The peerless and dark princess

No matter how much Shen Xinyue thought about it, she repeatedly overturned her own doubts. On the other side, Mu Wange felt strange. She hadn't made this matter public, so why did she leak it? However, this matter was the truth, and I'm afraid many people would treat it as a joke. But what was the purpose of this action?

"Ajiu, do you think your son did this?"

"No, if the young master does this, he will definitely tell you."

"Ok?"

"However, will this matter being released affect your plan?"

"That won't happen, and if it gets out, it won't be of any use. Mu Yucheng was already exiled, and if he hadn't escaped, he wouldn't have lived long in the place of exile. So, no matter what happens, it won't affect what I'm doing here. It's just that if this matter isn't exposed, it will make my plan more perfect. By the way, how are things going over there?"

"Don't worry, it's all right now. But, shouldn't we give it a name? Are they all supposed to call it Miss Mu Wange?"

"puff--"

Mu Wange spat out all the tea he had been drinking. "What do you mean by 'my person'? It's like she's my mistress. Well, let's just call her Xuanying."

These have finally been established, which is a great joy. Although these people were trained by Zuo Ci, it is always more reassuring to use people under his command instead of Zuo Ci's men.

These people were different from those under Zuo Ci's command, as Mu Wange's main focus was intelligence or strategic planning. A good foundation in martial arts was even better, but martial arts were essential. Furthermore, there were quite a few girls among them.

Ruolan Yalan and the others have already learned all the things that Yihua Shiqi and the others usually do. Of course, each of them has their own strengths. At the same time, it also helps to train the abilities of these young girls, while Yihua and the others have other uses.

Some of the ordinary maids in Tingxue Garden had great complaints, but they could only suppress them in their hearts because of the two masters, Mu Wange and Mu Haolin, as well as the housekeeper, Nanny Chen. After all, Dongmei, Shiqi and others were Mu Wange's confidants. Why should Ruolan and others be superior to them? Naturally, they felt dissatisfied. Some of them couldn't help but have other thoughts in their hearts, such as being bribed by Shen Xinyue or trying to please Qiao Yan. Qingzhu and Shiqi, the meticulous people in Mu Wange's courtyard, saw these people, but Wange didn't say how to deal with them, so they just let them go.

At the same time, she had Zuo Jiu leave two servants with Mu Haolin. While Mu Haolin, being a boy, didn't require so much care, Mu Ying couldn't necessarily handle it all on his own. Qingyu, meanwhile, wasn't particularly skilled in martial arts, but rather a gentle young man. Unlike Mu Ying, who was a skilled martial artist and a top student, Mu Ying was driven by a single-minded pursuit of revenge for his parents, unlike Qingyu, who was completely absorbed in his studies. Therefore, Mu Wange left two of them with Mu Haolin. Although they appeared to lack martial arts skills, they were only slightly inferior to Mu Ying. If it weren't for Mu Ying's childhood martial arts training and Zuo Jiu's mentor, he might even be inferior to these two boys. Mu Wange named them Mu Feng and Mu Yu, but Mu Ying frowned as she chose the names. It wasn't out of jealousy that Mu Wange had given them both the same surname, but rather because he wondered if the eldest daughter had been named after something like Feng Yu Lei. If there were two more, wouldn't that be Lei?

If Mu Wange knew what Mu Ying was thinking, he would definitely give Mu Ying a big thumbs up. As a bad name picker, he thought that words like wind, rain, thunder and lightning were more suitable for boys. Fortunately, there were two of them. If there were two more, would they really be named Mu Lei and Mu Dian?

In fact, this brother's naming is similar to Zuo Jiu's. As someone who follows Mu Wange, even the way of naming is the same. Look at those maids: Yalan, Ruolan, Yulan and Qinglan.

"Qinglan, how much silver is left from the Third Miss?"

"Less than five thousand taels."

