Qi Jin sighed slightly, and said: "There are no unbiased parents in the world. Although I have nine sons and four daughters, Yupei is the only one I care about. Why do you think so?"

The frost on the lake reflected cold light, making Qi Jin's deep eyes extremely dark. Mu Zishi said cautiously: "Your Highness told me that parents and children also value fate."

Qi Jin touched Mu Zishi's head, and said softly: "You are right. When Yu Pei was born, the small ball was very ugly, and he didn't even have the energy to cry, but I held him in my arms." In this life, he is actually more nervous and happy than when he was enthroned... The imperial doctor said that he was weak and afraid in the womb, and I wanted to let him grow up safely at all costs. I couldn't help but want to give him everything I could. I have been in office for 22 years, I am diligent and caring for people's livelihood, and I dare not be slack or indulgent, but for Yu Pei, I just want to be a doting father."

Muzishi's heart seemed to be blocked by a block of saline-alkali stone, which was bitter, astringent and heavy.

Qi Jin looked at the palace wall in the distance, and said: "Yupei is getting older, more and more like Wansu before entering the palace, both in appearance and temper... Sometimes when I look at him, I think time has returned to the past, even I feel like seeing Wansu when he was a child, but I love him more than Wansu."

"In the few years when Wansu first entered the palace, she suffered a lot and suffered a lot. In order to stabilize the Tao family and prevent all kinds of criticism from the court, I endured it together with Wansu, but if it was Yupei, I would This emperor would rather not do it than let him suffer the slightest grievance."

Presumably Wansu is the maiden name of Empress Luo. Mu Zishi felt very disturbed when he heard it, knowing that the emperor's heart is unpredictable like the sea, but at this moment Qi Jin turned out all the pearls and dust in the deepest seabed and showed them to himself one by one. , This is like hanging a shining giant ax on top of his head with a silk thread, but he doesn't know what he wants to do?

Immediately, he raised his head and glanced at Qi Jin, and asked directly, "Your Majesty...why did you tell me these things?"

Qi Jin lowered his eyelids, his long and narrow phoenix eyes were as deep as a pool: "Yupei can't let you go."

Mu Zishi suddenly realized that the emperor loves his son and becomes an idiot. As long as Qi Yupei dies, he will be given to follow the prince underground.

Thinking of this festival, he let out a long breath, but his heart was suddenly stable, as if he was alone on the night road, after a long time of patrolling, he finally set foot on the way home, relieved, and said with a smile: "If your highness is on the lotus land, there is also one in Mu Zishi. Lianchi, thank the emperor for fulfilling it."

"He's a good boy..." Qi Jin stared at Mu Zishi for a long time, the corners of his mouth gradually softened: "Mu Mian wronged you."

When Mu Zishi heard the meaning of these words, he thought: "Does the emperor know?"

Qi Jin smiled: "Yupei's companion, how can I be careless? Life is ominous and evil is intertwined, Guozuo shakes the heaven and the family is uneasy... Every word is like a knife."

Mu Zishi didn't care about such absurd words for a long time, and he could not help guessing, "Hou Zhongjun of Qingping bluntly said that he would not deceive the emperor, so Mu Ziyu must have a bright future?"

Qi Jin raised his eyebrows: "Really?"

Looking up at the leaden cloud-covered sky, he took Mu Zishi's hand and walked back, whispering: "The sky is about to change, there will be heavy snow tomorrow."

Mu Zishi thought of something, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, among the people outside the palace, will there be any miraculous doctors? Bian Que and Hua Tuo are not imperial doctors in the palace."

Qi Jindao: "When Yupei was a child, he also asked doctors to look at him from the people, but he was not as good as Sun Helin. In recent years, Lu Kuangxi came out of Yuzhou. Looking for... I just hope that this person can enter Beijing as soon as possible.”

Having said that, he didn't dare to hope too much, but Mu Zishi's eyes lit up: "Lu Kuangxi? I've heard of it. It is said that his medical skills can bring the dead back to life, so he was envied by the underworld and had scabies all over his face. .”

Even Qi Jin, who had been depressed for several months, couldn't help but smile when he heard the words: "Who told you this? It's true that ghosts and ghosts are only passed on by word of mouth."

