While Chen Xiaomu and Wei Yuxin were talking, Wang Wu hurried over with Jia Gui, the magistrate of the Xinjing Prefecture, and several government servants. Before Wang Wu could introduce him, Jia Gui seemed to have been an acquaintance with Chen Xiaomu for many years. He cupped his fists and said, "Oh! Please forgive me, Prince Consort. I really don't know that someone dares to start trouble in front of the princess's house!"
Chen Xiaomu waved his hand, stopped what he was saying, and said politely: "Mr. Jia's words are serious. The so-called ignorant people are not to blame!"
"I would like to thank you for your magnanimity." Jia Gui cupped his fists and saluted again. But when he raised his head and looked at Chen Xiaomu, he felt a "bang" in his head and almost fainted from fright. Fortunately, he was following him. A yamen servant behind him quickly stepped forward and stretched out his hand to support his lower back, preventing him from falling to the ground.
Chen Xiaomu felt strange and wondered if Jia Tongpan was sick. Was he so terrible? Why did Jia Gui look up as if he had seen a ghost? His whole body was shaking and his eyes were about to pop out. In fact, Jia Gui was frightened when he saw him, but when he saw the face of Wei Yuxin standing next to him. He was frightened. The scene at Zhang Yong's residence yesterday may have left a shadow in his heart for the rest of his life. Those zombies in white had frightened him to death, but he didn't expect that in the end he was frightened by this ugly face that appeared out of nowhere. The woman was killed until rivers of blood flowed, and corpses were scattered all over the ground. Jia Gui, a civil servant, had seen this formation and was so frightened that he fainted. What happened yesterday, I am still in shock today. What a coincidence, unexpectedly, here again Seeing this face, could Jia Gui not be scared to death?
Among the people at the scene, it is estimated that only Lu Yi knew the reason why Jia Gui was scared to death. If Chen Xiaomu had not stated in advance that Wei Yuxin and the others were his friends in the world, he would have been kidnapped two days ago. Chen Xiaomu, Wei Yuxin, who killed dozens of white-clothed zombies yesterday, may not be much better than Jia Gui now, so he is still feeling uneasy.
At this time, seeing Jia Gui's frightened state, Lu Yi had no choice but to stand up and explain to Jia Gui: "Master Jia, you don't have to be afraid. In fact, this heroine is our highness's lover in the world. friend!"
"Friend!" Jia Gui opened his mouth in surprise and stared at Chen Xiaomu.
Only then did Chen Xiaomu suddenly remember that Lu Yi had reported to him that he had encountered a white-clothed zombie when he handed over Zhang Yong's residence to the Xinjing government office that day. At that time, he might have been afraid of irritating him, but Lu Yi was in front of him. He never mentioned that the person who massacred the zombies in white clothes at Zhang Yong's mansion was the same person as the person who kidnapped him. He just downplayed it and said that it was a mutual killing among Jianghu people. Now it seems that the zombies in white clothes were killed in Zhang Yong's mansion that day. It must be Wei Yu’s heart.
Thinking of this, Chen Xiaomu first glanced at Wei Yuxin, and then said to Jia Gui: "Master Jia, have you met my friend in the world?"
Jia Gui couldn't help but nodded and muttered: "Yes, Prince Consort!"
"Has she done anything to scare you?" Chen Xiaode then asked.
"This...!" Jia Gui glanced at Wei Yuxin and hesitated, unsure whether he should tell what happened in Zhang Yong's mansion that day.
''Master Jia, stop this and that! Chen Xiaomu suddenly smiled and said: "As I estimated correctly, this friend of mine should have saved your and Captain Lu's lives at that time, so!" It’s okay if I don’t ask you to repay your kindness. I just hope that Mr. Jia can be more strict with his mouth! "
Jia Gui is a smart man. After hearing what Chen Xiaomu said clearly, he nodded quickly and said: "Prince-in-law, don't worry. My little fellow Wang Wu knows best what kind of person Jia Gui is. This matter ends here and will never happen again." Someone will mention it again!”
Chen Xiaomu immediately reciprocated the favor and said with a smile: "Can I not worry about Mr. Jia's work? In the future, if Mr. Jia wants to be the prefect of Xinjing Prefecture, I, the Princess Qingfeng Mansion, will give her full support!"