"Well, that should be enough. Go get it and give it to Shiqi. Just tell her that the things I instructed you to do before can be done."

"Okay, Miss."

"However, you should remind Shiqi that she should not slack off in her martial arts training. Don't give up practicing just because you've been busy these days."

Qinglan took the silver and went to find Shiqi as she was told.

"Yulan, how's Xuanying doing?"

"We have gradually found the information of each official according to your method, and are also contacting the surrounding counties..."

"Well, at the same time, we can also let Xuanying set up a place in the open to sell information secretly. However, this information must be 80% true and 20% false. Do you understand what I mean?"

"Understood. I'll pass it on right away."

"Oh right, I want all the information about the officials in the capital, from the inside out. I want it down to the minute details, even down to when they eat..."

After Yulan and Mu Wange had given their instructions, they returned to their side rooms to write a note and pass it around. Yulan and the others had double rooms, while senior maids like Yihua had separate rooms, while maids without ranks lived together.

Mu Wange frowned slightly. This development was still a bit slow and could not compare to the news from Zuo Ci.

However, Mu Wange didn't think about it. Zuo Ci had worked for five years to achieve such success, while she had only done it for a few months, and it was already quite good to be able to achieve this level.

Muruohan was taken to the palace by Meng Yujiao and never came out again. When Muruohan's belly began to show, the baby in Zhao Yaxin's belly was already several months old.

When Zhao Yanqing left, he left a lot of silver to Zhao Yaxin and her servant, so they didn't have to worry about living. Moreover, the people in that village were relatively simple and honest, and they had been specifically told not to take advantage of them.

Everyone who served Muruohan in the palace was a little uncomfortable because Muruohan was constantly being picky due to her pregnancy, and these little antics could not be reported to the Empress. Empress Meng Yujiao, on the other hand, was also a little more fond of the first child of the royal grandson because Emperor Chen Yan had taken a fancy to him. Although she cared most about the legitimate son, at least the baby in Muruohan's belly was growing.

"Your Highness, I don't want to stay in the palace anymore. It's too boring."

"Wait a little longer. Once you give birth to the child, I will take you back home."

"But……"

"Han'er, when you give birth to a baby boy, then my mother won't control me so much..."

"Okay, then you must take me back to the mansion when the time comes." Mu Ruohan had to pretend to be considerate, but she was actually feeling a little uncomfortable. She was pregnant. The Second Prince's marriage to a wife wasn't going to be long, and although it would be after Chen Yunjie, it wouldn't be long either. Ruohan was thinking about how to maintain her dignity when she returned to the Second Prince's mansion, and how to seize Chen Yunfeng's power in the Second Prince's mansion before his wife came into the family.

After his uncle left, Chen Yunbin summoned a man and asked him to find out who was behind the person selling the information. Chen Yunbin thought that if it was his two brothers, he would have to prepare as soon as possible. If not, he would have to find a way to recruit them into his own army. If such a person was under his command, then he would not have to go to great lengths to obtain the information he wanted.

If Chen Yunbin hadn't been dormant for so many years, no one would have guessed that this low-key man actually had ambitions to seize the throne. Even Chen Yunjie, the crown prince, and Chen Yunfeng, the second prince with a queen, hadn't yet taken this low-key brother seriously. After all, even if he had those intentions now, he couldn't cause any trouble.

In the blink of an eye, several months passed, and Zhao Yaxin, who was far away in the mountain village, had given birth to the second prince Chen Yunfeng's biological child, while Muruohan in the palace used methods to make Chen Yunfeng bring Zhou Yu into the palace.

Because she was afraid that if the child she gave birth to was not a boy, she would have no use for the people in the palace, so she asked Chen Yunfeng to bring Zhou Yu and a maid into the palace to serve her.

"puff--"

When Mu Wange heard the news, she spit out the tea in her mouth. "Mu Ruohan is really amazing! Not only did she trick Chen Yunfeng into a loop, but she also managed to bring that guy Chen Yunfeng into the palace. It's really..."

