Chang'an Ferry

Mu Zhan watched Li Shengye burn the booklet, and heard Li Shengye's words, "Your Majesty trusts me, and I will die as if I were dead."

Li Shengye picked up the fire with a stick and continued to put folds in it, "Is the general ready to give up something?"

"Your Majesty?" Mu Zhan clenched his fists, "What does Your Majesty want?"

Li Shengye slowly opened the last booklet, and Mu Zhan saw that it was densely packed with soldiers who escorted food to Diyi, and they were all people who followed him through life and death. Now many of them have become grandpas, and then thought Li Shengye just asked the inexplicable question, Mu Zhan's voice was a little hoarse, "What does Your Majesty want?"

Li Shengye flipped through the pages slowly but talked about something unrelated, "Apart from the general, I have another headache, that is, those ministers have been writing letters to let me be the queen, but I don't want to marry those vulgar fans. I have a favorite person in my heart, but... I have never been able to find someone to help propose marriage"

Do you want me to be a matchmaker?Mu Zhan thought, "To be favored by His Majesty, that girl must be a great blessing. If Your Majesty wants to find someone to marry, I am willing to help you."

Li Shengye evoked a smile, "He doesn't think so, but if the general is willing to say goodbye, he will definitely agree, but I don't know if the general is willing or not?"

"I am willing to take this trip." Mu Zhan looked at the notebook in Li Shengye's hand, many names were blurred by the flames.

Li Shengye let go of his hand slowly, and put the folder into the fire, "Yingying, can General Mu agree to betrothing Yiying to me?"

What? "Your Majesty!" Mu Zhan's voice was a little unsteady.

Li Shengye looked at Mu Zhan, and said word by word, "I said that I have a crush on Yanying, General Mu's third son. I wonder if the general would like it?"

Mu Zhan opened his mouth and found that he couldn't make any sound. It took him a long time before he said, "Ying Ying is a boy."

"I know" Li Shengye nodded, "but I'm happy with him"

"Your Majesty knows that I am not in charge of Yanying's marriage," Mu Zhan said dryly.

Li Shengye smiled, "General, look at the fire going out."

Mu Zhan bowed his head, and he could still see several names on the brochure. One of them, Mu Zhan, still remembered that he only attended his child's full moon wine last month. He had seen every one of his family members, "Your Majesty!"

Li Shengye poured a cup of tea into the basin, "Go back, General! Reply to me tomorrow."

Mu Zhan watched Li Shengye pick up the unburned piece of paper, "Your Majesty, there is nothing else..."

"No, General, please go back." Li Shengye sent someone away, Mu Zhan slowly got up, and walked out step by step, "General, there is only one way to do this!"

Mu Zhan was taken aback.

"Father, are you back?" Mu Dingyang and Jiang Ning were waiting at the door.

Mu Zhan raised his head slowly, "How did Master Kong arrange the people brought back?"

"I went to see it, and they were all taken into Dali Temple," Mu Dingyang said.

Mu Zhan swayed, and Mu Dingyang was startled and quickly helped him up, "Father, be careful"

"Has Yingying?" Mu Zhan asked.

Mu Dingyang said, "The third brother has gone to Xinghuo Island"

Mu Zhan nodded, "I'm going to the study."

Mu Dingyang and Jiang Ning looked at each other, worriedly looking at Mu Zhan's back.

The next day, just before dawn, Mu Zhan walked out the door looking as if he had aged several years, with several strands of white hair added to his temples, "General"

"Prepare the car, I want to enter the palace." Mu Zhan's voice was very hoarse.

"Your Majesty, General Mu is already waiting in the imperial study," Xishun said.

Li Shengye put on the court clothes and said "hmm"

Mu Zhan looked at Li Shengye's figure, loosened and then clenched his hands "Your Majesty"

"Come in, general." Li Shengye took the lead and walked in front, "I wonder what the general is thinking?"

With great difficulty, Mu Zhan took out a post with red sprinkles of gold from his sleeve. "Ying Ying alone"

"Okay, I promise you." Li Shengye stepped forward to take the Geng Tie and opened it, "Don't worry, General, I will treat You Ying with sincerity."

Mu Zhan didn't want to say anything, but just looked at the red Geng post, which made his eyes hurt.

Li Shengye had already walked to the table and began to write the imperial edict, "By the way, General Mu's father left a will for Yan Ying, I don't know?"

"Here..." Mu Zhan took it out of his sleeve, and Xishun quickly stepped forward to take it and handed it to Li Shengye. Li Shengye carefully checked it and threw it into the fire after confirming that it was correct.

