After hearing the news of Rong Xi's death, Mu Huai was silent for a moment.
Although he suppressed his expression, the attendants could still feel that the aura surrounding Mu Huai suddenly became sinister and frightening, making him even more frightened.
The situation in front of him made the attendant hesitate.
He thought of the regrettable look on his face when he was a pedestrian tidying up Rong Xi's body, and he didn't dare to tell Mu Huai immediately that Rong Xi was pregnant.
Apart from the guards beside Mu Huai, in fact, the servants of Qu Yun Palace had guessed early on that Aunt Rong was most likely lucky by His Highness.
Because after nightfall, Rong Xi would always walk from her own room to Mu Huai's bedroom with silky black hair, often staying there all night and only leaving early the next morning.
Yan Juxu also sensed that something was wrong with the atmosphere, so he cupped his hands and bid farewell to Mu Huai, "Since Your Highness has something important to do, the minister will step down first."
Mu Huai nodded, and did not lose his composure in front of his ministers.
He repeated in his heart the words of his attendant just now.
The woman is dead
Mu Huai didn't quite believe it, let alone accept it.
The word death kept repeating in his mind, and a fishy sweetness suddenly surged in his throat, choking it in his throat.
When the words came out, Mu Huai suppressed his vibrato, and he would not lose his composure. He asked the attendant, "Where is the body?"
The attendant replied respectfully: "Your subordinate will temporarily place my aunt's body in a posthouse next to Baokangmen Street."
Mu Huai didn't bother to ask about the cause of Rong Xi's death right now. He still didn't believe that Rong Xi was dead, and even felt that there was a turning point for the situation.
He ordered people to prepare horses in a cold voice, and when he was walking anxiously out of the palace, he happened to bump into Yin Cheng who had finished his official duties from the Privy Council.
Mu Huai glanced at Yin Cheng, without saying a word, stepped on the back of the horse and pulled the reins with a sullen face, and commanded the attendant, "Lead the way."
Yin Cheng felt strange, so he rode his horse and followed behind them.
Mu Huai was usually unsmiling, but his complexion had never been so gloomy as it is today, and his whole person exuded an extremely cold aura.
Yin Cheng still remembered that Mu Huai's expression had never been so solemn even when Concubine Xian passed away.
The clatter of horseshoes raised dust on the ground.
Bianjing officers and soldiers dispersed the people from the center of Yujie Avenue early in the morning, and Mu Huai and his party were able to gallop past.
After a while, everyone finally arrived at the posthouse on Baokangmen Street, and the attendants led the gloomy Mu Huai to the room where Rong Xi's body was buried.
There were two or three attendants stationed outside the house, and when they saw Mu Huai and Yin Cheng, they clasped their fists and saluted respectfully.
The attendant who led the way was cautious. He knew the special relationship between Mu Huai and Rong Xi, so he prepared a spacious mahogany coffin and placed Rong Xi's body in it.
Yin Cheng saw the coffin, but he still didn't know who the person lying inside was, and he couldn't guess whose death made Mu Huai so nervous.
Mu Huai's handsome face collapsed, his hands trembling uncontrollably, he pushed open the coffin lid, and finally saw the woman he had been looking for recently.
Yin Cheng walked to Mu Huai's side, and after seeing the woman's face clearly, his expression changed slightly.
The woman lying in the coffin had a beautiful face, but Yin Cheng could vaguely recognize that this woman was the maid of the Rong family who served Mu Huai.
He had met Rong Xi a few times before, and knew that this woman was a close servant of the palace serving Mu Huai. Now it seems that when this woman was working in Yongxi Palace, in order to avoid disaster, she covered up her beautiful appearance.
The guard looked at Mu Huai's expression, still hesitating when to tell him the news that Rong Xi was pregnant.
Yesterday when he carried the body in front of the passers-by, the fellow found that Rong Xi had changed his face. After wiping her face clean, the fellow cursed her for committing crimes several times.
Because he had never seen such a beautiful woman, even though he didn't know her, it was difficult for him to accept that such a beauty would die so badly.
