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Xiao Zhijin and Mo Yan came out of the palace late, so they bid him farewell, saying they were going to the suburbs to do some errands.

Normally, Xing Yan came to the Second Prince's Mansion to deliver the news. Mo Yanchi knew it after bumping into him a few times. This was the first time Xiao Zhijin wanted to go out. Mo Yanchi was very curious and asked, "But there is something important?"

"It's just a little thing, you go back first." Xiao Zhijin obviously didn't want Mo Yanchi to follow, Mo Yanchi nodded and left.

Looking at his back, Xiao Zhijin pursed his lips into a line.He didn't deliberately hide it from Mo Yanchi, it's just that the person he met in the temple this time came from Wanling, and he wanted to tell Mo Niang about it, Xiao Zhi was afraid that Mo Yanchi would feel uncomfortable hearing it, so he subconsciously concealed it.

Xiao Zhijin drove the carriage to the suburbs alone, and accidentally bumped into an oncoming carriage on the way.

There are many eyeliners in Jingzhong, so Xiao Zhijin's rash going out of the city will inevitably attract the attention of others, so he used a small plan to confuse the public.

Not long after, the carriage arrived at the foot of the mountain, Xiao Zhi opened the curtain, and there were several men in white standing in the distance.

The coachman drove past expressionlessly, and the men in white knelt down on their knees, watching Xiao Zhijin enter the mountain.

After arriving at a small temple in the mountain, the coachman pulled the reins and stopped the horse's pace, Xiao Zhi got out of the carriage, a man in white waited there for a long time, when he saw someone coming, he saluted: "I pay my respects to my lord."

"Get up." Xiao Zhijin walked into the temple. Different from the dilapidated appearance outside, the room was spacious and bright, with a big Buddha standing in the middle, with kind eyes and kind eyes. The censer in front was clean and there was no incense. This place was obviously idle. for a long time.

The man in white, named Ban Li, was originally a killer, and was rescued by Xiao Zhijuan when his life was at stake. Afterwards, he joined the General of Wei Ling and became Xiao Zhijin's man.He was sent to find out about Mo Niang, and he would send a letter back immediately if there was any news.

Originally, Ban Li would not come to Beijing, but the target's whereabouts were close to the capital, so he sent a letter to Xiao Zhijin and made an appointment to meet here.

Ban Li made a cup of tea for Xiao Zhijin, and said: "Master, Mo Jiao has been acting strangely recently, she seems to be coming straight for the Second Prince, can you stop her?" Mo Jiao is Mo Niang's name.

"No need, just keep an eye on her first. Have you found out who is behind her?" Xiao Zhijin took a sip of his tea and frowned. The tea must have been left for a long time, and it was not properly placed. It was full of musty smell and hard to drink.

Ban Li nodded and said: "I found out, it's Dai Yan, the Crown Prince of Dai Kingdom!"

"What!" Xiao Zhijin was astonished, "Didn't he die in battle 15 years ago?"

Ban Li shook his head, and said: "15 years ago, Dai Yanli and his troops attacked the imperial palace together. After the defeat, I don't know who rescued them, but they escaped unscathed."

"Nowadays, there are not a few survivors of the Dai Kingdom in Beijing. Many of them behave in the same way. It's really hard to find out." Xiao Zhijin sighed.

"This subordinate has a plan...Since Mo Jiao is here for the second prince, why not use her plan and let the two meet to see what she does." Ban Li said.

"No." Xiao Zhi shook his head without even thinking about it.Mo Niang was able to stay by Empress Xian's side for so long, even when Mo Yanchi was taken away, no one noticed anything strange, obviously this person had deep plans, if she saw Mo Yanchi, maybe she would do something.

Ban Li's opinion was rejected, so he didn't say anything, waiting for Xiao Zhijin to speak.

Xiao Zhijin couldn't think of a complete solution for a while, and said helplessly: "Look at her first, I'll think about it when I go back, just one thing, Mo Jiao can't get in touch with the second prince."

