As soon as the servant said "that important matter", Mo Xi immediately understood—
Chonghua has a very shocking secret. There are probably no more than five people in the entire kingdom who know about this.
And Xi Hejun is one of the insiders.
He came to Qichen Hall against the wind and snow, and followed the attendant into the depths of the bedroom.
The charcoal fire in the hall was extremely vigorous, and two small golden beasts that eat smoke were lying on the side of the brazier. After being screened out, Jun Shang was still sitting alone by the couch, with a strange bluish whiteness on his face.
"Your Majesty."
"Stove, you've come." The king said feebly, "If you don't come, you will die."
Mo Xi: "..."
Although what Your Majesty said is a bit exaggerated, this is indeed the secret of Chonghua—the lord is ill.
Your Majesty, as the ruler of a country, 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 life, it can be as short as ten or twenty years, or as long as thirty or fifty years, and the patient will be paralyzed in bed. That is to say, even if the emperor is more careful, he is destined to be a paralyzed man.
Mo Xi looked at Jun Shang's languid look, and sighed, "Your Majesty, rest, I will help you through the cold."
When your Majesty was so exhausted, he nodded and leaned on the soft pillow.
The attack of the cold syndrome is painful and excruciating, and only the fire-type cultivator can push the blood to reduce the cold and return to normal. This is also the reason why Your Majesty sometimes calls Mo Xi the "stove".
The king closed his eyes, and Mo Xi transferred the fire element spiritual power to him. After a long time, the bruising on his lips finally eased.
He still didn't open his eyes, but sighed: "Fortunately, you are here, otherwise I will suffer. Although Yaoshi Lin is also a fire-type spiritual core, his spiritual power is far less than yours, and he can't help you for a while. Overcome this difficulty alone."
The little golden beast was still screaming by the charcoal basin: "Hongfu Qitian! Longevity is more than Nanshan!"
Jun Shang snorted twice and sneered: "What Hongfu Qitian's longevity is better than Nanshan, bullshit. In recent months, the orphan's cold symptoms have become more frequent, and I don't know how long this body can last. If the orphan's disease is exposed Yu Chaotang..." He sneered, "Hey, if you think about it, those tigers and wolves will be restless.
When he said this, he finally opened his eyelids slightly, looked back, and looked at Mo Xi: "If there is such a day, Xihe-Jun will guard the front of the hall for Gu."
Mo Xi was a person who didn't like to beat around the bush. He knew that Your Majesty was trying to find out his intentions, so he said directly: "The oath of Heavenly Tribulation has been established, and Your Majesty has nothing to worry about me."
Jun Shang smiled: "Gu also just casually chatting."
But Mo Xi knew that he wasn't just chatting.
The position of the king is not easy to come by, and he is wary of everyone.
Back then, in order to keep this secret under wraps, Junshang's biological mother bribed the imperial doctor, but when Laojunshang was about to die, the matter was shaken out again. Xianjun considered the importance of the Chinese community, worried that if this son was paralyzed when he was in power, he would inevitably have external troubles and internal worries, and once wanted to abolish the reserve.
However, the first emperor was weak, only this son, and two daughters, Yan Ping and Mengze, abolished the heir when he was dying. Do you want to make his daughter the king
It's ridiculous. In the twenty-eight states of Kyushu, I have never heard of a female monarch in any country.
As for siblings, or adopting other Murong surnamed descendants, the late emperor also considered it. It is said that he still wanted to test the child Murong Lian, but before any arrangements were made, the condition of the late emperor deteriorated, and he was buried soon after. God.
Everyone didn't know why the first emperor suddenly had the intention of abandoning the reserve before he passed away, and they believed that it was caused by the confusion of the old emperor when he was seriously ill. And those few who knew the truth were also cast the most terrifying secret-keeping spell, and from then on, the secret of Xinjun's coldness was buried deep in his heart.
The warm breath of flames flowed in the body, slowly dispelling the pain caused by the coldness.
The Lord closed his eyes and rested for a while, and suddenly said, "Speaking of which... ah, the stove, it has been a few days since Gu Mang came to your house. Are everything going well?"
"well."
Your Majesty no longer speaks. After a while, just when Mo Xi thought that he would not continue this topic, he said, "I still remember that two years ago, Gu Xiushu and you asked you about the punishment for Gu Mang. You didn't say much at the time. But after you go back to the city, your mind has changed."
Mo Xi didn't say a word, and only silently passed the cold air to the king.