"Sister, you mean that man is..."

Mu Lanxin, who has always been well-educated and well-mannered, couldn't put it into words.

"Well, not the servant, but the father of the baby in her belly."

"Bam—"

Mu Lanxin dropped the teacup in her hand to the ground, her eyes filled with disbelief, "Sister, that child is, is - that man's? This is confusing the royal bloodline, this is going to be disastrous. She..."

Mu Wange looked at Mu Lanxin calmly, "But now her child is the emperor's grandson, and he must be the eldest grandson."

"How is that possible? How can my second sister be so sure that she's carrying a boy and not a girl?"

"Since she has already done something to confuse the royal bloodline, she will naturally go towards the emperor's eldest grandson. Even if it is not a boy, she will definitely find a way to make her child a boy. But don't forget that she is Muruohan."

Mu Lanxin felt a chill run down her spine as she listened to Mu Wange's account of her second sister, Mu Ruohan. She knew that Mu Ruohan had some ulterior motives, but she had never expected that Mu Ruohan could actually do this.

This meant that if her second sister, Mu Ruohan, gave birth to a baby girl, she would have to switch the baby. Since it was her own flesh and blood, she was a little skeptical. But her eldest sister, Mu Wange, said that her eldest brother, Mu Yucheng, was also murdered by Mu Ruohan, and that he was able to hang out with someone in the prince's mansion without being discovered. After counting all these things, she had to believe that her second sister could do such a thing.

Mu Lanxin thought about it and said, "Sister, since you know about Second Sister, why don't you expose her?"

"It's not the right time yet. Ruohan will definitely not be content with being a mere concubine. Wouldn't it be nice for her to fight against that young lady from the official family? Besides, there's also the Empress in the palace."

Mu Lanxin was a little confused. She thought her eldest sister must be resentful of Shen Xinyue and her second sister Mu Ruohan. Since they were like this, why not take the opportunity to suppress them? However, hearing the tone of her eldest sister Mu Wange, she knew that the matter was not just that simple. What else was going on?

What Mu Lanxin never expected was that Mu Wange's plan was not just the Mu Mansion but the entire Dali Kingdom.

"Okay. Since my eldest brother is gone, I think it shouldn't be a big problem for Lin'er to take over my father's position in the future. But why doesn't 'mother' have a child yet? Is she..."

"Well, we girls don't understand this either. We just need to do our own thing. Lan Xin, you can actually broaden your horizons. This is just the Shangshu Mansion. If you are interested in business, then you should look at the entire Dali, and even the surrounding countries, the frontier, and so on..."

Mu Wange saw that his shops were developing well under Mu Lanxin's leadership, and thought that Mu Lanxin, as a decision maker, was not bold enough and had insufficient vision, so he gave her some advice.

After hearing what Mu Wange said, Mu Lanxin suddenly realized something. She pondered for a moment, then said with a gleam in her eyes, "Thank you, big sister. Lanxin understands."

Yes, Mu Lanxin understood. Since her elder sister had given her so many opportunities, why not do something big? Moreover, it seemed that these industries made money but only in the capital. What if they were in the rich Jiangnan or exchanged for rare items from outside the Great Wall... These were all good ideas. If she had so much wealth, how could the Shangshu Mansion, a mere mansion, trap her.

At this moment, she understood and no longer followed Mu Wange for the sake of her future marriage, but for herself, to achieve great things in business, which she was good at.

"Sister, I'll write down my thoughts for you. Lan Xin can only rely on you for now... and thank you for your guidance in the future."

"Lan Xin, you don't have to be like this. Since I trust you, I will naturally take care of you. Besides, I have other things to do, so it's more appropriate to leave the shop business to you. If there's anything, you can ask me. In fact, if Yu Qi has talent in this area, you can take him with you, and Yu Qi is more suitable to come forward. After all, boys are always more convenient than us girls..."