After wearing the book, the regent quit.

Chapter 56 Extra Story: Shen Mu & Xiao Fan

"This matter is really strange. I don't know if the Lord Regent has thoughts."

In Wenyuan Pavilion, the newly appointed Right Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, Mr. Liu, had a sad face. He picked up and put down the teacup in his hand, and his worry turned into a long sigh, "Perhaps the old minister is too worried. Your Majesty is in the prime of life, so there is really no need to worry about the concubine. "

The old man who was over sixty years old had half silver hair, and his frowning eyebrows were sparse. Shen Mu sat opposite him, watching the other party sigh sincerely, and felt amused in his heart.

Since the Empress Dowager was imprisoned for life and the power of the Chu family completely collapsed nearly a year ago, the imperial court has ushered in an unprecedented period of peace. Several provocations caused a struggle between the court and China, and some even dared to pick the emperor's thorns without fear of death.

However, the downfall of the Chu family made these people clearly realize once again the unshakable status of this person on the dragon chair and his not-so-good mood. Therefore, for a long time, most officials clamped their tails tightly, fearing that even Tian bumped into Xiao Fan in a bad mood and set himself on fire.

However, most of these officials obviously did not include Master Liu Xi Liu who was in front of Shen Mu.

If Liu Xi could be summed up in eight words, it would probably be "upright and upright, carefree and carefree"; he was highly praised for his honesty and integrity. The assistant minister communicated and would severely correct anyone who found a problem.

Even Xiao Fan, who has never given a good face, once said bluntly in the early court that Liu Xi was indeed a good official.

However, this person is also famous for being careless, especially caring about other people's parents. It is said that every time he hears neighbors quarreling, he has to personally persuade them, and on several occasions he was scolded face to face by ungrateful couples.

However, since he started to worry about the lifelong affairs of the monarch these days, it is not difficult to see that this incident did not leave the slightest shadow on him, and he is still keen to meddle in other people's affairs.

"Let's not talk about Mianlian's heirs," Master Liu sighed again, almost heartbroken, "The harem can't always be empty like this."

In front of him was the memorial of Liu Xi urging Xiao Fan to stand up and accept the concubine as soon as possible. Shen Mu couldn't help recalling the appearance of someone scolding the old man bloody in the early court, and he laughed helplessly, "This matter is all up to His Majesty's will. It's useless for Master Liu to look for this king."

"The old minister just finds it strange," Liu Xi sighed, "Your Majesty once said that he has a sweetheart, but it's been so long since he married him into the palace. It's really puzzling."

Shen Mu knew that he was talking about the "lonely man" that Xiao Fan had said in front of several courtiers on the day of Xiao Fan's birthday.

Although Xiao Fan always clamored to make it public, he has always adhered to the attitude of "the relationship between two people does not need other people to participate", and the announcement of this matter will definitely shock the whole country, he really finds it troublesome.

But seeing Liu Xi racking his brains at this moment, Shen Mu suddenly couldn't bear it, and kindly reminded, "Did Lord Liu ever imagine that maybe His Majesty...is not happy with the woman."

"But the old minister has never seen an inexplicable man appearing beside His Majesty," Liu Xi shook his head firmly, and said decisively with an upright face:

"His Majesty's Mingcheng Palace, except for the Lord Regent, almost no one has ever entered or left."

Shen Mu: "..."

He has tried his best.

Standing up and saying no more, when Shen Mu was about to say goodbye to Liu Xi with a smile, the old man suddenly took out an invitation card from his sleeve and handed it over with both hands, the traces of the years were covered with wrinkles; he smiled and said to Shen Mu, A few days later it will be his eldest grandson's [-]-day banquet, and Shen Mu is sincerely invited to go.

The relationship between the two is usually quite harmonious, and Liu Xi greeted him early on this matter, Shen Mu accepted the invitation with a few words of congratulations, turned around and came out of Wenyuan Pavilion, and met Jing Fan who was waiting at the door.

Arriving in front of the imperial study in a walking chariot, Shen Mu walked through the long corridor to the side hall with ease, pushed open the door beside the side hall, and sat down on the soft chair next to the window in the room, with a party beside him. Huge screen.

Although he moved as carefully as possible, he inevitably made a very soft sound when he sat down.

