The villain rolls over online [Quick Pass]

Mu Chenyu's return to Beijing broke the check and balance between the princes for the past three years.

During the Ching Ming season, the rain continued. Rui Wang Mu Chenlan was sitting in the teahouse, listening to the storyteller below talking about Mu Chenyu's heroic deeds at the border. There was a faint smile on the corner of Mu Chenlan's mouth, but his eyes seemed to be frozen .

Opposite him, Li Qiubai was sitting, took a sip of tea, and looked at the lively scene downstairs with his head tilted.

"Brother Zirong." Mu Chenlan opened his mouth, calling him intimate.

Li Qiubai turned his face back.

Mu Chenyu said: "I heard that elder brother Zirong likes to come to this teahouse to listen to books when he has nothing to do. Now that I listen to it, this storyteller's words are really wonderful."

Li Qiubai smiled: "After all, I'm an idler, always looking for something interesting to pass the time, I don't know how much time I have left with this body..."

"Brother Zirong." Mu Chenlan interrupted him, as if he didn't like what he said, "Don't say that."

Li Qiubai pursed his lips and smiled again, but didn't say anything more.

After a while, Mu Chenlan asked him: "What does brother Zirong think about the return of the emperor's brother to Beijing?"

Li Qiubai raised his alarm in his heart, his face didn't show it, he stroked the rim of the cup with his fingertips, and after thinking for a moment, he replied: "Okay, not good."

Mu Chenlan: "How to say?"

"King Duan's return to the capital is more competitive, but from another point of view, he will break the balance between you and King Xiang. If you handle it properly, you may be able to dismount King Xiang first—" Li Qiubai clicked. Don't discuss too much outside.

King Duan is Mu Chenyu's title.

After hearing his words, Mu Chenlan was thoughtful.

Mu Chenyu was caught up in chores, and it took a while before he went to see Li Qiubai again. It was still late at night, and it was still the same day. Li Qiubai didn't sleep that night. He was in the study. When he saw Mu Chenyu, his eyes were surprised For a moment, I don't know whether it was teasing or mocking, "I don't know if His Highness still has such a hobby."

"I'll go through the main entrance, but you won't see me." Mu Chenyu said.

Mu Chenyu also came here a few days ago, but it's a pity that the door was turned away every time. He is no longer the stupid young man who just came out of the mountains and knew nothing. He quickly realized that it was Li Qiubai who didn't want to see him.

"Your Highness is worrying too much, I just happened to be away from the mansion those few days." Li Qiubai said.

Mu Chenyu pressed, "Then where are you?"

Li Qiubai paused for a while, his tone was flat, and he replied without any guilt: "The teahouse."

He let Mu Chenyu into the study room, closed the door, and said, "The storyteller in the tea house has been talking about the deeds of His Highness defeating the enemy for the past few days, so it's very interesting."

Mu Chenyu looked around the study room, but soon lost interest in the layout of the study room, turned around and stared straight at Li Qiubai who was sitting in front of the desk, and said, "If you want to hear it, I'll tell you."

I don't know if he can't hide it, or he doesn't want to hide it, that aggressive gaze made Li Qiubai unable to continue his previous business with peace of mind, he closed the book, raised his head and looked at the man.

"What's the matter, Your Highness?" He asked in a clear voice.

"It's nothing." Mu Chenyu sat down opposite him, "I just wanted to see you. I haven't had a good chat with you since I came back."

Li Qiubai: "..."

It seems that they didn't have a good chat before he went to the border.

"Why don't I tell you about my situation at the border?" Mu Chenyu said in a calm male voice.

Li Qiubai: "No need."

Mu Chenyu frowned slightly, as if distressed.

Li Qiubai sighed lightly: "If your highness is fine, why don't you sort out the books for me?"

"Okay." Mu Chenyu smiled.

During the three years at the border, the wildness in him did not restrain, but became more and more wanton. What he contained was the powerful aura that those princes who grew up in the capital did not possess. Soaked out of the fighting.

