I am His Majesty's favorite

The night is cold as water.

The bright moonlight spreads through the window sash, reflecting a large area of ​​flat and clean ground.

The candlelight was dim, and a solemn and solemn statue not far away could be vaguely seen, with its eyes slightly closed, overlooking the world in the hazy shadow.

There was a strong smell of blood in the air.

Mu Xun rubbed his shoulders and elbows, and leaned against the stone brick wall behind his upper body.

This is a temple.

Those masked men in black tied him up and left him here.

"elder brother."

A soft cry suddenly sounded in the deep darkness, and when someone approached and saw his face clearly, a look of surprise floated on Mu Chen's face.

is an acquaintance.

Wen Xianting.

"My son's etiquette for welcoming guests, I'm afraid it needs to be improved."

Mu Chen smiled lightly, covering the wound with his hand, looking very weak.

Wen Xianting also pursed his lips, took the sword flower, and stabbed his torn clothes to confirm the authenticity.

Blood scabs coagulated on the wound, and more blood gushed out from the edge, and the two inches from the collarbone were bruised and swollen, which was indeed a serious injury.

Wen Xianting nodded in satisfaction, folded himself and sat in the soft chair beside him. "I'm curious, how could that old fox Mu Zhihuan fall for my brother's tricks?"

"Perhaps it's because you're getting old and your brain isn't that good." Mu Chen sighed.

In fact, this really can't be blamed on Mu Zhihuan.

Song Qian was carefully selected by the old Huaibei monarch to be placed next to His Highness the Crown Prince. Except for the old monarch and queen, even Lin Heng, who had been by his side for five years, didn't know about it.

Therefore, Song Qian deliberately used his identity as a hidden stake in Nan Chan to show resentment towards the prince's servant in front of Mu Zhihuan, and incidentally revealed that Mu Chen was not doing well.

Nanyun is powerful, and Huaibei should not be underestimated.

That old fox already had the evil intention to usurp the throne, but because of his lack of strength and no legitimate reason to rebel, he naturally wouldn't easily let go of this opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.

Fortunately, although Mu Zhihuan was not easy to deceive, no matter how long his hand was, he couldn't reach the palace.

In order to make him trust, Mu Chen once asked Song Qian to quietly send a few things over.

A secret play picture, three letters.

The secret drama picture is the little yellow picture that Lin Heng accidentally made by inserting willows. In the picture, he and Mu Xing are playing Wushan with clouds and rain in their mouths, and there are names and surnames that the monarch was forced to sign at the bottom.

Mu Zhihuan asked someone to compare the handwriting, and he was sure that it was Lin Heng's own handwriting.

The letter was written by Mu Chen, which recorded some policy strategies of the Nanchong Dynasty.

Some of them were told to him casually by Lin Heng while chatting, and some were inferred by him based on Song Qian's information.

He also cried about his experience in the letter, in short, he described Lin Heng as a hypocritical wolf, and added extra fuel to the torture on the bed.

Mu Zhihuan also checked the contents of the letter, and found that half of what Mu Chen said was correct.

At this point in the matter, apart from these things, the rest depends on the disguise Mu Chi has set up in Huaibei.

The image of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in Huaibei has always been idle, playing with cats and dogs, catching birds and chickens all day long, he is a typical royal family and aristocrats.

Mu Zhihuan seemed to have stayed away from the court for decades, but in fact he had already conducted various investigations, so he was not very suspicious.

Prudent people often don't believe in things that are too real, but are not very vigilant about half-truths and falsehoods.

If the information given by Mu Chen is valuable, if it is not done well, it will cause adverse effects.So he did the opposite, the three harmless letters, in exchange for Mu Zhihuan falling into a trap, no matter how you look at it, it was a sure-fire deal.

But what really made Mu Zhihuan let down his guard was the two assassinations planned by Mu Bing.

Ji Huaichen was right, not only the Lantern Festival, but even the turmoil on New Year's Eve had a lot to do with His Highness the Crown Prince.

On the surface, the assassination plan seemed to be a failure, but the assassins did infiltrate the palace.The people Lai Ji Lai Mu Zhihuan sent were useless and could not hurt Lin Heng at all.

