my princess boy

"What did you say?"

Mu Xianyi looked at Su Hongyao in front of him with a face full of disbelief, and immediately frowned and looked at the little black incense ash.

Just now he poured this little incense ash from his father's incense burner, and couldn't wait to go back to his mansion. It happened that Su Hongyao came to pay homage to Ling Xuetang after hearing about Ling Xuetang's death half a month ago, and he is still in his mansion now , so I asked her to help me find out what it was.

"That's right, this is indeed Wushi Powder." Su Hongyao's tone was firm, and she looked at him with her almond eyes, "It was popular among scholar-bureaucrats in the Jin Dynasty to take Wushi Powder. In this state, you will feel that you are ecstatic, it can eliminate irritability and pain, strengthen Yuanyang, make the gods cheerful, and it will be addictive, but after using it too much, it seems to be poisoned. Many people died because of taking Wushisan. By the time of Tang Dynasty, it had been explicitly banned."

"My dynasty also expressly forbids it, and you can hardly see it in the market. How could it be in the royal father's palace?" Mu Xianyi's face was solemn, and he suddenly understood why his father was so obsessed with alchemy and immortal cultivation. . "Moreover, this thing was not eaten, but appeared in my father's incense burner."

Hearing this, Su Hongyao lowered her head and sniffed the black incense ash again, and said, "I think the effect of taking this Wushi powder is different from that of incense, and the effect of incense is not as good as taking it, but if it is used for a long time, it will It's almost like taking food."

Mu Xianyi confirmed what he thought in his heart, couldn't help being angry, and said: "Sure enough, in order to make my father trust Taoist Jingyang, Mu Jingchen secretly used five stone powder as incense. After my father smoked it, I would feel His mental state has improved a lot, as if he is getting stronger and stronger, and even really looks like a celestial being, but it is actually the effect of the five stone powder, but his inside is getting more and more empty."

"Yes." Su Hongyao nodded, "They should also know that His Majesty will be furious if he finds out that they are giving him Wushi Powder, so it is only used in incense."

The more Mu Xianyi thought about it, the angrier he became, and he wished he could go to the palace and tell his father about it, but he knew that he had no evidence—these people clearly smoked Wushisan when his father was away, and waited His father came to smoke, and his father didn't know that what he smelled would be Wushisan.

And now his father doesn't trust the imperial doctor anymore, he only trusts Taoist Jingyang, even if the imperial doctor said it was Wushi powder, his father would probably be angrily reprimanded by his father as jealous of Taoist Jingyang, right?

After much deliberation, he decided to go to his grandfather and uncle and let him find a way.

Earlier, Mu Jingchen wanted to use Taoist Jingyang to frame the Lou family, and he was the one who helped the Lou family resolve the crisis after learning the news in advance. After that, the Lou family has firmly stood in the Qingliu team.It's just that Mu Jingchen is searching for evidence of court officials' crimes. Even Qingliu officials, not everyone is innocent enough to be blameless. Therefore, apart from his grandfather and Zhen Guogong, there are very few Qingliu teams now. .

After arriving at the Lou Mansion, his grandfather Lou Xiangli heard that Emperor Zhang Wu had been secretly given Wushi San, he was furious, but finally he sighed and said:

"Xianyi, I suspect that the fourth prince is secretly seizing military power."

"What?!" Mu Xianyi was shocked.

There was no sound in the quaint study for a while, only the dripping sound of the water leak outside the corridor, as if the sound of footsteps urging death, chasing from behind.

With a helpless expression on Lou Xiangli's old face, he stretched out his hand and tapped the letterhead beside him: "My Privy Council received a secret report saying that the [-] troops in the Gyeonggi Camp had personnel changes. These personnel transfers should have gone to the Ministry of Officials, but I I have asked some officials in the Ministry of Officials privately, but I have never heard of any personnel changes. I suspect that the fourth prince has replaced these important positions with his own people."

"But what's the use of the [-] troops alone?" Mu Xianyi suddenly got up from his seat and asked, "Li Qi has more than [-] troops..."

His uncle Lou Qishan explained: "Xianyi, you have to know that if he ascends to the throne, Li Qi is far away in the northwest, and the distant water cannot save the near fire. When the fourth prince ascends the throne, even if Li Qi wants to King Qin, it's too late."

"Then what should we do? Are we going to let him make trouble!" Mu Xianyi only hated that he had seldom learned the art of being an emperor, and at this moment, he felt that he was helpless, and there was nothing he could do.

Lou Xiangli gestured to him, signaling him to be calm and calm, and said, "Xianyi, the mutiny was probably just his last move. You have to know that no matter which dynasty or generation you are in, mutiny to force the emperor to abdicate is a disobedience." It is difficult to whitewash the serious crimes of committing rebellion and rebellion in history books. For example, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and the change of Xuanwumen, even though he praised himself in history books, he still attracted countless infamy, saying that he killed his brother and forced his father to commit rebellion. The fourth prince he He must also know that if he mutinied and forced His Majesty to abdicate, he would not be able to stop the crowd, so I guess that he controls these troops because he wants to gain some chips for himself."

"Besides, if he mutinies to the top, Pei Xuandao may not be able to have the same power as he is now, and Pei Xuandao will have reservations about him; and he must also be wondering if he will be held back by Pei Xuandao if he becomes a position. , the two of them are suspicious of each other, so maintaining the current situation is the best for the two of them." Lou Qishan said.

Listening to the two's analysis, Mu Xianyi suddenly had a terrible idea flashing through his mind, his whole body turned cold, and his hairs stood on end: "So... could he be waiting for his father to die?"

After taking Wushi powder, his father's body is getting worse day by day. He is already over 50 years old. If he continues to forcibly nourish and have fun, his body will age faster. Within two years, he will definitely There will be signs... At that time, Mu Jingchen had already been full-fledged, and he was able to succeed to the throne with confidence and logic.

The room became quiet all of a sudden, Lou Xiangli and Lou Qishan stopped talking, obviously, they also thought of this possibility.

The more Mu Xianyi thought about it, the more excited he became, his whole body was trembling slightly. He looked at his grandfather and tremblingly said: "Grandfather, what will happen if I assassinate Mu Jingchen?"

Lou Xiangli was taken aback, and immediately reprimanded: "Xian'er, don't do something stupid! You assassinated Mu Jingchen, and Pei Xuandao, not to mention that there are so many masters around Mu Jingchen, how could he be assassinated so easily? No If it succeeds, it may even implicate you!"

Lou Qishan stood up silently, with deep meaning in his eyes, and his face was cloudy: "Xian'er, I have a way—"

"any solution?"

"The mantis catches the cicada, and the oriole is behind!"