After wearing the book, the regent quit.

"Because His Majesty is here."

For some reason, when Shen Mu finished saying this sentence, the depression that had been suppressed in his heart for the whole afternoon was finally released, and even his breathing became much smoother.

Xiao Fan stood facing the light, Yu Ying stretched his already tall figure extremely long; raising his eyes to meet the youth's black eyes surging under the tide, Shen Mu could only feel a trace of incomprehensible complex emotions in his chest that couldn't be stopped Throbbing and growing wildly.

It's like soft fluff brushing against the skin, and the heart is numb.

The two looked at each other for a while, only to see that Xiao Fan's breathing was a little short, his eyes dodged and he lowered his head to look at the wreath in Shen Mu's hand, and the end of his voice was trembling, "...this is a gift from Yafu." A holiday gift for Gu?"

Looking around, Shen Mu slightly frowned, and hesitated, "Is it too casual?"

"...Yes," Xiao Fan took the initiative to lean down to let Shen Mu put a wreath on him, and he could even hear a hint of caution in the tone of the question, "Can I ask for another gift?"

The young man was still wearing a red-golden jade crown, and it looked very awkward after wearing a light-colored garland. Shen Mu couldn't help laughing again, his bright phoenix eyes were full of smiles, and he nodded.

"Then let's have another hug." Xiao Fan's neck was reddened by Shen Mu's smile, and he touched his hot earlobe with his right hand, a flash of panic suddenly flashed in his eyes, "Just, just during the holidays, relatives and friends will hug each other Blessed."

The air froze for a moment.

Xiao Fan's breath was stagnant, and a slight bitterness appeared in his heart.

Sure enough, or...too fast?

Just as the drooping eyes were about to open his mouth to explain a few words, a cool and gentle voice came from his ear, "Okay."

Shen Mu who was half a step away suddenly opened his arms, and with a smile against the light, he said softly, "Your Majesty, happy holidays."

When he returned to Prince Regent's Mansion, the sky had already completely darkened, and there were several cases that Xiao Fan still needed to decide, so Shen Mu didn't ask him to come back with grandma for dinner.

Thinking of the tangled look on the young man's face when he changed his mind to reject his hug; his eyes wandered around, but he didn't look at Shen Mu, and after a long time he made up his mind to let him go back to the palace first, with a low voice. murmur:

"...Let's try another day."

The second half of what he said was too vague, and Shen Mu only listened to the general idea; when he came back to his senses, seeing the carriage stop slowly, Shen Mu got up and lifted the thick curtain on the side, got out of the car and returned to the mansion.

Unsurprisingly, Grandma was still sitting quietly in the dining area in the front hall, but she was not wearing the clothes that Xiao Fan sent that day, and the coarse linen clothes were put on again, which was extremely simple.

Hearing the creaking sound of the mansion door being pushed open, the wrinkled old man turned his head in surprise, and when he saw only Shen Mu coming, his cloudy eyes darkened, and he tried his best to raise his voice, and said with a smile, "Mr. Shen is back. "

As if for no reason, Grandma no longer insisted on Xiao Fan's return, or even asked about his whereabouts; but the joy in her eyes every time she saw Xiao Fan, and the disappointment that she couldn't wait for anyone to come, were the same as before. Generally the same.

Feeling faintly worried in his heart, Shen Mu ordered his servants to serve the food in a low voice, while sitting down beside the old man, he asked cautiously, "Grandma, why don't you wear the clothes Xiao Fan bought?"

"Those clothes are too expensive, old women are not used to wearing them," the white-haired old man hesitated to move his chopsticks in front of the table full of delicacies. After hesitating for a while, he tilted his head and asked, "Mr. Shen, I have a question."

"Are you and Xiaofan... really just businessmen?"

With a fingertip pause, Shen Mu knew that the old man must have seen the clue somewhere, and asked instead, "Why do you think so?"

The old man took a deep look at Shen Mu, and after a while, his old voice sounded slowly, "The inner cuffs of the clothes that the child gave me are all embroidered with auspicious clouds and dragons."

"The old lady is getting old, but she still knows some things; the auspicious cloud and the coiling dragon, aren't only those in the palace able to use them?"

Ah Qing put the account book submitted by the Ministry of War on the table to count the ammunition, and told Shen Mu that this was the detailed use of all weapons and weapons in the arsenal for the past five years.

What the old man said was still in his ears, Shen Mu couldn't figure out why Xiao Fan went to such lengths to make such a statement, even if he was worried that the old man would not be able to accept his identity for a while, explaining slowly was also the way.

Why is it necessary to make people guess.