Mu Huai's canthus were reddish, staring at the woman in the coffin.
The attendant opened and closed his lips, and finally said to Mu Huai in front of Yin Cheng: "...Your Highness, when I performed the autopsy as Aunt Rong, I found...found...she was two months pregnant..."
After finishing speaking, Yin Cheng's complexion changed slightly.
Mu Huai raised his head abruptly, looked at the attendant, and asked in disbelief with a threatening voice, "What did you say? Pregnant?"
The attendant shuddered, endured the panic in his heart, and continued: "...but, since Aunt Rong has passed away, the son in her womb is also..."
It's gone too.
After hearing this, Mu Huai's complexion suddenly turned pale, looking gloomy.
The attendant told Mu Huai the cause of Rong Xi's death again—
The group of them found Rong Xi's body on the official road in Hongdu. According to the nearby people, she was killed by bandits.
Rong Xi and a woman left Bianjing by waterway in the city, and hired a carriage to go to Hongdu City. There are always bandits robbing this area, but as long as they are given enough money, they will not ask for it. life.
But the gangsters that day obviously didn't want to take their belongings, but seemed to come to ask for their lives.
The woman who followed Rong Xi also died, but she was not stabbed to death by a knife.
The woman desperately wanted to protect Rong Xi, she seemed to be struggling, she wanted to stop Rong Xi and block the knife for her, but the gangster pushed her away violently, hit her head against a boulder and died.
Mu Huai remained silent. He hung his head and leaned against the coffin a little weakly, feeling a dull pain slowly invading his limbs and bones along his heart.
When he raised his head again, his eyes had turned scarlet red, and he no longer had the composure he had maintained just now, and Yingjun's brows were also a little ferocious.
Yin Cheng had never seen Mu Huai like this before, he was silent, and finally persuaded: "The beautiful woman has passed away... I hope Your Highness mourns."
-"go out."
Mu Huai said two words in a difficult tone.
Yin Cheng wanted to persuade him again, but Mu Huai's voice was obviously sullen, and his tone was a bit more serious, and he said again: "Everyone gets out! No one is allowed to come in without Gu's permission!"
The attendants responded again and again.
Although Yin Cheng was concerned about Mu Huai's situation, he had no choice but to leave the room with a group of attendants.
The crescent moon is hidden in the sky of Bianjing, and the sky is already dark.
The coffin was quite spacious, Mu Huai looked down at the sleeping beauty, and walked in carefully looking for the gap in the coffin.
After lying down, he hugged the cold woman in his arms.
Rong Xi was very, very cold.
Her face was extremely delicate, and there was a strange beauty in the paleness.
The pedestrian probably thought that she was too beautiful, so he carefully adjusted her makeup, put on lip gloss, and painted her eyebrows and eyes.
She is extremely beautiful without any makeup, and now she is even more beautiful.
Even more heart-wrenching.
Because the dead man's body was very stiff, Mu Huai relaxed a little, and Rong Xi's body was about to slip out of his arms.
He resisted the sourness in his nose, and hugged the woman in his arms a little tighter.
Mu Huai remembered that at that time he had a high fever, and Rong Xi dipped in cold water in late autumn to help him cool down.
In the early morning of the next day, she was just like today, her body curled up in his embrace with extreme coldness.
At that time, it was difficult for him to have fear in his heart, fearing that she would not wake up.
But that day Rong Xi woke up and smiled softly at him.
But now...
The woman never woke up again.
Mu Huai frowned a little, and he carefully placed his hand on the woman's lower abdomen. There was a slight sunken place on it, which should have been caused by a knife wound, and now that place has been mended by a foreman.
He remembered that Rong Xi had vomited many times before, and he had also noticed that the woman's lower abdomen became slightly swollen, but she never thought about her being pregnant at all.
It must have been hard for her to hide from him that month.
He is simply too dull.
Mu Huai's throat was slightly choked, and after a while, he put his lips next to Rong Xi's ear, and murmured helplessly: "Stupid woman... why did you run away, you were still found by me."
No one answered him, and no one called him His Highness with a sweet voice.
