After Waking up Beside the Villain

On the eve of the Great Zhou Conference and the mission's entry into Beijing, the lights of the six departments were kept on almost all night.

People came and went in a hurry, and the candles in the house were swayed and swayed by the brushed sleeves.

When the sky was about to dawn, Chu Yunsheng opened the thick cotton curtain and walked out of the stuffy meeting hall.

He told Di Yan to lead the horse, wrapped his slightly stiff and slender fingers in a warm cloak, and slowly regained some consciousness.

He glanced at the scenery of falling snow and pines and cypresses in the courtyard, but he didn't have much interest in watching it, so he walked straight out.It's just that before the pair of brocade boots stepped on the snow had crossed the threshold of the compound, the boss of the Ministry of Rituals chased them out anxiously with a look of anger.

"My lord! Your lord, just wait!"

Chu Yunsheng turned around, and the creases between his brows that had been frowning all night reappeared, like a knife carving, deep and sharp, making people feel terrified.

"Master Meng, what else is there?"

The aged Meng Shilang was not so afraid of the cold-faced Prince Regent. He tremblingly walked in front of Chu Yunsheng with a feeling of emotion on his brows. The regiment will go to Beijing, and it will be the prince of Da Zhou... How can our Majesty be absent on such an occasion!"

Chu Yun's voice suppressed the sleepless coldness below him: "Your Majesty is bedridden due to the severe wind and cold. Do you want my emperor from Jin Dynasty to greet you in person?"

Meng Shilang frowned: "My lord, don't treat others as fools..."

Chu Yunsheng naturally knew the meaning and warning of Meng Shilang's words.This old man is one of his subordinates, and most of what he gave him was advice.But there were some things he couldn't explain.

"Master Meng is too worried."

Chu Yunsheng said something lightly, and Di Yan's figure appeared outside the courtyard gate.

Meng Shilang glanced at Chu Yunsheng hesitantly, but turned around and walked slowly back to the meeting hall without saying anything.

Chu Yunsheng didn't like riding in a carriage.

At this time, the carriage did not have shock absorbers, and it was very bumpy when walking on slightly uneven roads. Even if it was paved with thick cushions, it could not cure Chu Yunsheng's strange carriage sickness, so he came here. All travel on horseback.

And riding a horse also has disadvantages of riding a horse, such as some people who cannot be avoided even if you see them.

When the horse's hooves circled into this alley full of dignitaries' mansions, Di Yan saw the carriage with the Zhao family's emblem printed on it parked in front.

"My lord..."

Chu Yunsheng raised his eyebrows slightly, and drove over: "Where does Patriarch Zhao want to invite this king to enjoy plum blossoms?"

There was no response from inside the carriage.

The driver of the car looked at his nose, his nose, and his heart, and kept his head down in silence.

But only a moment later, there was a soft noise in the quiet carriage, and the curtain was lifted by an overly white hand, and an elegant and handsome man in white came out of the carriage, wearing a thin fox fur cloak. Surrounded by soft fur, a face like a bright moon was lifted up.

"Caomin Mu Qingjia, I have met the regent."

It turned out to be Mu Qingjia.

This was a bit beyond Chu Yunsheng's expectation.

He glanced at Mu Qingjia's slightly flushed face from the cold wind, and felt a little dazed—it seemed that since he eliminated Beihanfeng's intention to seize the tiger talisman, he only sent people to monitor the Hou Mansion and the town. The General Bei's Mansion has not paid much attention to these two protagonists since then - it is really a political struggle, intrigues, and the scourge of the unfamiliar bastard is too exhausting, so that he even forgets the protagonists.

Chu Yunsheng's distracted expression was only for a moment, but it was still noticed by the extremely sensitive Mu Qingjia.

He lowered his eyes indiscriminately, hiding his good emotions, and said with a smile: "My lord passes by here, but he wants to enter the palace to face the saint?"

Chu Yunsheng sat on the horseback, his eyes were cold: "A grassroots, want to find out the whereabouts of this king?"

