Are you stupid?

Shenlong really wanted to catch up and ask Mu Huaiyuan if the feeling of touching "something" just now was his illusion.

...but he was cowardly.

The cowardly Second Highness realized that if he really chased after him to ask this question, if Mu Huaiyuan's body didn't change, then the Second Highness would be a stinky hooligan; The Second Highness whose body has changed is still a stinky hooligan!

So, Shenlong sat in his seat with blank eyes, without saying a word.

After returning from the classics, seeing Shenlong's sluggish appearance, he sighed in distress, and asked in a good voice: "Did your senior brother talk too deeply and too much?"

Shenlong shook his head.

It's not that Mu Huaiyuan talked too deeply, it's obvious that he touched too deeply.

The classics were puzzled, "So you can't learn from him to murder you?"

Shenlong continued to shake his head.

After studying the classics for a long time, I really couldn't understand the children's world, so I had to make sure that Shenlong would look stupid when he had nothing to do, not as clever and dexterous as a 13-year-old child.

When Mu Huaiyuan came back, he still looked like a banished immortal.

There is no problem in the classics on the two disciples, the younger and the younger, and he thought that he is really superstitious, Huaiyuan is so measured, how could he do something inappropriate.

The classics are like a needle that stabilizes the sea. Even though he entered the palace to teach the dragon and did not take any official position, his arrival still calmed down the former court and the harem who were restless before.

There are no longer any troubles caused by the prince canonization ceremony that took a long time to prepare and has never been held; the accompanying readers of the Chengqing Palace finally changed from "The Second Highness is a big-hearted fool" because of the obvious difference in treatment of classics. Sober in this kind of inertial thinking, clearly knowing that no matter whether the second highness Shenlong's brain is smart or stupid, he is the future master of the world, and they cannot compete with him.

The peaceful and stable life lasted from early spring to late summer. Before autumn, Shenlong ushered in his 14th birthday.

Empress Cui and Emperor Taixing couldn't wait to hold the crowning ceremony for Shenlong. After the first autumn rain, the crown prince ceremony that had been prepared for a year and the protagonist changed from Linde to Shenlong was finally held as scheduled.

Emperor Taixing issued the imperial edict to enshrine the crown prince in front of his officials, Wei Yan and several loyal courtiers all looked worried, watching the imperial edict being issued from the former court to the harem.

The matter of setting up the crown prince has long been decided, and now it is just a formality.

Shenlong was wearing the pink long jacket that he didn't feel but Queen Cui's favorite, sitting in Fengqi Hall, waiting for the imperial edict to arrive with Queen Cui.

When Meng Kai personally delivered the imperial decree and read it out, Empress Cui's eyes shone brightly, and she seemed to return to her youth, "Shenlong, from now on, your position is finally stable."

The dragon, which grew another inch taller, shrank back into Empress Cui's arms, without looking at the imperial decree, and said in a low voice, "Queen Mother, I'm afraid to go to the Taimiao to worship the ancestors. After the emperor's brother went to worship the ancestors, he never came back. They all said Brother Huang is going to fulfill his filial piety to his ancestors, so is my son and minister leaving his mother too?"

The smile on the corner of Empress Cui's mouth suddenly froze, she forced a smile with trembling lips, "It is enough for the ancestors and the ancestors to have your emperor brother, and the dragon must stay with the queen mother, the dragon is not afraid. Go to the Taimiao tomorrow..."

In her mind, she recalled her youngest son's resigned appearance, instantly erased the Xingye quota in her mind, and replied calmly: "Let Mu Huaiyuan and the others accompany you on the trip. If you want to ride a horse, you can ride a horse, and if you don't like riding a horse, you can take a car. "

"The minister is in the car." Shenlong cupped his face and leaned in front of Empress Cui coquettishly, "Has my son become ugly? Teacher Xi said that my son is manly - Fan Su always said that he is so masculine, so black. "

Empress Cui, who was still sad at first, was suddenly amused by Shenlong, hugged him in her arms, and said with a smile: "Shenlong's masculinity is like... well, like Mu Huaiyuan, like Fan Su's." no the same."

Shenlong patted his chest reassuringly, breathed a sigh of relief, and made Empress Cui laugh again, leaving all the unhappy things behind.

He returned to the palace with the imperial decree, and he had nothing else to do for the whole day. On the second day, he took six companions, who were handsome or mighty, to board the car, and the imperial guards led the crowd. Go to Taimiao to offer sacrifices.

The courtiers with good intentions wanted to see if the silly prince could support the country before the ceremony was completed, but when the car drove out, the Second Highness was already in the car, and when the Second Highness got out of the car, they were stopped by the imperial guards. Outside the Taimiao.

The sacrificial offering was cumbersome and procrastinated. It was effortless but exhausting. Fortunately, Shenlong had not stopped exercising since he was a child.Even so, when he returned to the carriage and was pulled back to the palace, he couldn't help but fell asleep in the carriage.

"Shh, don't wake Your Highness." Mu Huaiyuan gently opened the curtains, and found Shenlong sleeping in a ball in the carriage with a smile. He lowered his voice to let everyone back down, and drove through the palace gates by himself, and sent people directly to the bedroom. , holding back to the room.

When it comes to serving people, Mu Huaiyuan can't compare with professional maids. As soon as Shenlong is put down, he moves away and waits quietly for the maids to clean the face, wash feet, change clothes and remove hair for Shenlong.

"Mu Xiaolang?" Bauhinia signaled the maids to leave, and looked at Mu Huaiyuan suspiciously.

Mu Huaiyuan glanced at Shenlong on the bed, and said seriously: "Your Highness goes out in the morning and comes back at sunset, and there is no food in between. You go and bring the books I haven't finished. I will stay here with Your Highness for half an hour. Then ask His Highness to get up and have dinner."

