Chapter 207 The righteous brother

There is a shaded street on the west side of Mu Mansion. Zhu Gaoxu came in in a carriage and felt that the light suddenly dim; the shade of trees covered the sun, leaving colorful light and shadow on the brick and stone floor.

Zhu Gaoxu gently lifted the curtain and felt that the breeze in the air was much cooler than outside.He looked at the street entrance in front and seemed to see the exit of the tunnel, with dazzling light.

The air was filled with the smell of wood ash and fermented black beans.

Zhu Gaoxu then remembered that it was almost noon and the people around him should be cooking. The Han people in Yunnan like to put fermented black beans the most at home-cooked dishes, and they have to put almost all kinds of dishes. No wonder they have such a smell.

The big trees on both sides are almost all banyan trees, most of which are growing in the yard of the mansion, and occasionally some are growing on the street.

Not far away, there is a large banyan tree, with many rhizomes intertwined, forming a trunk that both of them cannot hug each other. It seems that they have been a lot of years.

What’s even more amazing is that there are incense and candles in front of the trunks, and there are also many incense ash residues on the ground. What’s more, some people regard this tree as a god?

Zhu Gaoxu observed for a while and found that there were houses on both sides, and the houses on the east were not buildings of Mu Mansion... Generally, wealthy families have walls, and they cannot plant trees against the walls. The main purpose is to prevent assassins from burglary and avoid assassins climbing along the trees or hiding in them; the houses in Mu Mansion cannot be built like this.

Why don’t you get closer?Zhu Gaoxu asked.

Veda understood why he didn't get close to Mu's mansion, so he bent down and looked at Zhu Gaoxu in the carriage and said: When you say that, there is a street behind the row of houses in the east; but there are people guarding the gate at the entrance of the street, and passers-by cannot walk on that street.

oh.Zhu Gaoxu nodded.

...When returning to the Han Palace, Zhu Gaoxu first had lunch with Guo Wei, and then came to the study in the front hall.He immediately summoned Wang Bin, Liu Ying, Hou Hai and others to meet.

There are almost no talent specializing in spies in the guard of the Hundred Houses and the guard of honor. Zhu Gaoxu is going to do it himself first, so that these people can learn the routine and then leave the matter to them in the future.

When they opened a wooden door in the study, everyone followed Zhu Gaoxu in. The wooden rack inside was filled with books.Zhu Gaoxu instructed Cao Fu to move a bookshelves away and hang a few pieces of white paper to put them together.

While Cao Fu was polishing the ink, Zhu Gaoxu looked back and said: The situation has changed, don’t wait for Mu Sheng, we must draw personnel to deploy immediately.I will teach the soldiers to read, let Qian Xun do it, and Wang Bin, Liu Ying and Hou Hai will obey the orders by my side in the future.

The three of them clasped their fists and said: The lower official (the last general) obeyed the order.

Zhu Gaoxu picked up his brush and dipped it in the inkstone, then wrote words on the white paper on the wall, and a few powerful running and cursive fonts fell on the bottom of his pen, which were quite beautiful.

His calligraphy was originally practiced by Zhu Gaoxu.

After writing the words "Mu, Geng, Chen, and unknown forces", Zhu Gaoxu drew a circle; he first explained the relationship between the Mu family and the Geng family, and then deduced the existence of unknown forces.

It was the words he said to Veda by the Dianchi Lake.

After Zhu Gaoxu finished speaking, he said: Mu Mansion and Chen Xu are both open forces, and everyone knows that; if the Geng family has a family who fled to Yunnan, it doesn’t take much effort to guess, after all, Mrs. Geng is the sister of Geng Bingwen, the Marquis of Changxing.

What we are mainly investigating at the moment is this... unknown force, who is it; and what disease did Mu Sheng have or where is it?There are two secondary goals: one is to find out where the Geng family is hiding and who are there; the other is, what is the relationship between Mu Mansion and Shen Xu.

There is another person Zhu Gaoxu who is hard to say, that is Hu Yi.Hu Yi was sent by the emperor, so Zhu Gaoxu was not convenient to place him on the table to monitor him.

Everyone stared at the words on the wall. Hou Hai asked for paper and pen, and walked to the table to write quickly.

Zhu Gaoxu waited for a while and asked: Do you understand?

Everyone replied: Go back to the prince, I understand.

So Zhu Gaoxu began to make specific arrangements.

He first ordered the military generals of the defensive office to operate jewelry gold and jade in the next shop in the city. This was the same thing that Zhu Gaoxu had done in the capital.

The difference is that Zhu Gaoxu is now even more blatant, because he is engaged in espionage activities in Yunnan and targeting local forces in Yunnan, even if he is discovered, there will be no serious consequences.

Moreover, the shops in Yunnan are still in the Imperial Office. The name of the name of the Jinshou Branch is: Jinshou Branch.

The Royal Palace Defence Station uses sergeants to form a powerful team to reinforce personnel at all locations when needed.

He was a personal guard general and the garrison of the Jinshu Branch. His identity was the shopkeeper on the surface.The people inside were all traitors, including Chen, a slave from the royal family from Shandong.

These spies went in and out of the gold shop, rented or purchased residences in the city, and the soldiers took their families with them as strongholds to cast their nets.

They are located on the shaded street on the west side of Mu Mansion, as well as the gates of Mu Mansion, near Shen Mansion, and near the Liyuan.

The information found was reported to the Jinpu Branch and then reported to the Royal Palace Defense Office, which was summarized and compiled by Liu Ying and Hou Hai.Zhu Gaoxu only needs to summon these two people to understand the progress of the matter.