Mu Zishi himself also found it funny, and said: "The maid who serves me is named Biluo, she often tells me some folk things."

"Would you like to hear it?"

Mu Zishi nodded: "It's more interesting than what happened in the palace."

Qi Jin was stunned for a moment, and said, "Stop with Yupei more these days."

Mu Zishi replied, "Yes."

But he asked again: "Your Majesty, why haven't you visited His Highness the Crown Prince these days?"

Qi Jin whispered: "I'm afraid... I'm afraid to see Yupei in front of my eyes..."

Sure enough, it snowed heavily the next day, Mu Zishi put on his snow boots, and ordered Xiao Fuzi to put on an umbrella: "Go to His Royal Highness."

Xiao Fuzi looked outside: "Why don't you go there in a warm sedan chair, master?"

Mu Zishi stomped his feet and said, "No, hurry up."

Seeing Mu Zishi's white face and swollen eye circles, Biluo was a little worried: "Shall I go with you?"

Mu Zishi answered absent-mindedly, and didn't notice that Bi Luo had been very anxious for several days, and her plump cheeks had lost weight.

As soon as the group left Zhaoxu Hall, they bumped into He Baoer head-on, He Baoer took a step back and said, "His Royal Highness is about to send the young master over."

Mu Zishi asked anxiously, "How is your Highness? Are you feeling better today?"

He Bao'er rubbed his eyes: "It's still the same... I'm in good spirits right now, I just want to talk to Young Master."

Mu Zishi pursed his lips, and suddenly started running. Xiao Fuzi chased after him and shouted, "Oh master, slow down, be careful of falling!"

Mu Zishi turned a deaf ear and ran all the way, with snowflakes blowing on his face, unknowingly shed tears all over his face.

When rushing into Qi Yupei's bedroom, Mu Zishi felt as if his chest would explode, and knelt down on the shallow corridor in front of the bed, sobbing: "Your Highness, Your Highness..."

It frightened the few maids who were waiting on the side.

Seeing Mu Zishi, Qi Yupei smiled slightly, and patted the mattress beside him: "Come up."

He also ordered: "You all go down."

Mu Zishi rubbed his eyes, took off his wet boots, climbed onto the bed and knelt beside Qi Yupei.

Qi Yupei was as ill as a dead branch, extremely weak, but his face still looked like the bright moon flying in the sky, his eyes were like smoke and cold water, his lips were surprisingly bright, and the dead branches were full of blooming flowers that were about to wither.

Mu Zishi easily found a comfortable position for both of them, put his cheek against Qi Yupei's chest and rubbed gently, and curled up into a soft and well-behaved ball beside him, just like when he first entered the palace, he trusted and loved him wholeheartedly , whispered dreamily: "Your Highness, Lu Kuangxi will enter Beijing soon, and you will live a long life."

Qi Yupei listened to the heavy snow falling outside the house, and Mu Zishi's breathing and heartbeat were close to his ears. He felt satisfied and said with a smile, "Really? If Lu Kuangxi doesn't deserve his name, what should we do?"

Mu Zishi said: "Then kill him and destroy his nine clans."

Qi Yupei laughed: "Zi Shi, it's always bad to ignore human life... By the way, I'll ask you one thing, you have to promise me."

Mu Zishi was counting Qi Yupei's ribs through his thick clothes, and asked, "What's the matter?"

Qi Yupei's voice was not high, but the words were voiceless Jin Zhongyuqing: "Qi Shaochong is my younger brother, from now on you will take care of him for me, treat him well with all your heart, and stay with him forever. Treat him like a brother and love him as your master. "

Mu Zishi straightened up abruptly, Qi Yupei was expressionless: "He wants to be the emperor, you support him on the throne, be his assistant minister, and do your best for him. As long as someone blocks his way, it's like if the third brother Dissatisfied... Don't rush to do things you can't do by yourself, do it for him, don't ask about means and don't talk about your conscience, don't be afraid of ruining your reputation, and don't ask for eternal fame."

"You are his sword and his shield. Even if you go to the underworld, you have to dance for him. Even if you become a beggar, you have to be bitten by dogs for him..."

At this point, the voice couldn't help trembling slightly, as if there was a sense of compassion: "Zi Shi, I know it's difficult for you, but you must promise me."