Zijing hesitated and said, "But Your Highness is so tired."

"Tomorrow morning, His Highness will go to court with His Majesty to be paid homage by the officials, and then return to the Harem to be led by the Empress Empress, to be greeted by his wife. In the evening, a banquet will be held and officials will present gifts to congratulate His Highness on entering the East Palace. Don't take advantage of today to give His Highness Demonstrate it again, if you show your timidity in front of the officials tomorrow..."

Mu Huaiyuan stopped talking, Zijing's sympathy for Shenlong just now turned into worry about his career as the crown prince, and immediately took a book for Mu Huaiyuan and retreated to the outside room.

Mu Huaiyuan rolled the book into a roll and held it in his hand, walked to the bed and sat down, tapped on the dragon's head a few times, "Get up when you've pretended enough."

Shenlong opened his eyelids, pushed his hair back a little guiltyly, "When did you find out that I woke up? No, you know you still hugged me into the door?"

Mu Huaiyuan watched Shenlong roll himself up into a ball, his clothes were disheveled, and his Adam's apple moved slightly.

Then, as if nothing had happened, he got up and walked to the window, turned his back to his back and said, "You wake up and refuse to get up, you just want to be lazy. It's not a big deal, I will do what you want."

Shenlong laughed for a while, then suddenly waved, "Hey, Mu Huaiyuan, come here."

Mu Huaiyuan turned his head and met Shenlong's gaze.His eyes glowed like two flames burning in the darkness.

"In the past few months, you have been taking me to study history. I recalled the account books brought by my mother, and suddenly realized that if even the harem was so unscrupulous in spending, then the previous dynasty would definitely not have much money left to train soldiers and raise war horses. In order to raise money With so much money, the officials must continue to plunder the people's fat to meet the extravagant expenses of the court—the Zhou Dynasty is almost at the end of its rope."

Shenlong said in a firm tone after deep thought: "I originally wanted to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger, and slowly clear the court, but when I walked under the protection of the Imperial Guard today, I suddenly realized that if I pretended to be stupid If I am foolish to deal with the courtiers, then I am afraid that I will spend my whole life fighting with the courtiers. I will never have the energy to plan other things. I want to 'be blessed by the ancestors and restore my spiritual wisdom'."

In his previous life, what Shenlong did after boarding the plane was enough to amaze Mu Huaiyuan, but he never thought that when he came back to life, he could still see Shenlong's different but more dazzling appearance.

This is the person who caught his eye in the first place.

Mu Huaiyuan stared at Shenlong solemnly, his face turned red before he knelt down on one knee in front of the bed, "I would like to be a pawn and be driven by Your Highness."

"I don't need you to go through fire and water—you can help me pretend to be sick." Shenlong turned over, took off his long gown, and pointed to his white back and said, "After the army was raised, all three battles were fought with fire. I was rescued by fire from heaven when I was in danger. I tried to find white phosphorous. You can write a lot of fonts. Help me write the ancient Chinese character 'fire' on my back, so that I can burn a mark on my body. The rest of the words, I have my own way."

Mu Huaiyuan's palm fell on the shiny white snow back, and his voice was dry and weak, "Your Highness will be hurt."

Ruyi sighed softly, "I also know that it will be very painful. After all, it is a burn, and it will leave scars. But apart from this time of worshiping the ancestors, I can't think of a better time to recover my mind - my brother was on the way to worship the ancestors. Falling off the horse and breaking his neck for no reason has already made the matter of worshiping the ancestors full of mystery, and it’s not too late for me to add another strange story.”

"Come on, we're running out of time."

Shenlong's gentle urging seemed to be slashing at Mu Huaiyuan's body. His blood seemed to be frozen. He could only watch as Shenlong took out a small bag from under the low table at the base of the iceberg and stuffed it into his palm. But he couldn't move.

Shenlong lay back on the bed, biting the soft pillow, "Come on."

"Okay." Mu Huaiyuan opened his mouth and found that his voice was hoarse. He twisted the white phosphorous powder, and carefully drew an ancient tripod character "fire" on the position of Shenlong's vest. He pulled out the golden hairpin on his head and put it on the left index finger With a flick of the ring he was wearing, sparks were fired and the white phosphorous on the boy's back was ignited.

"Ah!" The scream instantly broke the calm of Chengqing Palace.

Shenlong's face was pale, and he huddled between the mattress and clasped the blanket tightly with his hands, dripping with cold sweat.

Mu Huaiyuan quickly hid the remaining phosphorous powder under the low table supporting the iceberg, put the entire iceberg on the back of Shenlong, and shouted: "Come here, Imperial Physician Xuan, inform Your Majesty and Your Majesty that the room is burning from the sky." Your Highness."

When Bauhinia and Luluo entered the door and saw the miserable appearance on Shenlong, their faces turned pale with fright. They rushed to Caiyun Hall and Fengqi Hall in panic to deliver the news.

When Emperor Taixing and Empress Cui rushed over in a hurry, what they saw was not that his son was in great trouble, but that he complained to the imperial doctor with extraordinary agility: "You take the medicine lightly, it hurts so much."

Empress Cui suddenly softened her feet, and was supported by the palace maid so she didn't land on the ground.

Tears welled up in her eyes, she shook her lips and asked, "Shenlong, you, are you... alright?"

Shenlong rushed forward, hugged Empress Cui tightly, and buried her face in the crook of her neck, "In the Taimiao, I felt my ears were filled with voices, and my mind was dizzy. When I came back, I suddenly felt like a fire burning my body, and I suddenly woke up. All these years, my mother has worried about me."

"Woo..." Empress Cui burst into tears, hugging Shenlong tightly and crying loudly.