Doctor Xue kept his mouth shut and didn't even tell Xue Xiang.

Xie Chibei thought: "She has 100,000 soldiers and the support of her father and brother, but she is still frightened. Maybe it is..."

Xie Chibei knew that Mu Jinan was hiding a secret, but she didn't dare to tell it out because she had been alone and fought many times, in desperate situations where she had to decide whether to live or die.

She didn't dare to put her life in unknown danger. Perhaps in Mu Jinan's heart, he was also a danger.

He had only been with Mu Jinan for a few months, how could he compare to the years of suffering she had endured?

It was because of her reclusiveness that she was able to drive the cautious Emperor Ming off the throne. In this conspiracy, Mu Jinan did not dare to expose his weaknesses. The hateful thing was that he had taught her to do the same before!

Xie Chibei stood in the silent and oppressive spring rain, with the misty mountains between them. Without closing his eyes, he stretched out his hand to push away the mist, walked out firmly from the "trusted" mountain mist, and followed her all the way.

Mu Jinan walked along the mossy path for a long time with an umbrella, "Cough cough... cough cough cough..."

With one hand, she held onto a branch of a pear tree whose buds had fallen off due to the rain before it could fully bloom. The branch was soft and fragile. The cold raindrops fell on the back of her hand, like ice piercing her body to pry open her bones.

Mu Jinan stretched out his hand to pull the cloak tightly around him, glancing at the jade-green hem of his clothes in the corner. Next time he would definitely embroider ugly peach blossoms on the bottom of his clothes so that everyone would laugh at him.

Across the courtyard, there are two spacious study rooms connected together. The desks are put together temporarily, and the students all use the pens, ink, paper and inkstone hidden in Lu Shengji's home.

Lu Shengji had previously thought of escaping from here, but since he knew that Emperor Hui had punished Lu Shenghe and his entire family, Youzhou became the safest place for him.

He was afraid that Emperor Hui would send a new governor to investigate and exile him, and he wanted to hide in Mu Jinan's house!

Lu Shengji is now concentrating on teaching poor children. When his voice is almost hoarse, he will be served Mao Jian tea.

It turned out that Lu Shengji occupied a lot of good farmland. When the matter of measuring the land went on, the people of Youzhou all started to curse him.

He wanted to keep his surname secret more than anyone else, so that no student would say they wanted to avenge the Lu family.

Lu Shengji was so worried that his hair turned white. While teaching, he made two holes in the curtain to look at Mu Jinan who was standing in the classroom.

Mu Jinan would occasionally come to listen to his lectures. Lu Shengji initially thought that Mu Jinan came to supervise him, but later discovered that Mu Jinan was carefully recording the knowledge he taught.

Lu Shengji has many disciples, and now those disciples are ashamed of him. When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter. The disciples are also worried that Lu’s family will implicate them, so they stay away from Lu Shengji.

It is particularly tragic when a noble family falls. Now he is like a frog in boiling water and has no idea what Mu Jinan is thinking.

He had never been a prince in his school, so Lu Shengji suddenly became nervous: "If it is complete, it will be incomplete; if it is extreme, it will turn around; if it is full, it will be empty. It is better to be brave to correct mistakes and to change for the better quickly. If you know how to turn back when you have strayed, you are not far from finding the truth."

A teenage female disciple wearing a black cap, with a skinny face and muddy clothes asked, "Sir, when dealing with people who have strayed and returned to the right path, should we punish them? Or should we forgive them?"

Lu Shengji held the book in one hand and stroked his short beard with the other: "Let's discuss the merits and demerits. If the merits are greater than the demerits, perhaps it can be forgiven."

The female disciple poked her temples with the brush in her hand, rolled her eyes, and shook her head: "No, we should have nipped the problem in the bud. If he has done something wrong, it cannot be forgiven. No one can empathize with the victims he has bullied."

