Lord Prime Minister

Chapter 48

"My lord." Mu Zihuai walked in and saluted, waiting for him to ask questions.

Huangfu Yunhua looked him over, pointed to the chair and motioned him to sit down. "What did the queen mother tell you?"

"I asked the prince how the past two years have been, and there is nothing else." Mu Zihuai replied sternly.

"Really? Didn't you ask anything else?" Huangfu Yunhua raised his eyebrows, and continued: "I thought the queen mother would give you a lot of reasons to let you leave the palace, so that the king can rest assured."

"...Yeah." Mu Zihuai nodded imperceptibly, his serious look made the prince laugh.

"It's getting late, let's go to dinner. Come out with me in the afternoon to add a gift to my ninth younger brother who is about to be born." Prince Minqing said lightly.

"Ninth Prince?" Mu Zihuai was taken aback for a moment and repeated.

"Recently, Zhaoyi, the new favorite, is nine months pregnant. The imperial physician has found out that she is a prince, and she is due to give birth in a few days. It has been a long time since the palace has had a prince. Everyone knows about it, but you didn't hear about it when you entered the palace?" The prince explained seriously.

Mu Zihuai rang out the noble concubine she saw when she left Kunning Palace this morning, she saw her walking with big strides, her belly was flat and she didn't look like she was pregnant. "No one mentioned it, so I don't know. The birth of a prince is a big event, and a decent treasure needs to be selected." Thinking of the oolong treasure hunt a few years ago, Mu Zihuai couldn't help reminding again.

As if knowing what Mu Zihuai was thinking, Huangfu Yunhua smiled slightly, his thin lips curled up. "Isn't this king waiting for you?"

Mu Zihuai nodded with you, turned around to leave, and then thought: "What about Brother Ren? He won't go with you?"

Ren Danfeng, who had been standing obliquely behind the prince, said slowly: "Today I still need to go outside the city to discuss some matters with Gu Qianhu, and I also need to take care of Miss Su's affairs. It's too much for her to stay in the barracks by herself. outrageous."

Ren Danfeng really had a crush on Su Ye.Mu Zihuai thought secretly, and walked towards Yixiang Garden after taking leave of the prince.

After leaving for two years, I don't know how Long Lei is doing now.

Before stepping into the yard, I heard a hoarse and broken voice shouting: "Brother Qingyi! Come over here and see what the word is! Hurry up! Brother Zihuai is coming back soon. If you let him know that I If I haven’t recited a single poem in the past two years, I must be killed.”

Mu Zihuai laughed secretly, it was exactly as he guessed.Walking over with light steps, the two people buried their heads in the book, and they didn't even notice that someone was approaching behind them.

Mu Zihuai coughed lightly a few times with a tigerish face on purpose, and said fiercely, "I know I'm going to come back, so I don't want to study hard."

The two people who were arguing about the characters on the book were suddenly startled by a voice above their heads, their foreheads bumped together, and they wailed twice in succession.

Long Lei was the first to react, and stood up with his head covered. When he saw Mu Zihuai, he forgot the previous poems. He rushed over with a bear hug, forcefully dispelling the coldness on Mu Zihuai's face.

"Brother Zihuai, you're finally back." Long Lei squeezed his head into Mu Zihuai's neck and rubbed it left and right, his broken voice was not afraid of spoiling the atmosphere at all.

Mu Zihuai laughed, and took a long time to pull the koala off his body, and looked at it close to his eyes.I haven't seen him for two years, and Long Lei has reached his shoulders. He has eaten well for the past few years, and his body has grown strong. He is wearing a gray gown with his cuffs tied up with cloth strips. It looks like he often practices martial arts.

His facial features were somewhat similar to the Long Xiu in his impression, but it could be seen that Long Lei's face was rounder, and his eyes were also round, giving him a childlike air.

"Xiao Lei misses you so much, brother Zihuai." Long Lei lay down on Mu Zihuai's shoulder again, unwilling to get up. "Brother Zihuai just left not long ago, and my brother left too, leaving me alone, so boring."

Mu Zihuai was angry and funny, and poked Long Lei's arm. "You also said, why don't you stop your brother from leaving? Is going to the battlefield such a fun thing?"

Knowing that he had slipped his tongue, Long Lei slowly got off Mu Zihuai's body. "Brother will write letters back every once in a while. It's because there is no news after Brother Zihuai leaves."

"My lord writes letters every month, so don't I always add a few words?" Mu Zihuai stretched out his hand to touch the top of Long Lei's head, and explained with a smile.

"Huh!" Long Lei pouted, walked back to the stone table and picked up the poetry collection on the table to play with. "Brother Zihuai may have forgotten about me, leaving me here alone to memorize and memorize every day, and won't let me go out."

Sure enough, he was still a child at heart, every time Mu Zihuai faced Long Lei, he felt a little helpless, but it was indeed the most relaxed time.Walking over to take out the collection of poems in his hand, Mu Zihuai said with a smile, "Then I will test you first. If you can recite five poems, you won't need to recite them in the future."