The deep and familiar voice outside the screen stopped abruptly, and Xiao Fan's voice sounded after a while: "Let's do it like this today, just do as Gu just said."

Before he finished speaking, he only heard the sound of footsteps walking in, and Xiao Fan's tall and tall figure appeared in front of him.

"Why did you come here? I have been waiting for you for a long time."

Xiao Fan didn't deliberately lower his voice, his voice changed from the coldness just now, his black eyes were full of smiles; two steps came to Shen Mu's side and sat down, the young man lowered his eyes to look at the fruit plate in hand, and reached out to pick up an orange.

Shen Mu loves to eat sweet oranges, but he is often too lazy to peel them by himself. Xiao Fan saw him a few times and refused to eat the oranges, so he consciously assumed the role of "hard worker".

With ten fingers as slender as bamboo, Xiao Fan skillfully peeled off the thick skin, then split the orange flesh in half, raised his hand and handed a piece of flesh to Shen Mu's mouth.

Shen Mu had long been used to it, and opened his mouth to bite the piece of orange very naturally. With a little force on his white teeth, the sweet juice immediately spread in his mouth, stimulating the front/end of his taste buds.

Xiao Fan smiled, "Is it sweet?"

Shen Mu nodded, and said truthfully, "Sweet—hmm!"

Before the second half of the sentence came out, Xiao Fan leaned forward slightly, lowered his head and planted a light kiss on his lips.

After the kiss was over, the young man's face was full of secretly delighted titters, like a child who was extremely satisfied after stealing candy, with a deep smile, "It's really sweet."

Then he put another piece of orange on Shen Mu's lips again, and discussed with Shen Mu softly in a coaxing tone, asking him to try this again.

Secretly speaking childishly in his heart, Shen Mutong opened his mouth to bite the orange, then rolled his tender tongue, nimbly rolled the whole petal into his mouth, and "accidentally" rubbed against someone's warm fingertips.

Seeing Xiao Fan's ink-like eyes sinking slightly, Shen Mu also stepped back dexterously, and at the same time snatched the remaining oranges from his hand with quick eyesight and hands, and leaned back against the soft cushion of the soft chair.

Slightly raising his chin, Shen Mu slightly raised his eyebrows, glanced at someone with a victor's attitude, then quickly threw the orange in his hand into his mouth, and sighed contentedly after a while.

Standing up and turning her head, seeing Xiao Fan still stopped in mid-air and succeeding, Shen Mu stepped forward to pat him on the shoulder contentedly, and said earnestly, "□□, please respect yourself, Your Majesty."

Xiao Fan narrowed his long and narrow eyes dangerously, stretched out his arms and hugged the person directly in front of him, raised his eyes to look at the two extremely ambiguous marks on Shen Mu's slender neck, did not speak, but his eyes became deeper and deeper.

Knowing that this person couldn't stand a little teasing, Shen Mu retreated from his arms as soon as he saw it was good, thinking that the vegetables grown in the backyard of Mingcheng Palace hadn't been watered yet, so he kept urging Xiao Fan to go back with him as soon as possible.

When the two walked back, they had to pass through the west side of the back garden. When they passed a bright red flower bed, they faintly heard the laughter of a child.

The laughter was light and sweet, very contagious, the corners of Shen Mu's lips curled up unconsciously, and he looked along the laughter, and sure enough, he saw Xiao Shi playing with A Yu in a cluster of blooming flowers.

During that period of time, he and Xiao Fan had been busy dealing with the Empress Dowager Chu. When the Chu family collapsed and the two could finally catch their breath, someone suddenly came to report that Prince Yi Xiao had been in Beijing for several days, and they didn't know how to deal with it.

It stands to reason that all princes should live in the Prince's Mansion, but Xiao Shi was allowed to stay in the palace.

Not for anything else, just because he was too young.

Shen Mu knew that the old prince Yi was old enough to have a child, so he didn't know that Xiao Shi was young; but when he saw Xiao Douding with his own eyes a year ago, who was not as tall as his legs, he was still shocked on the spot.

His mother died of dystocia, and his father died of illness. The ill-fated Xiao Shishi obviously still understood the pain of parting. When he was hugged by the maid to salute, his pink face was plump, and his round eyes like black beans looked around, full of curiosity. Laugh at everyone.