Mo Niang is too dangerous, maybe Mo Yanchi will miss her childhood admiration and not hold grudges against her, but Xiao Zhi can't do it, it is this person who caused Mo Yanchi to suffer ups and downs and tortures for more than ten years, if Yes, he wanted to arrest him and torture him.

But after thinking about it, this person has done his best to support Mo Yichi for so long, no matter what the credit is, there is hard work.If it wasn't for her sympathy, Mo Yan would have been reincarnated sooner or later.That's why Xiao Zhijin resisted the urge to arrest her and left her at ease.

Ban Li looked solemn: "Yes."

Ban Li was mainly in charge of Mo Niang's affairs, and after finishing what he had told him, he got up and left.

Xiao Zhijin stayed for a while, and wanted to leave, but Wei Lingjiang walked in from outside the door, and said in a low voice: "Master, there are people outside."

After finishing speaking, he handed Xiao Zhijin a mask and white clothes.

Xiao Zhijin's face was calm, he reached out to take it, and he didn't shy away from it, changed into the clothes in front of everyone, took the time to arrange the corners of the clothes, and then left.

The carriage was fast along the way, and Xiao Zhi could feel the probing eyes of the people around him while sitting in it.He was suddenly followed, and the Second Prince's Mansion couldn't go back, so he simply asked the coachman to go around the city a few times to drain their energy.

While counting the time, Xiao Zhijin ate snacks and looked at the scenery in the car, completely ignoring the people outside.

At a certain place, the coachman stopped the carriage, but Xiao Zhijin did not move for a long time.The people hiding in the dark looked at each other, hesitating whether to make a move, suddenly a gust of cold wind swept behind them, and then the neck felt cold, and they reached out to touch it, and found that there was a thin needle inserted there, glowing blue. of light.

The needle is poisonous!

Not long after, the people in the forest were cleaned up.Now the coachman swung his whip again and drove away.

And somewhere in central Beijing, a man with a dark face heard the report and sneered, "Zhu Qiming is such a waste."

He revealed the whereabouts of Wei Ling's pro-lord to Zhu Qiming in order to let him act decisively. Apart from this serious worry, he did not expect that the two sides had no chance to fight, and they were completely killed.

Now he doesn't have many elites under his command, and most of Wei Ling's relatives are surrounded by elite soldiers. The enemy is outnumbered, so he has to borrow a knife to kill people. It's just that his expectations of Zhu Qiming are obviously too high.

The man came out from the darkness, with a few strands of gray mixed in his black hair, he was clearly only about 40 years old, but he looked like an old man, with a pair of dark and prey eyes fixed on the Forbidden City in the distance, never moving away slightest.

This man is the prince of Dai, Dai Yan!

When Xiao Zhijin returned to the second prince's mansion, Mo Yanchi just came back from the official department. In order to strengthen the relationship between the two, Emperor Hongzhi appointed Xiao Zhijin as the servant of the official department, and then transferred Mo Yanchi to the official department. Now the Ministry of Officials is the domain of Xiao Zhijin and Mo Yichi.

Being followed in the suburbs, Xiao Zhijin couldn't enter the city in a carriage, so he went back alone, not even having time to change his clothes.

Mo Yanchi was walking on the stone path back to the yard, when suddenly a person, dressed in white and with black hair fluttering, fell from the sky and landed firmly in front of him.

Xiao Zhi tried his best to take off the mask, heaved a sigh of relief, and looked a little tired.

"Are you back? Why did you even change your clothes?" Mo Yanchi took his mask casually, and found that this mask was different from the silver mask he saw when we first met that day, and today's one was more like a street vendor. .

Xiao Zhijin said: "Someone was following me on the road, so I changed my clothes as a last resort."

After all, there are still many things in Beijing that require him to come forward as the servant of the Ministry of officials. If he is recognized as Wei Ling's relative, it will inevitably cause trouble.

