As Mu Zhuohua spoke, she opened the things on the table, fiddled with them for a while, added water, and then wetted the handkerchief and slowly wiped her face. The handkerchief soon turned gray and black. Mu Zhuohua's increasingly beautiful and charming face made County Magistrate Zhuang very happy. Today's Mu Zhuohua was as her name suggested, dazzling and beautiful, even more beautiful than he had seen that day.
"My little beauty, you are smart and know how to hide yourself. With your beauty, who wouldn't be tempted?" County Magistrate Zhuang stepped forward and lifted Mu Zhuohua's chin, looking at her delicate and charming face with a lecherous look.
Mu Zhuohua lowered her eyes to hide her disgust. County Magistrate Zhuang thought she was shy, so he took her hand to hug her, but Mu Zhuohua dodged him again.
"My Lord has already married my eighth sister, so what kind of status do you want to give me now? Are you going to take me for no reason and let me be a concubine without any status?" Mu Zhuohua said coquettishly with grievance.
County Magistrate Zhuang had a reputation for being fierce, and every woman was submissive in front of him. However, Mu Zhuohua was aggrieved and coquettish at times, which made him distracted, but he was not angry at all. He even felt that she was different from other women, and he liked her very much.
"Tomorrow I will marry you in a sedan chair and make you my legal wife!" At this moment, County Magistrate Zhuang was willing to make any promise to get the beauty.
Mu Zhuohua chuckled, "Okay... but today is my first time after all. I look disrespectful in men's clothes today. My lord, please find me a woman's dress and I'll change it for you..."
County Magistrate Zhuang originally thought it was too much trouble, but when he heard that Mu Zhuohua wanted to change clothes for him, a picture appeared in his mind. He smiled foolishly and said, "Okay, okay, you wait!" County Magistrate
Zhuang quickly asked someone to bring a box of clothes. He opened the box and rummaged through it, and found a red gauze skirt as thin as a cicada's wing. He smiled lewdly, "This one, this one..."
"It's so thin, I'll catch a cold." Mu Zhuohua shook her head dissatisfiedly and said coquettishly, "Change it."
County Magistrate Zhuang found two or three more pieces, but Mu Zhuohua still shook her head. Seeing that County Magistrate Zhuang's patience was almost exhausted, Mu Zhuohua reluctantly took the clothes, "Okay, then this one..."
Mu Zhuohua took the clothes and slowly took off her coat - fortunately, it was cold now, and she was wearing a lot of clothes, so it might have taken her a while to take them off.
Mu Zhuohua took off two pieces of clothing, turned around and saw County Magistrate Zhuang rubbing his hands and looking at her with shining eyes, so she stamped her feet and said angrily: "My lord, you only watch me take off my clothes, it's not fair, I take off one piece, and you take off one piece too!"
County Magistrate Zhuang smiled and said: "Okay, okay..."
Oh, he has found a treasure, this little lady is more romantic than the girl in Yanbo Tower!
County Magistrate Zhuang was distracted, Mu Zhuohua took off two pieces, and he took off himself until he was left with only a pair of underwear, but when he took off his underwear, he suddenly found a problem and his face turned pale.
Mu Zhuohua saw that County Magistrate Zhuang's face suddenly changed, and asked with a smile: "My lord, what's wrong with you?"
County Magistrate Zhuang was horrified to find that his little brother was on strike today...
In front of such a beautiful woman, and the aphrodisiac incense was still burning in the incense burner, his little brother was limp and couldn't stand up.
Mu Zhuohua said softly, "Sir, why don't you take it off..."
How could County Magistrate Zhuang let himself lose his dignity as a man in front of Mu Zhuohua? He stuttered and picked up his clothes to put them on: "This officer... This officer remembered that there was something important..." He remembered that there was aphrodisiac in his bag. Only he knew about that thing, so he had to get it himself.
County Magistrate Zhuang had just put on his underwear when he heard screams from outside. Before County Magistrate Zhuang ran out to check the situation, the door was kicked open by someone, and the door panel fell to the ground with a "snap".
"Bold!" County Magistrate Zhuang was furious, but he was stunned the next moment, "You..."
The tall and noble man in front of him was full of cold murderous intent. The bloody smell that was clearly from fighting on the battlefield made him freeze in place. This man seemed a little familiar... Before he could remember who the other person was, the other person had already kicked him hard in the heart.
Magistrate Zhuang almost fainted from the pain. In a daze, he heard Mu Zhuohua's surprised voice: "Your Majesty, why are you here..."