He treated this woman badly, even badly.
He has a very bad temper and a violent temperament. He has almost never been gentle with this woman, and he is always fierce to her.
When he was happy with her, he never took her feelings into consideration, and always let her be bullied miserably.
Rong Xi never complained, she was still gentle and considerate to him, and served him as her master with all her heart.
What he regrets the most now is the cruel words he said to her that day.
He was too arrogant, and he said those words to make her beg him to let her grant him his position.
But those words finally broke the woman's heart.
And after he recovered from his leg disease, his actions became more cruel and ruthless.
Mu Huai knew in his heart that after Rong Xi became pregnant, he must be afraid that he would not treat their child well, so he had the idea of escaping from the palace.
Before he could feel the joy of being a father for the first time, the child disappeared along with his mother.
The night was terribly quiet, and Mu Huai's eyelashes gradually became wet. He asked Rong Xi again in a low voice, with a very light tone: "Is it cold? You always get cold easily."
Dead people can't speak, Mu Huai seemed to be talking to himself, and said: "It's so dark in this coffin, you are so timid, you must be afraid."
He held the woman's cheek with both hands, and looked at her eyebrows and eyes in the dark.
"Don't be afraid, I'm holding you, no one dares to bully you again."
After talking to her a lot on his own, Mu Huai buried his head deeply in the woman's cold neck, but knew that he would never warm her body again.
The gangster who killed her went to nowhere, and he didn't know which group of gangsters killed him. Anyway, they were all scourges, so he ended up killing all the gangsters in Hongdu.
He must impose a severe death penalty on those gangsters.
Mu Huai didn't sleep all night, so he hugged Rong Xi's cold body and lay in the coffin with her.
There is only my own breathing in my ears, and the more leaking sound of passing.
When Bai Lu was fainting, the door was pushed open with a "squeak" and Mu Huai walked out from inside with a slightly gloomy expression.
When the attendants greeted him, they suddenly discovered that Mu Huai's black hair, which was as black as ink in the past, had grown strands of gorgeous hair overnight.
Although it is only when you are very close to him that you can see the gray hair on the temples, but Mu Huai is only twenty-one years old, and his youthful hair turned gray overnight, how sad is this
Yin Cheng did not return home last night, he was thinking about Mu Huai's condition, so he temporarily stayed in the posthouse overnight.
He walked forward, and naturally saw the gorgeous hair growing from Mu Huai's temples.
Seeing that Mu Huai had regained his usual composure, but still frowning, Yin Cheng asked with a little concern: "... Your Highness, are you okay?"
Mu Huai lowered his eyes, gave a slight snort, and said to Yin Cheng, "It's just a servant girl who died, don't look at Gu with that kind of eyes."
Yin Cheng remained silent.
But he knew that although Mu Huai tried his best to hide it, he didn't care about Rong Xi's death.
But those eyes, which were still scarlet, and the gorgeous hair that grew out that night, all showed everywhere, how much he cared about this woman.
Mu Huai stood with his hands behind his back at the ring corridor of the posthouse, which formed a square courtyard, and ordered his attendants in a cold voice: "Find a place and bury her."
The squire should be.
Yin Cheng followed Mu Huai to the eastern outskirts of the city, and accompanied Mu Huai to bury the poor maid.
As soon as the coffin was buried in the ground, the sky changed slightly, and then the snow fell suddenly.
At first, Mu Huai looked calm, and Yin Cheng was relieved.
But after the coffin was gradually filled with loess, Mu Huai suddenly rushed forward like crazy, pushed away the attendants who buried the coffin, and jumped into the pit.
Then he gritted his teeth viciously, and dug the soil with both hands. After the coffin floated on the soil again, Mu Huai ruthlessly tugged at the rope that fixed the coffin, exerting brute force as if venting his anger, as if wanting to push the coffin away. Get the woman out of the coffin again.
Until his hand was cut with bloodstains by the rope, Yin Cheng's eyes suddenly changed, and he also jumped into the pit, eager to stop Mu Huai's horrifying actions.