Mo Yanchi nodded, "Are you okay?"

"It's okay, the subordinates who went to Wanling a while ago just came back to order." Xiao Zhijin said half-truths and half-hypotheses.

Mo Yanchi dismissed it, "It's fine if you have nothing to do, just now the Minister of the Ministry of Officials asked you to come over in the afternoon."

"No, he is the Shangshu or I am the Shangshu." Xiao Zhijin curled his lips and said willfully.

He is clearly dressed in white clothes, rich and handsome, he behaves elegantly and decisively to the outside world, but he always shows the emotions that a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy should have in front of Mo Yichi.

Sun Mo's talent is quite good, but he can't make up his mind about everything, the official department has been organized properly by Xiao Zhijin in the past few days, and there are no major incidents, so Mo Yichi didn't force it, and Xiao Zhijin let Xiao Zhijin be lazy.

But Zhu Qiming knew that his whereabouts had been exposed, so he entered the palace and asked Concubine Jing to ask for a few more dead soldiers to prevent himself from being attacked again.

Concubine Jing didn't know about Dai Yan, and when she heard that Zhu Qiming had failed in the assassination, her face was unmoved, and she went to take a nap after rewarding him with a few dead men.

Zhu Qiming didn't care, took the man and left.

Now that summer is about to enter, Emperor Hongzhi saw that the sun was getting higher and higher, so he changed the court system to one court every three days, and spent the remaining two days at the offices of various ministries.

Six parts have been safe and sound for a long time. If General Wei Ling hadn't played tricks, it would still be smooth sailing in a few years.It's just obvious that Master Wei Ling is a person who can't sit still.

He took care of a minister of the official department, but there were other people attached to Zhu Qiming, and he had to cut them off one by one to pave the way for Mo Yichi.

Yu Xinghui, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, recently received the order of Emperor Hongzhi to repair the cool garden so that he can escape the summer heat in a few days.

Emperor Hongzhi would go to Liangyuan to escape the summer heat every year, so the repairs to the palace would not be sloppy. After Yu Xinghui went there in person, he came back and said that several palaces were seriously damaged and needed to be repaired, so he asked the treasury for some money.

At present, the national treasury is full, and Emperor Hongzhi doesn't care. He waved his hand to indicate that it was ready to play, and he didn't ask how much it was.

Since ancient times, the Ministry of Industry has been a good place to make money, Zhu Qiming has benefited a lot, and Yu Xinghui is even more greedy.

Xiao Zhi saw it in his eyes, smiled without saying a word, and after placing an accountant beside Yu Xinghui, he ignored it.

There were not many affairs in the court, so Mo Yanchi followed Emperor Hongzhi all the time, learning how to govern the country.Seeing this, Zhu Qiming followed his example to greet Emperor Hongzhi every day, sticking to Emperor Hongzhi's side, asking this and that.

When Emperor Hongzhi saw that his two sons cared so much about Sheji, he was very pleased and answered every question.

Mo Yan was late in the court for a short period of time and had many questions. Whenever he had any doubts, he would ask. At that time, Emperor Hongzhi would put down the cinnabar pen in his hand and teach him a good lesson.Zhu Qiming watched coldly, and couldn't stop sarcasm.

Originally, there was only one Mo Yanchi, and Emperor Hongzhi could handle it a few times. Now that there is an extra Zhu Qiming, Emperor Hongzhi has more than enough energy, not to mention that Zhu Qiming often makes sarcastic remarks, which annoys Emperor Hongzhi.

After teaching for a few days, there were several stacks of memorials on the table, and Emperor Hongzhi noticed that his energy was not as good as before.So Eunuch Li was sent to save the two of them from the morning and evening, and not to enter the palace if there is nothing to do.

Rumors suddenly spread outside, that Emperor Hongzhi was clearly unwilling to establish a heir.And only those who are in it know that this is not unwilling to stand up, it is clearly that Emperor Hongzhi is annoyed to death.