"Yuhe's cavalry invaded our city. Tens of thousands of Xuanzhou soldiers and many Dasheng people are waiting for General Dasheng to avenge them! How can we turn hostility into friendship just because Yuhe so-called 'repentance' and surrender to Dasheng?"

"There is a deep blood feud between us, and there is no forgiveness!"

The female disciple's remarks were somewhat radical, but what she said made sense. The premise for offsetting merits and demerits is to ask the victim.

Lu Shengji's face looked a little ugly. What he said was only about those who wanted to make mistakes but had not made any yet, or those who made small mistakes. However, his answer was not thorough enough and could easily mislead young children.

After three years of war, the surviving people were missing and mourning their deceased relatives.

"Yuhe kidnapped tens of thousands of Dasheng people and forced them to work hard at the Kelti Lake Salt Field. They also gave birth to low-level slaves that Yuhe could use as targets in future wars."

"Dasheng and Yuhe are enemies, and we will seek revenge!"

"If the 'evil spirit' hears a word that he may be forgiven, knowingly commits the crime, and then turns back to wait for forgiveness from a kind-hearted person, wouldn't that harm others?

"What is the student's name?"

All the students in the room looked outside. He was standing in the spring breeze, wearing a loose plain robe. His beard was like white clouds floating lightly in the rain, waiting for the sky to clear.

The white-haired old man looked at his female disciple with a smile. For a country girl who had only read a few days of books and had never seen any conspiracy, she was able to comprehend things in just a few days, had her own opinions, and showed her unyielding character. She was a talent that could be cultivated.

The female disciple said, "We all have lofty aspirations and want to fly, to the sky to embrace the bright moon. I have recently changed my name to Pei Yiqing."

"Ding-ling-ling..." Lu Shengji listened to the unfamiliar voice, and then heard the sound of the bell, "The teaching ends here today."

Mu Jinan was sitting at the back of the classroom. Seeing that the man looked familiar, he quickly stood up and walked closer, smiling with some surprise:

"Prime Minister Yuan? His Majesty has ordered that officials are not allowed to leave the capital? Why are you here?"

Any official who has had dealings with Mu Jinan and Xie Chibei, even the demoted Jiang Xiaobai, is not allowed to leave Sheng'an without permission.

Emperor Hui wanted to use many hostages to threaten Mu Jinan and prevent talented people from becoming her advisers.

After not seeing him for a few months, Yuan Qinghe's cheeks had gained some flesh, his skinny body had recovered a lot, he could walk without a cane, and the scars on his hands had completely scabbed over.

Seeing Mu Jinan's surprised smile, Yuan Qinghe also smiled: "Last winter, His Majesty refused to trade with Xique, so I decided to leave Sheng'an."

"It's just that I'm not feeling well, and I've been resting in various counties for a long time. I heard that Your Highness had conquered Youzhou, so I came to join Your Highness."

Mu Jinan and Yuan Qinghe had no connection, so she must have come to look for Xie Chibei. She looked at Yuan Xuan standing next to Xie Chibei, looking cool and dignified, and said with a smile, "Miss Yuan."

Yuan Xuan bowed her head and saluted to Mu Jinan: "Greetings to His Royal Highness Prince Xi."

Several people came to the meeting hall. After Yuan Qinghe was cleared of his grievances in the Xuanzheng Hall, Emperor Ming gave him a house and paid him a one-time five-year retirement salary as compensation for the humiliation he suffered.

Xie Chibei had given him a sum of money before, enough for him to spend his old age in peace.

Emperor Hui and the aristocratic families were focusing their attention on important ministers and generals, and no one noticed that he quietly left Sheng'an.

While Yuan Qinghe was recuperating in various counties, he sent people in disguise to investigate the real situation of the people, especially the five states supervised by Wang Rui as the Inspector. He stayed in these places for a long time.

Yuan Qinghe said: "Go Zai, Yuzhou was hit by a flood, Zizhou accepted the refugees and donated 10,000 dan of grain to Yuzhou, which was a very good plan!"

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