Neverland

Trying to unspoken rules with each other during work hours is clearly not normal work flow.

However, Xu Muzhou originally thought that in this quiet night with no modern facilities to disturb him, he and Yan Cen could take advantage of the romantic atmosphere to take the last step of their relationship. stopped.

"Don't worry." Yan Cen pressed Xu Muzhou's shoulder, staring at him with burning eyes: "We'll talk about it after the mission is over."

If Xu Muzhou didn't feel that Yan Cen's eyes were about to burst into flames, he really believed that the other party was a law-abiding, loving and dedicated social animal.

This is the second time, the last time we communicated with each other was also during the mission, Yan Cen had to wait until he returned to Neverland to express his love.Xu Muzhou thought about it carefully before he understood the twists and turns in Yan Cen's heart - he disliked the identity of others in the mission world, so he had to wait until he returned to Neverland, when he was himself from the outside to the core. Fall in love with Xu Muzhou.

What kind of strong possessiveness, Xu Muzhou couldn't laugh or cry.

However, there are also disadvantages of being noisy too late, which directly led to Xu Muzhou's lack of sleep.They came back in the middle of the night the night before, and by the time they cleaned up and lay down, it was conservatively estimated that it was already past three o'clock in the morning.

So when the eunuch next to Wei Wenxuan came with a secret decree, Xu Muzhou had just set up the chessboard with Zhou Gong and his old man.

The eunuch's voice sang and sighed three times, it was long and sharp, and could be heard from far away.Xu Muzhou slept very lightly in a strange place, and when he heard the other party calling for Yan Cen, he frowned, turned over impatiently on the bed, and instinctively wanted to wake up his mind from his sleep.

Yan Cen, who got up first, covered his ears, bent over and coaxed him to fall back asleep.

Fortunately, no one except Yan Cen knew about Xu Muzhou's overnight stay. Yan Cen went to the yard alone to receive the order. Sitting on the bed depressed, he rubbed his sleepy long hair irritably.

"It's not yet dawn outside." Xu Muzhou said angrily, "Wei Wenxuan got up so early?"

"It's time to go to court." Yan Cen was in a good mood, and joked: "You see, being an emperor is not very beautiful, and the daily workload is very heavy."

Xu Muzhou sat cross-legged on the bed to refresh himself, slowly raised his eyelids, looked at Yan Cen who was fully dressed and asked, "Then why do you wake up so early?"

"I don't think so." Yan Cen said and handed him a warm towel.

Yan Cen has always been very vigilant in the mission world, Xu Muzhou didn't think about it, put a towel on his face, and wiped his face roughly.

When he first arrived, he was already tidied up and lying on the bed, the only dilemma he had to face was how to wear this ancient costume, but now Xu Muzhou discovered that the ancient and modern lifestyles are completely different, if Yan Cen hadn't been here By the way, he has to catch the blind all morning.

Xu Muzhou took the teacup Yan Cen handed over, looked him up and down, and asked, "Didn't you say that the decree has come, where is the decree?"

"There is no imperial decree." Yan Cen threw the towel after wiping his face into the basin, and said, "This kind of imperial family secrets are all oral messages, how can I give you a broad daylight imperial decree in your hand."

"Then what if Wei Wenxuan turns his back on the case after investigating the case, because we know too much, so what should we do?" Xu Muzhou rinsed his mouth with salt water, and took a sip from another cup Herbal tea, the more I talked about it, the more I felt that it made sense: "Look, there won't even be a certificate at that time."

Yan Cen smiled, but did not answer.

Xu Muzhou blinked, and realized belatedly, that Wei Wenxuan probably had this idea.Sure enough, life and death depended on the emperor's thoughts, and the co-authorship had already been pinched.

Regardless of whether this relationship conforms to the normal development process of the times, Xu Muzhou still disagrees with this way of life anyway.

After Xu Muzhou finished his tea, he finally realized a very serious problem - his long hair was a little too difficult to manage.

He has lived for more than [-] years. Except for his unique sexuality, he is a standard man from the inside to the outside. His hair has never grown beyond his neck. Now he was caught off guard by Yong Wuxiang and changed into a waist-length hairstyle. I don't know how to take care of it.

Yan Cen could sit on the stool in his spare time and watch Xu Muzhou tidy himself up. It wasn't until he randomly grabbed a handful of hair and was about to roughly pull it into a ponytail that Yan Cen stood up Shi Shiran and walked away. Go over and take over.

Yan Cen patiently straightened Xu Muzhou's sleepy long hair, combed it up skillfully, and fixed it with silver hair buttons.

Xu Muzhou leaned on the kang table with his elbows, propped his chin and yawned lazily: "The technique is very skillful."

"Little heartless." Yan Cen said: "I just comb your hair too much."

Satisfied now, Xu Muzhou raised his head with a smile and kissed his new teacher Tony.

"But having said that." Xu Muzhou said, "What did Wei Wenxuan's message say?"

"He said that the harem was restless, he was very worried, and asked me to investigate the matter...but we should investigate it secretly as much as possible." Yan Cen said.

"Secret investigation, how is it possible?" Xu Muzhou was not satisfied: "This harem is full of his women, in broad daylight, maybe he will meet two."

