Cheng Yan had discovered the Prime Minister's secret moves before the incident. He wanted to rush back from the border to discuss with his brother, but he was ambushed by several groups of people on the way.
Fortunately, he recovered his memory a year later. When he rushed back to the imperial city, the prime minister's conspiracy had just begun, and Cheng Yan and his brother still had time to think of a countermeasure. However, the accident on the way back this time allowed Cheng Yan to determine who the other team that assassinated him a year ago was.
"With my identity, you don't have to worry about anything. After all, Momo, you are the husband of King Cheng. Once others hear this title, who would dare to mess with you?" Cheng Yan put his arms around Lin Mo's waist, held him in his arms, rested his chin on his shoulder, tilted his head and laughed softly.
Cheng Yan's deep voice sounded beside Lin Mo's ear, and Lin Mo's body subconsciously shuddered and he felt a little numb.
"Are you teaching me how to bully others by taking advantage of my power?" Lin Mo raised his hand to move his face away, then rubbed his itchy ears.
"Hmm?" Cheng Yan raised his hand and held his hand, then leaned over and lightly touched Lin Mo's ear with his lips.
"Be serious, it's still daytime!" Lin Mo turned around and covered his mouth, saying seriously, but the moisture in his eyes and red ears revealed his inner emotions at the moment.
"Well, it's daytime now." Cheng Yan nodded seriously and immediately calmed down.
It was almost evening anyway, Cheng Yan kissed him softly, his eyes somewhat deep.
"By the way, I just asked Ying San, why didn't you tell me about the second brother?" Lin Mo suddenly remembered the question he had just forgotten, looked up at him and asked. However, from his current position, he could only see Cheng Yan's chin.
"I don't want to make you worry. Besides, I have already sent more than ten shadow guards over. Second brother will not be in danger." Cheng Yan secured the person in his arms, then hugged him and comforted him.
"Well... But why would those assassins want to assassinate my second brother?" Lin Mo nestled in his arms, reaching out to pick at the buttons on his collar, wondering.
"Actually, the second brother was implicated. Momo, do you still remember the group of people who joined our team halfway?"
"You mean, the killers' target was that scholar? Second brother was innocent?" Lin Mo looked up in surprise. If that was the case, then second brother was too unlucky, wasn't he?
"Um."
"Then... why did those killers want to kill that scholar? I think he is just an ordinary wealthy man. Could he have some other identity? For example, are his family members powerful officials in the court?" Lin Mo asked curiously.
Judging from the plot of palace fighting novels, this situation is most likely what Lin Mo thought. Don't forget, with the existence of the time-traveling heroine and her harem, Lin Mo doesn't think there is any normal track.
"Huh? Guessed it? Momo is really smart!" Cheng Yan lowered his head and kissed his forehead, praising him.
“That’s not it… just talk, don’t keep touching me…” Lin Mo covered his mouth with his hand, blushing.
"Hmm? I didn't do anything just now, don't frame me." Cheng Yan pulled Lin Mo's hand down and held it in his own, whispering seriously. However, the look in his eyes was full of smiles.
“Hypocritical…” Lin Mo looked up at him and naturally saw the smile in Cheng Yan’s eyes. He buried his head in his arms and muttered.
She was cold and emotionless in front of others, but she was a bit shy in front of him. Before, her ears would turn red when she teased him, but now their positions had changed and it was his turn to blush.
"The scholar's family background is indeed as you said. However, on the surface, it was an ordinary assassin who ambushed and assassinated him, but a closer look reveals that the Prime Minister is behind it." Cheng Yan stopped teasing the person in his arms and explained to him honestly.
"Is it related to the Prime Minister again? That man is just a scholar who has just come of age. Is it necessary for the Prime Minister to do this?" When Lin Mo heard the word "Prime Minister", he sat up straight and looked at him sensitively.
"Why are you so curious about these?" Cheng Yan chuckled. He thought his brother was not interested in the affairs of the court.
"Don't change the subject, just speak quickly." Lin Mo urged with some dissatisfaction.
Cheng Yan lowered his head slightly to look at his expression, and heard some coquettish tone in Lin Mo's voice that he himself didn't know about. Cheng Yan raised his eyebrows slightly, gently rubbed the corners of his lips with his fingertips, and finally decided not to keep him in suspense.
"I heard that the scholar is the candidate who is most likely to win the top prize this year. His family is not on good terms with the Prime Minister's Mansion, so the Prime Minister will naturally make things difficult for them."
The Yu family was a family of scholars, and several of their ancestors had served as tutors in the palace, teaching several generations of emperors. The Yu family's position in the court naturally made the prime minister wary, not to mention that the prime minister was thinking of rebellion, so the first people to be eliminated were the Yu family.
Speaking of the Yu family, Cheng Yan thought of the Lin family, which was also a scholarly family.
"Actually, like the Yu family, there are also members of the Lin family who work in the Hanlin Academy or are teachers in the palace teaching the princes. However, in the previous dynasty, the Lin family was convicted of treason..."
Although it was later discovered that the Lin family was framed, it was useless. The Lin family no longer existed in the capital. Several generations of loyal people were wiped out because of the villain's frame-up.
When Cheng Yan thought of this, his eyes became a little deep. He had to admit that the previous emperors of Yu State were indeed a little incompetent, including his father. Otherwise, it would be impossible for an emperor to fail to find out these things.
