After wearing the book, the regent quit.

Chapter 49

After the two left, Shen Mu and Xiao Fan stood where they were, without speaking for a long time.

There is no need to ask any more, the person who forcibly took Su Xin away just now must be King Yu, Qin Jing.

"Don't tell me you're going to look for Gu after you're done, why are you here?"

In the end it was Xiao Fan who spoke first, and after dismissing the palace people behind him, the young man strode over, gently wrapped his arms around Shen Mu's waist, slowly bent down, buried his head on the man's neck and shoulders, rubbed gently for a while, Shen Mu said muffledly,

"I'm going to be jealous."

Originally, there was still some heavy restlessness and atmosphere, because Xiao Fan mumbled a few words coquettishly, and suddenly became relaxed.

With a chuckle, Shen Mu raised his hand, patted the young man's head habitually, and explained patiently, "I was thinking of looking for you, but I happened to pass by here, so I wanted to exchange a few words with Mr. Su."

"You've been talking about him for the past two days." Xiao Fan frowned slightly, with undisguised displeasure in his tone. Go back to the palace to live?"

As she spoke, she raised her head slightly, and moved her face towards Shen Mu, and kissed her the next moment.

"It's really boring to stay in the palace all the time." Shen Mu responded to the kiss gently, raised his hand to touch Xiao Fan's temples, and smiled, "I will go to court in two days, and the palace also has a lot of things to deal with .”

Since Xiao Fan almost coaxed him to "capture" him that day, Shen Mu has never been back to the palace, not to mention whether it will arouse suspicion, and he has to go back to deal with many things.

Xiao Fan naturally knew the reason, but he looked at him a little unwillingly, and after hesitating for a moment, he still asked, "In three days, do you have something to do?"

The anticipation in the young man's eyes could not be more obvious. Shen Mu knew that Xiao Fan wanted to spend his birthday with him, but he was embarrassed to say it outright; the promised words came to his lips, but he stopped a moment before he could say them.

There was an idea of ​​wanting to surprise others in his heart, so Shen Mu curled his lips into a smile, deliberately pretending to be confused, and said vaguely, "Not necessarily, is there something important?"

Xiao Fan raised his eyebrows: "What if there is no important matter? Why don't you stay with Gu."

Yingying smiled, and Shen Mu said in a playful tone, "It depends on how unimportant it is."

"I don't care about you alone," Xiao Fan stretched his long arms around Shen Mu's waist, and with his palms turned inward, he narrowed his eyes and said, "But is there anything to do, after three days, your time will be lonely for the whole day. .”

"It's not time that belongs to you, but the whole person belongs to you," Shen Mu leaned forward, turned his head, left a mark on the young man's slender neck, and warned softly,

"I won't be by your side tonight, remember to be quiet, if I catch you bringing some messy people into the palace—"

As soon as my waist hurt, the young man's deep and hoarse voice came from my ears, "Whatever you do."

Shen Mu couldn't help hissing, and pretended to be vicious, "I'll lock you up so that you can no longer look at the little fairies outside."

The young man let out a muffled laugh, the smile he couldn't hide in his words; he raised his hand to touch Shen Mu's earlobe, and pinched/rubbed it gently:

"I can't ask for it."

When they left the palace and returned to the Prince Regent's Mansion, the sky had passed the most intense moment of the sun, and there were not many people left in the mansion. After both Uncle Wang and Granny Tian left, it seemed even more silent.

Seeing Shen Mu approaching, the few remaining servants hurriedly put down their busy work, and hurriedly saluted and greeted them one by one.

He waved his hand to ask people to retreat, walked straight through the corridor without looking sideways, walked around the corner and returned to the bedroom, Shen Mu pushed open the door, looked at the red everywhere that came into view, looked at it for a moment with satisfaction and embarrassment outside the door, and stepped forward. The legs went into the house.