The king didn't even look back at him, he lay down on the low couch, and said after a while: "Stove, Gu know you are a very affectionate person. When you haven't seen anyone, you only remember Gu Mang in your heart. Treated you badly. But when you do see him, you can't help but remember that he is your brother-in-law. Is that right or not?"
The water in the hall was dripping down.
After the cold qi dissipated, the body was no longer so uncomfortable, and the king sighed: "You are actually still suffering, so you can see it."
"… "
"I remember his evil, but I can't forget his goodness. You can't let him die, but you really don't feel good when you see blood."
"Your Majesty..."
"Oh, it's human nature." The king said languidly, "Actually, from the day that you swore to isolate yourself for the calamity in order to protect the Northern Army, Gu understands that you still value your old friendship with him in your heart. , the knife stabbed in your heart, but it failed to dig out the past from your flesh and blood. It's not bad for you to read the old righteousness."
After the cold poison dissipated, Jun Shang sat up from the couch. He lowered his head and straightened his clothes, and his eyes returned to the former unruliness.
Smoothing out the fine folds on the robe, Junshang raised his eyes, looked at Mo Xi, and said, "However, there is a single sentence that I have to tell you before."
Mo Xi was silent for a moment, and then said, "... You don't need to say more, I have no relationship with him anymore."
Junshang laughed twice: "If you really lost your relationship with him, you wouldn't come to ask Gu for this person." After that, he picked up the bracelet resting on the red sandalwood bed, and slowly fiddled with it in the palm of his hand. on.
"You did not hesitate to use ten years of life and a lifetime commitment to protect the remnant he left behind, and you also faced their class hatred and became the 'stepfather' of the Northern Army. Now you are doing this kind of protection - this Is it hate? Are you a fool or a blind one?"
"… "
The smile faded, and he said again: "It doesn't matter what else is alone, Gu Mang wants to remind you that what Gu Mang has committed is the death penalty for treason. The reason why Gu still allows him to live is not because of any of you, but It's because he still has value."
He was talking, and staring at Mo Xi's face: "Gu Mang is a big man, and his sins cannot be forgiven. Chonghua and all the people are waiting to see other people's heads fall, and one day he will be exhausted. If he is no longer in control, Gu will definitely order his execution."
When Mo Xi heard this, his eyelashes moved slightly.
"On that day, I hope to see you lose your head and stand beside Gu Mang."
Mo Xi did not agree as simply as before, he remained silent.
Jun Shang raised his eyebrows slightly: "If you have something in your heart, Xi He Jun might as well tell Gu Zhizhi."
Mo Xi said, "It's nothing."
"really?"
"He is guilty of this crime, beyond any argument."
"Hey, why are you so boring?" Xihe-jun agreed with him, but the emperor was a little dissatisfied, "Anyway, you beg for mercy symbolically, and let Gu reject you, and then you ask again, and Gu rejects you again. , ask again, I can be furious and angry, so that our court will be lively and interesting and not lifeless-"
"..." Mo Xi paused and raised his eyes, "Then I do want something."
"Hey, that's right."
Mo Xi said, "I want to do it myself."
Jun Shang was taken aback: "What?"
"When Gu Mang is executed, I want to do it myself."
"...you let Gu take it slow." The king raised his forehead and murmured in a low voice, "...why is it different from the expected situation?"
"Please make it happen, Your Majesty."
Jun Shang was quite speechless for a while, sat stiffly for a long time, leaned back on the chair, and clapped his hands: "Love and kill each other, you two are so fun."
"… "
The light brown pupils flowed faintly, and the king said again: "But Gu, I'm afraid you won't be able to do it."
"Then when you really can't do it, let it be judged by the emperor."
The king stared at Mo Xi's face for a while, as if he wanted to dig out something from the other side's eyes, but in the end he got nothing. So he sighed abruptly, "Xihejun, why are you so troubled? You are just such a young brother, you have to watch in life, and you have to watch in death, you...you..."
Mo Xi said, "I only have this one brother in my life. I have exhausted my love and hatred, so I have no obsession. I only have this one request, and I hope your Lord will fulfill it."
Junshang turned the string of beads, closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then suddenly grinned: "I can't see it alone."
"… "
"The so-called gentleman's words are hard to chase, and it's not so easy for you to fool and nod your head."
He opened his eyes and put his hands aside: "This matter should be discussed later."
As if Mo Xi had expected this answer, he said without surprise, "Alright."
"...?" Jun Shang was slightly embarrassed, "Aren't you going to ask again? You ask again, and then you refuse, and you ask again, and then you refuse, and then you can be furious, so that our court will be alive-"
Mo Xi refused to comply with his bad taste, and bowed: "It seems that Your Majesty has fully recovered, and I will leave at night."
