Last night, Mao Xiang discovered Mu Chun eavesdropping. Although Mu Chun reacted quickly and used peeing as an excuse, how could he hide it from the spy chief Mao Xiang
Mao Xiang pushed the door open, covered his mouth and blew out the lamp, then slapped Mu Chun on the back of the neck, knocking him unconscious, and then easily controlled Mu Chun.
According to the methods of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, most of the time they would just silence the person, but Mu Chun was not an ordinary person - five days ago he called Mao Xiang "uncle".
When Muchun slowly woke up, it was already bright outside.
He found himself sleeping in Mao Xiang's bed and was immediately shocked. He lifted the quilt and saw that he was sleeping in his clothes. Except for some pain in the back of his neck, there was nothing unusual in other parts of his body. He then breathed a sigh of relief.
Mao Xiang heard the noise in the study and walked into the bedroom.
Mu Chun was about to yell for help, but Mao Xiang warned him, "You are no longer the eldest son of Xiping Marquis's Mansion. You are a member of the Jinyiwei and must obey the orders of your superiors. Pretend you don't know what happened last night."
Mu Chun didn't actually hear clearly how Mao Xiang and Ji Gang dealt with Hu Shanwei, but the more serious Mao Xiang was, the more curious he became:
"Hu Shanwei is a commoner girl who can't even kill a chicken. She finally escaped from a family that abused and exploited her and passed the exam to become a court lady in the palace. Why are you targeting a woman?"
Honestly speaking, Hu Shanwei kept quiet on the surface but secretly tested the female officials. Mu Chun admired his forbearance and strength, and his secret plan to get out of the predicament. He vaguely felt that Hu Shanwei was very much like him.
He seemed to see another self.
Mao Xiang said: "This is the secret of the Royal Guards, you don't need to know the reason."
Mu Chun laughed coldly, "You just said I was a member of the Royal Guards, but now you don't even bother to tell me the reason. You don't even consider me as one of your own. Why should I keep a secret for the Royal Guards? I want to tell the Queen and the Emperor. I want everyone in the world to know how the Royal Guards dealt with an innocent woman who had no defense."
Mao Xiang wished he could strangle Mu Chun to death on the bed.
He regretted attending the banquet hosted by Mu Ying, Marquis of Xiping. The guests at the banquet were all the emperor's adopted sons, and less than ten of them were still alive. Everyone was filled with emotion, and even a cautious man like Mao Xiang couldn't help but drink a few more glasses. Seeing that the atmosphere was just right, Mu Ying took the opportunity to propose sending his son to work in the Jinyiwei, "at your disposal."
I regret it so much!
He was soft-hearted for a moment and couldn't bring himself to reject Mu Ying, so he agreed to let Mu Chun, the devil, join the Jinyiwei.
Mu Ying couldn't discipline his son, so he passed the buck to the Imperial College, who passed the buck to the emperor, who passed the buck to Mu Ying - no one could stand the Imperial College's chief priest coming to complain every other day! Anyway, it was his own son's own responsibility, so Mu Ying didn't even go home, and set up a "Hongmen Banquet" that day, passing the buck to the Jinyiwei.
Why should I agree? Mu Ying seemed to be honest and obedient since he was a child, and he was serious, but in fact he was the most treacherous among all the adopted sons.
Mao Xiang couldn't kill Mu Chun, so he had to make peace with him. "What do you want?"
Mu Chun was a man who would dare to start a business if he was given a little color. "First, you erase the three strokes I owe you and don't hit me again. Second, you tell me why you want to harm Hu Shanwei. Third, you are not allowed to target Hu Shanwei again."
Mu Chun dared to make an offer, and Mao Xiang dared to bargain. "I can tell you clearly that I don't want to kill her. I just want to stop her from entering the palace as a female official. As for the reason, it involves the military and national affairs of the Jinyiwei. You are currently just a small soldier of the Jinyiwei and are not qualified to know. Besides, the reason will not be hidden for too long. One day you will understand that I did this entirely out of consideration for the overall situation."
