Sick Man Turns Out to be a General

Was Shen Mudan brain-damaged?    

Mu Shisi wasn't even willing to marry a princess, so how could he possibly be willing to marry into Shen Family? Under normal circumstances, if one wasn't forced to do so, any man would be willing to become the son-in-law who broke the rules, not to mention someone like Mu Chen who was extremely proud and arrogant and didn't want to be dictated by anyone.    

Shen Mudan wanted him to marry into his family, it was simply wishful thinking. Xu Yanlin drank a cup of tea, he really did not know how to evaluate those young misses' temporary happiness.    

"Yes, it is your fortune that my daughter has set her eyes on you. If you are willing to marry into our Shen Family, you will be half a master of it. You will be in charge of everything in the palace, and half of the business under my command will be yours as well." Shen Gui felt that no one would be able to reject this kind of honor and fortune, and they all looked at Mu Chen with disdain.    

"Not interested." Mu Chen's face was cold, he picked up his stick and continued to play chess with Xu Yanlin.    

By sacrificing himself, he might be able to get more information and solve the problem faster. However, he wasn't willing.    

Shen Gui did not expect Mu Chen to reject him. Originally, he was prepared to give Mu Chen a poke at his words and choke him to death, but he looked at Mu Chen with a complicated expression. Then, he turned to Xu Yanlin and said: "Boss Lin, is your guard always so arrogant?"    

"That depends on who it is. Do you really expect people to look down on you, those people who are acting like dogs?" Xu Yanlin laughed, his words full of ridicule for Shen Gui.    

"You …" Shen Gui was so angry that his chest hurt, and he was actually unable to say a word while pointing at Xu Yanlin.    

Xu Yanlin glanced at him coldly and thought that it was funny. They had been locked up here for a few days, threatening him and enticing him, hoping that they would give him some face. Did he really think that just because he was big, he would be invincible?    

"You all … "Let's see how long you can endure this …" Shen Gui said fiercely and left in a huff.    

Xu Yanlin looked at his leaving figure, and sneered: "This father and daughter, are their brains still muddled?"    

"If an overlord has been around for too long, it's easy for him to have the illusion of being unrivalled in this world." Mu Chen laughed, he got up and walked to the window. Pushing it open, it was still raining outside, the rain did not decrease at all, and with a frown, he turned and asked, "How long has it been raining?"    

"It's been a while. I don't know when it will be the end." Xu Yanlin replied casually.    

Mu Chen felt his eyelids twitch, and his heart was a little uneasy.    

Xu Yanlin studied the game alone. Seeing Mu Chen in a daze, he asked: "Fourteenth, what are you thinking about?"    

"This rain is not normal. Get someone to pay attention to the situation on the street. Don't let the plague run rampant." He remembered that a few years ago, there was a place that was like this. Because of the long period of rain and rain, the water sources were murky, and many of the citizens were not hygienic and directly drank the unclean water.    

With Mu Chen's reminder, Xu Yanlin also thought of this matter. He nodded and said, "Do you need to let Sun Guangping see the cold wind? "I heard that the cold wind has reached Qingyang City."    

Mu Chen thought for a moment, then nodded: "Alright."    

— —    

Mu Chen stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, staring at the raindrops that poured down from the eaves of the building.    

He had not thought that Shen Mudan would actually be the next Empress of the Great Lee Dynasty.    

Shen Gui had once been the State Grandmaster of the Great Lee Dynasty. After a tragic defeat, he escaped to the Great Yan Dynasty and changed his name to become a merchant who kept to himself for a few years. After that, Shen Gui, who had accumulated an astonishing amount of wealth over the past few years, secretly supported the Princess Jia Lan of the Great Lee Dynasty in taking over his position.    

Shen Gui was a powerful man, he used the brothels and wine gambling houses that he owned to collect information on the people, and returned them back to the outskirts of the Great Lee Dynasty. He even extended his hand into the imperial court in an attempt to secretly take control of the imperial court in Great Yan Nation, but it was a pity that they had not yet found out the person who colluded with them.    