The corners of Junshang's mouth twitched: "...Okay. Go away. You're not funny at all."
When Mo Xi returned to the mansion, it was a silent night, and most of the people in the mansion were asleep. Mo Xi walked through the hall, his face was not very good.
He felt that he seemed to be at odds with Jun Shang, only the two of them got along alone, and in the end, they often made troubles in their hearts, which was not very pleasant.
He was restless in his heart, kicked the door of his bedroom with a gloomy face, and was about to go to bed first, but froze when he raised his eyes—
"Li Wei!"
A roar resounded throughout the Xihe Mansion, and the flowers and leaves threw the fish in the pond.
"come over!!"
While Li Wei was worried that his dog would not be safe, he ran over to say hello, "Oh, the lord is back, and the subordinates are feeding the horses in the stable. It's too late, the lord is generous and generous, don't blame him. Don't be surprised."
Mo Xi turned his head gloomily, a pair of knife-like eyes coldly swept across Li Wei's body, and finally fell back on the other's face.
He turned his side to let Li Wei see the situation in his room.
"Explain." Mo Xi looked gloomy and said coldly, "I just went to the imperial palace, what's going on?"
Li Wei probed and took a look, wow, good guy.
The whole house... what should I say
You must know that Mo Xi has a serious obsessive-compulsive disorder and a slight obsession with cleanliness. The place he lives has always been meticulous, not to mention the mess, even the edges and corners of the folded mattress are not ambiguous.
But at this time, the tables and chairs fell down, the bed curtains were messed up, the pillows fell on the ground, and the vase was thrown on the bed. In a word, it's like a little thief slipped in and rolled, danced and went crazy in this house.
Li Wei turned his head tremblingly, seeing Mo Xi's pale face, he couldn't help feeling a chill on the back of his neck, and murmured, "I, I'll go find out the situation right now."
Mo Xi gritted his back teeth and said, "Go away."
Li Wei rolled numbly, and without a cup of tea, rolled back mellowly.
At that time, Mo Xi was standing in the room staring at his bed in a trance. Seeing him coming, he turned around and said stiffly, "How do you say it?"
"A genius." Li Wei wiped the sweat from his forehead and kept mumbling, "It's really a ghost."
As he spoke, he swallowed his saliva, his Adam's apple moved up and down, 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 false! Lord! Come on, come and see with me, what a genius!"
Mo Xi couldn't bear the exaggerated tone of his three sighs, so he followed him to the firewood house in the backyard.
If that could be called a firewood house.
Mo Xi: "..."
Li Wei is still sighing: "What a genius!"
I saw that there were more than ten Taihu stones piled up outside the originally normal hut overnight, and a few Mo Xi looked familiar, as if they were moved from the fish pond. Above these stones were upside-down tables, chairs and benches of suitable size collected from all over the Xihe Mansion, with their feet facing the sky, making the entrance look like a hedgehog with sharp needles all over its body.
In just a short period of time, someone abruptly turned the firewood house of Xihe House into a beast's nest that was difficult to capture.
With your toes you can imagine who did this masterpiece!
With sharp eyes, Li Wei pointed to a thick quilt hanging at the entrance and said curiously, "Huh? This is not the one on your bed, Xi Hejun..."
Yes, of course it was in his bed.
It's the very neat snow quilt he folds every day after getting up!
At this moment, it has become the warm curtain of Heifeng Zhaishan King covering the entrance of the Zhaikou! ! !
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 in front of his eyes, gritted his teeth and said, "What is good?"
"You think, before Gu Mang was looking for rice jars and hiding in cellars. What does this mean? It means that he is ready to run away at any time, and he is not ready to listen to your orders from the Lord, and you can't tell him."
"Then now?"
"Now." Li Wei said with a clear throat, "Gu Mang spent so much time setting up a bedroom in Xihe Mansion according to his own preferences."
Mo Xi interrupted him by holding on to his throbbing forehead: "... When did you become blind?"
"Ah, yes, it doesn't count as a bedroom." Li Wei glanced at the fortress-like Taihu Stones, and thought for a while to think of a more appropriate wording, "The nest. He built a nest for himself."
"Animals build nests, birds build nests, that's the same principle as people's home - you have to live in one place for a long time." Li Wei analyzed, "It seems that Gu Mang has been tamed by a wise and great master, and since then there has been Because of the self-consciousness of being under the fence, the Lord said east, but he didn't dare to go west, and the Lord said stop, and he didn't dare to continue strolling when his legs were interrupted."