Mu Qingjia didn't seem to be surprised by Chu Yunsheng's coldness and aggression, and said calmly: "Caomin dare not. It's just that a nobleman entrusted Caomin to speak for the prince."

"The Zhao family?" Chu Yunsheng glanced at the carriage behind Mu Qingjia.

He also didn't know how Mu Qingjia and Bei Hanfeng had grown up without him noticing, and how Mu Qingjia, a good son of the Marquis Mansion, had come to join the family.

Mu Qingjia didn't answer Chu Yunsheng's question, but raised her head, looked directly into Chu Yunsheng's eyes, and said in a low voice: "My lord, you can reject the family's kindness, but don't make such absurd acts as jumping over the wall in a hurry. If it weren't for the prince's military power in his hands, when the Zhaoyang Palace is really empty, no one would dare to raise troops to serve the king—— Qing Jun's side?"

"This is the second warning this king has heard today. I have endured it for two days, and it will be difficult for you."

Chu Yunsheng looked at the alleyway of the snow-paved street in front of him, and his calm voice revealed a chill that was colder than the snow in the sky, "Since you have endured it for the past two days, let's continue to endure it."

Mu Qingjia pursed her lips tightly.

Chu Yunsheng, with an air of urgency that was more severe than the wind and snow, gave Mu Qingjia a condescending glance: "Since you already knew that the Zhaoyang Palace was empty, you should also know that there is no one at this time. I will touch that little brat, so don’t make any fuss.”

Mu Qingjia listened to Chu Yunsheng's three words of "little brat who has no respect for the emperor", but unexpectedly did not hear much contempt and contempt from other people's mouths, but more like a kind of intimacy that can be hugged on the warm kang .

But before he could figure out the meaning of this intimacy, Chu Yunsheng urged the horse under his crotch, ready to leave.

Mu Qingjia tightened the cloak around his body, he didn't know whether it was the cold or the pressure from Chu Yunsheng's momentum, his slender body trembled slightly.Seeing that the figure on the horse was about to go far away, he still boldly said: "My lord, not every hero can become Meng De."

Chu Yun paused as he urged the horse, and a cold laugh sounded in the alley: "This king is not Cao Mengde."

The horse's hooves splashed a flake of snow, and it was far away in the blink of an eye.

The coachman raised his head and glanced at Mr. Qingya who was standing beside the carriage: "Mr. Mu?"

Mu Qingjia paused, turned back and got into the carriage.

The curtains fell heavily, and his eyelids drooped.

Mr. Mu.

No one had ever called him that before.

Even when he was forced into the palace, when he was at his worst, they would call him Mu Shizi.

But all this changed after he was sent back to the mansion.

Bei Hanfeng frequently entered and exited the Hou's mansion, and every time he brought a heavy gift.His father, who originally intended to restore his position as the eldest son, looked at Bei Hanfeng's gift with a look of embarrassment, and his mother occasionally looked at him with strange scrutiny.

That's right, the future of the Hou Mansion is more important than a slightly doted son.

If he becomes the servant of General Zhenbei, then this Luopohou's Mansion will surely be able to take advantage of the trend to rise to another level.It's just that he is still not reconciled to being reduced to a man's plaything and imprisoned by the back house.

The carriage staggered forward, Mu Qingjia opened his eyes, looked at the teacup with the Zhao family crest in front of him, and slowly poured a cup of tea.

The world will be chaotic, and he will always stand on one side.I just hope that his choice is not wrong.

After returning to the Prince Regent's Mansion, the first thing Chu Yunsheng did was to summon the guards to check what Mu Qingjia and Bei Hanfeng had done in recent days.

But after reading through the thick stack of letters, Chu Yunsheng felt a little absurd in his heart.But after calming down and thinking about it carefully, he knew that the development of the two protagonists to the present stage was not much different from what he had expected.To be honest, that was his coquettish operation of dispelling the harem, which achieved a too good effect.

