I have flowers, do you have pots?

Chapter 42 Embarrassed.

"That's right, the magistrate has been drinking tea with Mr. Zhang for more than half an hour just now. It's not that the Zhang family ordered someone to set a fire for no reason, so that Mr. Zhang went to the back hall to arrange a place for Mr. Zhang—please Please wait for a while, our brother has already gone to invite your lord, and I will come back to answer you soon."

The servant responded with a smile, and then hurried down with the cup to replace it.Mu Xianyu looked thoughtfully at the pot of tea that was obviously mixed with dried oleander flowers, and felt more and more difficult to understand the key to it.However, Mo Zhi had just been sent out by himself, but he had no choice but to sit back in his original place, patiently waiting for the magistrate to come out to meet him.

I don't know what the magistrate is busy with. This wait lasted for a quarter of an hour, and even the servants who served him felt that something was wrong.He hurried up and looked back, but he didn't invite the magistrate out, instead he brought a well-mannered master back.

The master was wearing a cloth shirt and had a goatee, but he looked gentle.Holding the gold medal respectfully in his hand, he walked quickly to Mu Xianyu, leaned over and said in a low voice: "The villain Tan Deren, the master of Yangzhou Prefecture, dare to ask Your Excellency—this gold medal belongs to Your Excellency?"

"Since you recognize this gold medal, but you still dare not come out to greet it, do you prefects have any unspeakable secrets?"

Mu Xianyu didn't respond to him, but asked in a low voice, unhurriedly, and slowly opened the fan one by one.Master Tan's forehead was already covered with cold sweat, he bowed even lower, and whispered nervously: "I also ask the Imperial Envoy to forgive me—Master Zhifu, he went out with the Patriarch of the Zhang family just now..."

"Your officer told me that the two of them went to the back hall, and you told me that these two people went out together again. Even if it's a lie, you should make a confession first."

Mu Xianyu sneered, with a sharp chill on his face, he slapped his palm on the table lightly: "His Royal Highness was ordered to tour the south, and I was ordered to escort all the way, but I entered the city a little too late. Today, His Highness just disappeared in your Yangzhou city—if the Yangzhou government doesn’t give a clear explanation, don’t blame me for interrogating them one by one until the trial comes out!”

The master was so frightened that he could hardly stand still, and he couldn't even utter a word.Just as he was about to kowtow to beg for mercy, a dignified voice suddenly came from behind the hall: "Who said that I want an explanation from this official?"

"master!"

Master Tan called out as if he was being amnesty, and walked up quickly to greet him, and was about to tell him a few words about the imperial envoy, but was pushed aside indifferently by the prefect.Staggering and being supported by the guards beside him, he couldn't help but look a little surprised and incomprehensible: "Master, master, you—"

The magistrate didn't even look at him, but walked straight towards Mu Xianyu.Standing still at the table, looking down at him condescendingly: "Nowadays, anyone can pretend to be an imperial envoy—I thought you were just an arsonist, but you turned out to be a liar pretending to be an imperial envoy. Do you really think that with a gold medal that seems real or fake, you can fool the eyes of this official?"

Mu Xianyu couldn't help raising his eyebrows slightly, looked at him quietly for a while, then suddenly smiled lightly and said, "That's right, I'm indeed using this gold medal to bluff around, and I took the opportunity to set off the Zhang family's fire last night—" Not only that, I also poisoned the tea my lord and Zhang Shiyin drank with dried oleander flowers. Such a heinous crime, how will the magistrate plan to deal with me?"

He admitted that he could do it in one go, and his attitude was all righteous and calm, but the prefect was a little overwhelmed for a while.After staring at him in astonishment for a while, he frowned and said hesitantly, "What poison—why don't I know?"

"If you are acting, you have to do a full set. I will make a scene for you. You lock me in first and then talk about it."