Looking carefully at the accounts on the table, Shen Mu couldn't help marveling at the benefits that the Chu family has obtained from the Queen Mother Chu these years; penetration.

The original connivance of the influence of the relatives of the Chu family, it is no wonder that the empress dowager wants to use Chu Pingting as a bond between the two families.

Silently wrote down the flaws in the record, not long after there was a cautious knock on the door, Shen Mu raised his eyes and looked, A Yu stood outside the door excitedly, his eyes lit up when he saw him looking over.

"Sir, my lord," after getting permission, the boy walked in quickly wearing clothes one size larger, and he was a little uncomfortable talking excitedly, "Ayu saw the thing tied to the leg of the carrier pigeon!"

Shen Mu looked down at the ledger in his hand, but didn't answer.

In the boy's obviously eager tone, Shen Mu listened to the whole process: when delivering the letter yesterday, Uncle Wang stayed in the house for a long time before coming out, and before leaving the house for half a cup of tea, he personally let go of a carrier pigeon.

A Yu said that he could see clearly that there was definitely something tied to the right leg of the carrier pigeon.

"Later, the little one calculated the time and climbed up to the roof before Uncle Wang didn't pay attention." The child felt that all this was very exciting, and he was so excited that he lost his fear of Shen Mu in the past. "As soon as the pigeon landed on the roof, Let the little one catch him, and let him go after reading the writing on his leg."

"What did the letter say?"

A Yu was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly stammered, "Small, I don't even know."

Seeing Shen Mu's eyebrows furrowed instantly, the boy hurriedly waved his hands slightly, pointed to the writing brush on the table, and explained in a voice like a mosquito that he was illiterate, but he could roughly draw the appearance of those two characters.

Then, with Shen Mu's acquiescence, he stepped forward in small steps, grasped the brush with five fingers very strangely, and drew four big characters twisted and crooked on the rice paper sprinkled with gold powder: account details.

really.

Xiao Huan didn't know about the Chu family's smuggling of arms/fires, and Shen Mu just took advantage of Xiao Huan's previous condition of placing eyeliner in his house to make Xiao Huan think that he was the one who smuggled arms.

Originally not 100% sure, he deliberately behaved abnormally in front of the Empress Dowager Chu today, and his excessive overtures made Xiao Huan suspicious; not long after he left the back garden, the letter was delivered.

Shen Mu looked at the word "Details" on the table, and tapped the table twice with his fingertips.

Xiao Huan seemed to have always had inexplicable hostility towards him, but this was also good, and it was also convenient for him to cut off Xiao Huan's power when he weakened the power of his relatives.

After A Yu left, Shen Mu found a blank memorial from the table full of objects, and when he raised his hand to pull it out, he accidentally brought out the memorial below him, and it fell to the ground with a "snap" sound.

Picking up the memorial with the two blueprints in it, Shen Mu didn't even look at it, so he threw the memorial into the brazier, picked up the two blueprints, looked at them carefully, and told Ah Qing to come in.

He hasn't figured out some things, so he put aside the matter of resigning from office and retiring, but the house outside Beijing is still useful and must be bought.

"Wait a minute, I have a question to ask you." After clarifying the purchase of the house, Shen Mu stopped Ah Qing, hesitated for a moment, and said solemnly, "I have a friend——"

"When he sees another person recently, he always feels a little uncomfortable, but it's not that uncomfortable."

With a light tut, Shen Mu calmly described the specific feelings to Ah Qing, "It's probably a little sour, nervous, and difficult to adapt to the expectations. It happens in the past, but it's more frequent recently."

Ah Qing slowly blinked her big eyes twice, and suddenly said "Ah", on her pink and tender face, a pair of round eyes sparkled, "My lord, what is the relationship between that dear friend of yours and another person?"

What is his relationship with Xiao Fan?

——During the holidays, relatives and friends will hug each other.

Facing this question again, Shen Mu still didn't know how to answer it; he clearly realized that Xiao Fan was different from others after all to him; but remembering what Xiao Fan said to him before leaving, Shen Mu frowned again. sleeves, muffled uncertainly,

"The man said my friends were his... relatives and friends."

"It's hard to find a good friend. Since that person has said they are relatives and friends, shouldn't your lord be happy about your friend?"

Ah Qing's palm-sized face was tightly frowned, and after a while, he scratched his hair with a sad face, and said in distress, "Or, my lord, your friend, you don't want to be friends with that person?"

Looking out the window, Shen Mu narrowed his eyes suspiciously.

Do you not want to be friends, or do you not want to be just friends?