A few days later, the branch office and the bases were arranged properly, and Zhu Gaoxu also drew a diagram of a spy in Yunnan Prefecture, marked the locations of each base, and hid it in the study in the front hall.

...The Han Wang Mansion was the Yunnan Mansion that arrived in early April, and Mu Sheng finally arrived on the third day of the fifth month.

Dianzhao Hou Hai reported that Mu Sheng and his wife Chen had already visited him and had already welcomed him into the front hall of the royal palace to wait. Then Hou Hai presented the gift list from Mu's mansion.

When Zhu Gaoxu heard that Mu Sheng had brought his family, he obviously wanted to be close.He immediately turned around and said: Cao Fu, go to the inner hall to ask the princess to change clothes, and meet Mu Sheng with me later.

Cao Fu said: I obey the order.

Zhu Gaoxu also changed into a red leather suit, Guo Wei wore a Zhai suit and went to the front hall. The two went to the front hall to meet Mu Sheng.

As soon as he walked into the front hall, Zhu Gaoxu said loudly: Is your righteous brother's illness cured?

Mu Sheng turned around and was stunned when he heard the righteous brother.

I saw Mu Sheng was a strong man in his thirties, wearing a red round collar with a round collar and a black veil. His face was a little dark, but his skin was flat and the color was very uniform, just like he was deliberately sunburned into a wheat color on vacation by the beach. With his calm and decent posture, he looked a bit aristocratic.

Mu Sheng is already the third Marquis of Xiping. He inherited the title from his brother, and it seems that he has lost the fierce martial arts spirit of some of the ancestors' entrepreneurs.

The woman next to her was wearing a life-long official uniform, and seemed to be in her early thirties. She had fair skin, beautiful face, a pointed chin, and a smile on her eyes, but she had a bit of charm.

Mu Sheng and Chen paid tribute to Zhu Gaoxu and his wife.

Mu Sheng said: Meet Your Highness the King of Han!I was sick before, but I failed to welcome Your Highness to Yunnan and am here to apologize today.

Chen also said that he had met His Highness the King of Han and the Princess, and Zhu Gaoxu and Guo Wei returned the gift.

I heard that my brother is ill and has no choice.Just come, it's fine, it's okay to be late.Zhu Gaoxu said, please take your seat and let’s sit down and talk.

When saying this, Chen looked at Zhu Gaoxu meaningfully.

Zhu Gaoxu did not go to the seat above, but accompanied Mu Sheng and others to sit on the Grand Master's chair next to the mahogany case on the west side.The two men sat on one table and two women sat on one side.

Soon a team of maids came in and replaced the tea on the table again.

Your Highness, has the princess recovered?Mu Sheng asked kindly.

Zhu Gaoxu said: It has been a while since I was well. The doctor said that it was because of the difficulty of adapting to the local conditions and traveling. He prescribed a thousand-year-old Korean ginseng recipe to make it easy for me to find it.Later, I don’t know if it was Millennium Ginseng that worked, but it was finally good.

Mu Sheng looked relieved and said: As long as the princess is safe, then we will feel at ease. People who returned from the Han Palace said that His Highness got the thousand-year-old ginseng from Chen Xu?

That's right.Zhu Gaoxu owed her body and said in a deep laugh with a teasing look on his face. I heard that she has something to do with her righteous brother?

Mu Sheng turned his head and looked at Chen next to the cases below and said seriously: Your Highness is joking, there is a little personal relationship, that's all.However, her father-in-law Shen Mao had a good relationship with her father.

So that's it, I understand.Zhu Gaoxu also looked up at Mrs. Mu and said with a smile.

At this moment, Mrs. Mu, who was sitting at the bottom and facing Zhu Gaoxu, looked over and showed a coquettish and angry look. Zhu Gaoxu hurriedly said: Let's not talk about her anymore.

This is the first time Zhu Gaoxu and Mu Sheng have met, so I can only talk about some interesting things in Yunnan.

On the contrary, it is an important matter, and neither of them deliberately did not mention it.

I really can't put it on the table and say... Could it be that Zhu Gaoxu wants to say that I have obtained the secret order of my father and went to Yunnan to observe whether you have ulterior motives?

Did you hide Emperor Jianwen?

So they had to have a happy conversation with each other and said a lot, but most of them were irrelevant.However, Zhu Gaoxu still asked about the situation of Yunnan chieftains, which was of some use.

Since Mu Sheng brought his wife, it was almost noon that Zhu Gaoxu kept them and their husbands for dinner.After lunch, the royal palace officials sent Mu Sheng away.

As Zhu Gaoxu expected, since Mu Sheng brought his wife and had dinner, he was kind-hearted.

Mu Sheng didn't seem to want to make a grudge with the Han Palace.

As for the fact that King Min had a deep hatred with Mu Sheng in Yunnan, after Zhu Gaoxu saw Mu Sheng himself, he tended to think that King Min was arrogant and became arbitrary when he came to Yunnan, and then he had a conflict with Mu Mansion.

Zhu Gaoxu accompanied Guo Wei to the inner hall and met Yao Ji calling out a cat in the corridor.Yao Ji avoided the road and held a ritual, and none of the three of them spoke.

After sending Guo Wei back to the room, Zhu Gaoxu came out and saw Yao Ji holding the yellow cat he bought in the capital in his arms, and said: Have you found the cat?

Yao Ji touched the fur of the grown yellow cat and said softly: Cats just love to run around, and I can't bear to tie them up.

Zhu Gaoxu nodded, looking thoughtful, and suddenly asked in a deep voice: Is there anyone who wants to contact you on Hu Yi?

Yao Ji looked up at Zhu Gaoxu without saying a word, her eyes were very bright.