"Ouch!" Jia Gui was overjoyed when he heard this. He felt that he had finally found support in the court, so he hurriedly said to Chen Xiaomu: "Prince-in-law, from now on, you and the princess will treat Jia Gui's reborn parents with kindness. Jia Gui will never dare to disobey you and the princess!"
Chen Xiaomu waved his hand and said humbly: "Hey! Mr. Jia, you are so polite. We are supporting each other and ensuring that the country of Zheng will be passed on to future generations."
Jia Gui seemed to have realized something, and repeatedly echoed: "Yes, yes, what the Prince Consort said is absolutely true!" Then he took a step forward, pointed at the man in black who had been tied up by the soldiers of the Princess Mansion Guards, and faced Chen Xiaomu Yingying said: "Prince-in-law, why don't you give me these thieves who dare to come to the princess's house to cause trouble and take them back to the Yamen. I will torture these thieves severely all night! At most, tomorrow morning, I will give the prince-in-law and the princess a clear answer." explanation."
"No!" Chen Xiaomu shook his head, rejected Jia Gui's proposal, and said: "I keep these people for other purposes, but I just want to borrow the prison car and cage sent by Mr. Jia. You just ask your men to lock them in. I'll take care of the rest."
"Okay, Prince Consort, it's better to be respectful than obey your orders." Jia Gui once again bowed his hands to Chen Xiaomu, and without saying a word, he led his Yamen servants and soldiers from the Princess Mansion Guards to put all the captured men in black into the prison car. and standing cage.
After taking care of things outside the princess's residence, he looked up at the sky and estimated that it was already around midnight. Chen Xiaomu smiled at Wei Yuxin who was following him: "I don't think there will be any more uninvited guests tonight." It’s the princess’s mansion, how about I ask Lu Yi to find a place by the Princess Guards for you all to take a nap?”
Wei Yuxin slowly stopped and hesitated for a moment, and finally shook his head, "No, we should go back to Zhang Yong's mansion. I have arranged for Zhou Huiniang and others to wait for me there. They don't know much about kung fu. , if something happens, you don’t even have the ability to defend yourself.”
When it came to Zhang Yong's mansion, Chen Xiaomu seemed to suddenly remember it and said to Wei Yuxin: "Miss Wei, I have told Lu Yi to postpone the handover of Zhang Yong's mansion to the Xinjing government office in order to keep him. What do you think of it being used as a temporary base for you in the new capital city?"
Wei Yuxin was silent for a while after hearing this, and then hesitantly said: "I'm afraid that the mansion has been targeted, otherwise how could the people from the Five Poison Sect suddenly appear there for no reason?"
"You mean someone discovered the secret in that mansion?" Chen Xiaomu asked tentatively.
Wei Yu said vaguely: "It's hard to say. Anyway, it's quite strange what happened!"
Chen Xiaomu stood there and thought for a moment, then reached out and took out a silver note from his pocket and handed it to Wei Yuxin, saying: "'In this way, you can take this thousand taels of silver and find a new place to stay in Zhang Yong's mansion tomorrow. I will definitely find a way to find out everything. "
"Okay!" Wei Yuxin took the bank note and quickly left the entrance of the princess's mansion with his subordinates without looking back.
"Your Highness, do you want to bring the captured thieves here one by one for trial?" Li Gui, who had been following Chen Xiaomu, lost no time in coming up to report.
Chen Xiaomu said impatiently: "What kind of trial are you trying? Let them all be released tomorrow morning!"
"Let go?" Li Gui thought he heard wrongly and followed behind in surprise.
"Yes! Let them all go, leave no one behind!" Chen Xiaomu then said in a more serious tone: "Princess Qingfeng's Mansion doesn't have any extra food for them to eat!"
Li Gui quickly reminded: "Your Highness, we managed to catch these with great difficulty. We must at least find out who sent these thieves, right? What is their intention in coming to the princess's mansion? How can we say Just let it go?"
Chen Xiaomu stopped and said to Li Gui, half jokingly and half seriously: "The people behind them are all my God of Wealth, and these people are my money-spreading boys in a sense, why should I be in trouble? them?"
Li Gui was stunned. He couldn't understand why these people, who had come to the princess's house to plot evil, suddenly turned into money-spinning boys. Chen Xiaomu turned around and saw Li Gui's dumbfounded expression. He couldn't help but laugh and said: "Don't release everyone at once, but release one person every other moment or so until they are all released!"
