Princess of the Past and Present

It is night, the breeze is cool.

Mu Jin had just finished approving a stack of official documents and was about to go to bed when a maid came in to help him undress.The maid outside the door came in to report, "Your Highness, the Crown Princess is here."

Mu Jin had an impatient look on his face, he didn't want to see him at all.

When Mo Shuang entered, Mu Jin put his hands behind his back and turned to him sideways, "What are you doing here?"

Behind Mo Shuang was Dong Ling who was hugging a brocade quilt, and he said: "The weather has become cold recently, and I am worried that Your Highness will catch a cold, so I specially sent the brocade quilt over."

Mu Jin disdainfully said, "Why bother to be hypocritical."

Mo Shuang remained calm, "Whether it's true or false, it's better to be harmless to His Highness, isn't it?"

Mu Jin turned his head to look at him, took a deep breath, and said to the maid beside him, "Take it."

The maid beside her went over to take the brocade quilt from Dong Ling's hand.Mo Shuang cupped her hands, "It's getting late, I won't disturb His Highness's rest, so I will take my leave first."

Turned around and left the study.

The maid beside him asked for Mu Jin's opinion, "Your Highness, this quilt...?"

Yin Sheng was cruel and merciless, he had secretly sent someone to put poison in his sachet, causing him to be bedridden for half a month, he still remembers this incident vividly.Mu Jin looked at the brocade quilt thoughtfully, and said, "Take it to the kitchen and burn it."

"Yes, Your Highness."

On the second day, when Mu Jin entered the palace, the housekeeper accompanied him all the way to the gate, and reminded him: "Your Highness, today is the night of the full moon."

Mu Jin's face changed slightly, and although the housekeeper didn't say it clearly, he understood it.There is a rule in the royal family that on the night of the full moon, married couples must have intercourse with the royal family.The emperor had to sleep in the empress' bedroom, while the prince had to sleep with the concubine.

The rules in the royal family have always been strict, if you don't strictly abide by them, if you are fanned by someone with a heart in front of the holy car, you will definitely add a lot of troubles.Furthermore, Mo Shuang was originally the son of his deadly enemy, and it would be easy for Yin Sheng to use this matter to embarrass him.Therefore, on the night of the full moon, even if he was absolutely unwilling, he still had to go back to the main room.

Mu Jin deliberately chose to return to his room at midnight, and the candles were still burning in the bedroom.

Raising his hand and pushing open the door, there was a man in the room holding a volume of book and reading it very intently, with black hair hanging on his shoulders and a few strands scattered on his chest.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, he tilted his head and looked out the window. Seeing that it was Mu Jin, he put down his book and stood up, cupping his hands, "I've seen Your Highness."

Mu Jin said to the maidservant behind him: "Go down." Stepped up to enter the door, walked in front of Mo Shuang indifferently, and walked towards the back room.

The bedroom is divided into an inner room and an outer room. The inner room is equipped with a wardrobe and a bed, and the outer room is equipped with a low couch and a round table. The inner room and the outer room are separated by a round arch carved with flowers, and the dark green curtains on both sides of the arch are covered with good tied with silk ribbons.

Since entering the door, Mu Jin didn't say a word, went into the back room and opened the cabinet directly, and found a brocade quilt and a soft pillow from inside.He walked out of the inner room with a brocade quilt in his arms, and put it on the low couch by the window in the outer room, so he could get through the night.

Mu Jin bent over to make the bed, while Mo Shuang said from the side, "Go down and rest on the couch, Your Highness."

"No need." In a cold tone.

Just as he was about to sit down, Mo Shuang grabbed his shoulders and said, "Your Highness also knows that I am a man, and it is really not suitable to use it to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade. Last time you slept on the wooden couch, this time, it should be the minister's turn." .”

Mu Jin glanced at him sideways, and said in a cold voice: "If you like it, I will let you." After saying that, he turned around and went into the back room.

The brocade quilt on the low couch was a little messy, Mo Shuang bent down to straighten the corners of the quilt, put the soft pillow at one end of the low couch, and finally tidied up the appearance of a bed.

There was no sound in the inner room, Mo Shuang guessed that he had fallen asleep, so he blew out the candle in the room, walked to the low couch by the moonlight shining in from the window, and lay down.

When having sex on a full moon night, Mu Jin never asks his servants to serve him, for fear that the servant girl in the mansion will slip up.

Woke up early in the morning, changed clothes and washed, went out of the back room, and glanced at the low couch next to the bed.A folded brocade quilt and a soft pillow were neatly placed on the couch.The people on the bed had already woken up early.

Looking at the neat low couch, Mu Jin narrowed his eyes slightly. Mo Shuang got up early in the morning to make the bed, but he didn't hear any movement.

After leaving the room, passing a corridor, and turning a corner, Mu Jin was stunned by the scene in front of him.In the open space in front of him, a white figure was dancing with a sword. Although his moves were ordinary, each move was practiced extremely skillfully, with ease, and his movements were as light as a flying swallow. One could tell that this person had profound internal strength.

No wonder he was able to get up without moving.Mu Jin pondered, this person's martial arts are superior to his, so we must strengthen our precautions.

After coming down to court, Mu Jin was going to the queen's bedroom to pay her respects.He is not born of the queen, but he is no different from his own.His mother and concubine were murdered not long after he was born, so he was taken care of by the queen and called the queen mother.

Someone behind him called him.

"Your Highness!"

Mu Jin's footsteps stopped, and he knew it was the prime minister by hearing the voice.

