Chapter 38: Disappointing
Originally, Shen Ruowen was still worried about what the consequences of Fu Yuxiu's actions would be, but she didn't encounter any interceptions along the way, and it wasn't until she saw Fu Yuhao's figure on the street that she seemed to understand something.
Fu Yuhao was also stunned when he saw the two of them from a distance, but then he shook his head with a wry smile. "You can really cause trouble for me, so that you can save people with your will, but this is a posture of tearing down the prison."
Shen Ruowen was a little embarrassed to come down, but Fu Yuxiu kept holding her hand and didn't let go, and just now, the moment she saw Fu Yuhao, he hugged his arm even tighter.
"Thank you very much this time."
With just one sentence, he was expressionless and planned to stagger.
"Hey." Fu Yuhao stopped them, but looked at Shen Ruowen.
"You'd better hurry up and figure it out, I don't want to marry her."
Shen Ruowen looked at Fu Yuxiu, and then at herself, and instantly understood what was going on, the feeling that she could come out this time was really Fu Yuhao said that he wanted to marry himself in exchange, but what happened to his disgust now?
"Count me wrong, third brother! I wouldn't want to marry you either! β
Fu Yuhao glanced at her and reprimanded: "Men talk, children don't interject." β
Shen Ruowen blew up her hair, and she was about to theorize, but she was pressed into her arms by Fu Yuxiu, and said lightly in front of him: "I, I will definitely be responsible." β
Shen Ruowen showed two big eyes in his arms, blinked and retracted, in fact, she wanted to ask Fu Yuxiu how to be responsible.
Entering the carriage, Shen Ruowen was finally able to sit by herself, seeing Fu Yuxiu holding her arm and frowning, her heart softened, "This little injury is nothing, Meng Feng doesn't dare to do anything to me." β
"It's all, for me, to hurt you, to lose the Northwest Army, and to be wounded."
This is to take the responsibility on herself, Shen Ruowen hurriedly waved her hand and said: "Where is it because of you, it is I who know that I can't hold the Northwest Army by myself at this time, so I will hand it over to the third brother to take care of it, which is far better than handing it over to the prince, but I didn't expect the emperor to be so ruthless that he actually calculated me into it." β
Fu Yuxiu stroked her face, and the guilt in her heart couldn't be expressed, but it could be expressed with action.
"I will, I will help you get it back."
Shen Ruowen shrugged, but she didn't deny that even if he didn't help, she would find a way to get back the Northwest Army.
When she was still a few steps away from the General's Mansion, Shen Ruowen felt a little unusual.
The sound of uniform footsteps and the sound of hunting wind from far and near, I lifted the curtain and looked at it, and sure enough, I saw that many people had gathered in front of the general's mansion, holding high the spear in their hands, and there was a blue bird flag of the Shen family fluttering in the middle.
The Shen family was born in the northwest, and it seems that all the soldiers and civilians have a kind of primitive wildness, and now even a dozen people have the momentum of thousands of troops.
Shen Ruowen quickly recognized that this was the Northwest Army, but this was a ceremony that would only appear when the generals in the army returned triumphantly or went out to fight a big battle. They are now blocking the gate of the General's Mansion, attracting the people standing all over the street, what are they trying to do?
"The Major General is here."
I don't know who shouted, and everyone saw Shen Ruowen who was getting off the carriage.
Shen Ruowen looked at them, there were the old departments of the Shen family, and there were also veterans stationed in Lingxian County, these people who had always watched them grow up respectfully or lovingly, but their eyes were full of disappointment and vicissitudes at this time.
"Old Zhangtou, what are you doing here?"
Shen Ruowen looked at them, such a move was like seeing off someone at the gate of the General's Mansion, a little pathetic.
"Major General, we are here to send the general's mansion on the last journey, the Shen family's army, from now on, is completely dead!"
used to trust Shen Ruowen the most, even when the Shen family was ruined and she was left as an orphan girl, these veterans never gave up, but now they are disappointed because of Shen Ruowen's initiative to give up.
"Young General, do you know what your father and brother paid to preserve the current General's Mansion, but what about you, what did you do? For the sake of his own little affection, he ignored hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Northwest and the Shen family's support for many years! β
"It's true that you're a girl, we shouldn't have too high hopes for you, but your father is Shen Heng! You are a descendant of the King of the Northwest! What you did today is in vain for the Shen family! β
Every word is like a sharp blade, straight into Shen Ruo's heart, she can not care about other people's cynicism, but she can't ignore the Shen family, although her own actions this time have a reason, but in the result, it did cause the Shen family to be given away by herself, which is a fact that cannot be erased.
"I ....."
Faced with questioning, Shen Ruowen, who was usually sharp-tongued, suddenly stopped talking.
One arm pulled her back at this time, blocking her in front of her, and then Shen Ruowen heard Fu Yuxiu's stammering, but firm voice: "She, it's all because she saved me, I will definitely give you an explanation." β
Everyone shook their heads in disappointment, how could these veterans of the Shen family not be able to see the current situation clearly, once the Northwest Army fell into the hands of the emperor, where would there be room for turnaround, and the three princes in front of them were even more wasteful, and they had no strength in the struggle for imperial power.
