Your Majesty, I am not worthy

Rong Mu's clean shoes stepped on the board, He Chao came in a few steps behind.

Seeing that He Chao and Shen Shumo looked at each other, neither of them said a word, Rong Mu raised his eyebrows slightly: "He Chao,? Go ahead and help me hang up the cloak."

Knowing that the person in front of him was holding him back, He Chao nodded, then paced away with his furry cloak in his arms.

Seeing He Chao's figure disappear at the door, Rong Mu looked sideways at Shen Shumo, and the urgency of this man was already evident on his face: "Brother Shen, what's the matter?"

Shen Shumo Songsong clenched his fists tightly, raised his dry lips up and down, and waited until a slightly hoarse voice came out of his throat, he realized that he was extremely thirsty at the moment, but he was too busy to take care of it: "Brother This is the first time I met the Son of Heaven in Hao Jing."

"what?"

Suddenly, there seemed to be rain falling between Rong Mu's eyebrows, but soon Rong Mu tilted his head slightly, and the winter sun before noon danced between his black eyelashes, washing away Rong Mu's momentary stupefaction.

It seemed that the light sigh just now was not from the person in front of him.

Rong Mu hadn't heard about Chu Yuheng for a long time, and he never expected that Shen Shumo would meet Chu Yuheng when he went to Haojing.

At this moment, Rong Mu's Adam's apple rolled gently, suppressing his slightly itchy heart: "Then you two met? What did you say?"

It stands to reason that Chu Yuheng and Shen Shumo didn't have much interaction.

But what must Chu Yuheng have done to Shen Shumo? Or said something, which caused Shen Shumo to become so anxious right now.

Could it be that Chu Yuheng is the same as when he was in the academy again? Secretly embarrassing Shen Shumo?

Rong Mu quietly waited for Shen Shumo's reply, but at this moment Shen Shumo stared straight at Rong Mu's bright eyes, and said surprisingly: "He suspects that the newly made hairband was made by you."

"impossible."

Rong Mu raised his eyelids, and when he looked up at Shen Shumo again, his eyes were solemn and decisive: "He has never seen this hairband before, so how could he suspect that I did it."

Shen Shumo glanced at the person in front of him, without looking carefully, the hairband Rong Mu used to tie his hair was the same as the one he saw in Haojing that day.

The same plain fabric is filled with simple and eye-catching embroidery patterns.

"When he was looking for me that day, he was holding a hairband in his hand." Seeing that Rong Mu was still frowning, Shen Shumo analyzed the matter more simply, "The hairband he was holding was embroidered according to your design. There are [-]% similar, but the material used for the hair band is not as white as new, but has a yellowish feeling after washing."

"You said he was holding a headband with the same embroidered pattern, but it was very old..." Muttering these words, Rong Mu's brain stormed suddenly.

Among the flying sand and gravel, Rong Mu's clear and translucent glazed eyes deepened in vain, like a cold lake that is very bright and lonely in autumn and winter.

He remembered.

He did have a similar headband in his early years.

At that time, besides making clothes, he also asked his aunt who weaved in the village to weave a hair tie for him, but the embroidery patterns at that time were a little simpler than now, and he used the ones he made when he first came down the mountain. made drawings.

For the next two years, he kept using that headband.

He was also reluctant to throw away the hair tie, and after moving into the Prime Minister's Mansion, he even asked Steward Zhou to store the hair tie and some old clothes in the Prime Minister's Mansion's warehouse.

How could it fall into Chu Yuheng's hands now?

Shen Shumo couldn't bear to press Rong Mu.

Especially at the moment when Rong Mu's back was facing him, his straight waist fell in the sunlight, which was dyed with a warm color, but the person in front of him still looked cold.

Having said this, Shen Shumo reached out and kneaded the back of his neck, which was already wet with sweat. Even though he had returned from the capital, the surprise of seeing Chu Yuheng half a month ago was still with him everywhere.

In three or two steps, he went to the side table and poured tea. The water was a bit cold, which made Shen Shumo calm down.

Putting down the teacup, Shen Shumo couldn't help asking: "Brother, I don't know what happened between you and... that person, isn't that the friend you made friends with in the academy back then? You had a good relationship at that time, how are you two now?" To such an extent?"

Rong Mu also paced over, sat down on the seat, and was immediately questioned by Shen Shumo. At this moment, Rong Mu's nervousness when he heard Chu Yuheng's news dissipated a little.

In fact, Rong Mu knew that it would not be useless to be nervous at this moment.

Chu Yuheng is so smart, he only revealed some clues, if Chu Yuheng has the heart, he will definitely find out where he is going.But it's okay.

Now he is alone, as long as his relationship with the Hua family is kept secret, and the Hua family can be stable, then he has nothing to be afraid of.

"Didn't Brother Shen read it before when he was studying, 'The cunning rabbit dies, the running dog cooks, the birds die, and the good bow hides', it has been like this since ancient times."