But it was such a man who was carefully arranging the books in the study, fearing that if his hands were heavy, they would be damaged somewhere.

"Father announced me into the palace the night before." Mu Chenyu said while tidying up, her low voice was not abrupt in the middle of the night, with a somewhat comfortable sense of relaxation, "Father wants to marry me, I refused."

Li Qiubai raised his eyes from the book: "Your Highness doesn't want to get married?"

"I don't want to be married to them, I've never been in contact with them, how can I have feelings, and..."

And what, he didn't go on, and Li Qiubai didn't ask.

He said casually: "Emotions can be cultivated."

Mu Chenyu didn't speak for a long while, but after a while, his Adam's apple rolled, and he was slightly nervous, so he asked without showing a trace on his face: "Zi Rong, do you want me to get married?"

Li Qiubai said in a flat voice: "Your Highness's marriage, your Highness is free to decide."

This answer of his made Mu Chenyu's nervousness suddenly discouraged. While preparing for the possibility of getting the two answers of "want" and "don't want", Li Qiubai gave the third answer, which he couldn't explain clearly How does it feel in the bottom of my heart.

"Zi Rong, you are always like this."

Speak without leaking.

Li Qiubai flipped through the book in his hands with downcast eyes.

The candlelight shone on Li Qiubai's side face, his eyebrows and eyes seemed to be filled with endless tenderness, and his thin back made people feel pity, making people want to hold him in their arms and protect their hearts.

After that night, Mu Chenyu often came to look for Li Qiubai, and never went through the main entrance, and always entered by sex.

Li Qiubai refused to meet him at that time, because he was worried that the third prince would have doubts about him, suspecting that he and Mu Chenyu were colluding secretly, which would only cause trouble, and he didn't bother to stop Mu Chenyu's sex.

The white horse passed by, and the situation in the palace changed a lot.

Mu Chenyu regarded Li Qiubai as an idle and sickly ordinary young master. He didn't know that he belonged to the third prince, so he didn't take precautions against him. From this, Li Qiubai, from the few words he occasionally heard from his mouth, pieced together that he was in the palace. progress in .

Lantern Festival.

Li Qiubai went back to his room after dinner, and Mu Chenyu came to look for him again that night, the streets were very lively, and he wanted to meet him and go out to play.

*

The streets are indeed bustling.

Within a few steps of a street, you can see a wide variety of lanterns, and stalls that win prizes by guessing lantern riddles. The night is the most lively, and many people are setting off lotus lanterns by the river.

The crowd was crowded, Li Qiubai was wearing a dark robe today, and Mu Chenyu was beside him, clearing a small space for him without any trace.

They walked to a mask stand, Li Qiubai took a second look at the mask, he didn't bring any entourage out, and he didn't have any money on him, he just came out to let the wind flow, just take a look, don't want Mu Chenyu to be interested in seeing him, just go straight Bought it for him.

Li Qiubai declined politely, took it and played with it in his hands for a while, his slender fingers made the mask look much better.

Mu Chenyu turned around and bought another mask, tossing it in his hand: "If I wear a mask and mix in the crowd, will you still be able to find me?"

Li Qiubai blinked and said honestly, "I don't know."

"I will definitely find you." Mu Chenyu said.

"Oh?" Li Qiubai chuckled lightly, not knowing whether he believed it or not.

There was also a smile in Mu Chenyu's eyes, her eyes were pure and bright, and she praised: "Zi Rong, you look so pretty when you smile."

He said this with a bit of youthful air.

Li Qiubai suppressed the smile at the corner of his mouth, coughed lightly twice, turned his head to see the person putting up the lamp by the river, and asked, "Do you want to try, Your Highness?"

Mu Chenyu's attention was easily diverted.

He would not refuse Li Qiubai's proposal.

They bought two lotus lanterns, walked through the busy streets, and went to a secluded place to set up the lanterns. It was not easy to find a quiet place today.

