Yu Wu

As soon as the boy said "that important matter", Mo Xi immediately understood——

Chonghua has a terrible secret.There are probably no more than five people in the entire kingdom who know about this matter.

And Mr. Xihe is one of the insiders.

He braved the wind and snow and came to the Qichen Palace, and followed the servant into the depths of the palace.

The charcoal fire in the main hall was burning extremely vigorously, and two small smoke-eating golden beasts were lying on the side of the brazier, singing praises to the king as usual: "Your Majesty is blessed with great blessings!" Being screened back, only Jun Shang was still sitting on the side of the couch alone, with a strange paleness on his face.

"Your Majesty."

"Huolu, you're here." Junshang said weakly, "If you don't come, you will die alone."

Mo Xi: "..."

Although what you said was a bit exaggerated, this is indeed Chonghua's ulterior secret - the lord has an illness.

As the lord of a country, your majesty is suffering from severe cold.

This kind of cold disease cannot be cured, although it does not affect life, but depending on the patient's physical fitness, the patient will be paralyzed in bed within 20 to 50 years, and as long as [-] years.That is to say, no matter how well your majesty takes care of him, he is doomed to be a paralyzed person if he endures until he is more than fifty years old at most.

Mo Xi looked at Junshang's tired expression, sighed and said, "Take a rest, Junshang, I'll tide you over the cold."

It was rare for Jun Shangxian to be so tired, so he nodded and leaned on the soft pillow.

The onset of the severe cold syndrome is painful and unbearable, and only the monks of the fire department can push the blood to beat the cold, and then they can return to normal.This is also the reason why Your Majesty sometimes calls Mo Xi a "stove".

Your Majesty closed his eyes, and Mo Xi transferred the fire energy to him. After a long time, the bruise on his lips finally eased.

He still did not open his eyes, but sighed: "Fortunately, you are here, otherwise Gu Ke will suffer. Although Lin Yaoshi is also a fire-type spiritual core, his spiritual power is far weaker than yours. He will not be able to help you for a while. Overcome this difficulty alone."

The little golden beast was still screaming by the charcoal basin: "Blessings are as good as heaven! Shoubi Nanshan!"

Your Majesty snorted twice, and said sneeringly: "What kind of shit is Hongfu Qitian living longer than Nanshan? In recent months, Gu's cold symptoms have become more and more frequent, and I don't know how long this body can last. Yu Chaotang..." He sneered, "hehe, those tiger and wolf generations would feel restless, dig out their hearts and lungs, and eat them up."

When he said this, he finally opened Cun Xu's eyelids slightly, looked behind him, and looked at Mo Xi: "If there is such a day, Mr. Xihe will guard the front of the palace instead."

Mo Xi is a person who doesn't like to beat around the bush. He knew that the emperor was trying to find out what he wanted, so he said directly: "The oath of the heavenly catastrophe has been made, so why do you have any worries about me?"

Jun Shang smiled: "Gu Ye is just chatting casually."

But Mo Xi knew he wasn't just chatting.

Your Majesty's position is not easy to come by, and he is wary of anyone.

Back then, Jun Shang's biological mother bribed the imperial physician in order to keep this secret tightly, but when Lao Jun was about to die, the matter was revealed again.Considering the importance of China's society, the first emperor worried that if his son was paralyzed during his reign, he would inevitably suffer from external troubles and internal troubles, so he once wanted to abolish the reserve.

But the first king is weak, he only has this son, and two daughters, Yan Ping and Meng Ze, and when he is dying, he abolishes the prince, so is it necessary to make his daughter king?

It's ridiculous, there are 28 countries in Kyushu, and I have never heard of any country that has a female monarch.

As for brother and brother, or the adoption of other Murong heirs, the late emperor has also considered it. It is said that at that time he still wanted to test the child Murong Lian, but before the arrangement was made, the late emperor's condition became serious, and he was buried soon after. God.

People don't know why the late emperor suddenly had the idea of ​​abolishing the reserve before he passed away, and they also said that it was caused by the old gentleman's insanity when he was seriously ill.And those few people who knew the truth were all cast with the most terrifying secret-keeping spell, and since then they have buried the secret of Xinjun's severe cold in their hearts.

The warm breath of flames flowed through the body, slowly dispelling the pain caused by the coldness.

Your Majesty closed his eyes and rested for a while, then suddenly said: "Speaking of... Huolu, Gu Mang has been at your house for a few days. Is everything going well?"

"well."

Your Majesty stopped talking again.After a while, just when Mo Xi thought he would not continue this topic, he said again: "I still remember that two years ago, Gu Xiu wrote to you and asked you how to punish Gu Mang. You didn't say much at the time. But after Gu Jian you returned to the city, your mind has changed."

Mo Xi didn't say a word, he just silently let the king get rid of the cold air.