"But those shouldn't be you."

In Shen Shumo's heart, Rong Mu is the most intelligent.

If you are an official, you will skyrocket and your official career will be prosperous; if you are not an official, you will inevitably become rich if you choose to do business like him.

So Shen Shumo added: "Brother Rong said that the monarch and his subjects are separated, but it seems impossible for my brother to think about it."

"Why?" Rong Mu raised his eyebrows.

"At the beginning, the face of the brother who was looking for the embroidery pattern was condensed, and it didn't look like he was looking for revenge on the younger brother. When the elder brother repeatedly emphasized that the embroidered pattern was the embroidered mother, the dead silence on the face was also the same. Let brother be puzzled, if the two of you really have a personal enmity, how could he be so sad."

Shen Shumo's questioning was obvious, but Rong Mu's silence made him unable to ask anything.

And Rong Mu's silence must be because he didn't believe that Chu Yuheng would feel sad for his death, Chu Yuheng would connive others to kill him, how could he be sad because of his death in the sea of ​​fire.

After a long time, Rong Mu spoke, but this time he also covered it up——

"I have been a courtier for a long time, and if I don't pay attention, I will easily rebel against the emperor Nilin. The reason why I left so resolutely in the past is because if I don't get out in time, I will definitely not end well."

Shen Shumo frowned: "But don't you love him anymore?"

After saying the words, Shen Shumo regretted it.

How could he bring to light the undisclosed relationship between Rong Mu and Chu Yuheng.

Carefully looking at Rong Mu's expression at the moment, Shen Shumo's throat was itchy: "That's not what being a brother means..."

"No problem." Rong Mu's long eyelashes drooped down, half covering the indifference in his eyes, "I have loved, but those past... just take it as a lesson I learned when I didn't know people clearly."

Shen Shumo was delighted with Rong Mu's utter ruthlessness towards the old man at this moment, but at the same time, he felt pity for the people in front of him recalling the past's sorrow.

Taking a step forward to pat Rong Mu's shoulder, Shen Shumo said solemnly: "Brother, I don't know what conflicts you had back then, but that one didn't seem to have suspected anything much. After he met me that day, he never confessed to me again." See you, so maybe Brother Rong doesn't need to think too much."

Shen Shumo himself lost a little bit of confidence when he said this.

But at the moment Rong Mu is so nervous, he still chooses to continue to comfort Rong Mu: "If you are really worried, I am afraid that his people will find him, and there are a lot of people hiding under his hands. If not, move to another private place." place to live?"

Rong Mu lowered his eyes and said nothing.

But the hands curled up in the wide sleeves gradually returned to their former calmness.

The corners of his mouth curved slightly, and Rong Mu smiled bitterly: "Then thank you, Brother Shen..."

"Why do you and I need to say thank you?"

After clicking his tongue a few times, Shen Shumo got up: "If that's the case, Brother Wei will go back to find Zhuangzi for you first."

"Actually, you don't need Zhuangzi." Rong Mu, who had figured it out, stopped him suddenly, "If he wants to find me, I might not be able to leave."

Rong Mu knew it in his heart.

If Chu Yuheng really wanted to not let him go, and sent someone to follow Shen Shumo to look for him, then he definitely wouldn't be able to go far.

Shen Shumo didn't like to see Rong Mu's gloomy appearance: "Who said that, as long as that person doesn't come in person now, it will not be easy for him to find you on the territory of Tongqi County."

But Rong Mu's originally loosened tendons still tightened up again, and he couldn't even smile when he led Shen Shumo to the carriage.

Shen Shumo knew that Rong Mu was unhappy at the moment, so he didn't say much, he put down the car curtain and drove away with a wave of his hand.

Seeing people leave, Rong Mushi's thoughts are still flying wildly.

Who knew that he really got rid of it back then?

Between him and Chu Yuheng, he was the one who left without saying goodbye, and he left in the way of fire escape. Chu Yuheng absolutely couldn't bear his reckless behavior.

In the short period of time when he stopped in front of the door, Rong Mu thought about how Chu Yuheng would torture him if he really caught him.

The dark prison, the bloody heavy copper whip, the scorching and biting salt water, he may all be subjected to it again and again under Wen Li's hands...

Rong Musong laughed hoarsely to himself, suppressing the self-mockery that almost overflowed his bright eyes, when the plain white winter robe turned around, a black figure suddenly fell into his eyes.

The warm sun in the south of the Yangtze River infects everything in front of the mansion, but it can't soften the hard and sinister face of the man not far away. At this moment, the man who should be in the Haojing Palace is not far away from him, and he brought Frost and snow can only be raging in Haojing during the twelfth lunar month of winter.

Being cold and familiar also makes Rong Mu's heart palpitate.

How funny.

There really seemed to be no way for him to escape.