Yin Cheng's voice was a little higher, and he called Mu Huai as before: "Zhi Yan! She is dead, what's the use of digging her out of the coffin? Even if you hold her body Come out, she will never survive again... "
Yin Cheng knew the reason for Mu Huai's grief.
The beauty of the girls in Rong's palace, looking at the entire Bianjing city, there are not many women who can overshadow her in appearance.
She was able to serve him closely for so long, so she must be smart and considerate.
She got along with Mu Huai day and night, and became pregnant with his child again.
Now that she has passed away suddenly, no matter how hard-hearted Mu Huai is, his heart must be filled with grief.
After Mu Huai heard this, there was a sudden fury between his brows, he was so furious that he was about to hit Yin Cheng with his fist.
Yin Cheng avoided Mu Huai's fist. He calmed down and said calmly: "If Your Highness fights with the minister, he will feel better, and the minister will accompany you at any time."
Mu Huai had obviously lost his mind, he threw off Yin Cheng's hand angrily, got up again and grabbed the shovel from the attendant's hand, ignoring the bleeding hands, and buried the coffin in the soil again with an extremely gloomy expression.
Rong Xi's tombstone is an unwritten one, and Mu Huai knows very little about her life experience, not knowing who her parents are, only knowing that she should be an orphan.
When the attendants burned the paper money for Rong Xi, Mu Huai finally regained some sense. He stared at the wordless stele for a long time. At this moment, Yin Cheng asked him: "When is Your Highness going to return to the palace?"
Mu Huai's voice was cold, and his tone returned to calm, and he replied: "The papers in the Zhengshitang are piled up like a mountain, so I'm going back to the palace tonight."
After saying that, he rolled up his sleeves and walked towards the steed without looking at the wordless stele again.
While reining in and galloping the horse, Mu Huai saw that the sky was about to fall.
In the outer suburbs of Bianjing, the heavy snow has just started, and the east wind has not stopped, creating a scene of empty dust and vast distance.
Although the scenery is very beautiful, Mu Huai knows that when he was born, the heavens should have given him a feeling of love for a woman.
But to this day, this thread of love has been cut off.
He can no longer make room in his heart for a woman other than her.
*****
Chengzhang eleven years, early summer.
The sound of cicadas chirping and chirping was endless, Emperor Wu Mu Huai was disturbed by the sound of cicadas to sleep peacefully, and the night was extremely hostile.
The palace people were so frightened that they shivered. In order to let Emperor Wu sleep well, they took the nets to stick the cicadas.
Qi State just ended years of vicious war with Yan State in the north one month ago.
Yan State has become more and more powerful in recent years, and the government is controlled by the cunning Queen Dowager Xiao.
The two sides have been fighting for several months, and there is still no winner.
Although Qi State was slightly superior, the soldiers had already lost their sharp morale in the endless battles.
In the end, the dispute between Qi and Yan ended with Yan ceding the land of the three states.
Although the Qi army returned victoriously, it also brought heavy news that made Emperor Wu furious.
General Yin Cheng had a recurrence of his arrow injury on the way back, and died suddenly at the age of thirty-five.
Emperor Wu reigned for eleven years and made remarkable achievements in governing the country.
Before he became emperor, he destroyed the small country of Jin, and in recent years, he also destroyed the northeast of Ye.
Up to now, he has regained part of the land of Yan State, which can be described as outstanding martial arts.
He is just and strict, and although he is the supreme emperor, he never lives extravagantly.
Mu Huai's political tactics are tough, and no Qi family or powerful ministers in the court dare to oppose him. Qi is indeed a powerful country in the Central Plains.
But only the eunuch who served Mu Huai knew that this talented and decisive monarch was only thirty-three years old, but his bones had become weak due to years of bad habits.
When Emperor Wu first came to the throne, he had a habit of staying up all night for several days in a row, reviewing papers in Qianyuan Hall alone until late at night, as if he didn't need sleep.
Every seven days, Emperor Wu would choose a day to sleep until Shenshi after the next court, and after getting up, he would have a little supper, and then continue to critique the papers.
Such abusing and degrading his life essence, Mu Huai eventually broke his body to pieces.
