Li Yanqiu added: "Zheng Yan heard the news that your fifth aunt is suspecting that one of the fakes and Mu Kuangda poisoned me. She and Yao Fu are secretly investigating the medicines I have taken over the years."
"Who was with the fourth uncle that day?" Duan Ling asked.
"Zheng Yan has been here, the queen has been here, and fakes have also been here." Li Yanqiu frowned.
"In other words, even Yao Fu is also possible." Duan Ling said.
"You're very smart." Li Yanqiu said, "Mu Kuangda has begun to be suspicious of Zheng Yan."
Duan Ling stopped talking. Although this meal was delicious, it didn't taste like it. When he started drinking tea after eating, Duan Ling said: "Only by Zheng Yan alone, I'm afraid I won't get much information. The inside story is too complicated. Years ago, Mr. Fei Hongde helped me with an idea, which just happened to be used. ."
Li Yanqiu frowned slightly, but he didn't expect Duan Ling to go around for a long time and still couldn't be idle.
In the afternoon, Duan Ling clearly felt that the defense in Jiangzhou City was much tighter, with filial piety belts hanging outside every door, and black armored troops interrogated from time to time.
"This is too risky." Wu Du's injuries were not fully healed, but fortunately those injuries were not visible, and his hands were wrapped in bandages.
"No risk." Duan Ling said, "Since Changliu-Jun came to defect, we have almost no enemies."
"It's me who has no enemies." Wu Du replied, "You have. The struggle of literati is much more powerful than that of an assassin."
"Don't you believe I can fool him?" Duan Ling asked.
"I believe." Wu Du said, "but everything has to be very careful."
If there is one person in the world who is Duan Ling's heart disease, it is undoubtedly Mu Kuangda. Duan Ling was taught by him, but now he has to go back to deal with his master. This will be a great challenge for Duan Ling. Although in the past two years in the Mu Mansion, Mu Kuangda directly taught him little about how to do things, but subtly, he has been teaching him how to be a person.
Duan Ling sometimes even thought that even if Mu Kuangda died this time, his goal might have been achieved. He and Huang Jian were both his students. In the future, he will sit in that position, and his philosophy of governing the country will still be that of Mu Kuang's teaching.
Duan Ling tried his best to persuade Li Yanqiu. After all, Lord Changliu was not in the mansion, and he had Wu Du by his side. Even if he couldn't deceive him, Mu Kuangda would have nothing to do with him. He had to collect enough evidence, including letters from Han Bin and Mu Kuangda, to make a decisive blow at the last moment.
Mu Kuangda has no one to use now, even if Duan Ling has second thoughts, he can only be used. Even if Mu Kuangda wanted to kill him, with Wu Du, what could he do
The more Duan Ling thought about it, the more he felt that Fei Hongde was right. As long as he handled it skillfully enough, Mu Kuangda would definitely trust him again.
The shepherd's family was almost the same as when he left. When he came back a year later, he found that it was inevitably a little older. Compared with Yecheng, Jiangzhou's deep alleys criss-crossed and the roofs were connected together, which was far less atmospheric than the north. I used to live here and I didn't notice it, but after walking around in Hebei, I felt that Xiangfu's mansion had become smaller.
"Go in?" Wu Du asked.
"Let's go." Duan Ling replied, "There is no way out."
In the early autumn afternoon, the sky was blue as if it had been washed with water. Duan Ling pushed open the door and went in, and saw that the yard where they once lived had not changed. The washboard in the corner of the yard was still there on the day I left, and the towel in the front yard had been drying for a year, and it was dirty from the wind and rain.
"Go to the main courtyard." Duan Ling said.
Everyone in the house knew Duan Ling, but they didn't stop him. They only said, "Master Wang is back?"
Duan Ling nodded at them and said, "I'm back, what about Master Xiang?"
Mu Kuangda had not returned to the mansion, but Mu Qing had come.
Muqing was sleeping alone in the study. The afternoon sun shone into the study and fell on his head. Duan Ling went in and pushed Muqing. Mu Qing looked at Duan Ling sleepily like a small child.
Duan Ling just laughed, and Mu Qing immediately cheered excitedly and said, "I'm not dreaming!"
Wu Du sat down and asked, "Where's your father?"
"It's in the palace. Today, General Han is returning to the capital. Dad and His Royal Highness are discussing matters." Mu Qing was so excited, he pulled Duan Ling to look around, and said, "Wang Shan, why did you come back suddenly?"
"There is something." Duan Ling said, "Hurry up and hurry up, it's still here."
Muqing hurriedly went out and asked for orders to inform Mu Kuangda who was in the palace. Duan Ling kept him silent, Mu Qing nodded, said something to the housekeeper, and sent the housekeeper to go in person.
At the same time, in the imperial study in the palace, although Li Yanqiu was gone, Cai Yan still did not sit behind the emperor's case, but just sat by the side. Mu Kuangda, the cabinet of the Soviet Union, Xie You, and Yao Fu were all present.
"Han Bin brought 50,000 cavalry." Xie You said, "I came to the funeral, and now they are all stationed on the Jiangbei Plain outside Beicheng. This is a condolence book."
Xie You put the condolence book in front of Cai Yan, but Cai Yan didn't open it, just kept silent, and didn't say a word according to what Feng Duo taught earlier.
The Su Clan sneered: "What does he want to bring 50,000 cavalry to Jiangzhou? He must never be allowed to enter the city!"