He is still young, with royal blood, and both parents died, so it is no wonder that the Chu family chose him as Xiao Fan's replacement.

"Your Majesty, Lord Regent."

Xiao Shi was having fun when he saw A Yu suddenly bowing in salute, so he turned around; today he was wearing a dark green gown with a black jade belt around his waist, which was tightly tied on his round belly, From a distance, it looks like a round and fat rice dumpling just out of the pot.

The round eyes saw clearly that it was Shen Mu, the child grinned and began to giggle, without saluting, he hurried over with his short legs, hugged Shen Mu's calf, and rubbed his head on his clothes a few times indiscriminately Finally, he stretched out his hands, and softly called out "I want to hug you when I'm young".

It's not that Shen Mu loves him too much on weekdays, it's just that when they first met, Shen Mu saw his eyes fixed on the fruit plate in his hand, and casually asked someone to pass the cakes on the plate to Xiao Shi, and then he was entangled by this brat. up.

The child's face was full of harmless smiles to humans and animals, but Shen Mu knew that Xiao Shi was very quick-witted, where was he getting close to him, it was obviously because he was tired from playing and didn't want to walk, and he was too embarrassed to let others hug him.

Possessing himself, he raised his hand and pinched Xiao Fan's tender pink jade face. Shen Mu turned around and looked at Xiao Fan behind him, and patted Xiao Shi's back, "First salute to Your Majesty."

No matter how young Xiao Shi was, there was no shortage of etiquette. Since that woman could plant the seed of becoming an emperor in the child's heart since childhood, Shen Mu wanted to let Xiao Shi know that Xiao Fan was the unchallenged master.

However, his educational achievements were obviously very unsuccessful. Although Xiao Shi obediently stepped forward to salute, his face was full of reluctance. Before he finished speaking, he turned around again and hugged Shen Mu's leg fiercely. .

Patience was exhausted, this time Xiao Shi lost his obedient and clever appearance, and anxiously tugged at the hem of Shen Mu's clothes, muttering in his mouth, his face was almost blushing, and then he whispered,

"Mumu, I want to hug you when I'm young!"

The words "Prince Regent" are extremely laborious to read. Xiao Shi called them a few times and found it troublesome, so he simply started calling "Mu Mu". At first Shen Mu didn't care much, until Xiao Fan pointed out the problem with some dissatisfaction. , only to realize that this title is indeed inappropriate.

Xiao Shi was born and raised in the southern barbarian land, and his accent is different from that of the capital. Every time he called Shen Mu "Mu Mu" in a hurry, it sounded like he was calling "Mom" at first glance.

Xiao Fan was naturally very dissatisfied with the fact that Shen Mu had an extra son out of thin air, but the child's father was not him.

So Xiao Fan directly picked up Xiao Shi's back collar, and effortlessly lifted the "little octopus" that was sucked on his wife's body. With gloomy black eyes, he said coldly, "Don't do this." Call."

Shen Mu looked at the childish puffed cheeks and the tears in his eyes, felt pitiful and funny, so he raised his hand to cover the back of Xiao Fan's hand, and whispered in his ear, "Are you a child, it's unintentional again, Let him do the little things."

Xiao Fan glanced at the angry little boy in his hand, casually put him on the ground, turned to look at the smiling Shen Mu, and uncontrollably grew his thoughts from the bottom of his heart.

As if the fingertips still had the warmth of the man's tongue, Xiao Fan straightened up, a glint of light flashed in his eyes, he moved closer to Shen Mu, raised his hand and pinched his earlobe, and said in a low voice, "Gu Ruo follows you, son Do you have a reward?"

The warm breath fell on the ear and it was a little itchy, Shen Mu couldn't hold back and took half a step back, stretched out his hand to squeeze Xiao Fan's waist, but someone grabbed his hand instead.

Xiao Fan held his hand instead, pulled him over, and said again without giving up, "I want a reward."

Xiao Shi's black eyes rolled between the two of them, and the two chubby clenched their fists tightly at a loss; Xiao Fan, who was tall and burly, grabbed him away, while Shen Mu's white as snow His face turned red again, and he felt sad that Xiao Fan was bullying others.

Because he only blushed when he was angry and sad.

