final conspiracy

After several days of journey, Lin Mufeng and Wang Zi'an finally arrived in the capital.

Perhaps because he had already heard the news, there were quite a few people lining the road outside the city gate to greet him, and Nangong Cong's slender figure stood out among the people.

He was wearing a bright red robe, holding a white feather fan that he almost never left his hand, and he smiled so hard that his teeth could not see his eyes.

"Brother Lin, Brother Wang, welcome back!" He fanned his fan and smiled narrowly, "How do you feel after living together for so long~ Do you miss me?"

"Don't be so talkative." Wang Zi'an gave him a white look, and said unceremoniously, "I miss no one and I will miss you." Then he looked at Nangong Cong's clothes, and said jokingly: "It's you, maybe you are too excited , halfway through the marriage ceremony, did you run out to meet us?"

"Ouch—" He closed his fan "swish" and cast a sideways glance at him, "Who are you marrying? With you? Come, come, call your husband!"

"roll!"

Lin Mufeng slightly bent his lips aside.

Sure enough, this combination cannot be disassembled.

"Hey, Brother Lin." Nangong Cong ignored Wang Zi'an and changed to pestering him, "You really lost a lot of weight? Tsk tsk, the longer you look, the better you look. If you were a girl—— "

Before he finished speaking, Wang Zi'an interrupted with a sneer: "If he is a woman, he must stay far away from you!"

Nangong Cong retorted: "Could it be near you?"

Seeing that Wang Zi'an was about to say something, Lin Mufeng interrupted with a helpless chuckle: "Both of you, restrain yourself."

Nangong Cong let go of him, and smiled: "Yes, yes, what Master Lin said is true." His words made Wang Zi'an roll his eyes.

After that, Lin Mufeng and Wang Zi'an bid farewell to Nangong Cong and walked towards the palace.

Although the reward is tomorrow, but the emperor wants to summon them in private, they have to go.

Royal Palace

Compared with three years ago, Ye Yu has more majesty belonging to the emperor.Beneath his handsome appearance is the majesty of the emperor who is not angry and arrogant. Even when he smiles and talks about it, his words are convincing.

His gaze moved from Lin Mufeng to Wang Zian, and then back again. After looking at it for a long time, he sighed in a low voice, "Mufeng has grown up."

Lin Mufeng bowed slightly, and smiled slightly: "It will always grow up."

Ye Yu talked to them a few words, then waved Wang Zi'an away, leaving Lin Mufeng behind.He looked at his gentle smile that hadn't changed since he entered the door, and then sighed lowly.

"If you don't want to laugh, don't laugh."

Lin Mufeng didn't have much reaction to the exclamation and distressed words, but just smiled.

"How could it be?" He replied gently, the corners of his lips curved slightly, "Mu Feng is very happy to see His Majesty again."

"To be honest, I regret the decision of letting you go to the frontier." Ye Yu couldn't help frowning.

He heard Nangong Cong mention what happened to Lin Mufeng before. Although he was as confused about it as Nangong Cong, it did not affect his judgment on Lin Mufeng's state.

"Your Majesty made a wise decision at the beginning." Lin Mufeng responded with a smile that was neither salty nor light.

Ye Yu stared at his smile and felt uncomfortable no matter how he looked at it, so he simply closed his eyes and refused to look at him.

Lin Mufeng is a few years younger than him, and they grew up together since they were young. He inevitably likes to be an older brother at times, so he has to worry more.

This time is no exception.

Seeing this, Lin Mufeng didn't say much, but bowed and left after he finished this action.

He walked out of the palace calmly and returned to the place where he stayed, but he walked into the house in a hurry.He quickly closed the door and locked it, covering his lips with his hand.

Along with the uncontrollable coughing sound, there were traces of bright blood coming out from between the fingers.

After his cough finally stopped, he wiped the blood carefully with a handkerchief, and then opened the window to ventilate.Then he leaned against the window, and cast his gaze into the street where people come and go, his drooping eyelashes covered his dull eyes.

Suddenly, it seemed that someone appeared to attract his full attention. In the past three years, Lin Mufeng finally had strong emotional fluctuations.

It seemed that a person in black was passing by, but Lin Mufeng didn't care whether it was an illusion or not, and quickly chased after him.

He followed the man to a tavern, watched the man ask for a private room, and followed Xiao Er upstairs.

Has he dated someone else...

Lin Mufeng stood at the door, gritted his teeth and followed after thinking for a while.

Regardless of whether there will be others for a while, at least he is the only one now.

Upstairs, he stood outside the private room, but suddenly hesitated.

Do you want to go in?

Do you leave with regret, or leave with disappointment?

Thinking of this, he immediately strengthened his determination to open the door.

However, before he could act, the door opened by itself.

"I've been waiting for you inside for a long time and I didn't see you come in. I thought you were gone." The clear voice with a smile appeared accompanied by a young man with a weak crown.

Lin Mufeng was stunned the moment he saw the man.

resembles……

so similar.

Even though the young man in front of him is different from that person in terms of looks and voice, but Lin Mufeng feels that this young man is so similar to him.