Yao Fu asked, "What did the person sent to communicate with Han Bin say?"
"Han Bin suspects that there is a reason for His Majesty's death, and there is something strange in it, so he asks to open the coffin for an autopsy." Xie You replied.
Mu Kuangda replied, "The lid of the coffin has been nailed, and all the adults have read the report issued by the Imperial Physician Hall. Just send the inspection book to Han Bin for a look."
"What if you don't let him test it?" Su Clan said.
"Then you can't say it's 'Qingjun's side'." Xie You replied.
As soon as these words came out, everyone's expressions changed instantly, and they didn't expect that Xie You would actually say so, and the expressions of the participants changed instantly.
"Qingjun's side?" Yao Fu was the first to say angrily, "Who do you want to know? Qing Benhou? General Xie? Master Su? Shepherd minister?!"
"Let him go into the city by himself," Cai Yan said.
"No!" Mu Kuangda immediately said, "Han Bin has been guarding the Jade Bi Pass for a long time. He was born in the Northern Army and has a comradeship with Emperor Wu. If he is relieved of his military power, there will be a violent backlash."
"Comradeship?" Xie You said, "The person who rebelled in the Northern Territory back then had his share!"
"Emperor Wu was not the Son of Heaven at that time." Mu Kuangda said, "I was only granted the title of King Beiliang, the decree issued by General Zhao in the name of the imperial court. What's wrong?"
Xie You replied: "I won't believe him, and he must not be allowed to enter the city now, otherwise 50,000 troops will be stationed in the city, and something may happen."
"Has his brother Han He been here?" Yao Fu asked.
"It's still at Yubi Pass." Xie You replied, "Lead another 30,000 infantry. Your Highness, it is easy to send God, but once Han Bin enters the city, he will not leave. This man joined the army at the age of fourteen and followed Emperor Wu. In front of the saddle, the seniority is the oldest in the Northern Army, and it is by no means comparable to the Bianling Bai who died in vain. The trouble of Zhao thief has already happened once, and it must not be wrong again."
Mu Kuangda said, "Xie You, do you imply that General Han wants to rebel?"
Everyone looked at Xie You in unison, and Xie You said, "It's essential to guard against others, that's what I said."
Yao Fu replied, "In my opinion, he can't be allowed to enter the city either."
The Su Clan shook his head and said, "What exactly does he want to investigate?"
There was no sound in the study, but Cai Yan was slowly turning over Han Bin's condolence letter. Han Bin is a warrior, with strength between the lines, and most of the words in front of him are condolences. At the end of the letter, it was implied that he brought troops back to protect the crown prince.
Cai Yan thought for a long time, and then said: "Well, I will go out of the city in person and talk to him. If he is willing to keep the soldiers outside the city, I will come in with him."
"This is too unwise." Xie You said, "His Royal Highness's daughter must not take risks."
"If my father is still here," Cai Yan said, "he will do the same. I am the crown prince, and no one can replace me, so what's the harm? That's it, I'll go out of the city to meet him for a while tonight."
Xie You hesitated to speak, but the expressions of Su Clan and others were very complicated, and Mu Kuangda frowned slightly.
"General Wuluohou Mu and Zheng Yan will protect me." Cai Yan stood up and said, "General Xie doesn't need to worry, and you don't need anyone to accompany you. What should I do, what should I do? If I don't come back, you can make your own plans and leave. Right."
Xie You looked at Cai Yan's eyes, and it was quite different, but Cai Yan did not give everyone a chance to discuss, and left first, and then the Su clan left first. Xie You walked through the corridor, but Mu Kuangda walked behind Xie You.
"Our Lord Prince." Mu Kuangda smiled slightly and said, "The temper is very similar to that of the two late emperors."
Xie You replied: "Today, the shepherd heard about 'Qingjun's side', and I don't know what to think?"
"It can't be me." Mu Kuangda smiled slightly, and added, "I heard that after that night, the fifth princess called all the maids who were with her that night, and questioned them all."
At this moment, a palace maid arrived quietly and handed Mu Kuangda a note. Xie You turned around, disdain to read his note.
Mu Kuangda unfolded the paper and looked at it, his expression suddenly changed, and he said hurriedly, "There are still more important things to do, let's take a step first." Then he turned and left.
When the lights were lit, Mu Mansion was a little late for dinner, Mu Kuangda often didn't come home to eat these days, so Duan Ling and Mu Qing shared a table and waited for the meal.
"Either Master, let's eat first." Duan Ling said.
"Father will be back soon." Mu Qing said, "He was thinking about you last year."
The emotions in Duan Ling's heart were extremely complicated, but before he thought about it, it was passed on from the outside that Master Xiang had returned.
Mu Kuangda walked quickly into the dining room, and Duan Ling hurriedly stood up and saluted.
"You're back." Mu Kuang said calmly, "Just come back, I just saw Wu Du, let him come in and have dinner together."
Mu Qing said, "He came back so unexpectedly."
Mu Kuangda replied, "In an eventful time, it's always better to talk less and do more."
Duan Ling said: "I made you worry."
Mu Kuangda smiled and didn't say anything. He washed his hands and face, and rinsed his mouth with tea in the copper basin brought by the maid.
Duan Ling guessed it would be like this, Mu Kuangda didn't ask any more questions in front of his son, and since he came back, let's just eat together.