Mu Bing also knew that if the assassination continued to fail, Mu Zhihuan would definitely be on guard. In order to deceive all the troops in one fell swoop, he designed the scene of the assassination himself.

It is far from enough to rely on only one Song Qian to make things happen, he must guarantee the absolute safety of Lin Heng. After several weighings, Ji Huaichen is the most suitable candidate.

Mu Xun was worried that Mu Zhihuan would not bite the hook, and bet all his wealth to fight this battle, so he let Ji Huaichen hurt himself during the banquet.

He is Lin Heng's favorite general, and he will never ignore His Majesty's orders, not to mention he is known to be dull and paranoid.What he did, in the eyes of outsiders, was basically what Lin Heng meant.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was injured, so he explained the whole process of setting up the situation to Wen Xianting in a concise and concise manner.

After finishing speaking, he raised his eyes and said, "After answering your question, it's my turn now? Who are you?"

"Me?" Wen Xianting smiled. "Doesn't brother know my first and last name?"

"Really? Wen Xianting really died of typhoid fever, where did you come from to take the place of the dead?"

When Mu Chen asked this question, the delicate smile on Wen Xianting's face instantly cracked.

He pondered for a few moments, and his voice suddenly became cold: "I underestimated His Royal Highness, so you came for me in this play."

Mu Chen was noncommittal.

In the dark shadows, two sharp eyes met, and after a long time, Wen Xianting lowered his eyes, and he slowly tore off the Yi/Rong/Mask/Ju, revealing an extremely flirtatious face.

That face is surprisingly good-looking, but under the current circumstances, there seems to be a bit of evil in the flirtatious charm.

"Did you think that after a lot of twists and turns, if you show your true face so hastily, you are not afraid that the crown prince will kill you on the spot? Mr. Zelan...... Oh no! Your Highness Shaojun?"

Yue Zelan's expression froze when she was irritated, and the sword in her hand immediately hit Mu Ling's throat.

After a while, he hesitated for a moment, moved away from the long sword and said, "How did you guess my identity?"

Mu Yan smiled helplessly, pointing to the blood-stained shoulder: "You don't hesitate to send out the dead to catch me, so you have to take care of the patient's injuries? If I lose too much blood and die, who will tell you the story?"

Yue Zelan stared hard, thought for a moment, didn't give any medicine, just threw a roll of gauze over, so that he could hold on for a while.

Mu Chen didn't pick and choose, he pressed the wound with gauze to stop the bleeding, and then he really put on a storytelling style and said gracefully.

"I've been paying attention to you since Ah Heng raised his troops to attack Dongwei and was attacked at Humen Pass. Few people know about the poison of life-eating, and one of the blind purple cottons is a product of Yueyin Kingdom."

"Neither Ah Heng nor I have any conflicts with people from this country, so I thought of His Royal Highness Shaojun who was rumored to be forced into the palace by Dong Wei."

"At first, I guessed that it was because Ah Heng attacked Dongwei, and you were good at using poison, so you were sent to assassinate by the king of Dongwei. But at that time, the king of Dongwei had passed away, so I locked my target on the prince who was about to inherit the throne .”

"But later my hidden pile sent back a secret letter, Prince Dongwei hunted you down several times in the name of the Qing emperor, and I think you must not be his."

This paragraph is the truth. When Mu Chen realized that things were going wrong, he began to recalculate the logic.It was also at this time that he realized that Mu Zhihuan had the intention to usurp the throne.

"I secretly sent someone to observe Mu Zhihuan's movements, and found that he not only teamed up with Xi Chuan, but also had a mysterious figure behind him helping to make plans. It's a pity that there is no evidence to prove that you are together. By chance, under Ah Heng's proposal to marry him I came to Nanchang."

Having said that, Mu Chen slightly hooked his lips.

"Do you still remember that Dawan horse? You have hundreds of ways to try Ah Heng's feelings for me, but you chose the one that is the easiest to reveal."