Hearing what Chen Xiaomu said, Li Gui felt as if he had fallen into the fog. He couldn't help but wonder: "Your Highness, I really don't understand. Why is this?"
Chen Xiaomu waved, "Come here, I'll tell you." When Li Gui heard the sound, he immediately walked a few steps closer to Chen Xiaomu and put his ear.
So Chen Xiaomu whispered into Li Gui's ear. Li Gui's eyes narrowed with laughter and he couldn't help nodding and praising: "Your Highness, this is a brilliant idea. It is unprecedented and unprecedented. !”
Chen Xiaomu lightly slapped the back of his head and said with a smile, "Go, please come and flatter me. As long as you do this well, I will give you a commission of one tael for every thousand taels of silver I receive. "
"Really?" Li Gui was overjoyed when he heard this, but he was afraid that he had heard wrongly, so he quickly asked.
Chen Xiaomu glared at him, and then cursed: "You little brat, did I lie to you that day, and you found out again?"
After receiving Chen Xiaomu's support, Li Gui was so grateful that he didn't know what to say. He simply knelt down on the ground with a bang and clasped his fists at Chen Xiaomu and swore: "Your Highness, don't worry, if this matter can't be handled well, I'll take the lead." meet you!"
Chen Xiaomu kicked him on the butt, "You kid, you're just fucking lying to me. I've lost my head before I heard it, and you can still raise your head to see me. Do you want to scare me to death?"
Back at her residence, Su Xingran was still asleep. She was taking a nap in the candlelight with her cheeks in her hands, waiting for Chen Xiaomu to come back. The female officer Furong and several maids stood silently beside her. When she saw Chen Xiaofeng walking in with a gust of cold wind, Su Xingran He steeled himself, rubbed his eyes, straightened his waist, and then said with a tired smile, "Husband, I just heard from Furong that someone is really planning to break into the princess's mansion tonight?"
Chen Xiaomu smiled and nodded, "Yes, but everything has been settled and everyone has been captured."
"Oh!" Su Xingran suddenly woke up after hearing Ting Ting's drowsy state, and asked energetically, "Husband, do you want to interrogate them overnight? Let them reveal the person behind the scenes, and then kill them all to avoid future troubles. !”
Chen Xiaomu waved his hands and said calmly: "That's not necessary. They are just here to seek wealth. Now that the imperial court is in trouble internally and externally, there is really no need to make too many enemies. If you really compete with these desperadoes in the world, let them fight against them." Although your persistence in stalking them does not endanger the stability of the court, it is still very troublesome. In the end, the court will send out troops to deal with them, which will waste people and money, and the gain will not be worth the loss!" Chen Xiaomu said while shaking his head.
"Is it so easy to just let them mess around in front of my princess's house?" Su Xingran asked angrily.
Chen Xiaomu gently grabbed Su Xingran's hands, sat down in front of her, and said softly: "Honey, these Jianghu people are not threatening our country of Zheng now, and we have no special thoughts about our father's throne. Why bother making enemies with them again? Wouldn't it be better if we find a way to make them work for us?"
Su Xingran looked at Chen Xiaomu and said in a deep voice: "Husband, you have to know that people's desires are endless. Maybe they can't threaten the country of Zheng now, but if we don't take advantage of them to annihilate them when they are weak, what will happen? Do you know that in the future, when they develop and grow, they will not endanger the country of Zheng?"
Hearing this, Chen Xiaomu patted the back of Su Xingran's hand gently and said with a smile: "Wife, don't worry about this. I will definitely find a way to curb their development. If I find that they have even the slightest deviance in the future!" Chen Xiaomu said, raising his right hand and giving a fierce blow to With the next chop, he said with a sneer, "Crack them all!"
Su Xingran didn't speak any more. She sat on the stool in a daze for a while and said softly: "Husband, I'm sleepy. Shall we go to bed?"
"Not yet!" Chen Xiaomu shook his head and said with a smile: "Tomorrow morning, the blacksmith and carpenter will come over. I will draw the drawings tonight and ask them to help me make something according to the drawings tomorrow morning."
When Su Xingran heard the sound, he immediately stood up from the stool and said with a smile: "Husband, I will help you grind the ink."
Chen Xiaomu patted Su Xingran on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Forget it, you should go to bed first. Why stay up late with someone else!"
Su Xingran said stubbornly: "Husband, if you don't sleep, I won't sleep either. I just want to stay with you!"