"Secondly, the incident of Ji Gang using peach blossom powder to force Hu Shanwei out of the palace has become a big deal, and even alarmed Concubine Hu in the Yanxi Palace. Don't think that you can save Hu Shanwei by shouting him out. Given the thunderous methods used by the Palace Administration Department, Hu Shanwei will be seriously injured if he doesn't die. It depends on who will be unable to bear the severe punishment first, Ji Gang or Hu Shanwei—"
Mu Chun interrupted, "Do you think I'm a three-year-old child? When the palace gates are opened tomorrow, I will go find Fan Gongzheng and tell him that this was done by Ji Gang and has nothing to do with Hu Shanwei."
Mao Xiang smiled, "Really? Do you think you can step out of the Jinyiwei Yamen tomorrow?"
Mu Chun crossed his arms and said, "This is your territory. I can't go out tomorrow - the day after tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow? You can't keep me under house arrest forever."
Mao Xiang said, "If you go out the day after tomorrow, Hu Shanwei will probably not be able to endure the heavy punishment and confess, or he will be driven crazy. Besides, you have no evidence, and Gong Zhengsi will not believe you - you don't even know my motives."
Mu Chun had lived in the palace for seven years and had often gone to the palace to pay respects to the Emperor and Empress. She knew the palace rules very well. What Mao Xiang said was cruel, but correct.
In the palace, there were almost no unsolved cases. Either the truth was found or someone was pushed out to take the blame. A female official with no foundation but the greatest suspicion was the most suitable person to take the blame.
Mu Chun was worried about Hu Shanwei, but he said firmly, "What about Ji Gang? What if Ji Gang can't survive the heavy punishment, or if the Palace Justice Department finds evidence against Ji Gang, he will be sentenced to death by slicing at least."
Mao Xiang paused and said with certainty: "Ji Gang will not give me away."
Mu Chun taunted, "Ji Gang was just following orders. You were sure he would die for you and not betray you - it's a pity that Ji Gang was loyal to you, but you watched him die."
Mao Xiang felt a pain in his heart, but his expression remained unchanged. "Such a stupid and careless subordinate can't even handle a small matter. It's no pity if he dies."
Mu Chun did not give up and said, "Believe it or not, from now on, you will never find such a loyal subordinate again."
Mao Xiang's chin trembled, and he whispered, "This is his fate."
Mu Chun stretched out his right hand and put it on Mao Xiang's shoulder. "I have a way. It can not only save Ji Gang, but also quickly calm the incident and make Gong Zhengsi stop pursuing the matter. But my request is that you never touch a hair on Hu Shanwei's head from now on."
Mu Chun whispered something to Mao Xiang.
Mao Xiang was skeptical, "Are you sure this will work?"
Mu Chun smiled and said, "Who in this palace doesn't know that I am the most unreliable person? It's normal for an unreliable person to do unreliable things."
Mao Xiang felt that he, like everyone else, had misjudged Mu Chun. This famous devil was actually not as simple as he seemed.
Mao Xiang followed Mu Chun's plan and quickly dragged him into the palace, went to the Palace Administration Office, and pushed Mu Chun out. "Tell Fan Gongzheng what good things you did yesterday!"
Mu Chun said: "Fan Gongzheng, Ru Siyao, it was all me who did it. I just wanted to play a prank and scare Hu Shanwei, so I forced Ji Gang to secretly sprinkle peach blossom powder into her food. The peach blossom powder was mixed with a lot of finely ground snowflake sugar, which was sweet. Eating too much would make you feel nauseous, vomit, and have diarrhea."
Fan Gongzheng didn't believe it and asked, "Why did you want to scare Hu Shanwei? When she entered the palace, you gave her a pair of shoes and treated her very well."
Mu Chun felt as if he had found a confidant. He clapped his hands and said, "Yes, I helped her and treated her well, but she never smiled at me. Occasionally, when we met on the imperial road in the palace, she just nodded to me. When I said a few words to her, she always made excuses and left in a hurry after a few perfunctory words. Fan Gongzheng, do you think this hurts people's feelings? So, for the new and old grudges, I wanted to make her suffer a little."
Hu Shanwei learned the palace rules that eunuchs were not allowed to make friends with outsiders, otherwise they would be beheaded. She had just entered the palace, how could she dare to respond to Mu Chun's kindness
"New hatred or old hatred?" Fan Gongzheng asked: "Did you and Hu Shanwei have any grudges in the past?"
