Gu Lingze looked down at him with his pair of black and golden eyes, and Mu Wenbin's heart trembled suddenly.

"They all died in a group! Why don't you go call your wife!" He shouted, his face flushed red.

The butler immediately got up from the ground and stumbled out.

After a while, he came back and said that his wife was not feeling well and could not get out of bed, and hoped that the Imperial Master would forgive her.

Gu Lingze looked at Mu Ziqian's gloomy face and didn't want to waste any more time with them.

He pulled out a dagger from his boots and said to Mu Wenbin, "Master Mu, please."

"It is true that I have not managed my family well. I am guilty, but my crime does not deserve the death penalty! Master Imperial Master!"

Gu Lingze was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, so he turned around and went to Mu Ziqian's bed and cut a hole on his little finger which was tied with red thread.

Dark red blood immediately flowed down the red line. When he saw the color of the blood, he raised his eyebrows and turned to look at Gu Chaoyu.

Zhao Chengmo grabbed Mu Wenbin by the collar and threw him directly to the bed, then pulled up his left little finger and wrapped it with a red thread.

Gu Lingze walked up to Mu Wenbin with a dagger in his hand.

More than a dozen people rushed in from outside the door. The leader had an angry look on his face but dared not say anything. He suppressed his anger and knelt down to salute.

"I am Guo Anben, the Deputy Chief Censor of the Censorate, and I pay my respects to the Imperial Master, Marquis Xuanyi."

Gu Lingze has always hated the imperial censors in the court. They usually love to make a lot of noise, but now he doesn't want to pay any attention to them.

Seeing that his expression did not change at all and he was about to take action, Guo Anben waved his hand and a dozen more guards came in.

Gu Lingze turned the dagger in his hand and asked with a raised eyebrow: "Your Excellency the Censor has great authority. Are you going to arrest me and bring me before the official?"

So what if there are a dozen guards? I’m afraid they can’t even defeat Wu Rui now.

"I dare not offend my superiors, but if the Imperial Master insists on threatening me for private revenge, I will seek justice from the Emperor."

Gu Lingze felt that stopping to talk to him was just like eating salted fish with soy sauce, he was just doing it out of idleness.

He quickly cut Mu Wenbin's little finger with a dagger, hooked the red rope, and the blood on it quickly flowed into the wound.

Gu Lingze reached out to Mu Ziqian's forehead and clenched his hands in the air as if he had grabbed something, then flicked hard on Mu Wenbin's forehead.

Mu Wenbin twitched all over and fell on his back.

Guo Anben rushed over with an angry face, and quickly squatted down to help him up from the ground.

"Brother-in-law, brother-in-law!" He shook twice, but Mu Wenbin still closed his eyes and did not respond at all.

Guo Anben looked up at Gu Lingze and said angrily: "How can the Imperial Master dispose of an official appointed by the imperial court without authorization!"

Gu Lingze sat back at the table and slowly poured two cups of tea.

Guo Anben wanted to speak again, but unexpectedly Mu Wenbin woke up at this time, raised his head and grinned at him.

"uncle."

Guo Anben's hands shook and he subconsciously pushed away the other person's shoulders.

"Uncle, are you here to see Hong'er and mother?" Mu Wenbin pulled at his clothes and shook them.

When Guo Anben heard the name Hong'er, he was so frightened that his face turned pale and he sat down on the ground.

"Uncle, don't you recognize Hong'er?" As soon as these words came out, a lot of dark energy suddenly surged on Mu Wenbin's face, making him look extremely ferocious.

Guo Anben supported himself with his arms and moved back, "You, you, don't come over here!"

With a 'bang', the butler fainted from fright and fell to the ground.

Mu Wenbin's entire head was covered in black air. At this moment, his mouth was wide open, revealing two rows of sharp teeth, and he was approaching Guo Anben step by step.

"Uncle, you must not forget Hong'er." The voice was sometimes rough and sometimes soft, which was very strange.

"Master, Master, help me!"

Guo Anben rushed towards Gu Lingze with tears streaming down his face, but was kicked to the ground by Zhao Chengmo.

Seeing that Mu Wenbin was about to bite him, Gu Lingze raised his hand and stuck a talisman on his chest, and Mu Wenbin fell stiffly to the ground.

There was complete silence in the room, and no one else dared to move at this moment.

"Zhao Yu, take the people and let's go."

As soon as Gu Lingze stood up, Guo Anben started to kowtow.

"Master Imperial Master, I was the one who spoke outrageously before. I hope you will forgive me and save my life first."

Gu Lingze opened his thin lips slightly and said coldly: "If you want to live, you'd better go and ask the Minister's wife what she did."

After saying that, the three of them walked out directly.

Gu Chaoyu put Mu Ziqian on the carriage and looked at the woman standing in front of the gate.

"Brother, that's Ziqian's aunt."

The woman had been following them carefully since the beginning.

Seeing the three people looking at him, he knelt on the ground.

Gu Lingze narrowed his eyes slightly, "Forget it, take him with you."

Several people returned to Mu Tao Courtyard together. When they arrived, they carried Mu Ziqian into Gu Chaoyu's room.

"He's fine now. He'll probably wake up in a while."

Seeing Gu Chaoyu's visibly relieved expression, Gu Lingze said, "This is all thanks to the spiritual milk you gave him to drink."

Gu Chaoyu paused for a moment, turned around and looked at him hesitantly.

Seeing him like this, Gu Lingze couldn't help but laugh.

"If someone doesn't know, they would think I beat you when you were a kid. I didn't say you did anything wrong, so why do you look like that?"

Gu Chaoyu lowered his head, "But I caused you trouble."

"Guo Anben clearly thought that Brother Xu had just become the Left Minister, so you deliberately came to cause trouble for Minister Mu...Minister Mu, seeking revenge for personal gain."

Gu Lingze raised his eyebrows, "Not bad, it seems that all those books I read were not in vain."

After hearing this, Gu Chaoyu became anxious and raised his head.

Gu Lingze walked over and patted his shoulder. "Even if Mu Wenbin and Guo An had ten heads, they would not dare to bring this to the emperor."

The current emperor is not the legitimate son, but the son of the late emperor's concubine Shen.

Concubine Chen and Emperor Jing suffered so much torture at the hands of the late empress that even their maternal grandfather's family was found guilty of this and were all exiled to the border, where they all died.

Concubine Chen also died when Emperor Jing was fifteen years old. If Qi Yuanjing had not been favored by the late emperor, he would probably not have lived to this day.

If the Mu family dares to make a big deal out of this, they won't die, but they will definitely suffer the consequences.

After listening to his explanation, Gu Chaoyu finally felt relieved.

Gu Lingze couldn't help but pinch his face and said, "You're young, but you worry a lot."

Gu Chaoyu had to stay in the room to take care of Mu Ziqian, while Gu Lingze and Zhao Chengmo went to the front hall to eat and would bring the food back to him later.

When I got there, I saw Aunt Li applying medicine to Mu Ziqian's aunt.

Seeing him come in, the aunt was about to bow, but Gu Lingze raised his hand and said, "No need to kneel here."

Aunt Li pushed her back to the chair and frowned as she said, "The chilblains on your hands are so severe, why didn't you apply medicine before?"