Seeing Su Xingran's stubborn look, Chen Xiaomu knew that he wouldn't be able to convince her for a while, and he didn't want to waste any more time, so he had to tease her and said: "Okay, if you want to accompany me, then you can! There's just one thing, you But don’t yawn in front of me and affect my thinking!”
Furong quickly found a few pieces of white paper and laid them on the table, and used paper rulers to press the paper flat on both sides of the paper. Su Xingran first backed away a few maids, then he held the inkstone steady with one hand and held an inkstone in the other. The new ink stick that had just been unpacked was being polished in circles in the inkstone quickly, and a pool of ink was polished in a short time. At this time, Furong held a new, high-quality wolf-hair brush in front of Chen Xiaomu with both hands.
To be honest, Chen Xiaomu was frightened when he saw this brush. It would be fine if he was using it for writing. Even though the writing was crooked, it was more taxing on the eyes. Fortunately, he could still see the glyphs. Now he was asked to use the brush to draw detailed drawings. , that really stumped him, Chen Xiaomu took the brush from Furong's hand, put it gently on the table, then left the chair and slowly walked around the room.
Su Xingran asked with confusion on his face, "Husband, if you are looking for anything else, I will just ask someone to take care of it."
Chen Xiaomu smiled and said: "I want to find a good drawing pen!"
Su Xingran glanced at Furong, stretched out her hair to pick up the brush that Furong just brought, and asked: "Husband, isn't this brush called hair?"
Chen Xiaomu shook his head, "I can't control the brush well. Besides, it's better to use a hard pen for drawing."
"Hard brush?" Su Xingran asked puzzledly: "I think the painters in the palace all use brushes when painting? What kind of pen is a hard brush?"
Before Su Xingran finished speaking, Chen Xiaomu's eyes lit up. He walked to a goose feather fan hanging on the wall in three or two steps and said happily: "Honey, this is the pen I was looking for!"
Su Xingran said blankly: "Husband, are you mistaken? That is the goose feather fan I use in summer! Where is the hard pen from?"
Chen Xiaomu couldn't hide his excitement. He reached out and took off the goose feather fan from the wall. He laughed and said, "My dear wife, this is the best pen today!" As he said that, Chen Xiaomu looked for the thickest piece of the goose feather fan. The goose feather was plucked down with a "click", and he held it in his hand and looked at it carefully, then quickly walked back to the table and took out the Fengming Sword, and used the blade to lightly cut the goose feather tube, and the goose feather tube immediately A slanted tip appeared, then he reached out with the goose feather to the inkstone and dipped some ink into the inkstone, and casually wrote Li Bai's popular poem on the white paper next to it, which has been passed down through the ages, "The moonlight shines brightly in front of the bed, and I suspect it is the frost on the ground." . Raise your head to look at the bright moon, lower your head to think about your hometown."
Although writing with this goose quill is completely different from writing with the pens he has used before, Chen Xiaomu's own hard-pen calligraphy is as different as clouds and mud compared to his calligraphy with brushes. In the hard-pen calligraphy competition held in the university that year, Chen Xiaomu once won the first place in the hard-tipped calligraphy competition! Even now, even if Chen Xiaomu randomly picks up a branch and scribbles with his eyes closed, it is a hundred times better than the calligraphy he writes stroke by stroke with concentration.
Su Xingran and Furong were stunned when they saw Chen Xiaomu's iron strokes and silver hooks written on the paper, as powerful as a dragon's handwriting. They didn't expect that an ordinary goose feather could write such beautiful calligraphy. It was really breathtaking. Next, when I looked at the content of this poem, both of them were so excited that their eyes were red. At first glance, this poem seemed ordinary and easy to understand, but the meaning inside was profound, meaningful, and endlessly memorable. Only those who have been away from home for a long time can deeply feel its profound meaning.
"There is bright moonlight in front of the bed, I suspect it is frost on the ground. Look up, look up at the bright moon, low, low...! Furong stood by the desk and looked at the poem written by Chen Xiaomu on the paper, and couldn't help but murmured out loud, I burst into tears as I read it, and I couldn't read it any more!
At this time, Furong suddenly took two steps back, wished Chen Xiaomu and Su Xingran a long blessing respectively, and pleaded with tears in her eyes: "I would like to ask the princess and the prince-in-law to give this poem written by the prince-in-law to the prince, Princess Wanwang, and the prince-in-law." Yes!"
