Rebirth of the Abandoned Concubine: The Poison Goddess Doctor

Chapter 263
Halfway through their journey, they were stopped by a carriage parked across the street.

The whole body of the carriage was pitch black, very inconspicuous, only a dim lamp was hung in front of the shaft, and the horses pulling the carriage were just ordinary skinny horses, so it was impossible to tell where the carriage came from.

Xuanfeng snorted and kicked the horse's hooves, looking like he really wanted to step over the carriage.

Qi Changjin tightened the reins with one hand, calmed the restless Xuanfeng, and was about to turn around and go another way. Although the detour was farther, he was not at all interested in dealing with a person who hides his head and shows his tail in the cold night wind, especially the one next to him. Also with Yingchu.

"General Qi," the person in the carriage called out to stop him.

Qi Changjin looked at the person who opened the car door to show his face, unexpectedly and expectedly said: "Prime Minister."

Prime Minister Mu smiled: "I thought that when someone of unknown origin blocked the way, General Qi would check it out. Why did you turn a blind eye and turn around and leave? If I remember correctly, General Qi is now assisting the city defense army to protect the capital, right?" ?”

"Is the prime minister implying that I should put the prime minister in prison?" Qi Changjin said.

Prime Minister Mu chuckled, "I haven't seen you for many years, but General Qi has become more humorous."

Qi Changjin said: "I haven't seen you for many years, and the prime minister has become low-key and cautious."

The fake smile on Mu Chengxiang's face faded, and his eyes looked particularly sinister in the night.Returning to the capital after three years, his power is not as good as before, not only the dragon chair doesn't take him seriously, even a little general dares to mock him!
"When the prime minister returns to the capital for the first time, he should be low-key and cautious," said Mu Chengxiang. How do you feel?"

Prime Minister Mu's first wife was the eldest lady of Duke Qi's mansion, Qi Changjin's aunt.The brother-in-law and younger siblings he mentioned are Qi Changjin's parents.

Yingchu pretended not to know, and said, "Second Master Qi and Second Madam are still alive and well, why did the Prime Minister curse them to death?"

Qi Changjin also said: "If Mrs. Mu heard what the Prime Minister said, she would probably have to ask the Prime Minister to make an argument."

Ever since his aunt and cousin Nuanyan passed away one after another, Prime Minister Mu was no longer his uncle, but a stranger who hated more than a stranger.

Prime Minister Mu was so annoyed by the words of the two juniors, but he didn't show the slightest bit on his face. Whether Qi Changjin recognized him or not, he was his elder, the son-in-law of Duke Qi's mansion.

Prime Minister Mu stared at Yingchu and said, "On the first day I returned to Beijing, I heard a lot of rumors about Miaoyi Junjun. My daughter has been taken care of by Junjun!"

"Prime Minister, please don't say that," Yingchu said with a smirk, "Concubine Mu Gui dared to embezzle the official money for disaster relief, but I would never dare to be a concubine. Even the king of Chen County and the second master Qi killed their relatives righteously. As an outsider, I naturally hide as far away as possible. But the Mu family will always bear this stain, and I really feel sorry for Prime Minister Mu."

No matter how well-mannered Mu Chengxiang was, the blue veins on his forehead were throbbed by Ying Chuqi.

Qi Changjin said: "The night wind is cold, the Prime Minister should go back to the mansion earlier and say goodbye!" After talking about it, Prime Minister Mu's expression should be unbearable. A camel is bigger than a horse, not to mention Prime Minister Mu is far from being thin and dead.

Qi Changjin dropped this sentence, turned around and left without giving Prime Minister Mu a chance to speak.

Prime Minister Mu, who was sitting in the carriage, slammed the jade ball in his hand onto the shaft of the carriage, then bounced to the ground and rolled around.

A person came from the dark, picked up the jade ball with a gap on the ground, and respectfully said to Prime Minister Mu: "Master, calm down."

"Mu Hua," Prime Minister Mu looked at this servant who had served him since childhood, "Has the truth really lost its power?"

"What did Xiangye say?" Mu Hua became more respectful, "Prime Minister just left the capital for a long time, and some juniors who don't know the heights of heaven and earth don't know how powerful Prime Minister is."

Prime Minister Mu sneered, and these words came to his heart, the emperor's children, Qi Changjin, Hua's family, and the newly promoted officials in the court are all juniors who don't know the heights of the sky and the earth!
Seeing that the prime minister's expression softened, Mu Hua said: "It's past the second watch, Master Xiang has had a hard day, go back to the residence early to rest."

Prime Minister Mu thought about how he had braved the cold wind to intercept Qi Changjin in the middle of the night, and had no time to do anything. He had suffered for nothing, and said in a cold voice, "Go back to the house!"

When the unremarkable carriage went far away, there was a slight sound of horseshoes in the darkness, and Xuanfeng jogged back to the original place.

"You guessed right, the prime minister was really angry and left." Qi Changjin said with an indistinct smile.

Yingchu smiled, they all left, Prime Minister Mu didn't leave, could it be possible to blow the cold wind here?She didn't want to take a detour to blow the cold wind, so it was better to take a shortcut.

"Prime Minister Mu waited here in the middle of the night, probably because he wanted to show his favor to you," Yingchu said sarcastically, "Maybe he is going to abandon Qi Xiushen and cooperate with you."

When Prime Minister Mu returned to the capital for the first time, if he wanted to return to the center of power as quickly as possible, he had to rely on the strength of others.Prince Chen has messed up his whole body and hasn't cleaned it up yet. Second Master Qi still wants to count on him. The first person Prime Minister Mu can think of is of course Qi Changjin.

"The way is different, don't conspire with each other." Qi Changjin said.

In Mu Chengxiang's eyes, power and status are the most important, no matter what grievances or grievances there are, they can be put aside.However, for him, family members are his bottom line. When Mu Chengxiang abandoned his wife and daughter, it was doomed that they were not fellow travelers.

Back at Duke Qi's mansion, Lingyun Residence was brightly lit.

Qi Changjin and Yingchu walked into the room and found that the old lady was waiting for them in the room.

"Grandmother." The two were about to greet each other when the old matriarch waved them to sit down.

"Why did you come back so late?" the old matriarch looked at Yingchu with concern, "the emperor summoned you to the imperial study, did you make things difficult for you?"

"I made grandma worry," Yingchu walked over and sat next to the old matriarch, and lied in good faith, "The emperor just told me to find the assassin, he didn't make things difficult for me."

"Really?" The old lady couldn't believe it, it was so simple, how could she be kept for such a long time, and she was summoned alone.

"The emperor also asked about the condition of the empress dowager," Yingchu said, "the emperor was worried that the empress dowager would get angry tomorrow when she knew what happened tonight, which would lead to headaches, so he asked me to save a prescription for it." This sentence is true.

The old matriarch believed it now, but her brows still couldn't be stretched: "Emperor Dong Guifei obviously made things difficult for you tonight, and the emperor agreed. The Buddha statue was lost strangely. If five days later, you and Chang Jin would not be able to solve the case." , I don’t know what the outcome will be.”

"Grandmother, don't worry," Qi Changjin said, "I will try my best to track it down. Even if I can't solve the case, it will only be demoted and dismissed."

"You can think about it," the old lady glared at him. "The achievements you have accumulated over the years will be erased because of this kind of thing. You don't feel wronged, but I feel distressed!"

(End of this chapter)