Chapter 9 Introduction Chapter Nine
Queen Mother Lan stopped him and said, "Just have dinner with my grandmother."
Mu Anzhi's gaze met the eyes of Emperor Mu Xuan in the air. Facing the temptation in Emperor Mu Xuan's eyes, Mu Anzhi suddenly felt that everything in the past faded in his heart. What was Emperor Mu Xuan testing? I was testing whether he was retreating or having some other scheming purpose? He smiled indifferently, "When will Your Majesty be away? I will come over again. Your Majesty doesn't have to be too careful. I am also kind of intent when I say that the palace is vassal. Yu'an Palace is a side hall of the Eastern Palace. Can I live there all the time? I won't be stubborn and ask someone to ask me to leave."
The last sentence was covered up by the ridicule in Mu Anzhi's eyes.
Since he hated him, why did he agree to let him live in the side palace of the East Palace? Since he was unintentional, why did he not say anything about Empress Dowager Lan's decent attitude towards him far superior to other princes?
He was pushed under the guise of how many times he had done it, and became a target in the open and secret. Now he has become a laughing stock known to everyone inside and outside. He has to repeatedly test his power and weight. It is not that he has unspeakable delusions!
After Mu Anzhi said that, he lifted his foot and left. Emperor Mu Xuan suddenly said indifferently, "No one drove you away, so you won't let you live in Yu'an Hall. But what you said is reasonable. Yu'an Hall is a partial palace of the East Palace. Now you want to build the East Palace. There is a craftsman who lives there, and it is indeed inappropriate. You are old now, and it is good to understand these principles. Sometimes, people rely on their identity to support this identity. Sometimes, this person can fulfill this identity. There is no need to hurry now. When you get married, I will naturally give you a house."
"Yes. Just now, your grandmother said that she would definitely choose the best lady for you." Princess Fengyang hurriedly took Mu Anzhi's arm and took him to the queen mother and sat next to him, and asked him jokingly, "Anzhi, what kind of girl do you like? Tell me, aunt, please help you pay attention."
"I'm not getting married. Everyone I marry now will delay others." Mu Anzhiping looked at Emperor Mu Xuan quietly, "Also, what I said that day was the only thing I kept my word. I will never marry the Lu family."
As for the words next to him, Mu Anzhi didn't say it. He bowed slightly and then left.
Empress Dowager Lan felt very uncomfortable and choked with tears in her eyes, "This child Anzhi has made you heartbroken."
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Mu Anzhi abandoned the books of sages he had read in the past and went to the library in the palace to find some books to read. When he was tired of reading, he would dance his sword and punch. Or when the wind was cool in the morning, he would let someone move out his long couch, put tea, snacks and seasonal fruits on the side, and lay on the couch with his legs crossed.
All the etiquette from childhood to university was thrown out of the sky. Mu Anzhi knew the squint and comfortable for the first time. He no longer pretended to be generous and virtuous, nor did he learn the deepness of Emperor Mu Xuan's joy and anger. He smiled when he wanted to laugh, and said when he wanted to speak, and then he realized his pleasure. However, Su Shuang, the great palace maid in his palace, privately advised him, "Your Highness is not like a prince now, but like a person outside."
"What's wrong with people outside? They're all different."
"How can we compare outside with our palace? The rules and etiquette in the palace are the examples of the world."
Mu Anzhi glanced at Sushuang, "That's a pity. I'll leave the palace these days and go to the vassal. Sushuang, you should go back to the emperor's grandmother's place."
Su Shuang's face changed drastically and she kept saying, "Since my maid was given to Your Highness by the Empress Dowager, she is your highness's person. She will naturally follow Your Highness for generations!"
Mu Anzhi didn't want to see her Taoist face, so he waved his hand. Su Shuang didn't dare to say much, so he bowed and stepped back. Xiao Yi brought a plate of bayberry washed with salt water and placed it by Mu Anzhi's hand, saying, "I have tasted it from Jiaguofang, and it's sweet and sour."