He was slapping his beard and patting his horse like a river, when suddenly he heard a rustling sound behind him.
The two of them turned around and saw that Gu Mang was carrying a large pile of mattresses he didn't know where he had come into the courtyard, and there was a big black dog with shrunken hair at his feet. It looked like he was the one who lived with him when he was in Luomei Garden. that dog. I don't know when the dog slipped out of Luomei Bieyuan, came after a thousand miles to find its owner, and returned to Gu Mang's side.
The three and one dog met each other coldly, and Gu Mang, who had stolen the mattress, froze in place.
Mo Xi also stood on the spot.
"… "
After a few moments of silence, Gu Mang hurriedly unfolded the mattress to cover his head, and then asked quietly, "Can you still see me?"
Mo Xi: "...What do you think?"
The person in the mattress moved uneasily, and suddenly turned around and ran. The black dog also ran happily beside him, barking as he ran.
Seeing that one person and one dog were about to disappear around the corner, Mo Xi was angry and speechless, and shouted, "Come back for me!"
Do not listen.
Gu Mang ran faster.
Mo Xi coldly looked at Li Wei, who was watching the fun and didn't think it was a big deal, and gritted his teeth: "... tell him to go east and never go west, and tell him to stop and never stroll?"
Li Wei said with a guilty conscience, "Hehe, that... eh, after all, Gu Mang was a fierce beast of the altar in the past, even if his brain is broken, he is still a bit wild, but Lord, you can see that he is already very willing to talk to you, right? ?"
Mo Xi responded angrily: "It's you! Why don't you go back and clean up my room?!"
Li Wei hurriedly said, "Yes!" As he spoke, he stepped forward and pulled 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, "Do you think I will still want the quilt that Gu Mang used as a warm curtain? 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 to stare at the "kennel" left by Gu Mang, he raised his hand to rub his own throbbing pain The back of his neck, he felt that all the anger in his life would be exhausted in these few days.
Damn it, why don't you go back to guard the border, if you keep getting bored like this, he will probably become a Buddha!
However, Xi and Jun Moshuai are probably still too young. He is a person who doesn’t like to be long-winded at all, and his joys, anger, love and hate are written on his face, and the government and the opposition are no better than the army. On the other hand, it is intrigue and intrigue. The "annoyance" after returning to the imperial capital had obviously just begun.
No, in a few days, a new round of broken things has come again.
There were a few old nobles who were usually timid as mice, thinking that Xi Hejun was busy with official business, and it was impossible to look at Gu Mang all day long, in case this thief was used by people like Li Qingqian, or had a different heart. Count, that is too dangerous. Therefore, the old nobles jointly signed a letter, please play the king, and still hope that people will be imprisoned back to the prison.
Mo Xi said coldly, "He's in the prison, doesn't Li Qingqian have a way to let him escape?"
"That's because the defense is not strict. If you add more vigilance, you will be able to—"
"What can I do?" Junshang interrupted, "Gu has already promised Xi and Jun's affairs, and it is easy to give up. What kind of person is Gu."
But the old men blew their beards and stared at them, and they were crying again and again. Your Majesty was disgusted, and said irritably: "Xingxingxing, it's annoying! It's a compromise. Xihejun , another day, you will lead Gu Mang to brand him as a slave, so that the criminals will not escape. It can be considered as giving them some leniency."
Hearing the brand of slavery, Mo Xi groaned in his heart, and raised his eyes to look at the man on the throne.
Jun Shang raised his eyebrows slightly: "What? Is there anything you want to say about Xi and Jun?"
"… No."
Mo Xi responded in a deep voice and closed his eyes.
The so-called brand of slavery is to lock the slave ring.
According to Chonghua's rules, whether it is to ring the slave or remove the ring, it must be approved by the emperor and operated by the refiner. Therefore, back then, Murong Lian gave Gu Mang a private ring, which was actually against the rules. Later, when Gu Mang made a great contribution, Lao Jun issued a decree to remove his slave status, and naturally the lock and slave ring on his neck was also removed. Murong Lian was also scolded by Lao Jun for this.
On that day, it was Mo Xi who accompanied Gu Mang to pick the necklace from the refiner.
He was sincerely happy for his brother, he thought his brother was so good, he should be free in this life.
At that time, Mo Xi never thought that one day, as Gu Mang's new master, he would lock the lock slave ring, which symbolized "humiliation" and "occupation", back to his brother Gu's neck.