"Hey, Your Highness..." The man didn't have time to stop him.

The red silk cloth has been lifted.

Two groups of things were neatly stacked on the tray, two bamboo sticks and two pieces of yellow paper.

"Alas, Your Highness Prince Yi, this thing should not be seen in public," the man in the red official robe stopped him, "This is the result of the divination by the Tianjian Division just now, and it needs to be presented to Your Majesty."

"Tianjiansi?" Zhou Chang finally had an impression of him. He had seen him in the imperial study a few days ago. He was the one who was talking in a mysterious way just like He Xi. He asked casually, "What is this measuring?"

"One is to calculate the development of the war, and the other is to calculate the location of the sacred tree." Liu Mu answered truthfully.

War situation estimation?

Zhou Chang picked up a piece of yellow paper with a bunch of scribbles on it. He couldn't understand it, so he asked, "What is the forecast for the war situation?"

Liu Mu shook his head and sighed: "Not good, Tianlang is not good for the northeast, it is better to be quiet than to move, it is better to rest than to fight."

Zhou Chang didn't understand the "jargon" and could barely recognize the word "Northeast" from the yellow paper, but he could also hear that the calculation result was not good.

If the emperor saw this result, he would probably be shaken, but he must not negotiate peace. Negotiating peace would be equivalent to defeat without fighting, and his bet would be invalid.

Thinking of this, Zhou Chang picked up another piece of yellow paper and asked, "What is the sacred tree?"

Liu Mu glanced at it and replied, "Your Majesty had a dream yesterday. He dreamed that a piece of the best golden nanmu wood could be used as a thousand-year-old coffin. It happened that a three-hundred-year-old golden nanmu wood was used to build the imperial mausoleum two days ago. He thought that it would be even better if he could find another five-hundred-year-old or even eight-hundred-year-old golden nanmu wood to make the coffin. Therefore, he asked me to calculate the location to see where this sacred wood could be."

Zhou Chang looked at the yellow paper with the word "Southwest" written on the top and incomprehensible symbols underneath, so he asked, "What is the result of the calculation?"

"It's beneficial to the southwest, very auspicious, and it will be achieved within this year." Liu Mu seemed proud of the result of this calculation.

good very good.

Exactly the opposite of what was expected.

Zhou Chang put the two pieces of paper back on the tray.

"Oh, Your Highness, these two are not easy to confuse. There is a correspondence between them. If you make a mistake, something serious will happen." Liu Mu saw that Zhou Chang put the two pieces of paper upside down and hurriedly swapped them.

Zhou Chang then noticed that the two bamboo sticks on the tray also had "Yuebei" and "Shenmu" written on them respectively. They must have been written by the emperor himself, and the yellow paper for measurement needed to correspond to them.

"Northern Vietnam" is opposite to "Northeast China" and "Shenmu" is opposite to "Southwest China".

Liu Mu arranged the cloth and carefully covered it again, muttering to himself, "This won't work if it's exposed to light."

"It just so happens that I also remembered that I also want to go to the imperial study to pay a visit to His Majesty. Why don't we go together?" Prince Yi's phoenix eyes looked like a crescent moon when he smiled, while Zhou Chang smiled like a fox.

Liu Mu did not doubt him and bowed: "Okay, okay, Your Highness, please go first."

Zhou Chang turned around and winked at the skinny monkey, then made a rolling gesture with one hand.

Skinny Monkey was still wondering why he suddenly had to go to the Imperial Study, but when he saw Zhou Chang's gesture, he immediately understood, and followed Zhou Chang out of the Council Hall, carrying his bag.

The Council Hall is not far from the Imperial Study, and it is only a few quick steps away.

"Oh, I almost forgot something." Zhou Chang stopped abruptly, as if he suddenly thought of something extremely important.

In order to avoid Zhou Chang's "sudden brake", the skinny monkey made a 180-degree turn and threw the package out.

"Ding-dang--" the sound of a copper plate hitting someone's head.

"Ouch..." Liu Mu was knocked over on the spot, and the tray in the hands of the eunuch following him was also knocked over.