All these years, he had been secretly forging weapons and summoning his troops. He wanted to take advantage of the struggle between the princes in the palace to charge into the capital and seize the entire Great Yan Nation in one fell swoop.    

Shen Gui was ambitious, the empress of Great Lee had an unstable foundation, the domestic political situation was unstable, he did not have the power to send troops to provoke the Great Yan Nation, so he did not care about means to instigate the Great Lee and the Great Qi, as well as the conflict between the two countries, making Big Swallow and the Great Qi have been in war for the past dozen years.    

Shen Gui, Shen Mudan...    

Mu Chen's mouth formed a faint sneer, this arrangement was really long-term, if they were not stupid and did something to the Northwest Army's herbs, this matter would not have surfaced so quickly.    

As he was thinking about what to do next, a black shadow flashed into the yard. He came to the window and said, "General, the cold wind pays his respects to the general."    

"You're here." Mu Chen's voice was light, but the smile on his face continued to deepen.    

"I've kept the general waiting." He looked at Mu Chen, the light in his eyes blazing and intense.    

"Have you settled the matter that I asked you to prepare?" Mu Chen looked outside, then looked at the house, brought out a blanket and laid it on the ground, and waved him in.    

Cold Wind came in through the window and knelt on the ground wet, "This subordinate is participating in the general."    

"You don't need to use false etiquette. Just say it directly."    

"According to the general's orders, five thousand elite soldiers of the Northwest Army have been lying in ambush outside a village called Mu Family Village. The other ten thousand soldiers have been scattered and are hiding everywhere, waiting for the general's order."    

Mu Chen's mouth formed a cold sneer, "You went to the Mu Family Village to investigate?"    

"I've already investigated. That village was originally an abandoned village, and there was a mine nearby. Afterwards, it was bought by someone and many villagers were recruited to mine. In fact, they were asked to secretly forge weapons." Thinking of what he saw in Mu Village, the cold wind could not stop blowing. Hundreds of thousands of weapons was not a joke.    

The cold wind wiped the water droplets off his forehead and asked, "General, what do you plan on doing next?"    

An unheard-of storm started to form between Mu Chen's brows, and said: "You think of a way to have a few of our most capable men infiltrate the Mu Family Village, holding onto the core news, and have the five thousand soldiers of the Heavenly Wolf Battalion hide in ambush, quietly surrounding the entire Mu Family Village, don't let anyone find out. Also, get one thousand soldiers disguised as homeless people to enter the city and surround Shen Mansion. Then send three hundred people to pretend to be escorting herbs to the city. Three thousand people to change into the city, we must surround Shen Mansion so that not even a fly can fly out. In addition, send people to control the Shen Family in the surrounding stores, so that everything can be controlled. "The rest of the men have been sent out of the city for a distance of thirty miles to monitor Qingyang County."    

"This subordinate understands." Cold Wind nodded his head and thought for a while before suggesting, "General, the situation in the city isn't too good. Do we need to organize a doctor for treatment and rescue? And have someone dress up as a servant from a neighboring town to clean up? "    

Mu Chen nodded, "I'll do it that way. That's right, and also to monitor the county magistrate of Qingyang County. I suspect that he has already colluded with Shen Family. "    

"Yes." The cold wind looked at Mu Chen, wanting to say something but hesitating to speak.    

Mu Chen raised an eyebrow and asked: "What else do you want?"    

"General, you …" The cold wind stared at Mu Chen. He wanted to ask something, but he didn't know how.    

"Those things, we'll talk about them after this is all over." Knowing what he was thinking, Mu Chen's expression softened.    

"This subordinate understands." As long as the general was alive, nothing else mattered.    

"It's not good to stay here any longer. I will inform you of my next actions."    