Your Majesty didn't look back at him either. He lay down on the low couch, chatted and said, "Huolu, I know that you are a person who values ​​love. When you don't see anyone, you only remember Gu Mang in your heart." Treated you badly. But when you really see him, you can't help but think that he is your brother's comrade. Isn't it?"

The water in the hall dripped and dripped down.

After the cold air subsides, the body is no longer so uncomfortable, Jun Majesty sighed: "You are actually suffering, even Gu can see."

"..."

"Remember his evil, but you can't forget his kindness. You can't let him die, but you really feel bad when you see blood."

"Your Majesty..."

"Oh, human nature." Your Majesty said lazily, "Actually, from the day you swore the oath of catastrophe to the isolation in order to protect the northern border army, Gu understands that you still value the old friendship with him in your heart." , the knife went out in your heart, but it failed to dig out the past from your flesh and blood. There is nothing wrong with you remembering the past."

After the cold poison dissipated, Junshang sat up from the couch, he lowered his head and tidied up his clothes, and his brows and eyes returned to the old unruliness.

Smoothing out the fine folds on the robe, Jun Shang raised his eyes, looked at Mo Xi, and said, "However, there is one sentence that I have to tell you first."

Mo Xi was silent for a moment, then said: "...Your Majesty, there is no need to say too much, I have no friendship with him."

Jun Shang chuckled twice: "If you really lost your friendship with him, you wouldn't come to ask Gu Yao this person." After speaking, he picked up the bracelet placed on the red sandalwood bed table, and slowly twisted it in his palm with.

"You didn't hesitate to spend ten years of your life and promise your whole life to protect the remnants he left behind, and to be the 'stepfather' of the Northern Frontier Army despite their class hatred. Now you are doing this act of protection—— Is this hatred? Do you think you are a fool or blind."

"..."

The smile faded away, and he said again: "It doesn't matter what other people are alone. What I want to remind you is that what Gu Mang committed was the death penalty for treason. The reason why Gu Mang allowed him to live is definitely not because of the face of any of you. It’s because he still has value to use.”

As he spoke, he stared at Mo Xi's face, "Gu Mang is a man of great evil, and his crimes are unforgivable. All people in Chonghua are stretching their necks and waiting to see his head fall to the ground. One day, Gu Mang will exhaust him or he can't control it anymore, Guding will order to kill him."

When Mo Xi heard this, his eyelashes moved slightly.

"On that day, I don't want to see you standing beside Gu Mang in a daze."

Mo Xi did not agree as straightforwardly as in the past, he remained silent.

Jun Shang slightly raised his eyebrows: "If you have something in your heart, Xihe Jun might as well tell Gu Zhi."

Mo Xi said, "It's nothing."

"really?"

"He is guilty of this, and there is no further argument."

"Hey, why are you so boring?" Xihe Jun complied with his wishes, but the Jun was a little dissatisfied, "You should beg for mercy symbolically, let Gu reject you, and then you beg again, and Gu refuses again. , if you ask again, Gu can be furious, so that our court will be lively and interesting instead of lifeless—”

"..." Mo Xi paused, then raised his eyes, "Then I do have something to ask for."

"Hey, that's right."

Mo Xi said, "I want to do it myself."

Your Majesty was taken aback: "What?"

"When the day Gu Mang is executed, I want to do it myself."

"...you let Gu take it easy." Jun raised his forehead and murmured in a low voice, "...why is the situation different from what you expected?"

"Your Majesty, please complete it."

Your Majesty was quite speechless for a moment, sat stiffly for a long while, leaned back on the chair, clapped his hands: "Love each other and kill each other, you two have a lot of fun."

"..."

The light brown pupils flickered, and the emperor said again: "I'm just afraid that you won't be able to do it."

"Then when you really can't do anything, let your majesty decide."

Your Majesty stared at Mo Xi's face for a while, as if he wanted to dig out something from the other's eyes, but in the end he found nothing.So he sighed suddenly, "Mr. Xihe, why are you bothering? Just such a young brother, you have to watch him in life, and in death, you...you..."

Mo Xi said: "I only have this one brother in my life. I have lost my love and hatred, so I have no obsessions. I only have this one request, and I hope you will fulfill it."

Jun Shang twirled the beads, closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, then suddenly grinned: "You can't do it alone."

"..."

"The so-called gentleman is hard to chase after a word, but it is not so easy for you to fool me and nod."

He opened his eyes and put his hands aside: "Let's discuss this matter later."

Mo Xi seemed to have expected this answer, and said without any surprise, "That's fine."

"...?" Jun Shang was slightly annoyed, "Aren't you going to keep begging? You beg again, Gu refuses again, asks again, refuses again, and then Gu can be furious, so that our court will be lively—— "

Mo Xi refused to obey his bad taste, and saluted: "It seems that your majesty has fully recovered, and he will not stay late at night, so I am leaving."