Xiao Shi, who was originally hiding behind Shen Mu, ran to Xiao Fan's side with short legs this time, raised his hand carefully and poked Xiao Fan's robe, sniffing his nose again and again, looking pitiful, even speaking with a crying voice:

"It's a bad time, Your Majesty, don't bully Mumu—wow"

Before the words fell, the child began to howl uncontrollably. After howling twice, it might be because he was tired. He fell forward and bumped into Xiao Fan's lap, and then sat down on the ground as a matter of course, and then began to apologize. cry.

Shen Mu: "..."

Is this child able to touch porcelain at such a young age?

Bending down to pick him up, Shen Mu brushed the dust off his clothes, held the round green palm and shook it twice, stroked his head and comforted him, "Your Majesty didn't bully anyone, why would you think so when you were young? "

"Small, I saw it several times when I was young!" The child choked with sobs, the tip of his nose was red, and he complained feebly, "I saw His Majesty biting Mumu's neck last time when I was young—"

"..."

Since no one in the harem could put eyeliner on them, although the two of them did not announce their relationship to the world, they no longer deliberately hid it, so Shen Mu didn't know for a while that Xiao Shi was talking about the time he was bitten in the gazebo.

Shen Mu was just about to find an excuse to prevaricate, when Xiao Fan, who was standing beside him, pulled Xiao Shi out of his arms again, and put him on the ground like a chicken cub; With a sneer all over the floor,

"Do children know what bullying is? Childish."

Lu Zongzi pursed his mouth and seemed to start crying again, Xiao Fan was still sneering at the side, Shen Mu, one head and two big, hurriedly asked A Yu to take Xiao Shi away, then took Xiao Fan's hand and pulled him back to Ming Dynasty. Cheng Gong.

After closing the door smoothly, Shen Mu directly pushed the person against the door panel, squinted at the displeased young man, folded his hands on his chest and arms, and said puzzledly, "Why are you always fussing over him? He's just a child."

"Gu doesn't like other men calling you so affectionately, and neither can Xiao Shi."

Xiao Fan raised his eyebrows and leaned lazily against the door, his tall figure enveloped Shen Mu's whole body, and instantly seized the initiative; he continued what Shen Mu said just now, "Besides, Gu is only 17 years older than him. Zi Nian can't just let him not let Gu."

Xiao Fan is the only one who dares to say such a thing without being superficial.Shen Mu secretly sighed in his heart; the smile in his eyes faded away, he raised his eyes to look at Xiao Fan, and said seriously,

"Xiao Fan, do you want a child?"

This is the first time the two of them have publicly mentioned the matter of their heirs.

"I don't want to." Standing up straight, the young man put away his lazy expression just now, looked straight into Shen Mu's eyes with a pair of black pupils, and said very solemnly, "Except for Zi Nian, I don't want anyone else."

As soon as the words fell, he stretched out his long arms, and he was about to hug someone.

Even if he already knew the answer, it would be a pleasure to hear someone say it himself. Shen Mu's heart moved, and he held the young man obediently, and said softly to him, "Maybe it's too early to say this, but have you ever thought about it? Determined not to have an heir, what should I do about succession?"

This is a very real problem. Xiao Fan does not want an heir, but the throne must be inherited. What the Empress Dowager Chu planned was exactly what Shen Mu thought. Compared with finding one in a hurry under the urging of all officials in the future, it is better to choose one when there is plenty of time. , at least there is time and room for repentance.

He knew that Xiao Fan didn't mind this question, so he took advantage of the opportunity to bring it up today.

Xiao Fan pondered for a moment, "Zinian refers to... training Xiao?"

"It's not about training, it can be observed as a backup." Shen Mu patted the young man on the shoulder and smiled, "After all, that child's nature is not bad, and he usually listens to me."

Xiao Fan smiled coldly, "Where does it mean 'listen to you', it should mean only listen to you."

Shen Mu smiled without saying a word.

"That kid is a thief, wandering around the palace all day is also a nuisance."

Xiao Fan came to the table and sat down, squinting his eyes and thinking, after a long time his deep eyes lit up, a malicious smile appeared on his lips, he called Jing Wen from outside the hall, and ordered in a deep voice,

"From tomorrow onwards, Xiao Shi will go to the Wenhua Palace to study every day. If he is lazy, he will be punished severely."

The author has something to say: Xiao Fan: Since you are so free, let's go to study.

Xiao Shi: Oh