After morning court, Shen Mu took the memorial prepared last night and went to the imperial study; at this moment, the long corridor was empty and the doors were closed, and several male voices with different timbres could be heard continuously.

After a while, Jing Wen appeared from the corner of the long corridor, bowed his eyes after seeing Shen Mu, and said respectfully, "Please wait a moment, my lord, and my subordinates will go in to report now."

Shen Mu stopped him, saying that it would be good for him to wait here for a while, and don't go to interrupt on purpose.

"Your Majesty gave an order yesterday, no matter what time it is," Jing Fan remained unmoved, "As long as you come, your subordinates must go in and report as soon as possible."

After a while, the door was pushed open by Jing Fan, and Shen Mu entered the room under the surprised eyes of several ministers, saluted Xiao Fan briefly, and then stood where he was.

"Father Ya, let's go and sit next to you and rest." Xiao Fan's expression was normal, and after seeing Shen Mu sitting aside, he looked away indifferently, and spoke in a cold voice to several ministers, "Go on."

Yu State, which is adjacent to Daqi, has been provoking frequently recently. There are always frictions at the border between the two countries. easy to catch.

This matter was deliberately suppressed for a long time, until the old prince stationed at the border became seriously ill and the people protested and dissatisfied, the local officials who couldn't hide it could only choose to report for help.

This matter was slightly mentioned in the book, Shen Mu knew that Xiao Fan would handle it well, so he focused on sizing him up with confidence and did not listen to what these people were saying at all.

Xiao Fan's aura was as indifferent and alienated as his facial features. He always frowned habitually when he spoke, coupled with his cold tone of voice, not to mention frightened those who saw him, but fearful at any rate.

The deep eyebrows and eyes are like carved with fine brushwork, and the black eyelashes are drooping to cover the cold black eyes. You don't need to look up to know how cold and terrifying those extremely black eyes are.

As if sensing Shen Mu's gaze, Xiao Fan raised his eyes and looked at him, his black eyes suddenly lit up with twinkling stars.

Shen Mu: "..."

The ministers in front of them bowed their bodies and looked down at the ground, fearing that raising their eyes and looking at Xiao Fan would arouse great anger; so Shen Mu smiled lightly and silently smacked at the person——

Your Majesty, pay attention.

The young man on the dragon chair nodded and looked away, then glanced around lightly, and parted his thin lips lightly, "You all go down."

The minister who was suddenly interrupted: "...?"

"How many loopholes does this plan have and how many loopholes do I have to go into detail one by one? Is raising you bastards to accumulate virtue?"

With a sneer, Xiao Fan threw five or six memorials on the ground, "Pick them up and get out."

Several ministers shook their bodies, bent down to pick up the folder hastily, and quickly stepped back with trembling and weak legs.

The door was closed again, Shen Mu went forward to salute and handed over the folder; but before he could speak, the young man on the dragon chair walked around the table, took the folder in his hand, threw it on the table, and hung down. Seeing him ask in a low voice,

"The hug that my father promised yesterday, can I honor it now?"

Before he finished speaking, Shen Mu stretched out his long arms without allowing Shen Mu to answer, carefully hugged him in his arms, buried his head in Shen Mu's neck, and said sullenly, "Yafu won't speak, Guben will take it as your agreement."

The original plan was to talk about the relationship after discussing the government affairs, so Shen Mu could only pat Xiao Fan on the back in cooperation, "Yesterday I rejected it so simply and neatly, I thought His Majesty didn't want this gift."

"No." The young man rubbed his shoulder on his shoulder and shook his head, before speaking softly again after a long time, "...just a little bit reluctant, I'm afraid there won't be a next time."

"Xiao Fan."

The young man froze when he heard Shen Mu calling his name, but still maintained the posture of embracing each other; Shen Mu really wanted to see Xiao Fan's face at this moment, but he was hugged too tightly and couldn't move, so he could only let him He hugged it and asked softly,

"Do you like me holding you like this?"

The author has something to say: Shen · I just want to make a quick decision and fall in love · Mu: Get out of the way, I'm going to start flirting.

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I'm moving today and tomorrow, and it will be put on hold for two days on Saturday and Saturday ovo

Then I changed the cover!Isn't it cute!

If you want to see the big picture, you can go to Weibo @青团鸡茶 and you can also eat it (it will be used in the future when you huh)

感谢在2020-08-2718:47:40~2020-08-2817:20:44期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the mine: 1 piece of Yujin;

Thanks to the little angels of the irrigation nutrient solution: 20 bottles of paramecium; 5 bottles of lazy cat salted fish;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!