Rebirth: Dominating the Country

After waiting half an hour for the first class, there is a quarter of an hour break. Some people get up late and don’t have time to eat. At this time, they take out some hot snacks or snacks from their small bags. Dry food is eaten, and those who are more favored at home eat it on the carriage. They brought this rare fresh fruit in winter and deliberately kept it until now. Enjoy it, attract envious and jealous eyes.

The Taifu sat on the chair and dozed off without opening his eyes, letting these little fellows mess around.As long as they don't get crumbs everywhere, he's willing to turn a blind eye during the break.

At that time, I was only immersed in my studies, and I would occasionally go up to ask my teacher some questions, but I didn't care much about my classmates. Now it seems that I am a group of older children after all. The innocent nature is still there, as long as you are willing to work hard, it is not difficult to get a few confidantes and friends.

What's more, this group of people are not all the favored sons of the family, but because they are smart and hardworking, they are selected to study with the prince in the palace, which can be regarded as cultivating future pillars for the northern kingdom.

Mu Bai narrowed his eyes, scanned the dozen or so people around him, tapped the table with his middle finger, and carefully recalled which positions the people here will hold in the ruling and opposition parties in the future, which ones have been diabolical from the beginning, and which ones can be compared with others. They have good acquaintances, and let the other party's heart gradually lean towards him.

Emotion is a very mysterious thing. He is not like the prince, where power is there, so he can only increase the favor of this group of people by playing the emotional card.

People worship the strong and sympathize with the weak.Emotional sympathy is much more reliable than that simple admiration.

"Second prince, would you like to eat some of this? This is specially made by my cook. It tastes very good. I warmed it on the stove, and it is still hot now." Probably because of Mu Bai's previous goodwill, the companion read Pulling the clothes on his back, he mustered up the courage to present his stock to Mu Bai.

He turned his head, looked at the cake that still looked very hot, took it silently, and put it on the desk.

The other party didn't see him eating, but he still looked very happy when his heart was accepted. His eyes were bent into crescent moons, and while he was nibbling on another piece of cake, he was flipping through the book to review the homework that the master just taught.The little face was bulging, not letting a piece of debris fall out.

Mu Bai took the things and turned around, naturally he didn't see the other party eating like some kind of rodent.

He glanced at the person sitting behind him on the left, and tapped the index finger of his right hand on the table again unconsciously.

The eldest and younger sons of the Yu family are all studying here. The eldest son, Yu Hang, is a concubine. He is stable and hardworking, but unfortunately he is not favored. With his own efforts, he climbed to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Justice. He is cruel and unreasonable. His weakness is his mother. .

The youngest son, Yu Ji, is clever and arrogant. He is a legitimate son, but he has been spoiled too much.Although he did a good job in his homework, he was not as good as Yuhang in dealing with others. However, relying on his father's generation, he also found a lucrative job in the court.

Later, Yu Hang's mother, Mrs. Zhu, passed away due to illness, and the Yu family was involved in the corruption incident. If it wasn't for Yu Hang's righteous extermination, the Yu family's blood would not be able to survive.

Yu Hang is a smart man, and he is not a pure princeling. It is only beneficial to him to befriend such a person.But because Yu Hang sees the warmth and coldness of people too clearly, such a person hates deliberate flattery.

The current Yuhang is not that frightening and cold-faced Shangshu, and now he is in the most difficult period. If he chooses to get close to him now, it must be the best.

Mu Bai's hand reached into the table again, and what his fingertips touched was the oiled paper that wrapped the soft cake.Calmly put the cake into his sleeve, he sat upright again, flipping through the book in front of him.

Prince Mu Yan arrived before the second class, and the voices greeting him were all in one voice.Mu Bai also said hello, he didn't call brother or elder brother, but asked very politely: "The prince is well."

Mu Yan didn't say anything, just lay down on his desk and fell asleep.

Mu Bai thought for a while, he probably hasn't seen his elder brother for more than half a month now.

Half a month ago, there was a flood in Jinhe, and the disaster was very serious. Although he did not enter the court, he heard about it from the palace servants and Madam Su.One of the maids of Jingren Palace lived along the Jinhe River, she was absent-minded all day long, and even accidentally broke an antique vase.

The money for the broken vase was naturally deducted from the maid's salary. Mother Su forgives her for being homesick, so she only fined her one year's salary. After hitting her ten times with a ruler, she rewarded her with a bottle of medicine for her to go down to recuperate.

But in fact, the Jinhe flood this time was not as serious as the rumors said. The local officials were capable. By the time Mu Yan passed by, the mood of the victims had basically stabilized.

In the past, the prince used to bring disaster relief supplies there to show his greatness, but to show his face in the eyes of the world and establish the prince's good reputation and prestige among the people.

Emperor Qiwen was a good emperor, so he naturally wanted to pave the way for his favorite heir.So even if Mu Bai had that ability, such a good thing would not happen to him.