Seeing that the bayberry was bright and beautiful, Mu Anzhi took one to eat it, and it tasted good. Mu Anzhi said to Xiao Yi, "We will be a vassal in the future, and I don't know if there are any such good fruits to eat."
Xiao Yi said, "If you have it or not, it doesn't matter if you follow His Highness."
Xiaofan came in to report the matter, and when he heard a half sentence, he quickly expressed his loyalty, "No matter where your highness goes, you must bring your servants."
Mu Anzhi glanced at him, said with slight head, and said with pity, "Of course, if I don't take you, you have to call Lu An of Fengyi Palace torture to death. That day, you saw you beat him with a stick, and I was very dedicated. I like someone like Xiaofan, a loyal person."
Xiaofan immediately expressed his loyalty again, and then said, "Your Highness, when I heard the news outside, I didn't know whether it was true or not. I was just worried that Your Highness would care about Lord Pei, so I hurried over and talked to Your Highness. I heard the second highness's joy and said that it was spreading outside, and Pei Xiang drove Lord Pei out of the house."
Mu Anzhi's face suddenly calmed down and he asked, "When did it happen?" There was no such thing in his dream!
"I'm just spreading it in the palace today. I thought that it would definitely be later when I came to the palace. It was about yesterday or the day before yesterday."
The matters about Pei Xiang’s family will not be rumored out of thin air. Mu Anzhi clenched his fist hard, "Xiao Yi, take the sign of our palace and go out with me to see Ruyu."
"Yes." Xiao Yi winked Xiaofan to get the waist card. Seeing that Mu Anzhi didn't pay attention to pinch the bayberry in his hand into fruit mud. The red fruit paste flowed down with the water, and it seemed like a handful of blood was bleeding. He quickly wiped him with a handkerchief. Mu Anzhi didn't care about these things, so he took Xiao Yi out of the palace with his waist card.
Then, Mu Anzhi did something that shocked the government and the people. He blocked the gate of Zhaode Hall the next morning and said to Pei Xiang, the chief assistant of the dynasty, "Ruyu is just saying a few words for me, and that's not wrong. Why did you have to implicate your Pei family's senior disciple! Those who know that Pei Xiang is the chief assistant of the dynasty, but those who don't know think they are a turtle!"
Fortunately, Pei Xiang was quite self-disciplined. Seeing that the Third Prince did not have any instructions, he wiped the saliva splashed by Mu Anzhi on his face with his sleeve and walked away. The rest of the civil and military officials avoided Mu Anzhi and were even more gods and ghosts, and everyone hid from him. Because the Tang prince consort was a royal relative, he patted Mu Anzhi's shoulder with no choice but to laugh and cry, "Third Prince, you are so kind, even if you consider Pei Zhuangyuan, you should not treat Pei Xiang like this. If Pei Xiang is angry, go back and beat Pei Zhuangyuan again, Pei Zhuangyuan will not be in vain."
"What are you afraid of? He can't beat Ruyu again. I immediately went to Dali Temple to sue him for beating innocent officials! They are not grandparents and grandchildren now. He dares to touch Ruyu's finger, and I call him good-looking! Anyway, I don't care about my face, see if he cares!" Mu Anzhi said very barely.
The prince-consort of Tang couldn't help laughing and gave Mu Anzhi a thumbs up, "Pei Xiang really cares, he can't beat Pei Zhuangyuan anymore. Pei Zhuangyuan was condemned to be the county magistrate of the northern border, so he is going to take office."
Mu Anzhi's expression of fearlessness just now faded. He said, "The northern border is far away, and the place he goes is not a good place. I have to prepare some rituals for Ruyu and go back first."
Mu Anzhi turned around and left. Prince Tang looked at the flowing clouds floating away in the sky, and slowly returned home along the mottled bluestone road in the palace.
Chapter completed!