After wearing the book, the regent quit.

Chapter 58 Extra Story 3: Shen Mu & Xiao Fan

"If Mr. Liu is really grateful, now is an excellent opportunity to repay you."

Facing Xiao Fan's eyes that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, Liu Xi stiffened for no reason. After clearing his throat with difficulty, he bowed and said, "Your Majesty, please give me instructions."

This young but ruthless monarch has always been difficult to distinguish between emotions and anger. He only contradicted the court today. Xiao Fan came to celebrate his [-]-day banquet after he came down from the court, and even spoke kindly to him. Liu Xi didn't believe him at all. purposeless.

"Don't worry, isn't today a good day for Mr. Liu?" Xiao Fan's black eyes flickered, the corners of his lips slightly curled up, and he walked straight to the vestibule with long legs under Liu Xi's nervous gaze. Say it again."

The three of them walked through the long corridor to the backyard. The ministers who had been chatting in the auditorium of the first courtyard were all shocked when they saw Xiao Fan, and they hurriedly got up and bowed to Xiao Fan and Shen Mu to salute.

Just as he originally thought, according to Liu Xi's character, there will not be too many people invited; looking around randomly, Shen Mu looked at the few ministers in the room, and finally understood why Xiao Fan insisted on coming.

These people present are as tough as Liu Xi, they are upright, stubborn and old-fashioned, knowing that Xiao Fan has a bad temper, they will not obey, and they have always been outspoken.

Xiao Fan's visit today should be because of Xiao Shi's affairs.

Political affairs were not discussed in the court, so Xiao Fan agreed casually and sat down at the head seat, as if a great god was beside everyone, with a cold expression on his face, naturally no one dared to speak up.

In contrast, Shen Mu was much easier to get along with, standing with his hands behind his back, with a slight smile on his face when talking with others, dressed in white clothes that were light but not indifferent, with a dark blue belt around his waist that outlined and tightened his thin waist.

Amidst the surprise of everyone, it didn't take long for the child to be hugged and hugged, with a white and tender face and delicate facial features, neither crying nor fussing, big eyes like black beans looking around, staring blankly at the people around him. An old man with a white beard, and Shen Mu at the outermost part of the crowd.

Blinking his eyes twice, the child twisted his body out of the swaddle and stretched out his hand, restlessly yelling in the direction of Shen Mu, babbling, seeming a little anxious.

The child's mother, who is the eldest daughter-in-law of the Liu Mansion, smiled slightly when she saw this, and approached Shen Mu with a gentle voice, "Ah Zheng seems to like Lord Regent very much, I wonder if Sir would like to give him a hug?"

It hasn't been a day or two since Youzhao's child has a rare physique. Shen Mu reached out and took the child in his arms, weighed it in his arms, looked down at the pink and tender fleshy face, gave a light smile, and lightly scratched the tip of the child's nose.

After handing the child back, Shen Mu retreated two steps away from the crowd, silently watched the child being hugged on the velvet-covered table, and left the crowd like Mrs. Liu, walking towards him with a smile.

The two are worthy of being a married couple, and Mrs. Liu is also warm-hearted. Liu Xi is worried about the reproduction of Xiao Fan's offspring, and Mrs. Liu is worried about Shen Mu's life-long affairs. Shen Mu came to the Liu residence several times, and Mrs. Liu always looked at him with loving eyes. stared at him, and then habitually asked questions.

The woman smiled kindly, "The adults seem to like children very much."

"The child was born pink and cute," Shen Mu answered without leaking. He also knew a little about Mrs. Liu, and he always felt that there was something in what she just said, "Of course I like it."

Sure enough, Mrs. Liu almost sent him away with her next sentence: "Since adults like children, why don't you—"

"Madam Liu," interrupted hastily, Shen Mu only felt a gaze glued to his back, and said with a stiff smile, "Today is the children's [-]-day banquet, so I don't need to worry about the king's affairs."

"My lord said that," the woman didn't force herself, she covered her mouth with a plain white veil, and smiled, "For this kind of thing, fate is the most important thing. A person like your lord must have extremely high vision."

"I don't know what kind of person the Prince Regent likes."

Xiao Fan, who was on the sidelines the whole time, suddenly opened his mouth, picked up the teacup in his hand and took a sip, tapped the wall of the cup with his slender and straight fingers, and the lid of the teacup slipped across the rim, making a soft sound.

There was a faint smile on the corner of his lips, and the young man raised his eyes and stared at Shen Mu unmovingly, his thin lips parted slightly, his eyes were full of playfulness, "I'm really curious."

The two of them were talking here, but the ministers on the side naturally didn't dare to speak out, and the child didn't look at it, and stood respectfully by the side, with more than a dozen pairs of eyes staring at this place.

Shen Mu chuckled lightly, and a cold voice rang out in the room: "I like tall, mighty, literary and military men."

Xiao Fan put down the teacup, thoughtfully: "So that's how it is."

Shen Mu laughed again: "Your Majesty is quite satisfied."

The young man nodded: "Satisfied, the regent really has vision."

The air froze for a moment, and several ministers around looked around in bewilderment, really unable to understand what kind of riddle the two were playing; Liu Xi, the only person present who understood, widened his eyes slightly, watching them sternly The regent and the murderous monarch are flirting under the noses of everyone.

Thinking of how he asked Shen Mu with a blank face yesterday, how to solve the problem of the monarch's heirs, Liu Xi wished he could get into the crack of the wall.

After the hundred-day banquet, everyone left the banquet to say goodbye. Liu Xi hurriedly ordered the servants in the mansion to pour tea and water immediately, and then turned away the bewildered family members. After everyone left, he spoke with difficulty:

"I don't know what your Majesty's orders are, and I'm really scared."