The corner of Jun Shang's mouth twitched: "...All right. Get lost. You're no fun at all."

By the time Mo Xi returned to the mansion, it was still night, and most people in the mansion were asleep.Mo Xi walked through the hall, his expression was not very good.

He felt that he seemed to be at odds with the emperor, only the two of them got along alone, and in the end they would often make troubles that made each other feel uncomfortable and unhappy.

He was irritated, kicked open the door of his bedroom with a gloomy face, and was about to wash up and go to bed first, but he froze the moment he raised his eyes——

"Li Wei!"

A roar resounded throughout the entire Xihe Mansion, and Huaye sank into the pond.

"come over!!"

Li Wei was worried that his dog's head would not be safe, and ran over quickly to greet him: "Oh, the master is back, and the subordinates are just feeding the horses in the stables. It's late. The master is generous, don't blame me Don't blame me."

Mo Xi turned his head gloomyly, a pair of knife-like gazes coldly swept across Li Wei's body, and finally fell back on Li Wei's face.

He turned sideways, allowing Li Wei to see the situation in his room clearly.

"Explain." Mo Xi said with a gloomy expression, "I just went to the imperial palace, what's going on?"

Li Wei poked his head and looked, wow, what a guy.

The whole house...how should I put it?

You must know that Mo Xi has severe obsessive-compulsive disorder and a slight obsession with cleanliness. He has always lived in a meticulous place, not to mention that things are placed in disorder, and even the edges and corners of the mattress are not blurred.

But at this time, the tables and chairs fell down, the bed curtains were messed up, the pillows fell on the ground, and the vases were thrown on the bed.In a word, it's like a thief sneaked in and rolled, danced and went crazy in this room.

Li Wei turned his head tremblingly. Seeing Mo Xi's pale face, he couldn't help but feel a shudder on the back of his neck, and said softly, "I, I'm going to find out the situation."

Mo Xi gritted his back teeth and said, "Get lost."

Li Wei rolled away numbly, and rolled back smoothly within a cup of tea.

At that time, Mo Xi was standing in the room staring at his bed in a daze, when he saw him coming, he turned his head and said stiffly, "What should I say?"

"A ghost." Li Wei wiped the sweat that ran out of his forehead, and murmured, "I really saw a ghost."

As he spoke, he swallowed, his Adam's apple moved up and down, and he wanted to speak several times, but he didn't know what to say when the words came to his mouth, and finally slapped his thigh before Mo Xi was about to explode again: "Everything you say is empty! Come on, go and see with me, what a genius!"

Mo Xi couldn't bear his exaggerated tone of singing three sighs, so he followed him to the woodshed in the backyard.

If it can still be called a woodshed.

Mo Xi: "..."

Li Wei was still sighing: "What a genius!"

I saw more than ten pieces of Taihu Lake stones were piled up outside the originally normal hut overnight, and some of them looked familiar to Mo Xi, as if they were moved from the fish pond.On top of these stones, tables, chairs and benches of suitable size collected from various places in Xihe Mansion were upside down, with their feet facing the sky, making the entrance like a hedgehog with needles all over its body.

In just such a short period of time, someone forcibly turned the firewood house of Xihe Mansion into a beast lair that was difficult to attack.

You can think of who did this masterpiece with your toes!

Li Wei pointed at the thick quilt hanging at the entrance and wondered, "Eh? This isn't the one on Xi He-jun's bed..."

Yes, of course it was on his bed.

It's the very neat snow quilt that he folds every day after he gets up!

At this moment, it has become the warm curtain that the King of Heifeng Zhaishan covers the entrance of the Zhaishan! ! !

Li Wei was afraid that his anger would pass away, so he hurriedly said: "Oh, my lord, this is a good thing."

Mo Xi felt dizzy for a while, gritted his teeth and said, "What's good?"

"Think about it, before, Gu Mang was searching for rice vats and hiding in cellars. What does this mean? It means that he is ready to slip away at any time, and he is not ready to obey your lord's orders, and you can't order him around, lord."

"Then now?"

"Now." Li Weiqing cleared his throat and said seriously, "Gu Mang spent so much effort to arrange a bedroom in Xihe Mansion according to his own preferences."

Mo Xi interrupted him by holding his throbbing forehead: "...When did you become blind?"

"Ah, yes, it's not a bedroom." Li Wei glanced at those fortress-like Taihu Lake stones, thought for a while and thought of a more suitable wording, "Nest. He built a nest for himself."

"Animals build nests, and birds build nests. That's the same principle as people set up their homes—you want to live in one place for a long time." Li Wei analyzed, "It seems that Gu Mang has been tamed by the wise and great master, and he has been tamed since then. With the self-consciousness of being under the fence, he dare not go west when the master says east, and he dare not continue walking even if the master says stop, even if his leg is broken."

