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Mu Yu sat in his study to sort out the account books of the first half year. The account books of all the fields, manors and shops in his family were piled up. There were more than a dozen of them. He had read them for several days.

His mother usually does the checking of accounts, but he didn't know how casual his mother was when he paid a thousand Liang silver to the cashier the other day. He didn't even pay attention to the loss of 5000 Liang in the first half of the year. There were also several shops that had made false accounts, but he couldn't help it. After reporting to his father, he took over the work himself. However, the work of checking the account books is really cumbersome. After reading for a few days, he felt dizzy and bloated, and even dreamed of a pile of figures in his sleep.

"Big brother..." Muke knocks on the door, and the cat walks into the study. "Big brother, are you there?"

Mu Yu raised his head from a pile of account books and saw Muke sneaking in like a thief. He frowned, "Muke, what are you doing?"

Muke looked outside, closed the door, and went to Mu Yu's front. "Elder brother, I heard that the cold wind has been caught. Will it affect the second brother?"

"Second brother?"

"Mu Chen." Muke reminded him, "the cold wind was captured by the second elder brother's house. Will the second elder brother suffer from the crime?"

"You don't have to worry about it if you don't even have a sin in our house."

Thinking that Muke was worried that Zhenyuan Houfu would be seated, Mu Yu replied without expression and continued to look at the account books.

He thought Muke was concerned about Mu Chen, so he came to inquire about the news. Unexpectedly, he was still worried about himself.

Muke didn't see Mu Yu with a black face and didn't understand why he was angry. "Big brother, what do you mean by this? Don't you care about the second brother? "

Mu Yu suddenly put down the account book and looked up at him, "what do you want to do about this? He will solve zi'an's affairs by himself, and will never involve our family. "

Muke pouted out displeasantly. "Elder brother, I just care about the second brother."

"Well, why do you care about him all of a sudden?"

Muke was blocked and had nothing to say. He looked at Mu Yu for a long time. He suddenly sighed, pulled a stool and sat down. "When I was entangled by Lin ruofeng yesterday, I met my second brother, who helped me."

"So you want to bite the hand that feeds you?" Mu Yu was angry and answered.

Muke showed a very solemn expression and said: "big brother, in your heart, am I such a villain?"

Mu Yu nodded, dipped in red ink, and drew on a page of the account book.

Muke suddenly felt that he had failed in his life. Even his elder brother, who loved him most, felt that he was vicious.

"Big brother, tell me honestly, will the second brother be involved?"

"And what? No, what? "

"If I can, I'll ask my grandmother to help my second brother, and I'll repay him."

He is also a person who will repay his kindness. Although he was not very friendly to Mu Chen and Mu Jin under the influence of his mother, he would not obliterate the fact that Mu Chen helped him.

Mu Yu looked up at his brother suspiciously. After a long time, he said, "it's enough for you to have this heart, and zi'an will not expect you to help."

Hearing this, Muke frowned unhappily. What does it mean not to expect him? What's wrong with him? My grandmother loved him so much that she would certainly agree to his request. However, her relationship with the Empress Dowager was so good that it was easy to ask for love.

He crossed his hands around his chest for a long time. He was sulky. Then he secretly looked into Mu Yu's eyes and asked, "brother, my mother said that Mu Jin is a wild seed, not my father's child, and that woman is not a good person. He robbed my mother's wife, pretended to be generous, and let my mother and my brothers and sisters suffer all the grievances. Why are you so good to my second brother and Mu Jin?"

The woman refers to Mu Yang, Mu Chen's mother. The head of Dehui County married her as an ordinary wife. Originally, her identity was enough to be a proper wife, and she also thought so. However, Mu Yuanzhi, the son of Marquis of Zhenyuan at that time, had already married Yang's family, and the old Marquis insisted that his son should not divorce Yang's family, let alone his son take the place of Yang's wife, even Dehui The head of the county went to the emperor and asked the emperor to marry him. The old Marquis insisted on it, even though he was deprived of his title.

For the sake of a county leader who didn't play an important role, he lost an old minister who had worked hard and made great achievements. The emperor would not do such an uneconomic thing, so he let the county leader of Dehui marry into the Marquis's residence of Zhenyuan with his wife Ping.

Mu Yu raised his head. He always thought that his younger brother was not reliable. He often used the tactics of killing thousands of enemies and destroying himself. Now, it seems that this is all learning from his mother.

"The third younger brother, the fourth younger brother and the third younger sister and the third younger sister's marriage are not well said. I'm afraid that is also the influence of this matter? Is it not shameful enough to hide such a disgraceful thing in our house and shout out? "

Mu Yu looked at Mu Ke with a smile. The sarcastic look made Mu Ke feel scared. He held his hands and couldn't catch up. Mu Yu laughed again and continued, "you said that Aunt robbed the position of mother's wife, but my grandfather always believed that aunt was the mistress of the family, and she never hurt us Muko, you are no longer a child. You can't listen to your mother

Muke thought about it for a moment, but suddenly she was in a panic. Yes, the second sister didn't get married until she was 18 years old. It was because the story of the eldest sister's stealing was spread. Others thought that the family education of the Marquis of Zhenyuan was not strict and they were not willing to marry their daughter."My mother can't not understand those things. She may feel that she has been cheated and angry." Muke subconsciously explained for Dehui County Lord.