"It's not a complete secret investigation, just don't make too much noise and keep the influence within a small area." Yan Cen said: "And Wei Wenxuan seems to be very afraid of hidden dangers in the harem, so he gave him the right to do things cheaply in the message."

Xu Muzhou sneered: "I don't see him so anxious when my wife is dead, now it's my turn to be in danger and I'm going to get excited... Then how do you investigate, start with Concubine Lu?"

"Don't worry." Yan Cen said: "Song Xueyao is dead, Concubine Lu is the lord of the harem, if we attack her rashly, I'm afraid she won't cooperate... Let's investigate from Song Xueyao first."

Empress Wende, Song Xueyao, is obedient and gentle, and has made great contributions to her children.Because Wei Wenxuan ordered that no queen be established forever, even the Changqiu Palace was also sealed up—at least during the decades of Wei Wenxuan's reign, there should be no newcomers living in it.

That is to say, from Song Xueyao's death to now, Changqiu Palace still retains her appearance in life to the greatest extent possible.

For Yan Cen and Xu Muzhou, this is a good start.Because Changqiu Palace has become an empty palace due to Song Xueyao's death, there is no one else except the palace servants who once served Song Xueyao.

Although Xu Muzhou doesn't like to divide human life into noble and humble, he has to admit that sometimes a proper identity is really useful.

They couldn't confront a powerful person like Concubine Lu, but it was too easy to face some eunuchs and court ladies who depended on others for survival.

Song Xueyao's mourning time had not yet ended, and the main hall was filled with concubines and children who came to cry.Xu Muzhou stood in the direction of the side door and listened, only to feel that each of them was crying sincerely, and he didn't know how much it was really sad.

They came to investigate the case this time, no one led the way, and no one restricted them.Yan Cen took Xu Muzhou around a corner, bypassed the main hall where the crying was loud, and went straight to the back.

The last time Xu Muzhou came here, he was confined in the flower hall, and later he stayed in the mourning hall for most of the night, so he had no idea about this so-called "Queen's bedroom".

Now that I come to visit the garden in broad daylight, I know what a royal style is.

There is a big garden in the Changqiu Palace, not to mention a lot of colorful flowers blooming, a pond was also dug, and a pool of goldfish was raised.In addition to the bedroom, small study, small kitchen, servants' room and other buildings, they are almost catching up with the area of ​​a residential area.

"This area." Xu Muzhou sighed: "If I were Song Xueyao, I could stay out of this palace gate for half a year."

Song Xueyao's bedroom was in the back of the Changqiu Palace, and there was no guard in front of the door, probably all concentrated in the main hall in front.It's just a pity that due to the closure of the palace, the door of the bedroom was locked by a big lock.

Xu Muzhou weighed the heavy padlock, automatically and consciously stepped aside, and prepared to hand over the home field to professionals.

Yan Cen took out the needle that he tested the poison the night before from his wrist armor, inserted it into the lock cylinder without looking at it, flipped it lightly twice, and then opened the tightly fastened lock buckle—— It was faster than him opening a modern lock.

Yan Cen pushed open the door, signaled Xu Muzhou to come in, and then hung the removed lock loosely on the door bolt, making a look of locking it.

Song Xueyao's bedroom is divided into three large compartments by a screen. Aside from the reception room facing the gate, the one on the left is her bedroom, and the one on the right is more like a leisure area. Xu Muzhou glanced at it , I found that there were tables, chairs and a small kang for meeting guests, and there seemed to be a small space further inside, which was separated by a landscape screen, so I couldn't see it clearly.

"I left you right?" Xu Muzhou pointed to the sides.

Yan Cen nodded, turned his head and walked to the right.

Xu Muzhou walked around the big screen, and was going to start the investigation from Song Xueyao's bedroom.

This room was clearly cleaned by someone, but it might have lost its owner, and even the life in the room had also flowed away. Although the whole room was clean, it seemed lifeless.

There was a set of bright red bedding on the bed, Xu Muzhou touched it from the inside to the outside, but found nothing unusual on the bed.Then he opened the hidden compartments next to Song Xueyao's bed one by one, took out the contents, and found that there were only two thin books inside besides Yu Ruyi, which was the size of a palm.Xu Muzhou flipped through it roughly, and found that it was something like poetry, without any extra content.

Other than that, there was only one hairpin whose material Xu Muzhou couldn't tell.The color of the hairpin was not even enough, and the color was too dull, and the top was not inlaid with gold or jade, but it looked like a red stone.

These things seem to be the little girl's spare objects, and there are no clues.

The cause of Song Xueyao's death most likely came from her abnormal nail color. Xu Muzhou was not sure what women of this era used to dye their nails, so he pondered and turned his attention to Song Xueyao's dressing table.

Like all girls, Song Xueyao's dressing table is full of bottles and jars.Xu Muzhou opened them one by one, feeling dizzy in a pile of unknown powders, almost fainted by the smell of this complex powder.

Holding his breath, he rummaged through the bottles and jars, but he didn't find Song Xueyao's nails, but he found something else.

On Song Xueyao's neatly arranged dressing table, there was a very abrupt long box.

— because it is not only open, but empty.