When Lu Fenglou first learned about the affairs of the people, the regent wanted to make the little emperor feel uncomfortable, so he didn't arrange to teach the maids what to do.And the people in the palace probably also felt that the gains outweighed the losses by hooking up with this moody little emperor, so until Lu Fenglou was so old, he was always under a blanket, and the emperor who was supposed to have three thousand beauties in his harem didn't even have a close court lady.

Later, someone from a family wanted to hurt the little emperor, and rumors spread that the current emperor is not close to women and is a broken sleeve.

The regent saw it and didn't bother to care.

But I don't know what Lu Fenglou was thinking at that time, and he randomly issued an imperial edict to recruit men, which made him a fatuous monarch even more tightly.

The regent was happy to see the success, so he didn't interfere, and let all the handsome young masters enter the palace.

Many courtiers came to beg him, many rich and noble families came to complain, but the handsome men selected by Lu Fenglou were really just right.

The offshoots of the aristocratic family, the distant relatives of the princes and nobles, or the wealthy but not powerful businessmen, are either downcast or do not have enough power to refuse.

Neither offending the family nor stepping on the bottom line of his regent, it can be said to be a very beautiful thing.

Naturally, most of these handsome men are the eyeliners of various forces, but the regent at that time could not understand such an act of luring wolves into the house, and only laughed at the little emperor for being stupid.

But Chu Yunsheng, who had read through the plot, knew that the young Lu Fenglou was not stupid at all.

Anyway, the palace already has eyeliners from all sides, that is, if there are too many lice, it doesn't itch, so it doesn't hurt to introduce some more.On the contrary, this trick to drive away wolfs and tigers can break the dominance of the regent's family in the palace and make the situation chaotic.In this way, all parties are mixed and all parties are afraid, so it is easy to fish in troubled waters.

In addition, Lu Fenglou can also use this to support his own people.After all, the beautiful men who entered the palace had mixed backgrounds, and it was not so easy to tell which side they belonged to.

After these few days of calculations, Chu Yunsheng can be sure that Lu Fenglou's own power was established after that general election.

Like a plant of green grass struggling to get out of the cracks among countless boulders, it is weak but tenacious.

As for disbanding the harem, Chu Yunsheng believed that this was also in Lu Fenglou's plan, but he didn't think about implementing it now.After all, his own power has just formed, and after the initial role of these handsome men, they are just troubles.He was naturally happy that Chu Yunsheng solved this trouble for him.

The harem was disbanded, all the handsome men were sent home, and the harmony in the palace was broken within a day.Some people died quietly, and some people hesitated to change their masters.

All this is hidden.

On the bright side, it probably means that there are quite a few families who got married recently.

These sons and brothers who have been dragged on for several years and whose reputation has been damaged finally married their daughter-in-law with tears in their eyes.In order to wipe his own little emperor's ass, Chu Yunsheng also gave rewards from house to house in the name of Lu Fenglou, and helped those sons with clean hands to nominate them.

Of course, in addition to getting married, some people were kicked out of the house by their families, or they were changed hands again and given to some adults with special hobbies.

Mu Qingjia is deeply loved by her parents, so she will not be reduced to this point.But on the day Mu Qingjia returned home, Bei Hanfeng came to the door, bringing a heavy gift, not mentioning anything else, just to visit, but looking at Mu Qingjia's fiery and straightforward eyes, no one could understand .

Mu Qingjia had once bewitched Bei Hanfeng to use the Tiger Talisman to attack him, but he didn't expect that Chu Yunsheng really didn't even want the reputation of the last piece of fig leaf.After hearing that Bei Hanfeng was humiliated, Mu Qingjia originally thought that Bei Hanfeng was being cold towards him, but he didn't expect that Bei Hanfeng's feelings were even more unwilling to hide.

Bei Hanfeng came to the door many times, and revealed the meaning of helping the Hou's mansion inside and out. No matter how much the people in the Hou's mansion loved Mu Qingjia, they were shaken.

Mu Qingjia didn't want to be coerced, so she created an opportunity and climbed into the Zhao family of the four great families.