Mu Xianyu replied softly, brushed off his clothes and stood up, with a calm smile still in his eyes.The murderous intent in the magistrate's eyes diminished slightly. He looked at him hesitantly for a while, then shook his head and said, "You are too cunning. If you follow your ideas, there must be no good end. Since you took the initiative to ask me to It's up to you, but I'm not as good as you want—someone, take this Mr. Mu down, find a room in the back hall and ask him to stay first, and wait for the official to interrogate him carefully!"

"You are the magistrate of a city now, so you should be called 'the government'."

Mu Xianyu patted him on the shoulder, but he didn't resist at all, just smiled lightly, and followed the guards who came up to the back hall.The magistrate frowned and looked at his leaving figure, his doubts deepened, he quickly stepped up and grabbed his arm: "Stop - I have something to ask you!"

"It's late, I don't have anything to answer now, I just want to talk to that brother Zhang."

Mu Xianyu brushed his hand away, and walked towards the back hall without looking back.The magistrate's face changed several times, and he wanted to catch up quickly, but he stopped his pace, just turned his head and said coldly: "Get down here, don't hang around here and blah - don't go on Go to the street to find the villain who set the fire, if you can't find it, no one will be able to live later!"

Everyone was taken aback by the prefect who seemed to be particularly abnormal today, but they didn't dare to ask more questions, so they had to go to work in desperation.That master always followed the magistrate's side, although he didn't know where to go now, but he also thought about avoiding the limelight first, and followed him out the door with a limp.He was thinking about whether to draw a few more portraits of the arsonist and hand them over to the guards, but suddenly he had a flash of inspiration, and couldn't stop shivering violently.He slapped his forehead violently, turned around and chased him back: "Master, master——that person is indeed not an imperial envoy, but him, and he was the one who set the fire!"

"Stop yelling, the person surnamed Zhang may not be telling the truth, and it's not certain who set the fire."

Suddenly, a hand was pressed on the shoulder from behind, Master Tan turned around in shock, and when he saw Jin Hong behind him, he was so moved that he almost cried for a moment: "Jin Catcher, you should hurry up and see what happened to our master Let's go - the master said that the gold medal is fake and that the young master is a fake imperial envoy, and we are not allowed to talk too much. If it is really a fake imperial envoy, that's fine. If it is true, don't wait for Tianwei Outraged, we have to finish playing soon..."

"Then you go back and prepare the coffin for the shroud. I think he's probably real—excuse me. I'll go see if the magistrate is in a hurry."

Jin Hong patted him on the shoulder, then quickly walked towards the hall.The master was so frightened that his legs became weak, and he squatted down uncontrollably: "Jin Butou, you have to cover us--I saw that the imperial envoy was almost confused by our magistrate, If you keep asking the adults to lock him in, maybe you have already started a real fire. If you turn around and raise your hand, we will be cleaned up..."

He had frightened himself to the point of fear, but Jin Hong didn't have the heart to pay attention to it, and just quickly chased into the back hall.Just as he was about to look for Mu Xianyu's traces, a familiar chuckle came from behind him: "How about it, did that 'big man' say anything?"

Jin Hong was taken aback, and quickly turned around to look, only to find that the man was standing leisurely in the bamboo forest, and he couldn't help but feel a little puzzled: "Why are you alone here—Master Zhifu Don't you really think you are an imperial envoy?"

"He doesn't think of me as an imperial envoy, but I don't think of him as a magistrate either."

Mu Xianyu shook his head slightly, smiled softly, and motioned him to sit down at the stone table among the bamboo forests: "He rushed in to find someone just now, I don't want to meet him so early, right here I hid in the bamboo grove. I figured it was about time for you to come back, so I waited for you here—how is your trip going, is it going well?"

"Smooth is smooth. But the lord asked me to bring you back a word, saying that you love to go back and not go back. Since you have run out to cause trouble, you should find out and settle the matter yourself. Don't go back and look for it every now and then—find your elder brother help..."

