The emperor smiled and said: "Pei Ji is old, has no relatives or neighbors, and does not interact with others. Now he is assassinated at home. I heard that Mu Qing and Pei Ji met a few days ago?"<
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Mu Mingyuan called out and said: "Your Majesty, I am familiar with the books of sages. Although I had a grudge that day, the matter is over, and it has never been recorded for more than ten years. If I really want to hold a grudge, why haven't I taken action in the past ten years?
Why wait until today? Besides, I know that I have a feud with Pei Ji, and everyone in the capital knows it. If something happens to Pei Ji, I will be the first to escape from the involvement. I want Pei Ji to live a long life, and it is too late. How dare I buy the murder?
Kill him?"
He speaks like Pei Ji, and his heart no longer has the original feeling of being a father-in-law.
The emperor nodded slowly and said: "That seems to be the truth!"
Mu Mingyuan hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, let me tell you that I am not afraid of your jokes. I am now in the first rank, and I have a certain status in the court. I am favored by His Majesty and entrusted with important tasks! I am satisfied with the current situation and just want to
I wholeheartedly serve His Majesty’s grace. However, Pei Ji is old and I don’t know how long he can live. If I hate him, I will wait until he dies of old age, so why should I put my future on the line?”
As soon as this statement came out, many people thought it made sense.
There are people who take action out of a dispute of temper. However, if a first-rank official takes action against an old and weak person who is not a threat, isn't that just walking in the mud wearing new shoes? Who would do this if they don't have a brain?
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The emperor also smiled and said: "Okay, I just want to ask a question, you are still wronged."
His face became serious and he said: "But such a vicious incident happened in the capital. The people behind the scenes must get to the bottom of it and order Jing Zhaoyin to solve the case quickly and Gyeonggi Guard to assist!"
Under the emperor's feet, thugs enter the house and kill people. This kind of thing must not be tolerated!
Also, Pei Ji is the grandfather of Lao Wu’s concubine after all. Lao Wu and his concubine are making trouble at this time. A while ago, they made a big fuss at Mu Mingyuan Mansion and asked for a dowry. After a while, they said something about the two of them.
Due to emotional discord, the girl from the Mu family moved out of Prince Liang's Mansion.
He didn't have anything to do with this matter. As long as there was no divorce letter or divorce letter, the couple's identity would still be there. As for what trouble the two of them were having, the emperor didn't want to worry about it.
However, I heard that Lao Wu accompanied the girl from the Mu family to visit Pei Ji twice. The young couple seemed to have a good relationship. They traveled together and stopped in the same car. They had dinner at Pei Ji's house before returning. If the relationship between Lao Wu and the girl from the Mu family breaks down, he will not ask about Pei Ji at all! People in the capital like Pei Ji, who knows who, he is the emperor!
After all, Lao Wu is also his son, and Pei Ji can be considered a relative of the emperor because of his relationship. To hand this matter over to Gyeonggi Guard for assistance is to hand it over directly to Lao Wu. It can be considered that he, the father of the emperor, planned it for his son.
A little self-interest.
Mu Mingyuan glanced at Chu Xinyuan without any trace.
It’s not surprising that the emperor knows about all the big and small things that happen in the capital. In that position, how can he not have his own eyes and ears in the capital? But the emperor doesn’t ask about everything. Pei Ji is a useless useless person, and the emperor will ask.
, naturally it’s not because of Pei Ji, but because of Chu Xinyuan, right?
The emperor ordered Jing Zhaoyin to conduct a thorough investigation and the Jingji Guards to assist. Isn't this Chu Xinyuan in the Jingji Guards?
So, this Chu Xinyuan got an errand again.
What does he want to do?
Mu Mingyuan secretly sided with the eldest prince and paid special attention to the other princes.
At this moment, I couldn’t tell whether I was annoyed or relieved.
He knew that as long as he attacked Pei Ji, people in the capital would suspect him, so he specially found a killer to attack him. It was precisely because everyone would suspect him that he could defend himself.
As he just said to the emperor, he is not that stupid. He is living a good life and there is no need for new shoes to step on the mud.
Regardless of whether the emperor believes it or not, he has already said everything, and not even Jing Zhaoyin dares to find out about him.
It's just that he didn't expect that the killers sent by Shenxi Tower would be so useless. They couldn't even kill a good-for-nothing old man.
And that young hero passing by, mind your own business!
Mu Mingyuan's sense of smell is very sensitive. Chu Xinyuan really wants such a job to make it easier for him to do things.
Therefore, after he found out about the transaction between Mu Mingyuan and Shenxi Tower, he quietly watched the changes and made secret arrangements at the same time.
Everything was going according to his plan. The only thing that made Chu Xinyuan frown was that the people sent were too useless and they didn't even find out who was helping Mu Qingyu.
The young man who saved Pei Ji killed the killer in Shenxi Tower and then left. His people followed him for a while, but he was quickly thrown away in the streets outside.
Is it a coincidence or Mu Qingyu's arrangement?
He didn't doubt that the person was Mu Qingyu at all, because he had tried it and observed it. He had personally seen Mu Qingyu's fists and feet, which were weak and limp, had wrong moves, and even knocked him over. After the somersault, he even avoided danger.
I can't even do it, I just fell down like a stupid goose.
As long as you have some inner strength and know the slightest bit of luck, you won't fall like that.
However, Chu Xinyuan didn't care much about this. Mu Qingyu didn't ask him. He had no intention of helping other than filming people staring at the Weiwu Hou Mansion. In the final analysis, the relationship between him and Mu Qingyu was at most a cooperation.
relationship.
Even if Mu Qingyu's performance during this period made him look askance, it was not enough to make him willing to help her.
He refused to give a letter of divorce because his own interests came first.
In one year, his plans should have developed in the direction he wanted. Mu Qingyu's existence or not has no impact on him.
After the morning court, he was kept by the emperor.
Now, in order to avoid suspicion, he will not attend except for the early morning court, but the chance of being retained by the emperor after this morning court is extremely small.
He has actually done it twice.
This made several princes look at me with burning eyes.
Chu Xinyuan ignored it and went to see his father.
When the emperor saw him in the Qinzheng Palace, he asked: "What happened when Mu Qingyu moved out of Prince Liang's Mansion?"
Chu Xinyuan did not expect that the emperor would pay attention to such a trivial matter of his, and even asked him personally, saying: "Go back to my father, I am ashamed!"
The emperor glanced over: "What are you ashamed of? You kicked her out?"
Chu Xinyuan hurriedly said: "Father, there is no such thing as this! Mu Qingyu moved out of Prince Liang's Mansion not because of his son!"
"What's the reason?"
Chu Xinyuan said: "On the day when Mu Shangshu's second daughter was married, my sons and ministers accompanied Mu Qingyu to congratulate and give gifts, but they were insulted by the second daughter of the Mu family. Mu Shangshu defended the second daughter and severed the father-daughter relationship with Mu Qingyu. Mu Qingyu's mother
She is the daughter of the Pei family. Since the relationship between father and daughter has been severed, Mu Qingyu wants to get back her mother's dowry, which makes her son feel very reasonable. Now that the dowry is back, she has to take care of it. Mu Qingyu thinks it is troublesome to get in and out of Prince Liang's house, so she goes outside first.
It’s convenient to live here and manage. Once things are sorted out over there, we’ll move back!”