A few years ago, he was still brave and good at fighting, and he was able to fight in person.
Now just over 30 years old, he is already terminally ill, and has to rely on pills to survive all day long.
Some outsiders don't know about Emperor Wu's daily life, so they speculate that the reason he is like this is because he was infected with a serious disease when he killed too much when he was young.
But all the people in the entire Qi territory know that today's sage works hard to govern, and he is a rare sage.
That night the eunuch turned back from the inner divisions, and after reaching the outside of the hall, he held his breath and carefully entered the Qianyuan Hall.
Emperor Wu was resting on the desk with one hand, his face was black and blue, and his spirit was obviously weak.
The eunuch didn't dare to disturb Emperor Wu's sleep, so he carefully placed the gnats in the lacquer holder on the case, then saluted Emperor Wu, and exited the hall.
Speaking of which, Emperor Wu himself liked this old scorpion very much. He sewed it up many times but still did not throw it away. Obviously he is a noble emperor, and he has more exquisite accessories than this scorpion, but he is particularly partial to this scorpion. .
Emperor Wu had a withdrawn and surly temperament. He liked to be alone after returning to the Qianyuan Palace and didn't like to be disturbed.
The maids and eunuchs always prepare refreshments in advance when serving, and only when Mu Huai calls them will they enter the palace very carefully to listen to orders.
There are many acts that can be called weird in the holy world today.
But the most puzzling thing is that after Emperor Wu came to the throne, he did not accept any concubines, and he did not establish a queen.
Only the Empress Dowager Zhai and the late emperor's concubines and princesses are the only women with status in the harem.
Some people say that Emperor Wu only loved great achievements, not beauties.
Some people also said that Emperor Wu was probably a broken sleeve who liked masculinity.
But why he didn't accept any concubines is still an unsolved mystery in Yongxi Palace.
When the servant Cheng Song arrived outside the Qianyuan Hall, Mu Huai was already awake, so he summoned Cheng Song to enter the hall.
Under the flickering candlelight, Mu Huai looked a little tired, he asked Cheng Song, "Did Yan Juxu's family accept my consolation?"
Cheng Song shook his head and replied, "Go back to Your Majesty, Mrs. Yan refuses to accept it."
After hearing this, Mu Huai closed his eyes, his face turned blue, with a faint sickness, after hearing Cheng Song's words, he said for a while: "If you don't accept it, then you won't accept it."
In the end, he was sorry for Yan Juxu. In recent years, he has been very suspicious and listened to slander.
However, Yan Juxu became more powerful after he was appointed prime minister, so he thought that Yan Juxu had the intention of rebelling against his ministers.
In the end, he forced Yan Juxu to commit suicide in order to show his loyalty. His wife and family must hate him, but because he is the emperor, he dare not say a word of dissatisfaction.
Thinking of this, Mu Huai waved Cheng Song to step back.
He stood up from the desk and looked up at the cold moonlight outside the window.
If he hadn't been so aggressive and self-willed to let Yin Cheng attack the Yan Kingdom, he would not have died so young.
Last year, Mu Tao went to the palace to visit Mu Ji who was imprisoned. He suspected that Mu Tao and Mu Ji were in collusion with each other. Fearing betrayal, he planned to get rid of his own brother mercilessly.
It was later discovered that only Mu Ji was unwilling, and the reason why Mu Tao went to visit Mu Ji was because he missed the brotherhood when he was young.
As of now, he doesn't even have a son.
Mu Huai knew that he would die soon, so he picked and picked in the Mu clan, and finally picked out Mu Yuan, who didn't look like a fool, as the crown prince.
He sneered, but felt a sudden pain in his head, and then lost consciousness, fainting to the ground.
The palace people were all afraid of him, and when they were about to go to court the next day, they found that Mu Huai had not moved for a long time, so they boldly went into the palace to check, only to find that he had passed out.
When the imperial physician diagnosed his pulse, he said with a worried face that he would die soon.
When Mu Huai heard the news, he was extremely calm.
He has guarded Daqi Jiangshan for many years, although he is not tired, but he is also a little tired.
