When Lin Zhixuan and Wei Mingxu returned to the capital, it was dark, and in Xijin Zhai, Lin Zhixuan was about to change into court clothes, planning to enter the palace to see Sister Jiu'er and Sister Xin in a while.

Wei Mingxu stopped him, and said: "Du Qin has already sent back a message, saying that Sister Xin has woken up, as long as you take care of it, it will be fine, you have been in the carriage for a day today, take a good rest first, and then enter the palace tomorrow." ”

Lin Zhixuan heard Wei Mingxu say this, so she relaxed slightly, Wei Mingxu ordered someone to set the meal, but Lin Zhixuan was worried about the ninth sister: "Who is the person that the ninth sister is talking about?

Wei Mingxu was slightly stunned, and then said, "I didn't expect it to be him." ”

"Who?" asked Lin Zhixuan.

Wei Mingxu went to the study room in the west room, took out a small wooden sword, showed it to Lin Zhixuan, and said, "Do you remember it?"

Lin Zhixuan looked at it, and suddenly remembered that a few years ago, on Wei Mingxu's birthday, when all countries came to the court, there was a child who asked to see Wei Mingxu outside the Jingwang Mansion and sent a congratulatory gift to Wei Mingxu, and she suspected that it was Wei Mingxu's illegitimate child outside, and specially asked him: "Is it the child of the Shen family?"

Wei Mingxu nodded: "At the beginning, my uncle's family was sentenced to behead all over the house without a father, and one of my uncle's pregnant concubines at that time was secretly handed over to Xie Bingchu to take care of.

Later, I also searched in many ways, and at the beginning, the descendants of the Shen family, all in the genealogy, were killed, and even the young son was not left.

Later, I learned from Gu Moukeng's mouth that the fourth room of the Shen family seemed to have a son at the beginning, but because he was away from study, he never returned home and was killed, and the master of the fourth room found a little girl of the same age as the concubine at home and died for him.

The concubine never returned to his hometown, a few years later, Gu Moukeng's father had seen his whereabouts in Jinling, I sent someone all the way to make an unannounced visit, and when I found it, I learned that because of hunger and cold, the concubine in the fourth room of the Shen family had died of illness two years earlier, leaving only a wife and a son, and his wife relied on begging, it was difficult to support the child, when I found them, the woman was seriously ill, and died on the road before she came to the capital.

Only brought back the child who was only three or four years old.

Although he was a side branch, he was the only orphan of the Shen family after all, so I arranged him in the other courtyard of Mao'er Hutong, and also sent his mother-in-law and maid to take care of him, which was considered to be without food and clothing. ”

Lin Zhixuan heard the words and asked, "Is it the house where you have a book store in Mao'er Hutong?"

Wei Mingxu nodded and said, "And I heard that Gu Moukeng often went to see him in the early years, and told me that he was a very perceptive child, but I didn't pay much attention to it at the time, after all, he was just a concubine child."

It's just that when he occasionally remembers, he also sent his private subordinates to teach him some kung fu in the past. I almost never looked at him again until my birthday, when he came and gave me this wooden sword that he had carved with his own hands.

I sent Du Qin to see him, and he told Du Qin at that time that he wanted to join the army and defend his family and country. However, he was still young and had no battle to fight outside, so I informed Wang Jingsheng and sent him to the guard.

He was never heard from again in all these years. Unexpectedly, he dared to be bold and provoke the ninth sister, if I let me know that he has overstepped the ninth sister, I will not be able to spare him. ”

Lin Zhixuan said: "Let's take a look, I only remember the last time I heard Liu Yi say that he was a very clean child, over the years, if he is willing to make progress, and Gu Moukeng really teaches him personally, maybe he is also a good child." ”

Wei Mingxu listened to Lin Zhixuan's words, and only felt surprised, she had seen all the kings and grandsons in Beijing, but she still felt that it was insufficient, and she would have an attitude of taking a look at such a child with a rough background.

Lin Zhixuan said to Wei Mingxu worriedly: "It's not that you haven't seen the appearance of the ninth sister that day, I am angry and hateful, but if it really comes to a situation where there is no return, if you push too quickly, I am afraid that the ninth sister will have a chance."

Since the ninth sister was spoiled by you, you don't know what kind of temper she has become, but what she wants, there is never something you don't give her. I used to tell you that you shouldn't do this, but you didn't listen, and you always indulged her. If she really likes it this time, and you refuse to do it again, I'm afraid that she will really do the same ridiculous thing as Miss, and it will be irreparable at that time.

I just heard you say this, and I feel that this child is not bad, and if it weren't for him, Sister Xin and the child in her womb would not have survived this time.

He is the orphan of your uncle's family, and the savior of our sister-in-law. ”

In the Heart Cultivation Palace, Wei Yanxian listened to Shen Zi'an finish talking about how Wei Mingxu's people found him and his seriously ill mother in Jiangnan at that time, and how he was lonely and helpless in Mao'er Hutong for so many years, and read all of Wei Mingxu's books when he was bored. There is also how to seek Wei Mingxu later, and enter the palace together.

Shen Zi'an knew that Wei Mingxu was Wei Yanxian's heart disease, but there was no way, Shen Zi'an could only gamble, betting that now the crux of Wei Yanxian's problem is Xie Wenliang, not Wei Mingxu.

Wei Yanxian's brows really furrowed: "So, you are very grateful to Uncle Fourteen, and it is also because of Uncle Fourteen that you saved the queen today?"

Shen Zi'an prostrate and kowtowed to Wei Yanxian again: "Prince Jing has the grace of taking care of Weichen, and Master Gu has the righteousness of a teacher to Weichen." But the minister is a criminal minister after all, a damned person, and only the emperor can control the life and death of the minister. ”

Wei Yanxian smiled when he heard this: "Then if one day, I ask you to kill the fourteenth uncle, will you go?"

Shen Zi'an said calmly: "The minister is the emperor's courtier, and what the emperor says is the holy decree, and the minister naturally obeys the decree." ”

Wei Yanxian said, "In your opinion, am I a cruel king?"

Shen Zi'an got up slightly and said: "The emperor is a Ming monarch and a holy monarch, but since ancient times, Ming Jun has been punishing his heart, but he has also killed people. If that person should be killed, and killing it is beneficial to the monarch and the world, then the emperor's killing is an act of benefiting the country and the people, how can it be called cruelty?"

Wei Yanxian stared at Shen Zi'an who was prostrate on the ground for a long time, and after a long time of seeing blood oozing from Shen Zi'an's clothes, and seeing his body tremble slightly because of the pain, Wei Yanxian finally eased his expression.

Yes, since ancient times, Mingjun is not about killing, but about punishing the heart.

"Zi'an, I just didn't expect that there would be old people of the Shen family in this world. You should thank Uncle Fourteen, and I should thank Uncle Fourteen.

Although the ancestor of our Shen family died because of his party dispute with Prince Yi, he still left you. Although he left you alone in his library, he cultivated a literary and martial arts strategy like you......"