Xiao Fan looked down at the high-quality tea that was sinking in the cup, and said unhurriedly, "Master Liu must know what Gu is talking about today."

Looking at the sneer without a trace of warmth in the young man's eyes, Liu Xi's heart tightened, and he said in a trembling voice, "It must be... for Prince Yi."

In the early dynasty, he expressed his strong opposition to Xiao Shi's study in Wenhua Pavilion. Now that Xiao Fan came to his house, he has tolerated it very much. He even took the initiative to name the relationship between him and Shen Mu, in order to make Liu Xi stand his same side.

Maybe not just on the same side, at least in this matter, Xiao Fan wants Liu Xi to be his right arm.

"Lord Liu really understands." Xiao Fan raised his eyebrows, quite satisfied with Liu Xi's behavior of not beating around the bush, "Since that's the case, Gu will speak directly."

"I want you to assist Xiao Shi."

As soon as the words fell, everyone present, including Shen Mu, was taken aback. Xiao Fan's order was almost equivalent to making Xiao Shi the crown prince; Liu Xi considered for a long time, and under Xiao Fan's majestic gaze, he still bit the bullet and said bluntly:

"Your Majesty is in the prime of life at this time, and it is too early to say the position of the crown prince; besides, the matter of heirs—"

Pausing for a moment, Liu Xi glanced at Shen Mu with some shame, gritted his teeth and continued, "Besides, if His Majesty changes his mind about the heir in the future, Prince Yi Xiaowang will be a hidden danger instead."

The words are actually very euphemistic, not to mention Xiao Fan succeeding to the throne when he was young, even his own son would have to stay in the crown prince for decades; There are many emperors, and setting up a prince too early is a hidden danger in itself, not to mention that Xiao Shi is not Xiao Fan's child.

Now he can categorically express for Shen Mu that he doesn't care about the reproduction of offspring, but what about ten years later? 20 years from now?

People are unpredictable, and it is never wrong to think more in advance.

Standing up and putting the teacup on the table, Xiao Fan ignored Liu Xi's remonstrance, his voice was not loud but extremely firm: "Needless to say, I know what I'm doing."

After saying that, he naturally took Shen Mu's hand, and strode away from the spacious living room without looking back.

This was the first time that Shen Mu and Xiao Fan held hands outside Mingcheng Palace and the palace. It was already past the noon hour when the sun was at its strongest, and the warm sun slanted down on his shoulders, making people feel hot.

The two got into the carriage together, and sat next to each other in the spacious carriage, without speaking in a tacit understanding, but they still held hands tightly.

The carriage speeded past on the straight gravel road, and the wooden wheels rolled over the ground and made a slight sound. For some reason, Shen Mu felt nervous for no reason. He and Xiao Fan had been together for more than a year, and it was the first time his heart beat so fast .

It seems that it is not just for those words just now.

After he calmed down his thoughts, he lifted the bamboo curtain at his hand and realized that the carriage was not going back to the palace. He frowned slightly, and Shen Mu turned his head, just in time to bump into Xiao Fan's dark eyes.

The young man raised his hand and brushed the hair from his ears to his temples for him: "Is this road familiar?"

Shen Mu has always had a weak sense of direction, and after looking out several times, he still couldn't remember the meaning of Xiao Fan's words.

He tried to guess: "This is the road to... the outskirts of the capital?"

With a smile on the corner of Xiao Fan's mouth, he didn't answer.

When the carriage came to a steady stop in a courtyard, Shen Mu was already drowsy, unconsciously nodding his head up and down, until someone lightly patted him on the shoulder, he barely got out of the carriage rubbing his eyes.

It's just that after getting off the car, he couldn't help being slightly taken aback by the scene in front of him, and suddenly understood why he always felt that this section of the road was so familiar just now.

This is the courtyard where Chu Pinting was bid farewell, and it also witnessed the moment when he was with Xiao Fan.

"Why do you suddenly want to come here—"

"Zinian, I still remember being here."

The two went straight to the backyard. Shen Mu looked out of the yard in surprise. Except for the green bamboo forest, the fruits, vegetables and flowers planted, and even the wooden platform built in the center were exactly the same as the backyard of Mingcheng Palace.

Before Shen Mu could speak, Xiao Fan whispered in his ear: "You once told me that what you like most is such a comfortable pastoral life."

Leaning outside the firewood gate, facing the wind and listening to the cicadas.The sun is setting at the crossing, and there is a lonely smoke in the ruins. *

"Although I can't give you such a life now," Xiao Fan turned sideways, leaned over and kissed Shen Mu's forehead lightly, his deep voice was infinitely gentle, "but I promise, I won't make you wait too long .”

Hearing this, Shen Mu chuckled lightly, his heart was soft and in a mess, "If Xiao Xiao knew that you forced him to study for this, he would probably cry a lot again."

"I can't help but he doesn't want to," the young man took advantage of the opportunity to pinch his waist lightly, and his voice was a little muffled when he kissed, "Besides, you're still here, he always listens to you the most."

Pushing his body back, his breathing was still a little short, Shen Mu buried his head on Xiao Fan's chest, and said "Thank you" in a very low voice.

At this time, a breeze wafted with the fragrance of bamboo, and slightly lifted the hem of the clothes of the two of them. Xiao Fan hugged them tightly, and also silently replied "Thank you".

Thank you for being willing to stay with me so that I don't have to spend half my life alone.

——Shen Mu & Xiao Fan

The author has something to say: *From Tang Dynasty Wang Wei's "Wangchuan Leisurely Residence Presented to Pei Xiucaidi"

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After reading the feedback from the little angels, it seems that I want to see more of Su Xin and Qin Jing. Considering that they have very little role in this article, I plan to directly open a new pit next door as a short story. Everyone can read it. No more spending.