After the imperial physician left, Mu Huai sent someone to summon his elder brother Mu Yuan.
After closing his eyes, he thought, death is also very good.
I don't know if I can see that woman in the underworld.
Mu Yuan knelt down in front of his bed with a humble expression, quietly waiting to hear Mu Huai's will.
Mu Huai told Mu Yuan to protect the country built by the three generations of the Mu family for him.
Mu Yuan should be.
The words that followed took Mu Yuan by surprise.
Mu Huai said calmly: "After you ascended the throne, order the Minister of Taichang Temple of the Ministry of Rites and the old servant beside me to go to the western suburbs of Biandu and move the coffin buried under the unnamed stele to the imperial mausoleum. The person lying on the bed is the woman before me, surnamed Rong. I want to posthumously make her a queen, and we will be buried together with her."
The color of Mu Yuan's eyes changed slightly, since a girl from the Rong family appeared at some point.
And Mu Huai has not had a single concubine by his side during the ten years he has been emperor.
He was taken aback by the sudden decision to appoint a woman of unknown origin as queen.
But this is Mu Huai's last wish after all, Mu Yuan's expression calmed down, and he replied respectfully: "My brother obeys the order."
Mu Huai was silent for a while, and then warned: "Tell the people from the Ministry of Rites to be careful when carrying the coffin, and don't drop her coffin."
Mu Yuan answered yes again and again.
After Mu Huai explained some important government affairs to Mu Yuan, he felt that his body was getting heavier and his spirit was weak.
On the day Mu Yuan left Qianyuan Hall, Mu Huai died.
After his death, his soul wandered over the Yongxi Palace for several months.
Mu Huai wanted to visit other places in Bianjing City, but found that his movements were limited, and his soul could only wander around Yongxi Palace.
He thought, since he could stay in the sun for a few more days, he would observe and observe what that boy Mu Yuan, the emperor, was doing.
At first, Mu Yuan was quite diligent, and after he came down to court, he went to the Qianyuan Hall to approve papers.
All kinds of performances satisfied Mu Huai's ghost.
But not long after, Mu Yuan began to neglect government affairs and indulge in beauty.
Running to the imperial concubine's palace all day, occasionally being late for court, often making civil and military officials wait for half an hour.
Seeing this, Mu Huai was furious, because his soul could only act in the dark, so on the night when Mu Yuan went to the imperial concubine's bedroom, he let his soul fall to the ground with his thoughts.
In the palace, Mu Yuan looked stupid, while the restless imperial concubine begged in his ear to let him promote her brother to an official position.
Mu Yuan embraced the beloved concubine into his arms with a look of enjoyment, and then agreed to her request without even thinking about it.
Mu Huai's ghost secretly scolded Mu Yuan for being an idiot and scum.
He angrily reprimanded Mu Yuan: "I don't want you, a stupid bastard, to sit here and listen to women blowing pillow wind on the foundation of the country that I worked so hard to build!"
When the soul speaks, mortals can't hear it.
But the candlelight in the hall was shaking strangely. Seeing this, Mu Yuan and the enchanting imperial concubine both looked in the direction of the candlestick.
Mu Yuan was a little surprised, so he asked the noble concubine in his arms: "Why do I feel that there are other people in this palace?"
The imperial concubine smiled coquettishly, and replied: "What foolish words is the emperor talking about, who else can there be in this palace besides the concubines?"
Mu Yuan smiled deeper and embraced the noble concubine in his arms, saying: "Yes, I only love the concubine and I, who else can there be?"
Mu Huai's soul had already floated in front of the two of them, he wanted to grab Mu Yuan's skirt with both hands and beat him up.
But when the hand touched his clothes, it penetrated his body.
Mu Huai is helpless, he is a soul after all, not a person in the world.
Mu Huai stared at Mu Yuan for a long time with a gloomy expression, and finally, when the two of them were about to go to Wushan together for the night, they floated out of the bedroom.
When he wanted to use his soul consciousness to float in the air again, his eyes suddenly went dark, as if some invisible force was grabbing his soul from the noose.
