Meng Jue is an internal guard, and after she came to the capital, she had a place to report, and Lu Ating and Lu Pei were arranged under the Shen family's industry. "樂" Wen "Xiao" said|

Shen Ruyu wrote a letter of recommendation to Kong Qingyang, but it coincided with the rebellion, and the processing time of this kind of matter could only be postponed, so Kong Qingyang temporarily lived in the Shen family.

And after returning to Beijing this time, Shen Ruyu noticed that something was wrong.

Well, what she said is not right, it is not referring to the sudden flood of streets on the side of the street, the words of the novel about the stunningly beautiful and gentle minister and the irascible and tough emperor, nor the secret circulation of how the noble minister who is deep in the enemy formation is subdued by the enemy army, and the sadomasochistic deep lily manuscript in which the people in the two camps cherish each other but have to love and kill each other, not to mention the family gate valve who is becoming more and more impatient, and Cui Wenjun who always wants to talk to her - but Li Cong.

Since her return to Beijing, Li Cong has not said anything except a very formulaic edict of appeasement.

Neither public nor private is a normal thing.

Yu Gong, the identity of the person who fled from the enemy-occupied area should have been more appeased, even if it may be suspicious at times, but now that the power of the family is being suppressed step by step, and Shen Ruyu is left out in the cold, it is also an ominous signal for the family - unless they have been antagonistic to the point that Li Cao is no longer interested in maintaining the apparent peace.

Yu is private, which is naturally Li Cong's personal feelings for Shen Ruyu. Before leaving Jingshi, he was so carefully prepared to celebrate her birthday with great fanfare, and she suffered all the twists and turns outside, but when she came back, she faced his extreme coldness.

No one knew that this was the emperor punishing himself for not being able to protect Shen Ruyu, and he punished himself for not being allowed to approach her, which was a great pain for him.

However, this kind of thing is unknown to others.

Shen Nanfeng was afraid of the former, so he ordered Shen Ruyu not to go out casually, and for the latter, although it was worrying to be liked by the male emperor, once the other party didn't like it, Shen Nanfeng was still worried.

Compared with her mother, Shen Ruyu didn't worry much, she couldn't go out, so she touched her chin in her yard and pondered, Li Cao decided to break with the family completely, so she learned from the pain, and finally wanted to swing a sword to cut off the love thread with her?

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but sigh slightly.

If so, has the task of her "first love" been completed? Is it done well? Okay, don't talk about it - if the emperor has a seizure, will she survive?

Shen Ruyu thought about it for a long time, and she didn't know if her "first love" had deviated.

After she came back, she couldn't go out for a long time, but fortunately, Song Jin's people could come in and contact her, the man seemed to regard all the hardships she encountered outside as his own dereliction of duty, and the letter was full of self-blame and guilt, Shen Ruyu could almost imagine that his lips were pursed, he lost blood, and his face was pale and panicked, so he immediately wrote a letter to appease him, Song Jin quickly replied, and the tone of the letter swore fiercely that he would speed up the expansion of his power, One day, no matter where Shen Ruyu is, he will be like in Jingshi, and everything will be under control.

Shen Ruyu felt that if Song Jin was really so ruthless, maybe it wouldn't be long before she would be like the male protagonist in a novel, from the officials to the people who sold baked cakes.

- This is a good thing, but it is not an easy thing to do, after all, sometimes the greater the power, the easier it is to collapse.

Shen Ruyu replied to him and asked him to be cautious, focus on stability, and not be impatient.

She rested at home for a while, and occasionally got bored, so she went to the courtyard where the guests lived to chat with Kong Qingyang, learn bows and arrows, and ask for swordsmanship, and within a few days, Shen Nanfeng looked for her with a heavy face.

“…… Such as jade. For some reason, when Shen Ruyu stood in front of Shen Nanfeng, she didn't know why, she seemed to feel a little unspeakable, she called Shen Ruyu's name, then sighed, turned her face to the side, and fell silent.

Shen Ruyu frowned slightly, realizing that what she was about to say might not be a good thing.

"Mother? What's wrong? ”

She asked gently, "But is there any trouble in the court?" ”

Shen Nanfeng sighed again, she turned her head to look at the eldest daughter she was proud of, gritted her teeth, and was about to speak, but in the end she still sighed.

Shen Ruyu simply stood up, she walked to Shen Nanfeng and squatted down, put her hand on her lap, looked up at her mother in this life, and asked softly, "Mother, what's wrong?" ”

Looking at her docile and well-behaved appearance, Shen Nanfeng found that she couldn't say what she originally planned to say, what glory her daughter brought her, she was like a white lotus, dusty, noble and refined, but now, she was about to throw the treasure she held in her hand into the quagmire.

"Ruyu ......" said this decision, Shen Nanfeng also felt extremely difficult, but she couldn't help but say - perhaps, this is the only way to protect the Shen family. You...... You...... I see that His Majesty likes you so much, why don't you just accept him......?" ”

It seemed that he was afraid that he would waver, and after finishing speaking, Shen Nanfeng hurriedly held Shen Ruyu's hand, almost not giving her a chance to react, and then said: "I know you don't want to, but if you want to, with Your Majesty here, who would dare to marry you?" You're not too small, are you? I think it's pretty good......"

The look on Shen Ruyu's face paused because of these unexpected words, in Shen Nanfeng's eyes, this was slightly stunned, but it was like the overwhelm of a tall girl who had never eaten fireworks in the world suddenly fell into the mortal dust, and the unbelievable sadness of being suddenly abandoned by her relatives.

She couldn't help but look away, and couldn't bear to look directly at Shen Ruyu's face anymore.

