Since they were fragments of valuables, the servants did not dare to clean them up without the Seventh Prince's consent.

The emperor asked, "What's with all the debris in the hall?"

The steward of the Seventh Prince's Mansion said sadly: "It was kicked to pieces by that wild horse. It also robbed all the gold, silver and jewelry in the Seventh Prince's storehouse."

Eunuch Yuan kindly reminded: "That is not a wild horse, it is a first-class horse king appointed by the emperor himself."

"First-class horse, horse king?" The steward was stunned: "The horse that the master brought back is the legendary first-class horse king?"

The news that the emperor conferred the first-grade honor on the horse spread throughout the capital, but they had only heard of it but had never seen the horse.

"Yes." Eunuch Yuan nodded slightly: "The emperor once issued an order saying that no one can hurt it. The seventh prince...sigh..."

“This…this…” The steward panicked and hurriedly explained: “The master didn’t even know it was the Horse King, and there was no mark on it that said it was the Horse King.”

The emperor said, "Take me to see the seventh brother."

"yes."

The steward quickly brought the emperor to the seventh prince's courtyard.

The courtyard was full of guards. When they saw the emperor coming, they immediately knelt down and said, "Your Highness."

The emperor walked quickly into the seventh prince's bedroom.

The imperial physician who was treating the seventh prince stood up quickly when he saw the emperor coming.

The emperor raised his hand to signal him not to be polite: "How is the seventh brother?"

The doctor said, "It's an internal organ injury, but luckily it's not serious. You just need to take some medicine and recuperate for a month and you'll be well again."

emperor:"……"

He once witnessed Heitan stomping a ninth-rank martial king to death with one foot.

The fact that the Seventh Prince was not seriously injured meant that Heitan had shown mercy.

"Report."

The voices of the guards from the Prince's Palace came from outside.

Eunuch Yuan walked out of the room and asked, "What's the matter?"

The guard replied, "We have tracked down the horse's whereabouts. It ran into a place called 'Mufu', which is the residence of the Ninth Rank Jinyiwei. In order to prevent it from escaping, we sent people to surround the entire Mufu. We are back now to ask for instructions on how to deal with this matter next."

They had investigated and found out that the Mu Mansion was Mu Nanjin's residence.

She had saved the emperor before, and was a ninth-rank Jinyiwei appointed by the emperor himself. Black Horse was also a first-rank horse king appointed by the emperor himself, so that's why she made the announcement.

If it were anyone else, they would have rushed in to catch him.

Eunuch Yuan looked at the emperor.

The emperor rubbed his aching head.

In this case, it was the Seventh Brother who brought back the first-grade horse king and slaughtered him first, so if there was any fault, it was definitely the Seventh Brother's.

But he couldn't always side with Mu Nanjin, as this would arouse Mu Nanjin's suspicion.

"Ask Kan Chaoyan to handle this matter. Ask him to make sure that he not only punishes the Seventh Prince, but also makes sure that Mu Nanjin receives a small punishment."

If you don't do this, Mu Nanjin will become unscrupulous.

"yes."

While Eunuch Yuan went to find Kan Chaoyan, Mu Nanjin was watching Heitan vomiting box after box of gold, silver and jewelry from his stomach.

"Did you bring this back from the Seventh Prince's Palace?"

"Yes." Heitan snorted, "Let's see if he dares to eat horse meat again in the future."

Mu Nanjin was puzzled: "How do you know he likes to eat horse meat?"

"I saw many wronged horse spirits surrounding him, so I followed him back to the Seventh Prince's Palace. In order to avenge my compatriots, I disguised myself as an ordinary horse and went back with him. I ate all of his golden objects and smashed the ones I didn't like. In the end, I even kicked him."

Heitan felt relieved when talking about this: "If I wasn't worried about causing trouble for you, I really wanted to kick him to death."

The Seventh Prince had brought this upon himself. Mu Nanjin didn't care whether he lived or died. The only thing that concerned her was Heitan's belly.

She stared at his abdomen again and again: "How can your stomach hold so much?"

Heitan raised his chin and said, "It's no problem to carry a mountain."

"A big mountain..." Mu Nanjin said thoughtfully, "Then some problems can be solved."

Heitan was puzzled: "What do you want to solve?"

At this time, Xu Bo rushed in and said, "Girl, something bad has happened."

Mu Nanjin still stared at Heitan's belly: "What's the matter?"

"Our mansion is surrounded by guards and we can't leave."

"Oh." Mu Nanjin was not in a hurry at all: "Then let them surround you, and you can do whatever you need to do."

Seeing Mu Nanjin so calm, Xu Bo slowly calmed down and turned to go to the kitchen to help the cook cook.

"I did it, and I'll fix it."

Heitan was about to walk out, but was stopped by Mu Nanjin: "Swallow these things back into your stomach, and don't worry about other things."