The voice of Jin Hong's last sentence has been lowered a lot, and there is also a cautious look of contemplation in his eyes.Mu Xianyu was stunned when he heard that, he knocked on the stone table dumbfounded and said, "I'm checking for him, why did it become troublesome, do you really think that I came here for nothing? Okay, since he doesn't care about me , then I’m not in a hurry to go back, you can give him a word for me—”

"Third Highness—don't make things difficult for a villain. Sending messages to the two princes is not a job that warriors like us can do."

Seeing his response, the last trace of doubt in Jin Hong's heart was finally completely dispelled, he sighed helplessly, and unexpectedly interrupted him so unceremoniously.Mu Xianyu couldn't help being slightly surprised, but he wasn't annoyed at his disrespect, but just looked at him curiously and said, "How can you confirm that I am the third prince, just because the prince said he is my brother?"

"That's not true—it's just that the villain has heard Mr. Shu say that among the princes in the palace, the only third prince is the one who descends from the heavens and the stars. He is talented and intelligent and has visions. His biggest hobby is to disguise himself as a scholar and sneak in among the people. So once you meet a suspected prince among the people, you probably won't be wrong if you directly guess that it's the Third Highness."

Jin Hong answered calmly, then stood up and cupped his fists in a salute, "I just heard that our lord prefect has bumped into His Highness the Third Highness, probably due to a sudden change, the lord prefect was so impatient that he didn't know how to speak properly. Please don't blame the Third Highness, the villain will go and explain the situation to him—"

"That's all, you don't need to intervene in this matter, and you can't intervene."

Mu Xianyu hadn't recovered from the storyteller's part in his mouth, but he just laughed helplessly when he heard the words, waved his hands and sighed softly: "It's a coincidence, just before I went to Jiangnan, I also heard about it in Beijing. A storyteller told me about me. Now that I think about it, it seems that everything started from the passage he said in the book—if there is a chance, I really want to see him again..."

Jin Hong's gaze couldn't help moving slightly, and when he was about to ask, the magistrate's sullen voice came from outside the forest: "What are you two doing there—is it you? Where did you go just now, I chased you all the way. Come here, why can't I find you?"

"grown ups."

Jin Hong stood up and clasped his fists in a salute, but his eyes were faintly filled with doubts and conjectures.Only then did the magistrate notice that there was a head catcher standing here, but he just nodded slightly, and then said in a deep voice: "It's none of your business here, go down first, I have something to say to this—the Imperial Envoy. "

"Why, have I become an imperial envoy again?"

Mu Xianyu chuckled with great interest, and looked at the fierce blood in Zhifu's eyes, but didn't provoke him anymore, but nodded slightly at Jin Hong who was beside him: "Jin Catcher, today's meeting I have to trouble you. You go down first, the magistrate will not do anything to me."

Jin Hong looked hesitantly at these two weird people, but he didn't say much after all, he just clasped his fists and left quickly.Seeing that the surrounding area has been cleared, the magistrate finally breathed a sigh of relief, stared at Mu Xianyu's eyes and said in a deep voice: "Lu Cun, I helped you at the beginning anyway, you have made trouble again and again, what is going on? What do you want to do?"

"I messed up?"

Hearing him call out these two words, Mu Xianyu's heart was finally completely clear.Shaking his head and chuckling, there was a chill in his eyes, he looked at him and said in a deep voice: "I am not a lucky star, but Lin Yuan, the third prince of the Xuan Dynasty. You caused my mother to die of illness first. , and my father is still poisoned to this day. Hundreds of people in Shang Wangfu died overnight because of you, and my uncle and Xinzhu almost missed their lives. Now Zhang's family is also ruined by you. But he still didn’t give up, and poisoned Yangzhou’s magistrate’s body, pretending to be me here—now you still say I’m the one who made trouble?”