"Wen Xianting has always been innocent and lively, but after recovering from the cold, his temperament changed drastically, becoming extremely vicious. You can use the disguise technique to hang around in front of others, and of course my people can too."

"You have no reason to seek refuge with Mu Zhihuan, or Xichuan. Even if it's because Prince Dongwei pursued you fiercely and made you unable to stay, then you can hide your name and travel to other countries to escape."

"If you can't let go of Dongwei's persecution and humiliation of your people, it makes sense to use Xichuan's power to destroy Dongwei's attack. But since you have an enmity with Dongwei, how can you treat Ah Heng who attacked Dongwei?" Poisoned and assassinated."

Mu Chen stopped talking, and his lips became paler due to the massive blood loss, so he had to endure the dizziness and rest for a while.

The story behind is also very simple.

Xichuan's focus has always been on uniting with Mu Zhihuan to attack Huaibei, and has not made any substantive moves against Dongwei.

Even when Lin Heng attacked Dongwei, Dongwei was defeated, and urged Xichuan to surrender and rebel and send troops for reinforcements. Xichuan also half-pushed and formed an ally with him.

Knowing that Xi Chuan was helping Dong Wei, Yue Zelan did not try her best to stop it, but acquiesced, which shows that his purpose is not to let Dong Wei die.

Lin Heng was poisoned, Huaibei was a rebel, and the two combined, then the core contradiction in this matter was between him, Lin Heng, and Yue Zelan.

The only bond between them was Lin Heng's attack on Dongwei, which resulted in the death of the king of Dongwei.

"You actually... fell in love with your old enemy."

Mu Chen's voice sounded very tired, he tilted his head powerlessly, avoiding the sword pointing again in front of him.

"You poisoned and assassinated Ah Heng first, and then you committed yourself to Xichuan when you saw that he was still alive, and colluded with Mu Zhihuan to rebel against Huaibei."

"What I did was just to hope that Ah Heng and I would get together, so that we could experience what it's like to lose a lover."

"You think you've exhausted all the tricks, but you don't want to let the culprit rest in peace."

"Shut up!" Yue Zelan was stabbed to the sore spot, her eyes turned scarlet. "You don't need to talk nonsense to provoke me, killing relatives and destroying the country is a bloody feud, and Luo Chen and I are incompatible!"

Luo Chen is that Dongwei monarch.

Mu Chen couldn't help but sigh slightly.

The rumored version is that Mr. Zelan couldn't bear the humiliation, so he assassinated the monarch while he was drunk, but he didn't know that it was a conspiracy by Dongwei's third prince Luo Yang from the beginning to the end.

It is true that Lin Heng stabbed Luo Chen during the exchange of fire between the two armies, but Song Qian had sneaked into the Dongwei Palace to steal some ashes after his death under Mu Chen's order.

Judging from the remaining broken bones, he had been poisoned before his death.

At that time, Yue Zelan was far away in the palace, Luo Yang, in order to cover up the fact that he killed his father and forced the palace, disposed of the corpse with fire, and then lied that the king of Dongwei was poisoned by Lin Heng before his death.

It's not that Yue Zelan hadn't been suspicious, but his status was embarrassing, he had no position to rehabilitate Luo Chen, and he couldn't resist Luo Yang's pursuit.

He had no choice but to flee to Xichuan, where he took refuge in his tent and became a staff member.

Now that Dongwei belongs to Nanchang's subordinate state, Lin Heng didn't want to kill them all, so he still let Luo Yang be his puppet emperor.

Regardless of the large amount of tribute and taxation of treasures every year, the word "easy" has been used so far is not wrong at all.

"If you really love Luo Chen, you should seek revenge on the person who killed him. But your relatives under the nine springs may not agree with your deeds, right?"

"The whole country was destroyed, corpses were everywhere, and you disregarded your deep hatred and hatred, and loved the criminals in Dongwei Palace."

"Tsk tsk...I don't know if I should praise you for your broad mind, or for your deep affection."

"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!"

Yue Zelan roared three times in a row, and the hand holding the sword trembled clearly.His charming and enchanting face gradually distorted, half crying and half smiling, full of weirdness.