He was slapping his horse with his beard like a river, and suddenly he heard rustling noises behind him.

The two of them turned their heads and saw Gu Mang entering the yard carrying a large pile of mattresses that he didn't know where he got them, and a big black dog with wimpy hair was at his feet, and it seemed that he was with him when they were in Luomei Bieyuan. that dog.The dog didn't know when it slipped out of Luomei Bieyuan, came back to Gu Mang's side after a thousand miles to find the owner.

The three of them bumped into each other unexpectedly, and Gu Mang, who had stolen the mattress, froze in place.

Mo Xi also stood there.

"..."

After a few moments of silence, Gu Mang stretched out the mattress, covered his head, and asked quietly, "Can you still see me?"

Mo Xi: "...What do you think?"

The person in the mattress moved uneasily, then suddenly turned around and ran away, and the black dog also ran happily beside him, barking as he ran.

Seeing that a person and a dog were about to disappear around the corner, Mo Xi was furious and speechless, and shouted, "Come back!"

Do not listen.

Gu Mang ran faster.

Mo Xi looked coldly at Li Wei, who was watching the excitement beside him and didn't think it was a big deal, and said through gritted teeth: "...Tell him to go east and never go west, tell him to stop and never take a stroll?"

Li Wei said guiltyly: "Hey, that... hey, after all, Gu Mang was a ferocious beast in the altar in the past, even if his brain is broken, he is still a bit wild, but look, my lord, he is already willing to talk to you no?"

Mo Xi responded angrily: "It's your size! Why don't you go back and clean up my room?!"

Li Wei hurriedly said: "Yes!" As he said that, he stepped forward to pull Gu Mang's quilt hanging on the Taihu stone.

Mo Xi stopped him: "What are you doing?"

"Take it and wash it."

Mo Xi choked on his chest, gritted his teeth and said, "The quilt that Gu Mang used as a warm curtain, do you think I will still want it? Go to the warehouse and get a new one!"

Li Wei immediately responded and ran away.

Mo Xi stood on the spot, looked at Li Wei's back, then looked at the place where Gu Mang and the dog disappeared, and finally turned his head to stare at the "kennel" left by Gu Mang, he raised his hand to rub his throbbing pain The nape of my neck, I feel that all the hostility in my life will be vented in these few days.

Damn, it's better to go back to guard the border, if he continues to be troubled like this, he will probably become a Buddha!

However, Xihe Jun and Mo Shuai are probably still too young. He is a person who loves and doesn't like to be verbose. His emotions, anger, love and hatred are all written on his face. The one above is conspiracy to gain power and intrigue.The "trouble" after returning to the imperial capital has obviously just begun.

No, within a few days, a new round of shit happened again.

There were a few old nobles who were usually as timid as a mouse, thinking that Mr. Xihe was busy with official duties, and it was impossible to watch Gu Mang, a thief all day long. Well, that's really too dangerous.So those few old nobles jointly signed a letter, please play the king, and still hope to send him back to the Yin Prison.

Mo Xi said coldly: "He is in the prison, so Li Qingqian has a way to make him escape?"

"That's because the defense is not strict. If you increase the vigilance, you will be able to-"

"What can you do?" Your Majesty interrupted, "Gu has already agreed to Xihe Jun's affairs, and if he is easily abolished, who will Gu become?"

But those old men blew their beards and stared and refused to let go, and they cried and cried again. The king was annoyed, and said angrily: "Okay, okay, I'm so annoying! If it's a compromise, Mr. Xihe , another day, you lead Gu Mang to be branded as a slave, so as to prevent the criminals from escaping. You can also give them peace of mind."

Hearing the brand of slavery, Mo Xi thumped in his heart, and raised his eyes to look at the man on the throne.

Jun Shang slightly raised his eyebrows: "What? Do Xi and Jun have anything to say?"

"……No."

Mo Xi responded in a deep voice, and closed his eyes.

The so-called branding of slavery is to lock the slave ring.

According to Chonghua's rules, whether it is to put a ring on a slave or remove it, it must be approved by the emperor and operated by a craftsman.So when Murong Lian gave Gu Mang a ring without permission, it was actually against the rules.Later, after Gu Mang made great contributions, Laojun issued an order to remove his slave status, and the slave ring around his neck was also removed, and Murong Lian was scolded by Laojun for this.

That day, it was Mo Xi who accompanied Gu Mang to pick the necklace from the craftsman.

He is sincerely happy for his senior brother, he thinks his senior brother is so good, he should be free for the rest of his life.

At that time, Mo Xi never thought that one day, as Gu Mang's new master, he would lock the slave ring that symbolizes "insult" and "occupation" back around his senior brother Gu's neck again.