Mu Chun asked, "Do you remember that last month when I went to the palace to pay my respects to the Queen, and the Queen offered me a seat, but I didn't dare to sit down?"
Fan Gongzheng nodded, "You said you accidentally fell off your horse and hurt your butt."
Mu Chun shook her head. "No, no, I was standing in the Hu Family Bookstore reading a book. Hu Shanwei used the excuse of mopping the floor to chase the guests away. I was stabbed by the mop in her hand. The pain took three days to heal."
Everyone was speechless. Ru Siyao couldn't help but ask, "You have been practicing martial arts since you were young. Hu Shanwei is a well-mannered woman. How did she hurt your... buttocks?"
Mu Chun was trying to climb the ladder to the bookshelf to read, but Hu Shanwei knocked the ladder over while mopping the floor. Mu Chun fell from the air and was hit by the mop in Hu Shanwei's hand, which made him tell the sad story of the past.
"… I was hurt by a girl, it's embarrassing to tell her, so I lied and said I fell off a horse. I have only been hurt by two people in my life, one is my father, the other is Hu Shanwei. My father is my father, I dare not hate him. Hu Shanwei's revenge must be avenged. She made my buttocks bloom, I will let her taste what it feels like to have a bloomed buttocks. Peach blossom powder clears away heat and has a laxative effect, it won't hurt anyone, it's perfect for me."
Fan Gongzheng asked: "Since you want revenge, why do you help her?"
Mu Chun chuckled and said, "I have always been clear about gratitude and resentment. I will repay grudges when I have grudges and repay favors when I have favors. I spent half a year reading books in her bookstore without buying any books, but she never said anything. As long as the store was open, I could stand there and read for free. I helped her, not only because I felt sorry for her being abused by her stepmother, but mainly to repay her."
Fan Gongzheng and Ru Siyao both entered the palace in the third year of Hongwu and served in the court for ten years. They knew about the unscrupulous nature of Mu Chun, the devil, and this was indeed a "good thing" that he could do.
Ru Siyao frowned slightly, "Peach blossom powder is a medicinal material that clears away heat and relieves constipation, but some people are naturally superstitious about it. They will sneeze and get rashes all over their bodies when they smell it. If they accidentally eat it, they may lose their lives in serious cases."
Mu Chun was startled and asked, "Hu Shanwei is ill?"
Ru Siyao said: "You almost killed the top female student this time."
After daybreak, almost all the female officials who had been unwell the night before had recovered, except for 13-year-old Shen Qionglian, who still had a high fever from time to time and her body was covered with red rashes. The female officials then learned that Shen Qionglian had always been superstitious about things like catkins and pollen.
Mu Chun said, "It's all my fault. I won't dare to do it again. I'll go and apologize to that female champion. I'll pay for her medicine and supplements."
Fan Gongzheng said: "Even Concubine Hu was almost scared."
Mu Chun said hurriedly: "I will go to the Yanxi Palace to apologize."
The case broke out in the middle of the night and was closed at dawn. The thunderous methods of the Gongzhengsi were indeed well-deserved.
Ji Gang was carried out. Before he "left", he was carefully "dressed up". His body was wiped clean, his hair was combed neatly, his bruised buttocks were applied with medicine, and he changed into a new set of clothes, but his face was a little pale.
Of course, the pulled out nail cannot be pressed back, and blood is faintly visible under the white gauze.
Even after seeing this tragic scene, Ji Gang still did not confess his guilt, let alone give up Mao Xiang.
Mu Chun was still frightened when he saw Ji Gang like this. He thought that it was fortunate that he arrived in time, otherwise the Palace Administration Division would not get any result from Ji Gang. Concubine Hu in the Yanx Palace would want an explanation, and the Queen would blame him. The Palace Administration Division would have to follow suit and give the same punishment to Hu Shanwei.
Mao Xiang tried to feel Ji Gang's breath, and luckily, he just fainted from the pain.
Mao Xiang said coldly: "Thank you Fan Gongzheng for showing mercy."
How could Fan Gongzheng not hear that this was a sarcastic remark? She was not afraid of the Jinyiwei and smiled faintly, "Master Mao, you are too polite."