Looking at her appearance, Shen Ruyu thought about it for a while, and understood why Shen Nanfeng had changed his previous attitude.

- Presumably, in the game with the imperial power, the family has slowly stepped into the upper hand.

And how cruel the power struggle is, it cannot be backed down, and it cannot be backed down.

Throughout history, once the expansion of imperial power occupies the dominant position, no matter how influential and powerful the family once was, it will be ruthlessly wiped out - after all, on the side of the couch, others will not be allowed to snore.

Since this is the case, Shen Nanfeng had to start thinking about the way back for himself and the Shen family - when he needed to show favor to the emperor, the previous behavior of hiding his daughter was obviously not very appropriate.

It's just that...... In this case, no longer obstruction, and even encouraged Shen Ruyu to get close to the emperor, the fool also knew what her motives were. In this way, the Shen family may be able to keep it, but it was the emperor who chased Shen Ruyu before, she was Bai Yueguang, if she deliberately approached her for the sake of the family, then she would have turned herself from Bai Yueguang into white rice.

In the eyes of others, this should be considered a very humiliating thing.

However, Shen Ruyu just didn't react at first, so she was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it clearly, she didn't really care about this, so she lowered her eyebrows and replied very filtily, "...... I know. ”

"If you want me to say, how can this matter be so entangled?"

When Shen Ruyu and Kong Qingyang mentioned this matter when chatting, the other party expressed his dislike for those twists and turns.

"It doesn't matter if he's an emperor or a butcher, just ask yourself if you like it or not?"

Shen Ruyu looked at her helplessly, "What you said is light, that's the emperor's majesty." ”

"Yes! That's the Emperor! Kong Qingyang became more and more confident, "Think about it, how many people in this world can be pursued by the emperor like this?" ”

She may have been used to being open-mouthed, and actually asked directly, "So, the question is, do you like him or not?" ”

Instead of hating that kind of emotion, Shen Ruyu naturally likes Li Cao.

However, it has probably not reached a certain level, and it can only be regarded as having a faint good feeling.

Speaking of which, she has always kept her distance from Li Cao before, but because she feels that falling in love with the emperor is really a troublesome thing with endless troubles, and she is the daughter of a family, and when the political position of the imperial family is different, she will feel very entangled.

But after the crossing, Shen Ruyu has rarely left the capital, no matter how many books she reads, no matter how much others praise her for knowing so much, if she doesn't go out to see the outside world with her own eyes, she is actually just a frog at the bottom of a well.

If you have a narrow vision, you are easy to be self-righteous, entangled in trouble, and difficult to get rid of.

After experiencing so much outside this time, when she returned to the capital again, Shen Ruyu's feeling was very different from before.

In the past, I always felt that the capital was already very big, but now after seeing the vastness of the outside world, I can understand how narrow my vision was before.

So those previous thoughts are somewhat ridiculous and cringe.

“…… There is some truth to what you say. After listening to Kong Qingyang's words, she held her chin and started to stay. Let me think about it. ”

……

Tai Chi Palace.

It's still Li Cao and Cui Wenjun.

Since the dispatch of a large army a few days ago, the rebellion has actually come to an end.

Li Cao has been fighting wits and courage with the family for this matter recently, and he is very busy and anxious, Cui Wenjun, as a powerful internal security official under him, naturally seizes the opportunity to infiltrate his own forces in all corners.

The Shen family also had such a secret line of internal guards, but the internal guards had already been exposed to Song Jin's sight, and he quickly found out all the hidden stakes, and when he sent people to find Shen Ruyu, he completely avoided their eyes and ears, and the arrangement was not leaky.

But these internal guards monitored Shen Nanfeng, but it was enough.

When Shen Nanfeng completely presented the conversation that Shen Ruyu found on Cui Wenjun's desk today, she immediately frowned as soon as she flipped through it.

- Shen Nanfeng actually wants to use a beauty trick!

However, to make Shen Ruyu, who was obviously not interested in Li Cao before and had kept his distance, lower his body for the sake of the Shen family to flatter, just thinking about that picture, Cui Wenjun felt aggrieved and humiliated for Shen Ruyu, and at the same time extremely angry.

Cui Wenjun knew what a proud person Shen Ruyu was under the gentleness on the surface.

If Shen Ruyu really bowed her head to Li Cao for the sake of the family, with her proud character, she was afraid that she would be forced to break by her mother.

- She may never be able to raise her head in front of Li Cao in the future.

Thinking of the girl who was originally slim and had a gentle smile, the look on her face would become stiff and bitter, even if she wanted to be close to her, Li Cao also felt heartache because of the grievances and humiliations she might receive.

He asked in a deep voice, "...... What is Ruyu doing now? ”

Cui Wenjun paused slightly, "...... She went to the Taoist temple, seemingly preparing to stay for a long time. ”

As Shen Ruyu's brainless fan, Shen assisted Cui Wenjun's mood at the moment, because she felt that Shen Ruyu must not be able to stand such humiliation, and would rather throw herself into the Daomen than enter the palace.

And the unfortunate thing - Li Cao is obviously the same as she thinks.

The grumpy emperor suddenly rose up and was furious—"She would rather become a monk than accept me!?" ”

At this moment, I was afraid that she would have half of the patience that she was reluctant tobearance, and the pain and self-blame of not being able to save her from danger in time were all gone, and Li Cao had only one thought in his mind - even if she wanted to break her arrogance, as long as she could stay by his side, what could she not? She would be in his hands, and no matter how reluctant she was, she would never be able to refuse any of his requests—it would be better than her running away and trying to make him never get close to her again!