Chapter 20: doubt

Nuo Yan looked at the closed door and stepped forward and gently stunned, "Houye, Grandpa Gao is here."
Xue Mu's movements paused, and he put the pastry back into the food box: "Where is Grandpa Gao now?"
Nuo Yan said: "Lotus Pavilion."
"I see." Xue Mu glanced at the opposite Liu Qinghuan, and got up from the bed. "I may have to go to the palace, just put the snack here, I will finish it."
"Um." Liu Qinghuan followed him, stood up, saw him go out, and couldn't help but step forward, "Houye."
Xue Mu turned her head and looked worriedly at Liu Qinghuan. He stood at the door and smiled at her, turned back and kissed her gently on the forehead: "Rest assured, nothing will happen." Liu Qinghuan didn't speak again, just watching him walk out of the lotus.
In the lotus pavilion, a father-in-law wearing a blue robe paced back and forth, but the lotus in the pond was inadvertently appreciated. His two widows could vaguely see a few strands of white hair, seemingly older. When he saw Xue Mu coming, he hurried forward and made a puppet: "Houye, the emperor urgently called."
Xue Mu nodded and looked at him and asked, "Grandfather Gao, I don't know what's urgent for the emperor?"
Father Gao hesitated a moment and whispered to Xue Mu: "After the early morning, the special envoy of Donggan Luo entered the palace and met the emperor, and also said something that made the emperor unhappy."
Xue Mu groaned slightly, and smiled at Grandpa Gao: "Thank you Grandpa Gao for reminding me."
The two did not say more, and hurried to the palace.
Stepping into the gate of the Purple Temple, Xue Mu saluted in the direction of Emperor Yan: "Chancellor on the Holy See."
Emperor Yan put down his handbook and looked up at him: "The first two days were your birthday, and I have been busy recently, but I forgot about it."
Xue Mu said: "The emperor has everything to do, and the life of the minister is not enough."
Yandi smiled and said, "But someone remembers it better than you."
Xue Mutan said honestly: "The special envoy of Donggan Luo State did come to the palace and sent some congratulations."
"that's it?"
"He also asked Chen to help him find four famous paintings of Ding Maoxue, but Chen refused."
Emperor Yan was silent for a moment, and no more, Xue Mu looked up and looked at him: "The emperor, when his father died in the battlefield, the minister was at the age of fourteen, and all he left was fighting on the battlefield. Scars. But now the emperor doesn't believe him? "
"Do not believe."
Xue Mu's brow narrowed slightly.
Yandi suddenly hooked his mouth and laughed, "I don't believe Aes."
Xue Mu: "..."
Sometimes he felt that although the emperor had grown up, his mind remained at the age of five.
Emperor Yan had no idea what his Ai Qing was thinking in his heart, but continued to say, "I grew up with you from an early age. If I didn't believe you, I would not give the military power to you. Moreover ... Do you also agree with Like Aes, do you think such a simple alienation in the meeting? "
Xue Mu worshiped him again, and Xinyue surrendered: "The emperor is witty, and of course he won't do it."
Yandi thought for a while, and always felt that there was something strange. But he didn't delve into it, but cared about something else: "Do you really know where it is?"
"know."
"I believe in you, but I also hope that you do not live up to your trust."
Xue Mu pursed her lips slightly and replied, "I will not fail the Emperor's trust."
As soon as Yandi nodded, a loud voice came in: "Brother! Brother!"
Everyone in the temple looked at the door. It was no accident that the visitor was Princess Yongfu.
Although Yongfu shouted the emperor's mouth, when he entered the Purple Temple, he only stared at Xue Mu: "General Xue, are you okay?"
The anxiety in his eyes overflowed with words, Xue Mu looked at her and smiled lightly: "The minister is all right, I wonder why the princess asked this?"
Yongfu frowned and stared at him. A few days ago, Aears visited Hou's house with great fanfare, and even her princess' house heard rumors. Today, the emperor hurriedly called Xue Mu into the palace. She was worried about what happened to him and hurried to come, but this man still pretended to be confused with her.
Suddenly she felt that some dogs were messing around with mice.
Turning her head to ignore Xue Mu's problems, she stared at Yan Emperor again. Emperor Yan's brow frowned slightly, and his face was displeased: "Yongfu, you are really getting more and more unruly. Is this palace the backyard of your princess house?"
Yongfu just stared at him and didn't speak. Xue Mu stepped forward and said, "The emperor, seeing the princess with anxious expression, there must be something urgent."
Yongfu looked at him and smiled.
Xue Mu smiled a little at the corner of her mouth, and remained silent.
Emperor Yan coughed and said to Xue Mu: "After the matter has been negotiated, you should go back to Houfu first, so that your wife is not worried." After saying this, he took a special look at Yongfu, and she saw an unhappy one on her face color. He smiled with satisfaction, and continued to Xue Mu: "By the way, I also asked the father-in-law to prepare some gold and silver cloths, you can bring them back together."
"Thank Emperor Ron."