"I--"

The magistrate was at a loss for words for a moment, his eyes flashed with anger, he raised his hand angrily, and a black mist hit him.Mu Xianyu just stood there with his hands behind his back indifferently, and his whole body was suddenly covered by a solid white light. The young man dressed in white firmly gathered the black mist in his hand, and held the light blue sword firmly with one hand. On the magistrate's chest, there was an extremely serious and sharp edge between the delicate eyebrows and eyes: "Little black bug, you are not allowed to hurt my little brother!"

"You are the little black bug!"

As soon as he saw the little flower demon in front of him, Zhifu's eyes suddenly became extremely fierce and bloody.He retorted angrily, and was about to make a move to fight him, but suddenly hesitated, clenched his teeth and took two steps back: "I haven't cultivated a human body yet, and this physical body is too useless—wait for me to practice If you succeed, I will seek this blood revenge from you again!"

"Don't despise other people's trash, hurry up and give up your physical body. You can't even pretend to be good. If you keep making jokes like this, I won't be able to get back."

Mu Xianyu interjected angrily, then embraced the little flower demon who was becoming more and more imposing, and gently stroked his back twice encouragingly.Meeting the little guy's eyes that were still shining and waiting for praise, he had no choice but to smile and said: "Mo Zhi is really good today--the next time you say something like this, it's better not to call him a little brother, it doesn't sound right after all." So majestic..."

After being praised by the little brother, the little flower demon's brows and eyes, who obviously didn't listen to the second half of the sentence, bent into a gentle arc.There was no need for Mu Xianyu to explain, and he slapped the prefect's chest flatly.

A cloud of black mist rose suddenly from behind the magistrate, and before the Gu worm in the black mist could escape, Mo Zhi easily put it in his palm.By the way, he sent a ball of soft white light into the magistrate's chest, walked around him, then turned around and nodded confidently: "Little brother, his oleander poison has been cured, sleep for a while." It’s okay when you wake up!”

"Let go of me—if you don't let go, I'm going to bite you!"

Before he finished speaking, the Gu worm's desperate roar came from the palm of his hand.Mu Xianyu put the unlucky magistrate flat on the ground, then nodded at the little guy, signaling him to put the Gu worm on the stone table first.But I also sat at the table, knocked on the table and said softly: "I didn't expect you to be able to talk like this--then let's talk about it in detail, what exactly did you do, and where is the Zhang family now? If It’s not frank enough, I have no choice but to send you to feed Bi Fang..."

"You are indeed an extremely cunning person. I shouldn't have lured Mr. Baihu Xing over to save your life."

The Gu worm was knocked dizzy by him, and he sat down on the stone table and held his head for a while, although he knew that he was doomed to escape with that little flower demon by his side, but he still turned around in anger , facing these two unreasonable guys with his tail, he snorted coldly and said: "What you said is unreasonable at all. It is the human race who is using our poison to do evil and harm others. Not only do we have to be imprisoned You can't escape, and you are forced to produce Gu poison every day, how can you blame us? Besides, what does it have to do with us when the Shang Palace was burned down—it was your father who sacrificed himself Fang, we were also implicated in it, we haven't settled with your father yet!"

"What did you say?"

Mu Xianyu's gaze could not help but condense slightly, and he frowned and said in a deep voice: "Why sacrifice Bi Fang with your body——Didn't the father be poisoned by the poison of the two of you?"

"Gu poison is another matter. Jinfeng's poison can only poison you people in the Xuanwu Palace. My poison can't kill anyone. Even if he is poisoned, he won't die. What is there to be nervous about?"

The Gu worm responded in a cold voice, turned around and raised its tentacles to look at him, angrily stomped on the table with its hind limbs: "But your father is so crazy that he used his own blood to get rid of King Shang. Sacrificial to Bi Fang——Jin Feng was in Shang Wang's mansion at that time, and the awakened Bi Fang not only burned down Shang Wang's mansion, but also sealed Jin Feng for so many years, so I haven't found him until now... ..."