"Lin family..." When Lin Mo heard this, his body paused, with some doubt in his eyes. Could it be what he thought?
"These things are too complicated. I'll tell you about them when I have time. Now, let's discuss another matter." Cheng Yan stopped the previous conversation and spoke.
"Um...what's the matter?" Lin Mo asked casually, somewhat absentmindedly.
"Our marriage."
"Hmm... Hmm? What about marriage?" Lin Mo came back to his senses and looked up at him with a puzzled look on his face. Didn't they already get married? Do they need to do it again?
"Our previous marriage was too simple. And the king's wife wants to be on the royal jade plate, so we will hold another ceremony to make up for it."
"Is it really necessary? It feels so troublesome..." When Lin Mo heard the words "supplement ceremony", he knew that this wedding would not be simple. The prince's wedding would take a whole day, right?
"Well, the time has been set, two months later. My brother will issue an edict to announce it to the world in a few days." Cheng Yan nodded in response. After the announcement, everyone in Yu State will know that Momo is his husband, and no one will spy on Momo.
Clothes make the man, and saddles make the horse. Cheng Yan is handsome, but cold-tempered. Although girls and boys in the boudoir fall in love with his appearance, due to Cheng Yan's reputation, up to now, no one has heard of anyone falling in love with Cheng Yan.
Unlike Cheng Yan, Lin Mo was known to few people in the imperial city. If one day he led people out of the palace and was bumped into by some ignorant people because they were unfamiliar with him...
"What are you doing... um..."
Lin Mo's body numbed by Cheng Yan's fingertips rubbing his lips, and he leaned back a little to avoid it, looking up at him. Unexpectedly, Cheng Yan suddenly leaned in and kissed him. Lin Mo put his hands on his chest, and his eyes widened in shock at Cheng Yan's sudden action.
After a long time, Cheng Yan reluctantly left his lips, and gently wiped the moisture from the corners of his mouth with his thumb. That's how it was. Cheng Yan was always worried that someone was spying on Lin Mo's appearance, spying on him. Cheng Yan still remembers that the man who followed Yan Ningxi at that time had a strange look in his eyes when he looked at Momo.
"Sweet." Cheng Yan leaned over and laughed softly.
When Lin Mo heard this, his body trembled again, and he finally glared at him angrily, buried his head in his arms and didn't want to talk. Ever since he woke up, no... ever since Cheng Yan recovered his memory, Lin Mo always felt that Cheng Yan was teasing him intentionally or unintentionally, just like now.
Knowing that he had annoyed Momo, Cheng Yan stopped doing any small actions and could only hold him honestly.
"We have two months to prepare. Do you want to bring our parents over? It's a good time for the whole family to move to the imperial city." Cheng Yan asked.
"...No need, just stay in Daling Village. When the time is right, my brother will bring our parents here." Lin Mo was silent for a long time, and finally shook his head and said in a muffled voice.
Although he wanted them to come, when he thought of the potential trouble of Su Qingran, Lin Mo still felt that he should not take the risk. Moreover, Lin Mo was still doubting whether their family was the Lin family that Cheng Yan mentioned. If so, he could not let them come.
"I said before that after you regain your memory and return to the imperial city, you will help investigate what happened behind our family. Have you found out anything?" Lin Mo looked up at him and asked.
"Well... moving from other places to Mulin County requires passing through too many places, so it will take some time..." Cheng Yan thought seriously for a while and said.
But he felt a little guilty. He had to take care of Momo these days and go to the palace to discuss plans and border matters with his brother. Cheng Yan had long forgotten what he had said before about checking the abnormalities of the Lin family. Fortunately, his shadow guards were all efficient, and now that he remembered, it was still not too late to order someone to check.
"Momo, do you think that your family has some connection with the Lin family in the imperial city?" Thinking of Momo's concerns just now, Cheng Yan guessed it at once.
"That's a guess." Lin Mo hesitated for a moment and nodded.
His second brother had said before that there were several large boxes of books hidden in his parents' room, which were the most precious of his grandfather's. His parents also told his second brother not to take them out to read, nor to mention them to anyone. Based on these doubts, Lin Mo felt that there was a 50% chance that their family was the Lin family in the imperial city that was framed and exterminated.
If this is true, Lin Mo is a little confused. Since Grandpa fled from the capital with his son and daughter-in-law to the most remote place in Yu State, why did Lin's father and mother insist on letting his second brother take the imperial examination and choose the path of official career?
Could it be that the Lin family was destroyed in the previous life, besides being caught up in the prime minister's rebellion conspiracy, there was another reason?
"If the Lin family is really the Lin family of the Imperial City, Momo doesn't have to worry. The Lin family's crime of treason has been vindicated, and the emperor brother will not be like father."
"I'll try to check as quickly as possible. If it's true, we'll have to take them back to the Imperial City. Although the Lin Mansion is desolate, it won't be much different from before after it's repaired."
The ancestors of the Lin and Yu families were both scholarly families, and their ancestral homes were well preserved. When the Lin family was framed, the Yu family was the first to stand up and refute. Although they were eventually convicted, the Yu family still tried their best to preserve the Lin family's ancestral home.
Perhaps for this reason, the eldest son of the Yu family was sent away from the imperial city to avoid the limelight, and only returned to take part in the imperial examination in the first year of his brother's accession to the throne.
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