"Cough" Mu Zhan watched Ming Huang's edict turn into ashes and couldn't help coughing.

"General, are you okay?" Li Shengye had already written the edict.

Mu Zhan shook his head, looking a little dazed.

"Your Majesty, it's time to go to court," Xishun reminded.

"Yes." Li Shengye collected the imperial edict and handed it to Xi Shun, "After the court, you will read the imperial edict."

"Yes"

When the officials entered the palace, they saw Mu Zhan standing in the palace, and they all had their own concerns, "Your Majesty is here."

"I greet Your Majesty, long live long live long live long live"

"flat body"

Li Shengye is in a very good mood now, looking at these people who are constantly making mistakes, they are all amiable.

Xishun naturally understands his master's current mood, "If you have something to do, you will leave the court if you have nothing to do."

What will happen to the officials?I just want to see how the emperor will deal with the Mu family.

"Your Majesty" Kong Li stood up

"Say"

"A number of officers and soldiers involved in the Mu family's collusion with Di Yi have been taken to Dali Temple, what will be the next arrangement?"

Li Shengye changed his posture, "Let it go!"

"what"

"This is the crime of collaborating with the enemy."

Immediately there was a lot of discussion like a vegetable market.

Although Kong Li handles things impartially, he admires Mu Dingyang 100% and admires Mu Zhan, so he can't help being a little worried.

Naturally, Lin Yuanzhi also frowned, thinking of rhetoric in his mind, while Jing Wenyang, Shangshu of the Ministry of War and other officials who had good friends with the Mu family remained silent.

"Father told me all these things before he was alive, and asked me to support General Mu's plan," Li Shengye said flatly.

Why didn't you say it earlier?Many ministers thought in their hearts.

But Kong Li and Lin Yuanzhi looked at Mu Zhan's face and didn't feel that this matter just passed by so lightly.

"Your Majesty, but he Mu Zhan threatened you" asked the official who jumped the most during this time.

Li Shengye smiled, "Ai Qing is too worried!" Then he looked at the ministers, "My father knew about this matter, and I will support it after I know it. It would be a great thing if some food and supplies are exchanged for a hundred years of peace on the border. Think?"

"Yes" Lin Yuanzhi stood up, "This can reduce a lot of expenses, and the navy battalion has been developing new weapons these days, which can just be used to support them"

"Your Majesty, once this goal is achieved, it will reduce the bloodshed of our soldiers," Jing Wenyang said.

"I don't agree," Yang Yu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice said, "who knows if they will avenge their kindness, and then we will lose our wife and lose our army."

"Yes! Your Majesty, please make a clear decision." It was that jumping and jubilant person again.

"General Mu thinks so?" Li Shengye asked.

Mu Zhan bowed his hand, very tired, "The minister should do a perfect plan"

"Okay, I believe that General Mu can also bring us good news." Li Shengye said, "Okay, do you have anything else to say?"

"The minister has the book to play"

"Say"

"Your Majesty's harem is empty, so Your Majesty should be..." Li Shengye raised his hand to stop it just as the Minister of Rites said this.

"Okay, I know, but I already have a candidate for queen, Xishun, let's announce the decree!"

Hearing what the emperor said, the ministers all exchanged glances in private, and they didn't know which girl it was?

"By God's blessing, the emperor's edict said: Mu Yiying, the third son of the Mu family, is both talented and beautiful, and has won my heart. He is specially appointed as the empress, and we will choose a good day to get married."

"Li Shengye, are you crazy! Mu Yanying is a man" Li Shengqi jumped out all of a sudden.

Normally, Li Shengjing would think that Li Shengqi was too much, but this time he also wanted to scold someone, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid it's a typo?"

All the ministers also knelt down one after another, begging the emperor to take back his order.

"Qin Tianjian" Li Shengye was unmoved.

"The minister is here" the doctor Qin Tianjian came out.

"It's up to you to calculate the auspicious days, and you must choose the best day," Li Shengye instructed.

Qin Tianjian didn't answer. An emperor wants to marry a man, which is okay. If he counts his time, how can he go down to meet the emperors and ancestors in the future.

"What? You all have opinions?" Li Shengye narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Your Majesty, please take it back"

"Take it back? Impossible!" Li Shengye stood up, "Qin Tianjian will do your duty well, and the Ministry of Rites will prepare the agenda for the big wedding when we get back."

"Your Majesty, please take it back!" The officials knelt and couldn't get up

Li Shengye snorted coldly, "If you like to kneel, then kneel."

