You immediately jumped into the air and fled in a flash, while Tang Ji was also hotly pursuing.

  It was just then that Tang Jing had just come out of the cold pool, and his blood vessels were not yet fully open, his muscles were still a bit stiff, and he was not very agile. By the time he jumped and chased to the top of the courtyard house, there was no one in sight.

  At this time, other disciples of the Soul Snatching Room also followed suit because of Tang Ji's actions.

  "What's wrong, Jie Ge?"

  Tang Jin's face was cold as he swept his gaze around: "Nothing."

  Two words, and all the disciples stopped asking questions and dispersed. Instead, Tang Ji quickly returned to the courtyard.

  Tang Jing stood outside the hall door and swept his eyes over the courtyard. At this moment, in his mind, that masked man was moving around, dodging, leaping, climbing on the eaves...

  Tang Jing immediately snatched the lantern from a disciple's hand and climbed up to the eaves to examine it. Soon, he found half of a footprint in a thin layer of dust.

  At this time, Mu Junwu had already returned to his small hut in the agency house, lying quietly on the bed with his eyes open and a dull gaze.

  I'm not going to set up a trap for him even if I don't use the real thing, it seems that the matter is extremely important. If Liu Er's words are true, and the Tang family has been in contact with the government all along, then it's highly likely that they have colluded with Chu Guo and my second brother, but...

  Your eyebrows are furrowed together.

  The Second Brother has no political mind, and the State of Chu has never had close dealings with other departments. This connection is so mysterious that it's hard not to wonder if the power of the State of Chu has been secretly manipulated or controlled by other forces.

  At the mention of you, I suddenly feel a thousand threads entwining in my mind, and I become vaguely uneasy.

  Right Minister? Left Minister? Chang's family? Peng's family? Li's family? Who could it be?

  Outside the window, the darkness faded away, and the sky gradually brightened.

  ……

  "Admiring you, I really am a talent. Such an old mechanism, I struggled for three months and still didn't figure it out, but he only took a moment to think of what the original shape should be like! Look..."

  Tang Liu held several components in his hands, walking and chattering with Tang Ji beside him, while Tang Ji didn't listen to him at all, her eyes scanning the feet of the passing disciples.

  Tang Liu spoke for half a day without seeing Tang Ji respond, and only when he stared at him carefully did he realize that the other party's heart was not there. He immediately pulled Tang Ji's arm: "What are you looking at?"

  "It's nothing." Tang Ji's gaze still swept over everyone's feet.

  Tang Liu'er observed for a few seconds, then smiled and said: "I'll go to the bamboo forest first. At this time, Mu Junwu should be teaching Hua Rou, I can show him the component I made."

  Tang Liu'ertao finished speaking and ran away. Tang Ji looked at the back of Tang Liu'ertao, then continued to pay attention to and observe everyone's feet.

  In the bamboo forest, flowers are soft and fragrant, I hold a branch and beckon you.

  Although the bamboo forest is dense and the space is narrow, Hua Rou's body is flexible and agile, like a spirit cat darting back and forth inside, and her exchange with Mu Junwu is extremely smooth, unaffected.

  One set of mutual invitations ended, Hua Rou's eyes looked at Mu Junwu with expectation: "How was it?"

  "Not bad, you've already mastered it."

  "Great!" Hua Rou excitedly jumped up, and then she noticed that Mu Junwu's forehead was sweating, so she quickly took out a handkerchief from her sleeve pocket and handed it to Mu Junwu.

  "Here you go! Wipe your sweat!"

  Mo Jun was stunned for a moment, stretched out his hand to take it, and just as he was about to use it, he noticed that under the handkerchief was embroidered a white flower, but probably because this handkerchief had been used for too long, the pattern was incomplete and the shape of the flower could not be seen. Next to the flower were two newly embroidered dogtail grasses.

  The dog's tail grass and white flowers are quite out of place, making Mu Junwu stunned for a moment.

  "I made it up."

  Hua Rou saw Mu Junwu paying attention to her embroidery and felt very embarrassed.

  "It's really messy, compared to the original, this is completely lawless..." Mu Junwu said, wiping the sweat from his forehead.

  "Your eyes are really poisonous." Hua Rou twisted her mouth: "This handkerchief was embroidered by my mother for me when I was six years old, and the dog tail grass on it was just embroidered by me a few days ago."

  "Why embroider a blade of grass instead of flowers, birds, fish and insects?"

  He found her unique choice rather strange.

  "Flowers, birds, fish, insects, what do I know about them?" Hua Rou shook her head helplessly: "Even this grass is something I'm blindly feeling my way through. But I like dog tail grass, when I was little, my mother often used dog tail grass to make me a small rabbit."

  "Little rabbit?"

  "Haven't you seen a little rabbit made of straw?"

  Admiring you, I look at Hua Rou's big, round eyes and shake my head.

  "Wait for it!"

  Huā Róu said and immediately ran out of the bamboo forest. Mù Jūn Wú was stunned, looked down at the handkerchief in his hand.

  At this time, Tang Liu walked in: "What's wrong with Hua Rou? She rushed out in a flurry, without even paying attention to me?"

  "I don't know." Mu Junwu lazily lifted his head to respond, and his gaze at the handkerchief was blocked by several parts.

  "Look, didn't I do it right? It's exactly as you said yesterday!"

  I didn't expect Tang Liu's movements to be so quick, and for a moment, I ignored the cloth and seriously looked at the parts he made.

  "Replace these two parts and the mechanism should be restored. As for the gun's trigger..."

  "I've already figured out where to pass through, wait till tomorrow when I'm done, and I'll show you the demo!"

  I nodded just as I was returning something to Tang Liu'er when Hua Rou rushed in, holding a handful of dogtail grass.

  "Brother Mo, I'll help you catch a rabbit!"

  Huā Róu said, plopping herself down on the ground, and began to braid a grass rabbit. Táng Liù was watching from the side with a grin, while Mù Jūn Wú looked at Huā Róu but couldn't help thinking of his nine-year-old self...

  At that time, he followed the husband to study with his second brother, and the husband asked them to copy carefully. In the afternoon, they would check it out. When he was copying seriously, his second brother was teasing the cricket with a dog's tail grass next to him, leaving the white paper on the table empty.

  "Second brother, Father is coming back soon, if you don't finish copying, Father will know and get angry with you again."

  "What's the use of copying and recopying? In the future, governing the country will surely not rely on the 'Book of Songs', will it?"

  Seeing his second brother being nonchalant, he felt helpless, but his second brother suddenly asked him: "Will you compete with me for the position of Da Wang in the future?"

  "I don't want to be a king." He was speaking from his heart, he had never coveted the throne.

  "Why? It's great being a king! I can do whatever I want and no one can control me."

  "When the Emperor was still young and impulsive, doing whatever he pleased, didn't you see how often Father Emperor would sigh and worry about many things?"

  "When I become the king, I won't bother myself! Let those ministers worry about it! Hey, weren't you given the title 'Ying Ce' by my father? In the future when I become the king, will you help me with Ying Ce?"

  "Of course! But I'd rather find a place with beautiful scenery, read books and practice martial arts..."

  The husband returned home, and the second brother lost his cricket cage. He picked up his pen with a worried look on his face, remembering that he had promised to help him. Immediately, he replaced the white paper on his desk with a new one he had copied himself.

  "I've copied a lot, I'll give you one piece, Master shouldn't blame you."

  Then his hand had an extra dog tail grass given by Second Brother.

  "I'll repay your kindness in the future when I become a great king, and I will protect you!"

  In his memory, he and his second brother were so innocent, while reality was always so cruel...