novelraw Chapter 253 Mysterious Visitor
Chapter 253 Mysterious Visitor
The night outside was pitch black. He stretched out his hand and saw a light quietly turning on in the study room of Prince Xian's Mansion, which had been silent for many days.
Two good-looking men walked into the study. They were both about thirty years old. One was tall and the other was short. They were so ordinary that people would look at them twice when walking on the street.
However, when the maid brought two basins of water and asked them to wash off the disguise on their faces, what appeared in front of them was a young man and a woman in her prime.
The study door was closed.
Mu Xiuhan looked at the two people in front of him, and for the first time in many days, he experienced the feeling of surviving a desperate situation: "My cousin and cousin's disguise is really exquisite. If I saw it with my own eyes, I would dare to believe it." Those two people are just you pretending."
There is a pair of men and women in front of them, the man is in his early ten years, his handsome and gentle eyebrows have a gloomy aura, giving people a feeling of being enlightened.
The woman is seventeen or eighteen years old, as beautiful as a flower. She wears a plain green dress to hide her charming charm at the corners of her eyebrows and eyes. Her skin is so white that it shines under the light.
Mu Xiuhan's eyes fell on her face, and his heartbeat couldn't help but beat a little faster.
He quickly looked away and poured tea for the two of them himself: "Why did my cousin and cousin suddenly come to the imperial capital? Did my grandfather and uncle hear the news?"
Guo Huai's tone was indifferent: "My father heard that your position as crown prince was deposed and ordered me and Ah Qiang to come over and take a look."
Mu Xiuhan's expression froze, and he silently walked to the chair in front of the window and sat down. His voice was full of resentment: "Father has listened to the slander and is so stupid."
Guo Hongqiang stood silently in front of the window, staring at the dark night outside the window, pursed her lips, like a cold jade sculpture - a jade sculpture without emotions but exuding ultimate temptation.
Mu Xiuhan glanced at her quietly and couldn't help but murmur in his heart.
His cousin is really a weirdo.
She has a beautiful appearance and is used as a chess piece by the King of Western Xinjiang. She can seduce people and make them fascinated. However, her temper is as cold as a cold jade ice sculpture, without any human emotional fluctuations.
Occasionally I find it beautiful and attractive, and occasionally I get a sense of oozing beauty.
I really don’t know how such contradictory personalities can appear in the same person.
"One more important thing." Guo Huai's voice interrupted Mu Xiuhan's random thoughts, "Does your cousin know that the Queen of Jin came to Mu?"
Mu Xiuhan came to his senses and nodded: "I know. She and the four princes of the Jin Kingdom are here on a mission to take her daughter back to the Jin Kingdom."
Guo Huai asked: "What about other than that?"
"Aside from that?" Mu Xiuhan frowned and looked at him in confusion, "What other purposes do they have?"
Guo Huaitan asked: "Have you never thought about why the emperor dares to abolish your throne at this time?"
Mu Xiuhan's face changed slightly. Thinking of his father's attitude towards him and his mother these days, and Jiang Yi's visit to the Mu Kingdom, an auspicious premonition emerged in his heart: "Is it related to my grandfather?"
"No one knows that Jiang Yi married to the Jin Kingdom ten years ago. It seems that the emperor kept it a secret." Guo Huai said coldly, "Father has begun to suspect that when Jiang Yi secretly married to the Jin Kingdom, maybe This is a trick that the emperor and Jiang Yi played together. Their purpose is to lower his defense and wait for the right time to cut down the feudal clan. "
Mu Xiuhan felt cold in his heart and clenched his hands tightly: "It's weird..."
It's strange that no news has come back from Jiang Yi in ten years.
Everyone thought she was dead, so they didn't take Yan Li seriously.
However, after Yan Li's engagement was broken off by him, Jiang Yi instead brought the Jin princes to seek justice - did Jiang Yi come here because of her daughter, or because she was already familiar with the emperor's plan?
If they really wanted to deal with grandpa and uncle...
Mu Xiuhan's palms were slightly wet, thinking of the letter he wrote to his grandfather last time. Was it the evidence that he had sent to his father?
The emperor's heart is indeed profound.
Mu Xiuhan couldn't help but wonder. His father had never thought of letting him be the crown prince?
"What do you think, cousin?" Guo Huai turned his head and looked at him quietly, "Do you think the emperor's heart is as deep as the sea?"
Mu Xiuhan came back to his senses, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth: "More than that, my father is clearly using me as a pawn to play with!"
Let him be the crown prince in order to confuse his grandfather.
My father was afraid that he might have had the idea to eradicate his grandfather and uncle many years ago.
"The Queen of Jin has the power of regent, and she has stayed in Mu for too long during this meeting." Guo Huai said in a calm tone, "My father planned to set up an ambush halfway, intercept and kill the Queen of Jin and the envoys, and directly start a war between the two countries. ”
Mu Xiuhan was surprised: "Intercept and kill Jiang Yi?"
"놆."
Mu Xiuhan frowned and thought deeply for a moment, then nodded slowly: "This is quite wrong. Let's see how dare my father has the idea of cutting down the vassal clan."
"Our plan requires the cooperation of others." Guo Huai said in a deep voice, "I heard that the Prime Minister's party has frequently fallen into the hands of Duke Nanyang recently."
Mu Xiuhan was startled: "Are we cooperating with the Prime Minister?"
"This is the best way." Guo Huai obviously saw his thoughts and explained calmly, "Mucang and Duke Nanyang are not easy to deal with. This time we alone cannot guarantee that the plan will work."
Mu Xiuhan nodded slowly: "It's just that I can't leave Prince Xian's Mansion for the time being——"
"놊I need you to come forward." Guo Huai said, "I'll go talk to him."
Mu Xiuhan closed his eyes and remained silent, as if he was thinking about how to proceed.
"Two days later, the report of the border meeting came. The war is urgent, and the Ninth Prince will definitely leave Kyoto." Guo Huai sneered, "As long as he leaves, how easy will it be to deal with Duke Nanyang?"
Mu Xiuhan held the tea cup and thought of what had happened these days, and he only hated Mu Cang and Yan Li to the core of his heart.
"Tune the tiger away from the mountain and move Mu Cang away." Guo Hongqiang turned around and said, "Ask Gu Cheng to cooperate and capture Nanyang Duke secretly. Even if Mu Cang gets the battle report by then and it is false, he will learn about his daughter-in-law when he comes back. Seeing them, I don’t have time to pay attention to Jiang Yi and the others anymore.”
Guo Huai nodded: "As long as Mu Cang personally escorts Jiang Yi back, my father will find a way to make the Queen of Jin and all the princes become hostages."
Mu Xiuhan's eyes were attentive: "This method sounds really foolproof."
A fake battle report sent the tiger away from the mountain, and then Prime Minister Gu was responsible for getting Yan Li into trouble. When Mu Cang clones himself, Jiang Yi will definitely die on the way back.
Mu Xiuhan smiled coldly. As long as something happened to Jiang Yi, the Mu Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom would inevitably go to war. At that time, his father would only beg the King of Western Xinjiang to protect the border, but would he still dare to cut off the vassal?
What a joke.