Disobedience

When Mo Jinghe walked out of the courtyard, he saw the old butler waiting there, with a anxious expression on his face, and when he saw him coming out, he rushed up to meet him.

"Third son, the eldest son just went in, have you seen him?"

Mo Jing said softly: "Brother is gone, Lao Chengbo will take care of it, and how to deal with the funeral will be decided after the elders of the clan discuss it."

He spoke so calmly that the old butler didn't understand the meaning of "disappeared" after listening to the first half of the sentence. After thinking about it, his brows suddenly tightened, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes sunken deeply. After a long time, He just replied "No", and the short syllable seemed to come directly from his throat, like the wail of some kind of beast, full of grief and hopelessness.

He bowed slightly tremblingly, and entered the yard.

Mo Jinghe stood outside the courtyard for a while, the wind hit the robe Mo Jingren gave him, he could feel the strength, but he was not cold.He felt that he should be sad, after all, he was his elder brother, blood relative, but he didn't even feel any heartache, he was not as good as the housekeeper at home, he was really ruthless...

He hasn't figured out how to deal with Mo Jingke's funeral. He has to discuss it with the elders of the clan before dealing with it, otherwise he is afraid that there will be trouble later.

"My lord, there are distinguished guests in the house, please see me, please go back."

What kind of guests could the Mo family have at this time? It wasn't the old man who came to see him. If he made a special trip, he was here to find him. He didn't seem to have any serious acquaintances in Qingdu.

Mu Dongchu?

Thinking this way, he didn't dare to be negligent, and took two quick steps.

What is he doing here?Is there anything urgent to explain?It's good to point someone to come, why make a special trip by yourself?The mansion is so quiet, I don't know if I have brought a secret guard when I came here in low clothes, and I dare to go out alone at this time, just in case something goes wrong...

Mo Jinghe walked all the way, feeling worried in his heart, when he reached the door, he faltered again, the hands that were about to push the door, stopped in mid-air, sighed softly, and took a step back.

Signal Tian'er to knock on the door.

"come in."

Hearing the response from inside the door, he bowed outside the door and replied respectfully, "No."

Mu Dongchu was sitting in front of the desk playing with a paperweight, the quality of the jade was not very good, square and square without any carvings.

"Chen Mo Jing and please Your Majesty Sheng An."

Mu Dongchu didn't let him get up, Mo Jinghe just knelt like this for a long time.

The emperor is angry?I didn't seem to have done anything to annoy him, and I didn't hear anything unusual in Chaoli, so something happened in the palace?

"Your Majesty's body is the safety of the world..." He originally said something tentatively, but was interrupted by Mu Dongchu unexpectedly.

"I remember that the paperweight used in your house used to be an auspicious beast that was described as very clever and interesting, but whose name was unclear. When did you switch to this?"

Mo Jinghe was really surprised that Mu Dongchu's memory was so good, it had been seven or eight years since he came to his room last time, yet he still remembered what kind of paperweight he used.

"The minister accidentally lost it."

"When did you lose it?"

Mo Jinghe thought that Mu Dongchu was just asking casually and perfunctorily, but he didn't expect him to press on.

"It must have been two or three years."

Mu Dongchu smiled.

"For four years, you are so good at learning and don't do meritorious articles. You don't keep a diary, and you don't even have correspondence with anyone. After you left, I went to your residence in Piandian and Xiaohan Pavilion, except for Xiaohan. You didn’t leave any traces of your pen and ink on the reply in the official documents of the cabinet, and I couldn’t find the post you wrote that day.”

Mo Jing said softly: "It's really because I don't have much talent and learning, so I dare not write, for fear of making people laugh."

Mu Dongchu took a sip of tea, the sound of setting the tea bowl was a bit loud, Mo Jinghe hurriedly bent down.

Hey, Mu Dongchu sighed in his heart, he obviously missed him, so he came over to see him in the dark, unexpectedly, he became like this again when they met.

"Get up."

Mo Jinghe looked up at him, as if he really wasn't so angry anymore, so he thanked him and stood up.

"I have two sons-in-law, who do you think is better?"

Mo Jinghe knelt down on the ground again.

"Your Majesty." Please forgive me.

Mo Jinghe has been hiding this kind of thing since he was a child, but now the master just opened up and asked him, this is his family business, what does it matter what he thinks?

"You're really... different from them."

Mo Jinghe didn't know what he meant by being different, he didn't want to be different from them, he wanted to just lie shamelessly on the merits of his ancestors and wait for death...

"Hahahahahaha."

Mu Dongchu smiled without warning.

Mo Jinghe leaned down again, sighing in his heart, being with a king is like being with a tiger.

"Speaking of it, Qi Xian is still your teacher, and the Mo family must have contributed to his treason case."

The treason case back then is a bit inexplicable when it is said. Qi Xian, an old man, loves to recite poems and compose Fu. Apart from being elegant, he also likes to delve into metaphysics, especially divination and word prediction. Maybe he is worried about the country and the people. One day, I did a divination of the fate of the country at home, but I didn't know how to interpret the hexagram, saying that the next monarch would fall into the Qinyang clan, which was the largest in the Qi family.The old man didn't know why he wrote down this paragraph, and when the servants were packing up the old man's manuscript, he accidentally read it, and this incident started.

Conspiracy is a serious crime, and Mr. Qi cannot be guaranteed. Mu Dongchu said that Qi Xian is Mo Jinghe's teacher because the old man and Mr. Qi have a close personal relationship, and he was once postponed to give lectures on ethnology.He also said that the Mo family contributed to the treason case, which meant that the old man managed to save his family afterwards.

"Did you change the paperweight after that and destroy all the traces of pen and ink? Are you so afraid of me? Do you think I will use this kind of thing to send you off?"

"It's not all..."

Mu Dongchu has always been tolerant and magnanimous in this regard, and he doesn't make too much fuss about words. Qi Xian's case was too big, and it would be difficult to deal with it after opening this hole, so he was convicted of treason, but it was useless Capital punishment, if it wasn't for Mu Dongchu's reluctance to make a big case, the family members of the treasonous crime would be forgiven lightly with a little action from the Mo family.

It’s just that the situation in the future is uncertain where it will go. Now that he has become an official, it is always right to pay attention to this kind of place. Moreover, Gu Qingzhu said that Mu Dongchu was afraid that Mo Jinghe would be his weakness. It really became his trouble.