He finally remembered that he had seen her in Dingjing before. This was the powerful Prince Ding...
Liu Yan got news about Mu Minghua from Guo Juli. After knowing her relationship with Magistrate Zhuang, he immediately rushed to the nearest posthouse. Worried that Magistrate Zhuang was not in the posthouse, she asked Guo Juli to go back to the palace to find Zhimo to investigate the whereabouts of Magistrate Zhuang.
His hands tightly grasped the reins, and the scene of Mu Zhuohua being humiliated flashed through his mind, and he felt his heart burning. If he hadn't sent Sun Yunyun away at that time, if he had waited for her in the other garden, this would not have happened!
She was so smart and cunning, how could she fall for such a trick! Is it because the other party is a sister, so she is not on guard?
How is she now? Although she is smart, if the man is blinded by lust and doesn't give her a chance to speak, how can she get away...
Liu Yan led his troops to the posthouse, dismounted, asked where the magistrate of Huaicheng Zhuang County was, and rushed in without saying a word.
The officials who had never seen Liu Yan looked at the handsome and murderous young man rushing in with fear, thinking that he was some tyrannical official in the capital. When they heard others say that it was the king of the council, they opened their mouths in horror.
Liu Yan ignored the eyes of others. He kicked the door open with force and saw the disheveled magistrate Zhuang at a glance. His mind went blank with a buzzing sound - was he still late?
Seeing the magistrate Zhuang rushing over, he raised his leg and kicked him hard in the heart without thinking, causing the magistrate to spit out blood and fall to the ground.
But he heard a familiar voice beside the screen shouting in surprise: "Your Highness, why are you here?"
Liu Yan turned his head stiffly and saw Mu Zhuohua, who was only wearing a thin middle coat, hiding behind the screen and poking her head out. Her small face, which had removed her disguise, was extremely bright and beautiful. At this moment, she was looking at him in astonishment.
Liu Yan's pupils shrank. He didn't dare to think about what she had just experienced. His face darkened. He raised his foot to close the door behind him, strode to Mu Zhuohua, silently took off his cloak and covered her tightly.
"You..." Liu Yan's voice was hoarse, and his hands trembled slightly. "You...are you okay..."
Mu Zhuohua grabbed the cloak tightly, and felt a warmth and familiar fragrance covering herself. She curled the corners of her mouth, her throat was a little dry, and she said in a hoarse voice: "Thank you for your concern, Your Highness. I'm fine."
Little did she know that this look in Liu Yan's eyes would freeze his heart completely, as if he had sunk into a bottomless ice lake, unable to move or breathe.
"Zhuohua..."
Mu Zhuohua was suddenly embraced in a warm embrace. He hugged her tightly, buried his head in her neck, and said hoarsely with sobs: "It's my fault, I'm late..."
Mu Zhuohua was stunned for a moment, and then realized that Liu Yan had misunderstood...
But before she could explain, Liu Yan had already let go of her hand. His eyes were cold and full of murderous intent. He turned and walked in front of County Magistrate Zhuang, raising his foot to break his heart. Mu Zhuohua was startled and immediately rushed over to hug Liu Yan, shouting: "Don't kill him, my lord!"
Liu Yan lowered his head in astonishment and looked at Mu Zhuohua who was hugging his waist. With this movement, her cloak fell down, revealing her body wearing only underwear.
"Your Highness, he didn't touch me." Mu Zhuohua said, but felt it was not accurate, so she added, "At most, he touched my hand."
Liu Yan seemed a little skeptical. He leaned over to pick up the fallen cloak, put it back on Mu Zhuohua, and carefully tied the strap for her.
"Your Highness..." Mu Zhuohua looked at his handsome face close to her absent-mindedly, and said softly, "I'm really not injured..."
Liu Yan seemed to believe it, and nodded slightly, but his expression did not improve at all.
Mu Zhuohua lowered his eyes and said slowly: "He is an official appointed by the court. Although you are the King of Councillors, it is not appropriate to kill people in the street. County Magistrate Zhuang was appointed as an official by the imperial favor system. He has a backer in Dingjing. If the prince kills him, he will offend many people. The Censorate will also impeach you..."
Before Mu Zhuohua finished speaking, he was interrupted by Liu Yan: "I won't kill him."
Mu Zhuohua breathed a sigh of relief, and then heard Liu Yan say: "If you kill him here, your reputation will be ruined."
Mu Zhuohua was stunned and stared at Liu Yan blankly - is it because of her reputation that he didn't kill people?