Yin Sheng walked to Mu Jin's side and said, "Your Highness is walking in a hurry, I don't know where to go?"

Mu Jin didn't even look at him, "I'm going to pay my respects to the Empress Dowager."

Yin Sheng smiled with an old face, "His Royal Highness is so caring, the Empress is really blessed."

Mu Jin said impatiently: "If the prime minister is fine, I will leave first."

"Your Highness, wait a minute."

Mu Jin took a deep breath, turned his head for a glance, and remained silent.

Yin Sheng arched his hands and said with an apologetic smile: "The old minister has bothered me so much, I hope His Highness will not blame you."

"What's the matter, Prime Minister?"

"It's just a trivial matter, Your Highness, please listen to the old minister's words."

"Say it."

Yin Sheng sighed lightly, and said: "The old minister's son, Mo Shuang, was weak and sick since he was a child, so he was sent to the Taoist temple because of his talents. He has not seen each other very often for seventeen years. The old minister has not fulfilled his father's responsibility, and he feels ashamed of him. Now that he has entered the Prince's Mansion, His Royal Highness, please take care of him and treat him better."

Yin Sheng is ruthless and has done all kinds of bad things, but at this moment he is showing his true feelings. He feels ashamed of his son and has never made up for it.

Mu Jin knew early on that Mo Shuang had lived in the Taoist temple for many years, but only then did he know that he was sent there because he was weak and sick.Mu Jin said with a cold face: "I have recorded what the prime minister said."

Yin Sheng cupped his hands again, "The old minister will leave His Highness alone and leave first."

Mu Jin murmured with his hands behind his back. He never took Yin Sheng's words seriously, but this time he was somewhat moved by his words.However, Mo Shuang was a spy planted by the old traitor in the Prince's Mansion, and he was his secret enemy. Treating him well was cruel to him.

Chen Bo, the old housekeeper of the Prince's Mansion, showed the Crown Princess the account book of the previous month.His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has no time to take care of the big and small matters in the house, they have always been decided by the housekeeper, having a Crown Princess is equivalent to having a second master, and you should discuss all matters big and small with him.

Mo Shuang sat in the gazebo and flipped through the ledger. The ledger recorded all the expenses of the family, ranging from the repair of the mansion to the small fruits and vegetables. Everything was recorded on it.Mo Shuang went through it carefully, and returned it to the housekeeper without seeing any problems.

Although he is idle in the mansion, he has nothing to do, such as reading quietly with a book, playing the piano and practicing sword, or pruning flowers and branches.

Dong Ling saw that his young master hadn't stepped out of the door after marrying into the prince's mansion, so he said: "Young master, don't stay at the mansion all the time, you should go out to relax or something, otherwise you will get sick from boredom. "

Mo Shuang continued to turn the pages of the book, "In those years in the Taoist temple, I'm used to it."

Dong Ling said: "Young master's Taoist temple is built on the mountain, and there is no place to go outside, but the capital is different, there are many interesting things outside."

Mo Shuang looked at the bee-like maid next to her. He could bear the loneliness of staying at home, but this little girl might not be able to bear it.Putting down the book in his hand, Mo Shuang said, "I'm planning to go to the bookshop in the market tomorrow. If you're not bored, come along."

As soon as she heard that she could leave the mansion, the little girl's eyes lit up, "I'm not bored, I'm not bored."

The next day.

Mo Shuang went out with her maid, and the butler Chen Bo heard that the princess was going out, so he immediately ordered his servants to prepare a sedan chair, and stuffed a handful of silver tickets in Dong Ling's arms, carefully instructing that the princess wanted to do whatever she wanted. Buy, don't save money.

When Mo Shuang arrived at the street, he got off the sedan chair and walked on foot. He ordered the bearer to wait at the end of the street, and took his maid to the book shop not far away.

There are a lot of things on the street, and the little maid behind her hasn't come out for more than a month, and she is as happy as a romping rabbit in her heart. If it wasn't for the sake of not losing face to her son, she might have been running around long ago.

Mu Jin, who had just come down to court, passed by the street in a carriage, and when he raised the curtain to look out, he happened to see his own princess.A man dressed in white snow with a sapphire pendant on his waist, a jade crown on his head, and a smile on his pretty face, looked extremely outstanding among the bustling crowd.

Mu Jin hurriedly lowered the curtain, guilty as if he saw something he shouldn't have seen.

The bookstore that Mo Shuang was going to was located in a relatively cold alley, a not too big building, with all kinds of books on the first floor, and a teahouse on the second floor, admitting to sip tea while reading quietly.

The books in the book shop can be sold or borrowed, and sitting upstairs, drinking tea and reading, only charge a few pennies for an afternoon.The owner of the book shop is a scholar, and started business here after failing the imperial examination three times. Most of the books here are copied by him stroke by stroke.

Mo Shuang took a few books and went up to the second floor, and the waiter in the book shop immediately brought a pot of hot tea.It's not a good tea, it's far worse than the ones in the Prince's Mansion, but in Moshuang's mouth, it's still a pot of intriguing good tea.

The maid at the side couldn't sit still, she held her chin and looked around.Mo Shuang noticed something, and said: "Come back after a stick of incense, don't go too far."

Dong Ling understood the meaning of Mo Shuang's words, smiled all over her face, and got up from the chair, "Thank you, my lord."

Bounced down the stairs and went to the lively place on the street.

Mo Shuang picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, then continued to flip through the book.