Seeing the young prince resting at his desk beside him, Mu Bai stared at the other's face in a daze for a while:

A courtier with a broken mouth once used this sentence to describe the relationship between the two brothers Mu Yan and Mu Bai: "The two princes are not like brothers, but like natural enemies. They are destined to be born and restrain each other."

She was a palace maid who had not been in the palace for a long time, she hadn't fully adapted to the life in the palace, but because of a careless remark, she was dragged outside the palace gate and beaten to death on the charge of provoking the prince's brother's feelings and disturbing the harem.

In fact, what she said was completely true, but unfortunately the superiors didn't like to hear it, and the slaves would naturally suffer if they broke their mouths.With such a bloody lesson ahead, none of the insiders in the palace dared to talk too much. This is why Mu Bai and Mu Yan's relationship is not good, but the good reputation of brother and brother Gong is spread to the outside world. reason.

In fact, at the beginning, Mu Bai didn't hate his elder brother.The couple of Emperor Qiwen and Empress Li taught Mu Bai what to be the eldest son and what to do since his second son could remember. With the brainwashing of this couple, he never thought of competing with Mu Yan for that position. He only thinks about working hard to be a good king in the future, and assisting his capable elder brother to achieve great achievements.

When he was five or six years old, he once pulled the prince's sleeve and summoned up the courage to ask him: "My brother is the prince, so in the future I will be a general to guard this river and mountain for my brother, okay?"

At that time, Mu Yan looked down at him, then pulled his sleeve out of his hand, turned his head and strode away without saying a word.

Ever since Mu Bai was born, all he heard was praises for the crown prince, and Mu Yan was indeed good-looking. Children are born with a kind of admiration for capable and intelligent elders, and even more for people with good looks. Kind of a preference.

Although Mu Yan was very cold towards him at first, Mu Bai was still happy to have such an outstanding brother.

But every time the gadgets he carefully collected were always smashed face to face, or they were given to the servants standing aside.The child's heart is trampled on many times, and it is inevitable that he will feel wronged and puzzled.

At that time, he knew that he was not liked by his elder brother whom he admired and loved, and the prince could even be said to hate him.

But when I asked Mother Su, the other party always bent down and asked me to stay away from the latter with a serious face, because he couldn't ask everyone to love him as much as she did.

But aren't they brothers?He will be obedient and not make trouble, why does my elder brother who is as good-looking as a fairy still don't like him.

As he got older and became more sensible, his admiration for Mu Yan gradually changed. No one would like to stick his hot face to someone's cold ass all the time.

He once thought this way, since the father and the mother are the only two children, if the elder brother dies, will everything that belongs to Mu Yan belong to him?Can he get more care and attention?

Mu Bai explained Emperor Qiwen's neglect of him by saying that he was not good enough, and explained his mother's neglect of him by Emperor Qiwen's lack of attention to him. But even if he did well in his field of expertise, Emperor Qiwen and Empress Li never gave him a single compliment.

He once accidentally caught a glimpse of Mu Yan teaching the palace servants, and the other party just mentioned his name.Mu Bai could see it clearly, in Mu Yan's eyes, nothing but disgust was clearly jealousy.

What is there in him to be jealous of? !Mu Bai really felt that he had suffered a great injustice, his appearance was not as good as Mu Bai's, and his talent for reading was not as good as Mu Yan's.

Back then, the husband who practiced martial arts praised him as a good seedling, but because of Mu Yan's casual mention in front of his mother, that gentleman disappeared from the court forever.

What did I do wrong to teach you to hate me so much that you must kill me? !Because of the excessive ups and downs in his mood, Mu Bai's eyes were full of hostility, his hands were firmly pressed on the table, and the veins on his forehead were faintly bulging.

Probably because his gaze was too strong, Mu Yan's long eyelashes moved slightly, and he opened his eyes to look at Mu Bai. Because of sleepiness, those eyes were still foggy, but it still made people feel that his gaze was not blurred. half good intentions.

Mu Bai quickly turned his face to take a deep breath, he hit the pen to the ground, bent down to pretend to pick up something, covered his heart with one hand, and calmed down his guilty conscience.

The strong heartbeat told him that everything in front of him was real, everyone around him was alive and well, and he was not ruined by poisoned tea.

He is still alive, and still has the opportunity to change his fate, everything must be done slowly, he can't rush.

At noon, on the Yu family's carriage, Yu Ji was enjoying the snacks prepared for him by the family. He was going to make fun of his annoying uncle's stomach growling as usual.

But after waiting for a long time, I didn't hear anything. I just watched the other party holding a book and reading, occasionally pouring water into his stomach.

"What's so good about water, you're still hungry." Yu Ji didn't see it as a joke, and suddenly felt bored, so he turned his mind back to the novelty his mother got for him.

Yu Hang rubbed his stomach, opened the curtain of the carriage to let the air in, and the young master Yu Ji, who was getting goosebumps from the wind, immediately asked him to put it down.

The carriage left this place quickly, leaving only a piece of oil paper, which was swirled by the wind, and then lay alone on the ground.