly the same as him, only a little taller than him, looks like a brother educating his younger brother seriously, "Hold Jin Huaiyu, our father's Jin is Zhou Gongjin's Jin, this Yu is Zhou Gongjin's name! Look at you, it's really, lonely, lonely, ......lonely and ugly" but didn't say it, and looked back at the young man fighting crickets on the side: "Second brother, how do you say that word?"

The boy turned his gaze from the cricket to his younger brother and asked lazily, "Which word?"

"That's the one who describes his short vision!" the short finger pointed to the aggrieved brother next to him.

The young man squinted his eyes and looked at his youngest brother: "Short-sighted, rare and strange, eyes like beans, Shu dogs bark at the sun, cicadas don't know the snow...... Both, which one do you ask?"

The small group heard this big bunch, although they had never heard it, but they would definitely not be boasting about their own words, and they were about to cry when they flattened their mouths. The big group was also stunned, and pouted: "Second brother bullied me again, it's not these, it's the one you told me last time!"

"Oh, I praise you?" the young man looked at him with a sudden realization, "Isn't it just a lonely and unheard-of?

The two small groups suddenly stopped, and when they turned around, they ran to the young woman and called "Niang" aggrievedly.

The beautiful woman who had been watching with a smile had no choice but to pretend to be serious and blame: "Can you be a good brother when you are an elder brother?

The young man shrugged: "Mother, just favor them, it's clear that they asked me to come." Teach your younger brother to learn more knowledge, isn't this brother a good one?"

The beautiful woman laughed and scolded: "Strong words. ”

The young man added seriously: "Besides, I don't bully my younger brother, does my brother let me bully? When you eat more than me, you eat for nothing for two years? ”

The beautiful woman was about to speak, but she closed her mouth again, looked behind the young man, and pursed her lips and smiled.

The boy had a premonition that something was wrong, so he hurriedly turned back, but he was still a step too late. A shadow fell, and some cold fingers pinched his cheeks, tugged lightly, and a laughing voice sounded: "What?

Tuanzi, who was wrinkling his nose and was unhappy, immediately burst into tears and laughed when he saw the visitor, and pounced: "Daddy!"