Spreading out the blueprints handed over to Ah Qing in the morning on the table, Shen Mu looked at the densely written annotations on the blueprints, looked up at the corresponding furnishings in the room, frowned, raised his pen and added a few more strokes on the paper.

Different from the monotonous and simple display when they left, many home furnishings in the house were changed into festive colors, especially the soft pillows on the couch and the brocade quilt on the bed, all of them were changed into bright red for big weddings.

At that time, it was just mentioned casually, but when Xiao Fan mentioned marriage, Shen Mu always remembered the twinkle in his eyes and anticipation; and the youth's birthday was right in front of him. After thinking about it, Shen Mu couldn't think of what the king of a country lack , and finally decide next time.

——He wants to marry Xiao Fan.

So he first asked Ah Qing to order someone to adjust and replace the furnishings in the house, and then drew out the specific modification details on the drawings; when he came back today, he came here to check if there was anything wrong.

At this time, the door of the room was knocked lightly, and then A Yu's slightly immature voice sounded outside the door, "Your Majesty, the guards of Jing Wen beside His Majesty are waiting in the front hall."

In case Jing Wen saw the furnishings in the house, he went back to the palace and told Xiao Fan, Shen Mu said, "Okay, tell him to wait in the front hall."

When they came to the front hall, Jing Fan was standing next to Ah Qing with downcast eyes. The two of them were talking about something. Hearing the sound of footsteps, the young man in black raised his head, bowed respectfully to Shen Mu, and put the burden in his hands on the square table in front of him. superior.

"My lord, His Majesty was afraid that you might not be used to it, so he specially asked the Imperial Dining Room to make some of your favorite food, and asked his subordinates to bring it over."

Skillfully untied the burden of holding the food box, touched the side wall of the wooden box with fingertips and could still feel the remaining warmth of meaning; Shen Mu's heart moved slightly, for some reason, he suddenly missed a certain bad-tempered person.

Opening the food box and tasting the pastries on the top layer, Shen Mu smiled slightly toward Jingwen, "Thank you for me, Your Majesty, and tell him that I will go back tomorrow."

In the early morning of the second day, the palace welcomed a gold and silver craftsman.

The man was quite old, dressed in coarse cloth, with an honest and honest face, and he was not afraid to see Shen Mu. After saluting with a smile, he carefully placed the wooden suitcase in his hand in front of Shen Mu, and said softly, "This is my lord. something you want."

Nodding to show understanding, Shen Mu opened the box on the desk in front of him, looked at the golden bell quietly lying on the thick cushion, and a smile flashed across his eyes.

Two days ago, when Jing Wen was ordered to bring the gold and silver jewelry presented by Yu Kingdom to Mingcheng Palace, Xiao Fan became very interested in a string of bells.

There were more than a dozen boxes of gold and silver jewelry in front of him for him to look at, but the young man only focused on a string of almost inconspicuous bells next to him, and held them in his hands for a long time.

It had been so long that Shen Mu couldn't help being curious, took the bell from the young man's hand to look at it, and asked in puzzlement, "Why do you like this bell so much?"

At that time Xiao Fan answered ambiguously, "...I like the sound of the bell."

The bell was originally dedicated to the Empress Dowager Chu, so Xiao Fan couldn't keep it privately, so he put it back to its original place after looking at it for a while, and ordered Jingyan to send all the boxes of jewelry farthest away from him to the Purple Pavilion Palace of the Empress Dowager Chu .

It was just a bell, Shen Mu wrote down the appearance and drew it on the paper, and then spent a lot of money to find the most famous gold and silver craftsman among the people in the capital to make an identical one.

The work done by the old craftsman was precise and fast. The original appointment was the day before Xiao Fan's birthday, but he unexpectedly came to the door today.

After sending the old craftsman away, Shen Mu calculated that the morning court was not over yet, and Xiao Fan should still be dealing with government affairs in the imperial study, and suddenly remembered the teahouse that Chu Pingting took him to before, so he asked Ah Qing to prepare the carriage.