The skinny monkey was fine. He turned around and stood firmly with the advantage of his size.

"Oh, Lord Liu, what happened?" Zhou Chang stepped forward to help.

This time the collision was pretty hard.

Zhou Chang looked frightened but happy in his heart.

The skinny monkey dropped his bag and went over to help pick up the things that had been overturned on the tray.

"Master Liu, I'm so sorry," Zhou Chang pulled Liu Mu up from the ground, "Ouch, you have a nosebleed."

"Ah?" Liu Mu's body was shaking and he saw stars. He was hit hard this time, mainly because the package contained solid silver plates and bowls, which caused his face and nose to be bruised and swollen, and blood and tears were flowing.

The eunuch guarding outside the imperial study also ran over when he saw this scene.

"It's all my fault. However, Lord Liu, how can you meet the Emperor in this state? It's better for you to go to the Imperial Hospital first." Zhou Chang looked apologetic.

"Divination, divination, light..." Liu Mu covered his bleeding nose with one hand and his right cheek with the other, and it was difficult for him to speak.

"Don't worry, Lord Liu. Leave the things to me," Zhou Chang said, and then winked at the skinny monkey, "Hurry up and ask your people to help you go to the Imperial Hospital."

Liu Mu's followers had just hurriedly picked up the bamboo sticks and yellow paper when the skinny monkey caught up with the red silk that was blown away by the wind and snatched the tray away.

Liu Mu was so worried that he stared at the tray and couldn't speak. He guessed that the blow had hit his jaw.

"Why don't you support your master?" Zhou Chang ordered Liu Mu's followers.

Zhou Chang personally picked up the red silk and asked Liu Mu to confirm: "Master Liu, please take a look. Is this the correct way to visit?"

Liu Mu's nosebleed kept oozing out from between his fingers, which was truly horrible to look at. He stared for a long while before confirming that it was correct and nodded.

Zhou Chang covered the red silk cloth in front of Liu Mu, and said with concern: "Master Liu, go quickly, the blood has dripped onto the court robes. Although this king did not mean to do it, it is because of me. Why don't you compensate Master Liu with something later? What should I do?"

Liu Mu waved his hands repeatedly, covering his mouth and speaking in a muffled voice: "No, it's not necessary."

"Then Sir Liu, please go quickly. I will ask Monkey to pick out a few silver plates from there and compensate you, Sir Liu." Zhou Chang was full of apologies, but he had almost no sincerity in paying compensation.

"No, no." How dare Liu Mu ask for things from the palace, and hurriedly stepped back.

Thanks to the help of their attendants, the two of them staggered towards the Imperial Hospital.

Zhou Chang watched Liu Mu leave, then turned around and spoke to the two eunuchs who were on duty in the imperial study: "You all saw it, just report it truthfully later. Lord Liu is probably seriously injured, and he will have to rest at home for at least half a month."

After saying that, he turned around.

He blocked the two eunuchs' view with his body, lifted the red silk cloth, and replaced the yellow paper bamboo sticks on the tray accordingly.

Then he turned sideways and tugged at a corner of the red silk cloth: "You just heard it. Lord Liu said that the results of the divination should not be seen in the light. You should be careful to present it to His Majesty. Don't make any mistakes."

"Yes." The two eunuchs had been bowing their heads in front of Zhou Chang.

When Prince Yi spoke, they followed his orders. What objections could they have?

Zhou Chang watched the two eunuchs enter the imperial study, and couldn't help but worry whether such a little trick could be gotten away with.

The skinny monkey picked up the package from the ground and muttered, "Oh, I think the pastry is going to break."

Zhou Chang looked around and found a stone table and stone bench under a big banyan tree next to the imperial study: "The sun is shining brightly here, let's eat here for a while, so we don't have to carry everything back and it will be heavy."

Feeling anxious, she watched the door of the imperial study open and close, unable to see what was going on inside. She had to wait here for the result before leaving with peace of mind. "The longest relationship I've ever had is with myself. Loving myself means I have no rivals."

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