Mu Chen looked at him calmly, his voice was as weak and gentle as ever.

"I heard that the King of Dongwei was afraid that you would not be acclimatized, so he spent a lot of money to build a Qingliang Palace, and carefully cultivated the unique beauty lotus of Yueyin Kingdom for you to enjoy in all seasons."

"Dongwei's soil is not suitable for producing yacon. Because you like it, he dug three feet and replaced it with a thousand acres of soil for planting."

"Luo Chen was worried that if you died, you would not be able to survive alone. Before sending you to the palace, he gave you ten confidant dead soldiers as your bodyguards. Those dead soldiers are one of the trump cards of the Dongwei Dynasty. Each of them has high martial arts skills and is loyal. "

"Stop talking!" Yue Zelan roared loudly, the monstrous anger in her pupils seemed to be churning out. "What do you know!"

"Yeah, I don't understand."

Mu Chen smiled coldly.

"You understand, that's why you don't even dare to die! You are afraid of seeing those wandering relatives' souls after you arrive in the underworld. They will complain and curse in front of your eyes, asking why you betrayed Yueyin Kingdom!"

"You chose to deceive yourself and others by pouring dirty water on Ah Heng's head. It's because you have nothing to do with Luo Yang! If he lives, you are ashamed of Luo Chen. If he dies, you are ashamed of Yue Yin."

"You have become Yueyin's sinner, do you still want to be Dongwei's sinner?!"

It has to be said that Mu Chen has a keen talent in dealing with weaknesses.

Every word and every sentence was like a bone-cutting sharp knife, piercing and twisting Yue Zelan's wound, bringing him cruel torture.

After a moment of stalemate, Yue Zelan bent down suddenly, spitting out several mouthfuls of blood.

"You..." He raised his sword towards each other, with murderous intent flashing in his eyes.

Mu Zhen said without any disturbance: "Hiding your head and tail these days, you should understand that you can't fight me on your own."

It is true that Yueyin Kingdom is good at using poison, but not very accomplished in martial arts.

Even though Yue Zelan has been taught by a famous teacher, compared with Huaibei's national strength, Mu Chen's swordsmanship is still several times more sophisticated than him.

So far, no matter how stupid Yue Zelan is, she has guessed Mu Chen's intention of setting up a trap.

"Hmph, it turns out that Mu Zhihuan is just a cover! But if you want to follow the clues and damage my dead soldiers, you have to weigh whether you have the ability!"

"That will not bother Your Highness Shaojun." Mu Yan smiled, and the hand covering the wound dropped at some point, and it was enough to put on the soft sword at his waist.

Yue Zelan couldn't help narrowing her eyes slightly, and staggered back a few steps.

He had planned to hold Mu Chen hostage, but seeing Lin Heng was in unbearable pain.Unexpectedly, the chess missed a move, did not get what he wanted, but exposed the secret deep in his heart.

That's right, Luo Chen is Tu Mie Yueyin, and forced him into the palace to serve the emperor.

But that person possessed the deepest tenderness and patience in the world, which made him unable not to be moved.

How many times have I dreamed back at midnight, and the desperate faces of relatives flashed before my eyes.

The rope called guilt was tightly entwined, as if to cut open his internal organs and tear him in half.

Life is better than death.

There are no better words to describe his situation.

He will never forget how Yueyin Kingdom disappeared from the historical map.When the morning sun broke, it was Luo Chen's smiling face that came into view.

If they hadn't met in such a situation, would they have loved each other passionately and cherished each other like Mu Chen and Lin Heng?

Today it is today.

He didn't have the energy to find answers.

At the moment when the scar was picked, his cowardice, his indifference, and his shamelessness all turned into tides and pushed him to the brink of collapse.

Yue Zelan looked up to the sky and laughed long, the laughter was extremely shrill.Like a ferocious beast, raising its sharp claws, it is about to pounce on the person who exposes his disguise.

A cold light flashed in Mu Chen's eyes, and he was about to draw his soft sword to turn the attack, when a windy red-tasseled spear broke through the door first and flew in.

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