There were as many people in the teahouse as the last time I came, even the storyteller on the first floor was the same, and he was talking endlessly on the table in the center of the first floor.

It's just that the story is not the same.

There were too many people downstairs, so Shen Mu went directly to the second floor by the wooden ladder, and sat down in the only single room left.

The fragrance of tea is overflowing, and the fragrance bursts into the mouth after a sip; Shen Mu pours the tea alone with drooping eyes, and the loud and clear voice of the storyteller is next to his ears. Looking down from his angle, he can just see the storyteller's left hand. side.

At first he didn't pay attention to the content, until the word "Su Xin" suddenly came to his ear, Shen Mu paused with his fingertips, and immediately listened attentively.

Su Xin?

Has the fact that he was left in the palace spread to the people so quickly?

"——The king of Yu personally led his troops to attack... Tens of thousands of people died in a fire in the dark night, and only Su Xin survived, but was trapped in the palace... ..”

The storyteller's language is complex and passionate, and a simple plot point can go back and forth for a long time; after listening to a few words, Shen Mu knew that he was talking about Su Xin and Qin Jing, and what he was talking about at the moment was the past of the two. entanglement.

According to the storyteller, Su Xin was originally the prince of a tribe around Yu Kingdom; after an accidental meeting, Qin Jing fell in love with him at first sight and vowed to bring him into the harem; The hostage, after several rejections, Qin Jing, who is cruel by nature, was furious, and directly led the army to go out to kill all of Su Xin's relatives.

Then he trapped Su Xin, who was no longer relying on him, by his side, unable to step out of the palace.

It's no wonder that the audience in the audience exclaimed again and again. When Shen Mu heard the words, he remembered the appearance of the man talking to Su Xin that day, and felt chills in his heart.

If what the storyteller said is true, there seems to be a reason for Su Xin's decision to commit suicide.

At this time, there was the crisp sound of something falling on the table from the opposite side, followed by a suppressed and familiar coughing sound; after a distance, Shen Mu looked up and saw Su Xin sitting in another private seat opposite him .

The teacup in hand fell down, and the tea in the cup spilled over the table, but Su Xin had no time to take care of it at this moment, bent over and coughed violently, his hands tightly clutching the collar of his chest, his chest heaved violently; he seemed to be panting But angry, the face that was originally as pale as paper flushed red, adding a charming beauty to the sickness.

And the man next to him was also King Yu who went to Qin Jing, frowned and looked at him for a while, then raised his hand to pinch Su Xin, kissed him directly, and breathed out for him.

Qin Jing seemed to be very patient, patting someone on the back one after another; after Su Xin's breathing gradually calmed down, she immediately received a loud and crisp slap.

Being slapped in the face by someone, Qin Jing was not annoyed, she still patted the person on the back calmly, until Su Xin's breathing returned to calm, then pinched the back of his fragile and slender neck, and whispered to his ear. in one sentence.

The audience in the audience didn't notice the farce upstairs, and there are screens between each private seat, only Shen Mu, who was facing Su Xin's place, could see the whole confrontation between the two.

The storyteller was still talking about it, and the people below were even more fascinated by it; Shen Mu couldn't hold back when he saw Su Xin whose clothes were getting messy, and with a "ding", he put the teacup heavily on his face Come up, and make a sound loud enough for the other side to hear.

As he expected, the two people who were at a stalemate on the opposite side looked up and saw that it was Shen Mu, they both paused in unison.

Su Xin looked indifferent, nodded to Shen Mu, mouthed "thank you", then pushed Qin Jing away violently, revealing a slender snow-white wrist, and a golden hand on the wrist// handcuffs.

Qin Jing gave Shen Mu a meaningful look, nodded slightly, and turned to whisper to the guard standing beside her.

Calmly drank the warm tea in the cup, Shen Mu watched Qin Jing's guard striding forward, and confessed to Ah Qing who was behind him without looking back,

"If I haven't returned to the residence after half an hour, you can go to the palace to find Jing Fan."