Liu Yan's hand held her slender and round shoulders, and trembled slightly: "I'll take you away."
"Prince..." Mu Zhuohua sighed, "Let me change my clothes first."
Liu Yan stepped back awkwardly and kicked County Magistrate Zhuang under the bed. Mu Zhuohua returned to the screen and put on her original blue shirt, and then put on Liu Yan's cloak, and then walked out from behind the screen.
Liu Yan glanced at Mu Zhuohua, then quickly looked away: "Do you have any medicine that can cause muteness?"
Mu Zhuohua said: "Today I went to the Princess Zhenguo's Mansion, and I didn't dare to bring too much poison. I only brought a bottle of soft fragrant powder, which I used on him just now."
"What is soft fragrant powder?" Liu Yan asked.
"It makes people sore and weak, and it also makes men unable to have sex." It's just that this Zhuang County Magistrate seemed to have taken aphrodisiac drugs before, which just offset part of the medicinal properties of soft fragrant powder, delaying the effect of the medicine for a long time.
Liu Yan breathed a sigh of relief and sighed: "It seems that if I didn't come, you could have solved him by yourself."
Mu Zhuohua lowered her head and smiled: "The subordinate always understands a truth, don't put your hope on others."
Liu Yan understood her implication. She said that she had never had hope for him.
Mu Zhuohua didn't look at Liu Yan's face. She walked to Zhuang County Magistrate and half squatted down, took out her hairpin and pierced the acupuncture points on the back of his neck a few times.
"This method has sealed his mute point. He won't be able to speak for seven days." Mu Zhuohua said as she stood up and saluted Liu Yan. "As for the rest, I'll have to ask Your Majesty to handle it."
Liu Yan nodded gently, walked to Mu Zhuohua, and held her in his arms. "Let's go through the window."
Mu Zhuohua was startled. Liu Yan had already grabbed her waist, pushed open the window, and climbed out of the window in the night. He whistled, and a horse came running quickly. Liu Yan held Mu Zhuohua and climbed onto the horse.
Liu Yan held Mu Zhuohua tightly in his arms, and covered her face with a cloak to prevent others from seeing her appearance. Liu Yan walked towards the less crowded street, always paying attention to the movements of the people in front of him. After a while, he noticed something unusual. He felt that Mu Zhuohua seemed very uneasy, her body was stiff, she was trembling slightly, and her breathing was rapid and disordered. He lowered his head and asked, "What's wrong? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
Mu Zhuohua sat sideways on the horse's back, and was held in Liu Yan's arms, burying her face in Liu Yan's chest, so that Liu Yan could not see her face clearly. Hearing Liu Yan's question, Mu Zhuohua's shoulders stiffened, and after a moment, she whispered, "It's okay..."
Her voice was inexplicably hoarse, but indescribably soft, as if she was restraining something. There was a slight tremor, like a feather gently brushing across Liu Yan's heart.
She clearly didn't want to say more to him.
Liu Yan's hand holding the reins suddenly tightened, and the light in his eyes dimmed a little bit. The cold wind poured into his heart, and the cold and sore feeling spread from the left heart, freezing his arms and making him dare not get close to her.
In this cold and harsh winter night, the soft jade and warm fragrance in his arms was his only comfort, like the moonlight filling his palms, seemingly so close, yet so far away from him. All the panic and fear he had just experienced turned into a burning fire burning in his heart, wishing that they could burn each other to ashes and melt together, so that she could never leave him again.
But he couldn't bear to do it. Mu Zhuohua closed her eyes tightly to adjust her breathing, and keenly felt a sigh from Liu Yan's chest. On the galloping horse and in the harsh north wind, a light kiss fell on her hair through the cloak.
She didn't dare to be discovered by him, and silently resisted the corrosion of the aphrodisiac incense on her alone. The mind that she had managed to keep was suddenly repelled by this forbearing and restrained kiss. All the emotions and desires were like a river bursting its banks, completely eroding her reason.
Liu Yan felt the tense and stiff body in his arms suddenly soften, leaning against his chest weakly, almost slipping off. He was startled and quickly tightened his arms, holding Mu Zhuohua's soft body tightly in his arms. The cloak accidentally slipped off, and he looked down, only to find that Mu Zhuohua's face was unnaturally flushed, her eyebrows were wrinkled in pain, and her lower lip was bitten and bleeding.
"Zhuohua!" Liu Yan called out her name in panic.
Mu Zhuohua opened her eyes slightly, her almond eyes were misty, and her eyebrows and eyes were full of spring love.