Li Qiubai lit the lotus lantern and put it into the river, his face was printed on the river surface, he let the lantern go, and then Mu Chenyu also put the lantern on, the two lotus lanterns swayed and drifted away, on the river surface Somewhere on the ground, they bumped into each other, and then separated slightly.

Mu Chenyu looked at that scene, the corners of his mouth curled up in satisfaction.

"Did you make a wish?" he asked.

Li Qiubai shook his head.

Mu Chenyu didn't seem to have expected it, and raised his brows slightly, "Why not?"

Li Qiubai said: "I have no wish."

He didn't want Mu Chenyu to ask any further questions, so he asked instead: "Where's Your Highness? What wish did you make?"

Mu Chenyu was silent for a moment, and said, "I didn't make a wish either."

The vow he made was a vow that could not be spoken.

The lotus lantern on the river floated away and turned into two red dots. The cold wind blew in, and the black hair of the two standing side by side by the river was intertwined and tangled.

Li Qiubai turned around: "It's getting late, let's go back."

-

It's summer.

The emperor was seriously ill, and he had not been in court for seven days. The situation in the court was treacherous, and Mu Chenyu had not come to look for Li Qiubai for three days in a row. Li Qiubai also understood the situation in the palace from his father.

Now it is at a critical moment, which prince can sit in the high position, probably will have a result.

Before Mu Chenyu returned to Beijing, Mu Chenlan and the Fourth Prince Xiang Wang had a fierce fight, and they both regarded each other as the strongest competitors, but they didn't want Cheng Yaojin to run out of the way and let them go to nothing.

Since Mu Chenyu returned to Beijing, the emperor's preference for him made everyone feel that his hope of seizing the heir is the greatest, even the third prince Mu Chenlan thought so.

Mu Chenlan has been to the Prime Minister's Mansion several times in secret. Li Qiubai saw him last night, and the third prince had a blister on his mouth. At this moment, the third prince, who has always been calm, can't help but feel unsteady.

According to Mu Chenlan, since the emperor suddenly fainted seven days ago, his consciousness has only been awake occasionally, it is difficult to get out of bed, and it is difficult to speak a word. The imperial doctor said that the emperor had a stroke, and he has been using acupuncture these days ease.

The Queen Mother eats vegetarian food and recites Buddhism all the year round, and this time she also came out to preside over the overall situation. There was a lot of discussion in the court. , while coveting that supreme position.

The weather is hot, Li Qiu put ice cubes in the white room to cool off the heat, in front of him is a chessboard, with grapes in his hand, he is playing chess on the chessboard at a leisurely pace.

Before the chessboard was finished, someone came to report that the prime minister was waiting for him in the study.

When Li Qiubai arrived at the place, he found not only his father, but also Mu Chenlan in the study.

Not long after he sat down, Mu Chenlan directly clarified that when the Emperor Dao was sober these few days, he called Mu Chenyu to go, no one knew what they said, the outside world was constantly speculating, and the situation seemed to be clear.

And at some point, many ministers in the court were win over by Mu Chenyu, and now his biggest opponent is no longer King Xiang.

Mu Chenlan's face was gloomy, and the original refined temperament on his body was covered.

He twitched at the corner of his mouth, "It's really a dog that doesn't bark that bites."

Li Qiubai reminded: "His Royal Highness, be careful with your words."

"Speak carefully?" Mu Chenlan raised his eyebrows and looked at him, with unclear meaning in his eyes.

"Brother Zirong—" he lowered his voice, "Do you have a personal relationship with Brother Huang in private? Could it be that you also think he is more suitable for that position than me?"

Li Qiubai did not expect to draw his anger on him, he was silent for a moment, and asked: "Why did Prince Rui say that?"

"On the night of the Lantern Festival, did elder brother Zi Rong leave the residence?" Although Prince Rui's words were a question, his tone was firm.

Li Qiubai looked up at him.

Mu Chenlan's eyes sank like a pool of stagnant water, sticky and cold.

"Or, did you see him that night?"

Who this "he" is is self-evident.