Now it seems that Shen Ruowen, the young master, is just relying on emotion, so he sent the Shen family army out, and the Shen family is finished.
Shen Ruowen didn't know how she went back, but the disappointed expressions of the veterans of the General's Mansion were always playing out in her mind over and over again, and her father's and brother's instructions back then were extremely clear.
Fu Yuxiu looked at Shen Ruowen, who was so depressed, and the fists in his sleeves slowly tightened.
Hearing that Fu Yuxiu's poison had been cured, and there was no major problem under the treatment of the imperial doctor, Fu Yuming, the crown prince who was under house arrest in the East Palace, laughed, making the staff next to him puzzled.
"You continue to stare at it, my father won't just sit idly by, the mother family behind Fu Yuxiu is not a fuel-efficient lamp, this time it seems that they personally entered the capital to save people."
"Then, does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince need our forces in the court to operate, rescue you first, and now King Chen is like the sky, and he is so proud in the court."
Fu Yuming shook his head, and tightened the cloak on his body, this period of time lost his position and grounded, but many people thought that the East Palace was about to fall, and even the charcoal fire was a little insufficient.
"Don't worry, now that King Chen has just taken the Northwest Army, and there is the princess of An Yuguo to make peace, he is in the limelight, so let him be proud for a while."
Everyone was puzzled again, when is it not in a hurry at this time, is it necessary to wait for the second prince's position to be completely stabilized, and His Majesty will start to abolish the crown prince before he is in a hurry?
Fu Yuming stroked the flower cat that was sleeping on his knees, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.
"Sister-in-law should be released from prison today, send me some congratulatory gifts to wash the dust, now I can't go out of the East Palace, wait for a while to see her."
All the staff looked at each other, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would not be locked up in a daze, when did he still think about that Shen Ruowen, not to mention that this time she was clearly the culprit who framed the prince and fell into such a situation.
Could it be that the prince would be naΓ―ve to think that he would have any chance of turning the tables through the general's mansion behind Shen Ruowen?
The turmoil of the Shen family has slowly subsided, no matter how the outside world talks about it, Shen Ruowen will still be the premier noble daughter in the capital, if she marries into the royal family, she will still be a majestic princess, at least there will not be anyone who is not open-eyed and will be humiliated at this time.
When she was released from prison, the third prince was angry at the crown, and the gossip that the flying knife broke the hands and bones of the Meng family's sons did not set off too much storm in the end, and Emperor Xuan's reaction when he heard about this incident was not even surprised, he had long known that Fu Yuxiu, his third prince, was not a simple person.
To the north of the mausoleum, there is a mountain covered with lush green bamboo, the environment is quiet, this is the clan cemetery of the Shen family, and all the relatives of Shen Ruowen are buried here.
Shen Ruowen stood in front of the tombstone in plain clothes, and the words of the general Shen Heng were a little mottled because of years of wind and frost erosion.
"Dad, big brother, I have already finished telling you what I should say, I think, if you are still alive, you will definitely support me, the Shen family is not only chasing fame and fortune, but also should have favors."
He turned his gaze to the slightly smaller tombstone next to him, "Ah Niang, if you are angry, give me a dream, I haven't dreamed of you for a long time, I can't remember what you look like, I want to see you cross your waist and be angry." β
In the past, at home, A-Niang was always the strictest one, Shen Ruowen was the palm of the two elder brothers since she was a child, although her father was a general, but she always let her ride on her shoulders to the barracks to show off her might, and the four of them were often driven out of the house by the fierce general's wife and starved.
Every now and then, her usually majestic general father would pull out a few stinky copper coins from the bottom of his boots like a trick, and take them to refreshments with a smile as the three children covered their noses with contempt on their faces......
In the end, Shen Ruowen came to a tomb full of green pines, and the owner of the tomb on it was named Shen Ruoming, who was the second son of the General's Mansion and the second brother of Shen Ruowen.
It's just that this is just his mound of clothes, when Shen Ruowen searched for three days and three nights in the pile of dead people in Shapingguan, she didn't find anything except the second brother's bloody weapon.
Her warm brother, who bowed his head shyly when he smiled, disappeared forever in the charred land.
"Second brother, you must be angry with me for being spineless and scolding me for not being angry, but I am the only one in the Shen family, what can I do?"
Raising her hand to wipe her tears, Shen Ruowen suddenly kicked the pedestal of the well-dressed mound with some anger, "Second brother stinky, you big liar, you obviously promised to take me to all the restaurants in the capital and eat all the delicacies in the world, but now you are hiding alone and being at ease!" β
"Who! Who's there? β
The guards of the General's Mansion who were waiting in the distance suddenly spoke, startling Shen Ruowen, looking left and right but there was no one in sight.
"What's wrong?"
The guards of the General's Mansion who had already surrounded Shen Ruowen pointed in one direction, "Young master, be careful, there seems to be a figure flickering there just now, and now the capital is restless, my subordinates will escort you back to the carriage first." β
Shen Ruowen nodded, now the Shen family is indeed the target of everyone, and it is not that they have encountered all kinds of assassinations over the years, so it is better to be careful if it is located in the middle of nowhere.
When Shen Ruowen was escorted down the mountain road, a figure stood behind the cemetery, quietly watching her go away, and the shadow stretched on Shen Ruoming's tombstone.