The little flower demon's eyes moved slightly, and she was about to speak subconsciously, but Mu Xianyu said in a slow voice, "According to what you said, the Shang palace was on fire because the father sacrificed his blood to Bi Fang—then Zhang's family is another one this time. How did it burn?"

"How do I know how Zhang's house burned? I'm so dizzy!"

It's okay if he didn't ask, but after this question, the Gu worm became more and more furious, and slapped the table vigorously with extreme indignation: "I was lurking in the palace at that time, and the golden wind was sealed by Bi Fang's divine fire, which made me feel ashamed." I had to fall asleep. I thought nothing would happen—who knew that when I woke up, I was brought to Yangzhou City by that troublesome old doctor. It is far away from the capital, so how can I find it? That idiot who was taken advantage of casually!"

"The names of your two Gu worms are pretty sweet, why are you so angry-don't worry, wait until I get to know the matter."

The Gu worm's voice was quite thin, and the speed of speech was extremely fast. It was the limit for Mu Xianyu to understand half of what he said, but he couldn't help but miss the style of Xuanwu Palace.He rubbed his forehead with a headache, cleared his mind and said again: "When I came to Zhang's house that day, I felt that Zhang Shiyin looked very familiar-but did you take his home?"

"It's not that I seized the house, but when I arrived at the Zhang family, he was already dead, and everyone in the entire Zhang family was dead."

The Gu worm finally calmed down, sat on the table and shook its tentacles and said in a low voice: "I don't know why they all died overnight, but I want to find Bi Fang, because only one of Bi Fang's Only one feather can break the seal of the golden wind and wake up that stupid bug. So I took this opportunity to show people the face of Zhang Shiyin, and changed Zhang's house into the appearance of Shang Wang's mansion, and set up an altar to kill Bi Fang. Attract—who knows that you guys are chasing after one by one, can I not let you live in? I have to buy food for you now, and you are still picky..."

"I thought that the poison in the food was intentionally put in, but it turned out that it was because of your hands, so it was inevitably contaminated with your poison..."

Mu Xianyu finally understood the big oolong here, shook his head and sighed softly, but suddenly changed the topic, raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at him and said: "But how should you explain that the Zhang family actually Entrusting the Seven Killing Gate to make tea cakes mixed with dried oleander flowers, and sending the tea cakes as a tribute to the palace?"

"Otherwise, what else can I do? I pretended to be Zhang Shiyin's identity, so naturally I had to continue to do what the Zhang family had to do. Jingzhong released a message to ask the Zhang family to prepare tributes, so I did so. Seeing this It’s a good idea, I also kept a piece of tea cake for myself, and I thought it would be used to harm others—who knows that I just used it today, and I ran into you, the disaster star again..."

Gu Chong gritted his teeth and looked at him, only to feel more and more angry: "Jin Feng Yu Lu has always used changing fate and absorbing luck as a housekeeping skill, who knew that you, a disaster star, would hit all the things we absorbed. It's bad luck. Nothing good has happened since I met you... I still have to go to Jinfeng, and I don't have time to follow you here to continue my misfortune. I've already said almost everything I need to say. Haunting me!"

Mu Xianyu didn't expect that this could be his own fault, so he shook his head and laughed dumbly.When he was about to speak, the Gu worm suddenly took advantage of his unpreparedness, turned around deftly and jumped off the table, quickly burrowed into the ground, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Mo Zhi hurriedly pounced on it, but it was already a step too late, so he shook his head in frustration and said, "Little brother, these poisonous insects are all soil-type, as long as they touch the soil, I won't be able to find them..."

"It's okay, he doesn't have any malice, just let him go."

Mu Xianyu smiled helplessly, shook his head and sighed softly, rubbing the little guy's head soothingly.The little flower demon blinked, but took out a wooden box from her sleeve: "But——but the other Gu worm he was looking for has always been with me..."

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