"Really?" Long Leideng's eyes widened, looking at Mu Zihuai like a little tiger, his eyes were full of excitement.Suddenly he held his breath: "Five... three songs? No! No, no! Two! Memorize two!"

Mu Zihuai shook his head with a smile. "No, five."

Long Lei completely collapsed. "Brother Zihuai is too demanding, but I can only memorize two poems. These two poems are very difficult, and no one else can do it. I have also learned it for a long time."

"Learn one song a year?" Mu Zi asked in a good mood.

Long Lei smiled awkwardly and scratched his head. "Yeah, haha, let's recite two songs."

"Okay, first tell me which two songs you want to recite?"

"Minong and Jingyesi!" Long Lei stood up suddenly with a grim expression on his face, his expression was as serious as a broken bamboo.

Mu Zihuai nodded seriously. "Well, I taught you before I left. It's been two years, it's rare that you still remember."

Long Lei nodded fiercely, "I have fully understood the content of these two poems now, and it is different from two years ago, Brother Zihuai."

"Well, you carry it on your back."

"...Okay. Let's recite Mian Nong first. It's more difficult for Jing Ye to think about it, so I'll put it in the back."

"it is good."

"At noon on the day of hoeing, the sweat drops to the soil, who knows the food on the plate..."

I don't know if it's because he was too tired these days, Mu Zihuai just heard that he started to recite, Qingyi stood behind him and began to press his shoulders, Long Lei recited very slowly, and after a while, he closed his eyes and fell asleep completely. past.

Long Lei, who was halfway through the recitation, took a peek and saw that Mu Zihuai was asleep, so he quietly lowered his voice, hoping that he would have a good sleep.Unexpectedly, as soon as he stopped, Mu Zihuai opened his eyes.

"Why did it stop?"

Long Lei, who was about to sit down with a sigh of relief, stood up immediately in fright, and explained in a panic: "I...I see that you fell asleep, and I want you to sleep for a while."

Mu Zihuai rubbed his eyes and sat up straight. "I'm not sleepy. It's probably because the prince passed on the habit of getting sleepy as soon as he recites poems. Recite it quickly, I have to go out with the prince in the afternoon."

Long Lei had a bitter face, so he had no choice but to continue reciting, where did he recite just now?Forget it, start over.

"At noon on the day of hoeing, sweat drips down the soil, who knows... who knows?" What's behind it?It seems that I have recited it just now... I glanced at Mu Zihuai quietly, and Long Lei felt that he and the guard were not so nervous and difficult when they learned the most difficult move. There were dense beads of sweat.

"Who knows what's on the plate, and then?" Mu Zihuai couldn't help reminding.

"The food on the plate, the food on the plate...forgot." I couldn't remember, all kinds of martial arts moves were in my mind, the more I thought about what the next sentence would be, the more various moves jumped out, Long Lei felt a little frustrated He lowered his head and dared not sit down.

"I also said that you have learned, and you can't memorize a single poem." Mu Zihuai couldn't help but sighed, as if he had seen that Long Lei might walk the same path as his brother Long Xiu in the future.

That Long Xiu went to the battlefield without saying hello, and he didn't know when he would come back.

Long Lei's ears were red and he had a long neck to defend. "I recited it. I recited it all day yesterday. Can you ask Qingyi?"

She gave Qingyi a wink, but Qingyi only knew how to bow her head and put Mu Zihuai's shoulders on her shoulders, without looking at him at all.

Mu Zihuai didn't expose him, but just nodded. "I will work as hard as I did yesterday."

"I know!"

Long Lei nodded in response, and just as he finished speaking, an old voice sounded outside the door.

"Xiao Lei, I'm here to give you the money I bought for me at the market yesterday." The old man who grew flowers came in and became happy when he saw Mu Zihuai. "Mr. Mu is back too. It's been two years, but he's back. I just don't know when that kid Long Xiu will come back, alas."

After talking about worry, seeing Long Lei standing by the stone table in a daze, he put a few copper coins on the table, and then said something. "Old man, my legs and feet are inconvenient, thanks to Xiaolei who often goes out to help me buy some things."

Long Lei was already dead on the spot, his eyes were empty, he didn't know what he was thinking.Mu Zihuai responded with a smile. "Yeah, he's still busy with his studies. What a good boy."

The old flower grower nodded in agreement. "I always see him in the martial arts field, from morning to night, alas, it's really hard."

"Oh, indeed." Mu Zihuai nodded knowingly, and looked back at Long Lei, seeing that he still maintained the expression and movements just now.

"Then my old man is leaving first, Mr. Mu, you are busy."

"Walk slowly."

Mu Zihuai nodded, got up and sent the old man out of the yard, and when he came back, Long Lei was still in a daze, and picked up the copper coins on the table and stuffed them into his hands. "Take it, the money you bought for the old man."

Long Lei finally came back to his senses, he held a few copper coins with a dry smile and didn't know what to do.

"It's getting late, let's have dinner first, and continue to endorse in the evening." Mu Zihuai stood up and walked towards the dining room. He could imagine the expression of Long Lei behind him, and couldn't help laughing.

After walking for a while, seeing that he didn't keep up, I had to turn around and say, "Xiao Lei?"

"Hey, here we come."