After Xue Mu followed the father-in-law, Yandi glanced at Yongfu who was still standing on the hall: "Your General Xue has left, what else do you have?"
Yongfu glanced at him and wanted to turn around and leave, but still asked uneasily: "But Brother Huang is suspicious of Xue Mu?"
Before Emperor Yandi answered, Yongfu replied, "Everyone can rebel in this great inheritance, but Xue Mu cannot!"
Yandi raised an eyebrow: "Did you finish?"
"That's it."
"Knee down."
Yongfu: "..."
When Yongfu returned to Princess Mansion, he deliberately glanced at him while passing by Aers' mansion.
Aers was sitting in the room and drinking with Yi Jin at the moment. He took a drink and asked Yi Jin: "I heard that the little emperor has called Xue Mu into the palace. Do you think he doubts Xue Mu?"
Yi Jindao: "No."
Aers's eyes narrowed: "Then why are we doing so much?"
Yi Jin said with a smile: "Although he will not doubt Xue Mu, he will certainly put pressure on him."
Aes looked at him doubtfully, Yi Jin said, "As long as Xue Mu takes action, we will have the opportunity."
Yongning Hou House.
Liu Qinghuan used up dinner absently and looked up at the sky. A pair of slender willow eyebrows frowned slightly. As soon as she was ready to send Chitao out to inquire about Xue Mu, Qingyu hurriedly ran in: "Mrs. Madam! Houye is back!"
Liu Qinghuan exhaled slightly and looked up at the panting person in front of him: "Where is Hou Ye now?"
Qingye said: "Hou Ye went to the lotus pavilion for tea."
Sencha.
The beauty that Shu just unfolded gathered again to the eyebrows, Liu Qinghuan looked down and thought, still stood up from the seat. Seeing this, Chitao Qingyu quickly followed up: "Where is Madam going?"
"Lotus Pavilion."
Studying the cool breeze on the Lotus Pavilion, Xue Mu's clothes sang slightly. Liu Qinghuan turned out from a path in the garden and saw Xue Mu sitting alone on the lotus pavilion.
Since it is not a matter of discussion, it can only be annoying.
Liu Qinghuan smiled silently, his eyes gradually sinking.
Xue Mu is a very contradictory person. Like he said that he likes winter and hates it, just as he is fascinated by sencha painting and calligraphy, and loves horse hunting. Joy and dislike, stillness and movement, are clearly opposed to each other, but they are unified in him.
So she still can't see through this person until now.
The greatest skill of a liar is not to lie, but to know people. In the eyes of a liar, there are only two types of people-those who are easy to cheat and those who are not. However, this is probably the third type of Xue Mu, which cannot be deceived.
Because there will be big trouble after cheating.
But she still ... took this step.
Seeing that Liu Qinghuan was approaching, Xue Mu raised her eyes slightly and smiled at her. Liu Qinghuan thought he would ask himself, as usual, "Qingqing, is there something wrong with me?" But he said nothing. Liu Qinghuan sat down opposite him and watched as he stirred the boiling water in the small kettle with bamboo utensils. It wasn't until the pot was evacuated from the charcoal that he looked up at Liu Qinghuan: "Have you heard of cuckoo?"
Liu Qinghuan was startled, but asked indifferently on the face: "Is Hou talking about flowers or people?"
"bird."
Xue Mu skillfully divided the tea in the small pot into the celadon tea bowl, and then said, "The cuckoo lays eggs in the nests of other birds, and removes the same number of eggs in the original bird's nest. It can deceive other birds to help them hatch their own youngsters, and it can also reduce competition after they are born. And the cuckoo's youngsters will crowd out other youngsters in the same nest to fight for food. "
Liu Qinghuan listened in silence, Xue Mu took a sip of the tea in the tea bowl and smiled at Liu Qing: "The cuckoo is the king of a liar even more cunning than a fox."
Liu Qinghuan's palms had a little cold sweat. She looked at Xue Mu and hooked her lips: "How did Hou Ye remember to say this?"
"Suddenly remembered." Xue Mu dropped the tea bowl in her hand and looked sideways at the Lotus Pond. The lotus in the lotus pond is not as gorgeous as it was a few days ago, and the slightly drooping petals look a little lifeless.
Liu Qing hung his eyes, and Xue Mu put it on himself on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival. Her eyes were dim, and she whispered, "The lotus is about to finish."
Xue Mu looked at the lotus in Manchi and lowered her voice subconsciously: "There is a day of resumption, but when there is no youth."
Liu Qinghuan felt panicked. She exhaled and stood up: "Hou Ye, I'm a bit tired, I'll go back to the room first."
"Okay." Xue Mu nodded and did not stop.
On the way back, Liu Qinghuan walked fast, as if a spear had been poking himself behind. As soon as she returned to the main room, she locked herself in the room, and did not bother Akita or Aoki to come in and disturb.
She pulled out the pair she had hidden before and pursed her lips.
Xue Mu already suspected her, she had to find the remaining three paintings as soon as possible, and then left Houfu. 2k novel reading network