It was very painful for Mu Huai to be restrained by this weird power.
But before he lost consciousness, he felt a little joy in his heart.
Because he could finally go to Huangquan to find that woman.
*****
When Mu Huai regained consciousness again, the first thing he felt was the smell of blood in his nose. After he frowned and opened his eyes, he found himself half lying on the ground, leaning against the shadow wood gate behind him.
He lowered his head and saw that he was actually wearing black iron armor, beside him was the knife he had been using all the time, and the blade was still stained with blood.
Mu Huai felt strange.
How could he be wearing armor and a warrior costume after arriving in the underworld
He raised his eyes again, and found a crowd of attendants kneeling in front of him, as well as a terrified imperial physician.
— "Your Highness...you are awake."
The lead attendant said.
Your Highness
Mu Huai frowned when he heard this title. He has been called His Majesty for many years, when did he become His Majesty again
He looked around, and his originally somewhat unruly Mo Mou stared slightly.
He was all too familiar with the scene in front of him.
This place was originally the East Palace.
No, it's not the East Palace, but the Quyun Palace that hasn't been renovated yet.
The faces of the attendants in front of him were very young, which also made him feel familiar. They were the group of people who followed him when he was first appointed as a reserve.
Mu Huai felt that his blood was surging, he couldn't believe it, but more emotions were the excitement that made his heart beat wildly.
He stood up from the ground, tightening the extremely heavy long knife in his hand.
I have to say that his physique in his twenties is really strong.
At this moment, Mu Huai felt very light in his body for the first time in a long time, his arms were powerful, and he didn't feel any pain.
Seeing that he finally stood up, the lead attendant said with a little fear: "Your Highness, do you still need the imperial physician to diagnose your pulse?"
Mu Huai did not reply to the attendant's words, but instead asked him: "What year is it now?"
The attendant was stunned, he didn't know why Mu Huai suddenly asked him the year, but he still replied respectfully: "His Royal Highness, it is the thirteenth year of Xuanping."
After listening, Mu Huai's thin lips curled slightly.
Hearing the order to reorganize troops outside Quyun Palace, he finally confirmed that he was reborn on the day when Li Rui forced the Palace.
On this day, he entered the East Palace and became the current prince.
But when he went back to the palace to look for the woman, he was told by his attendants that the woman had been kicked out of the palace.
Mu Huai frowned, as if he hated the smell of blood on his body very much, after throwing the knife by his side to the head attendant, he ordered: "Go and change your clothes, you should prepare your horses at the Xuanhua Gate immediately, follow Gu Go to Hongdu."
The attendants looked at each other in surprise and said yes.
Without time, Mu Huai strode out of Quyun Palace in a black uniform, followed closely by his attendants.
When everyone arrived at Xuanhua Gate, Mu Huai happened to meet Yin Cheng who was leading the army back.
He couldn't help being excited again. At this time, Yin Cheng was not dead, but still alive.
Mu Huai quickly walked up to Yin Cheng.
Seeing that Mu Huai's expression was a little excited, Yin Cheng felt strange in his heart, but he still cupped his hands and said to him, "Congratulations, Your Highness, for entering the East Palace."
After finishing speaking, Mu Huai suddenly hugged him in his arms, and then patted his back with a slightly stiff hand.
Yin Cheng was stunned, even surprised by Mu Huai's actions.
Mu Huai has always been aloof, but today's behavior is as if he has lost his mind, hugging a big man like him in front of all the soldiers.
Yin Cheng also wanted to save face, so he hurriedly pushed Mu Huai away, and asked puzzledly, "Your Highness...what's wrong with you today?"
Mu Huai also felt that he had lost his composure, and hurriedly cupped his fists to cover his lips, coughed lightly, and said to Yin Cheng, "You go to Hongdu with you alone tonight."
Yin Cheng hesitated for a moment, said hello, and asked again: "What are you doing in Hongdu, Your Highness?"
Mu Huai's smile gradually faded, and he replied: "The lonely woman has run away...Tonight, I will catch her back."