So much so that he forgot to ask the young man what he meant by "waiting for a long time".

The young man turned sideways to signal him to enter the room, then raised his eyebrows and smiled: "What? Do you think I'm stupid?"

It's not like...it's not him...

Lin Mufeng smiled lightly, and adjusted his mentality before saying: "Your Excellency is indeed born very well, and I think you won't be an ordinary person just because of your appearance."

The young man seemed to be very happy and smiled: "You can really talk, how can you be a general? You are obviously more suitable for literati." He and Lin Mufeng sat down facing each other, looked at him for a while, and said: "I take back my preface, you should be a hermit. Do you know that people always give people a feeling of being calm and peaceful? People like you who look like 'the world has nothing to do with me', how can you be a hermit?" Will you be a general?"

Lin Mufeng's answer to this was just to make tea for the two of them with a smile, without commenting.

The young man pursed his lips in boredom, and said, "I haven't introduced myself yet. My name is..." He draws out his voice, looks at Lin Mufeng's expression from the corner of his eye, and finds that he doesn't respond, and then speaks out boringly The rest of the words.

"An Xia."

"Mr. An." Lin Mufeng nodded.

An Xia is very much like those young masters who have been spoiled at home since childhood, she simply doesn't see her intentions.He loves to make some exaggerated gestures, loves to hear people say things that compliment him, and always loves to do things that little girls can do.Although it looks childish, it is surprisingly cute.

Of course, the premise is that the person is not Lin Mufeng.

After chatting for so long, at best Lin Mufeng had a good impression of him. If he wanted to say more, maybe it was because of his resemblance to that person.

For a long time, basically that person kept talking about his own affairs, while Lin Mufeng just quietly played the role of a listener, listening to An Xia rambling about what he had seen and heard.

"Master Lin, I've been talking for so long, so it's time for you to talk about it?" An Xia stopped and drank the tea in his cup, looking at Lin Mufeng with round eyes, "Tell me about the scenery in the frontier? Master Lin I have stayed there for almost four years, so I should be very familiar with the scenery there."

Lin Mufeng listened, took a sip of tea from his teacup, and then chuckled. "Frontier..." There seemed to be some remembrance in his eyes, and his tone was as erratic as the heat on a teacup. "The grassland and the flocks are two things to watch. The endless lawn is very comfortable to look at, and the large areas The flock is also very interesting." Although he was talking about the lawn and the flock, the look in his eyes made people wonder whether he was thinking about what he said, or recalling something else.

He paused for a moment, then said softly: "...Also, the sky at night is also beautiful."

Just like the eyes of that person in the past, the beauty is illusory, making people unable to move their eyes away.

As if you can reach out and touch it.

An Xia looked at Lin Mufeng who was lost in memory, and gave a soft "tsk", and didn't know if he was angry because Lin Mufeng didn't pay attention to him, or for some other reason.

Lin Mufeng was interrupted by him, and smiled apologetically after recovering.

"Feel sorry."

An Xia pursed her lips slightly, and looked at him angrily, but her eyes were a little helpless: "You can lose your mind even talking about it with others...it's true."

"It's my fault." Lin Mufeng replied slightly curling his lips.

An Xia began to bargain with him on this matter, knowing that it was agreed that he would come to this place to look for him at this time tomorrow, so she let him go with satisfaction.

On the way back, Lin Mufeng finally couldn't control himself, and thought of that person again. All the memories that he had forced himself to forget all resurfaced because of the appearance of the boy named "An Xia". Drip, every moment is clearly as if it just happened.

He returned to his residence and fell on the bed, his heart stabbed hard by a dull knife.Over the years, the occasional feeling of heartache caused by a certain sentence, a certain person, or a certain scene seems to have a source.

It's just that this source is accompanied by a sudden emptiness in my heart.

There seemed to be nothing left.

He turned over, put his face on the bed, gritted his teeth to endure the soreness in his heart, and tried hard to suppress the sweet blood in his throat.

What right did he have to feel uncomfortable, what right did he have to want to see him?

Second day

Lin Mufeng and Wang Zi'an received the award, and a banquet was held in the palace to celebrate.

Lin Mufeng left early on the grounds that he was unwell, and wandered casually on the road alone.

"That's Mr. Lin, right?"

"Yes, yes, the real person is much better looking than the portrait! You are really personable!"

"It's really worthy of the title of the first son of the capital!"

"By the way, Mr. Lin shouldn't be at the banquet now? Why did he appear here?"

"Mr. Lin must not look down on vulgar things like money, so leave early!"

Along the way, people often looked at him quietly and admired him.

It's nothing more than a girl admiring his appearance, even a man can praise him to the sky.

Lin Mufeng hooked the corners of his lips without a trace.

Kind of funny.

He turned around, then raised his head suddenly, only to realize that he had accidentally walked in front of an inn. The name of the inn had the word "Lai Shun" clearly written on it.

Lin Mufeng looked at the name in a daze for a few seconds, then turned and left because he couldn't bear the throbbing pain in his heart.

He is everywhere, but not there.

Lin Mufeng finally lost interest in wandering outside, turned around and hurried back to his residence.