He turned back and swallowed the gold, silver and jewelry back into his stomach.

Mu Nanjin was rocking in the rocking chair and eating melon seeds, looking so leisurely.

Heitan asked, "You don't care about the guards outside?"

"If they wanted to come in, they would have rushed in long ago." Mu Nanjin ate another melon seed: "Just wait, someone will come to find us."

Seeing that she was not in a hurry, Heitan sat down and tried to learn how to crack melon seeds from her, but he couldn't do it no matter how hard he tried.

About half an hour later, Zhenzhu walked in and said, "Girl, an adult wants to see you."

Mu Nanjin, who was about to fall asleep, opened his eyes and said lazily, "Please ask him to come in."

"yes."

Not long after, Zhenzhu brought Kan Chaoyan in.

Kan Chaoyan smiled and asked Mu Nanjin, "Girl Mu, today is not your day off. Why didn't you go to the Duwei Mansion to take up your duties? Be careful or I'll deduct your monthly salary."

Mu Nanjin sat up and said, "I was on duty at the palace this morning. I went straight home after the court session. I am not considered lazy."

Kan Chaoyan couldn't help laughing: "Since you went on duty, your monthly salary will not be deducted. But there is one thing that cannot be let off, that is, your horse kicked the Seventh Prince. After all, the Seventh Prince is the Emperor's son. Your horse not only injured him, but also damaged his belongings and robbed his gold, silver and jewelry. Don't you think Heitan is a bit too much?"

"The Seventh Prince was injured because of his own fault. If he hadn't taken my horse, this wouldn't have happened."

Kan Chaoyan felt a little helpless: "It is true that he got injured because of his own fault, but the Seventh Prince's belongings are innocent. You don't think it is right for Heitan to damage and take away other people's things, do you?"

Mu Nanjin was silent.

Kan Chaoyan continued to work hard.

"The Seventh Prince has already paid the price for this. After his injury heals, he will have to clean the streets of the capital for a year. For a noble Seventh Prince, this is undoubtedly a loss of face for the royal family, and he will not be able to hold his head up among his royal brothers. The Seventh Prince has received the punishment he deserves, so shouldn't your Black Charcoal also be properly educated? If we don't investigate his faults, then if we indulge him once, there is a high probability that he will do it again. In the end, he will become lawless, which is not the result you want, right?"

Mu Nanjin nodded involuntarily: "Then how do you want to educate Heitan?"

Kan Chaoyan murmured, "If it were any other horse, it would be whipped, but your horse is a first-class horse king. We can't beat it. Besides, horses are animals. It's useless to talk too much to them. We don't have a precedent of punishing horses, but we have examples of punishing horse owners for failing to take good care of them."

"You mean to punish me?"

Kan Chaoyan nodded.

Mu Nanjin immediately stated: "You don't want me to compensate the Seventh Prince with silver, do you? I don't have silver to compensate the Seventh Prince."

[I have no money, and I have no life. 】

"Puff..."

What a money slave.

Mu Nanjin is not really greedy for money, he just thinks it is easier to get things done with money.

"So what do you want from me?"

Kan Chaoyan frowned and said nothing.

Seeing his embarrassed look, Mu Nanjin thought, "Could it be that he knows that I can't embroider, so he deliberately uses embroidery to embroider me?"

[Or do you want me to copy Buddhist scriptures to pray for the Seventh Prince? That's too boring, and my calligraphy is not pretty. ]

[Or do you want me to cook a few dishes to apologize to the Seventh Prince? If that's the case, I can only say that the Seventh Prince will die faster if he eats my dishes.]

Kan Chaoyan didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Could it be that this little girl is not proficient in anything a girl should know?

Mu Nanjin was getting tired of guessing: "Just tell me how you want to punish me."

Kan Chaoyan probed, “We want to punish you for taking your horse with you to fight bandits.”

"Okay." Mu Nanjin agreed without thinking, as if he was afraid that the other party would go back on his word.

[Huh, it turns out they are suppressing bandits. I thought it was a big deal. I was really scared.]

Kan Chaoyan: “…”

I thought she would refuse.

Mu Nanjin asked again: "When do we set off?"

"We still need to discuss a strategy before deciding when to start."

[Are you kidding me? Why do you need to come up with a plan for something that can be solved with just one sword? ]

Kan Chaoyan: “…”

They had been attacking the bandits for years but couldn't take them down, but she said she could defeat them with just one sword. Was that true? Oh, he hadn't told her which bandits they were yet.

Kan Chaoyan added: "You may not know that we are going to attack the mountain bandits in the area from the capital to the south of the Yangtze River. There are many mountains and bandits there, and there are many master-level warriors guarding the mountain gates. We are not familiar with the terrain there, and many attempts to suppress the bandits have ended in failure. Therefore, we have to come up with a foolproof strategy to avoid so many deaths."

