At night, something happened again in Chang'an City. Almost all the people from the Tingwei Mansion were sent out. The City Guarding Military Command mobilized two thousand soldiers to assist the Tingwei Mansion in various parts of the city to search. The people did not know what happened, and Chang'an City was so large that most people didn't even know what happened.

The city gate opened shortly after dawn. The dignity of Chang'an City was that it would not have been closed during the day because some scouts from Bohai people sneaked in, so this gave Mu Zhaotong an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Mu Zhaotong knew Daning too well, the people of Ning, the emperor too well, and the dignity of the emperor and the dignity of Chang'an.

The carriage is specially made, with double-layered at the bottom of the carriage, and there is a mezzanine under the seat inside the carriage to hide two people. Although it is a little squeezed, it is nothing for Mu Zhaotong and his wife's thin figure.

The carriage underwent a very strict inspection at the gate of the city. There were only some books in the carriage that were transported out of the city and sent to Fangcheng County. All were unboxed and inspected, so there was no problem, so the carriage left slowly.

According to the plan, the carriage would enter Fangcheng County before dark. The people arranged by Cao Anqing were already waiting there, and the inn had already been decided. No one would know that the Grand Secretary who had once had power in the court and the opposition would hide here.

But the carriage stopped after leaving the city for thirty miles. The coachman helped Mu Zhaotong and his wife out of the car. The two staggering old men took advantage of the lack of people to get off the road and enter the woods.

There was a group of people waiting in the woods, and these people were not Cao Anqing's people.

Mu Zhaotong and his wife walked away separately, and a group of people escorted the wife away, while Mu Zhaotong stood in the woods and watched his wife go away, raised her hand and waved it.

"Don't look back three times. What else can we do to bear at this age? Let's go, let's leave. Leave the next thing to me. I'll go to avenge my son. I'll take you down and quietly. I'll send you to a place where you can sleep peacefully. You've become more and more sleepy recently."

He let out a long breath and turned around. The remaining two guards raised him up, one left and one right, and rushed out towards the other side of the forest. A ox cart was parked in the south of the forest. The ox cart was loaded with a truck of fodder. Mu Zhaotong drilled into the fodder, and there was a space created inside. After entering, he lay there a bit of stuffy, but for him now, there was nothing that he could not bear.

The ox cart staggered forward, without any rush, and did not go on the main road, but followed the country road into the village not far away.

This village is called Sanshilibao. The village is not big, with only about a hundred households. At this time, the place has not been frozen and cannot be cultivated. Therefore, the villagers are very leisurely, chatting or gathering together for a few drinks. The weather is still so cold that except for the children who occasionally run out, who would stroll on the street?

The ox cart entered a farmhouse yard. Two guards looked at the left and right and then picked Mu Zhaotong out. After entering the yard, Mu Zhaotong picked the grass dipped in her body. When she looked up, she saw the middle-aged man standing at the door of the house smiling.

"Mr. Xun Zhi."

Mu Zhaotong clasped her fists: "Look for a long time."

Xun Zhi quickly stepped down the steps, clasped his fists while walking, and said, "Students have admired Master Pavilion for a long time. They have always wanted to find an opportunity to pay homage to Master Pavilion, but they always have a chance to do so by chance. Today, I finally met Master Pavilion, and the student has also paid off one's worries."

Mu Zhaotong smiled: "Mr. Xun Zhi is so polite. Actually, I have seen you and I have never spoken. At that time, you taught the prince to read and write in the palace. I saw it from afar when I entered the palace."

Xun Zhi smiled and said, "I missed it at that time. Fortunately, God treated the students well and finally met the elder."

The two of them helped each other and entered the house. The farmhouse didn't seem to be very dilapidated, but it was also old. The original residents in the village moved to their new homes, and the yard was rented by Xun Zhi. The village was not in Chang'an City, so there was no need to go to Chang'an Mansion to report to rent a house.

After Mu Zhaotong sat down, Xun Zhi quickly poured tea for him: "I guessed that the time was coming, so I made tea in advance. I heard that the old man liked to drink Pu'er the most, so I specially found a few ripe teas that had been around for decades."

Mu Zhaotong shook her head: "Just drink white water. I am old, and I will not sleep well after drinking Pu'er."

Xun Zhi quickly changed a cup and poured hot water for Mu Zhaotong. Mu Zhaotong held the quilt and warmed his hands: "I just didn't expect that Mr. Xun Zhi and I were finally here."

Xun Zhi never thought of it.

He used to look down on Mu Zhaotong so much. In his opinion, Mu Zhaotong really played a good hand of cards. However, when Cao Anqing came into contact with Xun Zhi and talked about Mu Zhaotong's plan, he thought about the problem carefully from Mu Zhaotong's perspective, and found that Mu Zhaotong was not as unbearable as he thought. The old man who was already locked in Babu Lane could control the prince tightly. How could he be a useless person?

"Geither."

Xun Zhi asked humbly: "How long does the prince think the prince can hold on?"

"Depending on your Majesty's mood."

Mu Zhaotong smiled: "Do you really think the prince is very important? Do you really think our emperor will pass the throne to him?"

Xun Zhi has always had this question, so he lowered his head and said, "Please give me advice."

Mu Zhaotong took a sip of water, and the journey along the way was fine. The weather at the end of this month was really too difficult for him. The old man was most afraid of the cold, and his fear of the cold was like death.