After the emperor left, everyone remembered that Mu Zhan had never said a word from the beginning to the end, "General Mu, you really raised a good son!"

Mu Zhan knelt there and didn't speak, Li Shengjing quickly asked, "General Mu, what's going on?" Mu Zhan didn't speak

"This is absolutely impossible. Don't forget, Mu Yanying's marriage is up to him. As long as Mu Yanying doesn't agree, who can force him?" Li Shengqi said angrily.

"Yes!"

"Yes, as long as Mu Yanying doesn't want to, His Majesty won't do it!" Everyone found a life-saving straw.

"The imperial decree has been destroyed by His Majesty," Mu Zhan said flatly.

"what!"

"Mu Zhan, you know how to raise a son"

"Mu Yiying was raised by the late emperor"

"But it's his son!" Everyone was arguing.

"Okay!" Li Shengjing felt a headache when he heard that, "The only solution for now is to ask His Majesty to take back this edict."

"Yes, it has not been announced yet, there is still a way" sighed

So everyone went to the Imperial Study Room to continue kneeling, while Li Shengye was drawing leisurely inside, "Your Majesty, it's not the same thing if they kneel down like this!"

"Let them kneel! Go out and say, whoever I marry is my freedom. If you don't agree, you can continue to kneel. If you faint from kneeling, you will be dismissed directly." Li Shengye stopped writing and looked at the painting carefully.

"Yes"

In the end, the contest ended when a doctor Guanglu fainted and was dismissed.

And Doctor Qin Tianjian was called to the imperial study room before leaving the palace, "This is the Geng Tie from Zhen and Yan Ying, you use it to count the days, and calculate it as soon as possible, without any mistakes."

"Yes" Qin Tianjian took it with a trembling hand, feeling that he would be ashamed to meet the first emperor in the future.

Soon the edict was announced, and the streets and alleys were full of discussions, "What do you think is the attractiveness of this young master of the Mu family that the emperor likes so much?"

"I think it's just relying on face. Do you remember that he used to run around with the young master of the Lin family and attracted the attention of many girls?"

"Yes! My old lady also said that if she was 20 years younger, she would go after her."

"no shame"

"I don't think so, Mr. Mu is very talented, he is the proud student of Ji Tingyuan's famous scholar!"

"Didn't others say it? Both talent and appearance, haha"

"Hahaha, do you think they will parade through the streets when they get married, and they will definitely throw out a lot of red envelopes at that time?"

"right"

"Hahaha"

As soon as Mu Zhan stepped into the gate, Jiang Ning beat him with a big broom, "You bastard, Mu Zhan! You bastard!"

"lady"

"Mother" pulled and pulled, and those who grabbed the broom grabbed the broom. "Mother, calm down, listen to what Dad says?"

"How do you say it? The housekeeper told me earlier that he took the Geng Tie that Ji Ying left in the ancestral hall, Mu Zhan, he is your son!" Jiang Ning rushed forward to punch and kick again.

Mu Zhan silently accepted, "I know he is my son, and I can't bear it, but..." Those soldiers are not the sons of the family, fathers, husbands, grandpas...

"Father, is there really no room for reincarnation?" Mu Dingyang asked.

Mu Zhan shook his head, "Yingying, call him back!"

"No, I don't agree" Jiang Ning cried, tears streaming down his face "Ah! I don't agree"

"Father, there is an imperial decree left by the late emperor about his marriage"

"Yeah! Yanying, he..." Jiang Ning said quickly.

Mu Zhan shook his head, "I even gave the Geng Tie to the Emperor."

"Impossible, the imperial edict has been kept by Yan Ying." As soon as Mu Dingyang finished speaking, he thought that Mu Yanying did not take the imperial edict away but kept it at home. If his father wanted to take it away...

"Let him come back! I'm sorry for him." Mu Zhan walked towards the study with his shoulders slumped.

"Ah Qie" Mu Yanying wiped her nose with a handkerchief.

Lin Chen asked worriedly, "Yingying, are you okay?"

"I'm fine." Mu Yanying thought for a while, "I just feel that people are talking about me all the time."

"It must be that Aunt Jiang misses you." Lin Chen said, "It's also my fault. It was supposed to be resolved soon, but now it's been delayed for so long. It's too late when you go back."

"It's okay, aren't we on the way back at this time?" Mu Yanying looked at the looming coastline, "Look, where is the boundary of Fuzhou?"

"Um"

But the closer to the coast, Mu Yanying felt more and more uneasy. Rubbing her temples should be the reason why she didn't have a good rest these days!