Mu Zishi's lips were trembling, but he smiled: "Your Highness, I will listen to what you say, but I can't accompany His Highness Seventh. His Highness has a queen, so he doesn't need me."

A bit proud of "you can't figure it out": "...and the emperor said, as long as your highness goes, let me go too."

Qi Yupei frowned slightly, but he was not very surprised: "What did you say? How could I not know?"

Mu Zishi was angry and didn't answer, but lay on his body and counted his ribs.

After lying quietly for a while, Qi Yupei took out a piece of paper from his bosom and stuffed it into Mu Zishi's hand: "This is the retreat I gave you."

Mu Zishi took it and saw that it was the land deed of a Zhuangzi. Just about to throw it away, Qi Yupei pressed it with a cold hand: "Look at the name on it."

Mu Zishi has always been able to see everything in his eyes and never forget his photographs. He sneered and said, "I see, this Zhuangzi is 840 mu, on the border of Xiazhou and Shenzhou. One thousand 9000 taels, it is my name, with the badges of Zhongren and Guanya, and the official seals of the two prefectures."

"You want me to take the Seventh Prince down to become a rich and small landlord?"

Qi Yupei didn't care about his thorny appearance, he raised his hand and put the land deed into his arms, saying: "I hope you will never need this, the lives of two families are on the land deed, after all, it is not good... But the world is unpredictable, maybe it will be a cloud, mud and sky in an instant, you have to listen to me."

"This Zhuangzi has been managed by Wan Jing for five years..."

Mu Zishi only felt that the name Wan Jing seemed to have been heard somewhere before, and he thought about it, but it was Yang Pingshan, Zhan Shi of the Eastern Palace, who mentioned it to the prince when he told the prince about it. After a cold, he hesitated and said: "Your Highness, you...do you want his whole family to..."

Qi Yupei sighed: "I have a good memory. Zishi, I read the books of sages and sages to learn the art of emperors, but I did a lot of evil. The queen mother said that I harmed virtue because of wisdom, and she was not wrong."

Mu Zishi was silent for a moment: "Your Highness, why did you kill all his relatives?"

Qi Yupei said: "In order to be kind to him, it is also for the safety of your back road."

Mu Zishi flinched, and Qi Yupei slowly stroked his dark and soft hair: "If you want to take people for your own use, it's nothing more than those who seek fame and fortune to move them, and those who seek profit to lure them with gains and losses, but you can take them with fame and fortune." Returning people, if one day you lose power, he will betray you for fame and fortune, so only coercing him with kindness and righteousness is the best way to fight without bloodshed."

After hearing this, Mu Zishi thought about it for a while, and said, "Your Highness, I don't understand...how did you kill his whole family and show favor to him instead? Doesn't he hate you?"

Qi Yupei said generously: "If I set up a Zhuangzi clearly, it would be effortless, but it must not be hidden from the eyes of some people in the palace, right?"

Mu Zishi nodded, his chin was just pressed against Qi Yupei's heart, and he seemed to poke the softest part of his heart through his clothes.

Qi Yupei was in a daze for a while, and then said: "If we have Zhuangzi quietly, we must find a suitable and loyal person to take care of him. This person must be capable and not have anything to do with the people in the court, so that we can grow up. Hid those eyes for a long time, didn't you?"

Muzi Shiyin realized something: "Did you ask Yang Pingshan to find Wanjing in the market?"

Qi Yupei smiled and said: "Yes, he is such a clean person... Wan Jing was originally the shopkeeper of Sifang Warehouse on Zhuque Street. Accounting, doing things, and dealing with people are all first-rate good means. Although such a talent does not have the great talent of the world, he cannot be put in the court, but he is useful in the folk, and it is more than enough to manage a Zhuangzi."

Mu Zishi said in a muffled voice: "But Your Highness, such a person is not unique in Zhuque Street. It is not difficult to find someone without a family. Why do you..."

Qi Yupei said lightly: "Do you think I'm cruel?"

Mu Zishi said anxiously, "No!"

"Is that fear of retribution? There's nothing to be afraid of, Zishi, I did the killing, and it has nothing to do with you."

Just as Mu Zishi was about to speak, Qi Yupei interrupted: "Okay, don't interrupt, just listen to me!"

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