After a sip of water, his chest and abdomen were warmer. He took a breath and said, "Actually, you can see that Your Majesty is too conceited. He has always said that the prince is a talent for success. He will be relieved to hand over Daning to the prince in the future. But does Daning need a talent for success? It doesn't need it, and it doesn't need it now. In the hundreds of years since the founding of the country, which emperor has not been pioneering but blindly sticking to the rules?"

Xun Zhi asked: "Is that the second prince?"

"right."

Mu Zhaotong nodded: "If the second prince had not been there, the prince would have a chance to ascend the throne in the future. After the second prince, the prince had no hope of ascending the throne. Your Majesty did this just to calm the court officials and to make the prince feel at ease. With Your Majesty's age, it would be no problem to take charge of Daning for more than ten years. The prince is already in his thirties in his thirties in his ten years, and the second prince is just twenty years old. Perhaps, Your Majesty has no intention of letting the prince live until that time."

Xun Zhi's face changed: "Your Majesty's heart is not that ruthless, after all, it is his own flesh and blood."

"That's what I said."

Mu Zhaotong said: "You and I know that Your Majesty is not a cruel person. If it were, the Queen would not have been a demon for twenty years, and I would not have been locked up in Babu Lane to copy books. We have been killed by Your Majesty long ago, but what are we doing? What we are doing is to let Your Majesty kill the prince?"

Xun Zhi then woke up.

"Gei Master, have you tried your best to come out just to kill a prince?"

"No."

Mu Zhaotong put down the water cup and was silent for a long time before answering: "I went out with all my heart, not to kill the prince, but to make His Majesty sad. Your Majesty should also taste the pain of losing his son."

This is one thing for Xun Zhi, but for Mu Zhaotong, these are two things.

Xun Zhi hesitated for a moment and asked, "Why did the Pavilion Master come to me to kill the prince?"

“Not it.”

Mu Zhaotong said: "With your talent, it is too wasteful to follow the prince to do facts. I came to you just to pull you out. Although I hate Your Majesty, I have to say that Your Majesty is the strongest emperor in the hundreds of years since the founding of the country. And I have no intention of rebelling. I let me dig out a piece of the foundation of Daning with my own hands. I can't do it. I am Ning Chen. No matter how much I hate Your Majesty, I am Ning Chen."

Xun Zhi was solemn: "Thank you, Master."

"You still have a chance in the future. I will pull you out of the prince now. Follow me and learn more. In more than ten years, you are not old enough to be able to do anything. Besides, after you leave the prince, I can design you to get in touch with the second prince, but your face..."

Xun Zhi smiled bitterly and shook his head: "The Master of the Communist Party has been bothering, but I have no way to turn around."

"well......"

Mu Zhaotong sighed: "Let's talk about this later. You leave the prince's side first and follow him, and you will die sooner or later."

Xun Zhi nodded: "Thank you, Master."

Mu Zhaotong stood up: "I can't stand my old body anymore. I'm so sorry to go to sleep for a while."

The inspector quickly got up: "Gei Master, go to rest, I'm waiting for the Pavilion Master here."

Mu Zhaotong walked a few steps into the inner room and turned around: "There is something I have always been puzzled about. Why did you choose the queen at the beginning? If you had been in the official position seriously, you had been in the cabinet for twenty years, and you would have been in the cabinet for a long time, and the least you would have been the second assistant."

How did Xun Zhi answer?

I replied that I was suppressed by you when I entered the cabinet. What I want to be the chief assistant rather than the secondary assistant?

He could only smile bitterly.

"Mr. Xun Zhi, your goal should be lower. If it could be lowered back then, it would not be like this now."

After Mu Zhaotong said this, he went into the inner room, leaving Xun Zhi alone sitting in the living room in a daze. His regret was that he only realized how ambitious and childish and ridiculous he was. Mu Zhaotong's words just now had obviously seen through his thoughts. Only after he had really come into contact with him did he realize that Mu Zhaotong and the real Mu Zhaotong were not the same person.

He sat there drinking tea until the tea was gone.

Someone came in outside the yard. He was a little Taoist. He looked in his twenties. After entering the door, he looked at Xun Zhi: "Where is the master?"

Xun pointed directly at the inner room: "Resting."

"oh."

The little Taoist sat down by himself, ignored Xun Zhi and sat there.

When Xun Zhi saw this little Taoist, he thought of the queen again. Many years ago, he heard that something big happened in the Liu palace. The queen stole the child of Concubine Zhen. Since then, he no longer entered the Taoist temple but instead practiced Zen Buddhism. He recited scriptures and chanted Buddha's name every day. His Majesty got angry several times because of this incident, and even caused people to smash the queen's Zen hall.

Your Majesty also said that Daozong belongs to Daning’s own family, who should I protect him if I don’t protect him?

So, who would have thought that the queen’s Tianzi’s character is in the Taoist temple?

She hated Taoist so much that even the emperor believed it.

With a small trick, the queen had few opponents, and she just lost in the big picture.

Xun Zhi had known these for a long time, and had said more than once, but when he knew that the Tianzi genius was in the Taoist temple in Chang'an, he truly realized the terror of the queen. Once a woman was cruel, she could do anything.
Chapter completed!