[That's still a matter of one sword. ]

Kan Chaoyan: “…”

It's useless to explain.

[Does the imperial court want to recruit the bandits into the army? ]

[Well, we can't just beat them to death. It's a bit tricky. Besides, not every bandit is a vicious person. Their crimes don't deserve the death penalty.]

Mu Nanjin nodded: "We need to think of a plan."

Kan Chaoyan: “…”

There seemed to be some discrepancy between his and her ideas.

Kan Chaoyan stood up and said, "I have something else to do so I won't stay here any longer. When I leave I will take the guards outside with me."

After he left, Heitan quickly ran out of the house: "How can you accept the punishment? If you accept the punishment, it means that what I did was wrong."

Mu Nanjin said: "You are right, but you used the wrong method."

Heitan was slightly stunned: "What do you mean?"

Mu Nanjin asked: "What you did today was to make the Seventh Prince stop eating horse meat, right?"

Black Charcoal nodded.

"But your approach won't scare the Seventh Prince. Instead, it will anger him. He might even take out his anger on other horses and kill them all. So your approach is wrong."

Heitan's anger instantly dissipated, and he sat down and asked, "Then what should I do?"

"As a demon, you should know how to scare people."

Heitan thought about it, then laughed evilly: "Hey, I know what to do."

…

On the way back to the Duwei Mansion, Kan Chaoyan heard everyone discussing the issue of girls going to school and taking the imperial examinations.

Most people have very old-fashioned ideas. They believe that daughters will get married in the future and that they should not waste a lot of money on them and end up making wedding dresses for their future husband's family.

These are the thoughts of poor families. After all, they don’t have much savings and don’t want to waste it on their daughters. Even if they can enroll in school for free, they just want to keep their daughters at home to do farm work and earn money.

Rich people are very open-minded. They have plenty of money, so what if they send their daughters to school? If their daughters pass the imperial examination, their family will have a big backer, and there will be someone to support them if something happens.

No matter what they thought, the Minister of Justice was the first person to actively register his daughters for school. Even though his first three daughters were already married, he still registered them all.

Other officials also enrolled their daughters in schools. They did not want to wait until the daughter of the Minister of Justice passed the imperial examination so that they could only envy and be jealous.

The daughters of officials all signed up for admission, and the daughters of wealthy families were also sent to the National Academy one after another. Regardless of whether they could pass the imperial examination and become officials in the future, at least they could get to know the daughters of officials and ask for help from them when they had problems in the future.

The emperor was very happy when he learned that both the young lady from an official family and the young lady from a wealthy family had signed up to join the National Academy.

The only regret he had was that there were no children of ordinary people in the National Academy. It would take a long time to change their minds, so he couldn't be impatient. But once a girl passed the imperial examination next year, ordinary people would slowly change.

…

After Kan Chaoyan returned to the Duwei Mansion, he discussed with everyone for two days before deciding to set off three days later.

It was the first time for Mu Nanjin to leave the capital. He was very excited to know that he could leave the capital in three days, and he prepared his luggage early in the morning.

On the day of leaving Beijing, Mu Nanjin saw that only the governor-general and his deputy governor came to see him off, and frowned: "Governor-general and his deputy governor, where is the governor?"

The governor's assistant replied, "The governor has to attend to official business and cannot see you off."

Mu Nanjin said: "I want to leave a message for the governor."

The governor was very interested in her words, and without saying anything, he ordered the centurions around him: "Go and prepare paper and ink."

Kan Chaoyan and others: "..."

After a while, the centurion brought paper and ink.

Mu Nanjin picked up the pen and thought for a while before putting pen to paper.

Kan Chaoyan and the others stretched their necks to try to take a peek, but the governor-general deliberately blocked their view, making them feel as if their hearts were being tickled by a cat's claws.

After Mu Nanjin finished writing, the governor-general quickly took the note away.

After watching Mu Nanjin and the others leave, he immediately rode back to the Duwei Mansion.

"Commander-in-chief, Mu Yatou left you a message."

The governor said without thinking: "Don't look at it."

I always feel that nothing good can happen.

"If you don't want to read it, then don't read it. I'll read it to you."

The governor-general opened the note and read aloud, "I promised to clean your office for a month and wash your underwear for a month. Now I have to break my promise. But I will repay you double when I come back."

After reading it, he couldn't hold back his laughter any longer: "This little girl is really interesting."

The governor's eyes twitched.

The governor put the note on his desk and said, "Look at the contents yourself to prove that what I just said was not made up by me."

The governor didn't want to read the words on the note at all, so he turned his head and looked out the window.

It would be fine if I didn’t turn around, but I feel even more tired after turning around.

Because his underwear was hanging on the roof of the house opposite the window. (End of this chapter)