Mu Yu waved his hand and didn't want to continue to pester him with this problem. "Don't get involved in the affairs of the elder generation. If you want to marry a good family in the future, you should keep in touch with your second sister-in-law and go to Ximu house more often. Jingli is a prefect. He is familiar with Princess Jing and knows many people. It's no harm for you to walk more. If you let your mother choose for you, you can marry the elder People like Ning Hou's house. "

When he heard the name of the Marquis house of Changning, Muke's face collapsed. He had seen the fighting power of his wife, and even had a fight with his eldest daughter. His fierce personality made him unable to resist a bully like him.

"You're nonsense. Your mother loves me so much that she won't be willing to marry me to such a family." Muko retorts.

"My mother does hurt, but she has a bad eye. If she has a good eye, she will fall in love with Zeng Wan'er? Would you like Zheng Xiaofeng? Because Zheng Xiaofeng, the third younger brother and younger sister, Qing's aunt has not been sparing trouble in recent years. " Mu Yu shook his head. "Even if you don't want to get in touch with Jingli, you don't want to go out and do mischief. Your reputation is not good. If you make it worse, no one in the capital city will dare to ask you."

Muke was a little angry by Mu Yu. He crossed Mu Yu's eyes and murmured, saying his ultimate goal, "elder brother, you can take me to the third brother's house in the afternoon. I'll thank the second brother for saving his life."

Mu Ke can have this heart, Mu Yu is very pleased, he nodded, "when I finish reading these books, I will let someone inform you."

At the same time, the capital's prison was also surrounded by troops. The towering walls were built very high, and soldiers in armor stood with swords. It was awe inspiring and elegant. The scene was quiet, and the space was as quiet as death. The simple carriage moved forward slowly, and the gatekeeper just looked at the sign from the groom and respectfully put the man in. Mu Chen sat quietly in the carriage, got out of the car after arriving at the gate, stroked his clothes, carried the food prepared by Shen Jingli, nodded to the groom, and walked in. As soon as I stepped into the gate, the light was dimmed. The sunlight outside could not affect the gloomy atmosphere here. Occasionally, the prisoners murmured.

"Wronged, I am wronged."

"Help, Lord, help..."

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha." Hell on earth, but that's it.

Mu Chen walked towards the inside without stopping. The tools of torture hanging on the wall were stained with blood and seeping with light. The dry black blood halo on the ground spread out layer by layer. Most of the prisoners who are held outside have no identity at all, and their crimes are not serious. The more they go in, the quieter they will be.

"General mu, please wait." Two officials stood respectfully at a table, supposed to be watchmen on shift.

General Mu nodded and walked over. The moon white sleeve embroidered with gold Xiangyun's clothes was in sharp contrast to the dark cell. He took out a token from his sleeve and said, "I want to see the cold wind."

The two officials took the token respectfully, looked at it carefully and gave it back to Mu Chen.

"General mu, this way, please." The cold wind and Nan Jiyun are locked in the neighboring cells. The small cell is very dark. You can only feel a ray of light coming through the small window. The room is covered with black straw, and there is a straw mat in the corner, which is for the criminals to sleep.

Nan Jiyun is sitting against the cell on the other side of the cold wind, staring at the small window. He has lived for 23 years and is still in prison for the first time. The taste of this cell is really hard to say.

"General mu, this is it." An official opened the door on the other side of the cold wind, took Mu Chen's reward and left.

"General, why are you here?" The cold wind saw Mu Chen come in and stood up in a hurry.

Mu Chen handed over the food box in his hand, "Jing Li asked people to make food for you. Eat while it is hot."

The food in the cell is not much better than pig food. After they were put in, they drank water several times, but they didn't eat a grain. They were already hungry. When they heard that there was something to eat, they quickly opened the food box.

"Cold wind, pull a chicken leg for me." Nan Jiyun originally wanted to ask Mu Chen how the situation was, but when he saw what he had eaten, he felt that he had to eat first.

After gnawing a chicken leg and eating two steamed buns, Nan Jiyun asked in his mind, "how long are we going to stay here?"

He doesn't want to stay in this place for a moment. The cold wind stretched out his hand to pull Nan Jiyun, "general, what is the prince going to do?"

"Lead the snake out of the cave."

Mu Chen took a look at the dirty weeds, abandoned the beginning and continued to stand.

The cold wind pondered over these four words, and his eyes lit up, "can you lead to a big snake?"

"It's hard to say."

"So we'll be here a few more days?" Nan Jiyun snorted in displeasure and reached out for a steamed bread. "Then you remember to ask people to send me rice every day. I want to eat bean dregs balls in the afternoon. That's what Jingli asked the kitchen to do last time. There's also the chicken, please remember.".

Mu Chen nodded and continued to talk to the cold wind.