Liu Yan suddenly understood what happened to her - just now in that room...
He had a foundation in internal skills, and he only stayed in the room for a while, so he didn't inhale much fragrance, but Mu Zhuohua stayed for a long time, so she must have been affected, but she had been forbearing and didn't say anything until she couldn't stand it anymore, and then he discovered the abnormality.
"Go home..." Mu Zhuohua spoke with difficulty, but her voice was so sweet and soft that it made people blush and their hearts beat faster. "There is... an antidote... at home..."
Liu Yan immediately sped up and rushed towards Zhuque Street.
Mu Zhuohua's hand grasped the clothes around Liu Yan's waist and abdomen. A strong scent of galo fragrance surrounded her tightly. The fragrance that should have made people calm down, but at this moment, it doubled the medicinal properties of the love fragrance, making her, who was afraid of the cold, sweat all over in the cold wind of the winter night. Reason told her that she should stay away, but instinct made her unable to help but get closer to the other party. The evil fire burned all over her body, and she let out a low moan in discomfort.
"Zhuohua..."
Mu Zhuohua was in a daze, as if she heard a hoarse voice calling her name. She responded softly, "Hmm..."
Liu Yan's string called reason was taut, and this low moan gently plucked the string again. His Adam's apple moved, and he resisted the urge to hold her tightly in his arms. It was obviously she who was drugged, but he felt that he was going crazy. Which man could bear the woman he loved panting and moaning in his arms.
Liu Yan gritted his teeth, raised the whip, and sped up his return.
Before the horse had stopped, Liu Yan flew off the horse with Mu Zhuohua in his arms, climbed over the wall into the yard, kicked the door open, and hurried into the room.
There was a brazier burning in the room, emitting a faint light.
Liu Yan put Mu Zhuohua on the bed, took out a tinder and lit the oil lamp on the table, but heard the sound of something falling behind him. He turned his head and saw Mu Zhuohua looking for something by the table. She supported herself on the table with one hand and fumbled among a pile of bottles and jars with the other hand. She accidentally dropped a few bottles before she found the Chengxin Pill she wanted.
Mu Zhuohua poured out three small pills and put them into her mouth, swallowed the slightly bitter pills, and staggered to the table again.
Liu Yan reached out to hold her arm and heard Mu Zhuohua shout in a hoarse voice: "Water..."
It was not enough to just take the Chengxin Pill, she needed to drink more water.
Liu Yan saw a pot of water on the brazier, and quickly took it and poured it into the cup. Seeing that the water was a little hot, he added some cold water from another pot on the table.
Mu Zhuohua was impatient to drink from such a small cup, so she poured the water directly from the kettle of cold water on the table.
"The water is too cold, you can't drink it like this!" Liu Yan hurriedly grabbed her wrist and splashed some cold water on her chin and front. Mu Zhuohua was not as strong as Liu Yan, so he snatched the kettle away. She rushed over fiercely and shouted, "Give me the water!"
She just needed cold water to put out the fire!
Liu Yan held Mu Zhuohua down with one hand, and opened the lid of the cold water kettle with the other hand, poured some hot water into it to warm it up, and then returned it to Mu Zhuohua.
Mu Zhuohua grabbed the kettle and poured it into her mouth. Her throat rolled, and a trace of water overflowed from the corners of her lips, flowing down her fair and slender neck into her collar.
After drinking two pots of water, Mu Zhuohua felt that the effect of the medicine had subsided a lot, and the fire was no longer a big deal, but her limbs were still soft, the heat on her face subsided a little, but there was still a mist in her eyes.
She sat down weakly at the table, panting to calm down.
"Your Highness..." Mu Zhuohua said with a trembling voice, forcing out a smile, "I am fine. It is getting late, so Your Highness will not be allowed to sit..."
Liu Yan half-knelt down in front of her, slowly stretched out his right hand to cover her trembling left hand on her knee. Mu Zhuohua was slightly startled, raised her eyes to look at Liu Yan, but bumped into Liu Yan's deep and dark pupils, which were like the dark sea, surging with frightening emotions.
Mu Zhuohua's left hand trembled, but Liu Yan held it tighter. With his other hand, he stroked her cheek and wiped the water stains from the corners of her lips. The warm touch lingered on her tender skin.
"Zhuohua..." Liu Yan called her name softly in a low and hoarse voice, "You don't believe me."
Mu Zhuohua's throat tightened and she turned her face away, not daring to look at the strong affection in his eyes, but her chin was gently pinched, and she was forced to turn her head to respond to his questioning.
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