When Bei Hanfeng saw this, in a fit of anger, he bluntly stated his intention of coming, and wanted Namu Qingjia to be his servant, in exchange, he could support the Mu family.

When Mu Qingjia got the news, she simply lived in another courtyard of Zhao's family and didn't go back to the Hou's mansion, and hated her relatives because of it.

Chu Yunsheng did not expect this development.

But it also makes sense.

In the original plot, Mu Qingjia is the lonely lotus of the snow-capped mountain, imprisoned in the cold palace, locked her wings, Bei Hanfeng fell in love at first sight, and later deepened her relationship under the torment of invisibility and identity, and Mu Qingjia It was the talents he showed that made Bei Hanfeng sink deeper and deeper.

But now, before the two of them had time to break up under Lu Fenglou's breakup, Mu Qingjia was released from the palace, and the joy of having an affair behind the emperor's back dropped a notch in an instant.

And without the bondage of the palace, Mu Qingjia lost the aura of loneliness and mystery in Bei Hanfeng's eyes, and also lost the sense of accomplishment of saving.Apart from these, in Bei Hanfeng's eyes, Mu Qingjia, who hadn't gotten in touch with him well, was just a heir of a down-and-out Marquis, or the kind who had married the emperor and had a bad reputation.

The bright moon is beautiful because it is unattainable, but the flowers in the world are easy to fold.

Both Bei Hanfeng and Mu Qingjia's mentality changed, and naturally a follow-up that was completely different from the original plot was derived.

Chu Yunsheng sat in the study and took care of the psychological changes of the two protagonists. He felt that this world was much simpler, except for Bei Hanfeng's military power and Mu Qingjia's Prince of Zhou who concealed his identity. Compared with the previous protagonists , these two are much easier to handle.

What is really difficult to deal with is this country and its owner.

Chu Yunsheng smiled helplessly, and looked out the window.

It was already daylight.

noon.

The north city gate of Kyoto was wide open, and the common people lined the road. The Habayashi guards surrounded all civil and military officials and princes and nobles and pulled out a mile-long spectacular team, waiting for the peace negotiation mission of the Great Zhou with great grandeur.

The warm sun hangs above the head after the first clear snow, and the Yushu Qionglin on both sides of the official road is as fine as dust, crystal clear and translucent like a fairyland.

Chu Yunsheng rode at the front of the team. After waiting for a short time, a team of Qingqi came to clear the way at the end of the official road.

Then, in the flying snowflakes splashed by horseshoes, a convoy slowly approached.

Different from the extravagance and vainness of Dajin holding fruits and flowers, bringing court ladies and noble ladies, most of Dazhou's convoys are accompanied by strong sergeants, and the horses are vigorous. Occasionally, there are women, who are also holding swords and leading horses , with a heroic posture, with a toughness soaked in from the Northland.

The sound of the wheels was approaching, and everyone in Da Jin's queue looked unhappy.

How can the rotten flowers withstand the trampling of such horseshoes?

"The Great Zhou Mission has arrived—!"

Sing a song, and both sides salute.

The young people who came out of the Great Zhou Mission did not have the slightest savagery of the Northland, but had the gentleness of a scholar.

He glanced over, and a cold light flashed in his eyes, but with an extremely kind smile on his face, he saluted Chu Yunsheng: "I have seen His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and I have heard the name of the Prince for a long time. It is rare to see him."

Chu Yunsheng looked at the vicious wolf in sheep's clothing in front of him, and smiled: "His Highness the Eighth Highness is absurd. The banquet is ready, Your Highness, please."

The eighth prince of the Great Zhou nodded with a smile, and was about to get on the carriage to enter the city, when a cold snort suddenly came from the Dazhou Mission: "My Eighth Prince of the Great Zhou entered the city, and the Emperor Jin didn't even have a face. If you don't reveal it, is it because you look down on me, Da Zhou?"

As soon as this remark came out, the venue immediately fell silent.