"Yes, your subordinate will take his leave." After clasping his hands together in salute, Han Li's figure flashed and left through the window.    

Xu Yanlin opened the bead curtain and walked in. Looking at the wet blanket and the wet window, he couldn't help but ask with a smile, "Did the cold wind come by?"    

"Yes, the troops he brought have arrived."    

"He's quite loyal." The cold wind was a wolf child that Old Man Mu had picked up, a loner that had always been living with the old man in the army camp. After Mu Chen volunteered to join the Northwest Army camp, the old man was worried about his comfort, so he let the cold wind stay by his side for ten years, completely loyal to Mu Chen. Even now, when he sat in the general's seat, he still followed Mu Chen's lead.    

"The cold wind is a nostalgic person." In order to repay the lordmaster's kindness, no one knew what he had experienced in the past ten years.    

After all, after he had arrived in the Northwest, the only person who had accompanied him in getting familiar with the matters of the army camp was Leng Feng. He leaned against the chair with the corner of his mouth slightly raised, and said: "Leng Feng seems to not have married yet, as his brother, aren't you worried?"    

"Don't worry about that, he has a Qilin by his side."    

Xu Yanlin spat out the tea in his mouth, his eyes staring straight at Mu Chen, "Isn't this a bit too easy to handle? The Nan Family will definitely not agree. "    

Nan Jiyun was the most beloved youngest son of the loyal duke. He had been talented since a young age, and was both a scholar and a scholar. Even His Majesty thought highly of him.    

"I'll think of a way to get the Nan Family to agree."    

— —    

Night    

Sun Guangping snuck into the Pure Wind House once again. This time, he brought a silver key with him, which was said to be the key to the Shen Family secret room. He secretly printed the model from Shen Mudan and went outside to create the new key.    

"The secret room is near the fake mountain, Shen Gui had his men set up the five element eight trigrams formation, it won't be easy to enter, you guys must be careful." Sun Guangping reminded Mu Chen as he handed the key over to him.    

A few days ago, he had helped them go to the Yun Lai Inn to contact a person called Han Feng. After he told him everything about the Mu Family Village, that person gave him five thousand silver, saying that it was his master's reward. At that time, he thought that with these five thousand silver, he would be able to settle down with Liu Er and make a small transaction with him.    

"I know that there is a type of green powder that will release a ghostly light at night, I have already smeared it under Shen Gui's and Shen Mudan's shoes, after he goes to the secret room, you can check again. It will be much easier." Sun Guangping uneasily rubbed his palms. When he was doing these things, he had always been unsettled, afraid that the Shen Family would find him decapitated.    

"Is it easy to find?"    

"Probably not." He couldn't guarantee anything, but at the moment, he could only hope that they hadn't discovered him.    

Mu Chen did not make things difficult for him, he patted his shoulder, telling him not to worry about the rest of the matters, and sent him off.    

After Sun Guangping left, Mu Chen immediately changed into some night clothes and left the room. He found the cyan colored light that Sun Guangping talked about from the fake mountain and smoothly passed through the Five Elements Trigram Formation.    

Mu Chen looked at the gold and frowned, thinking about how he should settle this matter. When the military treasury of the Northwest Army Camp, as well as the military salary that the Imperial Court had set aside, had fallen into the hands of the soldiers, he estimated that they would only have thirty percent of their money left. Every time a war occurred, they would either lack this or lack that gold, and would not need to seek for more benefits for the army camp.    

He walked around in the secret room and found a strange carving of a dragon head on the wall. He moved the dragon head and the wall next to it opened up.    

There was a secret chamber in the secret chamber?    

He walked in and saw the items inside. He could not help but widen his eyes, it was actually a dragon robe and a fake jade seal, just these two alone, were enough for Shen Gui to die a hundred times.    

Shen Gui was truly an ambitious wolf.    

Mu Chen smirked and closed the door to the secret room. He quietly sneaked into the kitchen in the backyard and set it on fire.