After being a widow for half my life, I found out that my husband was not dead.

Mrs. Xiao has given her, the hostess, enough face, and Liu Yunxiang is not unkind.

She temporarily put aside her anger and followed them into the inner room.

After Mrs. Xiao sat down, she poured her a cup of tea herself, "Mrs. Xiao, there is something I don't understand."

Mrs. Xiao raised her eyebrows, "Oh?"

"Obviously, your old love for my Highness is not over, but why did you provoke me again and again during these two meetings, and even deliberately picked up the wrong silk handkerchief?" Liu Yunxiang said.

When Liu Yunxiang asked this question, he also poured a cup of tea for Yan Mu. But he pushed it aside and acted petty in front of outsiders. She ignored him and sat down on the seat next to him.

Mrs. Xiao saw it and hummed: "When I first met His Highness, the gentle wind and the moon, the fairy-like appearance, the girl couldn't help but be moved, so she thought about following such a person, not to mention the status, as long as she could see him every day. .”

Liu Yunxiang turned around and glanced at Yan Mu. When he was in Beijin, he was almost beaten to the point of being out of shape. After coming back to raise him, he has regained his body and spirit, and he has become a "beautiful woman".

Seeing her looking at him, Yan Mu raised his chin, turned his head arrogantly, and then glanced at her sideways.

Liu Yunxiang didn't argue with him, turned around and smiled at Mrs. Xiao, "He just has a good skin, and nothing else."

Mrs. Xiao supported her chin with her hand, "If the princess dislikes it, why not give it to me?"

"General Xiao is also pretty good."

"My old Xiao, apart from being ugly, he has all the advantages."

"He's not ugly either, he's quite handsome."

"Give it to you?"

"Okay."

The two made some jokes, and Mrs. Xiao sighed, "At that time, my little daughter was waiting in the garden one day, waiting for His Highness to come over and confess to him."

At the mention of this, Mrs. Xiao snorted and looked at Yan Mu, "Your Highness, do you still remember how you responded to me?"

There was a vase on the table with crabapple flowers in it. He was picking at the petals out of boredom and ignored what he said.

Mrs. Xiao pouted, "He asked me to go back and look in the mirror first. He also said that he likes good-looking people."

Liu Yunxiang hurriedly covered his smile with a handkerchief, "His mouth, ahem, is really bad sometimes."

"I just saw you again after suffering such a big blow."

"I?"

"You are so beautiful, and all he sees is you." Mrs. Xiao glanced at Yan Mu and then at Liu Yunxiang, with resentment in her eyes, "Not long after that, we sisters were sent out of Lanyuan . And when I met His Highness a few days ago, he didn’t remember me. It’s in vain that I have been telling Lao Xiao all these years that I was with a man before marrying him. How good that man was, and Lao Xiao was afraid that I would turn around and look for him. This man has always had a sense of crisis."

Liu Yunxiang laughed dryly, "So you deliberately took the wrong silk handkerchief to make me jealous?"

Mrs. Xiao tilted her head and looked at Yan Mu, "Your Highness cherishes that silk handkerchief so much. If it is given to the princess, then my purpose will be achieved. If it is another woman, such as the princess in the courtyard, then I will waste it in vain." It’s scheming.”

Yan Mu snorted, "Then your efforts are indeed in vain."

"Oh, is it really for another woman?"

"I bought it for myself, okay?"

Mrs. Xiao exclaimed, "Your Highness, a grown man actually has such a hobby."

Yan Mu glared at Mrs. Xiao, "I heard you talk so much nonsense, can we get down to business now?"

Mrs. Xiao slapped her forehead and said, "I really forgot about it."

She took out a letter from her arms, put it on the desk, and pushed it in front of Yan Mu, "This letter is inside the family letter. He asked me to give it to you. I thought it must be so secret that it cannot be Let outsiders know it, so I lent it to the princess to send the powder to the palace where it came from."

Yan Mu took the letter, tore it open and read the contents, and then said to Mrs. Xiao: "You write him a reply and say that the king has made arrangements and will cooperate with him then."

Mrs. Xiao didn't ask any more questions and memorized this sentence word for word, "Then I'll reply to him like this."

As soon as he finished talking about the business, Chang Ning called out from outside the door: "Your Highness, the medicine is ready, drink it while it's hot."

Yan Mu glanced at Liu Yunxiang and replied, "I'm sorry to bother you, Princess."

Not long after, Changning came in with a bowl of medicine, and Liu Yunxiang, who had nothing to do, walked directly to Yan Mu, told him to be careful, and when he drank it, he said it was a bit bitter and he should bear with it.

Such concern made Mrs. Xiao shake her head.

"I haven't given birth to a daughter. If I had, I would have to slap her if I saw her running into other people's homes without any status and seducing men in front of their wives."

Chang Ning pursed her lips and said nothing. When Yan Mu finished drinking, she put a few more preserved fruits into his hand.

"Give your Highness the medicine to make him angry."

Yan Mu gave her the bowl and Chang Ning went out.

Mrs. Xiao glared at Liu Yunxiang, "Both of them are like this, why don't you say a word?"

Liu Yunxiang shrugged, "If a man's heart changes, even ten horses can't pull him back."

Yan Mu snorted, "If a woman doesn't have you in her heart, she won't even shed a single tear if you die in front of her."

The corners of Mrs. Xiao's mouth twitched, "Suddenly I feel that you two are quite childish."

After seeing Mrs. Xiao off, Liu Yunxiang asked General Xiao what happened to the letter.

Yan Mu's face became solemn, he stood up and closed the door. He looked out the window again and saw no one in front of him, so he sat back with relief.

"We have ears at home."

"ear?"

Liu Yunxiang subconsciously looked outside and saw Changning who was brewing herbs in the yard.

"She must have been taken advantage of by Shangguan Xu."

Liu Yunxiang was silent for a while, "You can expose her."

"I want Shangguan Xu to relax his vigilance against me, so that I can secretly plan things in Luzhou."

"what's up?"

"Luzhou is rich in iron ore and has a huge amount of mining. In addition to the expenses of the imperial court, the private sector also has prosperous trade transactions in Beijin and Xiyue, which provide nearly one-third of the tax money for the national treasury. The governor of Luzhou and the military governor concealed The imperial court secretly mined a place and even refined weapons. It had been suppressed once before, but now it was revived. The control of this place was also transferred from Suping Prince's Palace to Shangguan Xu, and it was regarded as one of Shangguan Xu's lairs. Before, I let Hongxuan coaxed the emperor to go to the ancestral mausoleum to worship his ancestors. When he came back, I deliberately took him around to Luzhou, and arranged for Jiang Yuan to pretend to be a trafficker and kidnapped the three of us to the iron ore factory for the emperor to see with his own eyes. But Luzhou The local officials are protecting each other, and they are all involved, but the emperor has not yet made up his mind to investigate. The emperor needs to light another fire. I thought of Xiao Meng and asked him to report the private weapons casting in Luzhou. Then I will add fuel to the flames, and I am not afraid that I will not be able to capture it. Luzhou.”

It turns out that this journey, in addition to making the emperor trust him, also has this purpose.

Shangguan Xu still doesn't know what the emperor has been doing these days following Yan Mu's disappearance, and when the incident in Luzhou broke out, he was not prepared at all and could only helplessly spit out the fat.

"It's just that the governor and military governor of Luzhou have stepped down. You don't have anyone to fill them in, right?"

"Even if I have people in my hands, the emperor and Shangguan Xu will not let my people fill in."

"Then you're working hard in vain?"

"What if I have a secret card in my hand and they don't know about it?"