*****
The road to Hongdu was extremely bumpy, and Rong Xi was so frightened that she clutched her heart, resisting the urge to vomit.
Huanniang lifted the curtain of the car, gusts of cold wind poured into the compartment, Huanniang patted Rong Xi's back, and said in relief, "Miss, if you bear with it, you'll be in Hongdu soon."
Rong Xi smiled and nodded, and replied: "It's okay, I can hold on."
Suddenly, the horse neighed, and the carriage stopped suddenly.
The coachman's voice changed, and he said to the two people in the carriage, "...it's over...we've encountered robbers."
Huanniang was startled, and hurriedly asked Rong Xi: "Miss, what should we do?"
Rong Xi forced himself to calm down, took out the brocade bag of money from his sleeve, and said to Huan Niang: "Then let's give them money and see if they can spare our lives..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard the coachman's "Ah-".
The coachman had already been thrown to the ground by the thugs, when Rong Xi's eyes changed slightly, Huanniang had already protected her body in front of her.
I only heard the gangster say to his accomplices in a rough voice: "Kill that woman with pock marks on her face and leave."
After finishing speaking, Huanniang and Rong Xi's expressions were all terrified.
The person with pockmarked face is Rong Xi who has disguised his appearance.
When the two of them were at a loss, they had already been dragged out of the carriage by the thugs, Rong Xi was tightly protecting her lower abdomen, and Huan Niang stood in front of her.
The thug looked ruthless, and said to Huanniang: "Get out of the way, you stinky bitch, don't get in my way!"
After saying that, he grabbed Huanniang's sleeve and threw her out violently.
With a sound of "dong", Huanniang's forehead hit the stone, and a pool of blood gradually flowed out.
Rong Xi felt a pain in his heart, and shouted hoarsely: "Huanniang!"
The gangster showed a smug smile, and was about to draw a knife to stab Rong Xi, but the smile froze on his lips.
Immediately, he spurted blood from his mouth and fell to his knees.
Rong Xi was startled, the thug got an arrow in the chest, it turned out that someone saved her.
She turned around to look for her savior, and when she saw the pedestrian who rescued her clearly in the night, her eyes suddenly changed.
Holding the bow and crossbow, Yin Cheng fired several arrows with a "whoosh" sound, hitting the rest of the gangsters.
And the man beside him reining in the horse was actually Mu Huai.
When the two looked at each other, Mu Huai had already galloped in her direction.
Although the thugs on the ground were dead, he still pulled out his long knife, intending to strike at the corpses of these people again.
Rong Xi's heart beat faster and faster.
Mu Huai actually wanted to personally arrest her and bring her back.
As soon as he saw him, fear arose in Rong Xi's heart.
Just like an animal seeing a natural enemy, she just felt creepy.
She didn't care to think too much, and after looking at Huanniang's body sadly, she ran away.
Seeing this, Mu Huai hurriedly pulled the knife out of the bandit's body, and after putting the blade back into the scabbard, he swung his whip and ran towards the woman.
He cursed in his heart, this woman is so stupid, why run away? How can a man run as fast as a horse
The enemies were all wiped out, so Yin Cheng sat upright on the horse's back, watching Mu Huai chasing the petite maid as if watching a play.
In this situation, Rong Xi is like a warbler with its wings broken, while Mu Huai is like a fierce eagle.
The strength of the two sides is too great.
Hearing that "warbler bird" exclaimed, Mu Huai had already leaned over to the left side of his body, and with a sweep of his big arm, he carried the woman onto the horse's back.
His hand holding the rein was very strong, tightly encircling the woman in his arms.
When Rong Xi felt that her heart was about to jump to her throat, Mu Huai let out a "scream" and reined in the horse.
He hugged the startled woman in his arms a little bit, and then under her surprised gaze, he put his hand on her belly.
Mu Huai's actions made Rong Xi's pupils shrink suddenly.
Could he be... Got it.
Mu Huai looked at the living woman in his arms, his dark eyes darkened.
His voice suppressed his anger, and he asked her in a calm voice, "Why are you running? You are pregnant with an orphaned child, where do you want to go?"