The beautiful and powerful minister hooked up with the crazy emperor and couldn't escape

The little fool seemed to understand, but his big eyes with a little baby fat made people's hearts tremble. He didn't know what a brother was, nor did he know what family was, but his intuition, which was unique to the secret guard, told him that he could have a brother.

"elder brother."

Cang Lang smiled sincerely: "Be good. From today on, you are no longer a Hidden Dragon Guard, but my brother, Cang Lang. I will love you from now on."

The little fool looked at Canglang, then looked at Feng Jiuqing, and finally continued to be an insignificant mushroom in the corner.

"How is the investigation into the grain robbery in Changning going?" Feng Jiuqing asked softly.

Canglang recovered in a second and sat on the chair opposite Feng Jiuqing: "Fortunately, they were still determined to rob the grain team led by Duke Shen a few times. Duke Shen led the elite soldiers trained by Wen Chu in the North City Camp, which is different from the group of soldiers led by Wen Chu before. I actually found some good stuff through this. The master will definitely be interested."

Feng Jiuqing showed little interest: "What is it?"

"Private soldiers." Canglang said word by word.

"Raising private soldiers? Want to rebel? You have very lofty ambitions." Feng Jiuqing praised insincerely.

"They are kept in Xiaocheng, not far from the capital. It is estimated that the number of people is at least half of the camp in the north of the city."

Feng Jiuqing was a little surprised: "So close? How could he resist rebelling?"

Canglang shook his head: "This is another strange point. They have always thought that they are the imperial army and have no idea that they are private soldiers."

Feng Jiuqing's eyes flashed with a hint of coldness: "No wonder the person behind the scenes is plundering money everywhere, it turns out that he wants to raise private soldiers! It seems that the person behind the scenes is quite capable, daring to do such a thing under the nose of the capital."

Cang Lang continued: "This is not the strangest thing. The strangest thing is that they always thought their master was the Grand Master!"

Feng Jiuqing: ...I suspect you are implying something about me.

"So, my lord, is he your man?" Canglang asked with interest.

Feng Jiuqing glanced at Cang Lang dimly: "What do you think?"

"How dare I think so? Even if I don't think so, it depends on you who thinks so." Canglang sat upright and said seriously.

Feng Jiuqing lowered his eyes and said, "It costs enough to support the Northern Territory, and I still have to support private soldiers. I don't have the money!"

"I also felt that it was not my master, so I did not alert the enemy." Canglang immediately replied, as if he really thought so from the beginning.

Feng Jiuqing was too lazy to expose him: "The person behind the scenes is very scheming. He made the soldiers think that he was the Grand Tutor's man. I am a little curious, how did he do it?"

Canglang's face darkened for a moment, and he said softly: "Song Wu is one of the generals."

Feng Jiuqing's face darkened a little: "I see. He was expelled from the Northern Territory, but he still dared to cause trouble for me in the name of Grand Tutor. Maybe I shouldn't have let him go in the first place. I should have just killed him and nothing would have happened."

Cang Lang smiled and shook his head, "You won't do that. What he did didn't touch your bottom line. You won't kill people easily."

Feng Jiuqing sighed, "We are in trouble. If we expose that group of private soldiers, the person behind the scenes will be blamed on me as long as he is brave enough and willing to give up. But if we don't expose it, such a huge cancer will definitely cause turmoil in the capital. The person behind the scenes is really painstaking."

"You have already started to take the blame. Now there is a play in the folks called "The Dog Historian Has Lost All His Conscience and Robbed Food". The protagonist is Feng Jiuqing. It is said that he has a green face and fangs and can eat a tiger in one bite. Your Majesty, do you want to go and listen to this play?"

Feng Jiuqing: ... Very good, you can tell the main content of this play from the name. It’s better not to listen to this kind of play excerpt.

"Are you going to let this play ruin your master's reputation?" Feng Jiuqing raised his eyebrows.

Canglang said sternly, "How is that possible? I will ask the troupe owner to withdraw the play immediately."

Then she changed into the one who confused the emperor's mind, and the emperor refused to come down.

Canglang would never say this even if he was beaten to death. After all, if he said it, it would not be as simple as being beaten to death.

Feng Jiuqing smiled and said, "It is better to guard against the people's mouths than to guard against the river. This kind of thing can only be relieved, not blocked. But I am not in the court now, so I am afraid it is not easy to clarify."

Cang Lang was silent for a while: "My Lord, His Majesty has just posted an imperial edict, summoning you to return to the court within ten days."

"No, it would be better for me to go back and take the blame now. I would have to go through all the trouble to clarify things, but I wouldn't get any benefit. And once I go back, it would be troublesome to come out again. Pass the news about the private soldiers to Prime Minister Jian. It's better to let their people in office worry about this matter."

"This is a society for the young, so let the young people handle it. I am old and weak, and I can't afford to take on this."

Canglang and Yuebai were silent for a while, and Canglang said with difficulty: "My lord, you are not yet worthy of the age of adulthood."

Feng Jiuqing shook his head and said, "You don't understand. I am old in my mentality. As the saying goes, appearance is determined by the heart. If you round it up, I am already a centenarian. So don't let a centenarian roll casually. This is very, very immoral. Do you understand?"

Yuebai and Canglang shook their heads at the same time. Feng Jiuqing sighed and said, "Forget it. Just treat me as an old man who has retired in his 80s."

Although they didn't know why their master said that he was an old man, he must have his reasons for doing so. Yuebai and Canglang nodded at the same time.

The passage of time, the imperial palace, the Xuanshi Hall.

"Your Majesty, I am incompetent and failed to stop your Excellency." Yan Yiran half-knelt on the ground and said with his eyes lowered.

"Yi Ran, get up. This is not your fault."

Mo Lingxu helped Yan Yiran up and said, "Have you found out who kidnapped Qingqing?"

Of course Yan Yiran didn't know who kidnapped Feng Jiuqing. If he had known, he would have intercepted them long ago and would not have returned empty-handed.

An unknown emotion flashed in his eyes: "It's the Grand Master. The group of people who took the noble master away have the Grand Master's token on them."

Put the blame on the Grand Tutor. No matter if it was the Grand Tutor who kidnapped him or not, it would be the Grand Tutor's fault if something went wrong. He only needed to send people to search for Ming Qing and then kill him quietly.

Mo Ling sat back and rubbed his temples: "Grandmaster? Why did he take Qingqing away?"

If the Grand Tutor took Qingqing away, no matter what the reason, Qingqing would not be in danger. Mo Ling felt a little relieved.

"I don't know, but your Excellency is the Grand Tutor's man. Could it be that because Your Majesty summoned the Grand Tutor back to the court, the Grand Tutor wanted to use your Excellency to threaten Your Majesty?" Yan Yiran concealed the murderous intent in his eyes and said softly.

"Threaten me? I won't ignore Da Yue just because of one person." A hint of coldness flashed in Mo Ling's black eyes.

Yan Yiran continued to fan the flames: "But everyone knows that His Majesty favors you, so it's not surprising that the Grand Tutor has such thoughts."

Mo Ling lowered his eyes and said softly, "Continue to look for Qingqing's whereabouts. Make sure to bring him back to the palace when you find him. But try to protect him. I don't want him to get hurt."

"Yes!"

The murderous intent in Yan Yiran's eyes became stronger, but he concealed it so that Mo Ling didn't notice.

"Your Majesty, Prime Minister Jian has something important to discuss with you!"

Mo Ling raised his eyes and said in a deep voice, "Xuan."